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, To-Night’s Weather-—SHOWERS. The * Circulation Books ¢ Open to All.” | Copyright ' VOL. LXII. NO. 22,027—DAIL (New Yort World) by Vress iy 19, “IF IT HAPPENS IN NEW YORK IT’S IN THE EVENING WORLD” LADY ASTOR HAS NO INTENTION OF TRYING TO AEPORM U. Katered as Second-Cians Matter Post Office, New York, ther—CLEARING, KS MILLER THREATENS VLAN WITH ACTION ON TRANSIT IF IMPROVEMENT ISN'T SHOWN + ar Time Approaching When Ob- structive Tactics Must Stop, Says Governor. EXECUTIVE CHEERED. “Champions of People” Have Done Nothing, He Says. ® at Luncheon, Gov. Miller, in addyessing the Fifth Avenue Associution at luncheon to day in the Waldorf-Astoria, om what his hearers construed as a thereat of action uguinst the City Adminis €ration unless the Mayor and his sup- porters cease the exercise of obstruc- tive tactics in the matter of transit improvement. He intimated that he City Administra- 14th Street cross: intends to force the tion to complete the town subway The men in attendance arose and Ghfered for nearly two minutes when the Governor said “YT haye made an observation and it fs this: That that sort of official con @uct is such a gross violation of oM- more drastic cial duty us Fion. The to justify time is approaching When public officials will no longer be able to pose as champions of the poo- ple while denying them necessary Measures for relief.” The Ge ou 1 ns in the matter of transit at consice Qe lensth and ale nes: already ' ie familiar to the people of this ly, but he interjected some new matter at frequent intervais, “Nothing has been done byAhe city administration,” he declared, ‘because it has ‘no authority competent to deal with the problem. “At this moment the city is holding up rapid transit construction to which it is committed not only by contract but bu its investment in the , Property. The 14th Street crosstown subway to Broohlyn has been sleeping for a year while the people are losing $2,000 a day in interest charges. “With transit facilities going back- ward and travel increasing the transit compunics and the City Administra- tion took attitudes that disordered the public mind., The companies giving Poor service asked increased fare and the elty bezan to curry favor with the public on the prejudices thus created Both attitudes were wrong “Anybody can obstruct but it takes men of brains to construct." @)ERRICK MOURNS NAVY “WANTONLY DESTROYED” Some Would Rombard Our Ve Says. WASHINGTON, April 19.—Asserting the government by treaty had “wantonly royed the navy,’ Representative errick, the Republican ‘beauty ex- pert” from Oklahoma, said in an exten- sion of remarks, published to-day in the Congressional Record, that “it would be & blessing in disguise if some little third nation was to declare war on us and bombard some of our coast cilles."’ Mr. Herrick said it was immaterial whether the United States had any navy at all during the ten-yenr naval holiday or until the “infamous treaty can be abrogated." REAL ESTATE ADVERTISEMENTS for the Sunday World Must be in The World Office Friday Before 6 P. M. To Insure Proper Classification Nation VOTE OF AL CENOA POWERS ON TREATY SOUGHT BY RUSSIA Rathenau and Chicherin Meet Lloyd George—Germany Replies To-Night. GUNOA, April 19 (United Press). ~The Russian delegation the Genoa Conference announced to-day it will ask that the Russo-Germap treaty be discussed at a plenary ses- sion and put to a vote. This was the Soviet answer to the Allied protest to against the agree- ment privately signed at Rapallo on BK Sund Russian Foreign Ministers. The tention to appeal was particularly displeasing ter the German and by Russian announcement of in- to the conferenc to M. Barthou and his colleagues in the French delegation. They wish the Al- lies to annul the treaty of Rapallo. As soon as the G n reply was re- ceived, the French said, stronger ac- lon would be urged, TREATY SIGNERS AND LLOYD GEORGE HOLD CONFERENCE Rathenau and Chicherin Take Up Allied Protest With British Premier. GENOA, April 19. (Associated Press).—Dr, Walter Rathenau, the German Foreign Minister, conferred with Prime Minister Lloyd George and Foreign’ Minister Chicherin of Ruseia this morning regarding the barring of; the Germans from «the Russian C¥mmission of the confer- ence. - The Germans will probably submit a formal reply to-night to the Allied note on this subject. The expected German demand for discussion of her case before a plen- ary session of the conference will prove “a mortal blow’’ to the confer- ence, it is declared in a French com- munique issued here this noon, The communique Insists the drag- ging of the controversy into the full session of the conference would bring (Continued on Second Page.) eee NEW GREAT CABLE ACROSS ATLANTIC Will Be Ready to Carry 40,000,000 Words a Year, Beginning in 1923 Plans for laying a new cable across |the Atlantic to Northern Europe have ‘been completed, ‘Newcomb Carlton, President of the Western Union Tele- graph and Cable Company, announced to-day, It will represent the greatest progress in cable construction in his- tory and is the invention of engineere connected with the Western Electric and American Telephone Companies. The old cables under the Atlantic are capable of handling 5,000,000 words a year, while the new line will carry 40,000,000, It will be laid from New York to the Azores and from there probably to a German port, und will be ready for megsuges by the summer of 1923. sa - (First game of Vankee-Red Sox double-header on Page 2.) i NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRI FEDERAL CONTROL OF NEW YORK PORT URGED ON HARDING National Maririe League Head Sees $53,000,000 Saving and Quick Reform. ASKS SHIPPING) RELIE P. Il. W. Ross Quotes Presi- dent as Foreseeing Adjust- ment of Differences. WASHINGTON, April 19,—The suggestion that the Mederal Govern- ment take control of the port facili ties of New York Harbor at present administered jointly by the States of New York and New Jersey, was pre sented fo President Harding to by H. W. Ross, President of ihe National Marine League, Mr. Ross, during 4 conference at the White House, estimated that $53,900,000 could be saved ‘by better port facilities’ and declared favorable control would effect an immediate improvement in the situation. President Harding wax requested at the same time to lend his influence to effort between shippers of the the to harmonize differencs Middle West and New York over shipping fucilities. Mr. Ross suid ‘the President -d clared he was cognizant of the situ tion and hoped the opposing elements would be able to arrive at an under. standing and proceed in harmony. One of the “‘differences'’ discussed involved the St. Lawrence Deeper Waterways. ATLANTIC FLYERS ABANDON TRIP Damage to Machine Ends Hope of Reaching Brazil, Few Hundred Miles Away. RIO JANEIRO, April 19 (Asso- ciated Press).—The Portuguese avia- tors who were attempting a filght from Portugal to Brazil will be un- able to proceed in their hydroairplane from St. Paul Rocks, a few hundred miles short of their goal on the American Continent, where they landed last night. Because of damage to their ma- chine, according to a Havas a spatch from Pernambuco to-day, they must abandon the flight The message says their plane was so badly damaged in landing that it is not longer usable. The aviators, however, expect to save the motor, HARDING TO OUST REILY, IS REPORT Said to Be Convinced He Is Not the Man to Govern Porto Rico. WASHINGTON, April : Mont Reily of Kansas City will be removed as Governor of Porto Rico tn the near future, {t was learned to- day from a source close to President Harding. The President, it was said to-day by one of his confidantes on Porto Rican 19 matters, is ‘convinced’ that Retly ts not the man to govern the island, and has decided it would be unwise to leave him there much longer esse Nts J. P. MORGAN AWAITING INVITATION OF ALLIES Leas Banker emt on Germa Until Notifed Officially, J. P. Morgan said this morning that he had not received an invitation to serve on the subcommittee of the Allied Reparations Commission which reports, will loan for financis according to ¢ an international consider Mr. Morgan said he did not care to discuss the matter further before re- ceiving an official invitation, = PRICE THREE CENTS 150 GIRLS TRAPPED IN 5TH AVE. SHOP FIRE Lady Astor Says Modern 'Yoman HOLLIS’S DIVORCE Needs Bomb That Will Raise Her; Blames Mothers for Flappers’ Garb LORDAANE-LABDY AS PHOTOGRAPHED ON ARRIVAL ‘HERE TO-DAY. LADY ASTOR HERE, GREETED BY HER FAMILY AT PIER Calls on Her Husband to Help Her Out in Her Interview, Lady Astor, who is held to be the foremost feminine figure polities in the world, returned to her home- land to-day on the White Star line Olympic. Although she has come here in ar official capacity at the Invitation of the League of Women Voters to sit as a delegate at the Pan-Amey Conference and attend the Women Voters’ Convention in Baltimore was formally welcomed when t Olympié reached Quarantine night, the greeting she received at the West 22d Street pier, as the big ves- sel came into her bert tlonately informal as was “homely” in the best meaning of that word. Among those who were waiting the end of the pier to watch the ves sel swing about were Lady Astor's sister, Mrs, Charles Dana Gibson, her husband, the artist, and he: Mrs. John Lewis of Lynchburg. Lady Astor, by the way, is « V ginian, and the way in which she was hailed and greeted by the knot of her own people at the pic end was obviously delighting t As the Olympic came abreast of t pier, Lady Astor was standing at th ship's rail, cled in a black fur cout wit a high chinchilla collar quite enveloped her. She was cary fully scaning the faces of al! thosr who were awaiting the liner’ n und vont Va wh The first person she spied in th (Continued on Second Page.) He Bee oak THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREAS. Arcade, Pulitzer (World) Buildin rk Row, N. ¥. City, i e 4000; “Check room for baguege’s open day and night. travellers} checks for sale. Government Never The of Department advised the er United fo of the 1 is not Unita oMctally pastor Dubnit: by. no Jegul force. The religion department divorve papers, is instituting proceedings vor at Sofia law University, garian laws. FRAT ay riage can annul it. Says She ‘Did Not Come Here} The Buigarian newspapers i printing long articles ¢ to Tell American States- FOUND ILLEGAL BY BULCARUN STATE Recag- nized Decree, Department of Religion Announces. SOFIA TAKES ACTION. “Did What 1 Thought Was Right,” Former Member of Senate Explains. SOFIA, April 19 (Associated Press) Religion Education of the Foreign Office Bulgarian Legation Washington that the divorce issued to taes Senator Henry hy, Hollis of New Hampshire by the a Chute recognized Bulgarian State, and possesses and tn at denies having given official approval to the and the Government against Pastor Toplisky, who granted the di- Dr, Dobtshef, professor of canonical declares the divorce invalid by virtue of the bul He points out that Bul- gurlan religious authorities have not the power to annul a marrinse con- OR cluded civilly either ut home or abroud, and says that only the elvii authority which executed such @ mar. are mmenting upon the strangeness of the case. Mr. men What to ‘Do. Hollis is wefl Known here, us he lad -— represented a large Am¢ n corpor- Lady Astor on the ship prepared] ation endeavoring to sell the Govern the following statement: “I have not come to try to bring America into better relationship with England and Hurope nor to tell any one their duties, nor to tell American statesmen whut to do, ‘+ have not quite lost either my head nor my sense of humor. I am not on any mission. I am here be- cause I received an invitation to at- tend the Pan-American Women's Convention at Baltimore, to freight cars. PARIS, April 19 (Assoc —Former United & lis, when informed of considered sound legal advice. He added that the div ments had been authentics discuss ment excess American war stocks o. ed Press). es Senator Hol- the Bulgarian Government's action in declaring his recent divorce illegal, said: All I care to say now is that I acted upon what I Tam confident the divorce will stand.” ree docu- ody by, the matter of interest to women all over| Bulgarian Minister in Rome. the world, WASHINGTON, April 19 (Asso- “When I am asked if 1 think that] ciated Press).—No detailed informa- America ought to be st the Genoa] tion regarding the divorce proceedings Conference I ask if Englund was] of former, Senator Hollis in Bulgaria right to attend the Wushington Con-| has reached the Bulgarian Legation ference and to try to make the worl] here. A message received to-day at a little less suspicious and less war-]the legation merely announced the like and the burden of taxation a lit tle less oppressive, the divorce as legal Government's decision not to recognize s to whether Europe ought not] pastor Toflisky, who granted tho atralghten out her affairs before dl shok 6s Lik leiowen tome of tha-ldets Arie omes in, it seems to me that) tion staff, He is described as having when a house is on fire it is a wise = neighbor who goes to help put the nre} &--Wlde acquaintance in Bulgaria out. And if the man who lives acroas} During the Hailasald fe tase ts the street joins In also and pumps the} Celved considerable notortety because er the conflagration will stop all] Of aM unsuccessful effort to obtain ex the quicker. American interests are | mption from military fervi not entirely Independent of or isolated ° from Europe. American inflyence is Hollis married Grace Rruerton needed to help put things to rights."| Fisher of Norwood, Mass., tn 1593 “Is tt true that England is annoyed Farly in March of this year he ob- with America for having demanded] tained a divorce in Hofia, Bulgarta, ler share of reparations the pa and at Rome he married Miss Anne ment of American troops in Ger-| White Hobbs of C ord, N. H, The many?” ceremony was witnessed by Ambassa As I see it, England is e will dor Child and former Senator Phelan « that Am joa should get her share ot California to the international debts, Engia At the time Rome marriag going to y her debts to Amert it was said that the divorcee decree Of course, this is going to take time. | had beep made legal by the Bulgarian “If England had not lent money to] Foreign Ministry. It appeared from her Allies to enable them to continue] the text of the decree that Hollis was fighting she would not have hed to|a resident of Bulgaria without preju- borrow from the United States. Eng-| dice to his American citizenship. EB. T. jand is only in debt to Ar be-| Moore, a former law partner of Hol- c America financed the D lis, said be had also obtained @ di- vorce im the French courts three “Would you say, then, that months before his re-marriag land was well disp: i to the United Attorneys for the first Mrs, Hollis ates contended that under the terms of “British public opini: s most as-| the decree of separation she obtained diy favorable to America. They|!n New Hampshire neither she nor he not only weleome the fruits of the | had the right to remarry Washington Cofiference, but are gen _ > - uinely overjoyed at the evidence of | i982 World Almanac, the ready reference beok, 35 cents per copy on stands; by mail, (Continued on Second Page.) —, MEAT Ra Nee ore Cie ner has OU GIRLS SAVED, 150 TRAPPED, — IN OTH AVE. GOWN SHOP FIRE: PARADE CROWDS CHEER HEROES FOLLIES BEAUTY : TAKES POISON, WILL RECOVER _—— Miss Lee Worthington May Have..Swallowed Mercury Tablet by Accident, 14 Slide Down Rope Ladder Made by Policeman of Canvas Covers. $10,000 IN GOWNS LOST. Apparel Bought by Mrs. G. W. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Geo, Widener. George McDonald, a Negro shipping clerk In the milligery and gown estub- lishment of Tappe, Inc., at No, 9 Went Sith Street, just off Fifth Avenue, ran out tofthe sidewalk from the basement at 10/o'clock to-day shouting “Fire A moment later the screams and Shouts of 160 girls. employed in the Astablishment startiqd thousands in " je gayly excited crowds which were ning the Wifth Avenue sidewalke waiting for the appearance of the Ringling vireus parade, There was an Instant rush into 67th street. Girly were struggling and scream- ing at every window of the five-story brownstone house, clawing at each other and shouting threats to jump., From the basement windows curls of heavy, greasy smoke were rolling up Miss Log Worthington, one of the of the Ziegfeld Follies, ie bichloride Of) yiercury tableta, er by intent of aeeident to-day ah her home, No. 6% West G6th Mtregt, and was removed to Bellevue Hospital, 1t was said she would recover, Owing to the prompt aid that had come to her from « physician whe was stimmoned before the called. beauties hospital ambulance was On the first floor of the apartment lives Mrs. M. C. Morgan, the superintendent, who, at/the request of Miss Worthington’s father, a resident of Boston, was acting in guardianship over her. Mrs. Morgan said this af-| the front of the building, ternoon that c¢ had no knowledge In the gathering multitude was whether the young woman, who is Fireman Walter Murphy, of No. 1 intneded to kiss herself. But she suid that in the last few days Miss Worth- ington had been very much worried by the publication in a paper in this city of a quarrel she had with another girl in the Follies in a dressing room five or six weeks ago. Miss Worthington complained to her maid of « headache when she got up this morning and told her she in tended taking some medicine for it. Then she went into the bathroom and a few minutes later was found on the floor writhing with pain. Beside her was an opened bottle of mercury tub- lets. A physician of the-neighborhood hastily summoned gave her an anti- dot cand urged her removal to the hospital Truck. He has been on leave ill with pleurisy and was on his way to Fir Headquarters to be amined for re Murphy tan to the door of the home of Warner Van Norden, the banker, No, 7 West 57th Street, demanded admission and without any further requests ran up through the house and to the roof. He dived down into @ pent house on the roof of the Tuppe Building. On the top floor Murphy found six girls had fainted or helpless from fright. He pulled them to their feet, shook them and started them for the roof. The at turn to duty. at the landing who either were ee ONEIDA INDIANS WIN 20-YEAR SUIT FOR CITY PROPERTY smoke from below had col the top of the house and but the opening ad cleared it slight lected was dense and of the roof door hot, ly. All but two of the girls were able Decision Based on Fact That]to climb to the roof. The fireman There Never’ Was Legal dragged those two up and laid them Surieidar on the roof Going down to the fourth floor, SYRACUSE, April 19.—Climaxing| nurphy found Miss Celia Tappe, the a twenty-year court fight by thelsister of the proprietor, slumped across United States Government on behalfla show case, uncorselous. He carried of Indians of the Oneida Tribe, Fed-|her to the roof. The girls had by this eral Judge Cooper this morning signed |time recovered in the air and were able an order evicting Mrs. Julia Raylantto tuke Miss ppe with them to the and Mra. Anna Sevier Moyer from} yay x, Van Norden house through t ie thirty-two ucres of land in tl proush, (ho anus of Oneida tle. Murphy had seen another woman ‘The order restores the land to thefon the floor when he discovered Miss possession of three families of the] Tappe, and went back for her. She tribe on the ground that the progent- |, ; was Miss Faist. The fire fumes anc tors of these present members of the mes ari families’ never legally gave up the|th® burden of carrying her déad thirty-two acres of lund which hos} Weight up the two filghts were just a ceded to the Onettas by a treaty be-[iittle bit too much for the weakened tween New York State and the five lungs of the fireman, i Me tumb! tribes of the Iroquois in 1430. bs led into a heap with her midway on the upper The original action brought t United States on be ts w flight the members o fth: trit Policeman Thompson of the West for recovery of much larger acretse] yy Street Station and Policeman than that named in the evictic and It is expected that orders eiving| Hoffman of the East 104th Street Sta- additional land in the city of Oneida] tion, who had beenwt the Fifth Ave- to the Indians will be obtained from Judge Cooper within a short time <etRibie Nes NAVY PLANE FLIES 190 MILES AN HOUR nue curb detailed on parade duty, had followed Murphy into the Van Norden house directed by the frantic cries of hundreds of spectators who were being worked into intense emotion by the sight of the frightened girls the windows. Their sereams by that time were becoming choked to faint- nesa by the steadily increasing flood of amoke up the front of the house at - Capt. Francis P. thy Marine Corps, made nine tests over a kilometre course to-day at Curtiss Field, Mineola, of the Thomas-Morse Muleahy ot MB-7 monoplane racer Tt was all Thompson and Hoffman The tustest thine wa miles ° > get Murp. and Miva hour, {The world’s recor ts 208 inties st out on the your. They of | “ vitae