The evening world. Newspaper, April 12, 1921, Page 1

HARDING SCRAPS LEAGUE OF NATIONS; DOESN’T ABANDON VERSAILLES TREATY To-Night'’s Weather—FAIR, WARMER. WALLA LAL ELLA ALLL L LLL lhiisldil HARDING'S MESSAGE IN ,FPULL ALLL LLL LLL LL MALAY DOP HALY ALTALT EA VOL. LXI.* NO. al, 712—DAILY. Copyright, 1921, by The Press Publishing Co (The New York World Che q “Circulation Books Open to Al” 1 NEW ‘YORK, “TUESDAY, APRIL 12, MINERS REJECT PEACE OFFER: RALVAY MEN AND TRANSPORT WORKER TO RENAN NBS == —a 4 Proposals Made by Lloyd George Discussed in Confer- ences All Day Lor CONCESSION. | PLAYING EVEN BETTER GOLF AT cretary of War, Celebratin; Birthday, Agrees Old Men Are the Best. ONE BIG Government Willing to Ad- wrote to the Government gift roses Mr. Weeks ad. mitted yesterday that evening refusing to accept the with oa: WASHINGTON, Aprilj2 (United | Martin W. Littleton, ttorney for] vance Money to Tide Over | News).—Secretary of War Weeks, | Mrs, W. B. D. Stokes in the « Men After Wage Cut. | now starting on his sixty-second / action against her now being tried Z = | year, is inclined to ugree with jin the Supreme Court, to-day arose LONDON, April 12 (By the As- those experts on mental vitality | in a tempest of indignation and de- sociated Press).—The represen- who say a man really just begins | nounced W. E. D. Stokes for sig- tatives of the striking miners to “get good” after rounding sixty. | nating to a witness on the stand, | | | this | Proposals that had been made by 61, SAYS WEEKS From behind two vases burst.ng his sixty- DEDLARES STOKES, SIGNALLED WITNESS eres Martin W. Protests to Judge Finch at Divorce Trial. R IF HE DENIES “y | ‘Intemperate,” Say Counsel and the Gavel Ends the Storm. ig Mrs, Geneviev “Your de Anquinos. Honor,” he cried, “1 object to this man, the plaintiff In thie case, Mr. Lloyd George, the Prime | first birthday found him feeling | waving his hand to direct this wit- Minister, for the settlement of | &T@at and that even iis golf game | oom see rittiet ang Hecker A . | was better than when he was their dispute with the owners. | gikty, potted out Mr. Stokes, who was sit- The railwaymen and the trans- I'm still not as good us the |ting behind his attorneys at the port workers, mombers, with the miners, of the triple Alliance, will continue at work, despite the strike order which had been is- sued for to-night. They were instructed this eve- ning by their organization to keep on with their labors, pend- however," |: President, | he admitted. — BANDIT GAGCLERK, _WATON TRADE AND | jsounesy table, “He won't deny that he was doin, is true th: he doing he was an infamous Ii if denies it!” Mr, Smyth, one of Stokes’ tor- Littleton in Fury) IT.” Judge to; ASPRESIDENT READS HIS FIRST MESSAGE Republicans Applaud — State- ment That U. S. Would Have No Part in League. DEMOCG RATS IN SIL NCE. | Message Contained 6,500 Words and Was Fifty-Five | Minutes in Delivery. | —---- | WASHINGTON, April 12.—Presi- | dent Harding’s declaration In first message to Congress to-day that the United States would no part in the present League of Na- tions was received with @ great] demonstration. | Republican members of the Senate and House, who, with members of the Cabinet, crowded the House hamber to hear the President de- iver his message i nperson, appliud ed vigorous! The monstration quickly grew in cheering, the Repub- jican members standing The galleries joined in the stration und it was some minutes be- tore quiet was reMored The Democratic moint with stolid faces {not join in nator Hitchcock of led the long fight tayor of the League, however, Frequent applause from the liean side interrupted other portions of the President's the domon- many arms, folded demonstr N the in smiled broudly, and the tn Senate Repub utement on tion. | | League. Pence by Congressional reso lution also met with demonstrations of approval, but there was no ap plause for the gestion that t peace terms of the Treaty ve ies be ratified with safe guarding reservatio The President's address con tained about 6,500 words and fifty-five minutes were for His concluding statemen Pp and the Le ered with solemn emphas requi exuding deliv the sue wis The audience rose and cheered as the President finished, tucked his nose glasses in h «ket, shook hands with Vice P Coolidge tt the ball and Speaker ¢ Senate PLANS TO RAISE LEGISLATORS’ PAY) Amen $3,000 Instead of | Passes to Members $1,500 | ALBANY, April 12.—Th nate t day passed a tutional amend ment increasing the sala Leg lators from $1,500 to $3,000 yearly amendment nuw goew t embly and if passed t 1 ubmitted to the vot fall for ratifica t " , doptea r nal amendmer pr n rt duction t Imber of State Depa nis to 21 and this alse & he Assemp! |STEAMER FOUNDERS, 19 OF CREW MISSING, owie Line Boat G Do in Gulf of Mexico—1 Men P. \ BEAUMONT, Texas, April 12—T Bowle Lir 1 Tow with two r ru, f lered in the Gu M Mon \ A ing further instructions. |peys, was on his feet in protest but! Beginning in the morning Mr, Littleton was not to be checked, Prime Minister, Mr. Lloyd vor |"tt is a shame that such things was meeting members of his Cabinc lanouidlegei eine aclirt ct Juste or the individual disputant et a ai ; Gia Got ial evenin Etnies istice Finch quieted the outburst striking miners and the mine owners lwith aloud’ Bang of fle gavel Yimally came togvther with the Goy- |, haath ‘our remarks are not temperate, ‘emiment. for thé dlacimmion ‘which| SUSPICIOUS ae Unable ESET DD PAG Se xu al or death Pre Yo saight ‘soeqn) Industrat pe to Prevent United Cigar not intended to be, the reply to the nation, ‘This conference ad- be age journed at 6 o'clock and the miners | Slore Robbery. and this closed incid Mi went into private conference to con- —- Stokes took no part in it after Mr sider the proposals made to them. | A suppressed police report whieh] pittleton's cha After the joint conference thi8! came to light to-day tells of the rob-| The witness over whom the heated Government statement was Issued: | 1 4. tnreo hold-up men, of the| interlude ocurred, Mrs. De Anquin “The conference, which had before it sno waa nt one Mite a tenant et Nor 30 sovernment, ad-| Cah register of a United Cigar store | * eae ; proposals from the Government, ad- | | Bast Both Street, where Edgar T. journed, the miners Inti ng they | at No. 544 Columbus Avenue, commer) wajioce, a co-respondent in the cass, would communicate in writing with|of &6th Street, at 10 o'clock y rday| had an apartment. Mrs. De Anquinu: the Government.” jmorning. ‘The Joot amounted to] was one of the principal witnesse The Government submitted eizht! $404.39 who testified previously to alleged in- proposals to the conference. They| The hold-up men entered the store,] macy between Mrs, Stokes and Wal- were accompanied by a declaration | seized James Horton, the clerk, and|lace. She had testified to seeing \hem that the miners’ demands for a na-| hustled him to a back room, ‘Two of| together in Wallace's apartment, tional pool of profits might prove} the bandits then bound and g Mr, Wise, counsel to Wallace, sub-| practicable, but that the miners'| Horton while the third, discarding his| jected her to an irritating cross ex-| evher main demand, a national set-| hat, waited on customers. Because| amination, which frequently provoked | alement of the wa question, was|of the interruptions caused by cus-|her to retorts which necessitated th: mpracticable, ‘The proposals con-| tomors it took the robber ten minutes] intervention of the court. The de: cluded: to transfer the monoy in the cash tion of Mr. Wise was to] “If and when an arrangement | register to his pock t 2 credibility of the witness | has been arrived at between the One of the custome: ard a noise}and he spared her nothing in ques owners and the miners as to the in the back room and after les us to her home und mode rate of wages to be paid in the | the store looked throuxh the door and | of in the last ¢ or nine industry, fixed upon an economic | saw the man behind the counter loot- | years. ba the Government will be |ing the register. He went for a pol) Among the places at which the wit willing to give assistance either licoman and found one, but when] “a _ by a loan or otherwise, during a | they returned to the store the hold (Continued on Fifth Page. short period, in order to mitigate |p mon had doparted and Horton wa ———————_—_ the rapid reduction in wages in | found ‘helpless in the back room . the districts most severely af- | > GRIMES SIGNS UP fected. GOVERNORINCITY; | WITH BROOKLYNS| The that both the miners and mine owners were inclined to stand CONFERS ON TRANSIT | Holdout Pitcher tieir guns rendered the Lloyd j “Or i ca = ne \ and Leaves for | c eeTee ee mas Has Not Yet Made Up His Mind on A ¢ the public realized | Join Dodgers, | she aituation, ot Ss, 1 Transit | vo 1 agr SUI prevailed, Comumissioners, Burleteh A 3 me € T rninen war ta bi N mn Lowrue ‘ Sa ipatie | Gov. Miller received a number of! s 1921 contract here Shonee FOIA; Bit Pre) Visitors this morning at the ind immediately left for F Wn, 3 by asi Ki Was plainly evident) Rogis, and tt was sald that there was] we Brooklyn team t wud preparations for hundling }a conference on tran: questlo: 5 tation were ng im ipace, Mo-| Among the callers were: Louls Allert | torcycle despatch riders were scur-| Levy of the law firm of Stanohfield nuts ident ofthe in muking ying hither and th by dozens} Lvs; Leroy T. Harkn former | the announcement re used to | om the Government offices through. | *8tint counsel to the Publle Service | the rma of the contra out the day. Motor trucks were} Commission, and Federal Judge Jullus| gay an amici bringing in loads of mattresses to | M. Mayer. Nisanelalcrablera enable sufficient chployees to sleep William A, Prendergast, former City at headquarters. Meantime, through-| Comptroller, alao visited the ernor, | out the country troops and <iviian| put did not take part in the confer |Atlan Ryan Sued By Lox Angeten reserves were continuing to mobiliz hho Goyorngn retusa! tavaay wteciie| Bank, @ — he Would inake up his mind to-night| Alias A Af MER: ‘ Johanson May Get Cukor’s Job nominations for the up-State Public | with a summons in a Joseph J, Johnson is being talked Burvice ¢ pmiantone:rs and sie three the Nation ait { to-day as the successor to the $6,000| traction Commlasionvra for york f i Oh ton ORY #8. ENG (EN to the $6,000) me names will be given to the Senate | APECTS rae job of Morris Cukor, President of the] peforv tts adjournment on Saturday against Ryan and 3 Municipal Civil Service Commission, In reply to a question about the | «on, Carl Schmidlapp who resigned yesterday Johnson, | invest of the New York City! F PP former Fire Commissioner, hay just “adn the Governor sald mont Co, Mack Hyman, 61 Broadwa vent to Gov, Miller his resignation as ~ “You newspaper men know as much filed the pa What ¢ ad of the State Boxing Commission, about that as I do.” over ip not revealed. AT PROLONGED CHEERS. CLEAR DISTINCTION DRAWN BETWEEN ENDING THE WAR AND THE MAKING OF PEACE President Favors a “Declaratory Resolution” So That Trade and Business May Re- sume Their Normal Course. WASHINGTON, April 12 President Harding draws a clear ‘ his message to Congress to-day distinction between ending the war and making peace He desires to end the war as quickly as possible by a tory resolution” eclara so that trade and business may resume their normal course but, he adds, “it would be idle to declare for™separate peace with the Central Powers,” because the United + tes cannot ignore the involved “Old World relationships and the settlements already effected.” He declares unreservedly against the League of } ations, but believes the wi course would be “the acceptance of our rights already pro- vided” in the Treaty of Versailles, with such reservations and modifica tions as may be ne iry to assure “our absolute freedom from in- advisable commitments REPEAL EXCESS PROFITS TAX UTRAILRATES AND OPERATING COSTS; REVISE The TARIFF ELS President in Message Says Private Monopolies to Prevent Merchant Marine Development Should Be| Prohibited. WASIIIN to Congress ‘TON, April 12.—The text of President me: follows Harding's Age Members of the Congress— You save been called into extraordinary session to give your con- sideration to national problems far woo pressing to be long neglected, We face our task of legislation and administration amid condi- tions as difficult as our Government ever contemplated Under our political system the people of the United States have charged the new Congress and the new Administration with the solu tion—the readjustment, reconstruction and restoration which must follow in the wake of war. It may be regretted that we were so illy prepared for war's after math, so little made ready to return to the ways of peace, but we are not to be discouraged, Indeed, we must be the more firmly resolved to underiake our work with high lope, and invite every factor in our citizenship to join in the efforl to find our normal, onward way agait The American people have appraised the situation, and with that tolerance and patience which go with understanding they will give to us che influence of deliberate public opinion which ultimately be comes the edict of any popular government, They are measuring some of the stern necessities and will join in che give and take whieh ) essential to firm re-establishment First in mind must be the solution of our problems at home, even jough some phases of them are inseparably linked with our foreign relations. ‘The surest procedure in every government is to put its own house in order 1 know of no more pressing problem at home than to restrict our national expenditures within the limits of our nauonal income, and at the same ume measurably lift the burdens of war taxation from the houlder the American peop One cannot be unmindtul that ¢— ————_—_—__-—- onomy 4% a mu nployed ery most froquently essed in pre nake and impelli th tlon n. Th tr to hoedl wrowtt Inews, ox ndin ority to vdin Ve ammailent al wi inimpeded ‘ t cor t ed milion ever keep in mind that a (Continued on Second Page.) | “Cirenlation Books Open to All. it ; Entered as Second-Class Matter Vout Office, New York, To-Morrows Weather—FAIR, WAR EDITION babiiy 28 PRICE THREE CENTS Nf. | civilization | Lauague selves cause nn appeal can be made and an impartial judgment rendered. jnificant utterance in the entire me: |CONGRESS BREAKS | RECORD FOR BILLS; —————— PRESIDENT 1S FOR TREA BUT WOULD KEEP IT APART. FROM LEAGUE OF NATIONS. If Suggestion Is Carried Out America sprang a big surprise in his first address to Congress. Will Join “a League” or “ Associa- tion of Nations”—Favors Modifica- tion of the Versailles Pact With Explicit Reservations. By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, April 12 (Copyright, 1921),—President Harding He did not tut his back altogether on either the Versailles Treaty or League of Na+ tons, He came out flatly for amendment and modification of the Vere mnodific pointed out the basis upon which America would enter |sailles pact. He urged its acceptance with “explicit reservations and ations” He rejecied the Covenant of the “existing League” but “a league” or “an wssuciation of nations.” !° the European Governments will separate the League from the Ver+ sailles Treaty, that is, if they will change the character of the League so that a member of it will not be compelled to enforce the provisions of the treaty Cormick and others of the so-called “irreconcilable” toundations. itself, America will join. This is precisely the view urged by Herbert Hoover and outlined in these despatches a few weeks ago. i House. Just before the President read his address to Congress the Republicans the Foreign Relations Committee were assembled at the White As they filed out, Messrs, Borah, Moses, Me- group expressed them: Senate Johnson, Brandegee, tives as delighted with the message. if the Government and 4 | held crap the That means harmony between the legislative and execuiives branches smnproimise at last between the extreme viewpoint the Wilson people and the “bitter-enders’ " which was to whole League and the whole treaty, Mr. Harding has reverted to his campaign pledges— sisting by idea, he will make use machinery and will not endeavor to rebuild on entirely fresh He will try lo make (he Allles see that the highest aims of 4 permanent peace-—can be better attained by separating the the enforcement of any treaty, so that when treaties them disputes the League can be a sort of super-tribunal to which ‘The most sige frou age is the “~~ following “There can be no prosperity for the fundamental purpo sought to be achieved by any such asen- ciation so long as it is the organ of any particular treaty, or com= mitted to the attainment of the 2,504 INTRODUCED | special aims of any nation or group of nations.” Average 6 to a Member-—1,000 Tht Mr. Harding does not propose amt a German |serapping all the machinery of @ ( | treaty which the siynature of rty natio Instead he sa WASHINGTON, A “It wot dle to declare for EARY House Filing Clerk epura te c ace with the | W were gtill at work to-day centms| powers on the assumption to cataloyue 2,564 bill: ine [that these alone would be adequate wecause the situation so Involved roduced yesterday by the 433 that our peace ong nents cannot members. It was a record break nore the old world relationship and : first day flood of new meas | the settlements already effected, nor res, about six to a member desirable to ‘ds bina pili rari | our own right ontracting b PACKERS AGREE ure our | Y visable Armour Stockyd and | nitments and ow I { Within | al interests | 1 Mr. Harding some sur Yea es too in handing domestic af- . He fearle xpressed him- elf on many subjects which it was ought w too delicate even tu mention. He told the Congress to stop wsgling about whether it was wiser to revise the tariff or the tax laws first. He told the Congress to do th and get the job done, ue recogn the ide that “we snnot sell unless we buy,” but ine mote # Sols Kl] sisted that a protective iff was role fy 1 8 * | necessary in order to give American i aa INN aa "| industries the “capacity to sell.” He ; | sod that he would not permit ‘ 4 ou selfishnes or any other ants ma , ‘ ion of) ADU aking up the protective dispose of the Lor at ai ariff 1 aud reasonable price. He gave bis views on Governme ‘ | ’ A J mt ey servations TO TERMS OF U. S.|