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“THE WALLFLOWER,” By RUPERT HUGHES, Complete Novel in, To-Day’s Fiction Supplement. The [Circulation Books Open to All.” yENINGT a oh) EXT RA TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Rain or Snow; Coldene Copyright (New York Worlds Press Publishing Company, 1021, VOL. LXII. NO. 21,924—DAILY. EMBER 17 1921, Entered ap Second-Ciass Mattor Post Office, New Yor ¥ PRICE THREE CENTS, — NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DEC ~ HARDING SEEKS CONFERENCE. ° OF 21 AMERICAN NATIONS oe -Roaming Cat Comes Back Always to Home Port, Hoboken “ ‘ AY) | \ Wants Unity of Action on ' dae eae by GERMANY MUST awe_w veacue,) PAY REPARATIONS, MANY ARE IN LEAGi \__ Association of American Coun-| ANSWER (fF ALLIES tries Could Settle Controve-- eg | sies, Washington Beliaves | Will Not Even Consider Ex- tension Unless Berlin Fur- nishes All the Facts. By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Eve-| ning World.) WASHINGTON, Dee. 17 (Cop 2921).—President Harding has di to call into elation American Nations. PARIS, Dec. 17 (Associated Press). of —The Allied Reparations Commission acuivun the As | uns refused to consider Germany's re- tie | laeppens Phe occasion for | to be the question of whether the] january and February reparation pay- quest for an extension of time on Government of Guxtetala shall be} ents until the German Government — MRS ShITZEN Onevston= This Is Mrs. Blitzen, a cat so fond of “coming back” that she always comes back even to Hoboken. She has sailed the Seven Seas and has a sweetheart in every port. She consented to pose for this photograph in order to prove the truth of everything the ship ‘news reporters have written about her, The reporters give her milk, and she doesn’t want them to lose their jobs. Her maiden name was Satan, but now she is married and she recently brought her family of five little Blitzens to Hoboken from Buenos Ayres or Rio—nobody knows which—on the | to TWO-DAY DEBATE, | wernt VOTE WEDNESDAY, | AT WOMAN AS THEY fecognized, but this really Is a vehicle | totts just what she can pay on these for u Pan-American yndentunding on! instalments and gives other Informa- ion demanded. ‘This developed when the text of the commission's note to the Berlin Goy- phere. ermment was made public here to Ber since the Armament Confers diy, ed ulid newspapers ‘The “reply oxpresses surprise that Germany failed to tell exactly wnat Torelyn exchange she would be able to deliver, what delays she desired and what guarantees shé would offer mean- while, Until these details are fur- nished it will be impossible to con sider or even examine the request of her matturs of gene) coneern to thy hations of the Western Hentts ~ence was suinie Degan to luok upon the gathering of the Princip) Allied and Associated Powers a5 u sort of executtve cuin~ manne the mittee which would affairs of the world, the countries in the South Americua Continent rave felt slighted. ‘They were not invited ty the Washington Conference, T ably contribution to It was the use of the Pan-American Union Bul. ding for the conference committees. Wer rresident Harding nas from the \ | stort hud i mind a policy of closer adbociation between the two Americas a’ o sort of substitute for the incitna- tion of the last Administration to busy itself with Furopean affairs, The groater interest of the United States, he has Indicated, lies southward and not eastward. Yot the press of other matters has caused him to be divert- e@ to other phases of forelgn policy. The conclusion of the four-power treaty relative to islands in the Pacific stretching five thousand miles west of the American coast has made some South Americans apprehensive tbat Mr. Harding, Mke his prede- gessor, had strayéd far afteld and that ht might peglect the affairs of Gentral and South America, “Mr. Harding has let it be known that he has not forgotten, In fact, he has hinted that an affirmative policy is in course of preparation which shall assure unity of action by the countries of ‘this hemisphere on all matters of American concern, The Aeepest interest attaches to this move, for it will be recatled that while the South American countries have alt joined the League of Nations some of (Continued on Fourth Page.) 9 ~ FORGET-ME-NOT DAY r TO-DAY FOR AID OF INJURED SOLDIERS Your Purchase of a Flower ‘Will Help Some Disabled Veteran to . a Happier Christmas Day. Buy a forget-me-not to-day, The disabled yeterans of the World War who have appointed the day 4s Porget-Me-Not Day, appeal to the generosity of the public to re- member the service men who, ‘hough disabled, are patiently atriving to win thelr way to indus- aa! fitness in some line of en- | deavor which will earn an honest Uving. Those who would observe the Any are asked to buy the flower samembrance and to pay some- ery than it cost to give ¢ ler heroes of the ap- | pale Aricice of war a Happy ) ii mas, ene budget, preventing the exportation of| German capital and measures to ob- tain foreign exchange from German} holders. } —=e U.S. TO BE ADVISED OF ANY PLAN MADE FOR REPARATIONS Lloyd George Has a Eutopean| Solution and One Involy- ing America. | mission's suggestions for balancing the | to | Motion for Ratification Be Made Monday With Full Publicity. DUBLIN, Dec. 17 (Associated Press),—Final decision on the Irish peace treaty by the Dall Erteana can be expected on Wednesday, but not LONDON, Dec. 17.—While the con-| before, according to information o»- ieee FOE SEDE Manges yetween tained from authoritative Sinn Fein George 1s potentially capable of de- veloping the most Important decisions for European economic reconstruction, | 4t was learned last night that it is/ feared that the best the British Pre- mier will be able to arrange will be al temporary stopgap scheme, because’) * America is not yet ready to co-op-| final action on Wednesday. erate. There is a distinct possibility,’ According to reports in circulation however, that Lloyd George may} to.qay, every member of the Dail will elaborate two schemes to Briand— the first based purely on Allled and European arrangements, and the sec- ond and more comprehensive one in-| these were expected to be confined volving American participation. |to a few words of explanation, but But whatever is decided or agreed circles, Debate on the motion to allow full publicity to the views of the con- flicting sections of opinion in the Dail will, it is thought. occupy the essions Monday and Tuesday, with | make a speech at next week's public session to justify his vote, Many of the main speeches for and against the upon for recommendation to the 5 ‘ eaty are likely to be of considerab: Allied and Eyropean Governments,| Heed % the American Government will be) “a1 members of the Dail assembled promptly informed officially of the| |. 4. for continuance of the secret roauite of Sie conférence, | sessions of the last three days, What In reply to the probable French de-! ing occured at these sessions is con- mand that German industry should] jectural, but it ts assumed, in view of come to its Government's aid in ful-|14_ announced forthcoming public filing the present reparation agree-| session, that some tentative pro- ment, there 1s the answer given to the| gramme at least must have been British Government by both Stinnes agreed upon, the final detalls of which ond Rathenau that as soon as the Al-| remain to be worked out. les recast the taresensnt We form The crowd ptrmitted Eamon J. which the allied non-political gnancial |, T"® Advisers agree ts sound, they will co-|Dvgs4n, one of the signers of the operate to the fullest extent necessary. | peace agreement, to pass in unnoticed. inane Seciaae ly | Michael Collins, arriving in an auto- RACING RESULTS. | mobile, got a slight cheer, Eamon De |Vulera, who up accompanied NEW ORLEANS WINNERS. | FIRST RACE—Five and one-half fur-|(ng the fight against ratification of by Erskine Childers, reported as lead- longs.—-Vooger! to 6 and 1 ‘the treaty, was warmly received. won Little Polly. # to 1, second ; ng the Dail meeting this moim- chambeau third: ‘Time, 1.15 2-5. ‘3 wapaper men, w! - starters, Fusee, Clinchiteld, Fred Kine (Nf the newspaper mem wio pre ney, Bartered, Oo La La and Midnight viously had been permitted to remain Stories | im the corridors of the building, were {Continued on Fourth Page.) | den FLEE WITH 4,200 Witnessing Daring Hoboken Hold-Up, She Screamed for Help—Highwaymen Escape Six armed men to-fay held up two representatives of Springmeyer, Patt- ber & Co., leather merchants of Ho- boken, on one of the busy streets of that olty and stole from them the week's payroll, amounting to $4,200. They got away in a motor car, which they afterward abandoned. ‘The two vietims later identified two pictures In the Hoboken “Rogues’ Gallery" as likenesses of members of the hold-up] transferred him party. Cornelius Donker, bookkeeper for the firm, accompanied by Charles left the Ho- boken Trust Company a little after 10 o'clock with the payroll in a leather bag. Donker walked ahead, carrying the bag. Kaiser was about ten feet behind him. ‘They had reached Bleventh and Gar- Streets, about four blocks from the leather plant, when the six armed men sprang upon them. Kaiser said afterward that they seemed to come from the sky, Three, with drawn pis- tols, fell on Donker, knocked him down and grabbed the money bag. The other three put their guns against Kaiser's body and backed him igainat the wall of a grocery store on the corner At the instant of the hold-up a small touring car ran to the curb almost alonside the party and the three men who had taken the bag made a run for it. As they did so there was a screari from a woman which startled them. Margaret Marlow, a servant tn tho house at No, 1036 Garden Street, had seen the hold-up and cried out for help, One of the robbers turned and called for her to “Shut up, or you'll go to heaven!” To emphasize Kaiser, an employee, (Continhed on Fourth Page.) WALL ST. BOMB MYSTERY CLEARED, BURNS SAYS: ‘OTHER N. Y. PLOTS LAID TO MAN SEIZED ABROAD CRAZED MANKILLS. BOMB SUSPECT: HELD IN POLAND LABOR UNION RADICAL HERE OLICEMAN, TURNS PISTOL ON WOMEN Fires Fifty Shots in Chas Through Long Branch Business Centre. SHOPPERS IN TUMULT. Prisoner Saved From Mcb Crying “Lynch Him!’—Be- lieved Shell Shock Victim. LONG BRANCH, N. J,, Dec. 11.- Patrolman Herman A. Emmons was shot and killed to-day while on duty Broadway and Third Avenue, Ernest Williams, a negro, believed to at by have been crazed as a result of ahell shock during the war, The shooting was in the heart of the Long Rranct: business district with many women shoppers nearby. Willlams Reloaded his revolver and fled, firing at hie pursuers, and was captured after making a stand in the rear yard of a house in Second Ave- nue. He fired more than fifty shots. According to witnesses, Williams approached the patrolman, and, when twenty fect away, drew the revolver and fired four times. One bullet pierced Emmons’s throat and an- other entered his chest. As the policeman fell women screamed and ran into the stores. Williams, with the revolver drawn, pointed it at men nearest him and retreated up the street. A crowd gathered, some rushing to Emmons. Williams fired two more shots and then began reloading. All along the street as the negro seed, women fled into doorways. Then Patrolmen Ducloand De Santis urrived und, with revolvers draw dashed for the negro. He fled. turn- tug at intervals to fire at the pur- suers, ‘He bucked into the yard of a house in Second Avenue, where he took his stund and blazed away as @1e crowd closed tn, The officers returned the fir but Because of his concealment could not hit him, ‘The house and yard were sur- rounded by a crowd that yelled and waited for an opportunity to close in on the man, Women and children fled, terror-stricken, When tho negro’s supply of car- tridges was exhausted, Duclo and De Santis dashed over a fence upon him, The crowd tried to ke the negro from them, shouting, “Lynch him! Williams was badly mauled before the polleemen could get him to the City Hall Police Station, Later they to the county jail at Freehold for safety. Emmons died on the way to Mon- mouth Hospital. He was married. The police jeurned that several at- tempts had been made recently have Williams committed to an asylum as h!a neighbors said he had been acting queerly. BIGGEST ZEPPELIN TO BE BUILT BY GERMANY FOR U. S. PARIS, Dec. 17 (Associated Press).—The Council of Ambus- sadors has granted permission to the United States to contract ror the construction at Friedri¢hs- hafen, Germany, of a Zeppelin of the L-70 type. Thils decision marks the end of diplomatic negotiations which* have pro- ceeded since July. The United States based its application on the ground that it was entitled to another airship under Germany's — reparations agreement. ‘The new airship to be built for the United States by Germany will be the largest Zeppelin in the world, {t 18 said, and will Ay across the Atlantic when oom- pleted. to WALL ST. BONB [MYSTERY CLEARED DECLARES BUNS Sa Lindenfeld Is Only | Known Man Who Knows | All About Explosion. Sent Abroad to Get Informa- tion That Would Lead te Seizure of Others in Plot WASHINGTON, Dec, 17 (Assocl- ated Preas).—The arrest in Warsaw of Wolfe Lindenfeld will clearup the ‘entire mystery of the Wall Street ex- plosion of Sept. 16, 1920, !t was stated positively to-day by William J. Burns, head of the Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation, Lindenfeld, whore arrest was re- ported to the department by the As- sociated Press, was described by Mr. Burns as the key to the solution of the mystery and “the only man that we know in the world that knows all about i." Mr, Burne declared that Lindenfeld himself was not {mplics.ted In the ex- plosion, one of the worst tragedies In the history of New York, but was ko close to tie radical elements who were Its perpetrators that he knew all about it. The Third Interna- tionale was the moving spirit behind the plot. Radicals in Europe as well as in the United States, Mr. Burns asserted, were under ‘surveillance by the de- partment for suspected connection with the explosion, and if the informa- tion to be obtaincd from Lindenfeld proves to De as expected arrests are in immediate prospec: Lindenfeld, according to Mr. Burns, went abroad originally on behalf of the J... tice Department to obtainsin- formation which would lead to the arrest of those responsible for the explosion, When .» reports were re- ceived from him, Mr. Burns said, Stl- vester Cosgrove, one of the depart- ment's agents, was sent over to find out why Lindenfeld was not sending the information promised. and the ar- rest foltowe J. LENIN'S REPRESENTATIVE WHILE IN UNITED STATES, Lindenfeld, Mr. Burns explained, was the representative in New York before his departure for abroad of radical Polish papers and also was one of the representatives In America Lenin and the Third Interna- tionale, He was recommended to the Burns Detective Agency as the man who knew most about the Wall Street explosion, Mr, Burns declared, adding that careful check had borne this out. “Lindenfeld,” of said Mr. Burns, (Continued on Second Page.) HARDING TO HANG STOCKING AT HOME; | PLANS QUIET XMAS | White Hause Plans Call For No \ | Activities Except Probable | Qhurch Attendance. WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 A quiet Christmas in thh White House will be observed by the Presi- dent and Mrs, Harding unless present | plans are changed by unexpected de- velopments, It was announced that the President woyld hang up his stock- ing “at home” and, with the possible exception of attending church, noth: jing would break the quietudo of the | holiday Doubts of Lindenfeld’s Honesty Caused ‘His Arrest in Warsaw Two Months Ago—Known Here As Always on Both Sides in Fac- tional Quarrels. Reported to Be Violence Director of One of the Radical Organizations —Was Host at Farewell Dinner to Trotzky—Was Charged With “Double Crossing.” The United Statesi authorities have been in possession of most of the information contained in the published sketch of the confession of Wolfe Lindenfeld, arrested in Warsaw and said to have confessed his part in the Wall Street bomb explosion, for at léast four ...onths. Line denfeld left this country in the employ of the Government about#%jpc time, although previous experiences with him had created serious doubts as to his trustworthiness, ( Renewed doubts as to his honesty caused the United States to bring about his arrest in Warsaw two months ago on a technical charge. Syl vester Cosgrove was then sent over to Warsaw to “find out what sort of a game Lindenfeld was playing.” _ = The giving out of the story of bis confesion as though it were new-made STORY OF SOLVING in Warsaw is not understood by the authorities here, but Is believed likely to be due to the machinations of Dr. Paul Altendorf, a former Amari+ BOMB MYSTERY TOLD BY AGENTS With All Europe as Field, Operatives Traced Sus- pects to Warsaw. WARSAW, Dec. 17 (Ansociated Press).—Plots and counter plots, reading like a chapter from fictton, were involved in the searoh for clues in many parts of Europe by Amertcan Secret Service agents which resulted in the arrest here yesterday of Wolfe Lindenfeld, alias Willlam Linde, tn connection with the Wall Street bomb explosion in New York In September, 1920, Lindenfeld nas fully confessed, the authorities say, naming the ring- leaders in the plot, which Is declared was ulmed at J, P. Morgan, the in- fernal machine exploding prema- turely. | According to Syivester Cosgrove ana Paul Altendorf, who tratled Linden- feld, tho suspect has named five prim- cipals in the plot, now in Europe, who received $3,000 from the Moscow Third Internationale through New York Communists, Lindenfeld has declared his willingness to return to New York as soon as possible and turn State's evidence, The Poltsh authorities say he was exposed in 1906 as a Russian secret agent and fied to America at that time, return- ing to Europe Jast spring. ‘Altendorf came to Europe in Feb- ruary last, while Lindenfeld came over in March, During the summer Altendorf, living in various Commun- istic centres, obtained a clue which {ted nim to seek Lindenfeld’s acc saint- | ance. AS a result, Cosgrove arrived in Warsaw two months ago, posing as ving connections with Communtst groups in America, and was intro- |duced to Lindenfeld by Altendort, After establishing his acquaintance, Cosgrove suggested to Lindenfeld » scheme wheroby, by giving Inforn (ca faued & can spy of foreign birth, with whom the secret service have had exasper- ating experiences, Lindenfeld was active in the Rus- sian revolution of 1906. He was ban- Ished to Siberia, He escaped and in 1912 his arrival in this country was disclosed by his activities in radical industrial movements, He was chief bomb setter and violence director of one of the most radical industrial crmanizations, at least so he has told Government agents. Wherever the headquarters of a union hostile to Lin- dcnfeld’s associates had been blown up there Lindenfeld was found to hava been recently. There was never evi- dence enough to fasten a crime upon him. The organizations in which Ke was nctive were finally expelled trom theif international unions as being more deyoted to anarchy than to the best interests of labor, “In justi to the Housewreckers’ Unton, it {8 proper for The Evening World to say here that it was not the body to which Lindenfeld re- ferred, though members of that or- ganization have close family and fraternal connections with other radical unions which he Implicated, Lindenfeld became friendly with Leon Trotzky when Trotzky wag in Chicago. When Trotzky started for Russia to join in overthrowing the Czar's Government, Lindenfeld was his host at dinner and throughout radical ircles predicted Troteky would within a few months “become the ruler of Russia.” After the war, when he knew he was under constant observation, he voluntarily offered to become a “stool pigeon” among radicals. When sev- eral of the men sought by the De- partment of Justice on Lindenfeld’s information disappeared almont at the moment fixed for their arrest, Linder - felad camc under suspicion and was dropped temporarily, After the Wall Strect explosion lie appeared ugain. Some of his imfor- mation dovetailed exactly with tha, best Information the Goverament hid about the great bomb plot. Lindenfold said the exp!osion wos perpetrated by a band of anarchis*s, organized in an industrial body which the majority of the member: wero Ital < sponsible 4 js neat ~ ae Teena > a; |