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THE WE A T H E R
Fair to-day and to-morrow; not much
change in temperature: moderate
variable winds.
I'nll ICeport on Last FaRe
(Copyrlsht, 1021,
Now York Trllium? Inr.)
SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1921
TWO CENTS
In lireatrrr New York
TIIRKK CENTS
Within 200 Mil**
I'OIR CENTS
ClMwhrr?
Operation on
H. P. Davison
Gives Relief
Brain Pressure Lessened
After 3 Hours; Tumor
Is Not Removed Be-cause
of Patient's Condition
Doctors May Make
Another Attempt
Family and J.P.Morgan at
Hospital While Banker
Is Under Anesthetic
Henry P. Davison, of the firm of J. P. |
Morgan & Co.. was operated upon in
the F.oosevelt Hospital yesterday morn?
ing. The tumor in the region of the
brain which has caused his recent ill
health was not removed, but immediate
pressure was relieved. Another oper?
ation will be necessary.
Mr. Davison went under the anaes?
thetic at 9 o'clock in the morning and
at noon his six physicians decided to
go no further because of the steady
flow of blood and the depressing effect
of the continuous application of anaes?
thetic.
The last bulletin to be issued at the
hospital last night was as follows:
"Mr. H. p. Davison, who has had
aigns of involvement of one auditory
nerve and an increase of intracranial
pressure, was operated upon this morn?
ing by Dr. Charles A. Eisberg. The
pressure was relieved. Should it be?
come necessary a subsequent operation
may be performed in the region of
the auditory nerve. No unexpected
conditions were disclosed at the opera- j
tio.n.
"Mr. Davison bore the anaesthetic
. well, recovered consciousness in the
' early afternoon and his general con- ?
?dition is good.
Signed-)
"LLEWELLYN F. BARKER, M. D.
"MEDWIN LEALE, M. D.
"FREDERICK TILNEY, M. D.
"JOHN' E. WEEKS, M. D.
"EVAN M. EVANS. M. D.
"CHARLES A. ELSBERG. M. D."
) Family and Friends at Hospital
Before being taken from his bed to :
the operating room Mr. Davison chat- |
tpc! with members of his family, and
expressed confidence that the opera?
tion would entirely remove the cause
of his ?-leepless nights and headaches.
For three hours his wife, two daugh?
ters and son waited anxiously for the
outcome of the operation. J. P. Mor?
e-an arrived at 9:30 o'clock, solicitous
for the welfare of his partner.' Along
with George Case, another ?nember of
the firm, he remained at the hospital
until the operation was over. At 12:30
p. m. ?. bulletin was issued from the
offices of J. P. Morgan, 23 Wall treet,
to the following effect:
"H. P. Etevison was operated on at
Roosevelt Hospital this forenoon. Pa?
tient's condition is satisfactorv."
The first official word came from the
operating room when Dr. Evan Evans
emerged with a cheerful expressio3i at
32:20 and made the optimistic remark
in passing that "Mr. Davison is doing
very well indeed."
It shortly became apparent, how?
ever, that the surgeons were unable to
complete what they started out to do.
The discovery of the tumor was ad?
mitted and it was described as being
about the size of the end of a man's
thumb. Dr. Frederick Tilney, a bi-ain
specialist, attending Mr. Davison. said
that the operation was suspended be
fore the tumor war, actually removed
because of the danger from excessive
bleeding and the depression induced
by the sustained use of anaesthetic.
The operating surgeons were agreed
that their work yesterday was suf?
ficiently uccessful to allow them to
proceed on the removal of the growth
fis soon as they think this advisable.
A consultation has hem called to de?
cid? whether it might be safe to oper?
ate again within a few days' time. It
was described as an extremely dan?
gerous operation, involving the ex?
ploration of the delicate brain tissues.
Has Suffered for Months
For months Mr. Davison has suf
fered from Bevere headaches and loss
ep. H>* is also said to have ex?
perienced a losa of memory. The pres?
ence of a tumor was not suspected
until recently, however. It was antiai
:* yesterday's operation would
mean the removal of the growth. About
'"'? ' ?? Mr. Davison emerged frcm
thetic it was confidently stated
condition was entirely satis?
factory and that the patient had been
conscious shortly after he was taken
from the operating room to his bed.
Even if nothing further is done, it waj
?aid that the removal of pressure from
'Continu'.?! on es??* thr?*)
Beauty Contests Peril
To Girls, House Hears
Screen and Stapr Also Menace
to American Home, Say?
Herrirk O? Oklahoma
t ???? Tkt Tribune'? Wathinglon Bureau
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. The Amor*
?tan z " ?-' mend her way?. Solemn
??ruing to this ?-iTect was ?,'ivon to-day
.', Congress by Representative Manuel
Derrick, ?'?publican, of Oklahoma, who
disclosed a few "notorious and well
'_' facts" in introducing in the
"o'j*-? a bill penalizing newspaper and
other beauty contents.
Ina ttatemenl setting forth his com?
pla?t Repr?sentative Herrick declares
?M? "impelling motive is that the young
American woman of to day n drifting
?/?"' eld from home life, Ceasing
'? d in maintaining a home,
Being n wife a;,?; rearing a family."
ous fact," Mr. Herrick
?tenth .??i, "that the American-born
lopulation I? decreasing and that the
'*' ' immigrant* and ?heir offspring
*?*?? Increasing, and that if the ?ame
''?'. i m ?',.' another decade America
Way },f converted Into a foreign coun?
cil "if"'' ?'<*"*? AT" ideal '>n<l id<*al*.
'It is hi ?ng ?'?'.ti- and more de-Ameri?
can)/.?-"' On? of the greatest ageneiea
w bringing about this dissatisfaction
?Itri bon ? It on the ;*;?rt of the Amer
I'M y loving picture ;>n?J the
*'r'- CO ;,.>n.'! . M i! ;i ri'jt.'iri''ll*
?>'<; rail known fact that film stardom
>t theatrical stardom m but the firxt
*tfr* U> the moral downfall of girl?.
Witntx* the late Btillman caw and
?tttttdredi r,f other?, ?>i inflnitum."
?/??J^*' "jMn* pet-er? are WUtTtVO
Curran, Put on Bennett Slate,
Laughs and Says rNo, Thanks'
Former Senator's Golf Partner and Curran Sup?
porter Also Decline Places Hastily, and Repub?
lican Leaders Chuckle as Ticket Starts to Shrink
Former Senator William M. Bennett, I
who, with F. H. La Guardia and Reuben I
L. Haskeli, is contending for the Repub
lican mayoralty nomination in oppost- '
tion to Henry H. Curran, Republican- ]
Coalition d?sign?e for Mayor, yester- ]
day forenoon filed a complete city,
county and borough ticket.
For Borough President of Manhattan
Mr. Bennett named Mr. Curran. As
soon as Curran learned of it he laughed
and declined the nomination.
For the second most important place,
Comptroller, Mr. Bennett named Fran?
cis Colety, a prominent Republican and
a lawyer who frequently plays golf with
Mr. Bennett. Mr. Colety wrote a letter
saying that he admired Mr. Bennett, but
could not go around the political links
with him, as he was supporting Senator
Charles C. Lockwood for Comptroller.
I
Mr. Bennett named Frederick A. "dig?
ging, a strong Curran booster, for
County Clerk. Mr. Higgins, who is
spending his vacation at Fort Ticon
deroga, on learning of the honor thrust
on him by the generous Mr. Bennett
shot a declination to Mr. Bennett in the
following telegram:
"I am not in sympathy with any anti
organiiation ticket or movement. I in?
tend giving my support in the primary
to Henry H. Curran and the other
d?sign?es on the Republican-Coalition
ticket."
Republican politicians were having a
laugh at the shattering of the Bennett
ticket, and were wondering how many
more would be left on it by the end
of another day.
This is the second time that Mr.
Bennett has launched a ticket this
summer. His last effort, in which he
named Senator Lockwood for Comp
(Contlnuod on pago thre?)
City Finances
Face Chaos by
*?
Excess in Debt
Many Citizens May Refuse
to Pay $24,000,000 in
Taxes Called Outside the
i Legal Limit at Inquiry
Suit to Test Validity
Worth of Millions in Bonds
Involved; Meyer to End
| Hylan Uproar at Probe
A new light was cast yesterday on *
certain of the disclosures before the
? Meyer legislative committee investiga- ]
tion of the present city administration, I
wherein it was contended by Elon R. |
Brown, the committee's chief counsel, j
that the city had levied $24,000,000 in
taxes and incurred $120,000,000 in debts
in excess of its constitutional right.
It was pointed out that many tax?
payers, on the basis of this contention,
; may refuse to pay their taxes until the
question is definitely settled in the
I courts, causing endless confusion and
embarrassment in the city's financial
: affairs. It was thought by others, how
i ever, that a test case might be brought
'., by one taxpayer and thus obviate the
! possibly perilous results of the situa
1 tion.
Bonds May Be Invalidated
i In the matter of the alleged illegal
j debts, there is the possibility, it was
! pointed out, of millions of dollars
worth of bonds being invalidated if the
i contention of the committee's counsel
! is sustained in a court action. It is ex?
pected that a legal decision on this j
! point also will be sought.
Senator Schuyler M. Meyer, chair- j
man of the legislative committee, in?
dicated yesterday that he was deter?
mined to see that theie are no further
repetitions of the noisy demonstrations
by friends of Mayor Hylan that marked 1
his three examinations.
The Senator wrote a letter to Com- '
missioner of Police Enright, request- j
ing him to have the necessary officers
on hind at the next session of the;
committee, Tuesday morning, to assure j
an orderly hearing.
"There have been slight but recur- '
ring disorders," wrote Senator Meyer, :
"at certain hours at the public sessions ?
of the Joint Legislative committee in?
vestigating the affairs of the City of I
N*ew York. The resolution under which ]
the committee was appointed provides i
in part that the committee shall have !
'the assistance and cooperation of the I
officers and employees of the City of l
New York.' ?
Committee Asks Protection.
"Pursuant thereto, I request that you
take such steps a; you may deem ad
visable to see that the public sessions
may be conducted ?n an orderly man?
ner without unnecessary noise "or dis- <
turbance. The next meeting of the '
committee will take place at the City
? Hall on Tuesday, August, 16, at 10:30
| a. m.' and at such following dates as
may he announced by me at the. close
of each session."
Senator Meyer ?aid also that he
thought that Mayor Hylan should see
to it, too, that these disturbances are
. not permitted to retard the inquiry,
and threatenc'l to have the doors
closed to the municipal employees be?
lieved to he involved in the demon
; strations. "Wc are glad to have mu?
nicipal employee? as well as any one
else attend the hearings," he added,
. "but it is obvious that they must con?
duct, themselves in an orderly man
. ner."
There was no common' from Com?
missioner of Accounts Hirshfield or
any of the other department heads,
whose departmental expenses were
.shown by the testimony before the
; committee to have increased enormous
, ly since Mayor Hylan took office.
Expense Remedy Sought
Failing in his efforts to obtain some
! light from the Mayor on the cause of
| these extraordinary increases, or how
! they may be reduced, Mr. Brown has
! decided to question < lornptroller Craig
next Tuesday morning. In this con?
nection, the committee's counsel com?
mented, he is mendy complying with
the three-day plaint of ?ho Mayor:
"See. the Comptroller; gel it from
Craig; the Comptroller cm tell you."
Mr. Craig admitted receiving a letter
Continu*.) on pat)? three)
IVh en
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Sfttu Dorf* afribunc
Mail Ship Line
Counsel Defies
m's Order
Nicoll Refuses to Demand
Vacating of Injunction
Whereby Company Got
Back the Seized Vessels
To Guard Stockholders
Lawyer Says Company Is
Confronted With Serious
Financial Difficulties
DcLancey Nicoll, of counsel for the
United States Mail Steamship Com
pany, yesterday refused to comply with
a written demand from Francis Mayer,
president of the corporation, that he
take immediate steps to have injunc- j
tion proceedings whereby the company i
recovered nine ships seized by the
United States Shipping Board va?
cated, i
Mr. N'icoll's rejection of the demand
was made in an informal conference
before Federal Judge Martin T. Man
ton. Mr. N'icoll's refusal was explained
by him as due to the fact thai ke rep?
resented as counsel not only the officers
of the company, but its stockholders as
well, and he was determined to protect
ihe latter. Mr. Nicoll said the United
States Mail line, was facing serious !
financial difficulties. j
Informal Proceeding Held *
The matter was brought before Judge
i Mant?n in chambers. It was declared
i to he an entiraly informal proceeding,
! to be regarded in the light of a con
| ference attended by attorneys repre
I resenting the company and the United
', States Shipping Board. i
The arguments indicated much un-:
certainty as to who actually controls :
the United States Mail Company. ;
: Statements that Malcolm Chase and
I Alexander Smith associated with Bos- I
i ton and Chicago financial interests had j
obtained control were denounced by
William Marshall Bullitt, as counsel j
for the shipp'ng beard, who declared
them unfair and unjust.
The hearing was marked by heated
clashes between DeLancey Nicoll and
DeLancey Nicoll jr. on one side and
Mr. Bullitt on the other. Ira Camp- j
bell, formerly personal attorney for W.
Averell Harriman, was also in Judge
Manton's chambers. He sided with Mr.
Bullitt in the several arguments that
occurred.
It came out after the hearing that i
the board of directors of the United ]
States Mail Steamship Company, which!
was elected August 10, resigned yester?
day after having rescinded the reso?
lution adopted August 11 authorizing
?return of the company's ships to the
United States Shipping Board, and thai,
immediately after the former board antl
officers were re?lected. By this action
Francis R. Mayer resumes the presi?
dency, Frank M. Bynum retiring.
Board Organization Assailed
Delancey Nicoll jr's statement char
| acterized this temporary board of offi
? cers antl directors as a dummy board.
? He said with regard to the proceedings
i that Malcolm Chase, a director of the
! Old Colony Trust Company, of Boston,
and Alexander Smith, president of Pea
body, Houghteling & Co., bankers, had
? matle an agreement with the Shipping
Board to sell out the United States Mail
j Company in order to protect another
I Mayer concern in which they were in?
terested. Mr. Nicoll said:
"Malcolm Chace is connected with
the Old Colony Trust Company and
Mr. Smith with Peabody, Houghteling
! & Co., of Chicago. They brought out
?an issue of bonds for the Swiftsure Oil
Transport Company in which the Mav
ers own or did own T.'i per cent of Ihe
stock and which in 1020 purchased
seven tankers from the Shipping Hoard.
(Continuait en laut PftQ'l
Bynu
Body of Russell Bruch
Found by Boat in Sound
New Yorker Had Been Missing
Since Sunday, When tie
Started Out in Canoe
STAMFORD, Conn., Aug. 12. A
| launch searching the waters of Ihe
; Sound for Russell Bruch and for the
j canoe in which he was paddling off
j Sound Beach on Sunday picked up the
! young man's body this evening off Col
, lender's Point.
The body, clothed in the bathing suit
j which Bruch wore when he pushed off
in his eattoe, was taken ashore at,
Lund's End, the summer home of Dr.
John A. Harrias, Deputy Police Com?
missioner of New York in charge of
traffic r?gulation. It. was identified by
Chief of Police William H. Bronnnn of
Stamford.
Bruch, who was twenty four years old,
v/n?!, passing the summer with his
mother at Sound Beach, Conn. In the
winter they lived at the Hotel Peter
Stuyvesant, In New York. Bruch put
on his bathing suit late Sunday after?
noon and put off in his canoe, fie was
seen shortly before sundown, but was
thereafter lost, to sight.
To-day the body cume to the surface.
The canoe has not been found.
Exemption of
Married Men
Put at $2,500
$500 Raise in Addition to
$200 Gain for Each De?
pendent Is Voted by
House Tax Committee
Total Loss Will Be
Only 50 Million
J
_
Manufacturers' Levy May
Be Substituted for Re?
peal of Luxury Toll
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12?Practically
winding up revision of the levy sec?
tions of the 1018 tax law, House Ways
and Means Committee Republicans
voted to-day to increase from $2,000 to
$2,BOO the. exemption allowed married
men having an annual net income of
$5,000 or less. This change would be
retroactive to January 1, 1921, and
would be in addition to the increase of
$200 in the exemption for each de?
pendent of a head of a family previ?
ously decided upon.
Agreement also was reached, it was
said, to decrease the manufacturers'
tax on candy from 5 to 3 per cent, the
manufacturers' tax on furs from 10 to 5
per cent, the tax on art works from 10
to 5 per cent, and to repeal all of the
so-called luxury levies, including those
on carpet?, rugs, trunks, traveling
cases, pocket booklet", umbrellas and
portable lighting fixtures, as well as
those on wearing apparel.
Tobacco Levies Untouched
Committee members also were said
to have agreed not to increase the
taxes on cigarettes, cigars, tobacco and
alcoholic beverages. It was reported
that in reducing the income surtax
rates to a maximum of 32 per cent from
the present *53 per cent the committee
had made no provision for a further
reduction to 25 per cent next year, as
recommended by Secretary Mellon.
i In voting to repeal the so-called
luxury taxes, the majority members
' decided to substitute, if possible, a
manufacturers' tax on the same ar?
ticles, if designed to be sold at sums
i in excess of specified prices. The rate
suggested was 3 per cent on the manu?
facturers' prices and the return was
estimated at $100,000,000 annually, as
against $25,000,000 under the present
law. It was explained, however, that
such a provision would be difficult to
administer because the prices of such
goods were not standardized, and that
it might be necessary to abandon the
plan.
The motion to increase the exemp?
tion allowed married men receiving
small incomes was renewed to-day by
Representative Longworth, of Ohio,
' and prevailed after Joseph S. McCoy,
government actuary, had explained, it
was said, that the total loss in revenue
from this change and the increase in
exemptions for dependents would be
only $50,000.000, or the amount com?
mittee members estimated would be
lost by reason of the dependent ex?
emption increase.
Goes to House Monday
Under present plans of Republican
leaders, the committee draft of the
completed bill, which will be in the
form of an amendment to the 1918
law, will he presented to a conference
of House Republicans at 1 p. m. Mon?
day and introduced in the House later
that day. Actual consideration of it
there, however, it \ as said, would go
over until Wednesday in order that
the measure could be formally passed
upon Tuesday by the Ways and Means
Committee with the Democratic mem?
bers present.
While the question of a special rule
is to be decided by the party confer?
ence, some leaders said to-night they
expected the majority to adopt a rule
limiting general debate, tfxing a time
for a vote and giving priority to com?
mittee amendments. They regarded
final action by the House a week from
to-morrow as something more than a
probability, but it was emphasized that
this was a matter for determination
bj the party conference.
Burglar Flees on Cycle
Policeman Rode to House
Eseapes From Dwell in s as
O'Connor Enters and
Pedals Away
i Pasqunle Iretrovartelo telephoned to
' the Newtown police station, Long Island
; City, yesterday morning that there was
! a burglar in the hallway of the house
I in which he lives, iS9 Waldron Avenue.
I Patrolman John O'Connor was sent to
' th" house on his bicycle.
He left his bicycle at 'he curb and
! went inside to hunt the burgh"'. Sub
! sequent events indicated that th" bur
: glar came out about the same time.
O'Connor, quite naturally, didn't find
him in the house, and, when he aban?
doned the search, discovered that the
burglar had ridden away on his bicycle.
Nothing else was stolen.
U. S. Accepts
Relief Plan
Of Bolsheviki
Secretary Hughes Orders
American Director to
Confer With Litvinoff
on Way to Extend Aid
Must Give Pledge
To Protect Food
3 U. S. Citizens Reported
Held Because of Money;
Cabinet Hears Progress
I
Sprcial Cable to The Tribune
j Copyright. 1921, New York Tribune Inc.
RICA. Aug. 12.?All uncertainty as to
i the attitude of the American govern
! ment on the status of American
[ prisoners in Russia was virtually ended
! to-day, when a message was received
| from Secretary of State Hughes by
! Walter L. Brown, European director oi
| the American Relief Administration
I instructing him to proceed with hi;
j negotiations with Maxim Litvinoff, th<
Soviet envoy.
It was assumed from this that th<
United State.? regarded the release o
the Americans who already hav?
crossed the frontier and M. Litvinoff'
promises that all Americans now ii
Russia would be given every oppor
tunity to leave as satisfactory as
surance that tlie Soviet was carryin;
out its part of the bargain to obtaii
relief for famine sufferers.
A conference between Mr. Brown an
M. Litvinoff was immediately called.
Three Reported Detained
REVAL, Aug. 12.?Three American
who desire to leave Russia, says
message from Yamburg (08 mile
j southwest, of Petrograd) to the Rui
sian Bolshevist legation here, hav
been detained at Yamburg, pending ir
I structions from Moscow "because the
| have too much money." The names <
j the Americans are not given.
RIGA, Aug. 12 i By The Associate
Press).?An absolute guaranty of tr
j protection of food supplies sent inl
Russia was asked of the Russian Go'
eminent in a draft agreement pr
| sentcd to Maxim Litvinoff, represei
j tative of the Soviet Relief Committe
i by Walter L. Brown, European direct.?
of the American Relief Administrate
I this afternoon.
j In addition to the regular requir
inents for the receipt of American R
I lief Administration supplies speci
j proposals are included in Mr. Brown
| draft agreement. These are bas?
! generally on the uncertainty of Ru
j sian conditions. Mr. Brown propos
that the relief administration deiiv
! goods at ports, from which the Sovi
| government in Russia is to transpo
' them to the famine districts. An a
solute guarantee of freedom of trav
nnd communication for relief admini
tration workers in Russia also is r
quested.
Americans in Control
"We will have the situation In o
hands at any time Russia shows a di
| position not to act in good faith," ?V
j Brown said to-day. "But there are
I evidences of that. Immediately aft
| signing the agreement, pome of o
I representatives will fro into Russia
| look over the ground."
A telegram was sent to Mose
to-day by Maxim Litvinoff suggesti
| that all Americans whose addres:
? could easily be learned be rounded
1 immediately and given an opportun
| to leave Russia, as a guaranty of I
I good faith of the Soviet government
| its desire to permit every American
j quit Russia who desired to do so.
i At informal conferences yesterc
! with aids of Walter L. Brown, M. I
| vinoff's secretary was given the si
| gestion that the addresses of some
] the Americans were so -well known
| would easy to send them out imr
| diately.
Kelly's Whereabouts Known
Among these is Royal C. Ke
| American engineer, who conversed
i Moscow with a member of the pa
with Charles R. Crane, former Minis
to China nnd who said he was in cl
touch with some twenty other Ann
'cans whose addresses were en:
'available through Ludwig C. A. K. M
'tens, former Soviet "Ambassador,'' ?
'was recently deported from Amer
| Prospects of Russia's being ope
:for American newspaper correspo
lents, if arrangements are made for
[lief, have brought a deluge of ne
paper men to Riga in addition to
already large group here. La
groups of them have made effi
.through American relief officials
join the relief mission.
According to the Rosta News Age
the official Soviet news diss?mina
sixty-two sanitary trains for the e
uation of children and the sick f
the famine area are now in operat
and it, is estimated that twenty n
are required.
; "Mr. Hoover has stipulated that
? Americans imprisoned in Russia shi
be released," Litvinoff declared
'Continued on mxt page)
Hydrant Cut Off to Free Boy;
Almost Drowned Hunting Cent
C7
Firemen of Truck fi and the rescue'
M|iiat! worked almost two hours yes?
terday afternoon to release the right
arm of Bernard Gates, seven .'/ears old,
of 22 Ludlow Street, from a tire hydrant
m Ludlow Street between Healer and
Canal streets. The boy nearly drowned
before he was released.
The lad had thrust his bare arm inside
the hydrant, from which the cap had
been removed, to recover a penny which i
had been given him for running an [
errand. One of his companions had
thrown it into the opening. When Ber?
nard pushed his arm in he was tillable
to withdraw it, and the more he strug?
gled the nutre firmly he became bound.
In their efforts to release the boy "ol
untecr rescuers in some wny turned
on the water, which gushed forth in a
flood that enveloped the captive, who
was at once seen In be in danger of <
drowning.
Mechanics from the Laskinsky Iron ,
Works, in Ludlow Street, were sum?
moned and acetylene torches were used j
'.it an effort to cut the bolts of the hy
tirant. Meanwhile a call hail been sent
in for the rescue squad, which responded
in charge of Lieutenant Jones. At the
same time Fire Truck 6 arrived. Ber?
nard had become unconscious and was
suspended by his imprisoned arm from
the hydrant, his body being supported
by his mother, Mrs. Anna Gates. More
than 2,000 persons gathered and re?
serves from the Clinton Street police
station were summoned to preserve
order.
While the excitement was at its
height Fire Commissioner Thomas
Drennan tool; charge of the resent?.
Firemen working in relays burned the
base of the hydrant away with acety?
lene torches antl ttt last lifted it, re?
leasing the boy.
An ambulance from Gouverneur Hos?
pital arrived just ns young Gates was
released. He was attended by Fir. Bur
man and revived sufficiently to be taken
home.
The hydrant is one of those that have
been used in filling street baths used
by children in many downtown streets.
The cap had I; en removed in order
that hose could be readily attached.
L?nine Drops Soviet Policies \
To Return to Monetary System
Free Postal, Rail and Wire Services Abolished;!
Workers' Ration List Is Curtailed; Only Big
Industries Remain Under Government Control
RIGA, Aug. 12 (By The Associated I
Press).?Formal decision to revoke free
postal, railway, telegraph and tramway
service in Soviet Russia, together with
the abandonment of the free grant of
tools and household goods to work?
men and the possibility of a gradual
change to the monetary system instead
of the exchange of goods, are an?
nounced in dispatches received here to?
day from the Rosta News Agency, the
official Soviet news disseminater at
Moscow.
These important steps toward put?
ting into effect Lenine's new policy,
which are taken as an indication that
h i F plan is moving still further in the
direction of the industrial and capital?
istic systems of the rest of the world
than was at first believed, are an?
nounced in decrees to the people'3 com?
missars, signed by L?nine.
Detailed instructions drafted by the
Council of Commissars after a consul
tation with the various trade organiza?
tions show that only the big industries
will remain under national manage?
ment, the others will be left to the co- j
operatives and individuals, wages to be
regulated by the trade unions.
The decision to charge for the pos?
tal, tramway and other services was
made, says the Rosta Agency, "to re?
store the value of the currency."
By another decree the government
organizations are instructed to secure
payment for everything furnished
workmen, except for food rations and
medicine given those having cards.
This is interpreted as meaning a great
curtailment of the free ration list
through strict limitation of cards to
actual workmen, who will be subjected
to collective rationing, factories or de?
partments to receive a food supply
'? based on their output, irrespective of
the number of employees.
A message to the Riga Rundschau
from Moscow says that the taxes in
Russia will be payable in money.
Harding Urged
To Rebuke Men
Blocking Policy
Advisers Advocate That He |
Hold "Willful Band" inj
Congress Up to Public
for Just What They Are;
Disgusted With House
Leaders Blamed for Delay
on Dye Emhargo and
Railroad Relief Measures!
By Carter Field
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.?President
Harding is finding his "willful men" in j
Congress just as Woodrow Wilson did. ?
The President so far has not emitted !
any blast pillorying the men before the i
country, but some of his closest ad- '
visers are urging this course as the only j
one which can break the present jam.
"The men standing in the way of the I
dye embargo and of the passage of this
railroad bill ought to be plastered," [
said an indignant Cabinet member to ;
The Tribune correspondent just after!
to-day's Cabinet meeting. "They ought
to be held up before the country for ;
just what they are."
It is these two measures at the pres-i
ent moment which are giving the Pr?s
ident his chief concern, so far as op?
position to his wishes in Congress is |
concerned. All sorts of petty politics ?
and selfish interests, as the President's j
advisers see it, are being permitted ?
to run to extremes on Capitol Hill, so?
far as this small band of men is con |
cerned, and the supposedly big leaders !
on Capitol Hill are either letting the
small fellows get away with it or they j
are secretly abetting them.
Disgusted With House Leaders
The President is known to be dis- ?
gusted particularly with the action of ;
the House leaders in response to his j
insistence that the dye embargo should j
be continued for the protection of the !
American manufacturers?every one a ?
potential maker of gas and explosives '?
?" the event of war.
Here is the real truth about what i
happened on that as between the House !
and Senate. The logical way to get
the embargo continued was to continue 1
the emergency tariff bill for a certain j
period of time.
This was a logical method because t
every one in Congress and in the Ad- "?
ministration knows that certain Sena- ,
tors who are bitterly opposed to the !
dye embargo would talk it to death j
as a separate measure. Of this group, |
however, there are many from agri- i
cultural states. Such members of the j
band as La Follette. Norris, and prob- j
ably even Smoot, would scarcely dare i
to vote against the extension of the
whole emergency tariff bill. They
might hate to see the dye embargo
continued, but they would not be able
to strike it out by a vote, as a ms
ority of the Senate is willing to yield
to President Harding and the War and
Navy departments, now that the dye
embargo is being advocated by the Ad?
ministration as an important measure
of national defense. This is especial?
ly true in view of the fact that every
other nation which will attend the
! armament limitation congress has put
an en.bargo against German dyes in
! order to build up its own gas, explo?
sive and drug potentialities.
So that if the House had sent the
emergency tariff bill over to the Sen
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Duke, Believed Tobacco
King" s Son, Held in Death
Arrested on Homicide Charge
Wiih Two Others After
Fatal Auto Collision
Angein Duke, giving the address of
Angier 1?. Duke, 2 East Eighty-ninth
Street, and believed to be the son of
the famous tobacco man, was arrested
on Tuesday and is now out on S2.000
bail on a charge of homicide as the
result of the killintr on Tuesday morn?
ing of a chauffeur named Owen
Krvlon, who died in Fordham Hos?
pital after he had been hit by an
automobile. The name Angein Duke
is that reported by the police.
Duke, with Henry L. Hobart, presi?
dent and manager of Distinctive Films,
Inc., 366 Madison Avenue, and Joseph
Palmer, negro chauffeur for Hohart. as
co-defendants, were arraigned in the
West Farms court Wednesday. Bail
was continued until yesterday, when
' an adjournment was asked for. and no
definite date set for a further healing.
The charge of homicide is technical.
Kevlon, who was. fifty years old and
lived at 7."? East 120th Street, was killed
a? Broadway and 201st Street, where
he was walking in the roadway under
, math the elevated structure. His
death was due to a collision between
! the automobiles of Duke and Hobart.
The police report says that Duke was on
his way downtown from Ardsley, where
In? is living now, to his office when, at
201st Street, he ' -noil under the ele?
vated structure. Hobart's car was
going north. Neither machine was
aware that the other was approaching.
: A? Mr. Duke's car turned under the
i elevated Mr. Hobart's car met it head
on.
Cabinet Seeks
Saner Rulings
In Dry Program
Enforcement System Called
Absurd and Members
Ask What Becomes of
Valuable Liquor Seized
Beer Bill Arouses Ire
Action Points to Liberal
Attitude Toward Raising
of Ban on Beer and Wine
From The Tribune'* Washington Bureau I
WASHINGTON-, Aug. 12..Prohi-*
bition enforcement throughout the
country, which was characterized by !
several Cabinet members as "absurd,",
occupied a considerable portion of the !
session of the President's Cabinet to- ;
day. The confiscation of liquors which :
are not intended for American con- !
sumption, yet which, under the law, ''
must be confiscated, was taken up with
the object of working out a saner
and more sensible enforcement pro?
gram. Indications are that the Admin?
istration intends to adopt a liberal
attitude toward the Eighteenth Amend?
ment. The reaction against prohibition
reflected to-day in the comments of
various Cabinet members gives color
to the belief that the movement to lift
the ban on light wines and beer is
gaining support.
It was pointed out that quantities
of liquor shipped in bond across the
country under the law must be seized
if the nature of the shipment is de?
tected, even though the liquor is not '.
intended for American consumption.
Inquiries as to the status of liquor on
foreign ships entering American har?
bors and as to what becomes of the mil?
lions of dollars worth of liquor seized
by prohibition enforcement officials
were made by Cabinet members.
Huge Sums in Rentals
The Attorney General said that it
was costing the United States huge
sums in rental for warehouses in New
York City utilized for the storage of
seized liquor supplies. It was sug?
gested that the government, through
its chemists, devise a plan whereby the
alcohol itself might be extracted from
such liquor and be utilized in other
ways. It is probable that legislation
straightening out vexatious problems
and abuses in connection with liquor
enforcement will be worked out, though
not until the several cases nendinp: in
court ? eeking injunctions are adjudi?
cated.
It was expressed during the meeting
that a resentment exists in official as
well as lay quarters at the length to
which the drys have sought to go in
the Willis-Campbell amendment to the
enforcement act. This measure will
prevent physicians from prescribing
beer. When the Senate added the
Stanley amendment it indicated that
legislators wore at last becoming tired
of the tactics of the dry forces. The
Stanley amendment, in short, affirms
the Fourth Amendment to the Consti?
tution, which guarantees "the right of
the people to be secure in their per
sons, houses, papers and effects." The
fact that the Senate found it necessary
to reaffirm this specific constitutional
guaranty is interpreted as a rebuke to
enforcement officers who have violated
one section of the Constitution to en?
force another.
Prohibition Costs Billion
During the discussion reference was
made to the testimony given by Pro?
fessor Edwin R. A. Seii^man. of Co?
lumbia University, recently before the
Senate Finance Committee. He said
that had we not adopted prohibition
we should be getting in taxes at least
?1,000,000,000 we are not getting now.
Professor Seligman, it was pointed out,
did not ailvocate repeal of prohibition
but an interpretation of the law which
would permit the sale and heavy taxa?
tion of beer and light wines.
It is estimated that a tax of ?.r> a
barrel on '-'.T.") per cent brer alone
would produce upwards of $500.000.000
annually. In addition, it is felt that
tiie reinstatement of a low alcohol
content niait L>?verage would do more
tu wipe out the illicit liquor traffic
than the expenditure of hu?je sums for
| enforcement. All these facts and a
?great many in addition were cogitated
(Upon by the Cabinet members in con?
nection with consideration of the pro?
hibition question.
? * ? ?
$10.000 Demanded for
Infliction of One Kiss
Mrs. Phoebe L. Pushek. of 432 West
20-lth Street, filed suit yesterday to
i recover $10,000 from Emanuel Silver,
that being her appraisal of the dam?
age she suffered in l>?*!n?,' kissed by
the party of the second part.
Silver entered her home April 2."?. she
related in her complaint, and kissed
her without her consent. In trying to
avoid the kiss, she set forth, she re?
ceived scratches and bruises. Two days
later, she declared, he came back, but
she refused to admit him.
According to the papers filed, the
complaint was Rerved on Silver at 11
Hewes Street, Brooklyn.
Premiers Put
oliition of
Silesia Issue
Up to League
France and EnglandAgree
to Accept Recommen?
dation of Council With
Respect to Boundaries
Move Regarded as
Victory for Britain
Harvev Says Harding Will
Be Glad to See Strict?
ly European Question
Settled by Disputants
By Wilbur Forrest
Special Cable 1n The Tribun?
Copyr?Ktit, 1921, New York Tribune Inc.
PARIS, Aug. 12.?The League of
Nations was given a new lease of
life to-day by the nations represent?
ed in the Supreme Council of the Al?
lies. Europe's greatest statesmen,
failing utterly to find a solution for
the distressing problem of the divi?
sion of Upper Silesia between Ger?
many and Poland, decided to refer
the matter to the Council of the
League of Nations and abide by the
decision?thus confessing the Su?
preme Council's impotence.
The United States, through Am?
bassador George Harvey, declined to
have any part in the consideration
of the question by the Lvague be?
cause America is not represented in
that body. Ambassador Harvey to?
night, in elaborating his brief ?speech
at to-day's session of the Supreme
Council, said the action of the Coun?
cil strengthened the stand of Presi?
dent Harding that the Upper Sibe?
rian problem was one of distinctly
European concern and that its ref?
erence to > body with which the
United States was not associated
was ample confirmation of Europe's
admission of this fact.
Entente Seems Weakened
Although opinion is widespread that
the statesmen of the Supreme Council
were merely "passing the buck" to
the league, several interpretations can
be made cf the day's developments.
These are:
First -That the cnten'o in European
political affairs between England and
France ha; become so weakened that
i: is almost possible to say it no longer
exists. because of their opposing
policies, which are apparently irrecon?
cilable.
Second- That th~ imp of thfi
Supreme Council, the ! urt of
the Allies, is admitted by the fact of
its consenting unanimously to pass on
the League the pi I :.?; th* i
to solve.
Third?That in th" face of the
League's glaring h
regulate ; ne peaci of 1 rope,
statesmen have given the Leagut :i
chance to solve a probl i mit r
are incapable of . living.
Opinion is general that the fate r
the League of Nal ? '7 its
ability or inability
Silesia puzzle, \vh ch
great for the : ? n of
Europe.
Break Comes at Night
Adherents and ? rters of the
Ic ague alike adm it tha! f the leai
successful it will put 1
tremely solid ground
view future pai ticipation
p?tes for which t was
ganized. If .7 fails, ?
equally certain that 1 leagu*
killed. In th* I ! war
breaks out again b<tw
and Poles England, Fi Italy
are pledged to ma
league's council promu
cisi?n.
The failure of 1
to divide the Upper S
triangle can.
indication had been given that Pi
Lloyd George was d* '
sufficient concessions to iron o
most dirticult problem in Europi '
tory. The real break came last night,
when it became known that the British
and French premiers had adopted the
most divergent views as to the tracing
of the boundary, and it was announced
that Mr. Lloyd George was. ?caving for
England to-day, ost* i
at a Cabinet meeting called to handle
important developments in the- Irish
situation.
Called British Victory
[t is admitted to-n? I I Lloyd
George, who went to Loi
will not return to Paris, and ai
further meeting o Coun?
cil to-morrow, at w] ich Lord I
the British Foreign Secretar; .
j represent Great Britain, the < il
will adjourn.
With the matter of Upper .
]i;i?m''? on tfi the League of Nations
and neutrality in tl
war decreed, with the pro-' ??
lation of that war ;?) a d*
ing end, the Supreme Council ? id
?itself to-morrow facing the compara?
tively innocuou: duties of app
an international committee to i
nate Russian relief and deciding the
matter of sanctions or, Germany.
I?" the test of Allied diplomacy is
? to rest in the Supreme Council's de?
cision on Upper Silesia, it must b* said
that Premier Lloyd *. :
victory for the British st'.?ttl in favor
of Germany's possession of the ?great?
est part of this important industrial
area. The Council of th* League is
overwhelmingly sympathetic
. Great Britain, with possibly on!
gium adhering to the French viewpoint.
The league Council is c?
representatives not only of France.
Great Britain. Italy and Japan, which
countries wire represented in the dis?
cussions in Pans, but also Belgium,
Spain, China and Brazil. A decision
by this body requires unanimous con
Bent of j 11 the members to any final
verdict, like a jury.
French Cab'net Assents
France's decision to pass the Sileaiaa
deadlock on t?j the le*?gue w?j fornvu