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Vol. LXXX No. 27,041
_First w L>ast ? the Truth : iV ews ? ti a?on?is ? A dvet tisemtnts
THE WEATHER
Rain to-day. To-morrow clearing; bo j
change in temperature; increas?
ing easterly winds.
Full Report on Tag,? NIvteen
<C?pr?rlrh?, 1920.
New York Tribune lue,)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1020 84 PAGES-PART I AND SPORTS
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FIVE CENTS |
la Manhattan. Brooklyn 1
and The Bronx j
TFN CENTS
Dtewher?
50,000 See
Navy Defeat
ml
Army, 7-0. in
Slow Game
Military and Naval Chiefs
Head Brilliant Throns:
WhoWatch Midshipmen
Get Even Wtih Cadets
Each Has Won
Eleven Games Now
Koehler Scores in Final
Period on Double Pass;
Teams Weak in Attack
and Play Poor Football
By Grantland Ri?je
After twemy-three ?ears' intensive
.?ad.ron warfare your Uncle Samuel's
ruling nephews from West ?'oint and
Annapolis are now all square.
Fifty thousand spectators eat un
a?r a gray sky at the Polo Grounds
.. esterday and watched the Navy ?lever
.?dder.ly come to life at the close oi
the third quarter and beat the Armj
7.11 7 to 0 by a steady, batterinf
itch that carried the ball forty-ilvi
..ids through the bewildered ant
'?:::i Army defense.
For the greater part of three-quar
rs these fifty thousand saw tw<
?aver.- without th'j semblance of at
? ack put up one of the worst foot
all exhibitions of the year. Butnea:
the clos?.? o? the third quarter French
if the Army, lifted a kick of onlj
??velve yards that went out of houndi
3. his own 15-yard iine. That costli
listake galvanized the Navy marhim
-to instant action. Driven forwan
by Noyes at quarter, the Navy oi?ensi
? .-gan ripping' the Army line inti
.?re.la f?nd only the end r<f the quartei
iialted the march. Starting the t'.na
luarter, the Midshipmen resumed thei
drive until on a double pass from th
'.0-yard line halfback Koehler crashei
lUtsida of tackle and raced over th
..ne for the only touchdown of th
day.
This touchdown brought the Nr.vy u
? n even terms with their Army oopo
rents, for each machine has now wo
lleven games with one draw out of th
7 vent.-three starts.
In spite of the grey sky that .threat
-ned to deposit its annual flow of rai
mon the gay and giddy scene-, ther
as all the flare and flash of color an
high life that these anr.ua! battles a
ways bring to light, The ?reates
rowd that ever circled the histori
Held had gathered. In the lists wei
? . hero of St. Mihiel and the hero t
Verdun, General John J. Pcrshing, i
the United States, and General Nivel!
?' F rar.ce.
These two army leaders irom th
??".Id's greatest war s?t in astoni:-!
en: and sf.w an Army attack thi
?isn't strong enough to break th
iticle of a custard pie.
rhese wert, not the only rotable
. e list ran from Secretary Danie
Jack Dempsey. Those who war
?rther details might take a day o
;.. ! inspect The Army and Nav
?urnal, for no important name w<
?:g. And not even the heavj Scotc
mist from the gray-winging clout
'.ild put a blur upon the brilliai
doring, which in spits looked Ml
? blend of many rainbow? hookt
' /' ther.
? r the first two periods of ph
he bif crowd looked in vain f??r actio
Uside of the steady roar tnat can
:>om the West Point cadets and tl
Annapolis midshipmen there wasn't
(Contidur-i ;n pjMo twtnty-ene)
Five Saratoga Officials
Indicted in Vice Inquir
District Atlojncy Is Accused <
Conspiracy With Judge and
Police Superintendent
BALLSTON, N. V? N'-,v. 27.?-Indi?
nents charging con piracy and bribe
arair.st District Attorney Charles
Andrus, of Saratoga, were returned t
? v by the extraordinary t;rand ju
eh fer several months has been i
:- tigatir.g vice conditions in Sarato
Count}
City Judge Michael K. McTygue a
e Superintendent Edward" T. C?
of Saratoga, were jointly indict
???th the District Attorney on the cc
p racy charge.
trict Attorney Andrus ha.j p;
ously beer, indicted on the charge
. ect of duty. John ?. wa?fn
itoga Commissioner of Public Sa
? and hia deputy, Benjamin W. W.l,
<trt also indicted, charged with m
? t oi duty, f'iur indictments wi
fought against .Jalea Fornal. of N
?ork, alleging eonsp.racy and that
? rommon gambler. Fourteen otl
?ndictment? were returned a;;ai
aratoga r?fs.dentn for alleged kh
? ' r.
Chargea ??jainst the official?, alle?,
. at't'.t-y had knowledge of trambli
?ot to'?? no steps to abate the nt.
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Woman Die? on Arriving
At Army and Navy Game
>?r*. W.J?tox, Wife of Colonel at
Wesl Point, Complains of
Fain and Collapse*
'-. M*ry Wil.eox, ?x?xty vor? old,
' f? of Colooel Corneliua D? wltt Will?
.,';?*' V^-'r.r.ijt of modern langu&yen ?t
?Veat Point, died yeitterday while en
^^ririg tha grande t.-. mi ?t. th? Polo
Rroondi for tba Army-Navy gamo,
Ina i-ornpihintd of pain jttst before
"!>??* ttiVh',%*!(i.
TV body r/ ? ?. removed to tha Camp?
i ? Pan?raj Charch ?f?'i will In- ?ent
v, We?. Point tot bniial. Mr?. Wlllc ?
???j (?on? to tha ????.ri.i-. with Colonel
'?Ire ?r.ll'lrr?/. ?JuM'i' ?1?,?,U? f?,r ? l.rUt
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Drive for Blue Laws Guided
Bv Aiiti- Saloon League Pillar
The Rev. Wilbur Fisk Crafts, One of Framers of
18th Amendment, Backs Crusade for Strict
Sunday ; Financing Is a Mystery
Th?? guiding genius of the crusade
to brine about the enactment of Sun?
day blue laws throughout the United
States was uncovered yesterday in the
person of the Rev. Dr. Wilbur Fisk
Crafts, of Washington, D. C.
Dr. Craft?- is .i member of the Anti
Saloon League. Despite the denial by
officials of the league that it is inter?
ested in the effort to impose a Puritan
Sabbath on the country. Dr. Crafts's
strenuous cooperation in the past with
the dry advocates lends color to the
belief that their machinery is to be
i laced at the disposal for coordination
with the other reform forces he has
been mobilizing for years to carry out
his ambitious program. The comple?
tion of the Anti-Saloon league's main
ibject, ratification of the Eighteenth
Amendment, is believed to have been
?he signal t i go ahead with the Sunday
law project.
Dr. Crafts ia credited with being the
real author of the Wartime Prohibi?
tion act.
In 1915 and 1916 he was a member of
the Union National Commission which
framed the Eighteenth Amendment.
The International Reform Bureau,
organi:;ed by Dr. Crafts in 1895 and of
vhich he is the superintendent and
actunl executive head, is one of tie
chief sponsors of the Jones bill. This
measure ??3ns to briii? the District of
Columbia under a strict. Sunday ob
strvance law.
Dr. Craft- also formed the Lord's
Day Alliance, in LS8S. This organiza?
tion is now striving for nation-wide
blue laws.
Finance Method a Mystery
The extent of the International Re?
form Hureau's projected campaign to
write the letter of the Fourth Com?
mandment into the statute books of
every state in the Union apparently
indicates that the movement is ex?
tremely well financed.
Yet neither the Rev. Robert Watson,
of New York, nor Canon William Sheafe
Chase, of Brooklyn, respectively presi?
dent and chairman of directors of the
International Reform Bureau, wan able
yesterday t<> throw any light on the
identity of the persons who are doing
the financing.
"Dr. Crafts is the only person who
can tell you who the contributors are."
both Dr. Watson and Canon Chase in?
formed a Trib'.ine reporter.
To a Tribune corresj ondent in Wash
(Continued ?n jug? fiurt<*?n)
Ex-Wife Held
As Slayer of
4Peach King'
Widow ol' F. D. Shepard,
Wealthy Georgian, Her
Son and Sister Are Arrest?
ed on Charge of Murder
Poison Found in Body
Bail of Woman, Now Wed?
ded to Florida Physi?
cian, Fixed at $120.000
Sfp? -ial Dispatch to The Tribun*
FORT VALLEY, Ga., Nov. 27.?Mrs.
F. K. Elmer, wife of a Jacksonville, Fla.,
physician, was arrested in this town
to-day on a charge of murder in con?
nection with the death of her former
husband, Fred D. Shepard, Georgia
"peach kir.;_r."
The police in Perry, Ga., arrested
Mrs. lore Henry Mrs. Elmer's sister.
and Ernest Hopson, a son of Mrs. El?
mer by an earlier ma-;- age. They also
are charged with murder.
Expert testimony before n coroner's
jury in Fort Valley showed that Shep
! " ' ' ' - .
ard died from the administration of
poison through the mouth. A pathol?
ogist and a chemist from Atlanta tes?
tified that about fifty grains of mer?
cury bichloride had been administered.
Mrs. Elmer, who had attended the
jury session, was arrested as she left
the courtroom on a bail trover, ob?
tained by Louis L Brown, administra?
tor of the Shepard estate, for Mrs.
Alice Crandall, Shepard's sister, and
Fred Crandall, her son. Bail was fixed
at $120.000. Later the warrani charging
murder was served on Mrs. Elmer. She
is being taken by automobile to Macon
to-night, where she will be confined in
the Bibb County ja 1.
Seek to Recover Estate
The hail trover seeks to recover the
entire estate of Shepard, estimated to
be worth more than half a million dol?
lars. Mrs. Shepard took charge of the
estate immediately after the death of
her husband, June 1 cf this year. Four
months later she married Dr. Elmer.
Shepard was the son of A!fr??d Shep?
ard, who owned property in Los An?
geles, Flor'da, Battle Creek, Mich.;
French Lick Springs, Ind., and in Geor?
gia.
When a boy Fred Shepard ran awa>
and hii parents searched the countrv
for him, iinally locating him on an Ore?
gon ranch, where he i ad married a r.;i
tivc of that stjte. The parents ar?
ranged for a divorce and brought hin:
back to this state.
Stricken 111 Suddenly
The elder Shepard died a year and .'
half r.j-'o, leaving part of his fortune
to his Hon. Fred Shepard tlvn mar
ried Mrs. Pauline Hopson, a divorce?;
of Abbeville, fia., eli-ven months ago
Shepard was taken violently ill at Mr?
Henry's horn? May 27 and died thru?
days later in a Macon hosnital to wh ci
he had been taken from Ferry for ai
operation in an effort to save his life
Doctors in performing the ?perat'oi
reported to the authorities that the;
(Continu*) on pi>?jii fourtwni
Hylan Orders
Million Paid,
Fearing Suits
Ac* I ion of City Contractors
Prompts Mayor to Sign i
Warrants He Had Held
Up Pending an Inquiry
Also Saw Tie-Up on Johs
Craig Charges Default in
Payment of S100,000 to
Redeem Corporate Stock
Mayor Hylan executed a rieht-about
face yesterday when he signed the war
rents on the city treasury for payment
to contractors aggregating $1,000.000,
which he had held tip and turned over
to David Hirshfield, Commissioner of
Accounts, for further investigation of
the contracts. The warrants had been
passed by Comptroller Charles L. Craig
?and sent to the Mayor for his approval
and signature.
Commissioner Hirshfield announced
the reverse action of the Mayor find
-.aid it was taken in order that honest
contractors mi^ht not suffer. It was
understood, however, that the,manda?
mus a<"t-on started yesterday apTH'.p.st
the city for payments on one of the
city contracts, arid the threats of other
contractors to sue for their money,
influenced the Mayor's action. The fear
of tying up many city improvements by
litigation was unotht r influential fac?
tor with the Mayor.
"Mayor Hylan and I had a talk to?
day," saidCommissioner Hirshfield, "and
it was decided that rather than subject
any honest contractor to the slightest
hardship, pay warrants will be issued
on evidence of good faith. By this I
mean that where contractors have done
work and delivered material beyond the
amount for which money in due them,
and where they have signed waivers
or have agreed to do so, their warrants
now due will be promptly paid."
Will Not Withhold 25 Per Cent
These conditions were understood to
have been fulfilled in regard to all the
contracts on which the warrants had
been sent to the Mayor by the Comp?
troller. Commissioner Hirshfield said
the rule established by the Board of
Estimate at the sugesti?n of the Lock
wood committee to hold back 25 per
cent of the cost of ah city contracts
i ending the progress of the cily inves?
tigation, would not be insisted upon in
regard to these wui rants. The usual 1C
or 15 per cent reserved by the city on
contract work was all thai would he
asked, he said. This reserve is a pari
of most of the original contracts.
Comptroller Craig said yesterday
lhat the warrants on city contracts
were not the only ones held up by the
Mayor, but that the city had actually
defaulted, for the first time in its his
tory, on matured corporate stock.
"It may interest the public to know,'
said the Comptroller, "that among thi
payments so senselcssiy held up wai
on?- for $100,000 with which to redecn
matured corporate stock of the City o
N'aw York, and now oveidue. Thi:
action of withholding the $100,001
means that the city defaulted on s<
(Cunt lia? ?a, on p;q.? llxtscn)
Japan Rushes Warships;
Army Budget Increased
Construction Program at Dock?
yards Hagtened to Make
floor? for New Vesseli*.
TOKIO, Nov. 27.?Japanese naval
construction is being hastened, and
v?asela on stocks are being hurriedly
completed to make r'>'>m for others.
The er ilser 01 will be launched ??bout
the middle of December, Instead of
next spring, and two destroyers and a
pecial service vessel will be com?
pleted before the end of the year.
Despite the slump In commercial
ihiribuilding, the Kawasaki dock at
Kobe Is busily engaged with naval
work. The battleship Kaga, the keel
of which was laid In August, will bo
completed In ]'..'?.'., and the new battle
cruiser Atago, of 40,000 ton?, will be
h?-'"i-i immediately afterwnrd.
The army estimates for the fort.h
?orruri?/ year total 215 000,000 yen. un
increase of T/) per rmt over l??t yenr.
Of this s?jm, 40.000.000 yen will be 0X
',< nd? d on new defense (dans.
Service In the cavalry branch of the
urmy will be reduced from three years
to two ye ira.
?/ills?- ?,.,! r dull II? wr'k Tiii- vi.il. Ii?-|??nit
'":' :.* uili*W> tnst?. O*., HO DroiA4w?y.
A'lv?.
Resellers Hunt Drifting
Barge Carrying Sixteen
Wife anil Haby of Santa Rita's
Captain Among Those Aboard
the Missing Craft
SEATTLE, Nov. 27. Rescue erews
?ought vainly tu-day to find the barge
W J. I'irrie, with sixteen persons
aboard, which cut loose in yesterday's
pale off Cape Flattery from the steam
-hip Santa Rita. The v/ife of Captain
A. B. Jensen and their baby are among
those on the barge.
The Coast Guard cutter Snohomish,
which went to the aid of the Santa
Rita, in a wireless message said that
there was no I race of the barge off
Jnmes Island, where it had been re?
ported ashore. The Snobomlsh's raes
isa?,:?: indicated the possibility that the
barge Imd been blown out to seu. The
I'irrie was fully equipped, ?nd it was
belloved that she might weather the
storm.
The Snohomish reported that thn
Santa Rita was in no danger. It. is
standing out to sea ubout five miles
off Jamen Inland.
,\ Word ?f Welcome
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ou win lltnl Thn Tribuno Help Wuntnl
columns your jriftlnn place.? AdvC
$2,626,500
Lost in Sale
Of Shipyards
Engineer Says Board Sold
$826,000 Plant for
$3 7,500 ;Got $500,000
for $2,338,000 Yard
Petty <>afTWi?l
* Total Millions
Federal Officials Trust
to Honesty of Contract?
ors, Declares Auditor
Witnesses appearing before the Con-1
gressional committee investigating the i
Shipping Board in this city yesterday
t istifiod thai the government ;" losing
millions of dollars annually in petty!
graft arising out. of the purchase of
supplies and the making of repairs on l
Shipping Board ships.
representative Kelly, of Michigan,
in examining one of the witnesses,
brought out the fact that repair bills
submitted to the government by oper?
ators amount to between $o0.000,000
and $70,000,000 a year and that a
large part of this is wasted because
of fraud, inefficiency and agreements
which permit the mulcting of the gov?
ernment. Half of this sum it was
brought out, is spent by operators in
Now York, from which port about 600
of the board's 1,200 vessels operate.
Matthew S. Oakes, of the Supply
Division of the Shipping Board in New
York, but formerly a plant engineer
for the Fleet Corporation in charge
at Wilmington, told th?? committee
that huge losses have been suffered
by the government since the armis?
tice in the sale of shipbuilding plants.
As illustrations he cited the facts that
the plant of the Carolina Shipbuilding
Company, which, lie said, cost the gov?
ernment $2,338,000 to construct, was
sold for $500,000, and the plant, of the
Liberty Shipbuilding Company, which
cost $826,000 to build, was sold to the
city of Wilmington for $37,500.
Mr. Oakes declared, however, that
he considered the Carolina bargain a
good one for the government. The
plant, he said, was worth very little
unless utilized in the production of
ships, and if an attempt had been made
to dismantle it and sell the material
the proceeds would have been far
below .?$500/100. Neither the Carolina
nor the Liberty plant, he said, was
equipped for repai? wo^k.
Machinists i>????t ?l,37 an Hour
Charle*: F, Hanes, an assistant ex?
aminer ^t New York for the Emer?
gency Fleet Corporation, engaged in
the checking up of personnel on Ship?
ping Board ships and the checking of
labor and repair costs testified that
vnder the old agreement with private
companies machinists received 80 cents
an hour, but contractors were allowed
a profit of 50 cents an hour extra,
making the cost of labor to the gov?
ernment $1.20 [Cjenta an hour. Under
the present sysl.tm, Mr. Hanes testified,
the Ship-ping B ?ard Is paying $1.37
tents an hour for the same work, but
not on a cost plus basis. This rate,
he said, prevails in nearly all of the
yards in the port of New York.
Hanes told of otic case when he went
aboard a iea-going tug undergoing re
] airs and found twelve men aboard
c stensibly engaged in the work, when
it was physically impossible for more
than three men to be engaged. The
i-i vernment, he said, paid full time
wages for all the twelve men. In Nor?
folk, Va., he said, ho knew of a case
where a hinge, worth 50 cents and tht
v.ark of installing, which should not
have been more than $3, was installed
a ad a bill for $47.25 submitted to the
government. The bill was paid.
Speaking of repairs done by th<
Union ?ron Work-; on the steam sh if
Woyaca, lying in the Roads at Norfoli
for three months ?hiring the winter ??J
1919 and 1920, Mr. Hants sa; I that ;
crew of twenty-five men was seni
aboard the vessel on a Monday morn?
ing and remained there until the fol
lowing Monday. The cumpan , he said
(C.>ntlnin?(l on pnijo ilxtcen)
Ryan Is Said
a/
To Plan War
On Big Banks
Financier Who Lost Ex?
change Seat in Stutz
Fight to Confer With
Williams, Call Loan Foe
Denies He Faces
Money Difficulty
Terms Story That Banks
Will Take Charge of His
Present Assets Inspired
Allan A. Ryan, arch foe of the New
York Stock Exchange and a leading
figure in many corporation.?-', left the
city for Washington late yesterday
; fternoon to confer with John .Skelton
Williams,' Comptroller of the Cur?
rency and severe critic of the call Ijan
policies of the Wall ?Street banks.
When asked to comment on the re?
port that New York banks were gouig
to take care of his assets to protect
his obligations to them Mr. Ryan cryp?
tically replied. "The story was in?
spired " Urged to make a full state?
ment about the ma'fir, the recently
expelled member of the Stock Ex?
change and chairman of the St?tz
Motor Company, declared that it was
possible that Mr. Williams would have
something to say to the public about
the incident after the conference at
tv e capital to-day.
Fight on Banks Predicted
The fact that Mr. Ryan was about to
take up the question of his relations
with the banks with Mr. Williams was
interpreted to mean that he might
start a war against Wall Street bank.?,
already having been through one of
the most dramatic battles in financial
history with the New York Stock Ex?
change. Throughout Mr. Ryan's con?
test with the big board, which resulted
from a corner in Stutz stock, th?.
banks, which were heavy lenders tc
Mr. Ryan, whose father is Thomai
Fortune Ryan, continued existing rela?
tions with him.
In his public attacks on Wall Stree'
methods Mr. Ryan confined his criti
cism to the affairs of the Stock Ex.
change. Observers of financial devel
opments are now wondering whethei
the action of the banks to safeguarc
their loans will mark the beginning o
an open rift between Allan A. Ryar
and the banks. The fact that Mr. Ry.ii
will confer with the Comptroller i:
regarde.1 as significant, particularl;
since Mr. Williams has on several oc
casions this year bitterly criticised th?
Wall Street national banks for charg
ing what he deemed excessive rate;
for call loans made for Stock Exchang
purposes.
Mr. Williams's policy was las
month denounced as a nattacK on th
integrity of American bankers, in
resolution adopted at Washington a
the forty-sixth annual convention o
the American Hankers* Association.
Publication ol" the story that th
banks from whom Mr. Ryan had bor
rowed were in the process of formin
a committee for collective action t
protect their loans dragged into fui
publicity what has been surreptitiousl
gossiped in board rooms of the finar
e:al district for more than ten day.
Representatives of banks ?ntereste
yesterday admitted to The Tribun
that they were about to take care c
Mr. Ryan's assets, and in some ir
?tances the statement was made thi
Mr. Ryan's assets were more tha
ample to take care of the particul3
bank in question.
The Guaranty Trust Company, c
which T.liomas Fortune Ryan is a d
rector, the Chase Nati, nal Bank an
the Mechanics and Metals Natiom
Hank, according to high barking ai
thorities, are the institutions chi??1
interested, and the First Nation;
Hank, the Lawyers' Title and Tru
Company, the Empire Trust and othei
are said to he concerned to a less?
extent. According to the be,t info
vConiinU?d on page tw?!vo)
Death From Bites of Leopard
Recorded by Clerk as Leprosy
Dr. Benjamin Schwartz, Deputy I
Medical Examiner, filed a report yes
terday at the Medical Examiner's of?
fice showing that the death of Charles
Dochtermann at Bellevue Hospital
Thursday night was due ot injuries he
suffered when a leopard attacked him
the preceding Saturday and not to
"leprosy," as inscribed by an imag?
inative clerk at the Hoard of Health
office.
Dochtermann lived at 4S St. Mark's
IMac?: and wa? one of five brothers
owning a warehouse at 469 East Tenth
Street. About. 3 o'clock on the morn?
ing of Saturday, November 20, the
watchman at the warehouse telephoned
to Dochtermann, saying that some
leopards which an amusement corpora?
tion at Luna Park had sent to the
warehouse pending their shipment to
nnother city, were raising a tremen?
dous commotion.
Hastening tj the warehouse, Dochtor
r.-.ann opened the door of the room
whence the uproar emanated. As ho
did so a leopard launched itself at
his shoulders and clung there, clawing
and biting Dochtermann fought the
beast with hi? bare hands for several
minute?, and then the watchman called
in a man from the street.
The two men managed to drive the
animal A ,ni Dochtern??nn, who was
prostrate and senseless. They dragged
him out ,,,,. , ummonod an ambulance
from Bellevue Hospital- His wounds
\?<?ro infected and be ?li?'?l Thursday
' night.
When the report of hai death reached
the office of the Board of Health a
clerk t<> whom death in New York from
a leopard's bite seemed incredible and
death from leprosy at least believable
wrote down the latter in his records as
the cause of Dochtermann's death. The
result was that the body was held at
the morgue for an autopsy, and it was
not until Dr. Schwartz, designated to
perform the autopsy, investigated the
circumstances of the death that the
Board of Health was convinced leprosy
had not invaded New York.
Woman Writer Held by Reds
.Mr?. M. E. Harrison, of Balti?
more. Imprisoned by Soviet
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
BALTIMORE, Nov. 27? Mrs. Mar?
guerite E. Harrison, former member
of the staff of The Baltimore Sun, who"
is doing newspaper work in Russia,
has been arrested and imprisoned by
(he Soviet government in Moscow, ac
cording to a dispatch received here
from Paris.
Mrs. Harrison is charged by the
Soviet government with being a secret
agent of the State Department of the
United States, according to the infor?
mation. It is alleged that she sent in?
formation to Washington through an
Englishman who translated her mes?
sages, written on Danish and German
hank notes, and cabled them from
Re val to Washington.
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British Plan to Intern
Entire Sinn Fein Army;
Griffith Goes to Prison
English Feeling More Bitter
Than During the World War
Lloyd George, Supported by Both Houses, but Bit?
terly Assailed in Press, Faees Sharp
Fight Upon Irish Policies
From The Tribune's Kv.rof.ean Bureau
Copyright, ir<33'0, New York Tribune Inc.
LONDON, Nov. 27.?The British
weekly and daily newspapers to-day
bear striking evidence to -the fact that
events in Ireland have inspired a bit- !
terness in England unequalled even in :
the most intense moments of the war.
While in Ireland the crown forces .
are waging bloody warfare with the
supporters of Sinn Fein, in which hun?
dreds of thousands of Irish women are
helpless sufferers, the government in
London is engaged in a tierce political
fight.
The government's Irish policy has
the indorsement of an overwhelming
majority of the House of Commons,
and the approval is almost as wide in
the House of Lords, but no stranger
would appreciate this fact unless he got
his information from a small minority
of the English press.
In the last few months the whole
position of Sinn F?in has changed. The
- I
climax came with t?:?.? murder j? lour- ?
teen British army officers :n Dublin"
last Sunday and the profoundly im?
pressive funeral ceremonies for those
men that were held yesterday in Lon?
don.
In Ireland they call tha Croke Perk
shooting last Sunday, in ich ich rhi'ie
were sixty casualties when ths mili
tary fired on a football crowd, Cuir
Amritsar (where Indians were mas?
sacred two years ago).
Sir llamar Greenwood's announce?
ment in Parliament that "it is a ques?
tion of who is for Ireland and the
empire and who is for the assassins"
has just been answered by a great
meeting of Liberals which adopted a
resolution declaring: "A more indolent
piece of rodomontade has never, in my
memory, proceeded from the mouth of
and minister."
The cry of ''Kill him!" was raised in
Parliament Monday when Joseph Dev?
lin was attacked when he was trying to
put a question to Sir llamar Green?
wood. Of this unprecedented occur?
rence, The New Statesman says:
"It was a portentous ornea. To some
(Continued on next ?age)
Roads Enjoined
From Raising
Intrastate Rate
50 New York Railways Hit
by Two Temporary Orders
From Justice Cropsey in
Brooklyn Supreme Court
Coinpanies'MotionDeiiied
Immediate Hearing Given to
Defendants, Who Seek to
Have Ruling Set Aside
Not a railroad operating trains with?
in the State of New York will be able
(<-, raise its intrastate fares until the
?determination of motions by attorneys
for the commonwealth for permanent
injunctions against such procedure.
This situation, which may cost rail?
road systems under that classification
thousands of dollars, was brought
?.bout iate Friday, when Justice James
C. Cropsey, in the Brooklyn Supreine
Court, signed two orders containing
aemporary injunctions, which restrain
the roads from making increases. More
than fifty companies are hit by the
ruling.
Denies Railways* Motion
Injunction pepers were served upon
attorneys for the railroads yesterday
r.fternoon and as soon as they were
received the attorneys got in touch
with Justice Cropsey and persuaded
him to give immediate bearing to mo?
tions to set aside the injunctions. He
heard the motions in his chambers
last night and denied them.
There could be no question, he said,
of the right of the Attorney General to
bring the action, and the loss of the
railroads in consequence of the con?
tinuance of the lower rates would not
be slticientlj gre:it to counterbalance
the clear necessity of protecting th?
public interest. This final decision o?
Justice Cropsey left 'hose who appliec
tor the injunctions in complete p?*s
st .-^ioii of the field.
The application was made to Justict
Cropsey by Assistant Attorney Genera
Edward Griffin, represt;nting Attorne;,
General Charles D. Newton, who an
nounced the lice sion yesterday, and tin
two orders are made out in the name o
the people of the State of New York
Two of the more than fifty railroads
the Long Island and the Stf.ten Islanc
Rap d Transit, had announced their in
tention to raise their rates to-morrow
but yesterday's action frustrates them
The first of the orders was tlirectci
(Continu?*! ?n pa?o four)
Mary Pickford Seeks to
Quash Anti-Divorce Sui
Attorneys Argue Court Had N<
Right to Serve Summons on
Parties Outside the State
MINDEN, Nov.. Nov. 27.?Argument
began in the District Court here to-da
to quash the suit the state filed to se
aside the divorce granted Mary Pick
ford from Owen Moore. Miss Pickfort
sine?? her divorce was granted las
March 2, has been married to Dougla
Fairbanks, and in the state's petitio
was referred to as "Gladys M. Moow
known as Gladys M. Fuirbanks."
The proceedings of the day did nc
go to the merits of the controversy a
raided by the state, namely that Mar
Pickford's divorce decree was secure
as a result of fraud and through co
lusion between hersedf and Owe
Moore. The matter to-day came on
motion to quash the service of sun
mon s on the ground tha tthe court ha
no jurisdiction because the parties i
interest all were served outside th
state.
Attorneys on both sities ndmittr
that no matter what the court's rulini
the case will be carried to the Stal
Supreme Court.
Carlsbad Sprudel Suit (Imported)
Natural aalt for livor ?tomach, kid ne?
(nid rh. iiiiiiiM, ?,. Carlibad Agents, '.'0 We
Blieet, ISsw Turk.?Atlvt,
Catholics Make
Protest Against
Riot Over Flag
More Than 50 Prominent
Churchmen, in Letter fo
Archbishop Hayes, De?
plore Attack on Union Club
Outrage Upon Liberty
Allied Loyalty Leaguers
Ca'I on Hylan to Prevent
Future Menace to Citizens
More than fifty leaders among Cath?
olic laity in New York sent a protest
yesterday to Archbishop Hayes against
the action of the Irish sympathizers
who, on leaving St. Patrick's Cathedral,
wnere they had attended a memorial
mass for Terence MacSwiney Thanks?
giving Day, attacked the Union League
Ciub because a British flag was flying
there.
The Allied Loyalty League, of which
James M. Beck is president ami
M-iurice Francis Egan honorary vice
; resident, sent a communication to
Mayor Hylan protesting against lacK
of police protection that made disorder
of this sort possible and deploring the
riot in the strongest terms. Mr. Egan
also is a prominent Catholic.
The letter to Archbishop Hayes,
which is said to be unprecedented in
the history of the Catholic Church in
America, reads:
Letter to Archbishop
Most Rev. Patrick J. Hayes, Arch?
bishop of New York:
Most Reverend and Dear Archbishop
?As Americans and Catholics we pro?
test against the infusion of politics
into our beloved church. It is par?
ticularly deplorable that an outrage
upon American liberty should have
taken piace upon our national day of
thanksgivAig, and coming as it did
from a mob of people who had just
attended mass at the Cathedral. In
order to remove any doubt as to our
condemnation of this un-American pro
(Cantii.joj ?n next U?J<?)
Five Villages Razed, 20
Killed by Factory Blast
Many Injured and Shock Felt
Over 60-Mi!e Radius in Italy;
Soldiers at the Si*ene
LONDON, Nov. 27.?Five villages
were reduced to ruins by the explosion
uf the plant at Vergato, near Milan,
;.esterday, according to a Central
News dispatch from Milan. It add?
that the deaths thus far known total
twenty, and that a considerable num?
ber of persons were injured.
The shock was feltover a circle th?
radius of which was about sixty miles
Streetcars were overturned in Milar
and ther was a panic throughout the
entire district. Detachments of sol?
diers have been sent to the ?scene oi
the disaster.
The plant where the explosion oe
curred was used as a shell factory dur
ing the war. but ?since the close of h?.s
ti ities was beine; employed as a man
ufactory of citric acid. Fire broke ou
;n a hut near the factory at noon
?prend to the main building and late:
lumped to a big dump of shells nea
by. Nearly 250 men were employed n
the plant, but most of them were ab
rent for lunch when the explosioi
occurred.
ROME, Nov. 27,- Premier Giolittl to
c'ay introduced a bill in the Chumbe
of Deputies which would make any per
son round with bombs or other ex
plosives in his possession liable to ex
tremely severe penalties.
FLORIDA?? Tilt??! (ill TRAINS I? 111.?
Ai,.ii!.. roust Line H K. Oltlce. 1240 H'vm
l..ij!i<i St.). TeU Loncacr? ittis-AdvU
First Camp, Already Pre?
pared, Will Hold 1,000
Prisoners ; Others To
Be Constructed Soon
London in Fear of
Sinn Fein Attack
Eight-Foot Barricades Are
Thrown Around Puhlic
Buildings and Home?
DUBLIN. Nov. 27.?The British
government is preparing to put
many internment camps into opera?
tion and membership in the Irish
republican army will be. sufficient
reason for internment, according to
authoritative information obtained
to-night. This is taken to mean that
the entire membership of the re?*
publican army may be detained in
the camps, unless the situation in
Ireland improves soon.
The first of the camps to be made
ready is at Bally-Kinlar, in Du?
drum Bay, County Down. It is ?ca?
pable of accommodating 1,000 pris?
oners. Other camps are being pre?
pared in various parts of th*
country.
Griffith Taken to Prison
Arthur Griffith, head of the Sinn
F?in, and E. J. Duggan, Sinn F?in
Member of Parliament, have been
taken to Mountjoy prison. It has
not yet been decided whether they
will be among those selected for the
Bally-Kinlar internment camp. In?
ternment in this camp, according to
the authorities, would be "a conces?
sion," as heretofore such prisoners
have been held merely as "common
criminals."
A party of the military returning
from an inquiry outside Fermoy wa?
ambushed three miles from that town
last evening and ?'.v.t of tJie soldiers
were killed and three wounded. Th?
lorry was held by a tree which blocked
the road.
S me arms were captured by the men
who carried out the hold-up.
Further raids occurred in Dublin
this morning, the raiders being
conveyed i a fast automobiles fitted
with a shelter of steel plating. It
is reported that the roundup during
the last seven days has resulted in 300
arrests. The thorough searching of
premises in the dow?ntown beiaion in?
dicated that, the authorities were tak?
ing all possible precautions.
There are no ?> loan ??latches sched?
uled for to-morrow, such as that of
In t Sunday, which, the officials assert,
served as a "cover for the opert-tions
of the murder gang." This gives some
relief from apprehension of a repeti?
tion of la^t Sunday's incidents.
From The Tribune ?< European Bureau
Copyright, IU2Q, New i'orh Tribune Inc.
LONDON, Nov. 27.- The high barri?
cades erected in I ?owning Street and
Whitehall to protect the official resi?
dences and offices there from violence
were built as a precaution against
fears that Sinn F?in might extend its
attacks to the very heart of London
and the seat of government of th?
British Empire.
. Sir llamar Greenwood and other offi?
cials have warned the country of the
finding of evidence of Sinn Fein ter?
rorists plots extending to England and
of plans for the assassination of prom?
inent British leaders. The belief 1?
expressed that the barricades were de?
signed to frustrate one of these plots.
Persons who now wish to approach
the official residences of Premier Lloyd
Gc.?rgc and Andrew Bonar Law, or th?
Foreign Office or India Office, must
present their credentials in order to
pass the bulwark.
Even in war time no auch precau?
tions as these were taken. A few extra
policemen stationed in Whitehall and
Downing Street sufficed to protect th?
district.
Plot Disclosed in Documenta
LONDON, Nov. 27 i By The Associat?
ed Press).?The capture during raida
in Ireland of Sinn F?in documents al?
leged to give details of a conspiracy
for damaging government buildings IB
England was said to-day in police ?T?r?
eles to be the cause of the erection of
the formidable barricades which have
be?.-p put up at the entrances to Down?
ing Street and King Charles Street.
It has also become known that a
strange man was detained after he was
found in the outer lobby of the House
of Commons yesterday.
In aduit-on u. tue plot reported in
the House of Commons Wednesday by
Sir Hamar Greenwood, the Chief Sec?
retary for Ireland, for the destruction
of property in Liverpool and Manches?
ter, it is said in police quarters that
rumerous other acts of terrorism wer?
beim: planned.
According to published report, mem?
bers of the government have received
a number of threatening letters re
??ently, but the officials are maintaining
silence on the subject.
It is said also that sensational dis?
coveries have been made concerning
the activities of plotters in London. In
one case, according to lue police, motor
tars were to have been employed to
transport bombers from various part?
of London to carry out the destruction
of the government buildine*.
# Premier Asked No Protection
Neither Premier Lloyd George nor
other members of the government had
asked for the protection now afforded
i by the barriers, it is declared, but the.
police decided that they were nec-af-?