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v GERMAN PROPOSALS ‘NOT ACCEPTABLE’; P BRINDELL'S HAND IS SH _ FRANCE READY TO MOVE, SAYS BRIAND To-Might’s Weather—PARTLY CLOUDY. WALL STREET EDITION NO. “al, 724—DAILY. Copyright, 1921 Co. (Ths » by The Press Publis w York World). IN LABOR COUNCIL; flS MAN NOW FAS ABSOLUTE POWER — ~61 Unions, Representing 115, 000 Men, Were Not:Consulted In Selecting Officials. ‘SPEAKER QUSTED BY LEGISLATURE Of PENNSYLVANIA Spangler Named ty Penrose Dethroned by Governor's Friends in Midnight Session. HEARING IS Roswell D. Tompkins, Con-| victed Leader’s Secretary, is | Still Holding on to the Job. | | a BEGUN @emucl Untermyer, at the mg to-day in Hall fessions of the Lockwood Lasisiatve| Committee on Housing, after an ad-| fournment of nearly months. Jost no time in establishing a conten- at the City ot & HARRISBURG, resentative Pa., April 26.—Rep- Whitaker of four Samuel tion that however much the various building trade essociations of contrac. the Pennsylvania House of Represen- | tors, workingmen and supply deaicr: ‘tives at a “rump” session to-day - . aker Spangler, who was deposed, | may have “changed thelr show Wii- —-as the choice of Chairman Crow of dows” and ‘display front Republican organization at the nave not oh d their { of Senator Penrose, he regular session udjourned at midnight untl! 11 o'clock this morning, with members protesting. It was fol- lowed by the “rump” session between midnight and 1 o'clock this morning. #otual admin’ of thetr affairs tion Roewell D. Tompkins, who was Sec- etary of the Building Trades Coun under Robert P. EF Chester, Pa, was elected Speaker of| TRANSIT BOARD ~ ASSUMES OFFICE AND ORGANIZES No Oppos tion a5 1 as Three Mem- bers Walk in and Hang Up heir Hats. ALDERME BACK HYLAN. Table Quinn’s Resolution Ask- ing for Mayor’s Removal In Traction Charges. Alderman William F. Quinn, Man- introduced to the Board of Aldermen this afternoon a Miller |to remove Mayor Hylan from office | forthwith. | The resolution recited that the Mayor |instructed the Corporation Counsel to order Transit Construction Comm.s- sioner Delaney to refuse to surrender his office or records to the new Tran- sit Commission, and characterized such conduct as “desperate and dan- gerous.”” | ‘The resolution was tabled oy an almost unanimous vote. Ail the Re- publican members except two voted against it Despite the application of the Cor- poration Counsel for injunctions re- straining the new Transit Commis- jon from officially functioning until the courts have passed upon the lity of the transit dills passed by Legislature, George McAneny, T. Harkness and John F. | O'Ryan, comprising the Transit Com- mission, and Chairman Prendergast and Oliver H, Semple, the New York City members of the Public Service Commission, formally took possession of the offices of former Transit Con- struction Commissioner John H. Delaney and former Public Service Commissioner Alfred M. Barrett at No. 49 Lafayette Street at noon to- day. They watked in and tang up their | hats and no one opposed them be- | cause, in the present status of the | controversy between the city and th» | State, they are the authorized State jofficers entitled to possession, while (Continued on Ninth Page.) jhattan Republican, esolution calling upon Goy. the Leroy ig Sing serv a ‘The speakership was declared vaeant Ffeoce tor ext and Whitaker's election followed be- ry, wee hind locked doors | un Within an hour, with a quorum of nt that 135 present, rules were made, three svords which committees were discharged and th ust before Brindel!’ Administration Welfare Department, Mr. Tompki the non-partisan repealer and the Patrick J, Crowley Congressional, legislative and jud. 4'un G. Norman, the new $25,000 s clal reapportionment measure were tary of the Building Trades Em- placed on the calendar and passed| guoyers mm (success first reading. At 10 o'clock to-day Yrindell's Charles J. Keil; m reconvened, with Spang who had no salary), refused to sign adherents not present. ‘3 -s of immunity from criminal) ‘The House was thrown into con- tlability for his testimony, Under sternation by the arrival of Spangter | ehaisew pow en to the com 11 A.M, the rgular hour for con mittee It may accept such waivers. ening. An ineidental revelation of the ung obtained the floor on {imony was the announcement by concerning the Assembly ares (Yateeanver the finan demanded his right to preside and | books of the F Trades Co! was refused, acized at the time of the Rrindell the hands of inves arial, are now !t gatore of the Iucome Tax Bureau of the United States Internal Re tt is the first intimation that venue the «Continued on Secomd Pi LIST OF THE JUNK » SEIZED BY POLICE * ON TRAIL OF HOOCH 4 With thousands passing every hour dJugs, Kegs, Dei ‘johms, Cans, Jars, Flasks, Bottles and Two at the second busiest crossing south of 14th Street, Broadway at Chambers " Autos. Street wouldn't be taken exactly for ' EPUTY POLICE COMMIS- |4 lover's lane, but nevertheless three D SIONER Jobn A. Leach | traffic policemen stationed at that announced to-day that there particular point have been handed were 101 new arrests in violation ef the Tiquor Law and that the police aud other agents had weized and confiscated knock-out wallops by Dan Cupid inj the last few weeks, All three of the cops are to start on their vacations June 20, and the three weddings have ae keysle been planned for about that date. 1407 bottles, | ‘he prospective bridegrooms are fale Getamaiiiie | Patrick James Taylor, known on the 08 cans. force as “Sunny Jim"; Patrick Me- ie chee’ Arevey, otherwise known as “Roar- i San jing Paddy,” and Leonard Wishart, : | Soe are |the “anchor man” of the police tug- *o-war team. The first two have been jon duty et Chambers and Broadway almost twelve years. All are assigned One taxi. . to T he Station in the base ment of the City Hall. Taylor in odd moments off @ found @ fascination in the soda foun tain at the Mirror Candy Shop, a few feet from his post. Behind the foun- jprsina Ervine on Poo @ an 19 tain be often found Miss Laura 4 THREE TRAFFIC COPS TO WED IN ROMANCES OF ONE CORNER Sunny Jim Taylor, Roaring Paddy McArevey and Wishart Win Brides at Broad- way and Chambers. Burns, manager of the candy store Uhey both had a fondness for nut sundaes and it wasn’t long before the ndness developed for each other. One noon when the crossing was! |Jammed with trucks, troileys and| |‘notors MoArevey saw a woman in danger of being run over by a aeven ton truck. He sprang forward and| |srabbed her just in time to prevent| her being crushed by the heavy wheels. It was a case of love de- veloping quickly after that His bride-to-be is Miss Sally Hyland of | Hast 161st Street, Bronx. Wishart, one of the giants of the Police Department, was in the act of Separating two automobiles tn colll- sion, His great strength attracted the attention of Mrs. Mmiline Cam- jon or about NEW “YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 192i. WIFE SWEARS STOKES BEAT HER | TWICE; TRIED TO INVOLVE HER | IN COMPROMISING SITUATION ——> Reveals Identity of “Taii,! Dark Man” as Chum of Her Stepbrother at Yale. REFUSED — HIS Says He Suggested Divorce— Shooting Showgirls Figure in Day's Testimony. Numerous instances of cruelty, ot which included striking her with- in a short time after their marriage, were alleged against W. E, D. Stokes to-day in the testimony of his wife, Helen Elwood Stokes, in the divorce action he has brought against her. On one of these occasions, she stated, he knocked her into a dresser and severely bruised her, and on another, after striking her, pinned her against the wall by the arm “till the blood ran from her finger-tips.” Mrs. Stokes also told of her hus- band’s threat to “get even” with her by bringing a “big, black negro” into her room, so frightening her that she was fearful of remaining in the apartment, Once, she sald, she dis- covered that a strange man hed spent the night in the apartment while Stokes was away, and that her hus- band later told her that the man wus a friend of his. Reference was also made to the shooting of Stokes in an apartment at 80th Street and Broadway tn June, 1911, a month after he marred Mrs. Stokes, by Ethel Conrad and Lillian yraham. Mrs Stokes sald she had two complained to Stokes about these women before the shooting. They used to frequent the Ansonia. The identity of the “tall, dark man,” alleged to have been seen going to Mrs, Stokes*s room was disclosed to-day, though she stoutly denied the entry of her room. The man was El- liett Brown, the roommate at Yale of Victor Miler, Mrs Stokes’s half- brother, who was a frequent visitor at the Stokes home. In her testimony noon Mra. Stokes said late this after- “In October or November, 1918, while I was living with Mr. Stokes at No. 317 West 78th Street, about 2 o'clock one morning, Mr. Stokes came into my room and stood beside the bed. He was dressed in pajamas and had « revolver in his hand. | asked him what he wanted. He asked mo tf | had heard any mote. I tek! him no, that there was no one tm the house. ‘He stood there without saying any- thing for several mimutes and then went into the Mbrary and sat down | where be commanded a view of the head of my bed. He snt there for about an bour and a halt. I did not gu to deep again that morning.” Anna Brennan, 4 maid the Stokes’s employ, stated on the stand that’ she seen a “tall dark man,” about thirty-five years old come into the house with Mra Stokes about Dec. 10, 1918, at 3 o'clock in the morn- ing and that they had gone to Mrs. Stokes's room. ‘That statement © absolutely false,” Mrs. Stokes declared, and in jexplaining the presence of “a tall dark man’ in the house at any time that date said, “Mr. Brown was visiting the house at that in tlme and om the night of Dee. 10 we} (Continued on Twenty-third Page) SUGAR 634¢. WHOLESALE Refined sugar prices to-day touched desk by Lieut. George Sheridan, an- swered shyly and with extrame cour- teousness. From that time on Cupid bad an easy time of it, bridge of No, 273 Jamaica Ave. nue, Flushing, L. 1, who hap- pened to be passing in anuther ma- |eh § comnized Wishart as a [neighbor in Flushin.s und spe in| compliment of h feat Wishart | having in mind the lecture on po. ness given that morning from the Post Office, Katered ax Second-Class Matter Te-Merrow's Weather—PROBABLY SHOWERS. WALL STREET RG I3 Le PRICE THREE CENTS ————— New York, N. ¥. ‘MASKED MEN ROB UNION HILL BANK ‘RUNNERS OF $6,000 Escape in Auto After Hold Up FLAGLER DENES.— AANISS WENNEGKER = os = Victims Forced to Hand Over Deposits at Points of Revolvers. BEGUN. Steel Magnate Declares His Third Wife Was Never a Bride Before. ‘Two men wearing masks and carry the foot of the stairway In the Metropol! John H. Flagler, seventy years old,|!® revolvers were hidden near the steel capitalist, who is at the Murray Hill Hotel with his third wife, | to-day denied stories in the morning papers that his bride, was given in the marriage license as Beattice Frances Wennecker of Brooklyn, had been married and di- vorced. tan Life Insurance Company Build tng No. 25 Bergentine Union Hill, N. J, at noo to-day when two bank messengers from the Hudson Trust Company came down with a satchel containing $6,000 ‘The money was the dally deposit at Avenue, whose name of the insurance company, The bank “She never married before,” Mr.| measengers call for the cash every Flagler said with emphasis, “If she) day and take it to the bank. had been married before 1 would| he masked men stepped qutkly eve HeArG oF tt in front of the messengers, John “Did she ever live at No. 810 Flat-| wore ang William Kearney, preaned bush Avenue, Brooklyn, the address | cing against them and ordered hands stven of the Miss Beatrice Frances | |up. ‘The messengors obeyed. One of Wennecker, who i said to have Deen | tng wotibera seized the satohel and married to James Divisiche?” Mr.| gartea out of the butlding, followed Flagler was saked. by the other, They Jerked off their "I do not know of it” Mr. Flagler} masks as they ran base Acrowm the street a confederate of “Did you ever hear of James Di- line robbers waa waiting in a Ford visiche?” he was asked. ,, {touring oar, the engine running, The ‘I do not know the name at all,” | automobile started as the men with Mr. Flagler answered, and repeated | the satchel reached the running board his denial that Mrs. Flagler ever had been married before. It sped along Bergenline Avenue to Hudson Boulevard, where it was soon At No, 29 Strong Place, Brooklyn, | jog: in the traffic James Divisiche, interpreter in the] «me bank messengers had run out it Domestic Relations Court, said his time to catch the first three figures son was the man referred to. “My son used to work for Mr. Plag- ler in his office in Manhattan,” said Divisiche senior, “About twelve years ago he married Reatrice Wennecker, T Jersey of the auto's Heenne number ene wore 199, and it was a New leense, Motorcycle policemen were on trail in a few minutes, and (he w the s another employee. 1 objected but} from Police Headquarters cartied only on account of his age—he was| messages to surrounding towns to only twenty years old. He maid Mr.| watch for the robbers’ car. Flagler wns kind to them and he be-| Tne messengers sald the robbers lieved, favored their marriage. They} were young men, probably in (he itved together for a few years and/varly twenties, and well dressed. finaly were divorced." ere = At the New York Telephone Com-| FIRST JURY TRIAL pany’s branch, No. 227 Weet Thirteth Street, where he is employed as «/ clerk, the younger Divisiche smiled when asked about the story of his marriage with Miss Wennecker. “I haven't a word to say,” he de- clared, “I don't know where you got hold of this, I do not care to discuss it or any of my own affairs, If any OF STATE DRY LAW ENDS: ‘NOT GUILTY’ | Verdict in Brooklyn Found After One Hour’s Deliberation- Judge May Concurs. ‘The first jury trial in Brooklyn under one is to talk It will have to come] the State prohfbition Inw today re from somewhere else.” sulted in a verdict of not gullty in the At the Murray HLM Hotel Mrs.| case of Joseph A. Farrell, No. 64 Ral Flagler said: Avenue, arrested April 11 charged witt navin, or hin premtnes. ‘The “Mr. Flagler and I are married.| PAYin® Haver on premises: jury deliberated one hour and County ‘There ian't anything else to say—ex- Judge May remarked be wan surprised copt that I am very happy.” ada 4 they stayed out ao long to find @ verdict Mr. Flagler bates publicity,” she| oy not guilty in view of the woak suld, "and so do L” ea “On the marriage certificate your| He added that the American public name was given 3 8 atria | “won't tolerate. such an Invasion of | Frances Wennecker, and your occa | eee eh ioe in atric enforennien | pation as ‘artist.’ Do you paint, sing | of the law and heal te it whit | Pemains in the ataty lor play the ptano?” she was asked. om pelts “{ daisble in water colors for my Col. Harvey Taken Oath, lown pleasure. That is all,” ehe re WASHING IN, April ‘The a | plied, modestly. y father was |of office was administered to Col Georg Harvey as Ambassador to Great Britals A Wennecker Hodis age esterday at the State Department. He of Brooklyn, I ing Council BERLIN OFFERS TO ASSUME DEBT OF THE ALLIES 10 U. 8. TO PAY BILLION MARKS NOW Note to President Harding, Made Public in Berlin, Also Suggests That Total Indemnity Be Fixed by “An Unbiased Commission.” PARIS, April 26 (Associated Press) —Premier Briand told the Cham- hor of Deputies this afterneon: “If on May 1 satisfactory proposals, with acceptable guarantees, are not made by the German Government the Ruhr will be ocenpied.” rmany’s new reparations propositions, as made pubile to-day, are considered here as unacceptable even as a basis for discussion, according to well informed opinion close to the French Foreign Ofiice. After hearg the Premier’s statement the Chamber declared confi- {erce in the Government by a vote of 424 to 29, with 59 Deputies ab staining from voting. The possibility of applying penalties to Germany immediately after May 1, despite whatever propositions Germany may make regarding repa- rations in general, is being seriously considered, according to well-informed French circles today. Such action would be because of the German refusal to transfer one to the Rhinela: the equivalent of that sum as demanded by the Reparations Commission. It is held in French official circles that the failure of the Germans to pay the balance of the 20,000,000,000 gold marks due May 1 under the provisions of Article 235 of the Treaty of Versailles is entirely independent Jof the negotiations regarding the sum total of the reparations she must Jeventually pay. The treaty fixes absolutely this amount which, being Junpaid, justifies the application of penalties, according to this theory, whatever course may be taken regarding the fixing of the total amount WAR REPARATION PROPOSAL TURNED DOWN BY ALLIES Ss a or hand over ion gold m: Publication of Note to U. Conditions Make It Impossible Reveals New Points Raised to Collect the Amounts by Germany. | Promised by Germany | BERLIN, Apri! 26 (Associated 5 . |preas).—An arbitration proposal by (80 we pave farrence Germany for determining the total | (Special Corrsspordent | of The amount due from her on reparations WASHINGTON. April 26 (Copy is contained in the reparations note m1 i i forwarded to Washington, which was|™. 1921) —Great Britain and {made public here this afternoon France will refuse to accept the new A clause in this note says: “Germany suggests the appoint- | ment of an unbiased commission to fix the total sum of ber war reparations, which she pledges to accept as bind- ng and to carry out in good faith.” Germany, adds the note, would wel- come any suggestions from the Amer can Government for further negou- ations or for changes ip the present German proposal for the payment of war indemnity Although the United States Govern ment has not yet officially trans. mitted the German note to the Allies complete copies of the document are in the hands of Prime Minister Lioyd George and Premier Briand Both the French and British regard the proposals Proposal aX unccceptable and as | “With the acceptance of the iinply a disingenuous method of re powals,” says the German note opening the entire Treaty of Ver. many’s other reparations and obliga-|*#lles with the d States as ¥ trons will be annuBed, and ull Ger- | Ptrty to the tra on The new proposal differs trom al private property in foreign coun: that have preceded ries be released.” n that It appar ‘The text of the clause in the note|* Uy meets the sums asked by the tating the ar § ready| Allies, but under such conditions aa make tt Impossitale to from the Allied the amounts |1o pay reads .res herwelf ready to| viewpoint collect reparations @ total | promised. travelled about considerably.” | “Where did you meet Mr, Flagler?” | have not lived in Brooklym in five|[/"expected to leave for nis pout next) The Germans, for example, com years, since he died. I have no fam- | we | Continues Sevond Page.) pletely wkpe the slate clean of a Hily left, and Deing all alone I have = = — [propositions previously made and ap proach the subject from a new angle by asking that all occupying armies the lowest figure since before the be-| “Oh, I've known him for a long| = be withdrawn and that when the re ginning of the war, The Federa! Sumar| time, but ['d rather not go into that.” To the La rge paration amount is definitely fixec Refining Company reduced its quotation) Mrs, Flagler is thirty-three years N there ghall be no mare “sanctions to 6% cents @ pound wholerale. lpia, till datkand’ very /Aktraet in penalties. This would mean the ab he eeeriout lew brite for Shie YM") Her speaking voice 1s pleasant, ur n of clause of the Ver was established tn January, befure the| ” ; ic saitles Treaty, for ingtance, whtes she laughs Ally Send -s, photographs if possible, with complete informa wenbesone —_ pecentiy appuinted Cuben Financial /°"e iausta readily. _|]| Send names, photogray P , p , rovides for Allled oceupatin Commission attempted arbitrarily to fix! She salc Oe ner Raeend te tion of dates of birth, occupation or business of father. Send || ¥fev'des § salaaah sugar prices. At that time refined auger as low as 6.86 conts « wholesale, end has ook. hes aime gokl abowe § vulge, except to say thas & will not tend to leave New York in a few days | for a trip, where she would not di-| all replies to Family Editor, Evening World. Saar basin for Oftean years, Both the Freech end British Gow be across the ocean, {Sane eee Se. cee ee as See a \