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Vol. LXXX No. 20,974
(Copyright, 1920,
New York Tribune Inc.)
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1920
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TWO CENTS
In Greater New Tork
\Z
THREE CENTS
Ithln 209 Mile?
F?UB CENTS
Elaewhere
Irish Police
Sack Town
In Reprisal
gooses and Shops Fired
at Balhriggan Because
of Assassination of In?
spector; 4 Others Slain
Many Civilians Hurt;
Refugees Flee City
Morder of Constable Is
Avenged by Destruction
of the Temperance Hall
By Frank Getty
fron The Tribune's European Bureau
Ccyycifh'. I'SO? *?*<?"** York Tribune Inc.
LONDON, Sept. 21.? The town of Bal?
briggan, eighteen miles from Dublin,
was ?ticked early to-day by the "black
and tans," the new Irish police force,
In reprisal for the assassination last
night of District Inspector Burke, of
tht Royal Irish Constabulary.
After the shooting uniformed men
rushed through the streets of the town
discharging their rifles and setting fire
to houses, shops and other buildings.
Almost the entire district inhabited by
workingmen was destroyed.
There were distressing scenes on the
roads leading out of Balbriggan in the
early hours of dawn this morning, a*
refugee families struggled to get away
from the terror-stricken town. Women
with babies in their arms walked foi
miles in the chilly morning, none hav?
ing time even to obtain farm convey?
ances in which to escape. Two civilian!
were killed by the police and manj
were wounded.
Police Inspector Slain from Ambush
Inspector Burke, his brother. Ser
giant ?urke, and three officers of th<
Royal Irish Constabulary drove int?
Balbriggan last night in mufti. The;
??ere fired on from ambush. Burke fall
ing dead and his brother severel;
wounded.
Shortly afterward the streets wer
filled with furious policemen, wh
sacked the town systematically, de
?troying in their hate and haste th
hosiery factory of Deed & Templar, a
English firm, said to be the largest fac
tory of its kind in Ireland, and burnin?
several school buildings.
At Abbeyfeale, in County I.imeric"
reprisals were taken to-day for th
murder of a police constable. The tern
???ranee hall used as a republican heat
??Barters was destroyed, other building
???"ere ?Jet afire and two civilians wer
?-?hot dead.
1 Dublin In State of Unrest
These events to-day came close!
upon the heels of the interview gran
cd yesterday to a French newspaper b
General Neville MacCready.
"Frankly there have been some r?
prisais," the head of the military forc<
IB Ireland, was quoted as saying, "bi
not many?three at most. We ai
taking every precaution to prevent th
recurrence of such cases."
Dublin was uneasy to-day, as a r?
suit of a series o: shooting affah
yesterday, and military patrols the]
have been doubled.
Attack Sinn Fein Houses
DUBLIN, Sept. 21 (By The Assoc
?ted Press). The "black and tans" r
turned to Balbriggan this afternoon, 1
strong, and began discharging furth
wot? at Sinn F?in houses.
At Balbriggan last night a barb
named Larless, a middle-aged man, t
father of a large family, was tak
from his house and killed, as was
W'.ry farmer named Gibbons. T
latter, at least, was both bavonett
Md shot.
According to a parish priest, t
deaths of Larleis and Gibbons, wh<
??dies-bore both bayonet and bul
wounds, followed upon demands
?em from the "Black and Tans" to d
gJM the names of the local Si
Wtn leaders.
In consequence of an attack on
military lorry in the streets of Di
lin last night, all permits for the p
session of arms in this district hi
been withdrawn and those holding or
nf ^*en or(*erefi to surrender th?
During the night many explosif
?We heard which were attributed
"Bcendiary bombs. The "Black i
Tans" departed at 6 o'clock in
?orning, declaring that if the wonni
!?lke officer, Sergeant Burke, di
??y would return to-night and "i
?" the town."
Tbia threat added to the terror
we already frenzied inhabitants i
?n exodus be-*an. Many of the re
fees were bleeding from the face
Mnds, having been wounded by fl>
t>*%i and debris. Some of t)
tramped for hours before reachiti|
place of refuge.
Sergeant McGuire was shot ?
??if,n? at Ferbane, eleven and c
Ml* mile? southeast of Athlone, w
??king an arrest. He was taken 1
?*9?tal in & serio.)* condition.
Constable Donoghue was wour
?rom ambush at Newcastle and d
A ?Sepublican at Balinslass was f
*Pon and wounded seriously yes
I **X. while a constable was wour
M the same time.
BELFAST, Sept. 21.- As n resul
? display by Ulster vol unters to
? , _ 'i3???tlnu?d ?* ?m? *?*??)
Price of Clothes Comin
Down, Retailers Deck
"wchant? at ?Convention
Peak of Coat In Reached
Crimp in the Market
8?*cUit DUoat'.h to The Tribune
' ?^'pA^Sept. 21. Delegates to
!?***** annual convention of th?
?*W Association of Retail Cloth
; 2*?*h opened here to-day, said
??Prie?? of elothing had reached I
; ?**,an<-' were on the down g;
I ^???ts from all parts of the c
"7 reported that public resent
??????ttb* excessive prices, espe*
I JJ ?mtti't clothing, had put a crin
*** ???legates said that freak s
1 ?*** passing. On* man said it
I %V? ?*?*?* y? to lure even co
W Into buying snappy and uni
f *ttP*a**1*?* "
4toJLr --T*?' m*\ti I* a wonl?-' ^
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\ ??V.r^-',i',Uf ?omoai\r. ?i*lp probl?mi
I fSi'm.S?'1 Ba*kmm,n ?GOO, or go to s
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British Miners to Quit Monday;
Strike Action Not Unanimous
Conference Accepts Report of Committee on Fail?
ure to Reach Agreement on Wages;
Cabinet to Meet To-day
By Arthur S. Draper
From The Tribune's European Bureau
(Copyright, 1:1:0. New York Tribun?? Inc.)
LONDON, Sept. 21.?Coal miners of
Great Britain will strike next Monday
to enforce their demands for a wage
increase of two shillings a week. Rep?
resentatives of the miners, meeting
here to-day, accepted the report of the
executive committee on the failure of
the negotiations With the government,
and approved the committee's insist?
ence that tho demand for a ware in?
crease could not be waived.
Action for the strike was not unani?
mous. The delegates were split into
geographical groups, but the extrem?
ists finally triumphed. The delegates
from the great coal producing areas of
Scotland, South Wales, Northumber?
land. Cumberland and Durham voted
solidly for a strike.
Final Mediation Effort; Seen
It is thought probable that a deputa?
tion of miners will see Sir Robert
Home, president of the Board of Trade,
to-morrow in a last minute effort at
mediation. The situation might also
be changed if action were to be taken
at to-morrow's meeting of the Cabinet
ministers. Otherwise, work stops Mon?
day.
Most of the members of the Cab?
inet met the Premier this afternoon
to confer on the industrial situation.
Simultaneously a committee of trans?
port workers and railway men, who are
affiliated with the miners in the
"triple alliance," deliberated on what
plan'they should follow at their meet?
ing to-morrow with the miners.
Oppose "Triple Alliance" Action
It is said that the miners are op?
posed to having the "triple alliance"
interfere in the negotiations with the
government, as the miners feel they
are able to carry them out best them?
selves. There had been some sugges?
tions that the alliance might act as
mediator.
As the miners themselves are far
from unanimous in favoring a strike,
it is not strange that the majority of
ih(' railwaymen and transport workers
are opposed to joining the miners in
a stoppage of work.
This was illustrated at the mating
of the miners' delegates to-day, when
[ (Csntlnusd on page titres)
Paris Opinion
Shifts; Divided
On Millerand
-,?.
Premier's Plea for Greater;
Power Creates a Wave j
of Protest Against His
Election to Presidency
Foes Call Him Napoleon
Selection on September 22
by Merely a Bare Ma?
jority Now Is Predicted
By Ralph Courtney
Special Cable to The Tribune
Copyright, 1920, New York Tribune In<*
TARIS, Sept. 21.?The 600 Deputies
ai "00 Senators of the French Na?
tional Assembly yesterday were will
in. unanimously to elect Alexandre
Millerand President of France. To?
night the two houses ar. split into
rival camps. The premier has lost
support heavily, until now it is be?
lieved that !.e controls not more than
400 votes in the chamber and 150 in
the Senate.
--llerand's insistence upon revis?
ion of the constitution to give more
power into the hands of the President
has awakened 'widespread opposition.
His threat to assume greater powers
has brought on an immense political
upheaval. Aged and frightened Sena?
tors gathered in groups in the Senate
corridors to-day, vociferating against
Millerand.
"Napoleon III becan the same way,"
the Senators whispered to one another,
as they recalled the steps taken by
that ruler from the day of his elec?
tion to acquire absolute authority.
Bourgeois Their Candidate
The. Senators are said to be plan
nine the election of L?on Bourgeois,
Chairman of the League of Nations
Council, to the Presidency instead of
Millerand. When Bourgeois appeared
in the Senate to-day he was greeted
with shouts of "To the Elys?e!"
The same fear of Millerand am?
bition was displayed in tho Chamber
of Deputies, where his insistence that
the President should have more power,
especially in the dissolution of the
chamber and the appointment of
ministers, is regarded with disfavor,
Tho slogan "Elect Millerand, l.ut
don't tamper with the constitution'
was heard again.
The members of the Chamber ap
plauded loudly every time the wore
"republic" was used in speeches. Thej
cheered loudly when Raoul Peret, th<
presiding officer, referred to Pau
I Deschanel. the retiring president, ai
1 the faithful guardian of the constitu
; tion.
When Millerand spoke the Deputie:
I gave him only a mediocre reception
; It was noted that not once in hi:
speech did he mention the republic.
Raymond Poincare, who had been re
1 garded as a candidate for Foreigi
; Minister in a new Cabinet, has takei
' sides against Millerand, declaring th'
changes in the constitution projecte?
j by the Premier amount to revolution
; Poincare now cannot figuro in the nex
| Cabinet, unless it be in one of his owi
; under the presidency of Bourgeois 0
! Peret.
It is believed that Aristide Brian?
i and Jean Inou?s Rarthou, the forme
(Continund en pago tlx)
! Man, Vintlicated by Jury, !
Talks Self Into $50 Fine
Jtulge Starts With $5, but Raise*
h When Long ?slant Resi?
dent Persists in Comment
It cost Theodore Maewaski, a baker,
forty-live years old, of New High Park,
I Weatbury, L. I., $50 yesterday to com
i ment contcmntuously on a $5 fine
which a justice ot the peace had im
I posed upon him. He had been arrested
on a charge of striking Stanley Dip,
! but the jury had vindicated him.
As Maewaski started to leave the
? courtroom he turned and demanded
j that the witnenneg again be placed on
, the stand so that he could tell them
! what he thought of them. This was
held to b? contempt of court ?nd ho
1 was fined $5.
"Make it $10!" shouted Maewaski.
"I'll make it $15, instead," said Judge
K?hler,
"Make it $20," replied the defendant.
"I'll make it $25!" thundered the
Judge.
"Why not make it $30?" asked Mae?
waski. with a sweep of his hand.
"I'll make it $60!" shouted the court.
"Raise it $100," replied the man.
"If the law permitted it I would
i make it $1,000," said the judffe, un he
] ordered court attendants to clear the
j room.
V.gt'/tstV:, etill defl-.:it, paid the $60
( ?ad le-t tbe court with a ?mil?.
Johnson Takes
Stump to Help
Elect Harding
Says Senator 'Happily for
America Has Scrapped the
League' ; Sees Overwhelm?
ing Republican Victory
Assails Wilson Policies
Free Speech Menaced, Facts
Censored and Intolerance
Encouraged, He Charges
RpecUl Dispatch to The. Tribune
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 21.?Sen?
ator Hiram Wy Johnson, of California,
began his tour in behalf of Senator
Warren G. Harding here to-day, when
in an r.'dress before the Republican
State Convention he declared that
"Mr. Harding, appily for himself and
for America, has scrapped the league."
Senator Johnson assailed the Wilson
Administration and congratulated the
convention "upon the outlook for Re?
publican success."
Senator Johnson will speak several
times in California .'.* the interest of
Senator Harding's candidacy. His
speech follows in full:
"? congratulate you upon the out?
look for Republican success. So wide?
spread ?3 the dissatisfaction with the
present Administration, so great the
hostility to many of the acts of the
President and so acute the justifiable
fear of the metamorphosis of our for?
eign policy th*.t apparently nothing
can prevent overwhelming Republican
success in the November election.
'The indictment brought against
Mr. Vilson's government is severe,
but warranted by the facts. For the
first time in our lives the Democratic
Administration taught what repres?
sion and suppres:;ion were. This Ad?
ministration not only curtailed tho
constitutional privilege of citizens at
home, but endeavored to drive us into
perilous paths ?broad. Free speech
has been threatened -not in tho in?
terest of patriotism, but for existing
power. A Tree pre: s has boon en?
dangered. A rigid con orship oithor
dilut 1 tho news and facts to which
all were entitled, or else forhado pub?
lication, while government propaganda
colored and often distorted tho in?
formation permitted to come to the
people. These assaults insensibly bred
intolerance, tho ancient foe of froo
dom. The necessary restrictions of
war-time have been inexcusably pro?
longed ir peace, an?) our government
has strayed far from those fundamen?
tal principles upon which for moro
than a century and a quarter the Re?
public has so securely rested.
Foreign Policy Assailed
"Not only have these things trans?
pired domestically, but while our in?
tellects were numbed with the anguish
of war and free expression was con
trolled the present Democratic Ad
ministration sought to revolutionizi
the time honored foreign policy of the
nation and to make us a party of everj
distant quarrel and controversy uni
of every mad militaristic adventure
Under the specious guise of a League
of Nations to nromote peace and pre
(ContlMuxit on page four)
Hope Fades
Of Solving
Blast Plot
Hoofs of Death Wagon
Horse Are Inspected by
Farriers in an Effort
to Identify the Driver
No Sign of Bomb
At Custom House
Many Federal Employees
Take Holiday; Building
Is Under Guard All Day
Members of the Journeyman Horse
Bhoers' Union gathered at Gamon's Hall
Sixty-fifth Street and Third Avenue,
last night to examine the two hind
hoofs and shoes of the horse that is
thought to have drawn the wagon bear?
ing the death bomb to the scene of the
explosion last Thursday at Broad and
Wall streets. The shoes afford the only
definite bit of evidence in possession
of the authorities.
The two shoes bear the distinctive
marks of union workmanship, and it
was the hope of investigators that one
of the men would be able to identify
them as his handiwork and offer some
description of the person who had the
horse shod. The horscshoers were ad?
dressed by members of the bomb squad
who passed the shoes among them for
examination.
No conclusivo identification was
made by any of the 100 members of
the union present. John F, Fitzgib
bon, president of the local, declared
however, that every union man can
recognize his own work, and that if
the d00 other union horscshoers of
the city arc given an opportunity tr
look at tho shops the man who did
the job eventually will be found.
A conference was held in the Fir?
Marshal's office in tho atiernoon of nl
the officials trying to determine tin
nature of the explosive that caused th?
disaster. Because of conflicting sto
ries told by witnesses tho author!
tics have so far boon unable to tel
whether dynamite, TNT or picric nek
was used. No statement was issued a
the conclusion of the meeting.
Crowds at Custom House
The eyes of iho city were for th?
moment concentrated yesterday upot
the Custom House, which, according t?
a warnwig to William H. Edwards, Col
lector of Internal Revenue, was sched
uled to bo blown up at 2 p. m. A trul;
holiday crowd turned out to witnes
the event, and space in the windows o
surrounding office buildings was at ;
premium. No explosion occurred, how
ever, and the stubborn old Custon
House stuck firmly to the ground.
Neither New York nor Mr. Edward
seemed to worry. Tho collector sat a
his desk dispensing ordinary routin
business. Now York, as represented b;
5.000 of its citizens, crowded to pas
the special guard of sailors and ente
or stand near tho Custom House as.
o'clock approached.
Charles Lewis, of the Stock F.x
chango, a venerable gentleman, wa
not greatly perturbed either. At te;
minutos to 2 lie sent his card in t
Collector Edwards and was admitted.
"Well. Bill." ho said, "if they blo\
up the Custom House and you go wit
it I'm going, too. Ho sat t lie re unti
thirty minutos after tho hour desig
nated for the destruction of the build
ing.
The government took every precau
tion to forestall tho predicted cataf
trophe. The building was carefull
searched from cellar to garret Monda
night ami tho guard of sailors wa
supplemented by additional secret sen
ice operative?.
Croat nervousness prevailed ?mon
the 1,700 employees of th? C'ustoi
House Monday when it became know
that Mr. Edwards had received
postal card, saying: "There is a plot t
destroy tho Custom House Tucsda;
September 21, 2 o'clock.''
Many Take a Holiday
Heads of departments, recognr/.in
tho effect of such a message on the:
employees in tho wake of the Wa
Street disaster, made it optional wit
the workers whether or not they r<
mained after noon yesterday. Aboi
850 of tho 1,700 op-ployeos elected t
go home, it was said. (If those wh
remained about- 50 per cent wei
women.
One department head, hnweve
Joseph F. Carroll, who presides ovc
the Bureau of Customs Statistics, i
which Hbout fifty women and as mar
men are employed, felt that' busine;
should "be conducted as usual." A
cordingly ho called tho women worko
of the bureau together Monday nigl
and explained that as citizens on
suffrage parity with men he won'
expect them to report for work ye
torda.v.
, During the morning Mr. Carroll n
(Contlnuio on paga thro?*)
Offers Her Pet Bantam Hen
In Sacrifice to Yom Kippur
A black bantam hen, which had
traveled thousands of miles over the
sens to its temporary home on the
Kast Side, was offered up as a sacrifice
yesterday by its mistress. Mrs. Lizzie
Asher, in' her preparation for the
Hebrew Day of Atonement to-day. The
part which the bantam was called upon
to play in the annual celebration of a
religious rite came as a surprise to
the many new friends of the Ashers,
who knew the affection which existed
between Mrs. Asher and her little pet.
Jacob Asher and his wife, immi?
grants to Turkey from Spain, came to
this country from Constantinople less
than eight weeks ago. The troubles of
traveling in the steerage were aug?
mented for them by the fact that Mrs.
Asher had insisted on bringing with
her the tiny black hen, which her hus?
band had bought in the Turkish capi?
tal.
Mrs. Asher explained that the ban?
tam would be her sacrifice at the first
Yom Kippur spent in America. But
as eAch day during the voyage across
the Atlantic Mrs. Asher took from her
own meagre fare food for the bantam
friends in the sti-erace smiled nnd said
In their own tongues, "You will see when
the day comes she won't have the
haart"
After a short delay on landing the
Hebrew Shelter found a position for
Jacob Asher and helped him to get
established in a small room on the
i East Side. A place was fixed for the
: bantam. But though from all signs
Mrs. Asher continued each day to grow
moro fond of her pet, she continued to
insist that her hen would go at the
great sacrifice.
And, true to her word, yesterday
morning Mrs. Asher prepared the hen
for the Yom Kippur sacrifice. Mr.
Asher called in a neighbor to-act as
the "schoket," or slaughterer. The
prescribed ritual was followed out.
Prayers were first rented, which con?
sisted of Psalms evii, 17-20, and a brief
passage from Job. Then Mr. Asher
grasped tho little hen by the feet and
Hwung it three times above the head
of Mrs. Asher, offerer of tho sacrifice.
While her husband did this Mrs.
Asher repeated in a steady voice tho
words of the rito in Spanish, "This be
my substituto, my vicarious offering,
; my- atonement. This hen shall meet
death, but. ? shall find a Ion" and con?
tented life of noaco." Whereupon the
bantam was killed by the "nchoket."
The As'nors then invited aome of
their friemis from the Hebrew Shelter,
; who had said that Mrs. Aaher would
| fait?? at the lant miaut*, to the f??as*t
I which will follow the day of fasting.
Assembly Ousts 3 Socialists;
Two Resign; Expulsion Voted
90 to 45 After 11-Hour Debate
Limit Rents
By State Law,
Labor Urges
Federation Asks 10 P. C.
on Value of Building as
Maximum; Workers'
Plan Offered by Holland
Fin.n a Staff Correspondent
ALBANY, Sept. 21. -James P. Hol?
land, president of the State Federation
of Labor, to-day presented to the
legislative leaders the Federation's
views on housing legislation.
The program "does not include any
definite suggestions for legislation, but
merely outlines certain features which
labor wants placed on the statute books
and those which it opposes.
Labor indorses legislation which
would except state land bank bonds
from state ami Federal tuxes; it would
have taxes on real estate based upon
t'.ie rental income of property and a
fuir valuation of the land; it warns
against drastic reductions in revenue
for fear that the burden of the upkeep
of the government may be passed on to
those least able to bear them, and ad?
vocates the estabiishing of local hous?
ing agencies. It is suggested that a
bill be enacted which would limit a
landlord's income to 10 per cent of the
valuation of his property.
Mr. Holland will regain in Albany
until tin; close of the special session
to watch the legislation enacted. He
declared that on the whole he is satis
lied with the housing programs pre?
sented by Governor Smith and the
Lockwood committee. Tho proposal
made in the report by the housing
committee for th" creation of local
housing 'ooards which would tend to
effect cooperation between capital and
labor in the construction ?if housing
appears to Mr. Holland to be a weak
spot.
Puts Blame on Capital
"It leaves the inference," the labor
leader said, "that labor is not ready
to do its share. The housing shortage
is due to many causes, but chief among
these is the failure of capital to
realize its responsibility to the people
and the failure of tho railroads to
move freight and building supply ma
tcrial, and, more than anything else, to
the unfair and un-American attitude of
large employers who have failed to
employ tho necessary help at wages
which would support the workers in
decency and comfort."
A warning against housing relief leg?
islation which might lower the stand?
ards of protection to health was given
by Mr. Holland. "Labor must lie alert,"
he declared, "that laws fixing the
standard for the protection of the
people in construction of buildings and
their occupancy be not tampered with
in any way in the demand for legis?
lative relief.
"New laws should ne drafted sn as to
encourage housing and building in
every way, and cot.struct ion in such n
way that every interest affected would
know definitely just what its rights
and interests are
Plan to Oelay Evictions .
Owing to the fact that the action
against the live Socialist Assemblymen
occupied the entire day in the Assem?
bly, the Lockwood housing committee
did not have an opportunity to meet, a?
had been planned.
The Senate members of the commit?
tee, with Majority Leader .1. Henry Wal?
ters, are preparing a bill to be Intro?
duced to-day which will put another
stumbling block in the path of land?
lords who seek to evict tenants. The
hill will provide that a landlord, in
order to eject a tenant for 'ion-pay?
ment of rent, must lirst obtain judg?
ment for the amount against the ten?
ant. Then, if the judgment is not sat?
isfied, he can resort to eviction pro?
ceedings.
There will be a joint meeting to?
morrow of tho Senate and Assembly
Cities committees, to which all housing
hills have been referred. On Thurs?
day afternoon at 33 o'clock there will
be a hearing on all housing bills. The
hearing is expected to draw the largest
atfndance at any hearing on record.
Notices of appearance sent to the
chairmen of the Cities committees in?
dicate that virtually ovary section of
the state will be represented with the
large delegation from greater Now
York. It is anticipated the hearing
(Continued on pig? thre?)
Coolidge Hasnt Bought
A Suit for 18 Months
Governor W ears Shoes 2 Years,
He Says, in Emphasising the
?Seed of Thrift by the !\'ation
BOSTON, Sept. 21'.- Governor Cool?
idge, asserting the need for thrift,
said to-day that he had not bought a
suit of clothes in eighteen months,
and that it was two years since he
bought a pair of shoes.
"There are some indications," he
said, "that Americans are beginning to
i understand thrift, and that the law of
supply and demand is working again.
That will be a benefit to us all. We
can see it working out in the great
woolen industry of Massachusetts- The
last time I bought a suit was in March,
1919.
"The law is beginning to assert itself
also in the shoe industry. The last
pair of shoes I bought was obtained
two years ago."
Governor Coolidge was addressing
the National Association of Life Un?
derwriters at the opening of their an?
nual meeting. He characterized the
insurance men as "emissaries of thrift,
which we need very much at present."
"I know of nothing more likely to
advance public welfare, good citizen?
ship and sound ways) of .thinking and
livina than to take oat a "lift insurance
I policy," he laid.
Socialises Purged Selves; Assembly
Lacks Power to Expel, Martin Holds
ALBANY, Sept. 21.?Assemblyman Louis Martin, chairman of the
Judiciary Committee, which tried and ousted the five Socialist Assem?
blymen at the last session, protested to-night against their re?xpul
sion, insisting that the Assembly now had no legal ground whatever for
such action.
"The decision last spring," he said, "was that their affiliation with
the Socialist party, as it was theri constituted, rendered them unfit to
sit in an American legislative body. That was the only finding of the
Judiciary Committee, and the only finding on which the Assembly voted.
"There was no charge against any of them personally as indi?
viduals. No personal guilt was charged against them. Since then
their organization has complied with our Constitution and our laws.
We have no right to exclude them. My legal conclusions are that we
cannot vote to unseat these gentlemen on the admitted facts."
Thousands Flee
Gulf Ports as
HurricaneNear s
Refugees Pour Into New
Orleans; Public Build?
ings Opened for Shelter;
Water Goes Over Levee
4,500 Quit Galveston
Tide Rising Fast and Exo?
dus Is On lo Mainland;
Troops Moved to Safety
NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 21- Th?
I N'cw Orleans station of the Weathei
?Bureau at 10:.'50 o'clock to-night noti
| lie?.! Superintendent of Police Moonej
i to warn all persons in outlying su
i burbs that the tropical hurricant
would strike the city within threi
hours.
With tie wind blowing a steady gal
lof twenty-five miles an hour ani
i reaching fifty to sixty miles at times
? merchants, storekeepers and the peo
pip i'1 outlying districts began prcpa
rations to meet the hurricane fast ap
j proaching from the gulf.
Plate glass windows throughout th
| business section were reinforced. Mets
shutters were placed over some wir
ciows. This was especially true in th
old French ?juartcr. Many sign board
?were blown over throughout the cit
: and in one section a couple of house
I were unroofed by the force of the win?
With the rising tide and giowin
i winds, residents and pleasurc-scokei
; along the shore of Lake Ponchartrai
! commenced flocking into the cit
, Driven by tho increasing wind, tl
i water in Lake Ponchartrain bee/an con
| ing over the sea wall at West End an
Spanish Fort. From tho Mississip
I coast resorts every train returning I
I the city was crowded with vacatioi
I ists seeking safety from the approacl
i ing storm.
Refugees I'se Public Buildings
All the hotels of tho city arc filled
, overflowing and refugees are campir
in the Postoffice, Custom House at
, other public buildings.
Awnings and siens have boon twist?
loose and were hurled through tl
downtown street;:.
Preparations are being made on tl
; shore lino from New Orleans to t'orpi
' Christi, Tex., to weather the stori
i Railroads have announced that preca
' tions, have- boon taken to move poop
i and property from exposed cities <
i short notice. Operations in some
the coastal oil fields are reported
! have been abandoned temporarily uni
; the storm has passed. Shipping into
I osts are holding back all vessels dc
I tined for Mexican or Central Americi
ports and are advising extreme eauti'
on the part of masters now at st
More than a dozen ships are being he
at Port Eads. At Corpus Christi t
populace began a general movement
the high bluff behind the waterfroi
In many instances stores of mercha
dise in the area swept by last summe
storm was moved to the highland.
Two Ships in Path of Storm
Fears wore expressed in mari
circles for two ships in the fruit tra
which are believed to be in the pa
of the storm. They are the Ve:
which left Mobile September 17, a
the II. F. Dimmick, which sailed t
following day, both for Honduras.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21. -The tro
cal hurricane sweeping the Gulf
Mexico was reported in a bulle
issued at 10 o'clock to-night by I
Weather Bureau to have turned
course from northwestward to nor
ward and that winds of hurricane fo
(Continued on pase five)
i Canadians Fear Cannon
! On U. S. Dry Patrol Boat
Kingston Veterans Protest to
Dominion Government That
Guns Violate Treaty
KINGSTON, Ontario, Sept. 21.?The
Kingston branch of the Army and
Navy Veterans protested to-day to the
Dominion government against the
United States steamship Chillicothe's
presence in the St. Lawrence Rivei
with mounted guns. The boat is be?
ing used in the river, with Ogdens
burg, N. Y., as its base, they said, foi
the purpose of suppressing violatior
of the United State? liquor laws.
The protest said this is in "direct
violation of the treaty between th?
United States and Great Britain an*
? 'should not be tolerated," The possibl?
| use of naval suns on such a narrov
i strip of Vater, the protest adds, is i
menace to Canadian shipping, as wel
; as to Canadian life and property. I
j pointu out that no training ship 01
the Canadian side of tUe Great Eakc
is permitted to carry a gun even fo
. training purposes.
?.
[Ford Reduces
Auto Prices to
Pre-War Level
i -
Declares There is No Wis?
dom in Trying to Main?
tain Artificial Standard
of Values Through Greed
Finds Progress Retarded
i
Points to Lull in Business
and Closing of Many
Factories as Warnings
DETROIT, Sept. 21. Henry Ford to?
day announced a reduction of prices
on all Ford Motor Company products
to a pre-war level as a step toward
| "restoration of business to normal con
i ditions." In n statement accompany
? ing the announcement, Mr. Ford de
j clared that present business conditions
1 defnanded that "some practical effort
.be made to bring economic conditions
back$to normal," that the "business of
the country may be stabilized" and that
the "progress, prosperity and content?
ment of our peopie may be restored."
Inquiry to-night among heads of
other automotive industries here failed
t<< intlicate whether the Ford announce?
ment presages a generul decline of
motor car prices. A number of manu?
facturers declined to comment.
Discussing business conditions, Mr.
Ford declared that since the war has
ended "war prices also should be re
! duced."
"There is no wisdom." the manufac?
turer said, "in trying to maintain an
, artificial standard of values, for in
! Anted prices only retard progress."
Says People Are Waiting
"There is a lull in business general
I !y," the statement continues. "Poop',?
? in every walk of life are waiting foi
Trices they know are unnatural to be
come lower,
"Manufacturing plants are beinf
shut down all over t-he country ami ir
every line there is a growing inac
tivity because the volume of consump
tion is growing less and less throug'r
the self-denial of people who realize
?the injustice of the situation.
i "Labor is being thrown out of em
j ployment, but, notwithstanding this
there has been little change in th<
cost of living.
"Although rich in natural resources
the country's progress is being belt
practically at a standstill through th?
greed of profiteers. Now is the tim<
! to call a halt to war methods, wai
prices and war greed. It may bt
necessary for everybody to sacrifice !
little, hut in the end it will ho mos
profitable, for the sooner we get the
business of the country back to pre
war conditions tho sooner will th?
lives of our people become natural ant
progress, prosperity and contentmen
be restored."
Tho price reduction on the Von
product ranges from 14 to ."1 per cen
and is effective immediately. Then
will be no wage reductions at any o
the plants, it was announced.
CLEVELAND, Sept. 21. K. S. .lor
dan, of the Jordan Automobile Com
puny and Charles W. Mears, of th?
Wijiton Automobile Company, said to
night that the reduction in the prie?
of cars by the Ford Company prob
ably would not be followed by othe:
companies. Mr. Jordan said that thi
Ford Company had the advantage of :
large output and of an appeal to i
particular trade.
Mr. Mears said that statistics she**
an increase of only 111 per cent in th?
price of motor cars since 1916, wherea
much of the material that entered inti
the making of a car has advanced 20?
per cent.
?.-m
Body Lashed to Bicycle
Washed Ashore on Sounc
Victim, in Water Three Week?
Found Near Fort Solonga;
Tires of Wheels Cut
Special DUpatch to The Tribu?*
FORT SOLONGA, L. I.. Sept. 21
The body of a man about forty-liv
years old, fastened to a hicyHe. wa
wr.s^ed ashore yesterday in front o
Daybreak, the summer home of Jon
Shields, on Long Island Sound.
The body had been in the water tw
or three weeks. There was consider
able speculation here as to whethe
the man rode oft* one of the cliffs i
this section of Long Island, or whethe
the body was tied to the* bicycle an
thrown into the water. The tires o
both wheels had been cut.
A kit of tools was found near th
body and apparently had floated ashor?
The body was clad in a gray sweate
a dark mixed gray coat and b!ae
tiousers. A long belt was wrappe
twice about the waist. To the be!
Wn.s fastened a piece of rope. Th
other end of the ropa was mad? iai
to the crossbar of the bicycle.
Dewitt and Orr Quit the
Chamber After Wald
man, Claessens and Sol?
omon Are Expelled
Action Is Called
'Sweet's Revenge"
Religious Issue Raised on
Floor ; Cuvillier and
McCue Hotly Assailed
From a Staff Correspondent
ALBANY, Sept. 21.?The Assem?
bly to-night for the second time ex?
pelled three of the five Socialist
members.
Immediately thereafter the re?
maining two Socialists, who had
been seated by a vote of 87 to 48,
resigned their seats, characterizing
those who had voted to expel their
colleagues as un-American, and de?
claring that they could not sit in tho
Assembly.
Assemblymen Samuel Orr and
Samuel Dewitt, of the Bronx, were
the two Socialists who resigned.
Assemblymen August Claessens,
of Manhattan, leader of the Social?
ist delegation; Louis Waldman, of
Manhattan, and Charles Solomon, of
Kings, were formally expelled.
The vote of expulsion was 90 to 45.
Adler Pleads for Five
Assemblyman Simon L. Adler, of
Rochester, Republican floor leader:
Assemblyman Louis Martin, of
Oneida, chairman of the Judiciary
Committee, and Minority Leader
Charles D. Donohue all pleaded for*
the reseating of all five men.
Republicans charged that Speaker
Swtet was inspired ky a spirit of
revenge for having been relegated to
private U/e hy the Republican party.
Several Republican members of the
body declared on the floor of the As?
sembly that the ousting of the So?
cialists after they had been re?
turned by their constituencies would
mean the possible defeat of the
party in this state.
For a brief time it looked as if thes*
statements woulrt cause enough Repub
licans lo ?loser! S\vc<t to insure the
reseating or all live Socialists, but
opponents of the Socialists, supple?
mented hy friends of William Barnes,
circulated through the chamber an?l
when i* came to the balloting their
success was manifest.
Waldman, Claessens and Sulomon
were first expelled. Then v??to, wert;
taken on Orr and Dewitt. When they
were seated by practically tho same
vote that tho oth?!rs were expelled by.
Assemblyman Martin G. McCue. of
Tammany Hall, who had voted *o expel
all live, moved that all be soau-d.
McCue Charges Inconsistency
"1 voted to expel all," said McCue.
"If one or two are innocent all are
innocent. If two or throe are guilty
all are guilty. This seating of two and
rusting of three is pun partisan pol i -
'ics. Dun'' lot us make fools of our?
selves. Don't let us make ourselves
ridiculous. You can't seat two and
expel throe und explain your incon?
sistency to the people."
McCue move?! to reconsider the vote.
hy which Waldman was ousted, but
was defeated.
Chairman Martin, who presided at
the trial of tho Socialists, in making a
plea that justice be done them, said
the Socialists had been expelled at the
winter session after a trial because
they were members of a party which
had a constitution containing un-Amer?
ican provisions, bot that all these ob?
jectionable clauses had since been elim?
inated, and that therefore all five were
entitled to their scats.
"The decision last spring," he said,
"was that their affiliation with tbe
Socialist party as it was then consti?
tuted rendered them unfit to alt ?a an
American legislative body. That' w?_
the only finding of the Judiciary ?Com*
mittee. and the only finding on whieti
the Assembly voted. There was nc
charge against any of them personal!)
as individuals. No personal guilt waf
charged against them. Since then theii
organization lias complied with oui
Constitution and our laws. We havi
no right to exclude them. My lega
conclusions are that we cannot vote t<
unseat these gentlemen on the ad
mitted facts."
Dewitt Attacks McCue
After Chairman Martin finished As
Hcmblyman Dewitt, who is an enginee
and served as a lieutenant during th?
war, was recognized.
Swinging around tiU he faced Assem
hlymun McCue, who has made his 11*
ing as a saloonkeeper, he said:
"1 have Tieard Mr. McCue make
spread-eagle speech and wave the flat
I did that during the war when I wa
not working for our army as an en
gtneer. But that was the time to mak
such speeches. And I want to tell yov
Marty McCue, that I sold more Libert
bonds than you shoved glasses of be?
across your bar. You and your kin
here are subverting the principles c
American government and the Const
union in voting to expel any of thes
Socialists. But go ahead, since yo
are so minded, and steal our seal
from us. But we will appeal again, i
we appealed last Thursday, to the fini
court of appeals, the American ele<
torate."
McCue flushed crimson. The crow
broke into a storm of cheers. Speakc
Sweet rapped for order, but the crow
continued its applause.
After the final vote was taken til
five Socialists left the Assembly chart
ber. It was then 9:U> o'clock. Tti
body, had been in continuous ??m?o