The evening world. Newspaper, July 14, 1921, Page 1

= CROWDS PRAY AS DE VALERA MEETS LLOYD GEORGE 1 To-Day's Weather—PROBABLE SHOWERS. “10 TO. DAILY WALL STREET FEATURE THIS EpitioN 99 C ————————— VOL. LXII. NO. 21,791—DAILY. Copyright, 1021, by ‘The Preas Publisuing Co.’ (The New York World), Che “Circulation Books Open to All.’ N EW ‘YORK, —_— THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1921, t celorlo. EDITION (hit Post Office, New York, N. ¥. To-Morrow's Weather—PROB, LE SHOWERS. WALL STREETE TT PRICE TH! :E CENTS Airplane on Fire Drops Z, 600 Feet ol Four Occupants Die STAMPS OF EVER KIND TO REPLACE EXCESS PROFIT TAX Corpor: iin Ta xes Not to Bear Burden, as Was Feared. . MUST HELP BUSINESS. Tax Legislation Will Be So Arranged as to Be Acted on Before Tariff. * By David Lawrerte (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, July 14 (Copy- right, 1921).—President Harding bas made it clear to the Republican lead ers in Congress that he wants a tax program adopte which w lift restraint from business initiative. He fe not committed to a tax, but to believ thi adding to the is inelined a tax on production at sou be im posed without burden of business. While the tax 4 ramme is in embryo condit ertain fundamen- cals are praviically agreed upon, For instance, pusiness men everywh have veen imagining that with the repeal of the excess protit tax the Government would be obliged to in ere: materially the cor on Harding taxes, wim of the tolnistration increase of corp’ sible, and only addition in essary. There is Yo omaking tl abstitute for ation taxes if npose on taxes srpors dono thought taxes a ind. corporation the excess profit tax 4 This decision ough: to be govd ne to the business men of the countr who have by rd over the prospects of a increased eor poratio® tax. President Hardin; however, feels that the revival of business in America is at this time consideration and t a paramount nothing should be of business incentive The repeal of the excess profit is a foregone conclusion, and it is tain that the next Revenue Bill will | not attempt to make the business and placed in the way tax industries of the country arry the bulk of the load Inste the tax burden will be move enly dis tributed by the use every a¢ stamp The three-cent postage inay come back, and it seems aasured th revenue stamps will be Mecessary on practically every kind of business transaction from bank checks and drafts to real estate papers and other documents of pur- chase and sale. While these small taxes may prove annoying and inconvenient, the f ing is that such annoyance is hardly to be compared with the burden hitherto carried by businessgas a whole. Taxes at best are disngr able, but the Government's job this | time is to distribute them in much | fashion as to stimulate a business re vival. | The tax on production is favored asa substitute for the sales tax be- | (Continued on Second Page.) | Sunday World Classified Advertisements Should Be in The World Office On or Before Friday Order Sunday World Classified Advertising To-Day. The World | the the bill giving him broad powers to settle the Allied debts to the United bill will be brought before the | Senate after the soldier bonus is dis- posed of, according fo Senator Pen- rose, Pennsylvania, its author As. nt Secretary Wadsworth led, ‘MAN 33 YEARS OLD er Reint eee ME IN HIS LIF: First Ha he Does Thereafter i a Shave and a a“ Cut. July 14. — Th y Gillis did on s first age of thirty-three, was to visit a OMAH! thing » first eing a woman for the ‘ime at the | barber shop, get a shave and have his long hair cut, and buy neckties. 1 It was also his first remembered | : view of a railr n, street car, daily and magazine came t with a load of ¢: of an actr of Moody and as lived since when he ney e on his pioneer tle. s, and a Sankey, a baby ona | raska ranch forty miles from a railroad, and never visited by a stranger. His father in taking him from Chicago when a babe aye him from the actresses of the The fathersdied > son ciple Ne said it was to dane singing old Haymarket a short time fe taught me street a devil lurks on Gillis: ex- was his every corner,” Pluined to-day, an actress, who des father for another man ENGLAND ASKED TO HAVE HER WAR DEBT CANCELLED Lloyd George Told President Wilson She Would Then Cancel Allies Debts to Her His mother ed WASHINGTON conclusive July 14—The first evidence of a proposal of Allied war to-day when a 4 general cancellation of debts was made public from 1 dent wil letier Son was read to the Senate Hinance Committee. considering th Allied debts Aug. 5, the British Premier stated the will) refunding of In this the letter dated 1920, fe. ness of England to consider the can- cellation of all debts owed to her by Allied United States would consider wiping out the ers, if the British indebtedness to this country A cablegram on the me subject from the British Chancellor of Ex- chequer ing the try, which w Assistant ‘Treasury sented App nance ¢ guin to-day ure to RK. C. Lindsay, represent- British Treasury in this coun- s transmitted to then tary Leffingwell of the Department, also was pre- uring before the Senate Fi- ommittee, Si retary Mellon 1 Congress to enact said bra $50,000,000 commitment to but that no cluims had been pre- two years and it was not would be he added, has a credit bala $53,- 000,000 and ho-Slovakia $6,000,000. A comprehensive plan for the re funding of the and allied debts of the United States was presented to the House to-day in a bill by Rep- resentative Luce, Massachusetts. The the work of Alfred Q Brookline, Mass., who has study of the Government financia) situation. The bill authorizes t the ‘Treasury ince still possessed a credit of stood a pay claims if present- against which sented for thought any Gr nee of war Si mei Chandler made a sure is Seeretary of to substitute @ seriol bond system for the sinking fund plan, retiring a certain funded bonds e car. The bill gives the Secretary authority to issue bonds maturing in from twenty to fifty years, with rates ranging from 8 to 6 per amount of the re |REAPPORTIONMENT | ALL FIVE NATIONS ~ WALL JOIN PARLEY ~ ON DISARMAMENT jJapan Announces Acceptance, But Avoids Pacific Question. TWO MORE ANXIOUS Holland and Chili Show Will- ingness to Be Members of Conference, WASHINGTON, Departm July 14 t to-day The State of was notified Japan's acceptance of the invitation to a disarmament conference. The Japanese — communication, omitted ference wever, any discussion of problems in the 1 t included Franklin SAYS STILLMAN WROTE LETTER I PRAISE OF “LEEDS” Apartment Agent — Identifies Financier as Companion of Former Chorus Girl. 3ANKER WON'T DENY. Virtual Admission of Miscon- duct Fails to Shut Off | Evidence for Wife. (Special From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) POUGHKEEPSIE, July 14, Wilde, agent apartment house in which Mrs. Sidney for the owners of the Vlor- and a man called No. Lawlor Leeds Harold ence leeds lived at MODBPSTO, Cal, killed accident July 14 here pur men were to-day in an airplane as it fell and within a few minutes 4 mass of flames The machine struck high voltage wires in the fall The bodies were so badly burned that they were unrecognizable, Three of the bodies were thrown clear of the plane while the fourth was bur'cd in the debris. Spectators declared they fic, which was als in the 61 Kast Séth Street in 1918, was asked tentative invitation sent out last Jay to the circumstances under which Saturday. {the apartment was leased, before © | yi atualified acceptance by — the | Haniel J. Gleason to-day in the hear- A elo Wun Tel ing of the defense in the Stillman State Department oMficiais would |Miverce case, make no comment on the form of the | Mr. Wilde said the lease was in the| alae, le which was not made! name of Mra, Leeds, who arranged that Japan's failure to include the | brough: d letter from James A. Still- Her Only Injuries Contusions Pacific questions in her acceptance | man, then president of the National! +. eats . was not necessarily regarded as an | city Bank. In the letter Mr. Stillman From: Chains on Cars Pass- cea pram iced ae |said he had known FH, Leeda a long | ing Above Her Body. however, that the Japanese Govern. |time and that he was a man who! ment would have to agree before-| "always paid his bills promptly." Mrs; Rose: Howlin, gf /No. 1686 Brest hand to include Pacific problems, be-} Wich such recommendations Mr, | “lent Street, Brooklyn, jumped before cause any practical results of dis-| Wide paid he had no hesitation in{#® [oterborough subway train at armament would have to be based OM | vonting the apartment to Mr. i 11_| Kingston Avenue and Bastern Park n dmilcable setilement: th she Pacl-iicegs, apparantly a fenua sof long | way At o'slock thiN morning. whilt fey Ching’s ahewer tnglided auch) nding toad enfientalanancien lias 4 h a A RECSMAEAE ler husband and the police were Officlain warsoplainly parplesea byleo es SULCEMANN AND LEEDS) ity son her Blaltall between SASIOTY SDADRIGHSS: <0 ARE SAME MAN. Aa 5 hid J the Japanese answer and it was as-| snhen john F Brennan, for Mrs |tne rails and her only injuries were sumed that no formal invitation | citman, asked if he ever H. [contusions from dangling chains of haming a date for the conference will |) ygee Me, Wilde « often. | the two cars which passed above her be prepared until the Japanese atti: jay, Brennan hand Wilde a} Asher Henkin, the husband, is an tude is cleared up. The possibility of | jioogpaph of James A. Stillman and expert accountant in Manhattan Japan making some such answer had |e es le that was a photograph of | urly this morning he wha awakened been foreseen and discussed here, but} wy. mt, Leeds and found that his wife who had re it was delleved that she would finally) “certainty,” anid Mr. Wille tired several hours before was not accept unreservedly There was no cross examination | n bed. Her clotnin was in the een BL ect ide the {22 William Rand, for Mr. Stiltman, | room ir only eh 4 son, two Hivich thought there sught. te be a {tuck te the policy announced yester-| months old, was asleep, Henkin went aa nerunes ever. there, preliminary {22¥—RO effort will be made to dis-|through the house but was ur to the Washingtox conference strikes [PTOve any of the charges of miscon to find his wife, He called his br ho responsive chord over here, ‘The {@UCt akainst Mr. Stillman Dr. Abraham Henkin, of No. 707 Wil ‘The first witness to-day was Phelps |ioughby Avenue. ‘The physician hur approaches were for a conference at) Washington. | While our officials will not say so, they rather think that after the ad- | ventures of the Versailles Treaty the | Allied Powers will realize that it is better to have the matters attended to here, where the Senate will be in touch with what is going on, than overseas. ‘Though the State Department wit not give out the actual text of the replies, they indicate that there is nothing in th suggesting any modification of the programme. It is surmised that undoubtedly the Im- perial Conference now in session in London will discuss the whole propo- sition most elaborately from the standpoint of Great Britain. It is (Continued on Wighte ——- nth Page.) ACT IS SUSTAINED Court of Appeals Upholis Law Af- tecting New York City Aler- manic Districts ALBANY, July M.—The Ce to-day handed murt of Appeals down a de- Clawson of Buffalo, former private in the air service, who visited at the Stillman home Claweon had as memoranda letters written from Mondanne, the Stillman Place at Pleasantville, to his mother in 1918 and 1919, describing life in the Stillman household and espe cially referring to the dates, Jan 1, 6 and 27, 1918, as dave when Mr. Stillman was present and showed the friendliest spirit toward his wife and all the children, including Guy this in contradiction to evidence th Stillman was estranged from his wife (Continued on Seeond Page.) GIRLS SMOKE PIPES, AND BEACH CZAR RULES IT’S O. K. French Briar With Gold Bands Used by Fair Bathers at Atlantic City. cision sustaining the Legislative act passed 1 winter, reapportioning | the Aldermanic Districts of the City | of New York The city contended that the act was unconstitutional, in that the] Legislature repassed the bill before i | was received the Mayor The ca wa yesterday afternoon The court adjourned to-day until Aug. 31, without handing down a de cent cision on the constitutionality of the soldier bonus legislation, \ ATLANTLO CITY, July 14 Beach Cop Wescott most fainted yesterday when he sighted three fair visitors in near one piece suits perched atop a row of pilings near the Old Pier puffing way on small French briar and gold banded pipes, Having no in- structions covering the ‘point, Wescott put it up to Beach Sur- geon Charles Bossert, Czar of the Strand “Let ‘em alone The beaeh ian't exactly a drawing room, They have equal rights with men There ix no law to prevent them from smoking cigars if they don't mind the notoriety,” Dr, Bossert responded, n his automobile. lried to the house ‘The pair made a qui the neighborhood and to }booth at Utica and Carrot! With Policeman Fisher, the husband continued his search about the tot while the physiclan drove to the At lantic Avenue Station to report the disappearance | Patrolman George Weinstein pre Jveded him into the station by a few and was saying to the | seconds tenant in charge: "l have a cn a woman who jumped before a sub way train at Kingston Avenue, Her name is Rose Goldbers, No. 707 Wi ghby Avenue." That's my sister-in-law." said Dr JHenkin. "That was her maiden Jname. We are searching tor her." From the policeman te doctor |e med Mrs, Henkin had gone to |station and wa a train. One lcame in at 108, In change of Danw Donovan, motorman. Donovan saw im woman on the platform hurl her welf to the tracks and be,applied the brakes | After the car 1over her Don Sevan had the power sbut off while a wrecking crew extrivated Mrs, Her ‘Vrame wa p eight minute When carried to the platform i wa found Mrs. Henkia vas only stunaed She gave her maiten 1 said she wanted to fic, according 0 thé police, She was fully dressed Dr, Henkin returned Jbrother was searching land told hin f her Jes from death Mr. Henkin t to f tate at wa Jalmost a nerve wreck from th , lack of rest and worry about the baby. | the The left wing of the plane crumpled | when it was about 2,600 feet abov the ground, The plane caught fire FOUR MEN KILLED IN FALL OF FLAMING PLANE 2,600 FEET | OVER MODESTO, CAL., TO-DAY Great Airship, Piloted by Aviator Noted for Quick Runs, Hits Wires Before Striking Ground—Left Wing Had Crumpled. believed all machine The pilot identities py. Coffee four wi of the mm struck the dead before ground plane wan later as Bud Coffee, recently jumped into the | a Modesto | limelight by carrying pletures of the | fight ume Dempsey- ‘arpontier Francisco in record Newspaper Enterprise Officials learned Yosemite carly to-da With him were: H of the pla John Kauke MoLeish, San Matec Although no pe could be made, th to be the other thre Undertaker, Three 7 itive E. builders of th to for San the Association that fee left | for Berkeley n Jacuzz) nt Berkeley; identifi sew admitting Putting | > Bodies in Grave, — | n killed. WOMAN JUMPING — SAYS U. S. REFUSED BEFORE SUBWAY — FLAGS FOR BURIAL | TRAIN STILL LIVES OF SLAIN SOLDIERS one mono James LLOYD GEORGE AND DE VALERA PLAN BASIS OF IRISH PEACE AT CONFERENCE IN LONDON “Outlook Is Brightest in History,” Says Irish Leader—Great Crowd on Knees Recites Rosary in White- hall as De Valera Meets Premier. LONDON, July 14 (Assoctated Press. )—Eamon De Valera, the jIrish Republican leader, arrived at No. 10 Downing Street at 4.30 o'clock ation | believed Blames Government. | | William A Kabill, an undertake | of Ne S West 50th Street. aecused of having buried the bodies of three | he furnished east tty soldiv the Gov ernment fail that the Government that he was not balining soldiers’ bodi in une hele Sam owed him approximately $2,000 for fanernia of service men Tom an ex-servies man mys somember of the Amertean 1 do Skabill, “and t have ac Kreater consideration to the of dead soldiers than the vent they fought I received $236. the fir the Government in nany bhe present time ¢ vernment owes me approximately $2,001 burying ex-service tnen I yor the contract because | was the lowest bidder The contract price per funeral is $75, plus $8 for urnishing of a shroud The Gov ernment made no provision for the embalming of departed soldiers, My the Unit tam charged three bodies in one true, but the The rec Inporary Tune 11 wo of t This dal t will bi before the Meyer ( nvest ig of me When | went tc pital and ed for funer lepart told that th n trend Apple he bodies no pr thay It of flagy ou ve ginnin a the Puble Hea uddeniy decided fhiga” from I ducted the all classes and creeds ntained in with th Rewistrur having snd 1 temporarily vice You are ordere to wrepare to bury the remains of Ad. whozensky, deceased. ‘This does Hinelude the embaliing of the bedy or e furnishing of a shroud (Snme Ht oR DENMAN grave. mmmit Fo fa lority +s nurse t wrrangement emoval Ke parate following States Public provided for em that he by bur buried | That is] was only rds show that on of graves was | | | i | | | begun ta | How | | ra dy were ‘to A Miss ho this aftemoon for his conference with Mr. Lloyd George, the British Prime Minister, set for that hour, at which an ettort will be made to tind a basis for an Irish peace settlement. The Republican leader's appearance at the Prime Minister's otfccal residence was punctual to the minute, as it was exactly at the pointed that he stepped through the door. Mr. Lloyd Georg ing him, and their conversations over the peace question were b ine ane pws eeu inte mediately. — — Despite a drizzling rain a creat PRICES OF FOOD crowd which had gathered at the ene trance to Downing Street, wated cur ae ee Sac ore s the momentous wi we Mc. De Valera entered the nin Further Reductions to Be Made |ister’sx house, the crowd kr a i Corie Dron Gaye) des W aera and begun te recite tun sociation Head, he (rish Republican leader drove CHICAGO, July 14 Hirectly from the hotel in Buchinge car prices have jomed ham Mata ad used us headquare the procession foward @ jens by the frish delegation te Downe lower scaly, said ‘TL AL inge Street in a motor c He was y, Mresident of the Amert- | cecompanied by Art Obrien, Virosis can Association of Dining Car dent of the Gaclie League ir * Superintendents, at its meeting and Robe: urton, a mem : the [righ delegation, A large crowd, re hax been a reduction of mostly women, whieh hud ry cent. since the war,” sald | about the hotel, swarmed ind Vue Mr. Dempsey, “and as food prices automobile ax it departed, cheers g age at the grocery there will (and waving Sinn Pein flugs additional cuts on the trains? At the Wh WW entrance to Downe he convention discussed meth> ing: Street several thousand j« ’ Nereusing effleiency in dine awaited the advent of the | on ing servige and equipment Sinn Mein thugs were displayed promis > nently, As Mr De Valera’s an ” bile drove ale & Whitehall and tirnedt Street the Ap orawul HONDREDS OF CHILDREN inte Downing ASK CHEAPER ICE CREAM. broke into cheering. intermingled w = onan Sinn Fein yells, some of which we Parade in Hoxton With “Jeane it Gaelic, and men threw t demen (6 Ooad” Hanser jin the air. The police quickly t BOSTON, July 14, Hundreds of chil la cordon across the entran dren paraded through the streets to-| Downing Street and shut out the day, demanding cheaper ice cream and) crowd. Mr De Valera walked die got she LN ee ala ‘ey yeetiy into the house from the cas, wr dease vinmnon tx: ead, EesGeasihdd sult Beers: Wino: ‘sel AnGsh After the parade the children pres) DiM to pos sented petitions to Gey, Cox and Mayor! [nm Whitehall and its environs the Peters, urging th take action |varricadas erected during the Sina _S | Fem activities in England were still Attempt to) Wreek Train WER) in place A large number of catra $1,000,000 Express Matter, {po werevon: duty ‘and OLEVELANTD July 1 An attempt | wietin, to pass th barriers inte to wreck an erican Railway EXD) Downing Street ur to ae ee Company train of fourteen ers, carry | oy governmental buidings had to ing a cance valued at neorly a milion Asa Sh4 es eo ita te show passes, which were scrutinized Willoughby, ©. early to-day, ace is cavefully as at any time during to officials of the New York Ce Sinn Kein nd reports More than fifteen. spike Attempts to be made on Govern Hed piatex removed from| ment property, In addition ty te The train jumped the track, lextra furce ef unitorm police, there UL ino cane weary overturnsd, e many plain clothes men in the rowd IF CHURCHES CAN, | Mr Lioyd George, accompanied by | Sir Maurice Hunkey, Secretary tu the THE THEATRES MAY [coin itioe on imperiat De re TAKE FEE SUNDAYS | -reviousiy arrived. Sir Hamar Green wood, Chef Secretary for Ire 4, and Ntaite Chamberlain, the Gov sment hudge in Pomona, Cal., Declares | .ader in the House of Commons, ar- Sunday Closing Law Is Class | rived shortly after them t | egislation and Not Sound fie Peawesaee Lises Gaia ate LOS ANGELES, July 1, Mr. De Valera was to private, it was rdinance of the ty of |assumed that the others merely were near here, probibiting |on hand in case Ue conferees de- Sunda sements for which an | sired to call them 4 The interview admission fee was charged, wax | petween the Prime Minister and the held ineonstitutional yesterday Irish leader vecurred in the Cabinet by Superior Judge furnet fudge declared the ordl yutlook is brighter than it nance wa class le be ever was 4 history,” declared the 1 while prohibitin, atres sh Republican leader as he was and similar ence ex tr per yout to enter the conference. Aske! ating Sunda wt lowed he considered was the prospe bureh take up a collection, | 4 anttled peace being which, he said, was virtualle an [about by the nference, M wimiasion fee, at Sunday ser: Valera replied as above and added vices, “Lam sure the atmosphere in Eng- — —