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Wee REAM E! ¢ id ‘To-Night’s Weather—FAIR; MUCH COOLER. Che [* Circulation Books Open ¢o All.” | : “IF IT HAPPENS IN NEW YORK IT’S IN THE EVENING WORLD” orld, [ “Circulation Books Open to All.” « = =—, —=—<—— ———————e—————————e—EEE——————— ——!} = VOL, LXII. NO. 22,026—DAILY. COOr ting Compete Nie nn NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1922. Ree LLIES BAR GERMANY FROM ANY IN RUSSIAN Serond-Clans Matter To-Morrow's Weather—FAIR, LL EDITION WORLD i. “PRICE THREE CENTS New York. PART — WOMAN CN TRIAL HELOFORNAVT FUEL SIPPY Congress, Stirred by Exposure of Contract, Inclined to HOLD OIL RESERVES INTACT, PLEA OF Blame Secretary Fall and EX-SEC’Y DANIELS His Friendship for Oil Inte1- ests, ie See as in for Cc Any trations of Taft and Wilsun iservation as Grest Vime in Adminis- FOR KILLING SISTER Bonus Bill to Pass This Session, KISSES HIS WIFE Senate Republicans Decide) GogDBY, SHOOTS Passes Caucus by Vote uf 36 to 9; Also De- HER, ENDS OWN LIFE cide to Push Tariff Bill Through. WASHINGTON. April 18.—Deci-Jat that time and it was announced ion to pass a Sol Bonus Bill at] the majority membership would make - this session of Ci 4 was reached|every effort to hold a quorum con-| Mullers | Met in Vain Et- today by Sena tepublicans in ee ; fort to Make Up After Four party caucus. The vote was 36 to 9 he conference resolution on the TES . on = motion offered by Senator Len:| bonus, as made public, follows Years’ Separation, root, Republican, Wisconsin “It is the sense of this conference neiaeoa rine. The conference also decreed that the| that the Senate should at this session] QUARRELLED IN SUBWAY Senate should proceed to the consid-] Pass a Soldiers’ Bonus Bill and (hat e Republ embers of the Fi- ee 7 ; eT Sema Le Nee nici tee ta ronucercd vo 12. | Letter in His Pocket Shows He ne hs) port such # bill within a reasonable Had Prepared for Murder delay.” The maesure will be called up| time. and Suicide. He Has So Far Ignored Seu- ate’s Request for Informa- By Josephus Daniels of the Navy us tion as toe Deal by Whicr: + New York Syndicate Gets Apri! 18—T de * paren aren tine for eight Rich Wyoming Reserve. conta (tthe ox. tation eserves sel {Special to The Evening World aft and Wilson apart by WASHINGTON, April 18 — AI-} poe need for conservation of these though the Senate adopted by unami-].. rves is us at now as at any ) > mous consent Saturday a resolution} y).,, offered by Senator Kendrick of WY-| 14 1915, the policy of the building oming, calling upon the Interior De-] y one put oi-burning naval ships was Partment for information as to tel siooted and leas of any of these deal between a New York financial} reserves \ou'd be « serious blunder. group and the Government for the Application. was made to Seere- operation of Naval Petroleum Roserv+ tary” Payne 0 ing, “only « No. 8 in Wyomiug, Secretary Fall's] fe days berore the change of Ad Galea has not yet responded. severu{ Misietration, The Navy Depart i ‘ ment opposed any leasing. members of Congress say they have The only wise policy is to hold (Photo P. and A MRS. RENSELMAN In- to the these ofl reserves intact Mier a hearing Seeretary layne declined to approve the ap. Written letters of inquiry terior Department on other oll, mat- ters without reply Mrs, Renzelman Sobs as Pros- Gevares ; ad in| lication mate for the new lease Seareret Hanibers. Of: COnerers: An investigation will show that satan t eee ew of the vaval policy involved,} the claims urged by most. applt ecutor and Detective Tell expect to. discuss {n connection with} cants for leases were made by ot Her Confession. the pending naval appropriation bill] Purlies who trumped up some ‘ . luims which could not stand the Sorrento the ‘raid on the navy's reserve oil ier A ee ee supply. At this time, when the Ad Those who wish to serve! the | cing peaceiman, e6 years old, charged ministration is appealing to Congress} navy should fight any and every | dering her sister, Miss not to cripple the efficiency of the] cffort to undo what Taft and Wil n & sister, Mis son preserved in setting avide the |Gesine Wessel, was selected wit Wy. by reducing its personne! below Naval Reserves three hours to-day before Supreme ‘y ol he Wy- are ‘Aeaties ar aa Sen Court Justice Kalisch at Freehold, N “toi : “4 ‘| OIL DEVELOPMENT J. The husband with his 14 months Sf pertinent. High naval officers, who arte ae aN mage a ) have long jealously guarded the MAY CARRY ON IF_ ]°4 bay in his lap. sat among the spectators The alleged murder was committed at the Renzelman home near West Long Branch on Suni 15 last Mrs, Renzelman broke down twice, once while Prosecutor Charles F. Sexton told of her alleged confession to slaying Miss Wessels, and again when John M. Smith, chlef of county detectives, testified that Mrs. Renbel man told him she had killed her sis navy's oi] reserves, are privately ex |} pressing their ingignation the move to reverse the national security b policy in this respect. Only the ban on ‘naval men talking without the ©] express permission of the Secretary V) of the Navy prevents some of these officers publicly voicing their teelings. SUSPICIOUS OF FALL AND OIL INTERESTS. The Evening World's expose of the Foil deal was read with interest by members. of Congress to-day. The Wi storm which is breaking over the | matter is centring on Secretary Full Members of Congress, both Republl- cans and Democrats, have regarded over PLAN IS HONEST » Jan President Harding Has Full Con- fidence in Government Agencies in Wyoming Deal. WASHINGTON, April 18.—Pri dent Harding sces no reason why the Teapot ‘Wyo., Naval Oil Re- serve, should not be developed so long re Dome, as the concern involved ‘‘does business ly," it was said at the White House to-day Mr. Harding's position was given following a question concerning the negotiations of the Navy and Interior Departments with the Sinclair G4 ter because Miss Wessels had been in- timate with Fred Renzelman, the de- fendtn’s husband, in New York. A recess of 10 minutes was taken fol- lowing the second outburst, and Mrs. Renzelman was taken from the court hon’ ) Fall with some suspicion since his|Company for the development of the} room, After she returned she oc ow with Secretary of Agriculture}Teapot Pome Reserve casionally broke into sobs, erying lace over the attempt to transfer] Mr. Harding has full confidence in Mt Ae sintar.? ‘all's depart-|the Government agencies carrying on} MY ister, Oh, my sister forest service to the negotiations it was stated. Prosecutor Sexton told the jury that activities have been oleagin > — dae cust Sak, “heen. pretnetitaten, fur since his efforts to throw 2960115 FIRES IN BELFAST ut he aia not want sire. Roncriman Re eater arthe senatevand we] AND DOZEN HURT] «ent to the ciectric chair. In New handling of the Mexican oil hearings — —- Jersey a jury may specify in a first @ distinct Doheny slant Snipers Active All Night While] 4esree murder case whether death I 1s credited with being the in- penalty or life imprisonment shall be Incendiaries Keep Whole within the Administration exacted ——- Department Busy. Detective Smith told of arresting (Continued on Sixteenth Page.) i Mrs. Renzelman at her home two BELFAST, April 18.—Fifteen incen- diary fires broke out last night in the troubled areas of Belfast. A dozen persons were wounded by days after the murder, which was dis- covered by her husband, who hurried home in response to a letter sent him by Mrs. Renzelman. The detective DETROIT WILL BUY TRACTION SYSTEM Frank Muller, twenty-eight years old, of No, 144 Monroe Street, Brook- lyn, shot his wife, Elsie, twenty-four, MOTHER AND 2 BABES PERISH 32s OWNER OF BUILDING IS HELD she is in no immediate danger and Esse LE > will recover if no complications set in. It was said that the bullet passed through her left cheek and came out on the right side of her face The couple had been separated for pstein Accused of Homicide in Permitting Premises to Be Occuped Before Lights Were Installed — Tenants Used Kerosene Lamps. CONVICT SET FREE TO UPHOLD JUDGE’S CONFIDENCE IN HIM and she had been living at No. 2836 Church Avenue, Brooklyn, Her con- dition is such she could not be ques- tioned at length, but she told detec- tives she met her husband by ap- pointment last night to talk over their troubles. They went to a hotel in the ‘ower Jersey Prisoner Had Married and Settled Down After Jail Break about four years, the police learned, Barnett Epstein of No. 817 West End Avenue, President of the Loring Thomas Patton Doty, thirty- | 30's and the conference broke up Construction Company of No. 1 West) ¥% Went to his home near Wol- | early to-day in another quarrel. I'hey 31th Street, owning the unfinished| tts Conn., to-day to uphold the [left the hotel and walked to 4d apartment building at No, 96 Wads-| faith of a New Jersey Judge who | Street, atill quarreling. Why they worth ‘Terrace in which Mrs. Laurene| Tefused to sentence him for escap- | took the uptown subway she could Helms and her two children were] ‘9S from Jail. Doty and another | not explain burned to death early this morning,| Prisoner fled from their cells tn On the train the altercation at- was held on a homicide charge in| October, 1917, and Dody got a job | tracted so much notice she left at Wasbington Heights Court by Magis-| °° © Connecticut term. While |the 78th Street station He got off there he married a farmer's with her, carrying a suitcase trate McQuade in $10,000 bail The charge as embodied in an af davit submitted by Detective Mullans of the West 177th Street Station was based on the statement that Epstein “by an ac of palpable negligence did permit the sald premises to be oc- cupied before installed causing the tenants to burn candles for lights which resulted in the build He talked to her until the passen- gere who had left the train had dis- appeared up the stairs and then said: “Now, when this is all over, yo tell the police what it was all about.” Puzzled, she said she asked him what he meant, and he replied: “Never mind, dear, kiss me good- by.” As she kissed him a train rolled in on the opposite platform, and before its rumble had stopped he drew a re- volver from his pocket and shot har. daughter and started life anew, The other prisoner, however, fold the Waterbury police about Doty and he was brought back to New Jersey, where he served out his first sentence. Yesterday he was freed, but was taken before Judge Stickel for sentence for es- caping jail. ‘ou led a good fugitive,”’ said the Judge, ‘so you lights were life while a 4 -f a Ci the ing catching -fire and causing the} can go back to the farm with your | She fell and he put the weapon to Geathiof three: persena. wife to uphold my faith in you.” | the right side of his head. and when Alfred Eckelman, attorney for Ep i the train across the way had started stein, protested in vain against the again fired. Neither shot made much MAGISTRATE DROPS DOUBLE STANDARD Woman Caught in Raid Fined Same as Man in Hoboken Court “There will be no double atandard of morals in this court as long as I am on the bench, declared Magistrate A. ©. Careten, at Hoboken to-day, when Mrs. Maude Nelson, thirty-five, of No. 12 Willow Avenue, Hoboken, and Constantine Paton, officer on a British steamship, were arraigned after having been caught late Sun- day night in @ vice raid, Magistrate Carsten fined the man and the woman $20 each, with the alternative of twenty days in Jali noise, because he had waited so the reports would be drowned by the train. The young woman, seeing him fall, estruggied to her fest and ran up the stairs to the street. Pasengers on the downtown side who had seen Muller shoot himself hed run up in time to catch her as she collapsed. Policemen Klinger and Walker of the West 68th Street Station heard her amount of the bond required, Epstein had to wait in the court prison while a bondsman was sought Epstein said that the agents f-r the building were responsible for the admission of tenants to the building before the Tenement ment had authorized its occupancy Charles Nehring of Nehring Bros the agents, informed The Evening World that they had rented many of the apartments but that in every case the tenant had signed a stipulation agreeing not to occupy the premisi until the official certificate was issued that it was fit for occupancy and that the rental payment would not apply until that date, William Abel de scribed by the police as superintendent who has permitted some tenants to live in the butlding since April 1, Mr House Depart (Continued on Second Page.) SWARMS OF RATS EAT EVIDENCE AND JUDGE'S SILK HAT Montreal Court Now Has Official Catcher After Cats and Nehring sald, was not employed by Other raids are being made in an Dogs Fail the agents and they belleved he wasleffort to clean up the city, Martin 8: merely a night watchman hired by | Schmidt, owner of the American R MONTREAL, April 18.—To said he asked Mrs. Renzelman who was the woman dead on a couch in the room, and she replied, ‘My ris. snipers while the city’s entire fir fighting forces were battling the va- rious blazes. Sporadic firing con- City Votes 55,658 to 12,198 to , ter.” He asked her who Killed the Take Over and Operate All Hinged MAGI early to-day. the woman, and testified that Mra Lines May 15. Renzelman replied, "I did." The do- ae GIRL SAYS SHE WAS ATTACKED BY 5 MEN Irene Gannon, nineteon years oid, No. 478 Lexington Avenus, Brooklyn, told Magistrate Reynolds in ea Brooklyn court to-dey that she wae threwn inte the hallway on Avenues, gugged and attacked by five men shortly be tective said hoe asked Mra, Renzelman why she had killed her sinter, and the woman replied, ‘Ask my husband,’ On the way to the County Jail, the detective said Mra, Stenzelman asked if she could go to the oleetire chair that night, ‘1 killed my sister, and DBTROIT, April 18.—The city by overwhelming majority yesterday to purchase the city lines of he Detroit United Railways for 19,860,000, the figure agreed upon ween Mayor Couzens and the tockholders. ‘The @pecial election vote was 65,- (Continued on Hesond Mage.) _ aaaa fore midnight fast ight, Irving John ; ; > baa Pilerae Habba which putt, Uwenty-one, of No, 8 Heyward | OMILD KILLED BY B-WTORY ifA1.t. eon years Iuirnot, who wae found hiding in the} William Grib, (hres, of No, #38 Haat city takes over the lines May {oq f the build: Pan the entire system, 360 miles, costady and held without O08 under ‘municipal ownership, qmen were cought, Peth Btreet, was killed to-day when he fell frem a fifth floor winduw at hie residence te the etrect ken inte No other Mr, Epstein, Mr, Nehring maid he kad no knowledge until to-day that any tenants had been allowed to live in the butiding, though pormianion had been given to several to put their fur niture in the apartments until they ac tually moved tn, Mrs, Holma ie taurant, at No, 829 Washington Street, Hoboken, was also arraigned and hold in $1,000 ball for the Grand Jury of @ Charge of conducting a disorderly house, Threo young women arrested in the restaurant, were held ae material witnesscs _ anve legal records from dostruc- tion, an ofMfeta!l rat ontchor has been appointed for the Montreal Court House, Official stenographers hod their notew eaten, A judge lost his gown and silk hat, Aults involv ing valuable property were de the davehter 0 Hoaton Telegram, and with ner (wo LOCAL WEATHER BUREAU} pit. when “Rrhibi A” in children, Mlorence, thren and Haretd GETS STORM WARNING] murder trial wee oaten, the prisoner had to be liberated) (hn authorities took action Cats intredueed at firs! ‘Two, lived until yesterday with her father's brother in Brooklyn, fhe hat ‘The following advisory message from for some time ean aaparsied (10% | warhinsion was reesived at tle loesl| oc Men rurecuem, 64 Ors! Nested her husband a elma, a Baler aoe esata 5 0 0, ere allowed a ines: at: the Wenthee (Bur this] with similar results, Iinally the ‘ raneniny . i (Continued on Second Pax.) ‘douthwest slerm warning sentinuea| "tcatoh w was installed —= at and nerth ef Capa Henry, Strong Poison has diminished tne re Routhwest, shifting ta Northwest wind dent hosts and the ¢ motion (Racing Entries and Gelestions oF [isiurhanee of cansiderable |nienelity ef natebeoks, evidens exhibits Page @.) ovevy Quebec moving ra,” and silk hats hae fallen off. RESTORATION AT GENOA ALLIES PROHIBIT GERMANY FROM SHARING ANY FURTHER IN NEGOTIATIONS ON RUSSIA Lloyd George in Fear of Break-Up Fights to Keep All Powers at Genoa, but France Decides to Quit If Secret Agreement Stands. GENOA, April 18 (Associated Press).—The allies have decided that Germany, having effected her own arrangement with Russia in the treaty signed Sunday at Rapallo, is*debarred from further par- ticipation in the discussion of the conditions of agreement between Russia and vhe \arious other countries represented at the ecopamic conference GENOA, April 18 Lloyd George struggled this afternogn to prevent the crisis created by announce- ment of thé»Russo-German Treatyadrom wrecking the Geona Con- ference. Ile was reported to be sirging a practical handling of the (United Press), —Premier matter 4 Louis Barthou, head ef the French delegation, stood for forcing Russia and Germany to annul the agreement signed at Rapallo on Sunday. If this was not done, the French said, they would be in- clined to withdraw from Genoa ee PASTOR INVITES YOUNG FOLK TO SPARK IN CHURCH Reserves Two Rows of Pews and Urges Couples to Spoon at Service. KANSAS CITY, April 18 The Rev. Dr, C. A, French, pas- the Central Christian Church, has the two back rows of his church for young Lioyd more modified views towards the treaty, and a de- ove everything else, to hold the Genoa Conference together, sought to avoid aggravating the Russo-German union beyond the breaking pojnt. He. sought to dissuade the French from their desire for a stronger carrying: out of the polictes of Versailles. The situation remains critical, with the final allied decision uncertain. Lioyd George, British observers said, was attempting with all his power to prevent the French from either fore: ing the Russians and Germans from George, with sire, a tor of reserved folk and invites them to attend the Conference or retiring themselves, service and “spark.'’ Lloyd George however, had said "If our younger generation 1 | the treaty w. a step in the going to spark,” said Dr. Finch, direction of dividing Europe into ‘it im better that they do it In |,oparate ‘camps, the very thing the chureh than in motor cars along country roads where their elders have no means of knowing what they do. I hope to see the back rows filled at next Sunday's ser- vice.” ALL JAZZ IS BARRED BY SAVANNAH CITY conference wished to avoid. Tho Allied leaders met at 11 o'clock to take action on the treaty, other committee meetings being cancelled io view of the importance of the decision to be reached The British Premier had promised France that existing treaties should not be abrogated by any action at Genoa. The French, backed by many other nations, maintain the Ver- sailles Treaty, {8 directly, violated. They look to the British Premier to call upon Germany and Russia to re+ nounce the new treaty. Italy, which hitherto has backed Lloyd George against the French, ts openly opposed to permitting the Russo-German treaty. Soa TREATY MUST GO; ALLIES THREATEN TO OUST SIGNERS Council Prohibits “Indecent” Dance on Stage and in Homes, on Women's Urging SAVANNAH, Ga., April 18 (Copy: right) —The Savannah City Council has just passed an ordnance barring jezz from the stage, from all public dances and presumably from all homen. ‘The new law declares ‘'fazz" to be ‘4ndecent and injurious to public mornis,"" and fixes a penalty of $100 fine or thirty days in jal! for those who partictpate in the barred dance or those who permit it Alderman A, J. Garfunkel, father of the anti-Jjazz movement, introduced the ordinance ten days ago, Bo great wns the interest that Mayor Stewart decided to hold « special meeting of Go on With Plans. the council and to Invite ‘'all comers’ to discuss the measure, The women] PARIS, April 18 (Associated Press), turned out in forces, against ja: to|--A Havas despatch from Genoa this a man,’ Thay met every ons wholafternoon says the Allies are drafting entered City Hall during the meeting! note to the Germans and Russians us Saeed p cone ane ene “| notifying them it will be impossible for No other eity i» known to have «|the Germans and Russians to continue similar measure, and now that Ha-|to participate In the sessions of the vanneh has it the City Mathers Russian Affairs Commission of the ‘onferenes if they persist in maintains Note to Germans and Russians to Warn Them They Must Not looking for some one to define jars definitely tng the fusse-German treaty, = A high offtoial of the Government mast puleee eine Machine) deoiaved thik afternoon there was ne iH ea reener powsibility of continuing the diseuss SAM DAN, sions at Genoa unlews the Russe-Gery LuNMINgS, lwenty-Avo, a t hs ne was Killed when ifs machina was hit] #8 treaty were canoe! 5 by a trolley carat Marchantwitle yoster-| Hiven tf it were annuled, he declared; day, No arrest was mada, the mera! effect would remain of two * ‘ A