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First to Last ? the Truth: News ? Editorials ?Advertisements
THE WEATHER
Rain to-day; to-morrow clearing and
much colder; fresh south winds,
shifting to northwest
Full Retwrt on I-oat Pa*e
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1921
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TWO CENTS
In Greater New fork
Within 300 Mile?
KlMvrher?
Two Killings
In City-Wide
Bandit Raid
s
Robber Slain by Detective
After Being Discovered
in Act of Holding Up
Store in Bronx
Cigar
Gunmen Wound 2
Of Police hi Duel
Cafe Owner Murdered;
Woman Drops Kings In?
to Soup, Dupes Thieves
?
The casualty list in the bandit war'
?*ew yesterday. A cigar stove robber
in ne Bronx was killed by a detective's
bullet- Two detective.; wore wounded
in that encounter. The proprietor o?
acate in the Bronx was shot ami killed
by another pang of robbers. Shots,
were tired in a hold-up on the Bowery
and in one in Brooklyn. Four men held ;
up a delicatessen store in Hester Street
and three others got $300 from a Bronx j
dru/; store.
The robber who was killed in the j
fight with police in the cigar store was
identimi by his ringer prints as Nel- :
son Levy, convicted half a dozen times ?
in this "city since 1913, with two;
charges against him stili pending, be- :
sides two more which he escaped by
tamping his bail bond. The police
records show that Judge Rosalsky, of
General Sessions, suspended sentence
en him twice within a period of a year,
fell-owing his conviction on burglary
cbarge?.
Detectives Not Fatally Hit
The detectives who were wounded
?re Randall P. McCarthy and Timothy
.1. Connell, of the Trcmont police sta?
tion. Their wounds are not regarded
as fatal.
Leon Sottile, whose home was at 8
?,laiiison Street, was the cafe proprietor
vho was killed.
The encounter in the cigar store
?rhich ended in the death of one rob
berand the escape of another was one
?* the most desperate in the history
police. Both detectives were
vroanded by the lirst shots fired by the
obbers and Connell vvas stretched
ess on the floor when McCarthy
daggered to the street in pursuit of
the crocks and brought down his man
a bullet just before he himself
.' collapsed.
The two hold-up men had spent more,
than half an hour in the United Cigar
store at 880 East Tremont Avenue,
jerry Fryfteld, of 1350 Washington
uremia, the Bronx, manager of the
store, and John Michaels, of 881 East
Iffith Street, salesman, were in the
i '.??? when the pair entered.
Manager Bound to Chair
although the store is busy at that
hur of the evening, the robbers had
chosen a moment when no customer
#83 there. One of them went behind
?he counter and pressed his revolver
. ?inst Micbaels's side.
The other forced Fryfield, who was in
?font of the counter, into the rear
loom at the point of his revolver.
There he bound him securely to a chair
end stood ?juard over him. He left the
?Icor partly open so he could watch
vliat went on in the store, he himself
heir.g concealed by the darkness of the
rear room.
It was worth watching. The manager
?carcely was secure in his chair when
four customers entered. * Michaels'.-*
guard, whose revolver was hidden from
the customers by the counter, nudged
the salesman with it significantly and
Michaels attended to their wants with?
out giving a hint of the situation,
fearful that if he did he would get a
bullet through the heart.
As each customer took his change
and departed the '.'unman at Michaels's
r.de nodded genially and wished him a
merry Christmas. When the last of
them had gone he opened the cash
register and pocketed .$100 which it
contained.
Robber Calls for Cigars j
Then he told Michaels he could wrap
up half a dozen boxes of the best
cigars for him and a dozen boxes of
candy. Michaels did it with a revolver
nudging his back all the time.
Several more customers dropped in
and all of them were served. Four or
five times the man guarding Fryfield
in the back room peeked somewhat
anxiously around the edge of the door,
but each time before he could enter or
arrange with his pal for an exit, the
?font door would open and a customer
itep ii.
<.'..?-? of the customers, a man wno
came in fully half an hour after the
hold-up started, knew Michaels pretty
tail and undertook to jolly him a bit,
?cording to his custom.
"Handing out the Christmas cheroots
to-night, 1 suppose," said he with a
w'nk at his friend the salesman.
Michaels, whose sensibilities were
silled by this time to everything but
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9 Killed, Fifty Injured
In Arkansas Hurricane
Sight of Victims Negroes ; Wife
of White Planter and Four
Children Missing
MEMPHIS, Tenn.. Dec. 23. - Eight
negroes and one white man are known
w have been killed and between forty
*nd fifty persons injured by a storm
*"ich struck the town of Clarkdalc,
***?, seventeen miles northwest of
??emphis, late to-day and swept a path
?oout a mile wide and eight miles long
t0 the Mississippi River. Heavy dam
*Se is known to have been caused to
?number of farming settlements in the
?orm area.
Payne Harrison, clerk in the genera
merchandise store of Banks & Dana
? Ciarkdale, which was demolished
*'?? the only white person known t<
navu been killed. Mrs. B. B. Booker
""ose home, six miles north of Clark
J*'c was blown from its foundation
"?s among the injured.
lwelve of the injured, all negroes
"*re brought to Memnhis hospitals to
tiik A1! wero caught under fallin
"nsbers and masonry when the Bank
* ."ana store, in which they had take
eiuge from a rainstorm, collapsed.
n n addition to the nine persons re
of H .kil <?d in the immediate vicinit
that a'0, unconf'rmed reports wer
un sevt'ra' persons were missing an
Vf oved to be dead on the Kenned-,
niara aI1(i booker plantations, wes
of Uarkdale.
ehiu " Edward Kennedy and her fou
; ''yen aro among those reported :
?Sned f?r ?n U)e K6nnod
1
Harding Frees Debs, I
Alona With 23 Other
Obstructors in War
Refuses Pardons to Offenders Convicted of Using
Force Against Government and Denies Citizen?
ship to Those Liberated; Five Imprisoned
American Soldiers Also Given Freedom
F'rom The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON. Dec. 23.?President Harding to-day commuted the
prison sentences of Eugene V. Debs, several times Socialist candidate for
President, and "twenty-three other persons, including one woman, who had
been convicted of hindering the government's prosecution of the war.
The President, also pardoned five American soldiers convicted of murder.
Both the commutations and pardons become effective Christmas Day.
The cases of 197 persons convicted of violating war-time laws were
considered in selecting twenty-four for release. The President refused to
consider the release of persons convicted of sabotage or attempted over?
throw* of the government by force. Few of the so-called "political prison
ors" to whom Executive clemency will not be extended are American citi?
zens. Two-thirds of those whose sentences are commuted are members of
the I. W. W., a few of those named arc out on bonds, several have been
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Tribune Lets
Go Its Eighty?
Year-Old Site
?,
20-Story Building at Nas-j
sau and Spruce on News?
paper Row Sold to H. E.
Miller and S. M. Banner
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Paper Will Be Moved
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Horace Gr eel ey First Located !
Tribune in Present Down- ?
Town Quarters in 18-111
Following the purchase last week by !
The Tribune of the plot at 219 to 229 I
West Fortieth Street, where a new
Tribune Building will be erected, the j
present home of the newspaper, the ?
twenty-story structure at the corner of ;
Nassau and Spruce streets, has been
sold, in one of the largest real estate j
transactions consummated this year in
New York. The Tribune has been situ?
ated on this site since 1841, when Hor- j
ace Greeley established it in a little i
two-story frame structure which then
occupied the corner.
The property has been purchased on
a cash basis without trade element by
a corporation composed o? Herbert E.
Mitler and S. Morrill Banner. The new
owners have bought the property as
an investment, and upon the removal
of The Tribune, probably in May, 1923.
they will renovate the structure and :
offer it in large suites to the ever- i
growing number o? corporations seek- j
ing well located offices in the down- '
town business section.
Herbert Mitler is well known to the >
building and engineering world, having j
been associated for many years with !
the real estate firm of Bing & Eing in
charge of construction. More recent- j
ly, as an engineer and builder, he
erected many buildings of all charae- j
ters on his own account and with Mr. I
Banner.
Mr. Banner has for many years been
a prominent figure in the local real es?
tate world as owner and builder of
large buildings, principally in the Park
Avenue section.
Tribune to Remove Offices
The Tribune will remove its entire
plant and all its offices from the build?
ing to the new structure to be erected
in Fortieth Street.
Negotiations leading up to yester?
day's transaction have been ^.nder way
for a period of nearly six months. The
Charles F. Noyes Company represented
The Tribune throughout. Legal mat?
ters attending the sale were handled by
Harold L. Cross, of Sackett, Chapman.
Brown & Cross, for The Tribune and
by Stoddard & Mark for the purchaser!:.
The Tribune Building is one of the
landmarks of New York. It is the
pioneer of the group of newspaper
buildings centering around Park Row
and Nassau Street, of which the World
Building is the only other remaining.
Until seven years ago "The Sun" was
next door neighbor to The Tribune, and
before "The Times" moved to its sky?
scraper home at Forty-second Street
it. too, was a cross-the-street neighbor.
"The American" some years ago was
housed in the lower floors of the
Tribune Building. With other papers
located near by, the section received
the title Printing House Square, and
so it was known the world over.
Originally the Tribune Building was
of ten stories and occupied a site of
90 feet 9 inches on Nassau Street and
98 feet 5 inches on Spruce Street. It
was one of the city's first fireproof
buildings, though not of steel fi'ame
construction. Its tower, reaching
half again as high as the building it?
self, gave the structure an extraor?
dinary prominence. For some years it
held the distinction of being the only
building that topped Trinity Chinch
spire. It was a marvel of construc?
tion in its day and people came from
near and far to view it and to exclaim
over it, much as they do over the Wool
worth Building to-day.
Building Site Enlarged
In 1895, when the expansion of the
down-town business district had creat?
ed a large demand for space in the
vicinity of the City Hall, the late
Whitefaw Reid acquired the plot of
86 feet 2 inches at 5, 7 and 9 Frank
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paroled, at least two will be deported
and two are in asylums for the !
insane.
Citizenship Not Rcstor?sd
The citizenship of those convicted
of felonies is not restored by the \
President's action, although the
citizenship of the five pardoned sol- ;
diers is given back to them. President;
Harding announced the commutations ;
and pardom*.
This statement of the President'?
attitude toward Debs was issued at the i
White House:
"There is no question of his guilt
and that ho actively and purposely ob?
structed the draft. In fact, he ad?
mitted it at the trial, but sought to
justify his action. He was by no
means, however, as rabid and out?
spoken in his expressions as many
others, and but for his prominence
and the resultant farreaching effect
of his words very probably might not
have received the sentence he did. He
is an old man, not strong physically.
He is a man of much personal charm
and impressive personality, which
qualifications make him a dangerous
man, calculated to mislead the un?
thinking, and affording excuse for
those with criminal intent."
This statement was issued relative to
others to be releasd:
The list in the main is made up of
those who opposed the war in one way
or another, and it is made up of less
than a third of I. W. W. prisoners, and
these have either expressed full peni?
tence or are booked for deportation.
The Department of Justice, has given
no recommendation in behalf of the
advocates of sabotage or the destruc?
tion of government by force, and the
President let it be known he would not
consider such cases. In addition to th<
five soldiers on the list, many othei
cases are under consideration. '
Debs Case Long Studied
The President and the Attorney Gen
eral had given very extended consid
eration to the Debs petition, and it i;
known that the fact that he had twici
been the Presidential choice of a mil
lion of voters had its influence ii
reaching a decision favorable to his re
lease.
"The President expressed the wisl
that it be stated that the grant o
clemency in the cases acted upon doe
not question the justice of any actio
of the courts in enforcing the law i
a time of national peril, but he feel
the ends of justice have been fairl
met in view of the changed condition!
The vast majority of so-called politics
prisoners still imprisoned are the T. V
W. group, are rarely American citizen
and have no good claim to executiv
clemency. A number of convictc
citizens have never been imprisone?
owing to appeals under bond. Thei
are also many thousands of indie
ments under war legislation still peni
ing. These do not come under execi
tive consideration."
Debs was convicted at Cleveland ?
violating the espionage act and se
tenced September 14, 1918, to ten yea
in the state penitentiary at Mound
| ville, W. Va. An appeal was taken
I the Supreme Court of the Unit
i States, where the judgment was b
firmed March 10, 1919, and Debs beg:
his sentence April 12, 1919, in the. We
Virginia penitentiary, but was lat
transferred to the United States Pet
tentiary at Atlanta, where he is n(
confined. He would have been eligil
for parole August 11, 1922. His ter
with allowances for good condu
would have expired December 26, 19!
Debs has been in prison more than t
years and eight months.
The soldiers pardoned are:
Carl J. Bryan, James A. Odell, R
Youngblood, George Van Gilder and
B. Richardson, service men in t
American army on the Rhine, sentent
for life b;. military court for killi
G?orgie Lancefield, former British
ficer.
Others Freed with Debs
Persons whose sentences are cc
muted are:
Charles Ashleigh, convicted at C
cago in 1918 of conspiracy to viol
the espionage act, was sentenced
imprisonment for ten years and to j
a tine of $30,000. He is an Englishm
who came to this country in 1912.
associated with TIaywood in
1 W. W. He was a writer and spea
of some note.
Orville Anderson, convicted at De
wood, S. D., in 1918 of violation of
I espionage act, was sentenced to f
years and a fine of $1,000. He was
an I. W. W., but was guilty of maV
public statements calculated to pre-,
enlistment in the army. It was te
fied that he criticized the Presiden
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INVESTMENT INFORMATION
for the LAYMAN
The Tribune is ready to help its readers with their in?
vestment pioblemB. See the INVESTMENT INFOR?
MATION Column on the Financial Pages of to-day's
Km ?0ric Sfr?wne
Hylan Signs |
Budget and
Risks Jail
Takes ChaneeThat Appeal
Will Purge Contempt in
Defying Court Order to
Restore Pension Funds
City Clerk Consents,
Craig Deputy Balks
Really Men Threaten to
Punish Ail Involved and
Tie Up 1922 Tax Levy
Despite the threats of proceedings !
for contempt of court against himself
and other members of the Hoard of
Estimate, Mayor Hylan yesterday
signed the 1922 budget amounting to [
$350,238,420. The Mayor signed at the !
advice of the Corporation Counsel, who
held that the appeal taken by the city
to the Court of Appeals from the order
of the Appellate Division of the Su?
preme Court directing the city officials
to restore $3,000,000 of pension funds
to the budget acted as a stay to the
order of the lower court, and mean?
while would absolve the Mayor and his
associates from any possible contempt.
Deputy Comptroller Henry Smith,
who is acting Comptroller in the ab?
sence of Mr. Craig, declined to sign
on the ground that it did not comply
with the law. The law requires that
the budget be sipned by the Mayor,
the Comptroller and the City Clerk not
later than December 25. City Clerk
Michael Cruise also signed the budget
and transmitted it to the Comptroller's
office. The city authorities were no
nearer to finding a way yesterday tc
provide for the $3,000,000 pursuant tc
the court order without increasing tlu
budget beyond the constitutional ta>
limit.
Liable, Realty Men Say
Th United Real Estate Owners' As
sociation, petitioners in obtaining th<
court order against the Board of Esti
mate, through its counsel yesterda;
took the attitude that the city's appea
from the affirmation of the order b;
the Appellate Division would not ac
as a stay or relieve the city official
from liability for contempt of court
Stewart Browne, president of the asso
ciation, sent a telegram to Mayor Hy
Ian and the other members of th
Board of Estimate declaring that if th
Mayor or other cit/ officials signed th
budget in its present form without ir
eluding the pension funds the assoc;
ation would move to punish every men
her of the board, and the Board of A
dcrmen who passed on the budget, fr
contempt of court. Furthermore, M
Browne said the association would ti
up the 1922 tax levy by court proceei
ings. A similar telegram was sent 1
the City Clerk.
Arthur P. Nicholson, Assistant Co
poration Counsel, who represented tl
city in the court proceedings in rega?
to "the pension funds, conferred v/it
the Mayor at City Hall prior to tl
latter's signing the. budget. The que
tion had arisen as to whether an a
peal could be taken to the Court of A
peals by the city because of the fa
that the decision of the Appellate E
vision was unanimous and would nece
sitate the consent of that court to i
! appeal. The Corporation Counsel d
' clared that thf- order of the Appella
! Division against the city officials w
' a modified order and therefore a <
? rect appeal could be taken without t
consent of the court, which would a
. n? r> stav.
Court to Sit January 9
The Court of Appeals is not ex?
pected to sit before January 9, and
probably would not pass upon the case
until some days later. The Corpora?
tion Counsel contended that the stay
would not only preclude the enforce?
ment of the Appellate Division's or?
der in the mean time, but also would
preclude any proceedings for contempt
of court. In that case the city of?
ficials would not have to face jail for
contempt until the middle of January,
provided the Court of Appeals affirmed
the ruling of the lower court and the
city authorities still refused to re?
store the $3,000,000 to the budget.
Officials of the Finance Department
yesterday maintained that however the
mutter may be adjusted the city now
finds itself in a serious situation. It
is understood that Deputy Comptroller
Smith consistently will refuse to sign
. the budget until a way is found to
provide for the pension funds and
other funds deducted by the Board of
: Estimate and the Hoard of Aldermen,
: and will leave the matter for settle?
ment by Comptroller Charles L. Craig'
i when he returns from his vacation
! early next month.
Under the charter, the names of the
i three city officials must be affixed to
the budget to make It effective, and
it is a question whether the legality
1 of the budget will hold with onl;.* the
: names of the Mayor and the City
! (ilerk. The Corporation Counsel con
! tends that pending the appeal to the
? highest court the time limit for actual
? ly signing the budget in the required
, form is extended until the Court of
I Appeals hands down its decision.
Yanks Out Gold Teeth
To Catch Drug Venders
?:-,
j Detective Sacrifices Two Front
Ones to Alter Looks and Sus?
pect Falls Into Trap
The simple but painful expedient of
? having two gold teeth extracted won a
case yesterday for Detective Cotter, of
Dr. Carleton Simon's narcotic division.
: Cotter, working with Detective O'Brien,
had been sent out to break up a ring
. of drug venders in the brightly lighted
? district of upper Broadway. For throe
weeks they trailed one man, but he al?
ways recognized them despite any dis
I guise they attempted.
Finally Cotter realized that it was
his two gold front teeth which always
betrayed him. He had the teeth ex
? tracted, adopted a new disguise and
j landed his man. The prisoner is Jack
Yolish, twenty-six years old, of 352
West Forty-first Street. Yolish, it is
said, sold heroin to the detectives. He
: was held in $500 bail yesterday by
Magistrate Joseph E. Corrigan in Jef?
ferson Market court.
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THE ri.AZA?Sunday Dinner MiiHlralett
i iu the now Terraced Heslnurnnt. Special
dinner $6.00 per cover.?Advt.
Pact No Alliance, Says Harding,
Quibbling Puerile; France Asks
90,000 Tons of Submarines
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Balfour Argues Insist-!
ence on This Demand
Would Mean Continued
Tax for Land Defense
Issue May Go to
Conference Session
Allusion Made to Briand
Hint That Army Is All
He Desired Kept Up
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-- France to?
day laid before the Naval Committee of
the Conference on the Limitation of
Armament a demand that it be allowed
90,000 tons of submarines. This is the
same submarine tonnage allowed under
the Hughes program to the United
States and Great Britain and is far in
excess of the proportion v/hich would
be allowed a nation possessing the
capital ship tonnage allotted to France.
The French demand met with the
prompt response by the representative
of Great Britain, Arthur J. Balfour.
that such a concession to her neighbor
across the channel automatically would
imply that Great Britain would be
given a free hand in turning out all
means necessary to deal with a pos
sible submarine menace.
While admitting that the result ol
the French demand would in no way af
feet the international agreement or
i capital ships, a member of the Britisi
delegation pointed out that even witl
the elimination of construction of ship!
of the line, the reflex upon taxpayer:
in both England and France would b?
tremendous.
While admitting that the results o
that possibility would in no way affec
the international agreement on capita
ships, a member of the British dele
gation pointed out that, even with tin
elimination of construction of ships o
the line, the reflex upon taxpayers ii
both England and France would be tre
mendous.
The attitude of the British on th
submarine question was given adde
: emphasis this afternoon by a threi
sided discussion between Mr. Balfoui
head of the British delegation; Senate
Schanzer, head of the Italian delegf
tion, and Admiral De Bon, of Franc?
Senator Schanzer asserted that th
; question should be discussed later i
a "wider conference" before the Bri'
I ish demand that submarines be abo
ishud is accepted. "The best course.
he added, "would be to follow even i
this case the spirit of the America
proposal and consequently to lim
submarines to the measure strict!
necessary for the ends of a purely d?
fensivc naval policy."
Would Keep Tax Burden
Execution by the French of their de- ,
mand for a submarine navy would j
mean in the very least, it was declared, i
that Great Britain should be prepared, i
if only as a matter of pure strategy, to '
resist at any time in the future an j
undersea attack of the magnitude pos- '
sible with 90.000 tons of that type of
war craft. It would also nullify for :
those two countries much of what has i
been accomplished in lightening the
puhlic tax burden.
Citing the experiences of the recent
war, in which the Allied countries com?
bined maintained 4,484 ships of various
types to deal with the 300 German sub- |
marines, of which only a fraction were '
at sea at any given time, it was said j
by British representatives that the
defensive program Great Britain would
be forced to adopt would call for infi- i
nitely greater anti-submarine tonnage !
than a French under-water fleet might
total.
The British are not now optimistic j
about obtaining a satisfactory settle?
ment of this problem from their point
of view.
The submarine question is one that
must be discussed in plenary session.
It was learned that the delegates ex?
pect to finish the private discussions to?
morrow afternoon and it is therefore
probable they will take the question
up in a plenary session next Tuesday
or Wednesday.
"illegitimate Destruction"
The British feel that if the subma?
rine question is not entirely settled
with adjournment of the entire con?
ference, public opinion will soon be
educated to the point where all the
powers will be forced to entire aboli?
tion of tnis form of warfare. A partial
settlement now will be followed at an
early date by another conference,
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Santa Banished From Zion;
Great Fraud, Voliva Decrees
Specini Dispatch ?o The Tribune
CHICAGO, Dec. 23.?It will be a
gloomy Christmas in Zion City, the
peculiar commv.:nty north of Chicago
presided over and dominated absolutely
by Wilbur Glenn Voliva, general over?
seer. Voliva has decreed that there is
no Santa Claus and that there shall be
no exploiting of silly myths for the de?
lectation of the superior children of
Zion.
Santa Claus, according to Voliva, be?
longs in the liinbo of forgotten things
;iul old Kris Kringle is as great a
fraud as the people, whj contend that
the world is round. Voliva also avers
that there are no such creatures as
reindeer, so the tearful kids of Zion
may only use their stockings to wear.
"Gilto" come from above," said the
stern Voliva. "They are sent down to
your fathers and mothers, and if you
are very good httle children your fath?
ers and mothers will pass them along
to you."
This ultimatum is right in line with
Voliva's recent vociferous declaration
that the earth is flat. He undertook to
prove this by hurling a book into the
air. "Now, if the earth is round and
; whirling rapidly, as these foolish peo
| pie affect to believe," he said, "this
| book would fall several feet from me.
The eartlt would whirl away from it.
This proves that" the earth is flat *vnd
immovable."
One of his followers undertook to
show that the earth, or at least Lake
Michigan must have a curve, and
pointed out the disappearing sails as
they passed over the curve, but Voliva
shut him up sharply. He offered $1,000
for proof that the earth is round, but
stipulated that he must be convinced ?
and made it veTy clear that his mind
was made up on the matter and he
could not be convinced.
Recent discovery of a "blind pig" in
the holy precincts of Zion caused ex?
citement that has not yet subsided. A
' man and a woman, members of the
faithful, were found to be maintaining
a "booze" parlor on an ambitious
scale. In a duofold lounge, the officers
? found about thirtv gallons of assorted
"hootch." This gave Voliva a text for
a burning discourse upon the wiles of
1 the devil, who, he asserts, ?3 making
especial efforts to fasten his claws
? upon Zion.
Now, with old St. Nick and his
, pack of Christmas gifts banished from
! Zion, the children thereabouts will
readily agree with Volivia that the
earth is indeed flat, not to say stale and
?? unprofitable.
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Parley to Include Small Nations
%/
Urged on U. S. by Italy and Britain
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (By-The Associated Press).?Along with
the submarine discussions at the armament limitation conference there
has developed a proposal that plans be made for some future conference
to include other nations' and take up details of auxiliary fleet con?
struction, which some of the delegates feel cannot be settled here. The
Italians have taken the lead in advocating such a plan, and the British
are understood to have suggested that the United States come forward
with some definite proposal in line with President Harding's desire
for a continuing series of international meetings. The conversations
have not, however, reached a formal stage.
Churches May |
Cease Use of
Alcoholic Wine |
Dry Directors in Conference
With Leaders of All Faiths
Seek Limit of One-half of
One Per Cent for Rites
Pope Favors Abstinence
Inquiry Here Grew Out
of Alleged Abuses of
Rabbinical Wine Ruling
-
Religious traditions, dating in some
I instances from before the Christian
era, may be upset by prohibition con
! feronces of the Government Prohibition
Division, Roman Catholic Church dig?
nitaries, Jewish rabbis and ministers
of all other faiths using fermented
wines for sacramental purposes. The
idea of the Prohibition Division ex
i pressed yesterday is to get the con?
sent of all churches to use wines of
less than one half of one per cent al?
cohol for all religious purposes. ?
Director Ralph A. Day, in charge of
prohibition in New York State, replied
| to utterances of Louis Marshal!, presi?
dent of the American Jewish Commit?
tee, 171 Madison Avenue, in the con?
troversy growing out of the investiga?
tion by the government of alleired
abuses by bootleggers of rabbinical
wine regulations. During the course
of the director's conversation with
newspaper men it developed that con
i ferences are now being held having as
I their ultimate object the cessation by
' all churches in the United States of
? the use of intoxicating wine.
Co-operating With Churches
The Prohibition Department, it was
reported yesterday, has been working
in accord and co-operation with
church leaders in bringing about an
understanding. It was reported that
churchmen of all faiths were found not
adverse to reducing the^alcoholic con- j
tent of sacramental wines to one half j
of one per cent. Four rabbis were I
named as constituting a committee I
representing the Jews in New York.
The committee is composed of Chief
Rabbis Joffee, Leventhal, Yudelovich .
and Margolis.
The investigation of alleged abuses
of sacramental wine privileges has
been going on for weeks. The informa?
tion that the Roman Catholic Church
has been invited into the conferences
and that some representatives of that
church appeared not adverse to adopt?
ing the wine of legal alcoholic con?
tent came as a surprise.
While the movement originated in
New York it is expected to be taken
up throughout the country. Investiga?
tors of the Roman Catholic attitude
toward prohibition have learned that
the Pope repeatedly has expressed him?
self as favoring total abstinence as a
means of attaining a spiritual life.
Within the Catholic Church there is a
growing guild known as the Catholic
Total Abstinence League.
Jews for Strict Observance
From the Jewish standpoint the re?
ligious congregations have always co?
operated with the government to bring
about strict observance of the statu?
tory laws, it was pointed out yesterday.
Louis Marshall, in this connection, has
j communicated with David H. Blair,
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, ex?
pressing the hearty co-operation of the
.Jewish people in the enforcement of
prohibition.
Director Day explained the sacra?
mental wine investigation, but asked
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Peace Demand
To Assail Dail
During Recess'
Growing Sentiment for Pact
Expressed by Constituents '
Expected to Have Vital I
Effect on Many Members
Press Support Unanimous
'Intellectuals' Warned Oppo-1
sition Will Cost Ireland;
Sympathy Among Nations i
By Arthur S. Draper
Special Cable Dispatch to The Tribune
Copyright, 1921. New York Tribun? Inc.
DUBLIN, Dec. 23.?The adjournment
last night of the Dail Eireann without
! reaching a decision on the motion to
? ratify the Anglo-Irish treaty wss a
i profound disappointment to an Ireland
! that on all sides has been demanding a
! quick decision and peace. Before the
! Dail reassembles on January 3 the con
! stituencies of the members will have
i made plain to the members the wide?
spread demand for ratification of the
! treaty. The belief prevails that one of
j the effects of the days of debate will
i be to lead several deputies to abstain
I from voting on the treaty, following
| the suggeston of Dr. Patrick McCartan.
i The members have agreed not to make
! campaign speeches on the treaty.
At least another week of debate is
inevitable when the Dail meets again
before a vote on the ratification can be
taken. Forty additional members have
signified their intention of speaking.
This is one more than have already
expressed opinions.
Delays Freedom for 3,000
The Irish press is unanimous in re?
gretting that decision was not reached
before Christmas, not only on account ?
of the anxiety and suspense all over
this island as well as in Great Britain,
but on account of the 3,000 prisoners
who had been promised freedom as a
Christmas present if the pact were ap?
proved before adjournment. Most of
the press regards the adjournment as
favorable to the cause of ratification.
The debate in the Dail Eireann has
developed two points: That the oppo?
sition to British rule is even stronger
among the intellectuals than in the
ranks of the Irish republican army
that did all the fighting, and that those
who are opposing the treaty have n?>
realization of what Ireland will lose in
the world's esteem if the treaty is not
ratified.
There can be no question that the
women who have spoken against the
treaty in the Dail have a great deal of
influence among Irish people. With
the two big men in the army fighting
for the treaty, the burden of the cry
I for its defeat, even with more war as
an alternative, is coming from the in?
tellectuals, led by De Valera and such
women as Countess Markievicz, Miss
Mary MacSwiney, Mrs. O'Callahan and
Mrs. Tom Clarke.
Foes Ignore World Sentiment
The treaty opponents fail to realize
that the attitude of the world toward
Irish aspirations has changed since
i Premier Lloyd George offered the
i treaty. The De Valera faction does not
believe that Great Britain will renew
' war in Ireland if the pact is beaten
I in the Dail. This group believes that
? other countries will again support Ire
! land's battle for freedom.
Certain it is that the British domin
| ions will offer Ireland no sympathy if
i the treaty is not ratified.
| One of the big questions in the
j minds of the members of the oppo
: sition is whether Ireland could carra?
?n her campaign of propaganda and
I war, even if the treaty was beaten.
DUBLIN, Dec. 23 (By The Associated ',
Press).?Commenting on the adjourn- j
ment of the Dail Eireann, "The Irish j
Times" says:
"We infer that the friends of rati
fication in the Dail Eireann are ready j
to meet their constituents with easy :
minds, but that the advocates of re?
jection begin to feel that it is one
thing to defy popular opinion from the
platform in Dublin and another thing
to confront it on its own ground.
"If Mr. de Valera had succeeded in
fusing a vote on the agreement be
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Nation-Wide Rail Strike
Threatened in Germany
' Workers Declare They Will
Quit Christmas Day ?Unless
Advanced January Wages
Special Ccblr to The Tribune
BERLIN. Dec. 23.?A nation-wide
; strike of all German railroad workers
on Christmas Day threatens unless the
government yields to their demand for
i payment of their January -*;*j*/es in ad
! vanee. Leaders of the railroau u.:i*;*is
? called on members of the Cabinet to
; day and told them that the workmen
; in many sections were preparing to
j walk out.
Advance payments are made now to
I two small classes of railroad workers.
i
> .
No Entanglement Thought
Of.NoneWillBeNegotiat
ed, He Says ; Denies U. S.
Delegates Withhold Facts
Greatest Step for
Peace in History
Asserts Hope of World
Lies in Conferences Be?
fore, Not After, Wars
By Carter Field
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.?In a
smashing attack on the quibbling
over whether the main islands of
Japan were included in the four
power Pacific treaty President Har?
ding to-day issued a statement in
which he declared that the hope of
civilization lies in having peace con?
ferences before wars, instead of
after them.
"Why, if there was a menace of
peace in Japan," he asked, ''what
objection could there be for the
United States to sit down with her
friend in the Orient and with the
other great powers and discuss how
the matter could be adjusted? If
some one had done that when Aus?
tria was threatening Serbia there
would have been no European war."
Halt War by Parley
"That is the object of the four
party treaty," said the statement in
another place, after urging that con?
ferences should be held at the time
the disputes arise, and not after the
war has been fought. "That is why
I say the small lack of agreement in
construing it is not significant."
The President's statement was un
I premeditated. He was talking with the
I newspaper men. as he does twice a
j week. At the conclusion of his state
I ment, in answer to a question, he was
i asked for the unusual privilege o~
| quoting what he had said. After some
i hesitation it was agreed that the ste?
nographer's notes might be used.
! Text of President's Statement
The text of President Harding-s
statement follows:
"The President will offer no com?
ment on the disputes which attempt
to magnify the differing construc?
tions on the four-power treaty. To
him these are unimportant. The bic
things aimed at are understandings
for peace and an agreement to meet
and discuss the preservation of
peace whenever it is threatened.
"No alliance or entanglement is '
thought of, none will be negotiated.
It would be better to rejoice over
things accomplished than to dwell on
differing views which can be of no
great consequence.
"The President is unwilling that
the unjustified charge that the
United States delegates are with?
holding information shall go unchal?
lenged. He had full confidence, else
he had not chosen them, and he ha?
full confidence now and is more than
gratified over their efforts, because
they are working out the greatest
contribution to peace and good will
which has ever marked the Christ?
mas time in all the Christian era.
Actuality the Biggest Thing
"It is one thing to talk about the
; ideals of peace, but the biggest thing
is to seek the actuality. This the
! conference is doing, in harmony with
j an overwhelming American senti?
ment, and a world sentiment too.
and in full accord with cherished
I American traditions."
j* Replying to the question: "Do you
i feel that the world has made great
progress in the direction of peace and
good will?" President Harding said:
"I think I made some such reply
to a similar question at the last in?
terview*. I do think so. I believe it
with all my heart. I do not say that
with the thought of arrogating to
the United States of America any
! greater part of the contribution than
j that which has been made by other
nations of like importance and like
i civilization. But it seem? to me that
i in 1921, as we' have come to know
j more fully the aftermath of the War,
j as we have come to appraise the un?
speakable cost of it all, there is a
new conviction in the hearts of men
that that sort of anneal?the appeal
to arms-?to settle the international
questions is a futile thing, and that
we are unworthy of our position and
unworthy of the blessings which fall
to a righteous civilization if we do
not find some means for a righteous
adjustment without appeal to slaugh?
ter and waste and all the distresses
that attend. I think that conviction has
rooted itself throughout the world,
and there must come some helpful,
progressive expression of it. I think
that expression is being given at this
conference. I have no thought to
preach on this subject to-day, but
make your own applications, please.
Find Way to Agreement
"When men sit about the con?
ference table and look each other in
the face and look upon the problems
deliberately, without passion, they
find the way to come to an. agree?
ment. And after all there has never
been a conflict in the world that has
not been settled in the end in that
way. You have a war; you destroy
thousands or mi.lions of men and
measureless treasure, and then you
gather about a table and settle it. I
have a feeling that mankind has be?
come wise enough to sit down before
the war and try to settle it. And
that is the object of the four-party
treaty. That is why I say the small
lack if agreement in construing it is?
not significant.
"Why, if there was a menace of
peace in Japan, what objection could
there be for the United States to sit
! down with her friend in the Orient
j and with the other great powers and
discuss how the matter could be ad