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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8. 1920
THE WEATHER
Fair to-day and to-morrow; somewhat
warmer to-day; moderate north?
west to west winds.
Full report on laRt pas?
In
?TWO CENTS
lircotrr ?w York
THRICE ( KM? | rOVft Cl
Within 200 Mi!*i I r.Nrrth
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2-1 Victory
Gives Robins
Series Lead
Indians Get Three Hits Off
Sherrod Smith in Third
(rimie;Ca!flweI!Knoeke??
Out After Runs Are Made
8100 Infield Stops
Speaker's Baiters
Next Contest in Cleveland
To-morrow; Robinson
Says HeTl Win Title
By W. O. McGeehan
The brooding (;>.??< who have been
watcl r.g the current world's series
came to life yesterday when the
Brooklyn Dodders took the third
game from the Cleveland Indians at
Ebbets Field by the score of 2 to
1. Uncle Wilbert Robinson's cast
offs, gathered from the back yards
of the big leagues and the little
leagues, begin to look like world's
champions.
The repression that was in evi?
dence at Ebbets Field in the first j
two games broke in the third game, !
and the li cal baseball bug not only j
began to sit up and take notice, but
ho shrieked with the old abandon.!
i ? ries i? starring to restore his
faith ai I his voice. If it keeps this
pace the series cf 1919 will be only,
? mare.
Ray i . ' same "Slim" who
way out of the New York
irted foi t hi Indians, and
ho last ' an nning. He left
funs sei red against
runs v. t?re enough :
i ... -:...-, ._. ? j h er rod
ried a left- landed En
field o acked by 1 he Brooklyn ;
dians .safe for the '
i
That Greal $100 Infield , j
Thi ? ? ?. nfield held 1 he Indians
; ' rama of 1 he pl< a <a.-.r
a ". : a time tin v used
I. The infield
i i ? Charles H.
; . '.';! Squiro of Flat
b $100 in actual
ii made tue H an
Dollar Quartet look
? i l ??: ! ]?
i , netchy, who was
. " ' ..." ; t he
? first; I'el rkin Ivil
duff, v. ? the ai r by John .1.
[van Oi ' jected -,>y t he
. ' ihoit, an ?! J im my
' . [baseman
!dii ?? '. aterial.
Pcti ' i'.duff, the discarded
( . i .. I ? rst b; seba! i in
the Gmal yards, and 1 ig Ed Ko
; ? the brighl and p?rticu
Thi part they played in
oim iva made the Hundred
, dim men ories of the
ind Dollar Quartet.
jump v, ith bew :' ?
ye itcrday. It hap
n . "SI . i" Cald
near I In plate ? m, and the
got a base on bails.
- n lumpi .1 a n< at saci. ?
; ?' oi th ? piale, and < ?lson
d.
< aldwell Loses Self-Possession
11, a near-hero of the
0] ne, set Caldweil'i nerves on
mbling a poke by Tommy
? Olson on ti ird o nd
at nrst. ( irdinai ily Cald
'? ' ? ? . mosl . | o ; sed young
. world. He used to wear the
, happj ; i-lucky smile in
victory and in defeat when he was
with I ': ki an : ?ravi Wiid Bill
is first gray hairs ' by Ins
? ricities,
"Slim" suddi nly 1 e
;: .??>? serious person. When
? ball he began, tu
. .-..: al the dirt in
pikes. For
life < ?a dwi . : was serious
?.. ? ... and t? al might
have : ?ms undoing. Zack Wheat
single between third arul
?
Tar Indians' infield began to fidget
: Iwell's head dropped
ped at the dirt again
[*< w petulant flings to first.
; days Caldw .' used to bo a
f?jt worker, but yesterday he hesitated
first time in a ? ball game.
hed a hit just past Burn: ,
m, and Griffith scored.
_ rhat \vn the last <>;" "Slim" for t he
' ? rris Speaker can.:' in from
e O'Neill v alked down
ii 1 ? . . tcher' box and the infield
? ound them in consultation.
.ie left hi nd ?r v ith
the si rut of a
actor, ? ( i ode into the
e i dwi II, with his eternal
ik back to the Clev( -
at. That was tin gamo, and
' prove to be th > series.
"'Duster" is the young man who
. . : >d fn m th ? ? ?- I --?
itrengthen the rapidly tiring Indian
iff at the tail end of the
' ' ' Lei ene season, and the
'Duster" did that little thing. He kept
(Contlnifd en page twelve)
Ebert in Trial Refutes
Charge of Drunkenness
Writer Who Published Report
President Visited 'Barroom
? Expresses His KrjarW
Sp?( id I ( ,'ii:'. ?o Tin : ribu i '
' ' S>? J ?ii. Ti II '? no Im
, BERLIN, Oct. 7. ? President Ebert
defended himself successfully in court',
<n Muhich yesterday against a charge '
"' drunkenness mad.- by Frederich
JTreaka, a writer in the humorous week?
ly Phosphor. Witnesses were called
?rom Ebert's immediate entourage, who.
belong to the old buraoiscracy and
"fc not Socialists. They comfttetely ex?
onerated the President, testifying to I
'">' rigid simplicity of his manner of j
?b ;"? and to his abstinence.
rrcska based his charge on a report
that President Ebert had visited a cer?
tain barroom in Berlin at a time when,
the defense proved, Ebi r< was no! e\ n
", Berlin. Freksa Anally agreed to
* ithdraw his charge, express regret
'????^ admit the falsity of his writings.
?;r also agreed to stand the costs of;
M?e suit. I
IL S. Population 105,683,108:
51 Per jCent Live in Cities
Fig-res May Reach 118,000^000 When Possessions
and Citizens Abroad Are Tabulated ; War
and Influeik ' i Halt Gains
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. - The 1920
population of continental United
States was announced to-day by the
Censas Bureau as 105,683,108. This
was an increase of 13,710,842, or 14.1)
per cent, since 1910.
To-day's total does not include the
populations of outlying possessions,
which will he announced as soon as
the figures for Alaska and the mili?
tary and naval services abroad are
tabulated. It is estimated, however,
that those possessions have 12,250,000
inhabitants, so the total number of
people living under the American flag
is in round numbers 118,000,000
The figures for continental United
States compare with 91.972,266 ten
years ago and 75,994,575 twenty
years ago. The increase lor the last
decade, however, Teil li.i per cent he
low that of the preceding decade.
Immigration Decrease Felt
Director Rogers of the Census Bu?
reau, in a formal statement, attributed
this reduction to the almost complete
stoppage of immigration during the
World War, an increase in emigration
during the same period, deaths in the
influenza epidemic of 1917-1918, and
war casualties.
The statement noted that the trend
of population from the country to the
city had been greatly accentuated since
1910. For the first time in the coun?
try's history, it said, more than hall
the entire population was now living
in urban territory.
Preliminary tabulations. Mr. .Rogers
said, showed that 54,816,209, persons
were living in Incorporated places of
2,500 inhabitants or more and 50,860,
899 in rural territory.
This situation was clearly reflected
in the figures as to farms in the coun?
try, which also were made public to?
day. These placed the total of farms
at 6,459,998, an increase of only 98,-100
or 1.5 per cent in ten years, as against.
an increase of 624,l30 or 10.9 per cent
in the decade ending in 1910.
Mr. Rogers's statement said in part:
"It may bo roughly estimated that
the annual excess of births over deaths
throughout the United States is ap
proximity 1 per cent.
"The excess of immigration over
emigration during the decade was ap?
proximately 3,733,000. Since the bulk
of these foreign-born persons came to
the country during the first lour years
of the decade it may be roughly esti?
mated that the increase due to excess
of births over deaths in their families
was about 10 per cent.
Many Quit Farms for City
"During the decade there has been
an increase in that portion of the
population living in urban territory of
12,192,820, or 28.6 per cent, and in thai
portion living in rural territory of 1,
518,016, or only ?.l per cent.; and il
the comparison is extended to covei
the two classes of rural territory i'
appears that that portion living in in
corporated places of less than 2.500 in
habitants shows an increase of 1,745,
371, or 21.5 per cent, whereas that por
tion living in purely country district;
shows an actual decrease of 227,555, o
six-tenths of 1 nor cent.''
Five Killed, 26
Hurt in Tanker
Blow-Up at Pier
Three Olhers Missing in
Brooklyn Gas Explosion;
Two Victims Are Burned
Beyond Recognition
Man in Hospital May Die
l se of Acetylene Torch
or Spark From Cigar
Thought Possible Causes
An explosion of gas on the tank
steamship G. 11. Crowe, in her berth at
the James She wan & Sons shipyard,
at the foot of Twenty-seventh Street.
Brooklyn, yesterday afternoon, killed
five men and injured nVore than a score.
Three are missing and it is believed
' ley either were blown to pieces or
were thrown into the water and
drowned.
The dead men, all of them workmen
employed by the shipyard, were:
Joshua Start, thirty-three years old,
o. Third Avenue and .Nineteenth Street,
Brooklyn. Start, who is survived by a
. . ow and three young daughters, was
blown through the roof of a machine
shop and instantly killed.
Thomas Fox, thirty-four years old,
of 1214 Boynton Street, the Bronx.
John McCoy, forty-nine years old, of
5801 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn,
Two unidentified men.
Six in Hospital
Six of the seriously injured are in
hospitals, They are:
Peter Keane, thirty-six years old, of
5010 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn, in
!.gian Hospital, with burns of the
body, fuer and head and a fractured
leg. He may die.
Albert Suyerson, twenty-nine years
old, of 518 'Fifty-second Street, eyes
,nd face burned.
Herbert Halstead, forty years old, of
4915 Sixth Avenue, burns of head and
face.
Lawrence McKeon, thirty-two years
old, of 442 Forty-first Street, body
burned.
t red Perry, forty-eight years old, of
138 East Third Street, head and face
burned.
I-'..?ward Daton, twenty-nine years
old, ol 442 Forty-ninth Street, burns of
eyes and face.
Twenty other men who were caught
in the blast were attended on the doc.k
bj ambulance surgeons and sent home.
(Continued on paga toven)
L\ S. Hospital Uses Force
On insane Hunger Strike!
Denver Objector Given Enough
Nourishment Daily to Sustain
Healih, but Refuses to Eat
Fro, I /''???:'.: ?:?? ii i; .?-. ...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7..Hungei
striking does not thrive as successfully
;n St. Elizabeth's Hospital, the Federal
government's institution for the treat
men of insane patients in this city,
as it does in Brixton jail infirmary,
where Terence MacSwincy, Lord M^yor
of Cork, has gone without food for
fifty-six days
Forcible feeding \a begun and con?
tinued on patients in the United States
t i pita! before hunger strikers really
:.:ei under headway. The lates; in?
stance of unsuccessful hunger strik?
ing in St. Elizabeth's is the case of
Bei jamin .1. S< lomon, of Denver, a con?
scientious objector, who was brought
to the Washington hospital frota the
covt i nment hospital at Fort Douglas,
Utah, on July 15, eighty-four days ago,
IB' immediately refused to eat and has
consistently declined voluntary feed?
ing since. Forcible feeding, however,
was decided upon by the hospital au?
thorities within a few days after Solo?
mon's fasting began and he has been
given sufficient nourishment each day
in sustain him in comparative good
health, hospital physicians said.
Solomon, through the Civil Liberties
Union of New York City, is seeking
hi:, reler.se from the hospital on the
srround that he is illegally confined
thenp. Babeas corpus proceedings for
his re!e:i:-e have been filed in the Dis?
trict of < olumbla "Supreme Court by
Attorney Seth J. Shepherd jr.
Domestle Holi? l'robIem?
easily solvod l>y consulting Situation
?\ .i ? tod Female Ada. thiii appear In The
Tribune dairy "*? by Inserting e Help
Wanted Ad. Phone Beekman S000 or ?o
to ?i,\ Tribun* Wani *,?!. Atronr.y. >Advt
Britain Plans
-s Rail and Mail
Tie-Up of Erin
Government Said to Threat?
en Reprisals for Refusal
of Irish Employers to
Transport Its Munitions
Two 3Iore Are Slain
Dublin ('asile Statement
Scores Failure to Punish
Assailants of- the Police
DUBLIN', Oct. 7 (By The Associated
Press).?It is hinted in authoritative
quarters here that Ireland is faced
with a further curtailment in railway
operations and a possible cessation, or
at least a severe curtailment, of all
postal and telegraph services. The cor?
respondent understands that the gov?
ernment's position is accurately re?
flected in the following statement made
to him this afternoon:
'"For more than three months the
railway employees have refused to car?
ry munitions or the military and po?
lice. The railways were taken over
during the war under an act to insure
priority for government use. Large
sums were pai<l the Irish railways
which benefited both employees and
shareholders, who are mostly Irish?
men.
Deprived of Priority
''But the government has not re?
ceived the priority lor which it paid.
In fact, it has been actually deprived,
with'two exceptions, of the us? of the
railways for its most urgent needs.
Care hitherto has been taken to re?
frain from any action which would be
likely to force an issue. It has been
hoped that a way out might be found
which would not involve the stoppage
of railway facilities, but the time is
coming when the government may
have to insist on its rights. The pos?
tal and telegraph services are in the
same position, as a result of raids on
the mails and the cutting of telegraph
wires."
The police barracks at Feakle, Ei t
Clare, were attacked to-day by a large
body of armed men. Constable Will?
iam Stanley was shot dead and Ser?
geant Doherty severely wounded.
A police patrol was attacker] near
Pomeroy, County Tyrone. Onp con?
stable was shot through the breast,
the other ten members oi the party
escape;) injury.
Failing to answer a sentry's chal?
lenge, John Clifford, seventeen years
old, was hot last night near his home
m Londonderry and di d to-day.
Outstanding Offenses
Dublin Castle this afternoon gave
out a list of outstanding offenses from
January 1 to the week ending October
2. it was accompanied by the state?
ment that it was "a significant fact
that for all the murder:', and shooting
i! police the number of perpetrators
apprehended could be counted on the
; i cei s on one hand."
"In this fact," the statement adds,
"might be found the motive for re?
prisals. The authorities cannot get
the men responsible, or, if they <lo,
they get off through hunger-striking
or clemency of the government. Xu
one can be found to testify against
them, either through intimidation or
because of political .sentiment. There?
fore, many of the police feel that
drumhead justice is the only way to
deal with them.''
The list of offenses follows:
"Courthouses destroyed, 63; Royal
(Continued en next p.ice)
Sinn Fein for Dominion
Rule if Majority Agrees
LONDON, Oct. 7.?Leaders of
the Sinn Fein have intimated
that, although they desire com?
pleto separation of Ireland from
England, they would not oppose
a broad measure of dominion
home rule if it-can be proved a
majority of the Irish people de?
mand it, says the Daily Mail.
The first thing that will be done,
the newspaper says, will be the
creation of a constituent assem?
bly for Ireland, in which Ulster
will be given representation.
Used for Cox,
Says Brewer
$26,242.50 Paid Out by
Flood Prevention Board
i oReimbun-? ?Democratic
CampaigiiDonorsinOhio
Hypocrisy Is Bared
At Senate Inquiry
$5,000NoteGivenbyGov
ernor in 1916 Was Paid
by Metal Products Check
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
DAYTON, Ohio, Oct. 7.-?Evidence
adduced at the first session in Dayton
to-day of the .Senate sub-committee in?
vestigating campaign expenditures cen?
tered around three revelations:
A note for $5,000, dated August 10,
1917, given by Governor Cox to the
City National Bank of Dayton, and
paid on June 29, 1913, with a check
of the Dayton Metal Products Com?
pany for $5,075, covering principal
and interest.
The payment of $20,242.50 on Feb?
ruary a, 1918, out of funds of the
Dayton Flood Prevention Committee
to reimburse men who had con?
tributed to Cox's 1910 gubernatorial
campaign.
The payment of expenses of three
'temporary organizations which
boosted Cox in his 1910 campaign,
aggregating $31,000, by Adam
Schant.'/':, former Dayton lawyer, out
of funds of which $2,000 was con?
tributed by the Dayton Metal
Products Company, as representing
37,000 subscriptions of individuals.
The sworn reports filed under the
corrupt practices act hid the source
of the money by listing Democratic
state, city and county employees as
the contributors.
Hypocrisy Revealed
Hypogrisy practiced in behalf of Cox
in 1916 was revealed by Schantz, who
was examined on the stand by Senator
Walter E. Edge, of New Jersey, Repub?
lican member of the sub-committee.
Senator Alice Pomerene, of Ohio, is
the Democratic member.
Expense accounts Hied under the cor
rupi practices act with the Secretary
of State list the following three mush?
room organizations which lived only
through the 1916 campaign:
forward Looking Association of
Ohio, receipts, $12,600; expenditures,
$12,663.73.
Independen? Voters' League of Cuya
hoga County, receipts, $8.200; expendi?
tures. $?8,191.60.
' League for the Protection and Pre?
servation of the Workmen's Compensa?
tion Law, receipts, $10,800; expendi?
tures, $10,700.
The?Forward Looking Association re?
port says that it was formed to support.
Cox; so doe- the Independent Voters'
League report
The Workmen's Compensation
League report says its purpose was to
presi rve and protect the Ohio Com?
pensation act.
Schantz testified he gave to William
Mason for the Forward Looking As?
sociation, $12,000; to Gale Hartley, for
the Independent Voters' League, $8,600,
and to .Morris Sloman, for the Work?
men's Compensation League, $10,400.
Schantz said he understood the organ?
izations were to work toward flood pro?
tection and in behalf of candidates
favorable to it.
Senator V/?{ brought out on examin?
ation of Schantz that although Schantz
testified he furnished nearly all the
funds spent by each association, their
.-.worn reports hid this bj giving a list
of dummy contributors for each as?
sociation, the sums of money after the
names aggregating approximately in
each case the total Schantz said he
turned over for their operation.
The Dummy Contributors
The dummy contributors in each in?
stance were largely-Democratic state,!
county, city employees or ex-employ?
ers, although some brewers, saloon?
keepers and attorneys were included
Schantz said the $31,000 he gai ?' the
three Laitues was raised as follows:
From Colonel E. A. Deeds, IL E. T'al
b itt, ' '. !?'. Kettering, Walter Kidder
and Schant:: himself, $7,000 each;
from F. M. Tait, $2,000.
Marvyn Scudder, New York account?
ant, testified the Dayton Metal Prod?
ucts Company, which owned the Day?
ton Wright Airplane Company, paid
the contributions of $7,000 each for
Deeds, Talbott and Kcttering.
Deeds was one of the original incor?
porate? of the Dayton-Wright Air?
plane Company, which was controlled
bj the Metal Products Company. Tal
bott was preside lit of th Meta
Products Company and of the City N
tional Lank of Dayton, His son, M. E.
(Continued on nrxt pr.ge)
League Flatly
Repudiated
By Harding
'Strikes Deadly Blow at
Constitutional Integrity,'
Senator Tells Throng o?
9,000 at Des Moines'
Urges Association
Of Nations Plan
Replying to Heckler, He
Says U. S. Troops Have
No Business in Germany
From n Staff Correspondent
DMA ?A, Neb., Oct. 7.?Senator War?
ren G. Harding to-day campaigned his
way across the vast corn held that is
called Iowa, delivering more than a
dozen speeches. In an afternoon ad?
dress at Dos Moines the Republican
Presidential nominee declared that tho
Treaty of Versailles already had been
scrapped and added that, "in simple
words, I favor staying out."
Senator Harding continued: "It is
not interpretation "but rejection I am
seeking. My position is that the pro?
posed League of Nations strikes a
deadly blow at our constitutional in- !
tegrity and surrenders to a dangerous!
extent our independence of action."
Assuring his hearers that he favored '
some scheme of international coopera- I
tion, the Senator said: "We shall have!
an association of nations for the pro?
motion of international peace, but one;
which shall so definitely safeguard our
sovereignty and recognize our ultimate
and unmortgaged freedom of action
that it will have back of it not a di-1
vided and distracted sentiment but the
united support of the American people."!
Would Return U. S. Troops
Senator Harding, replying to a ques?
tion, said that American troops;
had no business in Germany and
that as soon as peace was de
clared they would be coming home.
To a question about Ireland, the nomi
nee said h ? would no more tell Great
Britain what to do with Ireland than,
to permit Croat Britain to tell us what ;
we should do with the Philippines.
"Somebody has been saying that there'
is doubt about my position respecting;
the Pari-, League of Nations," declared
the Senator. "Weil, I tun not for it. j
The Democratic nominee for President
has said he is in favor of going in. 1|
am not in favor of going in.
"Somebody wants to know if I am in!
accord with Senator Borah, or whether j
I have promised' Sen; tor Johnson to
scrap the league. Well, it does not
matter whether I am in accord wiwi
Senator Borah or mit. As a matter of
fact. I am not in complete accord with
Senator Borah. Lut as President of
t'no United States I would be in one.
position ami as Senaten' he would be in
another, and I do not pretend that I
will control the Senate of the United
States when I ant President.
Says Wilson Scrapped League
"Senator Johnson and I have nevef
-aid anything about scrapping the
league. The President scrapped the
league himself, and hie chief agent was
my friend and your friend and neigh?
bor, Senator Gilbert Hitchcock, of Ne?
braska.
"Somebody says arc you going to
submit this league to the Senate?
N'ever, my countrymen, with Article 1U
in it."
Tin1 Senator's second principal ad
(!'?'?..-? of th" day, in Omaha to-night,
was on lav.' ami order. Violence and
terrorism must be puigpd from Amen-!
can life, the nominee declared in a!
speech that followed a parade through !
streets tilled a year ago with ?i mob
that burned the courthouse, lynched
a. negro, trVd to hang the Mayor and
looted stores. "Official terrorism" was1
interpreted by the Senator's audience!
as an attack on the Department of
?I ustico.
Gets Ovation at De? .Moines
On his ai rival at Des Moines, Senator
and Mr::. Harding were met at the
trail by Governor and Mrs. W. L.
Harding, Nate Ken ! ? i. Repul? icen
candidate for Governor; Senator Al
bi rt i'-\D\-i\\:'>. a close fri ind of Si nator
Harding. ? nd Henry < '. Wallace, pub?
lisher of Wallace's Farmer, and mans'
other distinguished reside::* ? of the
city.
The candidate was driven to the
Fort Les Moines Hotel through a hat
waving crowd that lined the curbs on
both sides "!" the street. Thor.' was a
reci ption at the hotel and then the
party started for the Auditorium,
where 0 000 : ers ms had : at liered.
Dean Ilolrti' - Cowper, of Drake Uni?
versity, made the r-rowd sing "Keep
he home .; is burning" and was just
itarting them on "Lack up your
?. ubh s" ''? hen the audi mce spi d the
ray head of Senator Harding in the
door at th side of the p atforn . There
(Continued en r-v three)
H
?V.??CI1 a il
jOlllg liOW?l
awav <Lai\
1 ' ? - A
A Third And Amsterdam Avenue car,
carrying thirty-eight passeng :rs, ran
away last night while descending the
hill on Amsterdam Avenue above Man?
hattan Street and crashed into a Broad?
way and Amsterdam Avenue car at the
bottom. The cars telusc ped, flinging
wreckage to the sidewalks and were
carried by the impact a full block be?
low the see:'- of the collision.
Henry Helmes, niotorman of the run?
away car. Buffered crushed legs. Sur?
geons were compelled to am) t?te ? rii
of them before he could be extricated
from the wreck. William Witherax,
conductor of the other car, was hurled
from the rear platform half the length
of the car and suffered a fract i
the skuli. Nine passengers required
medical attention.
Btakas Failed
Helmes discovered at 135th Street, a
little below the crest of the hili. that
his airbrakes did no' hold the car. He
began to twist at the 'sand brake and
was working furiously but vainly at ?t
throughout the whole wild r',.!.. Pas?
sengers who .wished to get off were
pressing their thumbs or. the buzzer
buttons on the Bide panels and glanc?
ing wondering!;,' at the speeding street
lights and buildings, but none of them
renHr.?d the peril 'they were in. One
or them said after the accident that the
e: r was going at the rate of forty miles
an hour.
i':. ? Broadway ; nd Amsterdam Ave?
nue ear, in chargi of Steven Keilly,
' d rman, and Witherax, conductor,
? : ? li'a-. ing the ham at 128th Street
nd had just rounded the turn into
\ r iam A. enue, heading south,
whei the runaway hurtled into it.
Patrolman Priall, of : ic West 125th
Street police stati a, ran to Knicker?
bocker Hi lital, at I31s1 Street and
Am Le'rdam Avenue, and got Dr. Shapiro
::nd Dr. Spalding. The sha tercd and
telescoped cars were filled ni.?i groan?
ing passengers when they arrived.
Legs Are Amputated
The plight of Helmes was seen to be
the most s< rious. One of his shattered
'ega hung limp and free of the d?bris,
but the right leg was still gripped by
locked ears. While the mctortnan
ga i] e : out his brief story of the brakes
that would not work, Dr. Shapiro am?
putated I ;< right leg. H? mes was
pul j :>, c of the cars and taken to the
hospital, where his other leg was am
; utated.
As soon as Witherax was found and
removed from his wrecked car, he also
was taken to the hospital. Dr. Spalding
set tin an emergency hospital at "the
curb, where he dressed the injuries of
nine'passengers, men, women and chil?
dren who had been hiirled about the car
by tho ?-.ho,?!?? nnd rnt hv broken class.
Official Paris Minutes "
Reveal Wilson Promise
To Send Aid to Rumania
Official Peace Conference Record
Oj Statement Made by the President
The controversy beticeen Senator Seiden P. Spencer, of Missouri,
and President Wilson over a promise of military aid to Rvmaiiia and
Serbia started ivlien Senator Spencer asserted that the President had
given such a promise at the peace conference. The President denied
he had given the pladge.
The French official minutes of the eighth plenary session of the
peace conference contain the following as part of a statement made by
President Wilson:
"Si le monde se trouve de nouveau troubl?, si ?e3 conditions que
nous regardons tous comme fondamentales, sont remises en question,
la garantie qui vous est donn?e veut dire que les ?tats-Unis feront
passer de ce c?t? de l'oc?an leur arm?e et leur flotte."
Following is a literal translation of the French text:
"If the world finds itself troubled anew, if the -onditions which we
all regard as fundamental are again drawn into question, the guaranty
which is given to you will mean that the United States will send to
this side of the ocean their army and their navy."
Senator Spencer quoted the President as Jiaving said:
"You must not forget that it is force that is the final guaranty
of the public peace. If the world is again troubled, the United States
will send to this side of the ocean their army and their fleet."
New Rent Acts
Not Retroactive?
Lawyer Argues
Eleven Tenant Defendants.
in Suit to Evict, Signed
Lease Before Laws Were
Passed, Plaintiff Says
Agreed to Move on Oct. I
First Case Under Special
Legislation in Supreme
Court; Decision Reserved
Justice Mullan ir the Supreme Court
yesterday reserved decision in the
first rent case heart in that court
under the new laws enacted by the
special session of the Legislature in
September. The courtroom was filled
with lawyers, landlords and tenants
interested in the test case, whose out?
come is likely to have an important
hearing- on the future administration of
that phase of the rent laws heard by
the court.
The case was brought by William
Brandt & Co., Inc., owners of an apart?
ment house at Audubon Avenue and
170th Street, l'or a writ to oust from
their apartments eleven tenants who
refused to move when their leases ex?
pired on October 1.
M. D. Siege!, for the realty company,
said that under the new rent laws I
there was nothing ?eZt for the landlord
to do in seeking redress but to ask t1:
Supreme Court for equitable velief.
He argued that no law coutd be made
retroactive and that was the effect of
the September law, for at that time the
leases were already in effect under
which the tenants agreed to give up
possession of their apartments on Sep?
tember 30. Then, taking advantage of
the.new law, they refused t.> move and !
are holding over without lease.
Wants Case to Co to Higher Court
In reply to a question by Justice
Mullan whether he wished to argue on
the constitutionality of the new law,
Mr. Siegel said he had no such desire
and, in fact, would have the justice
deny the motion of the Brand! com?
pany at orate, so that the matter could
be expedited en anneal i . the Appel?
late .Division and la.er, perhaps, to the
Court of Appeals.
Abraham Lipton, for several of the
tenants, argued that the application
of the landlord to oust the tenant*
should be dismissed, as tin land :
had not made out a cau ? of action if
he conceded the. constitutionality of t! e
rent legislation. The remedy of the
Brandt company, said Mr. Lipton, was .
to bring a suit tor rent.
Justice Mullan interjected: "From |
time immemorial it has been a right
of it landlord to sue for recovery of
his property."
"But a court of equity cannot nullify
a legislative enactment to give relie:
to the landlord.'' said r: on as ? rawford,
. ttorncj for two oi the defendant ten?
ants.
"This is America, not Russia," .said
Justice Mullan.
?Were it not for the recent rent, leg?
islation in this city," replied Mr. Craw?
ford, "the city would have been Rus- .
?ianized. Th.- se laws are the enactment;
of the public policy of the state. The
court:? must accept them as such as
long as they" remain on the books.
"I own a house; my butcher, my
baker and my plumber make me pay1
the present high c :t'. They are not
restrained by the Legislature. Why
should the "landlord ahne bear the i
(Continued on paa? r^mty-ttirit;
Pan-Germans Proclaim
Allegiance to Kaiser
BERLIN, Oct. 7.?Pan-German
representatives from Germany,
Switzerland, Austria, Hungary,
Alsace - Lorraine and Czecho?
slovakia are holding a conference
at Frankfort, according to a dis?
patch received from that city
to-day. w
At the first sitting of the con?
ference, the dispatch says, a reso?
lution was adopted proclaiming
the allegiance of the delegates
present to the former German
Emperor.
We Have Full
Ship Control,
Says Harrimaii
He Makes Public Letters to
Benson Declaring That
American Interest* Hold
51 Pet. of Capital Stock
May Own Entire Issue
Financier Asserts Germans
Wanted It So; No Plans
for Foreign Holdings
Correspondence purporting to show
that the contract between the Ameri?
can Ship nnd Commerce Corporation
and the Hamburg-American Line for
establishment of world trade routes
provides that the capital is to be con?
trolled by American interests was
made public yesterday by W. A. Harri
man, president of the corporation.
On July 7 Mr. Harriman, in response
to o.uestions from Admiral Benson,
chain. ; a of the United State s Ship?
ping Board, wrote that 51 per cent, and
probably all, of the stock of the com?
pany which is to sign the h nal con?
tract with the Germans will be owned
by the American Ship and Commerce
Corporation. lie said that there was
no agreement, either expressed or im?
plied, for foreign interest in the stock.
Admiral Benson asked the questions
before giving his approval to the
agreement.
Mr. Harrlman's action in making the
letter public is part of his answi r to
' ? ??:. ' h
will serve to restore German shipping
at the expense of American shipping.
Mr. Harriman, in his letter, ex?
plained that it was the intention to
t'orra a company subsidiary to he
American corporation, which would
control the subsidiary stock.
U. S. Company May Own All Stock'
"The officials ?. t the Hamburg-Ameri?
can Line,'' sa.d Mr. Harriman, "v.?si''<i
to be sure that the operations or' this
new company would be controlled by j
the American Ship and Commerce Cor
p ration a company in which it had
confidence- and therefore we inserted
the provision in '.'?aus- ? by which ?l
per cent of the stock of this now com?
pany should be owned by . n ? American
Shin and Commerce Corporation. As a
matter of fact, the American Snip and
Commerce Corporation probably will
own all the stock of the new company,
If. however, this was for some reason
inadvisable, certainly all the stock
(Continued en page twfnty-thrrr)
Western Roads Lay Off
10 to 15 P. C, of Forces
Employment of Excessive Num?
ber Curler I . S. Control and
Trade Stamp Among Reasons
Spt ? il Vis natch Vj The '."< . ? . ??
CHICAGO, Oct. 7. -Reductions in per- '
rtonnel on the principal railroads were
reported in advices to-day from the j
traffic centers of the middle West.
Railroads centering in Chicago are
letting out from 10 to 15 per cent of'
heir employees, according to Clason
Thompson, of the Railway News Bu?
reau. Most of these are .:-. I e clerical
and equipment department -, he .
"This move is not I r >U2ht on by
business depression,'' said Mr. Thomp?
son. "While the government bad the
roads there was a tendency to employ
too many men. This ? i pecially
trur in the accounting line. The r ???'??
are now trying to g<-f- back to norm;.!."
In Cincinnati the movement of
freight has dropped so much in the
last ten days that moro than J00
clerks and switchmen employed by the
even railroads in that city have been
laid off.
In Decatur, 111., the Wabash w
off more than BOO men in its mechani?
cal department on account of a slump
in business.
The New York Central has decided
to reduce its force.? ?0 per cent
throughout the system, according to
- : ?:? ? if] Elkhart. I;:d., and !
land to-day, but this could not be
verified. The reduction ?3 .-.aid to be
planned for next week.
Reports from St. Paul ^ay that the
Great Northern ha* laid off clerks in
its general offices, pay rolls on the
Northern Pacific are being sliced, and
reductions are b?ing put into effect on
other roads.
Statement Made in Reply
?o Protest of Bratiano
Against Austrian Treaty
Then Under Discussion
Spencer Exact
In Quoting Him
Abstract in Possession of
Tribune Bares Pledge
to Send Army and Navy
A copy in French of the official
minutos of the secret session of the
peace conference on May 31, 1919,
which gives the text of a statement
by President Wilson that has been
called into controversy by Sena?
tor Seiden P. Spencer's assertion
the President had promised aid to
Rumania and Serbia, has c ?me into
the possession of The Tribune.
Joseph P. Tumulty, Secretary to
the President, said yesterday trat
Mr. Wilson had no stenographic rec?
ord of the session and. as far as the
President knew, none was in this
country.
The President's statement, which
was interpreted by the Missouri Sen?
ator as promising aid to the Eu?
ropeans whom the President was ad?
dressing, is printed on page 'J-'l of
the official abstract of the official
Fren c'a miau
Occasion for Statement
It is recalled that the President's re?
marks resulted from protests- by Pre?
mier Bratiano of Rumania against th?
treaty with Au.-tria, which was under
discussion. Tlie Rumanian objections
were answered first by ! lemenceau, and
then Bratiano rejoin".'. In the discus?
sion which resulted Ignace Paderewski,
of Poland; Dr. Kramar, of Czecho-Slo
vakia, and Dr Trumbitch, of Jugo?
slavia (Serb: .', stated tl attitudes o:'
th>ir governments. Finally Pri
Wilson took the floor arid, in reply to
the Rumanian Premi r' plea tor pro?
tection, assured Bratiano that^n case
cf need "the United States will send
to this sicie of the ocean its army and
navy."
Secretary Tumulty's statement yes?
terday was in reply to an appeal to tho
I t to ettle the con ro? ersy by
producing the minutes of the secret
session of t h ? peat e ci on May
31, 1919 he actually
did saj un thai on. Mr Tumulty
ad led that it wu ? "up to thosi m iking
the charges I ? produce the proof."
Spea ; . lent W ilson, Ser
retary day brandi d
Senator Spi tement a~- "abso?
lutely and . . alse." Last
Tuesday Preside ilson sent a let
it .- to Senat r ?? 'er, in which h?
said the S nat : ic-nt quoting
the Pre e. On Wednes?
day the i ; . ident ienator th.?
following
"1 a m pcrfcc ; I o leave to
the voti i ?: o I ' 'I (termino
.-.a.,-. ' ?: uth."
On Page 23 of th itrace
Presid nl V. ?
"Si !c moi de
troubl?, s< I
gardons tous
sent rem:::-- en question,
i v i . ? i
.1
tant que, dai '
t fa sorte
des divers probl
ti?remi ni faisant '."''
Wilson's Words Translated
Pri sid ? '?'
The m nut s
.
"If tl
anew, if t]
gard as fundamenta . . d rawn
into questioi
?riv in to you wi! aited
Slates will s -t I to 1
: heir arm* and t? ?
it surprising, in these cor.d ions, that
they i: he Ui i ? ??? uld want
to reach a settlement of the diverse
m c::-*
lively sat ; '
The abstract Th< Trio mi 's po?
? ? the
stenograpl
fiiZiu pa, - Of this,
ddl i - - -,\ : s half of !'
Pages '?2 and - ' and five
Page 24. It is
The President
out by Bratian >. wh i
?ng that the Rum
not had even twenty-four hours to ex
: . ? ? ' ' i
them the previous evening, submitted
a series of docum ted Annexes
A, B, i and D, explaining Rumania's
? toward the guar?
anties of mil '?';? and th?1 pra
Annex B sum
mar ;? i I. eetions to the
e treatment of
national minoril document
said in part: "' . . . Rumania ha*
? qua!?iy of the right?
i o nom ri to a)l
her citizens, ?without distinction as to
?.. . . . la general
as.- Ruma pared to accept
whoso
the states adhering to th*
League tcknou
for their reaped I . On no
other terms can Rumania admit, in a.i"
; mention by for
nto the admin
? i
A Guaranty of Peace
n ply, n I ranslatod
"rent the official Fi ? ? Engp
.
"The Allied i isa ciatcd
ii antee the mai
upon which He sha'.i kgree, con
ditioni ill he
they who will haw? to assume th ?
gation and the burden; it i -
that tac responsibility will primarily
rest, just as, by force .jf en
ive made the grastest effort our