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ef WALL STREET FEATU RE THIS EpitioN VOL. LXI, an To-Night's Weather—RAIN NO. ai, 73 sniteintinenie 1921 (The copyright, Co. SHPSSIGN CREHS ATOLDRATE, MEN WIN FIRST VICTORY. Universal 1 enapeetath on Com-! pany Grants Terins for Its Five Freighters. § BOATS HAVE SAILED. Unions Say Potomac, Delayed From Yesterday, Cannot ats ‘The vanguard of the so-calied “key- Get Crew hole und adder witnesses’ whose 4: (testimony is largely retied upon by ms ; counse) for James A. Stillman, former S 4st resident of the National City Bank,| ef vf the ShIP- | ¢4 win him a divorce, appeared to-day | mth American the library of the ar Association, eal ions appear to|where the divorce hearing was re- the f in the | Sumed. " One of “these was George Adams, on in the port of New York. rriy seven, of Grundy Anse, Cunada, as claimed by William Curtis, | yf¢, stanchfield, of Mrs. Stillman's stant business agent of the Ocean| counsel, said afterward to an Evening gineers, that the Universal | World reporter that Adams was “a portation aahuintes little peeping witness whose testi- Company had ¢ and had signed up with union crews at the old rates and under the old At the office of the company, No. 36 Leaver Street, no one would he statement, nor would anyone affirm it This arrangement will release five tramp freight steamers, the first of which, the Lillmae, will sail at 5 o'clock this afternoon from Pler No, 13, North Tampico. Capt, N. T._Hender: signed up his crew this afternoon before United States Quinn, nissioner P. H. © between the com- ions was ended, ‘The the line are the Gladsby nd th Winthrop L. Marvin, Vice Pres!- dent and Gene Manager of the American Stea D Asso- ciation, said earlier there was no truth in the report that the owners would consent to a wage reduction of unything less than 15 per cent. “There is no truth, etther, In the re- port we are going to establish a bonus system in any of the ships, said Mr, Marvin. “Outside of the en- gineers we are not experiencing much @ifficulty in getting crews, but without al Reserve, nu is gaining many the exception of en- hope to get recourse to the Sea Service Bure: with inion headquarters it was sald 110 engineers were pulled out of Shipping Board steamers lying idle in Jamaica Bay, and thirty-seven more ships at Prall's Island. All firemen and other marine workers were taken out yesterday, they said, and a total of 300 ships in New York Hurbor have been abandoned since the strike began. It was also stated that, acting on ructions from the head of the engineers Washington, had to towboat ors and firemen not to nandle steamer flying the American flag, either In docking her or in taking her at issued marine orders en been to sea. ‘Che engine room crews, it was added, were to leave their tugs only in the event of an attempted violation of this order. nipping Board officials report ship movement satisfactory in Boston, Norfolk, annah, Charleston, and (Continued on Page Classified Advertisers Important! Classified advertising eopy for The Sunday 1d should be tm The World office On or Before Friday Preceding Publication THE WORLD _ s ‘Keyhole "reat imony Is Introduced ‘She |“ Ciroulation —— Open to an | N by The Press Publishing New York World), Stillman Amused and Ladder’ caftadian Who Accuses Wife of Banker at Divorce Hear- ing Is Called “Little Peeping | Witness” by Her Lawyer. Brother of Fred Beauvais, Indian, Guide, Says All Charges ‘Made by Financier Will Be Refuted. mony was not damaging.” It was said by others present tat Adams told of certain incidents in the room of Fred Beauvais, the Indian guide, at Grande Anse, in the Black- burn House, a hotel about forty mies from Lake Dawson, where a camp was being built for the Stillmans. This was in December, 1917. Adams {8 said to have admitted on cross examination that he is still on the payroll of Mr. Stillman and that his duties are of a “consulting na- ture.” WITNESSES INTERRUPTED BY GUARDIAN FOR GUY. Fred Adams, a son of the witness, WOMAN COP’S GUN SAVES NEGRO WHO was also present and is reported to have given testimony along similar lines. ‘These witnesses were frequent-| ly interrupted, it was said, by ques- tions by John E. Mack, guardian ad litem for Guy Stillman, whose legiti- | macy and inheritance are at stake in| the case, There were interruptions! also by Abel Smith of counsel for Mrv. Sullman. Arthur Beauvais, a brother of the guide who has been named as co-re- spondent, was present throughout the hearing. He said afterward that a} art of his duty was to suggest ques- tions to be used in the cross-examina- tion of Mr, Stillman's witnesses. ‘Mrs, Stillman,” said Beauvais, “seemed to be greatly amused by the witnesses. If she wants to she can ily get ten or twelve good witnes- to refute the testimony of the and ladder observers, From sea keyhole my knowledge of the house at Three Rivers I should say it must have been very difficuit to see the things that these witnesses are said to have seen “Before I left Canada 1 saw Henry Grenon, one of the French-Canadian keyhole witnesses employed en the Stillman estate, and I know he is not coming back to New York. Ferdi- nand and Joe Page, aiso numbered among the witnesses for Mr. Stillman, were not in Canada when I left, and I don’t know where they are now.” It was said that another of Mr. Stillman’s witnesses, Miss Isabel (Continued on Page Seventeen.) pun Aa CHICK EVANS GOES ABROAD. Sails on Adriatic to Play in lish Golf Champtonahtp. The Adriatic of the White Star Line sailed to-day with a big pssenger list was Isaac F. writer, who will Eng- Among those on board Marcosson, political spend six weeks in Germany and Aus- tria. Eugene de Polmay, a former member of the Hungarian Cabinet and also Food Administrator during the war, sailed after completing arrangements with Amerfean Industries to ship raw mate- rials to Austria. Charles (Chick) ‘ans jr, American amteur golf cham- pion, 1s going to England to engage in the British amateur golf championship matches, Other passengers were Ar- thur Brentano, Mrs. Lewis Casa Led- yard, Mr, and Mra, Robert W. Sher-vin Dr, Irving Epstein, Mme. Marguerite <= She Holds Back Jersey City Mob and Gets Prisoner to Jail. Abraham negro of No. sey City, was saved from the venge- Johnson, a powerful 198 Morgan Street, Jer- | ance of a crowd to-day by Miss Mary Lauder, one of Jersey City women detectives who, held back a surly guard Johnson as he with drawn revolver, mob and helped was being taken to the City Hall Police Station in Jersey City, A few minutes before his rescue, Johnson had beaten Miss Lauder almost to insensibility. Detective Lauder went to Johnson's home at 10 o'clock this morning on the complaint of Miss Adele Peters, twenty-two, of N Bay Street, 22 who told the detective a negro had been swered the wom annoying her. Johnson an- n detective's knock and when told he was under arrest, dragged Miss Lauder off the porch and was choking and beating her when Fire Captain Burke, of a station just opposite home, ran to the Johnson sprang at the fireman knocking him unconscious, and then ran down Morgan Street, a score firemen on his trail and more peop joining the c ¢ as it progressed. At Street Policeman Moriarty took up the chase. He fired and Johnson stoppod seized him, but the 1 but tern from jis surge of more than 200 in charge Johnson's rescue of Henderson eeveral shots The policems prisoner wa grasp by the (Continued on Second eee FIRST SINN FEIN ATTACK IN SCOTLAND GLASGOW, Scotland, May 4.—A 9o- lice inapector was shot dead and a de- tective wounded here this morning in what ts believed to have been the first Sinn Fein attack on the police in Scot- land The Sinn Feinera fired on policemen who were escorting a yan conveying "d_ Page.) man to prison, killing Inspector Johu- stone instuntly and wounding the de- tective, he assailants escaped, Twelve Irish V teers KAlh DUBLIN, May 4.—Twelve Irish yol- uunteors were either killed or wounded and one military officer was severely wounded ag a result, according to an oMctal report to-day of a trip by a party from a border regiment to invest- Namara, opera ainger, and her husband, Guy Bolton, playwright ate an ambush which occurred yester- ay at Tourmakeady, County Mayo, ‘ } | CAUGHT BY A HAD BEATEN HER; EW YORK, TRE WIVES JEER STAGE APOLLO AS -HEGOES TO TOMBS Newton hats Marrying Them All and Asks Judge “Can You Blame Me?” RUSE. Him of New Contract and Meets Him Here. i | Arrested After One Mate Wires i } | Three young and pretty actresses looking for a job met so often in the agencies they soon grew chummy and it wasn’t long bef-re they were | telling each other secrets of their lives. Five minutes aft ¢ they began |this mutual exchange of confidences the three discovered they were wives- in-law, or something like that, for they were married to the came man, Harry A. Newton, an Apollo of the stage. This was yesterday. To-day New- ton, tall, dark, and well-groomed, walked across the Bridge of Sighs under the sneers of his three wives, who made fun of him while he was being taken to the Tombs in default of $3,000 bail—$1,000 for each wife. ‘The multiple husband waived exam- jnation and pleaded guilty to @ charge of bigamy before Magistrate Rosenblatt, in the Centre Street Po- lice Court, but in far from conven- tional terms, “Oh, yes, I plead gulity,” he told the Court “But I want to tell you there were extenuating ciroumstances in every case “Now, in regard to Florence (wife No, 1), She's a very pretty girl, isn’t she, your Honor? Could you blame She was married before I met her, and you know how it is on the road, Judge. ‘As to Glenn (wife No, 2), I mar- ried her, and married her twice, It was a good time and we were happy. me? But she was more to blame for my leaving than I was. “And as to Iva (wife No. 3); you her, Judge, what she thinks of ask me." Judging by remarks in court her thoughts were far from flattering. Newton, who plays juvenile parts in stock companies, and who gave his her address as the Calvert Hotel, dist Street and Broadway, married his first wife, Florence Madeira, a blonde, of No. 1690 Broadway, in 1911 According to the story she told Magistrate Rosenblatt and Assistant District Attorney Sabbatino, they were playing together in Monticelio, Ml, married by a Justice of the Peace. They drifted apart and in 1917 she married Douglass Hope, ture manager of Cumberland, Md. She told th her sister had informed had de rd he had obtained a | divorce was thus free to wed The second wife was Glenn Argos, {a vaudeville actress, who at the Jefferson Hotel, Sixth 38th Street, She married to Newton, their first wedding in Minn., in 1916, was lost and when the nd were Court her Newton and she now lives Avenue doubly » licen: Rocheste and was Second Page.) he British court tennis Jefended champlton, suc- cessfully his Utle against c, Suydam Cutting, the Amertean challen- er, at the Queen's Club here to-day, defeating Cutting In Wree straight sets sD TRAVEL BUREAU, (World) thuiiding, 53:03 Pare Beckman 400, vela ‘open day aud Gavellers” tacks | WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, Smiles and —— Looks Careworn From Him as Nation’s Shoals. By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of Tho Evening World.) WASHINGTON, May 4 (Copy right, 1921).—President Hard The rests looks somewhat ot on him, Na longer door careworn, weight responsibility heavily he wear the Senatorial manner and abandon He looks and acts the part of a Chiet the seeming ease of the Capitol cloak rooms. Executive, whose time for smiles and banter are lost in the serious- ness of a huge task. The President has found it necessary to beg the Senate to re- member that the Chief Executive can’t effective work if the members of the Logislative body insist on invading what he con- de siders his legitimate jurisdiction— the handling of foreign policy, questions of disarmament, the re- call of troops from the Rhine and kindred matters. Mr. Harding isn't seeking a quarrel with the Senate, He !s doing everything in his power to ayoid one. But all the Senators aren't co-operating with him in a way that spells team-work, Time was when members of Congress would keep the White House In- formed if intended intro- ducing bills or making speeches that touched on the sphere of the they Oxecutive. AS a consequence, little evidences of a lack of team- work are exaggerated into re- ports of friction. WHITE HOUSE. The most important in point has just been cleared up at the White House, Everybody who heard Senator Lodge make his speech advocating passage of the Knox resolution was surprived to hear him express the opinion that the Versailles Treaty couldn't be modified by reservations In such a way as to make it satisfactory to the United States. Not only was this a surprise because Mr, Lodge himself has been the author of two 8 of reservations, but the im- pression obtained was that Sena- tor Lodge after conference with President Harding or Secretary Hughes had come to the conelu- sion that the job of amending the treaty had been given up as hi less by the Harding Administra- | engagement tion. Inquiry was made to determine whether the President had ar- (Continued on Second ——— Page.) *€ PUGILIST KILLED BY PLEXUS BLOW (Continued on | Featherweight Boxer Sank Into CUTTING DEFEATED | Coma After Bout in New * Star Casino, ON ENGLISH COURTS, = a | orge Greenburg, a featherweight Amricar Loser to Baerlein for fighter, who boxes under the name of ih C Tennis George Robins, died to-day in Har British Court eons jlem Hospital as the result of a solar Title. plexus blow he received last night LONDON, May 4 M. Baerloin,/ While boxing with Charles Marcus of Brooklyn. The bout ec, to opening cf the sixth round of their at the New Star Caaino, 115 107th burg lapsed into a coma in consciousness. hon w at No. 417 Marcus was not crowd saw the bout, me its end the No. aust Green and did not Greenburg’ East Téth Street held A large re ( Re- sponsibility Resting Upon ecutive in Dealing With Big Problems. Leis Congress Know That He Nishes to Be Let Alone in Steering Ship of State Over IMPORTANT CASE CLEARED AT , “Circulation eee Open’ to iene ? M4 ‘1921. Harding Shows Strain; Banter Lost In His Serious Task 60,000 EMPLOYEES Conference With Management Planned—Revision to Take Effect on June 1. The Company American Railway Express that it contemplates a downward revision in wages and changes In the hours of service announced to-day rules gov- erning and working conditions that will affect all of its throughout the entire country, An invitation to a conference with- in ten days with reprezentatives of the management has been extended to the employees. They are asked in this Invitation to name delegates to the conference at which the manage- ment hopes to effect u settlement with the co-operation of all brapghes.and departments of the express service. Rates of pay Wave advanced close to 100 per cent, since the beginning of the war. The last blanket raise was an increase of 16 cents an hour Branted the employees by the United Board in August, 1920, | ‘This decision was retroactive to May | of last year and meant an annual n- crease In expenses of $40,000,000, | ‘The contemplated revision is to take effect June 1 L. R, Gwynn, assistant to the Pre ident of the Company, to-day said: “A revision of the rules governing hours of service and working condl- | tions to a basis that is fair and equi- table is most necessary. Th | pany is eager to hear suggestions and | proposals from its emplo: | hopeful of reaching an agre | the coming conference. In | that fail to do thix, Ce n= sand in ment at the event we we will in compliance with the Transportation | Act lay the caae before the United States Railway Board for final so- lution, | “We cannot at this time tell what | our Proposals will be, | yet notified our gestions that them.” as Ww employe will have not sug before we lay Se HOSE USED TO BEAT |GIRLS, THEY CHARGE Syracuse Teachers Also Accused by Parents of Throwing Books at Pupils, YRACUSE, May 4.—Pupils in the twood school, a are suburb of Syra- being flogged with a piece hose, according cuse of garden to sensa tional charges made at a meeting of |the trustees. Mins Margaret Waters, teacher of |the seventh grade, and slated to be the next Principal, is accused of hav- j!ng punished two pupils, one a girl fourteen years old, by whipping her |with the garden hose, according to the claim of the children’s parents, | Large welts we don the jeirl's back and her mother |suld, A complete investigation of ‘onditions in t has been or- dered by the of Trustees, Other charges were made, such as throwing books at puplls by teachers _— 3 SAVED ON FISHING SMACK. | Life Savers at Sn Hook one Crew in Perth, Three men in the fishing smack Mamie, of Sea Bright were r cued from probable death this morni by the ILfe-saving crew of the Sandy Hook station, Rob White owner of the amack, his son, and Charles Carpenter had about 400 mackerel on board when they, tan into @ heavy sea, ‘The boat was filllig d the men struséled desper 4 hours to aflo, Were getting the worst of tC when t dintress Was observed exhaustes 1 the the boat rifting out to sea The Wi 4 took the passengers aboard thelr power boat und towed the smack in. hey were ne curs arrivd and Kntered ns Second-Class Matter Post Office, OF AM. RY. EXPRESS: FACECUTINWAGES New York, N. ¥. London Foreign O matum Ready With «a countries, the Supreme Council will exacted 4 the terms are not 80,000 employees. who are A ott believed te be May 12. ——————————————* The Supreme Council's note, pra- | 70 SACKS OF GOLD SENT BY SOVIET, DUE HERE MAY 11 Twenty-Seven More Sacks for New York Refused Transmission by Norwegian Mail Service. CHRISTIANIA, Norway, May 4. HE Scandinavian - American T Line steamer United States, due in New York May 11, haw on hoard seventy sacks of gold bullion, valued at several militon dollars, consigned from the Swed- ish mail service. This Is Russian Bolshevik gold remelted by the Swedish Royal Mint. Lost year the Swedish mint remelted and refined nineteen tons of Russian gold, and so far this year has put seventy tons through the same process, Most of this gold is destined for the United States. Th Norwegian Mail Service yesterday refused to transmit 27 sacks of gold bullion from the Stockholin Enskilda Bank and re- turned them to the bank. The Nor un-American Line, the Swedish-American Line, and also the. Seandinavlan-American Line Itself, now are declining to carry such gold cargves to America, LANDIS DENIES HE HAS RESIGNED de No State- Will Again Says He Has ment That He Leave Bench. May 4.--Judge in a formal statement to- that he had Federal Beneh to de- vote his time to hia position as baseball CHICAGO, M, Landis, dented Kenesaw day, reports re. signed from the commisale "1 ha nor have I noid anything th wild Nave been con that 1 have said, ot the in indorsing aking it an offenss ige her inary strue n into a #! * the a Monday Committee Dial's Till n dem) J position of pe the beneh had that the Jur Federal position. Judge Landis refused to-day to however, whether he was thinki resigning at future date direct question he made the same reply always has made during the piat nths, whenever the posaibility of resigning came “1 cannot dly- cura that,” he said. Judge Landis said the present rumor about hls resignation probably had | arisen through conv he had] with Charles Nagi, custodian of the Federal Building. “I told Nagl that When f left this court 1 wianed to take of the chairs with me, as they were cherahed by They belong to the Government and [ asked Mm if 1 ould purchase them." Judge Landis would had refused recently to set any weyond June 15, a fact which caused re The Judiciary action Senat ator ora F apt an pit while aroused rumors to relinquish his auin wa ay af To 4 up rsations some me. not say wh ports that he would resign in Ju PENALTIES IF GERMANY FAILS TO PAY BY MAY 12: NO FRESH OFFER RECEIVED fice Denies Berlin Has Made New Proposal on Repar- ations—Supreme Council’s Ulti- for Transmission. LONDON, May 4.—The Allies to-day prepared to submit a final proposal to Germany for settlement of the World War. demand that Germany pay $33,750,000,000 to the allied notify Berlin that penalties will be epted by midnight of a certain day, viding for payment of the debt by bond issues, is to be transinitted by the Allied Reparations Council which conferred with the council to-day. It was reported that Germany had submitted a new offer approximating the Allied demand, This was denied by the Foreign Office. The report was characterized as “a German inm- | vention." A copy of the Allied ultimatum | will be sent to Washington simul, taneously with Its despatch to Berlin: LONDON, May 4 (Associated Press).—The Allied Governments" financial plan for Germany, which seemed to be a completed document j Yesterday, was being separated to- |day by members of the Reparations Commission into two parts. One of these is the purely legal portion, con» |forming to the treaty of Versailles, while the other chiefly relates to the suarantee bonds, which it is planned to Issue as security for the German payment, and the rates of interest upon these securities, these ques- tions being outside the provisions of the treaty. It is not possible to determine yet precisely what specifications will be presented to Germany, but according to present intentions the Reparations Commission will send to the German jovernment Friday a bill of liabili- ties, strictly in compliance with the Peace Treaty, while simultaneously the Allied Government will send ay- other part of the plan as a modifica- tion of the treaty favorable to Ger- many and which gh or 6 can accept not It was explained to-day that what was being studied now were ques- tions of form rather than of essen- tals. ——. BERLIN COMPLAINS NOTE FROM HUGHES IS NOT EXPLICIT Germans Say They Are Ready to Follow U. S. Suggestions if They Are Made Clear, BERLIN, May 4 (Associated Press) German Cabinet met this fore anticipation of dis- cussing developments at London, A meeting was held yesterday, but no action was taken relative to the reparations diem. Just how long the Fehrenbaech cabinet will continue in office is be- leved to depend on the nature of the ultimatum being sent to Berlin by the Allies, and the attitude as- sumed by the Reichstag. The pars liamentary situation had not been wholly clarified last night. While the Berlin Government was not unprepared for the refusal to transmit the German reparations proposal to the Allies, contained in the American State Department's reply to Poreign Minister Simons, rey ceived yesterday, both the Forelga Minister and his colleagues tn tho Cabinet had hoped that Secretary Hughes's answer would be @ trife more prec! in indicatiog the Amer- ——— a |