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B7 Hid lie opposed sending the triste tel- VOL. LXII. NO. 21,928—DAILY. Copyright (New Vablishing ¢ ee Circulation Boo. ks Open to Al. ompuny, NEW CHIEF OF STAFF TELLS DAIL ERIN HAS NO CHANCE IN WAR __-AND MUST ACCEPT TREATY Optimism ‘of Supporters Fades as Sentiment for Agreement Loses Ground, and Result of Vote Is Now Regarded as Highly Uncertain. % DUBLIN 22 (Associated Press).—The Dail Btreann this evening adjourned its sgssions until Jan. 3. Late in the day, tie Dail rejected by Dec. vote of 77 10 144 a motion to con: aken . and the vote vd against the y until a votes P the: tr tinue the debate oy the Anglodirish ‘tre: The motion visanated from the opponents relative strength Was regarded as roughly indicating the The opt sm Which the supporters of the treaty’ have-been displaying during the last wo days appeared somewhat diniinlshed, however, before the moruing session bad ended. When tae Dail adjourned for lunch, the impression seemed generally that eentinegt for the treaty bad lost some ground and that the result of the vote was highly uncertain. Hiebard Mileaty, Chief of Statt of - - the [risy Republican Army, created TREATY IN DANGER a stte when ho bezam bis speenii oy tying wobory? Wanted the treaty but san ny alternatty 1 Its acceptance. Mulealty’s si" was the feature! of defeat Ireland, he declared, | “but even to t we have secured powers for irish people that will] enabie th > to the full height | of their aspirations.” Considering the po ty of a re-) newal of warfare, the Chiet of Staff] suld ireland would enter it with little OF BOTH PARTS hope of success, because the milltary | BER abe RU iy ay to Four Power Pact Since Jeputy O'Kelly, Minister of kdu- ¥ ae. cation, speuking against the treaty, Mr. Harding’s Shift. By David Lawrence. egates to London when the negotic- | coe ee ee ring he bod’ (special Correspondent of The Eve- found the wholu Cabinet perineated | ning World.) by the counsels of "Cope of the) WwasHINGTON, Dec. 2% (Copyrigh’, Castle.” His reference was to A. W. 1921),—The majority of the Democrats Cope, Under Séeretary of the Ir! Office, who played & leading part in|i9 the United States Senate are op- instituting the peace negotiation: O'Kelly, iky Mi ‘of the four-power pact between the I Rep speech Olly declare! Unitea States, Great Britain, Japan e Irish Republic was far from deud. sald there would be a coatinuution th f; and France with respect to the islands of the Vacific. of the war i Ireland whether the! Cnet, Senator oscar Underwood, ueaty tified OF npjented. Democratic leader and member of tl:e O'Kelly sald, wmid protests, that the | american delegation which signed doulegates to London had set aside the treaty, has an opportunity to ex- their Instructions. Ho himself had] orega his views, thera will be no for been opposed from the outset to send- ing the delegates to London. Besides} ty the treaty were submitted to a having the whole Sinn’ vote to-day it would pass by a coni- Fein body politic permeated by the! fortable margin notwithstanding the vounsels of Cope be had found the | pemocratic opposition, as for the mo- commandants of the Republican Army) ment the Mne-up is hardly different “swaggering in company with the) trom that which developed when the enemies of the Irish people and tell-| jast treaty with Germany was rati- | mal opposition to pact. found ag the people they had assured | geq. veace. | The foregoing analysis of the sit- O'Kelly read in bitter tones the! yation comes from Democratic lead- vath of allegiance, inserting in it the name of J. J. Walsh, a well known tighter, who A supporter of the treaty, Walsh interrupted the speaker, asking; ‘Which oath are you reading?” O'Kelly proceeded to complain that Commandant McKeon had been placed in a false position by being asked to second the adoption of “this ere who have the highest respect and affection for Senator Underwood but Who insist that it was a mistake for him to sign a treaty phrased as am- biguously as they believe is the four- power pact. Opposition to the treaty was not very pronounced at the out- set. But the unmistakable fact ts thac | the developments of the last two days have been harmful to the treaty’s pro pects. The discovery that the treaty | included the mainiand of Japan, and | that the United States actually agreed |” secret session to an interpretation which covered the islands of Japan proper within the scope of the pact, has unquestionably turned the tde. President Harding's own misconcep- ton of what the treaty covered has | b-cn responsible for the turn in Demo- cratic yentiment and for a growing opposition among Republicans, Already there is talk of reserva- tions to “clarify,” but Senator Lodg 1s reported in Senate cloak rooms as having said that any reservations would “ruin the treaty.” The Demo- lcrats who are unalterably opposed to the pact even with reservations are bound to make the most of Sen- ator Lodge's attitude if this should prove to be his ultimate conclusion, \for {t was Mr. Lodge who ineisted upon « long series of reservations to the Versailles Treaty and contended (Continued on Eighth: Page.) (Continued on Second Page.) eS eee Sunday World Classified Advertisements Should Be in The World Office On or Before Friday Order Sunday World Classified Advertising To-Day. The World Great Growth of Opposition | posed at present- to the ratification | YORK, TH U RSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1921. Entered 9 2 WOMEN INVOLVED 800 FLEE FROM FIRE Bene VATIERSIN IN BOMB OUTRAGE, SAYS LINDENFELD Four Mer Also: Implicate Wall Street Explosion, He Declares ny FAMILY HEART-BROKEN Father, Frightened, Dout Fruth of Story ‘Vold by His Son. WARSAW, Dec. (United Press), Two women and four men plotted the Wall $ Ce Peet bomb explosion, Sylves ter Amerivan Depart serove, vf Justice agent, declared here to-day. The names of the plotters, who ar Now Leing sought by the police, were obtained, Cosgrove said, from Wolfe Lindenfeld, now belng held in jail ner util his starles car be veritied. Local authorities, however, are wary Lindenfeld’s story, which implicates x rmdicals and :naintains his own innocence. A personal investigation of Linden foll’s past activities -cmd—oreputation revealed that he is known us 4 “wind- | immer.” He admits he bas lied sev- | al times to the police and he changes his story every day. A personal] d of his declared every one around | home cailed him “Windy Bill,” cause he bragged about himself so inuch. i “L think ho is merely bragging,’ onc| of Lindenfeld’s friends why know lim in New York said. Lindenfeld's younger his father were brokenhearted. were at first reticent to talk Lin |denfeld, believing the United Press |correspondent was a spy. They were ‘extremely frightened, but finally told the following details of Lindenteld’s life up to the present time: “William was never involved in the Russian revolution,” the aged father said. “I can bring hundreds of wit- nesses to testify that he worked as }a woodoutter with me during that time in the mountains, William returned to Poland sud- denly* after a long visit to America, He had little money. Soon he was without funds and began borrowing money from his friends and \his | brother. One day ho received a letter in forming hi that Cosgrove was on jlts way to Warsaw to take him to |America. William, with molst eyes, cried joyfully | “My best friend—a member of the Labor Party—is coming to fetch me soon to ses my wife and children, When Willlam first saw Cosgrove at the American Embassy he greeted him heartily. They met often after that, the younger brother sometimes accompanying Lindenfeld. pasaeapenas 'LINDENFELD MADE | SAME CONFESSION | HERE MONTHS AGO | Despatches From Warsaw Confirm Information Regarding Dealings | With Wm. J. Burns, | ‘The above despatch and others | which reached this city from War- saw to-day confirmed the information brother and They} | (Continued on Second Page.) Sat <n ‘SUN YAT SEN DENIES | BANDITS TOOK WIFE | Reports Sent Out as Propaganda to Harm Chinese Republic, He Declares, SHANGHAI Dec. 2% (United Press).—President Sun Yat Sen of South Chins wired the United Press to-day from Weilin that the report of the capture of his wife by bandits was “propaganda of his enemies” and grossly untrue. He stated the erroneous reports were circulatec by those who wished the worlu to believe he was not able vf controlling that area. Reports from Shanghai on Dec, 21 stated Mme. Sun Yat Sen had been captured by bandits in the north of China and that they were fleeing | with her toward the frontier. DUE TO BLAST IN BROOKLYN FACTORY Blaze Starting From. Ignition of Fluid in Tank, Followed by Explosion, STAIRWAYS CUT OF Boys and Women Amzrtg Workers Who Get to Safety by Fire Escapes. uundred workers, a sinvll proportion of then women and boy aped from flames which de: N royed giz story factory build 41-61 Clym just before noon Str to-day at Brooklyn, The fire rushed up the building so that most of tho workmen tiny quickly had to take to the the unburned side The fire started with the ignition of a fluid in a japanoing tani In the rear court, George Jansen and Joann Schahauer, machinists, made vain efturts to extinguish the fire in the tank, believing it unimportant, bat the heat caused an explosion which sprayed the burning liquid high up the side of the building. Policeman Joseph Jerry saw the flash from the street, and after call- ing for fire apparatus ran into the building. | He found the workers still at the benches in most of the factory rooms and went from floor to floor, ordering | them out. By the time he reached the top floor the lower inside stair- ways had been cut off. The first two floors of the building are occupied by Charles Leffler & C hardware, the third by G. H. Harris, manufacturers of hard rubber ar. ticles; the fourth and fifth by the W, H, Buker Chocolate Com) nd the | sixth by the Eureka Shoe Company. Threc ‘additional fire alarms were necessary hefore the flames wore un- der coptrol, trees FIVE FLEE MIDNIGHT FLAMES ACROSS ROOF Ald Three fire escapes on! Dr. Wendell ©. Phillips of No. 40 West 47th Street, his wife and three maids, hastily dressed, fled from a fire In thelr home ut midnight last night | across the roof of an extension of the third floor of the house next door, where y took refuge. » fire was on the first foor and the aroused Mr, and Mrs. Phillips, They awoke the malds, who were sleep- ing on the third floor and alded them to escape, Firemen had to rip up much woodwork to reuch the blaze, Thu damage was $5,000, ee HARVARD GOAT FOUND MILES FROM CAMPUS CAMBRIDGE, Dec. 22.—Harvara's goat, long sought by opponents on the gridiron and other flelds, has been found far from the Harvard yard. That it bs Harvard's goat is evidence by the fact that a perfect letter “I” Is emblazoned | naturally on tts side, The owner, living in Saxonville, this State, has offered iim to the university ax its mascot, darvard athletic muthorities delibedating whether to am the risk of permitting the into the hands of hostiles, with the possibility of his velng dragged on to competitive athletic elds to Crimson {scomfturo, —————— RACING RESULTS. HAVANA WINNERS. wearin FIRST RACE—Five and a half fur- ‘ongs.--Kiposta, 6 to 5 and 2 to 5, first; Waking Dream, even, second; Canteen third. Time, 1.12 started D RACE—Five and a half fur- ongs.—Ray Ennis, 6 to 1 and & to 2, frst; Pokey i. 5 to 2, second; Golden Red, third. Time—1.11'2-5. All started NEW ORLEANS WINNERS. FIRST RACE—Five furlongs.—Cap: Pillar, 4 to 1 and 8 to 5, first, By Goah, i to 10, second; Honorable, third, Tim: 1.01 1-5, Non-startera—Printer’s Devil, Lady Acton, Louls Lichtenhelm anid sundo SECOND RACE—Six furlones.—Ace of Aces, 9 to 2 and 2 to 1, first; Ben- gore, 2'to 1, second; Sandy H,,’ third Tme—1.144-5. — Non-atarters — Fleer, Tim McGee, Anticipate.’ Amaze and Johnny Overton. (Other Racing News on Page 10. i | RECENT PHOTOGRAPH | Heart Failure, Following Bron: chial Trouble, Carries Off Famous Journalist, © JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Dec. | Henry Watterson, one of the coun- try's best known journalists and for- ville (Ky.) Courler-Journal, died at the Seminole Hotel at 6.16 o'clock this morning. Death came peacefully, the vener- able editor retaining consciousness almost to the end. during is last half hour with his and conversing wits, son and daughter Col. Watterson came ville several weeks ago ance with his annual custom of spending in Florida, usually at Fort Myers, Soon after he arrived here, he was taken ill, but for the past few days an Improve- ment in his condition seemed notice- able. He contracted a slight cold Tuesday and while seated in a chair yesterday morning soon after break- fast, he suffered an acute bronchial attack and was ordered to his bed by his physician, His condition grew to Jackson- in accord the winter immediate cause of his death, physician sald, was heart fallure, su- perinduced by congestion of the lungs, The body, it was sald by his son, Henry Watterson, would be placed in ® vault here until spring, when it will be taken to Loulsville for burtal in the fam'ly plot in Cave Hill Cemetery there. Mr. Watterson said his mother was very frail, and because of her con- dition it was inadvisable to return to | the North before spring. | LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. —News lof Henry Watterson’s death was re- ceived with many evidences of grief jin Loulsville, where for more than ‘arty years he had been a notable tigure. | Apparently he faced wit) calm the end of his span of life. {!) once said: “I am prepared at an) e to eur- render my life to God wi) gave it. We do nut know about thes: things and I face the outcome with serenity, whatever it may be.” While convalescing from a previous illness, Mr, Watterson read some ad- (Continued on Second Page.) pec eect PASSENGEMS ‘TAKEN FROM STEAMBR AGROUND. BALTIMORE, Dec. 22.—The forty. eight passengers on the steamer Cam- bridge, which stranded in Eastern Bay iu last night's heavy gale while on hor way from Baltimore te Clathorne, sa, “were taken off this morning and landed \ mer owner and publisher of the Louls- worse during the day and night. The | his | OF HMARSE HENRY.” BEER AND WINE TO HAVE A CHANCE, SAYS FORDNEY Will Urge Volstead Amend. ment to Secure $500,000,000 for Soldier Bonus. “Circulation Books Open to All ] Post Office, | | Houses Company, | To-Morrow’e Weather—PROBABLY SNOW; WARMER. » « Second=Clase Matter New York, N, FIVE HOLD-UP MEN ATTACK + DAIL EIREANN ADJOURNS UNTIL JAN. 3 WITHOUT TREATY VOTE — ONE SHOT DEAD BY PORTER |Policemen Shoot and Seriously Wound Another of the Thieves— Three Flee in Taxi—Booty Found in Pocket of the Dead Man. , One man of five who held up and robbed the office of the Phipps arenting agency at No. 243 West 63d Street, at |2.30 o'clock this afternoon was shot and killed by Charles David, the Negro porter, who came unexpectedly upon them while they had Mrs, Mary Stockinger, who was in charge of the office, backed against the «wall with her hands elevated. The thieves opened fire on David and ran to the street. Policemen Pray and Monahan joined in with drawn revolvers. One of the policemen | ehot and seriou ly wounded John Little, who was trying to get away with « taxicab in which the bandits had reached the scene of the robbery, i Another man jumped fo the taxicab and started {t. 4 viving hold-up men, shooting to cover their flight, escaped, but at 56th Street The three sur- |and 11th Avenue the taxi collided with a truck and was demolished, They made good their escape, however, of the dead man. ‘WATCHES BANDITS IN STORE HOLD-UP; ~ KNOCKS OUT BOTH Policeman, Fearing Five Vic- tims Might Be.Shot, Waits WASHINGTON, of th Means D Chair- of | Committee n Fordney Ways | committer and te ay said the) would ecommend an amendment to the Volstead act per mitting the sale, for beverage pur poses, of light wines and beers, the money raised from the tax imposed, the Chairman said, to be applied to the payment of a soldier bonus The vetion of the comemitt he alse stated, had been influenced tar y | by the demands of the public that |the sale of light wines and beer be permitted. Not only have members of Con- gress received many letters urging the change in the Volstead law. but the Treasury Department has been | flooded with comniunications for and |against the proposal and discussing the tax on light beers and wines ns @ revenue measure, said officials of | the Treasury to-day, | Some of the: ers came from | high churchmen In various parts of | the country, some condemning the Proposal and others taking the view that while the law should be strictly enforced as written, if such a change were made it might be for the better. While Secretary Mellon is under stood not to disfavor such a method of providing new revenue, it was suid, Mr. Mellon, however, had maile it plain that such a suggestion was not a Treasury proposal Estimates of the pro revenue return from such @ source, it w said, han revealed that a total of ap proximately $500,000,000 could be ob- tained by the Governmont yearly from a tax upon the legalized sale wine and bi of Manufacture and sale of 2.75 per cent. beer would be permitted under a bi!l introduced to-day by Repre- sentative Hogan, Republican w York, A tax of $7 per barrel would be used to pay a soldier bonus. oe v DROWNED yew YORK BAKE BOSTC Dee Three men were drowned when barge Dunmore of New York sank off Minot's Light, ac- 1s © & report received here to- Rather than endanger five men be- ing held up by two armed bandits tn the Benjamin cigar store at No. 328 Grand Street last nieht, Policeman John Mason of the Clinton Street Sta- tion waited in the street until the hold-up men came ou: and then ased his nightstick. Both required the at- tention of a surgeon from Gouvernesr Hospital wen taken to the station nouse. Policeman Mason war about to ring the signal box at Ludlow and Grand Streets when he noticed a taxteab standing in front of the cigar store. Just then a pedestrian came up and said: “There is a hold-up, Officer, ia that store.” Mason quietly made his way be- hind the taxicab and saw fixe men with uplifted ems standing in the clear store, while two others with levelled revolvers were going through their pockets, Realizing that if he entered the Place with his revolver drawn a duel would follow, and some of the ban- adits’ victims might be shot, Mason waited In an adjoining doorway for aboyt ten minutes, Then he saw one of the robbers, who iater said he was James McGowan, twenty-four years old, of No. 241 Clinton Street, come out, drvpping his gun in his pocket, As McGowan reacbod the sidewalx the policeman struck sim on the head with his nightstick, knocking bim unconscious. Instructing two ap- Proaching citizens to ‘sit on that eny until I come back,” Mason ran tnto the cigar store just as the other hold- Pp man, who said he was John Foley, twenty-two years of of Nu. 854 Front Street, was warning his vie- tims, according to Mason, not to make an outery. Foley turned quickly, eur in hand, but before be could fire M. fon struck him with the nighistiek. Then, according to the police. the five victims Jumped om Lim. Bots Me~ jowan and Foley were unconscious for half an hour. Meantime Mason sent in a call for an ambulance and the patrol wagon and tvok his prison- ers to the station nuuse. The police report $117 in money and a quantity of Jewelry were found on Foley. Capt, Michael R. Ketly of the Clin- ton Street Station and Lieut. Fogarty of the Detective Bureau both com-~- piimented Mason for bis bravery. The thieves secured about §800, part of which was found in the pockets The real estate concern of which Mrs, Stockinger is manager handles the rental of a number of houses in the San Juan Hill district, She was in the office alone when the taxicaiy stopped at the curb. David, the pof- ter, had gone out for lunch. . Mra. Stockinger was busy with hér ‘nccounts when the bandita entered the oMce, She looked up as she heard the door closed and saw four revolvers Pointed at her. One of the men dlrect- ¢4 her to hold up her hands and stand against the wall. This man kept her covered while the othems ran behind a counter to the open safe The money was large ly In envetops, and each thief pickeil up what he could get his hands on. David, returning from lunch, sar through the door Mrs. Stockinger covered by the revolver of the bandit on guard. At first he did not see the men behind the counter. Without hesitation the porter opened the door and began to shoot at the bandit whp was In sight. ‘ The man dropped. shot through thn heart. The others appeared anid made a rush for the door, firing «it David who retreated to the street Pray and Monahan were with! half a block of the scene of the roh- bery. They were afraid to shoot unt they got close by because of the dan- wer of hitting pedestrians who were running tn all directions, but one of the mtook a chance and got the chauffeur. At the time of the robbery a Miss Tims, a clerk, was in a rear room. She entered just before David began to shoot and also put up her hands and backed against the wall. More than twenty shots were fired by all who took part in the pistol fight. David was slightly wounded in the right arm. Little protested that he had nothing to do with the robbery. He is a pris- oner in Roosevelt Hospital. The body of the dead bandit is also at the hospital. Mrs. Stockinger said that the bandit who did the wmlking was a soft speaking, courteous fellow. “We don't want to harm you,” he said, “and we won't take anything that belongs to you. All we want is Money belonging ww this rich company.” _——_—. MAYOR HYLAN SECRBTLY swons 1 Yaerverpay. Mayor Hylan was sworn in for his no term yesterday. Hv took the oath be- fore Supreme Court Justice Burr, wae came to the Mayor's office, where his robes. Only Zohnectad wits the ovtice were press ond no announcement was guade o if until today, = Se eotet ek re nen ee