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Vol. LXXXI No. 27,263
First to Last?the Truth: News?-Editorials-?Advertisements
THE WEATHER
Partly cloudy to-day; to-morrow fair
and somewhat wanner; gentle,
variable winds.
Fnll Report on Page Twelve
(Cfiprrlrht. 1921.
New York Tribune lue.)
SUNDAY. JULY 10. 192.-.C PAGES^PART I (Including SDort>)
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IT'TVIT' riI7'\IrrG I" Manhattan. Brooklyn I TEN CENTS
J. V JU V/JLaI^I lO and ?he Bronx Elsewhere
Heat Kills 6;
Cooler Week
Is Forecast
gmoke Haze Drifts Down
From Burning Canadian
Forests to Mitigate Se?
verity of Torridity Here
Temperature Falls
During Afternoon
Thunderstorms Still Are
Promised ; Gty Shows
How to Keep Baby Cool
? Six persons died, directly or indirect?
ly, because of the heat yesterday, al?
though the mercury did not climb as
high as on Saturday by six degrees.
The heat wave remains unbroken and
probably will increase, according to
weather predictions late last night.
These set forth that to-dav would be
partly cloudy, but that Monday would
be still warmer.
John Howard, an elevator operator,
?f 526 West 123d Street; Frank Liguori,
of 580 Eighth Avenue, and John J. Ford,
of 204' West Ninety-eighth Street, all
died of heat.
The driver of a brewery wagon, ap?
parently suffering from the heat, clam?
bered down from his truck at Second
Avenue and Ninety-fifth Street about
1:30 p. m. and sat on the curb. When
an ambulance surgeon arrived he was
dead. The truck is owned by the North
American Brewing Company, of Brook?
lyn. There was nothing in the driver's
pockets to identify him.
Mrs. Rachel Schoen, who recently had
been under treatment for a nervous
aiiment, was found dead beneath a win?
dow of her home on the sixth floor of
310 East 101st Street. She had com?
plained during the night of feeling
warm and is thought to have fallen
from the w-indow when she got up to
enjoy the breeze.
Eight-year-old Joseph Piro, who had
been put to bed on the fire escape of
his home on the fourth floor of 177
Mulberry Street for the sake of com?
fort, fell through the well and was
killed.
Five cases of heat prostration, most
of them occurring early in the morning,
were reported by the police.
The thermometer recorded a temp?r?
ature of 84 degrees at 9 a. m. and then
tugan to drop. At 1 p. m. the temper?
ature was 79 degrees.
Smoke Haze a Protection
J. H. Kimball, of the forecaster's
staff at the local Weather Bureau, said
the great clouds of smoke drifting
down from Canadian foreEt fires were
largely responsible for the cool weather.
If the sun had not been obscured by
the smoke haze, he said, New York
probably would have had another 90
degree day.
Although the smoke was beneficial
during the day, he continued, it made
the nights warmer than they would be
otherwise, as it tended to prevent radi?
ation from the earth.
It was said at the Weather Bureau
that thunder showers might be expected
to bring even cooler weather tempo?
rarily. The Weather Bureau in Wash?
ington was of the opinion that much
cooler weather would prevail through?
out most of the country this week.
Frank J. Monaghan, acting Commis?
sioner of Health, gave out the follow?
ing advice for warm weather:
?Don't forget that mother's milk is
the best milk for babies.
Don't give the baby anything but the
best in food and drink, graduated in
amount according to age.
Don't clothe or cover the baby too
heavily.
The baby should sleep alone.
Baths for Baby Essential
Don't fail to give the baby a tub
bath daily and several spongings in
addition.
Don't allow flies, mosquitoes or bugs
to bite the baby.
Don't give the baby medicine except
on advice of a physician/
If the baby is sick send for your
doctor and if you can't afford that take
the baby to the nearest dispensary or
welfare station of the Health Depart?
ment.
Don't forget that the baby gets
thirsty. Give him a little water sev?
eral times a day.
Don't wear heavy clothing yourself.
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Chickens Eat Fireworks
And Die Spectacularly
Patriotically Gulp "Sons-of
Guns" and Perish for Their
Country With a Bang
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
WEST AVON, Conn., July 9.?Mis
PJided patriotism or undiscriminating
appetite caused the death yesterday of
most of young Marcellua Bennison's
??If-grown chickens.
Marcellua, who3e home is on Lovely
?{"et. had a lot of sons-of-guns with
wmch to celebrate the Fourth of July.
*v*?? guns are explosive little discs
?S li g0 off witn a stirring sparkle and
Y f jken "round beneath the heel.
lesterday Marcellus's chickens began
?.u- with birring sparkling and
=?c?!ings. The cause o( their unani.
ves'rfk spectacular demise was re
on? ? ? a post-mortem performed upon
"ne of them. When the fowl's crop was
,?Te Poured out and when this had
tZ___? away several fragments of a
?on-of-a-gun were found.
***y M?7s Minter Engaged
FHra Star Expected To Be Bride
of Oregonian
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
PARIS, Ky., July 9.?Mary Miles Min
> motion picture star, will be the
JgW of Orvillo Erringer, of Portland,
JieV 7hen 8'le return9 from Europe
to-dav.aJJ'_.ac?ordinr t0 w?rd received
The i.?? i- rringer's former home here,
in r,I(Tdlns's expected to take place
Pie8?,hern California, where the cou
Er,' make their home
No_th_!_?C?r Is a representative in the
?ompBn. ?/?* Califo?'a 'ruit packing
te. _?.__', Hlf romance with Miss Miti
**t her T? fecently. ?'ter he had
*** vi_Ln ???ywood, Cal., when he
Vl?'ting the studios there.
i
Lieut. Farrell, Nerve Broken
By Privations, May Quit Flying
Lieutenant Stephen Farrell, one of
the three naval balloonists who narrow?
ly escaped death in the north woods last
winter when the big naval balloon
drifted from the United States Air
Station at Rockaway to Hudson Bay
in upper Ontario, has suffered a com?
plete nervous breakdown as a result of
the experience, and may never fly again,
according to information forthcoming
yesterday from the United States naval
hospital of the New York navy yard.
Farrell, according to physicians at
the hospital, entered the institution
more than two months ago and was
found to be suffering from an acute
case of neurasthenia brought on by
exhaustion. A week ago Lieutenant
Farrell was granted a month's leave of
absence and advised by hospital physi?
cians to go to a quiet summer resort.
At the expiration of his leave he
will report to the hospital again for
further treatment and observation.
Diagnosis in his case was made by Dr.
Elwin Taylor, head of the neurasthenia
ward.
Lieutenant Farrell, who created a
sensation when he knocked Lieutenant
Walter Hinton to the floor of the Hud?
son Bay ti-ading post at Mattice shortly
after the balloon party reached civiliza?
tion after travelling more than two
hundred miles over an unbroken trail
from Moose Factory, was considered by
many to be the real hero of the mom ?
orable expedition. At the end of the
journey Lieutenant Farrell appeared to
be in better physical condition than
either Lieutenant Hinton or Kloor, and
his breakdown undoubtedly will be re?
ceived with surprise.
According to a letter written by
Lieutenant Hinton after the party hud
been rescued in the north woods by a
Cree trapper, Lieutenant Farrell, after
four days of hopeless wandering fol?
lowing the descent of the balloon,
begged his companions to kill him and
use his body for food.
Lieutenants Hinton and Kloor are
now stationed at Rockaway, and, as
far as can be ascertained, neither has
suffered any permanent impairment
from the experience. Lieutenant Kloor,
according to rumor, is soon to be mar?
ried.
Schools Bad,
Prall Admits;
Shifts Blame
as
Praises Hylan Program
Greatest Ever Known,
While His Own Survey
Confirms Most Char
Cites Big Building Plans
Declares 27 New Structures
Will Be Ready by Fall,
With 72 More on Way
Anning S. Prall, president of the
i Board of Education, issued a detailed
; reply yesterday to the report on the
; sanitary conditions of the public
? schools of the city recently made by
a committee representing a number of
women's clubs interested in civic mat- j
ters. The reply is made to Mrs. Rogers i
H. Bacon, chairman of the plan and
.program committee of the associated
?clubs, who made a complete survey of
j forty schools in the city.
In his answer the president of the
j Board of Education includes reports
j made on the forty schools by C. B. J.
i Snyder, superintendent of school buiid
?ings, to Dr. William L. Ettinger, Su
j perintendent of Schools. In the ma
j jority of cases these reports differ but
i little from those made by the women's
J committee, although in a few there is
a flat contradiction. In cases where
j the women alleged poor lighting facili?
ties, the report passes the buck to the
? Department of Water Supply, Gas and
: Electricity, and in cases where it was,
; reported there were insufficient rest
? facilities for teachers, it is stated that
the trouble can only be remedied by
taking away much needed classrooms.
After presenting the detailed report
of the superintendent of buildings,
Mr. Prall takes advantage of the op?
portunity to reply to those who have
been annoying the Hylan administra?
tion by insistent demands for improved
school conditions.
Cites Repair Appropriations
He dismisses with a gesture the
statements made by the Public Educa?
tion Association, and adds that the
j Hylan administration has spent more
j than twice as much for repairs to
j schools than did the Mitchel adminis?
tration.
In order to prove this he cites ap?
propriations made for that purpose,
which include $4,865,931.90 for this year,
one-half of which was appropriated
only after the publication of the
women's report. In his reply he says:
"I beg to call your attention to the
fact that it is quite impossible to make
major repairs to school buildings dur?
ing that part of the school year that
classes are in session.
"It is obvious that we could not shut
| off the water from a school building
j in order to make repairs to plumbing,
heating or toilet fixtures during the
period that the buildings are occupied
! by the children.
"We could not paint classrooms while
classes are in session.
"We could not remove old roofs and
install new ones, nor could we install
! or repair cornices; therefore, it be?
comes necessary to make these major
repairs in the brief vacation period
when the children are not in the school
buildings or whose lives are in danger
the time these repairs are made.
"Appreciating the economy in main?
taining a public school building in
which great sums have been invested
by the City of New York, this board
found when entering upon its duties
in the early part of 1918 that it would
! be necessary to expend the approxi
I mate sum of $8,000,000 for repairs due
1 to the neglect of former administra
! tions to keep the buildings in proper
? condition, and in proof of this I offer
you the following statement taken from
! the records of this department show
'? ing the year 1914 and the nature of
; the appropriations during that year forj
repairs. !
in,* . $3.620,883.35
,9 \\ - . 1,648,792.41
???6 !.'.'.'... 3,218.008.82
?J?S . 3,040,302.04'
?n.g . . 1,709,946.97
1(nn .. 1,165,457.08
Jain . "' . 2,905,861.47
J52? ;;;;;;;;. 4.865.931.90
Repair Expense Doubled
"I beg to call your attention to the
total appropriation for the repair of
school buildings during the so-called
Mitchel administration, including the
(Continued on pate thirteen)
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S^&0tft ?r?tame
Jewel Thieves
Boast Selves
Into Jail Cells
Taunts Flung at Detectives
Result in the Ap|3rehen
sion of Gang Trying a
Safe Burglary "Encore"
$100,000 Stock Saved
Unflagging Watch Outside
Loft Building Rewarded
With Trio of Captives
Burglars who had defied the police
to catch them, naming the address they
intended to visit, were captured yes?
terday by detectives who took the dare.
Last January a gang of expert safe
openers entered the loft building at
338 Canal Street, ripped open safes
there and departed after collecting
$20,000 in jewelry and unset precious
stones. No policeman interfered with
them. Detectives who were summoned
after the harm had been done made no
progress toward arresting the cracks?
men, who, flushed with pride over their
easily accomplished feat, gave way to
boasting.
These boasts sounded through the
underworld and eventually came to the
ears of the police. Stool pigeons in?
formed Captain John J. Stapleton, head
of the loft and safe squad, that the
"mob" that had gone through the
Canal Street building were laughing at
him and his efforts to find them. That
made Captain Stapleton angry.
Later, the doughty captain's wrath
became apoplectic when certain slink?
ing persons whispered to his men that
the same vainglorious gang of "yeggs"
were loudly announcing their intention
of visiting the same loft building all
over again, collecting whatever tney had
missed on their first visit and enjoying
another hearty laugh at the expense of
the sluggish police.
Patience Is Rewarded
Whereupon the safe and loft squad,
from captain to youngest member,
swore a mighty oath to catch these
braggarts if it was the last act of their
official lives. After the challenge was
carried to them, the detectives did not
relax their vigilance over the building
for an instant. Weeks passed and
nothing happened. In the running
story of the city's crime the loft
burglary in Canal Street was forgotten
by most persons. But Stapleton and
his men remembered it with the tenac?
ity and vindictiveness of affronted ele?
phants.
Yesterday their long watch had its
reward. They knew the "safe mob"
was about to fulfill its threat, for a de?
tective watching the building from the
outside several days ago saw a furtive
figure slip up to the door and take a
wax impression of the keyhole.
At 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon
three men, one of them armed with a
key made from that impression, saun?
tered up to the building, which had
been closed since noon, and entered.
They ascended to the fourth floor.
Behind them crept several members of
the safe and loft squad with the caution
of cats.
Valuable Stock Saved
The trio paused before the office of
S. Steinberg, manufacturing jeweler, in
whose safe there reposed some $100,000
worth of gems and metals. The office
door has a patent lock. The three cut
this away and entered. The safe in the
corner had yielded $7,000 at the time
of the January robbery. It held a much
greater treasure now, but the trio
made no attempt to open it. They
placed a black bag one of them carried
before it, and then started back down?
stairs. Evidently they were merely
getting ready for a long night's work.
They walked smack into the arms of
waiting detectives, who fell upon them
with all the violence inspired by
long-pent-up emotions. It was a good
fight while it lasted, but the trio were
outnumbered and overpowered.
In the black bag the triumphant
sleuths discovered three sticks of dyna?
mite, a set of drills of the finest steel,
a brace, one of the best constructed
sectional jimmies the police have ever
seen, and three pairs of gloves.
At headquarters the three were
charged with burglary, attempted burg?
lary and possessing dynamite illegally.
They were booked as Joseph Marcus,
alias Joseph Simon; Harry Gold, alias
Aaron Gold, 229 East Eighteenth
Street, and Harry Salkin, 311 South
Fifth Street, Brooklyn.
Captain Stapleton was smiling last
night for the first time in three months.
Celluloid Collar Must Go
Chicago Police Chief Wants
Force Best Dressed in World
CHICAGO, July 9?The celluloid col?
lar was banished from the Chicago po?
lice force to-day in an edict by Chief
Fitzmorris, who declared the Chicago
police must be the best dressed in the
world. A well dressed man does not
wear a celluloid collar, the chief said.
"With the present salaries the mem?
bers of the department are getting,"
Chief Fitzmorris said, "they can afford
to look neat. I am tired of seeing an
otherwise spick and span policeman
with a celluloid collar around his neck
hanging by one string."
Senate Sees
Court Battle
On Beer Bill
Point Raised Eighteenth
Amendment Lacks Any
Clause Regulating Use
of Liquor as Medicine
Restricts Alcohol
In Beverages Only
Fear Arises Pending Meas?
ure Faces Legal Attack
on Constitutional Base
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
^ WASHINGTON, July 9.~Before the
Senate passes the pending "boor emer?
gency" bill it in all probability will be
confronted with a grave question as to
its constitutionality. The question
grows out of the language of the
Eighteenth Amendment. This amend?
ment prohibits the manufacture, sale,
transportation, importation and expor?
tation of intoxicating liquors "for bev?
erage purposes." It says nothing about
applying these prohibitions to the me?
dicinal use of liquors under prescrip?
tion from a physician.
The pending bill contains drastic
provisions prohibiting the medicinal
use of beer and limiting the medicinal
use of spirituous and vinous liquors.
The point is that inasmuch as the
Eighteenth Amendment applies solely
to liquor "for beverage purposes" Con?
gress has no authority to pass the
pending Willis-Campbell bill, which
deals largely with the medicinal use
of liquors.
The matter is in the stage of inves?
tigation by Senators. Some are making
a careful study of the constitutional
question, and are of the impression
that Congress is getting beyond its
depth in the "beer emergency" bill,
and trying to do what it has no au?
thority to do.
Point Raised by Borah
The point was touched on briefly in
the Senate Judiciary Committee when
the bill was considered there, but only
casually. Senator Borah referred to
the matter then, but not as something
to which he had given sufficient study
to warrant him in passing a final opin?
ion. The committee was not allowed to
present a favorable report on the bill.
V/hat will happen is that Senators
will make a close examination of the
language of the Eighteenth Amend?
ment, the Congressional debates and
the opinions of the Supreme Court, and
if they find the bill seems to be fatally
weak from a constitutional standpoint
they will raise the issue on the Senate
floor. It is by no means anticipated
that this or any other constitutional
question will prevent passage of the
bill. It will become law. However, if
the Senate or leading Senators serious?
ly raise the legal point, it will tend to
invite litigation over the measure
when it becomes law, and the Supreme
Court will have to pass on it eventual?
ly. That court will have to say
whether, under an amendment which
applies its restrictions to liquors "for
beverage purposes," drastic legislation
can be enacted applicable to other pur?
poses, and especially medicinal pur?
poses.
Not only is there wet opposition to
the pendi3ig beer bill, but some of the
prohibitionist members of Congress are
concerned about it on the theory that
it may be going too far and may serve
to bring about a national reaction
against prohibition.
Warning Likely to Come
It is regarded as not at all unlikely
that the discussion over the legal and
constitutional proposition mentioned
will prove interesting and that some of
the dry? in the Senate will warn the
Senate to go slowly.
The Eighteenth Amendment reads:
"The. manufacture, sale, or transpor?
tation of intoxicating liquors within,
the importation thereof into, or the
exportation thereof from the United
States and all territories subject to the
jurisdiction thereof for beverage pur?
poses is hereby prohibited."
One of the restrictions of the bill
is that no more than a quart of wine
can be prescribed for a patient in ten
days. It is contended that this cannot
be construed as use of wine "for
beverage purposes."
Up to this time, the discussion of the
lawful power of Congress to say what
shall be done by a physician in pre?
scribing for a patient has been dis?
cussed in the Senate in more or less
general fashion. But there has been no
careful dissection of the proposition of
what the Eighteenth Amendment means
in its restrictions on liquor "for bever?
age purposes."
It is known that when the original
Volstead act was passed there was
doubt in the judiciary committees
about just how ft.r Congress could go
in its limitations on liquor, and there
was fear among some of the dry law?
yers lest constitutional marks be over?
stepped and. as a result, get the whole
act nullified in the courts.
Bandits Pave Road With Money
As Police Car Overhauls Auto
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
CHICAGO, July 9.?Six bandits in a
powerful touring car, at noon to-day,
swooped down on the Clearing State
Bank, at Sixty-third Street and Central
Avenue, held up three employees and
escaped with approximately $50,000 in
cash and securities.
Within two hours the car was sight?
ed in Lemont. 111. Fifteen minutes
later Martin (Big Six) Sicks, said to
have been the leader of the band, and
Mike Geary, a police character, were
under arrest. More than $30,000 in
currency was found in Sicks's machine.
As the bandit machine reached the
outskirts of Lemont the occupants dis- ;
covered the police in close pursuit. In
an attempt to rid themselves of the !
loot they tossed bunches of bills to ;
right and left. Much of this fell into '
the hands of children playing by the I
roadside, who promptly took it to their |
parents.
The robbers swerved into the Lemont ?
business district, leaped from th? ma-1
A
chine and scattered. Sicks and Geary
sought a hiding place under a side?
walk, but were dragged forth and hus?
tled back to Chicago. The missing
loot, except that part picked up by
children and found in the machine, is
believed to be in possession of the four
bandits who escaped.
The robbers threw the money into
the road in the hope that it would halt
the pursuit of the police riflemen. The
ruse worked to some extent, as the pur?
suers had to slow down to avoid run?
ning over the children. But for this
delay, it is thought all the fugitives
would have been captured before they
reached the friendly alleys and byways
of Lern ont.
Sicks was released from prison May
14, 1921. by an order of the Supreme
Court which granted a review of his
case. He was convicted of participation
in the robbery of the Heller-Rose Com?
pany, in 1918, when jewelry worth
$150,000 was stolen.
Geary, the other prisoner, was re?
leased from Joliet penitentiary a month
ago and immediately resumed his crim?
inal career in Chicago, the police say.
Final Terms of Truce Signed;
Peace Spirit Sweeps Ireland
As End of Terrorism Is Seen
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All Evidence of Warfare
Vanishes in Amazing
Drift of Sentiment
Toward Understanding
Celts Fraternize
With Ancient Foes
Optimists Now Predict
Complete Solution of
Problem in Two Weeks
From The Tribune's European Bureau
^opyrlffht, 1021, Now YorBc Tribune Inc.
LONDON, July 9.?An amazing drift
toward peace in Ireland has resulted
from the announcement that Eamon de
Valera, "President of the Irish Repub?
lic," will meet Premier Lloyd George
and Sir James Craig, the Ulster Pre?
mier, probably next week, in an effort
to settle the whole Irish problem.
There are plenty of optimists in Eng?
land to-day who foresee a peaceful
settlement of the age-long Irish strife
within the next fortnight.
Evidences of war have vanished from
Dublin and all Ireland almost overnight.
Where two days ago the members of
the crown forces and of the Irish vol?
unteers walked the streets only at the
peril of their lives, to-day there are
comparatively few signs in Dublin of
the terrible enmity which has so long
marked the relations between rebels
and supporters of the King.
Although the formal truce does not i
become operative until Monday noon, j
both sides apparently have decided by |
common consent to cease hostilities im?
mediately. No people except the Irish
could swing from one extreme to the I
other overnight as the citizens of Dub- j
lin have done in the last twenty-four |
hours. Now they are fraternizing with j
the same persons they were cursing i
yesterday.
King Continues Activity
King George is no less active than
General Jan Christian Smuts in push?
ing the peace negotiations. He con?
ferred this morning with Earl Midle-1
ton, who had just returned from Dub
lin. The Southern Unionist leader told j
the King he believed the atmosphere
was favorable for the critical negotia?
tions just ahead. The majority on
both sides, he said, favor peace, but
| great difficulties must be overcome be
' fore a settlement can be reached.
Earl Midleton holds that the truce
which has been arranged is a long step
forward, and he believes that both
'.ides will hesitate before renewing the
, warfare, even though a political settle
I mint i ? found exceedingly hard to
reach.
The fact that both General Sir Nevil
Macready, British military commander
in Ireland, and a representative of the
Irish republican army signed their j
names to the proposal for a truce is !
pointed to as precluding the possibility I
of action by any extremists on either I
side which might jeopard the politi- '
cal negotiations.
The peace negotiations which Pre?
mier Lloyd George will carry on with !
Sir James Craig and De Valera must |
work out a formula that will preclude j
the weakening of England's strategic j
defense, assure Ulster of her rights '
and give all of Ireland an acceptable I
form of government. De Valera says
that all these problems can be solved
satisfactorily. Earl Midleton agrees
with him in this. It remains for Sir
James Craig and Lloyd George, to say I
the next word, to add their agreement j
to this possibility. To-day it is almost ]
being snouted from the housetops that
the British and Ulster premiers ar*
really moderate men, desirous of peace
even at the expense of some sacrifice.
Progress Astounds Public
Because of the speed with which
General Smuts has pushed the peace
negotiations the public can hardly be?
lieve that a settlement of the Irish
question is just around the corner.
Consequently there is a tendency in
some quarters to put a soft pedal on
the progress being made and to em?
phasize the differences outstanding be?
tween north and south Ireland. They
point out that Ulster is not nearly so
satisfied with its present position as
might be expected. The people there
have their own premier and parlia?
ment and are at peace with the King's
government. But as Ulster cannot af?
ford to be cut off from intercourse
with the south, Sir James Craig is ex?
pected to prove more tolerant and con?
ciliatory than Sir Edward Carson ever
would have been.
The instructions issued by De Valera
; and Macready to their supporters are
so comprehensive that all Ireland will
be practically normal by Monday noon.
Sinn F?in fugitives, who have been on
the run for months, will be free to
move about unmolested.
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De Volera Calls on Irish to Observe
Armistice. Warns of Overconfiden?e
DUBLIN, July 9 (By The Associated Press).?The text of the
manifesto issued to-day by Eamon de Valera to his partisans follows:
"Fellow Citizens: During the period of the truce each indi?
vidual soldier and citizen must regard himself as the custodian
of the nation's honor. Your discretion must prove in the most con?
vincing manner that this is a struggle of an organized nation.
"In the negotiations now initiated your leaders will do their
utmost to secure a just termination of this struggle, but history,
and particularly our own history, and the character of the issue
to be decided, are a warning against undue confidence.
"Unbending determination to endure all that may still be
necessary, and fortitude such as you have shown in all your recent
sufferings?these alone will lead to the peace you desire. Should
force be resumed against our nation you must be ready on your
part once more to resist. Thus alone will you secure the final
abandonment of force and the acceptance of justice and reason
as the arbiter. DE VALERA."
Lloyd George
Nearly Messed
el ,
Alliance Plan
London Observer Says Com?
mons Speech Was Cut
From Record After Har?
vey Conferred With King
Took Harding Initiative
U. S. Could Not Have En
tered Parley Called Upon
Suggestion of England
LONDON, July 10.?What purports
to be the "inside" story of how Presi?
dent Harding almost had the initiative
in calling an international conference
on disarmament snatched from him by
? Premier Lloyd George is given this
morning by The Sunday Observer. Re?
calling that in the House of Commons
last Thursday the Premier said he
hoped to make a definite statement
Monday regarding the Pacific problem,
which, however, was dependent upon
"the replies received from the United
States, Japan and China," the news?
paper asserts that Thursday night King
George and Colonel George Harvey, the
United States Ambassador, had an
earnest conversation. The next day
Lloyd George's remarks were wiped off
the journal of the House of Commons
and officially ceased to exist. Taking
up the Premier's statement, the paper
says:
"Here was the rift within the lute
that would have silenced all. The
.American government could not use?
fully have entered into a conference as
a result of the British suggestion.
. . . The American Administration
would have been seriously embarrassed
and the whole project of a conference
on the treaty, China, disarmament'and
related problems would probably have
been shipwrecked.
"Thato was the execrable position
Thursday evening. On Friday the
mistaken procedure received drastic
correction. The Premier's words abouti
replies from the United States, Japan !
and China were omitted from Hansard j
[the official reporter] and withdrawn
fiom official existence. The situation i
happily became as though they never
had been uttered. The way wa3 i
cleared again for President Harding. ?
His initiative was neither anticipated j
nor prejudiced."
The paper continues: "Almost by
accident a great state festival was
turned into a wonderful political op?
portunity." This reference is to the
ball in honor of the King and Queen
o? the Belgians Thursday night.
"Against this magnificent back- i
ground," says The Observer, "the Kingi
and the American Ambassador?-as
everyone knows, they are on very !
human terms with each other?had a I
conversation, which certainly was j
earnest and could not but have been i
important.
"Nothing now stands in America's j
way. ... It is for the Washington j
Cabinet not only to issue a formal in?
vitation, but to propose terms."
The world hangs with breathless in- !
terest, says The Observer, on President j
Harding's expected message, which, if
forthcoming, it declares would be the
strongest step toward world redemption
since the armistice, and adds: "We
are probably on the eve of one of the
most memorable events in diplomatic
history."
Tinplate Men Accept
10 P. C. Cut in Wages
Thirty-five Thousand Workers
in West Affected by Owner
Employee Agreement
COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 9.?-Approxi?
mately 35,000 sheet and tin plate work?
ers in the district between Pittsburgh
and St. Loui3 will suffer a reduction
of approximately 10 per cent in wages
under a new wage scale adopted here
this evening at a conference between
representatives of the Western Sheet
and Tin Manufacturers' Association
and the Amalgamated Association of
Iron, Sheet and Tin Workers.
Members of the Amalgamated Associ?
ation demanded a continuation of the
scale effective up to July 1.
Thousands of tin workers were
thrown out of work when plants closed
down at the expiration of the old wage
scale on July 1, following failure to
agree upon a new scale at a conference
held at Atlantic City on June lv The
Atlantic City conference adjourned to
meet in Columbus and the manufac?
turers and employees were in session
here all week.
Announcement of the settlement was
made by J. H. Nutt, secretary of the
Manufacturers' Association.
Mexico Sighs
With Relief as |
Warships Leave !
Presence of Two Cruisers!
at Tanipico Was Fraught!
With Danger, for Offi-j
cials Feared an Overt Act
Tenseness Is Lessened
Government Officials Bitter;
in Charges Against Oil
Firms Which Have Closed
By George E. Hyde
Special Cable to The Tribune
Copyright, 1921, New York Tribune Inc.
MEXICO CITY, July 9.?The tension
here has been greatly relieved by the
withdrawal of the United States war?
ships from Tampico. The situation had
only been aggravated by the presence
| of the warships, it was felt here, be
! cause the Obregon government ha3
from the first regarded the shutdown
of the Tampico oil wells as a plot by
the producers to embarrass the Mexi?
can government. The Mexican admin?
istration never has believed that an
economic crisis was precipitated by the
putting into effect of the export tax j
and consequently was glad to see the ?
warships depart, thereby precluding the !
possibility of any interference or clash
with Mexican authorities.
The government is takine: energetic
measures to relieve the unemployment j
in the oil fields and is concentrating the j
idle men outside of the industrial dis- ?
trict in the hope of avoiding possible \
disorders on the oil properties.
Obregon Orders Inquiry
President Obregon has ordered an ?
investigation to determine whether
Mexican laborers were discriminated
against by the oil companies in dis- j
charging their employees and also to :
find out what steps have been taken 1
by the companies to relieve the dis?
tress among the unemployed.
General Plutarco Elias Calles, Min- ;
ister of the Interior, said to-day that!
the government had been informed that |
the oil companies had been carrying on i
a wide propaganda among the laborers ;
in the oil field"; to create the impres- '?
sion that the government was responsi?
ble for their discharge. Calles said the
government had succeeded in persuad?
ing the laborers that this was not true
and, as a result, no uprising against the
Obregon government is feared.
The health situation in th?.> oil fied3
as the result of an outbreak of yellow
fever and bubonic plague is serious,
but the government is taking steps to
relieve this.
President Obregon ha3 refused the ;
offer of army officers to contribute a;
part of their pay toward the support of i
the unemployed. He thanked the of- I
ficers, saying he believed the govern- |
ment had sufficient money in the treas?
ury to relieve the situation before it j
became critical.
Danger In Warships Presence
MEXICO CITY, July 9 (By The As- |
sociated Press).?The withdrawal of i
the United States cruisers Sacramento '
and Cleveland from Tampico has re- ;
lieved a situation which officials here j
(Continued on next page)
Harding, Off on Cruise,
To Write His Message
President and Wife Take Party
of Officials for Week End
on the Mayflower
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, July 9?While the
Presidential yacht Mayflower rides at
anchor to-morrow at the mouth of
Chesapeake Bay, President Harding in?
tends to work on a message to Congress
which he plans to deliver Tuesday. The
message will deal with soldier bonus
and tax legislation, and the President
will determine later whether he will
deliver the message personally. He is
known to favor appearing before Con?
gress in person in order to emphasize
the points conveyed in his message.
The Mayflower, betring the President
and Mrs. Harding and a party of
friends, left here at 4 o'clock this
afternoon and is not due back until
early Monday morning. Included in the
party were Senator and Mrs. Watson
of Indiana, Chairman Lasker of the
Shipping Board, Secretary of War
! Weeks, Secretary of Labor Davis, Post?
master General Hays, Senator and Mrs.
Kellogg, Senator Newberry and Senator
Hale.
The Presidential party does not plan
to stop en route, but simply to journey
down the Potomac in an effort to ob?
tain relief from the heat.
r
No More Importation of
Troops or Munitions;!
Crown Forces to Avoid.
All Provocative Action
Sinn Fein Ordered i
To Halt Hostilities
Lloyd George and De Va-;
lera Expected to Meet in I
Conference This Week
DUBLIN, July 9 (By The Asso-j
dated Press).?Truce terms between!
England and Ireland were .-?.Treed to
at 3 o'clock this afternoon at British
military headquarters here. Gen- j
eral Sir Nevil MacYeady, military!
commander in Ireland; Colonel'
Brind and A. W. Cope, Under See-!
retary in the office of the Chief ?
Secretary for Ireland, acted for the I
British army. Commandants Rob-'
ert C. Barton and E. J. Duggan, j
represented the Irish republican ;
army.
According to the Irish Bulletin, j
organ of the Dail Eireann, it was j
agreed on behalf of the British'
army : j
That there be no incoming j
troops of the Royal Irish Con?
stabulary and Auxiliaries, and no
shipments of munitions inco Ire?
land and no movements for mili?
tary purposes, except in the main- !
tenance of drafts.
That there be no provocative I
display of forces, armed or un- |
armed.
Martial Law Nullified
That all provisions of the truce
apply to the martial law area just
as for the rest of Ireland.
That there be no pursuit of Irish '
officers and men or search for war i
materiel and military stores.
That there be no secret agents
noting descriptions or movements j
of and no interference with the j
movements of Irish military men ,
and civilians, and no attempt to '
discover the haunts and habits of
Irish officers and men.
That there be no search for or '
observance of lines of communica- '
tion.
That there be no search for i
messengers.
Other details connected with courts j
martial, motor permits and similar mat- !
ters, says The Irish Bulletin, are to be I
agreed to later. I
On behalf of the Irish republican,
army it was agreed:
That attacks on crown forces and
civilians cense.
That there be no provocative dis?
plays of forces, armed or unarmed. ,
That there be no interference vtitsx ']
government or private property.
The discontinuance and prevention I
of any action likely to cause dis?
turbance of the peace, and which
might necessitate military interfer?
ence. J
De Valera Urges Unity
Eamon de Valera, the republican lead- I
er, issued a manifesto urging national '
unity during the peace negotiation.,
with "unbending determination to en- ;
dure all that is still necessary." With
this was coupled a warning against "un?
due confidence" in the result.
A general order directing the suspen
sion of hostilities during the peace nego- I
tiations, the order to be effective from .
noon, July 1!, was issued by Richard '
Mulcahy, chief of staff of the Irish re?
publican army.
The order reads:
"To the officers commanding all .
units: In view of the conversations
now being entered into by our govern- |
ment with the British government, and j
in pursuance of the mutual under?
standings to suspend hostilities during j
these conversations, active operations
by our troops will suspend from noon, '
July 11."
Even Curfew Is Removed
The British government, in order to j
cooperate in providing an atmosphere ,
"in which peaceful discussions may b? \
possible," has directed that, beginning j
Monday, all searches by the military
and police shall cease; military activity I
si'all be restricted to the support of j
the police in their normal civil duties;
curfew restrictions shall be removed, ?
and police functions in Dubl'n shall be '
carried on by the metropolitan police.
LONDON, July 9 (By The Associated '
Press).?With something like an im- !
mense sigh of relief the entire country '
has greeted the news of the cessation '
of warfare in Ireland and Eamon do
Valera's coming conference with the '
British Prime Minister at London,
which it is fervently hoped wiU lead to I
full restoration of peace, the prospecta
of which even the more cautious poli- ?
tical observers regard as brighter than '
for a long time.
! The careful wording of Mr. de Va- i
; lera's acceptance of a conference is in
I terpreted in some quarters here as !
: based on the necessity of the Irish re- ,
?publican leader feeling his way wki
1 his own followers. It in thought, he
ever, that a truce deliberately
: barked upon cannot well be delij
discarded, and that alone is
? eration of great promise.
De Valera's Control To
Mr. de Valera's accepta
; spon8ibility for fulftllme
j b" the Irish rep?blica
| to dispel the idea
j that the most active b _
F?in is beyond contr
I chiefs. Whether t