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— [« Circulation Books Open to All, mtd fore Wert), tress ‘NEW ‘YORK, SATURDAY, ‘DECEMBER 30, satorio. “Circulation Books Open to All” yin EXTRA fu 1922. Entered as Second-Claes Matter Fest Orton, Hew York, B. ¥. PRICE THREE CENTS LOBBYIST. S SWARM IN ALBANY TO FIGHT SMITH — ( Every Municipal Ownership Bill Smith Puts _ Through Legislature to Be Opposed by Serv- ice Corporations—Disappointed Inaugura- tion Visitcrs Threaten Officials. By Martin Green. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) ALBANY, Dec. 30.—Albany ts full ot lobbyists called lobbyists and have organized a sor of propagan‘a of a verbal nature which is intended to reach’sources of publicity tn a way to convey the impression that the lobbyists are ao more and the alert young, middle- ‘aged and the old men who are here present and ar+ on the payrolls of the public service and other corporations likely to be affected by legisla- tion are in reality in the State capital as presenters of arguments in the Court of Appeals. From the complexion of the lobby- # ists, however disguised, who are op the ground, it is apparen he traction interests are greatly d over the reported intention elect Smith to try and en- the laws which should evolve the Democratic platform planks ling for municipal ownership of ic utilities. Whe hunch has gone out that the Governor-elect. in his message, whicn Tig may read to the joint session of the Senate. and the Assembly next Wednesday and thereby break al! Precedents in this State, will advo- cate even more drastic legislation on fraction matters than the platform is for. IEASURES FOR NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT FORMULATED. Suggestions, or commands, from th: Governor's message are subjects + Fumo: in the Stute capital here is no dovbt about the report that the Governor-elect's transit program for New York City has aieudy been drafted, and that the recommenda tions are calculated to make coli chills traverse the spines of the finan ciers interested in public service stocks not only of New York City but of the State Strangely enough, the traction cor poration lobbyists and the representa tives of other public service corpora tions operating in municipalities are mot cast down. They are more optl- mistic than the magnates who employ them because they are closer to the sources of law and repeal. “Gov. Smith.” suid a gentleman identified with a public service utility to the writer to-day, ‘may send to the Legislature all the messages hy ean write with the intent of bringing on municipal ownership beyond the Umits to which it extends under ex isting Inws, and he may forco “his measures through, but each of them will have to stand a court test. There isn’t a measure he can present that isn't so mixed up with constitutional requirements that we can't appeal from 1 The difficu'ties of the situation have not daunted A Smith and his Bi formulators, As minority and Majority leader and Speaker of the ‘Agsembly he accumulated a lot of knowledge about transit laws, He has no fear of the ultimate outcome. INAUGURATION OFFICIALS ARE THREATENED. So many requests for admissions to the Capitol building for the Inaugu- ration ceremonies have been turned down that the officials in charge are beginning to receive threats. The Al- bany police force is adequate and com- petent to preserve general order, but the welfare of the Governor-Elect and hits family has been directly entrusted to detectives Andy McDonald and Abe @nydecker of the New York Police (Continued on Second Page.) The Evening World will not be pubished New Year's Day. Yes WTHLOBBISS TO FCT a| MON PUBLIC UTILITIES MEASURES). 1) |BALKED BY FRANCE Far Enough for Them to See Error of Way. HER POLICY MERCURIAL But Will Be Hard for Her to Refuse Consent to Clearing Atmosphere. By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, Dec. right).-Having failed France by informal con rsations of diplomacy, the United States Govern- ment has appealed to the public opin- for of the wofld in support of its plan for a settlement of the repara- tion problem. Secretary Hughes's speech,at New Haven, almost coincident with the first expression from the White House on foreign policy in three weeks, has a significance apart from the character of the proposal that a commission of financlers undertake to fix what Germany can pay. It means that the American Govorn- They resent being 30 to (Copy- convince MILLER 10 SUBMAIT TATE BUDGET TO LEGISLATURE Fstimates $162,002,756 Available for Requirements of Next Fiscal Year. proposal, but agreed, There 1s no reason France has returned a flat negative, but there is every reason to suppose that the American Government has made litle headway by secret di- that France has not again. It Is most unusual for the Presid and Secretary of State to discuss proposals made to foreign Govern- ments. For weeks there has been a steadfast refusal to say anything, though It was known J. P. ALBANY, Dec. complete financial suing fiscal 30.—A formal and plan for the en- proposing appro- State expenses and means of financing them in the way of a surplus and estimated revenues, which ts to be submitted to the Legisiature, was made public to-day year, priations for and that a revival of the bankers’ commission idea was under discussion, It was pointed out in these despatches at the time that the key to the situa tion was to be found in the report of the International Bankers’ Committee, by Gov. Miller, as Chairman of the] sade inJune, That committee made Board of Estimate and Control, Sub- mission of the balanced budget] didn't accept them. The situation has marked the close of the Miller Ad-|n0t changed since then. The Ameri can Government the suggestion that a really try again. Whel in Paris, ministration and was regarded as es- tablishing a precedent in the State's financial history. The budget estimates a surplus, in June, as the French paid to believe] eral Prohibition forces. Morgan | will permit the police to s had conferred with Secretary Hughes] zens for pocket flasks. is merely reviving | streets of commission | Year's Eve. WARMER WEATHER AND RAIN OR SNOW DUE FOR NEW YEAR’S Thermometer Already Soaring Army ef 10,000 Out to Clear City’s Streets. Warmer weather is promised for the New Year. Thore will be a decided change to- morrow, according to Forecaster Starr of the local Weather Bureau, and tn Hopes Situation Has Gone all probability what enow remains in the streets by to-morrow afternoon will melt and make it wet under- foot. By to-morrow night unsettled contitions will prevail, and it is prob- atic that elther rain or snow will result. The lowest point reached by the thermometer to-day was 18 at 6 o'clock. It rose slowly as the sun rose, but will remain below 20 all day, it was forecast. To-morrow it will go above the freezing point. POLIGE TO FRISK CITIZENS’ HIPS FOR NEW YEAR FLASKS Hylan Issues Drastic Order to Enright to Make Holiday Dry. If New York doesn't encotinter the driest New Year's Eve it has ever ment has been quietly advancing this] known, it will not be the fault of Mayor Hylan, the police and the Fed- Because all these have combined, after various and sundry conferences, to make the freedom of violators of the liquor law plomacy und Is trying open diplomacy|a pertlous thing. M: yor Hylan and Commissioner it] Enright have prepared a plan for en- forcement which has been given to Chief Inspector Lahey and by him transmitted to-day in a conference with his subordinate Inspectors which rch citi- The searching will be conduct- ed in the guise of ‘‘frisking’’ » pects for concealed weapons. And if the hip flask comes to light during the operation the toter will be arrested immediately. The orders for strict enforcement certain recommendations, but France | came from Mayor Hylan after he had received reports of young girls being left to wander intoxteated about the nwich Village last New That quarter is to be watched this year with the faithful- re the committee of bankers met | 2¢88 of a cat at a mouse hole, Not only is the uniformed force to Now| be out in all its available numbers, of July 1, 1928, of $85,647,080.36; es- See eas Ga vseaimtar tinea the | but detectives in street clothes and wimated revenues $126,855,676-48, Or) situation has proceeded far enough| SMe in evening clothes will be dis- total resources of $162.902,756.79 forlfor France to see the error of her|tMbuted about the neighborhoods in the requirements of the next fiscalfway. The bankers ure ready to ex-| Which the police expect the most ac year amine Germany's assets and resources }:-1!09 99 the part the Tevellers again and to recommend a loan to Germany wherewith her first repara- tion payments can be made, but first France must agree to give up her apparently unrestricted right to pun- ish Germany whenever she pleases. If the United States Government had been able to convince France in the lest fortnight that such a plan was worth trying, the appeal to public opinion wouldn't have been necessary. But the French Government's policy has been more or less mercurial of late, anyhow. First it seemed us if France would invade the Ruhr, then the polley was abandoned Realizing the tremendous mora} in- fluence which the United States Appropriations are confined to cur- rent operating expenses and fixed charges, requests for construction and capital outlay being left to the action of the Legislature. General salary changes and creation of new positions were recommended for postponement until completion of the ‘job analysis study” now under way. Operating expense appropriations include personal service, operation and maintenance, fixed charges, con- tributions and State debt require- ments, and aggregate $110,000,000. An Increase of $6,460,000 in group ap- propriations, ts balanced by decreases in other groups. Principal increases are: Health, La- bor and Tax Departments, $135.000;| wiclds in the world to-day, the de- educational, $8,726,000, inoluding $73,-] cision was made here to make public 000 for persions; agriculture, $258,-|the American plan, almost on the eve 000; prisons and prison hospitals, m7 general, $389,000; for increased :al- (Continued on econd Pag age.) aries and additional attendants, $1,-]—~ rs see 330,000; charity, $264,000; Stato aid] Fiygt Aid to town and country roads, $244,000; prison industries, $33,000. ce dB elt $6,500,000 TO IMPROVE BATTLESHIPS WANTED President To Business Strict censorship, careful classi fication, superiority in numbers and results because of the largest Makes Request of Con- Breas to Keep Navy Up to Date, metropolitan circulation make amar aA World advertisements the most WASHINGTON, Dec, 90.—-A supplo-} useful and effective form of mental appropriation of $6,500,000 for! Huybticity, modernizatio: of battleships was re- yo poe World advts, fast quested of Congress to-day by President 9 month, Harding. The request was transmitted in a let- more than the next ter from Secretary Denby declaring that, as a result of the Arms Conference de- cisions, the nation must adopt a new policy regarding its capital slips, If they are ‘'to be maintained at a standard of efficiency comparable to that of similar vessels of forelgn powers." 50,831 fiskes' newspaper See 75% OF ALL HELP WANTED ADVTS. ARE PRINTED IN THE WORLD. Broadway, particularly that purt of it in which the well-known restaur- ants and hotels ure situated, will come in for extra surveillance, Detectives will be everywhere. The Inspectors have been notified by Chief Lahey that they will be held personally re- sponsible for any arrests in their dis- tricts which are made from Head- quarters or by Federal agents. Prohibition Director Yeilowley has made careful pre tions for New Year's Eve, It is said that he has imported a large squad of agents from Washington who are not known Ir this city and are to he sent to the restuarants and hotels as guests. Hereafter all plac lations of the law ha in which vio- © occurred and (Coptini WIFE’S FAMILIAR ‘SNORE IN ROOM ACROSS HALI. WINS HIM A DIVORCE. Husband Awakens in Hotel at ht and Follo Sounds fle Knows Into Another's Room, CHICAGO, Dec. 30.—Ward B, Simons knew his wift's snore. One riage, at the middle awoke, snore of his w month Nov. 16, Tremont of the he save after thelr mar- they took a room Hotel, In the night Simons and heard the in a room across the hall. He arose and headed for the noise. In the hall, he alleges, he mot one Johnny Fog- arty in nis wife's kimona and in Fogarty’s room, he says, he found his snoring wife. This testimony won for Simon @ divorce in the Circuit Cours, COWPERTHWAIT’S PARK ROW ANNEX SWEPT BY FLAMES « nae 300 Women and Ctulae in Out Safely. FIREMAN NEAR DEATH. Acting Chief Oliver Pulled From Water-Filled Cellar After 35-Foot Fall. Christopher North, superintendent cf Cowperthwait & Son, instalment furniture house which has occupied premises at Nos. 199-206 Park Row since 1807, found a blaze just before noon to-day on the second floor of the two-story annex used as a ¢ Inet shop and shipping had just time room. to warn two He abinet- makers working in the rear and catch up two cats under his arms and get out. Feeding on excelsior, shavings, varnish and resin the fire flashed all through the annex in five minutes. The efforts of Deputy Chief Heffer- nan and Acting Battalion Chief David Oliver were directed to keeping the fire from the main building, filled varnish and resin, the fire flashed ait of all descriptions and to save the Venice moving picture door, from which the proprietor, Michael Mario, safely three hundred women and patrons the The fire was a theatre next had ushered children before firemen arrived stubborn one though reported under control, billows of smoke were pouring across the tracks of the Second and Third Ave- nue elevated trains at 1 o'clock, to the alarm of the passengers. Making 4 survey after the had died down Acting Chief groping his way about on th floor of the annex with L man of Truck No. 6, fell through a hoist hatchway thirty-five feet into five feet of water in the cellar, He hung on to a rack from the a ceiling until Lieut. Newman came down with a pocket lamp and found him just losing consciousness, A fall of debris blocked them from the stair- and, flames Oliver, second ut, New- way by which Newman had gone down and with great difficulty th crawled through a rear window into the yard of No. 10 Roosevelt Street Acting Chief Joseph B. Martin visited the fire a little after 1 o'clock and in consideration o fthe of the main building and the inflammability of the contents ordered a second alarm as a precautionary measure. He told Commissioner Drennan that if the old building, lacking the support of the annex, toppled into the hot embers there would be a sudden bonfire that would be dangerous to the whole Chatham Square neighborhood According to employees to-day's fire was the first the premises have known in the 115 years Cowperthwaits' hi occupied them ———~»———~ TWO KILLED, TWO HURT AS AUTO IS HIT BY PENNSYLVANIA TRAIN Were Crossing Wood- bory, \. Jy x to Dance When Struck. WOODBURY, N. J., Dec. 80.--Clar ence A. Wray jr., of 289 South Twen ty-first Street, Philadeiphia, and Louls A. Bruner, of No, 4042 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, die In the Underwood Hospital carly to-day from injuries recelyed Iast night when their auto- mobile was struck by a Pennsylvani+ the Railroad crossing, Miss Catherine train at Edith Avenue stone, of Phila dciphia and Miss Elizabeth Pi of Washington, D. ©., were sli in jured. An erroneous report gaine tion that Wray was Rex Wra famous quarterback o the Un of Pennsylvanta Football that Bruner possibly was ‘Bots’ ru- ner, star halfback of this year's Lafe- yette team, ‘The party was on {ts way to ® dance at the Woodbury Country club in a sedan car when {t was struck by an electric train from Atlantle City, Wray and Brunner died in @ hospital four hours later from fractured skulls. FORMER SECRETARY IN WAR DEPARTMENT INDICTED IN FRAUDS PLAYER COLLAPSES AFTER WINNING TENNIS TITLE Mrs. Whitbeck Also Under Strain as Son Plays Final Game., John F. W. Whitbeck, the eithteerf- year-old son of Dr. Brainard H. Whit- beck, as he lay on the table of the dressing room at the 7th Regiment Ar- mory after playing the final match of the national junior indoor lawn ten- nis singles champtonship with Ernost H. Kuhn of George Washington High to-day, would never have been taken for the winner, Hut he was, even though he after the most spectacular and gruelling tennis battle of the tournament As young Whitbeck Mrs, collapsed was half-car- ried from court, Whitbeck, his mother, rushed up to him with tears in her eyes to congratulate him. His father and brothers were also umong these to grasp his hand and pat his buck. “DIL mever watch another match like this!” exclaimed Mrs. Whitbeck “The strain {x too great for me, 1 think I suffe 1 more than my boys. I had to wateh first one and then the other win his mateh and I'm worn out from syinpathetically trying to mM." In the junior finals which went to five sets and which Whitbeck won by taking tho first, fourth and fifth sets, the latter in a deuce set 7—5, match was decided on. endurance. Both youths, aged eighteen, were worn out as the match drew on. _ SUBWAY IS JAMMED AS BRAKES REFUSE TO WORK AT 72D STREET Crowds Storm Trains and for 20 Minutes Trame tn Held Up In Rash re Thousands of passengers coming downtown on the west were delayed just side subway ifter 9 o'clock this morning when « southbound express was stalled at the 72d Street station by the Jamming of brakes, It took twenty minutes’ work on the part of an emergency crew to get the train started again, Meanwhile along the line tothe stopped and packed with express trains al north of 72d platforms Street were station were passengers. ‘The loca! track remained clear and its trains were overburdened as ex- press passengers crowded In with the regular toca! passengers. Even after the first stalled train was net in motion {t took some time to relieve the accumulated congestion, —_ THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREAD, Aroade, Pullteor (World Park How, NY Olty 4000, Cheek room for bagm open’ day and night travellers’ checks for sale, EX-ASST. SEGRETARY OF WAR CROWELL AND SIX'‘S1-0-YEAR’ MEN INDICTED INWARFRAUDS PRESIDENT FREE EIGHT WARTIME LW. W. CONVICTS Men Accused of | Sedition Must Leave U. S., Never to Return. WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—The sen- tences of eight members of the Indus- trial Workers gf the World, convicted In the Haywood case of conspiracy and vtolation of war-time laws, were commuted by President Harding to- day to expire at once, on condition that the eight prisoners leave the United States within 60 days and never return, The men are all subject to de- portation and it was a condition of their commutation that should they return to this country the clemency granted would be vold. Should any one of them return, it is stipulated, they will be apprehended and returned to Leavenworth Penitentiary to serve out the remainder of his sentence. The men whose sentences were commuted are; Aurelio Vincenti Amuarr, sentenced to twenty yea Cc. J, Bourg, ten years; Peter Green, tén years; Charles L. Lambert, twen- ty years; Harry Lloyd, five year Burt Lorton, ten years; Sam Scarlett, Archie Sinclair, ten twenty years; years. ‘The prisoners will be given sixty days in which to arrange for their departure and will be required to give bond on leaving prison that they will appear at the stated time and sur- render themselves for deportation. DRY NAVY FLAGSHIP TURNS RUM RUNNER HERSELF DOWN BAY Salvaged ‘Scotch Whiskey Found Secreted in Floating Citadel of Prohibition. ‘The revenue “cutter Hansen, the flagship and pride of the Dry Navy, turned freebooter on the high seas, is the startling sensation turned loose by the investigation to-day of the men of the Collector of the Port. The Nemesis of the rum runners of the port a rum runner herself! She arrived back at her pler last evening after swooping down to Handy Hook and salvaging seventy cases of booze awept into the seea from the little motor beat Linnte Rell, stranded off the Hook. Accompanying the Dry Navy flagship were two customs men, Nichcina and McGill, who aided in the booze search of the seas. Wind and weather prevented an ap- proach to the cockleshell craft brad- ually sinking in the trough of the sea and spewing case after case of Scotch wiskey into the wild and un- appreciative waves. So the biue- jackets of the flagship with boathooks and other hooks hooked the contents of the surging barroom swashing in the waters off Sandy Hook, They hooked seventy cases and looked in vain tho craw of the Linnie Bolle, had escaped, but They (Continued on Becond Page.) (alesis a Charged With Conspiracy t Defraud U. S. in War Camp Construction. CONTRACTS TO FRIENDS 500 Contracts Involved, . of Which — $80,000,000 Was Awarded on Armistice Day. WASHINGTON, Deg. 80 (Asso- clated Press).—Benedict Crowell, As- sistant Secretary of War, under the Wilson Administration, and six ‘‘dollae a year’? men associated with the Council of National Defense, were in- dicted here to-day by the Speeiaj Grand Jury investigating war frauds on charges, of conspiracy to defraw! the Government in construction of ewartinre-xmry camps and capton ments. The others indicted are William Starrett, Morton C. ‘Tuttle, Clemens W. Lundoff, Clair Foster, John H. McGibbons and James A. Mears The indictment charges a conapir- acy to maladminister existing laws and regulations; to control the giving of contracts to friends, associates and clients under the ‘‘cost plus" system, which it is charged resulted in a los. to the Government of millions of dol lars and reduced the moraje of labo WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 Press).—The indictment charges thet Crowell gave army commissions | some of those indicted and thaf late they were in a position to grant valu able contracts to themselves Most of said to involy construction work during the war. Five hundred (United® the contracts were contracts calling tf sixty National Army cantonments, sixty National Guard camps, ware- houses, port terminals, hospital aviation fields, ordnance plants anit fortifications are mentioned in ,t eventy pages of the indictment Contracts ‘amounting to $80.000,009 were awarded on Armistice of which $11,000,000 were “lected contractors’? Day, 10s sald to have gone to in leaggie with the alleged conspirators. CLE ND, O., Dec. 30.—Hene dict Crowell, former Assistant Seere= tary of War, when told of the Wash- ington indictments, said “I know nothing whatever about the indictments and bave no informa- tion rewarding them. I have recently turned over all my records regardiu the building of army camps and cai tonments to Department of Justice agents and have co-operated with them In every way in their investiga- tion Clemens W. Lundoff, also of Cleves land, 1s said to be in Los Angeles Cal., attending a convention of gen eral contractors, Newton D, Baker, Former Secretary of War, when told of the Washington indictments, sald: “Not having seen the indictments, I cannot comment on them. I have al ways believed, however, that the cort plus plan was the only possible way the camps and cantonments could have been constructed under the ofr cumstances."* eavacauiineates WILL KEEP OPEN HOUSE TO CATCH BOOTLEGGERS COMING AND GOING eee First the Warrant, Says U. 5. Com~ minstoner, ‘Them Bail, for Dry Law Vie! CHICAGO, Dec, 30.—"Open house” will be kept at the Federal Butiding to~ night and New Years Eve by United States Commi “The first part of both nights I expar to be kopt busy Las rest of liquor law violator “During the later hours I will approvs bonds to free those for whom J have issued PLES scab ae 5