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00.000,000 GERMANY CCDC rcnCf J $48,0 u. To-Nlnht's Weather FAIR. WALL STREET fJWML M EDI TION VOL. LXI. NO. 21,723 3 ROBBERS SHOOT POLICEMAN WHU oUKrKloto lltlVI IN AW i on WITNESS STANDOWN IN DENSE FOG nr uni niMn nn a diiov OTODd nr run iiiiaiii nr u nn.M uim Ul IIULUIMU Ul nuuui usuiiu All Three Shoot and Two Bul lets Take Effect He Is in Serious Condition. THEY MAKE ESCAPE, Clerk and Porter Trussed Up, but Clerk, While Tied,. Is Forced to Open Safe. . Three men, swarthy and speaking English with an Italian accent, walked Into tho United Clear Store at Willis Avenue and 146th Street, one- of tho bifsleet corners in the Bronx, at 9 o'clock to-day and told Michael Kovcnsky, tho clerk, and John Garsh, the porter, to put up, their hands. The three men pointed automatic pistols at them. Under tho orders of tho three Ko vensky and Garsh walked into the back storeroom, where they wore tied han-t and foot with heavy wrapping! twine. While the men were at work over them tho footsteps of a customer wpre heard in the outer room. One of the men went out and waited on him, striking the keys of tho cash register us though depositing th money. When h returned to tho back room ho laughingly remarked that he had rut it In his pocket. j "Now." said tho leader of the men, .-. standing over Kovcnsky aftor ho was " securely bound, "toll us whero tho dough Is or I'll blow your head off. , f mean It." ' I Kovcnsky said the money was in the safe. Tho leader and one of tho other men carried him into tho start and Hald him beside tho safe. They loosed his hands and told him to open the combination, still holding their pistols at his head. Kovcnsky opened the safe. One ot the men emptied tho cash compart ment of over $330, the receipts of Sat urday afternoon and Sunday. Just as he was'thrusting It in his pocket Po liceman Thomas Huskinson looked In tho door. By order of Inspector John Swee ney all Hronx pollcumen roccntly have made themselves acquainted with the appearance of all clerks In cigar and Jewelry stores. Huskinson did not recognize the men behind the counter, wearing their huus, as tho proper men to be there. Ho attempted to Investi gate. ,-Oh, let him have it" growled one of the three. All pushed pistols over tho If counter showcases. Threo shots wero tired. Two struck tho policeman In the hip, knocking him down. The other missed. Huskinson pulled a showcase over as ho fell. ;Vr Joined oy uio mini man, um iwc (Continued on Klmi-nth Page.) NO ELOPER SHE; HE PULLS A GUN Misses the Girl, Wounds Himself and Luids in a Cell. When Pusoualo Imbarili. No. 191 Leonard Street, Williamsburg, called on IL3 Lillian Clsalclo, No. 23 Dewe Street, Brooklyn, at 8 o'clock this mum lug and asked her to fly with him, sho leellned Just as sho snvs she has been declining similar Invitations fiom hln for qulto a while. He drew a revolver, tho girl s-iyr. nnd iha grabbed his hand. The jrun went off -nrt wounded two or Pojquolc'a flngera, not Injuring the B'rl at all. Just then her fiancee, John Vcntl, No. 78 Market Street, Manhattan, came along In his automobile. Detective Fred Wlndeburg ilso ranie along. Pasotalo was locked up on a charge of felonious ussault. DAILY. Copyright, 11121, Co. (The TOFI Thomas Traynor Executed in Mountjoy Prison for Killing "Black and Tan." DUDLIN, April 23. Thomas Tray nor was executed In Mountjoy Prison here to-day. for killing a policeman on March 14. The prisoner's brother was permit ted a last visit. As he emerged from the gates shortly before the execution was to take place the crowds surged about him. Ho said: "Thomas wants you to fight on. i'e doesn't want you to fight to nvengo him. but Just fight for free dom." Thero was no disturbance. Traynor was tried by efcirt martial and convicted of complicity In tho street battles on March 14 which re sulted in tho death of three civilians and two police cadets. When cap tured ho had a German automatic pistol In lilJ hand. Tho nummary sentence of Traynor has made a profound Impression on the Sinn Fotncrs, who are resolved to avenge his death. , Polirn nnd military who were searching for a kidnapped constable near Flddown, County Kilkenny, were ambushed to-day from a faim on which the constalilo was being held prisoner. A fight earned in which one soldier and several members of the ambush ing party were wounded. It is believed some of the attackers were killed. The constable escaped during tho battle. , Yesterdays fighting started in tho afternoon as fourteen members of tho constabulary in pursuit of a Repub lican Hying squadron were ambushed near the house of Padrlac O'Mallcy, Sinn Fein member of Parliament for Gulwa), In the Mjfam District. Inspector Taylor of tho constabti lary was killed and Cadet Grittln and Scrgt. Sullivan were wounded while motoring to the Gormanstown Iloyal Irish Constabulary training quarters HULIWST, April S3. Patrick, and Daniel Duffln, brothers, a clerk and a teacher, wero shot and killed tarly yesterday. It Is believed that tue brothers veie killed In reprisal for the earlier attack on two auxiliaries cadets, Ilohm and Holes. Mrs. Louise Gllson and Thom as Kennedy were wounded. The cadets had been to the railway station and walked over to Donegal i place about two o'clock in tho after noont This street, which la the- centro I of the shopping district, wus crowded ilth neriestrlans. A number of shots were fired at the auxiliaries. One of these broke a window In a street car and wounded Mrs. GUson in the mouth, whllo anntner wounded a pedestrian who was on the sidewalk. The Dufflns wero killed In thu Duffln cottage, in the Clomfrd Mon astery grounds. About midnight It was entered by threo armed mon in civilian 'clothe,. John Duffln, who was shot diirlni the riots last July was lying in bed upstairs. Ho said he heard one of them give the command "Hands up! This was followed by a rusiuauo oi hmuim. no ratacre , rushed out. before Duffm could get downstairs, where ho found hts i brothers lying on tno floor dying. Tti two slain men were members of tho Gaelic League. Daniel Duffln was noted as a Gaelic football player, GOING TO GALLOWS SINN FEINER SEND WORD GHTON BEING DRAWN INTO SETTLEMENT mm Cirefulation Books Open to All." I by Tho I'rrs Ilibllshlnf New York World). buck book Lsed In Her to Refute Testi- 1 niony as to Alleged Visit to ! Wallace's Room. I REFUSED SPECIAL WEAL. Says Stokes Ordered Cook Not to Prepare It When He Was Peeved. A "little black book" was much in evidence to-day In tho Stokes divorce trial. In this case It was Mr. W. E. D. Stokes's Intimate diary for the year 1014 one of a series of volumes bc- ! oausc it has Uien her habit since girlhood to kea a Journal. Against the repeated objections of Mr. Stokes' counsel, Justice Finch j permitted Mrs. Stokes to refresh her memory rom the "little black book" ns to 1ier comings, goings nnd where abouts during the month of May, 11)14. Tho introduction of the diary was obviously for the purpose of offset ting the testimony of Mr. and Mrs. Zenos Matteosslan, witnesses- for Stokes, who testified that late one afternoon "toward the end of May, 1914," they hud seen Mrs. Stokes In the bedroom of Kdgar T. Wallace at No. Vi Kast 'Jjth Street I' w dur ing this month, according to Mrs. Stokes's test irfiony, that sho was very much at home as she was expecting tho birth of a child early In the fol lowing September. Mrs. Stokes, speaking In reference to the entries in hur diary, to which sho constantly turned, said that dur ing this May her husband frequently brought men guests to their apart ment In the Ansonin. although, on uccount of her condition, sho had iskcd him not to do bo. STOKES NEVER LET HER HAVE ANY MONEY. She recalled a shopping Journey on Mav IS. "Hut I bought nothing, ao Mr Stokes never let mo havo any money. That nlglit l wanted some thing cooked especially for myselt, as wasn't very well, but Mr. Stokes was cross atout something, perhaps because I didn't get In until after 7 o'clock, and wouldn't let the cook pre- pare anytlUng lor nie." It appeared from 'he testimony, thut .Stokes left hla wife much to hoi&olf In the afternoons and evenings. On the last day Of May, 1914, .Mrs. Stokco said, they went to tho races the day II. P. Whitney's horse dropped dead and afterward she wanted him to tako her somcwheie to dinner. "Hut ho refused to go anywhere save to the Westchester Club, so we went there," she added. SERVANTS DISCHARGED FOR KINDNESS TO HER. On May 31. she stated, Stokes dis charged some of the servants for at tempting to serve breakfaet to her In bed. "I had no breakfast and no lundi- (Contlnuod on Fifth Page) ARENA FOR BOUT AT MONTGOMERY PARK Rickard -Officially Names Site of Dempsey-Carpcntier Contest in Jersey City. rho arena for tho Dempsev-Car- po.t.cr bout to ho stagfd In Jersey City on July 'i will be erected on a plot known ns "lioylo's Thirty Acres" ut Montgomery Park Promoter Tc.t I Hlckard. who 'will have solo charge of the heavyweight championship contest, ofiiclally announced the site here this afternoon. NEW YORK, MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1921. euchmhilt Going Full Speed Abtern ai Big Freighter Everett (slides. Across Her Buv. HEARD WARNING MRLN. Prompt Action by Capt. Howarth Saved the Liner and Her 1,700 Passenger. The White Star liner Old. . -rived to-day from Liverpool, aftei remarkably closu call from tx-ing cut )n llnIf a dense tog at 1 1 o'. yesterday morning, and ne,r s r , , the bottom with her 1,'uo pasxcngi -t The day dawned with a thick h..ze in the air, and as the hours pr. ceeded, the fog increased to a dens U tnat made the atmosphere blacker tlian night -api. v. Howarth, on the bridge, kept his rtrauuT i. ruler a slow bell, sounding his wMstle .it proper Intervals. Suddenly, from out of the fg, ,,ff the Celtic's port bow, a warning sound enme from a ship's sit en, too close to the captain's reckoning to be safe. Ho rang to stop the ship nnd before the engines ftad ceased purr ing rang again for full speed astern. A big black mass loomed u through the fog, and not two min utes later tho freighter Kveretl crossed the Celtic's Ixnv, about IKty feet ahead. Capt Haworth declared that It was a closo shave, and the few passengers who were on deck were high in their praise of the skipper's prompt act, uhleh, they said, saved the Celtic rrom destruc Uon. Among the Celtic's passengers was Miss Alice Cunningham, former owner of John Daniel, the speaking and sob bing gorilla of the ISunumi & llaltey Ittngllng Circus, who died in his cage of a broken heart, refusing to Hpeuk or oven eat for several days preceding his departure across the divide. Miss Cunningham only learned of tho death of her pet alter the liner hart tied up at her pier In the North i Itlver. Sho wept and declared that it was captivity that killed her favorite. John had been presented to hertwo and a half years ago by her nephew, M. P. Penny, of the Itoynl Air Service, who brougtit the gorilla to her from Africa. In London John hud the run of her home. i-ccnves xnomas Knngnt nn.l 1. K. Deisler returned on the Celtic with Leo Vorowltch a prisoner. Tho dc - tectlvea said that all they knew about me case was mai vorowucn was ar- resicti wiien nu aumnpieu to land in Liverpool, and that they wero sent to1 bring him bock. Thoy understood, they said, that ho Is charged with having passed a worthless chuck for J-HS,000. Darlo Itesta, the automobile racer, also returned on tho Celtic, bringing with him ttiree new sunueam rars which he Is going to enter In tho In dianapolis races, driving onu ot them himself. j GIRL AT SCHOOL LEAPS TO DEATH Overstudy Believed to Have Af fected Mind of Virginia Sisson of Ocean Side. Miss Virginia Slsnon, 16 years old, living In Terrell Avenue, Ocean Sid, a studont at tho Ocean Side High ScIkjoI near Hnckvllhi Centro, L. I killed hor sulf this morning iiy Jumping from a seoond story window of the school to a cemented court bolow. Her kull was frnrturcd. llui teachnrs and fr.emls believo her mind hod been temporarily uf(ectel uy overstudy. i Just Iniforo he Jumped sho ask'dl another girl to open the window for hor u that ho could "get some air." Thon I she screamed, cilmhed to '.ho lll, and Jumped. Her father, Wii.iam SIon, an engineer. Im wila to on enRnKOd In road building In South Aravrlea. OLD MILLIONAIRE'S YOUNG BRIDE WHO IS CUT OFF IN WILL MK.i SRO, w- OViTtR JK OFF BRIDE IN WILL Aged Millionaire Said to Have Signed Codicil Shortly Bc fure His Death. ATLANTIC CITY, April 25. George M. Oyster, aged millionaire who died hero early to-day, cut his young bride oft without a cent, it was reported hero to-day. Oystih' was said to li.ivo added ,t codicil to his will last Saturday to deprive the young woman of a share in his big ostatc Tho codicil was drawn after thr l arrival of a Washington attorney, when Mi. Oyster apparently had 1 given up hope of living longer. It 1 4 Hll.1.1 fine nf the hotel mnrtlnvi... iuiih . u vvltnHa to , e(Mrlv ! , ovster's bodv will be. taken to 1 Washington this afternoon. I MrM. tnstor wan ex-iH-ete,! ihi . Inornlne. iml t. had not arrived nr. , u.so A. M. It was believed Shu mlirht cet hero later In the dav. TnoSo wno heard tho report of the ( codlcll thought It ptobablo that Mrs. Qstur wtild start court proceedings for a share of her husband's prcijHjrty. Mr oyster was seventy-two years old and hi wlfn about twenty-five. staing at tno Wardtnan Park Inn In Washington, and was not with her huslwind at any time during his 111 noss, which lasted severnl days, .she tolophonud during tho night to In quire an to hla condition. .D. W. Ojs'or, the dend millionaire's brother, arrived from Washington fifteen mln uti's boforo tho end. During Inn Illness Mr. Oyster was attended by Dr. Hdwnid Porteous and two nuris. II. N. Hrownar, a rota tive, was present at tho death. Mrs. Oyster was Miss Cecil C. Iteady a prominent and populnr mernbor of Syracuse .'oeiety, and llrst met tin millionaire at the btato Fair In her city lust autumn. She took part In the Anviricanizath.n propaganda pag eant. Mi'i Iteady exprwsed .ulrniru- tion for inn priy.e winner in the Oys ter group of famous Porchcrons. an.t Mr. Oyster, tho owner presented her with Die llnr. U'K nnlmKl. Following thiH Mr. Oyster Hhowerec) (Continued on Klevontn Page ) GEORGE W. OYSTER ! SAID TO HAVE CUI "Circulation Books Opcu Unit ml mi NrcnmUCIa Matter Vo.t Offlcr, Nrw York, N. Y. GllilAN OFFER OF $48,000,000,000 TO ALLIES SENT TO WASHINGTON GERMAN TARIFF 0FU.S.0NPAYINT scheme Said to Be to Impose Prohibitive Rate on Fat Imports. WOULD RUIN INDUSTRY. rhis Country's Interests Said to Be Similar to Britain's and Opposed by France. lly David Lau rence. (Special Correspondent of The Eve ning World). WASHINGTON, April 2C (Copy right, 1921). America's hand may he forced by Germany In the controversy over reparations. While the United Slates Is reluctant to participate dl rcctly In the settlement of the repar ation question, word has reached the Government here that tho Germans are planning u prohibitive tariff on American pork products. Should the contemplated action be taken, the ex port trade In fats would lie ruined iml the Germans would ho able to sell their vegetable oils at an advan tage. The feeling hero is thatjlic United States ought to havo something to say ovtir the question of German tariffs. Tho Keii.iratlou Commission bet up by the Versailles Tlenty wis to have complete power over the reg ulation of incoming and outgoing commerce. un trial commission America was to have a member. President Wilson asked tho Senate to permit him to name an American commissioner, but the Senato Foreign Uclatloiuj Committee declined. Tho treaty light was at its bitterest stase then und Mr. Wilson noxer renewed the lequesU The situation has chansed materi ally, however, and evidence accumu lates showing that unless thu United States promptly exerclsoa an Influ- tCoutinucd on Second Page.) KNOX RESOLUTION REPORTED OUT Only Two Votes Against It in the Foreign Relations Committee. WASHINGTON, April 26. Tho Senate Foreign Itelatluns Committee to-day favorably reported the Knox resolution ending tho state of war be tween the United States und tho Cen tral Powers. Slight formal changes wero made In the text. There worn but twovotcw agulnst the resolution. Pomcrcne, Ohio, and Plttman, Nevada, Demo crats, opiwhcd it. Senator Ixidge, In reporting tho resolution, gave notlou he voultl call It up to-tnurrow. "1 Hiippoto you will l"t debute on 't run a reahonablo tune," ld Kotialnr Underwood, the Democratic leader. "I hopu to pass it soon," said Ixiilgo. "Democrats are not disposed to de lay It unduly." said I'ndorwood. "but somo of us ma wish to diwus.. it." Iodge said he would "not 'm- un reasonable" in pushing the reiolu t.tmVto paswigp Two nimiiar reMi' jt'.oiiji term'i. it'ng war betwet n the I'nitul fltati:, and Germany and AuBiria-Hitngary were Introduced In the lliuse to-day by HcproHPiitntlve Porter, Chalrmnn of the Conimlttee on Foreign Affair, i soon aftrr "-oiwirtlnir of the Knox mcaaurc ui the t'euate. PLAN FORCES HAND WALL FIWML EDI to All." f i: Payment to Be Years With Pledges of Goods and Participation in German Industries No Hint of Assumption of Allies' Debt to America. BERLIN, April 25 (Associated Press). Germany's counter-proposals or reparations, it was learned to-day, refrain from proposing the assumption by Germany of the Allied debts to" the United States. GERMANS GRABBING AMERICAN PATENTS Get 201 on Ordnance Since. July, and Transfer All to the Krnpps. WASHINGTON, April 25. Activity of German citizens Jn obtaining patents from tho American Govern ment embodying many of the princi ples of American railroad artillery and .other ordnanco led Secretary Weeks to ask Congrcsu to-day for legislation limiting Uie granting of patents to foreigners. Tho War Seorctary nald 201 ord nance patunts had been obtained here by Gorman citizens since last July 1 and all transferred to Frederick Krupp, tho gmat ordnanco manufac turer at Ksscti. 10 .ads Who Beat Brooklyn Jew eller Sent to Sing Sing in Hurry. Sentences wero Imposed to-day by Judne Martin, In IJrooklyn, upon tne four youths raptured after a robbery of the Jewelry store of Henry Hansen, of No. 7GG Flutbunh Avehtlr, Hrooklyn, April 15. Tho men struck down Han sen and a clerk. William Lcirholt, wtth blackjacks, but Hansen blew a pollen whlstlo and tho men wern calig.nt af ter a chase. Tho sentences were as follows: Samuel Jonas, nineteen, No. 3310 16th Avenue, IJrooklyn, twenty years; Thoma Uoone.y. twenty-six, No. 85 Howery. Manhattan, eighteen yearn; Iiwrencc Llppl. nineteen, No. 2HS Dayhlll Koad. Hrooklj-n, ten to twenty years, and IUrney Llfkln, seventeen. Ni. 2712 15th Avenue, Hrooklyn, five to ten years. Tho men were put In a police auto mnbllo to bo taken directly to Blng Sing. Itooney was tho only ono who did not appear dejected. Three of the men shook their heads when asked whelher thoy had anything to say before sentence was passed, Ilooncy luuBhed nnd said: "Anything to say? Well, It's com ing to me. I expiCt to cot It. So lot'w have It " When tho men wero put In the au tomobile Hooney euiied out to 'the driver. "Slop on the gas." "I'm going to Sing Sing for eigh teen years and I'm In a hurry," he exci ilmtd. frrlnning. Till woiu.n Tit wf.i, nunnAr. IMlitzu; iWuiMI HuiMuK. .Vi lli I'.rn Ht, X V CUT. Ti'H'luxw IIwIubm (O0. i ivmc rocm for twcfiM ftod rtm'l, town dl) t.irM. lUm eJn tnj txntclla' cmvIj, fov a - Aito (Rscmii Entrint on Paget 11 ind 1.) 63 YEARS FOR FOUR YOUNG BANDITS DAYS SINCE HOLD-UP To-Morrow'e Weather FAIR. STREET TION PRICE THREE CENTS Made in 30 to 42 Tho payment by Germany of 200,000,000,000 gold markp (nearly 148.000,000,000) Is, roughly, tho pro- poeul submitted by Germany tap transmission to the Allies, according to Bpurcoa close to the Government. Tho payments will bfl spread over h period of from 30 to 42 years, or lea;, according to Germany's economic rt covery. Koonomlo pledges In the way of goods and participation In Qerman Industries arc offered as gxraraBteca. it Is stated. The offer, It la Indicated, IndlnM more toward th Jerms formulate gy the AHlea at the Paris conferenoa last Winter than to the offer made by Germany at the London conference, which tho Allies nummarlly reeete6 (The AHles, under the decJatooui reached In Paris in Jarroary, de manded that Germany pay SS,000,C90,-a 000 gold marks, or approximately 600,000,000, the pnymcnto to t opreaol over a jxrlod of forty-two years. Oer- l many'u exports. In addition, wtmld I bear an export duty of 12 per cent, tx go to the Allies, for an Identical period. In the German counter-proposals sab I mltted in Ixindon on March 1, tto German Foreign Minister uffgitj what the Allied experta estimated at $12,500,000,000, of which. Germany claimed (5,000,000,000 bad'ulready been paid.) The Gorman Government Is retrala tng from making public to-day IM note to tho United States In order t glvo Prr-Hldcnt Harding, It Is ex plained, an opportunity to conatdar and make Inquiries ooncornlnr It it ho desires, before forwarding It to thto Allies. The Ilolchutag will not be clratt tho text of tbo comraunlAtloa uattl Tuesilay. Foreign Minister Simons announced:' to-day that ho would murety present to the Itclohstag this afternoon Th status of Germany's foreign rota tions," not divulging the new counter-pmposala on reparations. This offer on tho part of the llertta Government wua reached, accordint' to ofllclal i-krts only after protract ed wrangling In the Cabinet and af ter a proposal that had been tenta tively decided upon had been over-, ruled, because It was believed to be ao unacceptable that no hope was enter tained of Its being tnuisinltted to the Allies by President Harding. Americans here on private business are credited with having Inspired tha German note to President Harding asking his mediation. They wished to sell largo quantities of raw ma terials, but found they were unable to do business because of the repara tion provisions of the VersaJnJ Treaty und tho attitude of the En tente. They decided the troublesonw question should be removed and are said to have suggested unofficially that a proposal from Uerttn would nnd Washington favorable. Thene Americans are Lafayette Dufrcy of New York, L. II. Hoofier. a San Francisco lawyer, and Dr. Itlchard Moldcnke of Watchung, N. J. They are eald to plan the formation of a 11,000,000 credit corporation but refuse to revenl the Identity of their backers. Discussion of tho note to President Harding had been going on for weeks before It was eent. Dr. nichard Moldnnke of Wat On -ung, N. J, ha ibecn In Germany a month, his son, Edl Moldcnkr, said to-day He went abroad with a 4 .4 i 4' .ii 1- .1 , I ! -