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iu i, a. i TRICT ATTORNEY WANTS HE 1 SSSSSS4 SINN FEIN RAID NORTH TO-NIGHT'S Weather CUOUDY. TTRICfri IRELAND! TO-MORROW'S-Wislher CLOUDY. . I FTHTiCilM mmvi ,1 MM L r VOL. LXI. NO. 21,610 RAIDS IN NORTH OF IRELAND; PEACE MOVE SOON, IS BELIEF Outline of Concession Said Already to Be in Possession of Sinn Fein Leaders. PARLEY LOOKED FOR. Only Fear Is That Sir Edward , Carson May Upset Plans for ' Compromise. DUBLIN, Dec. 11. A plant for tho manufacture of bombs was discovered during an early morning raid to-day on a bicycle repair shop In Parncll Street, In the heart of Dublin. Largo quantities of arms, ammunition, tombs and gelignite, wero seized. Three men -were arrested, one of ihom was shot and wounded while attempting to escape, "WJBfcf'" 6lnn Fein raids are- reported to day In the north of Ireland, far re moved from the martial law zone declared yesterday, composing the counties of Cork. Kerry, Limerick and Tlpperary, In the extreme south ern part of the island. There Is much speculation here oa to whether mar tial law will be extended to the now territory. According to unofficial advices.' armed band? attacked the post office nt Cavan, the railway stations at Londonderry and Armagh, and a mall train at tho Inch station. London derry and Armagh are- In the counties of that name, tooth of which aro sit uated in Ulster. Armagh is only a short distance southwest of Belfast. The latest government proclamation to bo received hero warned that tho military zone would bo extended at once If continued lawlessness required such a Btop. LONDON, Dec. 11. It is strongly believed here that responsible Irish leaders aro prepared to 'accept the offer of Premier Lloyd George for a conference and tho'ro la every rea son to hope that some form of agree ment may grow out of it. Tho only fear is that Sir Edward Carson and -.he Tories may block the whole plan as they are known to be bitterly op posed to anything approaching a compromise in Irish affairs. There Is authority for the state ment that influential members of Dall Elrcann already have an outllno of concessions which the Government ' willing to make in amending the present Irish bill. While refusing to divulge the de tails of these concessions', ono informant Intimated they mainly deal with the question of fu ture financial relations between Great Britain and Ireland. regarding Arthuf Grimth, Acting President of tho Sinn Fein, and other member of Dall EIreann now lm prisoned, olllclals Intimated those against whom there Is no charge of murder will bo released if Dall EIreann decides to meet. It was pointed out to-day that the statement made by Baron Birken head, the Lord Chancellor, during tho debate on tho Homo Hule Bill In the House of Lords, now seems to have a new significance. He declared that if proposals weie advanced by repre bentative opinion In Ireland the Gov i rnment wns prepared to make ex tensive alterations In its Home Hule Bill. Speaking lieio lust night, William '. Adamson. opposition lender In tho Holise of Commons, expressed, fear Hint the application of martial law would seriously handicap any possible negotiations. Andiew Honor Law. i he Government leader. In an address .it Edinburgh, Scotland, said titer was hope of a settlement la Ireland, DAILY. Conrrlxhl. 1020, by The Vmt roblRTilnf Co. (The New So'k Worldji SEEK KIDNAPPERS E Jimmie Gimrnarinaro Aids De tectives In Trying To Trace Machine's Route. Jimmy Glamtnaxinaro, seven years old, who was kidnapped at Bothpage, L. I., last Tuesday and dropped'Trom a machine at Howard Avcnuo and MoDqnough Streets, Brooklyn, last night, was taken this afternoon fcy dotccttres nd his father, Albert, to aoe If he could retrace tho route taken (by tho machine In which he says he was driven. The boy had said he was taken from a ramshacklo house in which ho was tho companion of an old man who always kqpt the ohadoo down and cooked oausagos. Jimmy was found toy William Lof tus, who saw tho kidnappers drop him from a machino which ho told the police fooro a llcenso plato on which tho closing numbers were 5-3-0. The only clue considered definite has ihoen given to the police by the child, who said that one of tho men loofaed like a man who used to work for hlSj uncle. Jimmy has an uncle who la a farmer at Farmlnddale, L. I. He employes Itinerant labor and, It was holloved, one ot the laborers might have kidnapped Jimmy (for a ransom. Tho boy's father,' however, denies that he paid any ransom or that any one sent him threats. Shivering with cold and so fright ened he forgot his English, Jimmy was taken to the Ralph Avenue sta tion by a citizen. Tho boy wore the gingham waist, overalls-and green sweater in which he started to school with his sister Frances, when ho was seized by throe men In an automobile. Jimmy said when the three men took him into the automobile Tues day despite his protests that he didn't want to take a ride. They sped toward New York so fast they col lided with another car, but not much damage was done. There was an other delay when a tire blew out. He was blindfolded before being taken into the house where ho was kept, and was led up threo nights .of stairs, he said. The shades were all drawn and there was a dim gnsllght. There was a stove with fire, a bed with bare mattress and a couch, and an old man an Italian who proved to bo his keeper. It was a dirty, dilapidated room. Ho never got a glimpse outside during hlsfmir days there. At the base of the door there was a hole through which kittens came in occasionally and ho played with tnem. Ho could hear a telephone bell occa sionally, and outside dogs barked at frequent Intervals, "I was not allowed to look out t!is window," Jimmy told tho police, 'or i to warn aooui me room, tho old man always sat by the stove. There wero no clothes on tho bed and the old man and I slept on the couch. He was pood to me. He never struck me, but he wouldn t talk to me. Ho was always cooking sausages. Ail I got i to rat was sausages." I Tho boy said whon the telephone rang tne oia mnn would mumolo they , wore talking to his father, and ho probably would soon bo there. Last night three men, two ot them of the I party'thnt carried him nwny, hustled him out Into tho dark. They valkcd so fast ho couldn't see tho house ho i had left, put him In an auto, and he .thought drove about threo, blocks. Then they stopped, helped him out, gavo him a dollar bill "to buy candy," which ho said ho didn't want, , and drove away. Ho said they snoke Italian. . THROUGH LICENS NOTICED ON AUTO I "Circulation Books Open to All." NEW OF BETTY TEVIS Supposition That She Ended Her Life When Jilted, Not Borne Out By Friends. SUITOR FROM THE WEST. Relatives Said to Have Forbid den Her to Have Anything to Do With Him. Tho supposition that Miss Betty Tevis, the eighteen-year-old Ken tucky girl who killed hersolf with a pistol shot in the homo of her sister, Mrs. Joseph T. Talbert. No. 110 East 54th Street, had been Jilted and took her life in disappointment and mor tflcatlon, is not ibornn out iby the statoraont of close friends of the family. Their version, backed by what they say is absolute knowledgo of tho cir cumstances, is practically Idontlcal with tho version published yesterday in the Evening World that Miss Tevis committed sdicldc because Bhe had been forbidden to have anything fur ther to do witli a young man from tho West who had completely fasci nated her. Her sister found that the man was not a proper suitor for Betty Tovls's hand and tholr relationship was immediately broken off by Kva. Talbert The additional facts which wero learned by Tho Evening World to-day from friends of the Talbert family disclose tho young man as having come from Tulsa, Oklahoma, where, he told thoso ho met hero in the city, he held a prominent position with a big oil company. Also he told them that he was a member of the Yale Club of this city and gavo a telephone number in Orange, N. J, as that of his home. It was not until tho young fr'ends ot Miss Tevis wero admitted to tho secret ot her engagement to tho tall, handsome blond Westerner, that Mrs. Talbert decided It was high tlmo to mako some Inquiry about him and his antecedents and prospecta. Last Monday tho son of a well- known importer of this city who had long been a friend ot tho Talbort household, called at tho Talbert resi dence with a. man from Tulsa who chanced to bo in this city on business. This man said that 'ho knew the young man who was so attached to Miss Tevis and informed Mrs. Talbert that he had a tecord in several Western cities for passing bad checks and giv ing worthless I. O. U.'s and had been, In fact, run out of Tulsa. Further inquiry disclosed that he was not known at the Yale Club nor by the oil company nor nt the Orange residence whose telephone number ho had given. He was re ported to be a frequenter of tho IJIlt moro and IMtz-Carlton Hotels There were only two meetings be tween Miss Tevis and the young Westerner, it was authoritatively learned to-day. The first ono was when they were Introduced at a dlu- CCqntinued onSecohd Page Classified Advertisers CLOSING TIME 5.30 P. M. SHARP SATURDAY FOR The SUNDAY WORLD'S Classified Advertisements BRANCH OFFICES CLOSE BEFORE 5 O'CLOCK Positively no Classified dvartlie. mints will be received for The Sunday World after S.30 P. M. J Advertising cony for The Sunday World Minitld tin In The WnrM omce ON OR -BEFORE FRIDAY PRECEDING. PUBLICATION CAUSED SUICIDE YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1JL, 61 RAILROADS RESTRAINED FROM INCREASING PASSENGER RATES 20 P. C. IN NEW YORK Injunction Enjoining Boost in Intra-State Tariffs Continued in Effect by Supreme Court Justice in Kingston. AN injunction restraining sixty-one railroads from Increasing their intra-Stato passenger rates .20 per cent, as ordered by Uio In terstate, Commerce Commission, waa continued In oTfoct by 8u proino Court Justlco Hasbrouck hero to-day. LEAGUE PLANNING T IN THREE STAGES First Stops Manufacture, Sec ond Requires Reduction, and Third Completes Process. GENEVA. Dec. 11 (Associated Press). 'Disarmament In three stages Is the substance at tho recommenda tion the Committee on Arm omenta of tho League of (Nations Assembly will make to the Assembly. Tho first stago would be marked toy an agreement among the powers to mako no further increases in armaments. Tho second stage- of the recom mended procedure Is a gradual re duction in armaments. Tho third stage would bo that of general complcto disarmament, ex cept in so far as arms were needed for police purposes. M. Dorot, delegate from Haytl. suc ceeded In securing tho adoption by the committee this morning of an amendment providing that tho Coun cil of the League Inaugurate a propa ganda campaign for "disarmament minds," as he put it, meaning the preparation of the younger genera tion for the now order of things by proper education In tho schools. Japan cannot reduce her arma ments as long as tho United States Is Increasing hers, Viscount Kikujlro Inhli of tho Japanese delegation said during tho discussion. Conditional acceptance by Holland of tho invitation to contribute a por tion ot tho military force to be sent by tho league to the Vilna district for tho plebiscite there was announced to day. Tho neepptanco Is subject to tho passage of Suitable legislation by tho Dutch Parliament. Poland has sent a notes to tho Coun cil of tho League requesting that tho fortress and fortified zono of Grodno be excluded from tho Vilna plebiscite area. Demetre Pana.i, a former Greek Min ister of Foreign Affairs under King Constantlne, arrived in Geneva to-dny to becomo tho chief dolcgate of Greece to the Assembly of the League of Na tions. M. l'anas replaces M. Cacla manos who was appointed1 under the Venizclos regime. It has been decided by the Commis sion on Technical Organizations to send the United States a special in vitation to name a member of the In ternational Advisory Committee which will study the question ot the opium traffic. Tho commission will also carry out provisions relating to the opium traffic which wero embodied in tho Versailles treaty. Members of the International Court Committee have found what they hope to be- a solution of the Jurisdiction problem that will satlify thoso who have objected to this feature of tho proposed International Court. They have Inserted a clause in the p. jposed plan which, would provide that a stato which is desirous of an arrnngement by which an offended nation may cite nn offender before the tribunal1 mnv ' signify Its acceptance of the provision for obligatory Jurisdiction. The clause would further Mlpulato that this ob- ligatory jurisdiction would become reciprocally binding upon all those nations which xlgnlfy their accept .ance. , I FOR DISARMAMEN BILLION DOLLAR CORPORATION FOR FOREIGN TRADE John McHugh Heads Commit tee on Organization, and Hoover Is a Member. CHICAGO. Dec. 11. America's new 1,000.000,000 export corporation to engage In foreign trade, was formed here to-day. Bankers, farmers and Industrial leaders voted to organize the corpor ation under tho Federal Reserve Act and the Edgo Law, by adopting the ropon or tne resolutions Committee, The corporation will have an au thorized capital of $100,000,000 and will bo capable of expanding to tho extent of a billion. The first 1100. 000 ,wus underwritten In fivo minutos. John Mcllugh of Now Yofk was named head of the committee to work out details. Other members of the enmmm.n r Herbert Hoover, Paul Warburg, Now York: John s. Drum, San Francisco: James U. Fortran. Watts. SL Louis; Lewis w Now York; Cahrlea H. Sabln, New rorlc; Arthur Reynolds, Chicago; U. Howard Clinton, Iowa: Thomm. -r Wilson, Chicago; T. 1. Kent. New York; J. a, Culbertson, Wichita Falls, Texas; Philln Stockton, non- ton; Oscar Wells, lllrmlngham, Ala.; 'Uarnes, Duluth; A. P. Ilodford, New York; Herbert iMyrick. Spring field, Mass.; Alexander Legge, Chi cago; Joseph H. Defroos, Chicago; John S. Lawrence, IVoston; E. M. Vr, Pittsburg; Roy D. Chapln, Detroit; John J. Raakob, Wilming ton; Petor W. Goebcl, Kansas City; Tlioma Hi. McAdams, (Richmond; John Shorwin, Cleveland, and George Edward Smith, Now York. The con ference adjourned after naming tho committed. Tho resolution under which tho Corporation is to be formed follows: "That it is the senso o( this meeting that a forotgn trade fi nancing corporation, with an au thorized capital of $100,000,001) bo organized nt once on the general lines approved by the American Hankers' Association and committees of tho Chamhor of Cernmcrce of the United States. The National Forotgn 'Trade Council, The American Manufac turers' Export Association and tho American Exporters' and Im porters' Association, and, "That tho extension of credit by tho Corporation should be con fined to countries whero there is a stable government and whero there is an assuranco of Integrity of purpose, and "That tho operations of this Corporation should be confined to financing for the benefit of fu ture foreign trade, and "That, believing the develop ment of this project will mean so much to the country as a whole, wo urge tho financial and prnc tlcal co-operation of all mem bers of agricultural, manufactur ing, financial and labor Interests." The committee met immediately after Its appointment to draw up the permanent organization. r" Circulation Books Open 192h HEAD OF "CODE WARNED TO TO Senator Wants Authority to Employ Counsel to Assist in Work. TO PROVE CONSPIRACY. Government Assistance in Building of Homes May ' Be the Result. (Special to The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. Tho scope of tho Now York investigation Into conspiracy among building sup ply men and organized labor is to be widened It Senator Caldcr is success ful In getting favorablo consideration for a. resolution ho will present on Monday granting authority to ap point counsel to aasiet his Commit tee on Reconstruction. This is regarded as the forcninnor of an Inquiry by Congress into tho ramifications of an alleged Nation wide conspiracy similar to that tin. covored In Now York. Senator Caldcr's committee has re cently visited many States studying housing conditions and retardation of building operations. Senator Kenyon of Iowa, a member of the committee, declares an Immediate necessity exists for the speeding up of building to savo great misery and unhealthy moral conditions growing out of tho house shortage. In his opinion, 'the Nation Is short 1,000,000 homes, and he doclaros that anything which ob structs building operations should be prompUy removed. Tho proposed Inquiry will cover the following phnsrs ot the situation: Growing unemployment and tho relation It bears to the stoppage of building operations. Tremendous shortage of hous ing facilities in practically evory Urge city and the unrest induced by such conditions. High cost of building and the causes. Possible conspiracies among building supply men. contractors and labor leaders, such as were exposed in tho New York investi gation, and the relation such con ditions bear to the high cost of bunding. Government assistance which mtght be rendered to home build ers through extension of credit at low rates of interest. Senator Caldcr has discussed the situation with Samuel Untermycr, and Untermycr is authority for tho statement that a Congressional in- (Contlnued on Second Page.) 200 ARE KILLED BY EARTHQUAKE IN ALBANIA About 15,000 Are Reported Homeless and the Shocks Are Continuing. ROMK. ' ALL the villages In the 'IVpelvnl district, southern Albania, have .been destroyed by a violent eaHhqunko, according to an Avlona message to the Tempo to-day. Two hundred persons are roported killed, while 15,000 have been made homeless. Tho town of Tepclenl was com pletely razed. Tho message, reports the shocks are continuing, CALDER ASK BUILDING INQUIRY FOR ENTIRE NAT ON to" All, ffi PBIOE THREE CENTS M OF PRACTICE" APPEAR IN DBF. Association of Employers and Build ing Trades Council Embraced in Transcripts of Damaging Testi mony Given Before Lockwood Committee and Sent to Grand Jury i 1 John T. Hcttrick, through his counsel. Rob'erf H. Elder, h. Wn summoned to appear before Justice McAvoy in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court Monday. Hcttrick is understood to be at his own-try iiuim. .u .ui.iu.uiu uun.ii, ocaungni, i. j. ncuriCK was ttw creatorof the now famous "Code of Practice" followed by contractors fn the h(vAA Industry. Vhcn the twenly-nine members of the Cut Stone Contractors' Association were arraigned before Justice McAvoy yesterday on misde meanor charges of conspiracy it was announced that another indictment against a person not named had been found. - tt With the nmva vt a- t j. . ' . . IKl&a 1U MAKE PAYING OF TAXES MORS PLEASANT County Treasurer of Cleveland Has Band to Play Payers Up to the Windows. CLEVBIiAND, Doc. 11. TAX paying Is to be made a pleasuro in Clcvoland. County Treasurer John J. Doyle announced to-day that he would mako tho opening day of xtho collection season, Dec. 16, a pleasant ceremony "by having a band on hand to play tho taxpay ers to the windows. Tho band will be on tho Job evory day until tho sovorol million dollars In taxes is coAcctod, Doyle said, ac cording to present plans. What tho taxpayers want to kpow is whothor they will be taxed for the band. DISARMAMENT MOVE MADE IN THE SENATE Senator Walsh of Montana Presents Kesolution Asking Wilson to Reconsider. " WASHINGTON, Doc. 11 Senator Walsh of Montana, Introduced in the Senator to-day a resolution asking President Wllnon to reconsider Ids re fusal to send a commission to Geneva to discuss disarmament. It was re ferred to tho Foreign Relations Com mittee. It was tho first mention of tho league in the Senate nt this session. In discussing tho resolution Senator WalHh Bald the President's reason a given was "utterly inadequate" and open to mtfconstructlon. "It should make no difference whether we are or ar not a member of the League," said Senator Walsh, who declared that tho American peo ple were interested In Joining In any movemont looking to world-wide dis armament. Senator Walsh said tho "lamost in- conceivable sum" of nearly $1,500, - 000,000 asked this year for tho army and navy would give grounds for nn unjust suspicion that America had unjH.'riiiiiauu iicaif,!'". mm nuucq mat he would like to "test the temper of Vi TTnnnpft" rtf Cnntrrrvia nn tho armament proposals. PENNIES BACK TO CUBA. Srnrnrd In War Prior Times, hoi !iO Keirn Are Shipped. The penny returns to-day to Cuba Twenty kegs of the llttlo copper colnj that were scorned, in tho days of war prl.-eK wero shipped to Havana this morning on the Ward Une steamship fnrm f?jLJtlA. Them ivfrn AHA n Ic in the lot. all minted at I'hllad:l- m. i,,, , , Trie return of lower prices on sui:ar nn.i othar commodities i. riv-. .SI ..Li- "iil0"' ... . . -v3eJf -I P""""'"' 1"CJU.'" Buuu-tvv v.'",""- 10 worn on usffV .sUntaqon,' OF BUILDERS ATIY.' ' " , . ; nu ...utuni USUI boon asked to produce JlettrlcJc am, ' alo the slgnincant Information that al tho records of the lockwood Coira jyltteo testimony having to do ..with the Building Trades Employers' As sociation and Its relations -with the Ilulldlng Trades Council, the central organization of labor concerned 'In building, of -which OWbert IP. Brind Is President, had been sent to-b Extraordinary Grand Jury, which is under Justice 'McAvoy's supervision. Tho Employers' Association has In' IU membership thlrty-two trndo or ganixatlons of contractors, manUctai. turers and supply dealers; the 6oua. ell comprises about as many groups oi worklngmen in different branches of tho Industry. ' It has ropeatodiv boen ik.ih.j firms outsldo tho Employers' Asaocla- uUU nave ocen unable to comploto contracts Ibocause of tho refusal of tho Council to norrnlt th. union labor, thoroby establishing i fi UlnHn . In ' Tho record Is voluminous nnhn cludes excerpts from the minutes of nearly overy day of tEe hearing, lij cludln thoso of yesterday In which tho use by the Marble Industry Bra Ploycrs of its agreement to deprive non-mcmbcra of unlonMabor was de scribed by two marble contractors and the secretary of the marble employers. Kven though the Grand Jury nnds the sworn testimony before tho cotn- mltteo suniclcnt to warrant InrflJil- raents without supplementary Invest!. bwun ii is not oeneved the work can bo finished within a week. If th of tho special prosecutors charged wun me auty of analysing and group, ing tho ovldonco for the Qranrf 3nv aro borne out the Orand Jury's action. will Vw, n .1 l.i , " . " "---'o icp in ascertaining tho legality of the behavior ot alt th' men and groups of men who hav. been active for many month in the building trades. It Is known nmnnf t,i,ll,l., .v. i about a month ago Samuel Upt,r- j-cr, cuunsei to tne Lockwood Com mittee, who did not then know he would bo able to collect the mass of evidence which has since been gath ered, had invited a number of the leading building contractors to 'a luncheon at the Lawyers Cluh mH aftor pointing out to them tho evils growing out of the administration of ' the Uulldlng Trades Kmployers' As. soclation and its agreements with ttfe Uuildlng Trades Council urged them as good citizens to disband their or ganization altogether or elso modify Its workings. Mr. Unterrayer'a advice is said to have been received In a friendly spirit, but no movo was made to put It into effect. In tne building trade thore Is speculation as to whether a belated compliance will now be 'ac ceptable to the committee and, its counsel. Mr. Untermyer could notb reached to-day to ascertain hls.vUws. ueiore xne most important orancit I . ... ... . , ... . - .t I of the building business that of the Before the most Important branch , I structural steel Industry has been looked Into bv the lockwood Commit. : is.. ,. . : tea lav ItlgaUDSwuslng condjtlsaa,, S OFFICE 1 "I T-