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Kom) EXT RA VOL. LXII. NO. 21,907—DAILY. whe * Circulation Books Open to ane wtorio, | “Circulation Books Open to All.’’ Conreiant, (New York World) By Press lishing ke was eed 1021, l. R.T. BORROWED | MILLIONS FOR DIVIDENDS ARBUCKLE IN OWN DEFENSE ymgson oF Acres’ ara FO ASIC {R. BORROWED DIOEND MONEY. FROM SHARING IN Got Millions From From the Inter- borough Consolidated Co., Traction Hearing Reveals. COAL BILLS ARE HIGH Paid $7.35 Against $6.93 Cost to B. R. T.—Hedley Hints at 10-Cent “L” Fare. Finance as conducted by the Inter- borough was brought up to-day at the transit hearing when Horace M. Fisher, Secretary of the Interborough, | testified to the financial manipula- tions of the company which showed that in 1917 and 1918 the Interbor- ough was borrowing moncy to de- clare dividends, the most of which went to the Interborough-‘onsoll- dated Corporation, the same one that was loaning much of the borrowed money. Mr. Fisger’s testimony showed that the Interborough directors in order to Induce J. P. Morgan € Co Agrunder~ write some of the securittes had to enter into a covenant that the trac- tion Company would not during the ‘lifetime of the notes declare a divi- Gend of more than 10 per cent. Mr. Fisher testified to various divi- dends declared, beginning Sep.enber, 1917, with 5 per cent., amounting to $1,750,000, payable Oct, 10, 1917. The directors who voted that dividend were Yessrs. Belmont, Shonts, Der wind, Hemphill, Juillard, Ludlo Pepperman, Reid, Starbard, Sullivan, Tripp and Mr. Fisher himself, acting im conjunction with Starbard and Mr./ Pepperman, all employees, as “dum-) hastened downtown mies” for some of the other directors, Of those who were at that meeting and who are alive now are Messrs. Belmont, Berwind and Tripp and they are scheduled to be the witnesses at to-morrow's hearing. The testimony showed thal six days before Oct. 10, 1917, the day ihe $1,750,- 000 dividend was payable, the Execu- tive Committee of the board of direc- tors borrowed $2,000,000 “or the com- pany. Then in November, 1917, another 5 pergent. quarterly dividend was de clared amounting to $1,754,000, and one month later, which was sven days before the dividend was payable, the Interborough Rapid Transit Company borrowed of the Interb ;cugh Con- solidated Corporation $1,509,000, the game corporation’to whisn the div:- dend was “mainly payable,” the wit- » nese admitted. Further testimony showed that in 4918 the Interborough directors ber- Conti ed on Second Page.) CLEMENCEAU AIDS OPERATION ON FRIEND, REPORT Tiger’s Assistance Great Help, Says M. Desard, Noted Surgeon. PARIS, Nov. 28. The story of how Georges Clemenceau, the “Tiger of France,” strode into @ private hospital, donned a clinic uniform and assisted in a surgical opera- tion on his friend Camile Cerf was being told around Paris to- day. The noted surgeon M. Desard, who operated upon Clemenceau himself several months ago, was to perform the feat. Clemen- ceau, however, invaded the oper- ating room, Desard said: “Thanks to the Tiger’s assistance, the op- eration was successful.” “It was nothing at all,” the Tiger was quoted as saying. Sees ae A COMPANY DISBURSEMENT ‘SOO WATINRAN IN VAIN EFFORT 10 CONSULT LORENZ | | Notice Sila’ Surge Surgeon Would Not Be Able to See Any More Patients To-Day. { Neither the unceasing rain nor the repeated announcement that Dr. Lorenz would not be able to see any more patients today served to drive's from the doors of the Hospital for Joint Diseases, Madison Ayenue and 128d Street, a drenched but hopeful crowd of men, women and children, some of whom had been waiting there singe 4 o'clock this morning: ! As Dr: Lorehz, who is sixty-seven years old and not #0 vigorby tally as he would kets BY Maiti wearying under the #thain of constant operation and: ovakination he de-! cided that he could Het see tore than fifty patients to-day. These fifty were selected last week and provided with card Hewever, Dr. Lorenz was unable to see all of the Sfty., When he had/ examined: forty he bécame alightiy il, owing to a stomach disarrange- | ment from which he has suffered for | several days, and had to abandon lis clinic, He went to one of the hos- pital rooms to lay down for a while. At noon Dr, Lorens left the hospital to visit a private patient and then to attend a luncheon in his honor at Fraunce's ‘Tavern, given by the trustees of the Broad Street Hospital. At least 500 persons gathered the hospital doors this morning, un- willing to believe thut they would have to forego treatment or exami-! nation at least for their children or themselves. Even when signs read- ing: “Dr, Lorenz canmit er@ any more patients to-day. It is useless to wait,” were pasted in the windows and ou! the doors, the crowd hoped on and stayed on, Not until after 9 o'clock did it begin to straggle off, but two) hundred still clung abouf the stepz, wet, sleepy but determined. The first patient to arrive was Al-| fred Cohen, fifteen years old, of Hartford, Conn. He had a dislocated at rived at the hospital at 11 o'clock Jast night. As an appointment with Dr. Lorenz hi been arranged for him by his physiclan Ipst week he was admitted to the institution and waited there in comfort. Forty-nine (Continued on Eighth Page.) iaeennelieeeee KIPLING’S SON LISTED “VANISHED IN WAR.” Safled for Gallipell Campaige ané All Ree: Eni BINGHAMTON, N. Y., Nov. 28.— Rudyard Eipling’s son, John, was one of the thodsands of soldiers lost in the World's War whose fate is not officially recorded. He joined the army when barely eighteen years old and was re- ported wounded and missing in North- ern France in October, 1915. When the war ended efforts were made to trace him and it was learned he had joined the British force bound to the Gallipol! peninsula. ‘The vessel on which he sailed arrived in time for him to have taken part in the disastrous fighting on the penin- wula, but there is no record of him. In the hope that he might have been | Rialto «Theatre, | house right hip and he and his father ar-| NEW YORK, MONDAY, ‘NOVEMBER ci 1921. atered a» Secund-Claes Matter Post Office, New York, N. ¥. VALE STUDENTS RESCUE MANY AT NEW HAVEN FIRE: ‘ — ew 21 College Men Injured at} Movie Blaze in Which 3 Persons Died. 26 ARE SERIOUSLY AURT. | Coroner Believes Curtain Was Ignited From Burning In-_ | cense on the Stage. NEW HAVBN, Nov, 28.—With the| | death list standing at three, Coroner | Mix this morning opened ‘his inquir: imto the fire which last night com-| pletely burned the interior of the a moving. picture Many of the fifty-three pa- tients who spent the night in the} hospitals were discharged, as their , burns and bruises can be treated at home. The total number of seriously in- " sarea persons is twenty-six. St. Raphael's Hospital sent home seven persons and seven remain; Gracs Hospital still had ten burned, three ‘bruised persons and another a broken leg, out of many injured taken in, and’ the New Haven Hospital had ‘| tWenty-five’ patiéfits of “Whotw five are listed @¥ In critical condition. Of the students at the unjversity in- firmdry, none were regarded ag ii a serious condition. Many Yale students participated in the rescue work, dashing into the tre and pulling out unconscious v . Some of 1 | vie- the women became temporarily insane from hysteria? ‘The three dead have heen identified as Timothy Hanlon, Harry B. Perrigo and Mrs. Marcella Cowan, The five persons who are on the danger list are: Allan Keith, Yale student, of Southport, Conn.; Miss Mabel Moran, Derby, Conn.; Mrs. Margaret Kelley, Prospect Beach, West Haven; Thomas Shanley and Victor Corteles of this city. A check-up of students inthe uni- versity was under way during the morning to ascertain if any one was misging. The body of the youpg man which is et an undertaker's is be- (Continued on Eighth Page.) ee apenas RUSSIA AND U. S. NEAR AGREEMENT Soviets Ready to Give America Guarantees of Stability, De- clares Chicherin, MOSCOW, Nov. 28.—Georg Chi- cherin, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs, to-day-declared America had “unofficially” prescribed three requis- ites to establishing negotiations with Russia. The Soviets are pre- pared to cffer these guarantees, he sald. : ‘The are: 1—That America be convinced a stabilized government bas been es- lished in Rusi 2—That the Soviets recognize pri- vate property rights, 3—Assurance that no demands, Chicheajn said, ’ “terror” ex- ists under the Soviet rule. os WILL CALL PARLEY ON MONEY PROBLEMS WASHINGTON, Nov. 36.—The Aljied Reparations Commission soon will is- sue a call for a conference in Europe for the congideration of exchange stabi- Mgation and related financial problems, according to Government information here to-day. Tho United States Navy may send an adviser, if invited to do so. A Twelve Marines te Guard Maile From Brooklyn. captured by the Turks, Charles M Dickinson, former Consul General at ‘Constantinople, took up the search. Now he announces that a thorough hunt through the Far East, in which he was aided by many Turkish authorities, has proved unavailing, a Twelve marines from the Navy Yard were assigned for duty at the Brooklyn Main Post Office to-day, to guard the ; Attorneys leaned back in their chairs Says He Found Miss Rappe 1'i, in His Room and Gave Her Help. HIS DOOR UNLOCKET Uninvited, She Went There, | He Declares, and She, Not He, Tore Clothes. SAN FRANCISCO, voe (Fatty) Arbuckle, dian of the movies now on trial Tor ‘ov. 28.—Ros- | famed come- manslaughter, bundled his 240-pouna | form out of the defenddnt's chair to- day and walked to the witness stand. He was suddenly called to tell Jury his version of the death of Vir- vinia Rappe, which he is accused of causing. .. * A dull rumble swept through the courtroom as spectators shifted to get a better view of the comedian. und tried to look unconcerned, The jury strained forward, frankly ex- pectant, In walking to thé stand Arbuckle bumped into a chair and had diffi- the | culty squeezing between two tables. He seated himself, carefully pulling up each trouser leg, He twisted his | chair a couple of times_and glanced! at the defehbe counsel lable. It was the signal for his lawyers to begin, He testified as follows: “My name is Roscoe Arbuckle, | am », movie actor. “Virginia Rappe came to my room at the St. Francis Hotel Sept. 7. Mrs. | Delmont was with her, She did not | come by my invitation, Neither did Al, Semnacher, Zey Prevost or Alice Blake. I invited Marie Taube. H “L was dressed in pajamas and bathrobe. The bathrobe was -placcd | in evidence. | “around 3 P, M. Ll saw Miss Rappe in my room. I was then going out for an engagement with Miss Taube. “Y had seen her in the other room just previously. “| found her in the bathroom. She was on the floor, holding her stomach, I picked her up. She was very sick. I held her hair out of her face. Then I took a towel and wiped her face. “Then 1 gave her a glass of water. She said she would like to lie down and I carried her to a bed. She said she had these spells often. I went to the bathroom and when I came back she was on the floor writhing and moaning.” “T picked up a plece of ice and Mrs, Delmont told me to get out and I told her to shut up or I'd throw her out the window. “[ then had Mrs. Taube call the hotel manager. When he came we put Mr, Fishbeck's bathrobe on Mise Rappe and carried her to another room, I carried her three-quarters of the way and Mr. Boyle took her. I then asked Boyle to get a doctor, “[ called Miss Prevost and Mrs. Delmont. When they came in she was teaving ber clothes, She pulled off her dress and tore her stockings and pulled the lace off her garters. I told the girls to stop her and tried to help her, I went out and when I came back Mrs. Delmont was rubbing her with ice, “The door leading from my roofn to the corridor was not locked. The window was open and the curtain up. (Continued on Second Page.) LANDLORD FINED $50 FOR REDUCING SERVICE Elevator Ras I phone Switchoard Re! James Brennan of No. 51 East 96th Street, owner of a slx-story spart- ment house at 1024 Street and Central Park West, was fined $50 to-day by Justices Herbert, Healy and Edwards in Speclal Sessions on charges that he had not furntahed proper elevator ser- vice and had removed the telephone switchboard. Justice McCook of the Supreme Court testified as to Brannan’s good charac- majls, AU mail trucks going to Man- hattan with registered mail will be guarded as Will certain trucks going to et. eed sections of Bronklyn. Ay | profits taxes totalled $728,798,329.85. sali nt atl | | | SCREEN COMEDIAN | WHO TELLS COURT | HARDING'S PLANS NOT WORKED OUT OF FATAL PARTY | may Follow Amer American Peace | NOT | Borah’s other ix Mr, PRESIDENT CUTS BUDGET FOR 1923 $1 008,000,000 Estimates Placed at $3,000.- 000,000 After.Gen. Dawes Used Pruning Knife: this time. was, WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.—President Harding will submit a $8,000,000,000 budget to Congress when it convenes on Dec.’ 5, it-was learned to-day. It will cover Federal financial needs for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928. This estimate is $1,068,000,000 below the estimate submitted for the fiscal year ending on June 30, 1922, and represents an actual saving of $500,- 000,000, as Congress pared that, much from the estimate, ‘The budget may be trimmed con- siderably if the ‘Arms Conference agrees on a programme of reduced naval armaments, The new budget will represent Gov ernment needs cut to the bone by Gen, Dawes and his economy experts in the Budget Bureau, With them a separ- ate budget of expenditures which ars considered advisable will be sub- mitted, Estimates for this year, as submit- ted by the varioys bureaus to the Di- rector of the Budget, were nearly as ernment.” the ulations name. and the large as last year's amount, but Dawes wielded ruthless pruning knife. Expenditures that might be ciassed as for future wars have been trimmed by many millions. It 1s pointed out, however, that the enactment of a aol- dier bonus will wipe out these savings. While a big saving is predicted in army appropriations, about $250,000,000 project for a | of nations. name” «uate information. The Evening World's correspondent hag the highest authority for making the foregoing obsefvation. the latter. indeed, Anybody Harding has in mind an organization Vke the present League of Nations will find that notion dissipated when the President makes known the de- Nor does the Presi- dent feel that he would be creating a rival to the League of Nations, United States Government talls of his plan. and Society’s Formula in Most Details, Criticism Said to Be Based on Inadequate Information. By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, Nov 28. (Copy- | | right, 1921).—President Harding has ‘worked out only in principle the The criticism of Senator | Borah, therefore, that the talked of if ‘association of nations” would only be “the League of Nations under an- is based upon inade- The truth Harding did not plan del|ber- ately to ipterject a discussion of a MC“GFEAKization into the- press at He was asked Th) question at the regular conference With Wadi. | ington correspondents last wae cated, Officially Says~ Briand- and the initiative was entitely with The impromptu answer | the expression hy President of his earnest hope of what might develop out the of the gathering which now is taking place. long time he has sensed the rising tide of international co-operarion of some kind, though, at the same time, he has felt that the people of the United States would not sanction any- thing that savored of a “supergov- For a Who supposes that Mr. with feeling definitely turned down membership in the League of Nations in its present form, it would be illogi- cal, say Mr. Harding’s friends, to find the President proposing another or- ganization with similar rules and reg- merely ince the ides of another This much the new plan would have in common with the League of Na- tlons—an identity of object, namely ihe prevention of war by having fre- quent international conferences, Bus that object has been sought through one form or another for ganamations in Adniatetration quarters is that there cannot he too many efforts in that direstion, Asan example of how @ifferent the Harding plan migh® eventually be (Continue@ on Second Page.) fetta cee BIG STORM LOSSES IN NEW ENGLAND ia the estimated cost for the next year,|S70W Six to Eighteen Inches Naval estimates are being made on Deep ani $500,000 Phone a basis which ignores the Arms Con- Damage. id id ti ference and provides for continued BOSTON. Nov. 28—A storm of naval building. $400,000,000. One of the big items, war after- math, is nearly $1,000,000,000 for in- terest on the public debt, for sinking fund operation and for retiring the Victory notes in 1923. America’s income during the year 1920 dropped approximately §3,000,- 000,000 below that of the previous year one of big post war profits—Treas- ury officials today estimated. ‘The estimate was based on a de- crease of $812,579,486.07 in Federal! tax receipts during the fiscal year, 1921, as compared with 1920. Of this mount the slump in income and It may run to nearly Nearly an ttr, Probation Officer William C fald the property had been cone’ by Me cpumeall Bans os ich was with the tenants and that repr ty rm Sparcntly became ni bis management, reqults, scratehes, entries ions on Page 17, fh eommisston. snow, sleet and rain felled or stripped | trees, wires amd poles over a wide area in New England to-day, pling trolley, telephone, telegraph ema electric lighting services. In Northern New England there was a snowfall of | 6 to 18 inches. Wire communication was more af- fected than by any storm in years. ’ provided the work of the conferenve one-third of the direct tele- phone lifies to New York were out of} It was estimated that! the storm would cost the company approximately half a million dollars. unidentified schooner, her mainmast gone, |s an- chored off Block Island, setting nals of distress. The fishing vessel Filomena, out of Gloucester, with five CBedk iuen aboard, wae missing. b ~ ertp- three-masted US NAVAL EXPERTS REJECT “WPAN CLAIMS FOR MORE ~ SHIPS THAN WV HUGHES P \ NEW “LEaGug.”; Americans Find No Mistakes and No Reason to Ratio—Agreement Ready for the Conference. - WASHINGTON, Nov. lion programme. The full membe: continuous conference of the Arms Conference was not in session. The extensive examination of figures of all three powers as to ex- isting naval strength of each country has not resulted in any change of the original figures in Secretary Hughes’s proposal. authoritatively to-day that no. mistakes in calculation had been Teveated | : during the discussion by the experts, — © the data surmittea to-day by the HUGHES DENIES STORY THAT STIRS _JTALIANS” WRATH}, — Schanzer Report ivas Baseless. WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (Associated Press).—Published reports alleging use of harsh words by Premier Briand of France while in Washington against Senator Schanger, head of the Italian Armament Confererice delega- tion, were forntally denied in a state- mest made to-day by Chairman Hughes at a meeting of the Contfer- «nce Committee on Far Hastern and The reports, which have led to much comment in Europe and to dem- onstrations against the French in It- aly, were said by Mr. Hughes to be ageiutely without foundation. He go was understood to have declared that the relations between the French and Italiag delegations within the conference had een most triendly. M. Briand, Mr, Hughes asserted, had use@ me words whatever that |could give offense to Italy in any manner. Rene Viviani, present head of the Mr. Hughes, also denied the reports. Ttaly and France, M. Viviani said, were bound together with ties of friendship and gratitude. Senator Schanzer spoke, thanking by him and satd that @ denial coming from the Chairman of the conference itself would put an end to all agita- tion in Italy. The unatter of the published reports | waa brought up by Mr. Hughes at the opening of the sitting on the joint request of Senator Schanzer and M. | Viviant. 5 pe VIVIANI ENGAGES PASSAGE DEC. 14 t | | Head of French Delegation Speeds | -Up Work Among Fellow Workers. WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (Associ- ated Press).—Rene Viviani, head of the French delegation, has engaged pas- sage to return home on the french | Line steamship Paris, leaving Vee. 14, has been concluded by that time. M. Viviant has suggested to nis fei- low delegates that they speed up the work. He believes that if tho work is allowed to drag tho favorable effect will be diminished. vi BU. a po DO LER TTS RPT Row, x ¥ ity. oe eH) 28 (Associated Press).—Amefican naval experts presented to the Japanése and British officers to-day Wetailed an- swers to questions presented last week as to thé American naval reduc+ Pacific Questions, | Frenoh deiegation,: speaking after) Mr. Hughes for the statement made) Change the. 5-5-3 rship of the Technical Commisdog Tt was said’ net eee American group had to do, it was understood, ‘with questions asked by the Japanese as to the exact meaning of certain paragraphs of the Ameri- can reduction plan. It is known thai the American experts feel that they have been able to show that there exists n» reason to change any of the tonnage estimates fof the . three powers upon which the American Plan was based, and it was assumed that during the week, possibly .n a” ~ matter of hours, the naval reduction Problem will be formally returned to the conference for action, Assurances that the American cal- culation a+ to existing Japanese naval Strength dos been found to be accu- rate in tho American view, lends ad: ditional woight to the repeated dec- laration that the American delegate | will’stand Grmly for the 3” ratin | Proposed for limitation of naval eon: struetion the end of the 10-year holiday pericd. It would also indleate the improbsbility that the America | delegates weuld agree to retention, by Japan, of the battleship Mutsu, al- though no definite statement im this regurd has been made by any mem- ber of the delegation. A resolution declaring for retin- quishment of foreign post office priv ileges in China was adopted to-day |by the nin: powers sitting as a com- | mittee on Pacific and Far Eastern qaifestions The date cf Jan. 1, 1923, was eet for the abandonment and this was agreed to by all the powers represented ex- cept Japan, whose representatives asked for time to hear from their Government. These delegates, it was said, did not object to the date, but felt that they did not have the au- thority to agree without referring the matter to Tokio. \ In adopting the resolytion for abandonment of foreign post offices the committee decided to add a pro- vision for adherence to the plan of other nations, not represented in the conference, having a few post offices |in China, Denmark, Sweden and ene or two other nations were said to have postal stations there, and the resolu- tlons were broadened to provide for adherence of such nations to ‘the agreement for closing foreiga post of- fices, ‘The sub-committee headed by Sen- lator Underwood of the American dele- gation, appointed to deal with Chinese customs, will meet to-morrow to be- gm ite srady of the question. The resolution relating to postal agencies In China provides that for- eign postal systems there shall be. abandoned on a date to be finally agreed upon later, and on condition that the Chinese Government shall - maintain “an efficient Chinese postal ~ service.” A provision is also included unde~ which the Chinese customs authorities will be permitted to examine poste! matter passing through the postal agencies in onlay to