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Vol. LXXX No. 26,979
(Copyright. 1930,
New York Tribun? Inc.)
. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1920
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TWO CENTS
In Greater New York
THREE CENTS
Withla 200 >Ule.
vovn CENTS
Elsewhere
Hey dler Gives
Out Facts on
Ball Scandal
Says He Gave Information
Bearing on Fixed Games
to Johnson; White Sox
'LcadersSUspectedFraud
Jean Dubuc's Name
Mentioned in Bets
Foreman of Jury Declares
He Has Evidence Against
Men on Sixteen Teams
CHICAGO, Sept. 26.?President John
A. Heydler of the National League to
lirht mide public evidence he has gath?
ered in a private investigation of al
Itgti baseball gambling and game
?throwing." He declared President
Comiskey of the Chicago Americans
?nd Manager Gleason were convinced,
after th? first world series game last
y?ar, that the series had been "fixed"
tad looght his aid in an investigation.
Th? matter was brought to the atten?
tion of President B. B. Johnson of the
Aateriean League, but Mr. Johnson did
sot seem very enthusiastic over starts
iag ti?nvestigation, Heydler said.
Mr. Heydler brought *:he name of
Josa Dubuc, former Detroit American
pitcher, into the scandal, and also gave
hitherto nnrevealed details of the Hal
Chase and Lee Magee cases.
Mr. Heydler said all of his evidence
had been placed at the disposal of
President Johnson, but that he did not
know whether the latter was making
toy ase of it *
President Heydler quoted "Rube"
Beaton, New York National pitcher, as
saying Dubue was the man who re
eeWed telejrrams from Burns, formerly
t major league pitcher, tipping him
that the world series had been fixed
and that Benton had received his in?
formation from this telegram.
Benton told Mr. Heydler he had seen
Hal Chase make one bet of $100 on the
tenes, Heydler said.
Telle of Magee Confession
Discussing the Magea case, Mr.
Heydler said he and William Veeck,
president of the Chicago Nationals, had
obtained Magee's confession that he
had attempted to throw a "game, and
that Magee had shown them a check
tent him by Hal Chase.
Heinie Zimmerman also has been ac?
cused of throwing games, said Mr.
Bggdier, but he would neither confirm
?deny raj-art*" tka?fc Zimmerman waa
Pased b-TtV? N*w York Nationals
ret that reason. Reporto ^fcbat Zimmer?
man was suspended a year ago for try?
ing, to throw a game and not for break?
ing training, as was announced, were
m denied by Mr. Heydler.
?Tip O'Neill, former Western League
president, came to me after the first
world series game last fall," he said,
"and told me Comiskey and Gleason
felt that something was wrong, but
that they did not want to go to Ban
Johnson because of the bad feeling
hetveen him and Comiskey at the time.
I considered the matter preposterous
at first, but after Gleason and I had
?oiked the games I went to Johnson.
Gave Leads to Johnson
"Ha dismissed me with a curt re
?ark, I continued to confer with
Comiskey and Gleason, and finally gave
Johnson what I considered good leads.
I then felt it was up to him to act and
?at my affair. The players accused
?are American League men.
"Gleason told me there was no doubt
is his mind that something was wrong
aad that some one had 'reached* the
White Sox players."
Concerning the Chicago-Philadelphia
National game of August 1, which is
?aid to have been "fixed" for Philadel?
phia to win, Mr. Heydler said his in
vtetifation convinced him that a de
liberate attempt ?had been made by
at-?? one to Injure the Chicago club.
Tmident Navin sent a letter to
Baa Johnson saying that $50,000 was
hat on the game and that $10,000 of it
Wa bet in Detroit," he said. "This
Jatta* waa turned over to me, but I
???a been able to learn of only $3,000
Mt In Cleveland! and $1,300 in Cincin?
nati. I have not finished investigat
fef."
Praise? McGraw's Work
-Pr?sidant Heydler said that the New
Tafrlc National League club had done
rra for baseball than any other club
either league.
"MeGrrw deliberately wrecked his
' R?*0* chances hy getting rid of
vkaae and Zimmerman because of their
iOMrttea?? *n mm MtVMl
German Rye Crop Short;
Must Buy Grain in U. S.
Government "Will Not Allow Im
ftftatton for Private Account ;
Will Sell Some Flour
Special CabU to The Tribun*
Coprrlitht. is:p, N>w York Tribut?.? Inc.
BERLIN, Sept. 26.?At a meeting of
<*? economic committee of the Cabinet
to-day the Minister of Public Economy
fi-j>ort??d tlat the rye crop yield this
year would be unsatisfactory. Rye is
j-ennany's principal cereal.. The min?
uter added that it would be necessary
?w ?Jermany to import large amounts
n for*ign grain end to employ vigorous
?ethods to compel German producers
?* deliver the required amount of their
"opt to th<> government.
The committee decided to continue
?*? government control system over
tn\n, milk and sugar, but to abolish
jgW ?tontrol on October 1, owing
Wseipaliy to the increasing difflcul?
?*--*? of enforcement.
*t was announced semi-officially that
JH ??vernment would refuse to allow
2* importation of grain for private
"?WtJBt because the price of bread
*??*? tliereirom would be prohibitive
Pffpt for th? rich. The government
Wm that the hi-jfc cost of bread from
SJ *WuK* is th? cause of the strong
__*?.** discontent which ha*. spread
???the eoontry. The government of
"*W# eontend that it tempts German
2*?d?e*r? to sell their dornentic product
gPW a foreign label at the foreign
??nee.
The goternment has decided to sell
*?*? ?mounts of foreign flour at cost
5_!*?_* ?*?? demands of wealthy con
?*g* wb? desire more than they can
Z?T_* *n their card? at the German
? t___*_____m*y ,)* "H****"! ?? eeruio
t____L^__^_J***3r w?'1* *n-Port Urge r?uan
tf'S*** American wheat, and the waj
?? je* ??P*??**S to ? further depreciation
Mexican Labor Urges
Dictatorship for Food
MEXICO CITX, Sept. 25.?
The Workers' Confederation of
the Mexican Region called astreet
demonstrations in Mexico City,
Vera Cruz and numerous other
state capitals for Sunday as a
manifesto in favor of the estab
. lishment of a food dictatorship
to cut the high cost o* living.
$3,000,000 Fire
Wrecks Jersey
Asphalt Plant
All the Units of the Six-Acre
Factory at Perth Amboy
Destroyed ; Piers Saved
After Stubborn Struggle
One Fireman Injured
Flames Ejected From Tanks
Like Lava From Volcano
Spread to Many Buildings
The six-acre plant of the Barber
Asphalt Company on the New Jersey
side of Staten Island Sound, near
Perth Amboy, was destroyed by fire
yesterday, resulting in damage of
nearly $3,000,000. The four units into
which the plant was divided?one for
the refining of asphalt, one for making
roofing asphalt, one for asphalt floor?
ing products and the fourth for asphalt
paving blocks?were burned, together
with their storehouses.
Only the piers along the waterfront
escaped the fire. They were saved by
the fireboat William J. Gaynor, which
was sent from New York, and the
Socony, a fireboat of the Standard Oil
Company. Two of the six big Bteel
tanks^containing asphalt also were de?
stroyed.
When the first burst into flames
about 9 a. m. burning asphalt was dis?
charged like lava from a volcano and
spread throughout the plant. Many of
the men operating small locomotives on
the narrow gauge tracks, in an en?
deavor to save trainloads of tar and
asphalt, hpd to flee for their lives as
the blazing flood swept down upon
them.
A tremendous pillar of smoke tow?
ered into the sky and drifted westward
with the wind darkening many square
miles of central New Jersey and at?
tracting thousands of spectators. The
fire departments of Elizabeth, Wood
bridge, Rahway and Fords, N. J., sup?
plemented the efforts of the Perth Am?
boy- department.
One fireman was injured?James
Kelly, of -Perth Amboy. Re fell from a
ladder and was bruised severely. He
was taken to the Perth Amboy Hospital.
A stable in the brickyard of Henry
Maurer & Sons, which adjoins the as?
phalt plant on the north, was burned.
This was the only building outside the
asphalt plant destroyed, although
large factories and clusters of work?
men's houses surround it. The occu?
pants were ordered out of the latter
when the fire became most threatening.
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Soviet Orders Threaten
Death to Reds in U* S.
Chicago Raid Unearths Papers
From Moscow Warning Com?
munists to Destroy Documents
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
CHICAGO, Sept. 26.?According to
information given out by the police
and Secret Service operatives of the
Department of Justice to-night threats
of death directly affecting between
7,000 and 8,000 Reda of Chicago are
contained in Communist documents
seized in the raids last night in the
flat of Witty Moses Shakman, Nicolai
Lenine's Chicago lieutenant.
The documents were translated by
J. Spolansky, of the Department of
Justice, who said that evidence was to
be found in the documents which
showed that money had been sent from
Russia for the distribution here of de?
structive literature.
"More than ?$19,000 has been sent to
the Chicago Communists, the I. W. W.
and the Third Internationale leaders
here, according to these documents,"
said Spolansky. "The purpose of the
money was for the distribution of de?
structive propaganda. Of this amount
receipts for $15,000 paid out were
found in Shakman's papers.
"Orders direct from the Soviet gov?
ernment, dated at Moscow and received
in Chicago September 14, threatened
death to any member of the party or of
any party affiliated with the Commu?
nists or I. W. W. who failed to destroy
orders or documents received from offi?
cials of the Soviet government in
Russia. e*
"Direct orders for the Communists
of America to cooperate and ally them?
selves with the I. W. W. and Mexican
radicals are among the papers obtained
by the police."
Mrs. Boomer's Lost Ring j
Found on Liner Suspect
Seaman Arrested on Olympic
Also H?? a Brooch Stolen
From Mis? Singer, of IS. Y.
SOUTHAMPTON, England, Sept. 20.?
The careful watch kept on transatlantic
liners owning to recent reports that
passengers have been losing valuables
resulted to-day in the recovery of a
$10,000 ring and a valuable brooch from
a seaman of the Olympic when the
liner arrived here.
Mrs. Boomer, the wife of one of the
principal owners of the Waldorf-As
toria Hotel, New York, missed a ring
from her stateroom. Investigation led
\ the officers to believe that the thief
i had slipped his hand through a sma'l
I opening leading to the stateroom and
. taken the ring while the occupant was
I absent. It was said the suspect at
; tempted to throw away the ring when
' questioned.
A brooch reported to have been
I stolon from Miss Singer, of New Yorlc,
I on the previous trip of the Olympic
I also was found on the man. Th? ae
! cuaed will be given a preliminary he?r
| ing here to-morrow.
? ?
Mr. and Mrs. Boomer are on their
honeymoon. Mr?. Boomer formerly was
Mrs. 3. Sloane. The fact that they had
??en married did not become known
until last Wednesday, when it waa
lasrtved that they had Bailed the pre?
vious Saturday on the Olympic.
Prices Fall
All Over U.S.
In 11 Lines
Reserve *Bank at Phila?
delphia Says Public
Holds Whip Hand, With
Dealers at Its Mercy
Merchants Sense
Demand and Yield
Chicago Adopts Carry
Lunch Plan; Houston
Bans Loans to Hoarders
Special Dispatch tp The Tribune
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 26.?Price:
of clothing, food and other stapli
products are being forced dofvt
throughout the country by the refusa
of the Buying public to pay war prices
A comprehensive report of busines
' conditions issued by the Federal Re
serve Bank of the Philadelphia distric
to-day shows that manufacturers an
retailers are hastening to meet th
widespread demand by the public fo
reduction in prices.
Eleven out of sixteen eommoditie
listed by the Federal Reserve Ban
show a . tendency toward lower prie
levels. The toboggan of prices hits
variety of products, including bitum
nous coal, men's shirts, hosiery an
staple groceries. Three commodity
are holding firm, according) to th
summary of the reserve bank, an
two, silks and tobacco, are still class-j
as high.
Food Price War Began
Other reports fo/ecast that the wa?
of price-cutting reported from mar
sections of the country last week
expected this week to be extended pr
nouncedly to food products, prices
which heretofore have been held tin
A "Carry Your Own Lunch" ca?
paign will begin, to-morrow in Chicai
and will extend through the week. Eve:
person working in the business secti?
of the city is being urged to carry r
or her lunch as a protest agair
restaurant prices, which are deem
unnecessarily high. A similar mo\
ment is in progress in Detroit.
Chicago authorities announced 1
; night that they would order about fii
. restaurant owners of that city to i
: ouce prices or suffer the consequenc
j of an exposure of the extent of th?
? profits.
The price of flour has fallen 65 cei
! a barrel in the last two davs.
Lower Trend in New England
While little relief from high food
prices is being experienced in New
England, a tendancy is noted for lower
prices in some kinds of meats. Sugar
prices have been reduced there in ,hne
with the general fall in the price jvf
that commodity.
Secretary of the Treasury Houston
announced yesterday in Washington
that the government would not. be a
party to any undertaking to hold com7
modities off the market for speculative
purposes to maintain war prices, al?
though he was in favor of every effort
to promote orderly marketing of prod?
ucts. This attitude of the government
toward extending credits to specu?
lators in foodstuffs ia expected to have
a cumulative effect in reducing prices.
With retailers clamoring for lower
quotations on goods in response to pub?
lic sentiment for moderate- priced mer?
chandise, manufacturers are passing on
the tight on high prices by demanding
reductions on raw materials, the Fed?
eral Bank report says.
Producers Are Affects
Reductions greater than the 25 per
cent on woolens recently announced by
the American Woolen Company are
sought by clothing manufacturers be?
fore they will buy goods, according to
the Federal Reserve Bank report. They
are not going into the market, the gen?
eral feeling being that prices must
come down further before the public
buys. Manufacturers, jobbers and re?
tailers are revising prices downward
as concessions to the high-price boy?
cotting public.
Many retailers are just moving the
stocks they have on hand before pur?
chasing more goods and until the pub?
lic pulse is "sensed."
lne drastic drop in the price of
sugar and a few other food commodi?
ties is regarded by grocers as a fore?
runner of other reductions in food
supplies. Some grocery firms reported
to the Federal Reserve Bank that this
condition has resulted in some cancel?
lations of contracts on goods for future
delivery.
In the general resume of conditions
the bank report points out that witl:
fine yields of crops, prices of product
and fruits have also catapulted down
ward.
Throughout the report it is manifest
that in nearly all commodities th?
piihlic holds the whip hand and is
breaking the backbone of high prie?
levels that have existed during an<
since the war.
Big Drop in Food Prices
Due in Chicago To-day
''Carry-Your-Lunch" Campaign
to Begin and City Will Open
Market on Municipal Pier
Special Dtspqtch to The Tribune
CHICAGO, Sept. 26.--A big drop in
food prices is expected in stores, mar?
kets and. eating place here to-morrow.
The city has planned two smashing
blows at market prices and the prices
of foods in restaurants. The provision
and grain markets have registered an?
other downward trend in prices. Flour
has fallen 65 cents a barrel in the last
two days.
The majority of retailers have not
reduced prices. The fall has been in
the wholesale market, and - the con- :
Burner has so far received very little
benefit from it.
Alderman Max Adamowski and Rub
sel J. Poolc, chairman and secretary
of the Council Living Costs Coramittc-e,
announced to-night that fifty down?
town restaurant proprietors will be
summoned before the committee this
week and ordered to reduce prices or
face exposure of their profits and
prosecution.
The "carry-your-lunch" campaign
begin:' to-morrow. Every downtown
worker will bo urged to bring his own
lunch during tho entire week.
Second Deputy Commissioner of
Public Works Burkhnrdt also an
<C?n!liiu?d M put* <!??) _____
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umna your raeatin* place.?Advt.
D'Annunzio Radio Asks
Recognition for Fiume
LONDON, Sept. 26.?Gabriele
d'Annunzio, commander at Fiume,
has sent a wireless message from
William Marconi's yacht Elektra,
now in Fiume Harbor, in which
recognition of the "Italian Re?
gency of Quarnero," recently pro?
claimed by d'Annunzio, is asked
from all the nations of the world,
says an Exchange Telegraph dis?
patch from Rome to-day.
Senator Myers
Bolts Montana
Party Ticket
Appeals to Fellow Demo?
crats to Vote for Repub?
lican Candidates Except
the Attorney General
Townley Grip Repudiated
Control Declared To Be in
Hands of "Political
Pirates and Bolsheviki"
Fiorri. The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, ?Sept. 26.- In a re?
markable ?statement to his consti?
tuency, Henry Lee Myers, junior Demo?
cratic Senator from Montana, to-day
repudiated the Democratic state
ticket and the Congressional candi?
dates in his state, and called upon
other loyal Democrats to do likewise.
Senator Myers declares that he will
vote the Republican state ticket from
top to bottom with one exception, giv?
ing his support to the Democratic can?
didate for attorney general.
The Montana Senator decided to
come out frankly for the Republican
candidates when, upon returning re?
cently from Europe, he learned that
the Nonpartisan League had captured
the Democratic organization in his
state.
In his statement to the electors of
Montana Senator Myers declared war
on radicalism. It is a continuation of
the fif**ht he has been making in the
Senate during and since the war
against the Reds in this country.
Was Critic of President
Senator Myers's criticisms often
have been directed at the Wilson Ad?
ministration. On the floor of the Sen?
ate he has denounced the Labor De?
partment for its failure to d?port, dan?
gerous radicals, criticized the Presi?
dent for yielding to the ?demand* of
radical labor leaders and declared open
warfare against Samuel Gomp?ra and
other labor leaders who have had the
entree of the White House.
Senator Myers says nothing of the
national ticket. His statement is con?
fined to the situation.in Montana.
Upon returning fron; Europe Sena?
tor Myers said he found that a "band
of political pirates, Socialists and, in
some cases, Bolsheviki have succeeded
in capturing the Democratic party of
Montana."
"The leader of this band," he con?
tinued, "appears to be one A. C. Town
ley, not a resident of Montana, who
has been under indictment for disloy?
alty during the war."
Senator Myers asserts there is no
Democratic party in Montana. "The
Nonpartisan League," he says, "and
its affiliated forces of radicalism have
succeeded in securing the Democratic
nominations on the state ticket, with
one exception, for' their adherents."
Blames Primary System
The blame for this was placed by
Senator Myers on the "operation of
the rotten, direct primary system es?
tablished by law,'' under which "non
Democrats are permitted to vote in
the Democratic primaries and non-Re?
publicans permitted to vote in the Re?
publican primaries."
Senator Myers praised tne qualifica?
tions of Senator Joseph L. Dixon, the
Republican candidate for Governor in
Montana, who was the Roosevelt lead?
er in 1912, saying he would make a
good Governor for the state.
Senator Myers will support W. L.
McCormick, Republican candidate for
Congress in the western district. "For
the post of Attorney General," the Sen?
ator said, "I propose to vote for the
Democratic nominee because he is less
objectionable than his Republican op?
ponent." Democrats in the eastern
-district aro urged to vote for Carl M.
Riddick, Republican candidate for Con?
gress, who, Senator Myers says, "by
experience and character is worthy of
their support."
Senator Myers said he realized that
there were factions in the Republican
partv of Montana and urged that "Re?
publicans forget all their grievances
and unite in their support of Gover?
nor Dixon, whether they like him or
not, and in support of the rest of the
Republican ticket, with the exception
1 have named."
This is the time, Senator Myers said,
"for the decent, respectable people of
Montana to lay aside all factional and
??artisan considerations and unite to
t;avc the state from the riot of social?
ism, hitch taxation, misgovernment and
ruin that menaces the state."
HardingQuits
Porch, Sure
He Is Victor
Senator Departs on His
Second Speaking Trip;
Will Talk on Marine
in Baltimore To-night
Shares One Ohio
Date With Cox
Nominees to Appear on
Same Platform Oct. 4
at Unveiling Ceremony
Prom a Staff Correspondent
MARION, Ohio, Sept. 26.?Senator
Warren G. Harding departed to-night
off his second campaign speaking trip.
The Republican candidate will speak in j
Baltimore to-morrow night on his nopes !
for a great American merchant marine.
He will speak in Wheeling, W. Va.,
Tuesday night, and in Ashland, Ky., !
Wednesday. The front porch campaign
ends with Senator Harding confident
that he will win a sweeping victory.
Senator Harding and Governor Cox
are scheduled to sit down together at
lunch on October 4. at Spiegel Grove,
near Fremont, Ohio. An announcement
of this forthcoming meeting of the two
candidates in their home state was
issued by Harding headquarters to-day.
Senator Harding and Governor Cox
will ??peak from the same platform at
Spiegel Grove at the unveiling of a
memorial tablet in honor of the San
dusky County soldiers who lost their
lives in war.
Both Guests of Colonel Hayes
The two Presidential candidates, ac?
companied by their wives, will be the
guests of Colonel W. C. Hayes, son of
former President Rutherford B. Hayes,
at his home.
The date is the ninety-eighth anni?
versary of the birth of Rutherford B.
Hayes. The ceremonies will mark the
unveiling of a bronze tablet in the
Hayes Memorial Library, in Spiegel
Grove, State Park. The tablet contains
the names of seventy soldiers of San
dusky County who lost their lives in
the war with Spain and the World War.
A beautiful parkway is being con?
structed in the State Park as a me?
morial to the Sandusky County sol?
diers, comprising a driveway about one
hundred feet wide* parked, and with
two paved roadway?.. " In the parking
will be planted buckeye trees, eaeh
tree bearing a tablet with the name of
a deceased soldier.
The Stata P?fk comprises largely the
old Rutherford B. Hayes estate. One
of its ornaments is the Hayes me?
morial building-, in which the tablet is
to be unveiled.
Colonel and Mrs. Haves came to
Marion to-day and were guests at the
Harding home, perfecting arrangements
for the ceremonies.
Invitations for the occasion have
been sent out widelv. The Ohio State
Archaeological and Historical Society
and the Soldiers' Memorial Parkway
Commission of Sandusky County have
the arrangements in hand.
Parade to Precede ?Exercises
The formal exercises at which the
two Presidential candidates will speak
will take place at 1:30 p. m. in Spiegel
Grove, following a parade headed by
the navy recruiting band from the
Great Lakes naval recruiting station
nnd veterans of the World War and the
Spanish-American War. Captain An?
drew Kline, ninety-six years old, a San?
dusky County veteran of the war with
Mexico and also of the Civil War, will
take part. Members of the G. ?. R.
also will appear in the procession in
automobiles.
The meeting will be called to order
by A. E. Slessman, chairman of the
Parkway Commission, who will present
former Governor James E. Campbell
to preside.
Governor Cox will be presented first,
deliver his address, and be followed by
Senator Harding. It is hoped that the
commanders in chief of the G. A. R.,
of the Spanish war veterans and the
World War veterans also will speak
briefly.
Plans had been made for Governor
and Mrs. Cox and Senator and Mrs.
Harding to arrive at Fremont October
3 and remain overnight. The Oriental
Room in the Hayes mansion was to be
set aside for Governor and Mrs. Cox,
while the Hardings were to occupy the
Washington Room. Other speaking
engagements, however, will prevent
Senator Harding from going to Fre?
mont before October 4.
Silent on Letter to Johnson
Concerning Governor Cox's charges
that Senator Harding had written a
letter to Senator Hiram Johnson pledg?
ing himself to scrap the League of Na?
tions, Senator Harding said this after?
noon:
"1 have nothing to say to anybody
on the subject o: foreign relations that
1 I do not say in public utterances. It
? is only fair to Senator Johnson to say
that he never asked me to do so."
The last front-porch delegation came
this afternoon. There were about
twenty former newsboys of Senator
(Continuad *n ?*?* thro)
Hermit, Ten Years on Island,
Comes Back to Civilization
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
NORFOLK, Va., Sept. 26.?Charles H.
Hardcnburg, of Trenton, N. .T., formerly
a student at'Princeton University, re?
turned to civilization this week after
living a hermit's life for ten years on
Watts Island, in Chesapeake Bay.
Mr. Hardenburg is a brother of Dr.
Daniel S. Hardenhurg, of Jersey City.
He went to the island primarily to re?
gain his health, but incidentally to win
n wager made with a friend that he
could live ten years on an island with?
out the companionship of man or
woman.
His health became impaired while ?*
Princeton through overwork. Accomr
panied by his brother, Hardenburg
came to Virginia, picked out Wstts
Island arbitrarily and took up his abode
there. To prevent his being molested
Dr Hardenburg bought the island ?nd
i stocked it with farm implements, ioo?
I and horses. Each year since that day
Hardenburg has left his island once
to stock up on provisions and clothes,
I going either to Onancock, Va., or Cris
tield. Md.
Soon the horses died and Hardenburg
gave up agricultural life. He spent
time with the library of books he had
brought with him and at what fish and
crabs be could catch.
The cold winters he survived without
difficulty, as his supply of clothes was
adequate and the house lie hud fash?
ioned was snug and well protected from
the weather. Canned and dried food
that he had brought from the nearest
markets supplied his needs through the
winter months, and when he was not
out exercising in the winds he was de?
voting himself to hard study. Occa?
sional ships passed the island, but
through the ten years Hardenburg had
no one with whom to converse.
Ha leaves the island much improved
in health.
While at Princeton Hardenburg wa3
an intimate friend of Joseph Tumulty,
now secretary to President Wilson?
Belfast Riots Renewed; !
Four Sinn Feiner s Slain
After 3 Police Are Shot
Root Home;
Is Silent on
World Court
Hibben's Statement That
Hague Envoy Held No
Brief for League Foes!
Fails to Move Senator
Elihu Root, former Secretary of State
and United States Senator from New
York, returned yesterday from The
Hague. He passed four months abroad
assisting in the creation of a perma?
nent' court of international justice. He
was a passenger on the' Holland-Amer?
ica liner Rotterdam and was marooned
thirty hours in a fog off Sandy Hook.
The nature of his mission to The
Hague, he said, made it impossible for
him to discuss in public speeches or
in interviews for the press anything
having to do with politics or interna?
tional affairs.
He .said he put his resolve into prac?
tice as soon as he landed in Europe,
making no comment whatever for pub?
lication, aj5|d his determination to ad?
here to this rule had not changed with
his return to America.
Silent on Hibben Statement
Mr. Root was- accompanied by hi3
wife and son and the latter's wife. He
departed with them for his home in this
city soon after the Rotterdam docked.
The former Senator listened with in?
terest when informed that Dr. John
Grier Hibben, president of Princeton
University, had been quoted in a morn-,
ing newspaper as saying that Mr. Root
"had taken no brief to kill the League
of Nations, but rather to preserve it,
and to bring America, safeguarded by
her Constitution, into it."
His only comment was that he had
met Dr. Hibben in London at the din?
ner given by the British government
following the dedication of the Lincoln
statue.
Dr. Hibben was further quoted as
saying: "I do not'believe" that Mr. Root
accepts the argument of league oppo?
nents who say that by entering it (the
league) America automatically engages
herself to participate in Any and every
European war. Only within the limits
of her Constitution she would be ready
' to throw her power into a combination
to thwart any diabolical attempt to de?
stroy solely, such as the last war was."
i Dr. Hibben's expression of what he
believed Mr. Root thought mad.i no
visible change in the Senator's deter?
mination to maintain his silence.
When the clipping was offered to
him he took it, saying he had better
not read it at that moment, remarking
with a smile that it might be the basis
of an interview.
Caught in Political Fog
Asked if he contemplated taking any
active part in the Presidential cam?
paign, Mr. Root replied: "Not to the ex?
tent of giving an interview now."
"Well, Senator," said a friend in the
group about him, "getting away from
the trip to The Hague and politics, can
you tell the reporters why you did not
get home on Saturday, as was ex?
pected?"
"Yes, I can answer that," he re?
plied. "We ran into the outskirts of
the Dolitic;'.l situation outside Sandy
Hook. We anchored there in the fog
since early Saturday morning and have
been there ever since."
Mr. Root said that his health was ex?
cellent, but that he had worked hard
for the four months he was away and
by no means could regard his stay as
a vacation.
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Hubbell Says Spirit Made
Him Give Up $61.000
Declares Mrs. Hirons Told Him
of Messages Received From
Deceased Red Cross Founder
ROCKVILLE, Md., Sept. 26. ?Dr.
I Julian B. Hubbell, secretary of the
? late Clara Barton, founder of the Amer
| ican Red Cross, filed suit in the Cir
j cuit Court here to-day to recover from
? Mrs. Maybelle Rawsorc" Hirons prop
I erty. cash and bonds valued at $61,000,
i which he claims he turned over to Mrs.
1 Hirons under the influence of messages
from the spirit of Miss Barton. -The
court issued an order temporarily re?
straining Mrs. Hiron3 from disposing
of any of the property mentioned in
the proceedings.
Dr. Hubbell, who at one time was
i chief of the medical staff of the Red
I Cross, declared in his bill of complaint
j that in 1914 Mrs. Hirons informed him
| that the spirit of Miss Barton had ap?
peared to her and had directed that he
turn over to her his property for use
in building a memorial to Miss Barton.
He further alleges that recently he
? learned that the memorial project had
I been abandoned.
E. F. Hutton's Son Dies
After Fall From Horse
Victim, Only 19 Y-ears Old, Was
to Have Entered Yale
Next Month
Haicourt Hutton. nineteen years old,
son of Edward F. Hutton, senior mem?
ber of the firm of E. F. Hutton & Co.,
bankers and brokers, of 61 Broadway,
died yesterday morning in the hospital
of Dr. George S. King, at Bayshore,
L. I., from injuries he suffered Sat?
urday evening while riding on his
father's estate on Saxons Avenue, be?
tween Bayshore and Islip. The horse
which he was exercising stumbled and
fell on him, and then dragged him some
distance.
He was picked up unconscious and
was hurried to the hospital of Dr. King,
where it was found that he was suffer?
ing from a fracture of the skull. An
operation was performed as the only
chance of saving his life by Dr. King,
assisted by Dr. Fred Tilney and Dr.
George David Stewart, of this city,
Halcourt Hutton was to have entered
Yale next month.
The young man's mother, whose
maiden name waa Blanche Bort?n, dle?
two years ago. Hie father married Mrs
Marjorie Post Close laat July.
Irish Property Owners
Rush to Get Insurance
CORK, Sept. 26.?There has
been a rush of property owners
to take out insurance which
Lloyds has revived after the re?
cent suspension. The rates are
extremely high. No policies are
issued if the applicant or any
near relative is connected with a
political organization.
There is hardly a shop in the .
principal str??et of Cork whose
front is not boarded up to pre*
vent damage in the ivent of raids
or rioting. /
_ 1 _I
TokioConsiders
IL S. Parley at
'Serious Stage'
Both Governments Making
Utmost Efforts to Solve
California Problem, Vis?
count Uchida Believes
Attack Against Secrecy
Reported Japanese Officials
Will Urge High Commis?
sion to Settle Question
TOKIO, Sept. 26 (By The Associated
Press). ? Negotiations between the
Japanese and United States govern?
ments with reference to the immigra?
tion question are entering "the serious
stage," Baron Sakatani, former Min?
ister of Finance, has informed the
Koseikai party in the House of Peers,
reporting an interview with Viscount
Uchida, Foreign Minister. Asserting
that thia waa the only statement con?
cerning the negotiations whi?ih>1t Wa?
possible to disclose, Baron Sakatani
quoted the Foreign Minister as say?
ing that both governments were mak?
ing the utmost effort to arrive at an
amicable settlement.
Foreign Minister Uchida went to
Odawara to-day and conferred regard?
ing the California question with Field
Marshal Yamagata, supreme military
councillor and president of the Privy
Council.
An attack against secrecy in con?
nection with Japan's diplomacy in the
California problem is made in a state?
ment by Marquis Okuma, former Pre?
mier. He demands that the govern?
ment respond to national opinion,
which should be awakened to the
gravity of the issues.
Says Reds Are Peril to United States
The presence of 100,000 industrious
Japanese is no menace to America,
says the marquis. The real menace
is from the anarchists and B?k?hevikir
who are flocking into the Un?t??Stet??l
from Europe.
After pointing out that many Jap?
anese subscribed to the American
Liberty loans and made donations to
the Red Cross and that some of them
volunteered for service with the army,
Marquis Okuma declares:
"We must appeal to the fair judg?
ment of enlightened Americans, and, if
necessary, to the nations of the world.
Moreover, there is ample ground for
the Japanese to insist on their legal
rights, so there is no need to jump
at hasty conclusions and try high?
handed measures."
High Commission Proposed
The newspaper Yomi-Uri, in an article
to-day on the Japanese-American situ?
ation, says it understands the govern?
ment will propose the Appointment of
a hifjh commission to deal with the
problems between the two countries if
the anti-Japa-iese reffrcr.dum measures
:n California ere passed. The news?
paper quotes Viscount Shibusawa,
president of the American-Japan So?
ciety, as admitting \\*t the commis?
sion project is being discussed, but
saying he would recommend to Premier
Hera that the result of the referendum
be awaited. If it were unfavorable, he
added, he thought that representative
Japanese should go to America and dis?
cuss the problem with men like ex
President Taft and Frank W. Vanderlip.
Personally, Viscount Shibusawa is
quoted as adding, he believed thj ex?
tension of the naturalization privilege
to the Japanese in California would be
thf best solution of the difficulty, as
they and their pjstcrity would thus
escape "further persecution" by Amer?
icans.
To Hetire from Nikolaievsk
Japanese troops are to be withdrawn
from Nikolaievsk this winter. Minister
of War Tanaka has informed the gov?
ernors of the empire in an address.
This, however, does n?>t necessarily
mean a permanent evacuation, he added.
He explained that insufficient prepara?
tions had been made to winter the
troops in the rigorous climate of Niko?
laievsk, but that such arrangements
probably would be completed by the
succeeding wjnter.
Russia Tells France It
"Bows to Brute Force"
Tchitcherin Answer? Threat of
Naval Action Unless Prison?
ers Are Repatriated
I LONDON. Sept. 26.?The French
threat that unless all Freticb prisoners
in Russia aje repatriated by October
1 the Frenc^ Black Sea fleet will take
action against Soviet Russia has
brought the reply from M. Tehitcherin,
the Soviet Foreign Minister, "we must
bow to brute force," according to a
wireless message from Moscow.*
M. Tchitcherin protests against
such action by the French, declaring
that Russia has no guarantee that the
Russians in France will be repatriated
THE ri-ZA
QRIIX ROOM now ?pon. 7m? Oianai
?vad Sup-par X)a_.M.
Carsonites Take Swift
Reprisal for Killing
of One Constable and
Wounding of 2 Others
Two Armed Camps
Set Up in the City;
Reign ofJTerror Feared in
Renewal of Bloodshed;
Armored Cars on Patrol
By Frank Getty
From The Tribune's European Bureau
Copyright, 1920, New York Tribuno Ine.
LONDON, Sept. 26.?There was
grave news to-day from Belfast.
Three police constables on duty near
the Sinn F?in quarter of the city
were shot late last night. In quick
reprisal, parties of Carsonites visit?
ed the homes of several Sinn Fein*
ers, called four of them to theit
doors and shot them dead.
Rioting, with revolver shooting
and stone-throwing, resulted,' and
lasted intermittently throughout the
day. The police, assisted by th?
military and armored cars, finally
quelled the disturbances, although
order has not been completely re?
stored.
It is feared that the disorders may
touch off the ever inflammable sec?
tarian hate and lead to a renewal of
the bloodshed and destruction of
property which threw Belfast into
a state of terror last August.
Two police' constables were On duty
on Broadway Falls Road in the Cath?
olic quarter when they were ap?
proached hxjtwo unidentified men who
opened fire with their revolvers at
close range.
Two Men Arrested
One constable fell dead and the other
wae .eriously -wcunaed. At 'O?* sime
time two other constables at the corner
of Barracks and Mill streets were fired
_on by four men. One constable was
seriously wounded. The other escaped
with bullet holes in his cape.
Two men have been arrested in con?
nection with the shootings.
The Unionist reprisals were meted out
without mercy. Going to the houses of
four well-known Sinn F?iners living
outside the Catholic quarters, the loy?
alists awoke the households, called out
their intended victims and shot them
dead.
Word of these contrasting atrocities
spread through the city, ajid by 10
o'clock this morning Belfast once more
was divided into two armed camps.
Gangs of Catholics clashed with the
Unionists in Foundry Street and again
in Clonanton Street, Where consider?
able destruction of property and in?
juries on both sides were caused with
_tfcrown stones. Later revolvers'wert
-?brought into play by both the Cath?
olics and Unionists. Police reserves
finally dispersed the ?mobs, but they
came together again later in Stanhope
Street, where general sectarian rioting
began to spread through the district.
BELFAST, Sept. 26.?The Falls dis?
trict of Belfast was seething with ex?
citement to.day as a result of the mur?
der last night of a policeman, the
wounding of two others and the swift
vengeance enacted in the killing of
three civilians.
To-night fierce rioting broke out in
north Belfast, the scone of tne clashes
and assassinations a few hours earlier.
First reports from the hospitals were
that five gunshot cases and many otheF
injuries were being treated.
Previously the shootings in this city
had occurred in the heat of rioting, but
now for the first time deliberately
planned killings have been carried out.
The affair had its beginnings at 11
o'clock Saturday night as Constable?
Leonard and Carroll were patrolling
the Falls Road. When passing a publia
house they heard footsteps behind
them. Swinging around, they were con?
fronted by two men armed with re?
volvers, who ordered hands up. "
Three Shots Missed
Simultaneously with the order fins
was opened upon the officers, and
Leonard fell dead, the first bullet tak?
ing effect in the bjraast. His companion
had a miraculous escape. Four shots
were directed at him. Three o? them
missed, the fourth lodging in the thigh.
Apparently thinking both men dead, the ?
assassins made off.
At about the same time Constables
Farrell and Kearin were fired upon in
a locality about a mile from the seen?
of the other attack. The assailants
sprang upon the policemen unex?
pectedly. Farrell was shot in the arm,
Kearin was knocked down/ and several
shots were fired at him while he was
on the ground. Some of the bullet?
passed through his cape without touch?
ing his body, and he came out of the
affair unscathed. Farrell was taken
'to a hospital.
The reprisals came swiftly. Shortly
after 3 o'clock this morning three
civilians, Edward Trodzen, John Mae
Fadden and John Gaynor, who lived
near the scene of the attacks upon the
nolicemen, were slain in their homes.
Different parties visited each house.
Four men took part in the shooting
of Trodzen, who was a barber. After
knocking at the door they fired a shot
through the barber shop window.
Trodzen's son opened the door and the
men, wearing masks, rushed upstairs.
They dragged- Troazen Ao the yard,
where several shots were fired at hia
head, shattering it. T\e men immedi?
ately left without molesting the other
occupants of the house.
Shooting Near Barracks -
The scene of the second shooting
was a hundred yards from the Spring?
field Road Barracks. Hera three men
knocked. MaeFadden opened the door.
Several shots war? discharged at him
and he hell daad on the doorstep.
Gaynor met hi? fate further alen?
the Springfield Road. His mother an?
swered the. ?tapping en the doer and