The evening world. Newspaper, December 17, 1921, Page 2

4 ' i we Which followed the civil war between ‘Unions ten years ago. Lindenfeld was sent to Moscow to Hie in wait at the conventions of the ‘Thint Internationale for members of the bomb conspiracy and other rad- foals, who he said had fied to Ku- Tope and sure to appear at the con- ferences. He was to point them out (he said he did not known them by fame), to United States agents in Russia, These agents reported back that Lindenfeld was “double cross- ing them,” scaring away men who beemed to the agents to be the real criminals they were after by Joint- ing out, men who afterwards proved themselves inno. : Lindenfeld was then lured to War- 6aw and arrested by the Polish Gov- ernment at the suggestion of United States agents because his passports represented him a# an American citigen whereas he was not. Coagrove ‘Was then sent to see him. Dr. Alten- orf, who was supposed to be in Ger- many, apparently turned up in War+ Baw at about the time f Cagrve's ar- rival, Independently of the Government vestigation of the bomb plot an un-+ remitting search for clues has been made by the Burts Agency, with Allva ©. Meyers in charge of tts activities mong radicals. Mr. Myers said to- Gay he had heard of Lindenfeld but had not attempted to keep track of his movements, knowing that Wash- ington was fully informed regarding him, Because William J. Burts, founder of the agency, Is now the Chilet of the Department of Justice, Mr, Myers said, the private agency muade it a particular point to keep clear of Government operations, and he had no information regarding the news from Warsaw. Cmmenting o nthe narrative above which is based on knowledge of gov- ) Srmment activities ocbnnectea with Lindenfeld's errand abroad, a well in- formed New York police official said; “It te entirely possible that Linden. feld, who is as clever they make ‘om; hae ‘put ne over on the govern- ment.’ In the nine years I havo know him that has been his busines: ~putting things over for personal proft, “Lindenfeld is in thd raiddle thir- ties, strikingly handsoine with at- tractive manners and great plausipil- ity. He speaks seven languages ana all of them weil, eed to live on Second Avenue near 19th Street. ‘There is no positive reourd here that he ever engaged in any industrial ex- plosion plots—though he was oon- etantly under suspicicn. Along Second Avenue and ‘n partir encialist meet- ings which he wss fond of frequent- ing, he was a great preacher of the "peaceful social revulution through education.” r KEPT HIS MEMBERSHIP IN “VIGLENT WING.” “Nevertheless, in tis union afMila- tions whenever there was a split be- twen the radicals and the benevolent .jwalists, he always retained his meniberahip with tho violent wing. He invariably got himself appointc? on the picketing committee or “enter- tainment committee” of any orgact. zation on strike against employers or another union. 1 “Whenever there was an oppor- tunity to make money out of his professed ‘beliefs, Lindenfeld was there with his ears wagging, He made @ lot of money out of the war, I might have guessed he would turn Up in the Wall Street investigation with some $150,000 rewards out, and the Government, and Burns and other agencies on the trail with un- - limited money to spend. When he , disappeared last summer I assumed he had found money—but I don't | guess he got a trip to Europe on a United States expense account. “But right there ie an inconslat- » @ney which Is rather amusin, anarchist works for money. works for the love of ‘The Cau No true anarchist would consider an | offer of $80,000 to set a bomb. Ho Would at once become suspicioun, knowing that no such offer would be made by one sincere member of ‘The Cause’ to another.” Sherman Burns, son of William J. ‘Burns and now head of the agenoy, said that all of the agency's informa- tion had aout Lindenfeld, of whom he personally thou, xt little, was turn- ed over to the government when his father went to Washington and Cos- grove was transferred to the govern- ment to keep track of the man, GEGAN KNOWS NOTHING oF MAN UND! ARREST. Dectective Sergt. Thomas Gegan, head of the Bomb Squad who has been continously at work on the Wal) Street explosion, said to-day he knew nothing of Wolfe Lindenfeld. If the arrest and published oonfession of the man were made public in good faith, he said, he regretted the police department had not been confiden- tially notified in advance go the per- @ons named in the confession, if any , of them were in reach of the New “York police, might have been taken Into custody before they hal warn- ing. The department has scores of Prospect-suspects listed. Discrepancies from facts in the Published confession were regarded as interesting, even though not dis- crediting it altogether, ‘There are few availiable roosting places for an | Anarchist woman spy in “window: No He ’ i middle aged black moustached man for Mr, Morgan. The foreign lang- Unge newspapers and othera which appeal to radicals are not given to recording the movements of Mr. Mor- gan, Lamont, Dwight Ww. yeral other partners in an firm were in conference in Mr organ'’s own office on the second fioor directly in front of the Hroad Street entrauce of the bulld- ing whe the explosion occurred, They were ufinjured. Junius Spencer Morgan, Mt. Mor- gan's son, at his desk in the banking room below was cut slightly 4 broken iat, Henry’ P. Davison was out at the time, bu: Williams Joyce, young emvioyee of the Mor, Bae ey ‘gan firm, Silvester Co: with the Bur here and becai agent three Months ago fo when Burns Was made Chiet of the Bureau. ot Investigation. Paul Altendort of Justice Credential t In Mexico, but were later revoked. At one time he was turned back when he tried to cross from Mexioo, He Is a native of Poland, but claimed American citizenship, which was denied by the American Government. What is bclactrig ht Bed the. New York police is the fallure to furnish them Pepe yf with the names of ons Lindenfeld says were implicated with him, as the Depart- ment has a long list of known radi- cals with their addresses.and haunts and might have landed valuable pra. oners or evidence. Now plott who were at large will “ake to ‘cover, it Is feared, as @ result of the wide spread publication that their games have been revenied. Fully a score of made in the Wal formerly rresta have been je several times that the name of the driver of the bomb wagon is known. All of the so-called “identifications” of various suspects fell down and no one was ever con- victed for complicity in the outrage. There w. reat commation tn the coffee houses of Second Avenue to- day when Lindenfeld's story was published, Linde, as Lindenfeld was known there, member of the 6th A. D, Sodialiset organisation, but was regarded with the titmost suspi- cion ey. its officers, He protested to them that he was entirely opposed to the Communists and tho Left Wing advocates of violenoe, but they doubted him. He cultivated the acquaintance of Samuel Gompers, Judge Panken and MISTAKEN SIGNAL CAUSED SHIP CRASH INJURING SEVEN Destroyer Nearly Cut in Halt by Panama Liner, Examina- tion at Navy Yard Shows, MEMBER OF CREW DYING Valor of Sailors Highly Praised by’ Passengers of Coastwise Vessel. The U. S&. Destroyer Graham, dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Ya‘ seven of her crew ate in the Naval Hospital, one believed to be dying, and the steamship Panama, of the Panama Railroad line, which cut a big hole in the Graham at dusk Fri- day, 6 miles off Manasquan, N, J, ia ted up at the foot of West 27th Street, not badly damaged, The most generally accepted theory to the cause of the collision, for which no official explanation has yet been made pubilc by the officers of either ship, is that signals were either given wrong or else misinter- preted. All accounts agree that the con- duct of the officers and crewa on both ships after the accident was gallant afd worthy of the best tra- ditions of the sea and the navy. The injured men are: KELLY, W. D., nineteen years old, seaman; jammed against deck house and suffered concussion of brain, burns and possible fracture of skull; condition critical, Algernon Loe on’ this side of his ao tivities but was not cordially re- celved, He was always suspected of being an agent of a ‘capitalistic de- teotive agency” on Second Avenue, where no other explanation of his supply of wralable funds, without About r ago he got Into dim- eultien with, “hie wife, for whom and his two children, according to her Re Sisapod hed \ ped no provision when hereo "Ae Ar Arronney Aas THE I. M. els a ida with of- fices in the Knickerbocker Building, 42d Street and Broadway, said to-day he had acted ‘as attorney for Linden- feld from time to time since 1914. At that time Lindenfeld was editor and ge eral ASR EG of the Tribune olaka, for which Mr. jackin was counsel. Under Lindenfeld's management the periodical became so well thought of by Government officials that tt r’ ceived a license to dispense with { nishing English translations of dts articles in Polish during the war. Lindenfeld was arrested for felon- ious assault in Mr. Sackin sald, bus was discharged much to his law- ye pparent surprise, In 1920, Lin. denfeld was put into Ludlwo Street jail on @ body attachment for the fraudulent obtaining: money, of though Mr. Sockin said he was not of counse) in that instance, Lnden- feld lived until about a year ago at No. 248 Bast 18th Street, Mr. Mackin said, but after leaving al wife and children moved to No. 223 East 19th Street and from here mocod to the Hote ts werlal, le called me on the'telephone in Apri of this year," sald Mr. Sackin, “uslt y an assumed name. He said he ws talking from tie Hotel Albert. He wanted me to take up a divorce action for him, Thave not heard from hi “Linde is a very vain follow,” added Mr, Sackin. “He loves notoriety and the reputation of be!ng an adventurer, He was a tremendous spender, bul in all our relations as lawyer and cellent I could never get an explana- tion of his apparent prosperity. He said he wae the agent of a syndicat> of Polish newspapers -but there was no such syndicate able to keep him in the funds he flourisled." ‘The arrest of tne conspirators, now said to be scattered throughout several countries of the world, has been ordered, he Indicated. piddcaaliicinP” Netbeans PIEL BROS. BRING SUIT TO END ANTI-BEER LAW Application aguinat the Federal authorities to pre- vent them from Interfering with the for an | injunction manufacture and sale of beer for medicinal purposes was filed to-day by Piel Bros, brewers of Kast New York, in the U. 8, District Court of Brooklyn. Argument will be heard by Judge Garvin next Wednesday, ‘The defendants named are Wallace H, J. Collins, U. #, Attorney; Ralph A. Day, State Prohibition Director, and John T, Rafferty, Internal Rey- enue Collector, The James Mverard Breweries al- ready brought a similar suit, me PRINCE OF WALES NOW TIGER HUNTING Rie Tour of 1 Has Gratitying Sacce DELHI, India, Dec, 17,—The Prince of Wales is enjoying the sport of tiger hunting while the guest of Maharaja Prove: overlooking Broad and Wall Btreets.” ‘The Bankers’ Trust Building, the United States Treasury and Assay + Office and the Morgan building win- jows are not regarded as posible ob- }. servation posts. No woman would the scaffolding around the Stock Ex- change annex ekcavation by the ‘watchmen, Mr. Morgan was in Scotland. Even ) when in New York he had his lunch _ @ons in the dining room, with his ba Ot course tives watd, wou, »/ ave been allowed for a moment on| jb Sir Chandra Jung of Nepal. It 18 estimated that, alnce landing at Bombay for hie tour of India. the ‘nce haa traveled by rall approximate: fy 2,800 mil ie travels he hi Deon grected by eight ruling princes Despite the rioting in Bombay and the Hartals in Ajmere, Lucknow, All habed and Bi au SMITH, RAYMOND A., twenty- two, fireman; bruised and cut. THOMPSON, F. W,, twenty-five, water tender; right leg injured. WRIGHT, J. T., nineteen, fireman; lacerations, ROGERS, JAMS B,, twenty-one, seaman; lacerations, RHED, F. A, twenty-three, man; lacerations. MBGGISON, BENJAMIN, nineteen, seaman; lacerations, Kelly, who was on deck forward was burned by escaping steam, as well as struck on the head, and It is bel'sved he will die. The ninety members of the Graham's crew and thitty seamen belrig trans- fered to Charleston we: taken yoard the Panama and fifty of them inded with the wounded in Brouklyn from the Despatch. All the officars remained on the Graham, Jack Price, a World photographer, came in on the Graham after tho Bea- ‘sin q THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1921. Was put across—for we were keeping | our bow wedged in the opening of | the destroyer—and the injured were brought over. One of the Panama's passengers | was a newspaper woman, Mrs. Hel- ena Hill Weed, She sald she was in her dressing room getting ready for | dinner when she heard the sirens. When she got to the deck she saw the Graham locked against the Panama, “The women," sho sald, “were calmer than the men, I saw one man running about with a baby in his arms shouting, ‘We are sinking.’ ” A navy aviator, whosaid his name must not be used, was a Panama passenger. He sald it was a case of, mistaken signals, that both ships should have turned starboard, but that the Graham tried to cross the bow of the Panama, The extent of the damage to the destroyer has not been learned, When she was floated into the dry dock it waa found that a list of 30 degrees would have to be corrected before the water could be pumped out, leaving her on the blocks. This would take several hours. crash, He sald the destroyer was cut more than half-way through the mid- dle and would undoubtedly have brok- en in two but for the use of a grent quantity of wire in “sewing” the gap- ing wound together. He declared that the thirty men who stayed with the verse! were almost exhausted by their tiforts, especially ot the pumps, and thot they all wore life belts constantly, fot knowing at what moment it might become necemary o jump, The men pumped 40,000 gallons of fuel oil out of the destroyer to help keep hor afloat as she was being towed in.- Capt. William B. Oakley of tho Panama said his firat report must bo made to officers of the line, and Capt. W. F. Amaden of the destroyer is for- bidden by navy regulations to discuss the cause except in his report to tig Navy Department. It was learned, however, that the destroyer was on her course, going 16 knots, The Panama was on the destroyer's starboard bow when 30 is declared to have signaled a turn to starboard, Men on the destroyer say the Panama made almost a haif circle in turning. Capt, Amsden of the destroyer signalled full speod astern, The Panama come down dingonally from the rear, “The tmpact,” said Knsign Louin GC. Rochemont, deck oMcer of-the de- stroyer, “was terrific, Everybody on the bridge was thrown in a heap, and I don't believe there was a mi on board who kept hia feet, The alarm was given as usual, directing the men to collision quarters, The water- tight doors were closed, Everybody worked an |f automatically. ‘There was no confusion, “When tho injured had ben taken off to the Panama, it was decided to keep a working crew on board, fif- teen men from the deck department, fifteen from the engineering fo Volunteers? Everybody volunteered and the men not needed had to be ordered off to the Panama,’ The best account obtained from the Panama ufter she had docked to-day was given by one of the passengers, S. Whetton, No, 301 Macon street, Brooklyn, “I was on the top deck, midships, starboard,” he sald, “I saw the green starboard light of the Graham and then heard one blast from the Pan- ama and I ran forward as we turned to the starboard, The Graham turned into our path and we camo together, “The jar was very slight. Some of the passengers say they did not feel as the evente’ on. hia” ronramme havi been ndoned or ‘as - NEW YORK SALESMAN # NEW ORLBAN ‘EW Freer; ‘ANS, Dee, 17.—-Robert Gary, Ne wYork ; het and i filam in, his pa at 4 otel "here, ‘Police and aches can aenign no move . = it at all. The captain ordered every- body to the lifeboate and the men helped put life preservers on the women and children, of whom there She was hit abaft the bridge be- tween the first a. i second smoke- stacks and cut through to the for- ward fire room. The gash at the water line is ten or twelve feet wide and is believed to dip clear down to the keel. There is a holo in the su- berstructure also, believed to have been ‘caused by striking the anchor of the Panama, This is further indi- cated by the fact that the Panama's anchor shaft was found to be bent saieeanrtidiacieeas TRIED TWICE TO SHOOT POLICEMAN IN SUBWAY Women Faint When Bullets Fly at 50th Street Station, Reginald Green, musician, twenty years old, of No. 2257 Seventh Ave- nue, was"to-day held in $5,000 bail in Yorkville Court charged with f nious assault, and in $500 bail for violation of the Sullivan law. He will be examined Wednesday. His arrest followed two attempts on his part to shoot Patrolman Luni- wan, of the Special Service Division, ou the subway platform at 69ta Street and Lexington Avenue last night when Lonigah was trying to arrest him for disorderly conduct, The first time he levelled the pistol at Lonigan the latter etruok It asiide with bis hand and the bullet strack the floor, Green fired again and hit an iron pillar, After that Lonigun drew his revolver but was afrail to fire, owing to the crowd, He caught Green oh the stairway and soon sub- ducd him, In the excitement two women fainted and thore was a gen eral rush for cover, a STOWAWAYS CAUGHT ONLY TO ESCAPE AGAIN Two of Ten eke in Brig Are Misning om Ship. Two hundred members of the Ital- ian steamship Palermo, of the N, G 1, Line, and twenty-five private de- tectives searched the vessel to-day tor two stowaways which, if they escape the hunters will cost the line $1,000 apiece. ‘Ten stowaways were discovered among fhe 1,148 steerage passengers and dragged to light just before the Palermo, in from Genoa and Naples, got to quarantine last evening. They were put in the brig all ready to be turned over to the Immigration offi- clals when the vessel should get to her pier. But in the night the ten broke out of confinement and only eight were captured this morning. a os LORD RIDDELL TO SAIL THURS- Were forty-two. But in less than flye minutes we were assured that were quite safe and that it wa destroyer that needed help, we| forelan preas representatives during the the | Progress DAY. WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (Associated From) Lord Riddell, who has bven rving as a liaison officer between thy Wrilish ‘delegation and. American and ; ‘esa Luxemburg. name of William Linde in this coun-| Destroyer Rammed in Crash And Two Members of Its Crew “WALL ST. BOMB MYSTERY CLEARED, DECLARES BURNS (Continued From First Page.) the only man that we know in the world that knows all about it.” For this reason, Mr, Burns contin- ued, Lindenfeld waa sent cbroad to get the necessary information to on- able the arrest of the participants in the bomb plot and was to have re- ceived the $50,000 reward for thtse disclosures. He was described by Mr. Burns as a highly educated and intellectual man of pronounced radi- cal tendencies, although he did not himself advocate violent measures. He Is about thirty-six years old and has a wife and two children now in New York, and is a half-brother of Ho went by the try, Mr. Burns added, had taken out his first citizenship papers, and an effort was made to obtain his socend papers for him before he went abroad. He is a Pole by birth, Mr, Burns continued, and his relatives are now in Warsaw. He, himself, was forced to leave Russia in 1906 be- cause of his radical connections. Mr, Burns said that evidence had been gathered by the Burns Detec- tive Agency which checks up with information known to be in the hands of Lindenfeld and that the data in the hands of the agency had been turned over to the Government, whicn had been working on the Lindenfeld arrest in Warsaw in ¢0-operation with the Polish Government and State Department through the Ame ican Embassy there. Mr, Burns expressed himself us confident that the mystery of thu Wall Street explosion would be un- ravelled 8 a result of Lindenfeld's arrest and declared that radicals of the Communist Third Internationale would be found as responsible for tne crime. CORGR SVE. SENT OVER TO AR- REST LINDENFELD, Paul Altendorf, who with Cosgrove trailed Lindenfeld and obtained in- formation from him as to the ex- plosion, was said by the Bureau of Investigation chief to be a Burns Agency man who had been sent abroad first upon inforniation sup- piled by Lindenfeld, but Nad been unable to make sufficient progress himself, so that Lindenfeld had been aary for a roundup of the suspects Upon Lindenfeld's failure to report, he ndded, Coagrove wan sent over to arrest him Cosgrove's cabled report to the de- partment had pot pen received when Mr. Burns left Washington at 1 o'clock for New York, Arrange- ments have been made with the tate Department to transmit tt to the Justice Department immediately upon its receipt, and its contents will be communicated to him In New York aeeiipascecee: 1 826 RIOTERS KILLED IN INDIA SINCE AUGUST 5.474 Moplahs Captared and 14,241 Surrendered, Omel: DBLHI, India, Dee. 16 (Associnted Press),— Official announcement was made to-day that since the outbreak of disturbances in Malabar last August 1,500 The nouncement added NTH nave ours rende! ‘voluntat MAN AND WEPE DEAD FROM GAS, Jacob Franklin, forty-four years old, and his wife, Bessie, aged forty-two, were found dead in bed to-day in their room in the flat at No. 460 Grand Street, which they occupied with their married daughter, Giasie Moscowits. t and nee ie were hanging on a ga the cock of which was helf open. et, f the Arms Conference, bai arranged to sail from New York Thurs A ladder] day on the steamer Orbiia, t was apparent thet In so disposiny art of hie clothing he had turnes nent over to gather the details neces- | Franklin's fy as. e lice report the case ry statement issued (0-day pn abelaent. County Attorney Modges. HUGHES SUGGESTS WEEKS URGES DRAFT FOR ALL 0-31. RATIOFOR ~ FRANCE AND ITALY French Delegate A Asks Thic) Secrecy Ban on Naval | Committeé Be Lifted. | WASHINGTON, Sept. 17,—Secre- | tary Hughes has told the French that a ratio of §-5-8-1.7-1.7 would, be considered adequate for France. | This would give France and Italy| a capital ship tonnage of around 1 198,000, as compared to a replace-| |ment tonnage of 000 for America, jand Great Britain and of 825.000 for, Japan, | The Naval Committee of Fit-} teen of the Arms Conference resumed ; consideration to-day of the French and Italian naval ratio problem. M. Sarraut, head of the French delega- tion, intimated that France would seek to have the secrecy ban of the com. | mittee lifted In order ihat a correct | { view of the position taken by her wel | | gation on naval strength might jeiven to the public, ae only aaewiE| edge of the French ten-ship plan thus | | far has come from British scutes and} was made known prior to the oom-) mittee’s action in adopting the secrecy } | rule. ‘Marshal Foch's report of the very | friendly feeling shown toward him by | | the Américan people everywhere will, | It In belleved, have a bearing in final | determination of the French Govern- | ment to shape its course in naval mat- ters along the same lines as Great | Britain, the United States and Japan! have agreed to do in the three-power | naval understanding. | | Before adjournment’ to-day the! |}rench delegation head gave a for- mal presentation of the French point | jof view on naval reducation, which | | will be amplified at Monday's seanion. | Chairman Hughes, speaking after M. farraut, wae’ understood to have understood to have taken a moderate | view and spoke appreciatively at one point of the part played by France In the World War. ‘STORY OF SOLVING . BOMB MYSTERY TOLD BY AGENTS } (Continued From First Page.) tion in regard to the Wall Street plosion, he would receive a large| share of the rewards offered for the| est of the plotters, without risk to! hiniself. i Throughout these operations by the | American secret service man Polish operatives shadowed Lindenfeld, and| the Poles claim that, while Lindenfeld | was pretending to play into Comgrove's hands, he was et the same time “dou- ble-crossing” the Americans, Clues developed while trailing Lin- denfeld led the Polish agents to arrest 4 number of Communists who are fleged to be spies working against tne interests of Joland. Beveral women | ure involved in this alleged espionage | plot. ‘Khe confession, described by the American agents, terms the prema- ture explosion “a mechanical m take," tor which the bomb makers are blamed, Lindenteld estimating | that the bomb exploded from ten w furteen minutes before the intended time. ‘The plotters also accuse the driver of the wagon which brought the bomb to Wall Street of having cared in not leaving the wagon nearer | the Morgan office, Cosgrove and Altendorf estimate that Lindenfeld's confession covers more than ten thousand words, and assert that the details fit in with the mass of Other information in tbeir possession. Further portions of the confession referted to by Cosgrove show that Lindenfeld knew of the plans for more than a week prior to the explosion, but denies any actual part in the bombing preparations, He gives New York addresses of various individuals involved in the plot, most of whom have since left the country, and also gives a New York address where the Communists are alleged to have paid over the cash to the plotters. ——— NUN STRUCK BY AUTO | DIES IN AMBULANCE | sinter Aquinas Steps in Path of Car at Broadway and Gith Streqt. Sister Aquinas of St. Andrew's, on West 4ith Street, was struck at G4th Street and Broadway at 10.30 o'clock to-day by an automobile driven by Malcolm B. Rattray of No, 2682 Broadway, chauffeur for &. Asche of No, 226 West 97th Street. She died in an ambulance which was taking her to Roosevelt Hospital, Rattray had stopped at a signal of | Policeman Benes and when he started again Sister Aquinas, stepped off the curb in front of his car, Magistrate Levine held Rattray in $1,000 bail on | technical charge of homicide, > “ |suerion omsEN GBTSs 19GAcY| FROM BROTHER, ‘The will of David O'Brien, filed for probate to-day, leaves an estate of $33.- 500. One-fourth is willed to John P. O'Brien, Bound Brook, N. J., and one- fourth to Justice Morgan J. O'Brien of York, brothers, of, the deceased Pian, who died ‘Dec. 2. "The remainder Ir'to bo divided among relatives. iinet a Hari KU KIX KLAN ACCUSED OF THRED DEATHS. ARDMORE, Okla., Oec, 17.—The Ku Klux Klan was accused of being? in-| volved in the death of Joe Parne, Jonn mith of Wilson, Okla a, more policeman, wito! les were found near Wilson, It a by Assistant) tand ‘Truck No, to, 'rlek IN NEXT WAR AS WAY TO STOP PROFITEERING AND HIGH PAY Secretary Declares He Would -Assign Every Man Between 18 and 60 to Set Task and Use Money and Manufactures. WASHINGTON, D.C, Dep. 10.— Secretary of War Weeks isin favor | of the-mobilization of men, money and mautufacturies under a conserip-| tion law ! nthe event of future war. Such a course, the War Secretary declared In an address last night at the second annual reunton of the War Industries Board, would, preclude Profiteering and slacker t\sts, “1 would conscript every person in the United States from eighteen to ixty years of age, should wo future war prevall,” said Mr. Weeks, would say: ‘You are to do thus and 80, Becatise you can do that petter than anything else. You can fight, GAS TANK BURSTS " SENDING HUNDREDS INTO COUGHING HTS Masked Rescue Sq Squad Sto; Chlorine Clouds in Nassau Street Building. A barrage around the Vanderbilt Build- ing, No. 182 Nassau Street, at 9 o'clock this morning and sent the hundreds of occupants into severe and exhausting fits of coughing. The offending tank, which burst from some unknown cause, was in the | oftce in room 520 occupied by A, M. Matheson and the Lester Sisler Com- ;Pany, manufacturers of welding ap- | paratus. No one was in the office at the time. According to the firemen, the fumes from the liquid chlorine would have meant death to any one near the tank. Stenographers in neighboring of- fices .were so badly affected by the |fumes they were unable to take dic- tation, At 9.45, as the odor grew wo: call was sert in for Engine No. 32 No. 82 was nearly overcome then he a mpted to approach the gas- filled room and Battalion Chief Pat- Walsh callea for the Rescue Squad. The members of the squad protected by gas masks, soon brought! reltef to the office bi!!ting. Robert Mainzer, an honorary Deputy Fire Chief, was passing the building way to his office in Wall Street when a man dashed out crying “explosion! bomb!" Mr. Mainzer jumped out of his car and followed tho gas trail to its source, He broke down the door but was driven back by the fumes. He groped his way to the street and went home, The rescue squad found the sixty- pound gas tank in a small cardboard box ready to be shipped to Manila, The box was carried to the corner, where the crowds at Nassau and Beekman Street were driven half a block away. ‘The rescue squad responded to the call so quickly a small automobile attempting to get out of the way ran into a store window on Varick Street. > 340,260 NEGROES MOVE NORTH IN LAST DECADE as Bureau Gives To: Whe Have Migrated Since 1910, WASHINGTON, Dec, 17.—The total number of negtocs reported as born in Southern States and living in the North and West had increased from 440,584 in 1919 to 780,794 in 1920, the Census Bue reau announced to-day in a special re- port on negro migration based on re- cel turns of the last conaus. The southern boundaries of New | Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Til |nols, Missourl and Kansas were taken an the dividing line between the North and monte for the purposes of the re- port. ee Denies He Ordered Miners to Work, SPRINGFIBLD, Ill, Dee. 17, (Anso- ciated Press)—Striking miners of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company have not been ordered back to work and the United Mine Workers of America are “rendering all possible ald in opposing reduction of thelr wagds." International President John L, Lewis declared here rensetianeicaencenmeaicttte WHITE CHRISTMAS AND COLD SNAP, IS HOLIDAY FORECAST Weather Bureau Predicts Fall of | Sra Snow Extending Well Over a Week. WASHINGTON, Deg. 17. A white Christmas was fore- cast to-day for the northern half of the United States, east of the Miselasivpl. Cold weather will prevail all next week and snow will fall during the last half, extending well into the following week, the Weather Bureau stated Colder weather gvas forecast for jhe rest of the country, = a chlorine tank laid down a gas) Capt. Jireck of | in his automobile on the! jor you pacity, ih nan serve @ vupacity suited.’ Secretary Weeks deseribed the draft |4aw of the World as “a very great ‘ptece of legislation . carried on almost perfectly.” Conscription of: all men between eighteen and sixty years of age, he added, would keep down prices during | war, reduce profiteering to a min mum and prevent wages from reach jing untold heights. Had such course been followed in the last war, | he continued: “We would have ayoided difficulties through ‘which we are now going and with which we are not through yet." CHINA.TO PURCHASE SHANTUNG RAILWAY Japan Consents to Transfer and Payments Will Be by instalments. WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Japan has accepted China's proposal concerning the “method” by which she is to be pald for surrendering the Shantang Railway. She still refuses cash pay- ment, but she doe not Insist upon payment by a Japanese loan, and she jagrees, always sub, ct to Tokio’s ap- proval ,to accept payment on the in- staiment plan. As tentatively agreed upon, the chief points in the railway settlement are ihese: 1, China ts to reimburse Japan in return for Japan's surrender of her demand for “joint ccatrol.” 2% The sum which China pays ts 53,000,000 gold marks, plus an allow- ance for Japan’s improvements since Germany's day, minus an allowances for deterioration, 8. This sum is to be paid in annual instalments. China has proposed to pay the whole sum in two or three years; Japan wants payment spread out over a much longer period. It is this point which the two delegations are now debating. 4, Within. nine months after an agreement Japan is to turn over the railway to the Chinese Government, 6. Japan is to retain no measure of “control,” and what “financial inter- est” she retains Is to disappear with the payment of China’s last instal- ment. sacle meantinen GIANTS SWAP FOUR TO GET SHINNERS Cash Consideration, Too, in Deal for Great Outfielder of Indianapolis. Secretary James Tierney of the Giants to-day announced a trade by which the Giants will obtain Out- fielder Ralph Shinners of the India- | Napolis club. In exchange the Giants are swapping Outflelders Eddie Brown and Vernon Spencer and two players who have not yet been named. There is also a cash consideration entering into the deal the amount.of which has not been indicated. | _oShinners will probably fight it out for the regular berth left vacant by George Burns with Conningham. He is twenty-one years old, six feet tn height, weighing 190 pounds. Last season he stole more bases, it is sali than any player in any league. Ii the last three games: of the seagon he walloped five homers. He origt- nally came from Milwaukee. The Advisory Council of Organtied Baseball went into session at the Commodore to-day, Judge Kenesaw n some other ca- for which you are Mountain Landis presiding. DIED. 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