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, MEYER TO DIG INTO $30,592,461 CITY PAYROLL BOOST | To-Night’s Weather—FAIR. To: Morrow's Weather—PROBABLE SHOWE: Sia WALL ST. TABLES, Nine EXTRA | VOL. LXII. NO. 21,817—DAILY. tered ax Second-Class Matter ‘ont Office, New York, N. ¥ PRICE THREE CENTS RIAL r NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1921. $150,000,000 DUTY ASKED BY FRANCE ON ULS.MAILSS.UNE. 0 U.S. WAR MATE President Harding’s Aged Father FRANCE DEMANDED $150,000,000 INSOLVENT; NAME RECENER MONDAY DeLancey Nicoll Renews Com- | pany’s Application—Colby Promises Full Statement. MAYER AT HEAD AGAIN. Dummy Board Ousted After Holding Control a Little Over One Day. Before Judge Manton in the Federal Court to-day DeLancey Nicoll, coun- sel for the United States Mail Steam- ship Line, renewed his application for a receiver for the company. Mr. Nicoll | was accompanied by former Secretary of State Colby of the firm of Wilson & Colby, and William Greenough, attor- ney of record. Benjamin Barber also was present, representing the United tSates Shipping Board. Mr. Nicol] told the court the re- newal was due to the fact that no new | money had come into the company | and the situation, financialy was the | same as when he made the application which he later requested be held in abeyance, pending developments. Counsel asked that an early date ‘be set for the hearing on the appii- cation and that all parties to the litigation be present. Judge Manton set Monday, at which time it Is ex- pected a receiver will be named. ° In the matter of the appointment of | the receiver and the application Mr. | Colby said after the proceeding that | there had ‘been no refiling of the ap- plication as it never had been off file. “When the question of the appoint- ment of the receiver comes up on Monday we will have something to say to that," Mr, Cotby added. ‘The application for a receivership which was made by Mr. Nicoll several days ago, but which was not acted upon and did not become known pub- ticly until yesterday, was to protect the minority stockholders and the creditors, In a statement yesterday. Mr. Nicoll enumerated some of these creditors. ‘They include the Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company, the Berwind White Coal Company, Todd Ship- | yards Corporation, C. E, Williams and | R. N. Sarlock, who have furnished supplies to the United States Mail Line, These creditors’ claims total $1,500,000, In addition’ there is due persons who have purchased passage up until November §1,113,000. Late yesterday, after many devel- epments, Charles and Francis R./ Mayer again became active heads of the United States company, bringing back with them the old Board of TARIFF ON GOODS SENT OVER FROM U. S. This Country's Officials Sold| Equipment There to Help| the People, Taking a Loss of $1,300,000,000. | Agreement Was the Material) Would Not Be Dumped! Here, but $2,500,000 Came| in June, 1921, Alone: By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World). | WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—(Copy-| right 1921).—Members of Congress| have been astonished this week by | the disclosures that the French Gov- ment had attempted to impose a} tariff duty on war materials shipped to Fr. ice during the war. Congress learned for the first ume that France insisted that if the Amer- jean Government attempted to carry back to the United States the supplies remaining after the armist.ce, a duty of about $150,000,000 would be imposed. As a consequence of this threat the American Liquidating Commission sold to France for $400,000,000 property originally valued at $1,700,000,000. Not only did France agree to waive a tariff claim when the sale was made, but promised that the goods would be used to benefit the French people in rehabilitating devasted areas. Now it turns out that the French Government has sold most of the property to spec- ulators and individuals, who are try ing to ship the goods to the United States and sell them here at cut prices, The House of Representatives DURING THE WAR BRITISH CBNET CONSIDERS. NOTE SENTBY DEVALERA Newspaper Reports Say Irish) Demand Release of 6,000 Republicans, DUBLLN, Aug. 13 Press).—Optimism continues to per- (Associated vade Sinn Fein circles to-day regard- ing the Irish peace proposals. It was re-emphasized that negotiations have not been broken off and that Premier Lioyd George's reply to the last letter of Bamon De Valera is not expected to mean a break. LONDON, Aug. 13.—Eamon de Va- lera’s answer to proposals of the British government relative to peace negotiations in Ireland was considered at a meeting of the British Cabinet ‘this morning. Lord Fitzalan, Gov- ernor Genera! of Ireland, and Sir Hamar Greenwood, Chief Secretary for Ireland, were understood to have been called to participate in the de- liberations, Sersational reports, however, ap- peared under bold headlines in some of this morning’s newspapers. Some of them were to tho effect that the And His Aid, With Whom He “‘Eloped i HYLAN WILL BE RECALLED GHOST OF MAN HE MURDERED —WVl/F [FNGIEN "HEADS HIM TO SCENE oF cme FRENCH TEANS Caponargri Gives Himself Up TO EXPLAIN $30,592,461 CITY PAYROLL INCREASE Meyer Committee Also Will \ix- amine Department Heads on Ex- penditures—Evening World Dis- closure Opens Eyes of Taxpayers. The startling discovery made and published yesterday by The Evening World that $30,592,461.72 of the people’s money had been tacked on to the city’s payroll during the Hylan administration bas opened up a new line of inquiry for the Meyer Investigating Committee, and has also opene@ the eyes of the taxpayers to the manner in which the city’s finances have been administered. Mayor Hylan on the stand could) not tell Examiner Elon R. Browm |in excess of the expenditures of the HIS MARRIAGE IS | Mitchel Administration. He said that ‘ |"These were the useless positions te FSS which he alluded in his inaugural instead of there ? ung any = > how many new jobs had been created | there had been reductions, but could address. | reduction or any approach‘to economy | ’ J |and how much money had been spent not, at least did not, specify them, Now, which was promised during the Hylan oa Hasn’t Heard From Son, and cunpaien in which the waste and Adds He’s Old Enough to extravagance of the Mitchel admini- stration was parcded before the ‘people, there has been a jump of {more than $30,000,000 beyond the MARION, O., Aug. 13.—Although Mitchel payroll. In the last year of Know What He Wants. Cabinet took a most serious view of admitting they were being pursued Mayor Mitchel’s Administration the |has blocked the scheme, however, by adopting a resolution imposing a tariff of 90 per cent. on all such goods, 80 that none of it will be dumped on American shores. ish terms. Giving details, these Mr. de Valera's reply, regarding it as tantamount to a rejection of the Brit- disquieting MARVEL, ARRIVES Says She “Wasn't Half Pl: y- ing’ When Si FOURN. Y. WOMEN to Police for Killing of Edward Schmidt. e in ghosts? | by newspapermen and photographers, |r. ¢ Presi Miss orge T.gHarding, father of the ident, his bride, formerly Alls his office assist- an So far as the rest of the world is, concerned, however, American auto- | mobiles and trucks, leather and har- ness goods, electrical equipment and other American products which were| originally intended for the use of the | reports stated that Mr. de Valera had demanded amnesty for a!) Irish Re- publicans imprisoned or interned, numbering about 6,000, as a condition precedent to further negotiations, It was also stated he had asked mone- Allied armies will be available at|tiry indemnity for the losses occa- asl "HURT, TWO BADLY, No? Well, maybe you have never murdered 4 man and had occasion to dark shudder at shadows and shrink from steer clear of corners and the threatening storm. So listen to behalt of B. the Beat Molla » Severna, Mallory. [country for ten weeks « WHEN HIT BY AUTO Suzanne Lenglen, the French tep- [nis champion, who has come to this tennis ‘ant for eight years, are going about their | | yet, in) was. routine Nothing has | Harding from the White House as although telegraphed as us been word to al heard by Dr. of the wedding Washington. Amertean Commitice ¢ st in salaries and wages for;run- jning the city was $47,585,618, . The |payroll of the present administration |for the last year amounts to $7&- 178,079, included in which are salary increases and pay for new jobs cre« Jated in the bureaus within the juris {diction of Mayor Hylan. Chairman Meyer said to-day tha¢ following the examination of Comp- troller Craig, which begins on Tues: prices far below those at which American firms are offering their own goods at this time. No explanation was miade in Con-| gress of the reason why the French Government violated the spirit of its understanding with the American} Liquidating Commission and permit-| ted the war material to fall into the hands of speculators. Indeed, the | American commission, of which Ed-| | win B. Parker and Gen. Dawes we members, felt that in disposing of the American supplies at approximately twenty-five cents on the dollar they, were doing a charitable thing, | Instead, vast quantities have been! Directors, Capt. Mayer had been de- posed as President on Wednesday in| of Frank Bynum. | The old Board of Directors, which | same back with the Mayers, promptly rescinded an order passed | by a dummy board which had been in temporary control directing a with- drawal of the injunction suit by | which the company is seeking to re- e@train the Shipping Board from taking | away nine of its largest vessels upon a claim for charter hire. This dummy directorate, which held fice for a little mure than twenty- favor (Continued on Second Page.) —_— > | STRANGE LIGHT BANDS | MADE BY COMET’S TAIL Formed Wreath as Head Passed tween San and Earth, HEIDELBERG, Aug. 13, — Brilliant | bands which took the | | form of a hight -northweet to th, running from wi t-southeast were produced by the tail | comet through which the | st Monday night, astronomers Koenigstuhl Observatory say n earin the « light bands gradually faded from | at w with the approach of dawn, Observations taken at the university were said to have indicated that head of the comet passed between eun and thy earth and that the trom the oostet's tail moved {rom north te south. | the he light | sold by the French Government to business houses, which have already sent to the United States, tree of duty, over $2,500,000 worth of goods in the month of June alon. In pre- venting the entry of this kind goods hereafter Congress tak position that it is merely protecting American firms against unfair com-| petition, | Incidentally, it | that the British Government did not impose any the been disci has tariff on goods sent from the United tes to Great Britain for war purposes, hut waived all tariff claims, The French Government set up a8 a precedent the action of the United stat in dealing with surplus stocks left in the Philippine Islands at the close of the Spanisp-An War, the usual customs duties® being paid on such tax. ‘As a matter of fact, the precedent was not valid, because Spain wus the srican enemy of the United States at that time, and not ao ally, The American | commission, however, realized that it would cost a good deal of money to guard the large supplies if they were not disposed of to the French Govern- ment, and that it would tke a larg number of American troops to watch the supplie So the Ainerican commission found itself compelled to accept the Frenei: terms, and consoled itself with thi idea that the supplies would find their way in small quantities to the French people. who would thus be materially avsisted in the work of re- construction, | sentative, raised a number of obje | tions sioned by the warfare in Ireland, which were estimated as amounting to some millions of pounds sterling. ee RUSSIAN RELIEF STRIKES A SNAG Soviet Representative Objects in Principle and Details to Brown’s Draft of Agreement. Letvia, Aug. Difficult the negotiations begun here over the RIG 13 (Associated Press) 8 arose to-day in draft of an agreement guaranteeing protection of food supplies sent into Russia for famine relief. Maxim Litvinoff, the Soviet repr both in the draft n Brown, details Walter relief principle presented by the American and to Lym | negotiator. I is not known as yet whether objections will prove the insurmountable this Litvinoft the Russia, Americans and send th The conference was continuing Meanwhile M graphed the Chekas. afternoon. has tel viet tribunals throughout release all to Moscow _ mi SMASHED WINDOW GLASS TO EAT AND SLEEP.” dudwe Aasures » Regular Me, for Six Months. George Foster, 50 years old and home- 1 $900 of windows in the Flatiron Building early s, had just smashed worth this morning when Patrolman Chaffers f the Hast 21st Street Station arrested hin The charge at first Was attempted |Durglary, but Magistrate Renaud in Yorkville Court, said he believed Fos- ter'a story, that he had merely sought to something to get arrested’ in vier that he migit eat and sleep, ‘The this story of a haunted and hunted man. On the night of Nov. 19, 1919, at 9 o'clock, Edward Schmidt, propriete of a rooming house, No. 74 West 6sth Street, was shot and killed at 6st Street and Columbus Avenue. The! Mrs. Carrie Charles O'Connor, Former Prohibition Agent, Was Driver of the Car. for Devastated France, of which Miss | Anne Morgan Is the head, arri to- day on the French Line steamship Barta, The most startling thine about her A certian een she was spied on the deck was the triple dash of ved which accen- choleng is in | bullet was of a .32-calibre automatig | conditic esi thom canGuaRle fi ; BER) ; S|condition, suffering from concussion jtnated her—the red of her pat, of pistol and wasifoundi inthe bee lof the brain, lacerations of the scalp) h oh The police found several eyewit- » Ine sealp| her high heels and of her lips She was met at the p v by a dele nesses to the murder, all of whom ,and a broken collarbone, and her a detailed description of the; friend, Miss Harriet Courtland, both | ton which inchided several officers: policen had bought a meal for n 0 king him up. The Magist foe the Aged aad Intra, gave 3 a eh k Appearance of the murderer, He Was! of No. 4 West 108th Street, has nee sein States Lawn Tennis Aw a 7 s! je de and sociation, er first match is sehed- a dark, slender, undersized man, and! proken arm and many bruises, as the! yted for Mond Fr for nearly two years the police have) | oy Ane ws Mo: ‘orest Hills with veen unable to locate him, jSomie Of bie cer eR Chaney O'GAnAGE | Mins hor Goss, but Mile, Le Early yesterday morning a man|0f Hobart, N. Y., former Prohibition | aid to-day that unless che can } walked into the West 68th Street |agent, running into a crowd of vi some practice before then she will Police Station and told Detective M tionists in the little village of not Bey 58 fate On the way lone: ry e was the 10 ad across she had o little practice, she Honey the ne Waa: the Mon Whe Jaken in the Catskills short! F Edward Schmidt ie detective res |" suid, but not enough to make her fit garded hin curiously and asked him|® O'clock last night { Of her game in which she defeated whi he had been all this time } Mr, O'Connor and his friend John | the American crack, Mrs. Molla H All over the world,” answered. McGrath, a Democratic politician of | M#llory, the young Frenchwoman “1 stoo as long as 1 could said, “E wasn't half playing wie I stood it as long as I could. He |i cenecia, were driving toward New |? 1 wan't hat playing wher: | haunted me asd beckoned to me Ww) Oo : beat her” Asked about what she return, And I kept going round ang | YO": Mr. O'Connor being at the! would do in this land of Prohibition round the world, 1 didn't want to| Wheel A erowd in front of them |she replied, “I don't anticipate miss come here, but he made me come and | shut off another group from sight, |!M8 anything while I'm here.” I finally landed at No, 42 West 68th!and in avoiding the first crowd the|. Mle He ugien ve nveonina ion by Street, only a few doors from where her mother an: % de Joann e machine plunged into the second In} * I killed hm 1 saw him again this F vice-president of the French Lawa morning and 1 caine to you to give widition to the two women named | Tennis Fe tion myself up.”" Mrs. Hlakesley of Kingston and Miss | ‘There was a masquerade party on Detectives if-ac- | Maud Sehaski of undaken were |the ship two nights ago and am cused mi re | atao ed, all of them being cov. | MOM. WhO took part were Wal aan waded sybea ras usa Injured, all of them being cov- | Darmroxch, Miss [nd Claire and Mas | seer ee {ered with bruises and lwerations, | Kay Laurel | the bullets: ¢ J e the exact = ee oe | Prof. Tufter. d Paris surgeon, | size and description of the one that} DF #8. Kastman of Kingston and | was one of the passengers. He is on was taken from the body of Schmidt | other doctors were telephoned for and | tis wry Kin for the opening of | ‘The man was locked up. He gaye|the injured taken to Benedict's Sani | {BY Rockefeller oa agar elk ral the name of Girardo Caponargri and|tarium at Kingston, Mr. O'Connor | sengers were Archbishop Benedetti, said he was a barber ‘The police de-| Stopped the car as quickly as possi-| apostolic nuneie to Cuba; Maur elare tha description |ble and volunteered to take the in- | Tier, general manager of renel Le SAE e ERS TARE: 8 React }Line, and Paul Brunet, president hair with that of the murderer jured to Kingston the Pathe Film organization they took him to the District At No, 4 West 108th Street it w A ney yesterday his conscience ap- {learned to-day that Mrs. Scholing| cet, », 9. Gah na er peared to bother him no longer. He|/@Md her four-year-old son, William, | 1 said, the police say, that he told the| left for the mountain Saturday | PROVIDENC 1a is story because he was destitute ana) Mf Seholing is to join them to-dé sa Hristol hor mii wanted food and money | Mrs. Maris, a neighbor, sad Mr. It Colt wlrmun of th mand of t West Side Poles Court to-|Scholing hhd spent the evening ye bx ted Bien Buy ver ay. this trate Hattine held RONy TARR The Talc ere ae wope for his recovery has had 1oof the avcider ao veoees Vario Mi ql 4 frjena of the He sustained h they have woattegsd, | Soboligus, puraiy= Bale bo whic! Ic atroke @ Week apa yeasurday, | any of his business. Asked whether his son had any pre- vious knowledge of his marriage, Dr. Harding said: No, he didn't. day, the heads of the twenty-nine bure: in which the extravagance and spending has occurred will be called to the stand and asked how and why the money has been spent. HYLAN TO BE REC/LLED FOR EXPLANATION, Mayor Hylan will also be recalted, 16 was stated, and asked for an explanae tion of the vast expenditures. It 1s contended by Elon R. Brows that the city has levied $22,000,000 im taxes and incurred $120,000,000 in debts in excess of its*constitutional right, Now there talk in regard to this feature of refusal to pay taxes until A test fs made in court of the city's right to collect the taxes, which it is said would bring about a mess in the city’s finances. Senator Meyer says that if the taxe payers should win such a suit thee city could not get the money, and t were decided that the money n illegally borrowed-the bond I didn't consider it Iam old enough to know what I want to do, I guess, 1 was lonesome, and knew Alice} would make me a good wife.” When the couple arrived from Mon- roe, Mich., where they were married, they were met by friends’ with an au- | tomobile, although they bad intended to ride to their home unobtrusively in a street car, Although the car con- tained two newspaper men, who quizzed the couple during the drive, th ted the conveyance. [n an- | ewer a question concerning a honeymoon trip Dr. Harding deslared it had been taken, he and his wife baving to Windsor, Canuda, where they failed to get a leense be- cause of too short ar dence, Mrs. Harding intends to her work as the physician's ateny been continue rapher and office assistant, She tid h the mo: was raised would reporters. she could continue this 1. ‘The Senator advises that work and still be a housekeeper, he people pay their taxes to avokd, elicitation’ were received from) bringing about a condition which Vice President and Mrs. Coolidge, would be worse than confusion—finane who said: cin] chaos in fact “Heartiest congratulations from my! Mayor Hylan pointed out, for ime wife and from me tance, Uhat if the money had not deem aii <a the building of schools and’ other activities would be stopped and that invalidation of the bonds of the borrowed $100,000,000 would, bankrups the city, for most of the money haw been spent Some of the officials in charge of the departments are: Corporation Counsel John PB, O'Brien, personal friend and adviser of the Mayor: increase, $347,397, Commissioner? of Accounts David Hirshrield, long-time friend of Mayor Hylan and principal defender of hig | Administration; increase, $52,5! Lised U. S. To BE REPRESENTED ON RELIEF COMMISSION. | Fach Nation to Have Three Mem- . Supreme Council Decides, RIS, Avg, 13.-—Ambassador Har- nted to Include the United Russian Relief Commis- vey has ¢ States in ion The ne the | ‘ounell towtay deotded onslat of three Suprem nmi fre Supre will act y studying anomie! eity, the means for co-ordi- ng rellef activities > Commissioner of Licenses John F, Saye all Amerton ‘© Gichrist, close friend of former Gov, Russia, Simith and Tom Foley of Tammany? ° nnouncer increase, $47,140, - use ion tor Commissioner of Marketa Edwin Jy yMaliey, who was removed as Depe [uty Commigsioner by Dr. Jonatham Day, whose head waa lopped off am Ata A ena coteleed ie DY, he Meosuawme deviol Huwsis,