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LOS TABLES. ING The | “Circulation Books Open to All.’ = = “Circulation Books Open to All.” | To-Morrow's Weather—FAIR, COOL. * FED WALL STREE THE yEnine TION (hy VOL. LXII, NO. 22,043—DAILY. Copyright Pul [New York World) by Press ishing Company, 1022. NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 8, Stock Exchange Firm OVIET REJECTS ALLIED NOTE, IS REPORT AT GENOA =— Demands Would Rob Russia of Her Sovereignty, Reply Is Said to Claim, GEORGE OFFERS A LOAN His Plan Is Based on Acquies- cence of Soviet With Allied Demands in Principle. NOA, May $.—It is that Soviet Russia has flatly Clause I. of the Allied Memo reported here rejected ndum Bulgaria asked the Economic Con- e/rence to-day that the reparations due from her, under the ns of the treaty of Neuill prolonged considerable, granted her eutlet to the which she claims it restore her ‘ecommerce. protection of Hungarians -horing fountrick be nssu a Mationals who took refuge in“ Buy garia when surrounding territories were occupied may return to former dwellings and occupations, relieving Bulgaria of their support. M. Tehitcherin, it was learned, has received instructions from Premier Lenin, reported to embody an empha- tie order not to accept this clause, which forbids Bolshewstic propaganda broad, virtually 1 Russia to her present boundaries and asks Rus- sian neutrality between the Turks and the Greeks. Lenin's contention is ported to be that this clause infringes upon Russian sovereignty “Unless Russia’s reply to the Al- Hed note is a clear-cut acceptance of its terms, the French @elegation will have no alternative other than to Withdraw from the conference."* This official statement: was issued by the French delegates this after- noon. It is a formal reaffirmation France's position, outlined — by Barthou. France will refuse to recognize the Soviet Government of Russia, except after an agreement with the Unite! States, it was stated here to-day It was stated to-day that Lloyd George had pleaded with the Soviet “delegates to accept the Allied note in principle, promising Russia, on be- half of the Allies, an international loan, with the understanding that the lending countries would provide funds for the reconstruction of Russia, They would claim the right to make sure, however, that, the money loaned was actually invested in the work of re- construction be postponed for a ma that international She also asked for an Aegean Sen, without is impossible to Also, that in_ neigh- 80 that inst loan be tricts Tt was asserted that such loan would amount {(o 300,000,000 gold francs, it has been declared that the Russians were asking for 3,000,000,000 gold rubles, or twenty-five times as much as the Allied offer Barthou brought back with him cn outline of the French position, as (Continued on Second Page.) Teacher With Bullet in Heart, Bouquet in Ha Beside Bod Mamaroneck Has Mystery in the Kflling of Elizabeth\Dunn_ and J. C. Kane. NO SIGN OF STRUGGLE Man Believed Slayer of Wo- man and Self at Farewell Meeting. Letters in the pockets of John ©. Kane jr.. thirty-four years old, whose body was found at 6.30 o'clock this morning, lying beside that of Miss EI beth Dunn, in a clump of woods off Fennimore Road on the outskiris of Mamaroneck, indicate that the couple had severe a close friend reached an agreement hip that had ex- to isted for more than ; that they had met for the purpose of saying goodby to pach other, and that Kane, unable at the last to carry out his part of the agreement, shot the girl wihout warning and then killed him- self. PypwulleeSiterced heoeheart. Sho dropped where she stood and re- tained her grasp on a bouquet of wild flowers she had picked while walking along the road. The flowers, but glightly faded, were tightly en- folded by her stiffened fingers when Antonio Adamma, a yea laborer, came upon the bodies to-day From the tone of the would appear the turned a number of presents to Kane, One letter written on “settling things up" the next day and in this letter was made the ap- pointment the last meeting. In some of the letters, ferred jto ker unwillingness to Kane's life, \ witness saw Miss Dunn and Kane walking in (Fennimore Road at 3 “k yesterday evening. Kane was weeping and wiping his eyes with a handerchief. ‘Soon after that time, it is believer, he shot the girl and fired two bullets into his own head. Kane, a clerk in the Mamaroneck Post Office and son of the station mas ter, lived with his parents in Palmer Avenue, Miss Dunn, w teacher in the fifth grade of the Mamaroneck Public School, boarded at No. 72 Prospect yAvenue. She had been in the public schools of Mamaroneck for two years, coming there from her home in Weeds- port. Two brothers, Michael and Wiil- fam, live In Westchester County. Miss Dunn had just renewed her contract to teach another year in Mamaroneck. Miss Dunn, apparently, had died without a struggle, Kane had bled profusely and apparently bad lingered some time after firing the shot. He had apparently shot himself through the mouth and a second time through the temple. letters, it that girl had re- Saturday spoke for Miss Dunn re- ruin Whippings End Four-Hour Rioting Of 900 Chicago Jail Prisoners Smoke From Flaming Blan- kets Almost Suffocate Many of the Inmates. CHICAGO, May 8.—A four-hour riot in the Cook County Jail was quelled early to-day when Wesley ‘Westbrook, Warden, and thirty guards removed the ringleaders from tpeir cells one at a time and whipped them. Displeasure ‘of the prisoners jover a change in the method of ad- iting visitors led to the outbreak. The riot started on the fourth tler. ning blankets were dropped to the und floor, Dense smoke almost uffocated many inmates, With steel ps torn from thelr bunks, the oners beat upon the bard of their the bedlam pelng heard for Crowds gathered-at the jail entrance and police were called to drive them away. The women’s ward is just above the fourth tler and close to the cen- tre of the disturbance. Four babies, who were locked up with their mothers, and two other women, com- mitted last Thursday on a contempt of court sentence, three years old, be- came hysterical and jail physicians were called to quiet (hem. One woman, about to become a mother, was reported to be suffering a severe nervous shock. Warden Westbrook said that after each of more than 900 prisoners had a visitor on a recent visiting day packages left mounted so high {t re- quired the entire jail force nearly all night to sort them. “The result was that guns, saws, files, drugs, and all manner of contra- band came into the jail," he sald, ‘The Warden then decided to divide the jail Inte four sections and permit only one-fourth of the prisoners to hava visitors at @ time, nd, Found Dead y of Sweetheart REED A MARPLOT, WILSON WRITES OF MISSOURI SENATOR ates -President Exhorts Demo- crats to Redeem Party by Defeating Him. EF ST. LOULS, Mo. Referring Senator James A. plot,” former President letter to former Gov May 8 (Associated United Press) States “mar. Wilson, in a Lon V. Stephens, made public to-day, asked the of Missouri's Senator Reed as a defeat to reputation’’-of the Democratic Party. It was Mr. Wilson’s third letter on the subject of the Democratic nomin- ation for United States Senator, sought by Mr. Reed and Breckenridge Long; former AsMstant™Becretary of State, im the Wilson Administration. The tetter was in reply to one by Mr. Stephens the former overnor referred letter the féemer President wrote the St. Louis Globe-Democrat attacking Reed. Mr. Reed replied to this letter, in which he questioned Mr. Wilson's ‘redeem the which to a recently in memory. The letter, date of to Mr. Stephens follows fy dear Gov. Stephens gratified me. April Your letter of April 22 I am glad to be sustained in my own judgment of Reed by your own closer knowledge of him, and T shall hope and confident!y pect to him repudiated by the Democrats at the primaries, Cer- tainty Missouri cannot afford to be represented by such a marplot and it might check the enthusiasm of Democrats throughout the country if their comrades in Mis- souri should not redeem the pu- tation of the party by sibstututing for Reed a true breed of Democrat Tam sure your own great influence will con- tribute to the desired dl expected redemption. ex- “Please accept assurance of my entire confidence in the Missouri Democrats and believe me, with best wishes, Sincerely yours, (signed) ‘Woodrow Wilson.” In a letter last week to John C, Higdon, a local attorney. Mr. Wilson to complicate becoming asked Mr. Higdon ‘nc the contest in Missouri’ by a candidate for the nominatic Mr, Long recently opened his cam- paign at Cape Girardeau and Mr. Reed opened his Saturday at Moberly, The primary is Aug. 1 In his opening campaign address, Senator Reed defended his course aud asserted Mr. Wilson’ was ‘the boy who is conducting tie campaign in Missouri for the other side.’ * 6 IN AUTO KILLED WHEN TRAIN HITS IT Minister of Public Works for British Columbia Vainly Tried to Save One. VANCOUVER, B. €., May 8.—Six persons were killed when their auto- mobile was struck by a train at the Nicomen Level crossing of the Dwed- ney Trunk Road, Mission City, late last night A despatch re near ved to-day gave the names of the dead as Oliver Deroche, a prominent fairy farmer after the town of Deroche was named; Mrs. of Deroche; Rose MacDonald, Alex, her son; Bert ¢ 4 farm- hand; Miss Margaret Pentland of Mission City and a man known as “Shorty.” Dr, W. H. Sutherland, Minister of Public Works for British Columbia, who, with Premier John Oliver, was travelling on the train, gave medical attention to Miss Pentland, who lived but a few minutes. The others were killed instantly, Fails With Liabilities o POST, BROKERS, FALS LABLITIES PUTATS] S000 Assets Are Estimated at $1,- 000,060 by a Member of Well Known Firm. WAS FORMED IN_ 1903. reditors File a Petition in Federal Court for Involun- tary Bankruptey. \nnouncement of the Stock was made from the Exchange to- day of the failure of the brokerage firm of Post Bros. & Co., No Broadway, an influential house since 1908. when it was admitted the Exchange. The members of the firm are Charles M., Morgan B. and Henry M. Posi—the latter the floor member —John Gibbons and J. FN Matthews, rostrum! to special partner. A member of the firm stated that the assets of Post Bros. & Co. amounted io approximately’ §1,- 000,000, and that the books and ac- counts would have to be further ex- amined before a statement of Nabil!- ties could be made, The firm made public the following announcement: “We completed on Saturday an ex- amination of our books and from that examination and after consultation with our attorneys, Cadwalader, Wick- ham & Taft, we deemed it neces- sary for the protection of our custom- ers to make « general assignment without preferences, for the benefit of our creditors to John $. McCloy attorney associated with that firm.” Proceedings in the Federal Courts this afternoon showed that Post Bros & Co., bankruptey ors an would have been thrown into by petition if they had voluntary assignment with a claim of $40,000 G. Waring Stebbins, with a claim for and Warren A. Mayon, claim were the petitioning credi- tors an appeal in involuntary bankruptcy. These creditors claim that the liabilities of the firm will run up to $1,500,000 as against assets of probably $1,000,000, not made a Hugh Jon in 70,000 HOMELESS IN FLOODED AREA Relief Organizations Being Put to Test in Louisiana und Mississippi. NEW ORLEA? ated Press).—Approximately men, women and children are home less in Mississippi and Loulsiana a: the result Mississippi River flood. Of this number, 40,000 being fed, sheltered and clothed the Red Cross and other organiza tions, it was officially announced to day by various relief bodies. No pro visions been made to aid the 30,000 persons who have not reached the refugee camps, the statement said Rations are now being 18,564 individuals, who we: driven from their homes in Louisiana, The Masissippi Flood Situation Commit- tee said ts plans contemplated the feedng of 20,000 persons In the Yazoo Valley. The committee, at a mass meeting yesterday, declared its funds were ‘pitifully inadequate’ and de cided to ask President Harding to issue a Nation-wide for contributions Refugee camps established in Louisi ana and Mississippi are being taxes to capacity, and additional refug are arriving daily, as the flood waters continue to reach out into new terri tory or increase in depth in the area already flooded, making untenable the homes where many are making a a termined stand May 8 (Associ- 70,000 of the are by to have issued to ae THE WORLD TRAVEL Arcade, Pulltzer (World) Park Row, N. Y. City. $000, Cheek room for bepeege and pe day an Mor oe , might, | Money orders and Telephos Entered as Second-Class Mal New York, Post Office, Policeman Who Was Shot by Negro When He Rushed to Aid of Lawyer ROKER FIGHTING {CULBERSON DENIES FOR SISTERS, NOT | KIDNAP PLOT 10 SELF, FRIEND SAYS)/BREAK UP ROMANCE Three Suits to Contest Will of Former Tammany Leader “Richard Croker jr, in starting a fight against father’s ‘Indian bride’ for his share of millions, is not making a fight himself at all, He doesn't need any of his father's money. He has enough of his own, He is making the fight for his two sisters, Ethel and May, ind for his brother Howard.” This is what a close personal friend of Mr. Croker satd to-day after the publication of the son's statement that he would fight for a share of his father's estate. This friend, who is apparently well informed about the ns of the eldest son, said it was his firm conviction that if Croker named as a beneficiary in his father's will he will refuse to take a cent Frederick R. Ryan, Me. Croker's vinsel, when told of this statement, clined either to affirm or deny it “T think,’ said the attorney, “that Mr. Croker’s statement speaks for it- seif. He mentions only himself, but if there is any doubt that there is s in his his father's for ng to be a fight to the finish, f can issure you on that point. Legal pro- edings will be carried on at theee points at the same time—in New York City, in Florida, and in I nd.” The litigation in this city, so far on be learned, is for Mr. Croker him- f. He is suing for the recovery $155,000, which he says he advanced his father out of his own pocket. It seems strange, at first blush, that 1 man of the former Tammany Jer’s millions should ever be in need m like that, but it is explained he papers in the suit = travel n the Soyth with “Indian de," he was spending money right and left, buying Jand and fine horses. “While the elder Croker w f hi and the fact that his bank account At be temporarily short never hothered him, If it even occurred to him. Small amounts like $20,000 or $30,000 had to be taken care of by somebody and it was the son whe r good the amounts in his father's bank, In those days everything was se in the family circle. Hieasant viters Were being exchanged between of Mr, Croker sr, and the member his family, But when the an accounting, which wa rift in the family lute refused to recogniz made by Richard jr to pay them, So suit long before the seemed nigh and the action was ending at the time of his passing The father had promised to New York to defend the suit in October fathe awa Croker's statement makes tt plain that he will + fight for hin father's property, no matter what convents of the will may be. Senator Answers Carges of British War Veteran Who Loves Daughter. E, Robertson, the young Brit- ish war veteran who claims to have been the victim of an attempted kid- najiping to force him from this coun- try because of his attentions to Miss Mary Culberson, daughter of United es Senator Culberson of Texas, has engaged an attorney to safeguard his interests, Alec At the home of his aunt, Mrs. Mary Andrews, No. 162 Ashland Avenue, Bloomfield, N. J., w he is stop- ping, he refused to see a reporter, but Mrs. Andrews sald that ‘‘something may deyelop which will result in a statement being made in the young man's behalf to-morrow John F, is, a detective for the Burns Agency, which was celled into the case by the Culberson family, was arrested on April 27 at Robertson's instance, at the Robert Treat Hote!, Newark, on a charge of attempted kidnapping. He was arraigned in Bloomfield and released in $3,000 bail. “Two days after the arrest,"" Mra. Andrews said to-day, “we saw two men loitering about my house at night. Next day I learned that my telephone wire had been tapped. On May 1 my nephew went to Mayor Fred R. Vilch of Bloomfield and ob- tained a permit to carry a pistol. He obtained it in the statement that the (Continued on Second Page.) PRICE HREE CENTS f $1,500, 000 LAWYER AND POLICEMAN SHOT BY NEGRO Wil RESERVES SAVE HARDING TO LEAVE CAPITAL FRIDAY FOR JERSEY VISIT Guest of Senator Edge at Atlantic City, With Golf As Objective. WASHINGTON, May 8.--President Harding has made definite plans to leave Washington Friday for a visit to New Jersey, as the guest of ator Edge The President, it was learned to- a has in mind « short period of tion on the golf links. He plans to go first to Seaview, the home of Senator Edge, near Atlantic City, and may also kp the guest of Senator Frelinghuysen, also of New Jersey. Although nothing has been given out at the White House on the pro- posed trip, it is understood that the itinerary calls for about! five days’ absence from Washington. t The President, it was suld to-day, also expects to go to Princeton, N. J., on June § to unveil a monument on the Revolutionary battlefleld there. baa te WARRANTS ISSUED FOR FOUR MORSES Charles W. and Sons Fail to Enter Pleas to Fraud Charges. Bench warrants insd®@ by United States Judge A. N. Hand for the arrest of Charles W. Morag and his three sons, Erwin A., Benjamin W. and Harry F indiotments charging conspiracy to use the United tates mails in a scheme to defraud investors in stock of the United States Shipbuilding Company Morse and his sons were to have entered their pleas to-day, but when their names were called there was no response, District Attorney Mattuck then asked that bench warrents be issued, and it was done. The only member of the indicted group who answered the call this morning was Nehemiah H, Campbell, who pleaded not guilty, and was held in $5,000 ball. The case of Stuart Gibboney was put over to May 15, —_~»— PIMLICO RESULTS. were FIRST RACE—Halr mile Jolly (Holmes), $19.40, $7.00 and $2.90, first St. Valentine (Butwell), $4.20 and $2.40, second Blizabeth Bean (Johnson), $2.20, third Time, 484-5, Non-starter, Recha- vite - Court in Uproar as One-Armed Prisoner Chokes Girl Accuser Fights Prosecutor and Seven Policemen With Stump—tTried to Force Girl Into Marriage crowded Yorkville with Police prisoners, vurt and sp policemen tators, was thrown into an uproar at 11 o'clock to-day when Michael Stashky, No, 193 Madison Street, a one-armed prisoner, made a desperate effort to choke to death Miss Mar- garet Smith, No. 346 East 16th Street, who caused his arrest last Tuesday night on a charge of disorderly con- duct, Stashky, with bis left arm around the girl’s throat from the rear, garrotte fashion, fought off As- sistant District Attorney Morgan Jones and seven policemen with the stump of his right arm until ie wos overpowered. Misa Smith'a screams were #0 piercing that three women in the courtroom thought she had been stabbed and fainted Two prisone taking advantage of the confusion, tried to escape from the court room, but were headed off by vigilant police- men. Miss Smith and Stashky were em- ployed at the Eagle pencil factory at Mth Street and Avenue C. She charged Stashky annoyed her with his attentions for months, culminating his attempts to make her marry him by a visit to her home Thursday evening. When she refused to listen to his sult he demolished nearly all the furniture in the apartment and chased her to the street, where he was arreated. From the moment of his arrest until ho wan arraigned before Chief Magia- trate McAdoo In the police court to- day he had not said a word, Magia- trate McAdoo committed him to the Paycopathic ward of Bellevue Hospital for ten days of observation, 5 ALSO SHOT HIMFROM MOB Argument Over Bill for Work Ends in Shooting—At- torney Dying. REVOLVER DUELSTAGED Assailant Hits One Officer, but Others Trap Him After Thrilling Chase. Hugh Chambers, a Negro janitor at No. 61 Allen Street went to the office of Louis A. Lavelle, a Negro lawyer, at No, 420 Lenox Avenue, near 18ist Street, at 9 o'clock to-day and de- manded $197 in payment for work ha had done for the lawyer. According to Lavelle, Chambers had made a similar demand by telephone Satur- day, threatening to go. to, thé office toMy and Kill Lavelle if the money were not ready for him, in the Jaw office when Chambers arrived were James P. Simpson, 4 lawyer, and Misses Lucille Walker and Olga Perry, all colored. Chambers went inside with Lavelle. Their voices Were raised in anger and Chambers drew a revolver and fired a bullet into the lawyer's head. As the others in the office Jumped from their chairs’ Chambers tired another shot which went through « window. Policeman Harry Pohndorf of the Kast 155th Street Station was in the street in front of the building. He started up the steps at the sound of the shots, Chambers, coming through the door, fired a shot which hit the policeman, who had not yet drawn his revolver, in the side of the neck. The bullet, taking a downward course, hit a nerve which paralyzed the police- man's hand and foot and he fell and lay rigid. : 3 Chambers, while the girl steno- graphers screemed from the windows of the law office and a crowd gathered quickly on the sidewalk, turned south, A block from 131st Street he ran into the street and boarded a southbound open street car, crouching in the rear seat. The crowd, spread out across the street, followed the car yelling. Policeman Dallard of the West 1230 Street Station caught the meaning of the waving arms of the persons in the crowd and ran over from 126th Street toward the car, From the rear seat Chambers opened fire on him. Dal- lard emptied his revolver at the Ne- gro, the first builet splintering the woodwork at the back of the car. Chambers jumped out and ran into’ the door of No. 827 Lenox Avenue while Dallard was firing. Policeman Otto J. Westphal, on traffic duty at 125th Street, reached the door before Dallard. Chambers, who had gone up the stairs to the frst landing, had ap- parently reloaded his Lueger automa- tic with a fresh clip of nine cartridges and began firing aguin. After West- phal’s third shot in reply, the Negro threw down his gun and raised his hands in surrender Dallard, Westphal and other potice- men had difficulty in protecting Cham- bers from a crowd of nearly 2,000 per- sons, Negroes for the most part, who were surging about the door in tense excitement as the prisoner was. sht out. The reserves of the Bust 135th Street Station and the West 23d Street Station—the chase had crossed the line between two precincts arrived in time to prevent serious trouble. The policemen found Cham- bers had been hit with a bullet in the side. He said one of Dallard's bullets had hit him cnambers was hurried to Hariem Hospital in a taxicab. Lavelle and Pohndorf had already been taken there. According to the detectives, both Identified him. Chambers, notwithstanding —_ his wound, was taken directly to the Dis- tricty Attorney's Office under the new system for sending the cases of prisonors caught in the commission of crimes directly to the Grand Jury, He admitted the shooting to Assistant District Attorney Dineen. oe ee eens ae eee