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jet, Toan. delegation was informed impossible. In the first the Allies would supply rails and Stock and seo they were used ‘This Russians indignantly re- insisted this would con+ violation of their sovereignty. i Gelegation presented its pro- posais. Disregarding entirely reply to the Allied experts’ i submitted to them for con- , the Russians now claimed cancellation of war debts, saying this was what they meant by “write down.” They pointed to the faot that Germany, in the Rapallo Pact, had agreed to such cancella- ‘tion and that the Allies should do % French found this particularly . They objected strenuously fo Russia's quoting the Russo-Ger- “man Treaty as authority for pro- Sepésaln to the conference. A stormy siwéene followed. The Russians were + tld they should have their answer 0 , “ALLIES BLAMED -«| ‘BY RUSSIANS FOR f.* BLOCK AT GENOA bg “Chicherin Says Opposition to , Nationalization Idea 1s Cause * of Clash. (Associated “Allied resistance to the Russian prin- Giple of nationalization which wys ‘Hiéeking the here, “It tp obvious,"’ said M. Chicherin, “that the only sérious obstaciés to .eppeace with Russia and general recon- qastruction are the pretensions of a few .»fertner owners of property in Russia.'” = ofThere is no difference between our official proposals of April 24 and my letter to Mr. Lioyd George of April ~voatys sald M. Chicherin. ‘‘We merely explained and develo the fourth phrase of our note (that dealing with eesthe reétoration of property to for- eigners), 2/\-*it iw quite clear that the mainte- “Rance of our sovereign rights and our wemencisice for the reconstruction of are to be strictly observed. To ‘'give to former owners the use of their be. ie, » Possible only in reign laws ntal laws at the experts’ meeting, the its | Commission sseligcga Orders Ten Contracts Read- vertised After Estimate Board Rejected Them. At a formal meeting of the Transit to-day, it was unani- mously decided immediately to read- vertise the ten contradts for the com- pletion of the 14th Street-Kastern subway which the Board of Estimate rejected yesterday and returned to the commission with a view to ob- taining current market prices. The ten contracts amount to about $200,000 and are for track work, ties, station finish, rails and kindred ma- terials. It will require a week to re- print the advertisement, two weeks more to advertise and the bids will not be received until late in May. After the bids are tabulated, the contracts will be let to the lowest bidder and sent back to the Board of Estimate for the second time in twelve months for its approval. The advertisement will amount to 4 loss of about $60,000 in interest charges on the city’s in- vestment of $17,000,000 in the 14th Street route. Whether or not the new bids will be sufficiently low to offset the loss in interest charges re- mains to be seen. Commissioner Harkness im moving to readvertise the’ contracts said: “T move that counsel be directed to prepare for readvertisement the con- tracts returned by the Boayd of Esti- mate, The Board of Estimate has finally been forced to act. I believe it has acted unwisely, Nevertheless, action is what is wanted. If the Board, of Estimate insists on further delay in subway construction to save a few dollars by readvertising and lose many dollars in interest charges, the responsibility belongs to it. Our Proper course seems to me to be plain—promptly’ to readvertise these contracts, so as to remove any fur- ther opportunity for quibbling, and then force the Board of Estimate to act affirmiatively instead of nega- tivel, Chairman McAneny said that tn all fairness to the residents of the East- ern District of Brooklyn and particu- larly those who daily crowd the Cana) ‘Street subway station, the immediate thing to do is to hasten in every pos- ‘sible way completion of the work. '8)-ephe Hoard of Estimate as held up GENOA IS NOTIFIED U. S. KEEPS RIGHTS IN RUSSIAN LOAN: Ambassador Child Tells Heads of Conference America Yields Nothing. _ “AMERICAN CRUISER these contracts for thany monthy without « word of explanation,” he said. ‘The statement made yest day by the Mayor and the Comptroller to the effect that these contracts were rejected last August is amazing. The suggestton that rendvertising these] contracts had anything to do with the delay in the Board of Estimate is an @eventh-hour after-thought. It is extremely unlikely that the Board of Estimate will take either the risk or the fesponsibility for delaying these contracts when resubmitted. fhe wise thing for this commission to do is to act immediately in the public im- wi it was drawn to Chairman McAneny's attention that the physi cal contructs are still in the posses: sion of the Board of Hstimate, he said: “If the board had been disposed to alter its action at any time, @ mere resolution, calling the contracts from the files would have been suffictent.”” The Transit Commission to-day ap- pointed former Supreme Court Justice Edward B. McCall a member of the Subway Contractors’ Arbitration Com- mittee to succeed Corporation Counsel O'Brien, who declined to serve. Mr. McCall was a former Public Service Commissioner. The purpose of the committee ix to determine the extent of losses incurred by subway con- tractors tn construction work during * HURRIED TO CHINA|( e war, when costs for materials and labor soured above contract estimates. The other members of the committee Huron Ordered From Manila}are the Attorney General and F. L. ). Peking is the south so far American, British, Japanese ww isolated from trains are con- The commanders of the and Cranford, a contractor. SAN, MAY HAE DED OF FR Continued from First Page.) forces at Tientsin have been operate 11 taint: Fob pte jo sive Panag ane sky's room and put his ear to the the sea. a 000 troops. Fu ts con! ——————d 14 BARRELS OF KICK SEIZED BY DRY MEN ‘Three | eee Agente Follow Wagon Arrest ot Manhattan Bri barrels of what Prohibition |against Givner. allege_is beer with a pre-war|the neighborhood after he lost his ‘Wate confiscated carly to-day|job, but continued to pay the rent of survéy made by the military at- teaches shows that Gen. Chang Tsao Beareh had been wolt ‘Lin has Gen. Wu Pej|twetve hours when Catherine Silver, uing his advance north- d}was rented by Paul Colinsky. wall \in an effore to learn what it was about, on for nearly twelve-year-oll chum of the Givner girl, found the body. Mra, Silver fainted and Catherine fled. In a few minutes came the eighbors, and from the street the police, Silyer, the janitor, said ‘the room The had Made threats He disappeared from police say he Brooklyn end of the Manhattan|$12 # month for the room. Manhattan, and Downey of No. 262 the truck from & » Jones and violating the Guroya said be worked for the Ameérican Sugar Refinery, and when 30 every day he often was too tired to take off his clothes. He was a sound sleeper, he said, and did not hear any one knock at the door, When detectives began kicking it In he awoke, and aot know~ ing who it was he was confused and frightened, He said of the dent in the plaster that he had never noticed it and believed it was made before he returned to the room last night. ATTACKS MARRIAGE peer Se Relatives Amazed When ‘Woman Claims She Is Pole’s First Wife. ‘The greatest surprise was expressed to-day by members of the family of the former Mrs. Marion Buckingham Ream-Stephens, now the wife of Ana- stase Andreivitch Vonsiatsky-Vonsiat- sky, a Pole, twenty-two years het Junior, cables from Paris an- nouncing the appearance there of a woman claiming to be the first and still lawful wife of Vonsiatsky-Von- siatsky. Norman B. Ream, her brother, and co-heir with her in the $40,000,000 estate left by their father, the late Norman B, Ream, of Chicago, Hves at No. 25 East 94th Street, this city. He said to-day that he was greatly surprised by the news, and the same surprise was expressed by the present Mrs. Vonsiatsky-Vonsiatsky’s sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J. Kammer, of Short Hills, N. J. astounded by the cable- Father Turkeviteh, rector of the Russian Cathedral of St. Nicholas, in Kast 97th Street, who married the couple there on Feb. 3, last. He said to-day that he had never heard of any previous marriage of the young Pole, adding that no word had come to him to make any Investigation of the eeported exist- ence of another wife. Mrs. Norman B. Ream, widow of the Chicago millionaire, who lives at the Hotel Chatham, was said to-day to have gone to Philadelphia. Her daughter and Vonsiatsky-Vonsiatel are living now at Eddystone, Pa. Their wedding created a sensation in the society of this city, Philadelphia and Chicago. According to the story from Paris ‘the alleged first wife declares the mar- riage to the American rens was {i- legal because Vonsiatsky’s marriage to the former at Yalta in the Crimea in 1920, is undissolved. Her father is a retired manufacturer named Mou- ronsky Hiving in Prague. A sister is the Baroness Braz. The alleged first wife said she cabled the Russian Church authoriti.> here asking for an investigation, and declaring that the recent marriage is invalid. y The fomance of the heiress and Vonsiatsky began in Paris after the war. She had divorced her firgt hus- band in Chicago in 1918. NO WORLD WAR, SAYS PERSHINE, IF WE HAD BEEN READY Weeks Also Pleads for Army Adequate for Safety of the Nation. , over WASHINGTON, April ~— The United States, ‘with adequate military preparations and under strong leader- ship,” could have prevented the oc- currence of the World War, Gen, Pershing declared to-day, in testify- ing before the Senate Military Com- mittee in behalf of the War De- partment’s plea for an increase in the military establishment over that pro- posed by the House. “There is no doubt," Gen. Pershing said, ‘but that the Civil War might have been prevented had the country been equipped with an army of rea- sonable size ready for immediate use. A measure of preparedness such as contemplated under the law of 1920 would probably have kept us out of the World War, At least it would have saved us the humiliation of de- pending upon the Alliesto hold back the enemy for more than a year be- fore we weré even partially prepared, “As a matter of fact, with adequate military preparation, there can be lit- tle question that the United State: under strong leadership, could hav prevented the World War altogether, Gen, Pershing advocated a “‘Regu- lar Army in keeping with our posi- tion among the nations’ and de- clated that a regular establishment of 150,000 men and 18,000 officers was ‘barely of sufficient strength’’ to mininvun of instruction for citizen forces. “This is only the part of common sense and ordinary precaution,” Gen, Pershing added. ‘World conditions to-day are not reassuring. Homan nature has not changed and the his- tory of nations fs one of strife. Our own experience should have taught ts that the existence of envy, jeal- ousy and hatred can no mote be ignored among nations than among individuals. The friends of to-day are often the enemies of to-morrow." The 116,000 enlisted strength fixed by the Army Bill passed by the House ix ‘below the safe minimum require- ments” of the Nation, Secretary Weéks told ‘the Committee in urg- ime that appropriations for the next fiscal year permit a force of 18,000 officers and 160,000 men. ———————— FOR OVER 65 YEARS ‘Orisa ionle tera toe tamer THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, Girl Thought Murdered May Have Been Frightened to Death t Juanita Miller’s “Lily Love,” Whom She Wed in Burlap Gown, Turns Out to Be Water Lily Daughter of ‘‘Poet of the Sierras,’’ Deserted by Husband, Horse and Goat, Plans Divorce —He Bathes Too Often, She Says. OAKLAND, Cal., April 25.—Juantta Miller, daughter of the eccentric “poet of the Sierras,’”’ will lay away her wedding gown of burlap and, donning a neat tailored sult, hie herself to the village Court House and file suit for divorce within two months, she said to-day. For Juan Miller, her “Lily Lov she said, has proved a water lily. “He just floats on the surface of our love like a lotus flower on the lily ponds,"’ she explained. The crowning offense of a long list, Juanita said, was his insistence on 'Y | bathing. “He knew I wanted to sloep ‘til 10 every morning, but he would get up ot 7 and take a bath,” she said. “And when he bathed he made such horrible nolses.'* Juanita said she knew not whither had gone. 'His love left weeks ago,"’ she said. “He would not work and he would not love, His soul has gone from here. Juanta, my pet goat, is also gone. Juanto, my horse, has strayed,’”" Facts were Juanita seemed to have little. left excepting a eucalyptus trimmed burlap wedding gown and shrine In the wigwam where burned “the candle of faith,” casting a ghostly glow over the skull of the Miller family cow, dead these forty years. FT. WORTH DEAD, 11: 1,900 HOMELESS AFTER 9 IN. RAIN ‘Whole City Under Water, Trolley Service Abandoned and Lights Cut Off. w FORT WORTH, Tex., April 26.— Bleven persons are known to have drowned and at least 1,500 are home- less, according to relief agencies. The city water plant is out of commission and other utilities endangered. The flood followed a heavy storm last night and this morning, The Red Cross has sent word that it is rush- ‘Ing relief to this city from St. Louis, Nine inches of rain fell between 10 o'clock last night and 10 o'clock this morning, breaking all previous records, Streams already were at flood stage before the storm, All ambulances in the city and scores of automobiles were pressed into service to rescue stricken fam- flies, citizens volunteering their ser- vices and cars, A boat which had been picking up flood refugees from house tops and ‘trees, capsized to-day. Two women and a man are known to have drowned. A Aevee back of the Panther Base- balt Park broke this morning. The depth of the water was half way up the right field grand stand and the high board fences cannot be seen. Water rushed around Arlington Heights and the north side and left those districts marooned. The river rose 29.7 feet in twelve hours to within 1.8 fect of the stage of the disastrous 1908 flood, Observ- ers said that flood never produced the raging torrent which to-day followed the destruction of the levee above Panther Park, The spillway of Lake Worth, reported to have gone out, said to be holding and in no danger. The Trinity River reached a stage Of 81% feet. Street car service was discontinued, while lights were cut off in several sections of the city. Fire was reported to have broken out im one place. A small creek went wild on the south side shortly before daybreak aid moved all houses in the vicinity. The streets everywhere are covered with heavy debris. Near Trinity Park, where the water also ts fifteen feet deep, two women were reported drowned. Telephone linemen said they saw ® man, woman and three children HAVRE DE GRACE ENTRIES RACE TRACK, HAVRE DF GRACE, Md., April 25.—The following are the entries for to-morrow's races: FIRST RACE—Ciaiming: ofr threc-year- olds and upward; six furlongs, Index, Weight. Bagacity .... ut ‘= *Hidden Jewel . tor Jil ward; about two miles, Index. 107 10; Enq 07 aGrenadier . aBean-Bryson and Quincy State entry. *Ten pounds allowance for rider, IRD RACE—Claiming; for three-year- five and a half furlong — Knot Grass *Fannie ean Bountiful Long | APRIL 25, 1992 GR From Cairo to Delta Stupen- dous Struggle Is Waged to Save Levees. MEMPHIS, Tenn,, April 25 (Copy- right).—The most stupendous struggle between man and nature being staged suotessfully to-day along the Mississippi River from Cairo, ML, to the Gulf. ‘The ‘father of waters," is on the worst rampage in his history. One flood record after another is be- ing broken, A foree of more than 25,000 men, directed by army engineers, Pushed from all over the United States, is working frantically, strengthening the weak links in the levees that protect from overflow the acres of rich al- Tuvial soil. To date victory has been with man. There have been some breaks, but so far not of serious extent. Just below Hickman, the Reelfoot levee, protecting the game preserves known as Reelfoot Lake, sustained the full force of the flood and some sec- tions were washed over. Near Tunica, Miss., a’ vagary of the river diverted the cufrent squarely against the secondary bank designed to protect the main levee, The old earthwork gave way and the current was eating into the main leveg when discovered. Hundreds of Negro farm hands, each with a ‘board lashed about his waist to give him a chance if thrown into the swirling waters, were set to building a new dike to send the water back into the river bed. The engineers to-day believed they would prevent serious damage. In Arkansas a neck of land pro- tected by a circular levee was com- pletely flooded, but the people of the district. were saved. Still further south, at Lucca, the levee guard re- ported the bank weakening. Thou+ sands of sand bags, rushed ‘by special train, were placed and after a battle of day6 the levee was saved. At Scott, in Bolivar County, Mis- sissippt, It is believed the danger point has been passed, but ever since early last week every man who could be secured has been employed. All male inhabitants were called on, and whites’ and Negroes, wealthy plantation owners, small share crop- pére and professional men worked sidé By side. Yestérday there were 7,000 of them. They added more than two feet to the levee and rein- forced every yard of the main bank, "They were aided by the arrival of thousands of sand bags—Government trench ‘sacks originally designed to protect Yankee soldiers from Hun bullet tn France—which were filled with soil tamped into place and se- cureély anchored. > Below New Orleans there were a couple of dangerous breaks, but they have been controlled by the same methods and it is believed to-day that the gravest danger is past. pldiehbionises wail INDEPENDENT CEMENT ; four Weight, 122 Better Lack HO os fi % aWhitney entry FIFTH RACE: Annesi three-year-olds and upward seventy yards, Index. (08) Our Flog (110) Bedgetiela ‘88 Duc de Morn; y Pu one mille and (130) Matnmast SIXTH RACE—Claiming; for three-year- ne mile and @ quarter. ? *Attorney Muir * m SEVENTH year-olds and upward; mile a: Inger for four. a sixteenth. 112 (110) *Fizer ... 340 wGolden Chance 108 “Apprentice allowance of 8 pounds claimed. Weather clear. Track fast, >. HAVRE DE GRACE SELECTIONS. RACB TRACK, HAVRE DE GRACE, Bvening World re as FIRST RACE—Turnabout, Jewell, Applesack IL. SECOND RACE—Eequimau, Bean-Bryson-Quincy entry. THIRD RACE—Brilliant Ray, Cape Pillar, Miss Emma G. FOURTH RACE — Whitney Rork, Fisher entry. Hidden Shoal, entry, FIFTH RACE—Mainmast, Our Flag, | . Valor. SIXTH RACE—Attorney Muir, Free- man-Hayes entry, Drifting. SEVENTH RACE—Trickster, Tan II, Midnight Sun. a’ rain and flood waters trom the Trin+ ity River to-day did property dam- age here totaling thousands of dollars, made twenty families homeless and went 8 feet of water over two or three strests io Gouth Dallas, DOES PRICE BELOW “TRUSTS” in Tells Experience N.Y. Dam, In the trial of the nineteen corpora- tion and fourty-four individuals of the Cement Manufancturers' Protective Association for violation of the Sher- man Law, to-day in the Federal Dis- trict Court it was brought out in testi- mony showing that Hugh Newn, a Boston contractor, was able to get a considerably lower price on cement from a non-member than from an associa- tion conypany. Nawn testified thet in 1919, his firm undertook the construction of the Gil- boa dam in New York State, using a total of about 500,000 barrels of cement. One contract with the Nazareth Port- land Cement Company, a member of the Protective Association at a price of $3.06 2 barrel, whereas the Whitehall Portland Cement Company non-member, charge at $2.83. Mr, Nawn sald that three or four other concerns in the association all quoted $3.06. Exhibits bearing on cement prices were introduced by the defense during the cross examination of « William Kinney, Secretary and General Ma: ager of the essoctation showed that from 1913 to 1921 the prices of raw ma- terials had advanced from 82 to 148 per cent., and the increase in prices of various commodities from 191% to the peak price period of 1920. SS GRAPPLE WITH HOOKS IN SEA FOR RUM CARGO ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. April 25.— Uaited States Coast Guards were greppling with hooks in the ocean to- ddy for the cargo of whiskey which they claim was thrown overboard from the auxiliary steamer Commache prior to her capture by the Coast Guards off Longport last night. Customs officers. arrived here from Philadelphia to-day to investigate the ‘case. ‘The schooner fs still under guard at her dock at Longport. __———_———_— oIEO. CHASE.—MARY B. CAMPBELL FUNERAL CHUROH, Wednesday, 3 P. M. O°CONNOR.—MARY O'BRIEN. CAMPBELL FUNERAL CHURCH, Wednesday, 11 A. M, FUNERAL DIRECTORS. < - ———— !Brig. Gen. Adamson Is Halted, Told to Put Up His Hands and Shot Down. DUBLIN, April (Associated Press).—Brig. Gen. Adamson, com- manding the Athlone Brigade of the Regular Irish Republican Army, Was shot dead to-day near the head- quarters of the Independent Republi. can forees in Athlone An official communique issued from the headquarters of the regular army in Beggars’ Bush Barracks, this city, says: “Brig. Gen, Adamson of the Athlone, Brigade was shot dead in tho streets of Athlone. The General was re- turning to the barracks, near the hotel where the mutinous troops have) their headquarters, He was suddenly con- fronted by a group of armed men who ordered him to throw up his hands, “The General, being alone, complied and, while his arms were raised, the assailants deliberately fired into him. Several of the mutineers’ officers were arrested.” The official report further States that one of the mutineers put a re- volver to Gen. Adamson’s ear and stot him through the head. Gen. McKeown, hearing the shot, rushed into the street and found Gen. Adamson lying in a pool of blood. He was taken to barracks, where he lin- gered ten hours while crowds outside prayed for the dying man. The hotel in which the unofficial troops Were quartered was surrounded and its occupants arrested. After the shooting Gen. McKeown drew a cordon around Athlone and sent a demand fo rsurrender to Com- mandant Fitzpatrick, commanding ‘the independent troops, occupying the Royal Hotel. He allowed fifteen min- utes for a reply, giving notice that at the end of that time he would open fire. Fitgpatrick replied immediately. He repudiated responsibility for the mur- dec and agreed to surrender. He and his men were then brought to the barracks of the regular troops, where they were detained pending an in- quiry. {Athlone was a / Ireland. It {8 di the island being L itary centre of fin the heart of ntral point north est. It is the icCormack, the oo), and south, east birthplace of noted tenor.] \ BELFAST, (Asscciated Peess).—Insurgen ican Army troops to-day attacked a lorry carry- ing Republican Army Regulars at Mollingar. Several shots were ex- changed, marking the first fighting between the two factions. The regu- lar troops were reinforéed and made six arrests. a SPECIAL SESSION OF JERSEY a April 25.—Go -day called the State Sen- ate in jal session next Tu consider nominations for County and Prosecutor in Gloucester County, and Pro i M Edwards Thos. F. Manville Jr, Declared He Had “to Run Around With Chickens.” {Snecial to The Evening World) PITTSBURGH, April. 25.—Florenes . Manville, chorus girl wife of Thom- Manville jr., son of Thomas F. Manville, asbestos king, was srantep divorcee here to-day was the final Signir of the 4 chapter in the shattered romtance, al- anville jared that there is man I love as much as Flor- His defense for his associations with other women was that “I Jove the chickens and I have to min around with and I simplySean't be: have myeelf.”’ The Manvilles were married June &, 1911. They formerly lived at the Waldorf-Astoria, No. 620 Riverside Drive and at the Times Court in New York. Florence EB. Huber aws the ‘Fol- Ites" girl wile married after a a courtship which began in the lobster palaces of this city. She was in the ‘Follies of 1911" when the heir to the Manville ashestos millions, then seventeen years old, met here. They went through marriage ceremonies in both New York and New Jersey to be able to defy the expected family assault He declared he would go from State to State until the gasoline in his ear ran out in order to have his snarriace iron-clad, A license was refused him in Maryland He ran away from home at ¢ixteen_ and wound up as bellhop in a Baten in Toise, Idaho, Then he wa: brought back home by his father and a yea rlater started out on the lob- ster palace trail. After the marriage the Manville family refused to have anything to do with him, but his wife stood by him and later his mother came to his assistance, giving them an apartment in Pittsburgh and a | small income. \ young romance and Buv'the bride had eventually to ed to werk and the bridegroom took a job in the asbestos works at $15 a week. She did all the household work and stood by the family ship for a time, and then she sued for sep- uration. Young Manville disappeared and was found later acting as chauf- four for a Wall Street broker, pales ets stenesias ARCHDUKE NO PAUPER SWITZERLAND DECIDES New +E in Vienne as & Tri arned by All. VIENNA, April 25.—Leopold Wootfing, formerly the Austrian Archduke Leo pold, who applied for poor relief tn Switzerland and did not obtain it, Is living in a Vienna suburb, earning what he can ‘y his skill as a translator, He humorously explains that his In come of 3,000 crowns a month, or less than two shillings, would “hardly sup- port a worm.” He is a citizen of Re- gensdorf, in the Swiss canton of Zurich, but prefers to live in Vienna, though both Social Democrats and M regard him as “not one of u: Splits-in-two— * Then What? It’s just the right size for a cracker sandwich, Anything that makesa good sand wich with bread makes a good sand- wich with Tak-hom-a Biscuit—the Sunshine Soda Cracker, always sold in the red package. 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