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THE WE A T H E R
Clearing and colder to-day. preceded
by rain in the early morning: to?
morrow fair and cold. Stropc
Bh'fMng . ?!nd!'.
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, FRfDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1920
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FOTR f F NTS
Harding Says
Security Lies
In Strength
Adequate Transportation
and Strong Marine De?
clared Best Insurance
Against Foreign Attack
Speaks to 30.000
On Armistice Dav
P?ea for Nation That Pro?
tects Its Citizens Any?
where Stirs Audience
From n Staff Correspondent
BROWNSVILLE. Tex., Nov. 11.?Sen?
ator Warren G. Harding', in an Ar- \
rr.istice Day speech in Brownsville to- j
?lay. his first formal address as Prr~i
dent-elect, declared thRt America must ',
ever be strong in peace, having learned ;
by bitter experience in the World War ;
that righteousness and justice were not i
in themselves a guaranty of national .
security.
"We hnd not trespassed; we had not!
offended; we had done no ill," said the :
nt-elect. "Our friendship with;
all the world was unquestioned We
J:new nothing o? envy and harbored no
hate. Yet we were involved after an,
of patience, and only the pro- '
ctive development of peace made us
qual to the emergency of war. We !
must ever be strong in peace, foremost
istry, eminent in agriculture,'
in transportation."
declaration for national prepnr
was delivered in the hearing of j
Americans and Mexicans who j
id the parade ground in Fort ;
'irowr., an army pi3t that more than '
as been the scene of hostile en- :
c-agements between the people of the \
?' :? ; iblics.
Senator und Mrs, Harding and mem- ?
bers if their party motored over from ?
abel this morning to attend the
Armistice Day celebration. The Sena?
tor led the parade for a few blocks I
thr< i- l the str :ets ?f Brownsville and !
then delivered his address.
Day Belongs to America
day is especially interesting to '
our country," he said, "because with
out American participation it mighi :
have been a later and different date, ;
d there had been an armistice j
? all. We do not claim to have i
?'?,-.. the war, but we helped rr?lghtiiy, j
l undying glory to American
! ave the world a new under- :
ig of the American spirit. What
? ? worl i may nave thougnl of us I
however incorrectly we may
ppraised, the world has
me 1 it selfi? hncss is not a
trait oui national character; that ?
:?: does not engross us ;
:? it] lity was conceived in fair
Lear, a:, i that when our j
rights ;>!?' threatened and our
ucrificcd America is resolved ;
to defend and ever will.
ive an abiding faith that we will j
reveal t'> mankind t*ie difference be-,
tween he American conception of
part cipation and unwise as
nj n, betwi en aloofness and aban?
donna ?it on the one hand and becom
. .; ass ciation and helpfulness on the
othei We helped to win the war inl?
and unmortgaged. We pough*.
with the A..i d powern because w?
; iting against a common enemy
wl i had violated our rights, but we
were only un associated power and
committed, if fully aware of
the compacts of alliance. And
we have not deserted our associates.
' are loyal o the principles which
mi le us what wc are."
The I nited Si ites did not go to war
to make the world safe for democracy
nor for the sake of humanity, Senator
g said, as he had said many
before. It went to war in self
? , making great sacrifices, but i
^-.eat compensations. The
, learned something about its;
own weakness.
Weakness on Seas Serious
"Better transportation upon land and
an adequate merchant marine would
have spi eded our participation and
shortened the conflict," he said. "I
? ?m well believe that the knowledge of
our maritime weakness encouraged the
contempt which ultimately involved us.
e a i America eminent on the
high seas and respected in every ave
trade will be safer at home and
greater in influence throughout the
??? ? Id."
A little farther along the Senator
-aid: ?'! like to think of an America
whose citi ens are ever seeking the
i development and enlarged re
widened influence of the
Republic, ana I'd like to think of a
rnment which protects its citizens
wherever they go upon a lawful mis
inywhere under the shining sun."
was K,;>od talk for Texas and the
Mexican border, and it evoked the
cheering that may be 'imagined.
oenator Harding said he had seen
and ta.ked to a good many young vet
(Contlnurd on page four)
Sylvia Pankhurst's Office
Stormed by Irate Women
Employees, Sinking and Dancing
During Armietice Ceremony,
Are Severely Beaten
The T-ibun'.-'s 1'uropran Bureau
Copyrl-ht, 1920. New York Tribune inc
LONDON, Nov. 11.?The two-minute
observed all over Eng'and as
an Armistice Day tribute to those who
f?ll in the war was marred by one inci?
dent in Fleet Street this morning. As
'he hush beprui. t ?e win. ows of t u
of ce of Sylvia Pankhurst's paper. The
?orkers' Dreadnought, were opened
H"d ?tr?5 inside were seen to be sing
:"g and dancing.
Ait"r the two minutes a crowd of
girls and women from the street
?ormed 'he offices of the pnner and
attacked the pul clerks and other em?
ployees of the Dreadnought offices.
The employees were severely beaten
before the police arrived and stopped
the attack.
Miss I'ankhurst is out on bail pend
in appeal from her six months'
??ntenc? for the publication of sedi?
tious articles. The storming: of her of
I'ce was the only discordant note re?
ported to the po ice in the tribute of
lb? nation to ita dead.
Alaska Reindeer Meat
To Be Marketed in V. S.
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 11.?
More than 6,000 reindeer car?
casses will be shipped to the \
United States next year for mar?
keting throughout the country,
.according to advices received from ;
Nome to-day. Four cold storage
plants have been completed in
Alaska, and in these the meat will
be concentrated for shipment. !
Within ten years, it is estimated, ;
a million reindeer will be grazing
in Alaska, and will supply steady
shipments of meat to the United
States.
Bill for Irish
Home Rule Is
Passed Quietly
Motion for Rejection of the!
Measure Defeated, 183-52,
and Final Action Taken,
With Rather Tame Debate!
2 Parliament? Provided
Ulster Counties to Handle
Own Affairs; Interests of
United Kingdom Guarded
LONDON'. Nov. 11.?The Irish Home !
Rulo Bill passed the House of Com- :
mons, on its third reading, to-night ?
after a motion for rejection of the
measure proposed by William C. Adam- :
?on, the Opposition leader, liad been
defeated by 1S3 to 52.
The mensure passed without any
noteworthy incident in a rather tame
debate. The Liberal and Labor members,
who have boycotted it through most of
its stages as a sign of their convie
tion o: its hopelessness as a settle
ment of the Irish problem, were again ;
absent to-day. The final stage was '
reached in a small and rather listless j
gathering of members of the House.
Former Premier Asquith appealed
for advantage to be taken of the asso-?
ciationa and emotions aroused by the ':
anniversary of Armistice Day, which
could not be put to worthier use than
an endeavor to find a basis of real set-1
tlement for Ireland.
Premier Lloyd George, replying, con-1
tended that the present bill was a gen?
erous measure, but the Irish peoplej
were not in a temper to give it proper
understanding and consideration. He
declared that documents to be pub?
lished at an early date, found in the
possession of Sinn Fein leaders in 1918,
proving they were involved in a Ger?
man plot, would show the necessity of
England retaining complete control of
Irish harbors.
Ireland Seen as Menace
To give Ireland the power to raise
a conscript army, he said, would be a
dangerous menace to Great Britain,
and he warned the Laborites that with
an army of that kind in Ireland, un?
der full powers of dominion home rule,;
conscription in England would become
inevitable.
The Premier contended that it was
equally impossible to allow Ireland her
own navy, which was <iuite needless for
her national life and could only be ,
used for the peril of Great Britain
and her own destruction. He argued
that it was fruitless to talk of grant- ,
ing fiscal autonomy to people still de- '
manding a republic. Expressing a fer?
vent hope for the removal of mis?
understanding which would make the
future so dark, the Premier closed
with a note of emotion:
''It may be that it was an Irish sol- :
dier we honored to-day- Ireland has '
had a great and brilliant, share in the
empire. Some of her greatest and
most gallant warriors helped to fight ?
for the empire, Some of her greatest
statesmen?the shining wisdom of
Burke and the stern leadership of'
Wellington? all contributed to build j
the empire.
"All we ask is that Ireland should
not in a moment of anger cast away ;
an inheritance which is as much hers I
as ours, but join in 'ho empire it
helped to build and adorn.''
The influence of the armistice anni
vcrsary was clearly marked in all
the speeches, which showed a desire I
as far as possible to avoid contro?
versy.
The fundamental principles laid ?
(Contlnu'.'d on page four)
Armenians Fear Union
Of Soviet and Kemal
League Appeals for For?es to
Prevent Annihilation by
Troops of Turk ISationa'ists
GENEVA, Nov. 11 (By The Asso?
ciated Press").?The Immediate use of
.-11 naval and military forces in the
Near East to prevent a union of the
| Bolsheviki with the forces of Mustapha
! Kemal Pasha, Nationalist leader, is
j declared necessary to have the Arme?
nians from annihilation and prevent
? another general war, in a resolution
adopted this afternoon by the Interna?
tional P''?-Artni nian League here. The
United States was unofficially repre?
sented by Walter G. Smith, of Phila
lelphia. of the Near East relief, and
W. W. Jaquith, of New York.
Armistico Is Sirned
LONDON, Nov. 11.?An armistice ha?,
been signed between the Armenians
i and the Turkish Nationalists, it is an
: nounced in an Armenian communiqu?,
dated November 7, received here to
i day.
The armistice conditions give the
: Turks possession of the fortress and
! railway station of Alexandronol and
? ?he surround;ng districts during the
: peace negotiations.
The Turks, it is said, guarantee the
safety of the inhabitants of the city
Inn i the maintenance of order.
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calendars by the world's b-st painters
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Hayti's Ruler
Charges U. S.
Muzzled Him
Tells Naval Board He Was |
Unable to Report Kill-'
ings Because Marines I
Would Not Co-operate
Natives Silent,
Fearing Reprisals
Hostility Surprises Offi?
cers, as President Had
Praised Their Forces
By Wilbur Forrest
Special CnWr to The Trfbune
Copyright, Ifl??, New York Tribuno Inc. i
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Hayti, Nov. 11.? I
What is regarded as the first official |
protest against the methods of the :
United States marines in suppressing j
disorders in Hayti was mad" to-day in ;
testimony given before the naval board
ot inquiry by President Dartiquenave
o" the Haytian Republic.
He testified he had been unable offi?
cially to bring knowledge of the indis?
criminate killings to the attention of ?
the American government because ot'
tiie lack of cooperation with him on the
part of the American r?gime, in Hayti ;
and the unwillingness of his own peo- i
pie to make reports to him because of I
their terror of retaliatory action by the
American courts-martial.
The black executive was accorded
high honors in the yard of the barracks ;
where the nava! board is hoJding its :
inquiry. President Dartiquenave on
entering the court building on his way
from the paiace passed through a bat
talion of ?narir.es. who were lined up
and saluted the Haytian flag, while a
band played six bars of the Haytian ?
anthem as a tribute in accord with his
rank. j
Says He Was Ignored
The interpreter reread written an- ?
swers made by the President to qucs- |
fcions submitted before he appeared at
the session. He said the Haytians
had expected liberty, prosperity and
respect for persons and property from
rhe Americans, but now "it is public ,
clamor that accuses them."
In his testimony he intimated that !
he himself and the native government
had been ignored by the heads of the\
army of occupation. He testified that
friends and relatives of the "victims
of regrettable; acts" in some cases did
not know tli, the Republic of Hayti
still had a ci ef of state.
Ho charged banditry to the corv?e,'
or informed labor system, which lie
said was still practiced despite the ad?
vice of his government, hence the ne?
cessity of American repression, "with
deeds that were always possible under
a policy of repression."
Marine Officers Surprised
Because he was. not in touch with
the members of the American Adminis?
tration, he said he did not know
v.'hether the perpetrators of unlawful
acts had been punished by the marine
officials. He said there were six locali
'ies in which he had heard that "re- I
i;rettab!e acts" were committed. These
were Hinche, St. .Marc, Croix des Bou?
quets, Grande Rivi?re du Nord, Mire
baiis and Las Cahobas. He added that
there might have been other places.
The marine officers were surprised j
at the testimony given by President
Dartiquenave and the show of hostility :
toward the American marines which .
he made. Previous to the arrival of
the naval board, ho had extravagantly
praised the marines and told of the
benefits accruing to llayti from the ;
occupation. There were some Hay- I
'.?ans who intimated that he was play-!
ing domestic, politics by his change of
at', it tide. I
Smallpox, which is epidemic, is
spreading.
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Sitip Taking Army Stores
To Cork Fired On ; Looted
Part of Goods Stolen by Men in
Boats Who Held Up Vessel j
Recovered by Polier in Erin
LONDON, Nov. 11.?While a steamer1
carrying army stores was proceeding
between Cork and Queenstown yester-,
day morning she v..is ordered to stop!
opposite Blackrock Castle by men .in;
boats, says a Central News dispatch i
from Cork. When the captain disre-!
garded the order a shot was tired at
the vessel, which thon stopped. Armed ,
men boarded the steamer and seized
goods valued at ?500.
When the boat arrived in Cork the ?
matter was reported to the police, who
searched the district and recovered a
portion of the goods. Rifles, shotguns1
and ammunition which were concealed
in a boalhouse near Blackrock Castle j
also were discovered, it. is said.
TRALEE, Ireland, Nov. 11.?Frank
( Hoffman, a farmer, reputed to be a :
j Sinn F?in commandant, was stopped i
S near his home last evening by uni
! ferm?e! men, who asked his name
j When he gave it the men said: "You
are the man wc want."
They piaced him against a fence and
bayoneted and slut by him dead.
Severa! farmhouqes an ! hay and
! corn stacks in a wide area were set
j on fire last night in reprisal for the ?
?shooting of two policemen at Bail-;
? brack.
Constable Griffin was dangerously
wounded last evening at Castle Isiand.
: A licensed house was set on tire, but
' the police and military assisted in ex
tinguishing the flames,
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PANTA ANA, Calif., Nov. 11. I
A bride weighing 725 pounds was ?
brought home to-day by John PI. !
Hamilton, who weighs 155.
The bride, formerly Misa Alma
Emily Selm, of Venice, Calif., was I
attended at the wedding by her I
pister, Mrs. h. C. Kring, who j
weighs 420 pounds.
New U. S. Order '
Takes Kick Out
Of Home Brew
Enforcement Officiais Rule
Against Sale of Hops
an<l Malt to Others Than
Bakers and Confectioners
Much Litigation Expected
Beverage ManufacturersSaid
to Complain That Beer
Making Hurt Their Trade
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 (By The As?
sociated Press).?Home brewing was
brought actively under the prohibition
ban to-day. Enforcement officials havo
ruled against the sale of hops and
malt to others than bakers and con?
fectioners. Great secrecy surrounded
the prohibition bureau's action, but it
was definitely ascertained that such in?
structions had been issued.
. Detail.; of the order were lacking.
The only admission made by prohibi?
tion officials in the absence of Com?
missioner Kramer was that the Vol?
stead act had been construed to mean
that the sale of hops and malt as com?
ponent parts of home-made beer were
without the pale of the law and their
sale must stop. Enforcement officials
throughout the country have been noti?
fied of the government's determina?
tion, but they have not been supplied
with the technical language of the
decision.
The construction of the law which
resulted in the new'orders was made
nearly two months ago. At that time
officials having it in charge started b
document through the regular pio
cedure from which it emerges as t
Treasury decision. Put it. has not yel
been approved by Secretary Houston
Further than to admit existence of the
proposed Treasury ruling officials de
clined to discuss it.
Beverage Manufacturers Complain
Emphatic denial was made to tin
report that the bureau had consid?r?e
or had included in the order other ar
tides used in home brewing. Official:
likewise denied that provision was t<
be made for the licensing of even thi
bakers and confectioners, apparent!;
the only persons who will be able t<
purchase hops and malt.
There were persistent rumors a
both the prohibition and internal reve
nue headquarters that scores of com
plaints had corne from the manufac?
turers of cereal beverages containinj
le?s than one-half of 1 per cent of ai
cohol against the tremendous growt!
of brewing as a home industry. 0
this phaso of the situation, official
abo refused comment.
It was understood, however, that th
beverage manufacturers' complaint ha
been based on a steady but rapid do
crease in their sales, which the
charged to the growth of home brewinj
They were understood to have pre
tested to th? Internal Revenue Burea
that enforcement agents were enforcin
the alcoholic restrictions on then
while the home brewer with the aid c
hops and malt has been able to proeluc
a beverage approximating old-fashione
beer.
Ready to Meet Attack
Officials anticipated that the ban o
malt and hops sales would bring a wa\
of litigation as to the government
rights? Trfey claimed, however, th;
decision had been preceded by a tho
ough study of the questions involve
and said they were prepaied to me
the attack.
Sections of the act specifically pr
hibiting the sale of integral parts i
beer as weil as the formal advertisii
of recipes for its manufacture we
cited as one of the foundations for tl
ruling. The point which they expe
to be tested in court was whether t'
food value of tke two articles bann
,would, in the eyes of a court, pern
their continued sale as such despi
their uao as a basis for bevera
making.
Police Find
Bomb- Wagon
Horseshoer
identity of Man Who Took ?
Animal to Blacksmith
Also Known; Sought in
Wall Street Blast Probe
Story Linking Labor
With Plot Doubted
William Zaranko, Head of
BrindelPs Rival Union,
Discredits the Charge
Discovery of the first definite clew
to the identity of the perpetrators of
the bomb explosion that snuffed out
thirty-nine lives in Wall Street Sep?
tember K5 last, was announced hy the
police yesterday. Acting Inspector
Coughlin, head of the detective bureau,
caid that his men had found the black?
smith who shod ?he hrrse, whose
mangled carcass was picked up among
the debris of the wagon that hauled
the death machine to the curb opposite
the office of J. P. Morgan & Co. He
added that the identity of the man
who took the animal to he shod was
known, and that the police were seek?
ing him.
This police revelation of progress in
an investigation that has taxed the
energy and ingenuity of local, state,
Federal and private agencies followed
on the heels of the publication In
The Evening World of a story exploit?
ing the theory that the bomb was in?
tended for the destruction of house
wreckers employed on the site of the
i xtension to the New York Stock Ex?
change.
Zaranko Is Questioned
The Evening World hypothesis was
built upon the enmity that exists be?
tween members of the Mouse Wreck?
er.-; Union No, 95, headed by William
Zaranko, and Union No. 148f>, which
v. as organized by Robert P. Brindell
Building Trades Council czar, whose
activities have figured much in the
Lockwood committee's housing inquiry
The Zaranko union, 1.S00 strong, ha?
been driven to desperation during the
last year and a half, it was intimated
by Brindell'a alleged intimidation o:
contractors into discharging Zaranko';
followers and hiring his own, and ii
compelling such of Zaranko's men a?
were employed on wrecking jobs t<
pay a ?.r)0 initiation fee and $10 i
week dues to the Prindell organization
Zaranko. in response to a request
appeared at the Department<bf Justio
headquarters in the Park Row Build
ing late yesterday afternoon. Ho am
his attorney were closeted for an hou
with Charles J, Scully, agent in eharg'
of tIre? radical division. When he lef
he smilingly submitted to questionin;
by newspaper men, but the net resul
of the interrogation was the urbane in
sistence by Zaranko that none of th
members of his union could or won h
have conceived or carried out the bom
plot. Neither their persecution b
Brindell nor the occasional assault
committed on the men of Local 95 b
Brindellites could have instigated sue
violence, he declared.
Swann issues Subpoenas
District Attorney Swann has sur.
licensed all of the persons named i
The Evening World story to appear s
his office for examination at 3 p. m. te
day. Mr. Swann said he already ha
questioned most of them and remarke
that The Evening World's account of
statement by one of them, R-iymon
Clark, is at variance with Clark's stat<
ment to Ait red E. Talley, chief Assis'
ant District Attorney.
Department of Justice officials hei
and in Washington said they did nc
place much credence in the theory, a
though they admitted they had consi*
?red. it along with others from the bi
ginning. In the absence of Chic
Flynn none would consent to be quote
Linked With Foreman's Shooting
The one concrete fact submitted
support the theory that hatred of Bri
dell inspired the explosion was tl
shooting in Long Island City early <
the morning of October 17 last of Ra
mend Clark, who was chief foreman
wreckers on the Stock Exchange exte.
sion job. The inference conveyed w
that Clark was attacked because he w
reputed to have related incidents ta
ing place immediately before and aft
the explosion that app.eared to indica
that the bomb was meant for the hou
wreckers, and that only the confusi
of the wagon's driver caused the vehit
to be halted -00 feet west of the buil
ing s te.
According to the alleged Clark i
terview, which he later repudiated, t
driver was walking about a few mi
(Continued gn next pnjo)
Man Believed Locked in Vault
Left Note Revealing Self as Tliief
OTTAWA. 111., Nov. lt.?Officials of
the National City Bank of Ottawa, city
officiais and volunteers worked fever?
ishly all last night to rescue Francis J.
Carey, twenty-one years old, teller of
the institut m, n? the belief that he
had bei a locked in a vault by robbers,
who had looted the bank, und might be
smothered.
They vainly appealed to the officers
. of Joliet. Penitentiary for expert saf<=
. blowers, bad a rescue expedition of
sate experts and mechanics organized
in Chicago and started here on a train
which was held for the life saving crew
beyond its scheduled time of departure.
] They finally got the safe open by
burning a hole four inches wide
through the six-inch steel door of the
vault with an acetylene flame. Then,
instead of finding a faithful bank em?
ployee dead or dying, they discovered
an unsigned note which read:
"if you had treated me right this
would not Lave happened."
Admission that he "engineered the
whole thing Jumseif" was rie.de by
Carey, who, iootsora and weary, stag
gered into the farmhouse of Mat Ker- '
?vin. near Utica, to-night. Kerwin
summoned the Sheriff who said ti t
(...,-? professed ignorance regarding
$1.000 which is missing from the bank.
? ai y i ad ? J in his pockets.
Search of I arey's home, from which
he had disappeared last night, revealed
er a mat toss. A:i
oth ?!? $5O,0C0 was recovered when a i
shoe box was found adjoining the i
bank ?1 e Sheriff said Carey evidentlj
I r.ad dropped this when ho wont over
the roof to leave the bank.
The robbery was discovered when
Ter rice Connolly, O tawa resident,
oticed a man alongside the bank.'
:r ng he ? d been discovered, the
man fled. Connolly found the package
?contain1!',' $50 000 and grave the r b
ery alarm. Then it was discovered
hat the vault had been locked with a
time device set to open at 9 o'clock
to-morrow morning and the frenzied
efforts a* rescue began.
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Xrlbun* Want Ad. Afeab?Advt,
Hylan Admits Altering
$15^000^000 School Bids
At Request of Hettrick
Benson's Aid
Admits Graft
In Ship Deals |
Commander Clements;
Says Allegations of Mill- j
? ions Lost in Overcharges
by Contractors Are True
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Commander Ahner B. Clements, ex-:
?cutivc assistant to Admiral Benson,
mairman of the United States Ship
sing Board, told the select committee
jf Congress investigating charges
?gainst the methods of operation and
idministration employed by the board
yesterday that some of these charges,
rontafned in a report submitted to the
:ommittee by two of its investigators,
A'ere true. Commander Clements de?
fied the charge of corruption on the
part of officials of the board.
Among the abuses admitted by Com- ?
mander Clements were undue delays
n the expedition of business, resulting!
n losses to th'i board, lack of coopera- \
lion between departments and bureaus
Df the board and ship operators, and i
excessive demunage, supply and repair
charges.
Criticizing the report as a whole for
what he called its failure to take into
consideration the general accomplish?
ments of the board in the creation of a
large American merchant marine under
rxtremely adverse and abnormal condi
ions, Commander Clements said that
the abuses admitted by him were due
largely to amateurishness and lack of
a sufficient number of trained workers,
which, he said, became acute after the
armistice, when many of the mos?'effi?
cient department and bureau chiefs,
their aids and employees left the.
Shipping Board and returned to pri?
vate employment at more lucrative
salarios.
Denies Corruption
Saying that he had no definite in?
formation as to the alleged prevalence
of corruption in the various depart?
ments and agencies of the Shipping
Board, Commander Clements expressed
the belief that it did not exist except
in a few, exceptional cases, in which,
he said, prosecution had been brought.
He was unable to testify of his own
knowledge or. matters contained in
the greater part of the report and
could shed no light on the question
of political favoritism in the alloca?
tion of ships, which constitutes one of
the most important points in th?
charges contained in the report sub?
mitted to the committee.
Commander Clements said that his
specialty was trade routes. The only
subject he discussed at length was
that of contracts, admitting that un?
der the old forms of contracts, forms
Nos. 1, 2, and 3, the Shipping Hoard
was obliged to assume responsibilities
and grant privileges not to the advan?
tage of the government. This, he said,
is now being remedied by the promul?
gation of a new form of contract.
In response to a question by Repre?
sentative Israel M. Foster, of Ohio,
who joined the committee yesterday.
Commander Clements declared that, in
so ar as he knew, the points made in
the repart to the committee on these
phases were correct.
Condemns Accounting System
One of the chief abuses admitted by
Commander Clements was that of an
improper and inadequate accounting
system. This, ho said, is now being
remedied as the result of recommenda?
tions made by him to Admiral Ben?
son.
In reply to a question by Repre?
sentative Joseph Walsh, chairman of
the committee, Commander Clement i
(Continued on page nine)
President Finds Humor
in Result of Election
Jokes Over Defeat at Cabinet
Meeting; Health ?Sot Affected
by the Republican Victory
From a Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Nov. 11.? Fears that
'he result of the election might have
in adverse effect on President Wilson's
health have proved groune.less The
President has accepted the verdict.
With his friends he has laughed and
joked over the result good naturediy,
smiling when twitted in personal ban?
tering
At the last meeting o; the Cabinet
the election and the result were sub?
let:) * f c nsiderable levity. The Cabi?
net session lasted for an hour and
hirty minutes and throughout the
members uf the Cabinet were impressed
?hat Mr. Wilson had suffered no ill
effects physical y, and that he had a
"warm, human side and a keen sense
of humor."
As at all Cabinet meetings during
the President's illness .1: members of
the official family were calied into the
White Hor_:.e proper instead of the
regular Cabinet room in the Executive
office. The President was seatei in
his accustomed place at the ht-sul of
the table when his official family en?
tered and he remained seated through?
out the meeting.
The President used his right arm
freely, but apparently his left arm and
leg were still somewhat impaired. He
joined with great animation and with
keen incisiveness, which is one of his
characteristic!, when any subject was
being discussed.
Suggesting as the after administra?
ron occupation of 'he President the
writing of history, Cabinet member,
say the President can be expected to
produce a classic.
*
Longivorth Predicts
Excess Profits Repeal
Special Dispatch to The Tribun?
CINCINNATI, Nov. 11.?Rep?
resentative Nicholas Longworth
feels confident that the next Con?
gress will repeal the excess profits
tax and substitute some other tax
that will be more equitable and
less objectionable, and wl ich will
produce substantially the same
amount of revenue.
This and all other revenue mat?
ters will come before the Ways
and Means Committee of the
House, of which Longworth is the
senior member, he said to-day.
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Kilroe Indicted
On Plot Charge
In Bigamy Case
Lawyer and Third Person,
Not Revealed, Accused Af?
ter inquiry Into Dismissal
of Bauresse Complaint
Swann Upholds Assistant
Non - Prosecution Called
Proper; $ ? 3.000 Pay
nient to Woman Involved
Six indictments, charging conspiracy
and compounding a felony and involv- ;
! ing three persons, were returned yes- ',
j terday by the Extraordinary Grand
! Jury to Justice Bartow S. Weeks, in the j
| Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court. ?
Two of those indicted, Assistant Dis- !
trict Attorney Edwin P. Kilroe and ?
i Louis E. Schwartz, a lawyer with offices!
; at. 4S5 Fifth Avenue, were in court j
?when the indictments were returned. '?
.; The third person has not as yet been ;
j taken into custody. His name was not,
revealed.
For several weeks the jury, of which ?
Raymond F. Almirall is foreman, has
been investigating the charges against
Kilroe. The complaint was instituted
after the dismissal of a charge ou,
bigamy made against Napoleon Bau- j
resse, on October 31, 1019. Mrs. Helena
Montrose Bauresse, who married Ban-,
I resse on February 7, 1919, in Brooklyn,
j complained to Kilroe that at the time
of the marriage Bauresse was married
to Margaret Coyne. This ceremony
took place in 1910.
Bigamy Charge Upheld
Kilroe's investigation revealed the I
fact that Bauresse was married when !
he married Margaret Coyne. His first
wife is in Canada. He informed the,
complainant to this effect and told her
that it would be necessary to get the >
testimony of the first wife before the
ca.-e could progress further. This all
happened in a police court before Mag-,
istrate Mancuso.
At that time, there were pending
| against Bauresse three civil suits,
i started by Helene Montrose Bauresse.
i Ihe suits involved the payment of back
j alimony and counsel fees of $13,000.
| Before the charge of bigamy was with
! drawn by Mrs. Helene Montrose Bau
j resse these suits were sett.ed for $12,
| 000, and this became a part of the rec
j ord in the proceedings before Magis
I trate Mancuso.
Charges were made later that Mr.
(Continued on pags five)
Tumulty To Be Judge,
His Friends Predict
?Wilson May Appoint Secretary
to $10,000 Post Vacated by *
Death of Montgomery
I Joseph F. Tumulty, secretary to the
; President, is to be appointed Presiding
Judge of the United States Court of
i Customs Appeals before President Wil
I bon retires from the White House, ac
I cording to information received here
I yesterday, it is a life job, with a sal
I ary of S10 000.
The duties are light, it is said, and
1 Mr. Tumulty will have plenty of time
I to keep in touch with his political as?
sociates in New Jersey, if he so de
rires. Mrs. Tumulty's purchase last
week of the o'd Governor Shephard
home in Washington, in the judgment
of Administration Democrats, me ins
that the Tumultys will make Washing?
ton their residence.
The Court of Customs Appeals con
sists of a presiding juige and four as?
sociates, and the sessions are he'd in
Washington. Robert M. Montgomery,
as presiding judge, died within
the last y?.>ar, and the vacancy has not
I been filled. Friends of Mr. Tumulty
say President Wilson is holding the
pace for him. The court gives most of
;* ?. time to appeals from the lower tri?
bunals affecting the classification of
...i ports.
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
i WASHINGTON, Nor. 11.?Secretary
I Tumulty to-night said he was unable
to confirm the rumor that he was to
be appointed by President Wilson as
Presiding Judge -f ?.:.?? United States
, Court of Customs Appeals. When
asked if he was under consideration
for the appointment Mr. Tumulty
said:
"There has been some talk of it, but
! I have never given it consideration."
Philadelphia Sunday Excursion Nor. 14 v?
New Jtrsej :.? u j.,, r;,x n<~ . leave
] W. 23d it.. ?IT; Liberty ?t.. 1.30 ft. n. ?
I Advt.
Fooled by Attorney for
Builders and Duped by
Men in Limestone Ring;.
31ayor Says on Stand
Boosted Cost of
Work 81,000.000
Resents Imputation That
He Knowingly Played
Into Hands of Combine
Confronted with the documentary
evidence, Mayor Hyian on the wit*
:te?s ?tand before the Lockwood con>
mittee yesterday admitted recom?
mending to the Board of Education
the use of limestone instead of terra
COtta in school construct'.on wholly
at the suggestion of John T. Het
trick.
Acting on recommendations em?
bodied in a letter sent by-the Mayor
to Frank P. Wilsey, chairman of the
building committee of the board,
on February 8, 1919, it was brought
out by counsel for the committee
thf.t the specifications for forty-one
schools had been changed fr >m terra
cotta to limestone, involving an ex?
penditure, first of $15,000,000, and
later boosted to $16,000,0
Many of these scholia are in
course of construction, and all the
building specifications, it developed
from the testimony, provide for the
use of limestone, while terra cotta
previously had Ivon recommended.
Fooled by H et trick
The letter, it appeared from the tes?
timony and admi tsions by the Mayor,
was a verbatim copy of one about
which the Mayor had previously con?
ferred with Hettrick and which Het
trick had prepared at the Mayor's sug?
gestion.
The Mayor sorrowfully asserted that
he "believed he hau been fooled and
was the victim of Hettrick's labor
union game in the interests of the
limestone ring." He resented, how
ever, any imputation that any per?
sonal interests" had caused him to
comply with Hettrick's request, insist?
ing that he had been "fooled, as many
others have been fooled."
The suggestions contained in the
letter to Mr. Wilsey, in which were
explained the "advantages" o? lime?
stone over terra cotta and various la?
bor reasons that should be taken into
leration, Mayor Hylan insisted,
were based solely on information con
tained in memoranda drafted for him
by Hettrick. He agreed with Samuel
Untermyer, counsel for the committee,
that :t was a "pure fabrication and a
paos of lies" and w?s. full of misstate
ments.
The Mayor admitted having variou.?
conversnti ns with Hettrick and hav?
ing written many letters to him, but
insisted that, while he "must have had
conversations with a man named tlat
trick, he didn't remember him and might
nut be abie to recognize him if he saw
him.'
Hettrick. despite the invitation of
the committee's counsel, failed to ap?
pear. Instea . Robert II. Elder, his
counsel, subn " . ' . i Sena?
tor Lockwood, chairma f the com?
mittee, which informi d
that inasmuch as it apj iars that the
investigation is directed against Het?
trick, he declines to testify any far?
ther. |
These developments were the climax \
of a session ovcrflowinj with verbal
tilts and sensations. The Mayor
continually ; in on Mr. ;
raver's incisive questions to make
I statements and his inter?
rupt ins despite the protests of the
! committee's counsel.
Kaplan Causes Disorder
When Mr. Untermyer came to the
?Mayor's activities in connection with
school contracts, Senator Abraham
i Kaplan, a Democratic member of the
committee, threw the issembiage into
disorder by his objections.
"Mr. Chairman," he cried, "1 want to
place the statement on tecord that I
think counsel is ind ?lging in "?any side
remarks that ha* to do with
this investigation, largely for the be ne?
in of the gallery, i make these re?
marks because I have been here on
serious business. I thir.k we have
wasted half a day and I think we should
go on into the investigation of the ma?
terial tru ?."
ii s remarks were greeted with much
applause, whereupon Mr. Untermyer
rted tl v a labor clique wa? pres?
ent and ir?s i s ted on its being Silenced.
Chairman Lockwood imn 'dial y had
two men ejec id from the Boa,rd of Ea
: ' ? chain- er and announced that he
would have the place cleared if the af?
fair was repeated.
Mr. U r made every effort to
bring from the Mayor an admission
that he did n( thing with a view to the
of fraudulent city con
stirred by the firet session
of the inquiry. In the- numerous let?
ters produced y Mr. Unten:.;.er which
had passed between Hettrick and the
May t. c ? : r the committe?
! to Hettrick's continual harping
on the labor unions, which Untermyer
1 he was us ??g as a catspaw for
the bet efit of the lim te ring
The events that led up to the pro?
duction of the Mayor's limestone letter
began with his insistence on reading
all the communicatioi - that
between him and the various depart?
ment heads of the ttj : . c nn ciion
with the investigation cf city contract?.
When Mr. Untermyer requested tha?
they simply be paced in the record tn
save time the Mayor demurred, prefer
i ring to rep.d. 11^ held the stand tag
' about three hours in the course of h'*
| reading of a big batch of these com
; munications which had been printed
from time to time In ? paper?.
i The Mayor testified that he never
had heard of HettricV until the rsceipj