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TWO CE??T#^
In Greater New T?raL>
THREE CENTS
Within ZOO Mile?
FOrn CENTS
Elsewhere
Senators on
Harding PSea
Pledge Bonns
Bil? Delay
President Reads Special
Mess ago Urging Country
at This Time Be Spared a
S5,000.000,000 Burden
Leaders Assured
Of Recommittal
Debate Is Opened After
Executive Makes Direct
Appeal; Vote Is Likely
To Be Taken To-dav
From Th? Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON. July 12.?Presi?
dent Harding in a special message ;
to the Senate to-day urged that body
to lay aside for the time being the
soldiers' bonus bill, and declared its
passage now would "greatly imperil
the financial stability of our coun?
try/'
The President addressed the Sen
ate in person. His address, which
vas brief and forceful, was given
the closest attention by Senators, by
a large number of members of the
House, who stood in the Senate
er to hear him, and by crowded
I alleries. He went to the Capitol
shortly before '2 o'clock. He pro
ceeded directly to the President's
room, and from there was escorted
into the Senate chamber, where he
was greeted with applause from
both Republicans and Democrats.
His address lasted about twenty
minutes, and at its close he was
F.i3:n applauded, a number of the
Democratic Senators uniting in the
istration.
After the President had left the Sen
ate chamber Republican loaders as?
serted that pledges of a large major
it of votes in favor of laying aside
the bonus bill had. been priven, and
those in favor of the bill conceded this
t*> be true.
The committee which escorted the
President into the chamber was ap
? pointed by the Vice-President, on mo
.tor Lodge. It consisted of
' r bodg?, the Republican leader,
and Senator Underwood, the Demo?
cratic leader.
Ars. Harding was among the specta?
tors in the Executive's gallery, and
Seen tary of the Treasury Wil?
liam G. McAdoo also was among those.
Ileries. The President read
in a distinct voice and
di I berately. When lie finished
- escorted from th? chamber by
Senators Lodge and Underwood.
Debate on Recommittal
riie bonus bill was made the unfin?
ished b sini i of the Senate just be
the President entered the cham
Senator Penrose, as soon as the
"?' sident left the Senate chamber,
. to recommit the bill to the
Committee. The motion at
tirred debate and Democratic
rs held the floor for most of the
nder of the afternoon in opposi?
tion to the motion. It is probable a
vote ill be reached to-morrow after
r ?" igh the debate may run
longer than that.
nee President Harding
pposition to the passage of
I be bonus bill at this time on the same
those recently set forth by
of the Treasury Mellon.
rhc President declared ir unthink
;'.'-" to i epeel s business revival and
imption of the normal ways of
peace while maintaining the excessive
- of war,
"It is quite as unthinkable to reduce
f'Ur tax b?rde;;;;." he said, "while rom
ttttting our Treasury to an additional
obligation ? i?mged from three
to five billions of dollars."
He pointed <-'ut. that no one can give
the precise figure which the bonus bill
V;'H cost, and said if an amount run?
ning into the billions should be re?
quired the depression in finance and in?
dustry would be so marked that vastly
IBoro i.arm than good would attend.
Tax. Revision Question
Prudence, the President held, called
out a warning against overburdening
the Treasury. He suggested, too, that
:t- might be better to await, the settle
I Went of the foreign loans. He recounted
<yhat had been done and what must be
?ore for the disabled and dependent
veterans. He pledged the Administra?
tion to ,; "conscientious drive" to re?
duce government expenses bv many
millions.
President Harding told the Senate
t:"!'* payment of gratuities to the war
v?eran> would imperil the chances of
the United States in reducing taxation
Rn<i refunding the war debt. The tre?
mendous expenses incurred during the
war were "relatively easv because the
national life was at stake," he said.
out now the country must s u nd only
Ior?bsolute necessities, he v. . ned.
The President declared i -t after
'jur months' study he is convinced
that the Treasury cannot be burdened in
"*? slightest until three things ncces
sarV for a complete restoration of
no.rmal conditions have been accom?
plished. These things, he said, are re?
vision, including reduction of internal
?Xation, refunding of the w/.r debt,
?M adjustment of the foreign loans.
Within uie next two years, lie con?
tinued, t;!(i Treasury must meet definite
obligations of $7,500,000,000 in matur?
ing war savings certificates, Victory
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Heat in Alps Causes
Glaciers to Shrink
BERNE, July 12.?The gla?
ciers on the Swiss Alpa are said
to be receding, owing to the ex?
traordinary hot weather. This
change is making ascent of the
mountains dangerous and more
difficult.
This summer has been the hot?
test Europe . has experienced in
fifty years.
BRUSSELS, July 12.?The
prolonged drought has seriously
affected the water supply of
many parts of Belgium. Many
viliages are completely without
water, which is brought a con?
siderable distance in buckets from
a French point of supply.
U. S, Traps 5
Firms Here in
Government Robbed in This
State of 8150,000,000 by
Concerns Who Keep Lux?
ury and Other Levies
Many Soda Violations
Numerous Film Theaters
Accused; Delinquents To
Be Imprisoned, Is Order
Indictment of at least five local con?
cerns for alleged willful intent to de?
fraud the United States government of
luxury and other taxes due under the
revenue act of 1918 was promised by
Federal officials of this city yesterday
as the result of the special drive now
being made against delinquents by the
force of 140 inspectors under Internal
Revenue Collector William H. Edwards.
Evidence in the cases has been sub?
mitted to United States Attorney Hay
ward and action by the Federal grand
jury is expected at an early date. The
Tribune was informed there would be
no compromises such as have been
granted to offenders heretofore.
Concerns in New York State, it was
said yesterday, are defrauding the gov?
ernment of close to $150,000,000 yearly j
in luxury taxes.
The cases were said to be similar to j
that pending against Martin & Martin, <
of 615 Fifth Avenue, dealers in leather
goods and specialties, indicted on June
28 for alleged evasion of luxury tax
payments. Only one of the five cases
mentioned, however, involves the lux?
ury tax.
Employees Give Evidence
Three of the remaining four charge
failure to pay admission taxes, involv?
ing a theater and two dance halls, and
another charges a fur manufacturer
with defrauding the government of ex?
cise taxes. In all these cases the gov?
ernment is said to have, obtained its
evidence through persons employed by
the concerns.
In three of the cases in which in?
dictments are expected the United
States Attorney has evidence tending
to show that various government taxes
had been collected by the concerns in
question from their customers and the
proceeds applied to their own use. Not
only are such concerns, if convicted.
guilty of violating the revenue act of
1918, known as the war tax law, but
they were said to lie equally guilty un?
der Section 47 of the United States
Criminal Code, which charges embez?
zlement or misappropriation of govern?
ment funds. The evidence, therefore,
makes them liable to conviction under
both laws, and the penalties are severe.
No Mercy for Delinquents
Internal Revenue Collector Edwards
declared the government is determined
?from now on to prosecute its tax de?
linquents with the utmost vigor.
? Hitherto they have been permitted to
submit, compromise offers, which in?
cluded the full amount of taxes due,
plus a punitive settlement satisfac?
tory to the government. The penalty
for violation of the different, sections
of the internal revenue act alone is
a fine of from $1,000 to $10,000, impris?
onment for not exceeding one year,
or both.
Mr. Edwards confirmed a statement
made yesterday by Representative
Isaac Siegel that in New York County
the. luxury taxes are bringing in close
! to $10,500,000 a month, whereas they
should amount to at least $15,000,000.
I Mr. Siegel estimated that those who
?fail to pay these taxes are defrauding
I the government of $60,000,000 a year
i in this county, while the total for the
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? Evicted Mother and Baby
Found at River's Brink
Woman, Pni Out of Home,
Said To Have Paid No Rent
for More Than Year
Presco Zebra, forty years old, of 321
East Seventy-fourth Street, was sent to
Believuo Hospital for examination yes
terdav after she had been arraigned in
the East Sixty-seventh Street police
station on a charge of disorderly con?
duct According to Patrolman James
McKnight, of the East Sixty-seventh
Street station, the woman, with her six
months' old baby girl in her arms, at?
tempted to jump into the wer at the
foot of East Seventy-fourth Street.
The police learned that the woman
had been served with a dispossess no?
tice yesterday afternoon. It was said
that "she had paid no rent on her tiny
apartment, at 321 East Seventy-fourth
Stieet for more than a year and a
half Her furniture, consisting of a
small bed. three chairs, a crib and
cooking utensils, were deposited on the
street and the door to the apartment.
?The woman left her belongings on
the curb, and. taking her child in her
arma wont to the foot ot Seventy
fourth Street. A pier watchman who
saw her walking nervously up and
Sown on the dock notified Patrolman
?IcKnight.
Soldier Dead
.Neglect Laid
ToHylanAid
Alleged Profiteering by
Undertakers Charged to
Apathy of U. S. Health
Service and City Regime
3 Heroes Buried
In Single Grave
Bodies Rushed to Ceme?
tery ; No Headstones to
Mark Restina; Places
Profiteering by undertakers on ths
bodies of American soldiers who died
in New York City hospitals from
wounds suffered in France, was i
charged by the' joint legislative graft
investigating committee yesterday.
Senator Schuyler M. Meyer, chairman |
of the committee, called the attention j
of the Federal authorities to the mat?
ter in a letter to Cornelius W. Wicker- |
sham, chairman of the Fox Hills Hos- I
pital investigating committee. The Fox
Hills institution is under Federal con?
trol.
The blame for this alleged state of
affairs, which was characterized by
Senator Meyer as disgraceful and
shocking, was laid primarily on the
United States Public Health Service,
and secondly on Mayor Hylan's Depart?
ment of Health.
Testimony taken before the Legis?
lative Committee showed that the dead
soldiers were buried two and three in a
grave, where the Federal government
paid and contracted for a grave for ;
each soldier.
Three Buried in Single Grave
One of the witnesses before the com?
mittee, an army nurse who attended
one of the returned heroes in his last
hours, tearfully told how she went to
the cemetery where the soldier was j
buried to mark his grave with a simple !
headstone bearing his name. The cerne- j
; lory authorities told her that there I
were three soldiers buried together by j
the same undertaker, and investigation i
proved this to be true, and records !
were produced showing that this had '
been done with the permission of the i
New York City officials.
Senator Theodore Douglas Robinson,
nephew of Colonel Roosevelt, who is a
member of the committee, and who
served as a major in the A. E. F.,
promises that he will see to it that
this species of profiteering stops.
Senator Meyer said that so far "as
the New York City Health Department
was concerned, the matter would be
pushed to the limit.
The letter to Mr. Wickersham fol?
lows:
"Information was brought to the
Joint Legislative Committee Investi?
gating the Affairs of the City of New
York concerning the issuance of burial
permits by the Department of Health
for the burial of ex-service men who
die in the city hospitals and the Fox
Hills Hospital, Staten Island.
"A brief investigation established
! the fact that while a shocking condi?
tion exists, the blame is primarily on
the United States Public Health Ser?
vice, although the city's department of
j health seems to show a callous indiffer?
ence to the ultimate disposition of the
bodies of these soldiers.
"The facts brieflly are: An under?
taker procured from the United States
Public Health Service a number of
contracts for the burial of soldiers who
died in the city hospitals and the Fox
Hills Hospital" and whose bodies are
unclaimed. Under his contract, he is
required to bury them in separate
! graves with proper markers and attend
] to all the customary details of decent
| burial.
"The testimony shows that this un
I dertaker, instead of burving these sol?
diers in separate graves, buried them
two, and sometimes three, in the same
grave, and frequently buried them
without even embalming the bodies.
"An army nurse who went to n
j local cemetery for the purpose of put
. ting up a headstone on the grave of
; one of the soldiers she had nursed was
! told by the cemetery authorities that
' she had better put three names on the
j stone, as there were three men in the
| grave.
City Health Department Named
"Apparently the city department of
! health issues permits without any
' check or follow-up system and the U.
j S. Public Health Service feels that
| their responsibility ends when they
make a contract with an undertaker
i to bury the bodies.
"Much as I would like to prevent a
j recurrence of this disgraceful condi
I tion, as you can readily understand,
; the legislative committee has no juris
! diction over Federal activities.
"As the contract was with an agency
! of the Federal government I thought
it was best to turn over the testi?
mony and evidence to you lor such j
action as you may deem advisable.
That phase of this disgraceful busi-.
ness which touches the administration
of the city department of health will,
of course, receive the further atten?
tion of this committee."
The graft investigating committee
held an unexpected public hearing yes?
terday, when John P. O'Brien, Corpora?
tion Counsel, went to the committee's
headquarters with Edwin J. O'Malley,
Commissioner of Markets. Mr. O'Brien,
who brought two stenographers with
him and an Assistant Corporation
Counsel, said that O'Malley would not
testify save publicly.
There was no objection raised by
the committee, and newspapermen at?
tended along with Mr. O'Brien and his
aids. Mr. O'Malley was asked about
certain papers connected with the
leasing of market privileges which had
been subpoenaed. He said that if they
were not in the possession of th?> com?
mittee he must have them in his files
and promised to produce them. He
then was excused.
Falling Wail Euries Many
Eleven Dead Taken From Fire
Ruins in Dax, France
DAX, France, July 12.?Many per?
sons were buried by a falling wall
(luring a fire which destroyed a mer?
cantile establishment here, owned by
Senator Millies-Lacroix, to-day.
Eleven bodies had been taken from
the d?bris up to a late hour this after?
noon. . ... _ y, ,_ji.
France Holds Rhine Till
Berlin Punishes Guilty
PARIS, July 12.?France has
informed Germany she will con?
tinue the occupation of the Rhine
region until Germany has com?
plied with the conditions of the
Treaty of Versailles relative to
the punishment of those who vio?
lated the rules of civilized war?
fare in the World War, Premier
Briand told the Senate to-day.
Replying to a question, he char?
acterized the finding's of the
Leipsic court as "scandalous."
M. Briand said the government
had decided to show Germany
that France still had strength,
and expressed the hope that the
other Allied countries would join
in the French viewpoint.
I-,-,__l
35,000 Transit
Workers Face
Cut in Wages
R?ductions Foreshadowed
by Trae lion Officials
Range From 10 to 12J/4
P. C, Effective by Aug. 6
Men Expected to Accept
-
Slash Will Save Roads $6,
000,000 Yearly; Twelve
Months' Guaranty
A general slashing of wages affect?
ing ' more than 35,000 employees on
virtually all the transit lines operating
in the greater city was foreshadowed
' by officials of the traction companies
yesterday.
The proposed cuts will take effect, if
finally accepted, between July 24 and
August ? and range from 10 to 12%
per cent. They are said to be general?
ly acceptable to the workers and are
expected to effect a total saving for all
the lines of approximately $6,000,000 a
year.
Heads of the Interborough Rapid
Transit Company, Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company and the Now York
Railways Company said the question
of wage reductions at this time had
been a matter of negotiation with their
employees for several weeks, and that
the latter had on the whole shown a
disposition to accept a decrease. Lead?
ers of the employees' brotherhoods de?
clared the move was expected, and that
the men would accept the decrease as
inevitable.
On the smaller systems, where there
are no brotherhoods or agreements
| with employees, officials said it was
planned to adopt the new schedules of
the big companies.
In asking the 14,500 workers of the
Interborough to accept a wage cut of
10 per cent at this time, despite the
fact that their agreement with the
company does not expire until Decom
: ber 31, Frank Hedley, president and
general manager of the system, re?
quested the men "to treat the company
I as the company had treated the men."
He said the company had voluntarily
. increased the pay of the employees
some time ago, when the cost of living
; had risen, although, their contract had
j not yet expired.
In a statement issued by President
Hedley lie suggests that the cut take
1 elfect on July 24. The statement reads:
"I have laid before the men the
financial condition of the company and
have requested that they agree that
? their wages, commencing on July 24,
shall be cut 10 per cent.
"It is true we had agreed to pay
\ the men their present wages until De?
cember 31. However, some time ago,
1 when the cost of living was rapidly
rising we had a contract with the men
' for a fixed wage, which contract had
not yet expired, but the company at
; the request of the men voluntarily
' made an increase.
"Now the conditions are the reverse
i and the company requests the men to
| treat it the same as the company has
: tri i'ted them.
"I understand that this is being
considered and debated. I have com
; plete confidence in the cooperation of
i the very large majority of our men,
! and we expect to receive their sup
; port and aid in this matter."
Under the present scale of wages
; ?votormen are getting 86 cents an hour,
; guards 58 cents, laborers from 48 to
? 53 cents and the mechanical forces
! from (55 to 80 cent3. Seven locals of
? the Interborough Brotherhood, of
I which Patrick J. Connolly is president,
aheady have voted to accept the de
I crease. The final votes are to be taken
on July 22, two days before the com
1 p:\ny proposes to put the new sched?
ule into effect.
Connolly said twenty-seven locals,
composed principally of shop workers
and men in the mechanical divisions,
were yet to be heard from, but he had
no doubt that the vote would be over?
whelmingly in favor of acceptance. It
appeared that the men feared a whole?
sale laying off of employees if they
did not consent to the readjustment.
Connolly added that if the reduction
is accepted the company has offered
; to guarantee that there will be no re
i ductions until July 1, 1922, six months
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De Y alera in
London Urges
A Just Peace:
President of "Irish Re-j
public" and Sinn Fein
Leaders Given Welcome
and Lodged Near Palace
Hills in Erin Aglow
With Truce Beacons
40,000 Parade in Belfast
on Battle of Boyne Day;
Assail Parley To-morrow
By Arthur S. Draper
From The Tribune's European Bureau
Copyright, 1021, New York Tribune Inc. j
LONDON, July 12.?Eamon de Va-!
lera, president of "the Irish republic,"
and his little band of Sinn Fein ad- ;
visers, arrived in London to-night!
from Dublin, in preparation for con- j
ferences with Premier Lloyd George j
Thursday looking toward settlement of
the Irish question.
With De Valera were Arthur Grif?
fith, founder and vice-president of j
Sinn Fein; Austin Stack, Sinn F?in i
member of the House of Commons
from West Kerry; Robert C. Barton, j
Sinn F?in member of Parliament from ;
West Wexford; Count Plunkett, Sinn j
F?in member of Parliament from !
North Roscommon; Laurence O'Neill,)
Lord Mayor of Dublin, a publicity rep- j
resentative and three women secre?
taries.
The delegation was greeted enthusi?
astically at Euston station by a crowd
of Irishmen. During their stay in
London the republican leaders will be I
the guests of the Irish Self-Determi
nation League at a hotel not far from
Buckingham Palace.
Smuts To Be Present
The first session of the conference I
will be held at the Premier's official |
residence at 10 Downing Street. \
Premier Jan C. Smuts of South Africa j
will be present and at subsequent '
meetings he is expected to preside. At I
the first session Premier Lloyd George, I
according to a final plan of arrange- j
ments talked over at a meeting of the i
British Cabinet to-day, will outline tha !
reasons for calling the conference. He j
will then invite De Valera to present !
his point of view and h?3 claims, '
Later it is expected that Sir James ?
Craig, Ulster Premier, will bo drawn !
into the discussion and efforts made j
to reconcile the various demands and
expectations.
When it comes to the actual negotia- i
tions, Griffith ?3 expected to play the !
biggest part among the republicans
because of his vast knowledge of de-;
tails in Irish affairs. He has an ama:- j
ing memory for statistics and can give j
oil hand official figures bearing on any ?
phase of Irish life.
General Smuts, who has played such ]
a large part in the negotiations thus >
far, is relied upon to act as the con- |
ciliator in bringing the different pointa \
or view into line. On all sides he ;
enjoys an enviable reputation as a i
fair and broad-minded statesman.
As the time for the conference ap- '
proaches the English people show in- j
creasing optimism and are looking for- ?
ward hopefully to a real settlement of j
the age-long conflict.
Truce Beacons Gleam in Erin
From hill to hill in south Ireland
last night flashed signal bonfires of j
truce. Not a single untoward act has '
been reported from Ireland, aside from ]
Belfast, since the truce went into ef
feet yesterday noon. For the first time j
in two years members of the Royal !
Irish Constabulary are going about.'
unarmed, and from all parts of Ireland ?
come reports of good feeling and re- ?
joicing over the ending of hostilities.
Conditions in Belfast are normal again,
although the military is much in evi- j
dence in the streets and the curfew ?
regulations are still in force.
Fully forty thousand took part in the
parades in Belfast to-day in celebra- j
tion of Orangemen's Day. the anniver
sary of the Battle of the Boyne that was '
fought in 1090. In a great demonstra- j
tion at Finaghy, Ulster, speakers as- !
sured the throng that Sir James Craig |
and his ministers would not surrender :
at the conferences in London with De :
Valera and Lloyd George.
Dense Crowd Cheers De Valera
LONDON, July 12 (By The Asso?
ciated Press).?Deafening cheers re?
sounded the moment De Valera
alighted from the train. His ad?
mirers crowded and pushed forward
in a mass in their eagerness to grasp
his hand. Eventually a squad of
police rescued him from the attentions
of his enthusiastic friends and es?
corted him to his motor car, in com?
pany with Mr. and Mrs. Art O'Brien,
who are supervising his entertainment
in London. The republican leader's
clothing suffered during the jam, and
his hat was lost, but ultimately was
recovered.
All the members of the greeting
party wore the Sinn F?in emblems of
the league and bore a huge green ban?
ner. There were vociferous calls for
i (Continued on pug? four)
Nitro Enough to Wreck Block
Found in Convict's Bank Box
PHILADELPHIA, July 12.?Enough
nitroglycerine and dynamite to do
' great damage to the city was found
cached in a safe deposit box in
[ one of this city's largest banks to-day.
The explosive was discovered by city
| detectives after Joseph Berger, who is
! serving a sentence in a Cleveland
prison for safe-blowing, admitted in a
I letter to his wife that he had con
i cealcd the material in the bank.
Fearful that some "careless'' em- !
. ployee might cause the nitro-glycerine j
i to explode and "kill many innocent j
j persons." Berger urged his wife to j
i have the box's contents removed "be- j
j fore 1 have the deaths of God knows
! how many people on my soul.
"The nitro-glycerine and the
dynamite are in a lady's handbag.
Somebody's liable to get careless, and
if they do there's enough high ex?
plosives to wreck a whole city block.
Thousands of innocent people would
be killed."
Immediately after the prisoner's
wife had read the letter she wrote to
the president of the bank, informing
him of the presence of the explosive i
and the name under which the safe de- '?
posit box had been rented.
City detectives were called to the ;
bank and, opening the box, found the
handbag containing a half-nint bottle
filled with nitro-glycerine and a 3ticlc
of dynamite. The bottle was labeled '
"witch hazel." Extraordinary cate
wa3 used in removing the bag's con?
tents. Detectives were compelled to
carry them through crowded business
streets to Police Headquarters. There
official examination confirmed the
statement of Berger.
Berger, who is thirty-one years old,
also is known to the police as John
Smith. He was arrested in Cleveland
on the safe-blowing charge and several
months ago was sentenced to a long
term. He is alleged to have partici?
pated in a cloth robbery.
isarmament Council
? WH ? - mm ,.11 ^^
Is expected to Convene
Armistice Day, Nov. 11
I?.-,-f.
Japanese Naval Men Are Reported
To Welcome Harding's Invitation
TOKIO, July 12 (By The Associated Press).?First announcement
of the receipt of the communication from America on the disarmament
question was made in this morning's newspapers, which state that the
Japanese government has received an invitation from President Har?
ding to a joint conference for the discussion of armament limitations.
The text of the communication, however, was not made public.
The Japanese naval authorities are quoted by the Asahi Shimbun
as saying the navy welcomed such an invitation, explaining it had been
closely studying questions in relation to this subject.
Airman Hawker
Saved at Sea Is
Killed in Flying
_ J c?
Aviator Whose Attempt to
Cross Atlantic in Frail
Plane Thrilled World
Perishes on English Field j
Machine Drops to Earth
Sudden Death Once Miracu?
lously Escaped Finally
Claims Bold Australian
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LONDON, July 12 (By The Asso?
ciated Press).?Harry G. Hawker,
Australian aviator who in lt)li> at?
tempted the first non-stop trans-Atlan?
tic airplane flight, only to have to
descend and await rescue in mid-ocean,
was killed on the Hendon flying field
to-day when his plane crashed to the
ground.
The plane plunged down in flames.
Hawker's body was found two hundred
y3rds from the spot where the machine
fell. It was badly mutilated both by
fire and the fall, one foot was severed
and both legs were broken.
Hawker's proverbial luck had often
been the subjectif comment. It re?
mained with him for many years as an
experimental and test flyer, from
which work, it was said, he received
not less than $100,0C0 yearly.
He is survived by his wife and small
daughter, Pamela. He was twenty-nine
years old.
Hawker stood out as a hero of trans
Atlantie flying because of his nerve
in hopping off in a plane that carried
neither life raft ner landing carriage
nor convoy ship to fly a longer distance
than had ever before been covered in
a non-stop flight, with almost sure
death awaiting him if he failed. He
did fail, after covering 1,225 miles, but
with his navigator, Lieutenant Com?
mander Mackenzie Grieve, he was
picked up in mid-ocean by the Danish
tramp ship Mary that ploughed along
at seven knots an hour for six days
before it could notify the world that
the "lost" aviators were safe. The
Mary had no wireless.
It was in that spring which saw New?
foundland dotted with flying camps in
which British and Americans were
fighting for the honor of being first
to fly across the Atlantic; the spring
that the United States Navy sent the
NC-4 victoriously across, and that Cap?
tain Sir John Alcock, a Briton, later
succeeded in the attempt in which
Hawker failed so gloriously.
Two days after the American flying
squadron had taken the air from Tre
passey, N. F., on May 16, Hawker
hopped off from St. John's to capture
the prize of $50,000 offered by The
London Daily Mail for the first aviator
to soar across the ocean. Competing
against him was Captain F. P. Rayn
ham, who also had his airdrome at St.
John's. Raynham hopped off the same
day, but wrecked his Martinsyde.
Hawker had waited six weeks for
clear weather. Fearing at last that the
Americans might steal a share of his
glory if they reached Lisbon, via the
Azores, Hawker took his life in his
hands and started. He was forced down
850 miles west of Ireland on the follow?
ing day, when broken pieces of solder
clogged the filter in the plane's rad?
iator feed pipe. Sighting the passing
Mary, Hawker signalled her with Verey
, lights and dropped into the ocean two
miles ahead of the "tramp" vessel.
The Mary carried the paid to the
Orkneys, where they were picked up
by a British destroyer and trans?
ferred to the mainland. Proceeding by
rail to London, Hawker was inter
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I Boy, 4, as Good as New
After Fall of 65 Feet
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Tumbles Out Window During
Pillow Fight, but Recovers
and Asks for Ice Cream
Charles Hunton, four years old, ot
! 124 West 127th Street, who fell sixty-*
five feet in an airshaft during a pillow
j fight with his brother, Arthur, last Sat?
urday night, is recovering at. Harlem
Hospital, where it was discovered
after X-ray examinations that the
child had no broken bones or internal
injuries, though his fall was not ob?
structed and he struck stone flags at
its end.
When Arthur Hunton, who is six
years old, ran out in his nightgown
and told Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hunton,
who were breakfasting, that "Charlie
failed out of the window," Mr. Hunton
found the little boy lying unconscious,
rushed him to the hospital in a tax.Crb
and waited in an ante-room while he
was placed on the operating table, ex?
pecting his death momentarily.
Vesterday physicians at the hospital
declared the boy's chances of recovery
excellent. Miss Alice Gallagher, of
3232 Andrews Avenue, an aunt, who has
been a constant attendant at the hos?
pital, Mrs. Hunton bsing prostrated,
yesterday asked Charlie how he was
feeling.
| "Fine," said Charles. "Get me gome
ice cream."
Paris Discerns
New League in
Arms Council
Sentiment Favors Letting
Conference Take Over All
Functions and Devise a
Reconstructed Covenant
World issues Pressing (
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Doubt Expressed Whether'
Deliberations Can Be Lim?
ited to the Far East
Special Cable to The Tribune
Copyright, 1021, New York Tribune ?
PARIS. July 12.?The reception'
which France has given to Presi-:
dent Harding's plan for an interna?
tional disarmament conference seems I
to have crystallized into a widespread
sentiment in favor of letting the
Washington meeting form the healthy
basis of a new society of nations.
That new society would usurp the
functions of the present league and
eventually would either work over the
! present covenant or draw up a sub
i stitute.
Frenchmen refuse to regard the
: forthcoming conference as simply a
disarmament proposition. They see in
it a meeting in which the whole world
situation must inevitably be discussed.
The Supreme Council, still vaguely
scheduled to meet the last of July, is
now regarded here as a mere side?
show, necessary because the Upper
Silesian tangle must be dealt with.
The real Supreme Council meeting will
be in Washington when the leaders
of all the great nations will gather to
discuss the great international prob?
lems that the present league has been
unable to approach with any definite
ness.
Both Houses Enthusiastic
The Chamber of Deputies and the
Senate interrupted Premier Briand with
applause repeatedly to-day when he an- ;
nounced that France was eager to ac?
cept "President Harding's noble appeal,"
The Premier expressed the hope that
the conference would give definite
?peace to the world and to France the
security to which she has a right. In
the Senate, where he appeared after
making a similar announcement in the
Chamber, Briand added to the mention
of France's acceptance: "Within the
limit of precautions which guarantee
her security, France will associate her?
self in this work begun to assure the
peace of the world."
Le Temps expresses the views of
many here when it says:
"Although the problems of the Orient
and the Pacific are vast, those who at?
tend the conference will not be able to
limit the debate to these points. It
will be the first time in more than
two years that the principal Allied and
associated powers find themselves
around the same table.
"It would not be astonishing if, dur?
ing the remainder of the summer and
in the early autumn, the entire world
orients itself toward the coming con?
ference. Whatever the results of the
conference may be, it is going to act
a? a magnet for all the political prob?
lems of our universe."
PARIS, July 12 (By The Associated
Press). ?The French government will
accept with pleasure and without re
; serve an invitation to a conference on
limitation of armaments. This is stated
in a letter sent to the American Em?
bassy here by the government this
morning for President Harding.
Sheldon Whitehouse, Counselor of
i the American Embassy, said this after
? noon that the reply of the French gov
j ernment had been cabled to Washing
I ton during the morning. There was as
yet no indication, he added, when the
formal invitation would be presented to
j Frrr.ce.
Foreign Office Sends Note
The attitude of France was officially
I made known through the Foreign Of
I fice in a note from M. de Peretti de la
j Pocca, Director of Political Affairs,
stating that France would be happy to
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pBoy Fined for Peddling
Under Mayor's Window
Outcry Irritated Official and
Patrolman Found Youngster
Had No License
Abraham Novich, sixteen years old,
of 30 Pike Street, Manhattan, was ar?
raigned in Night Court last night for
peddling without a license. Magistrate
Thomas A. Nolan fined the boy $3,
I which ho paid.
Patrotman Raymond, of the Eliza?
beth Street station, who arrested No
I vich, said the boy was selling beads
under Mayor Hylan's window in City
Hall Park, crying his war?* lustily,
ci.using a crowd to congregate and
annoying hia honor.
Novich, when questioned by the
! patrolman, admitted he had no ped
I dler's license and said he did not
know it was necessary. He chose the
position under Mayor Hylan's window
because he had some excellent beads
to sell and thought he might encounter
an appreciative class of purchasers
there.
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Third Anniversary of End
of Actual Warfare Fa?
vored by Both Harding
and Secretary Hughes
France and Italy
Officially Accept
New World Association
Not Specifically Aimed
At, but May Develop;
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, July 12. ? The
conference on disarmament, which
President Harding will cause to as?
semble, probably will meet in Wash?
ing-ton on Armistice Day, November
11, 1921. Thus, exactly three years
from the date when the last gun was
fired on the Franco-German fron?
tiers, an international gathering will
be opened which in its ultimate ef?
fects may mean, if not the end of
great wars, at least lessening of the
probabilities of war and reduction of
the present vast burdens for main?
tenance of naval and military forces.
Formal acceptance was received from
France to-day, this being the first
formal acceptance received. Favorable
formal acceptance received. Press dis?
patches said that Italy al?o had accept?
ed. Favorable responses have been re?
ceived to the suggestions of a confer?
ence from all of the powers which are
expected to be parties to the assem?
blage but one.
Officials would not say what nation
this was and deprecated discussion of
it. It was generally understood to be,
Japan. However, no doubt is enter?
tained either at the White House or
at the State Department that Japan
will accept.
Date Named Pleases Harding
The date for the beginning of the
conference has not been officially de
j clared or announced. But it became
\ known to-day in highest Administration
i quarters that if Armistice Day is
I chosen for the opening of the meeting
! of representatives of the different na
I tions concerned it will be extremely
agreeable to President Harding and
Secretary Hughes. It is believed this
date has been suggested to the powers.
When the conference was first an?
nounced there was some talk that it
would begin in September or October.
It is now seen, however, that it would
hardly be practical to have it begin
that early. It will take time to com?
plete the arrangements up to the point
where the formal c?l! for the confer?
ence can be issued, the formal accept?
ances received, and the representatives
of the different nations appointed. Af?
ter that it will take weeks for the vari?
ous foreign offices to give their repre?
sentatives the necessary instructions.
So far as the representatives from
Japan and China are concerned, it will
require about a month for them to
reach Washington. Under the circum?
stances, several months is not too much
time for the preliminaries and for the
gathering of the delegates here.
All Acceptances Assured
Further developments to-day served
to make it clear that this government
has no question whatever that all the
nations which it has sought to include
in the conference will accept.
I Sending out of the formal invitation
? for the conference will, of course,
|awa;t the arrival of responses to the
preliminary inquiries from all of the
Allied and associated powers which it
is hoped will be represented at the
conclave.
The Administration has received
from many quarters, through the press,
by letter and by telegram, strong as?
surances of approval of its course in
?determining on a disarmament con?
ference. These have been extremely
I pleasing to the President. Moreover,
| the more the President and Secretary
Hughes, with their advisers, have gone
into the possibilities of the thing, the
more they are impressed with the al?
most unlimited scope of those pos?
sibilities.
For instance, it was noted to-day by
high Administration officials that thin
country's future course arid policy to?
ward the Philippines are linked up close?
ly with the outcome cf the disarma?
ment conference and the settlement of
the problems between this nation and
Japan in the Pacific theater of the
world.
Association Not Main Purpose
The views of President Harding with
respect to whether the conference on
disarmament is to be the foundation
for the much talked of association of
nations became known to-day. The
President has not called the confer?
ence with that purpose in mind. He is
not blind to the fact, however, that
when the representatives of the powers
get together their discussions may
range "into a wider field than that of
disarmament alone. He regards it as
possible that some form of associa?
tion of nations may grow out of the
meeting, but, while he would be grati?
fied at this, it is not his main purpose.
He is seeking primarily to make a long
' start in the direction of disarmament.
The disarmament conference will in
! no way interfere with the plans to
i bring about a peace treaty with Ger
I many. The purpose of the Adminia
t tration is to go ahead toward the con
; summation of this object without halt?
i ing for the outcome of disarmament,
j Informally, there was more talk in
j Senate circles on the question whether
i the conference would relate to both
I naval and land disarmament. In con
i nection with land disarmament discu?
i sion, it is said France would be agree
i able if assured her frontiers would b?
protected.
Senate Blocks Army Angle
If France insists on this, as i: i? as?
I sumed she will, it is thought here land
! disarmament may not result ;n an
agreement so far as the United States
is concerned, because there would be
Senate opDosition to ratifying anv
agreement involving the protection of
the boundaries of any of the nations of
Europe. Under the circumstances, there
is much support for toe vie-? ol Sea
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