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VOL. LXI. NO. 21,652
Mrs. Harding in New
TRACTION STOCK RIGGING
BY MEN CLOSE TO MILLER
CHARGED IN STATE SENATE
Walker Introduces Resolution
Calling for Inquiry Into Peals
Last Summer.
ASKS JOINT COMMITTEE.
Hopes to Defeat Miller Plan If
All New Yorkers Act
Together.
By Joseph S. Jordan.
(Staff Correspondent of The Evening
World.)
ALBANY, Feb. Lr-Senator James J.
Walker, minority leader, to-day Intro
duced a. resolution callln5 for a' legis
lative Investigation of the Now York
etock Exchange. The Senator charged
on the floor of the Senato that persons ,
close to the Governor who were in a
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position to know his traction policy
when he was nominated, were impll-
cated in the "market rigging" of Inter-
borough. Third Avenue Railway and
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The Walker resolution would con-
I flno hn Invent! ration tn thn tradlnir
in New York City traction securities
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between July 1 and Nov. 1 lt
year, when, according to the Senator.
violent movements of traction stocks
A. . I .- iV. X. mnnr
wok pmuu ui niu .-w
market.
The Exchange, accoiding to Senator
Walker, "would only have been af- naIf of a Mnt to 7 cents a pound.
fected by tho concerted action of cor- Tno American Sugar Refining
tain persons or groups of persons company then lowered Its quotation
acting by common motive to depro- to 7 centSi matching the price of the
elate traction securities." Federal Company, but tho latter com-
Two Senators and three Assembly- pany immediately dropped its quota
men would bo authorized by tho res- uon to 5,55 cents per pound, less 2 per
olutlon which was referred to tho cent. f0r cash, and the lowest prlco
finance committee, to investigato sugar has sold sinco tho beginning of
these transactions.
WALKER SATISFIED WITH OUT
LOOK ON BILLS.
Before Introducing his resolution
Senator Walker expressed himself as
well pleased at the situation regard
ing tho transit measures which would
rob the City of New York of its con
trol over' Its tracUon lines and placo
It with gas, eloctrlo nnd telephone
service In the hands of tho up-State
Public Secvice Commission.
"We can beat these measures If
the representatives of Greater New
York will stick together and work as
a unit," said the New York So.iator.
"The Democratic members or the de
legation have gone on record against
any fare increase and against any
(Continued on Eighth PagdO
UP GOES THE HAIR,
OUT PEEP THE EARS,
C" A CUinW nCPPPPQ
Mere Man Now May De Able to
Distinguish Daughter From
Grandmother.
BOSTON, Feb. 1.
"S
iHOW at least the tips of
your cars and wave your
hair" is the advance In
formation on spring styles given
out to women by the Ladles' Hair
Dressing Association.
Older women may show more
of the ear than debutantes and
still conform with tho now styles.
Higher hair dressing also will be
the vogue for the cider women.
Earrings In hoop and pendant ef
fects will b favored.
Copyright, 1021, by
Co. Tbe New
DROPS 10 6Jfi IN
American and Federal Com
panies ReneV Rate-Slashing
in Startling Way.
After a truce lasting about a month
the prico war in the wholesale sugar
market was resumed to-day. Prices
wcro slashed In startling fashion.
Since the Inception of tho price war
riy wiuub
Sugar Refining company, owned
pnc(paIIy by th(J Spreckel9 famllj,
as been the aggressor. It has been
constantly underselling Its compotl-
tors. Chlof of these. has been the
American Sugar Refining Company.
But to the surprise of the sugar trade
tho American Company first took the
offensive to-dav.
X " ,' a month the wholesale
tor nearly a monm me wnoiesaie
for nearly a month the wholesale
P"" cc of rcrtned sugar has been 7 1-2
pound. The American Sugar
Refln Comp0jny announced shortly
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tnat lt iiad rcdUCed quoUtlons to
1 7 1-4 cents. The Sprockets concern
,mmedl,elv. reduced its price one
tho war.
THIEVES GET BUSY
NEAR ENRIGHT HOME
While Police Commissoner Sleeps
Robbers Loot Three Shops of
$11,900 Goods.
Within a hundred yards of Police
Commissioner Knrlght's homo In St.
Mark's Place. Brooklyn, threo burg
laries, with a total booty of J 11,300. were
to-day reported to tho police of the
Atlantic and Grand Avenue Stations.
Tho robberies occured last night,
but were not discovered until this
morning.
The thieves entered all the places by
spreading Iron bars on rear windows.
The first place reported entered was
the Lnngdon Specialty Shop.' at No,
663 Nostrand Avenue, whero 13,000
worth of dresses, cloaks, ult3 and lin
gerie was taken. Alnio.it directly op
posite, at No. COO, the Style Dress and
Skirt House, was robbed of $5,600
. worth of similar goods, and within a
the Itothberg Specialty
Store, No. 619 Nostrand Avenuo. me
thieves stole $3,100 worth of
and suits.
dresses
SENATE TO MEET MARCH 4.
I'rtntitent Wllxon to Cull Speclnl Sc
nloii on Itrqneit of Harding;,
WASHINGTON. Feb. 1. President
Wilson will call a special session of
the Senate March to confirm Cabi
net nominations. It was announced
at the White House to-day.
The session Is a means of facili
tating the executive start of the new
Administration and the call will be
Issued oh the request of President
elect Harding, cunwyrd to the White
House by Senator Underwood on the
suggestion of Senator Lodge.
DAILY.
PRICE OF SUGAR
WAR OF REFINERS
1 " Circulation Books Open to All,"
The Vrrm rnbushln
York World),
NEW
SEEKS $500,000
F
Mrs. Richard Blum, Divorcee,
of Arkville, N. Y., Sues for
Breach of Promise.
BOTH PARTIES SILENT.
Secrecy Surrounds Sudden Ac
tion Brought by Daughter
of Prominent Physician.
Deepest secrecy has surrounded tho
$600,000 damage suit for breach of
promise to marry which has been
pending against Klngdon Gould, old
est son of George Jay Gould, It the
pastwo years.
, -Mrs. Klsa Blum, divorced nta of
Dr. Richard Blum of No. S3 East 33d
Street o)nd Arkville, N. Y., the plain
tiff, Is the daughter of Dr. B. Lef
kovios, who haa one of the largest
general practices on the East Side
an(J ,n UlJ wuiamsburg section of
Brooklyn. Dr. Lefkovlcs lives at tho
Eighty-third Street address and hns
his office In tho basement of the
building at No. 301 East lOUl Street.
Supp'emcntary proceedings wcro
begun lato yesterday afternoon In
tho chambers of Supremo Court Jus-1
to submit papers by Saturday. WiUi
the close of the hearing curtains were
j. ,i - ., in
whclo
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afl,alr- Not one of the persons con-
Ilw,ed wlu cafle waud add a
single detail wlfen seen to-day.
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Counsellor Normun P. S. Schloss,
of No. 276 Fifth Avenue, attorney
for Mrs. Blum, refused to throw any
ilcht upon his client's case, beyond
stating no papers In the case have
as vet been filed in any court. Ho
ouid tho matter had been pending for
two yearn. Although -several papers
have been served ar.d negotiations
carried on, there has boon no court
record beyond that of supplementary
proceedlncs beigun yesterday.
Mrs. Blum alleges that during tho
negotiations Kingdon Gould has
made several offers of settlement, but
these have been unsatisfactory.
Gould, through his attorney, Coun
sellor Robert B. Knowles of No. 165
Broadway, denloa having made any
such offers.
A tho Lefkovitz home, a four-etory
brov stone building on East Eighty
third Street, an elderly woman, when
questioned to-day, patiently reiterated
to each and every question: "I don't
know anything." Inquiries at the
nhvsldan'a office on Tenth Street
brought no further information. A
friend of the physician volunteered
that he come to this country 30 years
ago from Hungary, that besides his
daughter, Mrs. Blum, he has two
sons and he has lived at tho Eighty
third Stroet addrcoy for tho last three
ycare.
Mr. Schloss submitted to tho court a
statement In which lt was alleged
that Mr. Gould bad been on friendly
terms with Mrs. Blum until Tils mar-
(Continued on Second Pago.)
RIVER AND HARBOR
BILL PASSES HOUSE
Proposal to Increass Amortt Abe e
15,250,000 Votl Down
205 o 120.
'WASHINGTON, Fob. 1. The House
to-day, voted SOS to 120 against in
creasing appropriations for river and
harbor work during tho next flucal
year to $23,000,000.
It twa passed the Rivers and Har
bors Appropriation hill carrying a
lump sum approprlaUon of $1S,25Q,000
, for the maintenance and contlnuanoo
or projects already started.
HEM BALM
fill
KINGDON
GOULD
YORK, TUESDAY,
York
CABINET
AND
RESIST ALLIED
DENOUNCE IT
Minister Simons Threatens to
Resign as Protest on
Reparations.
REPROACHES AMERICA.
Complains Because U. S. Is
Acting Part of a Mere
Bystander.
"BERLIN, Fob. I. The German Cab
inet, which received the text of tho
Allied noto on reparations yesterday,
was In secret session until late last
night. It Is reported that Foreign
Minister Dr. Walter Simons may re
sign. "Madness" ie the term leaders of
tho Reichstag used In discussing the
reparations condition. Dr. Simons
declared the execution of the terms
would "produce chaos, not. only In
Germany, but throughout Centra
Europe, as the bankruptcy of Qcr-
many would also bankrupt part
Germany' war creditors, among
whom ,8
"It is greatly to bo deplored," he
continued, "that the great America
'nnfir,r, nlv n iwntnnrtnr rtnrlne
nation was only a bystander during
the negotiations concerning ropara-
tlqns at Paris. The settlement, or tms
question determines tho fato of tho
world's economics and of World cul-
ture.'
Dr. Simons will tell the Reichstag,
the Boorsen Zeltuns states, that Gtr-
many cannot subscribe to the Allied
reparation demands on the ground
that they aro not possible of fulfil
ment. The Foreign Minister will explain
how the Impossibility of reaching a
settlement presents Itrolf to the Ger
man Government, and will declare
that the Invitation to Germany to at
tend the conference In London can
only serve a useful purpose and give
promlso of Buccess If the negotlat ons
aro to deal with tfyc possible and not
with the Impossible.
It is rumored negotiations are pro
ceeding with tho Majority Socialists
and German Nationalist for tho pur
pose of Inducing them to enter tho
Government In the hope of creating a
united front from Right to Left. In
any event, it appoan certain tho
Majoritv Socialists will stand firm
behind tho Government in ts opposi
tion to tho Entente demands, even if
t. oy cannot brlng thomuclvea to ac
tually enter tho GovcrnmenL
The Gorman marl; showed a sharp
decline toward tho close of yester
day's session of tho Bourse, when the
terms became generally known.
LONDON, Fob. 1. It will bo Impos
sible for Germany to pay the amounts
fixed, says Prof. John Maynard
Keynes, principal representative of
the British Treasury at tho Ver
sailles Peace Conference. He a-KUoa
that Germany, to havo surplus exports
worth 200,000,000, must havn tonl ex
erts worth at least 700,000,000.
Twelve per cent, of this amount wculd
bo 81,000,000, and. therefore, he says,
that with 700,000,000 of exports yearly
against 500,000,000 in Imports, sho
could Just pay a tlxed sum of 116,000.
000, plus 81,000,000, making a total of
200,000,000.
"That Is to say," he continues,
"trade on this vast scale would ba
required to pay the minimum an
nuity of 100,000,000 plus the ex
port percentage. If the Paris propo
sals are more than wind, they mean
a compieto reorganization or me
channels of international trade.
It
anything remotely Uko them should
really Do intended to happen, the
reaction on British trade and Indus
try would be Incalculable. It Is an
outrage that the Allied It-aderB should
have dealt with each other by using;
the methods of a poker party."
FEBRUARY 1, 1921.
Just lor
WAR BILL; ,
AS MADNESS
2 BULLETS CRASH
S. I. TRAIN;
SHOT IN LIP
Women Panic-Stricken During
Mysterious Attack Near
New Dorp Station.
Two bullets, apparently of largo'
REICHSTAG
INTO
MAN
calibre. were fired throuirh the car sf.clpal to arti If ho had made a mls
a swiftly moving Statcn Island rail
road train between Grant City and
New Dorp this morning. One man
was slightly wounded, women
icreamed and excitement ran high)
unong the passengers of two of tho
our coaches. Singularly enough.
iono or me trainmen anew anym.ng
f the b hooting until the train
topped at the New Dorp Station.
Edward C. Mason, twenty-eight, a!
Amboy Road, Princes' Bay, was read-
,nK beBde a window n the smoking
- t..-. k
r,r whpn bullet crashed throueh
tho s,n8Hi carrle(1 away a portion of
nls ,,n and bored lls way through the
wndow opposite.
Two ends later another shot
passed through two windows of the
cond coach. In which wero many
womcn No one was struck by the
eccond bullet, but the passengers, be-
lleving some one of them had been
made the object of an attempted
murder, became confused as well as
frightened. Some of the bolder
peered down from windows and were
able later to describe to Capt. James
Mclvor of tho Now Dorp police, the
section from which the shots were
believed to havo been fired.
Mr. Mason continued on the train
to Princess Bay and was taken to
Richmond Memorial Hospital. There
It was said the slue of the furrow in
his lip Indicated It had been made
by a .38-callbre bulleL
SWEDEN REFUSES
MARTENS LANDING
Soviet "Envoy" and 75 Others
Ordered to Transship in Harbor
at Stockholm.
STOCKHOLM. Fob. 1. Lodwlg C.
A. K. Martens, late Soviet "Envoy" to
the United Stutos, his staff and seventy-live
other deportees will not bo per
mitted to land on Swedish soil, au
thorities announced to-day.
The Stockholm, duo hero to-morrow,
will be stoppod outside the harbor where
lt will bo met by a smaller ship ino
which the Iluaslans will be transferred
to continue the Journey to I.Ibau.
Bolshevik authorities made strenuous
efforts to obtain vises uirourh Sweden.
40 LASHES OF WHIP,
20 YEARS IN JAIL
FOR HOLD-UP MEN
Delaware Senate Passes Drastic
Measure Without a Dissent
ing Voice.
DOVER, Dol., Feb. 1.
THE Delaware State Senate
to-day passed a bill mak
ing tho penalty for highway
robbery forty lashes on the barn
Kirk, not Its' th-n twenty yearn
Imprisonment and a fine of $500.
Tito vuie on tho measure was
unanimous. , . J
"Circulation Books Open
Entered a Krroml-Clu Mailer
Tot Office, New York, N. V.
a Shopping Holiday
St SHOOTS SELF
Heartbroken School Child, M,
Critically Wounds Herself
With Father's Revolver.
SURPRISED AT FAILURE.
Pupil Asked Newark Principal
If He Had Not Over
looked Her Name.
In tho ;8ummer Avenuo Grammar
School, Newark, tho Principal this
morning reud aloud a list of tho
pupils to be promoted.
Ho did not read tho name of Btolla
Trana, fourteen years old, No. S76
Summer Avenue. She eat still for a
few minutes, then went to the Prln-
take.
"No," he said, "you aro not to be
promoted this lime. Your work has
not been quite up to the standard."
aho went homo at noon( Kot ner
rather.8 revolver and shot horsoU In
tno aDjomen. She was taken to the I
0,(y owXXbX , a crUlca, con(luton.
Mr. Trana Is a shoo dealer in Now
York.
BILL TO INSURE PAY
OF IDLE WORKERS
Would Allow a Ij.iv lor Thir
teen Weeks if Li id yif or
Discharged.
MADISON, Wis., Fob. ' 1 A bill to
compel employers to pay workers when
unemployed will be Introduced In the
Wisconsin Legislature this we-;k.
The measure, prepared by Prof. John
K. Commons of the department of eco
nomics of the University of Wisconsin.'
would require employers to form mutual
Insurance companies and pay the work
ers they discharge at the rato of J1.S0
a day to men and women atid onu-half
that to boys and girls from sixteen to
eighteen years.
The unemployed would be entitled to
one week for every four weeks of work.
with a maximum of thirteen wceka' In
surance, no strikes or lockouts to count.
Farm laborers are exempt.
SIX IN FAMILY OF TEN DIE.
Two Other Ilndlr nornrd When
Home I Destroyrd.
BARRE, Vt.. Fob. J. Six of the ten
mnnbers of the family of Henry Marv
tell were burned to death and two
others were seriously burned, when
fclre destroyed their homo at Roches
tcr, forty miles from here to-day.
Tho dfad are: Louis Martcll, father
of Henry Martcll, and the Inttor's flvo
children, ranging In age from four to
twenty-one years. Mrs. Henry Martcll
and one other child are In a serious
Condition. The latter Is not expected
to live.
$5,003,003 FOR CITY PAVING.
K'tinmtc nonrit Votes I.orur Ap
propriation to Itrpalr SJrrrO.
The Hoard of Estimate has decided to
tpend $5,000,000 on paving Jobs In the
five boroughs. This Is one of the big
gest appropriations of Its kind In the
history of the city. It la estimated
Manhattan will receive close to $2,000,
000 for better streets. In many of the
downtown thoroughfares, where motor
truck trafTic Is particularly heavy, pave
ments are In bad shape. Many of them
were laid more than half a century ago
when traffic was much llghtor.
"Dry" Tlrlna; n Anllinnr Post
poned, AI.BANT, Feb. l.The hearing on
PrtAilblllon enforcement bills, scheduled
(or to-morrow, has bjen postponed to
next Tuesday at the request of Senator
Mullan, one of ttie Introducers, It was
announced to-day.
EflMBTEO Dl TO KPRIERS
."..v.. ii
v-fcativ ,w nui- itif!itMtatmilLltibilL vutSa
EDI
to All."
He Is Then Taken
Who Remits His
AUTDMOB E GRAFT TRACED
i ui utituiivt u iii
Days and $250 Fine Big Shake
Up in Police Automobile Squad. -
Detective Sergt John S. Armstrong, who was committed to tho
Tomb;; for contempt of court yesterday fdr refusing to answer questions
before the Grand Jury investigating city graft and who capitulated affer
a night in cell, testified before the Grand Jury for an hour and forty
minutes to-day, after which he was purged of contempt T
Armstrong was smiling when he emerged from the Grand Jury
roo-n and he sent for his counsel, TJiomas I. Sheridan, who asked Charles
S. Whitman whether everything was satisfactory. i
"Vcy ,mici, iU(" said Mr. Whitman, who also was smiling.
Tho Grand Jurv. nvnmn.inlv1 .W
M'ADOO MAY HANDLE
ROADS FOR MEXICO
Reported He Has been Offered a
Salary of $50,000 a Year
or Better.
WASHINGTON. Fob. J. Mexico Is
negotitliiK wltli William O. McAdoo to
rehabilitate an.l tuke charge of her state
railroads, It was l .irned authorltaUvily
hero to-day.
McAdoo Is nuw In Mexico as a guest
of President Obrcgon and may tay
there Indefinitely. He is accompanied
by his wife and Jouett Shouse, former
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury,
now one of thn officials of the Mexico
and Orient Hallway, projected botwewn
Kansas City, Mo., and Guaymas, in
Sonora.
The. Invitation to McAdoo U looked
upon here as a movement by Ohrcgon
to gain recognition of this Govern
ment. Obregon, It Is said, realizes
ie must stabilize Moxlco financially
and industrially to got sucn recog
nition. Mr. McAdoo, It Is understood, has
under consideration an offer calling
for his employment for several years
at a salary of $50 000 a year or better.
BALLOT RECOUNT ORDERED.
Coort Direct Examination of Votes
Cast for .Inpreme Court Jaatlt-e.
A court order wu issued to-day di
recting a recount of all the ballots cast
for Justices of the Supremo Court In
the First Judicial District on Nov. 2
last. .
The applloatlon fo- the recount was
made by former Kunremo Court Justice
Edward J- Motioldrtck, who was defeat
ed for election to the Supremo Court
Llcnoli last. November.
The order directs that the recount
of the ballots begin at 1.0 o'clock on thu
morning ox Fob. 7 at tho office of the
Board of Elections aud that it continue
ea.Ji day thereafter.
WILL RENT ONLY
TO FAMILY; MORE
IN IT THE BETTER
Landlord Advertises That to
Man With 12 Children Rent
Will Be Almost Nothing.
PINE BLUFF. Ark., Fob. 1.
ADVERTISING his homo for
rent to-day T. 11. Ashcraft,
Pine Bluff banker, declared
that the more children In the
family of the rentor tho lower
the price, and that "a man with
twelve children can havo It on a
long least; for almost nothing."
Mr. Ashcraft, who ts removing
to Little Hock, said the house
poslUvely would not be Ifnacd to
A family without children."
iftftrsB!i
kiss!
T!ON
PRICE THREE 0ENT3
Before Judge Crain,,
Sentence of Thirty
Mr. Whitman, Sheridan and Arm
strong, then filed into Judgo Craitfa
ourt room, .whore Armstrong hid
ton committed yesterday.
"Vhls defendant has answered soma
of our questions In , a satisfactory
manner," Mr. Whitman told Judjre
Craln, "and wo desire to examine rubl
further. I recommend to tho cotr:
that ho bo purgod of contempt
that his sentence of thirty daya'la
tho Tombs and $200 fine bo remlttttl.
Armstrong has promised to hold hijr
serf In roodlncaa (to appear any tlma
we desire htm." U
Judge Craln adopted Mr. Wbtt-
tnnn'. Miliri-n.Hnn nnH ArmntMnn. v
parted, at liberty, with his counp.
Armstrong's offer to testify camu
this morning after a conferenco wjtli ,
Mr. Sheridan. He was taken before
Judgo Craln and said bo would ans
wer questions to tho best of tijrt
ability. t
Mr. Whitman hus learned tn hlo
InvctHlgutiorw, it was declared 14
day, that uutomoblld Insurance ad-
jUMterOmtteud of waiting for poll
mcn to call 'or rewards for stolen
earn, carried the cash to Police HenJ
qiurlers Armstrong, it was said, bad
a apoolal room at headquarters, whfNa
he n-celvcsl the insurance men arilt
uueopted the rewards. This roomt
wus tavtd, was prctf.ded over by.R
doorman unsigned to some one eia
higher tn tho department.
A drastic shake-up to-day struck
the AuUnnobile Squad, which hflN
been one of the principal points
attack in tho Whitman Investlgatles,
Detective John Fitzpatriek, who hjn
been head of the, squad for six yenvn
and has been a detective for flfteeft.
yours, was transferred to patrol duty
at the West 136th Street Station. TrM
means a cut in his salary from S3.3W
a year to $2,280. Fitzpatriek haa ipt
figured publicly in the Whitman M
vastlgatlon. m
Detect.ve Sorgt. Martin S. Owanar
under indictment and eusponsteAi
charged with accepting illegal te,
was transferred to duty In unl form
at the Mercer Street Station, his si-'
try being cut from J,J00 a year I
Sergeant's pay of $2,700.
Detect' ve Sergt. Armstrong, wh
under u!.iM.'tuuon and v, ho was testU
fylng before the Grand Jury to-day,
1VUK BUlll IU WIB ORJtlWU OkreUl
t on for duty In. uniform. DetccuV
William J. Uussey, who la under uU
dlctment and suHpenslon, goes to the
Liberty Avenue Station, Brooklyn.,
Detective Thomas Heran, Indicted,
nnd suspended, was transferred to tha
Mcvt, -ri,a station and Detective
Will.-' tlemmerlak, Indicted yestr-
day, gvea to the Charles Stret
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