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THE WEATHER
Cloudy to-day and to-morro*w, proba?
bly with local rain?; south?
went wind*.
Hull Report on I.a-t Paga
MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1922
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TWO CENT? 1 THRKK CENTS I rOER CENT-?
In (?-.-ter Jiaw York j Wlthbi ?0? IWItaa | Elnen-h?-.
Umservatives
Plan to Drop
Lloyd George
Another Leader May Be
Chosen by Party at the
Nov. 15 Meeting, Giving
Premier a Minor Place
He May Call Vote
Before That Date
Manchester Speech Fails
to Appease Foes; Pr?s?
Brands It as "Evasive"
LONDON, Oct. J5 (By The Asso?
ciate'? Press}.?It is persistently as?
serted here that the Conservatives in
fheir November 15 convention will
adopt resolutions practically deposing
Lloyd George from leadership and plac?
ing the Conservative party in the
future under a Conservative leader,
relegating, Lloyd George, if he cares
to accept that position, to leader?
ship in the Houeb of Commons under
a Conservative Premier in the event
that the Conservatives in the next
general election corno back strong
enough to form n government.
The question still not solved, is
whether Lloyd George will try to
forestall this development by immedi?
ate resignation or dissolution of Par?
liament.
From The Tribune's European Bureau
Copyright. 1322. New York Tribune Inc.
LONDOaN, Oct. 15.?Crowds cheered
Premier Lloyd George this afternoon
when he returned to Downing Street
from Manchester, where in an address
yesterday he upheld his Near East
policies and challenged his political
foes to beat him on h-.s record.
Say Premier Will Not Quit
Those closest to the Premier say
that he has no intention of resigning
now and allowing the Conservatives to
s triumph without a fight, nor does he
contemplate retirement in the near
future. Virtually all the political
prophets agree that he will call an
election within a month, and they also
agree that a majority of the Conserv?
atives will stand as independents.
Colonial Secretary Churchill was
clwtted with the Premier for two
?war? this evening, and there is a
gewitl expectation that as a result
t? tht conference there will be an an
noufltjenvent of a general election at an
csriydete.
Press Calls Speech Evasive
?Thile giving the Premier credit for
making a clever defense of the govern
?'isnt, most newspapers contend that
Ms Manchester speech was evasive
*nd that the days of coalition have
passed. Perhaps the most difficult po?
rtion in England to-day is the one held
bv Austen Chamberlain, leader in Com?
mons, who is torn between a desire to
continue co-operation with Lloyd
George and a iear that such a course
will throw a majority of the Conserva?
tives into mutiny. Even Lloyd George's
position is a happier one.
On the assumption that the election
will be held within a month, the situa?
tion becomes more interesting, for the
government cannot send representa?
tives to the Near East conference, it
cannot present the Irish constitution
to Parliament and it cannot send Sir
Robert Home to Washington to discuss
the debt funding plan, which it has had
under consideration for months. The
very fact that these three matters de?
mand immediate attention is. sufficient
reason for hastening the election.
The Premier is anxious to hold the
election before the meeting of the Con
rervatives on November lb, at which, it
is planned to announce the purpose of
the party to contest the election-with.
independent candidates. The sooner
the elections are held the better it will
be ?q? Lloyd George, even though he
and Churchill cannot run as party
Libarais because the Asquitb group
control the organization.
Lhyd George's Strength Personal
< LJoyd George is still tremendously
?strong throughout the country, but his
popularity U hardly sufficient to elect
?ny conkfderable number of his follow?
ers who will go to the polls as Lloyd
George men. Three party machines?
the Conservatives, the Liberals and the
Laborites?already have started work?
ing, and the Lloyd George candidates
will labor under a great handicap
unless they have the indorsement of
one of the regular parties.
From a purely domestic political
?standpoint the attitude of the Con?
servatives is the vital issue. Conserva?
tive newspapers, such as "The Morning
Post," '?The Daily Express" and "The
I-ondon Times," continue to plead with
Chamberlain.to avoid a disastrous split
?n the party by deserting Lloyd George
Md running as an independent.
It te significant that while Chamber
??n in hi3 Birmingham speech argued
that coalition should be continued be
**i?e of the threat of the Laborites
?ese newspapers sharply criticize his
tactics. It is equally significant that
**??? Asquith Liberals are now openly
?idding for co-operation with the Labor
Hrty. Meanwhile the Labor party lead
I *'s are steadily growing more confi?
n?t and, although they do not claim
wat they will be able to form the next
?overnment, they declare they will
, (Continued on pate thre?)
New York Student Killed,
?Pour Hurt in Auto Crash
Buckncll Boy Die? When Car
Returning From Navy Game
Hoi Another
S?NlIURY, Fa., Oct. 15.?One Buck
J? College student, a New York
*"??? ? dead and four others are
airiJL*. tfee "suit of an automobile
K'wnt at what is known as Dalmatia
???*. one of the worst detoters In the
W?f8r,y t0-d*y- Henry Burg,
^??Mwo years old, a junior, suf
{??? * fracture of the skull. He died
*J*-i ?n hour.
?a* ? ?indents were returning from
?Vl'. wh?rc th*y attended the
tirW Navy f?atball game, and the
Ai?i?fcTa &w.Ry irom then*- the brakes
;aj?g to hold. When three-quarters
JtelLtfc?, '?W-foot forty-five degree
?C?,kytcra"h,!(i into a heavy
i tA.\eN,which ^?8 slowly driving
t??j51"*' The machines met head
Bt ?.I *ai*ller car waa practically
?Sad? rg ffoing throu*h bot*
French Aroused by
Lloyd George Attacks
/?recial Cab?a ta The -mi*-**?
Copyrlf-ht. 193-, Naw York Tribune Inc.
PARIS, Oct. 15. ? Premier
Lloyd George's speech at Man?
chester on Saturday has had a
bad reaction in France. His at?
tack on the French government
for its alleged failure to keep its
engagements in the Near East
has aroused bitter resentment in
official circles. The "Temps" de?
nounces him as the "trouble
maker of Europe," and in th?
attitude is supported by virtu?
ally all the twenty important
newspapers in Paris. "First he
?was against the Germans; now
it is the Turks and even the
Italians and French," says the
"Temps."
No comment was forthcoming
from the Quai d'Orsay, but it is
plain that the bitterness againsjt
Downing Street has been accen?
tuated in official' circles.
News Summary
WASHINGTON
President Harding praises work of
Sixty-sixth and Sixty-seVenth Con?
gresses as notably helpful to Amer?
ican welfare.
Offer of 4M per cent Treasury
bonds is oversubscribed $ 1,000,000,000.
National Advisory Council for
Aeronautics to discuss l?gislation.
FOREIGN
Conservatives would depose Pre?
mier Lloyd George, relegating him
to leadership in House of Commons.
King Ferdinand and Queen Marie
of Rumania crowned at Albajulia,
in Transylvania.
Angora government declines to ap?
prove Scutari as scene of peace con?
ference.
LOCAL
City registration 194,056 less than
two years ago; Miller managers see
advantage for Governor.
" Salvation Army girl, refusing sum?
mons for blocking traffic, starts riot
that calls out reserves.
Mayer describes plan to end B. R.
T. receivership.
State aid in Hall murder investi?
gation may give it new life.
Meyer committee will fight Boagd
of Estimate's control of new school
building; ?eatings steadily falling
behind.
"Little Pal" ends her life in
motor boat she scrimped to keep.
Random coal audits to ehe,ek profi?
teering begin to-day.
Sentry hills sergeant in speeding
taxi at New Dorp aviation -field.
Smith charges Miller put Labor
Department back in politics by '
changing Civil Service laws.
Jerome to pursue attack on
bosses at Whalen meeting to-night.
Automatic phones go over with?
out a hitch and obliterate "tele?
phone temper."
Magistrate scolds detectives who
turn up still without search war?
rant.
Holland-America line next m or?
der on Daugherty liquor fight.
Pushcart men ask O'Malloy to
cut $1 weekly fee in half.
America intolerant, given to
trivialities and afflicted with New
York, says Rabbi Wise in sermon.
DOMESTIC
Miller encouraged by first swing
around northern tier counties.
Senator Lodge's re-election in
Massachusetts by at least 40,000 is
forecast.
Veterans gather in New Orleans
for American Legion convention
opening to-day.
Four midshipman face court mar?
tial at Annapolis to-day on hazing
charges.
v Deer hunting season opens in Adi
rondacks. ? ?
SPORTS
Chicago Cubs win city series from .
White Sox, Alexander taking final
game, 2 to 0. :
Battling Sikl to fight Joe Beckett
in London, November 28.
Governor's Island polo te?rn^ de?
feats Fort Hamilton, 10 to 9.
Baltimore Internationals win
"junior world's seties" from St. Paul
of American Association, taking
final game, 4 to 8. -
Thomas and Lawrence lap field-in
i winning two-hour race at New York
Velodrome.
MARKETS AND SHIPS
London markets show more cheer?
ful tone as Near East crisis passes.
French industry is abandoning *
eight-hour working day.
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2 Die, 28 Hurl, as Reds
Attack Berlin Meeting
Pan-German Gathering Brings
Riot Which Police Have
Hard Work Dispersing
BERLIN, Oct. 16 (By The Associated
Press).?One civilian and one police?
man were killed and three-policemen
and twenty-five civilians injured in,
disorders which broke out to-day dur?
ing an attempt to suppress a pan-Ger?
man meeting.
The meeting, organized by the Pan
German League, was held m the Busch
Circus. Hundreds of Communist?
gathered prior to the meeting and made
a hostile demonstration. The crowd,
which grew in numbers rapidly, became
riotous and the police had the utmost
difficulty in dispersing the throng and
driving its members into the side
streets. -.
During the disorder two pan-Ger?
mans were thrown into the river, but
were rescued.-. Numerous arrest? were
?ade? __, .'_..-_?-..??--<-_...
Hall Murder
Hunt Starts
Anew To-day
Justice Parker Expected
to Place Inquiry in Hands
of Jersey Attorney Gen?
eral to End Bungling
Fear of Heavy Bill
Alarms Taxpayers
FreeholdersRecall$6,500
Bill State Sent Morris
County in Kluxen Case
By Boyden Sparkes
' NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Oct. 15.?
With Prosecutor Strieker of Middlesex
i and Prosecutor Azar iah Bookman of
. Somerset County removed from control
of'the* investigation of the murder of
? Edward F. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills,
the hunt for the murderer is expected
:'to receive a fresh impetus to-morrow
with the appointment of a special As?
sistant Attorney General to direct the
work of sifting the evidence.
Supreme Court Justice Parker, at
Jersey City, is expected to issue an
order directing Attorney General Mc
Cran to take charge of the inquiry.
He was requested to do this yester?
day by Prosecutors Strieker and Beek
man after counsel for Mrs. Frances
Hall, widow of the murdered rector,
had written to Governor Edwards de?
nouncing the "bungling stupidity" of
the investigators in control and urging
that they be superseded by a fearless
state officer vested with complete au?
thority in the case.
Will Make Fresh Start
"I feel that it would not be ethical
for me to discuBS the case at this
time," Attorney General McCran said
in reply to a request for his opinion
?qd* the situation. "If I am directed to
tako part in the caee then I shall be at
liberty to speak. If I do en?er I will
begin without preconceived notions as
to the identic of the perpetrator or as
to the motive.
; "It is impossible for me to say now
whether I will continue to work with
Prosecutors Beekman and Strieker and
their staff of detectives."
Mr. McCran agreed that he would*
have authority to bring County Detec?
tive jj-Uis Parker from Burlington
County if Justice Parker orders him to
intervene.
"But I do not know Mr. Parker,"
added Mr. McCran, "and therefore can?
not say whether I should employ him."
There wa? a report here to-night
that Joseph Lanigan, an. able assistant
in Mr. McCran's office, might be sent
here by the Attorney General.
Charged $6,500 In Kluxen Case
A few months ago in response to
public clamor against the failure of
the Morris, County authorities to find
the murderer of little Janet Lawrence
Mr. McCran was directed to take con-,
trol of the investigation. A half-"
witted vouth had been tried and ac?
quitted before Mr. McCran entered the
case. When he went into it young
Francis Kluxen,. whose uncle was a
detective in the office of the prose?
cutor, was arrested and brought to
trial. He, too, was acquitted. Mr.
McCran's bill to the Morris County
Freeholders was $6,500. The roars of
protest are still faintly audible in
neighboring counties. The bill was
paid after Justice Parker had approved
it.
The Freeholders of Somerset Coun?
ty, Who will have to foot any such bill
in thia^ca-*., unless it is established
that the'- crime was committed in Mid?
dlesex County, are not likely to wait
to make their protest until after a bill
has been submitted. Already some of
them have expressed complete faith in,
the ability of Azariah Beekman, re?
gardless of the failure of the prose?
cutor to see that jiutopsics were per?
formed and ' that^photographs were
made of the bodies before they were
disturbed.
The failure to take photographs is
one of the most puzzling features of
the investigation.
It has ? been customary to make
photographs of the scene snd the
bodies in other murders committed
hereabouts. ' '
Many Points Overlooked
Equally surprising was the failure
to guard the spot on the farm where
the bodies were found from an inva?
sion of morbidly curious persons from
N-?w'-Brunswick. 'They swarmed at will
all over the place soon after the bodies
were found. The feet of these curious
persons trampled out the faint tracks
of automobiles that are believed to
have borne the killer to the scene.
Crlminologists regard carefully made
photographs of the treads, of automo?
biles almost with as much importance
as finger print?. There never was a
thorough search of the farm for a
weapon or other clews until after the
appeal of Charlotte Mills to Governor
Edward? resulted in the state troopers
being sent here.
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Neighbors Ask Removal
Of Insane War_Veterans
Residents living In the vicinity of
Veterans' Hospital No. 81, Kingsbridg?
Road and Sedgwick Avenue, the Brons?
bave begun a campaign to have the In?
sane ward of tho institution removed
to a more suitable locality, preferably
In a rural district. n
S. Zucker, of 118 West 190th Street,
is heading the movement, saying that
the nightly disturbancei in the hos?
pital are getting on the nerves of the
resident?. He also alleges that the
inmates make remarks to women
passersby. Others who voice the samo
opini?n Include the Rev. A. O. Malm
berg, of 2477 Devoe Terrace; Mrs. T.
F. Barrett, of 114 West 190th Street;
Mrs. I. Mesina, of 120 West 190th
Street; Mrs. F. Vogel, of 2454 Webb
Avenue, and Mrs. S. Sanders, of 113
West 190th Street.
Dr. G. F. Brewster, executive officer
at the hospital, said that there aro
forty-five patients in the insane ward.
"The only way.to quiet them," he
declared/ "when they start a disturb?
ance is to throttle them, but the hos?
pital is not run along those linea.1*
i * . ?
1,179,818 Registered in City;
194,055 Drop an Aid to Miller
Observers Declare Smith's Strength Is Hard Hit With
Heavy Decline in Local Enrolment From Two
Years Ago ; Murphy and Koenig Districts Lose
New York City's registration this
year is 1,179,818. This is a falling off
of 194,055 over two years ago, when
ex-Governor Alfred E. Smith polled his
tremendous majority in this city over
Governor Miller, a majority, however,
which was offset by the upstate vote
ior the Governor. The completed fig?
ures show that 409,522 registered on
?Saturday.
fW.i yfar'8 rct?istration is 83,7.35 less
SJ, hl\uble vote hero- Observers
expressed the opinion that the slump
hL e """-o.er of qualified voters in
n.? live boroughs would work to Gov?
ernor Miller's advantage, since it
W. x^ dP,crease in the Smith vote
ere" f?"?, to *?> ,fc ia the vote
fifi h? * the Smith iMtkn is count
L,?..?., overcome Gorwi.or Miller's
assured up-state majority.
lohticians also admitted that the
enrollment in this city-espccially in
Manhattan?would have been consider?
ably less had it not been for the deal
of Samuel S. Koenig and Charles F.
Murphy to remove Surrogate John P.
C'ohalan because he would not do the
bidding of the bosses.
In many Tammany districts the dis?
gust of the old-line Democrats was
auch that they remained away from
the registration booths in large num?
bers. In Tammany Boss Murphy's own
district?the 12th?there was a falling
off of more than 2,000 from last year.
Th*ro was also a slump in Republican
districts in Manhattan where Koenig
holds sway. Two years ago Governoi
Miller was knifed in many of these
Republican strongholds.
The biggest falling off was in Man?
hattan, where 32,096 fewer voters
qualified than last year. This set Man?
hattan to second on the list in point
of voting strength, as Brooklyn's regis?
tration this year is 423,249 to Man?
hattan's 421,531. Brooklyn's slump wai
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LittlePal,Worth
Only$650,Ends
Life by Bullet
Mrs. Mary Mann in Note
Places Death Value at
$1,000 and Decides To Be
Game Sport: Body in Boat
Telephones Farewell Kiss
Husband, Telling of Call,
Thought It Was Joke;
Scene Near Other Tragedy
The body of a woman, shot in the
abdomen, was found last night in a
motorboat drydocked in the Federal
Motorboat Club, 142d Street and the
Hudson River, twenty-four hours after
her husband had reported her missing.
Deputy Chief Medical Examiner
Schwartz pronounced it suicide.
According to Harry? Mann, a stock
clerk, living at 235 West Twenty
fourth street, his wife, Mary, forty
one years old, telephoned him at his
office Saturday and told him he never
would see her again.
"She sent me a kiss over the tele?
phone," Mann declared, "and I thought
site was joking when she said I never
would see her any more. I paid no
attention to it, but when she was not
at homo when I returned in the eve- !
nlng I became worried and communi-1
eated with the Missing Persons Bu?
reau."
Husband Discovers Body
Last night Detective Max Leef, of
the West Thirtieth Street station, who
was assigned to the case, was su?*:
?moned to the telephone, and Mann,
his voice trembling, told him that he
had just discovered the body of his *
wife in the motorboat. Meanwhile at?
tendants of the rlub had been called I
by Mann and they found a .32-caliber
revolver near the body.
Mrs. Mann's body was in a motor
boat owned by her husband. It had
caught fire last summer and has been
in drydock ever since. In her handbag
were three letters, in which Mrs. Mann
had written that she had made many
sacrifices in order to maintain the
boat; that she was discouraged and
didn't want to live any more. In one
she had written: "Alive I am worth
$650. Dead I am worth $1,000. I'm
going to be a game sport and little pal
:?right to the end."
The boat had been christened Little
Pal, and Mrs. Mann was said to have
been exceedingly fond of making ex?
cursions in it.
Asked for Revolver
Henry F. Sarowich, of 140 Morning
side Avenue, a friend of Mr. and Mrs.
Mann, on hearing of the woman's death
went to the West 152d Street police
station. He is a member of the Police
Flying Squadron, and told detectives
that whan he returned from maneu?
vers attendant to the opening of the
Harlem River Speedway last Thursday
he went to the clubhouse in his uni?
form. There, he said, he met Mrs.
Mann, who saw his service revolver in
a holster on his hip and asked if she
might borrow it.
"I told her," Sarowich said, "that she
wouldn't know how to use it if I gave
it to her. She replied: 'Where I come
from out West we all know how to use
revolvers.' "
Sarowich said he did not give her the
weapon despito her pleading. Mann's
only son, Harry jr., by a former mar?
riage, was drowned three years ago
within two blocks of where he discov?
ered his wife's body last night.
Senator Lodge Reported
111 With Cold at Lenox
LENOX, Mass., Oct. 15.~-United
States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge was
reported to-night as being ill with a
cold at the home of Henry White
here. Dr. Brace W. Paddock, of
Pittsfleld, was in attendance.
Electron Tubes
May Link N. Y.
With Niagara
Possibility Suggested When
New Transmitting Device
Proves Successful in Six
teen-Hour Atlantic Test
Science Given New Tool
Expert Asserts It Insures
Transatlantic Telephony,
and More in the Future
Possibility of the transmission of
Niagara's power to New York without
wires, by means of high-powered elec?
tron tubes, was suggested to Dr. E. F.
W. Alexanderson, chief engineer of the
Radio Corporation of America, yester?
day by the announcement of officers
of &he corporation that such tubes had
been use<. successfully for sixteen con?
secutive Hours yesterday in place of
large alternators, of which Dr. Alexan?
derson is the inventor, in handling
commercial traffic with Great Britain
and Germany on a wave length of
19,000 meters.
"We have seen here a new physical
principle reduced to practice on a large
scale," he said. "Shall it fulfill the
dreams that Edison's dynamo has not
yet fulfilled, to carry Niagara's power
to New York?
"Atlantic telegraphy has become a
routine business, but the importance
of this demonstration is the bridging of
the ocean by a few powerful vacuum
tube units," said Mr. Alexanderson.
"In this case only six tubes were used
and we can safely predict that the same
feat will some day be performed by a
single tube. But what is the next?
New Tool for Science
"Although it has taken ten years to
get to the point where we have to-day
a trans-Atlantic tube transmitter, in
these ten years the energy of the
vacuum tube has been increased more
than 1,000,000 times. A few more years
of the same rate of improvement would
bring U3 beyond our wildest dreams,
but all we need to say is that science
and engineering have received a new
tool. It marks a turning point like the
steam engine and the dynamo.. It will
certainly give us trans-Atlantic te?
lephony, but it will undoubtedly give us
much more."
The set itself is for the time being
composed of three 50-kilowatt 15,000
volt water-cooled metal vacuum lubes,
known in the engineering world as
kenotrons, used as rectifiers, and six
15,000-volt 20-kilowatt water-cooled
metal pliatrons, used as high fre?
quency converters. For the experi?
ment with the tube set one of the new
mile and a half long antennae, sus?
pended from six towers, 425 feet high,
of the Rocky Point station was used
and the tube succeeded in developing
and sustaining in the antennas a cur?
ren tof the strength of 350 amperes.
So successful was the set in opera?
tion that the operators actually con?
trolling the automatic sending keys at
64 Broad Street, in New York City, did
not know that they were controlling a
tube transmitter rather than an alter?
nator until after the test was com?
pleted. * An official of the corporation
said:
Operators Notice No Change
"The operators on the English and,
German circuits, if they noticed a
change in the quality or the strength
of the received signal, did not com?
ment on it, so we assume that the sig?
nal was favorably comparable to the
alternator signals. Of course, this is
the first time in the history of wireless
telegraphy that a high-powered tube
transmitting set has operated for so
long a period over as great a distance
as that between New York and Ger?
many."
It was said that while the set in its
present stage was far from being a re?
liable commercial transmitter, the tests
just concluded show that an alternative
type of equipment to the Alexanderson
alternator is on the way to aid Amer?
ica in building up its world wide wire?
less communication system.
500 Million U. S, Bond Issue
?$ Oversubscribed by a Billion
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.?The Treas?
ury's new offering of $600,000,000 of
4*4. per cent thirty year bonds has
been oversubscribed approximately ?51,
000,000,000, it was announced to-day
by Secretary Mellon. Books for cash
offerings closed at noon yesterday. De?
liveries of the new bonds will begin
to-morrow.
Subscriptions for which 4% per cent
Victory notes or December 15 Treasury
certificates are tendered in payment
will be received and allotments will be
made in full until October 21. Approx?
imately $150,000,000 of such subscrip?
tions already have been allotted in full
under the terms of the offering.
f Subscriptions received to date ag?
gregate more than $1,650,000,000, of
which about $1,400,000,000 represent
cash subscriptions. Of the cash sub
scriptions, more than $325,000,000 was
in amounts not exceeding $10,000 for
any one subscriber, ana these have
been allotted in full, leaving only
$175,000,000 or thereabouts to be dis?
tributed among the five other classes
as follows:
Subscriptions for more than $10,000
but not exceeding $60,000, allotted 40
per cent, but not less than $10,000 on
any one subscription.
More than $60,000 hut not exceeding
$100,000, allotted 30 per cent, but not
less than $20,000.
More.than $100,000 but not exceed?
ing $500,000, allotted 20 per cent, but
r.ot less than $30,000.
More than $500,000 but not exceed*.
ing $1,000,000, allotted 16 per cent, bot
not less than $100,000.
More than $1,000,000, allotted 10 per
cent, but not less than $150,000.
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4,000 Boo as
Police Arrest
Salvation Girl
Crowd Swarm? Through
Times Square as Officer
Halts Blond Young Cap?
tain's Outdoor Meeting
'Obstructing Traffic'
Charge at Station
Reserves Rush Throng
With Clubs Swinging ;
"Martyr" Freed on Bail
? -
Captain Rheba Crawford, of the Sal- !
vation Army, a pretty young woman
from Atlanta, Ga., who has been at?
tracting audiences of 1,000 or moro
at her Sunday night meetings at
Forty-sixth Street and Broadway, out?
side the Gaiety Theater huilding, was
arrested, last night, though a mob of
4,000 fervid admirers sought to pre?
vent It.
It took all the reserves in the West
Forty-seventh Street police station to
clear the street of the threatening,
hooting throng who packed it solidly
from Eighth Avenue to Ninth Avenue,
and at times seemed to be on the
point of bursting into the police sta?
tion, where a desk lieutenant was
striving vainly to hear Captain Craw?
ford's replies to his questions.
Captain Crawford Is twenty-four
years old, a vivid blonde, who speaks
with dramatic intensity, and has not
tho slightest objection to martyrdom.
She was born and brought up in the
Salvation Army, as she puts it, both
her parents being officers of the or?
ganization. At present she is in charge
of the Salvation Army branch on West
Forty-eighth Street.
For two years she has been conduct?
ing outdoor meetings at the Gaiety
Theater Sunday evenings. For months
her audiences have filled Forty-sixth
Street from curb to curb.
"Obstructing Traffic"
Last night she was proceeding as
usual, with a band of fifteen or twenty
pieces, when Patrolman Emerson Tay?
lor thrust his way through the crowd
and touched her elbow. Patrolman
Taylor, both then and thereafter, kept
the motive of, the Police Department
a dark secret, as a ? good patrolman
should, but his first words left no
doubt of his purpose.
"Dp you know,'5 he demanded, "that
you're obst?*ucting traffic? Even if
? you have a permit for the meeting, it
does not entitle you to block the
street." ""
"I'm ?sorry I'm obsirttet?tiif tt?ffie,"
said Captain Crawford sweetly but
briefly and then went on with her
soul-saving exhortation to which
Broadway is accustomed to listen in
open-mouthed admiration.
Patrolman Taylor touched her el?
bow again.
"You'll have to move on," he said
in the tone which means business.
Captain Crawford postponed the sav?
ing of several souls from the Flanders
Hotel and other of the homelike hos
telries of the neighborhood long
enough to give prompt and courteous
| reply to the patrolman.
"I'm afraid I won't move on," she
said, and her tone also meant business.
"I've been here two years and never
have been molested."
Patrolman Taylor retired. His re?
treat was purely strategic, however.
He merely crossed the street to a drug?
store and telephoned to the West For?
ty-seventh Street police station for in?
structions. Lieutenant Sheehy, who
was on the desk, told him to serve a
summons on the fair captain,
Taylor unlimbored his summons book
and returned to the fray. He informed
Captain Crawford that he was under
orders to serve a summons on her for
disorderly conduct in obstructing
traffic.
Dares Him, to Arrest Her
"I will not take a summons," replied
Captain Crawford, and this time she
spoke in no confidential tones and the
erowd began to mutter at the police?
man. "If I am breaking the law, ar?
rest me."
"I guess I'll have to," returned Tay?
lor with what cheerfulness he could
muster in the face of the growing men?
ace from saved and unsaved souls.
"You may arrest me," continued Cap?
tain Crawford, as if he had not spoken,
"but you shall not arrest the progress
of this meeting. You may arrest us
all?one after tne other?and throw us
into jail, but our work will go on!"
She stepped down from her platform
to accompany the patrolman and a
crowd Jell in at their heels. Through
Times Square to Forty-seventh_ Street
and westward on that thoroughfare to?
ward the police station the crowd fol?
lowed, growing larger and more daring
at every step.
Cars and automobiles in Times Square
had to stop while the riotous proces?
sion passed. Two other patrolmen came
to Taylor's assistance. Captain Craw?
ford, her dark cape floating behind her
and her hatless blonde curls a beacon
for the throng that pressed at the heels
of the.. policemen, strode beside her
captors, looking neither to the right
nor to the left. :
By the time they reached Eighth
Avenue the- street behind them was
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Police Hear They Must
Tell Sources of Liquor
If Charged With Intoxication
Will Be Asked Where They
- Got It, Is Report
Policemen were interested yesterday
in a report that had penetrated to
most stations that orders were about
to be read which require members of
the force under charges of intoxication
to make affidavit as to where they ob?
tain their liquor.
It was said to be suggested also in
the orders that the example set by.?
Mount Vernon authorities might be ?
followed and that similar information
might be demanded from every one
locked up for intoxScation.
These ordexs are ?aid to have been
sent out from headquarters several
days ago. They have not yet been read
over the d?sk to the men going out
on patrol, however, and until some
?ich notice has been served probably
will not be enforced. The orders *x.e
issued "for the guidance" o? pr?cinct
com mandera? 0:
Harding Points to 3
Billion Cut in 2 Years
WASHINGTON^ Oct. 16.?In
every direction,, save only in pro?
vision for the care of waT suf-?
ferera, the government has been
unsparing in Its economy in the
two last years, President Hard?
ing points out in his letter to
Repr?sentative Mondel!.
"No other belligerent country
has, since the restoration of
peace, reduced its expenditures
so rapidly as our own," the Pres?
ident says. "For the year ended
June 30, 1920, our public ex?
penditures aggregated $6,403,
343,000; a year later, $5,115,
920,000; for the fiscal year 1922,
$3,373,607,000. This has been
possible through united and de?
termined effort, legislative and
administrative, based on the
sound business policy of proper
budget organization."
Lodge Expected
To ?Win by at
Least 40,000
Axes of Enemies, Whetted
During Last 3 Years,
Dulled by 'Absence of
an Effective Opposition
Senator's Campaign Brisk
Massachusetts Prosperous,
With Mills All Running
and Tariff Is No Issue
By Carter Field
BOSTON, Oct. 15.?Fate has surely
confounded the enemies of Henry
Cabot Lodge this year. For three
years their number and strength have
been increasing, first one group and
then another joining in eager anticipa?
tion of the day they could cleave off
his political head with a mighty swoop.
The day is rapidly approaching for
which they had hoped, but the razor
edges of their axes, keen from three
years of whetting, have been made
useless for chopping. They have
swung mightily and hit flint before
reaching that much-hated neck.
As this is written all the indications
are here that Lodge will be re-elected
by a comfortable but not excessive
majority. Enough voters of the va?
rious groups who dislike Mr, Lo?gf
will go tu his opponent, Cojcn.i Wil?
liam A. Gaston, to prevent his ma?
jority from being a landslide, but
there is very little evidence to justify
a hope that Gaston can win.
Friends Predict 40,000 Eaaily
Lodge's majority will probably be
larger than it was in 1916, when he
was elected by something like 84,000,
but even with the women doubling the
vote it is not likely that he will muster
twice that lead. His close friends who
are not carried away by enthusiasm
say that he will get more than 40,000
and will do very well to get 50,000.
Lodge himself is ? wonderful cam?
paigner, and Massachusetts loves to
be proud of her statesmen, so that the
stumping tour on which he is now en?
gaged?really a wonderful feat for a
inan of his age?may result in in?
creasing that majority.
The groups in the stat? -which had
hoped for a crushing defeat for Mr.
Lodge, and which include the Wilson
admirers in both parties, the League
of Nations advocates, the prohibition?
ists and the progressives, all had their
weapons snatched from their hands in
the two primaries.
In the Republican primary Mr.
Lodge was opposed for the nomination
by Joseph Walker, who advocated ? the
League of Nations. Walker piled up
70,000-odd votes, only about one-third
of the number cast for Mr. Lodge, but
nevertheless a formidable showing of
opposition when it it realized how Mas?
sachusetts usually rallies to the sup?
port of her leaders who have attained
national prominence.
12,000 Voters Ignored Both
Another interesting point is that, al?
though in national interest the Sena?
torial fight overshadowed everything
else, some 12,000 men and women who
voted in the Republican primaries did
not vote for either Lodge or Walker
It is assumed that for the greater part
they were voters who objected to the
League of Nation? and therefore
would not support Walker, who made
that his chief issue, but who were so
strongly opposed to Lodge on other
issues that they would not vote for
him either.
Which is another illustration of
Lodge's remarkable luck in the utter
impossibility of all the voters who op?
pose him finding any one they can
support.
In the Democratic primary, mean?
while, the same battle on the League
of Nations was fought out between
Sherman L. Whipple, the prominent
Boston lawyer, and Colonel Gaston. ;
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Wife Beating a Social
Error in New York Gty
Police So Advise Barbados
Negro Who Drags Spouse
to Station for Ruling
Beating a wife may be in accord with
the best tenets of Caribbean etiquette,
but in New York City the practice is at
least a social blunder, according to the
Police Department.
There came before Lieutenant James
Leith, in the West 185th Street Police
Station yesterday, an ebony-hued citi?
zen of the Island of Barbados, drag?
ging his wife by the hand. He said
she was neglecting'her household du?
ties, an offence punishable .in tho Bar?
bados by a chastising from the head of
the house. The negro was not rare of
his righto in ihe land *f the free, how?
ever, and asked advice.
The lieutenant replied that wife-beat?
ing was not regarded as a permissible
sport in the United States, and asked
the woman whether she desired to
make a complaint. On her reply in the
negative he permitted both to go.
Harding Note
Praises Worl<
Of Congress
Nation's Quick Recovery
From War Due to Labor
of Last Two Sessions,
Letter, to Monde 11 S?ys
President's Action
Surprises Capital
Indorsement Recites That
Army and Navy Costs
Are Normal; Big Saving
From The Tribune's Washington Buraaey
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.?The
record of the last two Congresses in
handling post-war problems com?
pares brilliantly, President Harding
declared to-night in a letter written
to Republican Leader Mondeli of the
House, with the record made by any
other country. The President cites
the handling of the reconstruction
problema after the Civil War as a
demonstration of how well this Con?
gress has done its tasks, and calls
the achievements notable*
The President lays particular
stress on the economies in the ad?
ministration of the government ef?
fected by Congress. He points to
the fact that the inflation and defla?
tion, which has caused so much
havoc abroad, has been borne in this
country "without even menace to
our gold-standard money system."
"The war debt," he says, "has been
impressively reduced, and policies
adopted which insure continuing re?
duction hereafter.
Military Expenses Back to Normal
Military and naval expenses, the
President points out, are back at nor?
mal, in striking contrast with the budg?
ets of the other be-^igerents in the
World War.
In praising t e new tariff, which ha
cay a cuts of? the menace to American
commerce and industry, the Preside'?,;
?puts stress on the ?machinery for ad?
ministrative adjustm-'nt 01 duties to
rieet changing conditions as they con?
front this government.
"I believe that by inaugurating this
policy of flexibility and elasticity,"
says the President on this feature, "we
have set an example which the com?
mercial world will accept as a truly
constructive foundation on which to
rest our commercial policy."
The President's letter to-night was
? big surprise in politial circles. It
had been thought that he would take no
active part in the campaign. Indeed,
the President ha? indicated to several
callers in the last month that he bore
vividly in mind the disastrous effects
of President Wilson's appeal for a
Democratic Congress in 1918. Presi?
dent Harding's letter, however, differs
very shaiply from the 1.18 effort of
Woodrow Wilson. In the first place, it
is not an appeal at all in a direct sense.
Nowhere in the letter is the approach?
ing election even referred to. It is
the kind of statement usually made by
party leaders at the end of a session
of Congress in which they have taken
some pride in the results accomplished.
Differs from Wilson Appeal
A most significant difference, too. ia
that the Harding letter makes no re?
flection on the ability or patriotism of
the Democrats. President Wilson's let?
ter in 1918 was taken as a direct af?
front by most Republican's, and re?
sulted in their swarming to the polli
and administering the first big political
defeat which Woodrow Wilson ever
suffered.
The President's letter to Mr. Mondeli
reads as follows:
I am addressing you in testimony
of my appreciation of the great public
service of the present House of Rep?
resentatives and of yourself as its
majority leader. It is an acknowl?
edgment which I record in this
manner with the more satisfaction
because of my warm personal sen?
timent for yourself, as well as my,
high estimate of your performance
in the most trying post under our
government. It has been a pleasure
i and reassurance to know that your
fine resources of patience, sound
judgment, candor and legislative ex?
perience were always ready for ap-v
plication to the problems which have
confronted the Administration.
Few Congresses have been called
upon for such arduous service a. has
been exacted from the Sixty-seventh.
It has been in approximately con-'
tinuous sitting from tho day it came
into existence. In the realm of
achievement its record is notable. I
doubt if any Congress in our hi?
tory has accomplished so impressive
a volume of work, touching so wide
a range of national interest.
Cites Post-Civil War Confusion
One must dissent from the too
prevalent idea that our plan of
Congressional government is not
proving equal to the strain of these
times. The most casual student of
history, comparing the legislative
record of the reconstruction period
following the Civil War with that
of the period following the World
War, must realize that we have gone
far toward lessening partisan, fac?
tional, personal and sectional strife
in the law-making process. Whoever
will compare the turbulent period of
legislative and political history from
the close of the Civil War to the end
of President Hayes's Administra?
tion with the record made aince the
armistice four years ago must agree
with this judgment. He will find in
the earlier period such convulsions
as marked the impeachment of on?
president,. an embittered national
election contest and a prevalent con?
flict between legislative and execu?
tive branches. Contrasted with that
showing the businesslike fashion in
-which the.Sixty-seventh Congress has
addressed itself to its huge task
ought to inspire us with the con?
viction that conditions Sowaday? ira
met quite as fortunately as may ba
expected.
Moreover, Civil War reconstruct!?!*?
was simpler than that reconstruc?
tion we are now carrying on, because
following the Civil War it was pos?
sible for our country to lean upon
the financial and economic strength
.of other count, ta? wMch ha* not auf