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??r Vol. L3 ALL MERCHANDISE 'ADVERTISED IN THE TRIBUNE IS GUARANTEED No. 27,092 --v_ (Copyricht. 1021, New \'ork Tribune Inc.) Truth : ?V ews ? Editorials?Advertisements TUESDAY, JANUARY ~HsT ?92T THE WEATHER Fair and conti&acd cold to-day; cloady to-morrrow with rising tempera? tore; di-nlniahiag winds. Foil Report an I__t Pac? *f-_-rt _^L * * * TWO OBNTS In Greater New Tork Within 200 Mile* Eb-thm British Adopt New Policy to Pacify Erin gjoyd George and Green? wood Reported to Plan Calling Off Gunmen Causing Reign of Terror Dublin Raid May Be for De Valer? Searchers Make Only Two Arrests; Cork Police in a Half-Hour Battle By Arthur S. Draper from The Tribune's European Bureau Copyright, 1921, New York Tribune Inc. LONDON, Jan. 17.?A radical change Ja the government's Irish policy tend ?B| to end the reign of terror is ex Meted within a short time as a result ef a series of conferences between Premier Lloyd George and Sir Hamar Greenwood, Chief Secretary for Ire? land. Sir llamar, who has been the gatst of the Premier at Checqut-rs, departed to-day for Ireland. That maitial law and military coer? cion have failed to produce the desired effect is admitted even in quarters which we're once the most optimistic. It is learned on the best authority that the government now realizes two fupremely important facts regarding Ireland?that military rule is driving the moderates to the extremists' camp and that the Sinn Fein will not work under the Home Rule act beyond con? testing the elections in order to keep other parties from upsetting Parlia? ment. With this realization, for the first time there is a real gleam of hope that the present terror will be brought to a close. Would Strengthen Moderates P.'hai form the new line of procedure vil! take is not clear at this moment, bot indications point definitely to rid ??Bg Ireland of both sets of gunmen, and that* should clear the atmosphere % such an extent that settlements, now Sisfgarded as impossible, could bo con j;;u.-?. Such a policy would reconsti? tute the great body of moderate opin :op which, iu the iast analysis, would ueepi the term.-; now rejected con K?iptnously by the extremists of both ?fte Impending return of Sir Auck- j ,-,n-l Uedi]..-. Ambassador to the United States; may be of importance in this* ..-".n?etun, as it has been announced i lut he ?3 coming Home to discuss ques? tions of Anglo-American po-icy with th? Premier, ana the Irish problem ?S considered as one of those to be :.i:ec up. \ Meantime the military is exception t.?.y active in Ireland. The most ex? tensive raid ever earned out by the roi/n forces there ha3 been proceed? ing in'Dublin since Saturday night. Une entire section of the city, several j acres ui extent, remains isolated behind i h cordon of barbed wire entanglements, | tasks and armored cars while a house- j 'o-house search procer-ds. Une Corner Evacuated Ope corr.er of this area, centering ! ..bout the four courts in the center of ' ?he city, was evacuated this morning,! which appear.-* to confirm the report j Eist the raid will end to-night. Official quarters remain silent on j tlie reasons for the unusual activity. ? &>me advices say that leading Sinn ? reiner* are btlie/ed to be the objects i of ?he search, the names of De Valera ! ind Collins being mentioned among j others. Color is lent to this theory by j the fact that only one or two unimpor- I WBtarre^tshave been made in the raid' ft?? far. Another dispatch says'that; the capture of gunmen and the location j of arsenals arc thought to be the pri? mary objects of the raid. No Arms Found in Raid DUBLIN, Jan. 17 (By The Associated j frets).?Thus far only two arrests ? 5fv? been made and no arms have been ? discovered. Conceded hoards of arms, ammuni- I t-oo ar.d gelignite are officially reported j I9 ."*'% been discovered in Fermoy j *M Glcnvorth Castle, in the martial *? area of Cork. i A detachment of soldiers from the ! J*??* Regiment, says an announcement I ?ron general headquarters, to-day sur- I :?it .a Par,-y <*f men preparing an \ ??"??a at Tirm-league, County Cork.! mn was an exchange of firing and 9">iy-iive civilians were captured. ** -roopg suffered no casualties. ^CORK, Jan. n.?A large body of men o?s"?i?- "iuckcy Street police sta ?"?> -::k ciorning. They were repulsed, .??_?____ <C?stl?s-?i ?? pai? fhrt) *avy May Use Catapults To Start Planes at Sea ^W oPVaking Off From ?tup?' Deck? Craft Would ,_ Be Shot Into Air ??MSHINGTOK. Jan. I7.-Naval alr &*a' .iB?**?d of "taking off" from Sa ?L i*?? th'ipn whiIe at ???. Will ?2/; r. ''T NV''*>' apartment prove <*\T .f?'' the ,lou*?? Naval Committee <W:r ,t0"d?y ?>/ Captain T. T. W ' U[r'-cf-"r o? Nava! Aviation. w? ar*. bmg made, he ?aid, at the ?Mb-intft^r, i.'atvy yard, where it is K '" ?hoot a aeaplane from a ?SiKL ,J>on *? **?* ^thc plan ia 'ii^K^l ?'ravtn ?*id a?) was eon ***!% new w-ctho?? would prow id *? Pr?-?,,nt attempt*! to get 3*2**r w?y irom deck?, limited in aiw>. *w *-avy *? ?ttemptl/iic ?Ibo to con ?wnet eoll?-*-?lbl? plane?, the commit 7* w?* informed, to they can be taken T*n and tv,r-A inboard during bad **tfeer at ?.?a, ?? pr???nt ayatem of koeplng ?Jan?? Ml? ih* tunr*ta. Captain Craven '??V??*,|?Pr?**d urisati?factory, a? they ???a the way ??,* r/oatruct vialon. t/* ^ftropriat;?.-- of 126,000,000 ha/i T?" i**l*Je*?>4 ft,r naV?j ?y|*tlon dur c<"i"!ria? ft**-?11 y**? ". .I Revolt, of Peasants in Ukraine Alarms Reds LONDON, Jan. 17.?A Central News dispatch from Riga, dated Sunday, says: "Moscow reports a . serious peasant rebellion has broken out in the government of Podolia, Ukraine, under the leadership of Colonel Titjunik. "The Soviet government fears the revolt will spread in conse? quence of the unrest of the Ukrai? nian peasants over the refusal of the Soviets to remedy numerous grievances." i . . __i Langdon Slayer Admits Firing The First Shot Japanese Sentry Changes Story About Killing U. S. Lieutenant to Conform to Victim's Statement Ordered Court-Martiale d Other Americans Halted at Vladivostok Since Shoot? ing. Washington Hears Fny>!\ 'The Tribune's Washinato^ Burea* WASHINGTON, Jan. 17-.?Additional Americans have been halted by Japan? ese sentries in Vladivostok since the killing of Naval Lieutenant W. H. Lang? don, the State Department was advised to-day. Advices from Vladivostok said, however, that there existed no anti American sentiment in that port, and that no tension between Americans and the Japanese military was notice? able. The information that the Japan? ese troops continued to halt Americans was believed to refer to the period be? fore General Oi, Japanese commander at Vladivostok, had given directions that foreigners be no longeT halted by sentries. Both the State and Navy Depart? ments were advised to-day that Lang don's slayer had changed his story and had now admitted ?ring at the American officer first. The sentry had originally insisted that Langdon was the aggressor. Admiral Gleavcs, who is, proceeding; to; Vladivostok to investigate the inci? dent, reported that the Japanese court of inquiry had recommended trial by court martial for the sentry. "According to official .advices," the State Department announced, "the Board of Investigation and Court of inquiry convened by the Japanese gov? ernment seems to establish that the sentry who fired upon and killed Lieu? tenant Langdon had left his post and molested an officer in uniform who was proceding in an orderly manner along the street. Sentry's Story of Shooting "The final story, and the full admis? sion of the senti-,, made after a thor? ough ' interrogation by the Japanese Board of Investigation, was that the sentry left his post, ran across the street, three times called out 'Halt' and that Lieutenant Langdon did not halt. The sentry said that he then took a position three paces in front of Lieu? tenant Langdon with his rifle held at the position 'charge bayonet.' "Lieutenant Langdon then stopped, according to the sentry's story, and shifted hi.5 electric pocket fla.-.h lamp to his left hand, groping with his right hiftid into the pocket of his over? coat. The sentry asserted that he him se!f then took tne position 'for action' and queried Lieutenant Langdon with the words 'Russian or American?' The sentry admitted that he was very ex? cited. He protested that he did not in? tend to 3hcot Lieutenant Langdon, but that his purpose W83 to seize Lang don's electric flash lamp' and compel him to accompany him to the guard'in order that he might ascertain who the Lieutenant was. He declared that he then discharged his rifle accidentally. He added that after he had discharged his rifle by accident, and wounded Langdon in the bieast, Lieutenant Langdon fired' two or three revolver shots at him." Langdon Total Abstainer The State Department's report said that the surgeon's examination of Langdon disclosed that the ball had ranged upward emerging above the heart. -This was confirmed also by a large rent in the front of Lieutenant Langdon'r overcoat just *^ove the heart. At the time Langdon made Mb ante morten statement he was fully con? scious the report said, and added that the naval officer "was a total ab? stainer and was not under tho influ? ence of alcohol at any timo." Secretary of the Navy Daniels in (C?ntlfiuod en page five) Both Houses Fix 175,000 Army Limit Baker Given Plain Intima? tion That Enlistments Must Be Held Up Until Excess Is Wiped Out Final Agreement Is Expected To-day Mondell Calls Action of Secretary "Contemptu ousN?efiance" of People From The Tribune's Washington. Bureau WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. ?Congress to-day fixed the size of the army at 175,000 men and practically ordered Secretary Baker to stop enlistments until the force has been reduced to that figure. After protracted debate the Senate reconsidered the Wadsworth bill as amended by the Lenroot amendment to fix the army at 150,000 men and then passed the measure with a limit of 175,000. About the same time the House passed the Kahn bill, which stops en? listments and hx-es the size of the | army at 175,000. The House acted after brief debate and by a vote of 285 to 4. Agreement on the two bills will be an easy matter and will probably be accomplished to-morrow. The House's sudden decision was a surprise, as- there had been much talk of the House voting to reduce the army to 150,000 after a fight The action of both houses is attributed to the fact that General Pershing and other army 'officers- and Secretary Baker have in? sisted that an army of 150,000 was too small. General Pershing, before the Senate Military Committee Saturday, opposed # reduction below 200,000. Moreover, in the Senate, Senators Wadsworth and New have been active since Saturday labdring with Senators and wiring absentees to be on hand for the test they expected to-day. Sen? ator Phelan, of California, offereii the motion for reconsideration,'in the Sen? ate Saturday and offered it against the advice of Senators Wadsworth and New, who at first did not believe it would prevail. Wilson Veto a Factor Other factors in the decision were the desire of both houses to stop adding to expense by allowing en? listments to go on at the rate of from 1.000 to 2,000 a day and the fear that if the measure 'was passed on the 150, 000 basis the President would veto it on advice of Secretary Baker. The Senate discussed the bill nearly the entire afternoon. Reconsideration was brought about by the adoption of I the Phelan motion. It was adopted 45 to 26. Several hours of spirited de : bate followed, Senators Peed, Williams |and McKellar, Democrats, and Borah, ! Republican, making vigorous pleas for ! the 150,000 army, and Senators Phelan j and Fletcher, Democrats, speaking for i 175,000. I The tesl roll call, which virtually | fixed the limit at 175,000, was: ! For the I.?-nroot amendment : Republicans- -Borah. Capper, Gronna, Kehyon, Jones, of Washington; Da Fol? lette, McNary, Norria. Smoot?'J. Democrats?Dial, Gerry, Gore, Harrison, Hefiin, Johnson, of South Dakota; Jones of New- Mexico- Kintr, McKellar, Overman, Owen, Pittman, Heed, Sheppard, Simmons, Smith, of- Arizona; Smith, of Maryland, Stanley, Swuason, Trammel, Underwood Walsh, of Massachusetts; Walsh, of lloO' tana; Williams?24. Total for l.enroot amendment?33. Against the J.enroot amendment: Republicans?Brandegeo, Oalder, Colt Curtis, DUIinnham, Fall, Fernald, Freling' j huysen, Goodlng, Hale, Johnson, of Call | fornla; Kellot?g, Keyen, Knox, McLean ; Moses. Nelson, New, Penrose, I'blpps | Poindexter, Sherman, Spencer, Sutherland ! Townsend, Wadsworth, Warren. Willi: 1 Democrats??Ashurst, Beckham, Fletch I ?r, Gay, Harris, Henderson, Hitchcock Kirby, Myers, Phelan, Ransdell, Robinson ! Smith, of Georgia?13. Total against Benroot amendment?41. Colt and Curtis Reconsider The most marked changes of positiot among Republicans were those of Son ators Colt and Curtis, who last weel ! voted for the Lenroot amendment. J ! number of Senators who were absen [ last week cere on hand for vote to-day ? Among them were Senators Lodge anc ! Penrose. ? Senator Reed, of Missouri, waa th< j first to take the floor for the Lenroo plan of a 150,000 army. "I am delighted," he said, "to fim that the same committee that a fev months ago insisted on an army of 300, 000 has now revised its views and i? j willing to reduce' the army to 175,000 j It's an indication that some of the oh > ideas that our government had befor* I the war are beginning to filter into th< (Continued on pa.?? four) Policeman Admits He Left J Beat to Spy in Divorce Gase; Evidence of the use of* New York policemen as private detectives wan disclosed yesterday in a divorce case tried in Newark. The cace was neard' by Vice-Chan? cellor Walker and was brought by Robert K. Reeve, of 179 Chadwick Ave nue, Newark, against his wife Mabel Reeve, known a.s Mabel Johnson, who lived at 851 West Fifty-fifth Street, Manhattan. Patrolman Russell McKay, of the West Forty-seventh Street station, was Mr. Reeve's star witness. He testified that on three different occanions dur? ing December, 1919, he hud spied upon Mrs. Reeve from an unoccupied build? ing in West Fifty-sixth Street, which was on his post. "I^on't you know that it is against the regulations of the New York Po? lice Department for a patrolman to do this sort of work?" interrupted the judge. "Well, we had permission," the patrol? man replied. "Who granted the permission?" Vice Chancellor Walker ask?d, "Well," the policeman henitutcd, "Mr. Reeve told me that h? bad received permission." At this point the patrolman watt cx m*?A and Reeve called to the stand. "Who gava you permission to take thia patrolman off his post on three different occasions to engage in private work for you?" Vice-Chancellor Walker demanded. "I went to the district inspector's office and was referred by them to the ?captain of the West Forty-seventh street station," Reeve replied. "There the captain told me that it would bo all right for me to use Patrolman Mc? Kay, and I did." "Is that captain still in charge of that precinct?" the judge asked both Reeve and McKay, and they told him hj was. According to the police records, the captain of West Forty-Boventh Street ? station?the 2(5th precinct?James Mc | Aulcy, was entitled to retire on a $2,000 | a year pension lat-t Saturday midnight. Last night It was said McKay was | still attached to the precinct. Recalled to the stand. McKay testi | fled that he had received no money for his work and expected to receive none. There having been no defense to the suit entered, Vice-Chttncellor Walker had no alternative, ho anid, but to award a decree to Reeve. But in ren? dering his decision he said that he did ; not believe, that the case was built on truthful testimony and doubted if the patrolman had received official permis i ?ion to leave hi? post in order to gather tii" fact? to which he testified. 1 Poultry Hliow all ?hi* vtmfiV. Madison Bquar-j oardsn, 3 ?. ?a.'lO'.iO p. n>.? A'Ivl. Harding Said To Plan Extra j Session Apr. 4 Fordney Brings Word** From Marion President-1 Elect Expects Congress to Hasten Tariff Task Tax on All Sales Scheme Favored Bacharach Has Indication of O.K. of 700 Million Excess Profits Substitute f'?'? The Tribune's Washington Burra? WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.?April 4 is the date President-eject Harding has selected as the time for the probable call for the extra session of Congress, according to Chairman Fordney of the House Ways and Means Committee, who has just returned from Marion, where he and Mr. Harding conferred. Mr. Fordney informed Senator Har? ding that the Ways and Means Com? mittee would be prepared to report a i tariff bill on that date, and gained thel impression that this date would in all likdlihood be fixed \ipon, in fact, had j been practically chosen. While dispatches from Marion to- j night indicate that Mr. Harding has not finally fixed April 4 as the dale, it ! is regarded here as the time likely to j be fixed. Much will depend on the j progress of legislation in the present ? session. H any of the important ap- I propriation bills should fail of passage ; by March 4 this may make a differ- j ence in the time and result in an ] earlier call, as it is thought by some J of the leaders it will be important to ? have these out of the way before the j Ways and Means Committee reports i and the tariff bill is taken up. Senator Harding has said he would like to see the appropriation bills passed this winter. Earlier Date Suggested Senator Harding has been urged by leaders to call the extra session as Parly as March 15. lie has been told that the task of tariff revision and tax revision is going to be long and arduous -and that it is important not to dalay ' it. The belief to-night is that Mr. Harding has decided he will need several weeks after March 4 to get tbo executive machinery running without having Congress in session. If the date is fixed as late as April 4, as Mr. Fordney believes, it will mean that in all probability it will be well along in the fall before Congress ends the extra session. In fact, many be? lieve .the extra session .will be so pro? longed that it will practically run into the regular session.and Congress will sit almost continuously from the time it assembles next spring until it goes out of existence March 4,. 1923. President-elect Harding will favor a general sales tax as the basis of the tax revision program, according to Representative Isaac Bacharach, of New Jersey, author of the sales tax bill 'no* before the House Committee on Ways and Means, who returned to? day from Marion. The Congressman discussed with Senator Harding the repeal of the excess profits tax, the sales tax, customs receipts and ?-impli? cation of the tax laws. Advised by Treasury "I believe that the President-elect will want the sales ta:: scheme put into the revenue program," said Mr. Bacharach. "That is the impression I carried from our meeting." In discussing proposed revenue legis? lation, Representative Bacharach said to Senator Harding: "The Secretary of the Treasury has advised us that it will be necessary to find some new ?ource upon which a tax may be levied to take the place of the excess profits tax. "To find this new source is the great problem which confronts Congress, and more especially the Ways and Means Committee." There are three generally accepted methods which can be employed in the adoption of a sales tax and its collec? tion, Mr. Bacharach told the President? elect. The first and easiest to collect, ho sfaid, would be a tax on everything at its source. This sort of a tax, it is estimated, would bring in about $650,000,000. The second plan, known as the "turn? over" tax, at the rate of 1 per cent would bring in about $1,900,000,000, while the third und most favored sales tax is strictly a merchandise tax on final sales. This produces approxi? mately' $900,000,000. "I realize that there is some opposi? tion to the adoption of such a tax be? cause of the fact that it is a direct consumption tax," Mr. Bacharach ad? mitted in his talk with Senator Har? ding. "But my faith in the proposition is so strong and in order that the plan might be given a fair and square trial I am suggesting that the rate be made extremely low, or a tax on final sales of 1 per cent," he.added. "Even at thi:; low rate it is estimated that the returns would approximate ?900,000,000, und if we apply the tax to not?is and similar institutions?and I think the sentiment would be to tax them on the same basis?it would in? crease the returns approximately $50, 000,000 additional, or to a total of $950,000,000." Sparta Now "Bone Dry" ; Vanderlip Sole Owner SCARBOROUGH, N. Y., Jan. 17.? The village of Sparta is now owned entirely by Frank A. Vanderlip and will be "bone dry" from now on, ac? cording to Mr. Vanderlip to-day in an announcement to the effect that he had purchased all the property in Sparta of Nicholas Sellazzo and M. R. Burgaon, the only two who "held out" when Mr. Vanderlip acquired the re-it of the village several weeks ago. Before the prohibition law became effective, Sellazzo ran a saloon. So in: citizens and Mr. Vanderlip derided t "buy up" the village and thereby g?; rid of the undesirables, who w.-r looked upon as n menace to th country homes of Mr. Vanderlip an other cummer colonists nearby. But Sellazzo refused to sell his hal of a combination store and dwnllin unless Mr. Vanderlip bought every thing Sellazzo owned ?n the* village some land near Sinfe Sing prison an a dwelling house near the Cove. Thi. Mr. Vanderlip finally did. The pur chase price was not given, but Sella/. maid he "gdt hla price," which, accord ing to hi? friend?, was $20,000. Whitman, Citing P?nal Code, Forces Hylan and Enright to Agree to Revokef Listen In'Rule Storekeeper And Son Shot In a Hold-Up Two Young Men Enter Place as They Sit by Stove, Shoot and Flee With Money Untouched Samuel Meshman, sixty-five years old, and his son, Abraham, forty-five years old, had their chairs drawn up around'a wood stove in the rear of their store at 435 Hegeman Avenue, Brooklyn, at 8 o'clock last night when two 5-oung men entered. They closed the door quickly and with hands thrust into their pockets started back toward the rear of the store. One of them suddenly drew a revolver and the other darted behind the counter and wont toward the cash register. The father and son rose quickly, looked from one of the intruders to the other, and seemed undecided as to just what to do. The bandit who had drawn the gun, evidently fearing that the two men would attack him, fired two shots and the two Meshmans top? pled to the floor. The father was struck by a bullet in the chest, While the pon' was wounded in the abdomen. The firing of the shots seemed to disconcert the man behind the counter. Instead of thrusting his hand into the cash register, over which he was stand? ing, he ran from behind- the counter and out the front door with his com? panion on his heels. They ran past several persons who had heard the shots and were on their way to the store to investigate. In several minutes the store was swarming with people. At the rear of the store they found Samuel Meshman and his son lying alongside of each other, bo?th serio'usly wounded, but able to tell what had happened and to give a description of the gunmen. The drawer of the cash register was found open, but the money untouched. Opinions, differed as to just how the bandits left the neighborhood. Sev? eral persons said they fled toward the Jamaica Bay meadows in an automo? bile. The father and son were removed to St. Mary's Hospital and late last night they were reported to be in a serious condition. They live at 078 Pennsylvania Avenue, Brooklyn. Detectives and policemen from the Liberty Avenue and Brownsville sta? tions began an immediate search for the tuen. Detectives were of the opin? ion that "the actions of the men upon entering the store and after the shots were fired stamped them not as or? dinary hold-up men, but as amateurs in the game. .- ? Holland Reported Asking Kaiser,and Prince to Go Participation in Preparations for Revolutionary Coup by Pru?8iau9 Charged BERLIN, Jan, 17.?The Tageblatt's Vienna correspondent gives an unnamed authority in Vienna in confirmation of ; a report that the Dutch government has j expressed the wish that the former German Emperor and former German I Crown Prince leave Holland. The ground given is participation of ! the Hohenzollerns in preparation for a I new revolutionary coup, involving for? mer Gannan officers. i LONDON, Jan. 17?A Prussian Royal i ist party has been formed in Berlin ! and has been chosen to bring tho ? "Orgesch" into line with similar move l monts in other states, the Berlin corre? spondent of The London Times says. | The Leipzig Tageblatt explains that the I "Orgesch" in Saxony will be trans? formed into a political party to act as : a compromise between the extreme political camps. THE HAGUE, Jan. 17.?The former German -Empress is reported to be in a very serious condition to-day. She suffered a relapse immediately after the former Crown Prince Frederick William, who had been visiting her, returned to Wieringen. Court Will Spare Dog Convicted as a "Killer" ! Two Puppy Sons of Fox Hound { Exonerated After Trial That Attracts Wide Attention WINCHESTER, Ky., Jan. 17.?Old ' King, a foxhound, owned by Frank ; Jones, was convicted of sheep slaugh ! ter by County Judge W. Lee Evans to ' day after days of deliberation. Conyic ? tion for this offense usually means I death, but Judge Evans has promised ; to withhold the sentence if Jones will send the dog away from the county. ! Two puppy sons of the hound were 1 exonerated. Old King has for years been an in? separable companion of Jones and the I old man has not said whether ho can | bear to kill the foxhound or send him ' to one of the numerous persons in ! various states who have asked that he : lie given to them. The trial which decided the fate of 'he hound and his sons created inter ! est in this section which compared ?with celebrated eases in which men i lutve beer defendants. ? ri.omivA spKCiA?." ?-s? r. wr. daily Qui. L,xt. Ht+Ytce Gast r,n**t -,'nltiU. AtUntl,- COSH Um-. 124U IT Way, i el. Iyiin|*.;ro 5?6S.?AJrt. s^s^s-jm -*?" O'Ryan Reported as Hylan Choice to Succeed Enright! Neither He nor Mnyor Will Deny Rumor of Appoint? ment, but General Says He Wouldn't Accept Post "if It Came on a Silver Platter*" I Major General John F. O'Ryan, com- ] mander of the National Guard and of i the 27th Division in France, is the man [ whom Mayor Hylan has picked for Police Commissioner, according to an officer of that department, who is on most friendly terms with the Mayor. Neither General O'Ryan nor Mayor Hylan would confirm the report, but neither of them denied it. General O'Ryan was badgered by dil? igent reporters into saying, however, that he wouldn't take the job if it came to hirn on a silver platter. When the rumor first gained circulation General O'Ryan denied himself to newspaper men. Employees in his office asserted that he had nothing to say. So persisted were his callers, how? ever, that General O'Ryan admitted them. "I- wouldn't consider for c moment acc<-pting that office," General O'Ryan said, When asked whether he had been I asked to become Police Commissioner. j "I would?t't take the office if it was handed to me on a silver .platter." "Has the Mayor offered it to you?" his questioner persisted. "Now I am not going to permit you to cross-exumine me," said General O'Ryan, with a smile. "I have, been a lawyer myself, but I am only inter? ested now" in recruiting the National Guard." ! Mayor Hylan, although his attitude toward reporters was more tolerant than at any time since he became Mayor i and even though he seemed to approach < un attempt at joviality, was even less1 communicative on the subject than General O'Ryan had been. To the utter astonishment of the City Hall reporters, a figure which loomed at the door of their room at dusk revealed itself as that of Mayor Hylan, who never before, in all his ad? ministration had recognized their ex? istence. "Helio!" cried a merry voice and to the further astonishment of those in the .-oom, the voice also was that of the Mayor. Silence followed, but t! ? Mayor undaunted, proceeded along ?the line of campaign he had laid down. He singled out one of the reporters by name. "I couldn't pass by." he explained. ' withoul seeing you before I went heme. Hello everybody!" and the jolly apparition vanished. The more ak-rt ?>f the newspaper men recovered ''rom their dazed condition in time to overtake the Mayor at the steps. "Has Commissioner Enright re? signed?" demanded the sprinting chorus. "Now, I like you," replied the Mayor, "but don't ask me stich questions." "Have you offered the Police Com missionership to General O'Ryan?" an unquenchable optimist inquired. "I'm going home," announced the Mayor, and so far as any observer could tell, h?* did. 5th Ave. Crowd Sees Fugitive Felled by Shot Alleged Shoplifter Drops Stunned by Bullet From Detective's Pistol That Barely Grazes His Head Shoppers Join in Chase Expensively Dressed Woman Accompanies Man. but Vanishes in Excitement Hundreds of shoppers in Fifth Ave? nu** at 5 o'clock yesterday evening wit? nessed an exciting police chase that ended when the fugitive dropped to the sidewalk, apparently stunned by a bul? let which grazed his head.. He was picked up and taken to the East 'Fifty first Street police station, where he gave his name as William Davis, thir? ty-four years old, of 122 West Seven? ty-second Street, and wns locked up charged with grand larceny. The commotion started when per? sons in the avenue heard call3 of ''Stop that man; he's a thief!" The doorman in front of J. M. Gidding & Co.. 564 Fifth Avenue, sought to de? tain Davis, who was fashionably dressed and who had just left the store accompanied by a woman wear? ing an expensive fur coat. A struggle ensued and the man broke away. He ran a short distance south toward Forty-sixth Street and then back toward Forty-seventh Street. Two per? sons realizing what was taking place blew police whistle-?. Detective John Barron, on duty in Fifth Avenue, saw a crowd of persons pursuing Davis west in Forty-seventh Street and joined the chase. Accord? ing to Timothy Finnegan, doorman of Giddings, when the fugitive failed to halt at the detective's command, the detectfve fired and the man fell. The bullet evidently had only grazed the man's head. Blood was trickling from a scratch near the right ?ear. The man was helped to his feet by the detective, and said he was not hurt. He was led back to the atore, where Nathaniel Gidding, a member of the firm, accused him of stealing an imported beaded bag valued at about $100. Joseph Owen, floor manager,' said that Davis and the woman entered the store together about 5 o'clock, in I quired for the French room and were ?directed to the fourth floor. The man j returned to the main floor afone a few minutes later and a salesgirl told the floor manager that she had seen him slip a beaded bag into his over? coat po?ket. Ho was joined by the woman and both started to leave the store. The woman and the man were bo well dressed that the floor manager said he feared to make a mistake by arresting them, and was considering what to do when he saw a price tag sticking out of the man's pocket as he went out the door. Owen called to the doorman to stop the pair. During the subae<-*uent strug? gle and chaae the woman disappeared. At the East Fifty-tirat Street station Davis said he was a salesman. The police there denied that any shots had been fired at him or tiiut he had been ?grazed by ?a. bullet. : SEABOARD FLORIDA -LIMITED ? 6 ?20 ; p. m. -JrII-* for nil Florid? (Havana con? nection). Famous Southern Cooking-?Cried ! Chiajun. Vli-j-tnl? limn. Muffin?, ?cuerva. it??**;*: liai Wroa.jwuy. Tel. Mad. 3<*j. 1?7S. I -Adtt. g t* ! Simple Country ! I Giri Confesses j ? Fifty Hold-Ups 1 "It Was So Easy I Often ? Wondered Why I Spent 20 Years on the Farm." Chicago Woman Admits ' - Victims Had It Coming Each Ready to Take Advan? tage and Was Properly j Fooled, She Tell* Police 1_?_ ! Special Dispatch to Thn Tribune. CHICAGO, Jan. 17.?Mrs. Clteopatraj McGory Hurtzman, twenty years old, confessed to-night that she was the woman lure for a band of hold-up men, led by her young husband, and that she had participated in more than fifty hold-ups in the last two months. Her husband and another alleged member of the gang are under arrest. The woman was arrested to-day in a South Peoria street residence, where she had taken a position as house? keeper when the police chase became warm. In a bored, cynical tone and with the sophistication of her celebrated name sake she. told how she managed her victims in the hotel and restaurant district and led them to where her hus? band and his fellow bandits waited far the spoils. : Just a Simple Country Girl | "To begin with," .she said languidly, I evidently enjoying herself, "I was a simple .country girl." Then with a sigh of retrospection, she murmured: "It was so easy getting the money from the chumps that I often wondered why I spent tv snty years on the farm." .According to her story, she had passed the greater part of her life on a farm near Wichita Falls, Tex. She married a farmer, and when he died she went out into the world, leaving her two children with relatives itt Har low, Okla. She joined a carnival com j pany, and was one of the dancing girls in a "Days of '49" show.. Then she came to Chicago, became a waitress and I married Kurt Hurtzman. She said he j lost his health and they decided to be? come bandits. "The'y are .all the same?those men,' she said, registering the conventional motion picture expression of the blas? vampire. "Each of them laid the trap for himself. Some promised me furs, diamonds and motors." and she yawned slightly. Kiss for Each Victim "I laughed, in my sleeve and let them to the darkened hallway whert Kurt and hi^ gang waited. ] always kissed them once we left them alone tied up in a room in a strange place,' she continued. She explained that she would wall along the street, watch out for a pros? perous looking man and then tell hirr' she was lost. She would tell him she wanted to go to a certain address, am: when he would explain that it wa: only a short distance away, "I brouglv forth a smile and generally he woulc Volunteer to accompany me." "Each was the superior being ready to take advantage of a woman and each was properly fooled," sh? concluded, and registered the satiatec vampire look which indicates deep sa;. isfaction after ? victim has met hi: doom. Breaks Left Leg as He Broke Right Year Age LYNDIIURST. N. J., Jan. 17.?Georg, Fit?., a stableman,.who fell from -?fce< box a year ago to-day und broke hii right lug t*nd later had to ?have i | amputifted, fell from the same feed bo: to-day and-broke his left lep. j Ho is fifty-seven years old and live j on Green Avenue here. He was takei I to the Iiuckcti?ack Hospital. City Officials Promis? to Furnish Police Aid for Grand Jury Inquiry After Hearing the Law fcAP Thomas to Get On the Job To-day; Mayor and Commissioner Not Quizzed ; Indictment Reported Threatened Rule 184 of the Police Depart? ment, ' by which Mayor John P. Hylan and Police Commissioner Richard E. Enright could virtually tap the wires of a grand jury inves ti pat ion. is to be rescinded. ? Any member of the Police Depart? ment called by the January extraor? dinary grand jury to assist in the investigation of the Hylan adminis? tra?: on will be assigned to former Governor Charles S. Whitman, spe? cial counsel, without limitation. ' Mayor Hylan and Commissioner Enright, who had refused police aid for the inquiry, have capitulated, ac? cording to an announcement made yesterday by Mr. Whitman, after an hour's conference with the two of? ficials. Tribune Exposed Existence of Ral? The Tribune exposed the ?existence o? Rule 184 a week ago yesterday. Dis? trict Attorney Swann and Mr. Whitman immediately made a demand for its ab? rogation because it was felt that it was a Berious handicap to the investigation. The rule says: "Any member of the department summoned to the District Attorney's office of any county, in connection with a case in which he or any other member of the department is apt to be made or become a defendant, will report the facts in detail at once to the Police Commissioner." ilylan and Enright were under grand jury subp?nas when they appeared at the Criminal Court? Building yester? day. The issuance of the subpoena?. followed the refusal of both officials to assist, the grand jury in conducting this investigation. Hylan Asks for Conference The Mayor, the first to arrive, went to the office of District Attorney Swans and sent a process server to Mr. Whit? man's office to announce bis arrival. Old-timers in. the Criminal Courts Building gasped when they found that the Mayor was seeking an interview with the man who, as counsel to the grand jury, had subpoenaed him to ap? pear for examination. It was without precedent, they said. A few minutes later Police Commis? sion- r Enright arrived, but not until after Mr. Whitman had been in con? ference with the May,or, reading to the city's chief executive Section 1851 of ' the Penal Code, ?which makes it a mi? d ?meanor for any person -wilfully to obstruct an official investigation, Statement by Whitman Following an hour's conference, the last fifteen minutes of which Commis? sioner Enrijrht remained in an outer room, Mr. Whitman gave out the fol? lowing statement: "The District Attorney is a constitu? tional officer. He is answerable to the Governor, iot to the Mayor. He is the chief criminal law officer of the county and he proooses to act as Euch until further notice. Section 184 of the police regulations will be rescinded at once. The regulation, as I am informed by the Commissioner, was adopted for disciplinary purposes solely. "The Police Department, and every member in the department, from patrol? man to Commissioner, will conform to the requests of the District Attorney in connection with his efforts to en? I force the law. "We will have all the men that we need and they will be assigned to us when we a?k for them and such mea as we ask for." Sergeant Thomas to Report In giving out the statement, 3Jr. Whitman said that he had been assured that Detective Sergeant "Al" Thomas, conndenti'il man to Whitman when District Attorney, would report to his office this morning for assignment. The action of the Mayor and the j Polite Commissioner did away with the ? immediate necessity of a demand by ! Mr. Whitman for the removal by the , Governor of Mr. Enright and the en ' tertaining by the State Executive of ! charges against the Mayor. i It eliminated also the necessity of : humiliating them by indictment by the ! grand jury. Neither the Mayor, the Commissioner nor Mr. Whitman would discuss what occurred at the conference between the three. S Gossip about the Criminal Courts Building, however, was that Mr. Whitj man made his position very plain. Throughout the building it was said that Hylan and Enright at first were in? clined to hold to their original posi? tion of refusing police aid to the grand jury investigation. Threatened Indictments Rumor Section 1851 was read to them, ao cording to the gossip, and then they 1 asked for permission to consult with ! the Corporation Counsel. This rumor | i.s based on Whitman's statement, in ! which he said that he was a state I officer and in no way responsible M I the Mayor. ii is said that. Whitman informed both officials that he would get what he wanted in the w?** of .-?upport from the city administration or h<* wo-sld : ***** in i'i*'? ?, >k for indictment;., befos* either left the building. v i i u ???o rumors wen-* put to Mr Whitman, he said: "All 1 have to say about the <*oa> ferenee with the Mayor and Mr. En. [right has b*n .-. stated in the announce 1 "5