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——— \ VOL. LXII. NO. 21,881 —DAILY. Copyright, 1921, b. Co, (The New York World) y The Press Publishing NEW YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1921, Post Of Entered ay Second-Ch New V N SEE BASIS FOR PEACE To-Morrow's Weather—CLOUDY AND WARMER. PRICE THREE CENTS STAMPEDE IN FIRE PANIC ON SUBWAY TRAINS HARDING'S SPEECH ON NEGROES TALK HOF WASHNTON Regarded as a Comproinise, Yet Admired for Its Courageousness. { ! RAID ON “SOLID SOUTH” Republicans Have for Month: Been Planning Break in Democratic Stronghold. By David Lawrence. | (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) $399,152 OF MAIL IS CASH OR ITS PLUNDER EQUIVALENT; TOTAL TAKEN IS $1,454,129 lays Blames Post Office L: ity and Predicts Ar- rests Soon WORE BANKS | VICI eg Postmaster General Favors: Death Penalty to Stop ' Robberies. Postmaster General Will Hays, w! came to New York to-day with Ch D. to speed up the pursuit of the armed Post Office Inspector R. Simmons bandits who held up a mail truck in , WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (Copyright, lower Broadway Monday night, gave | {esi)—-Prestasnt Hardine's speech at this afternoon a list of the con- ts of the five bags of registere \ Birmingham advocating political and i071) ‘nich the thieves got away | ) economic equality for the {negro Was with, Following is the list taken from | the "talk of the town” to-day. the registery records of the Custom | Southern Democrats privately de-, House and City Hall stations through | nounced it and predicted that the hopes wien ae afolen) nrapstty na sot iable, of the Republican Party for a “white peta ibd Sena uctiarier | ‘s $74,306.09, | Republican vote” had been absolutely} ”” Bonds indicated as non-negoti- | dashed to the ground. Republicans able, $1,054,977.83. i commended the utterance a8 Lincoln-| Jewelry, $11,993.97. ! caus, ‘Thay valled tt a courageous, Shares and, stock, $223,545.89. toech. dslivenes nak | Bills and coin, $27,104.82. Ty delivered a he y ¥ spe! dares 4 Gia Hier t CASE ok WEN aaliiiay erp nse ear tome peat Notes and drafts, $37,392.04 eae e a See ae AMneals Letters, papers, &c., $23,938.74, ntoresting aspects to 1t from a p Totals fiatladeady Fie: Wan ave ia Ntieal viewpoint. Republican candl- slannea ns a aeeet ie! ecutitied Renta xs ah np , Stocks and stock certificates, coupons, | paneer Lah er Oe notes and dratts and miscellaneous i pep oN ain tite Presidential {tems all of which carry potent! a OOO ene ee ecnrmaing.{#billties as producers of cas Dh AI Seger aaah 17. The total of Wot obtainod , Sse eee mmuvtcl upon at tue, that can be either liquidated immedi- WEE nn tat an Prondent no one has {@tely or held for future liquidation } ny te i th recent years in| thFoush organizutions in the under- f a a i ro jrchtem as had {World Which make a specialty of ¢ Hoans an’ Democrats have admittea| I Point of,valuable loot this hold- \Y ae ee ‘- oni that oe if Aemoorec y | UP was probably the most remunera- Nd sone soittieat equality, but. in| ve to the bandits of any in the his- ' rear see tice both partivg have had | tory of robberies of the mails. The Nese aeat tte : MENS that the robbers will be unable to got ae ee leaders of {M4 of any of the negotiable stuf the Republican Party ve been | because a Sonnet deveription of ue planning a real campaign to break j*## been sent all over the country, | | the Democratic bold on. the “Solld | byt that belief ts not shared in Wal | South.” Some nave advocated that | Strect , . . i the way to do it $s for some state-| “The robbery,” declared tho Post- foent to be made which would asaure | Master General, “was made possibl the whites in the South that they | ™ religence, and 1am tarting as could vote the Republican ticket | ation te fix the blame. The { without fear of negro d jon, | driver should haye been arma and | This bas indeed boen advocated by| the truck should have been trailed by a) those Republicans who huiled from|{ an armed man on a motorcycles | the South and who knew t somne| “I am in favor of drastic legisla- { such utterance was nece before | tion to put a stop to robbing the mails | the whites could be persuaded to de-| If necessary we should tix the death andard rm sqrt the Democratic s ) other hand, Nort Wi |, who have been help influx of ne Congressional distr! ut auch a stateme arded as negroes Mr. promise velievo i} "That's On the Repub’ 1 in recent y by the roes into t ts lave t would be re- by Northern tried a he cial Harding } He does in an important President of Untted But while the insisted upon the States to South has al- own right to ij make ; ways i (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 | — ‘ tA com-| able loa not | guards equality.! mobiles, utement for 4 tained the guards will ride w: | penalty for this crime, that the oper: good line the I um informed | have picked up a et to make ives nd expe t of next arrests | ek." i that valuable carl Pr rs of mail in New York City hereafter and that particularly valu- s will be conv by armed in watto~ are ob- h the said ster neral trucks urry ing ne armed on motorcycles Until motorcycles (Continued on Second Page.) QUEBEC TAKES IN $35,000,000 FROM DRY U. S. TOURISTS Counted—$4,000,000 a Year Profit to Province. MONTREAL, king of provincial officials, to. 1 idea of ¢t | i Oct ft g h aucial value of of Que | United F a an oasis like borde States . J. L. Perron, Minister of Roads, | this summer Ame had spent $35,000,000 Premite imated tha 2 ing vary” reported that can tourists in th erau eo Queb liquor stoves a year, province would total $4,000,000 jottitudes ~ IRISH PROBLEM PUT UP TOPARLANENT BY LLOYD GEOR Premier Asks Confidence Vote in Motion to Censure Next Monday. LONDON, Oct (Associated Press).—Prime Minister Lloyd George proposed to the House of Commons to-day that it set for a discussion the Unionist members of Parliament condemning the present negotiations with representatives of Sinn Fein Ireland. He said he hoped there le next Monday on | would be a vote on the question, Mr. Lloyd Georgo, proposal, declared: : “No Government can conduct nego- tations of that kind without know- ing that it has the support of the House of Commons, from which it dert 8 {ts authority.” Just before he made the proposal in making tho Ns. Lloyd George was asked whether! A despatch fiom Paris published he Irish conference was still pro-|in this morning's new per brow ' ceeding, to which he replind in thej tigt news to this country of the re affirmative. | ported This despaten Mr. Lloyd George introduced his; was # Morgan ner Proposal with this statement: home, } Mailison Avenue “As it is evident that there ts a! was asked for any information section of the members of the House| matter sla caved to give. Her reply who have serious misgivings regurd- | w pg the conference which now is pro Please say that the report is ab ceeding between representatives of| solutely unwarranted His Majesty's Government and repre-| PARIS, Oct, 27 (United I'vess).— sentatives of Ninn Vein members from | ¢ ader Myron ‘fT. Herrick ireland, I think it is essential that we| laughed tu cay over ‘epu that should know where we stand us aj he is engaged to Miss Anne Morgan jovernment before we go very much| sister of J] V. Morgan. He sald there further.” was nothing to it T atement evoked great clieer-| “It's the old canard,” was the Aw- ing. assador's comment, when inter DUBLIN, Oct, 27. Requesting | viewed by the United Press to-day ewspuper reporters to leave a S Mr. Hernck laughed when the re Fein convention here to-day, pb Was brought to hins De Valera su Probabiy that arose ¢ n “This a@ meeting in miniature | that £ was head of Miss Morgan's of the nation and this is a c 1 | committe French relief over tine for the nation. jbere,” he-said. "1 wouldn't even “We who are responsibls for the | dignify i: with a denial.” nation's policy,” he continued, “want | “Members of exclusive society « to have @ tree expression from the | cles” reported “agog” over the rumor, representatives of the vation, W feel they would be hampered in weir expression and that we should be hampered in giving the advice we have to give if anything we said should be open to misrepresentation outside. We representative of the nation at present acting in be- If of the nation tn London, and we do not want, if we can possibly help it, to cut in upon t! LONDON, Oct. 27 (United The results of t Irish peace con ference at Downing Street w submitted to Parliament, orge told the House of Commons to-day, as its sanction {s required to any settlement. But tt would be tr possible to conduct negotiations if the of the negotiators were reported during the confere have ty work,” Sir Humar Greenwood joined the de The Government. he said. not t ate, docs not intend! » ate, ® Sinn Fein cou upon which the Irish delegates Downing Street have tations. REAL BEER CAN BE SOLD AT ONCE ?re-Valstead St s Freed for Dis posal Under Mellon’ Order. WASHINGTON, G& Larg stocks of real beer now held by bre ers, some of which was made in “pre Vv jtead days,” can be sold at once under the medicinal beer regulations ra of the Treasury Mellon sai to-day He added that he was using every means to make certain that the regu- Jatic were put into « Atiom ex- peditiously. motion of made represen- 'MISS ANNE MORGAN DENIES SHE'LL WED ENVOY HERRICK | iss. ANNE MORGAN UNOLRWOe & UNRERWEDD. Dispatch From Paris Quotes Him as Saying “Its the Old Canard.” Miss Anne Morgan to-day formally denied her reported engagement to | Myron T. Herrick, American Ambas- sador to France | had Uttle with which to buck up gossip that started the report | ———-—— |GEN. DIAZ VISITS NAVAL ACADEMY ti |ttattan Leader Revetves Spee | Honors om Vintt To Annapoll | ANNAPOLIS, Oct Gen, Diaz, | Commander of the Italian army | was rece to-day at the Naval Academy with special hon by Rear Admiral H. B. Wilson, Super- intendent of the a , the rank | ing officers of the in m and the jvegiment vf midshipr A Gen |eral's salute of nineteen guns was given him, After reviewing the midshipmen, the visitors were tuken on a tour of the us acadenite epi nd Were guests f Admiral Wil luncheon STATE FACTORY WAGES | Weekly A we 825.07 in Septem- ber, Decrease of 30 Ce | ALBANY, Oct, 27,—Barnings of the | State's factory workers in septer nccording to u statement 1 pub. o-day by the State Departme Las hor, averaged $2 nse Of 48 + {rom i A » ¢ only 3 RAINS IRE. HOT SPRINGS, Ark., eral tains Wednesday eatin » forest fires w t aning fit a rete ¢ United States 1 ' fire destroyed ° §.000 acres. ons (Racing Entries on Page 4.) HUNDREDS GROPE IN SUBWAY, H TUMBLING FROM TRAIN DOOR IN FLIGHT TO TIO DRY AGENTS vuysat START 10 DRIVE short Circuit) Starts Panic, Increased by Flashes in Passing Ca SMOKE FILLS Firemen Climb Sixty Feet RUM FROM YONKERS L Down Ladders to Get at | Blaze. ee = Assemble in Getty Square and \ sont creuit caused by UOPleY Bounce Down on Saloons with the thin’ rail at a point under Johnson and Fulton Styeetsg Brook yn, between Without Warning the Borough Hali and * ns Clark Street stations of the west side Fhe most extensive prokibitios Mu Interborough subway started » tre LA EU part of the | P and a pante a little after noon to. [State Was bein in Yonkers at 13.10 uy. Two persons were slightly hurt {o'clock this atternoon raiding |p) and several hundred made temporar- , party was composed of 110 enforee- ily ill vy inhaling choking smoke of)}ment agents led by Isidore Hinstein a een eatin oxlyn ww (URder the direct command of I @ Manhattan the trouble frst and | Merritt, the new leders) Prohibition the passengers were ularmed by a) Supervisor of Director Yellowley’s of- succession of explosive flashes, ‘The | fice in this city train was slowed down but not} Yonkers is the home town of Wil- stopped. A train from Manhattan | jam H. Andereon, head of the Anti- Passing jt caured the same sort of) saloon Tengue, und lately he had a disturbance and stopped. There] yoen highly active in hig community Was a prolonged and vivid Spurting sogking out violators of tho {i of flame between the first and second regs eheeqe trem mye ae ba Sanare at noon and in ten When tie Vice Chairman Hooper as a basis of 1 QOPER'S PARLEY WITH MEN escaPe FLAMES GIVES HOPE THAT WALKOUT WILL BE COUNTERMANDED ee’s Brotherhood Particularly Sees Vice-Chairman of Labor Board’s Suggestions as Basis for Settle- ment of Trouble. CHICAGO, Ort. 27 (United Press) A strong sentiment is ex- ai by many of the unioh men toward acceptance of the statement of gotiation and calling off the strike. $ Was especially true in the trainmen’s ranks. ® CHICAGO, | Press).—Ben W. Hooper of the Ral. Labor Board went before the conference and gave what he described as a “vague possibility” for settlement. President Lee of the trainmen ac- companied Mr. Hooper back to the Labor Board offices and then returned to the brotherhpod conference. “Did settle the strik Hooper was asked. “Well, you could handly expect then: Oct 27 (Associated RACING CHART and LATE SPORT you M flashes ceased the Da- ware at work, hecuuse t N E Ws to do that with me in there,” he « ngers made a rush for Mdor yanihar Wane! ne ao ¢ plied. “1 Was not sent by the board, Joors Mn Racon of No, 423 Fourth qogcent upon saloons, ca ore ori PAGE 8 but went on my own volition. I stil! Avenue, Brookiyn, smashed the las tie jad a way siroaallt ‘ 4 believe that the only basis of settle- ny the door with his fists, cutting Wis pisinie sire in Yonker ouly the — menet CNt is the resolution recently adopt forearm badly. Then the conductor jemogt specd of uction vould pie Shia na ed by the board.” tt y door ope mt ; he SHahcane Reed irewuitl OP in eatientle? .. SWANN APPLIES Mr. Hooper issued this statement to passengers tumbled out into the tu é day - tending over more than a i | cert ae lshing tapi wen mung over more than a weck. Oo FOR A PENSION rein dees Bara poke, and groped their way insingle, caine. thirty-four. saloous, ne FROM THE CITY send me nefore the brotherhoods, and te the « lark slreet Sie Jant™, cafes and other places » —__—— only: two or three members kuew.p Mrs. je 3 enzie as ry % ana Giptved d ull off ares was going. I went to talk to the rep John’s Place was overcome by smoke |" bell litoan ease edi ain €' District Attorney Eligible for $3,000 | vrontatives of tn snikation bi, i TANG atdIWG tothe atraat | TIEAe NOTES 8 eiding to if pide na i a athite clizbing t a 1 G treet ‘ Year—Widow to Get $7,500 | man, a citizen and a member of the after she had refused to wait for the ‘i ‘ sicntor, Mok Mira. MeKon na! The first place visited was that of if He Dies j board, with the hope that 1 mig levate oth DAfin. umes (Nong Dalleada make myself useful in averting the Mr. Bacon were attended by Vivasiasg caicon anaraactaueant Ace District Attorney Swann, who | strike, ‘The brotherhoods roe M bulance surgeo Several ambulances x MG, 8 BBIOON ANE binhiashi } . es : x Te urgson, Several ambulance |wvas crowded when the agents en + reputed to be a wealthy man, | Whitley, Vice President of the train Hall ana Glave street atatlone teved nounced themselves and as applied for a city pension. | men, to accompany me to their meet ppearance of a colum started a search of the premises. No {1\s application was filed Sept. § ang elas 1 s ce was offere nd behind the “The immediate oceasio: 0 a moke through the ventilating . a ie offored| and) behind) t ist; Hdonuse: of his awe. Atty: 1. mediate occasion of mv igen 1 Johnson Streets ar 2 quart of whi was found appearance before tie leaders of the uA Re GL ar “a fe {and downstairs ten cases of Canadian) "ne years, Mr. Swann pays am | employees was this: aused the send ae, n Sees tender, James McCauley natal preminm of $1,250 into “Day before yesterday I submitted alarm ‘ nea ad anlar § Caroline Avenue: was hrs © pension treasury to the Railroad Labor Hoard a mem- pauiyalnd the Paseue Saves ee ee While the raid was’ going on In the event of the District At- | orandumn bearing indixectly upon the le grating at vel - } » torney’s death, his widow would i in walked Human, the proprietor. He strike situation, which was adopted. ang went down webtingea he KA | was arrested too, He sald he hadn't ive a pension of half pay, | By an awkward oversight this pes ther owertng eae ie ¢ thes [AB idea how the Canadian ale got into, $7500 a year, for the remainder orandum did not reach the chief ex- vf the tunnel sixty f us "Tig pl With MeCauley he was) of her life, Maving been in the | ecutives of the Brotherhoods until i ous Ea ey taken before Police Lieut, Cooper for! city’s pay for a period of at least | last night, and had not yet been pre- about an liowy i ugers antag ten years, Mr. Swann could ela tnd toward Brookisn were put off|@e 8xing of bail y 1 nn could claim sented to the committsemen aff gia » Station in Uke mmoke| opere wees. rald) in sayear disability pay, But he could do | ethe chairmen present cr, * at Clark Street Station In the smoke in P : , ? ew yago which yielded twenty-seven con tter than the Ths memotandum was laid be nd rains switched back under vietions out of thirty-two places en Being within few months of the executives of the ta: fa on the tio, East River. & Sonn seal tered, but it appeared from what Mr. S!Xty veurs of age, he can soon | day it was adopted. I read tnia trains went back through the smoke) y owiey learned recently that this| ‘etire and obtain a pension on a memorandum to the several hi ndred on the run. ‘TraMe was reported (oF not been a sufficient lessun to} basis of fourteen-seventieths of | o¢ticers of the brotherhood thi be normal agiin at 1.80 o'clock the community, So he determined is annual salary. The fourteen | morning, and in addition aa 4 At thovomoes. of the IptenOronsbel at the raid of should be w, Tepresents the number of years | them slong Sane it was suid the short circuiting w " ‘ * ve served Jud, em along general tin urging 4 eect ia Uae wa {bit more thorous 4 aed ae ee [every consideration poss against a defect in the a . “1 ons and as Distrte . sf the cars the Brookiyn-bound . =o Sec dda cal te lwomen W eald t a of years one would | proprieties ins AG cacrien Cae x = bands seomed able t all the as Sater 4 |board, or even myself, to given ac 7 or they wanted. Husbands, too, uit salary pension: under ithe | 110, any questio: WOMAN'S PRINTS pisos a , S did no;| service section of the aye- | 02 On BAY question that may here complained that thelr wives did not after come before the board, further NEAR SLAIN MAN {scem to nave any dist n get-| tem. Fourteen-seventicthsof Mr. lehan the course of procedure set out ae |ting things to drink. Ineresponse to| Swann’s salary Is about $4,000 a |1y the memorandum referred to. ' ‘ Form Pally Be- | ties communications Mr. Yellowley memorandum, briefly stated, 2 ; sent nstein into Yonkers with in expresses the purpose of the board ody With Head Nea structions to get the violut BURGLARS IN TAXI ) complete its consideration of tl Severed What Einstein reported on é TAKE $1,000 CLOTHES \utes und the working conditions of ; . ; wach class of employees before tak! F eat ne : 1 « _ ie 4 (Continued Second Puged cae Hole ' and ing up the consideration of any ap , atl An ale a0 8 ubb 2 —— ~~ Looted ¥ pitcation affecting the wages of thal found in a clump of bushes near sanbors ee 5 4 1 sia ee at aan, nee |1,000 CASES OF LIQUOR Two passeng: and a chaufte a particular a , and gives ample rea- 2 ; : 4 taxicab, the license pla ch | 8on for that course Phe head had been nearly severed | SEIZED IN BROOKLYN me Ans BEE BIBL AE. WD ICR eee isc dudemont that) misesurias from the body und t ck the] = jad been removed, got away with - aes ¢ constitutes the only 4 man's clenched hun had been | a » Val Pat at #T5000—Con- ty-five thes trom the! AER. SOBA AY: pi lec, 1 cin) Valae . to basis for an | able adjustment of ned and stabbed with a kn A slance Called to Court, > Pradkyn, he t strike trouble, and |t 1 tained we ) i Va ye ly to- | works utely no injury to any | smned to Bt wy afte their way through | body well within the discretion r 0 i, |migth Stree med floor to the showrooms. ‘The the beard to fix the mak uk ust ad, a short path lad oe eee Pr Pn CERT crea thes we ed wt $1,000. order in w t will consider and een 4 a woman paciig. Up Hoe, ee ieee saree at hans Mrs, Vauline Kerle of No. 2328 | dispose of the matters before it, and dow sround bea We torcent Oitiee: ii ‘Aeook Newkirk Avenue, saw the men load “If this memorandum has the effec con K nc was made at th i ing the loot, which had been packed | of removing the principal cause ' Vald i mi Meas a aw 1, Wallabout Ba The oco in burlap bags, into the taxicab! friction from immediate operation it vid ‘ Young here Co. jo (0 ney for t ' tanding in fron ne apartment! has an additional virtue b valde 0 ¢ i " . d the chaaffeur urge My meeting with the men was « vnd Demarcos > er a a 3 rel a ' ne th n up. tremely agreeable and satisfacte r ale Mba hare kere tat een Heat ae me suspicious and looke aland I was accorded @ friendly a and er children to) federal’ Court in proceedings involving Veense number on the car ould courteous hearing. | was cequested a month later, - | use retention of Ms license. find ne She notified the police. to remain to hear expressions of ma bin ance Coca x aii iil caitaiaida 6 ee. 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