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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1920
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TWO CENTS
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30Trappedin
Submarine
Rescue-Begun
S-5 Submerged 35 Hours,
Nose Down, Off Capes
of Delaware; Transport
Pumps Air to the Crew
I>. S. Warships Are
Speeding to Scene
Carry Apparatus to Cut
Hull of Craft to Free
Men Who Are Still Alive
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2.?The S-5,
a new submarine of the United States
navy, is hanging head downward in
the Atlantic Ocean, sixty miles east of
the Delaware Capes, with four officers
and twenty-six seafnen aboard. It has
b*een submerged and helpless for more
than thirty-six hours. Lieutenant Com?
mander C. M. Cook is in command.
The men on board are existing on
air which pumps on the steamship I
General Goethals send through a small
hole which was cut in the stern of |
the submarine. The hold of the res?
cuing steamship on the tapering stern
of the submarine is said to be pre?
carious and even the scanty supply
of air which the imprisoned men are
receiving is dependent upon the calm- j
r.ess of the sea.
Another vessel also is standing by,!
r.nd the destroyer Overton, with Com- '
mander Bristol in command, steamed '
at full speed to the rescue at 10 o'clock !
lo-night from the navy yard here. The
destroyer is eo.uippcd with oxy-acety- |
line torches, diving gear and complete i
wrecking paraphernalia. At the sa ne I
time, the destroyer MacDougall, simi- !
larly equipped, was dispatched from :
the New York Navy Yard. Both swift j
:escue vessels were ordered out by |
Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the !
Navy, as soon as he learned of the
plight of the S-5.
Civilian Gets Wireless Call
The wireless message calling for
help was not received by any of the
naval stations along the coast but was ?
picked up ?rst by David L. Moore who
has a wireless outfit in his home at I
Farmington, Conn. The mesjsage fol?
lows: I
"On board U. S. S. General Goethals,
at sea. Sept. 2.? i
"Send destroyers With gear to re
lifve crew in submerged submarine ?
S-5. Been in this condition thirty*five j
hours. Bring material for cutting i
through hull." j
The position of the disabled subma?
rine also was given. I
Mr. Moore flashed the alarm along i
the coast and to Washinr?t??,"and naval J
vessels at sea and in port speedily were
on their way to the S-5. Destroyers I
from Norfolk as well as those from I
New York and Philadelphia were j
rushed to the rescue, and from New i
York the torpedo ship Bridgeport was |
ordered out. The battleship Ohio, |
northernmost of the fleet on the south-1
em drill grounds, is steaming north- ?
ward under forced draft to aid in the !
' rescue.
The position of the S-5 is almost ;
verticai, making it impossible to re- ?
lease its crew through the torpado '
tubes, as has been done in emergen- ?
cies. The torpedo tubes are aimed at ;
the bottom of the Atlantic. The in-1
structions given to the commanders of j
a?i the rescue vessels were fsrst to re-:
lease the crew by cutting a hole in the :
hull, or othrwise, and then to try to j
save the vessel.
Under ordinary circumstances the air :
in a aubma-ine of '.he size of the S-5
will s'isiai!. its ore..- .'"or seventy-two
hours, but the pos'tinn of the S-5 was
convincing evidence to navy men t?iat
much cf the air in the vessel had bs:en
lost. Thst the submarine's crew was
far gone when help tame wac indicated
by the following mer.sage irom the
Gf-neia! Goethals:
"Four officers and twenty-six men
have been revived considerably by fresh
aii p n?ped throu i sir.ail hole in bids
o.' . -ibmarine. .Men from General
Goethals cutting en hull. Chance of
relieving ciew before tiertrovers' ar?
rival about ir.idright doubtful."
S-5 of latest Type
How tho Central Goethals came to
n"-ic ? the plight oi the ??submarine,
whicL n rst hav? ;,rc ???rjted only .?. smnll
surface to tire ai:, i:, not known. Th?
General Goethals, on its way troin Cris?
tobal, v/aa due in New York to-morrow.
It is an army transpon.
?h<: S-5 ii ? f the latest type, and has
bf:?n in commission on!y a short time.
I*, ?sailed lrorn Bonon on Sunday on re?
cruiting service. Its first stop was to
have been Baltimore.
A series of seagoing endurance tests
of the S class submarines were given
up '.arly in August because of variourf
accidents to the craft.
The --1- -
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Boys Confess Wrecking
New York-Boston Trahi
- ?
Put Rock? on Track to Be
Crushed; Two Were Killed
in Derailment August 21 j
Xptclal Oispat'h to Th* Tribune ?
HARTFORD, Conn., Sept. 2.-Two j
?mall boys, Thomas and John Ryehele, (
?ight and six years old, confessed to- ?
day that they were responsible forj
?recking the New York to Boston ex- j
?ress near Meriden the afternoon ot,
?turday, August 21. George F. Bill,
the engineer, of Hartford, and Fireman
William E. Cotter, of Springfield, war? '
killed and a score of passenger?, '
-Including a number df New Yorkers, ?
?era injured.
The wreck occurred near Holt'? HiH,
in the touthern part of 'Meriden. Ex- ,
?W*t? were reluctant to accept official
theorlaa that tha causa of the accident
?as spreading of tha rails or a defec?
tiva ?t loose brake part that might
have fallen to the rails.
Captain James Carroll and hi? squad
ef railroad detectives learned recently
that th? two boy?, who wer? thorough?
ly frightened at ftrat, wera thl? week
' posing as he*??? before their pl*y
?x*t?? and boasting how they h?d
plsced ?tone? on th? raits and then had
*"**! ???r^witnexses of the subsequent
?peetael?,
y Altar ?tueetionin* the hoy? told the
??teetfeaf they UA pitfd ftanea en
i ?W?s hy the train, ?lit not belie*??*
?b P*jr wt?y eeuae ? Wioek.
Rio Grande Flood Gives
Mexico Foothold inU.S.
BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Sept
2.?Approximately one hundred
acres of .Mexican territory was
shifted "to the American side of
the international line last night
when the Rio Grande, now at
flood stage, cut a new course in
the lowlands ten miles west of
Brownsville, and left the tahua
chal Ranch on the river's north
bank.
Under an agreement between !
the United States and Mexico,
the land will continue under Mex?
ican jurisdiction. It was said to
have been the largest land shift
here in twenty years.
MacSwiney Too
Weak to Speak;
All Pleas Fail
None of Mercy Asked for!
Lord Mayor Was Shown!
to 80 Policemen Slain in ?
Erin, Says Sec. Greenwood |
Raiders Get Army-Plans
Royal Air Force Quarters
Are Looted Near Dublin ;
Belfast Death List 27 j
LONDON, Sept. 2.?Lord Mayor Ter- \
ence MacSwiney of Cork was reported
to be very much weaker this morning, i
but despite his rapid failing was still !
bright. A sudden weakness developed
during the night, but this was some?
what offset by two hours of fitful sleep.
Mayor MacSwiney's brother remainea
with him in Brixton jail all night. This
morning his brother said the Mayor
was so weak he even had to be assisted
to drink a glass of water.
The Mayor was still worse this even?
ing. One of his sisters, upon leaving the
prison shortly before 8 o'clock to- j
night, said that for the first time he
was unable to speak to her. j
Mrs. MacSwiney and the Mayor's two
sisters, Mary and Annie, took turns at i
the bedside watching during the day.
Death Approaching Rapidly
But for the two hours, sleep last
night the Mayor would have been dead i
this morning, said his brother. This
was the twenty-first day of his fast, i
Visitors who left the prison late to-1
night said the patient was emaciated ;
and that his voice was almost inaudi- i
ble. j
Miss Mary MacSwiney said one of the
foremost specialists in England visits |
the prison occasionally to see her j
brother. He was not called by the !
Home Office, she said, but came, she ;
believed, at the invitation of the prison !
doctor. Mice MacSwiney reiterated, on
the authority of the uoctor, -tnac no
food is being given Mr. MacSwiney.
"Apart from occasional draughts of
water,'1 said Miss MacSwiney, "all that j
he gets is some salts in the morning to :
prevent blood poisoning." |
Appeals in behalf of MacSwiney will
not be recognised by the British gov- :
ernment, i.ir Hamar Greenwood, Chief!
Secretary for Ireland, strongly intim?t- I
ed ?n an interview with the correspond- |
? nt of The London Times at Lucerne ,
J to-day. Sir Hamar also indicated the [
i government would unswervingly ad-;
hes"e to its Irish policy. ,
"None of the mercy which some seek
; to invoke for the Lord Mayor," said
i the Chief Secretary, "was shown the
1 eighty policemen who have lost their
? lives in Ireland."
"The present lawlessness in Ireland,"
s The Times correspondent quotes Sir
! Ha:nar as declaring, "is the work of a
' small body of men who are striving
by carefully planned anarchy to im
i pose secession from the British Em
? pire on 80 per cent of the people of
j Ireland who do not want to secede."
| Sir Hamar declared that if the Sinn
1 Fein had been willing to accept any
! tning le3s than complete Irish inde
i pe.idence Premier Lloyd George's pro
I posai to meet Irish leaders would not
; have remained unanswered. He reiter
' ated the government was willing to
1 grant to Ireland any form of govern
ment acceptable to the majority of the
i people, so long as the rights of the
1 empire should be employed to prevent
secession in Ireland.
Air Force Quarters Invaded
A Sinn F?in raiding party invadec
the Royal Air Force headquarters at
Baldoyle, near Dublin, Saturday night
and carried oft* a large number of se
cret military documents, including the
army code and cipher used at the pres?
ent time, according to The Daily Mail
It is declared the coup was the most
daring and important that has been
attempted in Ireland since the present
unrest in that country began.
Among the papers stolen, it is said
were orders relating to the joint oper?
ation of the army, navy, air force and
the Royal Irish Constabulary; the
scheme of Irish defense plans, the de?
tails for lighting airdromes for night
flying, and proposals for new develop?
ments of the Royal Air Force in Ire?
land. Revolvers, ammunition and field
glasses were also taken.
CORK, Sept. 2.--The citizens' pro?
test against the treatment of Lord
Mayor MacSwiney and other hunger
strikers now contains more than ,'jO,uCO
(Ccnttnttt* ?? Ml* four)
i Turkey to Send Its First
i Minister to the Vatican
Sultan Will Express His Grati
'tudS for PopeN Aid to
Moslem'War Prisoners
CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 2 ( By The
Aasoeiated Press)?Turkey will send
a minister to tha Vatican, it was an?
nounced yesterday. This is the first
tima'Islam officially has affiliated with
Christendom, the ?top being taken or
tha Sultan's initiative as a mark of
gratitude for tha Pope's financial and
other aid to Turkish war prisoners
through Monslgnor Dole!, the apostolic
delegate hera during the war. Before
tha ministar ia ?ant to Roma, the Vati?
can will be asked if he will be received.
Damsd Parla' Pasha, the Grand
Visier, has expressed the hope that he
wilt bo ssftt. to London as Turkish
Minister. Hs feels, It Is said, that it
wfH fco ?nsatfs Ut hint to remain here.
MooreAdmits
He Can't Back
Fund Charges ?
Cox's Manager Talks!
Vaguely of Calling Oth-1
ers to Prove Allegations ; i
Addresses Committee
Candidate To Be
In Chicago Tuesday]
Poindexter and Hencke]
Tell Senators of Money
for Use in 20 Stetes
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Special Dispatch to The Tribune
CHICAGO, Sept. 2.?Edmund H.
Moore, Governor James M. Cox's pre- !
convention campaign manager, told the
Senate investigating committee to-day I
that, in his opinion, it would take just,
forty-eight hours to prove either the
falsity or truth of Governor Cox's i
charges that the Republicans are seek- ?
ing to "corrupt the electorate and buy i
the Presidency." He accused the Sena-1
tors of "not seeking evidence."
As Mr. Moore had not come either by
subpoena or invitation, the committee,
after listening to a statement from him, ?
adjourned until Tuesdnv morning at |
10:30 o'clock. They will resume ses-1
sions in Chicago. It is believed that!
Governor Cox will be in this city at j
that time.
Facts Sought in Vain
Word was passed around when Moore I
came to the city from Columbus as:
plenipotentiary for Governor Cox that j
he would present the investigating !
committee with actual farts which |
would prove the "$15,000,000 Rcpubli- !
can slush fund charges" made by the
Democratic nominee for President.
It is. said to-night that Mr. Moore
gave such facts as he had to Senators
Reed and Pomerene, Democratic mem?
bers of the committee. Mr. Moore's ?
information, however, according to ;
Senator Reed, will not prove primary
evidence. It is understood that Mr.
Moore will" advise the committee that
if they will summon this or that or the |
other man they will get information l
bearing out Governor Cox's charges j
that the Republicans set out to raise
a $15,000,000 campaign fund.
Before taking a recess the commit?
tee issued a number of subcenas at the
request of Senators Reed and Pome?
rene. Included in the list are Mr.
Moore, Harry M. Blair, of Marion, ?
Ohio, assistant to Fred W. Upham, the
Republican national treasurer. Others
were Dudley S. Blossom, Cleveland;
Garrett Kinney, Chicago; Walter S.
Dickey, Kansas City, Mo.; John J. Byr
son, Brazil, Indiana, and H. G. Gar?
rett, of Kentucky. They are chairmen
of the Republican wsrys add means
committees fh their respective states,
charged with apportioning the Repub- ?
lican budget within their territories, i
It is understood that Wiliiam Barnes, |
of Albany, N. Y., will be called to teli |
???bout the book he has just published
and which has aroused so much dis?
cussion. The identity of several who
were summoned was not revealed.
The committee to-day heard testi?
mony of Senator Miles Poindexter. of
Washington, chairman of the Republi- :
can Senatorial committee, and Herman
Hencke, treasurer of the National
Young Men's Republican League. Sen?
ator Poindext?7;r testified his commit?
tee was trying to raise $200,000 to help
finance the fight in twenty states for
the election of Republican Senators.
Mr. Hencke said his organization
planned to raise about $100,000 to
spend in twenty states.
Moore Is Indignant
Mr. Moore arrived in the midst of
the committee's hearing, not certai:i
whether he would he summoned to
testify, but fairly bubbling with in?
dignation at the manner in which tha
investigation is bein^r comlucled and
with the desire to ??ve the committee
a few '"loads" where they can find
plenty of evidence.
"is it your opinion that this commit?
tee is trying to suppress evidence?"
he was asked by newspaper corre?
spondents.
"No, not that," he asserted. "Piense
don't mistake my feelings. This com?
mittee is not se?*king to suppress evi?
dence, but it is not seeking evidence."
"By that you mean they could call
certain witnesses who know the facts?"
"Yos," he answered, "if they want
i to they can get men he-c who can
prove nhe falsity or truth of Cox's
. charges in forty-eight hours.
? "I am prepared to go on the witness
stand and give this Senatorial commit?
tee the plan which the Republican lead
; (Continued on pipe three)
Second Woman to Try \
Clwmnel Sivim Fails \
Mrs. Arthur Hamilton Aban
dons Effort in Heavy Seas
9 Miles From French Coast
LONDON', Sept. 2. For the second
time a woman has attempted to swim
tao English Channel and- failed. Mrs.
Arthur Hamilton, daughter of the late
Sir Charles and Lady Fairlie Cuning
hame, started from St. Margaret's Bay
last evening at 6:10 o'clock, with Cape
Gris Nez, near Calais, as her objective.
This morning she was forced to aban?
don the attempt near the South Good?
win Sands.
Mrs. Hamilton was the first woman
to make the trial since Annette Keller
mann failed fifteen years ago.
Mrs. Hamilton wbb in the water for
twelve hours and said she got to within
nine miles of the French coast. She
attributed her failure to the h^avy seas
and stronj? currents. She declared she
had set a record for women swimmers.
Mrs. Hamilton asserted that she was
determined to try a<glin next year to
swim the Channel.
Annotte Kcllermann has twice essayed
to swim across the English Channel. In
July, 1906, she swam for five hours.
On August 24, 1905, the thirtieth an?
niversary of Captain Matthew Webb's
successful swim across the Channel,
Miss Kellermann again was overcome by
seasickness after swimming six miles.
Aside from Captain Webb, the only
other person to swim the English Chan?
nel was T. W. Burgess. Webb the
trip on September 5-0, 1911, in 21 hours
45 minutes. The time of Burgess was
22 hours 35 minutes.
The distance across the Channel,
from Dover to Calais, Is about twenty
one miles.
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Torlr-j-Ad??.
Red Sailors in Riot
At Call for Reserves
WASHINGTON. Sept. 2.?All
available Bolshevik reserve forces
have been ordered from Petro?
grad to the fighting area in the
vicinity of Grodno, the State De?
partment was advised to-day in
dispatches dated August 31.
An effort to mobilize sailors
and to take them from their ships
near Kronstadt for service on the
Polish front, the dispatches re?
ported, resulted in a riot August
25 and 26, in which there were
several fatalities. The uprisings
were finally suppressed, but not
until after the disorders had
spread to the suburbs of Petro?
grad.
Polish War Is
Against Reds,
Not Russians
Warsaw Says It Seeks to
Defend Itself From the
Bolsheviki and Drive
Them From Boundaries
Outlines Its Position
Text of Notes Exchanged
With U. S. on Advance of
Armies Is Made Public
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.?In the ex?
change of correspondence between the
American and Polish governments,
made public to-night by the State De?
partment, the Warsaw Foreign Office
frankly serves notice on the world that
Poland cannot accede to the American
request to remain within the ethno?
graphic line laid down by the peace
conference if the Bolshevik forces re?
ne wtheir invasion of that nation.
The reply of the Polish government
set? forth that PolandJiad to face the
danger- of the Red army alone, with no
assistance except the "sympathetic atti?
tude of our allies." It further declares
that in spite of the diplomatic inter?
vention of the Allies the Soviet forces
advanced and ravaged territory which
"is admitted by all as being ethno
graphically Polish."
In replying to the American noto of
August 10, addressed to the Italian
government, which outlined the Amer?
ican position on the entire Polish-Rus?
sian situation, the Warsaw government
thoroughly agrees with the anti-Bol?
shevik sentiments contained in the
United States document, but makes-the
point that Poland's defensive tactics
were directed solely against Bolshevism
and not against the Russian people.
The reply concludes by asserting that
the Polish military operations in the
struggle against the Soviet governtnent
have "always bden guided by its duty
to defend the independence and ter?
ritorial integrity of Poland and guard
Europe against the Bolshevik wave."
The Polish answers were conveyed
through the Polish Legation here, and
were delivered personally to the State
Department by Prince Casimir Lubor
mirski, the Polish Minister.
Answer to United States Warning
The text of the answer to the Ameri?
can warning follows in part:
"Poland desired a just, lasting and
equitable peace, and has not altered
her attitude in consequence of her re?
cent victory. Poland has not made
war on the Russian nation, and has
the jnoet sincere desire to live on
peaceful and friendly terms with her
eastern neighbors.
"The Polibh government, however,
has the honor to draw the attention
of the United States government to
the circumstance that '.he provisional i
eastern frontier laid down by the |
peace conference has not been re?
spected by the Bokhevik government. I
In ?inite of the diplomatic intervention
of our allies, the Red army has for a
whole month advanced and ravaged
territory which is admitted by all as
being ethnographically Polish.
"Notwithstanding the sympathetic
attitude of our allies, the Polish na-^
tion had to face the danger alone, and
political events proved that it must in
the first place rely upon its own mili
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Laughs Herself to Death
Exertion I?. Too Great for
Woman's Heart
Special Dispatch to The Tribunr
CAMDEN, N. J., Sept. 2?A laugh
caused the death of Mrs. Imogene
Meyer, seventy years old, to-day in the
i Cooper Hospital. The exertion was too
i great for her weak heart. She was
I suffering from a broken hip.
The family of Mrs. Meyer, knowing
! her condition and the danger/of hearty
I laughter, was always cautious not to
I excite any merriment in her presence,
! but something a caller said to-day
! started the patient laughing. She ap
I purently realized her own danger, but
1 that failed to stop her.
Smith Urges
-The Gity to
.?y J
Build Homes
Governor Tells Legisla?
tive Committee He Will
Back Proposal When
Special Session Meete
La Guardia Calls
For Quick Action
E. P. Doyle, Mayor's Aid,
Opposes Plan to Relieve
the Housing Shortage
Building of homes by the city to re?
lieve the housing shortage will receive!
the full support of Governor Smith |
when the Legislature meets in extraor
dinary session September 20 to deal ?
with the situation.
Appearing before the joint legis- '
lative committee on housing at the |
City Hall yesterday, the Governor said
that since a crisis existed in New I
York by reason of a shortage of about ?
100,000 apartments, or homes for 80,000
to 40,000 families, he believed the
Legislature "might well delegate its
police authority to the municipality!
to take care of an existing emergency."
The question as to whether the city
would find it practicable to go into the'
business of building homes came up!
after the Governor, sitting beside Sen?
ator Charles Lockwood, chairman of
the committee, declared sixteen con?
crete suggestions had been received
from the State Reconstruction Com?
mission and from other sources as to
what should be done at the forthcom?
ing session of the Legislature.
One of the suggestions, the Governor
said, was "should the city be author?
ized by the state to build houses or
expend its credit for the building of
houses?"
Urges Action by Police
"In the discussion of this proposal,"
said the Governor, "let us have in mind
that the Legislature, in the interest of
the public health and public welfare,
might well delegate its police authority
to any of its municipalities so that
they may, during the existence of a
crisis and upon proper certifications
of the health authorities that the pub?
lic health and the public welfare are in
danger, step in, and, in the exercise
of that sovereign police power of the
state delegated to them, take care of
an existing emergency."
Divergence of opinion arose as to
whether the city ought to adopt a
building scheme. F. H. La Guardia,
president of the Board of Aldermen,
said he disagreed with an opinion of
the Corporation Counsel that a consti?
tutional amendment would be neces?
sary.
"We have an emergency here and I
feel that there are sufficient decisions
in the courts to warrant the passage
of an act enabling the city to build
dwellings to the extent that the Legis?
lature might limit," he said. "It is
conceded on all sides that no builder
is building. We cannot wait until the
money market adjusts itself. The crisis
warrants the city to undertake imme?
diately the building of dwellings."
Over-Congestion Evils Feared
Mr. La Guardia said that unless the
city spends $20,000,000 in building this
year "we will spend treble that amount
within the next five or six years be?
cause of conditions that will result
directly from over-congestion of dwell?
ings and tenements." He .asserted that
"no war emergency ?ver existed that
is more ciitical or more dangerous to
the welfare of the community than the
housing situation." The providing of
homes for 20,000 families by the city
would result in the adjustment of
homes on a fair basis, he said.
"What would you build, apartment
houses or dwellings?" asked Senator J.
H. Walters.
"In the Bronx, Kings and Manhattan
j I would build apartment houses of per- '
manent construction," he replied. "In
; Queun3 and Richmond I Would erect
j small dwellings,"
l Aft?r he had said the city could not
I possibly build as cheaply as investors,
Mr. La Guardia was asked whether he
would base the rental on the cost of
construction.
"I would take the cost of construc?
tion, ns we do with our piers," he said,
"and I would fix the rental on the same
percentage of 7 1-5. In thirty years
the investment would amortize itself
and, even considering the present high
cost of wages "and materials, we would
still rent on a far less rental than the
artificially created rentals of to-day."
High Rents Reflected in Budget
Mr. La Guardia declared high rents
were being reflected in the city budget
in increased items for relief of the
poor and for correctional and court ex?
penses.
"I tell you, Mr. Governor, the Amer?
ican breakfast has disappeared trom
the table of the people of New York,"
he said.
"On che same theory, can the city go
into the selling of foods to reduce
those costs?" askediSenator Walters.
"If the people were starving we
could do it. The answer is Yes."
"I want to understand you," said
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Mother Must Win Love of Girl
I In 30 Days or Uncle Keeps Her
Justice Squiers, to whom Mrs. Mary
Immordino appealed yesterday in the
Supremo Court in Brooklyn to compel
her fifteen-year-old dahghter, Jo?
sephine, to return to her from her
uncle's home, gave the mother thirty
days in which to win the girl's love. If
at the end of that period, Justice
Squiers said, Josephine shows no more
affection for her mother than she did
in court, there is nothing that ho can
, do. In the meantime she is to con
, tinue to live at the home of her uncle.
Mrs. Immordino clutched at her
1 daughter, weeping, a? the latter left
? the stand, where she hnd testified that
! she owed much to her aunt and uncle
and nothing to her mother, who never
had shown any affection for her. Jo
i sephine evaded her mother's clasp and
went to her aunt, Mrs. Michael Gar
rntl, of 884 Fortieth Street, Brooklyn,
who fainted when Josephine testified.
"My uncle ana aunt have done
everything for me," she testified.
"Ihey have given me fine clothes and
a musical education, and I owe them, a
a>s?st desl. Re?id?? if I return t? my
mother I think it will break my aunt's i
heart."
"Why didn't you speak to your
mother when she entered the court?
room?" asked Justice Squiers, who had
noticed the girl's indifference.
"Because she did not speak to me
and never has wanted to speak to me,"
responded Josephine. q
"Don't you think," persisted Justice
Squiers, "that if you were a little old?
er and had a baby daughter you would
want your baby to love you?"
"Yes," said the girl, "but < don't I
caro for my mother. I love my. aunt ?
snd uncle."
Mrs. Immoidino, who lives at 409
Fort Hamilton Avenue, Brooklyn, said
that when her husband died ten yenrs
ago she had "^ent Josephine to her
aunt, believing that the child would
get better care than she could give
her. She kept with her the other
children, two sons and two daughters,
and supported the family with her
needle.
In the ten years, she said, she had
saved $40,000 and bought the house in
which she lived, and now aha wanted
Josephine *? Mt^n,
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Mayer Outlines Terms 1
For Ending B.R.T. Strike;;
Won'tDeal With Uniol
Judge Mayer's Letter Flatly Refusing
To Deal With B. R. T. Strike Leader*
Federal Judge Julius M. Mayer, after announcing over the tele?
phone to Mayor Hylan yesterday that he would have no dealings now
or hereafter with the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric
Railway Employees, which is conducting the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
strike, made public the following statement, in which he reiterated his
determination to fight the union to a finish:
"If the Amalgamated sanctioned this strike, as I am informed by
the Mayor, I will not deal with them, either directly or indirectly.
"That means that I cannot give consideration to any proposal orig?
inating with the Amalgamated, even though transmitted to me by the
Board of Estimate and Apportionment.
"If, however, the Board of Estimate and Apportionment desires to
know on what terms the strike may be ended so far as the court is con?
cerned, I will be only too glad, upon the written request of the Board
of Estimate and Apportionment, to state such terms in writing if they
so desire.
"I am, of course, glad to see the .Governor, the Mayor and the
board, but a personal visit will not change the determination which I
have just stated over the telephone."
324 Ordered
Prosecuted on
War Contracts
Criminal and Civil Actions
Involving Millions
Will Soon Be Started
Throughout the Country
No Leniency To Be Shown
Plain Fraud and Conspiracy
Proved in Many Cases,
U. S. Officials Declare
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (By The As?
sociated Press).?Prosecution of 324
contractors; marking the beginning of
a move by the government to clean up
its war contract controversies, has been
ordered by the Department of Justice.
The proceedings wil linclude both crim?
inal and civil actions and will involve
millions of dollars, department officials
said to-day.
Nearly all of the cases embraced
by the prosecution order were turned
over by the War Department, but there
were indications that similar cases
would be received from other govern?
ment departments. The Shipping Board
is understood to be planning to request
criminal prosecution in half a dozen
cases in addition to those already in
the hands of the Attorney General.
The contracts on which action will
be 'pressed were said to involve
amounts "ranging from a few thous?
and to a few million each." They
include agreements for the furnishing
of supplies of nearly every commodity
which the government purchased for
war purposes, as weil as construction
of camps, cantonments and warehouses
and other facilities for the training
of the army.
Preparatory to instituting lctril pro?
ceedings in most cases, the government'
has started re-checking suc.i data and]
figures as it has, planning iuter t-t \
pursue the investigation i?ito the rec-1
ords of the firms and individua!.' whose I
contracts are questioned. This v.-ork j
will require several months and pos?
sibility of an early settlement of most
of the suits appears remote.
Officials believe that, although the
War Department had failed to reach an I
agreement, many of the controversies I
would be settled out of court. The i
War Department abolished its fraud?
and graft investigating sections some'
months ago and its facilities for mak-1
ing necessary inquiries in most of the'
cases were limited.
With respect to a score or more of
the contract settlements in dispute,
there was the belief that "honest mis?
takes" had been made by the contrac?
tor, or subcontractor, and that an in?
vestigation of records would produce
grounds on wnich adjustments could
be easily made. It \*.as said that in ]
other cases, however, "plain fraud and j
conspiracy" had been proved so clear?
ly that no other course wa3 open to
the government Accepting direct action j
looking to the indictment of the law
violators.
Robert T. Scott, assistant to the At- i
torney General, said it would be the j
policy of the government not to deal j
leniently with the fraud case?. |
He explained, however, that contrac
1 tors against whom civil proceedings
only would be instituted would be
I given every opportunity to straighten
; out controversies before the matter
i was thrown into litigation. The con- ?
? tracts represent practically every sec- ?
tion of the country, and court action !
i will be sought in local jurisdiction.
British Miners Threaten
To Call Strike Sept. 25
General National Walk - Out
Question Before the Trades
Union Congress Next Week
From The Tribune's European Bureau
Copyright. 1920. New York Tribune Inc.
LONDON. Sept. 2. The coal miners
decided to-day to strike throughout the
United Kingdom on September 25?jSnro
vided their demands are not granted
in the mean time. Andrew Bonar Law.
government lender in the House of
Commons, feturned Friday from his
vacation and conferred with Arthur J.
Balfour and Sir Robert Horn*.
William C. Adamson, chairman of the
parliamentary labor party, said that
there was no prospect of mediation and
that the strike would be long and seri?
ous. The question of a general na?
tional strike' will come hefere .the
Trades Union Congress at its annual
session at Portsmouth next weak.
Despite that? grave developments a
strike la no* regarded a? inevitable.
125,000 Quit j
Coal Mines on
Vacation Strike
Anthracite Industry Is Al?
most at Standstill as
Throngs Respond to
Call of the Insurgents!
2 - Year Contract Signed |
Those Who Wish to Work
Are Not Molested and
No Pickets Are Placed
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Sept. 2.?
The "vacation" declared by insurgent
mine workers in and out the ranks of
the United Mine Workers of America
almost tied up the anthracite industry
to-day. The strike has spread to all sec?
tions of the field and has gained force
hourly.
About 125,000 of the 175,000 men in
the field quit work to-aay, causing a
loss of 300,000 ton3 in production and
$625,000 in wages for a single day.
About 126 collieries, many o?f them the
largest in'the industry, failed to turn
a wheel.
Some effort is being made to call out
pumpmen and engineers. This move
by the insurgents has taken union lead?
ers and operators by surprise, and may
result in serious damage to property.
Meanwhile, the union leaders, con?
ferring at Scranton with operators,
signed a two-year contract, embodying
the wage settlement approved by Presi?
dent Wilson. It is this award aejainst
which the "vacationists" are protest?
ing. The union leaders, in signing the
contract, declared that the award was
far from satisfactory. Members of the
miners' scale committee will meet here
to-morrcw and will ask that the wage
agreement he reonened.
The possibility that the rrsiners' scale
committee might take the wage ques?
tion up directly with President Wilson
in an effort to have the wage question j
reopened was indicated to-night. Un?
der the award of the anthracite com?
mission contract miners will receive
an increase in pay of 17 per cent; men
employed by the day, known as com?
pany men, 20 per cent, and certain
other unskilled labor, 25% per cent.
The miners want an additional 15
per cent for contract miners and an
advance of $2 a day for the company
men.
No Pickets Established
The operators were hard hit by the
walk-out, but most of the independent
concerns were going under full steam
with their working forces decreased
from 25 to 50 per cent. Fear of run?
ning afoul of the state and Fedaral
laws prompted the insurgents to in?
augurate their strike with utmost care.
No disorders of any sort were reported
and no attempt was made to establish
pickets or to endeavor to turn back
from work those whs wished to stand
by the union organization and its
leaders.
Enoch Williams, of Taylor, who hss
led the insurgents for many months,
directed all movements from his home
(Continued en next ?a??)
Rome Strikers Seize Plants
Similar Action Taken in Milan
and Turin by Metal Workers
LONDON, Sept. 2.?Several factories
in Rome have been seized by striking,
metal workers in concert with metal
strikers at Milan and Turin, where fac?
tories had previously been occupied by
the workers, according to a dispatch
from Rome to-day.
The workers, it is added, are being
supplied with food by their wives.
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Judge Offers Seniority
Rights to All Resuming
Work, Except Ones Re?
sponsiblc for Walk-On!
Amalgamated Musi
Fight for Its Lifte
?Ultimatum Issued After
New Demands Framed
byWorkersAre Rejected
Sweeping every other considera?
tion aside, Federal Judj-e Julius,]??]
Mayer yesterdav m?de tho perma?
nent elimination of th?? Amalg$<V
mated Association of Street arid
Electric Railway Employees of
America from the affairs of th?
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company:
as the main issue in the pre?ettt?
strike on the company's lines.
In the course of a series of nego*j
tiations, in connection with whichj
Governor Smith appeared as ' ff,j
mediator for the first time since thej
beginning of the walk-out, ?Judg?
Mayer expresse! the determiTiatton
no longer to deal with the Amalga-!
mated, either directly or indirectly.
He took the position that as mette?
bers of tiie association had sanc?
tioned the strike they were law:
breakers, and he could therefore
give no consideration to any propo?
sition originftiiur from them.
Judge Outlines Conditions
In connection with his new stand.'tho
judge outlined the conditions upO?
which the strike may be ended. The*?
are:
1. That the men, except thone re*
sponsiblc for the present situation',
shall return to work.
2. That on their return their senior?
ity and other privileges shall be re?
stored to them.
3. That the 10 per cent increase 'ftf
pay based on the wage scale erf August.
1619, shall immediately apply. ,.1".
4. That thv employees snail have t???
right of collective bargaining fully, as?
sured then?.
?. That the ?^mp'.oyees sh'tll be "As?
sured of free opportunity to solect rep?
resentative.s of their own choice to
deal directly wish the management.
Seniority and other privileges cannot
be held open ?or any length of tima
and therefor?3 it is imperative, if the
men desire to return to work on the
above terms, that t!i?y should do so
promptly.
The 10 per cent increase here men?
tioned is the same offer mRde to the
men by Receiver Garrison on July 16,
and which the strikers held represented
only an increase of about $ per cent
over their present pay.
The last clause in the terms, would
sc-em to forerhadow the formation ol
an organization much closer to the
management than the present un.ipn,
and patterned after the Brotherhood
of the Interborough Rapid Transit
Company, with no national affiliation*
Strikers' New Demands
The judge's challenge fell like I
bombshell among the union leaden,
They had formulated a new set of 4e>
mands, which they felt contained reces?
sions from their previous proposals
which would bring about a more com?
promising attitude on the part of thi
B. R. T. receivership.
'? ne.-,o new demands were:
Employees in the transportation de*
partaient of the subway and elevacec
and Eurface lines -an increase of 1(
cents an hour.
? Employees in the mechanical depart
ment and the miscellaneous depart
ments connected* therewith ? art". 8ft
crease of 15 cents an hour. ~
No stipulations w.?re made as,"^
working conditions or other matters
which they previously had asked t<
be arbitrated. The increase amount?
to about 20 per cent over the presen
wage scale. The men had origin^};
asked a 40 pe? cent inerear-e. jj
Soon after the strikers presenta
their offer to Mayor Hylan, the Bors?
of Estimate and the Governor in Cif,
? Hall yesterday for submission jfc
1 Judge " Mayer, the Mayor comroq?
I cated with the Judre by telephvn
I rh< Mayor explained that he and th
I Governor warned to bring a matters
! his attention in connection with tli
strike. ? *"""
j Judge Mayer asked: "Are you actin,
j for the Amalgamated?" The Mayo
i replied they were.
"Has the Amalgamated sanctione
thi? strike?" further questioned th
Judge.
"It has," replied the Mayor.
Won't ?Deal With Strikers ' ??
"Ah, I have been waiting for sont*
such official confirmation of this fact
for days," exclaimed the judge. " '""
He then made a statement in whieh
he declared in effect he was throu-sjfh
with the Amalgamated. Tie added that
1 if the Board of Estimate and Appej
| tionmc-nt wanted to know upon what,
condition the strike mi?ht be -nded
as far as the court was concerned, ha
would furnish them ujon the board's
written request.
His statement was incorporated ins.*
letter which runs as follows: ??7? '
! "If the Amalgamated sanctioned thi?
; strike, as I am informed by the Mayor,
; I will not deal with them either di?
rectly or indirectly. That means thrt
j I cannot ?jive consideration to JIMT
i proposal originating with the Amlljpa-.
mated even though transmitted to mo
by the Board of Estimate and Apporr
! tfonment. If. however, the Board of
? Estimate desires to know upon whet
j terms the strike may bo ended as fair
' as the court is concerned I will be only
i too g'.ad, upon the written request of
the Board of Estimate and Apportion?
ment, to state sueh terms in writing If
they so desire.
"I am, of course, always glad U ?44
the Governor, the Mayor ?oath? boftiA
hat a personal visit will not chango
the d?termination which I have faut
stated over the telephone.? -
Thar? is bo doubt of ?ho issu? la
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