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{ al | NEW OFFER BY GERMANY IS REJECTED BY BRITAIN: FRENCH DEMAND PAYMENT BEFORE ANY PARLEY To-Night's Weather—PROBA VOL. LXI. NO. 21,726—DAILY. —= Hin STREET EDITION BLY FAIR. Copyriz! Co. (The 1921, by ‘The Press Publishing Che {Circulation Books Open to All.’ New York World). “NEW YORK, THU HVLAN VETOES PAY FOUR IRISHMEN EXECUTED Ho eae ee aK cataveiy HELDIMMUNEBY SHE SCRATCHED UP RASEFOR POLE CT HAS NO MONEY Mandatory Legislation Will Drive Municipality Bank- rupt, He Asserts. WOULD COST $17,000,000 Salary Raise for Firemen and Detective Bill to Meet Same Fate. Mayor disapproval, Hylan killed te first of da his big salary grab bills put over by the Leg- that would hate of all first grade 2,280 a year to $2,500 a ‘This salary increase, if passed, the in- ature whieh creased the p: po- licemen from year. would have cost the taxpayers $1,700,- 000 a year, which, the Mayor says, the aity lacks. . He had already vetoed the ary of the Mayor @ d other 11 ras ing th city officials, His action to-day fore- casts that he will veto the bill raising the pay of first class firemen from $2,280 to $2,500 a yeur and all the other ' bills which would iner ase the pay of city employees, directly or indirectly, including that providing for the es- anent Detective which tablishment of a pe Bureau, the membership of would virtually embrace the personnel of the existing Detective Bureau. The vn of the Mayor in vetoing the police pay increase bill was some- a khock-out to the politl- and police officers who put the through the Legislature, Up to the last minute th were confi- dent Mayor Mylan would not have the nerve to defy two organizations of city employees—policemen and firemen ¥. Smith op- posed legislation for their benefit in 1920 worked against the Governor in the election jast November with but little attempt at concealment The mandatory legislation which came down from Albany to the Mayor wo cost the city an iner of $17,000,000 in the budget of 19: In vetoing the police increase bill the Mayor submitted the following mem- who because have orand “The dof Estimate and Ap- portionment three years increased thi of patrolmen trom $1,500%o $2,280 per year, These increases amounting to $780, were granted che ily and willingly by the Board of Estimate and Apportion- ment without mandatory legislation at Albany. rom the time of consoli- dation in 1898 the only increase grant- ed prior to this Administration was $100 to first grade patrolmen and $50 to lower grade patrolmen. | “The purpose of this bill was to embarrass the Mayor and the mem- bers of the City Administration. The Legislature knew that because of mandatory legislation at Albany in the last two yeara the city had reached its constitutional tax limit. The Legislature knew that there was a deficit of $27,000,000 in the school budget of this year because of man- datory legislation passed at Albany aguinst the protest of the Mayor rel (Continued on Tenth Page.) Sunday World | Classified Advertisements Should Be in The World Office On or Before Friday Order Sunday World Classified Advertising To-Day. The World WENT TO Firing Squad Carries Out Sen- tence of Court Martial in Cork Barracks To-day. CROWD PRAYS IN STRE Recites the Rosary—Mass Of- fered for Condemned at Scene of Execution. CORK, Ireland, April %8.—Four men convicted of making war against the British Crown Forces were exe- euted by a firing squad at the mili- barracks here Patr tary this morning. hey were Moore, Patrick Ronayne and Mulcahy and O'S victed of levying war and attacking British Crown forces at Clonmult, County Cork, on Feb. 20, Mulcahy were convicted of a near Maurice ‘Thomas Moore ullivan were eon- and Ronayne similar offense, committed Mourne Abbey, Fob. 15. While the executions were proceed- ing a crowd knelt in the roadway out- side the barracks, offered prayers, and recited the rosary admidst the sobs of the bereaved relatives of the four men and others, Moore's father, frantic with grief, and his brother, were present in the crowd. Yesterday the relatives of the men Visited them and found them in good spirits. O'Sullivan was greatly con- cerned about his mother and said he did not wish to see her, fearing she k O'Sullivan, | a SEEKS HUGHES’ Ald TOSAVEDOGSLUFE FOR NEW YORK GIRL | Uruguay Won’t Let Pet Land | and International Com- plications Result. an, No, No. |15 William Street, announced to-day . a lawyer with offices at |that he was going to Washington to- |night to seek asistance of the State |Department in saving the life of a |chow dog named Teddy. Teddy is the property of Miss {Muriel de Corneille, a pretty Swias She is a sister of Mrs, Homer Sullivan and lives in Four years ago she came to America as an attache of the Swiss Legation at Washington, where she learned some of the dip- girl of twenty-one. the Sullivan home. lomatic proce’ses which she is now) using to save the dog, The special reason why this dog's life is considered so important is that he formerly belonged to Miss de Cor- neille’s brother, who was killed in battle in France, and when his body | was found the dog was standing guard ever it—perhaps the only friendly witness of the soldier's death. would be overcome with sorrow.| Mulcahy, who was just eighteen, ON es ond ae euler leaves a father of eighty years. His|Tecently started for a pleasure trip elder brother was charge of levying Crown Forer of the the acquitted war against to Uruguay, but would not go with- out the dog | “But we took precautions,” Mr, Sul- livan told an Evening World reporter Canon O'Sullivan and the Rev.} i Father O’Brien attended the con-| diy. “We anticipated dimiculty demned mon during their last mo-|P0ut landing ‘Teddy, and 1 went to ments, Mass was celebrated in the barracks early this morning. Canon O'Sullivan addressed words of conso- lation and encouragement to the condemued men, saying they were going to a City which could not be burned down, The prisoners were then taken from their cells and shot in pairs Two priests said all the men died with magnificent bravery, The come mandant of the firing party said he had never witnessed anything to compare with the way they moet death. After the executions the priests annointed the bodies and gave the papal blessing. The author- ities refused to give the bodies to the relatives, Instead, they we re- moved to the Cork jail for interment. This makes a total of eleven men executed here during the last few months. The execution of six men toward the end of February had a swift sequel in the shooting and kill- ing of five soldiers stationed at Cork, and in the wounding of several others, one of whom later died. Phe Corporation and the Harbor Roard of the City of Cork had passed (Continued on ‘enth Page.) pica Cheiolancciaeh SECOND ‘DRY’ TRIAL ALSO AN ACQUITTAL Brooklyn Jury Again Refuses to Convict for Mullan-Gage Violation, ‘The jury trial of Harry Meyer of No. 485 Tompkins Avenue, Brooklyn, on a charge of yiolating the Mullan- Gage act, ended in an to- day before Judge Mitche Kings County Court, Sixty-nine talesmen were examined before the jury box was filled. Meyer employed as a (bartender at Hal- y Street and Tompkins Avenue, two bottles of liquor were found by raiding officers On the wand he denied pout them. ‘This was he second trial by jury in Brooklyn on charges of violating the Mullan-Gage Act. The first trial also ended in an acquittal, quittal 1) May in where anything the Uruguayan Consul here to make inquiries. I was told there would be no trouble if we first had ‘Teddy ex- |amined by @ good veterinary and ob- tained a certificate that he was free | from disease. We got that certificate.” | But when the ship, the Acolus of |the Munson Line, reached Monte- video the sanitary officials there had ordered that all dogs be killed be- cause there is a rinderpest scare. | They refused to make an exception |in favor of ‘Teddy and were not im- pressed by his certificate, | Miss de Corneille, however, stood |firm and refused to surrender her prot She said she would rather yield her own life than that of the | dog. She was so unyielding that noth- ing cculd be done with her either by the ship's officers or the sanitary of- ficials, and the ship was thus pre- vented from tying up at its pier, ‘The Munson Line agents were old that if the dog were not killed the ship would have to leave port within twenty-four hours, but they finally agreed to let the vessel remain for the usual time provided the dog were kept in a room by itself under a sani- tary guard Meanwhjle, Miss de Corneille cabled Mr. Sullivan, saying she never would give in and urging him to do all that could be done here, That is why he is going to Washington to see Secretary Hughes. A cablegram from Montevideo to- day said the cargo and passengera of | the Aeolus were being transferred to another ship in order that they may be landed, No one has tried to make an accurate accounting of the money that has already been spent to save Teddy’s life,’ But Teddy still lives, pe SSE INQUIRY ON DISABLED MEN. Walsh Introduces Re Lo) Senate Investigation, WASHINGTON, April 28.—A sweep- | {ng Senatorial investigation of the al- t of aick and disabled ex- men {s provided for in a resoiu- tion introduced to-day by Senator | Walsh, Massachusetts, | ‘The resolution calls for appointment 788 Riverside! | transporting liquor. RSDAY, APRIL 28, 1921. ntored ax See orld, \,“Cireulation Books Open to All. ] ‘ont Office, New York, To-Morrow’s Weather—PROBABLY FAIR. PRICE THREE CENTS ond-Clasy Matter Ss — es CELLAR AND HIP = MRS. STOKESGLAD BERLIN OFFER UNSATISFACTORY, LLOYD GEORGE TELLS COMMONS KNES GRAND RY / Brooklyn Body Refuses to In- dict in 30 of 49 State Cases NEW DRY FORCE HERE. 200 Plain Clothes Men in Special Squad for Liquor | Arrests. H The Kings County Grand Jury, it indict in thirty of forty-nine heovh | cases under the Mullan-Gage Enforcement Law. The character f the Grand act in ca evidence indicated sury was reluctant to es not) involving the corner saloonkeeper and professional bootlegger, | Several times during the day hearing Assistant District A Snyder's opinion on the cases pro-| sented, District Attorney Lewia was called into consultation by the Grand| Jury. Mr. Lewis declined to revel the details of the consultations Among the thirty cases dismissad was that of a man who, when ar- rested as intoxicated, had two fiasks jot whiskey in specially constructed | inside Vest pockets, | Another was a man arrested c' | urged with robbery, in whose house a po-! lice search revealed a bottle of} | whiskey. | The owner of twenty barrels of home-made wine was dismissed. Twoysaloonkeepers who had hotties | of bitters containing who | pleaded it was kept for medicine! use, were freed. ‘Two persons stopped on the atre‘t and found carrying liquor, and those arrested after policemen found liquor in glasses on their tables in rose} taurants were freed. | Five men arrested late erday in Lynbrook by Sheriff Smith of Nas- sau County in connection h the seizure of two barrels of grain alcob.l valued at $1,000 in a house belonging to Gaetano Giordano arraigned efore Justice of the Peace Raisig| and released in $560 bail cach for ox~ amination on a charge of illegaly alcohol, The alcohol, which bore the stamp of a bonded warehouse, had been transported on a truck driven by one| of the men, according to the Sheriff. ‘The men arrested were Soloinon Lip- schitz of Jamaica, Ben Winkel, No. 570 East 8th Street, Brooklyn, driver of the truck; Isador Feder, No. 137 Shore Avenue, Jama‘ Geaaro Delara, No. 139 Liberty Avenue, Jamaica, and John Kane, No. 1156 Fulton Street, Brooklyn. Deputy Police Commissioner Leach announced to-day the transfer of Inspector Thomas McDonald of the Tenth District of Brooklyn to head- quarters in Manhattan. MeDonald will have charge of a special squad of 200 plain clothes men who, ard ing to Deputy Commissioner Leach, will concentrate all their efforts in making Greater New York absolutely bone-dry. Many saloonkeepers are voluntarily closing up because they fear a lien will be placed against their property (Continued on Seventeenth Bage.) IS SEEKING A NAME FOR HIS 18TH BABY; 15 OF THEM LIVING Father, of Ironwood, Mich Years Old and Mother Is 44, IRONWOOD, Mich., April 27. HEN a physician went to W a home to-day in re- Sponse to a call he found John Mattson pondering over a lst of names. Mattson was look- ing for a name for the elghtcenth baby in the family, a girl, Is 46) of a special investigation commiitee by the Vice President. ae (Reoing Entrise on Pages 13 and 23.) * Fifteen of the children are liv. tng. The mother is forty-four and the father forty-six. i | show your appre FACE OF HUSBAND the Throat in the Home of Mrs. Yerkes. Alleges He Had Seized Her ” THEIR PROPOSALS MORE LETTERS IN CASE Says She Wrote dearing Phrases to Stokes to Make the Best of Things. A letter from Mrs, W. BD. Stokes became known to-day, has refusrd to | to her husband, in which she expressed UJ S|) TAKES NO HAND her “un about Mrs, iness” Lydig, iate|Mr. Stokes's first wife, and referred May Be Suitable Basis for Dis- to her, conviction that Mrs. Lydig hated him, was to-day put in evidence in the Stokes divorce trial. ‘This letter, written in August, 1916, said in part: “Dear Will: telling about your wives was partly sad and Your letter partly amusing. Money is the goal, apparently, but not with me. Still, I'd be a fool if L did not protect my children, Are you sure that divorce was got so that it has left no chance for any one to get your estate? I'm not so sure, You'd better look into it. There are tricks in all trades, you know. “You gave an apartment house once for a wedding present. 1 have given you two children and I feel hurt that you haven't given me anything to iation of me. 1 don't, like the , believe in the idea that t nd gon can fish for a living, I am uneasy only about Mrs. Lydig. She hates you, L know. You'll awaken to the sad reality in time and cast away her letters." When Mr, Smyth, attorney for Mr, Stokes, got upon the financial arrange- ments which had been made between his client and Mrs. Stokes, the latter stated that her husband had agreed, | two days before thelr Feb, 11, 1911, to giv month and supply her clothing. aid that she had never written him anything about this specific amount, but that it was promised to her. “Mr, Stokes made the arrangement when we were talking of getting mar- ried, 1 did not want to matry in such a hurry, but he explained that he wanted it for financial reasons,” Mrs. marriage her on Sha Stokes stated, Mr. Smyth called her attention to the fact that deposits in bank showed that she had received about a month and not $1,500, as she claimed to have been promised. The witness euswered this by saying that ali moneys were merely sent to the bank, not given to her, and that she neither (Continued on ‘Tenth Page.) 10,000 QUEBEC WOMEN WAR ON INDECENT DRESS Join Christian League, Pledging Selves to Avoid Extreme Fashion, MONTREAL, April 28. ST 10,000 women in the wince of Que are going to do what they to check what they believe dangerous tendency ‘They are going to start by setting a g00d example, This numb ready have joined the Ch Women's League organized cently to war against indecent ns, league, which was orginally promoted by Catholics, is open, however, to both Protestants and Catholics, and is intended to ex- tend to all parts of the country where women will join. Members of the league are ex- pected to avoid low cut waists for church weir, shun on ail oce casions dresses that are too snort or too thin, and adhere to iacon~ *ploucus fashions for etrect wear, can to be a toward indecency in dress. re. your} $1,500 a| GERMANS MODIFY ON REPARATIONS Different Light Placed on Paragraph Relating to “Un- reproductive Outlays | cussion When Allies Ex amine Propositions, By David Lawrence (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, April 28 (Copyright, 1921).—Germany still has an oppor- tunity to modify her reparation pro- posals and make them satisfactory to the Allies and thus prevent-@eeupation of the Ruhr. | Although the United States Govern- ment is not taking the initiative or adopting any course that might be Jconstrued as an effort to persuade | |Germany to change her proposals, vertheloss the cables and radio have conveyed to Berlin within the last} twenty-four hours enough newspaper despatches and official utterances from Paris and London especially to} let the Germans know their offer is| unacceptable. | The difference between (he Allies | and Germany does not centre on the amount to be paid but upon the terns: and methods of collection. An error Jin the cabled text has been discovered which puts a different Neht on at least one important pars raph of the which relates outlays.” ‘The ar that the German proposal, that to “unreproductive fret version de it am German Government wanted to be preted to mean the funds suetaining the Allied pation, but the ¢ official statement now says the note should have read that German busi- nees must be rid of “unreproductive outlays" and that the phrase refers rmles of Government's to disadvantageous trade arrange: ments. In any event, the most objectionable ul ia that | on of pay clause in the German propo which declares as a con ment that all penalties or “sanctions” must be removed, The Germans de- | clare officially in a supplementary | [statement made after the Germ proposal was made to Washington | that thi nly the pena sim, | poxea scent London conter- | Jence and does not involve in any way the sanctions provided by the Ver- sajlles treaty | | MAY BE BASIS FOR DISCUSSION Should these two | ade in Unite the tion Jue x to the when propos Page.) (Continued on Second |REFUSES TO HALT WARSHIP BUILDING | | Great Majority Rejects mference on | House by Delay Pending ¢ Disarmament WASHINGT April 23.—The House rejected to-day by an overwhelming | amendment to the Naval Appros bili providing that no funda} be used for continuing waryinp LATER ON. \t construction until (President Handing had called an International conference to consider disarmament. Supreme Council to Take Up Ques- tion of New Penalties Saturday— France Insists onTangible Guaran- tees Before Any New Negotiation. LONDON, April 28 (Assoclated Press),—Mr. Lloyd George, the Prime Minister, speaking in the House of Commons to-day on Germany's repara- tions proposals, said: “I very much regret to say that they are thoroughly unsatisfactory, and I wish it had been possible for me to say that they alter the situation.” “They are being examined very carefully, with the other proposals at this moment by the financial experts of all the Allies who are in London,” continued Mr. Lloyd George. press a di the compl ment” “Therefore, | would be very sorry to ex- linite opinion, but Iam afraid there is general unanimity as to inadequacy of the proposals made by the German Govern- ‘The Prime Minister said that detailed plans for the occupation of the Westphalian coal fields were being examined by the conference of Allied experts and their reports would be laid before the Inter-Allied Conference Saturday, In reply to a question, he said the Government was committed to action, so far as these coal fields were concerned, if the German repara- tion proposals were unsatisfactory. Hé added: “It is not for me to say whether another opportunity will be given Germany or not.” He made this declaration when pressed as to whether Great Britain would be committed to any course of action before the House of Com- mons could debate on the question, ‘® BERLIN, HARDING HOPES U. S.A) emf FLEET MAY NEVER | that the German Govceneena HAVE TO FIRE GUN “illing to modify its reparations pro- |posals if asked by Washington to do 0, and that by such action a basis Governments Had Same jof agreement could be reached. , He Said, There Matas Apr Would Be No War. ee April 28 semi -official (Associated statement If Other Ke (Associated Press). t regarding the repara, {German propositions on th Abourd U. 8. 8. Pennsylvania, tons question is expected to April Lond. 48, According to th “Lt wish you might 1 » | formation obtainable here’ to-day, ‘No: called to fire a gun again,” Pres- | {ther steps will be taken in this Ident Harding ‘declared’ to the [Station until the Allied Supreme officers of the Atlantic Fleet |C°UHei, which is to moet in London | Saturday, has acted vernment were inspired | At™erican participation in the Lon- P by motives as ours there |G0" deliberations 4 1 for in would always be peace,” he ja-| Mrench circles, where it ts stated an ‘but 1 wouldn't have py [invitation will be sent to honor and without the con is have a ntaniy ss that America is right [Patan pre protecting every interest." Jae soussion in the Supreme Mr. Harding made the speech to the | COUPC!) It Iv indicated, will be opened offigens on the quarterdeck of Admiral | PY Presentation of the French ease, Wilson's fit p, after he had aks h the deta fe nany's defaults viewed the Atlantic Meet on its re-|/% the execution of the ‘Treaty of turn from battle prac n Guanta- | Versatiies, He ulure to pay the namo Hay {ee f 12,00 marks on > | ier 20,000,000,000 marks debt due May ATLANTIC FLEET __|irewiecue ts wal crarceste: ure to bring to trial officers accused IS COMING TON. Y,/° “#F crimes and her resistance to Sail gamehouse Tia he proponed € is for payment of indemnities will be set forth as justi+ Men Cheer City in Movies and |rying turtne ties and the ae Are Wild to Get to | by p . fte German propositions Broadway. ist transmitted to Washington will OLD POINT COMFORT, Va, taken §.—The Atlantic Fleet, which was re-| France will insist that nothing short of a beginning on the viewed here towlay by President Har break up to-night. Practically | actual fulfillment of Germany's ahips go to New York, where} ebligations should arrest the n will have thelr first shore leave| pressure of the Allies. The first n several months. actual beginning, it is suggested, ‘They ull want to see Broadway,"| might be the delivery of 1,000,- Admiral “Witnon'wald |} 000,000 marks iA gold from the We had movies the other night 204) Reichsbank reserve, as demand: heen! en the | sway We") ed by the Reparations Comm would raise the roof ae a t sidered as | cele RR. Shops to Close Monday. ntention to ex- BUFFALO, Apr Phe E i defay which Fond iG Malo will close on will resist the ndefinitely y 2, according promises as to ordera the local super r delay in the endent day. ‘The shut nalties, down here several hundred As the out- wen out of work, It was understood 1 query of yes- Germany, it is stated, now s that the annuities extend 1 of from fifty to seventy~ that shops on all parts of the Er will close at the same time It was sald at the Erie Chureh Street, day or even longer, instead down of wurious shops. P two ye iginally men- the res of locomot 1s in official ta hea eA ¢ sto be a sample of the “evasive towns in which methods" of Germany which cannot it was stated, hi en left to tho dis- cretion “ut ¢he various division ‘mun- |e allowed to continue. Great Britain has requested tnfor- plane ene ee ere ee pat a i a FE TEE