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Te-Night’s Weather—RAIN, “IF IT HAPPENS IN NEW YORK 1 to All,’’ | a LXII. NO, NEW ¥ a See ais TWENTY RADIO TELEPHONE WAVE LENGTHS DECIDED ON; | ara pra MAXIMUM 1S 6,000 METRES Rommenton © BAND IURY vol ACTS ON ALLEGED U. 6.1. GAS DEALS Hoover Coniere:tce. Files Report With Court and Findings May Be Announced on Monday. Custom and Routine of Our Department, Says Brooklyn Inspector, OTHER CASES CITED. Witness. Asserts Six Tiers of AMATEURS ALLOW Hospital Were Set Before Plans Were Approved. Supervision Will Transmitting Stations Onty— Broadcasting Gets Priorit The John Doe inquiry into the col- lapse- of the American Theatre in Brooklyn to-day brought forth a statement that many buildings in Brooklyn have been erected before the approval of plans or the issuance QD (Stat Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, March 10. ‘the| . of a permit. A tenement and a hos- Preliminary report of the Tec rai pital were included in the list. Committee of the Radio Telephone] WASHINGTON, March 10.—Recent! phe witnoxs was James Finley. 1- Conference was completed to-day. The | activity of investigators and special Committee, which is headed by Dr. | prosecutors of the Department of Jus Stratton, of the Burenu of Standards, | tice in relatiqg to the business al! makes recommendations to govern the | ances of the United Gas Improvemént use of the ether which will be put}Company, the Welsbach Street Light+ into effect as soon as Congress passes |ing Compeny of America and other rgency legislation sp give thersors sunsididry and affiliated atgantza ty of Commerce authority to eon promulgate and enforce regulations, |fUrnishing muntelpal street tarp Ny The committee's recommendations | contract is expected to be followed by ‘set aside wave lengths of 160. to 200] an announcement of results from New meters for the exclusive use of ama-| yor; within the next few days. 275 meters in conJunction with tech-|mally for years figainst the business nical and training schools methods of the "U, G. I." and thi Representative White, o/ Weisbach tnterests by other concerns Rosman Renstor sng desirous of entering into free ¢om- petition in making street lighting eon- tracts. The Pressure Lighting Com- spector of steel construction, Hix counsel, Chirles F. Murphy, asked permission to call him to the stand to “clarify’’ sgine of the testimony he had given UA aing Bf Tre ques : ¥—Do you know whether any buildings ,have been erected in rookiyn before the approval of the ians? Finley—There are many such Iulldings that haye been put up be- fore the issuance of permits or ap- proval of rlens. @Q.—Can you mention any of them? A.—Dhe telephone building at Bush- wick Avenue and Palmetto Street is one. It was erected on no better au- thority than a letter. No plans were approved nor any permit issued until Maine repre- said ts the legislative end of thr ernment in the radio conference tolday that he will push emergency the building was completed legislation to provide authority for| pany of No. 120 Liberty Street, New| °"Q "Any others? A. There is a hos- Secretary Hoover to offectua York, of which R. Momand is Viee} oitat at st. John’s Place and Wash- n lations. The law will give latitude, | President, has been particularly ener-| PEtos avenue. Si xtiers. of that he thought, and make only minimum [setic in seeking relief from Attorney] iigine were ‘set before the plans changes in the existing laws on this} (enerals Gregory, Palmer and Daugh-| 1. aoppoved. There is also a four- erty A Mr. Gregory was known to be im- pressed, but up to the time of his re- tirement from President Wilson'o Cabinet he had not tmpanelled a spe- cial Grand Jury to determine whether the Sherman law was being violated, subject. The Technical Committer its recommendations forward onsideration and constructive ism by interest with a view to reassembling story double tenement in Sterling Place where three floors were com- pleted before the plans were approved. And there is a series of buildings in Fulton Street, They were finished before the plans were approved. puts for eriti- two or three weeks to reconsider A Q. Are alterations made under the | Attorneys for the $70,000,000 U. G. : na No foen criticiants which controls corporations from|S2me conditions? A. Indeed, _ yes. The recommendations are of aut Off hand I recall a job in South Third Fiarida to South Dakota capitalized at ten times as many millions, flocked to Washington and were busy in and out of the department. They for ¢ telephone length and detail out the necessity control of radio first point pvernment the treet near Bedford Avenue, where the work was so bad that it was stopped until a permit was issued vv only solution to the present chaos | attorney General Palmer took no| 18 it your duty to report on est HB. O%f Interference, that unless there 8] action, Attorney General Daugherty aul putlay f: ine yeun cietnial ae are definite rguiation of all teleph not only renewed the authorization | NO course of cons s transmitting stajions th whole <9 times we come across one by acci- for the special Grand Jury, but as- signed R. Colton Lewis and W. R.{ dent, but we don’t have to make an h tem will be destroyed by inierfer rr one: Benham as special deputies to con- Settled unless Fee ais wena In order to accomplish this the] Quct the investigation, (Mr. Finley then made thi i Dru committee recomm that existing | ‘phe Grand Jury is known to have] “sy wish to deny that it, was my gag Mowers of the Department of Com-lpeen in session throughout February.|auty to ton the work when there u merce should be extended to complete |The work of presenting evidence wasn. ,o SOP the wok wien Kaen control of transmitting stations. It} independent of the organization offre: eo eat Ie nals’ whore founa Bat does not recommend any contro! of /tnited States Attorney Hayward, ex-| iat the work mas net bens properly efy Pereceiving stations. The committee] cont that he turned over all the facili-| gone, 1 Wid file objections against a post [recommends that wave lengths below| tics of his office to the special prosecu. i ? 6,000 metres should in a generol wiv theatre at Mesarle and Manhattan tors. Over twenty witnesses were ex-| avenues, bi s z rea . but Mr, Kleinert allowed reserved*for radio telephone amined. Mr. Momand ia known to pventas: (Bue sms en plowed pr but that those wave lengths} have been on the stand a week. The|think there in a case in the whole Grand Jury, of which Warren M. Lincoln, millinery, No. 225 Fifth Avenue, was foreman, is known to have made & report last Monday and to have been relieved from service until further notice, The complainants and others who are familiar with public service af- fwirs affecting street lighting have been questioned by agents of the De- partment of Justice regarding the borough where a theatre has not been (Continued on Second Page.) allowe dto go ahead before the steel a (For All the News of the Radio World See Page 21.) (Continued on Second Page.) —— DROPPED DEAD IN FIST FIGHT Hard Right Swing to Jaw Knocks unday World nt. i ici particular duties and responsibilities m= Assail woe MIG Advertising [2c cmcers ot tne companies wrose| Man Down—Assailant conduct has been questioned. Arrested eo Among those regarding whom 19-1 son5 Frietge, thirty-fiv ure old Syr, reh 5, 1922, as compar ey ive rm ol beh Peereeteserticg ‘wasday oF lest seer, (Continued on Second Page.) died suddenly to-day in the midst of a ay ‘The World's Gain ii cere, 20 fist fight with Hugh McCurry. forty. 10,080 siete ise or cittined) GrvES U. S. A VOICE sigh in the basement of the ana tment house at No. 420 Riverside IN PAPAL ELECTIONS sh sais aiinieved 6 ES. M “To Let” ads. Drive, where both were employed «s : are a porters, ht |e More “Real Estate” ads. {Decree to Fix Interval Between} McCurry. who was arrested "5 Joti charged with homicide, told the police yi Eoee sae ad aaa # {nat he and his roommate Frietge had teen Days, an argument this morning over wiat DAY. ROME, March 10 (Associated|)+ characterized as Frietge's at 2 Press).—A Papal decree will be made] tempts to “hoss" him. Frietge, he is ac 26 More “Help Male,” public shorlly extending to fifteen} id, removed his xaisner and the aor 18 More “Boarders Wanted.”|days the interval between the death| {ght siarted. After an exchange of Kam of a Pope and the beginning of the|blows, McCurry struck him on the o 409 more ads than any other [sacred Conclave to elect his suc.|jaw with a hard right swing and of t New York Sunday newspaper. |cessor, Cardinal O'Connell, Arch-| Frictge collapsed on the floor | ees bishop of Boston, said to-day. An ambulance “us called from saute: The decrees, the Cardinal added,| Knickerbocker Hospital, as it was ve VRE tisers know the value off ii. wit grant the Sacred College | lieved the man had gone into a deep ay, Spetising in a newspaper that tne power to extend this peried if|faint But Dr. Barnes iliscovered him i tes in over 600,000 homes. necessary. to be dead an ORK, FRIDAY, SING PLAN FOR $100,000,000 MARCH 10, 1922. “Circulation Books Open to Alil.’’ | Katered as Bee Post Oftice, New York, inen Matter Na -$241,000,000 RHINE EXPENSES DEMANDED O.KSTEELPLANS |U. S. DEMANDS $241,000,000 RHINE EXPENSES BE PAID PARIS, March 10 (Associated Press).—A demand from the United States that $241,000,000 for its ex- penses in connection with the occu- pation of the Rhineland be paid be- fore any reparations were puid was presented to the Allied Finance Min- isters at their meeting this morning. WASHINGTON, Mareh 10 (Associ- ated tary Hughes re- to-day to comment on the news from Paris that representatives f the United States had presented a mand to the Allied Finance Min- interes that expenditures aggressting $241,000,000 sustained by the United ‘tates in the occupation of the Rhine- Press),—See! fused und Mr be paid before any reparations. Hughes declared there was noth- « that could be said on the subject ‘t this time. Press despatches from Paris re- cently indicated that the Allied for- eign ministers were preparing to ap- portiron the German reparation spay- ment without regard ‘to the clatins of at ‘he American Government. At t time it was sui dby Secretarw Tiughi that the United States felt it had’ a Just elaim and expected that its claim THEATRICAL AGENT AND LAWYER FIGHT IN BROADWAY RING Crowd Delighted, As (Cane and Fists Fly in Battle Over Divorce Dispute. Max Hart, a theatirical promoter and agent, and Harry Heckheimer, an attorney, both having offices at No 1540 Broadway, had a fist and cane fight at 46th Street and Broadway to-day. > Traffic Patrolman Bosted, on duty at the corner, who extricated them from the crowd which was delight dly watching the tle, took them to the West 47th Street Station where each preferred a charge of dis- orderly conduct against the other Then all concerned adjourned to the West Side Court and Magistrate Sweetser set 2 o'clock Tuesday after noon as the time to hear the Heckheimer asked for the pi ment, saying he wanted counsel Heckheimer is counsel to Mrs. Hart who pias started divorce proceedings against her husband, He sald that lately Hart had been slandering him pone- to engage and last week he brought suit inst the theatrical man for $5,000 The two met almost in front of their office building to-day and Heck heimer said Hart at once began swear ing at him and demanded that Heck helmer remove his glasses. When this was refused Hart started (o remove them himself and the fight resu Heckheimer said he only defended himself Heckheimer carried a silver-knobbed cane and Hart, who had a bruise on the side of his forehead, declared Heckheimer had struck hi mwith it But Heckheimer said Hart had taken the cane away from him and struck him, Heekheimer had the cane when the party went to court i CANADIAN FIGHTER SLAIN BY SHIP WORKER Johnny O'Leary Was Former Light- Weight Champion of Domin SEATTLE, March 16 John O'Leary, former Canadian champion Ughtweight boxer, was shot and killed here this morning by E. Frank Leslie, 4 shipworker, who later surrendered to police. Leslie told the police O'Leary and another man had altacked him, with a piece of pipe With several large O'Len und the ether man BEFORE ANY REPARATIONS Big Bill Is Put in To-Day to the Allied Finance Ministers in Session at Paris. vould be met. He denied then, how- «ver, that any steps were being taken Ly this Government to assure a stave in the division of German reparations. That $241,000,000 would not com- pletely satisfy the claims of the American forces in Germany was in- dicated by statistics compiled by the War Department Claims Board. These show the gross cost of the Rhine forces from Nov. 11, 2948, to Sept 80, 1921, to have been $248,339,512, after deducting credits to Germany of $85,885,000 on account of funds ob- tuined by the United States since the armistice Since Sept. mated by accrued 30, 1921, it officials to-day, expenses of approximately $9,000,000 on account of the Army of Occupation, and it was said that the present forces in Germany would cost esti- has was there this Government $4,000,000 each quarter, Included im the charges against Germany are costs of the American section of the inter-Allted Rhinelana High Commission, whose gross ex- penses in the period from May, 1919, to Sept. 80, 1921, were $375,396. PPELINES BROKEN BY EARTHQUAKE ~—INCALIFORNA Territory 200 Miles Long Shaken Up, Most Damage in Oil Region. SAN FRANCISCO, March 10. fornia to-day was visited by an earth quake which shook the region com- prising the lower San Joaquin Valley Cali and Southern California as far South Angeles, together with the coast#! region from north of San Luis Obispo County south to the vicinity of Los Angeles. [t covered a territory roughly described as 200 miles long and 150 miles wide. The only damage reported was in the oil fields. The pipe line run from San Joaquin Valley to the at Ban Luis Obispo, a distance of about 150 miles, was broken in four places. In San Luis Obispo the Itelephone system was severely disrupted The quake seemed to center in the territory lying between Bakrsfield on 1) coust and San Luis Obispo on th west It was composed of three ks, coming within a period of n minutes The first shock heaviest as Los nin coast wor Several tow wily at Hanford. At Hanford, Visalia, Lenmoore few other places many left th nd some rushed onto the attire. The quae povoximately 3.20 A.M WASHINGTON, March 19 —The thay which was felt on the ‘ Coast early to-day was corded a8 & tremor of “pro ty" at Georgetown Un nological Observatory. The Rey. Francis A. Tondorf. d@ of the observatory, said toe ike was first recorded at #40 and continued until 7 with the period of greates sity at 6.43 o'clock. He estimaced the center of the disturbur shout 1,800 miles south of Wa reported near panics Porterville and r neds started at ——_ AVOIDING ONE TRAIN IS KILLED. BY ANOTHER, Thomas Tarpey, No. 1845 Park Ave «as killed by a New York Central vin ‘ody On the bridye ut 186th nd Park Avenue, where had been ed as an iron worker Hie stepped ou! of the Way of one south bound (rain 1ck by another on the nd Av LHS ETE LEAES APOE scam oo RENT LAW EXTENSION PASSED Greatest Celebration Ever Is ena T 8 Urged in Message to All Friends in World. FUTURE LOOMS BRIGHT ARREST IN INDIA OF LEADER GHANDI. PECTED TOA iondon Hears That Trouble- ' a4 Metropolitan Measure Reporiéd Despite Opposition of. .In- surance Committee Chair- Free State Chief Gives Thanks: man; May Pass: To-Day.’* to America for Help in Freedom Fight. Untermyer Demands Passage of Entire Lockwood Pro- gramme; Asks: “Why-.Blse Go On With Inquiry?” By Michael Collins. Ghief of the Irish Free State Provi- sional Government. (Copyright, 1932, by the United Press.) - or ila CASTLE, March 10. some Mahatma Is to Be | Bills to Be Rushed to Assembly After centuries of struggle, St TT, . “4 4 Pat vion’a: devs Abaasl wiilthss unirsiets Taken Near Delhi. and Rules Committee Ig Ex: government taking over control of all Irish affairs. pected to Promptly Re Them; Governor May Acts} LONDON, March» 10.—"Mahatma” Ghandi, leader af the During the Jong war for indepen- dence, the American people were yn-| live movement in India, will, be ars. } stinting-in thelr support of Iretand,| rested to-day jn the Woaltty Of] (gay Jenialy Sy derdons ri and now on the eve of our nationai! shnere, a news agency. deapatch World.) feast—a greater feast this year than! fron, Dethi annougeddenicl ce» ,n | ALBANY, March 10.—Not ely ever before in our history—we thank the American people for their help and sympathy. A frieudahip bas been built up be- tween Ireland and America which will endure. We assure our friends :*at with God's help the new Ireland wil! Justify the faith they have always shown, This is my message to the Ameri can people, and to the friends of tre land all over the world, as St. Pat- rick’s Day approaches. To realize what the establishment of the new Irish Government sixni- fies, it must be realized that Ireland in fighting for freedom fought not only for an tdeal but for a very vitoi reality Freedom for Ireland was nut @ !ux ury but @ necessity. The history of foreign government in Ireland is one tong story of warfare and tyranny, of impoverishment and depopulation and of national decay. Ireland is not by nature poor, jut during the last century her wealth nas flowed steadily into English coffers The Indian Government, followtng}members of the Housing Committee the serious situation created by its| but all the Senators from New. York demands regerding-Turkey,-and the] are in high glee to-day over the rapid enforced resignation of Bdwin @&]pfostess being made with the rent Montagu, Secretary of $tate foi ]@nd housing measures. j India, has definitely decided to ar-| WIth the bill exténding the emer. rest the famous leader, {t wag atated:|Rency rent laws until Feb. 16, 1924. Grave fears of an uprising {n]|and another providing for the return India were felt here followihy the} of Jury fees paid by tenants whose announcement, It, bas long been} cases are not separately tried, recognized that the arrest of Ghand},| by the Senate last night, and thi who js regarded as a saint by many|°f the rent law amendments up f Indians and who has steadily| nal passage to-day, the big bill i preached passive resistance to Brit-|the housing programme, that permi ish rule and the influx of Western| tin Insurance companies to invest 4 materialism, would be effected only|Per cent. of thetr assets in the coms in a desperate emergoney. struction of tenements, was Tt also provokes speculation con-| Placed on third reading in the Uppd? cerning the position of the Viom| House for final passage, iH roy, Lord Reading, whose action in The minutes of the hearing on t publishing the Indian Governntent’s| Proposed legisiation ‘efore the Cities note is interpreted as an intention|Committes begun Wednesday }noc to force the hand of the Imperial|®"d completed last evening, bad ng} Government. been transcribed when the two bill Lord Reading, desiring to publiah| “re Shot through the Senate wit Hi the offending document, sought per-| Ut debate. H ission of the Secretary. for Indi Bare! beriige ahd . i for the Lockwood committee, who Untermyer, chief eb Emigration followed inevitatly! «ho technically is his supertor, to upon this export of wealth. Nation uke the statement public in India. |e" here for two days, during-whi decay followed inevitably upon | he has held conferences with Got, rT. Montagu, without consulting the i Miller Cabinet, and while the Prime Mimis-} oo cgra and Speaker Machold, wi ter was confined to his room lL. Jchampioned the Downing-Camp! gave permission. Lord Reading had | bili and the housing bills at committ the statement published Im India,| hearings. made an impassion trom which country It was tele-|t® the Cities Committee yeste graphed through the ordinary chai He practically told the cofgpuit nels to the British press. be might as well quit, and that Mr. Montagu’s Cabinet colleagues} ™ore money should be spent on |. vestigations, if the bills recommen take the stand that he should have Sy tha Lockwood committee aie a withheld permission and simply] passed, Chairman Gibbs of the Citi brought the matter to the attention] Committee interrupted him while of the Premier and Cabinet for thelr] was talking in favor of the bill whichl : will permit the expenditure by mature consideration. Metropolitan Insurance Company A story is current that the Prime} 100,000,000 for the construction Minister, while lying in bed looking]|tenement: ana said there had beeh over the morning papers, was amazed | Considerable criticiam because the billp) to read the Indla document, He im-|Were not in earlier, so they coulg have received more study. mediately summoned Secretary Mon- Mr, Chairman," retorted ¢! tagu and other Ministers to Downing} counsel, “are you aware that this bill) Street. Lord High Chancellor Birk-} ha been here six weeks and that ik} enhead, Austen Chamberlain and Mr. |i), Tyee moeton More Suce (he Baby Churchill considered the matter with} parently, it doesn’t make any differ:/ the Premier, and it was unanimously jence whether it |s in six weeks or aif; decided Mr, Montagu could not prop- | 98¥*: ee | “IT want to make a statement,”* cont) erly retain office. Thereupon the}tinued Mr. Untermyer, “with respect! Premier sent to Mr. Montagu a for-}to all the housing bills that have beef) mal request for his resignation, considered, including this permissivg The troubles accumulating around {Pill under which life insurance com: the head of the Prime Minister and panion May invest 10 per cent. Gk ane the Governmen’ are likely to delay | assets in certuin classes of tenement Mr, Lloyd George's visit to Wales, |®24 also with respect to the generd 7 n change |i programme of the committee. although n pange in his plans has ‘Personally, I feel we arc export of human beings and of wealt! and that national decay was assisted by a foreign government which knew nothing and cared nothing for Irish needs. To put an end to that foreign con- trol was for Ireland an urgent neces- sity. It is now ended, and an Irish Government takes over the work of undoing the harm which has been done and of building up the Irish nation. DUBLIN, March 10 (Associated Press),—Eamon De Valera, the former Republican President, declared to-day he would not answer the statement by Arthur Griffith, President of the Dail Kireann, on the Simerick situation until such time as the controversy would not embarrass the difficult posi ion Insurance Commissioné: a ts Mr. Griffith's statement, issued last night, declared the situation in Lim erick was “largely the outcome of incitement to indiscipline, indulged in connived at by some of Eamon De Valera’s supporters."" He added: “If Mr. De Valera will even now condemn the mutiny in the army, the danger of the situation In Limerick will be con iderubly lessened." LIMERICK, March 10 (Associated (Continued on Second Page) — 6-DAY SCORE—111TH HOUR not juss Team Miles Lape] been announced ‘ : Grenda and MeNamara.1,862 7 Premier Lloyd George, in accepting | tins’ roting the money, of the stat; Brocco and De Ruyter.1,862 7 | Mr. Montagu’s resignation, charges | ee ease a i ee ee tne prod! Goulet and Madden...1,862 6 | him “without being urged by any| 2h iiing, which is the result of owe Coburn and Lands.....1/862 6 | pressing necessity” with publishing |#r0 "0, inves yenrs of investigations Thomas and Lawrence 1,862 6 | statement tho importance of which {tre iu caucted Into law. It ie aurea Egg and Eaton. 1962 6 |extends far beyond the frontiers of | Usciess, so far us I can see, for thie Rutt and Krukat 1,862 6 | india or “the respo! bilities of your | committee to continue taking testi4| Magio sed Haak ath 1 oe 6 | office eS mony applicable to legislation ‘if: the} aleer an ‘taylor 1,862 6 = as legislation when presented does not) THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREA .) Brounen and Hanley. 1,862 ETA Pulitaer (World) Buaing. ‘ss-e3 | eet with the Legislature's approve’ Cy “gt ane aoe Lee | 4 fark Row, N.Y City. bag wee perce} or isn't seautauees of ‘comers || nf ello and Gaffney i m0. Check rooin for bagmage portance ( be enacte And sol! 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