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VOL. LXXXyilL NO. 8- DAILY.
NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1920.-
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Entered an second cl matter, Pott Offlcs, Now York,
N. T.
PRICE TWO CENTS
IN NEW YORK CITY.
!
Ti m an cents
WITHIN 300 MILKS.
FOUR CENTS ELSEWKBJUS,
MOSES'S LEAGUE
STAND WINS IN
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Senator's Opponent, Spaul
j din?, Admits Defeat in
0. 0. P. Primal?-.
TBEATY PLAN SCORNED
Voters' Views on Big Ques
tion Indicated by Bal
lots Cast.
WOMEN EXTEND HELP
Washington Crowd Sees
Wilson Walk Without Aid
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.
President Wilson, without
assistance and leaning lightly on
his cane, walked briskly through'
the front entrance of the White
House to-day and stepped into
his automobile, while a crowd in
Pennsylvania avenue looked on
with unususl interest It was the
first time since his illness that
the President had started on a
motor trip by that route, all trips
heretofore having started from
the rear grounds.
After entering the car with
Mrs. Wilson the President, wear
ing a cap, waited several minutes
until an attendant could bring his
straw hat. Meanwhile the crowd
increased and made a rush for
the gate on the avenue as the car
approached. The President lifted
his hat and smiled.
floone. Out for Governor and
Senator in Democratic
Race, Runs Behind.
Manchgmtii. N. H, Sept. 8. The re
nominatlon of United States Senator
George H. Mose. Republican. In yes
terday's State primary was conceded
early to-day by bis opponent. Huntly
X. Spauldlng. on the face of unofficial
returns from almost two-thirds of the
State. Returns from 11 of 294 pre
cincts gave Moses 18,811. Spauldlng
10.157.
Returns from the same prectneta for
the Republican nomination for Gover
nor chowed Albert O. J. Brown leading
Windsor H. Goodnow and Arthur P.
aterrill. The vote was: Brown, 11,095;
Goodnow, 9,859; Morrill, 17,155.
Charles E Tllton was leading Albert
W, Xoone in the contest for the Demo
cratic nomination for Governor, and
former Representative Raymond B.
Stevens was leading Xoone, who also
tuod for the nomination for United
States Senator. The vote from slxty
leven precincts gave :
For Governor TUton, 1,348 ; Noone.
III.
For Senator Steven. 1,4,80 ; Noone,
140.
Senator Moses's campaign and hie
probable renomination are of outstanding
interest and importance, not only to the
Republicans of New Hampshire, but to
Vie Republican party all over the United
States. The League ot latloiw woman
nittnge and the. tarts! were the three
principal issues that developed after Mr.
Spiuldmg. formerly State Food Adimln
istrator. entered the fight against the
Senator, but Senator Moses based his
campaign almost entirely on his record
In opposition to the League of Nation.
He was one of the Irreconcilablea on
this question when the league was be
fore the United States Senate, and the
returns from the early voting indicate
that he received the solid support of
the New Hampshire Republicans who
are opposed to the league in any form,
tnd the returns indicate also that these
re much larger In number even than
the Senator had maintained.
Has Kffrrt All Orcr t nlted States.
The succesa of Senator Moses in win
ning his i nomination on an out and
"lit satt-leafuS Issue Is expected to give
considerable impetus to the Republican
'mpa!gn throughout the country. The
Indicated majority by which the Sena
tor will carry New Hampshire against
Mr. Spauldlng, whose attitude on the
league is that he would accept it with
th Lodge reservations, proves conclu
sively that the vaat majority of the
Senator's constituent! approved his
land in the Senate against the peace'
treaty and the league.
Republican candidate throughout the
twntry who are basing their campaigns
on the same Issue that won for Senator
Moses will be able to point to the result
In New Hampshire as proof that their
mention that the league Is not favored
fv the people is likely correct.
'hi!e the league Issue was the prin
cipal and the most Important issue of
the campaign, woman suffrage and the
'anff also came in for their share f at
tention. The Spauldlng forces exerted
great efforts to capture the woman vote
' their candidate on the strength of
Senator Moses's opposition to woman
suffrage ever since that question has
teen before the public. On the other
nnd, the State Anti-Suffrage Associa
tion published appeala to women who
nad opposed suffrage to reglste- and
vote for the Senator.
Jfo One on Wet Platform.
The prohibition question was brought
wo the Democratic campaign by Al
Jrt W. Noone, who entered tho field
or both the Senatorial and Guberna
torial nominations on a wet platform.
He. was opposed In hie campaign by the
regu.ars," organisation support going
to Raymond B. Stevens, former vice
Jhslrman of the Shipping Board and
"rroer Representative, for the S,ena
Jwlal nomination, and- to Char'ea K.
niton for the nomination for Governor.
Representatives Sherman E. Bur
roughs and 2d ward H. Wason. both K
Wbl leans, were opposed for renomina
m by State Senators BenJauvn T.
strtlett and Joseph B. Perley respc
"'y. Rosecrana W. Plllsbury, for
wiy prominent in Republican State
Wltls, this year sought the Demo
cratic Congressional nomination in
"Presentatlve Burroughs' district In
"Jresentatlve Wasorfs district the
gwnorratic candidate was Samuel H.
NO GUARANTEES
BY MACSWINEY
Lloyd George's Suggestion of
Release, If Murders Stop,
Ignored.
WIFE'S HOPES IN AMERICA
Thinks Economic Boycott Will
Cause Britain to Realize
Injustice.
MOORE FAILS TO
PROVE ANY FUND
CHARGEJY COX
Governor's Star Witness
Has Only Hearsay and
Clippings.
ADMITS THAT IS al
Repeatedly Misquotes Up
ham in Seeking to Bolster
Up His Case.
G. 0. P. WORKERS HEARD
W. S. Dickey Tells of $100,000
Missouri Fund No Dis
trict Quotas.
BAY STATE WOMEN
WIN FOR JACKSON
Wre Smothered by Ava
lanche of 'Stickers.'
ii! t, Tlu gC!, ijB Ntw yobk HSSALP.
Bo
Ma
tov, Sept. 7 The Republicans of
"V for good government second only
"at of Gov. Coolldge In last No
vember '? election bv nominating as their
"ndid,t for treasurer James Jackson
"estwood and burying under an
Mlanrhe of "stickers" the former
"irer. Fred J. Burrel of Medford
Although returns were slower In com-
i
a Continued on Fourth Paso.
London, Sept 7 Lord Maytg- Mac
Swiney of Cork passed a rather rest
ltss and feverish evening in Brixton
Ji.ll. but otherwise his condition, due
to his prolonged hunger strike, was un
c nanged.
Premier Lloyd George's (suggestion
fot the release of Mr. MacSwiney and
ctner hunger strikers, conditioned on a
Guarantee of the cessation of murders '
of policemen in Ireland, seems not to i
be regarded either here or in Dublin
as providing any practical Issue for :he
breaking of the deadlock between the
Government and the dissident Irish
men, although the belief prevails in
seme quarters that It may be accepted
as an Indication of slight yielding on
the part of the Premier from his pre
vious unshakable attitude. j
Lord Mayor MacSwlney's friends de- ,
c' ire that It would be impossible for
MacSwiney to give such a guarantee.
Art O'Brien, president of the Gaell!"
League In London, says no authorlta- :
tlve communication has been received
from Mr. Lloyd George by any relative
of Lord Mayor MacSwiney or any one
entitled to speak in his behalf. If. how
ever, Mr. Lloyd George is willing to
discuss terms for a cessation of hostili
ties In Ireland, by which tho lives of
Mr. MacSwiney and the other hunger
strikers may be saved, Mr. O'Brien says
the Premier can officially communicate
with the proper persons, who will con
sider the matter.
Regarding the statement made by Pre
mier Lloyd George indicating that Mayor
MacSwiney probably would lie relased
if guarantees were given that the mur
ders of police !n Ireland would cease.
Father Dominic said the Mayor had no
authority to make any promise for the
QSataUon of murders in Ireland, as he
was only an individual Sinn Fetner.
It the Government Is satisfied that
murders are taking place," Father
Dominic added, "why doesn't it capture
the murderers and execute them?"
Mrs. MacSwlney's Hope.
In a message to sympathisers with
Mayor MacSwiney In America Mrs. Mac
Swiney to-day said :
"I wish to express to all the Irish
people and many sympathisers with Ire
land's cause in America my deepest ap
preciation of the messages and cable
grams I have received from them ever
since my husband started hunger strik
ing twenty-five days ago. In contrast
with those among the English people who
proclaim themselves sympathetic to ele
mentary Justice being done to my hus
band and who content themselves with
words and appeals Ireland's sympa
thisers in America have taken their line
of action in an economic boycott, as
,-hqwn In the withdrawal of policies from
English Insurance companies and a re
fusal to handle English shipping. This
is likely to bring home to the minds of
Lloyd George and the Bngllslt Govern
ment what may be the enTect throughout
the world of the doing to death of my
husband In an English Jail."
"America Is more capable than any
other country at the present moment of
forcing her r-.-ent ally. England, to con
form to elementary principles of Jus
tice regarding Ireland, and I and my
husband's other relatives and buoyed up
by the hope and confident expectation
that the action so rar taken in some
centres in the United States will rap
Idly spread through the continent of
America.
Suffering for an Ideal.
"Terence MacSwiney is not sacrificing
himself In a personal protest, but be
cause he realises that his case symbol
ises Ireland's case, and for the great
principle of Irish freedom he Is willing
to sacrifice his life if need be. We who
suffer so keenly with him. seeing his
young and hopeful life gradually ebb
ing from nis oooy. are equaiiy prepaid
to b'&r our great suffering and sorrow
for the sake of the land we love."
Mrs. MacSwiney concerted with the
same outward show of cheerfulness and
resignation. She is a slender, blue eyed,
plainly dressed woman of youthful ap
pearance and spends several hours dally
in the London offices of the Irish 8elf
De termination League writing letter
and receiving newspaper correspondents.
Shortly after noon, however, Mrs. Mac
Swiney goes to Brixton Jail and sits
three hours holding her husband's hand
and occasionally returning a word of
consolation In answer to his now
scarcely audible murmurlngs.
Cork, Sept. 7. This is the twenty
eighth day since the eleven hunger
tinkers In Cork tail rofused food. Sean
Hennessy, If yjars of age, of Ballm- ;
garry. Limerick, and Thomas Donovan ,
of Emly. .Limerick, are said to be suf
fering severely, Hennessy with blood
Vontimtad on
T
Fy a Staff Corrcpoiultnt of Ths Son and
New Yosa Hssald.
Chicago, Sept 7. After a day of
wrangling between the Republican and
Democratic Senators and of rambling
testimony from Kd. Moore, Gov. Cox's
star witness in support of the charges
tl at the Republicans tried to raise a
fund of 115,000,000 to buy the Presi
dency, the Kenyon committee nearly
disintegrated in a war of words this
evening. Senator Reed of Missouri,
who had previously charged Chairman
Kenyon and Senator Spencer, Repub
licans, with "bulldoiing" and "bully
ing" the witness, wound up with the
word "bullraggitujj."
Mr. Moore, detailing himself accused
Hy Senator Spencer of wilfully sub
mitting a forged paper to the commit
tee because he had Introduced an un
signed circular letter Indicating that
the Republican quota for a county in
Michigan was $8,000. jammed his docu
ments Into his leather brief cae and
threatened to quit the hearing. Where
upon the learned Senators stopped
blazing at one another. Chairman
Kenyon said, "No, no; let's go on."
Senator Spencer protested that the ac
cusation of forgery was furthest from
hli thought, and temporary peace was
restored just before adjournment to
to-morrow morning
Mr. Moore, who was sent here by
Gov. Cox. and whose appearance was
postponed from last Thursday, when ho
reached Chicago, made an extraordinary
wltnesa He conceded time and again
that he had no proof of the charges, al
though he thought he had everything
that Gov. Cox had. He proposed to estab
lish the proof by having the committee
summon scores of witnesses whom he
named, and a host of others, men he
pictured as the "Money Diggers" work
ing in the States under the direction of
the National Committee, specifically of
Harry N. Blair, assistant to Treasurer
Upham. He said they could tell the
facts as to quotas assigned and money
actually contributed and sought.
Many of these have actually been sub
poenaed, but as Mr. Moore extended his
list with nearly every breath the im
patience of the Republican Senators was
voiced by Senator Spencer, who said lie
didn't propose to be a party to summon
ing men thousands of miles without hav
ing any Idea of what proof they might
be expected to offer.
Moore's Wrath Stirred.
The attitude of Senator Spencer, com
bined with frequent questions barbed
with satire from Senator Kenyon, finally
stirred Mr. Moore to great wrath. The
Democratic members of the committee.
Reed and Pomerene, took his side, of
course, and the day was full of thunder
and lightning.
From Mr. Moore the committee got
only what he called "leads" to add to
Its earlier accumulation. The testimony
of C. H. McNlder, chairman of the
Money Raising Republican Ways and
Means Committee of Iowa, was rather
more Important from the standpoint of
thoce who are looking for the smallest
substantiation of the charges of Gov.
Cox. Mr. McNlder testified that there
was a quota fixed for his .State and
that it was f75,000, but that he raised
it on, his responsibility to 1200,000, which
he did not expect to come anywhere
near raising. He also said a quota was
fixed for each county by himself.
MoNider was the first witness to be
heard by the committee at the sugges
tion of Mr. Moore.
On the other hand, Walter S. Dickey
of Kansas City, chairman of the ways
and means committee for Missouri,
swore that no quotas had ever been as
signed to the sub-division of his State.
He said further that Missouri was to
raise 190,000 for the National Commit
tee under the Joint money raising plan
frequently described and thajt the cash
actually turned in, together with unpaid
pledges, did not amount to mora than
1100.000.
The elrcuar letter which got the bet
ter of sorely tried tempers to-night had
a letterhead with the names of Will
Hays and the other Republican national
officers. It bore the printed signatures
of three women who were the committee
for raising money in Lenawee county,
Michigan.
One of the things the letter said was :
"The county quota has been fixed at
13,000, of which the women are asked
to raise one-third." Senator Spencer's
objection was that this was not evi
dence, as the signatures were not hand
written. "Do you suggest that this paper is a
forgery 7" said Senator Reed.
"I don't know." returned the Republi
can Senator. "But I am eaying that to put
before this committee as evidence, as
"leads," printed circulars without the
name of a single person, without any
thing to Indicate that they are more than
a general circular, Is ridiculous."
"It simply shows a quota levied over
there," chirped Ed Moore, and Senator
Reed broke In with:
"It doesn't furnish any lead to a man
who wants to avoid the truth, but It
furnishes it to any man who wants to
get at the facts."
Kenyon as Peacemaker.
Mr. Moore by now was collecting his
belongings and saying he saw no use in
undertaking "to present any evidence"
because, he said. "If evidence coming to
CoaJtMua an Fifth Pop.
HARDING VISITS
WITHGEN.W00D
Candidate Puts in Part of
Day at Fort Sheridan
Convalescent Hospital.
TALKS FROM CAR END
Senator Proves Splendid
Campaigner and Makes
Strong Impression.
MEETS FARMERS TO-DAY
Success of First Swing Out of
Marion May Keep Him
on Tour.
By a Staff CorrenpoSnVnt of Tas Bcn ami Nsw
Tola Hssald.
On BoAitn Special, Train With Sen
ator Harmko, Deer field. 111., Sept. 7.--The
pleasurable hour that Senator
Harding gave to the wounded soldier
boys of the A. E. F. this afternoon In
the great reconstruction hospital at
Fort Sheridan, near here, would have
been reason enough for his abandoning
the dull dignity of Marion had there
been none other.
It's no Joke to lie In an army hos
pital for two years and more, us some
of the men at Fort Sheridan have been
forced to do, fighting pain and fight
ing the monotony that Is worse than
pain. Any variation helps, but when
a near President comes, the most In
ti resting figure In Amerlcs, not even
excepting the actual President, for one
is coming as the other goes, the day
U one to be ringed around with red
upon the calendar of the maimed.
The Senator came here after leaving
his special train at the Dearborn street
station In Chicago at 2:30 P. M. as the
guest with Mrs. Harding, of Major Gen.
Leonard Wood, commander of the new
Sixth Army Corps, whose headquarters
will be at Fort Sheridan. The man who
won the great prise and the man who
failed but who came so near to winning
spent the afternoon together In perfect
and sympathetic cordiality. After see
ing Gen. Wood's attitude toward Sen
ator Harding tfWe is no doubt ef the
warmth and sincerity of his support
Wood is not a sulker and a better loser
never lived.
Wood Shews Soldier's Patience.
He met Mr. Harding at the train,
having waited an hour and a half In the
dismal Dearborn street train shed, owing
to Incorrect information given him by
railway officials. With the General
were Senator Harry S. New and Mrs.
New. The Indiana Senator, who Is man
sglng the Republican speakers' bureau
in this campaign, and therefore can tell
Harding what to do when ho feels like
It went Into the Harding private car
wearing the smile that has helped to
make Indiana Republican end wearing
nlso his famous big, black, soft hat.
Hearst wears one like It and ho does Joe
Bailey of Texas.
In a few minutes the entire party was
swinging along the rotting boards ot
Dearborn street toward Gen. Wood'.t
olive drab limousine, which headed a
string of motor cars drawn up at the
curb. In a Jiffy the motor car proces
sion got under way, whisking through a
crowd that scarcely had time to yip and
hitting the high road. This took Sena
tor Harding and hla party to Michigan
avenue, past the Blackstone and Con
gress hotels and other famous meeting
places of Republican national conven
tlona Probably Senator Harding never
will pass the Blackstone as long as he
Uvea without a thrill, for it was in the
Blackstone that the leaders of the party
came to the decision that will make
him President of the United 8tates.
Greeted by Mrs. Wood.
I On the procession rolled out the Lake
i Shore Drive Into Edgewater and
I through scenery charming enough to
make visitors to Chicago forget its
I Mayor. Into and through Evanston, past
Northwestern Unlversty and the homes
of new millionaires and so to the great
quadrangle of dirty yellow buildings and
railroad tracks that constitute Fort
Sheridan. The fort has been Lovell
General Hospital In and since tr great
war, caring for as many as 6,000
wounded men, but at present It Is In
process of abandonment as a hospital
and in the way of being remade Into
an up to date military post, headquar
ters of the Sixth Army Corps
At Gen. Wood's headquarters, one of
; those old fashioned frame houses that
I Uncle Sam used to build for his military
men, Mrs. Wood appeared to greet the
; Senator and Mrs. Harding. She gave
them tea and the opportunity to remove
the aU too friendly Cook county dust
that had settled upon faces and clothing,
and then both General and Mrs. Wood
together with Col. Gordon Johnson, who
used to command the Old Twelfth New
Tork la the border scare days ;. Senator
and Mrs. New and members of the Har
ding party and the General's staff, vis
ited the hospital wards.
There are 500 men under treatment
here now, all of them men who were
desperately hurt In the fighting of Cha-teau-Thleiry,
Belleau Wood, the Ar
gonne and the Hlndenburg line. None
exoept the worst cases were received
here.
It was not a cheerful inspection, nor
waa It designed to be. There were too
many fine looking lads that lacked a
leg or two legs, or who will go the rest
of their lives without one arm or both,
Accidents Claim Four
Timet as Many at War
SpfM to Tea Bi.s and Nsw Yobk Hssald.
CHICAGO, Sept. 7. Every year
about one-tenth of the total
population of the United States
falls downstairs, gets run over,
trips into open manholes, leans
too far out of the window, peers
into a gain that is supposed to be
unloaded or, to cut it short,
drowns. The result is that 11,
087,000 persons are injured
every year. Also 10,000 aTe
killed accidentally every year.
All of which and more came to
light to-day at the Health and
Accident Underwriters' confer
ence at the Hotel La Salle.
During the war 31,000 Ameri
cans were killed in battle, where
as right at home with no battle
going on 126,000 Americans died
of accidents during the same
period, according to figures pro
duced at the conference.
POLAND PLEADS
FOR U.S. CREDIT
Must Get It, Says Grabski,
Unless America Is Prepared
to Lose $169,000,000.
WHEAT IS GREATEST NEED
EVERY FACTORY
IN ITALY FACES
LABORSEIZURE
Metal Workers Send Five
Day Ultimatum Threat
of Nationalization.
EMPLOYERS STUBBORN
No Negotiations Until Their
Factories Are Evac
uated, They Say.
CONFERENCE TO-MORROW
General Industrial Conference
Will Consider Govern
ment Negotiations.
Vast Sum at Stake if Buffer
Against Bolshevism Is
Made Tts Prey.
Continued on Becond Page
By LAURENCE HILLS,
5to CorrMponiutt of Ths Si n MO) Nsw
ioia Hsai.D. Coovriotit, tttt, by Ths Sun
imi Nsw Yota HstitLD.
Paris, ticpt. 7. "Unless the United
States has JI69.000.000 to throw away
by letting Poland become the prey of
the Bolshevlkl she will have to con
tinue patiently lending financial and
economic assistance, and perhaps even
military aid, until the Ked menace 1
entire! rushed. For the present there
Is no possibility of an early repayment
of the huge sums wo owe tho United
States, but we are confident she will
not deliert us now," said Ladlslas Grab
ski, Polish Minister of Finance, to
Tug Si s and New Yohk Humid cor
respondent this afternoon.
He is negotiating with the French
Oovcrnment for a large supply of am
munition and army clothing which will
be paid for In exports of gasolene and
sugar, but France, like the United
States, win have to live and wait long
for payment, as Poland has a steadily
growing debt.
According to M. Grabski the Indebt
edness to the United States falls under
six categories, the Baldwin Locomotive,
approximating Jl, 000, 000, being the
largest non-government corporation in
volved. The United States Liquidation
Commission and the United States Army
claim balances of several millions each
and the United States Shipping Bor.rd
nearly $15,000,000. The United States
Grain Corporation and tho United States
Relief Administration add near 100,
000,000 to Poland's unpaid accounts, this
representing puruhasts of wheat during
the lest two yoars.
"We had intended meeting a part of
these debts as soon as I he harvest was
finished and we were about to commence
exportation, but the Bolshevik! de
stroyed everything wherever they
passed," the Finance Minister aaid.
"As a result we are economically where
we were on armistice day."
AL Grabski dentea there has been
any waste of Polish funds and declares
that on the contrary a systematic ef
fort was to be made to raise increased
taxes for complete balancing of Internal
budgets. Levies on financial Arms have
Increased nine fold and on other Indus
trial and commercial corporations seven
fold, while the new tax on Incomes will
be as high as JO per cent. While other
countries are relinquishing the tax do
luxe this will be maintained in Poland.
"But tell America wo need credit for
more wheat," Insisted AI. Grabski. "It
j the most costly problem, but we must
hnve It We have nothing to offer the
United States, as she does not need the
small export surplus which we are di
recting elsewhere, so that we can con
tinue the struggle against Bolshevism on
iclialf of our friends.
"It seems a lot to ask, but the most
significant thing in Poland to-day is ths
gratitude of the people for what the
United States 'has done. Other nationali
ties came to Poland seeking advantages
of commerce, but American help was
altruistic. They have helped solve our
sanitary problems, they have cured our
sickness and have given bread to our
hungering children. We are deeply grate
ful for all this and will prove It by ac
cepting the heavy burden of being buf
fored alternately by the Germans and
Russians."
Romb, Sept. 7. The employers in
metal factories which have been selaed
by workmen in the present contest
over conditions in this Industry have
been told they must comply with the
worklngmen's demands within Ave
days, according to a resolution passed
by the Socialist members of the General
Confederation of Labor. Should the
employers fail to yield a rapid move
ment toward general nationalization Is
threatened. So far the manufacturers
aro persisting in their decision not to
enter into direct negotiations with the
workers before the latter evacuate the
factories.
Positive contradiction of "biased
rumors spread in foreign countries re
specting the situation In Italy" is con
tained In a seml-ofnciul note issued
this morning. The note adds:
"With the exception of the action of
the metal workers, life Is proceeding
normally here. It is hoped we can find
a settlement of this question and even
the workers' organisations are cooperat
ing to this end. Premier Giolitti IS still
holidaying at piedmont and Intends to
go to Alx-les-Balna September 12 (for
his conference with Premier Mlllerand
of France), and the King is at his sum
mer residence In San Ressore."
Conference Tharaday.
Government ornclals will open nego
tiations with the General industrial Con
ference at Milan on Thursday with a
view to solving the Industrial problem.
The Socialist group In the Italian parlia
ment will meet with the governing com
mittee of the General Workers' Confed
eration on Friday, and it Is expected that
at this gathering a policy will be adopted
by the workers relative to the present
anomalous condition of Italian Industry.
It Is estimated that 400 of the largest
metal works In Italy have been occupied
by mechanics and workers, and the
movement is still expanding, threatening
to extend to the extreme southern end
of the peninsula. Elaborate steps have
been taken by the Government to
preserve order during the perlodwhen
a general offensive against all Industries
Is threatened.
Alanufaclurers declare that the wage
Increases demanded by the SOO.000 metal
workers would add at least 1,000,000,000
lire to their pay roll, a burden that
could not be sustained. They point out
that Italy pays eighteen times the pre
war price for coal, while England
pays only three times, America three
and a half, France six and even
Germany only eleven. Aa a result
foreign production Is replacing Ital
ian. Wrought steel manufactured in
France is selling In Italy at a lower
price than the Italian product, while
wrought steel made in England costs
less than It can be produced for In Italy,
even without profit
Ministry to Be Represented.
Two members of the Ministry' will go
to Milan, and it is hoped the General
Industrial Conference will take early
action on their suggestion. If this ac
tion should be favorable it would mean
the end of the agitation for the occu
pation of plants. If it should be un
favorable, it is Impossible to predict the
duration and possible consequences of
the struggle.
Mystery of Four Fares
Baffles B. R. T. Patrons
WITH one of the "finest" on
the front seat, seventy val
iant BrooklyniteB aboard and a
rough looking crew of two, car
No. 1002 of the Smith street line
left Park Row at 5 P. M. yester
day. The conductor, a young man
who is helping Mr. Garrison
break a strike, showed commend
able agility in gathering in the
8.60 in tolls.
But when the car reached the
Brooklyn end the register told
the world and the B. R. T. in
spectors that four fares had been
paid. There were forty more
passengers when the car got to
Pulton street and the register
still read "four."
And the passengers gazed and
the wonder grew
"Who rang up those four
fares?"
It was a mystery even to the
conductor.
NIXON ADVISES
B. R. T. MEN TO GO
TO WORKTODAY
Sustains Court and Receiver
in Refusing to Deal
With Amalgamated.
TIME LIMIT IS JfOON
LEAP OF MOTOR
KILLSCHILDREN
Automobile Jumps to Side
walk, Crushing Life Out of
Two and Injuring Four.
ALL JAMMED TO WALL
Driver Himself Is Hurt, but
Makes Escape Before a
Crowd Gathers.
MONTREAL HAS 801,216. .
Fifth City In Population In Worth
America.
Montreal, Sept 7. Statistics compiled
for the new Issue of the city directory
give Montreal a population of 801,11,
showing it the fifth largest city on the
North American Continent.
The Washington census bureau shows
Detroit to be the fourth largest United
States city, with 998.719. and Cleveland
the next In sUe, with 79l,83.
SEN. CRANE'S ILLNESS
CROWS MORE SERIOUS
Forced to Abandon AU Polit
ical Activities.
Bath Tub. to Be Standardised.
Sr. Louts, Sept. 7. Standardisation
of bath tubs as a means of speeding up
building was' urged at the convention of
the American Society of Sanitary Engi
neers, which opened here to-day.
DESIRABLE HELP I
' ' Home and Office Workers
' Home and Office Workers
See "SITUATIONS WANTED" Ada.
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Dalton, Mass., Sept. 7, Announce
ment was made to-night that former
United States Senator W. Murray Crane
waa seriously ill at his home here. For
several days he has been confine) to his
bed. though it was aaid that his condi
tion waa not considered alarming.
Senator Crane suffered a collapse at
Northampton when attending the exer
cises notifying Governor Coolldge of his
nomination as Vice-President, but ral
lied quckly. He was forced, however, to
curtail Ms activities, although he main
tained a directing influence in Repub
lican party policies until four days ago.
He Is sixty-seven years old.
The Senator's condition. It has been
known ' for some time, has been such
as to cause some anxiety on the part of
his business and political friends, but
no immediate concern was felt until
he abandoned all activities and took to
his bed. The collapse at Northampton
waa described as due to excessive heat,
but It is now felt that the cause was
more deep seated. The Illness Is un
derstood to involve the circulatory sys
tem. Rumor of Disorder In Yucatan.
Washington, Sept 7. Unconfirmed
rumors of disorder in Yucatan. Mexico,
during the Presidential election on Sun
day have been received at Mexico City,
according to advices to the State De
partment. The published returns; the
embassy said, indicated an overwhelm
ing majority for Oen. Obregon and a
bm5M .
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Two little boys were crushed and
killed yesterday and four others were
so seriously Injured that two of them
are likely to die when an automobllo
which was being driven past a corner of
Fifty-fifth street and Eleventh ave
nue, where they were playing, ran up
on the sidewalk and pinned them
against a building. The driver of the
car was injured himself, but despite
his injuries managed to escape In the
crowd which gathered.
The dead aro Howard Schuman, 8
years old, and James Wylie, 7, both of
600 West Fifty-fifth street. The in
jured are Cornellua White, 4, of the
oamo address, and James and Law
rence McMullen. 5 and 7 years old, of
71 Eleventh avenue, and Patrick
Gunn, 7, of 785 Eleventh avenue.
The accident happened Just before 3
o'clock In the afternoon. On the north
east corner where street and avenue
cross there la a tenement house with a
store on the ground floor and an iron
fence of light construction extending
on the street side of It to the full
depth of the lot The fence, which is
a few feet high, makes a narrow enclos
ure between the inside of the sidewalk
and the house, and In that crowded
nelghborhoood children have used It for
years aa a place to play In.
About a score of little boys, between
the ages of four and eight, were at
play in it yesterday when a touring car
owned by the Bulck Company and,
driven by a man or whom the police
are still searching, camo driving north
on Eleventh avenue and slowed down
a little as its driver, apparently, made
up huj mind to turn It east Into Fifty
fifth street There was no one with
him and the damage to the car, by the
time it was examined, made It impos
sible to determine if anything went
wrong with its mechanism. But aa he
curved from the avenue into the street
the car ran up on the sidewalk, shoved
its way through the light Iron fence,
and pinned six of the boys playing in
side it against the building.
Instantly the vicinity of the place waa
In an uprcar, and In a few minutes the
street was jammed with people. In the
excitement and the crowd the man who
had been driving the car and who had
been hurled out picked himself up and
disappeared. The car, which bore a
dealer's license, waa traced to the Bulck
company, and its management has prom
ised the police all possible aid in tracing
out irtio was driving tt
When the car, almost immediately
after it struck there, was draggod away
from the building it was found that
Schuman and Wylie were dead and the
four others Injured. The four who were
living were taken to Roosevelt Hospital,
but two Lawrence McMullen and Pat
rick Gunn have fractured skulls and
are likely to die. James McMullen suf
fered a fracture of hla left shoulder and
internal injuria?, and Cornelius WyUe
had both arms broken.
Mahon and Hylan Fftll to
Change the Ultimatum
Given to Strikers.
I'NION CAN'T RUN BUSES
Red Propaganda Is Plenty at
Labor Meetings Murder
Charges to Be Pressed.
JURY WILL DECIDE
SEARLES WILL CASE
Contesting Counsel Ask for
Special Administrator.
Salem, Mass., Sept 7. An attempt
will be made by appeal to a Jury to
break the will of Edward F. Searlos,
the aged recluse of Methuen, who left
an estate estimated at 850,000,000 with
Arthur T. Walker of New York, a clerk,
as residuary legatee. Counsel for Al
bert Victor Searles of Boston, a nephew,
made this announcement when the will
came up for probate to-day, saying a
formal motion for a Jury trial would
be filed within ten days.
The claim of Searles' s nephew, who is
an artist, to the principal share In the
estate of the multl-milllonalre, who left
him only $250,000 and stipulated that
he should forfeit everything If he con
tasted the will, will be supported by a
targe array of counsel. Six lawyers
or law firms entered their appearance
for him to-day.
Sherman L Whipple of Boston, who
headed these attorneys, asked for the
appointment of a special administrator
of the estate, explaining that his client
had been impeded In efforts to ascertain
the extent of the property. Charles F.
Choate, counsel for the executors of tho
will, however, said he was not prepared
to go Into the matter at this time, and
the case was adjourned.
The date for a hearing on the Issues
will be set later by agreement of coun
THS PLAZA
6aa sad Dinnar Dances have ba rasumtd
I the Bom Koom.-dw.
Efforts of the striking Brooklyn car
men to effect a settlement of their
differences with the company through
Public Service Commissioner Lewis
Nixon met with failure last night,
when the Commissioner advised them
that he could not help them and that
tl'ey should return to work before noon
to-day, when the time limit set in
Receiver Garrison's ultimatum to them
expires.
The Commissioner gave his advice
to forty employees of the company,
representing every craft that is on
strike, after a conference that had
lasted nearly four hours, in which he
had argued with the men that they
were mistaken in their attitude and
that tho very limit of concessions al-
I .ready had been reached by the com
pany in its dealing with them.
Federal Judge Julius M. Mayer,
who has the final say in all mattera
affecting the finances of the company,
already had refused in a conference
with Mayor Hylan to recede from hla
ultimatum that the men must go back
to work as Individuate title morning or
forfeit their priority and all other
privileges.
Company offlolals expressed the be
lief last night that this would result
in a complete colls pse of the strike to
day, as upward of 8,500 of the older
employees of the lines have signified
their intention of returning to their
jebs and upward of 90 per cent, of the
men are said to be thoroughly sick of
the union, which they say is being
ruled by an organized radical mi
nority. Furthermore, this radical minority
received a severe blow yesterday when
upward of a score of ita riotous mem
bers were held'in Brooklyn courts on
I charges of felonious atteault, and Dls-
trict Attorney Harry E. Lewis of Kings
j county announced that he would ask
I tho Grand Jury to Indict seven strikers
for murder in the first degree for par
ticlpatlon in the stoning of trains of
the Sea Beach line a week ago, when
a man waa killed.
Jnde-e Mayor Stand" Finn.
The announcement that Judge Mays
would stand pat to hla demand tor a
complete surrender by the strikers and
the total elimination of the Amalga
mated Association of Btreet and Electrlo
Railway Employees from the affairs of
the company was made at his chambers
Inithe Woolworth Building immediately
after the end of a long conference be
tween the Court and Mayor Hylan, who
had called for the purpose, of re-submitting
a proposal for an interview with
the strike leaders, or of asking the
Court to make some settlement offer.
The Mayor informed the Court that
he had been In conference with William
H. Mahon, International president of
the Amalgamated Association, who ar
rive! here Sunday for the purpose of
endeavoring to negotiate peace In the
troubled traction situation. He said
that Mr. Mahon had called upon him at
the City Hall in company with Patrick
j. Shea, vice-president of the Amalga
mated, and John Reardon, general or
ganiser. These union officials had been
working hard to drag their organisation
out of the hole Into which It had fallen,
and It Is generally understood that they
would have clutched at any offer from
Judge Mayer, provided it would have
assured the men the right to continue to
deal through their association.
Judge Mayer simply told the Mayor
that his position had been clearly aad
finally stated to his letter to the Mayor
last Thursday night in which he aaid
he would deal neither directly nor In
directly with the Amalgamated Associ
ation. He also said that the statements
a v... t?civr Garrison In an Inter -
wished vesterdav morning. In
which the receiver refused to deal with
Mr. Mahon and asserted that the Amal
gamated must go, had his full approval.
As to msklng proposals for these men
to submit to the union, he said, he would
make no proposal to the Amalgamate,
and his only proposal to the men wsj
contained in his letter of Thursday. I
; which he demanaea an immediate return
to work at the salary Increase that was
offered the men before they went on
i strike, and which they refused.
Outside of a brief statement covering
I these points, neither Judge Mayer nor
Mayor Hylan would discuss the results
I of their Interview, but tt waa noted that
! the Mayor seemed somewhat crestfallen
at the rebuff that his efforts at media-
' tlon had received.
Visit to Mion Proves SfatUe.
! The expedition of the strike chiefs te
. Commissioner Nixon's office was a for
j lorn hope, as It was apparent before they
I entered Into conference with the Com
missioner that he could not overrule the
court even if he should feel so disposed.
The men felt however, that as he had
just returned from Europe and had net
taken part to the conferences thus far to
the present strike they might tf vU