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| | ee ne RR tr EY COE FS RIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1922, gems out of a safe deposit going to take them to Sse the péashore and feared she might be news of the “robbery” wes Monday Mr. Luisi at once connected the sewelry expert's Story with the reported robbery and mm against his com . He permitted the insur agents, Maltble and Morgan, to to him with the claim and In- him to Mrs. Robertson. Mr. he pretended to approve d spent the day with her ough on a holiday party. ne until after ber arrest did Jeweller. The delay in hér ar- Gasn atid Bailey had en into custody, was due to that Mr. Luts}, pretending thy and a desire to help her, Was getting a prelimifary partial con- | from her without her knowing Mrs, Pelletreau, who is a widow of means, told the detectives last ghe had known Mrs. Robertson following an ac- quaiftance made at the seashore. Mre. Robertson called on her last Monday she sald and they talked of the “burglary,” Mra. Robertson telling @ lively narrative of the perilous ad- venture and her emotions while fac- ing the grim weapon of the robber. Mra. Pellétreau of course hdd no inkling then that Mrs. Robertson (as wince told in her confession) had ordered Bailey to use no weapon more formidable than a tobacco pipe cage as he might “get excited and there's no telling what a real gun ‘will do.” Mrs. Robertson, after her confes- aion to the authorities, spent yester- day in the Freehold Jail, proclaiming | her innocence to reporters and other callers, She did not even tell her attorney of the confession, and he learned of it first from the Prosecutor. | She included in her confession, ac-— however, the visit to the; SEEHOPEFORBEE AND LIGHT WINES ——INBONUS MO LP Pressure on Congress to Alter Regulations Is Becoming Stronger Every Day. FORDNEY TAKES HEED. Even Women Join in Plea to Amend Volstead Act to Better Conditions. WASHINGTON, Feb, 24.—So many messages are being received by Con- gress asking that the soldier bonus be paid by a tax on beer and light wines that Chairman Fordney of the | Ways and Means Committee has had a form letter multigraphed to reply to them. Opponents of the Volstead law hope that the muddle over the bonus may be the means through which the ruling of Congress that anything with a more than one-half of 1 pec cent. alcoholic content constitutes in- toticating liquor, may be modified. ‘The beer and wine movement was inaugurated by the Association Against the Prohjbition Amendment, which addressed a confidential mem- orandum to a portion of its member- ship asking that Congress and the Ways and Means Committee ve io- formed of the sentiment for light wines and beer. At the same time, it indorsed the Hill bill, now before the committee, which provides for financing the bonus by taxing the, non-intoxicating alcoholic beverages. ‘The association requested here possible a copy of the message sent cording to the detectives, a statement | that, driven to desperation by finan- cial embarrassments in her real es- tate business, she had planned, In addition to the fake robbery of her- self, two real robberies of wealthy friends in New York, including the hostess who was unwittingly the cus- todian of the jewels recovered last night, "oth friends, she said, accord- ing to ie detectives, had valuable Jewelry which she purposed to have stolen by robbers acting under her direction. = 5 | to Congress. TELLS WHAT SHE KNOWS OF| @G. C. Hinckley, Secretary, esti- ; HIDING JEWELRY. mates Mrs, Pelletreau, in her apartment’ Teceived 1,000 copfes and that the in the Belnord and in the presence of number of letters and petitions| Mr. Drewen of Perkins & Tumulty, of going to Congress was probably five Jortey City, her counsel, explained to times ag an Evening World reporter what lit- fle, she knew of the hiding of Mrs,| ‘The letters came from lawyers, rtson’s jewelry in her home, business men, architects, bank Pres!- Prougp her acquaintance with dents, physicians, &c. Approximately taba was far from intimate one-half are from women. One from ee re oe bo hac at Nee & woman in Pennsylvania says in’ mnt overnight _ one day last’ part: . Mrs. Robertson left an over-, “As the mother of several sons and it bag in her room. She did not fyg daughters and interested in the 1, Away when she called Monday ,cause of real temperance, I write to hbery. LS gic 4 "the aves called last protest against the present Prohibi- night,” said Mra, Pelietreu, ‘with tlen Law. Until the present time I Mrs, Robertson's note 1 told them I never saw or heard of children, even knew of no package and that Mrs. must have meant to those of the tender age of eight, Mr. Luisi then pre playing they were making ‘hooch, might look at my china closets. and this growing common. And 1 cpa him two and he sald, ‘Those older tyo, from twelve to seventeen, won't at all,” and asked if I had arg succ wfully brewing and drink- not one in the kitchen. I showed him the kitchen shet ahd he got a ing vile concoctions, and some of stepladder and went up to the top them getting drunk. shelf just as though he knew exactly am thoroughly sattsfied that un- where to look, and put his hand down Jess the law {s so modified as to into @ sugar bowl and drew out 4 jegatize beer and wine, we wMl short- Pad the wnissing iemciee tae ty be rearing a Nation of drunkards oe “She told them ti “I have been quoted as saying I am sorry for Mra. Robertson, I have no sympathy for her whatever. She tried to use a friendship to cover a crime and I am sorry I evér met her. When the subject of plot of Mrs. Robertson to rob the Pelletrau apart- ment was mentioned Mrs. Pelletrean was much fected. She denied tho statement of detectives that Mrs. Rob- ortson had been inquisitive about where the Pelletreau jewelry was kept. GIRL WHO TOOK STATEMENT NOT HER NIECE. In her confession Mrs. Robertson admitted that ‘‘Olive,” the stenogro- pher who busied herself right after the “robbery"’ by taking. statements in affidavit form and typing them for presentation in support of the Insur- ance claim, was not her niece but a) public stenographer in a New York hotel. Detectives have interviewed “Olive.” it immediately be- fore the presentation of the robbery drama Mrs, Robertson bad her aid tn wrapping the articles of jewelry in tissue paper and packing them in @ sill bag, calling attention to each piece as it was put in the . “Olive” Mrs. Robertson must have dumped the lot out of the bag and substituted wadded tissue paper 1 sdon as the stenographer’s back was turned. Mrs. Robertson owns six cottages at Deal Beach, two at Long Branch and severa) lots in both places, all valued by her at a total of $200,000. Pathetio, if not amusing, was the tale John Bailey, the boy make-believe bandit. told. reporters, “itisa bie thing for a young ‘man to have some one come and offer him $1,000 to do something and teil him how easy it will be," he sald Golefully. “I wanted to go to an automobile college and try to make something out of myself. I never got @ cent—from Mrs. Robertson or from aby one, I am actually out the $5 I paid for the hired automobile.” sie was a bugier in the ist Maine Sogiment during the war and spent his service in the Nayy Yard at Philadelphia. He showed his bonora- ble dischtarge from service. —_»— —- POLACE FIND 20,000 ROBBERY CAR. The automobile used by the three hold-up men who yesterday robbed Jo- seph Wisnack of $20,000 in unset dia- monds at Taylor Street and Lee Avenue, Brookiyn, was found to-day by Patrol- man Charles Morris of the Herbert Street Station in front of No, 692 Met- ropolitan Avenue. There was nothing in the car to lead to the Identity of the and criminals.” Opposing factions in Congress vor the way to pay a bonus are working on two or three lines for a suggested compromise, and these will be taken up by the Ways and Means Sub-Com- mittee to-day. The plans sug- gested look to ways of satisfying the sgricultural bloc, the rabid and mild anti-sales taxers, the sales taxers, the economy criers and, finally, the President. One plat looks to the elimination entirely of @ sales tax and reliance upon a saving in army and navy es timates and on collection of the foreign debt. Another proposes the imposition of @ smal) wales tax tha’ will not ap- ply to agricultura) products, and pethaps agricultura! machinery, to raise part of the money; and the army and navy savings for the ro- mathder. Still a third, combining features of both suggestions, looks to nse of the savings {n appropriations and a small patt of the foreign debt col- Iéctions for part of the bonus say $100,000,000 or $150,000,000, and tu! raising the remainder, $200.000,000 br $250,000,000, by a tax of 1 per cent. On Manufacturers’ sales. fils! Soe HARDING WANTS DYES, ASKS LEGISLATION Saye U. &, Quota of German Rep- arations Should Be Secured, WASHINGTON, Feb, 24.—Declaring that Congress had tied the hands of the | Administration In dealing with the Rep- aration Comminsion ing in a letter to Sen, | Republican, hus suggested hat legislative action be taken to permit the United States to get its quota of | German reparation dyes. President Hard Frelinghuysen, —_— VISCOUNT HARCOURT | IS DEAD IN LONDON LONDON, Feb. 2: (Associated Press). ONE OF CAPITAL’S SOCIETY LEADERS | WARNED OF DEATH Br Spee BRITISH EXPENSES CUT $382,000,000 Washington Conference Will En- able Additional Saving of $57,- 200,000 on Naval Expenditures. LONDON, Feb. 24 (Associated Press).—A third report on national expenditures, made public to-day by the Economy Committee, of which Sir Eric Geddes is Chairman, recom- mends a further saving of 8,782,300 pounds sterling, principally in the Colonial and Revenue Departments. A reduction of 3,000,000 pounds, sug- gested on estimates of war pensions since the first report was issued, gives 4 grand total in proposed economies of nearly $7,000,000 pounds ($882,000,- 000 at the present rate of exchange), against 100,000,000 pounds which the committee endeavored to find. To make the further necessary economies, the committee suggests a reduction in naval expenditures made possible through the agreements reached at the Washington Confer- ence, ee CAPT. PEEL AND WIFE HELD AS SWINDLERS English Authorities Explain Their Charge of Wire Swindle in Betting. LONDON, Feb. 24.—Capt. Owen Peel, member of a well-known Welsh family, and his wife, Violet, daughter of Sir Robert Jardine, millionaire club man, were to-day committed for trial at Old Bailey for tampering with the Post Office telegraph service and engi- neering a fraud by means of which £3,500 was secured froth bookmakers at the time of the Duke of York's Stakes at Kempton Park last fall, It is charged that the Peels obtained the results of the race by telephone, then induced the aged postmaster to antedate the filing time on a batch of telegrams which they sent out to bookies backing the winner, Paragon. Thetr families tried desperately to avert exposure and repaid the bets, but the Postmaster General insisted upon prosecution, pedeeas ge LLOYD GEORGE TO MEET POINCARE IN SECRET Pate of Genoa Conference to Be Determined, LONDON, Feb. 24.—Premiers Lloyd George and Poincare will meet in secret to-morrow somewhere along the Chan- nel coast The British Premier wiil sail for France early to-morrow mor ing. He has ordered two automobiles to be ready for him when he arrives either at Boulogne or Calais, Some- where between these Channel ports the conference will take place, The cars will be used to prevent a breakdown ‘and to throw reporters off the track. In France the conference is regarded as most {mportant. The fate of the proposed Genoa Conference hangs upon ugreement between the Premiers to- morrow. Poincare requested the inter- | view. —— BOMB EXPLODES IN CHICAGO | CHICAGO, Feb. 24.—Windows were | shattered and downtown office buildings abaken by the explosion of a dynamite homb early last night. | The explosion occurred two doors from the Central Detective Burean which was rocked by the force of the explosion, It is believed th ended for the Detect to effect a jail de hallway of the three story pusia where the explosion occurred was bomb was rea in an 2 is Avenue, formerly discount | », in France eighteen months ‘demolished. As far as know ae 2375 Morris Ave : int) been 4 aailieedl i) e und Fo! Avenue, sentenced to me ye ees moe ompany, pleaded guilty of grand tar-| Qi) Bing for five to ten yours by Judge | AMendmmen’) oe 1 No "109 Hamilton | PRISONER AT WIFE'S FUNERAL. | eee oee Sution. officers told tudes | Crain in the Court of General Sessions | , AUTHOF Di who enlisted at Jules, alias Joseph, Hegeman, « pris] Crain that. most of the $7,000. atolen| this afternoon when he pleaded guilty | Avenue eee eae |Oner eentenoad (Sep) Nassau County, | had gone to pay for an operation for| of forgery In the beeen d| degree: 1 was Midagradg the Medions Corps (and was taken out of Sing 5 terday b; " d that in fifty forgeries he obtained | seas Kecper Farrell to attend Hegemany| Snipes wie, He was sentenced tol su (9. The checks were cashed by didn't), writes, in addition to voting |wite's funeral in Bayville, LoL Hepes | son 2 : Nicholas Sasso, a restaurant keeper "Yes": |four years eight months on a charge of rand larceny and will be eligible toc ° —Viscount ' Har died here lust night, aged fifty-nine years, Lewis Hercourt --+ved at times as Priv Councillor and Commigstone: November, retary of State % wite, whom he married Mary Ethel Burns. only the late Walter H. Burns of Ni gebbers, The ‘police believe it was and North Mymme Perk Eogiand. parole in a few PRESENTS CANE TO WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 Sutton Wall of Harrisburg, 1 11 the White House yesterds sented to President Hard cane made from mahi the old Ponnsylvanta cane was silver MOUNIO And war a g from Mr. Wall to the Presiden, fan has served moat of’ centenue of SUSPEGT UNDER | “CONFESSION” BY WATCHBY POLE) ELS DOUBTED Washington Authorities Will Question Man in Black- | mail Case. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—A ous- pect in connection with the black- mailing letters scht to Washington Prisoner Changes Most Im- portant Details—Mabel Normand ‘Better, 1,08 ANGELES, Feb. 24.—Growing disbelief in the story of the murder of William Desmond Taylor, film di- rector, here on Feb, 1, related In De- society women, demanding from|troit by Harry M. Fields, in custody wre, Is expressed to-day by Loa $15,000 to $26,000 under penalty af | there in 18 1 death, will be questioned this after-|ADK‘I® Mcial# Investigating the, noon by Willlam J. Burns, head of] ‘They pointed out two changes! the Bureau of Investigation of the|Fielde made in his original story. etme One was the reduction ct a $1,000 hill Department of Justion, 1t was learned! |. ‘si00 bill in connection with hi oes statement that he was paid $900 for Inspector Grant of the Washington |having driven a Chinese, a white police force said that the man in| Woman and a white man to the Tay- question had been under surveillance |!0F apartments. ‘The other was his changing the lo- for the past few weeks, While Grant) .xtion where he said the pistol with did not state that the man is under/which Taylor was shot would be arrest, he admitted the suspect is|found. The officers said they: found where “hands can be laid on him” at|!t at peas Place he aa here * A bank teller was found here, how- 8 SAO ReaE a Bont ever, who told of a man entering a It was revealed that approximately|phank with a $1,000 bill and acting a score of letters had been sent to|syspiciously about the time Taylor four Washington homes. A half|was slain. In addition, Thomas Green, dozen letters were sent to one home| deputy United States District Attor- sod the remainder divided among the| ney, here, was quoted as haviris seed > stated a man he beliuved was Taylor Phi edea ernie fs B ce ice) had sought his aid year ago im Harty Collins, and Aitred J. Shipley, | taming out the drug traffic. These two men, according to the police, were arrested recently on charges of forgery preferred by Mrs.|ieciuse of his alleys. intertersiics to whom a death letter is sald to have| With the drug traffic. The ofticors been sent. ‘They are out on bail|:2ned, also, that a Chinese named awaiting trial and the police were un-| Vong Lee—the name Fields said was able to find them yesterday or last|orne by the Chinevo in the alleged night. murder party—had left the Los Ange- Police to-day said the first of the|!es Chinatown three duys ago when it threatening letters was received about | Was first estimated Felds might have three weeks ago by Mrs. Mary Scott |'mportant information concerning the Townsend, and that it threatehed the| case. They said, however, they hi destruction of her home unleas a large | nothing to connect Wong Lee with sum of money was forthcomilig. the Taylor murder. and recalled Similar letters, all written appar-| Fields had said the Chinese in his ently by the same hand, have been| party went East witl him. received by Mrs. -Heary White, wife of the former Ambassador to France; Mrs. Stephen B. Elkina, widow of the late Senator Stephen Elkins and mother of Senator Davie Elkins of West Virginia, and by several other women of equal prominence. Mrs. White wads told to place fif- teen $1,000 bills In a cigdr bor and drop it from an automebile at a cer- tain spot. A policewoman followed these instructions, but no one ap- peered to get the box. CAPT. DU BOIS FREED Fingerprints on the letter sent to Mrs. Mary Scott Townsend may prove OF ‘GRATUITY CHARGE the means of identifying the authors, ‘ the police sald today. Inspector | givo Gitt W: Grant of the local police stated that th jonor Tentified. the prints found on the letter seem tp aESERS - x Police Capt. Perey M. Du Pois of omer MMe bagi iapotar | Brooklyn, indicted by the Whitman ever, are somewhat blurred, but th. “rand Jury on a charge of unlayfully want t stion Shi 4 | eceepting a gratuity during the printers’ police scant guetion shiney and sie fats mon he was in harae . f the West 20th Street Station, was the police have found. acquitted to-day by a directed verdict ———— in the Court of General Sessions before NORTH CAROLINA | outean “Bartholomew, ‘representing. a TURNS DOWN CANADA printing company, testified that he had Governor Refuses to Ho given Capt. Bois $100 as “a token mand im Extradition Case. RALEIGH, WN. C., Feb. 24.—Gov. Morrison sent a message to acting Sec- retary of State Fletcher to-day declar~ ing the State would not under any cir- cumstances produce witnesses to testify before Judge Snyder at Hamilton, Ont., in the attempted murder case against | Matthew Bullock, Negro, whose extradi- tion has been asked by the American ‘This latter was pointed to as pos- sible partial proof of Fields’s state- to learn anything of the white woman and white man whom Fields named as any persons who knew anything of them. ‘The condition of Mabel Normand, reported critically ill b yher physician last night, is said to-day to be much improved, She is now said to be in no danger. ————_ “Token of Apprecia- of appreciati This statement was taken as “accomplice testimony,’ need- ing oorroboratl Counsel for the de- fense therefor oved for an acquittal and Judge Talley sald the Iaw made it mandatory, — MARSHAL’S SON ARRESTED WHEN STILL IS SEIZED De- Wry Agents Offered $5,000 Bribe, North Carolina or any other self- respecting State of the Union in any way to honor a request from Canada." LIONS DOWN TO $300. Deputy United F, Bttelson, was arrested with Pashman and Max Miller, both of Pas- saie. Ettelson and Pashinan were h in $2,000 each and Miller in $1,000, States Marshal Alfred Louis | raiders said they found eight stills, 4,000 gallons of mash, 200 gallons of Three Trained Beasts Anctte: alcohol, 4,000 pounds of brown sugar, and a big steam boiler. ‘The agents to Highest Bidder at New Hay: nae hae strana, eevernal 45.000 | NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb, 24,—)‘square it.” en Trained lions went at bargain prices at auction here to-day, Three of them placed on the block were knocked down to William F. Taylor of Hart- ford for $900 cash. It had cost $3,000 to feed the animals for the 833 days they were under attachment, and Felix O. Rustagd, & showman, with a judgment against Mme Adgie Cas- telo, who had the trained lions, was glad to get rid of them although he had to pocket a loss. As the judgment had not been sat- isfied, a notice was published on the town post at East Haven Town Hall to-day. The auctioneer, a deputy sheriff, on a soap box in front of the ELEVATOR KILLS YOUTH IN SIGHT OF CROWDS Stock Clerk Crushed to Death at Ne. 50 Broad Street. Burrill Orbitz) nineteen, a stock clerk working for Warner & Co,, No. Broadway, was killed at noon to-day No. 60 Broad Street, when he becat wedged between the floor and an eleva- tor, Frank Cream, nineteen, of No, 100 Lenox Road, Flatbush, the operator, says he did not see him unfil he heard his screams. The corridors of the building were crowded The car was reverse released. An ambulanc ‘a pulmotor, was able to sustain life for minutes, Cream : lion's cage called for bids, Six men |twenty-five minnie ren Yo began at $300 and Mr. Taylor got heres Wea with his family at No. them at Ninth Street, Brooklyn. eee STOLE POR WIFE OPERATION; Ten YEARS N SING SING HOR GETS THREE YEARS. - PORGER, . Wilham Phillips, thirty-six, formerly! prederick J. Hin thirty-six, No. nager of the foreign exchange de- 43 Bast 18th Street, who is defendant in a civil action to recover the money a as ALING PIECE 1HON, LE, Louis Britinger, thirty-five, a stone-| V7 Lad LIFE. cutter, was Killed to-day when a pete hd KILLED BY y blue,” and b him he took « revolver and shot bimself, IS YOUR THROAT SORE? rhen {tte time to take Father John's Medi- ving, Moule the breathing passages.—Adyi, DEATH LETTERS TAYLOR MURDER ment that the film director was killed the payment of a bonus to be provided The officers said they were unable: Jennie Moore and Johnnie Clark, or|pack of cigarettes—as a disabled sol- G t. They Declare, blessing, comes something of the jovernment. ii The Governor wrote that if Canada| A 1.U00-gallon distilling plant was| ame estimate of its real effect. He would not honor the extradition “in thej found early this morning in a farm | *43" : , 22 regular way," and If the State Depart-|;0us0 near Fine Brook, about twelve} 1 ®™ im favor ot the matiaostion ment could ‘not convince the Canadian eee of the bootlegging Volstead act, authorities that they should do so, “then | Miles from Newark as to permit the sale of beer and light 1 hope you will not hereafter request| Richard Ettelson of Passaic, son of] wine and of the plan to tax such to HAS BLURS, ENDS | pugo Sandoff, seventy-four years otd, | gor, now’ waxing rich, would be, put of iron fell on his head while he was! . carpenter, shot and killed himself to-| gut of business, and fatal drunken- working on @ building in course of con-| No. Hutley treet, | Pees would cease, and the Govern- struction at No. 920 Fifth Avenue. He} was il anal ? ; few dimes lived on St. Ann's Avenue, the Bronx. wife Anna, | ment would also have a bic . : ine-liert over. My ery is, ‘On with the ling | bureau a fC aR NA OEE SS Se LL sie sialic | THE EVENING WORLD HOW DO THE STAND ON OR THE VETERANS A BONUS BOOTLEGGER? What is the real sentiment of the war veterans of the States of New York, New Jersey and Connécticut? The President is opposed to the forms of direct taxation proposed by Congress. Write your answer im the form ‘below and mail to the Bontis Editor of The Hvehing World. Shall light wines and beer be legalized by amending the Volstead Act and taxed to pay a bonus, eriding the bootiegger nuisance? ... Name Home Address Rank, Organization and Length of Service Over (Yea or 10) a“ if amy. ‘The above data is to be preserved for the record, and is not for publica- tion. If you wish to express an additional opinion which may be printed over your name, add it here or on @ separate sheet.... VETERANS’ OPINIONS ‘ON A ONUS BY AMENDMENT OF VOLSTEAD ACT. 23. Anawers received F Previoufly received Totale Among the 173 American veterans of the World War who filled out coupons yesterday showing their opinion as to |by a tax on legalized light wines and ‘beer are nine who elther oppose chang- ing the Voistead act or oppose any bonus at all. One of the objectors to any change in the Volstead act is—or has been—a bootiegger. In his blank he gives his full name and address. He claims overseas ser- vice in the 308th Infantry. He was in |the navy for four years before 1915, His views supplementary to his cou- pon ballot are as follows: “Dear Editor—I think the Voistead act is a blessing of God. | “Tam a disabled soldier and cannot iwork. Our great Government gives me $8 a month for a sandwich and a dier, “I ‘took a chance’ and made good— and made enough to keep me alive for jmany cold winters, which I was forced to do. I cannot steal or beg. “T am now a retired bootlegger. “Hoping every disabled soldier takes \8 chance and makes goor before starv- ing, waiting for a couple of pennies from our great Government. “A DISABLED SOLDIER and “A RETIRED BOOTLEGGER." The letter suggests alot of thoughts which students of the bonus and boot- legger problems are at Hberty to pur- sue as far as they please. For in- stance: To how many former service men, inured to recklessness of their own lives and those of others, have the) bootlegging possibilities of the Vol- stead act offered a glittering lure to a life of lawlessness and exciting asso- ciation with the underworld? Does Congress, facing the President's veto of a bond tssue and fearing the wrath of the business men and farmers against a sales tax, mean to say to the service man: “What do you need of a bonus? Why don’t you take a chance and be a bootlegger? The Velstead law is _your opportunity.” From George Teague of No. 88 Ave- nue E, Bayonne, N. J., a sailor, two years in overseas service, who, unlike the previous writer, docs not regard the present enforcement law as a help pay the borius. If we are to be deprived of the bonus, then let's fight through our representatives to regain our personal rightd which we lost while over there fighting for Volstead Mberty and democracy.’ “Besides creating more than enough revenue to meet the bonus,” says Dayton Fitzgerald, No. 1726 East 17th Street, Brooklyn, seven months in France with the 106th Field Artillery, “the proposed change in the Volstead act would cut to less than one-half the $100,000,000 farcical ‘Prohibition force’ the Government maintains.” Another veteran of the 105th F. A. Arthur Sheid of No. 325 West Fourth Street, who was wounded overseas, but is now “able bodied again,” says: “T think it would be a good idea to have light wines and beer, not only to raise the bonus, but to stop the pol- soning of go many people. I feel the bonus should only be given to people that are totally disabled from work- Edward E, Gallagher, No. 808 West 29th Street, eighteen months in the verseas, SAYS: inet do tke a glass of beer or a little light wine, but of course, had no say in the matter. “Was overseas fighting when they put this over on the boys. We fought to free some one else, but were too busy to think of freeing oursives, Had “If we could have good beer and Nght wines the money could be easily raised; men would be put back to work at their old trades, and the re- distilled denatured cologne bogtleg- Yes. 164 408 672 Over- No. Army. Navy. Marin 9 #1490 «628 143 6 7) «668 (67 OMS ee ee ee ee France with the Second Pioneer In- fantry: SINN FEIN AGREE WITH ENGLAND ON DAMAGE CLAIMS Admit Responsibility fof Losses in Sbuth Ireland—Parliament to Pav Ulster $6,600,000. LONDON; Feb. 24,—winstonChureh- ill, Secretary for the ‘Colonies, ex- plained to the House of Commons to- day the procedure to be adopted by agreement between the British and the Irish Provisional Governments for the settlement of claims for damage to property in Ireland. Tt had been agreed, he that the party re- Bponsible for the damage should bear the burden, @ commission to assess the amount. This commission will consist of one member appointed by the British Gov- ernment, another by the Trish Gov- ernment and a chairman selected from holders of high judicial office, to be appointed by agreement, This com- mission will hear claims regarding criminal injuries to property, includ- ing losses sustained under . martial law. Mr. Churchill said the Irish Pro- vistonal Government had ugreed that its vesponsibility for damage done by its forces was unlimited in Ireland. but damage done in Glasgow and Liverpool also was to be taken into account, For damage done in Northern Ire- land, the Secretary added, the Brit- ish Government considered it had a greater responsibility, and had told Sir James Craig Parliamentary au- thority would be sought to pay the Northern Government of Ireland £1,500,000, * pa ASK HOUSE TO said “Iam not In favor of giving ali ex- sevice men a bonus, as many of them e and always bave been in moder- ate or well-to-do circuthstances, bringing back light wines and beer will make an end of the bootlegger and his poison, I am for tating the wines and Leer to raise money for the ‘ecamine i ates eredtted ex-service man who is really in mine certal tements ac one y to Harvey at the Pilgrim Society din- The sentiments of Charles A. War- | Ber for Mr. Balfour, ren of Atlantic City, who was nine- teen months In Fran under Col. William Haywood in the 369th Infan- try, are in tune with those of his/ white comrades tn arms. He says: i “The bootlegger has caused many a man to do evil, broken up homes and, caused sorrow to many mothers, wives, sisters and sweethearts. Some are drinking to-day who never tasted whiskey before. I am in favor of taxing the sales of light wines and beer and letting the working men | have some enjoyment at the end of a hard day's work. We have had enough ‘water becr* and ‘block and fall whis- key.’ This guy, the bootlegger, wil be claiming as many lives as the war if he keeps on, and if anything ban down him it will be the plan of The Evening World in behalf of the war veterans for their bonus.’ Albert Miller of No. 63 Fulton Street, two months overseas in the artillery, comes forward with the néia- soning that a bond issue hits every- body just as will a sales tax whéfeas a wine and beer tax is a “harmless pleasure tax.” Anybody tHat can afford light wine and beer,” he saya, “can afford the tax as of the Price of the pleasure. the sér- vice man wants is a lump sum go he can do something with it 1 would do would be to get out of debts that I got into through being out of work atter I came back.” Harry Adams of No, 379 East 145th Street, ten months tn France ahd Bel- HARVEY RECALLED. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24,—A reso- lution to have George Harvey re- galled as Ambdssador to Britain wan introduced in the House yesterday by Representative Ryan (Rep. N. Y.). He would have @ special committee Ready to heat and eat No wonder it tastes so good! Heing makes the dry Spaghetti—and cooks it after the recipe gium with the 105th Infantry, has something of the same thaught. “They should legalize the sale of of a celebrated Italian chef. The tomato sauce beer and light wines,” hé says, “as the law only affects the poor working people and not the wealthy By all means, use the tax to pay the bonus. 1 come in contact with my former buddies eve week, ang the first question they ask me is, ‘Are you working? Many are tn hard straits and need the money.” CABINET TAKES UP ROMA DISASTER Congress Will Be Asked io Give} $5,000,000 for Helium G Production. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. — The Roma disaster and possible necessary changes of aircraft policy resulting therefrom were understood to have been discussed at to-day's Cabinet meeting. Secretary Fall on entering the meet- ing said Congress would be asked, through the Army and Navy Depart- ments for an appropriation of $5,000,000 tor production of helium gas. The Secretary took with him into the Cabinet mpeting @ map show- ing gas fields in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kansgs and Oklahoma which might, in addition to the Texas fields, farnish helium. Condolences on the Roma disaster were recetved to-day by President Harding from King Albert of Belgium, it was announced at the State Department. _ i IRISH REPUBLICANS CAUSE TURMOIL IN JAIL for which Heinz is fa- mous, is used—and a special cheese with just the right flavor. Advt. on page 19 ———— Angry Becau Were Not « BELFAST, 24 (Associated Press).—Sixty “Republican prisoners in the Belfast jail kopt the inhabitants of nearby houses awake all of last night with a noisy demonstration, They were incensed, it was reported, be- cause the three prisoners who were reprieved recently from the Derry Salt, where they were under sentence of death, had not been allowed the status it “political prisoners," fone demonstrators banged cans abotu thelr cells, smashed tbe furai- ture and windows, and sang Repub- Hean songs, Pandemonium reigned until reinforcements o: police restored order early this morning Feb. FUNERAL DIRECTORS, | bonus, down with the bootlegger.'" Yom Arnold A. Belner of No. 53 | Weet saath Street, twelve months 1p