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THE WEATHER
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Full Report on I.ais-t Pug?
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FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1921
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TWO CENTS
In Gre?ter New York
TIIRKE CT.NT8
Within 200 Milfs
FOCK CENTS
Elsewhere
Detective, in
Rage, Chokes
And Beats 30
Red-Faced Aid of Lahey
Slugs Men and Attacks
Women and Children in
Two-Hour Terror Reign
Herds Them Into
Back Room of Bar
Police Brutality Rebuked
in Night Court and All
of Prisoners Released
A big, red-faced detective of Chief
Inspector Lahey's staff terrorized the
vicinity of Forty-third Street and
Ninth Avenue, sometimes known as
Paddy's Market, for two hours yes?
terday afternoon. He blackjacked men,
some of them fellow policemen who
attempted to expostulate at his con?
duct; he dragged women screaming
through the street, half tearing their
clothes from their bodies; he held |
thirty or more men, women and chil?
dren prisoners in the back room of a !
former saloon for almost two hours.
All of his prisoners were taken to the
West Forty-seventh Street police sta?
tion, and against twenty-tour men who
bore no visible signs of the treatment
they had received charges of disor?
derly conduct were made. The others,
some of them bruised and cut, were
told to "beat it." The red-faced de?
tective did not appear in Night Court
against his prisoners, and all were dis?
charged by Magistrate Nolan, who ex?
pressed indignation at their arrest.
Seizes Every One He Meet3
From 3 p. m. until 5 p. m. the de?
tective was serzing every one he came
across, dragging drivers from the
seats of trucks, children from the
sidewalks and women from the stoops
of their homes and hurling them into
the backroom. In that period, it is
said, that at least three telephone calls
for help were sent to the West Forty
seventh Street police station.
The situation became so alarming
- - - :' two priests who were in
the neighborhood is said to have armed
himself with an enormous automobile
wrench for self-protection when he
jailed to get any response to telephone
?j to tne West Forty-seventh Street
police station for assistance. Captain
Donohue, of that station, was
r- invisible as the red-faced detective
last night.
The latter, with two other detectives,
one of whom is said to be Milton Kauf?
man, sauntered through West Forty
third Street about 3 o'clock. On reach?
ing Patrick Coen's restaurant at the
southeast corner of Ninth Avenue,
which still has all the architectural
characteristics of a saloon, although
converted into a restaurant, the ry-.l
faced detective pulled his two com
panions inside.
"I'm going to clean this place up,"
he is said to have remarked.
Starts With Old Man
The clean-up started with a /vener
sble man who was eating bean soup in
the back room.
"What the hell aro you doing?" de?
manded the red-faced detective of the
aged soup eater.
"Eating soup," replied the old man.
''Bean soup."
It failed to turn the wrath of the
red-faced detective. In fact, something
about the bean soup appeared to enrage
him. From that moment he was ber?
serk. He knocked the old man out of
his chair with a blow of a blackjack,
seized the plate of soup and dashed it
to the floor.
"Hey, lay off!" one of the other two
detectives admonished him. "Be easy,
be easy!"
Bq way of reply, the cleaner-up is
said to have struck his fellow detective
with the blackjack. Then ha went
into what used to be the barroom.
There were four men there besides the
bartender. The four were gathered
about a ticker. The big detective
shouldered them roughly aside, plucked
up the ticker by the roots and flung it
on its side.
"I'm cleaning up this place," he an?
nounced. "Get in there!"
Throws Victims In
He motioned toward the backroom,
where an amazed and mildly indignant
old man was picking himself up on a
floor that was slippery with bean soup.
Those who hesitated in obeying the
.rider were seized by the collar and
slung into the back room.
Leaving one of his companions to j
guard the prisoners, the red-faced de?
tective went outside to seek more. He
strode belligerently through Forty- I
third Street, flourishing a blackjack
and i?l upon whom he looked with
disfavor speedily found themselves in
the back room.
Two of the first prisoners he made
on the street were women. They were
dragged through the street with such
violence that their waists were torn
from their shoulders. After them
James Heffcrnan, of 664 Ninth Avenue,
and Robert Hastings, of 516 West Fif?
tieth Street, were sent tumbling into
the impromptu prison.
On the next excursion the* detective
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Screen Patrons Abroad
See Wrong Fight Films
Operator Fainted Ere Demp-j
sey Won, but Promoters Beat |
Official Pictures Across
From The Tribune's European Bureau
Copyright, 1921, New York Tribune Inc.
LONDON, July 28.?Screen "fans" in
England, France, Germany, Italy and
Switzerland have been looking at the
wrong pictures of tne Dempsey-Carpen
tier battle In Jersey City on July 2.
fhe owners of the Authorized version
turned up here to-day and obtained a
permanent injunction from Justice Eve
'-?; ist the exhibitors of the unauthor?
ized films.
At the hearing it was brought out
that the unofficial pictures were 'akeli
oy a photographer with a <e!ei)hoto
?ens from the top of a water tank on a
factory near the arena in Jersey City.
The photographer got the first three
rounds all vjirht, but he fainted at the
beginning of the fourth. He succeeded
'" getting what purported to be pi?
J-trta 0f tnc fourth round also, and
joining this to the three they already
had and rushing them aboard, the pro?
moters w-nt all over the Continent and
exhibited thj^ictures for m week with?
out molestation. It was not until the
?gent for the official films arrived that j
*he impostor? wer? apprehended. I
Hylan Denies Gift of Auto
Before Any One Accuses Him
Replies to Meyer Charge That He's Had Costly Pres?
ents, Saying Commissioner Harriss Gave Him No
Car; Senator Smith Tells of 'Sugar' on Police Bill
Senator Schuyler M. Meyer, in re?
plying Wednesday to a letter received
by him from Assemblyman Maurice
Bloch, said: "To begin with, why not
have Commissioner Hirshfield examine
the Mayor and the Commissioner of
Police as to gifts of great value re?
ceived by them?
"It is possible that such gifts were
given by men dependent upon the
-Mayor and the Police Commissioner
for public favors and appointments."
Mayor Hylan. in replying yesterday
to this suggestion of Senator Meyer's,
said:
"In a statement given out by Senator
Meyer, chairman of the Meyer investi?
gating committee, and carried in to?
day's press, he stated or intimated that
I was the recipient of an automobile
from Special Deputy Police. Commis?
sioner John A. Harriss. I desire to
say that this statement is absolutely
untrue."
Senator Meyer pointed out last night
that, he had not referred in any way
to an automobile or to Mr. Harriss.
In answer to the suggestion of
Senator Meyer regarding the question?
ing of Mayor Hylan and the Police
Commissioner, Commissioner Hirsh
field said that he intended going on
with the investigation in his own way,
and aded that he would investigate
? ome other legislation introduced by
other members of the Meyer com?
mittee.
Senator C. Ernest Smith, of Staten
Island, who originally introduced the
bill making the jobs of detectives per?
manent and increasing their salaries,
testified yesterday before Hirshfield
that he became eager to "get from
under" when he learned that a slush
fund was being raised to put the bill
through the Legislature. He said that
the bill had been given to him to in?
troduce by Assemblyman Franklin W.
Judson, of Rochester, and that he first
learned of Senator Lusk's intention of
taking* up tho bill and pushing it
through on April 7, when Lusk intro?
duced it.
Assemblyman Judson's interest In
(Continued on nan? four)
Laresch Guilty,
2d Degree?, in
Horton Murder
Jury Out Six and Half Hours
in Convicting Slayer of
Police Officer; Sentenced
to Twenty Years to Life
More Indictments Hinted
No Immunity Granted Wit?
nesses, State Announces;
Defense Blames Woman
Nicholas Laresch, who has been on
trial before Judge Crain and a jury
in General 'Sessions, charged with the
murder, on December 16 last, of Police
Lieutenant Floyd Horton, was last
night found guilty of murder in the
second degree and sentenced imme?
diately to a term of twenty years to
life in state's prison. His counsel,
Bernard H, Sandier, announced that
he would appeal from the verdict.
The jury deliberated for six and a
half hours. .Little emotion was shown
either by the defendant or Mrs. Hor?
ton, wife of the 3lain man, who had
been in attendance throughout the
trial, when the foreman announced the \
decision. Judge Crain, in imposing
sentence and before the defendant's
counsel announced that he would ap?
peal, said:
"In the light of the evidence in this
case, the jury has been merciful to
this defendant. The verdict is fully
justified by the evidence."
Laresch said, in giving his pedigree,
that ho was a chauffeur, thirty-five
years old and married. He gave his
address as 303 Sixth Street, Brooklyn.
In 1912 lie was convicted before Judge
Mulqueen of grand larceny and sen?
tenced to one year in the penitentiary.
He will remain in the Tombs for a
week before starting his sentence.
Mrs. Horton shook Judge Grain's
hand when he stepped down from the
bench after adjourning court.
Intimations of further indictments
and trials for the murder of Lieuten?
ant Horton were made by Assistant
District Attorney Brothers in summing
up*. Mr. Sandier had asserted that
Mrs. Lucille E. Brooks, who had
formerly lived at the apartment house
near which the shooting occurred, and
John Cavanaugh, the former superin?
tendent of the house, had gained im?
munity from prosecution by appearing
before the grand jury. The Assistant
District Attorney replied:
"No one has secured immunity. We
are now trying Nicholas Laresch for
murder in the first segree. We now
have the whole truth of the slaying of
Lieutenant Horton and perhaps soon
we will come into court again with
further indictments in this case."
Mr. Sandier attacked the methods
of the police and the District Attor?
ney's office in handling the investiga?
tion and declared that Mrs. Brooks was
responsible for the shooting of Horton.
Judge Crain's charge was brief. He
reviewed the testimony and told the
jurors to give the defendant the bene?
fit of every treasonable doubt. The
jury retired at 2:18 p. m. At 5 o'clock
a request was made for the reading
of the testimony given by Mrs. Emma
Rogers, an eyewitness, and the jury
filed into the courtroom. The twelve
men retired again and at 7 o'clock
went out to dinner.
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Weeks Makes Rules for
Safety of Army Flyers
Accidents to Military Pilots
Canse Secretary of War
to Take Action
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, July 28.?Aroused by
pecidents to army air men and civilians
in two months, Secretary of War
Weeks to-day issued rigid rules govern?
ing all flying over cities, towns and
other built-up districts. The rules pro?
hibit "stunt" flying. .
Except in taking off and climbing im?
mediately thcreafttr, or in landing of
the heavier-than-?ir type, army avia?
tors are prohibited from flying at a
lower altitude than 1,000 feet. Lightor
than-air types of airships, whi:h in?
! elude free balloons and bMmps, must bo
ut a minimum altitude of 400 feet.
While the regulations apply only to
armv aircraft, similar restrictions are
expected to bo issued by other govern?
ment departments navigating the air.
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Haskell Seeks
Nomination on
Liquor Issue
Judge Says He Will Enter
Republican Primaries for
Mayor as Champion of
Personal Liberty in City
Aids Shun Livingston
Brooklyn Leader Accused
of Breaking His Pledge to
Support Lockwood Boom
County Judge Reuben L. Haskell, of
! Brooklyn, definitely decided yesterday
i to enter the Republican primaries as
a candidate for the Republican nomi?
nation for Mayor.
Elections Commissioner Jacob A.
Livingston, who caused embarrassment
to the supporters of Senator Charles
C. Lockwood by deserting him, is con?
fronted with the desertion of all of
his district leaders for breaking a per?
sonal pledge to Senator Lockwood to
support him for Mayor.
These were the outstanding develop
! ments yesterday in the tense situa
I tion concerning the selection of a citv
ticket by the anti-Tammanv people.
Urged to Run, Sa3's Haskell
Judge Haskell said yesterday that ht
was receiving hundreds of letters ever.
day urging him to become a candidate
in the Republican primaries. It if
understood that he will make forma
announcement of his intention to en
ter the Republican primaries follow'
ing the meeting of the steering com
mittee of the anti-Tammany conferee:
on Tuesday, at which time it is ex
pected that an agreement will b<
reached on a full city ticket.
Next week Judge Haskell will beg?
his annual vacation, and as soon a3 hi
is off the bench he will organize hi
campaign, bidding defiance to the Re
publican organization leaders and call
ing on the people to back him for th
Mayoralty on a personal liberty an<
"business conduct of the city admin
istration" platform. When asked yes
terday if Elections Commissioner Liv
ingston was backing him, he said:
"You'll have to ask Livingston."
In answer to a question about hi
platform and campaign, the judge said
"I made it very clear in my recen
statement that I considered an efficien
business administration of the affair
of the city the most important issue i
the campaign."
Prohibition Called Issue
"What about prohibition and pel
sonal liberty? William H. Anderso
says that prohibition does not figun
because the national, state and loci
administrations are all enforcing th
law. What about it?" he was asked.
"Prohibition is still an issue. Andej
son in his paper, The American lssu<
keeps on saying it is an issue, and fc
months he has been trying -to dict?t
to the people of this town what kind c
Mayor they shall have. Furthermor
Hyian and his Police Commissioner, ui
der the guise of enforcing the Mullai
Gage law, have gone beyond constiti
tional bounds.
"After Hylan had got an opinio
from his Corporation Counsel aboi
the enforcement provisions of the Vo
stead and Mullan-Gage acts he pleade
guilty to the charge that he had bee
violating the law. In spite of thi
fact, Hylan and Enrlght continued 1
violate the law, and when agai
brought to account for it they wei
obliged to enter another plea of guilt
I am absolutely opposed to fusion. 3
my judgment, the duty of a politic
leader is to discover the will of tl
people and then carry it out.
"These men in conference are tl';
ing to pick candidates to foist upc
the people. Where do they get tl
right, to do that? 'I've seen it stat<
ahat if I consent to withdraw from tl
Mayoralty race these conference cor
mittee people, to prevent me fro
runnig for Mayor, will hand me
nomination for the Supreme Cou;
What right have they got to hand o
a nomination for the Supreme Court
Judge Tells of Backing
"Who is backing you?"
Judge Haskell looked searchingly
his interrogator and said:
"I am getting my backing from t
people. The man who has backing on
from the political bosses has no popul
strength."
The friends of Judge Haskell say th
he would like to have Borouph Pre
dent Curran on h?3 ticket for Com
troller.
Joseph M. Price, chairman of t
coalitionists, and Edward W, All?
(Continu?e on pays four)
Fire Wipes Out Village
SYDNEY, N. S., July 28.?Sweepi
down the coart with the impetus of
fresh southwesterly breeze, a gigan
forest fire to-night wiped out N
Haven, a hamlet of 500 population, a
for several hours menaced with <
struction the village of Neil's Harb
pbctit sixty miles north of hpre.
Famine Kills
20,000 a Day
In Russia
Hordes of Fugitives From
Devastated Districts
Besiege Cities Crying
for Food to Save Lives
Red Troops Fight
Oncoming Masses
Dead Line Drawn in Effort
to Prevent Mad Rush
Into Rest of Europe
Special Cable to The Tribune
Copyright, 1021. New York Tribune Inc.
BERLIN, July 28.?Between 15,000
' and 20,000 persons are dying daily of
starvation in Russia, according to Bol?
shevik newspapers reaching Berlin.
With each succt ding day the situa?
tion in Russia appears to grow more
critical.
The horrors of the great plague that
swept Europe in the fourth century
are beiijg recalled by the Russians in
their present disaster. The number of
famine sufferers is estimated at 30,
000,000. The huge masses of people
that are fleeing from the villages are
now actually besieging the cities in a
demand for bread.
Thousands at Volga Crossings
At some of the crossings on the
Volga there are thousands of wagons
with miserable human freight gathered
in a desperate effort to escape from
the starvation area.
The elemental movement has given
rise to bloody battles, in which' the
Red soldiers have fought with bullets
and sabres to check the advance of
the starving, rugged peasants and cave
: the cities from pillage and destruc?
tion at their hands.
Izvestia, the Soviet official news?
paper in Moscow, announces the es?
tablishment of a regular famine front
at which the Bolshevik army is trying
to halt the mad onrush of the starving
millions. This front runs southward
from Murmansk, past Petrograd and
through Pskov, Minsk, Kiev, Ekateri
noslav, Mariarnpol, Taganrog and
Rostov-on-Don to Torgovaya, in Kuban
province. Thence it swings toward
Turkestan and stretches into Siberia
as far as Irkutsk.
The entire region within this front
line is under martial law and admis
sion beyond it is permissible only on
special passes from the extraordinary
commission.
Thj population in the famine strick?
en region, which covers three-fourths
of Russia, is subsisting on insects,
frogi, roots and the bark of trees.
Rats have become a delicacy in many
places.
Cholera Epidemic Spreads
The lack of food is rapidly fanning
the cholera epidemic throughout Rus?
sia. According to the Pravda, 24,000
cholera cases were registered in Mos?
cow in the month of June.
Premier L?nine has again offered to
place the entire relief work in stricken
Russia in the hands of American or?
ganizations and Kive them complete
freedom of action. He hopes thus to
bring sufficient relief to the country to
counteract the demand for the extrem?
ists for a mass foraging advance into
Poland, Rumania and the Baltic states.
Invasion of East Europe Feared
Unless relief comes, Europe may
witness a titanic invasion by Russian
hordes, such as has not occurred since
the advance of the Mongols across the
Russian steppes. It is feared that the
Soviet army cannot indefinitely hold
the famine front against which the
hosts of starving people, driven mad
by h,un&er ar>d disease, are trying des?
perately to break.
Although the leaders of the Soviet
government and the Communist party
are trying desperately to organize and
put in operation some sort of a relief
plan, the rank and file of the Red
I parties are throwing up their hands,
j feeling that the situation is hopeless.
The latest decrees of the Moscow gov
; eminent regarding the so-called tax
free trade have proved useless, as the
peasants have nothing to give or to
sell. According to the Krassnaya Ga?
zette, bread costs more at Perm,
Cheliabinsk, Orenburg and Viatka than
in Moscow and Petrograd.
Government Changes Possible
A fact which is regarded as symptom?
atic of possible developments in Rus?
sia is the open discussion in Moscow
of expected changes in the Soviet gov?
ernment. These changes will depend
upon which faction is victorious, viz.,
whether the extremists, demanding an
ir.vasibn of Europe in search of bread,
get the upper hand instead of L?nine,
who still hopes to keep within bounds
the calamity which has befallen Russia.
Food rationing in Moscow and Petro?
grad has been discontinued. Bread is
selling in the capital for 4,000 rubles
a pound, potatoes at 18,000 rubles a
pound, butter at 20,000 and meat at
12,000 rubles.
Advices received from Russia indicate
that the chief causes of the famine are
a terrific, unprecedented drought and
the economic conditions under which
crops have been raised the last four
years. Fearing constantly that their
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Two Nations
Ask Delay on
Arms Parley
Britain and Japan Ask
Conference Postpone?
ment, and France May
Follow Their Lead
British Arrange
Aclvaiice Council
Lloyd George Declared To
Be Ready to Attend 'Pre?
liminary' on This Side
From The Tribune's Washington. Bureau
WASHINGTON, July 28.--Postpone
ment of the armament limitation con?
ference was urged on Secretary of
State Hughes to-day by both the Brit?
ish and Japanese ambassadors. While
nc official confirmation has been re?
ceived of the cabled dispatches from
France that the date desired by Presi?
dent Harding, November 11, would not
be satisfactory, there is no reason ad?
vanced here to doubt the desire of
France to have the conference post?
poned.
So that while three of the five pow?
ers, excluding China, desires a post?
ponement, one, the United States, is
opposed to delay, and Italy has not
been heard from on this particular
point.
The urgent desire of the British is to
make arrangements that will permit
the Premiers of Australia and New
Zealand, now in England, to have time
t_ discuss all issues involved before
the Washington conference. Sir Auck?
land Geddes in urging a postpone?
ment on Mr. Hughes to-day suggested
that perhaps a preliminary conference
might be held in August which these
Premiers might attend on their way
home. Then, he suggested, the formal
conference could be held later. On
j account of the heat here it was sug
I gested that j this preliminary confer?
ence be held in some city other than
Washington.
Hughes Favors Speed
It was learned that the Administra?
tion opposed thi3 suggestion even more
strongly than it opposed a postpone?
ment of the conference.
Indications to-night are that the Ad?
ministration will be obliged to yield to
a brief postponement, perhaps until next
?pring, though Mr. Hughes is moving
heaven rind earth to bring the British
and Japanese to his point of view, so
that an agreement may be reached
speedily and the heavy armament ex?
penses of the powers involved be cur?
tailed as soon as possible.
The objection expressed by Ambassa?
dor Shidehara is that his Foreign Office
does not believe it would be possible ir
the brief time before November 11 tc
compile the data its representative?
would require.
Both President Harding and Secre?
tary Hughes have known for some days
as has been nointed out, that the Brit?
ish dominion Premiers desired a post?
ponement. The view taken by the Ad?
ministration, however, lias been that tin
conference on armament limitation
Pacific and Far Eastern questions was
of far too great concern to be post
ponod, except for strong reasons.
This view had been made knowr
informally to the British, so that il
was with some surprise to-day thai
Administration officials learned thai
not only were the British urging post
ponement, but that the Japanese, on ?
different plea, were urging the same
thing.
Real Reason Uncertain
In some well informed quarters it ii
believed that the Japanese are anxiou!
to have certain questions smoothed ou:
before the meeting of the conference
and that this, rather than the reasoi
assigned?lack of time to compile tin
data their representatives may need
is the real explanation of their desir?
for more time.
Whatever may be the real reason, tin
fact that there are now three power:
of the big five urging postponement
with the possibility that another, Italy
may join them, caused a very stron?
impression here to-night that this gov
eminent would accept the situation am
make the best of it.
It was pointed out by one very hig!
official that after all the time woul<
not be entirely lost, as informal con
versations and exchanges of view
would continue, perhaps leading towan
a condition where an agreement migh
be much more speedily reached wh,ei
the conference formally meets.
LONDON, July 28 (By The Associ
ated Press).?It was stated in officia
circles here to-day that a meeting pre
liminary to the Washington conferenc<
on disarmament, Pacific and Far East
ern problems, to be held within si
weeks at some Canadian city or a cit
in the United States other than Wash
ington, was virtually a certainty, al
though it was admitted that the at
titude of Washington on such an ar
rangement was as yet unknown in Lon
don.
The program of the Washingtei
conference would be arranged at th'
preliminary meeting.
Mr. Lloyd George, the Prime Minis
ter, plans to head the British repre
sentatives, while Premier Hughes c
Australia and Premier Massey of Nc
Zealand also would attend the meetin
on their way to their homes.
Three Die and 17 Are Felled
As Heat Wave Blankets City
New York's sticky, sweltering weath-1
er continued yesterday. The efforts of I
citizens to obtain relief also continued, I
but they had little success. The day's
highest temperature was 89 degrees,'
recorded at 4 p. m., but almost every-j
body is of the opinion that it was hot-1
ter than that.
Three persons died in the city from
| heat prostration during the day and!
| two deaths occurred in Newark. Per?
sons were overcome by the heat in all
I parts of New York City and seventeen
\ were attended for heat prostration up
j until an early hour last night. The
?condition of a number of them was
such that they had to be removed to
hospitals.
Relief will be here to-day sure, says
the weather man. It was predicted
last night at 17 Battery Place that the
temperature will drop, the fall to be
accompanied by moderate winds and
cloudy skies.
A thermometer in Park Row which
ha? b*en informing eollarless and coat
lessf nightworkers just how uncom?
fortable they really are registered 81
degrees at 10 o'clock last night.
Morris Mutnak, sixty years old, of
99 Henry Street, was found lying 'on
the floor at his home yesterday morn?
ing in an unconscious condition. He
was later pronounced dead by an am?
bulance surgeon from Gouverneur
Hospital, who said he had been over?
come by heat.
Nathan Burthar, sixty-five years old,
a retired business man, of 163 Beach
Eighty-third Street, Rockaway Beach,
was taken ill from heat prostration
\esterday morning. He died in a short
time. Maria Nicita, sc.fon months old.
of 157 Seventh Street, Long Island
City, died from the heat at her home.
Th.e heat proved fatal yesterday
morninf; to Frank Diedrick, thirty
seven, of 82 Maple Street, Jersey City,
and George Kinney, sixty-six, of 25
Chelsea Avenue.
Diedrick was working on an ice
? cream freezer at the time he was over
l come.
Ship Board Threatens Rate
War Against British Lines
Sends Ultimatum Demanding Fair Share of Ocean
Traffic and Expects Foreign Countries to Yield;
Bases Action on Shut-Out in Egyptian Cotton
I
LONDON, July 26 (By The Associ?
ated Press).?The United States Ship?
ping Board, it was learned here to-day,
has delivered an ultimatum to the
British shipping lines that unless its
ships are accorded fair treatment in
contracts for the transport of cotton
, from Alexandria, Egypt, to the United
Kingdom and the United States the
Shipping Board will "declare an open
market" and haul anything anywhere
at any rate.
The board also will invoke the retal?
iatory measures embodied in the Jones
shipping act, under which vessels
owned by unfair competitors may be
excluded from the United States ports,
the ultimatum declared.
Ready to Retaliate
WASHINGTON, July 28 (By The
i Associated Press).?Aggressive meas?
ures have been adopted by the Ship
; ping Board to insure fair treatment
for American merchant ships in the
award of trading privileges in foreign
ports.
Although but partly revealed by
negotiations now in progress, the
board's policy is understood to rest
on the proposition that other nations
must give every proper opportunity to
ships which fly the Stars and Stripes
or else run the risk of encountering
the retaliatory measures placed within
the prerogative of the board by the
new shipping act.
There is every indication. a3 re?
vealed by officials here, that the Amer?
ican government will stand squarely
behind such a program, and every
confidence that it will succeed, with
out serious opposition, in placing the
American merchant marine on aj
proper level in international trade.
A situation which has brought the
board's policy into prominence exists
at Alexandria, Egypt, in relation to
contracts for the carriage of Egyptian
cotton to the United Kingdom and the
United States.
Sets a Precedent
In the view of board officials the
British shipping interests have taken
an unreasonable attitude toward ad?
mission of American vessels to that
trade and strong representations have
been made which confidently are ex?
pected to have the desired result.
There is no disposition here to re
j gard the Alexandria problem as con
j stituting a serious disagreement in it
! self, but there is a feeling that it will
I set a significant precedent.
The negotiations which have led up
to it really are concerned with the
broader subject of admission of the
Shipping Board's representatives into
the conference of shipping interests
which control such awards as that at
Alexandria and the general recog
| nition of the board as a factor in
i shipping decisions.
Just what steps have been taken by
the board agents in Great Britain
dealing with the Alexandria situation
has not been made known here, but
board officials said to-day they had no
information to bear' out press dis?
patches that an "ultimatum" had been
delivered to the British shipping lines."
Negotiations Delicate
The same dispatch mentioned a pos?
sibility that retaliatory measures
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$1,000 Is Fixed I
As Limit Fee
For Surgeon1
Dictum Sent Out at Johns
Hopkins Hospital Also
Makes $35 a Week Maxi
mum Charge for Physician ;
No Exceptions Allowed
Order Is Regarded as One'
That Will Affect Medi-j
cal Fraternity of Nation
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
BALTIMORE, July 28.?The board of ,
trustees of the Johns Hopkins Hos?
pital has just issued the following
dictum:
"The maximum fee that any surgeon
ought to charge for an operation, no
matter how wealthy the patient may
be, is $1,000.
"The maximum charge that any phy?
sician ought to make for attending
patients in a hospital is $35 a week."
The dictum takes on the force of an
order to physicians and surgeons prac?
ticing in the hospital, limiting fees to
be charged.
The effect of the ruling will be felt
not only in the hospital, but, because
of the standing of Johns Hopkins Hos?
pital, in every corner of the United
States.
The ruling was issued after long and
thorough consideration of all the con?
ditions surrounding physicians and
surgeons, the cost of living, scale on
which physicians and surgeons are re?
quired to live and the like. In it many
eminent scientists at the hospital con?
curred.
A letter signed by the trustees of the
hospital was sent to all members of
the hospital staff making this an?
nouncement. Nobody was slighted, al?
though it applies oniy to the part-time
professors and their assistants in the
medical school and those physicians
and sargeons of the Hopkins staff who
practice at the hospital.
The full-time professors and mem?
bers of their staffs are not affected, j
because all fees received by them go
i- the "pot," as the William H. Welch
fund is designated, and are distributed
to the various full-time departments.
But it does affect such men as Dr.
L. S. Barker, Dr. J. M. T. Finney, Dr.
Thomas S. Cullen and many others who
are not on the full-time basis. It is
understood that very few, if any, of
these like it. and many of the top
notchers dislike it ve/y much.
The letter to the physicians and sur?
geons who practice in the hospital was
couched in very diplomatic language.
Its meaning, however, was perfectly
clear. Boldly stated, it was that no
physician practicing in the hospital
could charge any patient in the institu?
tion more than $35 a week. Some of
them, it is said, have been getting from
$10 to $50 a visit, according to the
means of the patient.
Charges of $2,500 for surgical oper?
ations are said to have been common,
and charges of $5,000 are said to be not
uncommon.
This was the institution's answer that
physicians and surgeons, especially the
big specialists, were charging all that
the traffic would bear.
Copyright, 1921, By The Baltimore Sun.
Two Die as Cloudburst
Erases Wyoming Village
Woman Camper and Grandson
Drowned; 100 in Beulah
Made Homeless by Flood
OMAHA, Neb., July 28.?Two persons
were drowned in a cloudburst that
practically wiped out Beulah, Wyo? a
village fourteen miles west of Spear
iish, S. D., early to-day, according to
advices reaching Omaha this afternoon.
The known dead are Mrs. William
Bower, of Missouri Valley, Iowa, and
John Bower, her grandson, of Chadron,
N'eb. The two were members of a
tourist, party which had camped for
the nicht in a canyon near the village.
A relief train has left Chadron. It
will be several days before wire com?
munication can be reestablished, it is
reported.
Stragglers entering Spearfi3h told of
destruction by flood waters, which
wiped out practically the entire village,
consisting of about 100 inhabitants.
Loss in livestock on ranches along the
Spearfish canyon will be great, reports
stated.
Senators Vote
For Refunding
Of Allied Debt
-
Favorable Report Ordered,;
by 9 to 5, on Bill to Give I
Mellon Wide Authority in
$10,000,000,000 Loans ;
Five-Year Limit Included \
Secretary Tells Committee j
Action by Former Officiais
of Treasury Is Binding
From The Tribune's WashinQton Bureau.
WASHINGTON, July 28.?By a vote
' of 9 to 5 the Senate Finance Committee
to-day ordered a favorable report on
the Penrose bill to give the Secretary
of the Treasury unrestricted authority
to refund the debts due this govern?
ment from foreign countries, amount?
ing to about $10,000,000,000, exclusive |
of accrued interest. The committee I
voted down all amendments proposed .
to the bill with the exception of one
offered by Senator Penrose limiting the
period for the exercise of the author?
ity conveyed by the measure to five
years.
One of the amendments offered was
by Senator Walsh, of Massachusetts.
It proposed to require that all agree?
ments made with respect to refunding
should be subject to ratification by the
Senate.
Senator La Follette, Republican, and
Senators Simmons, Gerry and Walsh,
of Massachusetts, Democrats, voted
against reporting the bill. With the
exception of Senator La Follette, all
Republicans present voted for a favor?
able report. Senator Reed was absent,
but was recorded against the bill.
Senators McLean and Dillingham,
Republicans, were absent, but were
recorded for the bill. Those who voted
for a favorable report included Sena?
tors Penrose, Watson, Smoot, McCum
ber, Curtis, Calder, Dillingham and
McLean, Republicans, and Williams,
Democrat. Senator Sutherland, of West
Virginia, was absent and not recorded
and Senator Jones, of New Mexico,
also was absent and not recorded.
Senator Penrose will report the bill
next week with a voluminous state?
ment in support of it.
Mellon Is Heard
The action came after Secretary of
the Treasury Mellon appeared before
the committee and presented a com?
munication to Senator Penrose in which
he held this government is committed
by action of former officials of the
Treasury to the postponement of in?
terest for two or three years?more
than two of which have elapsed; that
interest is not to be charged on post?
poned interest, at least for two years
out of the three, and that the Rath
bone negotiations as to refunding did
not obligate this government.
Secretary Mellon's letter to Senator
Penrose was in response to a recent
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Bernstorff Wants Envoy
To U. S. to Speak English I
Urges Importance of Present-1
ing German Views to Ameri- !
eans in Their Language
BERLIN, July 28 (By The Associated
Press).? Count Johann von Bernstorff.
former Ambassador to the United
States, writing in connection with the
discussion of the forthcoming treaty
with the United States, urges the ex?
treme importance of the new German
Ambassador to Washington being able
to make a public speech in fluent Eng?
lish. Any other language, he d?clare?,
will be worthless to the German dip?
lomat, who is expected to be able to
present the view of his nation and the
attitude of his government to the
American people in their own language.
The ambassador also should be a man
unencumbered by any of the many un?
happy recollections of the late war.
Count von Bernstorff thinks much
dejw-nds on wbether the United States.'
in common with Great Britain, will !
attempt to erect a barrier against I
"French continental imperialism." He
says French politics "is driving us into ;
the arms of the English-speaking na- !
tions and therefore it is incumbent on '?
us to familiarize ourselves with the i
American and the English to a greater I
degree than heretofore."
!
Northcliffe,
Snubbed,La^s
It to Curzon
British Embassy Cancels i
Invitation to Dinner
and Publisher Replies
With Scathing Attack;;
Echo of London
Times Dispute
"~ ?T *
Foreign Secretary Using
Methods He Employed j
in India, He Charges j
By Carter Field
WASHINGTON, July 28.-?Blam?
ing Lord Curzon, British Foreign
Secretary, for the withdrawal of an j
invitation to stop at the British Em- !
bassy here and for cancellation of a ?
formal embassy dinner to-night to
which all the notables of Washing- j
ton were to be invited, Lord North- j
cliffe, the celebrated British news?
paper owner, boiled over with indig?
nation to-night.
In an authorized statement the fa?
mous editor intimated that Lord j
Curzon was employing methods in
the conduct of the foreign service
which he had learned in India.
Lord Northcliffe plainly indicated
that the snubbing administered to j
him by the embassy was due to his ;
recent criticisms in The London
Times of Premier Lloyd George and
Lord Curzon. The Times has op?
posed the proposed personal attend?
ance of Lloyd George and Lord Cur-t ;
zon at the Washington conference
on armament limitation antf Pacific !
and Far Eastern questions, and it
was out of this that the controversy ;
grew. The criticisms, which at-1
tracted world-wide attention, were j
made just prior to Lord NorthcliftVs '
sailing for New York on his trip !
round the world.
Kept Temper AH Day
The blazing out to-night of Lord I
Northcliffe was the more surprising, \
because earlier in the day, although
he had already gone to the Willard I
Hotel instead of to the embassy, and
though he had already invitad several
guests to dine with him privately in?
stead of arranging to go to the big
dinner, the famous publisher had been
most cautious in all his conversation?
with newspaper men. after a talk of
more than an hour with President Har?
ding, though he must have been scath?
ing under the surface all the while.
He parried every question which led,
no matter how i*jdirt-s":y, to his crit?
icisms of Lloyd George and Lord Cur?
zon, or what le thougiit of the dis-,
armament conference, or anything
touching on the subject wh'ch wta .
really causing the trouble
Later in the day the publisher
dropped a hint to a friend about the
cancellation of the dinner. This was i
seized upon quickly by one of the press !
associations and inquiries were made
at the British Embassy. One of the
secretaries made a flat denial of the
whole affair.
But Lord Northcliffe had not the
slightest intention of permitting him- i
self to be snubbed quietly. As fre?
quently noticed during the war, in his
disregard of War Office ideas about
censorship, he believes strongly in pub- I
licity and let the chips fall where they
may. So he authorized a statement '
which told the whole story and which
blamed Lord Curzon**for the affront. j.
Whereupon it became impossible to :
find any attach? to the British Em?
bassy. They retired behind a thick
smoke screen, leaving one attendant,
who tirelessly told inquirers that the
embassy' would be open at the usual '?
hour in the morning, but was now
closed for the night.
It also develops that Mrs. Edward B.
McLean, one of Mrs. Harding'? closest
friends and wife of the publisher of 1
The Washington Post, is substituting
for the British Ambassador in giving
Washington notables and society in. ;
general an opportunity to meet the
distinguished British editor.
NorthcliflVs Statement
Following is the Northcliffe state?
ment:
"Lord Northcliffe authorized to- !
night the statement that he could
only say he had been invited while
in Washington to stop at the British i
Embassy with his entire staff and to j
attend a dinner there to-night. For
some reason of which he is not '
aware both invitations were with
drawn. Knowing the methods in
India of Lord Curzon, the British
Foreign Secretary, Lord Northcliffe
can only feel sure Lord Curzon has
adopted those methods here. In
India while Viceroy he cut off the
news supply of criticizing new?- j
papers and socially boycotted their
writers. On the present occasion
Lord Curzon is not dealing with
Indian natives or small Indian news? ;
papers.
"Lord Northcliffe regrets he cannot '
visit his friend, Sir Auckland Geddes,
on whom he called and paid his re
Bpects to-day after ceing with Presi?
dent Harding, but is. consoled by the
fact that at a dinner to be given him j
to-morrow night by Mrs. Edward B.
McLean he will meet all of the per?
sons originally invited to the can?
celed embassy dinner."
According to gossip, Lord Curzon
has sent orders here within the last
two days to "boycott" Lord North?
cliffe, as part of the measures, directed
against Lord Northcliffe and wis publi?
cations for their criticism of Lloyd
George and Lord Cu.^on. This critii
cism grew out of their announced pur
pos" to attend the disarmament coni
ference in Washington.
It is a..30> said that Ambassador
Geddes was ordered not to introduc?
Lord XorthclifTe to President Harding.
Lord Northcliffe was so informed in.
New York. However, he was personal-.
iy invited to see the President and
Cabinet, and hence called on them on
his own account. He was with Presi?
dent Harding for an hour and a half
to-day, and previously called on Sec?
retary of Commerce Hoover and visit-.
ed with him.
1. Leslie Craigie, secretar/ te the
British Embassy, denied the sterj*,