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—— 2 Moodie and ruined and one of the most valuable of the national asreta is be- ing destroyed,” continued the Premier, “t is impossible to expect ouher ques- tons th-be debated. Accontingly, safe- ty must frst be discussed,” he there fos ge the minors to meet the 1 at 3 eM A imincrs replied with their re- ft that the condition impose regarding prior discussion of the safe- ty of the mines prevented resumption of ddgotiations, and they tmmediate!s procdefied to Unity House to discuss with the other members of the Trip! Alliance the arrangements tor sym thetic strikes, After the consultation between the “trapspprt workers and the railroad men, J. H, Thomas, a leader of the railroaders emerged from the confer- ence room, appearing much dis- trensed. “A ‘triple alliance’ strike has been Gecided upon,” he declared. “It will be gontrolied by the joint executive committees of the three bodies, which wil meet this afternoon to take charge.and make necessary arrunge ments.” In the meantime violence in the mining districts continues In the Rhondda district of Wales $,009 miners from neighboring towns hed into Watstown and com- pelled the pumpmen at the United National Colliery to cease work at once. While their spokesmen were in- side the colliery offices presenting an ultinthtum, demonstrators swarmed around the building And lustily sang “Phe Red Flag” 2% the music of three brass’ bands. An attempt was made to holst a lurge red flag over the offices, and a number of youths tried to rush the preimises, but some of the older min- erg jatervened. ners ure now demonstrating tn Dahbfermiine in large numbe: A large crowd of 400 miners y rnoon compelled the m of a pit at Kinneddar, undér threat of wrecking the colony, to Withdraw the men. In Lanarkshire f any, pits a CHARTER REVISION, BUT NO GRAFT HUNT HERE, I$ PLAN NOW Gov. Miller Grows Cold on In- vestigating New York and | Action Is Unlikely. ENATE Night Sessions to Finish Work | by April 15—Film Censor | Bill Certain. HURRIES — UP. By Joseph 8. Jordan. (Staff Correspondent of The Evening | orld.) | ALBANY, April &—The Senate has | Put on more steam und President | Pro Tem. Lusk said this morning ery possible effort would be made to end the logislative session a week | {rom to-morrow, | ‘Phe first night session of the upper | House was held last night, and night scasions will probably be carried on through next week,, Senator Schuy- ler Meyer's resolution calling for a civilian committee of fifteen to revito the Gharter of New York City waa reported out of committee last night and will be passed next week. Tie Mayor and Comptroiler are ex-omcio members of the committee, So far us a legislative Investigation into the administration of New York are jumped, volt 8 bet ~ Siesed from the ite ins inany ime] City. ts concerned, the enthusiaain Stances and colliery officinis been) geoms to have died out of the here eration’s programm pits is considerable. TO ASK U. S. MINERS ‘NOT TO AID BRITAIN Damage to the Plan. Under Consideration to Cut Off Exports of Coal and Supply to Ships. MONTRE ‘The Am foun: Mederation of “is asked to uffe the United M Workers of America to refuse to mine coal for export to Great Britain or for use by Bngileh ships during the British coal strike, in a resolution to-day be the,exceutive commitice of the Fed- erated Trades and Labor Council The resvlution was referred to the committee at a meeting last night after a stormy discussion, Some dele- gates contended the British miners were able to take care of themselves while others declared that American miners should not act as strike- breakers. oo — GOVERNOR FAVORS “NEW SPORT BOARD Belief in Albany That Miller Will Sign Measure Combining Wrest- ling and Boxing. ALBANY, N. Y., April 8.—State regu- fation. of wrestling matches as well ax Boxing contests is favored by Gov, Mil- fer. He in of the sports should be combined and pot un- cc the supervision of an unpaid com- mission. The Governor said to-day: “My mind is included in the direction opinion that these that’ these two sports—boxing and wrestling—should be combined and plagad under the supery! paid commission." There is pending in the Legislature a bill designed to reorganize the State Boxing Commission. Unde- its provi sions the new board would be known as the State Athletic Commission and ‘would Lave jurisdiction over boxing and wrestling. It is believed that this meas MEENWH! pass both Houses of the Legin- re und that jt will be signed by the ernor. i ————-+——— NATE PASSE SIXTY-SIX BILLS} Qne Gives Preference in Civil Service Lists to Disabled Veterans. | secre April &—The Senate to- @4y passed sixty-six bills, most of Um of minor importance, in an hour Sad 4 half. Both houses will sit to- Birrow, marking the first Saturday @epsion of the year. Among the measures passed wero folowing: e Deuell Bin, designed to give dthabled veterans preference in ap- t and promotion in the civil st. The Karle Bill, to confer on the Court of Claiins m of Mrs, Grace Hu miston, the attorncy who waa instru- mental in saving Charles M. Stlelow frem death in the electric chair, Mrs. Hioniston secks to bu reimbursed for mpney expended in preventing the State from euting an innocent man. Dien tn Pistol Fusiinde set Free. Whe five men arrested last night in mn Square by Detectives Miley, Rowan and Joseph of the Onk 8 Station. following the firing of many pts Tobert Co Tren Eyck when thane: ep suid they had no evidence in ith to hold the men. The men were ‘ged with felonious assault, They ame KAward Moauiness, No 7&1 Me- Street, Brooklyn; Martin 0, 441 Kast Imiet Btreet; John Flo. 198 Moffat Street, Hrock- William Gerhardt, No. 642 Bast “ fermen ons | tofore ambitious up-Staters and ers, In the minds of the best in- formed members or both Houses, | there will be no investigation, and | @ov. Miller himself has grown cold on the subject, The Governor said to-4ny he would not urge an investigation that he would send no measaz. on the mat- ter or suggest any on, He said it was u matter entirely for the Li islature, and evoked a smile by add- ing that he isn’t bossing the Legis- lature. The Assembly is In such shape that ft can quit on the day it called for adjournment, the 1th, All mesures not reported out ure now in the Rules Committee, and the Speaker of the Mouse, who is Chairman of that com. ‘ee, ix absolute Caur there, Among other measures !n his keeping ‘s the repeal of the Direct Primary Law, and It is scheduled to remain In the legisiative graveyard. If there were any doubt left as to the intentions of the leaders of both Houses to pass the Clayton-Lusk mo- tion picture censorship bill, the doubt has been dispelled by the favorable report on the measure by the Finance Committee of the ate Ways and Means Committee of the Assembly. The simple recital of Mrs. Ellen O'Grady at the hearing evidently had more effect upon the members of the Joint Committee than the rhetoric of D. W. Grimth, After the bill has been passed there may be a hearing before the Gover- nor, but this is doubtful, The Gover- nor wants to sin the bill, so the mo- tion pleture industry might as well THE EVENING WORLD FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1921. WOMAN WHO DROPS FROM SIGHT WHILE ON SHOPPING TRIP PLOR ENCE FE. WhHeeLeR. ANOTHER WOMAN DISAPPEARS. MOST OF CROWD Florence E. Wheeler Last Seen Stepping Into Fifth Avenue While Shopping. Detectives of the Missing Persons Bureau were without clues to-day in their search for Florence E, Wheeler, thirty-two, whose mysterious p- pearance was reported last night by her mother, Mrs. May Herd, a widow, living at No. 518 West 125th Street. Mrs. Herd said her daughter left home yesterday afternoon with a woman friend and was last seen in Altman's at 3.34 o'clock. At that time she told her companion she was likely to spend some time shopping and sug- gested they meet in the Waldorf in half an hour, The friend waited for an hour and then went to Altman's, but was unable to fad Miss Whveler, She communicated with the mother, who walted all evening, and then notified the police. Mrs. Herd sald her daughter was the divorced wife of Robert Lee Fischer, having obtained a decree in Reno three years ago, At that time, she said, Fischer was a broker in Wall Street, but he is said to be in the real estate business in Danbury, Conn, now. The mother said hei daughter seldom went out alone and she cannot think of any reason for her disappearance, Miss Wheeler is described as 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighs 95 pounds, and has dark brown hair and eyes. She wore a sen! coat, blue waist and skirt ‘brown bat and brown Oxfords and silk stockings, She had on a valuabic pearl necklace when she left home, Mrs. Herd said, eee NO TRACE YET OF MRS. RANKINE prepare to be censored. “ The Lusk bill designed to pay the claims of subway contractors for In- creased cost of materials during the war, which was passed yesterday in the Senate went to the Assembly this morning. The act is to take effect immediately on passage. It provides that if any public con- tract made prior to April 6, 1917, was carried out at increased expense be- cause of the war, or promise or assur- ance by local authorities that such extra cost would be met, it shall be @ valid claim. A competent court is to fix the amount, BILLS AIM TO BAR “SPITE FENCES” Assemblymen Say They Often Shut Off Light and Air From Apartments. ALBANY, April §.—Bills designed to prevent the erection af “spite fences’ we-e introduced in the Legislature to- day by Assemblyman Edward R. Ray- ner of New York and Senator Fred B. Piteher of Jefferson, The bills are in- led to declare that such structures 4 private nulsance and may be en- Provision is made that the pro- Join posed Inw does not create an eusement ht and air and that it will not prevent the erection of buildings. Mr, Rayhor said it was a common practice in New York City for owners of vacant land adjoining an apartment house to demand a rental for light and ur and to erect a “spite fence” oppo- site the windows of the apartment house in retaliation for a cefusal to pay such @ rent Saaceemeed Says lawyer Held Ont $50 on An- her Lawyer, Anthony Darnstarde, a lawyer, of No. Shelton Avenue, 412 was held in $100 City Police ny oodhaven Helin, ‘ederick Helm, from whom $59 to give 3 attor John B. Merrill. ‘Phe latter testified he Man Accused of Attempted Extor- tion in Case Held for Further Hearing. The search for Mrs, Annette Kingsley Rankine, the wealthy widow who has been missing since she left her automobile and dismissed her chauffeur at 59th Street and Second Avenue 4 week ago to-day, went on undiminished to-day, but without re- sults, All the city institutions were can- vassed again and an intensive search was made of a region twelve milos equare on Long Lsiand east of the 50th Street Bridge. Every cemetery in that region was combed, as were all nooks and corners in the anset- tled sections, Mrs. Rankine’s mother is Duried in Woodlawn, in the Bronx, and the search was extended to that cemetery, byt no trace of Mrs, Ran- kine was found. Albert Kraft, a ratiroad brakeman living at No, 506 West 42d Street, who was arrested yesterday after tele- phoning that he had kidnapped Mrs. Rankine and demanded $10,000 for her release, was held in $2,000 badl to- day in the West ide Court for # further hearing next Monday. NEW TARIFF BILL READY ON MONDAY Emergency Measure Will Be Intro- duced Into House When Congress Convenes. WASHINGDON, April 8.—The tartft program of the new Congress was in readiness lo<ay, The emergency tariff ‘tll was completed in sub-committee and will be introduced in the House when the new session convenes Monday, ‘The American valuation and anti- dumping bill will also be tntroduced members of the Waye and ‘ommittoe salt Anather emernthy had never received the sr balding the starde cl money pending the disposition the s * x of committee work will be ner oe Giiras reguiar tariff at the last scasion, STATE MAKES PLEA FOR DEAT VERDC IN WILLS CASE Prosecutor Tells Jury Within Two Weeks Planter Ordered Eleven Negroes Killed. COVINGTON, Qa,, April 8.—Closing his argument against John 8, Will- jams with a dramatic plea for the death penalty, Special Prosecutor W. M. Howard was so exhausted when he finished he had to be assisted from the courtroom to-day. The former Congressinan spoke for an hour and forty-five minutes, He scored the story of innocence told by the de- fendant. “A scourge of death visited Will- lams's place suddenly,” said Howard, “Within two weeks it had destroyed eleven lives. Gutity of peonage and afraid these men would show him up, Williams on the assumption that ‘dead men tell no tales,’ had them all killed. He attempted to ride to safety on the blood of these eleven quasi slaves.” Willlams sat expressionless as he was denounced and Howard pleaded for the jury to bring in a verdict of guilty, Occasionally he leaned his head to one side, bent down and sniffed at a rose in the lapel of his coat, Greene F. Johnson, leading counsel for the defense follywed Howard. A large part of bis plea was a denuncia- ence, the sending of Mr. Howard a4 a special prosecutor to try and convict the client. “On the splendid testimony Clyde Manning,” said he, speaking ironically, “confessed jiar and tmur- derer, these citizens employed coun- sel to come here and endeavor to convict this man,” ‘The case is expected to go to the jury this afternoon, pot Ay LEGISLATURE WILL ADJOURN APRIL 16 of Speaker Warns All Members to Atlend Every Session if They Want Bills Advanced. ALBANY, April '8.—The 1921 session of the Legislature will adjourn on April Assembly to-ady. The Speaker advised mombers to attend every session next week if they wanted their bills ad- vanced. April 16 has been the adjournment goal of the Legislative leaders, but within the past fow days the impression grow that the session would probably be prolonged into the following week. Speaker MacHoki sald to-day that he a reason why the work of the geasion could not be completed by the ond of next week. Ss CREMATE HER DOGS WITH HER, SHE ASKS Unusual Request in Mrs. Schneid- er’s Will, Which Ignores Husband. “I hereby direct my executors to have my body cremated and also to have my two dogs Killed and their bodies cremated with mine.” This unusual provision appears in the will, probated in Brooklyn to- day, of Mra, Albert Schneider, who lied at No. 110 Fort Greene Place March 27. She left an estate of 36,300 to her son, Bertram lL. Schneider of Great Nacck, L. L, but did not mention her husband, How- . 19 Hast 87th Street, Bay- Rio NGine Columbia ‘Trust Company ed executors, In opposing a motion for a special jury panel for the perjury trial of Joseph A. Sorro, No. 678 Ninth Ave- nue, Astoria, growing out of his testimony e@t the trial of Joseph Cohen for the murder of Barnett Baff, West Washington market poul- try dealer, Assistant District Attor- ney Peoora to-day declared that Spectal Deputy Attorney General Alfred I, Becker had obtained every scrap of evidence from the Diatrict Attorney and now is to defend Sorro. Tudge Nott of General Sessions re- served deciaton, WHITE. PLAINS MAYOR REFUSES $4,000 PAY BOOST Won't Accept It Through Charter Amendment, but If People Want To It’s O. K. AYOR FREDHRICK E WWEKS of White Piains to-day explained his reason for refusing a 400 per cent. salary boost proposed by the Common Council. At a meeting of the council last night suggestion was made that the Mayor's salary be raised from $1,000 to $6,000 and that a bill be presented to tne Legislature amending the city charter for the purpose. “I could not agree to have my salary increased through a charter amendment proposed by the Com- mon Council,” said Mayor Weeks, who ts sald to be practically cer- tain of re-election, “If the people want to raise the salary, they can @ % and I shall havo no objec. tion.” _ oo tion of what he termed outside influ- |, 16, Speaker MacHold announced in the |: ENGAGEMENT TO WHITNEY WARREN SUDDENLY BROKEN GERALDINE Ovosene “PRETTIEST GIRL” WHTIEY WARREN “Family Matter” Says Mother of, Geraldine Graham, Honored by Wales. ving Work) April 8.—Mra, Will. jam Miller Grahain of Montecito an- nounced to-day the breaking of her daughter's engagement, Miss Geraldine Graham, to wed Whitney Warren jr. of New York. It is purely a personal and temliy matter and of no interest to the pub- le," was Mrs. Graham's sole explana- tion. Miss Geraldine Miller Graham of Santa Barbara, Cal, was declared by the Prince of Wales to be “the most beautiful girl in America.” On Aug. 12 last her parents, Mr. and Mrs, William Miller Graham, announced from their California home their daughter's engagement to Whitney Warren jr. ; The wedding, it was stated at the time, would take place in February, 1921, in St. Thomas's Church, this city. The betrothal announcement aroused keen Interest in New York anu Newport, as well as in Califor- nia and Paris, in which latter city Mr. Warren is well known, having served in the Frenoh Army for a time. Part at least of Miss Graham's beauty and fine physique are attrib- uted to her fondness for nearly all forms of outdoor sport. She is espe- cially partial to horseback riding and has won many tributes to her skill, She made her society debut in 1919, after leaving Miss Spence's School, and her romance with Mr. Warren ‘began soon after her warm reception ENDS BETROTHAL 10 BIRTH OF ANATION “ISANNOUNGED ~ CENTRAL AMERICA | Guatemala, Honduras and San Salvador Sign Treaty to Become Federation. | WASHINGTON, April § —The birth of a new American nation was announced here to-day by Dr. Julio Bianchi, Guatamalan Minister, fol- lowing receipt of advices that the Guatamalan National —_ Assembly had ratified the Treaty of San Jose, which creates the “Federation of | Central America.” | Gudtameia, Honduras and San Salvador have now signed the Treaty While Costa Rica and have not signed, the ty is effective for the three states which have accepted It, ac- cording to its provisions, | Attempts are now being made to get Costa Rica and Nicaragua to join the new nations. The efforts to combine the five | small South American republics into lone nation has been going on for some time. The treaty was drawn \ip at San Jose last January, | The three nations now in the fed- eration according to Bianchi, have total population of 4,100,000, a total area of 101,164 square miles and a foreign trade of $45,000,000 annually with the United States. If the other two States accept the treaty, the pop: ulation of the new nation would than 5,000,000, and it would be fifth in population among the coun- tries of Latin America, Bianchi said he expected that the} new nation will soon send its dipto- matic representatives, displaci'g tho representativ ow accredited to the uuntri Estat ment of uniform highwi ear. and three m mber clectric transportation, telephone and | telegraph systems and adoption cf a uniform currency are steps contem- | plated by the new nation —_—_-- WENT TO THE WRONG FLAT. hereupon MraOunningham Suit for Separation. Mrs. Carrie Cunningham of No. 266 Pacific eet, Jamatca, formerly of Morris k, has applied to the in Long Island City for ali- of $200, pending the trial of her sult for 8 ¢ B. Cunningham » who has an in- Boa week. In hor ham charged thot c ci past his own apart mer No. 917 Briggs Avenue, Morris Park, at 3 o'clock in the morning to get to rtment of another womay | Mrs hingham sald she found him with the woman, whereupon he threat- ened to shoot her, | The couple were married in Brooklyn on Jan, 18, and have five children, including a pair of twins fourteen years j eld. Cunningham and his wife sepi- rated on March 31 last. eee TO MARK OLD THEATRE SITE. Tablet Will Commemorate Vi George Washington, ‘The site of the old John Street thea- tre, where George Washington used to 60, Will be marked with a tablet Satur- day, April 16, at a dedication luncheon 8 Club, No. 120 Broadway, of lace the His- torleal Socl The theatre originall stood in the heart of the blak at J Street and Broadway and was through an alley which no longer : 4 by the ultra-fashionable society of Now York and Newport Mr. Warren, who is a member of a distinguished New York family whose summer home is at Newport, aban- doned his preparations for college in 1916 to serve in France with the Nor- by ton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. after serving six months he entered the French artillery school at Fontaine- bleau and was commissioned in the army The War Cross with three citations and the military medal were given him for heroic war service, He re- turned to America after being wound- ed in December, 1918. He is a mem- ber of the Racquet and Tennis Club. 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