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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1920 81 PAGES-PART I AND SPORTS
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Ib Manhattan. Brooklyn
and Tha Branx
TKN CKNTS
Saewhere
Caruso Snaps
Blood Vessel
In His Throat
Accident Occurs at End
of First Act of Per?
formance ?t the Brook?
lyn Academy of Music
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Physicians Report
4 Injury Not Serious
Tenor Offers to Continue
v Role, but Audience De?
cides Not to Demand It
Enrico Caruso, singing last night in
?I/Ellstr d'Am^rc," at the Academy
of Music in Brooklyn, burst a blood
vessel in his throat just as the cur
.tain was descending on the first act
md was unabie to continue the per?
formance.
The crta'n did not rise for the sec?
ond act and its was announced from
the stage that tlie performance was
over. Despite this announcement hun?
dreds of persons remained at the house
ior nearly two hours discussing the
tccident
Mr. Caruso received first aid treat
Bent from a physician in the audience
end ?fteen minutes after he left the
stage was rushed to his home at the
Hotel Vanderbilt by automobile. It
was said that the accident, while not
terious, would not permit his singing
again for weeks.
The Academy of Music was jammed
fer the performance by Mr. Caruso
and the assembled singers of the Met?
ropolitan Opera Company. The tenor
was vociferously applauded at the close
of the first act, and the audience was
not aware that he had met with a mis?
hap until an announcement was made
by Herbert T. Swim, manager of the
theater.
Willing to Continue Performance
"Mr. Caruso," Bind Mr. Swim, "had a
slight hemorrha?ge of the nose, which
?ras caused by the bursting of a small
blood vessel in his throat."
"He assures me that he is willing, In
spite of the accident, to finish the per?
formance, and if you wish he will go
on with it. It is for you to decide."
Hundreds of persons rose to their
feet, crying "No! No!"
Mr. Swim then informed the audience
?hat the performance was over.
After leaving the stage at the end of
the first act Caruso went quickly to his
dressing room, pressing a blood-soaked
handkerchief to his neck. To membera
of the company who gathered about
him he explained that he had broken a
blood vessel.
A phy?iciar. was called. Caruso was
then advised of the decision of the
audience regarding a continuation of
the performance, and got into a car and
went home. Mrs. Caruso was not at
the theater.
Music lovers who witnessed the first
act expressed the deepest concern over
the accident, and William J. Guard, di?
rector of publicity of the Metropolitan
Opera Comoany, was besieged with in?
quiries as to the seriousness of the in?
jury.
Members of the audience leaving the
theater were given tickets which they
could redeem.
"LT'.isir d'Amore" has not been
presented this season at the Metro?
politan Opera House.
Strained Side Last Week
At the Metropolitan last week, while
singing the "V'esti 'a Giubba" aria at
'lie end of the first act of "Pagliacci"
Cameo strained his side, but was
able to finish the performance.
The tenor has been in admirable
'ocal condition this year, having given
'everal retable performances since
toe season's opening On February
2' last Caruso celebrated hi3 forty
seventh birthday, he sang for the
;ir?t time at Naples in 1894. He was
married August 21, 1018, to Dorothy
nark Benjamin, daughter of Park Ben
.'?rain, the lawyer.
Invalid Made Whisky at
Bedside, but Is Freed
Knforcprm nt Officer Refuses to
Prosecute .Man Too Poor
to Buy Medicine
BOSTON, Dec. 11.?William 3. Mc
-artlry, prohibition enforcement di
'tctor for New England, refused to
'*7 to prosecute a sick man in whose
"Wee had been found a bedside atill
**"**We moonshine whisky. The man,
.',v:c*:ir! of tuberculosis, was so weak
*<*n the officers made the raid that he
'nid r.'A \?: moved.
*m\>AU'](i the ot?ctn that hi? finances
?Xt- not Permit him to purchase
*il'rUy ?? a r?edical prescription and
?.'.Ti1 *!" ?e needed ?UrnuDa.it to keep
;V? T?''*- h<! h&d installed the ?till at
l-? ?tde ?My, bed.
375 Coreans Killed or
Executed by Japanese
"""?Churches and Five Schools
Destroyed in Skirmishes
-rt_, ^?ar Changtao
,*uKlO, Dec. It.-Three hori
a&d
dred
?p ?*v?:r,ty.fjve Corean? were killed
Mu*ru in th* ??cent ?kirmishee
',?,r ^bangtao, Corea, according to
' Mvic<!t received from that area,
??I 9?'**" W.dfta have been ope*
?7'?' ?ome t'me. Fifteen han
rtaS?p*r??n? are said to hav? ?ur
a?w? ' *h!** t'*o ?churehe? and five
?***?.? w?re destroyed.
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Enrico Caruso
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Film Interests
Begin War on
Blue Crusaders
Motion Picture Audiences
All Over Nation To Be Ap?
prised of Agitation and
Asked to Signify Views
Gov. Smith Backs Move
15,000 Catholic Organiza-;
tions Reported Opposed j
to Lord's Day Alliance!
Encouraged by the promised support '?
of Governor Smith, the Motion Picture '
Theatrical Association, 32 West Forty- i
seventh Street, of which Mrs. James j
Speyer is honorary president and John !
A. Quinn the active president, yester- !
day announced a program of belliger- '
ent activity against the Lord's Day Al- j
liance. I
The association, according to Mr. I
Quinn, purposes to force the Sunday I
biue law fight into the open, so that l
those who present clean entertainment j
may not suffer for the shortcomings of ?
persons who offer questionable 3hows j
throughout the week as well ?a on Sun- j
days. Mr. Quinn said:
"As-the purpose for which the Mo- ?
tion Picture Theatrical Association of j
the World is functioning is solely to i
procure motion pictures for the public
every day of the week, its fight, ior j
Sunday movies is being supported by i
prominent* men and women and civic
and social organizations throughout
the country. Systematically, through
its field directors and worker?, it will
present the Sunday blue law agitation
and procure the signed verdict of or?
ganizations and individua,s throughout
the entire country, to ascertain defi?
nitely if the people wtsh to be deprived
of wholesome amusement on Sunday."
Mr. Quinn said that in addition to an
indorsement from Governor Smith, he
had received messages of support from
the Rev. Howard E. Clark, of Plainfierd,
N. J.; Mrs. Charles Sabin, Mrs. John
Francis Yawger and Judge Wadhams
of the Court of General Sessions. The
Rev. Mr. Clark, upon his return yes?
terday from Washington, where he at?
tended the sessions in connectic a with
a demand for Federal censorship of
motion pictures, went immediately to
the Motion Picture Theatrical Associa?
tion headquarters, Mr. Quinn said, and
offered his indorsement of the associa?
tion and its tight. Mr. Q?inn said
Governor Smith sent this telegram :
"You may count on me to help you
?n every way I possibly can in your
national campaign to suppress the agi?
tation for tiie?prohibitiiiK of whole?
some amusement-on Sunday."
Mrs Sabin, the wife of the president
of the Guaranty Trust Company, said :
"I am heartily opposed to any legis
lpt'K-n that will deprive the public o?
wholesome entertainment on Sunday.
.? ig very logical that the Motion Pic
tare Theatrical Association should
i champion the cause of the people in
this respect. I sincerely indorse tnem
in this fight."
Mrs. Yawger, who is president of the
Woman'.- Republican Association of
New York, said:
"For five years I have been opposing
any legislative measures tending to in?
terfere with wholesome entertainment
for the people on Sunday and I am
entirely in sympathy with the stand of
the M. P. T. Association of the World
ajrainst the blue law campaign com?
mittee. My belief is that the prisons
will have many extra inmates if these
laws pass."
Mr. Quinn will preside at a mass
meeting Thursday afternoon at the
Apollo Theater at which speakers will
voice their protests against the Sunday
blue laws. It is understood that snou:d
I the Lord's Day Alliance desire to send
a speaker he will be given an opportu
j nity to state his case.
In answer to a statement that Catho
! lies are opposed to Sunday motion pic
? tures. Mr. Quinn made public an in?
dorsement of the M. P. T. movement
signed by Charles A. McMahon. chair?
man of the motion picture section of
the National Catholic Welfare Council,
in which Mr. McMahon stated that the
welfare council stands ready to mobil?
ize 15,000 Catholic men's and women's
organizations throughout the country to
j fight lawn which would put an end to
wholesome amusement on Sundays.
"Stmerica's Future on the Seas
*T* HE problem of American shipping is one of the greatest
that confronts the country. The Tribune has arranged
for 0 series of articles by important shipping men on the dif?
ficulties that must be overcome if the United States is to find
its pl&ce on the seas. The first article will appear in
To-morrow's Tribune
Jury Probes
Marble Ring
-morrow
_
Lockwood Committee to
Present Names and Tes?
timony of Employers'
Association for Action
BrindelPs Deals
To Be Reviewed
Hettrick Is Said to Have
Been Ordered to Appeal*
Before Supreme Court
As a result of sensational disclos- i
ures pertaining to the pperations of I
the Marble Industry Employers' As?
sociation in conjunction with local and '
national labor bodies, counsel for the f
Lockwood committee on housing will j
to-morrow place all the names and
testimony bearing on the matter be?
fore the extraordinary grand jury for
action.
It also was reported that John T.
Hettrick, the lawyer head of the "Code
of Practice" ring of contractors, had
been summoned through his counsel,
Robert H. Elder, to appear before Jus?
tice McAvoy in the criminal branch of
the Supreme Court to-morrow. Het?
trick, who is at his home at Seabright,
N. J., referred all inquiries to his at?
torney. Mr. Elder declined to cither i
affirm or deny the report.
It was through Hettrick's office at 165 i
Broadway, according to witnesses, that
the combination-* of plumbing, steam ?
heating and ventilating, and limestone ?
Contractors operated in their alleged ?
collusive bidding activities. Henry Han- I
lein, the limestone contractor whose, j
$2,372,000 contract for the now court '
house was canceled because of the re- i
cent exposures, said on the stand that j
"Hettrick was the creator of the scheme !
and the whole show." Under the "Code
of Practice," it was said, the contrae- ?
tors turned over to him ?! per cent of j
their gross annual business, of which
he retained 1 per cent for personal
services. f
Hettrick Wrote to Mayor
Hettrick was brought into the lime?
light later through the publication of a
lette'r, in which he offered Mayor Hy
lan the indorsement of labor unions if
he would sign the Hanlein limestone
contract. The Mayor also testified on
the witness stand that he had sent on
to the Board of Education under his
own signature, a letter which had been !
prepared for him by Hettrick, pointing
out the advantages of limestone for
puhlic school construction over terra
cotta.
The voluminous data to be sent to
the grand jury w'll also include all
the records and testimony referring to
the relations and alleged agreements
existing between the Building Trades
Employers's Association and the Build?
ing Trades Council, the labor body
headed by Robert P. Brindell, now
under several indictments, charging
extortion. It was because of these al?
leged agreements that Samuel Unter
myer, counsel for the. Lockwood com
m.ttee, characterized the marble 'as?
sociation as "the tightest combine he j
had ever run across." Through its I
operations, it was testified that con- ?
tractors not in the ring could not
obtain union lahor for thou undertak?
ings, and in numerous instances were
driven out of business.
New Records Obtained
The combinations in this instance
are being attacked from still another
quarter, for it was learlied that the
records of the employers' associations'
relations with ol'hcials" of the Interna?
tional Union of Bricklayers, Masons
an ! Plasterers, with headquarters at
Indianapolis, Lad been obtained by
Specia Assistant United States Attor?
ney Kattfman and United States At?
torney Caffev for examination.
Mr. Caffey said yesterday that de?
spite criticisms that have b?.;en directed
toward his office in connection with
the investigation, he was entirely sym?
pathetic with the work of the Lock
wood committee and will assist it in
every way possible. He said he would
carefully scrutinize, the facts just dis?
closed, and if he feels there is any
justification he will immediately place
the record in the hands of the Fedora,
grand jury.
Along with the data to be presented
to the 'extraordinary grand jury to?
morrow went a li.-;t of names of the
(Continu?'?! nn pago four)
Owner's Profits Too Big,
Cuts Rents 1 to 15 P. C.
Reduction, Effective January 1,
Will Be Extended to
i $15,000,000 Holdings
The fifteen tenants at 506 West
1 176th Street got notice from their land?
lord yesterday that rentals in the
building would be lowered 10 and 15
; per cent starting January 1.
Charles Galewski, of 51 Chambers
? Street, the vandlord, said that he in
! tended to extend the rent reduction to
| all his $15,000,000 real estate holdings
I as fast as accountants could determine
the excess profits he was receiving.
! The accounts for the house on 176th
j Street showed, he said, that he was
; making from 20 to 22 per cent on that
i investment.
"That's too much," he said. "The
! tenants are all laborers and everybody
j knows that labor's returns are cominu
j down. I am certain that if labor
? comes down and rents continue to go
| up there will be a coijntry-wide panic."
To
60 Hours
The Tribune's letter to Police
Commissioner Enright, asking
him fourteen questions about the
reorganization of the Police De?
partment, has not yet been an?
swered. It was delivered at Head?
quarters at 4 o'clock on Thursday
afternoon.
A Tribune reporter called at
Headquarters yesterday, asked
whether he might see the Com?
missioner and when an answer to
the letter might be expected.
"The Commissioner is not in,"
was the only reply
Crime in City
Said to Shame
Jesse James
New York Safer for Cut-!
throat Than Frontier in'
Days of Rule by Bandit1
Chiefs, Says Wall stein
Legislative Probe Urged
Citizens Union Demands Re?
lief From Conditions Im?
posed by Hy!an's Regime
In a scathing arraignment of the
Hylan administration at the annual
luncheon of the Citizens Union in the
Hotel Astor yesterday afternoon, Leon?
ard M. Wallstein, counsel to the union
and associate counsel to the Lockwood
Committee, centered his attack on the
disintegration of the rolice Depart?
ment, as revealed in articles printed in
The Tribune during the last two weeks.
"Favoritism and hate, political and
personal," Mr. Wallstein asserted,
"have been the governing principles by
which the present Police Commissioner
has broijght the department to its
present s-ate of inefficiency."
He said the city to-day was safer for
cutthroats than the frontier ii* the
days of Jesse James.
Thorough Inquiry Urged
Mr. Wallstein was vigorously ap?
plauded when he .declared: "The best
means of relief lies in an early and
thorough investigation by a legislative
committee or commission of the whole
structure and- administration of the.
city government."
Other speakers at the luncheon were
Borough President Curran of Manhat?
tan; Frederick M. Davenport, State As?
semblyman from Uncida County; Wil?
liam A. Prendergast, former Comptrol?
ler-; Mrs. F. Louis Shade, regional di?
rector of the League of Women Voters,
and Delos F. Wilcox. Jay Schieffelin
presided.
Mr. Prendergast and Mr. Wilcox dis-,
cussed the traction problem in New!
York. The latter declared he believed
he could explain away almost any ob?
stacle to municipal ownership of tran?
sit except its advocacy by William
Randolph Hearst and John F. Hylan.
"But," he added, "they are a force
against decent organized government
to the same extent that their support
reflects discredit upon the project of
municipal ownership."
Mr. Curran said he believed the so?
lution of the housing situation to be
one of tiie paramount, problems of the
day in New York City, and urged his
hearers to do all in their power to ob
,ai?? the adoption by the City Council
of the tax exemption section of t'.:e
e.mergenev rent laws. Such action, he
said, wouid stimulate the building of
homes.
All Agree on Subject
In beginning his arraignment of the
administration, Mr. Wallstein said he
was especially glad to address members
of the union o:i a non-controversial
subject. "There, is honest dissension
on many topics," he declared, "but
there can be no difference of opinion as
in the Hylan administration." Mr.
Wallstein's address follows \y | art:
"After three years of the Hylan ad
ministration, its humiliating stupidity,
its costly incompetence, its transparent
hypocr'sy and its brazen exploitation
of the opportun'ties of public office arc
at last beginning to arouse the people
of this city. The Mayor's mouthir.gs
no longer serve to conceal the break?
ing of pledges that no self-respecting
man, even as a candidate, woulil ever
have made. Insistence upon a five
cent fare has much to commend it, but
it no longer distracts public attention
from the breakdown of government
in this city. The billingsgate abuse of
those who tell the truth about the ad
nvnistration has ceased to fool any?
body. The 'lid' has been barely tilted,
and already the people of the city have
seon enough to convince them that
their present government is the worst
..nee the ?lays of Van Wyck.
"One promise, however, has been
kept. Men who know the problems of
city government?the hated 'experts'?
have been rigidly excluded from the
iContinue?! en page twel?re)
Reds U. S. Sent Back
Try to Blow Up Soviet
Members of the Buford "Ark"
Parly Are Accused of Plant'
ing Bombs at Moscow Bureau
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.?Members
of the party deported nearly a year ago
on the "Soviet Ark" Buford with Emma
Goldman and Alexander Berkman have
attempted to blow up officials of the
Russian Soviet government, according
to information received to-day at the
Department of Justice. The advices
said Marcus Grodowsky and Arthur
Katjes were in jail at Moscow for at?
tempting to plant bombs in a building
occupied bv the general executive com
mitteo of the soviet government there.
Schnabel, formerly head of the Union
of Russian Workmen, the reports said,
had been killed by the Japanese in Si?
beria while encaged in railroad work
there. Peter Branky was reported to
have entered the ranks of the Com?
munist party and to be associated with
the international propaganda bureau
at Petrograd, Hyman-Perkins was said
to be employed in Odessa, both the
Schatz brothers in Kiev, Kushneroff
working in the soviet bureau in Mos?
cow and Paul KovalofT working on a
tugboat near Pctrograib_
FXOniDA INFOKMATION AT
Atlnnur* Const Une. Railroad ?111'-. ?4?
Broadway tazad Si.). Tel. L<>ngacre 6365.
? A-Ivt.
Bomb Plant
Is Seized in
DublinCity
Arms, Ammunition and j
Explosives Found in Bi- j
cycle Shop; Three Ar?
rested and One Shot!
_
Iiif ernal Machine
Also Confiscated
Fate of Irish Truce Be?
lieved to Hinge on At?
titude of Sinn Fein
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DUBLIN, Dec. 11.?A plant for the I
manufacture of bombs was discovered
during an early morning raid to-day
on a bicycle repair shop in Parnell
Street, In the heart of Dublin. Large
quantities of arms, ammunition, bombs !
and gelignite were seized.
Three men were arrested, one of
whom was shot and wounded while at?
tempting to escape.
Dublin Castle's account of the raid |
describes the factory as extensively
and completely equipped with furnaces
and machinery of a modern character.
No workers were there at the time, but
the molds were still warm, as though
bombs had been freshly cast. Two
hundred bombs in various stages of
manufacture were found.
There was evidence, says the Castle j
report, that the filling of the bombs j
was done in an extremely haphazard
and dangerous manner, as detonators,
loose powder, mixed with all kinds of
cartridges, and sacks full of gelignite
and other explosives were found lying
all about the place.
Loaded revolvers were on the benches,
presumably for the use of the workers
if necessary. It is estimated that the
factory could turn out hundreds of
bombs monthly. Some large and power?
ful ones were among those discovered
and a number of documents were
seized.
A particularly sinister discovery was
the incomplete portion of an infernal
machine, which showed it was to have
been about the size of an ordinary type?
writer, and that it probably was in?
tended for use with a time device.
The accommodations at the plant
were rather cramped for the ten work?
men it is understood were employed.
The plant is in a very populous dis?
trict, and it is considered fortunate
that no explosion occurred, as it would
have destroyed the entire block.
DUBLIN, Dec. 11.?Twelve auxiliary
cadets were wounded to-night in ar. am?
bush at Cork within half a mile of the
barracks by bombs thrown from a lorry,
? ccording to official announcement. The
assailants of the cadets escaped.
At Shankill, near Dublin, during a
raid to-day by the military on a local
club, when the? club members were
ranged against a wall with-hands rais?3*d
for the purpose of identification Wil?
liam Owens, a clerk, was shot dead by
some unknown person from the out?
side.
From The Tribune's European Bureau
Copyright, 1320, New York Tribune Inc.
LONDON, Dec. U.--Eight hundred
thousand persons are a'ffected by the
government's proclamation of martial
iaw over southwest Ireland. Civil law
already has been suspended over a
wider area, and it is possible that all
of Ireland may come under military
rule.
Although those desirous of an early
peace in Ireland have grave doubts
whether the government's double policy
is the best method for reaching a set?
tlement, they believe an advance has
been made in the right direction. The
vita! question of the immediate future
is whei : the government will devote
! more energy toward conciliation or
: coercion; whether the olive bran?;h or
the club will be waived.
A dozen Sinn F?in extremists may,
'. if they will, render abortive any at
] temnt to make peace. Nobody knows
j yec whether the desire for a truce in
j Ireland has reached the point where
' the mass of people is ready to enter
j n'-'gotiations, abandoning at the outset
any claim to independence, in pursuit
of which they already have undergone
the severest hardships.
Irish Reaction Awaited
Ireland is comparatively calm, but
every Briton is now awaiting the coun?
try's reaction to the announcement of
Lloyd George's new policy. That re?
sponsible Irishmen will desire further
details before committing themselves
is a foregone conclusion, for already
in the English press questions are be?
ing asked. When Parliament meets
(Continued ?it next page)
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200 Die in Earthquake,
Albanian Villages Razed
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! 15.000 Are Reported Homeless;
Tremors Are Felt in Argen?
tina and Southern Honduras
ROME, Dec. 11.?All the villages in
the Tepeleni district, southern Albania,
have been destroyed by a violent earth?
quake, according to an Avlona message
to the Tempo to-day. Two hundred
persons are reported killed, while
16,000 have been made homeless.
The town of Tepeleni itself was razed.
The message reports the shocks are
continuing.
A dispatch from Avlona. December 5,
reported shocks in the Tepeleni dis?
trict, rendering thousands homeless,
but made no mention of casualties.
BUENOS AYRES, Dec. 10.?Earth?
quake tremors were distinctly felt in
some parts of Argentina shortly after
midnight this morning, and reports
from points as far south as Patagonia
show the shock was perceptible. Seis?
mic observatories, in this city registered
the earthquake.
Reports were received here to-day of
a terrific earthquake in southern Hon?
duras.
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K*>w Onrilons Inn. Kew Garden??. T.. I.
I R-M-i'li'ntiiil eubu.-i.an hotul (American
plan). Sixteen minutes ttoifi Fenn, t?'.ation.
? Advt.
Japan Tells League It
Cannot Disarm While
Other Nations Fortify
Reds Turn to
Capital, View
Of Vanderlip
Promoter, Home From
Russia With Grant From
L?nine, Asserts Bolshev?
ism Is Horrible Example
Washington D. Vanderlip, agent for ;
a Western syndicate, who recently ob- ?
tained a concession from the Soviet :
government for the exploitation of the j
entire territory of Siberia "east of the !
160th meridian, including Kamchatka," j
returned on the Aquitania yesterday !
with a message from L?nine and
Trotzky.
That message, as It was delivered
by Mr. Vanderlip to reporters, was, in
substance, that Bolshevik Russia wanie
AiTierican capitalists to come into ?.ne
country, and help exploit it. Co?..
nism according to Mr. Vanderlip, has
proven "a complete failure," and while
neither L?nine nor Trotzky put it to
him in just the exact terms, Mr. Van?
derlip said, there is every indication
that the Bolsheviki are about ready to
kick their Socialist-Bolshevik program
overboard and return to normal "capi?
talist" ways of doing business.
Denies Representing Harding
Before outlining the natura of his
concessions and business projects in
Russia, Mr. Vanderlip, in -reply to
questions, denied that he ha,l carried
any letters to L?nine from President?
elect Harding. He said he nad never
met Senator Harding.
Mr. Vanderlip ridiculed H. G. Wells's
description of industrial and social
breakdown in ' Russia, saying Mr.
Wells had spent only twenty-four
hours in Moscow, "while I spent sixty
??lays there." Mr. Vanderlip seemed to
rejoice in the fact that "Bolshevism
has bten a horrible example to the
world and their experiments in so?
cialism and the theories of Karl
Mars will forever end these Utopian
; ideas."
Says Granaries Are Filled
According to Mr. Vanderlip, however,
Russia's granaries are filled to capac
city and there is no famine. While it
is true, he said, that Bolshevism has
been "a horrible example," the Bolshe?
vik government "is very popular with
the Russian people and L?nine is Idol?
ized by them."
He said that Russia is ready to ex?
port vast stores of flax, grain, oil,
manganese ore and furs.
"The only thing Russia needs is
locomotives." said Mr. Vanderlip. "She
needs 5,000 of them."
"How do you reconcile your report
of the vast quantities of goods ready
for export in Russia with Lenine's own
recent admissions of the famine con?
fronting Russia and the disorg inization
of her industrial life?" Mr. Vanderlip
was asked.
'"That's a foolish question," he re
; plied. He appeared to be vexed.
He was quite' sure that as soon ae
I trade relations with Russia were
! opened "Bolshevism would die."
"Trade relations with Russia," he
said, "will be i.he deathblow of Bol?
shevism."
"In that case," Mr. Vanderlip was
asked, "why are the Bolsheviki so
eager for trade relations?"
"That's another foolish question,"
was his reply.
Brieby, Mr. Vanderlip said, his deal
with the Soviet government embraces
two contracts. They are, first, a con?
cession for all the oil, fish and coal in
all the territory described above, and,
second, his assumption of an agency in
j the United States for the Soviet gov
| ernment for the purchase of $3,000,000
(Continued on next pane)
700 Shots a Minute by
New U. S, Machine Gun
WASHINGTON, Dec- 11.?
Successful tests of a new machine
gun firing half-inch bullets, and
with ?t least double the range of
the .30-caliber machine gun now
in use, was announced to-day by
the War Department. The new
weapon gave "remarkable re?
sults," the statement declared.
The tests were also said to have
demonstrated "unusual possibili?
ties," it was said. The new wea?
pon had a maximum rapidity of
fire of 700 shots a minute, and an
efficient minimum of 400 shots a
minute. The gun is water cooled
and weighs about twice as much
as the .30-caliber Browning.
Tests indicated the gun was ex?
tremely accurate, even at long
rangea.
Export Bureau
Plans to Start
Work at Once
Country's Leading Bankers
Organize Big Corporation
to Provide Market for
Products of the Nation
McHugh Heads Directors
New Yorkers Also in Charge
of Committee Which Will
Arrange Final Details
Special Dispatch to The Tribuno
CHICAGO, Dec. IL?As a result of a
conference of representatives of agri?
culture, business and finance from
every part of the United States, called
by the president of the American Bank?
ers' Association to con.--.ider the prob?
lem of properly financing the country's
foreign trade, a corporation will be
launched immediately, to be known as
the Foreign Trade Financing Corpora?
tion. It will have an autnorized capi?
tal of $100.000,000, with a potential
capacity of $1:000,000,000, and its pur?
pose will be to facilitate the export of
American commodities by the exten?
sion of long-term credits abroad. It it
hoped the corporation will function bj
January 1.
The corporation will be organized
under the Edge law, and will follow
closely the plan conceived by John Mc
Hugh, vice-president of the Mechanics
and Metals National Bank of Nev
York and chairman of the committc
of the American Bankers' Associatior
that for the last two years has givei
unremitting attention to the problem;
of American trade.
Thirty to Organize It
An organization committee, com
posed of thirty American bankers an?
business men, will immediately under
take launching the corporation. Thi
committee his been supplied with
fund of $100,000 subscribed at th
conference, and will inaugurate a
once a campaign to sell the stock o
the corporation among the banks, mar.
ufacturing organizations, farmers an
labor of the country.
It is proposed that the corporatio
shall begin active operations at th
earliest practical opportunity, fo
while its purpose ?ill be to supply
permanent means for stabilizing th
country's foreign trade financing, th
(Continued on pago tliree)
Pursued Tailor Leaps Off 4L'
To x4iito?,Then Bounces to Street
Alex Urbanuff, altogether the luckiest
and ^niost active tailor who ever fell
into the hands of the police, was taken
i to St. John's Hospital, Long Island City,
last night several hours after he had
?survived, apparently unhurt, a series
of most remarkable acrobatic feats un?
dertaken in an effort to escape arrest.
He was at the Bridge Plaza station
in Long Island City late yesterday af?
ternoon when Mrs. Mary Howell, of 322
Crescent Street, Long Island City, from
whom a purse containing $10 had been
snatched in the crowd a short time be?
t?re, stepped up to him and accused
him of the theft.
"Don't make such a noise about it,"
1 Urbanuff told her, she said, thrusting
j $10 into her hand. '"Here's your
money."
I Mrs. Howell seized him by the arm,
?however, and called for help. Alfnough
there were several men in the throng
: about her, they edged away from the
couple, and Urbanuff was wresting him
: self out of her grasp when a special
patrolman put his hand on his shoul?
der. The touch put new and miracu?
lous vigor into the tailor.
Tearing himself loose so suddenly
\ that both the woman and the special
. patrolman were sent reeling, he leaped
i to the elevated tracks and started back
i toward Jackson Avenue, running on the
! ties between the rails of the westbound
? track.
The special patrolman and two other
? men started in pursuit, running on the
; ff ? - '-- hoside the trucks.
A train bound for Manhattan was
approaening and the three pursuers
i
halted for safety's sake. Urbanuff,
however, kept doggedl on until the
train, its whistle and brakeshoes shriek?
ing, was only a few score feet away.
Then the watchers saw him suddenly
vanish.
He had dropped between the tie3 to
the diagiinal viaduct which passes be
ne?th the elevated tracks at this point.
He landed neatly on the top of an auto?
mobile which was passing and bounced
lightly from its resilient fabric to the
roadway.
Mounted Patrolman Kavanaugh, on
duty on the viaduct, had seen the
human legs suddenly projected between
the ties above him and had watched
astounded as Urbanuff followed his
legj and went bounding off like a rub?
ber ball. Astonishment did not pre?
vent Kavanaugh from touching bis
mount with the spur, however, and he
came to a pounding halt, his horse's
n??.-e projecting over the railing of the
viaduct, just as Urbanutf leaped upon
the railing wich tue apparent inten?
tion of vaulting to the Long Island
Railroad yards, forty feet below.
Kavanaugh's grasp closed on his col?
lar before he could take the drop, how?
ever, and the next moment the tailor
was swung ingloriously across the
pommel of the patrolman's saddle, his
audacious cdventure at a woeful end.
Apparently dazed, he was taken to
the Hunters Point detective bureau,
where he' -was booked, finger-printed
and questioned. As his condition was
becoming alarming, however, the police
sent him to the hospital where it was
?-.aid he was suffering from shock and
perhaps from internal injuries. He is
! twenty-six years old and lives at 287
?East Ninety-eighth Street.
EnVoy Is Said to Have Re?
ferred to U. S. ; Dispute
of Chile and Bolivia May
Cause Both to Withdraw
Land Award of 40
Years Ago Is Issue
America Will Be Invited to
Send Representative to
OpiumTradeConference
GENEVA, Dec. 11.?? Viscoun?
Ishii, of Japan, this morning told
the meeting of the armaments com?
mission of the League of Nations
that Japan could not consent to
carry out the league's proposals for
disarmament so long as Americ?
was outside of the league. He said
that it was not fair for the league,
to impose conditions on its mem?
bers while other nations were fr?$
from those restrictions.
He did not mention the United
States by name, but it was clear
that he had the United States in
mind. The proposal before the com?
mission was that during the next
two years no member of the league
should possess more armament than
they had in 1920. This, of cours-6,
would enable the United States still
further to advance beyond Japan.
The proposal was eventually paused,
after an explanation- was made that It
merely amounted to a recommendation,
was not binding and did not constitut?
a pledge on the part of the league. Via
count Ishii said definitely that Japan
probably would increase her armament
budget and had made a permanent com?
mitment in her armament program. He
added that Japan probably even would
add to this schedule.
Japan Not Bound by Resolution
In view of thic fact Japan, Viscount
Ishii said, did not consider that she
could tie 'her hands as recommended
in the resolution.
The Armaments Commission also had
before it a report by its sub-comm'.t
tees recommending measures for dis?
armament which it was considered
could be put through at the present
time. All effort was abandoned to re?
strict the use of gas and other cruel
methods of warfare, but the committee
suggested that armaments should no
longer be manufactured by private
firms.
The first act of the commission was
to strike out all reference to America
consequent upon the refusal of the
United States to sit in the armament?
commission.
Non-Permanent Conncil Seats
The Assembly of the League of Na?
tions by a vote of 27 to 4, decided to?
day to recommend that of the four non
permanent seats in the League Council
there should be awarded the America?
and Europe, and one to an Asiatic
power . The resolution, which was of?
fered by Dr. Willington Koo, of China,
was opposed by only the votes of four
of the Scandinavian group.
China is very eager to outain a place
in toe League Council next year, and
it is considered probablo that she will
have this desire gratified as a result of
the Assembly's action to-day. The
election of the new members will take
place next week.
Should it happen that China will not
secure the representation she desires
in the Council, it is possible that the
place will go to India, although it is
recognized as a bad po.icy among some
of the delegates to place another rep?
resentative of the British Empire in
the Council, particularly in view of
the expected negotiations with the
United States looking to her entry
into the league. ?
The Assemuly decided to-day that
the members of the Council elected
next week shall hold office for one
year, but all other questions of pro?
cedure were referred to a commission,
which will decide w.iether it is poa?
sible, without an amendment to the
covenant, for the^ Assembly to regu?
late the appointment of non-perma?
nent members.
GENEVA, Dec. 11 (By The Associ?
ated Press).?Disarmament in three
stages in the substance of the recom?
mendation the commlssTon will make to
the Assembly as the^result of its de
i liberations.
The first stage would be marked b7
an agreement among the powers to
make no further increases in arma?
ments.
The second stage of the recommend?
ed procedure is a gradual reduction in
| armaments.
The third stagre would be that of
general complete disarmament, except
in so far as arms were needed for po?
lice purposes.
M. Doret, delegate from Hayti, su>5
ceeded in securing the adoption by the
I committee this morning of an amend
j ment providing that the Council of the
I League inaugurate a propaganda cam
i paign for "disarmament minds," as he
| put it, meaning the preparation of the
I younger generation for the new order
of things by proper education ia the
schools.
A disput* between Chile and Bolivia
in the League of Nations Assembly to?
day has raised the possibility of the
withdrawal of one country or the other
from the league.
The dispute arose over the ?libraie
sion to the Assemblv of the Tfcna
Arlca case, which involvea the at ? tk
ern provinces of Chile, tauen by chile
from Peru in the war between these