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TXJE8DAY, OGTOB?A 31 1^26
THE WE ATHER
Fair to-day and to-morrow; littl?
change in 'rmprri-tn-e: fresh
north winds.
Full Report on Last Fag?
mu ,;r.-v_??* 1 TltKT.r. CtCHTS ! FOT? CKNTi?
In Gr?*at?r New ?'ortc | Within 200 ville* I Flaevthers
$25000Bribe
Asked.Swears
Bus Promoter
Louis Rie'fll Testifies He
Refused To Be "Shaken
Down" and Was "Black?
jacked"' Out of Permit
Hylan Backed Him
In 1919 Franchise
Refused FennellyAid Cash
for 'Rig Chief,' He Says,
and Whalen Put Him Out
Louis Riedl, a Now York exporter
who took a flyer in the bus business
'?* ManhatUn and Brooklyn in 1919,
t ?stifled before tho Transit Commls
?'on yeste-day beeause he would noi
he "shaken down'' for $25,000 he wan
'blackjacked" out of a permit thai
the Board of Estimate had railroaded
through especially for him at the in?
stigation of Mayor Hylan.
Ricdl testified that one Daniel O'Con?
nor, associated in politics with Joseph
Fennelly, a Brooklyn Democratic dis?
trict leader, was the man who "black?
jacked" him, after first suggesting thai
Ricdl pay $100,000 for the bus permit
Asked last night if Riedl's testi?
mony was to be turned over to Dis
tritt Attorney Banton, Clarence J
She.rn, counsel to tho commission
answered "Naturally."
"City Record" Quoted
Mr. Shearn read from "The Cit*
Record" at yesterday's hearing to shov
that the Board of Estima-te and th?
then Public Service Commissioner
Louis Nixon, had worked with record
breaking speed to get the permi
through. Then Riedl, under oath, toi?
how he was all i'cady to go to worl
?-?n September 20, 1919, when certaii
?'Ianhattan surface car lines were to b
?Abandoned. lie had his busses an?
e'rivers on the ground, when, on order
said to have come from Grover Whaler
Commissioner of Plant and Structure;
'??is busses were "chased back to Ne*
.'erscr,*' and he was advised by th
liolice :.'nd others to get away fror
?'cw York and take his busses wit
h ? m.
This, he said. *svas in the face of th
fact that he had received a letter froi
Joseph A. Guideri Commissioner c
Public Worl;-; in Brooklyn, opeakin
for Mayor Hylan, expressing apprecu
tion of Riedl's services in helping th
iieople of the city during the strik
nerjod of 1919, when be operated mor
*han_.*u0 Unais.1** in Mrm??t?an and -th
Bronx.
Says He Had Hylan's Promise
Ricdl testified that Guider took bii
to Mayor Hylan's private office, whei
he was assured by the "Mayor that hi
bus operation would be virtually pe:
manent.
"1 wish to put in evidence," said M
Shearn, in opening the hearing, "tr
history of the granting of the first b\.
franchise in September, 1919, to Lou
Piied! and how be was blackjacked oi
of it a few da>-3 after it was granted
Mr. Shearn then began to build up
record for the minutes, reading fro
'The City Record," vhich showed th:
at a special meeting of the Board i
Estimate on September 19, apparent
called for the purpose of issuine a b;
permit to Riedl, ?Samuel Abrahamso
counsel for Riedl, wrote the boar
saying that Riedl was ready to estai
lish a bus service.
Accompanying this letter was ot
from John A. McCollum, an assistai
city engineer, addressed to the Mayo
?ayinR that pursuant to the Mayor
direction of September 3, he had inve
tigsted the matter of operating buss?
<>n '"our routes upon which sur_a<
car operation was to cease on Septcn
ber 20; that he had conferred wit
R?edl, "pursuant to instructions," ar
that Riedl was ready to go ahead wil
the installation of busses by Septen
ber 20. Thereupon the Board of Est
mate issued its permit, or franchise, t
Uiedl to operate busses on Madisc
Street, Spring and Deluncey street
Avenue C, and the Sixtn Avanui
Broadway Line. McCollum wss desi|
nated to act for the city. Commi
sioncr Nixon issued a certificate ?
convenience and necessity on the san
day.
Permit Rescinded in Week
Under that authority Riedl lost 3
time in hustlins; for busses and driver
tind by September 20 he had a big fie?
of them rehdy. Then aime the allege
holdup about which he testified, ar
then the action of the Board of Est
mate on September 2?3?a week lat?
than its orieinnl action?when it r
tcinded Riedl's permit on the groui
that he had not been ready to ope
(Contlnu?d on patjo flvt)
5 Lawyers Incorporate
To Defend Needy Fre
'Voluntary Public Defend?
Committee''' Formed by
Brook, vn Attorneys
Five Brooklyn attorneys, who ha
"?."dged themselves to defend witho
fee persons charged with crime ai
vi;?ble to bear the expense of a la?
>?-t, incorpoiate.l themselves yestcrdi
? I the Voluntary Public 'Defend
'-ommittee of Kings County.
These men are Joseph Goldstein, 3
Argyle Road; Nathan L. Goldsmit
"48 Esst Eighteenth Street; Lui
O'Reilly, 365 Sackett Street; Jose*
P.icca jr.. 990 Hopkinson Avenue, ai
Samuel Fish, 829 Van Sielen Avenu
In granting the incorporation Judj
Fawceft, in the Supreme Court, sail
_"l heartily approve the propositio
Most of these five men, Joseph Gol
?-tain in particular, have long be?
proponents of just such an idea."
The purpose of the organization ;
set forth in the incorporation pape
is as follows:
"To render legal aid and assl
without emolument or compens?t!?,
all persons charged with crime wl
claim to be innocent of the charj
against them and who by reason
financial conditions are unable to er
ploy competent counsel to defei
them.
"T<? act to tho judges end to 11
courts of the County of Kings po
?jessing criminal jurisdiction as ami
curia* and to invite assignments i
ises from the jud^s of the vai
out courts of Kines County of cm
?nal jurisdiction in which persons w!
are ?inaneially unable to employ cou.
sei 8', : ?barged with crime/*
Would Bar Pappy Love ]
Marriages Under 25
ATLANTIC CITY, Oct. 30.?
There should be a Jaw preventing
people from getting: married until
they are twenty-five years old,
Henry W. Stell, probation officer
of this city, said to-day. At that
age, he added, they commence to
have sense.
"Puppy love doesn't last," he
said, adding as an aside that
about $3,000 a month passes
through his hands "from young
husbands to young* wives who fell
in and fell out. Flappers lack
the responsibility for marriage.
Studying beauty books instead of
cookbooks is at the bottom of it."
News Sommary
LOCAL
Miller, opening city campaign, says
Smith's promis, of wines and beer
is dishonest and his stsnd on transit
and port development inconsistent
and untenable.
Exporter who took flyer in busses
driven from streets, he says, after re?
fusing demand for $25,000 to insure
permanent permit.
One dead, eight hurt in Brooklyn
factory fire; report that fifteen girls
are missing denied.
Husband turns up to cast doubt on
eye-witness ?tory of "Mrs, Gibson,"
New Brunswick's pig "widow."
Special prosecutor gets seven elec?
tion fraud indictments in Brooklyn,
though Banton still keeps charges
from grand jury here.
Thin partition foils scheme to rob
j East Side diamond dealer; suspect
! trapped with razor-edged bayonet.
j Isaac Guggenheim's will leaves
i most of $25,000,000 estate- to widow;
j Metropolitan to get paintings later.
Smith denies graft In Industrial
! Commission and calls Governor's
? charges feeble.
Cohalan denies charges of favor
! itism in patronage and challenges
i foes to cite single doubtful appoint
| ment or misspent dollar.
Citizens Union says $5.000,000
i must be lopped from city budget to
! day, not counting $1,300,000 not in
; eluded in draft.
Federal agents investigate re?
ported police connection with liquor
ring; demand minutes of trials of
! dismissed inspectors.
FOREIGN
I Benito Mussolino, on the invitation
of the King, for.ms Italian Cabinet.
: Fnscisti "Blftck-hirts," staging
; triumph cf reminiscent ancient days
in Rome to celebrate bloodless vic?
tory.
Princess Hermine calls ex-Kaiser
? 'most generous man she knows" and
only one who can bring her happi?
ness on the eve of , departure for
Doom.
Official United States refusal to
participate in the Near East Lau?
sanne conference, on the ground that
America was never at war with Tur
| key, handed to Premier Poincare at
Paris by Ambassador Herrick.
Bonar Law moves into Downing j
j Street. "Die-hard" Conservatives j
' may attempt an association with :
! Asquithian Liberals to stem the ris- j
i ?ng tide of Lloyd George's popu- j
I larity.
WASHINGTON
Secretary Mellon announces Con?
gress will be asked for an amend?
ment to the Volstead act restoring
the present ??tatus of foreign ships
should the Supreme Court uphold
the Daugherty ruling applying to
outlying possessions.
Railroad Labor Board's stand
i against "living wage" starts move
| ment for board's abolition, in which
? both railroad executives and labor
men are in accord.
Federal deficit of $625,000 may be
i handled inside the Treasury in view
of prospective large collections from
! tax dodgers.
DOMESTIC
The new grain futures trading set
enjoined temporarily by United
States District judges in Minneapolis
and Chicago.
Secretary Hughes speaks for a
policy of American helpfulness
toward Europe, but without en?
tanglements.
SPORTS
Jack Bentley, star pitcher of the
Baltimore Orioles, purchased by the
New York Giante.
Tex Rickard starts negotiations
for title bout between Jack Dempsey
and Tom Gibbons at Madison Square
Garden in December.
MARKETS AND SHIPS
Stock prices lower; rails under
pressure.
Studebaker shows $7.18 a share on
common for third quarter.
Chicago reports good gains in re?
tail trade.
2 Killed, 2 injured
As ArmyPlanes Collide
Lieu? rJvnes and Sergt. Owens
Meet Death in Crash
at Honolulu
HONOLULU, Oct. 30 (By The Asso?
ciated Press).?Lieutenant Thomas V.
Hynes and Sergeant Ross Owen?, sixth
pursuit squadron, Luke Field, were
killed and Captain T. W. Allen and
LJeutena-t A. F. Hebbard, Schofield
barrack* were injured when two army
airships wre in collision here to-day.
KvnV'. - s one of the prominent con?
testant"- 5'" the recent transcontinental
army nigh-, finishing among the lead?
ers. His home was in New York, as
?wa* Owens, also. Both were un?
married.
Farm 'Widow'
Is Confronted
By Husband
W. H. Easton, Mechanic,
Calls Mrs. 'Gibson'Wif e ;
Says She Has Fine Mind ;
Murder Tale Amazes Him
She Denies Report
Of Kentucky 'Past'
Taciturn GraveDigger Put
Forward as New Hope
for Solving Mystery
By Boy den Spark es
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Oct. 80.
The grave of Mrs. Jane Gibson's hue
band yawned to-night and gave up Wil?
liam H. Easton. He is a prosaic tool
maker, who lives with her ana their
twenty-one-year-old son, Willie jr., on
the woman's pig farm.
Last Wednesday, when "Mrs. Gibson"
\ was telling reporters hov
the murder of the Rev. E<*-.
end Mrs. Eleanor Mills from the back
of a mule, and recognized from the
same vantage point the vector's wife,
the "widow" Gibson said br-* late hus?
band had been a clergymi and now
was "an angel."
Mott Maintains SU?_nce
News of the existence on the pig
farm of "Mrs. Gibson's" husband was
broken to-night over the telephone to
special 'Deputy Attorney General Wil?
bur Mott at his home in East Orange,
N. J. He declined to discuss it.
Timothy N. Peiffer, Mrs. Hall's at?
torney, discussing Mrs. Gibson's al?
leged identification of his client, said
to-day: "Regarding Mrs. Gibson's
statement that she is eager to con
I front Mrs. Hall and that she will be
: able to state positively that it was
Mrs. Hall she saw on the night of
September 14 on the Phillips farm, I
}*can say just this: We are perfectly
I willing to do whatever the prosecutor
l request?.
J "There ha? been some little con?
fusion, it seems, regarding the early
? part of the evening of September 14,
I the night of the murders. Little Fran
i ces Veorhe***. Mr. Hall's niece, who is
| ten year.*, cid, had come to visit the
I Halls on the preceding Wednesday
afternoon. Mrs. Hall takes a great in?
terest in children. She was with the
child until she went to bed.
"Mm. Hall and little Frances were
inside the house when Mr. Hall left,
after receiving the telephone message
from Mrs. Mills. They went out onto
the porch and came in Again a little
fate- to play with a. picture puzzle un?
til 8:30 or-9 o'clock, when Frances
went upstairs to get ready for bed. She
called to Mrs. Hall when ready and
Mrs, IT.-j11 went to her and heard her
prayers.
Mrs. Hall Only Forty-seven
"The public mind has been given a
mistaken impression through the ? in?
correct publication of the ages of Mr.
and Mrs. Hall. Mrs. Hall has been
pictured as a woman markedly older
than her husband, some setting her
age aB high as sixty. As a matter of
fact she ?3 but forty-seven years old,
! only six years older than her husband,
| who was forty-one."
The Hall-Mills murder investiga- j
| tion is to go on. There can be no j
doubt of that so long as the supply j
of eyewitnesses hold out. With "Mrs.
Gibson" preparing to make her exit
or; the back of Jennie, a new witness
was discovered to-night. He is not
precisely new. Rather he is an old
one who has been neglected. His name
is Sigourney Smith, and ho is a grave
digger who" boards with Mrs. A. C.
FriiTcy, whose house overlooks the spot
?..here the rector and his sweetheart
wore laid out by their murderer or
murderers.
James Mason, chief investigator for
Prosecutor Mott, had a long talk with
Gravedigger Smith this afternoon on
the Phillips farm, where Mr. Mason
had gone, accompanied by two state
troopers, to check, up, with the aid of
a chart of the murder scene, the richly
dramatic story of "Mrs. Gibson." It
?s known that the authorities are in?
terested in Smith because of u report
that they have been unable to verify
the.rumor that he said "there was a
murder out my way last night" on
September 15, more than twenty-four
hours before the bodies had been
found.
Reporters Make Discovery
The materialization of William Henry
Easton was brought about by news?
paper reporters. First, they went to
the Franklin township school, where
twenty-one-year-old William Easton
has attended classes from time to
time, when he was not engaged in col?
lecting garbage in New Brunswick for
his mother's forty-five pigs.
Miss Margaret Van Doran, of 151
Welton Street, New Brunswick, is the
teacher of the upper grades. She said
that about eight or nine years ago
(Continued en BtJ? eight)
Hero Given Wrong Name
On Old City Hall Picture
Gen. Burnett, of Mexican War,
Called "Bennett" Until
Daughter Finds Error
Since long before the time of the
present city administration a painting
of General Ward Benjamin "riurnett,
who upheld New York's tradition for
valor during the Mexican War, has
hunp; hidden in a dimly lighted recess
in the corridor leading to the rooms
of the president of the Board of Aidi
men in City Hall. Few visitors ever
stupped to iuok at the portrait, hardly
distinguishable in the half light, and
fewer still stopped to decipher the in?
scription on the tarnished name plate.
During all these years, it was dis?
covered yesterday, the painting of Gen?
eral Burnett has borne an incorn et
name plate r-'hi?*h ?declared the hero to
be Ward Benjamin Bennett.
Mrs. Louise Benjamin Stanton, the
cnly surviving daughter of General
Burnett, wijth her husband, General
Stanton, U. S. A., retired, discovered
the error wien they visited City Hall.
After a careful examination made with
the aid of jcveral matches, they posi?
tively identified the heroic figure on
the canvas as Mrs. Stanton'a father.
The records of the Municipal Art Com?
mission proved the truth of Mrs. Stan
ton's contettion. A new name plate
will be substituted.
rUichm?*, "X. O.??Carolins Hot?] wow
open. C'rj/it aport eveats. Thru Pullman,
Penn., 2:Q? P. M., daily.? Adrt.
Ex-Kaiser Good Hearted, But
Needs Manager, Says Fiancee
Princess, About to Depart
for Doom Wedding, Alone
Able to Make His Sun?
set Days Happy, She Adds
By Joseph Shaplen
From The Tribune's European Bureau
Copyright, 10.2, New York Tribune Ine.
BERLIN, Oct. 30.-~"Thc Kaiser is
tho most generous and the best-heart?
ed man I know, ?aid that is the chief
reason that induces me to marry
him," said Princos3 Hermine von Caro
lnth of Reuss in her castle at Saabor on
tho eve of her departure for Doom to be
married to the ex-emperor. The prin?
cess intimated that .she alone is able
to make the ex-Kaiser's sunset days aa
happy as possible and, therefore, with?
out thought of herself, she agreed to
become his wife.
"When rumors of my possible mar?
riage to my Kaiser first became cur?
rent on my visit lo Doom the Crown
Prince came to me and in the friend?
liest manner sought to dissuade me
from marrying his father." tho prin?
cess said. "He warned me 'You don't
know my father. He is a very good
man, but sometimes hard to get along
with.'
"But in a few weeks the Crown
Prince came to me again and said 'I've
watched vou all this time and I feel it
?- ,~.i- duty to tell you my warning
r.?_ premature. You certainly know
how to manage people and the whole
situation hero.'" The princess ther
proceeded to tell her troubles arising
out of the opposition of some members
of the royal family and aristocracy tc
the Kaiser's marriage, saying:
"I naturally encountered difficulties.
p
Princess Hermine of Reusa
All the friends and so-called friends of
the Kaiser had their own plans. It is
well known that Frau von Rochow, who
reorganized the household administra?
tion at Doom, thought of marrying the
Kaiser. The Kaiser's sons wanted him
to marry the widow of the King of
(Continuel) on p?t*o nine)
1 Dies, 8 Hurt
As Factory in
Brooklyn Bnrns
Girl Loses Hold on Fifth
Floor Window Sill end
Falls to Ground, Missing
Net Spread by Firemen
One man was killed and a young
woman and seven men injured last
night in a fire which swept through the
upper floors of a rambling, fivo-3tory
brick factory at 125 Thirteenth Street,
Brooklyn, near Third Avenue. Whether
others lost their lives in the fire is not
known. Early reports were that fifteen
girls had been trapped on the fifth floor
and were missing, but this was denied
both by members of the firm occupying
that floor and by their bookkeeper, the
only woman among the injured.
The dead man was identified at the
Methodist Episcopal Hospital ns Eu?
gene Kerslein, of Garficld Street,
North Bellmore, L. I.
The list of injured follows:
Lillian Girsky, twenty, 630 Thlr?:
Avenue. Brooklyn, Holy Family Hospi?
tal, critical.
Louis Weinstein, forty-six, 103 Ches?
ter Avenue, Brooklyn, Samaritan Hos?
pital, critical.
Sebastian Riccobone, seventeen, 7?
Starr Street, Brooklyn, Samaritan Hos?
pital, critical.
Louis Sehachter, twenty-nine, 37?
South First Street, Brooklyn, Samari
tan Hospital.
Samuel Kelinman, forty-four, 611
Gravesend Avenue, Brooklyn, Samari
tan Hospital.
William Frcedman, thirty-nine, 202?
Sixty-third Street, Brooklyn, Samari
tan Hospital.
Jack Ruddy, twenty, 898 Hegemai
Street, Brooklyn, Methodist Episcopa
Hospital,
Israel Gladstone, thirty-four, 170!
Clay Avenue, the Bronx, Holy Famil*
Hospital.
Fire Escapes Not Used
The building has a frontage of abou
S0O feet on Thirteenth Street and ai
extension in the rear which runs bac!
to Fourteenth Street. There are tw
lire escapes on the front of the build
ing, but no one could be found las
night who remembered seeing anybod,
on either of them except for three me:
who were said to have scaled one o
the fire escapes in an effort to rescu
women on the top floor, only to b
driven away from the windows b
flames and to muke their own escape
if escape they did?-by continuing thei
climb to the roof.
There was only ono entrance o
Thirteenth Street and it was said tha
the main part of the building had onl
cne flight of stairs, which was of woo
and wrapped in flames when those o
the top floorNiiscovered the fire.
It is not known where the fir
started. Some witnesses said flame
bursting from the fourth floor window
were the first indication they saw tha
there was a fire. Others smelled smok
on the first floor of the shellac bleach
cry of the Kasbier-Chatfield Companj
wl?ich owns the building and occupie
the basement and the first two floon
These last said that on seeking th
source of the odor they found th
rear of the plant in flames.
Those on the top floor, occupied b
the trouser factory of William Weir
stein, declared that cheir first intims
tion of danger was a burst of flam
(Continued on pags ilx)
Boy, 12, Is Arrested
On Bootlegging Charge
Detectives Declare He Sold
Them Liquor While They
Awaited His Family
A twelve-year-old boy was arrested
as a bootlegger yesterday afternoon
by Detective? Sullivan and O'Leary, of
the East Sixty-seventh Street station,
who charged that he had sold them a
pint of suppo-ed gin for 50 cents and
had offered them a drink from another
bottle.
Acting on complaints received from
several tenants living at 1319 Avenue
A, the two plainciothes men had gone
to the Nagy apartment there to look
for a still, whose operations are said
to have disturbed the neighbors. An?
drew, the son, was the only member
of the family at home, but the detec?
tives **ay he did more than justice to
bis role as host.
After the boy had been arrested a
five-gallon still and thr^e five-gallon
jugs of mash are said to have been
found. The detectives waited for an
hour for Andrew's parents to return,
leaving anally with a promue to come
hack for them in the morning.
Fascisti Chief
Names Cabinet,
Takes Charge
"We Accept Form of Gov?
ernment, but Not of Min?
istry," Mussolini Tells
Cheering Rome Crowds
ROME, Oct. 30 (By The Associated
Press).?Benito Mussolini, the Fascisti
leader, who triumphantly entered Rome
to-day, has undertaken the government
of the country with men of his own
selection. He camo to Rome on the
invitation of the King, with whom he
had a long audience, after which he
named his ministers. They are:
Premier, Minister of the Interior
and Foreign^ffairs?-Benito Mussolini.
War?General Armando Diaz.
Marine ? Vice-Admiral Thaon di
Revsl.
Treasury-?Professor Luigi Einaudi
(Nationalist).
Industry?Th?ophile Rossi (Nation?
alist).
Finance?Signer de Stefani (Fas?
cista).
Colonies?Luigi Federzoni (Nation?
alist).
Liberated Regions?Signor Giuriati
(Fascista).
Justice?Aldo Oviglio (Fascista).
Education?Signor Gentilo (Demo- -
crat).
Agriculture?Luigi Capitanio (Fas?
cista).
Public Work3?Signor Carnazza (Na?
tionalist).
Posts and Telegraphs?Signor di
Cesara (Nationalist).
Social Welfare?Stefano Cavazzoni
(Cotholic).
Four Fascisti and one Democrat were
appointed sub-secretaries.
Accept Form of Government
Prior to the selection of his Cabinet
and directly after his interview with
King Victor Emmanuel, Mussolini, ad?
dressing the great crowds frbm the bal?
cony of a hotel, declared with great
emphasis:
"We have not accepted the form of
ministry but have accepted the form of
government."
He laid gr^at stress on the word
"government," at which the crowds
cheered.
"And," he added, "Italy will have a
government from now on."
Mussolini then called upon the crowd
to acclaim, "Long live the King! Lon?_;
live Italy! Long live the Fasci**mo!"
The fact that the former revolutionist,
now Italy's Premier, placed the Kins
first was commented upon and cheered
by the multitude.
Wearing a b^ck shirt and showing
traces of his long journey by train and
automobile, Mussolini presented him?
self this morning before the King, who
greeted him warmly. The square in
front of the Quirinal was filled to
overflowing and Fascisti and.regulars
joined in keeping order. His departure
from the palace was the occasion for
another enthusiastic demonstration,
the crowds falling in behind his auto
mobilo and marching' to the Hotel
Savoia, where the Fascisti were in full
charge, no regulars being visible.
All Rome awoke early and proceeded
calmly to the various gates through
which the Fascisti were expected to
enter the city, but on learning that
their formal entry had been postponed
the citizens returned and congregated
in the various squares, buying the
morning papers, which had ignored the
law forbidding publication on Monday
(Continuad on p&gs nine)
Help Europe,
Don't Meddle,
Says Hughes
Harcling's Foreign Policy
of Non-intervention in
Internal Squabbles la
Praised by Secretary
Va Sa May Go Into
New World Court
America Wise to Avoid
Near East Imbroglio, He
Tells Boston Auciience
BOSTON, Oct. 30.?The fordgn pol?
icy of the Harding Administration is
an American policy, aiming at helpful?
ness and understanding among the na?
tions, but not at tho expense of en?
tanglements hampering American inde?
pendence, Secretary of State Hughes
said in an address to-night at a Re?
publican rally in Symphony Hall, held
to forward the campaign of Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican candi?
date to succeed himself.
After paying a tribute to Senator
Lodge as chairman of tho Senate For?
eign Relations Committee, Secretary
Hughes reviewed the record of the Ad?
ministration in Its dealings with other
countries.
"I do not think the foreign policy of
tho Administration needs defense, but
I should like, as far as possible, to
have it understood," he said. "It is
not a partisian policy. Would that we
could keep all our political disputes
within the three-mile limit. It is an
American policy, and I beli_ve to any
one who had tho intimate acquaintance
i with situations which can be had only
by those intrusted with the confidences
of foreign relations, it would appear
to be the only policy which properly
serves American interests.
Confidence Restored
"This Administration is untangling
the skein which it received. The re?
sult is a restored confidence and pros?
perity, a better understanding and an
jenhanced influence. I may venture to
] say that two years ago few would have
I believod that the measure of progress
was possible that has actually D*on at?
tained under the leadership of Pres?
ident Warren G. Harding."
Mr. Hughes's address drew enthusias
[ tic applause from the well filled hall,
The Secretary of State was introduced
by former Governor John L. Bates, the
only other speaker. Beginning with
the signing di ?He-peace treaties with
Germany and Austria, Mr. Hughes
sketched the achievements of the Ad?
ministration in the field of the inter?
national affairs to the present situa?
tion in the Near East. Of that he said:
"Ab we are not at war with Turkey
we are not appropriately parties to tho
peace negotiations which are about to
take place. While we have American
interests to protect these are not as?
sociated with the political ambitions
of European powers which have made
the Near East a checkerboard for dip?
lomatic play. We do not ^propose to
connect ourselves with these rivalries,
as such a connection would only con?
fuse our aims with those of others and
obscure our clear and simple purposes.
"What we desire docs not involve the
slightest injury to others or deroga?
tion of the rights of others, and we
claim the protection of American in
. tercsts' at every place from whatever
sovereignty may be in charge. We
trust that in the interest of freedom
of opportunity there will be no en?
deavor to parcel out spheres of spe?
cial economic influence. If we avoid
the conflicting rivalries in which we
have no proper part and hold to a clear
and definite American policy we shall
the more easily maintain our friend?
ship with other powers, foster good
will and heighten rather than diminish
the influence which we desire to be
helpful."
"The chief trouble at this time in
? Europe," he continued, "is that the
I great powei-3 have not been able to
1 agree as to questions which, being dis?
tinctly European questions, directly
concern them, and their want of
agreement is due to different concep?
tions of essential national policy. For
us, international co-operation does not
mean that we should embroil ourselves
in controversies not involving our own
interests "
Lauds Arms Parley
The Secretary added that he believed
a way might be found for the United
States to participate in the selection
of judges to the recently organized
International Court of Justice, a proj?
ect which from the first had the sym?
pathy of this government. He declared
that already in a humanitarian way
and through the channels of trade the
United States was giving aid of in- j
calculable value. He praised the arms
conf?rence agreements as meaning "the
rescue of the world from despair" and ?
predicted that despite the present de-1
lay the Washington treaties would bo
ratified by all the powen signatory to j
them. Ultimate failure of the con- ?
ierence program, he asserted, had been i
precluded in any case by the ratifica- ?
(Continuad on paf? four) i
Masked Trio Fails at $15,000
Jewel Robbery in Essex Street
Three men, armed with revolvers
and knives and wearing masks, at?
tempted to steal diamonds worth $15.
C00 late yesterday afternoon from the
offices of Sidney Glassman, on the sec?
ond floor of 136 Essex Street. They
were frightened off befoie they could
get any of the gems, and fled to the
street. There Benaro Caffaro, twenty
six years old, a laborer, who said he
was an ex-soldier, living at 297 Mott
Street, was arrested.
The diamonds were in an open safe
in the front room on the second floor,
and as the robbers entered they met
Glassman coming from the rear room.
They evidently thought he was alone,
and at the point of their pistola
backed him into the reay room, where
they found there were seven other
men, who immediately grappled with
the intruders and cried out for the
police. j
Classman's office m separated from
th? law offices of Ho? Kaiks, -aagx
door, by a thin partition. Kafka heard
the cries, and got a quick telephone
connection with Police. Headquarters,
which immediately notified the Clinton
Street station, and detectives were sent
to the scene in an automobile.
In the mean time Patrolman Frank
?Tiigan caught sight of a crowd n^iing
about in Essex Street ana heard two
shots, which were fired by the bandits
in their effort to get away. Hagan
i joined tho chase.
Some one tripped Caffaro, who im?
mediately jumped to his feet and drew
un army bayonet, which had been
sharpened to "a razor edge, and for a
moment held oft the crowd while the
others escaped. At this point Hagan
reached the corner of Essex and Riv
ington streets, and with only his club
against the suspect's gleaming knife
beat the latter into submission by the
time the cetectives arrived.
After being questioned at the Clin?
ton Street statloo Caffaro was taken to
Police HeadS?**^8' He will be ar?
raigned to-d*y i? *E??*x M*rl?t eonrt.
Smith's Wet Plea
Dishonest, Miller
Tells Voters Here
r?-!-?-1'
'Not Running to Lose/
Is Miller's Comment
Governor Miller, asked yester?
day on reaching town for a week
of campaigning, what he thought
of his own chances, said:
"I am not running to lose."
He added he was well satis?
fied with the outlook.
For the first time since as?
suming the chairmanship of the
Republican State Committee,
George K. Morris made the pre?
diction that Governor Miller
would be re-elected. He bases
his belief on conditions up state,
which, he said, are highly favor?
able.
Mellon Would
Let Wet Ships
iTouch U. S. Isles
?Joins in Advocacy of Act
Giving Foreign Vessels
Old Liquor Status at
Possessions of America
Enforcement Is Held Up
! Treasury Awaits Supreme
Court Decision on Ex?
tent of Daugherty Ruling
From The Tftbwie's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.?Secretary
I Mellon said to-day that '%t would be
i desirable," from the Administration's
i standpoint, to ask Congress for an
i amendment to the Volstead act per
i mitting foreign vessels the same
! status In the insular territories of the
j United States that they bud before the
j Daugherty ruling, providing tha Su
j prem?. Court holds the ruling applies
?in full to the outlying posiessions of
! the United States. He is the second
?member of the President's Cabinet to
?voice this attitude.
' The Treasury Secretary said he ex
I pects the Supreme Court will act on
j this liquor question before the end
i of November. In the mean time the
; regulations for the enforcement of the
Daugherty ruling will be withheld, he
said, explaining that the Treasury con?
siders that length of time "reason
? able." He indicated that a delay past
itho end of next month probably would
force the Treasury's hand in the mat
; ter and necessitate the issuance of the
! regulations,
j No Effect on United States Ship?
American vessels would in no way
be affected by the kind of amendment
the Administration has in mind, it was
. declared, nor would foreign ships "en?
joy any privileges over them" as the
'result of such legislation. The idea
around which the amendment would be
framed merely would allow foreign
bottoms the right to touch et American
island possessions with (-heir, liquors
i sealed within the three-mile zoues.
Mr. Mellon admitted that such a re
' quest to Congress undoubtedly would
! bring a storm of protests from the
! more rabid drys in that body, nt least.
i There are a good many members who
i hold views similar to those expressed
? some time ago by Representative Up
i shaw, Democrat, of Georgia, who de?
clared he would rather see the whole
i merchant marine on the bottom of the
sea if every drop of liquor was not
taken off. Still others are expected to
object on the ground that consideration
I of such an amendment would open the
I way for other modifications of the dry
| law. Despite this, however, Mr. Mellon
expressed confidence that enactment of
the amendment could be obtained.
The Secretary would not discuss the
bearing that enforcement of the Daugh?
erty ruling may have on the pending
! shipping bill, other than to say that
?the new conditions will not cause a re?
drafting of the measure.
May Have to Return Liquor
As the result of the precedent estab
| lished by the recent release of the
i Canadian schooner Emerald, with her
; cargo of 1,000 cases of whisky, tho
i government may be compelled, it was
j predicted by Treasury officials, to re
J turn the 250,000 gallons seized from
ships flying foreign fiags outside the
( three-mile zone. This also would call
for dismissal of the cases pending in
Federal courts against "the owners of
ships and cargoes.
Since the action in the Emerald case
Federal Attorneys have been besieged
by legal representatives of these ships
with requests for releases of the stocks.
The whole question is declared to be
up before Attorney General Daugherty,
and instructions are expected to be
issued by him. Some of these case,
have been pending for two years.
Jail Awaits Landlords
Li Who Fail to Give Heat
Health Board Reminds Them
of One Who Shoveled Coal
While Servine; Sentence
Dr. Frank J. Monaghan, acting
Health Commissioner, issued a warn?
ing to landlords yesterday to comply
with the law, which provides that
apartments must be kept at a tempera?
ture of 68 degrees when the outside
temperature is 50 degrees or less.
In the warning he referred to th?
sad case of a landlord who ignored the
law last January. For his first offense
he was fined and when convicted a sec?
ond time was sent to the Tombs for
five days, where his time was occupied
with shoveling coal.
Information received at the Health
Department is that there is no coal
shortase in the city now. Dr. Mona?
ghan said, however, that householders
should put in their applications for
eoal several day* in advance of their
need for It, and not expect last min?
ute dellverie.. \
State and Governor Are
Powerless to Legalize
Wines and Beer; Must
Enforce Law, He Says
Pledges City-Wide
Five-Cent Carfare
Contrasts Own Record
in Stabilizing Transit
With Failure of Rival
Governor Miller opened his cam?
paign in New York City last nicht
with a denunciation of his Demo?
cratic adversary's stand for light
wine and beer, which he character?
ized as "dishonest," and by an ar?
raignment of Ex-Governor Smith for
the difference between his action?
while in office and his present pro?
fessions of policy on the city's trac?
tion problem and the Port Authority.
Governor Miller promised also, if
re-elected, to re-establish a fiv-f? .tent
fare for transit from any ptece in
the city to all other points in New
York.
Referring to the statements mad?
two years ago, that if ho were
elected there would be a return to
the blue laws, the Governor told his
audience at Public School 115, in the
Bronx, that two years have gone by
and the people know whether these
appeals were honest or ?-''shonest.
"A similar appeal, equsiy dishonest,
is now being made in ?omewhat differ?
ent fashion," said the Governor, touch?
ing on the prohibition issue for the
first time in the campaign. "T^e allur?
ing hope is held out by the Democratic
platform and by the Democratic c<m.ii
date for Governor that if he is elected
tho people can have light wines and
beer.
Promise Branded as Deceptive
"He knows, you know and every in?
telligent citizen knows that whether he
is eieefed or whether I am elected
can have no influence whatever upon
that question, that the Governor of this
state and the Legislature of this state
cannot, if they would, give the people
of this state light wines and bear.
They might, it is true, violate their
oath of office, but every one knows that
the Constitution of the Uniled States
and the act of the Congress of the
United States is sufisme over anything
which the State of New York might or
could do.
"If any one has any doubt on that
subject he merely has to look to our
sister state across the river, where a
campaign was waged two years ago
precisely upon the same kind of prom?
ise that tho Democratic candidate of
this etate is now making the people.
Every one knows that the State of New
Jersey, like every other (?late in the
unioBr-is precisely in the same position
with respect to light win-? and beer ar.
when that false pr mise was made, t
refuse to deceive the people. If my op?
ponent wishes to do so he is welcora
to take that course.
"Neither an act of the Legislature,
?.. -?J..,--.? .. - ?.,,. ?,??? *-r.n?*titu
tion nor any referendum to the people
o mIiij ,m... .1 _..,. . .... n
in the slightest, or amount to as much
a gesture, and the man who
seeking votes on the pretense
that it would, merely insults the in?
telligence of those to whom that ap?
peal is made," continued the Governor.
"For two years I have been the Gov-?
ernor of all the people of this state,
regardless of race, creed or color,
undertaking impartially to give every
one a square deal, to respect my oatli
of office, to obey the constitution and
to enforce the laws, and if re-elected I
shall continue to administer the laws
impartially, without fear or favor."
Charg?e Smith With Flopping -
The Governor then turned his gun?
on his opponent's underwriting of the
declaration in the Democratio plat?
form in favor of the regulation of pub?
lic utilities wholly within a municipal?
ity by that municipality, asserting that
Mr. Smith'3 record a3 Governor' is
wholly at variance on this point with
the policy he is now enunciating.
"In his first message to the Legisla?
turc he said that there 'were many who
believed that the function of construct?
ing rapid transit roads for the City of
Ni-w York'?notice the use of the word
'for,' not 'by' 'should be divorced
from the funci?n u? ?egaUting public
utility corporations generally,' " said
Governor Miller. "And ho ?ays he
thinks that experience has demon?
strated that those who believe that are
right. He then proceeds to state hi?
view. He says 'It is my belief that tho
subway rapid transit system of tho
City of New York can be built better
and quicker under tho direction of a
rapid transit commissioner whose en?
tire time, brains and energy would be
devoted to the completion of the sub?
way system. The regulatory function?
of the commission in the 1st District
:''"'',. ??'?? . .' ; F? ''? ' '?v a single
public service commissioner.'
"Now notice, he i? tnere dealing
with two Bubjects, one the regulatorv
powers, the other the construction
power, the power to construct rapid
transit systems. The regulatory
powers, the power to regulate rates
and service, ?re a ?ar' ?* * -.-, '-?
power of the state and inhere in
the state Legislatur?, a.-*.,,,.. a?,?
been exercised by the State Legislature
and never have been delegated to or
exercised by a municipal authority.
Construction Purely Local
"The other power, that of construct?
ing rapid transit 'for,' to use his word,
or 'by,' to use the word'I would pre?
fer, the city of New York is primarily
a local matter, and the only reason
why that power was ever lodged in a
state body was that it was coupled with
the regulatory power, for the reason
that, to be effective the two needed to
he exercised together. If they wer? to
be ?.eparated, of eJU powers to be
exercised by th? lucVJny the pewer
?.