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Courts ToNlghTa Weathar-FAIR; EXTRA VOL. LXII. NO. 22,030 FRANCE OFFERS SOVIET GOMPERS NANGEK REFUSES TO CHANGE Sharp Clash With Mr. Unter , myer at Session of Lock wood Committee. COUNSEL IS SARCASTIC. r Labor Head Draws Line Be tween Ability and Con science of the Bar. At tho outset of the heart us of the Lockwood Committee on Housing at tho City Hull to-day Samuel Gompers, "head ot the American Federation of Labor, In an angry colloquy with Samuel Untermyer, refuwed to retract his criticisms of lawyers and the courts which ho made yesterday. He said an apology for his expressed opinion was "Impossible." "You made jestcrduy a wanton, gratuitous attack on the great profes sion to which 1 havo the l:onor to belong," said Mr. Untermyer. ""'Tho statement is not accurate," Said Mr. Gompers. "I did not say the members of the legal profession wcro all unworthy men. I said 'a largo number,' " was the leply. "You had no right to assume 1 meant nil who follow tho pioffsslon." "You did not say," Mr. Untermyer said sternly, " 'a largo number." " "I referred to the practitioners of aw not to the science of law," said he witness. VIEWS ON LAWYERS "All who practise law are un wortlry?" asked Mr. Untermyer. "I make a distinction," said Mr. Gompers, "between lawyers who are merely able and those who aie ablo and good." "Those who are not ablo arc the only good lawyers," said Mr. Unter myer with' a Jeer in his voice. JA "That Is a misconstruction," said 'Mr. Gompers, showing anger. "I de fine those who arts able and good as those who have conscience ami stand for tho truth." "You think there are fewer men in the legal profession who are con scientious and stand for the truth than In any other profession?" asked Mr. Untermyei . "I think, sir I know!" said Mr. , Compels with Increasing emphasis. "I know that is true." "You are a ware that tho Judges of our courts aro recruited from the men you havo included In this diatribe?" 'Jit was not a diatribe," said Mr. Gompers. "It was a Just criticism." "Don't think that I worry over your opinion of my profession," said Mr. Untermyer. "Do not think," retorted Mr. Gom pers, "that I worry over your opinion. "Do you think the Judges, in great part, aro as bad as tho lawyers?" ' asked Mr. Untermyer. -JUDGES EVEN WORSE, HE J. SAYS. "The Judges aro sometimes oven worse," said Mr. Gompers, calmly. Ho said nearly any lawyer would take a case without regard to fact, Justice or equity. "Do you say that because of your (Continued on Second Page.) A Popular Sunday World Real Estate Feature The Sunday World Heal Estate Section Is exclusively devoted to real estate and its attendant In terests. Houses. Farms and Building Lots for sale advertise ments are assembled and classi fied according to geographical units. Apartments, Business Property, Houses and Rooms for rent are arranged In either mini erlcal or alphabetical order. The Sunday World's Heal Estate Sec tion is a valuable and comprehen sive guide for investors and homeseekers. Those Interested in Real Estate 7Can Profitably Read The Sun dajr .World'Real Estate Section. ?,IF IT HAPPENS IN , and Lawyers FROST. DAILY. Coirrli!il (Nm fuMlthlnt Egyptian Prince Sails (or Home With Faithful "Blink' Saying American Girls Beat the World Spent $60,000 in Three Months Here, but Has Plenty Lett Kittles $2U,uuu in Bills to Prove It. I'rlncu Mohammed All Ibrahim, nephew of tho newly created King of Egypt, started this afternoon on his roundabout way for home and Cairo on the steamship Olympic after three months in this country", during which he spent $00,000 and discovered the American woman to bo tho most beau tiful and charming in all tho world. With him went his faithful boxlng- gulde, phllospher and friend, lillnk McCloskey, late of Philadelphia and mow of Cairo. Although the Prince has spent a small fortune In amusing himself (and Blink) In America, lillnk assured un Kvcning World reporter at tho Ulltmore, Just before steamer time, that "there was still plenty left," and In prpof of It drew a pack age of $20,000 in bills from an inside pocket' and riffled It. It Is with great regret that Prince Mohammed left these shores, he said. Hut he promised to come back In July to remain nix months, most of which time, ho wild, ho would spend (at the word "spend" Wink put his hand t" the package in his lnaido pocket) In this, city. ' "I like New York," he went on. "and I must come back here soon. Tho American women aro tho pretti est In the world. I saw them by scores at Hollywood and Los Angeles, and I spent a long time there. 1 met Bebe Daniels, Mae Murray, Mabel Normand and a lot of others. They aro beautiful and delightful women. Hut, a a rule, the screen beauties aro more beautiful on the screen than away from it I am going home at the request of my uncle, -the King, who wants his family around him. But on the way I shall stop In Paris, Berlin. Vienna, Trieste, Homo and Naples before tak ing steamer for Cairo." At the Ulltmore to say goodby to tho young Kgyptlan was Miss Mabel Wlthcc, an actress, who has been en tertained by the Prince several times since ho arrived in this city threo days ago. . Blink McCloskey, who was busy as a bird dog to-day getting tho Prince, his sporty automobile, and his 25 trunks aboard the Olympic, said that he asked only ono last favor ot the American press; that It would stato positively he did not wear false teeth. They could say anything elso about him, he declared, hut not that. nilnk confided that ho had com plete charge ot all the Prince's funds. 'You see, It's llko this," ho explained. 'His Highness draws whatever money he thinks he'll need and turns It over to me, Just the way ho did with this $20,000. Then I'm the guy what pays all the bills, sec? If he wants any money he asks for It, and I give it to him, Just like that." Here Dlink mado a generous gesture from his pocket. "We'vo had a nice and Instructive time, all In all. It was very nice out In Hollywood and Los Angeles. Then was only ono celebrity we didn't set; that was Charlie Chaplin. Charlie wouldn't-como to see the Prlnco. Ho said If the Prlnco wanted to seo him he could call. Tho Prlnco wouldn't do It, so that was that. "By tho way, this Prince Is cer tainly a demon motbr driver. Ho took that low-lying bus of his ono day and drove from San Francisco to Los Angeles, about 450 miles, in fourteen hours. Ho was arrested for speeding and It cost me $150. RYE KEEPS AIRMEN 2,000 FEET ABOVE TOWN Ordinance rrd to Protect People nt Shore, Ileiort. An ordinance prohibiting aviators from flying lower than 2,000 feet above the land or water of the Itye. N. Y town park at Oakland Beach has been passed by the Commissioners of Parks. The ordinance forbids tho perform ance of aerial acrobatics at any height over the park because of the danger to peoplo in tho park, particularly on Sat urdays and Sundays, when tho crowds aro large. AUTO nusns IlUN OX X. V, N. II. A If. . NEW HAVEN, Conn.. April 22. Auto buses from few York City were run to this city over the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad yesterday. being the first Instance of buses being use a on a main une irom me metropolis. wfot "Circulation Books Open io All" ! Vork World) tij lre Company, 1932. Prince MOHAMMED AU IBRAHIM PEL R. R. UPHELD I . s. Chicago Judge Refuses to End Injunction Restraining Railroad. CHICAGO, April 22. Federal Judgo Georgo T. Pago upheld tho Pennsyl vania Railroad to-day In its suit to test the power of tho United States Railroad Labor Board by refusing to dismuss the temporary injunction re cently granted by Judge Landls, re straining tho board from censuring tho road for violation of the board's decrees. Judgo Pago ordered a conference of attorneys for both sides and the case probably will come up ngaln. The board ordered the road to hold new elections among Its shop craft employees some time ago, and the road refused to do so. The board then prepared to Issue a decree of censure. and tho Pennsylvania obtained the In junction to test tho board's powers. Tho shop crafts who charged that the employees' representatives who conferred with the road over pro posed wage reductions wcro selected by the road itself and not by tho em ployees. They alleged the conferences, therefore, were Illegal and they were upheld by tho hoard. The labor board has never claimed power to enforce its decrees, the en forcement being left under the Trans portation act to tli moral responsi bility placed on carriers and em ployees through the decisions of an impartlul body. The only power It claimed was to censure publlc'ty any body violating Its decrees. To-day's decision Is not final, but It camo ns a distinct shock to board members, they said, as they had con fidently expected Judge Page Would dismiss the temporary injunction and throw tho case out of court. STOCK BROKER ENDS LIFE; HAD BEEN IN BAD HEALTH uuiit) . ill lOlluiirLHi i i vrv, rv hi unci fifty, of No. 357 7Sth Street, Brooklyn, with nn nflla u Vn IT. WilMntn Klranf committed' suicide to-duy in the cellar or nis nome by snooting nimseir in lbs Ipff hrnnnt It was suld by his son. John Jr.. that his father had complained of feeling III lnllv Mrs. Christiansen is in Florida for ner neann. BY FEDERAL COUR AGAINST U BOARD NEW YORK IT'S IK THE EVENING WORLD" . . . i i i i i - , Are Again Denounced by Gompers NffW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1922. : 700.000 IN OPIUM STOLEN ON TRUCK T Consignment in Crude State Was Being Taken to Wholesale Druggists. DRIVER IS QUESTIONED. Piazza Sticks to Story of Holdup by Four Men With Revolvers. The city and Federal Governments are hunting for 1,600 pounds of opium which was stolen from a truck owned by McKesson & Robblns, wholesale druggists of Brooklyn, and which, It Is claimed, when chemically treated would bo worth In tho retail market $600,000 or $700,000. Charles Piazza, driver ot tho truck. has been questioned by the police again and again and has stuck to his story, varying it only In a fow minor details. He said that he was held up at Broadway and Bedford Avcnuo, Brooklyn, at 2.20 o'clock yesterday afternoon by four men In an autq- molHIo. He said that ho was forced at tho point of revolvers to leave his seat and enter the other machine, ono of tho four driving his truck as far as Elmhurst, whero ho was thrown out of tho car. Later ho said that his truck was In tho vicinity of Morgan Street, Man hattan, at 25 o'clock. The truck, its contents gone, was found at 10.30 o'clock last night In front of No. 500 East 75th Street, Manhattan. He gave descriptions of the four men who held him up and drovo off with the truck. One, he said, was a German, twenty seven years old, 5 feet 0 Inches In height, weighing 160 pounds, smooth face and brown hair, wearing a blue seige suit and a gray cap. Tho second was an American, twenty-nve, 5 feet, 7 Inches, weighing 135 pounds, smooth face, pale and wearing gruy suit and dark cap. Another was an Italian-American of thirty-two, 5 feet, 10 Inches, 130 pounds, dark brown suit with stripes, green overcoat and brown fedora hat. Tho lust was an Irish-American, twenty-nine, 6 feet, 7 Inches, 110 pounds, smooth fnce and ruddy com plexion, wearing a suit of green mixed goods and a light fedora hat. Capt. Carey, head of the Detec tive Bureau In Brooklyn, said that threo policemen who wero in the neighborhood of tho. alleged holdup neither saw nor heard anything, and two tlremen havo been found who were at the scone at tho named time but saw nothing out of the way. Piazza is not under arrest, but the police confess that they aro not en tirely satisfied with his story. Louis E. Groff of tho drug firm to which tho crudo opium was consigned said that In Its raw state It was woi th $6 a pound, but when chemically treated It would be worth not less than $6 nn ounco. When it came to bo peddled to drug addicts the returns from tho 1,600 pounds would bo in tho neighborhood of $700,000. Dr. Simon, Deputy Pollco Commissioner in charge of tho Narcotic Squad, agreed with him. BANKRUPT FIRM OWES $36,996,820; ASSETS $57,842,896 $40,000,000 of Assets is Capital Stock of Distilling Co. of America. A schedule In bankruptcy was filed to-day in behalf of the United States Food Products Corporation, against whom an Involuntary petition was fil ed In tho United States District Court on February 7, Tho schedule shows liabilities of 36,896,820; of this $11, 201,290 aro claims held by banks, most of which aro secured by collateral. The listed asset fnini is? H4?.K!)H. Forty million dollars of this is In the capital stock or the Distilling Company ot America, BY BKLYN HUGS Former Anna Gould's Daughter Threatened With Sojourn on Ellis Island on Arrival Here VlOiE.TTe HEi-EsJE. DE Little Miss Rescued in Nick of Time by Mrs. Finley J. Shepard, Her Aunt, Who Arrived Late at Pier. For a few minutes to-day It ap peared as If Vlolctte Helcnc de Talley rand Perigord, daughter of tho Count ess dp, Talleyrand, formerly Anna Gould, and nlcco of Mrs. Finley J. Shepard, would bo sent to Kills Island because of the Immigration laws ap plying to children of her age. Tho child, who Is seven years old, arrived this morning on the steam ship Paris. ' She Is accompanied by a governess and Is hero for a three- months visit to "Aunt Helen." The law as to foreign children entering tho United States unaccompanied by parents or legal guardians provides that they shall bo sent to tho island before a board of Inquiry, particularly when there is no ono to meet thorn. When tho baggage had been cleared and the young miss hnd said sho ad mired the Statuo of Liberty and was glad to visit America because it was tho homo of her mother, there still was no ono to meet her. Whllo the Immigration officials were discussing whnt to do, Mrs. Shepard arrived, accompanied by her attorney. They had motored down from West chester and wero late, expecting the boat would not dock qulto so early. A telephone call to Commissioner of Immigration Tod gave Mrs. Shepard tho right to carry tho nleco away and, talking In Kngllsh with u very pretty Fi jnch accent, she snuggled up to Mrs. Bheperd and was on her way up town to see tho skyscrapers in tho city where her mother was born SAYS GAS CUT-OFF SCHEME WAS KILLED BY EVENING WORLD Stewart Browne Declares It Only Fair to Give This Paper the Credit. "I think It only fair to state that the realty owners und tenants of New York would havo known nothing about the gas cut-off grab had It not been for The Evening World," writes Stewart Browne, President of the United Ileal Ks tato Owners Association. "Your paper stirred up public sentiment with the final result that the Mayor vetoed the ordinance." "Circulation Books Open I'.ntfrrd i Hrrond-fliitt Matl'r Pott Offlcr. Nrw Vork. N. . RECOGNITION TALLEYRAWD-PEcbORD "LOVE THEFT" CAUSE Letter Alleged Written by Mrs. Soderman Will I3e Basts of Unwritten Law Defense. DALLAS, Tex., April 22 (United Press). Davo Soderman, Indicted for killing J. Clay Powers, playwright and member of a famous Kentucky fam ily, following nn alleged letter from Mrs, Soderman declaring "ho stole my love," will base his defense on tho unwritten law, his attorneys Indicated to-day. Tho "lovo theft" w-is committed "not too many times, because ho knew I would soon tiro of him," the alleged letter from Mrs. Soderman to her husband declared, according to ex tracts given out by his attorneys. "Ho broke up my home," Sodeiman was alleged to have told a detective who struck up his gun after the shooting In a crowded hotel lobby, Tuesday, "Seo my lawyers, gentlemen," was tho only statment he woud make to tho reporters. Soderman sits In Jail, smoking cigarettes, whllo lawyers nrc framing a hatuias corpus petition to freo him. Mrs. Sodcrman's alleged "death let ter," referred to tho "first wine lwrty," from which she declared she awoke to llnd herself In a room with Powers, former army Major and author of several plays. Intimacy waa admltttd, tho attorneys declared. "He defended his homo with a gun tho only way open to him the unwritten law," a statement from counsel declared. "His wlfe'B testi mony will clear him." Soderman will go to trial May 8. Maury Hughes, District Attorney and brother of tho prosecutor In tho Day Beck case at Oklahoma City, declared ho bclloved tho letter a "frame-up." "No woman wrote that letter un der stress of passion, as it was de clared to havo been written," Hughes claimed. "It was carefully composed add then copied in Mrs. Hodermun's (Continurd on Second Page.) OF POWERS'! DEATH N TEXAS TRAGEDY To-Morrow'i EXTRA to All." AT $75,000 SALARY Senate Minority Leader Has Been Counsel for Theatre Owners of America. Senator James J. Walker, product of Tnmtnany, Democratic leader for noverul years In the tipper branch of tho Legislature and prominently men tioned as gubernatorial, nomlneo at thai fall election, is slated for the presi dency of tho Motion Ploturu Thcatro Owners' of America, at a Balnry of 175,000 a year. In the motion picture Industry this Is regarded us u sensation second only to the appointment of Will Hnys, for mer Postmaster Oencrnl, to the head of the organization of tho motion pic ture producers. It Is a movu to bring Into more harmonious relations tho producers and exhibitors und Is In ac cordance with tho Hays plan of pro moting peace In tho ranks and purify ing tho Industry. The Candidacy of Mr Wulkor is no surprlsu to leaders among tho ex hibitors, for they havo been working to that end for several months past. Tho Senator has been their counsel for several years and has madu some vigorous and successful fights In their behalf against the producers. Tno exhibitors meet In convention ut Wnshlngtoii during the first week in .May, when the election of tho Presi dent takes place. According to the hent Infctmcd In the Industry, the election qf Mr. Walker lacked only ono" essential, which -w.ii his acceptance of tho position. At a dinner at tho Rltz Cnrlton of lending exhibitors, on Thursday night, at which Will Hays was a guest, "Jimmy" declared him self wlOIng to do anything that they thought ho could do In tho Interests of tho theatre ownors. They told him that he could best serve their Interests by taking chargo of tho or ganization. Tho Senator Is known to, tho ex hibitors from coast to coast. He has fought Hhelr fights In the courts, in tho Legislature and at Washington. When taxed on tho floor of tho Hen ate with being affiliated with tho mo tion picture Industry, when-ho was fighting the bill to establish tho Movie Censor Board, ho Interrupted tho speaker to tell him just how ho was connected with It; that he repre sented tho exhibitors and not tho pro ducers. Tho Motion Picture Theatre Owners of America is credited with being ono of the strongest financial orgnnlzn Hons In the country: thero are In tho neighborhood of 17,000 of them. They are the men who make or unmake the output of tho producers, for they (Continued on Second Pago.) JAPS BEAT YANK NINE AT TOKIO 30,000 See Indiana College Train Lose First Game in Japan. TOKIO, April 22 (Associated Press). A crowd of 30,000 persons witnessed the first game played by the Indiana Uni versity baseball team which camo to Jnpnn on the Invitation of thn Wnacda University team of Toklo for a series of twelve games here. The visitors lost thn opening contest, a llght-hlttlng af fair, taking a shutout at the hands of thn Japanese collegians, 4 to 0. The scorn: It. H. 1 1. Indiana University 0 6 6 Waged University 1 C 0 FRANCE OFFERS RECOGNITION TO RUSSIA, BUI BOLSHEViKI MUST CARRY OUT PROMISES WALKER HEADS MOVIE EXHIBITORS Weather FAIRl WARMER. PRICE THREE CENTS Barthou- Announces Decision, but Declares Soviets Will First Be Placed on Proba tion by the Allied Powers. Paris Delegation, However, Is Fearful Germans May Try to Enter Discussions and Protests Reply to Treaty. GENOA, April 22 (United Press). Franco to-day offered conditional recognition to the Russian Bolshevik Government. Iouts Uarthou, Chief ot tho French Delegation to tho Genoa Economic Conference, announced willingness to extend this recognition, provided JUiBsIa cnrrles out r Its promises made in Its reply to the Allied dV mnnds. But first, lie said, Russia must be 'tut on probation. Recognition was one of the counter demunds made by Itusslu In Its reply to tho Allied note. The Soviet Gov ernment agreed to acknowledge lis debt providing recognition wui He corded it. France heretofore has been bitterly opposed to ndmlttlng Rus.su to tin family of nations, whllo tho Hovlot re glmo remains In power Itarthou's statement was made iifh-r a long conferenco with his collcasii"-". and nfter he hnd communicated with Premier Polncnro In Paris. "We shall recognize Russia It she'll curry out her promises," lie said, "but tho Hovlot Government flrrt must he put on probation. I'he situ ation Is more promising to-day, bu! we must wait and watch." It Is understood that Premier Polit-' care Is not so enthusiastic about recognizing the Russian Governmom and It was reported to-day ho mlgl;' himself como to Genoa und take ;i hanil In tho negotiations. Tho committee of exports met tn. day to take up tho Russian matter Tho Soviet reply having proved ar ceptable, tho next step Is tho work Ing out of details. First, the commit tee considered tho claims of foreigner. Upon tho Russian government for il' structlon of property during th revolution. This meeting was th' chief event of tho day. GKNOA. April 22. (Associate i Press). The French delegation to tho Uconomlo Conference ho sub mitted a protest against the German reply to the Allied note. In which the Germans stated they would refrain from discussing Russian question fettled in the Russo-Gcrman trentj. Tho French contend that the Ger mans, under their reply, may Insist upon discussing other Russian ques tions. An Kngllsh spokesman said u meet ing of thu entire Ilritlsh delegation this morning decided to consider tli Incident that had arisen out of thr Russo-German treatv as dellnltel'. closed. Since Germany had' accepts tho humiliation Indicted upon her, bj agreeing not to participate In discus stonn concerning Russia, tho Drills! spokesman said, It would be unsports munllko to Insist on further conces slons. He was not sure, however how far tho French really Intended b go with their protests against tin. German reply. Georgo Chlcherln. the Russian S vlet Foreign Minister, gavo the Hull. Socialists and Communists a shock : meeting the King and accepting h Majesty's Invitation to a luncheon on board the Italian drcadnough Conto Cavour. It wns the first visit tho King had mado to Genoa since tho war, mid his arrival was mado the occasion for a great demonstration of loyalty, On. of his first acts after his arrival this morning was to congratulate Forelurn Minister Schanzer on tho work he had dono to prevent what appeared an impending breakup of the conferenco. 51 .1 i ft Jr. '-Hi 'A . J J &