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et To-Night'’s W ther—SHOWERS, VOL. LXII, NO. 22,052—DAILY. Copyright Pa Gover U. §. NOT-LIKELY TO ATTEND HAGUE, BRITISH ANNOUNCE Further Advices From Wash- ington Leave Little Doubt on American Position. AGR UPON. TRUCE =D European Powers to Respect Four-Month Non-Aggres- sion Policy. GENOA Sir Edw: May 18 (Associated Press). d Grigg announced on be- half of the British delegation this afternoon that further advices had been received from the United States Government, and that it“did not seem Nkely the United States would par; ticipate in The Hague meeting, at least until the scope of the meeting was better understood Asked to explain the British dele- gate's statement, Richard Washburn @hild, the American Ambassador, fold the correspondent he had con- ferred with Foreign Miliister Schan- rer of Maly, Prime Minster ‘loyd Gedrge being present, and sad am- plified the American position con- eerning The Hague meeting already explained of Secretary of State Hughes The said in the note Ambassador, the at- object, the Was more fully to titude to make ity of a explain of the United States, in order it clear beyond the possib doubt non-aggression unanimously at The adopted meeting of the political sub-commis- truce was! plenary sion of the Genoa Conference to-day. The truce was not signed, but was adopted in the form of a resolution, each state pledging itself to respect it. All the delegations attended the session except those of France, Bel- gium and Germany The delegates made solemn affirm tion that they would recommend the pact to their Governments and it seems likely it will be ratified gener- ally as adopted to-day The final plenary session of the conference was fixed for 9 o'clock to- morrow morning, and the conference will probably be concluded at about noon, The British have ordered a special train for early to-morrow afternoon and the other delegations re making pluns for a hasty depar- ture. The final adoption of the truce was without incident except that Lithu- ania inquired whether the truce would Prevent powers, other than Russian. from attacking each other. In other words, Lithuania was anxious to know whether Poland would be prevented from attacking Lithuania in connec- (Continued on Fourth Page.) (New York World) by blishing Company, The “Circulation Books Open to All.’’ Prens 192%, nor Miller Calls for H NEW WDS SEE POLICEMAN KILL YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 19 l ED IN BRONX To-Morrow’s Weather-—SHOWERS, % | “Cirenlation Books Open to All.” 22. - Pont Office, Entered as Second-Ch Matter New York, N. ¥. FIA STREE EDITION PRICE THREE CENTS THE yEnINt WORLD $1,250,000,000 LOAN FOR GERMANY BY MORGAN RUMORED Berlin, Mager for. Financier’s Arrival, Fears Difficulty Over Guarantees. BERLIN, May 18.—J. P to offer 5.000,000,000 Morgan intends Germany loan of (st 000), according to a report in financial gold marks 50,000 circles, where the American banker's visit to Berlin is eugerly awaited Financiers say they received this in formation from Washington Bankers here point out the difficulty Germany will have in arranging guarantees Morgan undoubtedly will require, in view of French demands. An international loan to Germany would result in a sudden improvement in the exchange rate and a consequent economic and financial crash, they fear COAL OPERATORS AGREE ON PLAN TO ~ KEEP DOWN PRICE oe For Period of Strike Hoover Committee Will Control situminous Output. the WASHINGTON, May 18.—Secre- tary Hoover asked and obtained to- day the approval of the leading operators of non-union bituminous fields for a government plan of “getting the eoal industry, by volun- tary action, to put a stop point on increase of coal prices’? during the period of the existing coal strike. The plan, which was approved by bout forty operators who met with Mr. Hooyer, calls for the creation of & committee of operators, with Gov- ernment and consumers’ representa- tives serving on it, in district where coal is being produced through all orders for will be each whieh coal cleared. \ similar general committee will be set up in Washington and Mr, Hoover assured the coal operators that he had Attorney General Daugherty's opinion that such co-operative action to re- duce and hold down prices in the pub- lic interest would be legal. Secretary Hoover met about forty coal operators to discuss means of checking coal price increases, after some mouth-of-mine figures had come to the attention of the Administra- tion and President Harding had let it be known that steps would be taken to meet the situation, Mr. Hoover thought the rise from about $2 a ton at the mines to $3.50 and $4, as reported in some districts, Was unnecessary and due mostly to competitive bidding and local condi- tions which could be remedied by « » co-operation of the mine operators and the purchasing agencies of public utilities. Valentinos Reported Parted ' Until Divorce Becomes Final Miss Hudnut Leaves for New York—Los Angeles Hears They Will Re-Wed. LOS ANGELES, May 18.—Winifred Hudnut, known professonally as Natcha Ramkova, who was married last Saturday at Mexicali, Lower California, to Rodolph Valentino, film actor, last night boarded a train for NewYork =t Pomona, thirty miles it of here, according to reports, A number of persons accompanied her to the railroad station, In the #roup, accordng to Pomona picture fans, wes Valentino, who bade her an affectionate farewell, The report was current in motion pleture circles here to-day that the ure of Miss Hudnut for New York, where her father, Richard Hud- nut, le a manufacturer of perfum follewed an agreement with Valentino 4 that they would Mve apart until his divorce had become final, and then would be remarried. Thomas McClelland, Deputy Dis- trict Attorney, who has been investi- gating the marriage of Valentino to Miss Hudnut, was quoted last night as stating he would present to Thomas Lee Woolwine, District Attorney, a report that Valentino was lable to Prosecution for bigamy “if he is in California, or if he ever returns to this State.”* ’ Jean Acker, film actress, trom whom Valentino obtained an interlocutory decree of divorce last January, and who, according to Judges of the Su- perlor Court, remains his legal wife until a final decree is entered, is scheduled to tell the District Attorney what she knows of the matter to-day, HENNA HAIR FAILS TO SAVE WOMAN IN $1,900 FUR THEFT Female Taxi Robber Had Black Hair, but Arrest Is Made Anyway. IDE TIFIED BY VICTIM. Chauffeur Also Picks Out Hei Picture in Rogues’ Gallery. The Identification of the portrait of the young woman with black hair in Rogues’ Gallery as a liken woman who had stolen a $1, Lexington Avenue dealer was supplemented to-day when the. dealer's clerk, from whom she took not only the coat at the point of @ revolver but also his own watch and the the fur coat from a money, identified henna-hatred Mrs. Josephine De Ciccio of No. 132 West 112tu Street as the robber. The theft eccurred in a motor car near Pelham Manor, whither the clerk was being tadieis the young woman ostenoly. to vino the coat’ to Her husband and prevail upon him to pur- chase it for her. After this identification Mrs, Ciecio was led from the cell she has ocoupied at Police Headquarters since her ar- rest at midnight and placed in the automobile in which Chief of Police Grogan drove down from Pelham Manor to get her will be ar- raigned there this afternoon before a prott he Justice of the Peace Mrs, De Cicclo was dancing last night at the Harvard Inn, Coney Island, when Detectives Fiori and Innella of the Bomb Squad, took her aside and showed her a photograph from the Rogues’ Gallery. It was a picture of a woman with black hair, Mrs. De Ciccio has henna colored hair, so she denied that it was a likeness of her. But they took her to Head- quarters just the same, because A, Paul, a furrier of No, 741 Lexington Avenue, had identified it as a por- trait of the young woman who had held Lim up and robbed him ‘Te robbery occurred on Jan. 19, On that day a well dressed woman went to Paul's store in a smart look- ing limousine and selected an expen- sive fur coat, She told Paul that if her husband sanctioned the sale the price, $1,500, would be paid at once. Her husband, she said, was at their home in Pelham Manor and would some one go there with her and bring the coat along, Paul was wiling and everything went well until the car was on a lonely road near a deserted hous Then the woman ought out a revolver and after relieving the clerk of all the valuables in his pocket and the coat ordered him out of the vehicle, making the command emphatic with a flourish of the re- volver. He got out in a hurry The woman then ordered the driver to take her to the Hotel Astor in this city. As they entered the city the driver tried to stage a fake breakdown near a police booth, told him that if he r he'd not be able to run himself in a minute or two, so he went on south- (Continued on Fourth Page.) JERSEY CITY MAYOR SAVES CHILD'S LIFE Hague Gives First Aid to Baby Writhing From Convulsion. Mayor Hague of Jersey City wi Passing along Ogden Avenue in Jersey Olty yesterday when a woman ran out of a house screaming: “Save my child, he's dying! The Mayor ran into garage two dogre distant, telephoned for an am- bulance, then ran Into the house and found Raymond Atkinson, three, writh- ing In pain from a convulsion, “Get me some water!” shouted the Mayor, “then fill a tub with water, put some mustard fu it, then put the boy in It When the ambulance doctors arrived for had they said there was nothing loft them to do and that the Mayor aved the child's life 7] MILLER CALLS ON HYLAN TO REVEAL TRANSIT PLAN: URGES CITY OWNERSHIP *"YGERMAN ANTHEM WHEN SUNG ON SHIP CAUSED RUMPUS afi Capt. Von Falkenhayn Hurls Glass When Americans Refuse to Stand, its spring luncheon meeting this after- = the Hotel Commodore, de- Governor Says Mayor Get Full Credit for Proposals, ADVOCATES 5-CENT FARE This and Unified System Only Solution of Problem, Says Executed. Gov. Nathan L. Miller, as the prin- cipal guest of the Chamber of Com- merce’'of the Borough of Queens at noon at The Seydlita of the North German clared for municipal ownership of the Lloyd linearrived in New York to-day railways in Queens, for a five-cent| from Rggmhen. On her came 424 pas- fare on a unifled system. and said} gongeng* including Capt. Fritz von that if Mayor Hylan or any one else had a plan to relieve the transit situa- tion in New York he should submit tt, “If the Mayor has a plan it wili be considered on its merits,’ “if he will bring it forward. get full credit for it.” “Tam not undertaking to solve the transit problem for you." he declared Fatkes yn, son of the Chief of the Staff of one of the German commands, And With them came this story: The smoking room of the Seydlitz Wiésnay HRA Was the gathering place for the convivial assengers on the ship, many Germans and a few Amer- jeans. There was wine and, Presently, song. Von Falkenhayn led in the Mm zing. he said, He will to the six hundred assembled mem- bers and guests of the Chamber The passengers, most of them, is your problem, and you know,”’ he] Stood. Von Falkenhayn was leading added with a smile, “it's a violation] bis compatriots in “Deutschland uber of home rule for the Governor to] Alles.” interfere But three Americans, one of them “The Transit Commission has the} Woman, said by passengers to be powers to solve the problem. It is|Mrs. Bertha Thiele of Philadelphia, remained seated. Von even he sang, ts looked sternly at them and gloweringly. His face was flushed, his voice peremptory when he is said to have demanded why the three had not stood while the German anthem was being sung. manifest that the proper development of Queens requires a single unified transit system serving the public a single fare. “It Is necessary to redistribute the population of Queens, to get the peo- ple away from the congested districts Falkenhayn, as sald to have for into the wider spaces which the bor-] “We preferred not to," was the ough affords. You can do this if you] reply. make travel comfortbale, carrying the} ‘Courtesy demands that rou people for a continuous ride for one}stand,"” von Falkenhayn is sald to fare, “Of course, this spells municipal ownership, and {t can be accomplished only through municipal ownership.” Referring to the operation of such a system, Gov. Miller said: “I don't believe in the Government doing 9 thing which can be undertaken better by private enterprise. The Govern ment can't do it so efficiently nor so economically. “Your controlling necessity requires municipal ownership, You are already have replied. “That's a matter of opinion,"’ was the response. The room was buzzing with excite- ment and all eyes were now on von Falkenhayn, He raised his hand, which still held his glass. The tum- bler broke against the wall near the three Americans, shattering over the shoulders, It is said, of Mrs. Thiele The room was now in an uproar Men rushed at von Falkenhayn, Henry Sacks, a tobacco manufacturer in power. The city now owns the] of Hartford, and Alexander C. F. von backbone of the principal transit] Gontard, who are said to have looked system, What the plan should disapprovingly at von Falkenhayn, what the details, [ don't pretend to} tried to quiet the room. The party say, as that’s yqur problem. Queens should be developed in every aspect was broken up, von Falkenhayn Friends carried off Ony one who dares to play politics] But the next morning, the German with such a necessary need of| Captain, once a flyer, is said to have millions of people is assuming «| apologized. The remainder of the grave responsibility. The transit|trip was peaceful Von Falkenhayn ts here, he said, to seck a job in an automobile factory. Thousands of Fans Crowd Streets For Tickets to See Babe's Return problem has been obscured by politica! discussion for four years." Home-Run King Back in Game Next Saturday —Reserves Called to Yankee Offices. Babe Ruth 1s coming back to the|two lines, ‘The lines extended from ts [the Yanks’ office door westward to Polo ds Saturday. So are his| th fe Grounds ¥;,/ S0'8 Highth Avenue and then southward to followers, 40th Street, Several thousand of them were! The doors opened for tie sule of waiting in front o fthe Yankee officnn Leecpiecig! ee mt tha line kept tts length, mon out of the At No, 226 Went 424 Street at 6 o'clock | ne he Babe haa teen out game all season paying the pensity thia morning for Business Manager| imposed by Commissioner Lauiie lust Ed Barrow and his assistants to ptart| full for parties Pating in exh bitlon the wale of reserved seat ticket, | BANes He Wariooming back and the 108 were buying tickets for the frat Hundreds more kept coming, T hree games. They were. peaceable blocked the sidewalk. ‘They eddied} enough. They wanted only « chance out into the street, snariing tramic ani} ic spend their money, ‘Two o'clock harassing the lone Policeman in tind 2,000 of them still yearning to block. into the fray. Reserves came from the West © Babe will have a great welcome Btreet Station They were gen W n he hustles through the gules but insistent. ‘The crowds formed in Saturday, aren a > bo eeemege fren oom Md lan Transit Plan YAGHT WINS RACE WITH! DEATH OVER 2,000 MILES OF SEA anes ward Doheny Lends Pala- tial Craft to Bring Friend “From Martinique. ROUND TRIP IN 2 WEEKS. Louis D'Or, Wall Street Ex- porter, Removed to Home of Relatives Here. The yacht Casiana, owned by Kd- ward Doheny, President of the Mexi- can Petroleum Company, to-day fin- ished @ race with death from Martin- ique, in the French West Indies, and won, On board was Louis D'Orn of the firm of R. T. D'Orn & Co., exporters, No. 82 Wall Street, and the ocean race against time, wind and tide was to get him home where he could have the best medical care and the services of the most skilled surgeons and specialists, The conditton of the pa tent is paid to be still critical, but he is safely in the’home of relatives here. Mr. D’Orn had been staying at Martinique representing his firm, with his family. Three weeks ago a wireless was received here from out of the sea that the merchant was 4 very sick man and that prompt attention was necessary to save his life. There are three brothers of the D'Orn family, all members of the firm. Elisha Walker, President of Blair & Co., bankers and brokers of No. 24 Broad Street, is a brother-in- law of the sick man. Martinique is 2,000 miles from New York, with steamship connections In- frequent. Mr. Walker appealed to his friend, Mr. Doheny, to lend him the Casiana to make the trip. The result was that in a remarkably short time the palatial steam yacht was ready to sail from Jacksonville, Fla., with instructions to take his orders fyom: Mr. Walker and get a speed out of the fast-travelling craft to exceed anything ever before attempted. The Casiana carried as passengers Mr. and Mrs. Walker and their two children, Mr. and Mrs. D'Orn and C. B. Vernon. Mr, Doheny's orders to shake the speed out of the yacht were obeyed to the letter, In a little more than a week the Casiana was anchor- ed off Martinique. Word of her com- ing had been wirelessed and prepara- tions for the transfer of the patient had been made as far as practicable, Inside of two days the Casiana had weighed anchor and started on her race with death through the seas. Martinique was cleared May 11 and the Casiana made the record voyage in less than seven days between the French Weat Indies and New York. The weather was fine most of the way. The yacht skimmed through squalls and was helped by gales, bowling along at an average rate of better than 800 miles a day Mr. D'Orn held up splendidly under the weather. The yacht sped up the Hudson and anchored off West 86th Street, near the Columbia Yacht Club. Two doo- tors were on the vessel as soon as the anchor was down and an ambulance from the Broad Street Hospital, of which Mr, Walker is President, was waiting on the shore, Mr. Dorn ts now in the Walker home Sunday World Real Estate Advertisements MUST BE IN THE World Office On or Before Friday To Ineure Proper Classification Order Sunday World Classified Advertsing To-Day The World POLICEMAN IS SHOT DEAD BY FISH SALESMAN TO WHOM Ht HAD HANDED A SUMMONS POLICEMAN KILLED BY MAN HE SERVED WITH A SUMMONS & aS 20 PERISH IN FIRE IN ROME HOSPITAL: 0,000 IMPERILLED Sixteen Bodies Recovered from Ruins Near Vatican— Heroic Rescues by Nurses, troiman DOUGLAS W. HAY, _ mar DC ROME, May 18 (Associated Press). —A disastrous fire swept the historic hospital of Santo Spirito, one of the most ancient and picturesque char- {table institutions in Rome, early this morning. 7 So far as can be ascertained, the death list will reach twenty. Sixteen bodies already have been recovered. Four other patients were badly burned and one dangerously injured. The institution accommodates near- ly 6,000 inmates, and includes a hos- pital, lunatic asylum, foundling home and a refuge for aged and infirm per- sons. The fire broke out shortly before midnight tn the laundry. At first it seemed insignificant, but it spread rapidly to the neighboring wards, each containing thirty chronic sufferers or infirm patients, who were seized with Panto, The shrieks of the suffsrers mingled with the crackling of the flames, while the atmosphere rapidly became dense with smoke, Nurses and doctors quickly cleared the bedridden from one ward, and tn the next ward three of the Patients managed to crawl out, Firemen rushed to the scene, but at the mo. ment of their arrival electric lights were extinguished, adding to the hor- ror of the situation, Aw the tmmense wooden beama of the hospital fell, there was a hea y. grinding noise and the pavement col. lapsed, burying twenty of the chronic patients and rendering access tu the wards impossible, Carabineers, Royal Guards, nurses and physicians made herolo efforts te save the unfortunates, rushing through the smoke and fire and bring- ing out twelve, all of whom, however, were dead from suffocation, Several of the rescue parties were injured. The two wards were destroyed, but the firemen suoceeded in saving the rest of the buildmgs, tg Victim, Douglas W. Hay, Was Walking Away From Scene When Michael Traviano Opened Fire on Him. Murderer Emptied One Revol- ver at Three Other Patrol- men Closing in on Him and Used Another as They Shot. Fusillade Attracts Thousands at Claremont Parkway and 172d Street Who* Witness Capture of Slayer. Policeman Douglas W. Hay of, the Bathgate Parkway Station observed Michael Traviano, of No. 3892 Third Avenue, a fish merchant who hes a stand on Third Avenue, betweén Claremont Parkway and 172d Street, throw a handful of fish heads into the gutter in front of his stand this afternoon. ‘The policeman wrote out a sum mons for Traviano to answer in West Farms Court to-morrow for a viola- tion of the sanitary laws and handed it to him, As the policeman closed his book of summons blanks and turned awa Traviano whipped out a heavy re- volver and fired it point blank at the Policeman's back. The street was busy. The shot was heard not only by those on the side- walks but by passengers in surface: and elevated cars and hundreds saw. the policeman reel and fall. They saw Traviano shoot again. The gathering crowd started to close in on the market man. Brandishing his revolver Traviano ran through Claremont Parkway to- wards Crotona Park. Policeman Slater, on duty on Washington Avenue, had heard the shots and ran to intercept Traviano, Traffic Policemen Martin Howley and Jerry Clifford, who had seen the disturbance from a Third Avenue car on which they were going home, Jumped off and joined in the chase. The three policemen began shooting at Traviano as he- neared Fulton. Avenue. He replied to each of them shot for shot. When his revolver was emptied he drew another smaller weapon from a back pocket and re- sumed firing e Howley and Clifford on one side of the street began a croas-fire at Trav!- ano, attracting all his fire after he had taken refuge behind a lamp post Slater, who fought overseas with the 85th Machine Gun Battallon, crouched low against the building line on the other side and began making swift advances stealthily He was the width of the sidewalk from Traviano when the market man whirled about and fired at him, The bullet struck Slater In the right hand and knocked his revelyer from his grasp, The polleeman's gun had been emptied of bullets, He picked it up with his left hand and with a wild yell leaped at ‘Traviano, aa Howley and Clifford came running across the strect to his aid, Ry this time the guns of all the hunters, as well as of the hunted man, were empty, Using their pistol barreis as clubs, they knocked Traviano senseless and took him away Following the fighting at @ fairly safe distance were nearly five thou sand persons besides the hundreds who were Watching from the windows of apartinents and street cars, Meanwhile Hay had been taken to Vordham Hospital, trom whieh he had just been discharged after tnjurtes sufte by him in stepping a run away horse which threatened the Hves of @ score of school chikiren, He was dead when the hospital was reached Hay was forty years old, He was appointed a policeman Aug, 7, 1923, and not a single charge stands against his official record. Hay lived at No, 711 Clinton Avenue with his wife Anna, and their two daughters, Lillian fourteen and Daisy nine.