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Regencies Used
As Bait to Win
Votes by Sweet
Anti - Socialist Strength To
Be Recruited by Bar?
ter <#t Three Vacan?
cies on the State Board
From a Staff Corrfspondent
ALBANY, Feb. 8.?Three vacancies
n (he State Board of Regents will be
bartered for votes to expel the five
Socialist Assemblymen at a caucus to?
morrow, according to reports current
? here to-night.
To hold the wavering upstatemen in
une the'little group behind Thaddeus C
Sweet, Speaker of the Assembly, is i
holding oui the promise of one more
upstate regent if tho Assemblymen
north of the Harlem River- will only
?stand pat." This exchange will be at
the expense of New York City.
One of the New York City vacancies
is due to tho appointment of Abram I.
Elkus to the Court, of Appeals. The
other results from the expiration of !
the term of James Byrne. The third
?;s caused by the moving of Walter
Guest Kel'.ogg from Ogdensburg to
Cortland.
Regents Govern Education in State
Ogdensburg is in the 4th Judicial
District. Cortland is in the 6th Judi?
cial District. Under the law there I
must be at least one regent from each I
ot the nine judicial districts in the state i
resident therein. The moving of Kel- ?
iogg necessitates the election of his !
successor by a joint session of the j
Legislature. There are twelve regents
in all, as the law provides that there
?hall be three more than there are
judicial districts. The regents govern
the State Department of Education.
The use of the educational system
of the state us a pulmotor for Sepaker
Sweet's personal political machine is j
being resented by Republicans. All day 1
the word has gone forth that the eau-|
cus of the majorities in both houses
of the L?gislature will bo held to-mor?
row and for all to be on hand. This
caucus has been postponed one week
after another. It was originally set
for January 19. Then it was adjourned !
to January 126, then it was set for last I
Monday. But on none of these days
were things shaped to the liking of ]
Speaker Sweet and his iittle group j
here. i
Sneaker Sweet, according to the talk
among politicians, can count not only i
upon the open support of the "old ?
guard," of which William Barnes is
the recognized leader, but upon the !
covert support of Tammany Hall and '
its upstate appendages. Charles F. i
Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall, is
expected to let the party lash fall on
the backs of those who are opposing
Sweet.
B?och Keeps After Sweet
One of the Tammany Assembfymen
who has opposed Sweet consistently to
date is Maurice Bloch. He has at?
tacked the presence of Mr. Barnes's
former press agent as a disseminator of
reports of the trial to a string of up?
state newspapers, and he has character?
ized as "romance" the story told by the
seventeen-year-old Brooklyn stenog?
rapher Miss Ellen Chi vers, who testi?
fied that at a street meeting Assembly?
man Solomon spat upon the American
Sag. j
Bloch also has a motion before the
Assembly calling for the appearance of
Speaker Sweet as a witness before the
Judiciary Committee, of which the Tam?
many man is a member. Bloch believes
?hat Sweet, who stampeded the Assem?
bly into voting for tho expulsion of the
Socialists, should tell ail regarding the
everts which led to the stampede.
If Sweet is called by the prosecu?
tion, as Bloch and others believe he
should be, it would enable the counsel
for the five suspended Socialists to
i.ross-examine him. Should the prose?
cution not call Sweet and the Socialists
put him on the stand they will be
bound by his answers.
The prosecution will end its case, in
the belief of the counsel of the Judi?
ciary Committee, not later than Thurs?
day. The defense will take upward of
three weeks.
Amos Sees Danger
In Ouster Trial
Declares Methods Used
by Assembly Are Wrong
iVo Matter the Result
Assemblyman William C. Amos, of
the Eleventh District, Manhattan, is?
sued a statement yesterday, in which
he declared that ir event the five
Socialist Assemblymen are expelled
many persons will be of the belief that
the method employed by the Assembly
in ousting Socialists was justifiable.
''Such an argument," he says, "is dan?
gerous and cannot but fail to decrease
respect for law and order."
His statement follows:
"A letter has been received by me
from Captain Harold A. Content on
the subject of the,suspension of the
five Socialist members from the New
Vork Assembly. This ' letter is of
especial interest on this ^ubject be?
cause Captain Content, as a practicing
attorney, has been engaged in the
prosecution, as his letter states, of
notorious agitators associated with
radical and 'Red' movements.
"It is apparent from his letter that
Captain Content is bitterly opposed
to Socialism, not more sb, however,
than myself and hundreds of thou?
sands of other citizens, who likewise
deplore the un-American manner em?
ployed in suspending the Socialist
members of the state Legislature.
"There are a large number of citizens,
not beinp familiar with the circum?
stances of this act of the Legislature,
who are unintentionally considering the
subject from premises entirely erro?
neous.
"The thought prevails among a con
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To EALLYa moderately
M\ high collar, yet the
long pointa give it the
fashionable anap of a low
collar.
siderable number of persons that if
the Socialists bo found guilty of dis
Ioy?' acts against the government of
the United States and are expelled from
the Assembly, this will constitute justi?
fication of the method employed by the
Assembly in suspending them.
"In other words, that the end will
have justified the means. This argu?
ment, when applied to tho action of
legislative bodies relative to constitu?
tional rights and liberties of the
? people, is dangerous and cannot
fail to decrease respect for law and
order.
"It will be a most unhappy day for
our country when a minority may be
denied tho right to exist and function
under the same guiding rules and con?
trolling laws that govern the existence
and activities of a majority.
"The ballot box is the concrete typi
ftcation of our form of government. I
have introduced in the Legislature an
amendment to the Constitution chang?
ing the oath administered to an As?
semblyman-elect to include a declara?
tion that no oath has been taken to
support any organization that socks to
overthrow our government by violenco
or rebellion."
Pastor Defends Assembly
In Ousting Socialists
Body Properly Fulfilled its
Obligation to the People*
,,^?y* the Rev. Mr. Du?eld
In a statement issued J-esterday the
Rev. Howard Dufneld, former pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church defended
the action of the Assembly in sus?
pending the five Socialist members. He
said in challenging the rights of the
Socialists to their seats, pending an
investigation, the Assembly is properly
fulfilling its obligation to the people.
of the state.
Dr. Dufneld said:
"There has been criticism of the ac?
tion of the New York Assembly on
the ground that, before suspending?
or 'ousting,' as it is generally misin?
terpreted?these five Socialists, charges
should have been first preferred and
a hearing concluded before they were
denied their seats. This was impos?
sible. Members of the New York As?
sembly do not, as is the case in Con
j gress, appear before the bar of the
Speaker and take their oath of office
before the assembled body. Instead
they take their oath in the office of the
! Secretary of State, or they can do it
in their homes. They can do it at any
time. They can send in their oath by
i mail.
"The only way, therefore, to chal?
lenge the right of a man to his seat,
when the Assembly is first called to
order, is to deny him the right to take
his seat until his eligibility is estab?
lished. The Assembly acted in all
propriety and could have done this in
no other way. There has not been, as
has been contended, any violation of
constitutional rights, any violation of
the spirit of fair play, any ruthless
trampling upon the rights of a
minority.
i "The men now under trial never were
' ousted, because they never were in.
! Their case has simply been brought up
1 for investigation, properly and legally.
Yet during this investigation, before all
the evidence is presented, without facts
before them on which to base intelli
i gent opinion, we find men who, because
i of their legal training, ought to .know
? better handing in a verdict and seek
! ing, through newspaper publicity, to
' impose their premature adverse judg?
ment upon the public."
I House Expected to Adopt
Land Lease Report Today
Mondell Praises Bill as Greatest
Triumph Yet Had for
Conservation Cause
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. ? Mineral
i land leasing legislation which has been
I pending in Congress in one form or
I another for ten years, is expected to
i be moved nearer its final enactment to?
morrow through adoption by the
! House of the conference report on the
I bill, leaving only similar action to be
| taken by the Senate before the meas
j ure goes to the President for approval.
Representative Mondell, of Wyoming,
| Republican floor leader, in a statement
I to-night predicting prompt action by
the House, praised the new legislation
as "proper conservation of the min?
eral resources of the country."
"The measure which the House is
about to adopt," said Mr. Mondell, "is
the first genuine, unqualified oil and
oil shale, gas, coal, phosphate and so?
dium leasing bill that has ever been |
considered by Congress, and in its pro?
visions it fulfills the hopes of those
who years ago began the contes.t for a
proper conservation of the mineral re?
sources of the country of the charac?
ter named, by retaining title to the
deposits and the land containing them
in public ownership and providing for
their development under a system of
leases under public regulation. It is by
far the greatest triumph of the cause
of proper conservation of the public
resources up to this time."
?-?
Court Condemns Police
Gambling Raid Methods
In dismissing nine young men who
had been arrested on charges of dis?
orderly conduct and suspected of shoot?
ing craps, Chief City Magistrate Will?
iam McAdoo, in the Jefferson Market
court, said yesterday that the police
proceeded in the wrong way to sup?
press gambling in New York.
"It will never be done by sporadic
raids," said Magistrate McAdoo, "but
only by intelligent detective methods.
The police are not acting properly and
not acting intelligently. I could say
more, but I will not."
The magistrate added that he was
convinced of the guilt of the young
men brought before him, but from the
evidence submitted his only alternative
was to discharge them. The nine men
had been arrested Saturday night
while in a basement at 284 Mott Street.
Declaring that shooting craps for
money is not disorderly conduct, Mag?
istrate Joseph E. Corrigan, in Tombs
court, yesterday dismissed eight boys
who had been arrested Saturday night
in a raid on a crap game in Centre
Street, directly opposite Police Head?
quarters. The arrest was made on the
complaint of a former participant, who
claimed to have lost $600. All the boys
had been charged with disorderly con?
duct.
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Seil, Reorder, Sell
"Speaking of jnventions?-the man who invented
Interest was no slouch." ?
Most small retailers do not fully realize the cost to
them of slow-selling goods.
"Turnover" and "overhead" are vague terms to the
very man whose shelves are filled with lodgers.
This is not true of the big stores. Quick turnover
is probably seen in its perfection in Boston, where
building restrictions have forced on the stores ? the
intense cultivation of floor space.
Goods in active demand "turn" fest.
Goods advertised into popular demand make pos?
sible a rapid Sell, Reorder, and Sell with the minimum
interest cost for "carrying charges."
Advertising spact in the Butttrick publications
it fir sale through accreditedadvertising agencies,
Butterick?Publisher
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Everybody's Magazine
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Secretary Baker
Warmly Indorses
Aims of Zionism
Declares the Qbject Is to
Build an Altar of Refuge
for the Persecuted
Jews of All Countries
Secretary of War Netvton D. Baker
expressed hia sympathy with the aims
of Zionism in an address last night at
a banquet given by Judge Julian Mack,
president of the Zionist Organization
of America, and Judge B. N. Cardozo
at the Hotel Astor.
"I do not suppose," he said, "we can
ever reestablish the Greece that gave
us Athens, that gave us Alexandria,
that gave us philosophy; or that we
can ever reestablish the Rome that, in
the peculiar sense I mean, gave us law.
I would like to reestablish all of them
and see them flourish at the best and
richest.
"But it does seem possible to re?
establish the Jew in his homeland un?
der conditions that will enable him to
continue the influences which he once
so generously bestowed upon mankind.
"As a non-Jew, I have the right to
give my hearty, hopeful approval to
the consummation of that great idea.
It is possible for a man to love the
traditions of his childhood and race,
to love the traditions of his language
and literature and religion without the
least detraction from his loyalty to
the country of his birth.
"I very early learned all the nega?
tives about Zionism. I .never believed
any great number o? Jews in the United
States would go to Palestine and live
there. I would regret to see that.
There would be no need for any such
thing as that.
"But all over the world Jews are
still oppressed and subjected to the
embarrassments and humiliations which
have characterized their treatment for
2,000 years. Zionism is not an attempt
to take away from the Jew his interest
in this liberated and liberal country,
but to build an altar of refuge for
those who are persecuted."
Secretary Baker addressed the Free
Synagogue in Carnegie Hall yesterday
morning, telling his hearers that his
mother had fondly hoped he would be?
come a preacher and that he preached
a lay sermon in Cleveland before he
took up practice of the law.
Discussing post-bellum periods in
American history, Mr. Baker said that
Americans, as in tho dark days follow?
ing the Revolutionary War, seem to
have lost their faith in leadership.
Expressing regret over the status: of
the league of nations covenant, Mr.
Baker said: "We have lost the spiritual
leadership of the world; we have aban?
doned the spirit of Ch?teau Thierry
and the Argonne."
Judge Julian MacTc also spoke. He
urged the congregation to contribute to
the $10,000,000 Palestine fund. He said
that Palestine will have a population of
from 5,000,000 to 6,000,000. Jews, he
said, would predominate, but non-Jews
would be eligible for citizenship. He
said Christians were being asked to
contribute to the fund in "appreciation
of the debt which all the world owes to
the Jew9."
Atlanta Pressmen Walk Out
Publishers Appeal for Confer?
ence With International Officer
ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 8.?Publishers
of the three Atlanta newspapers have
wired to headquarters of the Interna?
tional Printing Pressmen's Union re
qyesting that an officer of that organi?
zation come to Atlanta for a confer?
ence on the walk-out of the press room
employees of two of the papers Satur?
day night.
A telegram from J. C. Orr, secretary
of the. international union, stated it
was contrary to the governing body's
laws for the pressmen to strike without
first appealing to the international for
arbitration.
Sunday editions, of all three papers
were limited to eight pages of news
matter, with no advertising, and the
magazine and comic sections which
were printed previous to the walk-out.
'Gold Brick' Artist
Deserts Broadway
?? For Mexican Line
Colorful Romance and Ad?
venture Now Adorn His
Work in Fleecing the Un?
wary; Results the Safne
By Wilbur Forrest
Special Diepatch to The Tribune
EL PASO, Tex., Feb. 8.?An air of
mystery, a subtle something that
whispers adventure anrt great wealth,
buried treasure, mental "fade-Ins" and
"fade-outs" of old Flint, Treasure
Island, Aztec temples with storehouses
of precious metals and sparkling gems,
doubloons in crumbling, barnacle en?
crusted, iron-bound chests of the
Spanish Armada, it is here all over
again along this Mexican border.
Just now it is modern bullion bars
of yellow gold, the pure, refined prod?
uct from the mines of Mexico, cached
where one would least expect to find
them by up-to-date, dry-land Captain
Kidds roaming the sandy, cactus plains
i and the rocky mountains of old Mexico.
Mental "movies" of mansions on
Riverside Drive, castles in Spain and
palaces all over the world are being
produced here to-day in greater abund?
ance than in the real reels. And it
doesn't cost anything to listen. For
example:
An Old Friend Bobs Up
There is the secret map taken from
the dying hand of the last survivor of
the bandit band that massacred the
crew of the blankety-blank mine in
Chihuahua way back in 1914. Saddlo
bags weighted down by the precious
bars of bullion, the band fled with the
loot hotly pursued by a detachment of
government cavalry. Forced to turn
and fight, the bandits bury the
treasure beneath the desert sands and,
hard pressed by the troops, they bite
the dust one by one until only two re?
main. They escape, and to reach a hut
in the desert they drink tequila. In
murderous drunken moods they fight to
the death. A lone survivor, in a more
murderous mood than ever, rides
toward the American border.
Engaged in cattle rustling and
smuggling along the Rio Grande, he
carries his secret for years. He
draws a crude map?the exact location
of the buried bullion?but one day a
bullet "gets" him. His slayer stands
over his quivering body. His story?
his secret?comes in gasps while he
struggles for breath; then, with the
narrative almost finished, comes the
death rattle and he sinks back, dead.
But in his hand there is a paper,
crinkled and torn. The death grasp is
loosened by eager fingers, and the
paper?it is the secret map, a crude
drawing of a river, a mountain,
mysterious lines and circles. That is
where the treasure is buried, and no
one knows how' to read the mystic
signs and characters but the man who
heard the dying narrative.
The fortunate possessor of the mystic
treasure map can be found along the
border to-day. He tells you the story
in subdued tones and lets you look at
the secret map. All he needs is a few
thousand dollars to finance the expe?
dition across the river in search of the
treasure.
Prototype of Numerous Band
To some he is the "green goods" man?
the "gold brick" artist of the Mexican
border. To others he is the adventur?
ous and picturesque chance acquaint?
ance who puts wealth within the grasp
of one who believes the story. He is
not a single individual, but a small
multitude of individuals, all with the
"secret" in one form or another, of
the buried treasure.
How much money. flows into these
treasure-hunting expeditions back and
forth across the Rio Grande would be
as difficult to estimate as the assets
of a Democratic administration. But
negative results persistently seem tq
indicate that Barnum was right.
Clemenceau Reaches Egypt
CAIRO, Egypt, Feb. 8.?Georges
Clemenceau, former Premier of France,
has arrived here. He left France on
February 2 and will make a trip
through Egypt.
W?l You Profit by a Railroad
Freight Claim Agent's Experience?
FOR eight years the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault
Sainte Marie Railroad has been using Dictaphones
in it? Freight Claim Department. So valuable have these
Dictaphones become that this company considers them
indispensable in speeding up correspondence work.
Ask us to show you what The Dictaphone can do for you
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Police Bar
Trucking to
Open Traffic
Continued from pare 1
the next two days will be most neces?
sary. If the peoplo will help open
up the gutters in front of their nomes
and business places, in the event of a
thaw, it will aid greatly in ridding the
city of this most phenomenal snowfall.
I hope pleasure Vehicles will keep off
the streets for the next day or two,
as the street cleaners and other snow
workers can perform better service if
there is less congestion. I wish also
to thank the press for its cooperation."
Commissioner MacStay added his
criticism to that of Mayor Hylan be?
cause of the failure of the lines under
the receivership of Job Hedges to get
their tracks and their trolley slots
cleared. | ?
"Tney didn't put their men to wqxk
in time to accomplish anything," he
said. "That is the reason their cars
are standing idle to-day, four days
after <tho storm. Such a situation is
unheard of in a great city."
Coal Flows Into City
Coal continued to flow into the city
during the day at a rate that removed
possibility of transportation troubles
from this source, although the supply
in the bins of the public utility cor?
porations still is far from satisfactory.
The one satisfactory feature of the
surface car shutdown, according to the
statements of transportation men, was
the fact that they have been consum?
ing no power since the storm, with
the result that subway and elevated
trains were permitted to use all the
power generated at the big electric
stations.
Practically all railroads operating in
and out of tho city reported broken
schedules as a result of the storm and
emergency arrangements required be?
cause of the fuel and car shortage. The
Pennsylvania road announced that
Jacksonville trains were four to five
hours late. All other trains on the
line and thoso of the Lon<? Island Rail?
road were said to bo operating at
something approaching regular sched?
ule time, however.
Brooklyn Digs Herself Out
The Street Cleaning Department of
Brooklyn went at the work of removing
the snow with 2.000 men, while private
contractors had 1,500 more. Many large
trucks were used. The principal lines
of thoroughfare received first attention,
as was the case in Manhattan.
Every available flat car on the B. R. T.
was also used. Reports received by
W. S. Menden, general mangaer of the
system, were that good work was being
accomplished in every part of the
borough. Every available man that
could be hired was put to work.
Borough President Riegelmann said
he had receivd many applications from
property owners for the use of sewer
basins. In many ' sections, he said,
residents had combined and engaged
men and trucks to remove the snow
from in front of their premises.
Service on the rapid transit lines
was nearly normal yesterday. No at?
tempt was made to ope'n up the shuttle
lines in the suburbs, but gangs of men
were sent there to remove the snow.
It is expected that trame on the subur?
ban lines would be opened to-day.
Staten Island Conditions Improve
Conditions in Staten Island were
slightly better than on Saturday. There
was a snowfall of 2% to 3 inches dur?
ing the night, but without wind or re?
sultant drifts. Every available city
employee was at work clearing the
streets and roadways of the great mass
of snow wh'ch has blocked traffic. Two
of the trolley lines, the Silver Lake
line and the Bull's Head line, have
been discontinued entirely since Thurs?
day, and yesterday only two of the
seven bus lines were in operation. No
collections of ashes and garbage have
been made since Wednesday. There
have been no deliveries of coal, and in
many districts no deliveries of milk,
newspapers, or anything else.
Only about L'5 per cent of the regis?
tered school children attended school
Friday and in outlying districts some
of the smaller schools were closed en?
tirely.
50,000 Visit Coney,
Many Carting Aivay
Loads of Sea Food
Fifty thousand persons visited Coney
Island yesterday, it was estimated.
Many of them were bungalow owners
anxious to see what havoc the storm
had wrought in their summer homes.
Others visited the place to see the
wreckage left by the wind and tide.
First arrivals soon spread the news
that the shorp was littered with hordes
of frozen crabs and lobsters and with
tiams deposited far beyond the usual
high-water mark, and all their friends
and relatives came to join in the
harvest. Wagon loads of sea food were
taken away. The crabs and lobsters
soon thawed out if placed in a warm
room and showed renewed interest in
life.
Automobile travel was virtually im?
possible because of the snow which
clogged the streets. Trolley service
was poor and the elevated and sub?
way trains were crowded to capacity.
Coal, Stalled by Storm,
Moved in JSew England
DANBURY, Conn.. Feb. 8.?Thou?
sands of tons of hard and soft coal,
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which had been stalled by the storm on
the Central New England Railroad, be?
gan to move to many parts of New
England to-day. With the exception of
a few carloads of perinhblo goods, no
freight had moved on this road since
last Wednesday.
Tho tie-up in the freight yards at
Maybrook, N. Y., was reported relieved
and dozens of trains of coal were
started on their way to industrial cen?
ters in this state and Massachusetts,
where a shortage of soft coal has
closed several factories.
Twenty Hurt in Trolley
Crash in Jersey City
Twenty persons were injured last
night when a Greenville car jumped
the track at Grand and Westervelt
streets, Jersey City, crashing into the
sido of a car bound in the opposite
direction. Snow and ice on the track
caused the derailment. The following
persons, none of them seriously hurt,
were taken to the City Hospital:
Thomas Rilcy, Frank Mcllugh, Cap?
tain George Murray, Jersey Cit-^Fire
Department; George Murray, motor
man; Patrick Gaffney, James Gaffney,
his son; Miss Ada Hasselt, Bayonne;
Henry Kesfer, Morris Screen, Walter
Moscouli and Edith Nelson, all of Jer?
sey City.
City to Compel
I. R. T. to Alter
"L" Equipment
Writ May Be Asked to Force
Changes That Will Permit
Operation of B. R. T.
Trains in Queens
Litigation between the city and the
Intcrborough Rapid Transit Company
? may result from the refusal of the In?
tcrborough to make equipment changes
on the city-owned elevated structure
in Queens, which are necessary for
joint operation of Interborough ;>.nd
Brooklyn Rapid Transit trains. ?These
equipment changes are provided for in
the terms of the dual contracts.
A month ago John H. Delaney, tran?
sit construction commissioner, directed
the Interborough to make such changes
in the power and signal equipment as
would allow the operating of Brooklyn
Rapid Transit trains from the tunnel
in Sixtieth Street to the terminals of
the Astoria and Corona cievated lines.
The cars of the New York municipal
system are fourteen inches wider' than
Interborough trains now operating in
i Queens and nearly seventeen inches
wider than the Second Avenue "L"
trains operating in that borough. Tha
Sixtieth Street tunnel, it is stated,
will be ready to permit the extension
of the New York municipal Broadway
subway line to Queensboro Plaza
about April 15.
To get beyond the plaza,however it will
be necessary to cut back all section
platforms on the Queens "L" structure
and also to make slight changes in
the power contact rail and the signal
devices. Commissioner Delaney has
directed that the Interborough proceed
with the required changes, but the
company denies right of the city to
order such changes made.
The Interborough officials take the
position that because storage yards
have not yet been provided in Queens,
tho Queens "L" structure is not ready
for operation, although Interborough
trains have operated over the structure
for two years. It is also contended
that the New York municipal company
should alter its cars in such a wav as
to admit their passage over the Queens
"L" as it is now equipped. The In?
terborough officials declaro it is not
their duty to rearrange equipment r.o
suit the convenience of the city's cars.
It is expected that Commissioner
Delaney will apply to the Supreme
Ccurt for a mandamus to compel the
Interborough to make necessary
changes in equipment.
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Safe Blown; $2,175 Gone
Bloody Handkerchief Leads to
Discovery of Robbery
Detective Mire?u, of the Bedford Ave
? nue station, Brooklyn, found a blood?
stained handkerchief yesterday morning
; in front of the Williamsburg Paper ?ox
! Company plant, 178 Hope Street. He
?hunted up the watchman, Edward Jones,
and they made a tour of the factory.
In the rear they found a window with
a pane smashed and unlocked.
In the office they discovered that
the safe had been blown open and
rifled of $2,000 in Liberty bonds and
$175 in cash.
Jones told Mireau that the night
watchman had informed him "every?
thing was all right" when he came on
'duty. A drill and other cracksmen's
I tools, beside the safe, will be exam
j ined for fingerprints that may disclose
I the identity of the burglars.
Labor to Fight
For Control of
Next Congress
Continued from pace ?
labor, central labor bodies, local unions
and labor's friends and sympathizers
to unite and give loyal support to the
j non-partisan political campaign now
set in mofion.
"'This political campaign must begin
in the primaries. T;-.e record of every
aspirant for public office muat be
thoroughly analyzed, stated in unmis?
takable language and given the widest
possible publicity. Labor's enemies and
j friends must be definitely known. To
this end the American Federation of
Labor has created the national non
partisan political campaign committee,
and it now calls upon all affiliated and
recognized labor organizations to cre
I ate district and local committees and
to cooperate with the national commit?
tee and coordinate their efforts.' "
Million Asked to Raise
| CustomsJEmployees' Pay
i Senator Odder9? Deficiency Bill
Amendment Is Backed by
Merchants9 Association
Better pay for employees in the cus
toms service is proviaeel in a bill in
troduced by United Stats Senator Will
iam Caldef as an amendment to th<
! general deficiency bill. Tho Merchants
j Association is giving its support to th
' Calder measure, which would appro
! priatc $l,p00,000 for raises for custom
? service men.
. A Merchants' Association committe
on customs service and revenue lav*
I after investigating numerous com
j plaints of delay in the movement c
? merchandise through the customs, r<
I ported the schedule of salaries in th
service was altogether inadequate. Th
Calder measure is simply a temporar
. relief scheme*;, which it is expected wi
be followed by legislation reclassifj
ing and increasing the salaries of di
ferent groups of employees in tr
service.
The association has sent a telegra
to Senator Reed Smoot, of the Senai
Committee on Appropriations, urgir
support of the amendmnt.
Bryan Not on 'Dry' Pay Roll
Anti-Saloon League Only Paid
for Speeches, Says Counsel
Reports that William Jennings Bryan
was on the payroll of the Anti-Saloon
League were denied yesterday by
Wayne Wheeler, general counsel for
the league, ^ho said that bis organ?
ization had paid Mr. Bryan for making
a few speeches, but for nothing else.
"He never received any pay for his
services for prohibition while the cam?
paign was on to adopt it," Mr. Wheeler
said. "I know of no man ;n public life^
?who has done more for the cause with?
out compensation."
Mr. Wheeler said that the "drys"
would back Mr. Bryan or any other
man who espoused prohibition in the
event that any party allied itself* with
the liquor interests in the coming na?
tional election. O
'.. -? ? ~U- 3
THE VALUE OF CORN
It was corn that saved tjie
land of Egypt from famine
in the days of Pharaoh.
k was corn that saved the
Pilgrim fathers from starva?
tion in ?the winter of their
first'landing.
| It was corn that enabled the
Western World to withstand
i the German onslaught in the
Great War.
Ail honor to corn ! ? espe
, daily when made into those
delicious cornmeal cakes at
CHILDS.
rV?5 Virginia comma?!
cakes. With tnaple-*U
rored syrup and excep?
tionally good batter.
Il ?
I V CLOTHES OF CUSTOM QUALITY
i SAKS-TAILORED
IJLSTERCOATS
You'll find no such gar?
ments as these anywhere,
because clothiers figure,
and quite properly too,
that if a man wants such
luxury hell go either to
I a fine custom tailor or
to Saks !
BROADWAY AT 34th STREET |
FLORIDA
America's Winter Playground
You may spend every day in the open, with Nature glorified by cloudless
skies, the blue sea ; by melting greens silhouetted against white sand. Every?
where radiant tropic beauty animated indescribably, shot through and
through, with life and color and gaiety, by the charm of people a-play.
Great hotels whose broad piazzas look out to sea where white sails are
aslant with the breeze. Hundreds of miles of paved roads for motoring.
Every outdoor sport and pastime. Sea Bathing, Golf, Tennis, Hunting,
Fishing, Sailing, Motoring. Or you may find complete rest and recuperation
under ideal conditions of cliniate and environment.
Attractive Winter Excursion Fares to Resorts in the South are offered by the United States Railroad Administration.
For Fares, Schedules, Service, Maps or Booklet, "Florid? and Southern Winter Resorts," apply to or write nearest
Consolidated Ticket Office or
? United -States * Railroad Administrahon *
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