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EflRMER AMT I VIIIYIkll A WW I TNlght's Weather CLOUDY HIiILHH iff es) Ebv cJwP (MP "IW HBHrr.i hi n imi in mi hi EXTPA VUJ J-iAJLLL. U. ZZ,Z43 LOBBYISTS SWARM IN ALBANY TO FIGHT SMITH judamv ie ai nrnnv nil en MLDMIl I 10 HLnLiU I IILLLU WITH LOBBYISTS TO RGHTALL PUBLIC UTILITIES MEASURES Every Municipal Ownership Bill Smith Puts Through Legislature to Be Opposed by Serv ice Corporations Disappointed Inaugura tion Visitors Threaten Officials. By Martin Green. (Speelal Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) ALBANY. Dec. 30. Albany Is full ol lobbyists. They resent being called lobbyists and havo organized n sor ot propaganda of a verbal nature which Is Intended to reach' sources of publicity in a way to convey the Impression that the lobbyists arc no more and the alert young, middle aged and the old men who aro here present and ar- on the payrolls ot the public sorvlco and othor corporations likely to be affected by legisla tion are in reality in the State capital as presenters ot arguments in the Court of Appeals. From the complexion of the lobby- lets, however disguised, who ar early on the ground, it is apparen' that the traction Interests are greatly Used over the reported Intention 3ov.-elect Smith to try add en- rco the laws which should evolve Zluin mo uemocruuc piuuorra planus calling for municipal ownership of PBbllc utilities. JThe hunch has com- out that the Governor-elect. In his message, which he may read to the Joint session of the Senat, and tho Assembly next Wednesday and thereby break all precedents tn this State, will advo cate oven more drastic legislation on traction matters than thu platform calls for. MEASURES FOR .NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT FORMULATED. Suggestions, or commands, from th Governor's message are subjects ! rumoi in the Suite capital iheio is no dnuht about the tepoit that thi' Governor-elect's transit program for New York City bus aneudj been drafted, and that the recommenda tlons are calculated to mako col 1 chills traverse tho Bpints of the finan clers Interested In public servtrt stocks not only of New York City but of the State. Strangely enough, the traction cor poratlon lobbyists and the roprcsenta tlves of other public service corpora tlons operating In municipalities e not cast down. They are morir opti mistic than the magnates who employ them became they are closer to the sources of law and repeal, "Gov. Smith," said a gentleman identified with a public service utility ,to. tho writer to-day, "may send to the Legislature all the messages he can wrie with the Intent of bringing on municipal ownership beyond the limits to which it extends under ex isting laws, and ho may forco hls measures through, but each of them will have to stand a court test. There Isn't a measuro he can present that Isn't so mixed up with constitutional requirements that wo can't appeal from it." The difficulties of the situation have not daunted AI Smith and his hill formulators. As minority and majority leader nnd Speaker of the Assembly he accumulated a lot of knowledge about transit laws, He has no fear of the ultimate outcome. INAUGURATION OFFICIALS ARE THREATENED. 80 many requests for admissions to the Capitol building for tho inaugu ration ceremonies havo 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 tho welfare of the Governor-Elect and his family has been directly entrusted to detectives Andy McDonald and Abe Bnydecker of tho New York Police (Continued 'on Second Page.) The Evening World will not be pub'ished New Year's Day. ANP WARMER. UAlJLiX. Cepjrlsht (New l'ubllihlnr MILLER TO SUBMIT STATE BUDGET TO LEGISLATURE Estimates $162,002,756 Available for Requirements of Next Fiscal Year. ALBANY, Dec. 30. A formal and oompleto financial plan for tho en suing fiscal year, proposing appro priatlons for State expenses and means of financing them In the way of a surplus and estimated revenues, wh'ch Is to be submitted to tho Legislature, was made public to-day by Gov. Miller, as Chairman of tho Board of Estimate and Control. Sub mission of the balanced budget marked tho close of tho Miller Ad ministration and was regarded as es tahllshlng a precedent in the 'State's financial history. The budget estimates u surplus, as of July 1, 1023, of J35,647,0S0.36; es Mmated revenue- $126,355,676.43, or total resources of $162,002,756.79 for the requirements of the next fiscal year. Appropriations are confined to cur rent operating oxpensos ard 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, is balanced by decreases in othor groups. Principal Increases are: Health, La bor and Tax Departments, $135,000 educational, $3,726,000, Including $73,- 000 for pcrslons; agriculture, $258, 000; prisons and prison hospitals general, $389,000; for increased Lai arles and additional attendants, $1, 330,000; charity, $354,000; Stato aid to town and country roads, $244,000 prison industries, $33,000, $6,500,000 TO IMPROVE BATTLESHIPS WANTED President Mnke Request of l'n- jtrrnn (o Keep tfay Up to Pntr, WASHINGTON, Dec. 30. A supple mental appropriation ot $6,500,000 for modernization of battleships was re quested of Congress to-day by President Harding. The request was transmitted in a let ter from Secretary Denby declaring that, as a rosult of the Arms Conference de cisions, me nation must adopt a new policy regarding Its capital ships, If they aro "to be maintained at a standard of efficiency comparable to that of similar vessels of foreign powers." Circulation Books Open to All," Torfc World) Press Compsoj. 1912. T Hopes Situation Has Gone 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 Da id Lawrence. (Speelal Correspondent of The Eve ning World.) WASHINGTON. Dec. 30 (Copy right). -L-Having failed to convince Franco by informal con rsatlons of diplomacy, the United States Govern ment has appealed to the public opin ion of tho wofld in support of Its plan Xor a settlement ot .the ropara tlon problem. Secretary Hughes's speech, at Now Haven, almost coincident with the first expression from tho White House on foreign policy in three weeks, has a significance apart from the character of the proposal that a commission of financiers undertake to fix what Germany can pay. It means that tho American Govern ment has been quietly advancing this proposal, but that Franco has not agreed. There Is no reason to bolieve France has returned a flat negative but there la every reason to suppose that the American Government has mado little headway by secret di plomacy and is trying open diplomacy again. It is most unusual for the President and Secretary of Stnto to discuss proposals made to foreign Govern ments. For weeks thero had been a steadfast refusal to say anything. though It was known J. P. Morgan had conferred with Secretary Hughes and that a revival of tho bankers' commission idea was under discussion, It was pointed out in these despatches nt the time that tho key to the situu tlon was to be found In tho report of the International Bankers' Committee, made In June. That committee made certain recommendations, but Franco didn't accept them. Tho situation has not changed since then. The Ameri can Government is merely reviving the suggestion that a commission really .try again. When tho committee of bankers met In Pnrl3, In June, the French paid no attention to Its suggestions. Now the American Government hopes tho situation has proceeded far enough for Franco to see tho error of her way. The bankers are ready to ex amino Germany's assets and resources. again and to recommend a loan to Germany wherewith her first repara tion payments can be mode, but llrst Franco must agree to givo up her apparently unrestricted right to pun ish Germany whenever sho pleases. If the United States Government had been able to convince France In the last fortnight that such a plan was worth trying, the appotU to public opinion wouldn't have been necessary. But tho French Government's policy has been more or less mercurial of late, anyhow. First It seemed as If France would Invado the Huhr, then the policy was abandoned. Realizing tho tremendous moral In- fiuenco which the United Stutes wields In the world to-day, the de cislon was made here to make public tho American plan, almost on the eve (Continued on Second Page.) First Aid To Business Strict censorship, careful classi fication, superiority in numbers and results because jf the largest metropolitan circulation miike World advertisements the most useful and effective form of publicity. 144,429 S2t advUl u'1 Kfi more than the next OUeOOl highest newspaper. 75 OF ALL HELP WANTED ADVTS. ARE PRINTED IN THE. WORLD. BALKED BY FRANCE HARDING URNS TO PEN DPLOMACY WAR II mil NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER WARMER WEATHER AND RAIN OR SNOW DUE FOR NEW YEAR'S Thermometer Already Soarlnff Army of 10,000 Oat to Clear City's Streets. Warmer weather is promised for the New Year. Thore will bo a decided cbango to morrow, according to Forecaster Starr of tho local Weather Bureau, and in alt probability what enow remains in tho streets by to-moTow aftornoon win melt and mako it wet undor- foot. By to-morrow night unsettled conditions will prevail, and it Is prob alio that cither rain or enow will result. Tho lowest point reached by the thermometer to-day was 13 at 6 o'clock. It rose slowly as the sun roso, but will remain below 20 dll day. It was forecast. To-morrow it will go above the freezing point. POLICE TO FRISK NEW YEARFLASKS Hylan Issues Drastic Order to Enright to Make Holiday Dry. If New Yorfc docsriH encounter the driest New Year's Evo It has ever known, it will not bctho fault of Mayor Hylan, tho police and tho Fed eral Prohibition forces. Because all these havo combined, after various and sundry conferences, to make the freedom of violators of the liquor law a perilous thing. Mayor Hylan and Commissioner Enright have prepared a plan for en forcement which has been given to Chief Inspector Lahcy nnd by him transmitted to-day in a conference with his subordinate Inspectors which will permit tho police to search citi zens for pocket (tasks. The searching will be conduct ed In the guise of "frisking" sus pects for concealed weapons. And if the hip flask comes to light during the operation the toter will be arrested immediately. Tho ordore for strict enforcement camo from Mayor Hylan after he ha1 received reports of young girls being lelt to wander Intoxicated about ths streets of Greenwich Vlllago last New Year's Evo. That quarter is to bo watched this year with the faithful ness of a cat at a mouse hole. Not only is tho uniformed force to be out in all its available, numbers, hut detectives In street clothes und some in evening clothes will bo dis tributed about the neighborhoods In which the police expect the most ac .tlon on the part of the revellers. Broadway, particularly that part of It In which tho well-known restaur ants and hotels are situated, will come In for extra surveillance. Detectives will be everywhere. The Inspectors have been notified by Chief Lahey that they will bo held personally re sponsible for any arrests In their dis tricts which are made from Head quarters or by Federal agents. Prohibition Director Yellowley has made careful preiiaratlons for New Year's Eve. It Is said that he has imported a largo squad of agents from Washington who are not known It this city nnd aro to bo cent to tho rcstuarants and hotels iih guests. "Hereafter all places in which vio lations of the law have occurred and (Coptlnucd on Second Page.) WIFE'S FAMILIAR SNORE IN ROOM ACROSS HALL WINS HIM A DIVORCE Ilnshnnil Anakrn In Hotel nt Mllht iiikI Fnlluns Sound fie Known Into Another') Hoom. CHICAGO, Dec. 30. Ward B. Simons knew his wlft's snore. Ono month after their mar riage, Nov. 16, they took a room at the Tremont Hotel. In the middle of tho night Simons awoke, he "ay, nnd heard the snore of his wlte In a room across the hall. He arose and headed for tho noise. In tho hall, ho alleges, he mot ono Johnny Fog arty in his wife's klmona and In Fogarty's room, he Bays, ho found his snoring wife. This testimony won for Simon a divorce In the Circuit Court. ITNS .QCPRCTARY INmf!TEIl VkVllk I mil COWPERTHWAIT'S PARK ROW ANNEX SWEPT BY FLAMES e 300 Women and Children in Movie Next Door Pass Out Safely. FIREMAN NEAR DEATH. Acting Chief Oliver Pulled From Water-Filled Cellar After 35-Foot Fall. Christopher North, superintendent of Cowporthwalt & Son, Instalment futnlturo house which has occupied premises nt Nos. 199-205 Parle How since 1807, found a blaze JLuet before noon to-day on the second floor of the two-story annex used as n cab inet shop and shipping room, llo had Just timo to warn two cabinet makers working In the rear nnd catch up two cats .indcr his arms and get out. Feeding on excelsior, shavings, varnls and resin the Ore flashed nil through the annex in five minutes. The efforts of Doputy Chief Heffer nan and Acting Battalion Chief David Oliver wcro directed to keeping tho fire from tho main building, filled varnish and resin, tho llro flashed all of all descriptions nnd to save tho Venice moving picture theatre next door, from which tho proprietor. Michael Mario, had safely ushered threo hundred women and children patrons before the firemen nrrlved. Tho fire was u stubborn one unit, though reported undcr.control, billows of smoko wcro pouring across the tracks of the Second and Third Ave nue elevated trains at 1 o'clock, to the alarm of tho passengers. Making a survey after the flames had died down Acting Chief Oliver, groping his way about on tho second floor of the annex with Lieut. New man of Truck No. 6, fell through a hoist hatchway thlrty-flvo feet Into flvo feet of water In the cellar. He hung on to a nick from the cellar celling until Lieut. Newman cumo down with a pocket lamp nnd found him Just losing consciousness. A fnll of debris blocked them from the stair way by which Newman had gono down and with great difficulty they crawled through a rear window Into the yard of No. 10 Roosevelt Street. Acting Chief Joseph It. .Martin visited tho fire a little alter 1 o'clock and In consideration o fthu ago of the main building nnd th Inflammability of tho contents ordered a second alarm as a precautionary measure. Ho told Commissioner Dronnan that If the old building, lacking the support of the annex, toppled Into tho hot embers there would bo a sudden bonfire that would bo dangerous to the whole Chatham Square neighborhood. According to employees to-day's fire was the first tho premises havo known in tho 115 years Cowperthwalts' has occupied them. TWO KILLED, TWO HURT AS AUTO IS HIT BY PENNSYLVANIA TRAIN Were Crosalnir Tracks at Wciu.l tmr, , J., on Way to Dance When Struck, WOODBURY, N. J.. Dec. 30 Clar ence A. Wray Jr., of 239 South Twenty-first Street, Philadelphia, and Louis A. Bruncr, of No. 4042 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, died In the Underwood Hospital early to-day from Injuries received last night when their uuto mobilc wns struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad train at tho Edith Avenue crossing. ' Miss Catherine Johnstone, of Phila delphia tinil Mlsx Elizabeth Prico of Washington. 'D. C, were slightly In jured. An erroneous report gained circula tion that Wray was Rex Wray. ormer famous quarterback of thu Unlvertl'.y of Pennsylvania Footlwill Team, and that Bruner possibly was "BotH" Hru ner, star halfback of this year's Lafo yette team. The party was on Its way to a danee at the Woodbury Country club In a sedan car when It was struck by an electric train from Atlantic City. Wray and flrunner died In a hospital four hours later from fractured skulls. Mow "Circulation Hooks Open 30, 1922. FORMER SECRETARY IN WAR DEPARTMENT INDICTED IN FRAUDS BENEDICT CROVELL TENNIS TITLE Mrs. Whitbeck Also Under Strain as Son Plays Final Game. John F. W. Whitbeck, the eighteen year-old son of Dr. Hrnlnard H. Whit beck, as he lay on the table of the dressing room at the 7th Regiment Ar mory ufter playing tho final match ot the nntlonul Junior indoor lawn ten nis singles championship with Ernest H. Kiihn of George Washington High to-day, would never have been Inken for the winner. Hut ho was, even though ho collapsed after tho most spectacular and gruelling tennis battle cf the tournament. As young Whitbeck was half-car rled from court, Mrs. Whitlieck, 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 und pat his lack. i II never watch nnnther matoh like this!" exclaimed Mrs. Whitbeck. "The strain Is too great for mo. think I suffered more than my boys I hud to watch first one and then the oilier win his match and Im worn out from sympathetically trying to help thorn. In the junior finals which went to live sets nnd which Whitbeck won by taking tho first, fourth and fifth sets, thu latter In a deuco sot 7- match was decided on endurance. Botli youths, nged eighteen, were worn out us the match drew on. SUBWAY IS JAMMED AS BRAKES REFUSE TO WORK AT 72D STREET Crowd Storm Trntns anil lor 5!j) ma. ... . . ...1.1 .!.. ' .Tiinuiri i mini- m hi In lliiuli Hour. Thousands of passengers coming downtown on tho west side subway were delayed Just after 9 o'clock this morning when a southbound express was stalled at the 72d Street station by tho Jamming of brakes. It took twenty minutes' work on tho part of an emergency crew to get tho train started again. Meanwhile express trains all along tho lino to the north of 72d .Street were stopped and station platforms were packed with passengers. Tho local track remained clear and Its trains were overburdened as ex press passengers crowded In with the regular local pa&sengcra. Even after the first Mailed train was set In motion It took some, time to relieve the accumulated congestion, the woiu.n Tn-rvni. ncnicAr. Atehte, PullKrr (World) llulldlni. 03-61 I'ark How, N Y City Tlthon. n.lnxn (K)0, Check rnor.i for haiiig. and pro.l opn day nnd nliht. Monty erdtrs sad triv.utrs tn.oKt lor inn. ASYt, PLAYER COLLAPSES AFTER WINNING I - IIIUIV I kV To-Morrow'. EEC f to All," Eatfrrd Seood-CIs Matter I'Mt Office. Mew Terk, N. Y. EX-ASST. SECRETARY OF WAR HELL AND SIX MEN INDICTED IN WAR FRAUDS PRESIDENT FREES T WARTIME . W. W. CONVICTS Men Accused of Sedition Must Leave U. S., Never to Return. WASHINGTON, Dec. 30. Tho sen- fences of eight members of tho Indus trial Workers pf tho World, convicted In the Haywood case of conspiracy and violation of war-tlmo laws, were commuted by President .Harding to day to expire at once, on condition that tho eight prisoners leave the United States within 60 days and never return. The men nre all subject to du portatlon and It was n condition of their commutation that should they return to this country the clemency granted would bo void. Should any ono of them return. It is stipulated, they will be apprehended and returned to Leavenworth Penitentiary to serve out tho remainder of his sentence. Tho men whoso sentences were commuted arc: Aurrello Vlnccntl Azuarr, sentenced to twenty years: C. J. Dourg, ten years; Peter Green, ten years; Charles L. Lambert, twen ty yenrs; Hnrry Lloyd, flvo years; nurt Lorton, ten years; Sam Scarlett, twenty years; Archie Sinclair, ten years. Tho prisoners will bo given sixty days In which to arrange for their departure and will bo required to give lond on leaving prison that they will appear at tho stutcd tlmo and sur i under themselves for deportation. ORY NlYFLAGSf T 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 pier lait evening after swooping down to Sandy Hook and salvaging seventy cases of booze swept Into the seea from the little motor beat Llnnlo nell, stranded off the Hook. Accompanying the Dry Navy flagship were two customs men, Nlchilr.s and McGlll. who nlded In the booze search of the seas. Wind and weather prevented an ap proach to the cockleshell craft brad ually sinking in tho trough of the sea and spewing case after case of Scotch wlskey Into the wild and un tppivclatlve waves. Bo the blue Jackets of the flagship with boathooks and other hooks hooked the contents of the surging barroom swashing In the waters off Handy Hook. They hooked seventy cases and looked In vain tho crew of tho Llnnlo Bollo, Tliey hud escaped, but ElGH URNS RUM RUNNER (Continued on Jeeond Page.) ( Weather PROBABLY 8N0W. 'sfiupA PRICE THREE CENTS MM Charged With. Conspiracy to Defraud U. S. in War Camp Construction. CONTRACTS TO FRIENDS 500 Contracts Involve, , o.f Which $80,000,000 Was Awarded on Armistice Day. WASHINGTON, Dec. SO (Asso elated Press). Benedict Crowell, As sistant Secretary of War, under tint Wilson Administration, and six "dollar a year" men associated with the Council of National Defense, were In dicted hero to-day by tho Spsciaj Ornnd Jury investigating war frauds : on charges,, of conspiracy to defraud the Government In construction dO- "wtirtliiio- luiuy -camps and canton ments. Tho others Indicted arc William A. Starrctt, Morton C. Tuttle, Clemen ' W. Lundoff, Clair Foster, John II,. McGlbbons and James A. Hears. Tho Indictment charges a consplr acy to maladmlnlstcr existing laws and regulations; to control the giving of contracts to friends, associates nnd clients under the "cost plus" system, which it Is charged resulted In n Ioms to tho Government of millions of dol lars and reduced tho morajo ot Inlioi WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (United Press). Tho Indictment charges that Crowell gave army Commissions t. some of those Indicted und that later they were In a position to grant valu able contracts to themselves Most of tho contracts wore said to involve construction work during the war. Flvo hundred contracts culling Mr sixty Natlonnl Army cuntonmonU. sixty Nutlnnul Guard camps, ware houses, port terminals, hospitals, aviation fields, ordnanco plants and fortifications are mentioned In ,thi? seventy pages of tho Indictment. Contracts amounting to JSO.OOO.Ol'iJ were uwnrded on Armistice Day, ism, . of which til, 000,000 were said to Imvn gone tp "lected contractors" In leuiqi wth tho alleged conspirators. CLKVKLAN1), O., Dec. 30. Bene dict Crowell, former Assistant Scored tary of War, when told of te Wash ington Indictments, said: "I know nothing whatever about the indictments and have no Informa tion regurding them. I have recently turned over all my records rcgardluj; the building of army camps and can tonments to Department of Justice ugents and have co-operated with them In every way In their Investiga tions." Clemens W. Lundoff, also of Cieve. land, Is sold to bo in Los Angeles, Col., attending a convention ot gen-' cral contractors. Newton D. Baker, Former Secretary of War, when told of tho Washington Indictments, said: "Not having seen the Indictments, I cannot comment on them, I have al ways believed, however, that the cot plus plan was tho only possible way the camps and cantonments could have been constructed under the cir cumstances." WILL KEEP OPEN HOUSE TO CATCH BOOTLEGGERS COMING AND GOING Klrat the Warrant, Snr V. S. Coin. tnUaloner, nnd Then nail, for Drr Law Violators. CHICAGO, Dec, 30. "Open house" will be kept at the Federal Building to nljht and New Year Eve by Unlta.t States Commissioner Qlais. "The first part of both nights I expert to be kept busy Issuing warrants for sr. rest of liquor law violators," aiass said. "During the later hours I will approver bonds to free those far whom I have issued warrants." Mm 1