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MARCH 30* 1920
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TWO CENT? ? within commoting diat_u.ce | _-l__)wb_r_
(_?bert Troops
Invade Ruhr
Coal District
?
Paris Declares Army of
10,000 Has Marched
Into Region in Violation
of Treaty of Versailles
Allies tilled On lo
Take Quick Action
Combined Military Move?
ment Advocated to Pro?
tect Zone of Occupation
By Ralph Courtney
fro?- Ths Tribune's Furorcan Bureau
((Wrt_l?t, 192*. N?** Tcrk Tribun? Inc.)
PARIS, March 29.?Regular Ger?
man army troops to the number of
10,000 have invaded the Ruhr Val?
ley, according to advices that reached
the French Foreign Office to-day.
France immediately called the atten?
tion of the Allies to what is de
ncribed as a gross violation of the
Treaty of Versailles, urging that im?
mediate action be taken.
French officials declare the entrr
was entirely .without authorization, nor
can they find any excuse for the ac
?ion. So far as is known here no per?
mission had been asked of the Allied
military commanders in the Ruhr dis?
trict, which is on the edge of the zone
of occupation, and the site of rich coal
fields.
It is believed hero the Supreme
Council in London will make repr*?
?ntations to the German government.
If reprisals become necessary France
desires that Ruhr itself be occupied
partly or wholly by the Allies or by
Franco-Belgian troops.
German Denial Expected
The German situation has been
(treatly complicated by the violation of
the treaty. It :?. believed the Germans
will at first denv that any government
troops entered the Ruhr district, hut
the reports that have been received in
Paris are reliable and come from sev?
eral source?-.
France believe* that Germany can
settle the discontent in the Ruhr val?
ley by negotiations at any tinue she
wishes, and she would much prefer
that neither .Mfied nor German, troops
be sent there to put down disorders.
Neither does she want to take isolated
action, and if the Germans continue
their violation of the treaty she will
appeal to all the Allies to take their
share of the responsibility for inter?
vention.
Since coal from the mines is vital to
Franc? she would not consider the
bre*j!*h cf faith compensated for by the
occupation of other German-, territory
unless it should be made certain that
this would be effective in compelling
th? Berlin government to resume the
delivery of fuel, as stipulated in the
treaty.
BERLIN, March 29. - "Vorw?rts"
reports that Genera*/ von Loevenfeld,
?t the head of a naval brigade, has en?
tered the Ruhr region to tight the in?
surgents there.
P.4RIS, March 29 (By The Associated
Press).?Absolute confirmation of the
extrance of i?egular Germany army
troops into the Ruhr district, on the
edge of the Allied zone of occupation
without any permission from the
Allies, has been received by the French
Foreign Office, it was declared to-day.
The German government has aban?
doned the idea of sending strong rein?
forcements to the Ruhr Valley, in view
of the conditions imposed by the French
government. Wilhelm von ?Mayer, the
German Charge d'Affaires, requested
Premier Millerand to authorize the
dispatch of the troops last Friday, and
following several conferences* the
French Premier on Sunday agreed to
?pprove the move subject to serious
guaranties.
French Conditions Rejected
Chief among the conditions imposed
*as the Allied occupation of the cities
of Darmstadt and Frankfort, within
'he German neutral zone. The French
?onditions were transmitted to Berlin,
and Herr von Mayer to-day delivered
the answer of Germany, which consisted
"f Chancellor Mueller's declaration
|o the National Assembly this morning,
IB which he declared the German gov?
ernment does not purpose to subject
Frankfort and Darmstadt "to the ter?
rors of occupation/'
The German Charg? also informed
Premier Millerand that the German
?roops now in the Ruhr district do not
?ceed the number permitted bv the
^reement of August, 1919. Herr'von
Mayer promised that the soldiers in the
neutral zone would not be increased
W|tnout the permission of France.
Should the German government, how
?yer, send reinforcements to the Ruhr
district, M. Millerand, immediately will
order the occupation of Frankfort and
Darmstadt until the reinforcements
leave that territory.
Although the initiative in this matter
i? entirely with the Premier, there is
no doubt in French official circles
'hat the Allies will support the policy
adopted.
German Rebels
Ask Allied Aid
delegates Sent to Urge
Intervention as Ebert
threatens an invasion
ESSEN, March 29 (By The Associated
Press).?Pressed by an ultimatum from
?he Ebert government demanding rec
?RHition of the Berlin Ministry before
Joon Tuesday on a threat of invasion
?y national troops, the revolutionary
workmen of this district have turned
to the Allies for aid. Three delegates
are leaving for Cologne to ask the Al
"ed representatives to intervene in the
?uhr trouble and sent troops into the
?"'strict. At a secret meeting of the
Workmen to-day, a military represent?
ative announced that the Allies had of
*Lc,d to mediate.
..The Ebert ultimatum also demanded
^?armament of the "Red" army and
?.V?1'1-1*.-. immediate dissolution of the
xnA ' army 8nd r?le?se of ?*? prisoners
2?d restoration to power of the regular
?uthorities.
Possibilities of peace negotiations
w*ween the Communists and the Berlin
(C?allntM- on ??g? live)
'Wilson to Pass Hot Season
| On Shore of Buzzard's Bay
j Charles R. Crane's Summer Home Is To Be Tern
porary White House From the Middle
of June Until Sentember
WASHINGTON, March 29.?Presi?
dent Wilson will pass the summer al
Wood's Hole, Mass., where the summer
' White House will be established on the
estate of Charles R. Crane, the Chicago
business man recently appointed Minis?
ter to China.
Arrangements already are being
i made for moving the- President and his
family and a goodly part of the Execu
j tive offices there for nt least the last
, two weeks of June and all of July and
? August. The Crane estate is an ex
I tensive country place, which overlooks
. Buzzard's Bay and Vineyard Sound and
| is close by Martha's Vineyard, an ial
> and which figures in Colonial history.
, President Taft and his family passed
' their summers at Beverley, Mass., not
j far away.
The decision to take the President
Iaway for the summer is interpreted
at the White House as further evidence
of the continued improvement in health
Home Rule Bill
Denounced as
Ruin to Irish
i 'Abominable' Measure Will
Create Greater Chaos in
Deplorable Situation,
Critics Tell Commons
i- _
By Frank Getty
from The Tribune's European Bureau
(Copyright, l!>20, N>w York Tribune Inc.)
' LONDON, March 29.-?With every
| seat occupied and* the galleries
j thronged, the House of Commons to
j day began the second reading of the
j Irish Home Rule bill. All agree that
the session will be one of the most
| memorable in the history of the Em
I pire, and the life of the government,
; which offers the bill, is at stake.
All parties had put on whips and
i every member was in his place when
! Ian Macpherson, the Secretary for 1rs*
j land, arose shortly after 4 o'clock and
{ moved the acceptance of the measure.
j Then for several hours one brilliant
j critic after another attacked the gov
'i ernment's proposal until it seemed
j that not a trace of its original "veneer
? of respectability" was left. T. P.
! O'Connor, Joseph Devlin, Lord Robert
j Cecil and John R. Clynes, one by one,
j took turns in declaring that it was "a
I bad bill, an abominable bill." No one
in Ireland, they said, accepted it or
I approved it. The measure would only
j make greater chaos in a deplorable
j situation.
Coalition Backs Measure
Throughout the verbal assault there
I sat back of the Treasury bench more
j than 200 members of the Coalition
i party, who paid scarcely any attention
j to the speeches by the opposition and
?seemed merely waiting. to cast their
I votes in favor of the bill.
i It was a serious House that sat to
j day. There was a marked tendency to
j discourage levity. It would not have
? been an ideal House for Lloyd George,
I for the Premier likes to catch his hear?
ers in a mood when cleverly twisted
' phraseology carries more weight than
| sound logic.
? Unquestionably the sentiment of the
House was with the government, and
i the Coalition members never overlooked
j an opportunity to applaud an inter
? jection by a government sympathizer.
Yet all the brilliancy of oratory seemed
! to be on the other side.
The speech ot Clynes. the labor
1 leader, moving the rejection of th<*
? bill was a capital piece, and kept a
' murmur of approval rippling through
j the House, but one felt when the
j speaker had taken his seat how useless
and futile his arguments were in the
face of the overwhelming government
majoritv. Clynes declared the bill was
certain to fail in its purpose and he
; blamed the present government of Ire?
land, which he described as "govern?
ment by imprisonment." He drew
cheers when he said: "The surest way
to get into an English prison these
j days is to be elected from an Irish
j constituency." He insisted there must
! be only one Parliament for Ireland,
i and, in pointing out the government's
proposal to start with two Parliaments
? and work toward one, remarked: "If
j eventually, why not now?"
? ' Substitute Proposal Offered
'? Clynes went so far as to offer a sub
' stitute proposal along lines of domin
j ion home rule embracing "maximum
j self-government consistent with the
unity of the United Kingdom and safety
i of the government in irme of war." His
: strongest point was that the growth o?
! the Labor opinion, especially in Ul
i ster, was rapidly wiping out narrow
! political lines and uniting Ireland as
nothing else had been able to do.
"We have just one right left as an
imperial Parliament to withhold any
longer our approval o<t* the demand of
j a vast majority of the Irish people,"
j said Clynes, "and that right is might."
Lord Robert Cecil's speech was
j equally brilliant. He had no qualiti
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[Messenger Steals
\ $118,000 in Bonds
i
i New Employee Disappears
With Securities Belong'
ing to Harriman & Co.
The theft of $118,000 in Liberty
bonds from Harriman & Co.. Ill Broad?
way, became known last night when a
general alarm was sent out through
all the police stations in the city. The
bonds were taken by a messenger re?
cently employed and of whose home
address the corporation has no record.
He is seventeen years old and can be
identified by a scar on the left side
of his face, according to information
given the police.
At Police Headquarters Deputy Com?
missioner William J. Lahey denied all
knowledge of the robbery, and "-aid
that to the best of his knowledge the
alarm had not been sent out from
there.
GOOD MORNING:
! If you didn't gel just th<* rlgrhl help for
I the position why not c? 11 ihc Good MornhtR
j Girl, Rf"*k**iiBn 3000. and Insert ?n advor
I tiscmont In to-morrovr's Tribune??Advt.
which Dr. Grayson has been reporting.
Up to a few weeks ago it virtually had
been decided not to take the President
away, because it was felt ho could be
cured for better at the White House.
Golf Among Possibilities
" Tho plan to pass the summer on the
New Kngland coast. Dr. Grayson said,
meant that the President could con?
tinue his program of motor riding, and
might be able to take some short
yachting trips, probably on the May?
flower. Dr. Grayson said Mr. Wilson
might even get in a few holes of golf
j if his improvement continues. The trip
j from Washington will be by train.' The
: Mayflower will go up later.
Last summer, like his first in office,
? the. President passed in Washington.
I Others have been passed at Cornish,
? N. II. The first summer, which was a
j very hot. one, Mr. Wilson put the air
i cooling plant in the White House offi
j ces out of commission and announced
i that, inasmuch as he was asking Con
I gress to stay in sesi?n in the capital
(Continued on pr?ge thre<!)
Compton Quits
Legion Office
In Bonus Row
County Chairman Resigns
When Resolution to Fore?
go Compensation Is Re?
fused; Action Demanded
Major George Brokaw Compton,
chairman of the New York Courtty com?
mittee of the American Legion, re?
signed-his post last night when, at a
1 riotous meeting at the Hotel Astor,
! the committee tabled a resolution ro
? pudiating the demands made on Con
; gress by the national committee for a
? bonus and adopted another indorsing
| those demands.
Delegates from the 180 posts in the
' district were present at the gathering,
; which lasted from 8 o'clock until well j
: after midnight. The vote tabling the ;
first resolution was 76 to G2. The vote j
indorsing the second, demanding a !
: bonus, was 73 to 52.
i !
Confusion at Meeting
From beginning to end the meeting
was filled with confusion. There was
; scarcely a moment when a half dozen
i men were not on their feet at once
clamoring for recognition. When Major
I Compton announced nis resignation the
delegates hooted and jeered, although
a strong minority, apparently in sym?
pathy with him, urged that he be given
a chance to speak uninterrupted. '
The resolution adopted was proposed !
! by Irving I. Rackoff. It read: i
"Whereas, It is the feeling of ? the j
| New York County Committee that the ';
j nation owes an obligation to the men i
and women who were in service in !
I the World War to relieve clisad- i
; vantages incidental to military s?rv- j
I ice; and !
"Whereas, This obligation has not j
j been fulfilled; therefore be it
"Resolved, That the executive com- j
j mittee heartily indorses the action of !
I the national executive committee in '
? demanding fulfillment of this obliga- !
| lion."
The demand of the National Execu- ,
| tive Committee is for a bonus of $ij() ?
j for every month that every member ;
I of the Legion spent in the service.
!
Plan for State Aid
It was also moved by the meeting
i that the state be asked for an addi
! tional bonus.
j The uproar that attended the gath- !
I ering began to reach large proportions
'; when the resolution approved by Ma
? jor Compton and setting forth the con
? viction of the committee that no pres?
sure should be brought to bear on
| ?Congress for financial aid save in the |
j case of maimed service men and wid- !
I ows and orphans of soldiers and sail- i
j ors was voted down.
For a time it seemed as though j
I every one,in the room was trying to:
talk at once, and Major Compton's ]
gavel was called into action every few ?
' minutes to bring about a semblance of |
! order. __
Cheers greeted the reading of Rack
off's resolution, and discussion that ;
! followed this was especially bittpr. i
Reginald Barlow, an actor, one of the j
delegates, in the course of this said:
"We shouldn't, go down to Washing- '
ton and petition a lot of old women
who do nothing but gas. We shouldn't
grovel and crawl before them. They ?
were elected to carry out our wishes. ?
We should demand what we want." . ,
* One -Man Thrown Out
Tremendous applause greeted the an?
nouncement of the tellers that the res?
olution had been carried. When order
had been partly restored Major Comp?
ton started to make a statement. He
was. interrupted by one Irving Cohen,
who said he was president of Dan ?
Call?n Post, who claimed that his name
had not been called in connection with j
the vote.
The chairman responded that this j
was because Mr. Cohen's name was j
still before the Americanization com- j
mittee of the Legion for investigation.
(Continued on next page)
Pope to Announce
Views on Ireland
I.OME, March 29.?Pope Bene?
dict will deliver in May a pro?
nouncement on the Irish question
in its political and religious as?
pects.
The occasion will be the canon?
ization of Oliver Plunkett, the
seventeenth century Archbishop
of Armagh and Primate of Ire?
land. All the Irish, bishops will
journey to Rome for the canoni?
zation, and pilgrims also are ex?
pected from American and Eu?
ropean countries. The visitors
will be hou.sed in tije Vatican.
I.ibfrty Bond?.?**?*, MOO. WOO. $1,000?
can h" botiRhi arid sold Instantly.
John Muir A Co., 61 Broad??). ?Advt
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Jews to Call
Rent Strike
Of 800,000
Delegates From 324 Or?
ganizations inCity Band
for Walk-Out; Legisla?
tive Help Is Demanded
Strict Laws Asked
To End Gouging
Bricklayers Drop Strike;
to Rnsb Work on 300
Uncompleted Buildings
Almost 800,000 Jews banded together
to resist rent profiteering last night
and formed the Jewish Tenants' League,
through delegates from :!_4 Jewish or
| sranizations, who met at Beethoven Hall,
1210 Fifth Street. Speaker after speaker
! specifically denounced the Jewish land?
lord as a chief factor in the present
crisis, the chairman declaring that 75
per cent of the Jewish victims suf?
fered from extortion by men of their
own race. Plans for a general strike
of the Jewish tenants and all others
who can be influenced on May 1 were
greeted with enthusiasm.
The meeting was held under the
auspices of the United Hebrew Trades,
and almost 2,000 delegates and specta?
tors overflowed the big hall and its
galleries. The organization formed will
he the biggest of its kind on record.
An executive committee of fifteen was
formed to carry out the plans laid
down.
Public. Action Demanded
Resolutions were passed demanding
the appointment of a public service.
commission to assess the value of
rental property, that a constitutional
amendment be submitted declaring all
houses with more than two families
quasi-public utilities, that a state-wide
organization be perfected, that no
eviction be made without a certifi?
cate from the Health Department that,
it would not injure the health of the
evicted tenants, and that the city and
state start home building.
The chief object nf the new organi?
zation, as stated by Ruben Guskin,
president of the United Hebrew 'Irados,
who presided, was the formation of a
distinctly Jewish body to cope with the
Jewish part of the rent-hogging. Al?
though the resolutions passed all looked
townrd legal action, most of them
being suggested by the address of
Jacob Pankcn, Socialist and Municipal
Court. -Justice, the idea of a- general
rent strike was prominent throughout
the discussion, and the threat of this
li'es behind the whole program. The
most vigorous cheering of the meet?
ing was called out by Alderman
Vladek's first suggestion of this weapon
against landlords, and'every reference
to it was hailed with the utmost en
thusisam.
1,000,000 to Join Ranks
Morris Feinstone. secretary of the
United Hebrew Trades, declared that
the response to the rallying call had far
exceeded the hopes of the trade, and
he predicted that within a few days
the strength of the new organization,
which practically is centered around
the U. H. T., will reach the million
mark which is aimed at.
The '.i24 organizations which sent two
delegates each to the conference were
as follows: 150 labor unions, 90 lodges
of the Workmen's Circle, 25 syna?
gogues, 15 branches of the Consum?is'
League, 20 branches of the Socialist
party, 10 lodges of the National Work?
men's Alliance, 1(1 lodges of the Inde?
pendent Order of B'rith Abram, 2 of
the Independent Order of B'rith Sho
lem, 2 of the Jewish Veterans' Associ?
ation antrlO tenants' leagues ot' various
kinds. Kverv effort has been made to
keep the league clear of any possible
tinge of partisanship or other narrow?
ing influence.
"We meet not as workers, not even as
individuals, but as Jews," declared Mr.
Guskin in opening the meeting, "be?
cause it is the unfortunate fact that 75
per cent of the landlords who hold the
whip over the workers of New York
are Jews. We wish to have the Jews
speak with a single, powerful voice
against these men, both to the Board of
-Aldermen and to the Legislature."
Justice Panken, who was the prin?
cipal speaker, not only urged the
formation of the organization as the
only effective way of dealing with the
situation and advocated the spending
of $50,000.000 by the stale and city
for housing, but declared that the
houses of the rich should be seized and
rented at a fair price to the suffering
thousands of the city, the rentals
(Continued on page four)
Albany Resolution Urges Probe
Of Hylan Regime; Police Heads
Beforef Vice' Grand Jury To-day
Almirall Panel to Open
Investigation of 'Graft'
ScandalsWith Guidance
of Two Newton Aids
Many Libel Suits
Threatening Henrv
_?g? ?<?
Swann Defends Mr. Smith
and Says Mayor Hylan
Is Being 'Misinformed'
The extraordinary grand jury will
begin this morning its investigation
I into corruption alleged to exist in the
! Police Department. The vice trails
] which the investigators will follow are
j said to lead to high places and om
[ cials, and if predictions made on the
| eve of the probe are worth anything
i the resultant revelations will provide
' a shock for New Yorkers.
| The extraordinary grand jury, of
.which Raymond F. Almirall is foreman
j and which will be legally advised by
j Colonel William Rand and Nathan A.
j Smyth, acting as Deputy Attorneys
General, will officially go into action
in the Criminal Courts Building at
10:30 a. m.
Many witnesses were subpoenaed yes
I terday and instructed to be on hand
this morning. Prominent among these
are Police Commissioner Richard E.
En right, Second Deputy Commissioner
William J. Lahey, former Inspector
"Honest Dan" Costigan, now a captain
in charge of the Westchester precinct;
Inspector Dominick Henry, in command
of the 4th Inspection District; Com
! missioner if Accounts David Hirshfield,
j Dennis Quinn, brother-in-law of As
! sistant District Attorney James E.
| Smith; Detectives John J. Gunson and
! Frederick Franklin, who recently were
; indicted on graft charges as a result
of the vice investigation conducted by
Prosecutor Smith.
Parallel Investigations
The vice probe being made by the
regular March grand jury, which has
i resulted in the indictment of the two
i detectives and former Third Dep
| uty Police Commissioner Augustus
! Drum Porter, since removed from of
I lice by Enright, will be continued and
| will parallel in a general way that con
? ducted by the extraordinary grand
I jury. Mr. Smith said yesterday that
the investigations of the former body
'. would be held up temporarily until the
: Aimirall jury had concluded its probe
of the District Attorney's<soflice.
Following :t long conference, hele
? yesterday in the Criminal Courts
: Building between Smith, Costigan and
! District Attorney Swann, it was saic
i that the former inspector later wouh
I be subpoenaed to appear before the reg
| ulav grand jury, and that as a resuli
; of his testimony before that body an
| indictment would be sought charging
? Inspector Dominick Henry with crim
I inal libel in connection with state
: ments made about Costigan in the af
fidavits which the commander of the. 4t,li
Inspection District caused to be pub'
: .?shed last Thursday.
Frederick Whitin, secretary of tin
committee of fourteen, also will k?
i uel'ore the regular grand jury, ii wa:
'? said, with a view to obtaining a similai
: indictment against Henry on accoun
of accusations made against him in tin
1 same affidavits.
Quinn also will be a witness befon
his jury and he already has an
nounced that he will begin a crimina
libel suit aga-inst Inspector Henry a?
: a result of the latter's assertions tha
? he (Quinn) attempted to arrange fo:
! the protection of certain places in thi
'? Fourth Inspection District, which ha<
! been under police surveillance.
Woods Denies Charges
Arthur Woods, former Police Com
! missioner, also may go before the Ma
lone grand jury in the criminal libe
; action. Colonel Woods arrived in th
I city from Boston yesterday and fiai?
, he had read Inspector Henry's afi'i
davits and had followed newspaper ac
counts of the police scandal. In speak
ing of the charges made against hin
Wine Stores on East Side
Thronged as Passover Nears
The Jewish Passover holidays, which j
begin Friday evening and continue for I
a week, are proving doubly welcome \
this year to those of the faith who feel
they are missing something as a result
of prohibition. It was evident from !
scenes at wine stores on the East Side
yesterday that very few families are
overlooking the opportunity to obtain
quantities of the beverage so necessary
to the ceremonials and which the laws
allow for the occasion.
At the store of the Mizrach Wine
Company, 320 Grand Street, in particu?
lar, the crowds were so great yester?
day that policemen were on hand to
regulate the traffic. With basket, push?
cart and wagon they came, and in bot
tie, jug and case they took it away.
J. L. Horowitz, head of the firm, de?
clared that thousands of gallons of
wine are being shipped to Jewish
households throughout the country un?
der government regulation. He be?
lieved that 500,000 gallons of the bev?
erage would be used in New York
alone.
Distributed by Rabbis
Under the Volstead enforcement act
each family is permitted from one to
ten gallons of wine a year for sacra?
mental and religious purposes. The
beverage may be made at home or ob?
tained on order of a rabbi. Because of
the high price of sugar, raisins and
other commodities that go to make the
home-made product Mr. Horowitz says ?
that very little is being home made \
this year.
In most cases rabbis have been called '
upon to make purchases for entire con?
gregations, orders beinr sent to the
liquor dealers on forms prescribed by
Federal Prohibition Commissioner
Kramer. The rabbis are held respon?
sible for its proper distribution.
Mr. Horowitz said one rabbi ordered
2,000 gallons for a congregation of
1.100 members. Rabbi M. S. Margolies,
of the Eighty-fifth Street Synagogue,
he said, got 1.000 gallons for his flock,
and other large quantities were ob?
tained by Rabbi Israel Goldstein, of the
Eighty-eighth Street Synagogue; Dr.
Bernard Drachman, of the 116th Street
Synagogue, and Dr. M. M. Kaplan, of
the Jewish Center.
The law prescribes no limit to the
strength of the beverage, said Mr. Hor?
owitz, most of the wine being of the
I usual grape variety. Some of the im?
ported stock from Palestine, he de
I clared, had as high as a 20 per cent al?
coholic content. The prices, he asserted,
were about double those usually asked
; before the advent of prohibition, a $2 a
| quart wine now bringing $4. He ex
| pected the climax of the buying to be
reached on Thursday.
Whisky Not Privileged
While it is customary to have whisky
on the table in orthodox households
during the Passover celebrations, Jew?
ish clerical authorities do not consjdei
it absolutely necessary to the rites, and
the Federal authorities did not there?
fore include it among the privileged
list of liquors for religious purposes.
Mr. Horowitz explained that at first
it was the intention of the interna
revenue officials to limit the amount ol
wine used for sacramental purposes tc
three gallons a year. It was repr?sent?e
by a delegation of rabbis at Washing
ton some weeks ago that considerably
more than this would be necessary t<
meet the needs 'of the larger familie:
[commonly found oi. the East Side am
'the limit was raised to ten gallons.
New York Firm to Establish
Steamer Service to Bremen
C. B. Richard & Co., Allocated Two Freighters by
Shipping Board, Will Begin Trips to Home Port
of Former North German Llovd Next Month
Through the?aid of the United States
Shipping Board, which will allocate
: some of its vessels to the Kerr Line in
j taking over the service of the old Ham
] burg-American Line, C. B. Richard &
I Co., of this city, will shortly establish
a steamship service from this port to
Bremen, the home port of the old North
German Lloyd Line.
It is not known to what extent the
new service to Bremen will be devel?
oped, but it is believed it has come to
stay, and will be augmented by all trade
routes maintained by the old German
company in pre-war days.
A representative of C. B. Richard &
Co. said yesterday the plan for operat
? ing the New York-Bremen service wa3
I in keeping with the ideas of the Ship
I ping Board, and that the latter had
designated the company to act as its
agent in establishing the. new service,
. which will begin the latter part of
| April with the departure of the 4,000-'
;ton freighter Lake Savus. The Shipping
| Board also has allocated for the use of
?Committee Has
Votes to Oust
All Socialists
j Seven Members Ready to
Evict Five; Six Want
Legislature to Reseat
Orr and De Witt Alone
From a Staff Correspondent
ALBANY, March 29.?The Assembly
Judiciary Committee now has a ma?
jority to oust all five Socialists. This
is how the committee stands:
For ousting all five Socialist Assem?
blymen, 7. For reseating all five, 5.
For reseating Assemblymen Samuel
Orr and Samuel De Witt, 6.
The majority report recommending
the unseating of the five Socialists is
! signed by Chairman Louis M. Martin,
of Oneida; George H. Rowe, Erie; Ed?
mund B. Jenks, Broome; Charles M.
i Harrington, Clinton; Edward E. Ever
i ett, St. Luwrence; Edward J. Wilson,
l Westchester, and Louis A. Cuvillier,
i New York. All except Cuvillier are
i Republicans.
Those who will recommend the re
| seating of all five are William W. Pel
) lett, New York; Theodore Stitt, Brook?
lyn; Harold E. Blodgett, Schenectady;
William S. Evans, Bronx, and Maurice
Bloch, New York. Bloch and Evans are
Democrats. Blodgett, Stitt and Pellett
I are Republicans.
j Those for reseating Orr and De Witt
j are Pellett, Stitt, Blodgett, Evans,
Bloch and James W. Lown jr., of Yates.
' It whs agreed at the meeting of the
j Assembly Judiciary Committee to-night
1 to submit the reports to the Assembly
I to-morrow. There will be three re
! ports, one for unsealing of Claessens,
i Solomon, Waldmann. De Witt and Orr.
' Another ?eport, signed by five, will
favor reseating all tivc, and Assembly
' mar. Lown will sign a report reseatin:;
i Orr and De Witt. It is understood that
i tho debate and vote will not be had
| until Thursday.
j It is being openly boasted here to
; night that Speaker Sweet has eighty
i five votes in the Assembly pledged to
i throwing out all five.
In an attempt to prevent the return
; of Socialists here next fall, legislation
I such as has been proposed by Speaker
Sweet for outlawing the party in all
! likelihood will be introduced.
| "Flying Parson" Is Lost
In North Carolina Hills
1 ASHEVILLE, N. C, March 29.?Un?
able to locate Asheville after two un
? successful attempts, the first time over?
shooting the city by forty miles, Lieu
tenant B. W. Maynard, "the Flying Par
\ son," to-night is lost in the mountains
! of western North Carolina.
Maynard left Knoxville. Tenu., Satur
I day afternoon for the 160-inile flight to
' Asheville. He missed the city and
j landed at Morganton, N. C, forty miles
! east of here. Rain Sunday prevented
I his getting the machine, in which he
| made the transcontinental flight, out of
' the mud. This afternoon he hopped otf
; and two hours later was heard passing
; over Johnson City, Tenn. He was heard
later at Hot Springs, about fifty miles
| from Asheville. Traveling with May
' nard is his mechanic, Sergeant Saxe.
Ruhr Rebels Led
By Bolsheviki
BERLIN, March 29.?A state?
ment that the "Red" army oper?
ating against the government in
I the Ruhr district is largely inter
! spersed with and officered by Rus
| sian Bohsheviki is made by Count
! von Reventlow in the "Deutsche
? Tageszeitung." He charges that
the Majority Socialists are con
1 scious of their hypocrisy when
? they assert that no Bolshevik
danger is threatening Germany
from within.
Von Reventlow says the Rus?
sian Bolshevik agitators have
headquarters in a northern sub
i urb of Berlin, from which place
they actively communicate by air?
plane with the Ruiisian Soviet.*-;.
C. B. Richard & Co. in the Bremen
I trade the new 9,000-ton freighter Peeks
i kill, recently built at Newburgh.
A representative -of the steamship
I company would not confirm a report
i that a passenger service would be in
? eluded in the Bremen-New York route,
; saying this depended on the success
of the freight service. He said the
North German Lloyd Line had in Brem?
en a fine steamship organization equal'
to that of the Hamburg-American Line
in Hamburg, and that it was not un?
likely that the company would contract
with the Lloyd Line for the handling
? of its ships in the German port. It
j was explained, however, that the head
I of the Bremen end of the business
? would be an American.
Asked if C. B. Richard & Co. con
! templated extending the freight serv
| ice from Bremen to the China and
i South American trade, the representa
; five said the company would cross no
I bridges prematurely.
C. B. Richard & Co., one of the old
! est shipping firms in New York, is
! listed as an American copartnership.
Senate Repeals
Daylight Saving
By One Vote
Rural Members Lined Up
Against Those From City
in Heated Debate on the
Measure at Night Session
From a Staff Corresponden!
ALBANY, March 29.?The Senate to?
night by a vote of 26 to 25 passed the
Fowler bill to repeal the daylight sav?
ing law with an amendment permitting
localities to enact their own daylight
saving ordinances. A long debate took
place on the bill in which the city mem?
bers, with the exception of Senator
A. W. 'Burlingame, of Brooklyn, were
lined up against the Senators from the
rural districts, who favored the repeal.
Senator Burlingame's desertion made
the passage of the repeal possible.
Senator Kaplan, of New York, de?
clared that there was no reason why
the farmers, who objected to working
while the dew was on the ground,
should not get up an hour later by the
clock, which in reality would be the
same time by the sun as they always
arose. He told of the millions of city
workers, benefited by the extra hour
of daylight in the evening, and said
that the shortage of foodstuffs was met
ty the thousands of backyard gardens
which were worked in the extra hour.
Senator A. P. Brown, chairman of the
Committee on Agriculture, replied that
the dairy farmers felt the daylight sav?
ing law the hardest.
He said that the dairy farmers who
supply milk to New York City had
been ordered by the Board of Health
of New York City to have their milk
at the milk stations on the new time. ?
1 Senator Henry M, Sage, of Albany, '
?sided with the rural members in the
? debate.
Assemblyman Charles Betts, who in
j troduced the daylight saving repeal
; bill in the Assembly, said to-night that
? he expects that body to pass the amend?
ed Fowler bill this week. When his
? bill came up for passage last week it
! only got seventy votes, six short of the
\ required number.
! Daylight Saving
i Riddle Is Solved
?t The calculations of cautious corn
| muters overcame the difficulty of the
! double time standard yesterday and
| New York suffered hardly at all by
? reason of the change in time which
? placed the city an hour ahead of many
; communities less than an hour's train
! ride distant.
Due credit is given to the commuter's
? adaptability, and Miles Bronson, gen
/ eral superintendent ?of the New York
j Central electric divisions and manager
(Continued on page thirteen)
Danish Monarchy
Faces Overthrow
| Police Guarding Royal
j Palace as Copenhagen
Mobs Demand Republic
I COPENHAGEN, March 30 fl2:30
i A. M.).?Crowds fill public squares
throughout the city, demanding - the
! establishment of a Danish republic, and
I all streets leading to the royal palace
j are held by police. King Christian to
i night received a Socialist deputation
. with which he conversed for half an
: hour. Demands were submitted and
: the King promised a definite reply at
' 9:30 this morning. The nature of the
' demands was not made public.
M. Liebe, an advocate in the High
; Court, has formed a cabinet to take
' the place of that of C. Zahle. He is an
'active Conservative politician, but not
?a member of parliament.
King Christian had asked the Zahle
ministry .provisionally to direct the
affairs of the country, but the Premier
' refused.
The Progressive parties replied to
! the King's dissolution of the Cabinet by
proclaiming a republic, according to a
'> report printed in the "Koebenhavn."
| The King dismissed the Zahle Cabinet j
! because of differences over the plebis
; cite in the Flensburg zone.
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1 or cold?*a quart aervea 12.?Advi. '
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Cuvillier, Demanding an
Inquiry, Says Demo?
cratic Leaders Tried in
Every Way to Stop Him
Sweet Scored in
Minority Caucus
Probe by 9 Lawmakers,
for Which $50,000
Would Be Provided
From a Staff Correspondent
ALBANY, March 29.?A resolu?
tion indicting the Hylan administra?
tion, calling for an investigation of
District Attorney Swann's office and
all city departments, the Police De?
partment especially, was introduced
in the Assembly to-night by Louis
A. Cuvillier, Democrat, of New
York. The resolution appropriates
?50,000 and provides for an inves?
tigation by four Senators and five
Assemblymen.
The resolution, which was intro?
duced bv unanimous consent, after
being read was referred to the Com?
mittee on Ways and Means, where
all measures carrying appropriations
must go. That there would be an
effort on the part of some New York
City Democrats to prevent an in?
vestigation was evident when As?
semblyman Csesar F. Barra, another
Tammany member, arose to debate
the resolution after the clerk read
it. His motion puts off action on the
measure for a week.
Democrats Call Caucus
Assemblyman Charles D. Donohue,
leader of the Democratic minority, ?va.
not in his seat when the resolution w
otfered. He tried to have it recalled,
but Speaker Sweet declared that he
was not in order. Immediately Assem?
blyman Donohue issued a call for a
caucus of the Democratic Assemblymet..
It was rumored at this juncture that
an effort would be made to read Cuvil?
lier out of the party, but when his col.
leagues went into caucus all thought o(
punishing him vanished. All that was
done was to draft and adopt resolution*
condemning Speaker Sweet for permit?
ting the resolution to be introduced in
the absence of the minority leader.
Cuvillier said to-night that the mos!
prominent men in his party tried to
persuade him not to introduce the reso?
lution.
"The wires last night were kept ho;
between Atlantic City and New York
City," said Cuvillier, "and every effoi!
was made to get me to let up on this in?
vestigation, but I declined to be per
suaded from what I consider the decenl
thing to do."
Mayor Hylan and Charles F. Murphy
leader of Tammany Hall, were in At
lantic City last night, and it is under
stood that the telegrams between At
lantic City and New York were inspir?t
by the joint efforts of Hylan and Mur?
phy to prevent the investigation.
"I told these leaders of my party,'
said Cuvilliar, "that the situation was
such that if we did not clean hous?
ourselves the Republicans would."
Finally, Cuvillier said he was urge*
in the name of party loyalty to foreg.
his determination to'Introduce the res
olution.
"I told them that I was a Democrat
that 1 was a member of Tammany Ha!
for twenty-eight years," said Cuvillier
"1 told them that Hylan and his f rien?
Hearst were wrecking the party ii
New York City; that Hearst was mak
ing war openly on Governor Smith am
that his friend Hylan was helpin'i
Hearst on the inside, and that if thcr
was any question of party loyalty 1
should not be urged to save Hylan'
administration."
Cuvillier said that he left these Tarn
many leaders about midnight.
"At 4 o'clock in' the morning the
called on me at my home," said Cuvi!
Her, "and again pleaded with me to lc
up on the investigation. I ans we re
that if they did not want to stand fo
decency in New York City's govei
ment, if they did not want to clea
house when the house was dirty, the
could not count on mi, and that I fc
one proposed to see that the inemciei
and disorganized administration in Ne
York City, with all the charges of co:
ruption laid against it and District A
torney Swann's office, should be siftt
to the bottom.
"The fact is all these men ai
Democrats, or pose as such, and it
for us Democrats who stand for la
and order and decency to see that the:
is investigation."
The Cuvillier resolution is patten*?
largely on the measure which create
the Lexow investigation, which Ja
bare the graft and corruption in Ne
York City, especially in the Poli?
Department, in 1893. It charges *i
committee of nine Senators aud A
semblymen to investigate the gener
conditions of government in the Ci
of New York, the state of turmoil at
unrest and inefficiency in the Distri
.?.ttorney's office and the police ai
other departments, which have a
parently broken down.
Text of the Resolution
The committee, which is also ?
pecially charged with the investig
tion of the Street Cleaning Depat
ment's failure to remove the sno
thereby endangering the public healt
is given broad powers, including th
to punish fpr contempt. The f_sol
tion follows:
"Whereas, General conditions o
government in the City of New Yor
are in state of turmoil and un re.??
and the efficiency of the adminis
tration of the District Attorney'
office, the police and other depart
ments has apparently broken dow,
and
"Whereas, An investigation of th
Police Department and vice cond
tions now in progress in the City t
New York has reached a stage whei
charges and counter-charges and r?
criminations have so befogged th
atmosphere that the attainment of
remedy *o existing condition ?a
serious jeopardy, and
"Whereas, It is in in'.cia- it <