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To-Night's, Weather—RAIN, “ Ctreulation Books Open to All.’’ VOL. LXI. No. 21, 91i—DATLY. Copyright (New Tork World) by tress _ Publishing Company, EASTERN COUNCIL OF NINE NATIONS Will Be Formed From Thos: Now Trying to Guide Each ~. Other in Washington. RUSSIA MAY JOIN LATER. Tranquillization of Far~Bast Object Sought as an: Aid to. World Peace, . | By David Lavwrenec (Spécial Correspondent of The Eve : ning World.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 ~) tions now appears as the objective of the Govern its guthered here to tern questions, The same nine powers who are try- ing to estwblish a set of principles to guide each other in thelr commercial, finaneial and political relations with respect t> the Vacifie will be ultl- mately grouped in an organization to sce to It that the principles adopted at Bie hae are fairly applied. Ynited Stutes Government fm! 7 original invitation endeavored to } Include all nations which might pos- | t a i } te sibly have interests in the Par East WIT the exception’ of Russia, When the Russians get a stable govern- ment they too would be invited to Join. In other words, rh, \ | this development of an association of nine or ten nations for a precise object—the tranquillization of the Far East—is in line with President Harding's theory that international conference 4 can bring «bout co-operation not merely for the moment when the problems are laid on the table, but subsequently when disputes arise as to the meaning or interpretation of principles. Mr. Harding's idea is that world peace can be materially assisted by regional understandings as well as by pariodic conference of all nations. He summoned five powers to par- ticipate in the limitation of naval armament because they alone seemed to be.the factors in such a problem, Similarly, the pine powers called to discuss the Fat Kast were the only ones to whom the Far Eastern settle- ment was vital, ,1n the same sense Mr, Harding \has taken occasion to refer to the organization erected by the’ Versailles treaty as “the Huropean League of Nations.” The President has Ict it Be known that he believes che League should ‘abide be- cause it has a definite value for Europe. Probably, {f he were asked to de- fine his attitude toward Central and South America the Monroe Doctrine and the Pan- American understandings of the last generation had developed an assocl- ation of the nations of the Western Hemisphore, But tho greatest thing that may develop out of the Eastern Council ay furnish for the graceful abrogation » .of Nations is the formul: it of the Anglo-Japanese alliance. There bas already been one signifi- cant indication that the nine powers were working toward this objective. Jt was the appointment of a commis- sion to study the question of giving @a\oxtra-territorial rights. All pow- #rs ‘jaye agreod to the principle of “abandoning those rights, but the com- mission must determine exactly when (Continued on Second Page.) ADVERTISEMENTS for the Sunday World Classified Section Should be in The World Offles Te-Day HARDING PLANS | (copyright, t —An Eastern Council of Na-| he would say that ABRAHAM GILBERT, WHO GETS $90,000 ~ FEES IN GAS CASES ‘ ss sabi | Eee FEES FOR GILBERT ASMASTERIN GAS. GASES ARE $90,000 Fixed by Jeloe: Mayer, His) Former Law Partner, in Consolidated Hearings. Abrabany 8. Gilbert's compensation for sitting 130 days as special master in the Consolidated Gas case has been fixed at $57,500 by United States Cir- cult Judge Mayer. This is at the rate of $438.69 a day, ‘The decree of Judge Mayer, who appointed Mr. ‘Gilbert, his former law partner, provides additions! allowancs for necessary expenses in- curred py the master in the perform- ance of his duties. Compensation, also allowing for extra expenses, has been fixed by Judge Mayer, in three other cases as follows: New-York & Queens Gas Co. $12,500; Central Union Gas Company, -$12,500; Northern Union Gas Company, $7,500. There are four more cases in. which Mr. Gilbert is entitled to compensation as master,| and whRh Judge Mayer is now set- tling. These are the New York Mutual Gas Company, New Amster- dam Gas Company, East River Gas Company, of Long Island City, and the Standard Gas Company, All seven are owned by the Consolidated. The total compensation in the four cases thus far fixed by Judge Mayer is $90,000, to which Mr, Gilbert may add a charge for expenses incurred. The expense, according to the decree, is to be born in equal parts by the defendants, who are the State of New York, the old Public Service Commission of the First District, and the Counties of Bronx, Queens and New York in their respective cases. In 1898 Mr, Gilbert resigned as as- sistant attorney tq the Butlding De- partment to enter law partnership with Julius M. fayer, When his partner became Attorney General of the State and later was appointed a Judge of the Federal District Court, Mr. Gilbert acted as counsel to the} Republican County Committee, to Gov. Whitman and to Mayor Mitchel. Judge Mayer has frequently appointed Mr. Gilhert not only a special mas- ter but also a receiver in bankruptcy cases. Judge Mayer was clevatéed from. the District Court by President months ago. ———-—_ BANDIT SHOT DEAG BY JUSTICE OF PEACE AFTER ROBBING BANK to the Circuit Harding two MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. After holaing up the Secunty State Bank at Robbinsdale, @ suburb, aa| unidentified man was chot a id kitted by Justice of the Peace Crandall while ‘he was attempting to escape late to-day. The man entered the} bank masked and, brandishing a pistol, ordered two bank employees to throw up their hands. He ob- tained a small amount of money. ——_—— (Racing results, scratches, entries and selections on Page 2)’ “| nots they may have committed «| Be NEW YORK, FRIDAY, weckeaen 2, ‘1921, BELATED INQUIRY OF LRT. DIRECTORS Seige Wants Grand Jury Probe of Their Acts—Statute of Limi- tation May Clear Them. CITY HAD CHANCE IN ’2¢. Auditor’s Testimony Thea Opened the Way to Shew Cause for Prosecution. Although the statute of Hiwrations has apparently operated to clear the directors of the Interboroagh “frum any criminal responsibility tor illegul in dee claring dividends when there were no profits, Mayor Hylan entered the situation to-day with the dew: that the Transit Comn: over all Its evidence of Megal pras tices to the District attorney and the Grand Jury. The delayed participation of the Mayor brought to light that if his Administration had diligently prose cuted an investigation of the transit situation begup in January, 1920, the same facts that the Transit Commis- gion brought out would have beew reyealed and the statute of. limita. | tions would not have uperated ( save the Interborough directors. The field was open but the Hylun investi- gators did not follow the trai) After the 1919 strike Mayor Hy charged that there had been 1 co: spiracy between the Interborough and certain of its employees to bring about the strike as part of a campaign for increased fares. On Dec, 30, 191, the Board of Estimato passed 1 resolus tion ordering “A comprehensive in- quiry into the transit lines of New York City.” William P. Burr, then Cgrporation Counsel and learned in traction and public service masters, took charge of the inquiry and Commissioner of Ac- counts Hirshfield also busied himself. Mr. Burr was appointed to the Su- preme Court bench and 'the matter was taken up by his successor, Cor- poration Counsel O'Brien, Among the witnesses examined was Chief Auditor Gaynor of the Inter- borough. In his preliminary testi- mony he opened the way to all the revelations of amazing financial manipulations that were brought out by Clarence Shearn in the Transit Commission hearings—but Mr. Gaynor was not quizzed far enough. ‘The subjects covered in the inquiry inaugurated by the then Corporation Counsel, Mr. Burr, were fourteen in number, as follows: History of the Interborough, dividends, leasos, tra Mc congestion, publicity expenses, pat- ents and royalties, strikes, payments to Belmont & Co,, bonuses, costs of special counsel, economics, worthless items carried a8 assets, investments in Elevated lines and present earning power. It appears from the report of Cor- (Continued on Sixtednth Page.) a ROBS MAIDEN LANE FIRM OF $20,000 UNSET GEMS Whe Detective Bureau admitted (a- day that no information ‘aad been galned regarding a robbery of $20,v00 worth of unset diamonds from the office of C, C, Malliet & Co, No, 14 Maiden Lane, Nov. 15. A to the report made to tie © by rm, a “printing sales men engaged Miss Josephine Delametor, ry to the senior partner and her- self a member of the Arm, in a proposal for catalogue and circular printing. The telephone rang and she excused herselt, When she returned the stranger was gone, and an nour later it was foucd that a bag of uncut diamonds had diz- appeared. aoe ee SS NEW ENGLAND RAIL PAY CUT $1,000,000 | CHICAGO, Dec. 2.—A decision ex- pected to cut nearly $1,000,000 from the payrools of New England railroads was handed down by the United States Rail- | road Labor Board to-day, when it re- adjusted the rates of pay clerks nealcing the hourly rate identical for mon who. work-six days and those who work euven days a week, Lover as Her Romp in left to e- KATTY WA end MILLIE RAGONO Mrs. Ragone Recounts " Pitial Chapter of Sordid Life With Frank tucalano, Mrs. .tosephine Pinnelll one, OW trat forte munier or tover, looked like a frightened ohild two-day when she was led from the Tombs vw continue her testimony before Judge Crain and a jury’ in General Session». * It was to be tho crucial day. She steadfastly had said that the man she killed, Frank Jucalano, was sbot acet- dentally in a struggle, Her task to- day was tg make the jury believe this in spite of the fact that Tucalano was shot not once but three times, The hardest part of her ordeal was to be the cold cross-examination by Assistant District Attorney McDon- ald, But first, under the guidance of her own counsel, Newman Levy, she completed ber version of the sor- did double life she had led up to the time when her husband, John Ragone, disgusted, gave her $50 and told her he was going away and not coming back. Mrs. Ragone is twenty years old, but she is the mother of three chil- hep dren, one of whom, Katie, is four years old. Millic is three and Ida two. "These children were playing in the corridors outside courtroom this morning when their mother, clothed in black from hat to shoes, came in and saw them, Her eyes lighted fur an instant, then she paled and faint- ed, She was in @ badly shaken state when she was revived “Just think—I have been away for months," she said, "all because 1 would not do what Frank wanted me to.” She meant Iucalano’s alleged de- mand that she become a gir! of the streets to earn money for him. The children were in the care of their grandmother, who played with them at moments during the trial and seemed at other moments to forget (Countimued on Sixteenth Page.) aaa 50 DAYS IN JAIL FOR AUTO SPEEDER -One of the heaviest sentences hand- ed a chauffeur in Traffic Court for violation of auto driving regulations was administered to-da- »y Magis- trate Cobb in the Tratfle Court to Jo- sept Flax, a chauffeur, previously convicted three times of speeding. After sentencing the defendant to twenty days in the workhouse on the speeding Ke, te Magistrate drew | from bir admission that his li- cen revokes on Jily & when he \..s sentenced by Magistrate John E. MeGeehan-to serve five days as a third offender, Magistrate Cobb |thep sentenced Flax to serve thirty jadMtionul days for driving without | license. THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU, ce se acct Building. 53-68 Pars Obed rom od parcel eer onda and aera ther Tells of Killing 3 Children Staid Courtroom ARBUCKLE HAPPY: SURE COURT WILL FREE HIM TO-DAY’ Seems Little Concerned Over Threat on Life in Case He Is Acquitted. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2—-A threat has been received by friends of Roscoe Arbuckle that he would be shot down as he left the court room if he Js acquitted of manslaughter in the death of Virginia Rappe. This threat, following the poisoning of the defensu's stur witness, Miss Irene M. Morgan, led to extreme pre- cautions io protect the big movie co- median to-day, The threat was revelved by bis at- torney and a friend two duys ago, it was learned to-day. Tho letters ad- dressed to each stated “you und your fat friend” will be assassinuted. The girl witness—a nurse trom Los Angeles—is reported hovering between life and death from effects of the polsoning. Physictans said they be- lieved she had been given o large quantity of uspirin, A gray-haired, middle-aged man was sought as the pulsoner. Miss Morgin told police she had met the mau at the Arbuckle trial, where ua uttempt had been made tu Impeuch her testimony, She sald she went walking with him yesterday at noon. He took her to a drug store, they drank orangeade, Shwe ate two pieces of candy he-gave her, Luter she was found jn convulsions on the floor of hes room. Physicians at tirat believed she would die, but declared this morning she had a gvod chance for recovery, ° Arbuckle seemed little affected by the “assassination” threats, which have thrown every one connected with the case Into excitement. It is considered a foregone conclusion by most persons here that Arbuckle will be dismissed and elaborate precau- Ps our ras Meo" * te and Overcoats blues, | | | MORSE IS DETAINED AT HAVRE, PLEDGED TO RETURN MONDAY American Embassy at Paris Has Shipbuilder Held Provisionally. HE SAYS. Asserts He Only Went Abroad for Operation, Then to . Come Back. DIDN’T KNOW, WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 (Associated | Press)..-Provisional: detention of 'Charles W, Morse, shipbuilder and financier, who reached Havre to-day on the steamship Paris, has been re- | quested of the French Government by the American Embassy at Paris, -tt was sald to-day by officials of the State Department. ‘The Department of Justice in a formal statement, satd: The Department of Jnstico has nothing to say at this time in regard to the contemplated proceedings in what is new char- acterized as the Morse and other conspiracy cases, The entire transaction, wo are advised, is under investigation by the legal branch of the Shipping Board, When the testimony Is col- lected by those who have been and are thus far in charge of the work, and submitted to the De- partment of Justice, this depart- ment will promp:ly co-operate to the end that !t may be presented properly to a Wederal Grand Jury, If indictments are found, and they will | found if the facts Justify, the matter then will be in the hands of the Department of Justice and every effort will be made to bring Morse av@ others to trial, Xtradition of Morse would have to be in accordance with provisions-of the treaty between rance and the United States, It was said at the State Department. MORSE. PERMITTED TO LAND ON PLEDGE TO RETURN MONDAY French Authorities Insist Ship Builder Come Home on , the Paris. HAVRE, Dec, 2 —French police officials, following’ a conference with Amorican Consul Genera) Ingraham, allowed Charles W. Morse to land here to-day upon his arrival from New York on the steamship Paris, when the American shipbuilder agreed to return on the same ship next Monday, provided he Was not arrested. “I am willing to return to America by the first boat and I have so wired the United States District Attorney,” Mr, Morse told the correspondent on board the Paris early this afternoon, Mr. Morse, who traveled on the Paris under the name of Morris, sald he going to Paris for a kidney operation, but that he had Intended to return to the United States pbortly. “Lum over bere because of ill health,” he added, “but I am willing vo return even at the expense of joop- ardizing my life,” Ite declared that he was unaware his presence In Washington might (Associated Press). buy desired in connection with an investigation of his ship contracts until he was informed by wireless last night that several operatives from the Paris Police Department were watching for his arrival. Police Commissioner Fabian!, who was enjoying luncheon In the luxurious ining room of the Paris as the guest o1 Mr, Morse, told the correspondent he had no warrant for Mors’s arrest and he wanted it understood the financter was not under arrest, The French police authorities said came to an end and Mr. Dolphin was Morse had been prevented from asked by the reporters whether he had Mr. : caused her arrest. He replied in the landing at the request of American SOuntt °F Sireen he wam naked to Consul General Ingraham, but that Wit the Penal Code section referred fo uuthority in the case nad been jy, ty lodged with the French police, aw, WITH ULSTE Come In for S LONDON, Dec. 2 (Associated the Cabinet of the Dail Eireann-in session, ’ OF BIRTH CONTROL So Mrs. Juliet Rublee, Broker's Wife, Charged With Vio- lating Code of Recipes. Mrs, Juliet Rublee of No, 24? East 49th Street, wife of a’ broker and an ardent advocate of birth control, was placed under arrest thix afternoon in Chief Inspector Luhey's office. Her arrest occurred during the second preliminary hearing of the complaint of Mrs, Margaret Sanger against Po- lice Capt. Donohue of the West 47th Street Station for arresting her for addressing an audience in Town Hall several weeks ago on the subject of birth control. The arrest, which wus made for alleged violation of Section 1,142 of the Penal Code prohibiting the promulga- htion of recipes for birth control or advising where such recipes’ may be obtained, occurred, according to the police, at tho instance of Assistant Corporation Counsel Marvin Dolphin, one of the spectators at the hearing. Mr, Dolphin denied having Insti- guted the arrest, but sald later that Mrs. Rublee had confessed violating the section In question. Mrs. Rublee was taken first to the Blizubeth Street Station by Patrolman Thomas F, Murphy, attached to Headquarters, and afterward arraigned in Centre Street Court, The heuring being conducted by Inspector Lahey was for tho purpose of determining whether there were grounds for “Mrs. Sanger’s charge against Donohoc. Those who at- tended tho hearing to-day were, in addition to Nive. Sanger, Robert McC. March, her counsel; Mrs. Anna Ken- nedy, Mrs. Mary Windsor, Mrs. Frances Ackerman, Mra. L. 1. Dela~ field, Mrs. Brnest D, Adee, J. Lk Slee, Albert D. Silver, Joseph Dunn and Mr. Dolphin, who has an office in Headquartors, As in the first Instance, the hearing was a private one and Mrs. Sanger was the first witness, her testimony not having been completed. Mrs. Rublee was the next on the stand, and when she reached her narrative of getting to Town Hall on Nov, 13, finding Mrs. Sanger under arrest and the meeting being dispersed by the police, M~. Dolphin went to the door and called Patrolman Murphy into the room. Murphy was toll to arrest Mrs. Rublee but he demurred, being finally prevailed upon, it was said, by Mr. Dolphin, A short time after Mrs. Rublee was taken away the meeting PRICE THREE =o ; MORSE PROMISES FRANCE TO RETURN MONDAY AYLANNOW ASKS, WOMAN ADVOCATE. PUT UNDER ARREST, $$$. BRITISH CONCEDE SINN FEIN CLAIM OF UNITY IN IRELAND, RIN DOMINON | New Proposals Provide North Is to ix Months With Right to Withdraw Within Year -—Dail Considers Plan To-Morrow Press).—The. British Government's latest proposals for settlement of the Irish question will be considered by Dublin Saturday. The new terms, which were handed to the Sinn Fein delegates in written form, show some advances over the Government's previous propgsals, and the dele- gates felt the necessity of giving them fullest consideration at a Cabinet’ ; The terms, it is sata: : Concede from the beginning the Sinn Fein's claim for. the unity of Ireland. J Uleter must be included within the scheme from the start, and must remain ip for six months. Before the end of a year, Ulster is to be given the option to with- | draw. If Ulster goes, there must be a boun commission to deter- mine the exact area which is fair- ly entitled to go with he Under this plan if Ulster goes out @he Would preserve only her present powers and not obtain the fiscal freedom that would be left with Souty Irelund, The Sinn Fein has neither accepted nor rejected these proposals, but has Promined to consider them finally to- morrow. The question of allegiance is still the crux of the situation, but efforts are being made ty devise sonf® form of declaring allegiance whigh it ix hoped by the Government the-sinf Feip might accept, The Sinn Fein's reluctance to ac- cept the Government’s plan to draft the terms offered in treaty form an® Place the treaty before the House of Commons, as advanced early thi week, has been caused, it was ex- plained to-day, by the general belief that the negotiwtions must end that plan were followed, It had been an All-Ireland Parliament but give Northeast Ulster, as defined by # boundary commission, the right to withdraw at a stipulated time, The Sinn Fein delegates who are sull In London indicated little hope to-day that the new version of the plan would be accepted, but so far fo one umong them has declared for absolute rejection or has cared tw make a prediction as to what would be the decision of the Dal! Hireaun Cabinet. Arthur Griffith and George Gavan Duffy of the Sinn Fein delegation left for Dublin this morning, and Michael Collins and Eamon J. Duggan will go to-night. Mr. Griffith will return Sunday morning, probably with the definite decision of the Dat! Cabinet, which will be communicated to Priine Minister Lloyd George ut the earliest possible moment. The Government's latest proposals were the result of meetings of the. Cabinet members which lasted the greater part of yesterday and were continued through the evening and until after midnight, the written ver- sion reaching Mr, Griffith at 1.80 o'clock this morning. During the Cuhinet discussions,“Mr, Griffith and his colleagues were consulted. As first presented, the terms were utterly unsatisfactory to the Sinn Fein, but after some of the Sinn Fein suggestions had been adopted the plan reached such a stage that the — delegates thought it @ad assumed a form which would make \it- worth while for consultation, Ulster will no officially in- formed of the nature of the proposals # until the Sinn Fein has signified ite acceptance, if such be forthcoming. In t heevent of total rejectian on tho to, his rejoindep was “Look it up. Then he shut the door, ai SS ii 8 a pare of the Dail, the terms will ~ made known when the Kaw respondence is pu if> Suggested this treaty should embody © presenting to the Da!l Cabinet ” RPM on