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SATISFACTION WITH ALL M E R C H A N D I S E ADVERTISED IN THE TRIBUNE IS GUARANTEED Vol. LXXXII \ First to Last the Truth: <>. O 7 K News ? Editorials Advertisements THE W E A T H E R Hhaawers and rooter to-day ?nJ lo-maarrow : Increasing MJOtti? ea*1 winds. Fall Report ?>ai r-ig- i i-ifn APRIL 11, 1022 TWO < F\T? ' rrtRKK f BK1 ? T R < r,\T' ? iriila-r Nn-, \ orla Within .!?? I ?I ?when? Genoa Conference Almost I Russia's Disarmament Plet se ?Jiright Calls Reserves to Protect City 0.000 Men in Citizens" Corps To Be Mobilized for Active Police Duty, as Crime \s Unchecked. 75 of ?Street Force Made Night Riders ?40,000 Robbery in Park Avenue; Bandit Shot; 14 Caught in Round-Up Police Commissioner Enright made ?cmt radical mo?7ea yesterday to stem the tide of burglary and banditry. On top of the 1192 extra men given I?m by the Board of Estimate last Fri- ? ?i?r. the Commissioner ordered yester- I ity ?hat the 6,000 polic? reserves bo i ?Mobilized for active duty. He directed a'r-o that 75 members) ef the motorcycle squad be. detached j ?/rom the'Traffic Division and assigned i ta patrol the streets at night. Six fait autoirobie.i used by deputy po? lice comm??s?onerr were transferred ta the Detective Bureau for the pursuit of bandits. To these there soon will ! be added five more car?, for which the j ?Commissioner has asked and which, he j says, he .?.-ill request the Board of ; Aiderman to-day to permit him to pur j chace at once without public letting j to ?avc time. Mr?. Francis Burrall Hoffman, sister ' ol Albert R. Shattuek, asked Senator' Calder yesterday to interest himself j in behalf of Commissioner Enright's i ?Jm for a national crime bureau at ! \Vashitigtor.. ? Thefts and Shootings Continue .?feiairhih" the record of robberies andttifttings continue.-' *?? mount, vriph ?ererai holdup' Trnd *b?r?tnna added to the list yesterday. The order for the calling out of the Jo?ce reserves was sent by the Cora- j J??seioner to Special Deputy Police Ccmmifioirer Rodman Wanamaker. Mr. Wana>-*aker was requested to have ! th? raserv< 3 report at the police sta-j tons in their respective precincts for | assignment to day and night patrol i and detective service. Reserves who I ?possess automobiles or horses will be asked *o place them al i he dir-posa! of the Police Department for the emer geney The squad of seventy-five motorcycle j men were impressed into service ?hortly after sundown and continued ? the patrol of streets until sunrise. ; They wer? in charge of Acting Captan* ; Anthony Howe, and in addition to ! hatching for speeding bandits kept an | ? ' on traffic conditions, Only in the furthest Manhattan pre-j eincta did any considerable number of Police Reporve-5 report for duty last ? right. About thirty showed up at the) West 177th Street police station and j ?were assigned to posts. Half that nuni- ! ber reporteed at th?* West I62d Street j police station and were sent out on patrol. On the 'Weht Side below thai pre- ; r net not a member of the organiza-l tion was on duty. In the downtown precincts, covering the wholesale districts of the lower; West Side the congested East Side and j the ?''ranci."*.! district, few Police Re? serves were on duty. Three reported at the Fifth Street j police station and were assigned to ? Josts. None of the volunteer police? men put in an appearance at any of? ti*e other downtown police station?. M stations in the Bronx it was said j that no reserves were on duty. District Attorney Ban ton said that ? cn next Monday lie will start the 1 triai of the first of the 2fi2 case? of | robbery, burglary and pistol wielding j that are on the calendar? He hoped j ten courts would be in continuous tes- j son hearing these cases. "When we get started." said the . ?Httrict Attorney, "a burglar or a rob- , her will not get a dav of delay in these j tourts." U0.0O0 Robbery March IS H became known yesterday that bur I'ars broke into the home of Mrs. ?Martha McCracken, ?S15 Park Avenue. >"d removed silverware, clothing, jew ?lry and bric-a-brac valued at between (Continued on pnfle three) Governor Vetoes? Bill to Reimburse Lahey, Henry N? Power to Repay Public Of? ficials for Legal Expense in Defending Selves ALBANY". April 10 (From a Staff ?^respondent ,.-Governor Miller ve tt5ed to-day the bills authorizing the Board of Esimate to pay the ex? penses incurred by Police Inspectors Pom.nick Henry and William J. Lahey 'n defending themselves against crimi ?*' indictments in 1920 and 19J1. The ferner in \etoing the Henry bill ,."This bill authorizes the City of ??J* *?rk to audit and pay the ex ^ tses incurred by Dominick Henry in -"-cessfully defending a criminal I Prosecution against himself in the j ?Z*r5 ??20-21 for acts or omissions as ; tra h er ?f lhe Po,ice Department of ? by tfe ? 'ri~'c ^'-l ^a? ',eon accePtf,fl ? ??? l"* Mty." Mayor Hylan approved j thl'!! i11*8 beei* repeatedly held that ! ?jiKm?.8 no ?-onf-.titutionnl power to re- ; Ifafe Pubh: officer.- for expenses! ??.'ion V" defpridi'iK criminal prose- ! -'??'ess ? r oj:fic!al ?L'tf or emissions! in ?H, l"'', statute provides therefor; ??canee. PiwbmV'a?0* r*H ,ha< for '?'m'iar j H??K?. ,e .?"??approved the measure to B5l",rs? inspector Lahey. I == Russia = In the Red Shadow \cross the Borders* Flows.? Constant Stream of Refu? gees? Seeking Their Old Homes?Within, There Is a Constant Flux in the So? cial Order and Sweep of Disease This is *hr ninth of a series oi fifteen articles which present, The Tribune believe*, the closest picture of Russia that has yet hern arailnbl?. Mr, Dickinson, fas far four years the historian of the, American Relief Administration ahroaei. He hrts jus* returned from a five thousand mile trip through the Soviet country. By Thomas H. Dickinson CHAPTER IX Copyright, 1922, New York Tribune Inc. THE spillway of peoples on the western borders of Soviet Russia. Time?late autumn. The leaves of trees left, standing after Cacr man offensives, the marchings, counter marchings and occupations n armies are blowing to the four winds. Day by day flows across the Darriers of Russia a stream of refugees .seeking their old homer- They, too, are blown to the. four winds. ?risiae itussia all is contusion; Russian population is stirred from tc News Summary FOREIGN Disarmamcnt proposal of Russians a* Genoa conference threatens to dis? rupt meeting; opposed by France; Lloyd Georgo pounds keynote. French see grave crisis resulting from Germany'.? refusal of mora? torium condition" : reprisals a possi? bility. Free State minister routed by Irish republicans at election campaign meeting. LOCAL En right calls oui 0,000 reserves. 8sV,3 deputies to lend autos to chase robbers. Speye.?- sticks to anti-prohibition guns and awaits Salvation Army ax. What became of liquor on seized yacht is Oyster Bay mystery, Hedley defends cutting down of subway service. Weary dry ?gent- end thirty-six hours of raiding with bootleg seiz? ures, Paradise attainable even by .sinful, says Arthur Conan Doyle. Legal question delays Semenofl hearing as Borah move? against him. More lovesick than crazy, alienists say of butler Probst. Board of Estimate ignores Brook? lyn Chamber of Commerce on job? less. Presbytery votes to make women deacons. Jerome A. Myers, sought by Dis? trict Attorney, missing as $6,000 check of John D. Rockefeller jr. for Constitutional League is traced to personal account. WASHINGTON Alien property report shows large attorneys' fees paid under Wilson Administration. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt as? sails navy bill provisions as possible disaster; measure debated by House. Hearing on ship subsidy bill reveals Britain builds cargo steamers cheaper than America. DOMESTIC Dr. Bryson, held for wife murder, is forgiven by motlur-in-law; Wash? ington man also claims woman was wife. Amundsen polar airplane wrecked in Pennsylvania; occupants unhurt. Testimony at Stillman hearing in Montreal contradicts "peepers' "testi? mony involving Mrs. Stillman with Fred Beauvai?. Union miners forecast revival of fuel administration if strike is pro? longed. Grand jury presentment gives de? tails of charges of financial irregu? larities against Governor Reily of Torto Rico. Governor, opposed to $9-a-room housing bill, won over by Unter myer. Miller signs bill providing chil? dren's courts throughout state. SPORTS Yankees win final game of exhibi? tion series from Robins, 7 to 0. One contingent of Giants has 20 to 2 walkover against Fordham at Polo Grounds, while another swamps Army, 11 to 2. Voshell victor in feature match in North and South tennis tourney at Pinehurst. College baseball games; Dart? mouth defeats Columbia. 16 to 2; Georgetown beats Cornell. 12 to 5. Barnes and Hutchison not likely t, play in English open. MARKETS AND SHIPS Average prices of rail and indus? trial shares continue upward. United States Steel's unfilled or? ders gained 353.079 tons in March. Replogle Steel Company acquires Empire Steel and Iron. Manufacturers' contracts with^re tailers which substantially lessen competition held invalid by United States Supreme Court. there is a boiling in the pot. The I >p to bottom. Two ftncrx." characterize i ^tlio deep oiTervcscence in the Rus? sian population that has followed' the revolution. Them i* movement up I and down and here and there following a social urge. And there are epidemics of disease that sweep across the country, ' leveling the population like a reaper' j going through a field of" grain. The movements dictated by n so?-ial urge are both physical movements and I movements of menta! and class read justment. Naturally, it is the physical i movement, the crusades of searching men and women, that is observed first. The refugees coming over from Rus j sia to TJoland come by wagon over the ? hard military roads and they come by ' railroad train. Dammed up for weeks. 'on the Soviet side, they are suddenly ? released and flow over pellmell through ' two great sluice gate? it) eastern Po land, at Rowno and at Baranowiczc, ind one in Lithuania. Thence they i press on to scatter over the devastated ' 'egions from which five years ago thev ? ft?5, . ?Ttftlie "r'.;l ef" ?92] I visited the camp ! at Baranowic/.e. where the refugees ? detrain. This-was formerly one of the ? largest concentration camps of the j Cz?r's army. Good barracks, kitchens, j stables, parade ground;, are set. in the ? midst of an unproductive plain. The ; network of railroads centering here is for military purposes only. ]t-, build i ers had forgotten that there could be ! any economic objective to transporta I tion. Russian Maelstrom Boil? I In Camp of Refugees In the concentration camp of the ? refugees, daily housing its thousands of derelicts, one first sees the Russian maelstrom boiling. It take-, but a moment to gather around oneself a group of tale-tellers, the men bearded. turbaned. with Cossack hats, some from Odessa, from Kiev, from Samara, Kazan, Ashachan, from Siberia, from far Archangel: the women, arms akimbo, hands on hips, legs apart, big j bellied, eyes clear and unwavering, the I babies lying nake?! in the straw of a ? wagon or bound round and round on a board, the children clinging to the legs oi the mother. So the stories begin. The Rolos have stolen their horses, they t-ay. or have taken their money and given them poor exchange. The Bolos have even stolen the gold from her false teeth, on?; old woman reports. There arc tales of atrocities, of dangers and dis? asters on the road. And behind the urge of danger that pushes these peo? ple on there is a hint of the nomad strain, the lure of open places and the unfixed nbode. This refugee movement, this con I tinual human stream as over a spill? way at the margin of the Soviet state, has taken on the character of a great folk migration. Those who formerly in their wanderings went annually from mountain slope to valley, and from valley back to mountain slope, now seek a wider horizon, and the wagons and sleds of the Bashkir are ' found drawn up at the doors of Es ! thonia. Official figures given out by the Ex? traordinary Commission for Repatria i tion of Poland show that up to Janu i ary 1, 1922, 2.000,000 people had passed l over the border from Russia to Poland land 1,500,000 more were expected to arrive. Among every hundred people i arriving from Russia two dead bodies ; are taken. At the halting places 20 ?per cent die from exhaustion and lrom the disease they have brought with ?them. i Just as the economic resources and (Continued en page tour) Amundsen and Near Death a CLARION. Pa-, April 10.?Captain \ Roald Amundsen, Arctic explorer, and ' four flving companions narrowly escaped death at Mi?la, near here, to i day. when the monoplane in which ? thev were going tiom New York to i Cleveland, the first lap of a Con ; tinental journey, turned over when it was forced down io a field. All oc ? cupants were reported phghtly I scratched and bruised, but otherwise I uninjured. Those with Captain Aniund ; sen were H. T. Lewis, of Bellefonte, Pa.; H. U. Gade, of New York; E. Buhl and J. Ondell. Captain Amundsen is resting at a hotel to-night and intends, he said, to go to Cleveland by train to-morrow. Mr. Gade, who likewise was slightly shaken up, said he expected to go to New York. The other men will remain here to direct repairs to the mono? plane, the wings of which were broken. In a statement Captain Amundsen at? tributed the accident to an overheated motor, which forced him to descend .-??i'toi he had ?cached an altitude of 6.000 feet. Won't Quit, Speyer Tells Miss Booth In Wet Fight to Slay and Status as Leader of Sal? vation Army Drive Is Up to Barkers. He Wires Citizens' Committee To Get'Buck' To-day May All Have to Get Out; ! Kermit Roosevelt Now; Missing From the List! Tames Speyer doesn't intend to fore? go his affiliation with the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment in ! order to retain the chairmanship of the citizens' committee which will aid the Salvation Army in its forthcoming j drive for funds. The banker's position was made clear in a telegram he sent! from While Sulphur Spring?. \V. Va., in answer to one from Kvangr line Booth, commander of the army, both of : which Miss Booth made public yester | day. Mr. Speyer's telegram reads: "Many thanks for your kind tele- I gram. 1 am just, as much opposed to ' | the saloon as you are. but conditions | here are different from those in Cirtvit. ! Britain. I consider our present pro : hibition laws extremely harmful in ; many ways, and have enlisted m the ' campaign to get them amended or re | pealed, which may take, some years. J ! regret, therefore, that I cannot follow I your suggestion of withdrawing my : name as national vice-president. As ! regard.: my continuing to act as chair : man of this year's Salvation Army col ! lection, or resigning. 1 will do what i ever the citizens' committee that hon : orod mo by electing me knowing of ; my connection with the anti-prohibi | tion movement - may wish me to do in : the best interests of your good work. 1 shall remain a friend of the Salvation Army and an admirer of your efforts j to better conditions." Miss Booth's Telegram Miss Booth's telegram to Mr. Speyer, dated last Saturday, said: "Upon my return la,st night from the : Coast I was informed by representa i lives of the pr.sss of the honor you have conferred upon win ,->aivauon ] Army by consenting to be chairman of our drive committee. As well as deeply appreciating the influence of your ; name, my great affection and admira? tion for your beloved wife made tue ; particularly happy to have you thus connected with our organisation and f was troubled when told by press . representatives of your occupying a leading position in the anti-prohibition ? movement. I am sure your knowledge I of the Salvation Army's being an inter : national organization and understand? ing the very pronounced stand we have i taken from th,e beginning against the I use of intoxicating liquors in any and | every form in every part of the world, j not as a question of politics but a 1 question of principle, you will see the ! difficulty created by the announcement I of vour views so contrary to our teach ' ing. "Might I ask would it be por-sible for I you to withdraw your name from thb ; anti-prohibition conflict and throw in ; your lot with a movement that has : reformed rgore drunkards, both men : and women, and nbuili more homes ! made destitute through drink than any ? other people on earth? Anyway, 1 am confident you will not leave our drive ? without your valued friendship, or our ' movement without your treasured good ! will, because of my sense of obligation ! as one of the army's foremost leaders ; to protect our standards." Committee Meets To-day These messages having been ex? changed, the next development is ill be ' a decision from the citizens' commit ! tee. The committee will meet this ai ' ternoon at the Botel Pennsylvania. I Having elected Mi-. Speyer to head their | body, the committeemen may vote to I continue him. The worst that could ' happen, it was said yesterday, would ! be for the entire committee to go out, ! leaving the Salvation Army to comb the held for more prominent citizens of the strictly "dry" type and thus create a new campaign committee. It is barely possible that in this event I some form of questionnaire as to one's ? attitude on the liquor question might j be devised, with an admission of sym (Contlnued on page tttr??) Four Flyers s Plane Crashes CLEVELAND, April 10.- -To-day's | accident to his monoplane at Miola, ! Pa., will not stop Captain Amund ! sen from making the trans-continental flight accordinig to a telephone mes i sage to-night to Charles Otis, local ; broker, from Horace Gadt-, his New '< York manager, who was a member of | the party. CENTRAL PARK, L. I., April 10.? The JL-6, all-metal monoplane, which was wrecked in Pennsylvania, left here ; at 8:18 o'clock this morning for Cleve? land, on the first lap of its flight to ? Seattle. The piane was presented to the'ex? plorer by J. M. Larsen, its inventor. This is the same plane which flew to Fort Norman, near the Arctic Circle, last year. The route cf the proposed flight led through Cleveland. Chicago, Omaha, 1 Cheyenne. Salt Lake City and Reno, to ! Sacramento, Calif., whence the plane I was to have gone north to Seattle. The ; nlanc was equipped with compasses, j indicators and barograph?. F ranee May Occupy Ruhr In New Crisis Possibility of Further Mil? itary Action Looms in Germany's Refusal of Control of Her Finances! _ i Allied Reparation Terms Rejected Killing of Eleven French Soldiers by a Bomb in Silesia Adds to Danser PARTS. April 10 (By The Associated Pre;3), What is viewed In official, circles as a grave crisis ill the rola- ; t ion s between Franc- r.n<\ Germany ?vas : reached to-day jusl as the Genoa con? ference was assembling, with the pos? sibility of tiie military occupation of' further German territory presenting ' itself. This came as n result of ? negative reply from the Berlin govern? ment, to the note of the Reparation . Commission on the German repara- j tions moratorium, in which certain fiscal reforms wer?, demanded of Ger many. The reply was delivered to? day. ! I The tragedy at Gleiwitz, Upper Si? lesia, involving the killing of eleven! ; French soldiers in the explosion of a j mine, news of which is officially con ? firmed, although details ai'e lacking, is ?considered as likely to complicate the | situation, provoking as it will ener i getic diplomatic action on the part of France at Berlin. Ten other French ?soldiers were injured. High French officials now express : their conviction that the present Ger ! man government will be unable to curb I th? reactionary agitation, and that, the ?time is near when the Allies will be ; obliged cither to renounce the execu? tion of the Treaty of Versailles or I bring strong pressure to bear on Ger ? many. Refuses Control of Revenues The German government ?ays in its note that it cannot consent to the* ; proposed control of its revenues and I expenditures, and that it is unable to ' impose additional ta;-;?-, to the amount ; of ("?0,000,000.000 marks, as asked by ; the commission. The Reparation Commission may now adopt one of three different. j methods in meeting the situation. It | may insist upon its conditions in an ? other communication to the fierman ! government; it may announce to Ber | Mu that 'he conditions having been j refused the moratorium is canceled : and demand payments under the Allied i schedule, or it. may refer the German i refusal to the Allied governments as ! a final default in the execution of the j Treaty of Versailles, Occupation of Ruhr Possibility In ca.se a linal default is reported j to the governments, each Ally may, j under the Treaty of Versailles, take '. separately such measures to protect, its j interests as it deems proper, it is held j by high French authorities. This j would permit military occupations of the Ruhr Valley, or other additional : German territory, by one of the Allies |?France, for instance-without an ac? cord with the other Allies. The French government's attitude in the last year has been against further I occupations, but the present adminis? tration is known to be much concerned ? over the situation and puzzled to find i some way to put effective pressure on | Germany without taking military measures. Rifles Buried in Cemetery PARIS. April 10 ? By The Associated j Press). -Eleven French soldiers were I killed and ten injured in the explosion I Sunday, near Gleiwitz, when a bomb : was detonated in a graveyard by the ? soldier.? who were searching for hidden : arms. The guardian of the church in ! the cemetery was among the killed i Fifty rifles were found concealed under the earth of the cemetery. This in | formation was given out officially here this evening. A commission of inquiry has been I appointed to establish the cause of the . e;:plosion and fix the responsibility. Thermometer at 82, Sets Heat Record for April 10 Mercury Highest at 4 P. M. ; Straw Hats and Bathers Ap? pear at Atlantic City The official thermometer at the local Weather Bureau, on top of the White? hall Building, marked 82 degrees at 4 p. m. yesterday, making the day a rec I ord breaker. It was the warmest April j 10 of which the bureau has' any record i and was the warmest day in the first ! half of the month ever recorded. The mercury began to decline after 4 I o'clock and was down to 78 degrees at 8 o'clock. It is expected to be about as warm to-day, though showers are prophesied, which may cause a lower temperature. ATLANTIC CITY, X. J., April 10. It looked like summer here to-day. with the thermometer hovering about 85, the ocean filled with bathers and straw hats here and there dotting the throng on the boardwalk. Hundred:; of men and women went hat'.ess during the early part of the afternocn, and furs were discarded entirely. It was the warmest April 10 in the historv of the local Weather Bureau, .established fifty years ago. --? ? Atlanta?- Cltv train? on >e\v Jrrsrj Cen? tral leave Liberty st. wofk days 3j:10 a. m., - 40 p in . Saturday Special I:"1! p m. ; SunrtaviX. !0:0fl a. tn., 33:4" 1'. m l? minutes f-t-lior from West ::l?l -<t. Extra Mrvl?? ?"rem Atlantic. Cltv Ka'tet SunaUy. Rector 9:;?.0 or any Consolidated Ticket Office for reservation? both wasrt?.--AUvl. S r? SinkConferenceShip and Von Drown, Lloyd George Warns Tchiicherin LONDON, April 10. The corresponden) of "The London Times" at Genoa, writing of the disagreement between Georg Tchitcherin, head of the I * u :?.;iii ?i delegation, and Loir.-- Barthou, i prcsenl ? Krance, over disarmament, says thai Premier Lloyd George, in answi . ing the Russian Soviet delegate, .insisted thai the conference would he a failure unless it led ultimately to disarmament, bui urged that ! "r ? disarmament came there must He peace and a peace basis at Genoi Lloyd George begged Tchitcherin to confine himself to thi agi da j and nol pr?s; for an extension of (he conference. "If you superadd to our proposals," he declared, "you .:. wreck the conference." Turning to the delegates,"the British Prime Minister exclaimed: "If ?VI, Tchitcherin removes the load-line of our conference ship he " sink i\ and ! would point out that he might be among (he drowned We may have a rough time ahead and we don't want to be overloadi d, "Let M. Tchitcherin finish this voyage." he advised, "and go home I with ail he can carry. Then we will welcome him on another voyage. when we know what, sort of passenger he is." Miller Doubts i Housing Loan Bill Is Valid Inquires if Risk (-ompanic*. Could Continue to Build Cheap Apartments 4fter Emergency Ha? Kndcd, Untermyer Declares Not Hearing i?c)d on 8 Lock wood Measures, With Op? position Directed at One I From r, staff Correspondent . j ALBANY, Am-i! in. -Governor Miller ! expressed doubt at the hearing to-day ' j on the eight housing hi!!*- *x to the ? eonst;tut ionality of the measure re ? carded by Senator Charles C. Lock : wood and Samuel Untermyer as the | most important, of the lot- the hill per? mitting inauraooce companies to invest i up to 10 per cent of their assets in | apartment houses where the monfhlv I rental shall not exceed $9 a roo?n. Mr. Untermyer, after spending the j better part of the four hours arguing the validity of the bill and setting ? forth the <;ood which would come of i its enactment, declared he was con vipced that the Governor's doubts had been removed. Question of Duration of Emergency The Governor raised the question that one. clause in the measure might : be construed to mean that the insur? ance companies could continue to build j these low-priced houses beyond the. ! bousing emergency as fixed by the ; Legislature. "The statute," said Mr. Untermyer, I "determines that the housing emergency j shall end in February. 1024." "But this bill," retorted the Governor. I "specifies until March !, 1924, or so ?long thereafter as the emergency in : housing conditions mentioned in cer? tain acts of the Legislature shall con? tinue." ?Which contemplates," replied Mr. i Untermyer, "that if the Legislature in ;19:.'4 should enact that the emergency ! has not ended it should then conclude j by solemn fiat or resolution to be up ! proved by your excellency." "Or some other excellency,'' said the Governor, laughing. "Well, as a good Democrat. I hope ? not," said Mr. Untermyer. "But it was j only intended and was expressly in? serted only to cover the period to 'March 1, 1924, unless the Legislature i shall extend the time for reasons which .might then appear to it sufficient.'' "Are you clear that that would be the construction?" inquired the Gov '. ernor. How Emergency Was Determined "That ?c the construction v>e had in i mind in drawing the bill and I can I conceive of no other.'' answered Mr. ; Untermyer, "because the housing cmer | gency was a thing that was originally i determined by the Legislature when it I passed the tax exemption law and the j other laws based upon the determinar j tion that there was a housing emcr : gency." Senator Lockwood concurre'! in all ? that Mr. Untermyer suid, and they l were supported by other member's of I the Lockwood committee, who told the i Governor that no low-priced apart i ments had been built in New York (Continuad on naga six) Grand Jury Pro Rum Party In Curiosity not unmixed with appre? hension is said to animate some fifty or sixty residents of Oyster Bay as the result of an investigation being made by the Brooklyn Grand Jury into a spectacular raid by occupants of more than twenty automobiles and half ! a dozen motor launches on part of the ' cargo carried by the yacht Edith, I which arrived last Saturday from the I Bahamas, with 2,000 cases of liquor ! aboard. ! The Edith anchored off a small dock ; at Bayvillc, after midnight, and three ; large automobile trucks appeared al 1 ?nost immediately. About 1,000 cases i of liquor had been landed and loaded j on the trucks, it is asserted, when a i squad of county officials appeared. ! Drivers of the trucks, members of the | Edith's crew and Antonio Cassese, of ! Ozone Park, said to be the owner of ? the craft, were arrested. The loaded ? trucks and prisoners were taken to Mine?la and a guard of detective? left Hunt Myers to Ask of 85^000 Rockefeller Gift Banton Admits Police ire After For m er H<~a<! of Constitutional League: Accused of Duping Many Pictures Sent Broadcast information Wauled as to What Became of Check From Oil ?Magnate's Son District Attorney Joab H. Banton ad? mitted yesterday that a police search was on for Jerome A. Myers, whom W?lliam H. An-lerson. state superin? tendent of the Ant i-Saloon League, ?re? nounced last month, saying that. Myers was duping many prominent persone into membership ?n the Gpiistitytional League, rf which he was national di? rector at the lime. The District Attorney, who started an inquiry into the affairs of the league at the request of Mr. Anderson and of the executive committee o? the league itself, wants to find out from Mr. Myers whether he deposited to hi* own account a check for $6,000 which John D. Rockefeller jr. sent to the league through one. of its other officers. Information in the hands of the District Attorney icacta him to believe that such a deposit was made by Mr. ?Myers. Mr. Banton said that it was true that he was most anxious to have a talk with the former national di? rector of the league ami did not deny that the Rockfeller check would he on?? of the principal topics of conversation if the meeting took place. Detectives from the District Attor? ney's office have been looking for Mr, Myers for two weeks, it was learned, and it was reported that the search had been carried to distant cities unon the receipt; of information that the man had been seen in them. Hi--, pic? ture and description, it is ?aid, have been sent to the police of the principal cities of the country, with the request that the New York authorities be no ifietl if he is found. Mr. Anderson's statement concerning the "alleged methods of Myers in ob? taining well known names for his mem? bership rolls was made March IL' in an adtlress at the Central Methodist Epis? copal Church in Yonkers. Mr. Ander? son said that Myers was using the league, of which he was national head, to light prohibition, whereas he had obtained many of its most prominent members by persuading them that the true function of the league was to 'iis seminate information concerning the Constitution. President Harding. Mrs. Harding and members of the Cabin.! are among those who uere allegod to have joined the league under a misap? prehension. -,?*. Try to Free Erwin Bergdoll WASHINGTON*, Apri? 10.?A petition for a writ of habeas corpus for Erwin R. Bergdoll, now serving a four-year term of imprisonment for evasion of militar;.' ;,ervice during the war, wa ; filed to-day in the Supreme Court. The court is asked to con ???? whether the sentence was exea whether Bergdoll, since he neve, inducted into the army, was subj c cou,,rt martial, and whether the selective service act of May 18, 1917, was a .aw? ful exercise of power and constitu? tional. bes All-Night wiving Officials to care for the ship and the other half of her cargo. When news of the Edith's arrival spread to surrounding villages auto? mobiles loaded with nocturnal tourists started for Bayville. Officials say the roads converging on that place were jammed with cars. Later these same cars scattered from Bayville just as day dawned, their occupants in a happy mood and the machines loaded with cases. One report says that more than 800 cases of liquor left under guard by county officers dwindled to half that number between midnight and 6 a. m. The guard left in charge is said to have been "unaware of what was happening." I Saturday a subpoena server from the I Federal Court, appeared with sum j monses for officials who participated la I the original raid. They spent yester j day under questioning in court as to ' what became of an important part of j the Edith's cargo. These officials said [ last night they had been ordered to re | turn for further examination at a latei i dat?t. I Tchitcherin Asks Leusrue W i?!if?;r to Join in Limita? tion of Arirties ?f Se curity is Guaranteed; Rarthon Resent? P?an Council Adjourned To Save impasse Quit Snarling, British Pre? mier ^ in*!!?*- Nations a? \ ita! to ^Ncvv Prosperity By Arthur S. Draper ????." rohlc to The TrOnine ?' npyi ?iewl ' ? - GENOA. April 1". Prop? als for a general ! mitaticn of European armaments, aunched to-da; ai opening of the Genoa economic con? ference by Georg Ti h herin, Rus? sian Bolshevik Foreign Minister, were wrecked by the opposition of France when Louis Barthou, chief of the Paris delegation, declared in protest that the question was out? side of the conference agenda. An impass? might have been reached had the question been forced to an issue, bul Premier Facta, of Italy, who had earlier been chosen president of the conference, inter? vened, and after the appointment of four commissions to handle confer? ence affairs, adjourned the gather? ing. No further public sessions will be held for several days. The open break between, the Rus sians tind Frencfe ?came H the clo!*e of a long ?lay of speeches. Premier Facta, of Italy, chairman, had re? minded the delegates that they were meeting on common ground for the ; settlement of gigantic economic problem \ Revision of League 4sked Prem ?r Lloyd George of Great Britain had appealed in a keynote speech for a realization of world peace above all else. Then Tchitch? erin, in a low voice scarcely audible through : ho hall, proposed the dis ? ussion of reduction of armies ar. this conference, a new gathering ( f ail nations in which workers would be represented, and the revision of the League of Nation-; on a basis that would admit all peoples on equal terms, with no distinction be? tween conquerors and vanquished. Barthou was on his feet quickly in protest. He denounced the Bol? shevik trip'? proposa! as beyond the scope of the conference and there? fore out of order, lie declared that France would not discuss disarma? ment a< this gathering under any circumstances, and he insisted that the Russians, admitted to Genoa on : probation, already were interjecting into the discussion -. ub ects which had been specifically barred. In broaching the reduction ef arma? ment proposals, Tchitch'?rin a-nounced that Russia was perfectly wlline: to cut the size of it.-; army on two conditions: that th" security of the Bolshevik! . against foreign aggression be cruaran teed, and that a reduction of military | establishments be mrde simuit&reoua !y by all t' e powers. Would :,.ar Barbarous Warfare "Russia," he said, "intends to pro? pose a genera] limitation of armaments ; nd to undertake all measures likely to alleviate military burdens on the con di ion that ".his limitation aDpiie; to t'ne armies or" all countries and that the rules of warfare are revised to I exclude the present barbarous j methods." The Russian proposal i formed the I climax of the first session. Premier Lloyd George had held toe center of ! the stage during the eurly hour? o* i the sitting, with a!? t'ie deb-gates of thirty-four rations looking to him for i leadership. His speech was a ringing pica for peace, the most powerful one : made on that line by an/ Allied ?states ? man tince the war. Arm although mor? I than half his audience could not un? derstand the language of the speaker, i Lloyd George by marvelous eloquence and cleverness held hi? audienc? throughout. "This is '.he preatcst assembly of European r-.-.tions ever gathered to ? get her ?:. the whole history of the Con? tinent," the British Premier began. ! "The sch ; ???.-ment-? of this gathering I will have a far-r?2*ching effect for bet? ter or for worse upon the destiny of ? Europe. We meet here on absolutely I equal terms, provided we all accept ? equal ci : ditione. We are not h.ere as allies or ..i representatives of men archies, re* ,'.?ires or soviets, but a# ? ' equals." Cannes Conditions Upheld ? That, was the gist of a theme devel ; oped at length. As he proceeded the ?British spokesman warmed to his task ;|and became more expansive, more con 'iciliatory and more confident. The fact I that the Cannes conditions were serv j ing as the basis of tV,e conference and "that acceptance of the invitation? to 'the gathering was equivalent to accept i