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|iM^?.?..iHi.ir?ni?nifiirmi.m. i ..im-myiini i,. LLL MEBCHANt)ISE ITlSEi) IN THE mm 1SGUARANTE&D l1 LXXXI No. 27,195 /Orst to Last?the Truth: News?Editorials?Advertisements (Copyrlffht, 1?SU N*w Vork TribuiM Inc.) ^ SUNDAY, ,MAY 1, 1021-80 PAGES-PART I AND SPORTS * * * .*NETVE THE WEATHEB ~1 Cl?rt|4* to-day, probably sbowcrs; to mo?ow ^nerajly fafr; continued ?*ol;/fr*feh nogthwest windfl. ** TS /-?rM*rt,?"' Broofcly '?i^_ -m* _jl ff^men Here Quit; Ignore IruceMove Engineers Aiiticipate |)trike Order as Lead ers Continue Efforts to Avoid General Tie-Up, }. S. and Owners v Order Wage Cut 420,000 Men Will Be Affected in Two Weeks I If Parley Is Fallure Many marine workers here took mat krs into their own Tiands last night, kid began their long-heralded strike khich ihcy doscr.be merely as quitting, k ile leaders of their unions were still it ty?*k ir. Washington seeking a basis of c<jtmpro..;ise. Fitee hjndred marine engineers valksd ou; early last evening, though 10 feser&i order for the strike was ssuid irom union headquarters. S ta? t'ue they quit, their repre tn&tive at Washington, William S. Iwwn, of th* Marine Engineers' Bene tcial AijAociation, was conferring with licrtta^y of Commerce Hoover, Secre sry #f Labor Davis and Andrew 'nrttfpth, president of the Intcrna ioeau Seamen's Union, in an effort to ?ft a nation-wide walkout. Whether the seamen, cooks and te?r?rd? in port here will follow the ture action of the engineers de ia large part on the news of the 'ajshtogton conference. Uniess checked by a settlement the rike is destined eventually to tie up tevery *&asel sailing the seven seas knder tfce American flag. More than fc\0OO,00O tons of shippingare involved, knd upward of 120,000 men. } At * late hour last night Bert L todd, secretary of the Ocean Associa ji?s of Marine Engineers, announced that 5W warine engineers had already |uit tbeJx ships. He stated that an ?quaVuvfliber woald stop work before o-merrow morning. T'.-.'s action oT the narine engineers, he said, came as a liroct result of the new schedule of vages put into effect by the American Steamship Owners' Association at mid sight, in which * g'neral reduction of 15 per cent was made. j A reduction oi 15 per cent in wages vas also ordered last night by Admiral Senson, chairman of the United States Shipping Bo^vrd, in an order sent out ??all operators of government-owned :raft. Effective at Midnight Thcmas B. Heiley. chairman of the ioiitt touncil of the Atlantic and ?aciflc of the Marine Engineers' Bene ,ld?l Association, aaid last night that iht strike order wouid go into effect at ttidnight. "So far as the engineers are ioncemed," be said, "they are not rtriking. They cannot strike on ac jcunt of their licenses. They are sim ?ly leaving their vessels. In cases where vessels have steam jp the engineers are giving twenty four hours notice of their intention to .eave their ships in accordance with Ihe conditions of their licenses." The strike wili extend to steamships l:ow at sca as soon as they arrive in ai American port. At the present time rully 46 per cent of the ocean-going tessels owned by the United States {hipping Board are laid up in Ameri ;an ports because of the existing busi sess conditions and the general slump n world trade. In addition to this, ipproxiraately 25 per cent of the pri 'ateiy owned ships of American steam ihip companies are also tied up in port or the same reasons. PracticaHy every large passenger teamer fiying the American fjag will ? affected if the strike lasts more h?n twx> week3. The principal lines aifaged in the passenger trade are the ntemational Mercantile Marine, the Jnited States Mail Steamship Com ?ny, the Agwi Lines and the Munson JSCB. Many Under Foreign Flags v0f the International Mercantile Ma Jne Company's fleet, the majority fly Wejgn flags. Those flying ,the Ameri ttTflag include the New York, St. "wl and St. Louis, which are now ly Bg up in port. Three other passenger tosels are in the New York-Hamburg **de. They are the Manchuria, Mon ?ulia and Minnekahda, all of which are w* at sea. Sepresentatives of the ehip owners We stated that the strike at this ?ie would probably kill the newly Woed American merchant marine, *?ch is already struggling against an ftumalation of dirnculties. I The new schedule of wages was iBsnsitted to every American -eteam (Contlnued on pagt tlin*)i Neral Ruling Allows fiim to Keep Two Wives %? 1, Supposed Dead, Shows fc^ith Son From Italy; Stays pith No. 2 and Children AKRON, Ohio, April 30.--An unusual ffing under which Giuseppe Sarniola S^be allowcd to keep two wives was Wded down by Federal aut.boritiea P Akron police, when Sarniola, ac Wpanied by wife No. 1, with a ten fP'Oid son, and wife No. 2, leading ^?ee-year-old boy and carrying a M*_appeared at Police Headquarters jjMlola married wife No. 1 in Italy **?a years ago. Latet he came to ?*nea, Four years ago he sent for ?? ottt due to the war heard nothing Pglumed she was dead. Then he * ?w No. 2, a Pennsylvania widow. I *Sme ^a common law wife, he * ? children were borq. ,f **??k Mrs. Sarniola No. 1 and iiirV5ached Akron on an immigrant m>JJarniola hastened to the police $1 0ubles' his wive* ?nd chil" S^rttSL** investigstion Federal r.u ^***? told Samioia to take his ifcj *?m? and support thera. The j^^reed to love each other and ? Er??bly together. They left Po "Il2<lq?,artera arn> ??? "m. a^? their. both. They love each <??* ?1,1,1 ,ove- l k??P *h?m ttl! gW W." Sarniola said in broken ;fc-~??~?-J,? , jgwa lor you Everjr Momlns in sS&.Y.*0* Ad Column*. An aasem g5?*vl aim ot intereet. You "will ??? to oonault tnem.?A^vt. May Day RevoltHere Foiled By U. S. Raid on ReH Bureau Literature Seized Reveals Plot for Uprising Against Government; Three Leaders Held in $50,000 Bail Each; Planned Soviets in U. S. Colleges I A nation-wide Communist plot, with ? ramifications in Soviet Russia, for the (inception of a May Day revolution against the United Statcs government j has been frustfated, according to Fed eral and police agents, by the raid Fri | day night of headquarters of alleged radicals at 170 Bleocker Street. j John Edward Siebert, onc of the trio I arrested in connection with the seizure i of a mass of Rcd literature, was identi ! fied yesterday as John Edward Lind gren, indicted in Chicago last year on a charge of syndicalism and a delegate ot the Amencan Communist party to ithe Communist congress at Moscow in ' August, 1920. j According to the authorities, he is | the jeader cf the undcrground Com ! munist party. of America, and came here to launeh a convention to-day j which was to havc for its purpose fur , ther organization for the overthrow of I the government. Lindgren was identified by p'atrol , man Michael Orlowski, formerly of the bomb squad, after the prisonerand his | associates, Israel Amster and Abram i Jackira, had been held in bail of | $50,000 each for examination Monday by Magistrate George W. Simpson in Black Handers Halt Auto, Slay Wrong Woman Orange Faith Healer Stabbed iri Neck byMembers of Gang Who Had Threatened the Lives of an Entire Family Robbed, Chauff eur Bound Jersey Man Shot to Death While Asleep Beside Wife in the Lof t of Barn j SOUTH ORANGE, N. J., April 30.? | Stiletto men of a Black Hand gang j leaped to the running-boards of an ! automobile as it passed Meadow Brook I Lane, .on West Turrell Avenue, before ; dawn this morning and severed the jug i ular vein o* Mrs. Celeste Cassese, of j 640 Forest Street, Orange, They put her to death, it is thought, ] in the belief that *he was Mrs, Joseph , Selito, cf this place, whose husband \ has receivpd severai threatening letters ! demanding money. Mrs. Cassese was a ; "faith healer." Three times last night I she was called to the bedside of Mrs. Selito, who was seriously ill. Each time the 'faith healer" was , driven by Mrs. S^'ito's son, Michael. ! They were on their way to.Mrs. Ces \ sese's home after the last visit when j four men leaped ? Moard the car at I Meadow Brook Lane. seized the young j man at the wheel and brought the vehi j cle to a stcp, | "Did you pay attention to the let? ters?" demanded one, drawing a knife from his waistband as he'spoke. Knife Plunged Into Neck Mrs. Cassese, to whom the question was addressed, screamed and covered her face with her hands at sight of the ' knife. . That act4on and her failure to ? reply deprived her of her last chance of recognition, which probably would have saved her life. The next moment ' the knife plunged into her neck. j Wiping the blade with a handful of j grass, the slayer removed six rings and two bracelets from his victira and then I pocketed her purse, which oontained j about $200. His companions mean i time had produced severai lengths of { rope, with which they tied Selito hand j and foot a.d lashed him to the post ! of the ateering wheel. When theh- work was complete the ! four men Cr'* into a darkened automo j biu drawn up beside the road and ! drove away, leaving a helpless man and ' a dead woman in the car that stood in j t' . center of the road. Although he j could move neither hand nor foot, i Selito worked himself down in his I bonds until he was able to press his | forehead against the button of the j electric horn in the center of the steer I ing wheel. Horn Brings the Police He sounded blast after blast until resident? of the neighborhood com plained to the police about the noise and 4 patrolman was sent to investi gate. He releas^d Selito, who drove hi.n to the police station and told his story. The audden murder in the dark was a mystery to the young man, but his father threv some light upon it. As soon as he heard that the only re mark made by the murderers was in regard to letters the elder Selito said that Mrs. Cassese doubtless had met her death tvt the hands c,f assassins who took her for his wife. Severai months ago, he said, he had <Csittlnue4 on ptia alght) Haywoo d,Now in Moscow, Promises to Come Back tablegraiu to Attorney Says He Will Give Himself Up After Internationale Is Over CHICAGO, April 30.?The first word from "Bip BU1" Haywood, Indu trial Workar of the World leader, now in Russia, reached Otto Christensen, his attorney, to-day. A wireless message dated April 25, from Christiania, said that Haywood had arrived in Moscow and was attending a conference of trade industrial unions and the Third i Internationale. The message addcd that Haywood { would return to the United States j after the coiiference, and it was ex i pected that he wdtrid immediately give i himself up to serve his term at Leaven j worth for violation of the espionage j law. Further word was expected in .the near future from Haywood, Mr. Chris ! tensen said. He cxpressed doubt that Haywood had received word of the ! Supreme Court ruling refusing to re view the cfcses of members oi the 1. W. W. convicted of hindering war time activities. ?,mb?? court- The meh are charged with "knowingly circulating doctrines, writtcn and published, advocating the ovcrthrow by violence of organized government." Federal operativcs consider the raid the most important made by the De partment of Justice in its 'efforts to trace the heads of rndical propaganda" in the United States. Thev predict the I mformation revealed in the papera and i Iiterature which Lindgren had in his possession will lead to wholesale ar rests of radical chiefs throughout the I country. The belief of the authorities that! they have blocked a gigantic demon stration of Reds in New York City to-' day did not cause any relinquishmcnt > of precautions to forostall outbreaks and: violence. The entire police force I active and reserve, was placed on foTtv- I eight hours' duty yestcrdav morning' and strong guards are boing maintadned / nround all public buildings and the' hotnes of officials and proniinent cfti-'l zens Most starthng pf the disclosures in the hterature taken in Lindgren's ef fects at the Pennsylvania Station, after his arrival from Pittsburgh, was that a campaign had been carried on to es tablish Communist soviets in Ameri (Continued on pnge threo) Chicago Juries Indict 110 in Building Rings Plumbers and Steamfittears Accused Under Sherman Aet; 150 P. C. Increase in Prices Alleged Resuited Al. H. Woods a Witness - Inquisitors Take Up Report He Was "Shaken Down" for $60,000 on Theater! Sveeial Dispatch to The Tribune \ CHICAGO, April 30.?Men accused in j Chicago's building scandal were to-day giyen severai new jolts. The Federal \ giiand jury appeared before Judge. George Page in the Federal court to r&- ; turn a total of 110 indictments pjgainst : individuals and corporations foi* Vio lations of the Sherman anti-trtat act. | The Dailey investigating comw$sgion, in a double-barreled inquisitqtw ?ses sion, questioned Al H. Woods, New York and Chicago theater owner, tfcgarding $60,000 allejjed to have been graftvpaid \ in connection with the construction of j his new theater, the Apollo. Those Indicted The following persons and corpora- i tions were named in the true bills re- ! turned to-day by the Federal grand jury. Wholesale plumbing supply jobbers ?James B. Clow jr., vice-president, and R. C. Flinder, agent, of James B. Clow & Sons. Davies Supply Company, Clarence V. Kellogg and George. T. Hinds. National Plumbing and Heating Sup? ply Company, Edward C. Garrity and Stuart N. Murdock. Michael J. Quinn, doing business under the name of Quinn Supply Com? pany. Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company, C. M. Sherrill and Frank S. Kaulback. Weil-McLain Company, Isadore Weil, Jacob M. Weil and Edward J. Kelly. Weir & Craig Company aad James Weir. Western Plumbing Supply Company. Hugh E. Whitney and Charles A. Ford, doing business under the firm name of Whitney & Ford. Illinois Malleable Iron Company, J. R. Stcneck and R. J. Wuerst. Herman M. Hoelscher and Edward Hoelscher, doing business under the firm name of Hoelscher Bros. The Enterprise Plumbiner Sunply Company John L. /Fruin and M. ?ar rell. The Walworth Manufacturing Com? pany, C. A. Hutson, Victor Crews and John P. Fetter. The L. Wolff Manufacturing Com? pany. Voted by Two Juries The indictments, according to infor mation from District Attorney Charles F. Clyne's office, were voted by the March grand jury and the April grand jury. The former body returned a j total of thirty-nine true bills against; individuals and corporations, while the | April body returned seventy-nine in? dictments. j The eighteen corporations and j twenty-three individual members of the : corporations, besides members of the i Master Steam Fitters* Association and j one representative of the Steam Fit- j ters' Protective Association of Chi-: cago, named. in the indictments, are charged with vioiating Sections 1 and 2 of tho Sherman anti ctust law. The speclfic charges are that the combina- j (Contlnuod on paie sixteen) U. S.-Indo-China Radio Service to Open To-day Navy Will Handle Commercial Messages at 96 Cents a Word. From Pacific Coast WASHINGTON, April 30?The navy wireless system to-morrow will in-1 aug'urate a commercial communication i service between the United States and Indo-China. j The new service, according t% an- j nouncement to-night by the navy, will , be conducted by way of the Hawaiian j and Philippine islands. The rate fox commercial messages from San Fran- j cisco to Hanoi or Saigon will be 98 | cents a word, with an additional charge j of frve cents a word for messages to interior points in French Indo-China, The proviaional agreement arrangad j between the governmental authorities of French Indo-China and the naval, communication service, the Navy De parj^ment announced, provides that the new commercial service will embrace radio communication across the Pacific via the American naval radio stations at San Francisco, Pearl Harbor, Guam and Cavite, and the French radio sta? tions at Saigon and Hanoi in Indo-China, Cavite communicating with the French stations. ' Senate LV otes Peace With Berlin,49-23 Knox Resolution Ending State of War Adopted After Bitter Debate Lasting Through Day Formal Treaty With Germany to Follow Lodge and Borah Say Pact of Versailles, Even With Changes, Is Impossible WASHINGTON, April 30.?The Ad ministration's first step toward placing the United Stntes on a technical, legal basis of peacc was taken to-night by the Senate in adopting the Knox peace resolution. The vote for adoption of the resolu? tion was 49 to 23. Threc Democrats voted for the. reso? lution and nlthough no Republicans voted against it Senator Nclson, of Minnesota, wss paired against it. Prompt Action in House Expected The resolution now goes to the House with prospects of prompt action there. "No change was made by the Senate in the resolution as reported by the For eign Relations Committee. It would repeal the war resolutions affecting G?.rmany and Austria-Hungary, im pound alien enemy property, and re serve to the United States all rights and privileges under the Treaty of Versailles and other peacc treaties. An effort to amend the resolution made by Senator Townsend, Republi 'can, Michigan, -.vho moved to strike out the clause repealinp>-the war decla ration and substitute a simple decla ratian of peacc. was dsfeated, 44 to 26, ?shortly before the linal vote. Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, opposed ,.the Townsend amendment, sayinjr that it had been considered carefully by 'the Foreign Relations Committee. which decided that "the direct method was tbe best." The vote on the peace resolution did *npt comc until after 7 o'clock to night, and waj nreceded by tense par tisan clashes. The Republicans lined up almost solidly bchind the measure and all but five of the Democrats voted or were naired against it. * The roll call follows: For Adoption Republlrans?Ball. Borah. Rrnndeff?e, Rursum, Camoron, Capper. Colt, Cummtns, Curtls, DiUlngham, Elkina. Fornsld. ?FrancA, FreUnishuysen, Goodlnp. Hftle. Karreld, Johnson. Jones -(-Washington), Kenyon, Key*?, T,a<ld, I,a Follette, r^nroot, IjOdge. McCormick, McKtnley, McN'arv, NfiW, NIcholson. Norbeck. Norrls, Oddle, Penrose, Polndexter, Rhortrirtpfe, Smoot. Spencer, Rtansfield. Rtorlinq:. PuthoWnnd Townsend, Wadsworth, Warren, Weller and AVillls. Total, 46. Democrats?Meyrrs, Shields and Watson (Georgia). Total, 3. Against Adoption Republicans?None. Democratts?Ashiirst, Broussani, Cara way, Dial, Gerry, Glass, Ha'rriss, Harrison, Heflln. Hitohcock. Jones (New Mexlco), Kendrick, McKellar, Plttman. Pomerene, Roblnson. Sheppard, Stanley, Swanson, Trammell, Underwood. Wulsh (Montana) arrd Wllliams. Total, 23. Senator Reed was paired in favor of adoption and Senator Walsh, of Massa? chusetts, who was absent, was an nounced as a supporter of the resolu? tion. Senator Nelson, Republican, Min? nesota, was paired against the' resolu? tion with Senator Knox, Republican, Pennsylvnia, its author, for it. In an nouncement of pairs it was said that all other Democrats not voting opposed the measure and all other Republicans favored it. Predlcts Treaty Next Senator Lodge expressed the belief, in the course of the debate on the reso? lution, that a new treaty of peace with Germany would be negotiatcd as soon as the ground had been cleared by the passage of the Knox measure. How ever, he said, this was a matter to be taken up by the President. The debate to'day was sharp, char acterized by partisan attacks of Derao cratic Senators. The Senate met at 11 o'clock this morning to consider the resolution and it was under fire throughout the day. . Senator Lodge opene/1 the discus sion by an exposition <n the purposes of the resolution and a defense of it. He declared the League of Nations was dead, and made it plain he did not be lieve it practicable to adopt the Ver? sailles Treaty minus the league cove nant and with reservations. He said that according to the best calculatiom he had been able to make it'would re quire "at least seventy-two amend ments to the Treaty or Versailles to get the. league out of it, and whcn we have got it out nothing but the shell reirain8." Borah Attacks Treaty Senator Borah also made an attack on tho Versailles Treaty. Although he did not say so, hi; left no room for doubt that if the VeJrsailJ.es Treaty with reservations were ever signed by xhis country and submitted to the^Sen ate ha would fight to the limit against it. He charged that it was worje than the l*ague, that it had thrown Europe into economic chaos, that it was un (CoatlnuMl an next p?go) .*"? lit Supreme Council Invasion; Britain ai! 7-Day Ultimatum to Germany Overthrow of Berlin Cabi net Is Now Regarded as Inevitable; Simons Already Has Resigned Continues to Act At Ebert's Request Fehrenbach's Retirement to Follow; Failure of| Appeal to U. S. Fatal By Joseph Shaplen Bu Wirelcss to The Tribunc Copyrijjht, li>21, New York Tribune Inc. BERLIN, April 30'.?Overthrow of th<j Fehrenbach ministry b?cause of grow ing anxiety over its failure to get a reply from Washington to the latest German reparations offer and over Francers unmistakable determination to compel Germany to submit to the Paris terms is deemed inevitable to-night. The situation reached a climax when Dr. Walter Simons, Foreign Minister, handcd his resignation to the Chancel lor on April 23. It was said officially to-night that President Ebert person ally requested Dr. Simons to retain his portfolio pending the outcome of th-c negotiations with the United States. He pointed out that the Foroign Min ister's poliey had the support both of the other member.i of the Cabinet and of a majority In the Reichstag. Holds Change Unavoidable The Vossische Zeitung asserts that a cha::ge of ministry is unavoidable, particularly ii' no satisfactory solution of the reparations problem can be j found promptly. Chancellor Fehrer. bach is said to be pleading for a re lease from office on the ground of ill health. The exit of Dr. Simor.s and the Chancellor from the Cabinet, the Vossische Zeitung says, will be fol lowed by the resignations of the ministers of Finance and Interior. Dr. Simons's resignation has been pigeonholed temporarily, while the government waits a little while longer for the American reply. The resigna? tion has not come up formally befote the Cabinet, but it isexpected that Dr. Simons's retirement will be nn ac complished fact this coming week. Chancellor Fehrenbach is said to be solidly supporting Dr. Simons on both personal and political grounds in his reparations negotiations. Distinct Trend to Right ? Party leaders already are discussing a forthcoming reconstruction of the Cabinet which invoives several other changes. Hope is maintained, however, that the present conlition of the Demo? crats, Centrists and People's party may be maintained, and that it may posflibly induce the Socialists to accede to a joint new ministry. The latter is an extremely unlikely view, since their at titude and that of the new Prussian government are composed of the same elements. A distinct move towarr" the Right is, therefore, the most probable construc tion of the new ministry, and the fact is that politicians of all shades have been running around in circles for the last two weeks in a desperate effort to find a solution of the most serious foreign situation. The result is that never since the revolution has the political situation been as confused and pregnant of many possibilities. The latter are, however, largely dependent upon the outcome of the reparations problem. Although Germany is waiting anx iously for a reply from Washington to the latest reparations offer, the Berlin government is under3tood to be making ready for a direct appeal to the Allied Supreme Council meeting in London in order to forestall the anticipated ulti matum from the Eentente premiers. The Cabinet is still hoping that Ger many's appeal to Washington will avail something and make possible a solution on the basis of Dr. Simons's latest offer, but in view of Germany's emphatic re jection heretofore of the Allied de mands, no' alternative to bowing to the penalties threatened by the AUies is seen here if the rote to the United Statep is unavailing. ^.j m Brindell Gets a New Job OSSINING, N. Y., April 30.?Robert P. Brindell, dictator of the building trades in New York, who was sent to Sing Sing for extortion, got a new job to-day. He was made inmate ' store keeper, and will have charge of con struction an, repair material in the prison, making a wee^ly inventory of it to make certain U- i.ne has been stolen. He has taken much interest in .'ead ing of the trial and sentence of John T. Herrick, the attorney whose convic tion followed his own. His only visitors have been members of his family. Gar II Beats Train in Race From Miami by 21 Minutes The Gar II jr., "Gar" Wood's express motorboat crniser. tled up at the Co lumbia Yacht Club wharf at 10:32 [ o'clock yesterday morntng, having com- ! pleted her 1,260-mile'trip from Miami | in 47 hours and 23 minutes. She beat ' the train time for the distance by twenty-one minutes. . Leaving Miami at 12:04 o'clock Mon day morning, the boat made her first vun to Savannah, Ga., a distance of 459 miles, in 17 hours and 26 minutes. On April 26 she did the 307 miles from Savannah to Morehead Tity, N. C., in 11 hours and 12 minutes. The next.day she only ran 180 miles, from Morehead City to Hampton, Va.. tak ing 6 hours and 36 minutes for the 1 run. From there to Sandy Hook, ! though forced. to limp the last forty-! one miles with only half her power, | duc to a broken propeller shafjt. she accomplished the 291 miles in 11 hours and' 23 minutes. The last eighteen miles from Sandy Hook to the Colum bia Yacht Club, at Eighty-sixth Street and the Nirth River, took forty-twj minutes. In addition to Mr. Wood, ovner of the boat, thosc on board were Charles Chapman, editor of Motor Boating, who j acfced as navigator: Captain John Post j and Joseph Kinney, engineer, ? The Gar 11 jr., which is fifty fert! over all, is, equipped with two Liborty j engines, developing a total of 900 hurs<?? | power. Her average speed for the trip j was twenty-six and six-tenths miles an hour, though she holds a record of forty-seven and eight-tenths miles an hour. She burned 1,800 gallons of gasoline during her run, putting into three places for fuel. She will probably leave to-morrow for her home in Detroit, via Albany and through the Erie Canal to Buffalo. Cap? tain Post left by train for Detroit Jast night, but Mr. Chapman and Kinney will accompany Mr. Wood on the 18it leg of the journey. j Ruhr Seizure to Require Two Days; Action Not Expected Before May 7 MAYENCE, April 30 (By The Associated Press).?Plans for oc? cupation of the Ruhr region thus far perfected contemplates operations covering two days, according to French military authorities. The ter ritory to be occupied, subject, of course, to decisions reached at the meeting of the Supreme Council in London, will extend to a line begin ning at the confluence of the Upper and P.hine rivers, running to the northeast, skirting and taking in the towns of Solingen, Elberfeld, Barmen, Hagen and Unna. From Unna the boundary of the new zone of occupation will extend northward to the Lippe River, and thence in a northwesterly direction to Wesel, on the Rhine. The opinion is expressed at French military heaquarters that com plete mobilization of the Class of 1919 will be required in order to effect the occupation, but it is not believed that the mobilization order will be issued until late Sunday, at the earliest. It is estimated by the French authorities that if the order should reach the troops on May 2 they would begin to arrive on the following day at Maycnce, whence they would move into the Ruhr. Actual occupation under these condi tions is thought unlikely before May 7. Leeds Fortune Not for Prince, Says Anastasia Christopher Not Mentioned in Her Will Disposing of $40,000,000, Asserts Tinplate King's Widow Descendants to Get Riches Trust Fund Created for WilliamB.Jr.; New York H o s p i t a 1 May Benefit ATHENS, April 30 (By The Associ ated Press).?Princess Anastasia, who before her marriage to Prince Chris? topher of Groece was Mrs. William B. Leeds, of New York, widow of the tin? plate king, said to-day that not one dollar of her fortune of $40,000,000 is settled by her will on Prince Chris? topher. She explained that they had been married under the Swiss law, by which each keeps his or her own money and property, and one is not responsi ble for the debts of the other. Princess Anastasia said that her will specified that upon her death her son, William B. jr., would draw her interest on the trust funds of the estate, but would be unable to touch the principal. If her son or his wife should die, the princess said, the entire Leeds fortune would go to their offspring as a trust fund, which will cease with the third gcneration. If they have no issue the fortune, she said, would go to the Lying-In Hospital in New York. Mrs. Leeds characterized as absurd the statement that her son was the rich est boy in the world. She recalled that his father's will provided that he should receive only $500,000 when he reaches the age of thirty-five. She said that for the present he was entirely depen dent on what she allows him. Princess Anastasia is trying to postpone in definitely the marriage of her son and Princess Xenia because of their youth. She said, however, that when her son marries she intended to arrange with the trustees of the estate to give him a mod^rate sum. Princess Anastasia, her son, the Grand Duchess Maria and the latter's two daughters, cne of whom is Princess Xenia, will leave here May 4 for Brin disi, where they will entrain for Paris, Princess Anastasiawill-go to the Amer ican hospital there for a second opera tion. When she recovers entirely the prin? cess intends to go to America, but if Prince Christopher goes to the fighting front in Asia Minor she will return to Greece. Princess Anastasia to-day appeared extremely weak-and much thinner than before her critical illhess. She sat in an invalid's chair, being still too weak to stand. The engagement of her son, she declared, had broken her heart and on learning of it she wept three days and three nights, refusing to see him. The objections of the princess to the match, she said, were based on the youth and inexperience of the couple, but she finally yielded to her boy'* persuasion. Princess Anastasia denied that her son would adopt'the Greek Orthodox rehgion or receiye a title from the King. She said the young couple prob ably would live in America. Employer Goes to Jail For Defense of Chauffeur Lattcr AIso Held for Driving While Intoxicated; Falling Glnss Bringg Officer Aid Carl McCarthy, of 2407 Second Ave nue, objected last night when Patrol ma.i Jennings arrtsted his chauffeur, George Crisnero, of 668 Westchester Avenue, the Bron*, at Park Avenue and 12' th Street, on a charge of driving while intoxicated. By -vay of prdtest Mr. McCarthy hnocked the patrolraan and his prisoner through a plate-glass show window at 102 East 126th Street. It was poor atrategy, however, for the crash brought another patrolman, who arrested Mr. McCarthy, too. Both men were locked up at the Eaat 12Uth Street police sta tion, Mr. McCarthy charged with fe lonious assault. Annual Spring ti?|f Tournament, take wood Coumry f'lub. May .".. 0, 7. Rhanley fup for (ipniors $V> 5 ?>ars, May 4. Room i eu <>r\ al i?>n? 54 ???U:?1 Pwe. T?l,Lak*wood i'M. ?Adwfc. Germany Kills Chance of U. S. Sending JPlea On Makes Forwarding to Allies Unnecessary, Officials Say;, by Transmitting " It Direct From Berlin Benefit Is Seen, However Washington Believes New Note May Be Sent Urging Teutons to Fresh Offer By Carter Field WASHINGTON, April 30.?Probabil ity of the German reparations proposals ever being forwarded by this govern? ment to the Allies virtually vanished to-day with the news that the proposals had been officially forwarded from Ber? lin direct to London. It was admitted in high Administra tion quarters that this would obviously make by this goyernment the forward? ing of the proposals unnecessary, even in the event that discussions should eventually take such a turn that the Allies would be willing to consider them. However, Administrp.tion spokesmen pointed out that, since the insistence of this government that the Germans make new proposals had provoked discussions, something had been accomplished by the move. "While all the discussions^here have been informal," said one official, "and while the exchange of memoranda has been informal, at the same tirne the Allies have known perfectly well in London, Brussels, Paris and Rome what was going on. Their ambassadors in Berlin informed them, even if they ignored the press dispatches. So the thing is being considered." Meanwhile, the whole situation hangs on the outcome of the discussions of the Allied Council at London, no news of which had reached the State Depart ment ud to a ltte hour. There was keen interest in the press reports of a move by the British to postpone the occupation of the Ruhr for seven days, and of the opposition of the French and Belgians to this step. But no of? ficial confirmation even of this had been received. Parley With Germany Denied Again to-day denial was made by a high spokesman for the Administra tion that this government had com municated directly or indirectly with the German government with a view to obtaining modifications of the r>ro posals. made by the Germans or for any other purposes. The only word transmitted at all, according to high officials, was a dispatch from Ameri? can Commissioner Dresel straighten ing out several unimportant passages of his original message communicatmg the German proposals to the State De partment. It has been suggested from time to time that this government, as the ideas of the Allies in spurning the re (Contlnudd on next p?je) Ex-Service Men Oust Red Flag at Valparaiso Members of Legion Post Nearly Precipitate Riot in Visit to University Sveeial Ditpatch to The Tribune VALPARAISO, Ind., April 30.?A riot was nearly precipitated here to-day when thirty members of the local American Legion post visited a room ing hall at Valparaiso University and demanded that a red flag containing a skull and crossbones be removed from a window. The building is headquar? ters for the athletic students of the institution, who were stanch follow ers of Dr. D. R. Hodgdon, deposed pres ident, and who charged the university was a hotbed of Bolshevism. The men were given thirty minutes to comply with the request of the ex service men to remove the flag. When the former service men returned half an hour later, reinforced with a iarge following and armed with army pistols, the? flag had disappearcd. Neither Coach George Keogsn, in whose room the flag hung, nor any of the athretes would make an explanation of the presence of the flag in the build-* insr Feeling is high against the men Members of the Federal Vocationcl Board at the university made the com plaint to the Legion officials. They charge the followers of Dr. Hodgdon with an attempt to make it appear that Kolshevism exists in the institution. France to Mobilize Army With Full Support of Allies if Proposed De lay Should Be Granted Sharp Discussion Between Premiers Briand Faces Alternative Of Acting Alone or In viting Fall of Regime From The Tribune's Europcan Bureau Copyrijrht. 1921. New York Iribune Inc LONDON, April 30 (10:20 p. m.). ?The French plan for the immedi ate occupation of the Ruhr Valley struck a snag to-night when Premier Lloyd George revsaled an unexpect ed adamantine attitude in opposing precipitate action. To Premier Bri and's proposition for an advance of the Allied armies the British Prime Minister submitted a counter propo sal calling for the mobilization of the French army, the announcement of British cooperation and the pre sentation to Germany of an ultima tum giving her seven dziys to accept the war bill laid down by the Repa rations Gommi&sion. He also pro? posed Allied control of German cus toms and of the fiscal affairs of the whole country. To-night Premier Briand is cort sulting Marshal Foch and telephon ing hurriedly to Paris. The British Premier suggested that M. Briand withhold an answer to his counter proposal until to-morrow morning, when the Council will meet again. Italy Baeks Britain Count Sforza, Italiai; Foreign Minister, supported the British Pre? mier in his stand, although Lloyd George and Briand carried on the greater part of the conversalions. Foreign Minister Jaspar of Beigium supported the French Premier. These are the facts, obtained from an authoritative source -that emcrge from behind the colorless official statement given out after the meeting of ths premiers. The conference developed into a bitter argument and elicited somc plain words from severai quar ters, ending with Lloyd George's plea to Briand: "You wouldn't split the Anglo French entente ?ver a little mattar of seven days, would you?" The French Premier replied: "I can't give any> answer to that question to-night." The conference openad at 10 Down ing Street at 3 o'clock this afternoon with M. Briand's statement that, from the French point of view, May 1 waa absolutely the last day of grace to be allowed Germany. Insisting that there was no reason for further waiting, the French leader asked the British for military aid in the advance proposed. The vast majority of the French par liament and the French people, he said, would brook no delay. One-Day Notice Deprecated Premier Lloyd George responded that tne Allied koparutiou.s Commi.s.non for the first time had fixed the deiinite total of indemnity due from Germany under the terms of the Treaty of Ver sailles, and it was not fair to Ger? many to act without giving more than one day's notice. "To delay seven d<.ys and then to ac? cept whatever promises Germany niight make is absurd!" cried Briand. "The Gefrrman.s are the same people, who said: The Treaty of Versailles is worth noth ing because it is &n instrument of force,' and their promises have no worth whatever." Lloyd George then advanced the sug gestion that German customs and nnances be placed under Allied control. To this the French Premier replied that the creation of a new army of AUi^d omcials would not help, as they would be expelled from Germany as sooii as the Berlin government felt itself rhl? to take such a step. At this point Premier Lloyd George is understood to have said flatly: "But you wish to annex the Ruhr district!" "On the contrary," Briand ergued, "if we stay there some weeks there will be a complete change of German tactics." "Supposing we couldn't support you ?would you act alone?" Lloyd George inquired, and Briand replied vehement ly: "Certainly!" The meeting broke up at 7:30 o'clock this evenirff. BeBides the members of the Supreme Council at the meeting was Lord d'Abernon, British Ambassa dor in Berlin. Experts Working Out DetaiU Allied economic cxperts immediately went into session to work out tht 4t tail.s of the alternative plan suggested by Lloyd George. A3 outlined to The Tribune correspondent to-night, this plan, in addition to the points herein mentioned, calls for the immediate pay ment by Germany of the 1,000,000,000 marks in gold due May 1 under the terms of the treaty. The action of the Allied reparation* commission in tsxing Germany'a total indebtedness at ?6,600,000,000 ($32,142, 000,000), when the Paris figure worked out to more than ?11,000,000,000 ($54,240.000,000), has caused consid erable confusion. The dLscrepancy is explained on the ground that the former represents spot cash payment, while the latter includes the capitat izedvalue of the principa! and intcrest spread out over a period of forty-tw? years. To-morrow's meeting of the Council, which begi.ns at 11 o'clock, promises to be exceptionally interesting. In addi? tion to fighting for France's c'.aims, Briand knows that his own political future is at stake. It is felt by th*