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Senate Votes
Farm Aid Bill
Ahead of Beer
Decide?, 47 to 17, to Take
Up Norria Measure to
Form $ 100.000.000 Ex?
port Finance Corporation
Debate Sbarp and Long
Action Delays Prohibition
Proposal, but Will Not
Defeat It. Drv Leaders Sav
F-am The Tribimsft Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, July 18.?By a vote
of 47 to 17 the Senate to-day decided
to take up the Norria bill for a $100,
000,000 Federal farm export financing
corporation. By this action it ?rave a
temporary setback to the Willis-Camp?
bell "beer emergency" bill, which Sena?
tor Sterling and other advocates of this
Supplemental prohibition measure have
been trying to force to the front.
Senator Sterling, Senator Willis and
ethers pleaded for quick action on the
"beer emergency" bill, but without
?rail. Most of the members of the
agricultural "bloc" united in support
consideration of the Norris bill,
wet Senators favored the Nor?
ris bill to halt the progress of the dry
measure.
To-day's action will delay the beer
bill to some extent, but it will not de?
feat it. Senator Jones, of Washington,
one of the dry Senators, although he
votad for taking up the export financ?
ing bill, declared there would be no ad?
journment until the beer bill had been
enacted.
While the Senate voted to consider
the Norris bill and to make it the un?
finished business, the ultimate fate of
the measure is not certain. It has much
stronger opposition than the vote for
its consideration would indicate. Sec?
retary of Commerce Hoover is opposed
to it and it is known that there is Ad?
ministration antagonism to it. Some
even predict that the President will
veto the bill if it is passed.
Voters Against Bill
The Senators who voted against the
bill were: Republicans ? Brandegee,
Cummins, Fernald, Kellogg, Hale!
Keyes. Knox. McNary, Nelson, New,
Nicholson, bmoot. Sterling. Sutherland
and Willis?15; Democrats ? Ashurst
and Sheppard?2.
The vote was preceded bv a sharp
and lengthy debate. Senator Sterling
d strongly that the beer bill
ought to be taken up. Senator Norria
ided that his bill be considered.
A parliamentary tangle arose over the
right of Senator Norris to move to
take up his bill prior to 2 o'clock, as it
was calendar Monday. This was finally
disposed of by him by making the
motion shortly after 2 o'clock.
In urging that the farm export b!I!
be considered ahead of the beer bill.
Senator Norris stressed the aoricul
tural emergency and referred sarcasti?
cally to the fact that Senator Sterling,
"with a little bill in one hand and a
little beer bottle in the other," was
here demanding the whole country wait
Ui a law could be passed that no
doctor could prescribe a drink of beer.
Senat.or Underwood, of Alabama, Dem?
ocrat.c leader, an opponent of the beer
bill, spoke for the Norris bill.
Difficulty With Agriculture
"If the prohibition bill is taken up,"
he said, "and this agricultural bill is
voted down, I think it is very doubtful
if the agricultural bill will come up for
pc ==age this summer."
He pointed out that while it might be
going a long way to lend Federal money
to a corporation, it was no more than
had been done in respect to the Ship?
ping Board and in taking: care of rail?
road credit,
"I think the great difficulty with
agriculture." said Senator Underwood,
"is markets. I think this bill would be
helpful, and I am willing to give it a
trial."
^er.a'nr Willis, of Ohio, objected to
consideration of the Norris bill ahead
beer bill.
"The emergency is very great," said
Senator Willis, referring to the beer
situation.
He pointed out that the Treasury
was resisting pressure to issue regu?
lations under the Palmer opinion.
"Why is the Treasury resisting the
law'" Senator Broussard.
"I Suppose the Treasury Department
assumes the S%iate will soon d<
it oueht to have done long ago," said
Senator Willis, "and pass the supple?
mental prohibition bill."
Senator Sterling argued there was
danger of nullifying the whole prohibi?
tion law bv delay in passing the beer
bill.
Brewers Urge Haste
Questioned bv Senator Mose--, Sen?
ator Sterling said that if th?
retary of the Treasury should
permits under the Palmer opinion and
breweries started up they would lose
money because the bill would ultimate
ly be passed. He read telegrams from
brewers urgir g that the controversy be
settled.
Senator Williams insisted there was
no danger of doctors prescribing large
quantities of beer if allowed to pre?
scribe beer as medicine. He said if a
doctor prescribed a barrel of beer "no
jury in the world would uphold it."
Senator Jones, of Washington, an?
nouncing -hat he would vote for the
Norris bill, said he was also for the
beer bil.
"It wi'l be passed before adjourn- ;
ment," said Senator Jones, "and all the
legislation necessary to uphold the
Eighteenth Amendment will be en- ?
acted."
He declared ther? would be no ad- :
journment until the beer bi'l was
He also pointed out that the I
Shipping Board was seeking a defi?
ciency appropriation of a large amount ?
and said that this would have to be ;
provided for.
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Patrolman Finds Four
Men Rifling Saloon
Catches One, Who Ran Up Ele?
vated Stairs and Jumped
Ahoard Train
Patrolman James O'Neill, of the West
100th Street police station, was shocked
early yesterday morning to discover
Kui burglars at. work in a saloon at I
Columbus Avenue and 100th Street, j
half a block from the police station. ;
He expostulated with them and they i
fieri.
One of the fugutives, with O'Neill at :
??s heels, ran up the stairs of the ?
?tetated station at Ninety-ninth Street, j
A train was just pulling out. Pur- j
sued and pursuer managed to swing'
themselves onto the last platform, how- ?
?ver. They struggled there for sev- \
fal minutes before O'Neill got the ?
fcrttor of his man.
The prisoner said he was Frank Dev- :
?m of ir, t west Eighty-fourth Street,
Bna didn't know anything about any !
rurgiary. He waa neJl? for examina- :
won in West Side Police Court. O'Neill ?
??'? he was the look-out for the three !
-?T,rJm?n. A safe in the saloon had
*??*R drilled, but had not been opened, i
Battle Fleet to Escort
President to Plymouth
_ ?*
Indications Arc Harding: Will
Devote Week to Trip
to Tercentenary
from The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON,July IS.?Three bat
: tlcships, three cruisers and a flotilla of
destroyers will escort tho Presidential
| yacht Mayflower to Plymouth, Mass.,
, August 1, when the President and Mrs.
Harding attend the tercentenary anni
, versar y of the landing of the Pilgrims.
j Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, and
j Morris .1. Duryea, of New York, who is
directing the pageant in connection
with tho celebration, conferred with
| the President to-day regarding plans
; for his attending. The journey will
! mark the second ocean trip on the
Mayflower which the President has
made. Present plans indicate that the
? President will be absent from the
i White House for at least a week. A
j possibility exists that he may spend
several days in addition in tho White
j Mountains of New Hampshire.
The President and Mrs. Harding re?
turned to-day after a week end on the
Mayflower. They plan to be absent
from the White House over the coming
week end also, though as yet nothing
; oficial has been made public in regard
I to their destination. The President un
? doubtedly will motor to the Columbia
i Country Club this week and witness
? the playing of the foremost golf ex
! perts of this country and Great Brit
; ain assembled hero in tournament.
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Fish Wants Bonus
Paid With Interest
From War Loans
Offers Proposal to Harding
and Says Mellon Now
Has Power to Put the
Plan Into Operation
From The Tribttvr's Washivaton Bureau
WASHINGTON. July 18.?A pro?
posal that the soldier bonus be paid
; with the interest collected from foreign
loans was submitted to the President
: to-day by Representative Hamilton
; Fish, of New York, in a half-hour con?
ference. Later Representative Fish
said that the President looked with
favor upon the plan.
Representative Fish, t an ex-service
i man and chairman of the New York
: state committee dealing with soldier
! compensation, feels that such a plan
i would result in a settlement of the
: bonus question in Congress and in the
; minds of the millions of ex-service men
who are in financial need to-day.
His method of procedure calls for the
interest payments from foreign loans
; being utilized to pay the soldiers, bonds
being issued and turned over to the
veterans. These bonds would be se
; cured bv the money collected as in?
terest on the $10,000,000,000 owed to
the United States by foreign nations.
As the various nations paid their in?
debtedness the bonds held by the sol?
diers would be retired.
"I believe this plan would be entirely
satisfactory to the ex-service men,"
said Representative Fish. "It would at
; the same time provide a sufficient sum
[ to be spent by the government for ad?
justed compensation for the men who
1 are actually in need of monetary as?
sistance. It has been estimated by
officials of the Treasury Department
that approximately $1,500,000,000 in ac
; cumulated' interest from roreign loans
I advanced by this country during the
j war is now due, and that $500,000,000
I would be coming in each year as in
: terest. This would be enough to take
care of the demands that would be
: made on the Treasury without causing
any further drain upon the financial
resources of the government."
Representative Fish does not believe
that additional legislation would be
necessary in order to put the plan into
operation. Under the authority asked
by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon
from Congress for the refunding of
i the Allied indebtedness the plan out
; lined by Representative Fish could be
: put into effect.
Representative Fish said such a plan
would put an end to any further agita?
tion in Great Britain or other Allied
; countries for the cancellation of their
indebtedness by the United States. The
sentiment in those countries, particu?
larly among the soldiers, would be
unanimous egainst any cancellation of
i such loans when they realized that the
' interest, paid was to go to American
; boys who fought with them in order
I that German militarism might be
I crushe 1.
Hylan Campaign Organ
Hits Meyer Committee
! Second Issue of The Jeffer?
sonian Gives Much Space
to Criticizing Work
Tbf ?"second issue of The Jeffersonian,
! the Tammany-Hylan campaign organ,
red yesterday. A good deal of
| space was given up to criticism of the
, work so far of the Meyer Legislative
Investigating Committee. The Jeffer
; sonian refers to the committee as the
"mire committee."
There is an articl?1 on ''Americaniza?
tion Work in Our Public Schools," but
I nothing is said about the present de?
moralized condition of the school sys
' tern under the Hylan administration.
The attempted enforcement of the
state prohibition law is characterized
as ''a grim farce" and an estimate is
: made that each of the 0,1174 "liquor
cases" recorded in the courts had cost
the taxpayers $1,000, or $0,274,000 so
far.
A characteristic Tammany article ap?
pears in criticism of the use of voting
machines in New York City elections.
The Jeffersonian declares that the last
Republican Legislature jammed the
voting machine bill "down Father
Knickerbocker's throat." The bill pro?
vided that about 330 machines should
be installed for the coming municipal
election and the remainder, enough to
supply all the election districts in the
city, to be installed in 1922 and 1923.
The Tammany organ declares that the
Republican members of the Board of
Elections are insisting upon placing
th? new machines in strong Democratic
Assembly districts in the city, while
the Democratic members of the board
are in favor of an equal distribution of
the machines thoroughout the sixty
two Assembly districts.
Taken Off Slacker List
Two New York Veterans Posted
by Error
From The, Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, July IS. ? Edward
Allen Nelson. 532 Grand Avenue, New
York City, and William Perry, 882
Dean Street, Brooklyn, were to-day re?
moved from the list of deserters from
the draft when official records disclosed
that both had served during the war.
The inclusion of the names of these ;
registrants on the published lists of
s was due, the War Depart- I
ment declared, to the fact that both !
failed to notify their draft boards of ?
their enlistment in the service.
Nelson served in the navy from June
29. 1917, to October 1, 1919, while Perry
was a member of Company H, 106th In?
fantry, from Seotember 25, 1917, ta
January 21, IM?. J
Blames Farmer
For Failure To
Help Himself
Leader of Co-operalive Mar?
keting Movement Says
the Grower Alone Can
Make Receipts Go Up
Shows Cause of Dumping
Hope in System Depending
on Quantity Production
and Complete Sales
The farmer's continuous denuncia?
tion of the speculator, the politician,
the dealer and the consumer, and his
j repeated plea for help from outside,
; unaccompanied by any attempt to help
; himself, was censured in the strongest
? terms by Aaron Shapiro, leader of the
j California cooperative movement, at a
j dinner last night given by the North
? American Fruit Exchange to more than
100 farm bureau officers and county
agtnts of the state.
"The grower alone can make his re?
ceipts go up or down," he said. "It is
i his own fault that during the last ten
! years the capital invested in agricul
j ture has paid only 2 per cent interest,
! as against 24 per cent in industry.
Blind and unintelligent are the only
j two adjectives which can be applied
? to his present system of marketing.
j It is ruinous to producer and consumer
j alike and does no good to the middle
I man.
20 Per Cent of Crop Marketed
"Last year only 20 per cent of the
Texas cabbage crop reached the con?
suming market. As a result the profits
of the farmers there were negligible,
while in New York the dealers were
compelled to charge 25 cents a head.
I In 1020 over half the apple crop of this
j state rotted on the ground at a time
! when apples were bringing 10 cents
j apiece in the city. What the farmers
I need is organization for merchandising,
; not for holding.
"The closest parallel I can draw to
| the present system of agricultural dis
! tribution would be for Swift & Co. to
i turn over to each of its 30,000 share
' holders his due proportion of the beef
! tongue, sausage, ham and by-products
i which they turn out. leaving the mar
; keting to the individual. Half of the
i products could not be sold. In some
I places famine prices would prevail.
j In others the marxet would be glutted.
| Nobody would make a profit and the
i consumer would suffer as much as any
\ one.
Dumping and Shortage
"Farmers are obsessed with the
; idea that because their production
; must be individual their distribution
! must on the same basis. The charac?
teristics of the resulting system are
i dumping followed by shortage, lack
I of advertising to create a demand,
i crops rotting on the field or fed to cat
j tie, and disastrously uneven distribu
i tion.
"The present system is based upon
| speculation, calling for large occa?
sional profits to cover almost equally
| large losses. The only hope for the
i farmer is to organize a substitute
depending upon quantity production,
where each grower will receive the
same payment, for a given quality,
quantity, and kind of product and
where the entire crop will be brought
to market.
"I know that fifty attempts at co?
operative merchandising have failed
for every one which has succeeded, but
this has been because the directors
j have failed to realize every farm prod?
uct and every locality presents a dif
! ferent problem?that perishables, non
' perishables and semi-perishables must
| each be handled differently; that crops
I which can be grown all the year j
S around present a different problem
! from those which are harvested all at
! once."
Visit Markets of City
At the dinner the North American ;
Fruit Exchange announced its mutu- S
j alization, effective August 1. After j
j that date half of all profits over 10 per i
I cent will be divided half to the ex- :
| change and half to the cooperatives !
i which they serve. Individuals compet- ?
| ing with cooperatives will not be al
; ?owed to market their products through
I them.
The dinner was part, of the three-day
'program for the farm bureau officers!
and county agents. The other speak-j
j ers included E. P. Porcher, Arthur R. i
: Rule, president and general manager:
'respectively of the exchange, and S. L.
| Strivings, president of the New York
j Federation of Farm Bureaus.
I The day's program was made up of
: inspections of the kitchens r.f the
I Hotel Commodore, the Grand Central
Terminal freight-handling sections and
j the markets of the city. The afternoon
was devoted to conferences at the Rail
read Y. M. C. A. The object of the
visit here is to get an understanding
i of the distribution and marketing
problems which New York presents.
Say Girl Stole to Marry
Poliee Disprove Hold-Up Story
and Put Her Under Arrest
PATERSON, N. J, July 18.?Ethel
Christie, of 94 Fourth Avenue, cashier
of the Safety Storage Company, of
which her father is manager, -was ar?
rested to-day charged with stealing
j $495 from the company as her mar
j riage portion.
According to the police, the young
| woman was engaged to John Letts, a
j waiter of 203 Goodwin Street, who is
j under arrest as her accomplice. The
<; police say that the couple lacked
I money to marry and stole the $495
from the storage company last Tues
' day, Miss Christie saying that three
\ hold-up men choked her and took the
i money.
Letts trfok the money, according to
? the police, and, instead of hastening
; to a justice of the peace with his
| fiancee, went to Chicago and spent
most of it. The police say that Miss
Christie has admitted the falsity of
her story about the three hold-up men
and told how the money was stolen. ;
Swedish Chamher Dissolved;
New Election in Septemher ;
STOCKHOLM, July 18.?King Gus?
tave in Council to-day dissolved the j
second Chamber of Parliament. Elec- '
tions have been fixed for the middle of
September, when the new electoral law!
will become operative. Under this law1
women over the age of twenty-five will j
be permitted to vote and hold office,
and the franchise is to be extended!
to all persons irrespective of the for-,
mer restrictions concerning the pay-1
ment of taxes. The number of voters;
is expected to be increased by 165 per;
cent.
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Fire Delays Southbound
New York Central Traffic j
Fire generated in a rubbish heap ad
jacent to the New York Central tracks j
at 126th Street and Park Avenue last ;
nignt necessitated shutting off electric
power between 125th Street and the i
drawbridge at 133d Street and the Har- :
lern itiver on the northbound tracks fo - :
half an hour. There was no delay to ',
traffic, as northbound trains were oper
acted over the southbound track-. uit;I
the fire had been extinguished by En- ,
gine Company 36 under Acting BatUl- ?
ion Chief Lawlor.
Kidnaped Torrens Baby Found
As Father Is Trapped at Beach
Parent With Child Traced Along Jersey Coast
and Suspicious Neighbor Reveals Long
Branch Refuge; Infant Returned to Mother
LONG BRANCH, N. J? July 18. -
Police hero to-day found Margaret
| Eloise Torrens, the ten-months-old
I baby who was taken from her grand
; father's home, at Pompton Lakes, N. J.,
on July 7. The girl baby, for whom
! the police along the entire Atlantic
| seaboard have been looking, was in
| the custody of her father, who has
I been turned over to Chief of Police
Bert Miller of Pompton Lakes. He
! will be held pending an investigation.
I The baby was returned to-night to her
; grandfather's home.
Police Chief William D. Walling this
afternoon received a message from a
? neighbor saying that at a home on
i Seventh Avenue here there, was a man
i and a baby of whom the writer was
: suspicious. Detectives were vent im
i mediately to the house and the man
i and baby were brought to Police Head?
quarters.
When asked Torrens acknowledged
I his identity. He refused to say where
: he had been prior to last Saturday. On
? that day he was reported to have been
I in Perth Amboy. Sunday he went to
! Highlands, N. J., from there to Red
? Bank and from that place to this city
The police have taken possession of
' his effects. Among these, it is said, a
j railroad ticket for a point in California
was found. When arrested Torrens had
in his possession $31 and one-half of
'a torn $10 bill.
The baby was well dressed, and had
! evidently been well cared for. It was
? ascertained that it had been fed prop
' erly within twenty minutes of the ar
j rival of the police at the house, which
| is owned by James Woolley, a plumber
Chief of Police Miller of Pomptor
I Lakes arrived here about 8 o'clock to?
il night. He came down by automobile
! accompanied by Mrs. Miller. Torrens
I who had been booked by the Long
j Branch police as a fugitive from jus
! tice, was turned over to Chief Miller,
?who placed handcuffs on him. Torrens
pleaded that they be taken off, but the
chief refused.
Mrs. Miller said that elaborate
preparations were being made at the
Cedars, the summer home of James
' Simpson in Pompton Lakes, for the
| reception of little Margaret.
Although Mrs. Torrens has been in
bed and under the care of a physician
; since the baby was kidnaped, she in
i sisted on getting up and taking part
! in the preparations for Margaret's re
, turn. Mrs. Simpson, Mrs. Torrens's
| mother, was overcome by the news.
Chief Miller had two warrants for
! Torrens. One charges the prisoner
j with assault and battery on his wife
and the other with trespassing on the
; Simpson property. Little Margaret
i was placed in Mrs. Miller's care and
j the party left for Pompton Lakes in
? the same automobile in which the
i chief arrived.
The Torrens couple have been sepa
; rated since last January. Four men
| took part in the kidnaping of baby Mar
1 garet on July 7. The baby was lifted
' out of her crib on the front porch o?
i the Simpson home by one of the kid
I napers while another held Mrs. Tor
1 rens to prevent her giving an alarm
| Two others are reported to have wait
I ed in an automobile near by. As soor
! as the child wa3 placed in the automo
; bile, the car sped off, and no trace wa;
: found of the baby or Torrens until th<
report that he had been seen in Peril
Amboy last Saturday.
Whan the baby was kidnaped it:
| grandfather expressed the theory tha
j it had been taken for ransom. He an
i nounced at the time that although h?
! would willingly spend any amount o
j money to recover his grandchild an?
. punish the kidnapers, he would nc
, give one cent for ransom.
Ship Deficit
380 Million,
Lasker Says
ai
(Continued tpom pngn nnel
j possible, but he asserted that the
! board was not disheartened and would
I eventually solve the problems involved.
Chairman Lasker's statement to the
press was made in the presence of
| Comptroller Tweedale and the other
? auditors of the board.
j "I have Mr. Tweedale and the other
auditors here so that I cannot do them
? an injustice," Mr. Lasker began. "The
j books are in a deplorable condition.
! In any commercial institution they
j wouldn't be called books at all. They
were started in the stress of war and
, continued in the stress of incompetency
; until Mr. Tweedale and the others are
: now trying to straighten them out.
I Any of our great corporations would
; have been in receivers' hands long ago
| as a result of the way the books alone
? have been and are kept, and the opera
i tions of the fleet necessarily must be
? just as incompetent as the books are
i because it is impossible 1 " operate any
j business if there isn't a figure on which
! remote reliance can be placed.
"In the presence of the men who
| have had charge of the books for fif?
teen months (and I ask them to chal?
lenge me if I am stating anything in?
correctly) I want to say it is incon?
ceivable that an institution like this j
could be in existence and be turned j
over to men to administer in the shape !
it is. Had the books been kept with a
view to cheating and deceiving Con- j
giess and the country, they could not?
have been kept in much different shape '?.
tnan they have been, and I measure the j
words I am usin^-. It has almost worn j
inc out physically and mentally to get:
anything from, the books that could be j
regarded as complete. J
Charges Gross Deception
"When I showed to the President a I
few minutes ago the figures I am about
to reveal to you he was shocked and j
dismayed that such a condition could j
exist. As a matter of fact, the Ship- ;
ping Board used last year approxi- :
mately $380,000,000. Besides the $100,-:
000,000 appropriated by Congress and
$80,000,000 on hand at the beginning of
the fiscal year it sold assets for $200,- i
000,000, all of which money went back j
into the enterprise. Then in addition
it received from operation of vessels,
etc., $300,000,000, which was also spent,
this making a total expenditure by the I
Shipping Board of $680,000,000. This
$300,000,000 received from operations I
when deducted from the $680,000,000:
I received from all sources shows a
deficit of $380,000,000, although the
| public records show $100.000,000 to be
i all that had been appropriated by the
I Congress for the year. This is an as-j
| founding case of absolute deception of
the country and Congress.
"I know and want to explain that
'Admiral Benson and Mr. Tweedale had
. not the remotest thing to do with such
; gross misrepresentation. They were
i activo, in accordance with the system
: under which the books had been kept,
' from the hour the institution started,
: and they were so busy trying to
: straighten out the mixup in settle
: ments and operations that they never
had the time to try to systematize tiie
! records. And the only reason this has
! developed now is because, coming in
! a:( a new administrator, I wanted to
j find out for my own guidance what the
! loss had been. This necessitated calling
in outside auditors before the facts
j could be dug out. I don't guarantee
the figures now; they are the best we
could secure from the books, and we
are assured by Mr. Tweedale's assist
. ants, all of whom are here, that they
? will prove fairly reliable.
"To-morrow I must appear before
Congress to tell them it is possible
' thp Shipping Board will require up to
$300.000,000 for the present fiscal year.
I fear this will throw a lot of sand in
the gear box of tax revision.
"Anything realized from the sale of
assets from now on must be turned !
into the public treasury, and not ex- !
pended as in the past. The President
wKnts the country to get, not, as in the
past, a picture which shows what did!
not happen, but, even though it might
show that even we ourselves are in
competent, to publish all we really ?
lose.
"Now it is necessary to ask the ;
Congress for $300.000,000 to carry us !
through the coming year, though we ,
will try the first six months to get
along on $100.000,000 to $125,000,000. j
We will not hide our losses. When I i
say we may need up to $300,000,000 for ;
the coming year, it is the hope that j
from that sum we will be able to pay
not only the losses of operations, but j
also to settle finally a part of the j
claims and the lawsuits pending]
against the Shipping Board. These !
latter amount to more than $300,000,000 ':
themselves, but we anticipate settling
them for 50 cents on the dollar, be?
cause many of them are padded.
"The President has inherited in the
Shipping Board the most difficult busi?
ness problem ever given to a President
to work out. Every condition sur?
rounding it w*3 sick. Beginning with
world trade conditions, which are the
vyorst ever known, and coming down to
i the ships themselves sickness pre
! >-ai!s. Such ships as they had ways to
build were laid down when the war
started. Many of them do not tit into
the trade and are expensive to operate.
The carrying business of the world is
j sick and the morale of the men on the
I boats because of all of these condi
| tions is likewise pretty sick
"No matter how quickly and effici?
ently the new board and its officers
function, the flood tide of loss from
the policies of the past cannot be
! stepped for months to come, and the
j deficit for the coming year will reflect
| the sad history of the past rather than
: the reorganized effort of policies in?
augurated by the new board. In other
! words, the new Shipping Board ?3 not
I disheartened.
"The very purpose, startling as these
figures are, proves to us that with
patience something can be done, and
out of this wreck, Phoenixiike frcm its
ashes, a real American merchant ma?
tine can arise that will be worth all
the penalty that we have suffered, and
when prosperity comes to the world
that marine will be the greatest in?
surance that America will get its full
aliare."
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Mingo Mine Operators
Firm in Opposing Union
Charge Continual Breach of
Contracts and Killing of Sol?
diers and Policemen
WASHINGTON, July 18.?Determina-;
tion of coal operators in the Mingo,
W. Va., field to continue their resis?
tance to efforts to unionize miners was
expressed to-day before the Senate In- '.
vestigntion Committee by Harry Olm- '
sted, representing the operators in the ?
territory where disorders have oc-1
curred. I
"The reputation of the United Mine ;
Workers' organization," declared Mr. I
Olmsted, who was the only witness '
heard to-day, "for breaking its con-,
tracts and halting or suspending the !
operation of mines for weeks at a time;
without just reason or excuse has be- |
romp notorious in the history of in-?
dustry."
Mr. Olmsted charged that the gen-;
eral attitude of the United Mine Work?
ers opposed "institutions of our gov- i
ernment" and that restrictions imposed ]
hy the union "tend to decrease pro-:
duction, lower efficiency and destroy ?
initiative.
"The operators." the witness con -
tinued, "do not propose to surrender!
the relations that have heretofore ex- j
isted between themselves and their !
workmen."
Mr. Olmsted declared he could prove ;
"a large number of instances where
strikers, or organizers, or gunmen, act?
ing for the United Mine Workers and
in behalf of their alleged strike, have j
fired upon, killed and wounded soldiers ,
and police officers."
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Aliens, Residing in U. S.
20 Years, Held on Ship
Travelers Returning From
South America Confronted
by Immigration Sr?g
Two alien travelers, who ha 1 lived
for almost twenty years in this coun?
try and have families here, were de?
tained by immigration inspectors tem?
pe rarily yesterday aboard the Grace
Line steamship Santa Elisa from the
west coast of South America.
One of these was Isaac Yohres, an
exporter of this city, who had been
traveling on business in South America
sirco January. He was born in Egypt
and is a citizen of the Republic of
Panama.
The other traveler is Julius A.
Doering, an Austrian subject, who is
an exporter of this city. His wife and
daughter, who were both born in this
ccuntry, were permitted to go aboard
the vessel and talk with him. It is i
expected the men will be released this '
morning.
Daniel Waters, commercial attach? of
the American Embassy in Peru, re?
turned on leave. He warned Americans
against a certain propaganda that is
being promulgated in this country to
induce Americans to take up land and
settle on so-called fertile farms. He
said that twenty American families had !
already swallowed the bait. Mr. Waters
said that the land was filled with ma?
laria conditions and was unsuited to I
American farmers and urged Ameri- :
cans to think well before they accepted ;
any such offers.
Gompers Visits President
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, July 18.?Samuel
Gompers, the veteran labor leader, '.
called at the White House to-day for '
the first time since his reelection to '
the presidency of the A. F. of L., and ?
congratulated President Harding on
the progress o: plans for a disarma- !
ment conference.
Mr. Gompers, it is understood, took j
up the question of the enactment of I
Federal laws directed at fake stock i
promoting in every state in the Union, !
and urged that the President lend his
aid toward the enactment of Federal |
"blue sky" legislation. He also pro- !
tested against the admission of Chinese j
coolies to Hawaii for work on sugar '
plantations.
Fusion Foes of
Tammany Call
Town Meeting
j Coalition Committee Will
Listen to Suggestions on
Ticket at Meeting at
Commodore To-morrow
?Calder Slate Is Rumored
i Lockwood Said to Head It,
Curran for Comptroller,
La Guardia in Present Job
The anti - Hearst - Hylan - Tammany
j Coalition Committee at the Hotel Com
? modore last night, with Henry W. Taft
i presiding, decided to hold a "town
I meeting" at the Commodore to-morrow
?afternoon at 2 o'clock to listen to sug
< gestions from groups, committees and
citizens for candidates for the forth?
coming city ticket.
The committee of twenty-nine added
seventeen new names to the committee,
making forty-six in all, and probably
will add still more names.
United States Senator William M.
Calder, one of the dominating person?
alities of the conference, said at the
close of the meeting that the. com?
mittee would reach an agreement on
candidates for Mayor, Comptroller and
President of the Board of Aldermen by
Tuesday night of next week, and he
i suggested that the candidate for mayor
? would be a Brooklyn Republican.
With the Senator'3 prediction as a
! basis the word went around that the
i ticket would be Senator Lockwood for
i Mayor; Borough President Curran, of
! Manhattan, for Comptroller, and Major
F. H. La Guardia, now president of the
Board of Aldermen, to succeed himself.
La Guardia Sees Calder
Mr. La Guardia called on Senator
Calder at his office yesterday and dis?
cussed the situation with him. Fol?
lowing their conference Major La
Guardia sent the following letter to
the conference last night:
"To the Chairmen of the Joint Com?
mittees of the Regular Republican
Organizations, Coalition Committee
and Citizens' Union.
"Gentlemen :
"I inclose herewith a copy of my
platform on which I am entering the
Republican primaries for the nomina?
tion for Mayor. This will aid us in
joining issues.
I "As I have already declared that I
I would abide by the result of the Re
I publican primary, it occurs to me that
I it would be but fair that your com
| mittee announce publicly that I will be
J supported in the event that I defeat
your selection in the coming primaries."
"I am confident," said Senator Calder
I last night at the Commodore, "that by
j Tuesday night next we shall have
; agreed upon a city ticket. I am firmly
or the judgment that a Republican will
I head it and that it will sweep the
i city."
Chairman Taft announced that he
i had received a communication from the
! Democratic Union, of which Ernest
! Harvier is the moving spirit, "respect?
fully demanding" that the coalition
committee accord the union fifteen
members in the conference. The com
? mittee decided to give the union people
i five members on the general confer?
ence committee, selecting Samuel F.
Heyman and Vincent Gilroy, Inde?
pendent Democrats; J. Hampden Daugh
erty, of the Democratic Union; Hugo
Winters and John J. Brady.
For Good Measure
Then for good Democratic measure
the committee added to its committee
Byron R. Newton, former Collector of
the Port; Thomas W. Hickey, of Brook?
lyn; Joseph M. Proskauer, of Man?
hattan, a lawyer, who last year i
managed Alfred E. Smith's campaign; \
Thomas F. Gilleran, the old Greater
New York Democracy leader, ami for?
mer Magistrate ^Joseph R. Handy, of
Richmond.
In addition to these, three members
of the New Y/ork Young Republican
Club and three from the Brooklyn
Young Republican Club were added.
Joseph M. Price put through a reso?
lution declaring it to be the sense of
the conference that any organization
acking membership in the conference
should say it was in sympathy with
the objects of the anti-Tammany
I movement and would support the ac?
tion of the conference.
Friends of Judge Frederick E. Crane,
of the Court of Appeals, brought up
his name as a candidate for Mayor ?n
the conference in a purely informal
way last night, and it was received with
! commendation. There was no formai
! discussion of candidates, however. Foi
! lowing the "town meeting" to-morrow
i it is expected that the discussion of
candidates will bo taken up by the
conference committees.
Democratic Union
Backs Harvier* s Action
Refusal to Join Anti-Tammany
Forces in the Coming Fall
Campaign Ig Ratified
Thirteen member"! of the Dcmocravc
Union, headed by Krnest Harvi? r who
; bolted the Republican-Coalition con
, ference last week, met last night at the
!' te Astor and ratified the rc
Mr. Harrier for the union in r?
to join the anti-Tammanv forces in '.he
?coming municipal campaign. Mr. Ha?
i vier demanded direct Democratic rep?
resentation on the sub-committee of
twenty-nine appointed at the coalition
; conference, and being refused because
he declined to state who belonged to
his organization, withdrew from the
conference.
A resolution adopted at the meeting
declared that ' ', pent r^en. now re?
inforced by half a million earnest and
. discerning women, voting for the first
time at. a city election, are not m
j terested in petty political patronage
! disputes, but in the larger questions
?which concern them?sanitation and
; hygiene, child welfare, the housing
! problem, the high cost of living, edu?
cation, the protection from pollution of
,' the harbor and cognate questions. On
! these issues the fight must be made if
it is to be won."
Those present were members of the
'executive committee of the union, ac
i cording to Mr. Harvier, of whom there
j is one from each of the sixty-two as
| sertibly districts. A sub-committee was
; appointed for further effort in the cam
I paign consisting of Mr. Harvier, John
: Mitchell, Benjamin Meyers, Joseph B.
| Handy, A. II. Eastmond. W. J. Hurley,
I Dominick Ciprello, Floria Posella and
J. H. McCabe.
Republicans Hear Haskell
Will Run for Mayor
Brooklyn Judge Declines to
j Discuss Possible Nomination
Until Next Month
Republican leaders in all the bor
I oughs were greatly interested yester
! day in a statement emanating from the
! friends of County Judge Reuben L.
? Haskell, of Brooklyn, that the judge
?ha) ?iecided to become a candidate for
. the Republican nomination for Mayor.
Judge Haskell said the announcement
was without authority and that he
j would not discuss the matter of his
1 possible nomination until next month.
Judge Haskell's f rien.i s say that he
has decided to enter the Republican
i primaries regardless of the action of
the coalition committee, and that, if
necessary, he will run independently
: for the Republican designation.
His friends say that his canvass wiR
I be made largely on the prohibition is?
sue, on which he was elected in Brook
':; n three years ago without assistance
from the Republican organization.
The only comfort trie Republicans
? got from the Haskell story yesterday
i was the part of it that said the judge
; probably would enter the Democratic
; primaries, in order to test the wet
j strength in that organization. In3S
I much as the Hearst-Hylan-Tammany
j combination has circulated the sugges
I tion that Mayor Hylan would be a can?
didate for the Republican nomination
for Mayor, in order to embarrass the
coalitionists, the Republicans in
Brooklyn are rather cheerful over the
prospect that Judge Haskell may enter
the Democratic primaries as a count.-r
to the Hylan move.
When Judge Haskell was seen about
his reported candidacy he said:
"I have no announcements to make.
It is too hot for announcements to-day. :
If is not true that my petitions are in |
circulation. If petitions in my interest
were in circulation I would know of it,
and I know nothing of such petitions ;
at this time."
Acquitted of Fiancee's Murder;
CORUNNA, M?ch., July 1*. Forrest
Higgins was acquitted of a charge of
having murdered hi* fiancee, Lucy Wit- ;
turn, by a jury in Circuit Court here
to-night. She died . : ?
March 30. All the evidence against ,
Higgins was circumstantial.
?Mexican Troops
Rout Rebels
In Oil Fields
Renewal of Hostilities Is
Feared After Clash at Chi
itampa; Conflicting Or?
ders Biamed for Trouble
Men Had Surrendered
Obregon Says Gen. Gomez
Exceeded His Authority
in Terms With Herrerra
By George E. Hyde
Srreial CnVe to The Trii
Copyright, 1921, N ? V rk Ti rne
MEXICO CITY,
in the oil fields, which had come to
a lull, are likely to be resumed a* a
result of a clash doe to conflicting
rs of government comman .
t occurred at Chinampa after the
rebels under General Herrerra had
agr: . ? ? ... fader pro?
posed by Arnulfo Gomez, commanding
Federal forces at. Tampico.
cat? that there
were few cas.:,-. that the rebels
f.e?l into the jungle
The surrender of Herrerra ha?i been
arranged by -?reen, of the
Hausteca Petroleum Company, and was
to be un? I nal except the
promise that I "rts
and men were to be respected. Gen?
eral Herrerra stated that the uprising
was not due to ai y G sloyalty toward
the Obreg n government, but to a
conflict between his troops and r
state of Vera
i his territory.
While Herrerra's troops were raarch
?
1er, forces of General Guadalupe
Sanchez, commanding an envelo; r
army from t attacked thorn
by surprise ar.d put them to rout.
Reports here bat General
?? Gomez exceeded his authority in ac?
cepting the surrender, since the Sec?
retary of War had ordered that no
quarter be given the rebels. President
Obregon is quoted as saying he was
? the only person authorized to give the
i rebels terms.
Military official? believe the upris ilg
in the oil fields was premature and was
: the outgrowth of friction between
i various commanders.
The newspaper Excelsior, in an
editorial this morning, calls a
: to the danger of a general conflict if
'? petty differences between military
commanders are likely *o start fight
, irg at any moment. The Excelsior
I criticises General Palaez bittei
; his failure to keep his forces in hand.
t Official report:; from the War
[ Department indicate that considerable
ties of munition? of war are
crossing the border. Strict orders
have been issued to increase vigilance
: and check the flow of contraband.
Several telegraph operators alsi
?Tested recently chaiged with
- furnishing military "information to
rebels and conspirators in the United
' States.
'
Obregon Goes to Oil Fields
MEXICO CITY, July 18 By The
Associated Press).?El Nacional taya it
. is informed that President Obregon
: has departed from San Luis Potosi,
where he had been visiting, for Tam?
pico, personally to conduct an investi?
gation of the situation in the oil fields.
The Mexican nation on Sunday paid
an impressive tribute to its reform
\ President, the late Benito Jaurez, w_ la
. his nephew, Jose Sanchez Jaurez, was
in prison here charped with complicity
in the recent abortive attempt at re
. bellion in the state of Oaxaca.
The Foreign Minister. Alberto Pani.
represented President Obregon at the
ceremonies attending the anniversary
of the death of President Jaurez,
which were attended by various mem?
bers of the Jaurez family.
A v:rtual reduction of 10 per cent
in price bases on which taxes on crude
petroleum and its - ves are eo,
lected was contained in a circular in
sued to-day by the Petroleum B
The reduction refers to the prie? -
bv c-rcular 96, issue? last May, and,
according to representatives
companies here, it is not concerned
with President Obregon's recent de?
cree increasing export taxes on oil.
Oil men pointed out that this deduc?
tion is insignificant when compared to
the export taxes which are Still ex?
acted under the Presidential decree.
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