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ftlt to-day and to-morro day; fresh west and sou Highest temperature yeaterda; Det?U?d w rather reports will bo foun VOL. LXXXVI.?NO. 4 SMI FEWS COITS I DEFT SOVEREIGNTY; PERILS IRISH PARLEY Rupture Almost Occurs as' Gravity of Dublin Situa- | tion Is Felt by British j Delegates. LONDON PUT IN HOLE Truce Bars Repressive Action Against New Move Backed by Many Citizens in Erin. * <. WILL MEET AGAIN TO-DAY Conferees Believe Break Will Be Averted, as Lloyd George i Is Preparing- to Go to Washington. j Sperial Cable to "Turn New Yosa Houi k. Copt/right, I9t1, by Tim N?w Toms Hmulv. Now York Herald Borarni,) TiOndon, Oct. 13. J The Irish conference here skated on thin ice to-day. But it succeeded in getting over, and will meet again tomorrow. , The summoning of Sinn Fein courts in Dublin itself seems to have .been the dangerous element In the day's meeting. Downing Street was full of raw nerves this afternoon, with 20,000 unemployed seeking to pierce a cordon of more than 1,000 police and reach the Prime Minister, while Mr. Lloyd George was diverted from the Irish question by the unemployment situation. the demands <jf the Cabinet committee for suggestions in connection with the forthcoming Washington conference and the straightening out of the tempest in tha teapot in connection with the visit of Gen. Pershing. The resultant irritation was reflected when the Irish delegation left the Prime Minister's house this afternoon. Rome one asked Michael Collins, one of the 8inn Fein envoys i "When are you coming back?" ntlmtta From Cellists. * "I am never coming back," Mr. Collins mapped. At that momant Arthur Griffith, head Of the Sinn Fein delegation, leaned across the knees of Mr. Collins, the lighting chief of the Irish republican forces, as they sat side by side In an automobile, and told the questioner that the conference would resume at 11 o'clock to-morrow morning. An extensive report Is now in the hands of the Government asserting that | the opening of the Sinn Fein courts in I Dublin yesterday was the most daring challenge yet hurled at the authority of the Crown in Ireland. It was. to wit, that the King's writ had ceased to run in Ireland, because the BTnn Fein courts had taken the place of the King's courts, which were responsible for the organisation of the "Black and Tans" fifteen months ago. .Nothing else so rouses British antagonism. The royal courts in Dublin are seriously crippled by the refusal of a vast majority of the bar and public there to have anything to d? with them. Meanwhile the Sinn Fein courts have stepped in to attack one of Dublin's most popular scandals?the prevention of adulteration of milk and whiskey. Savagely as this Irritates English sentiment, and the-keen, practical domestic politics, as It Is seen to be, for the Sinn Keln to exert Its authority to such a popular end. it 'Is recognised by both sides that the Government cannot forcibly repVese these Irish republican ceurts without not only breaking the truce but without bringing up Immediately in the conference the entire question of sovereignty. British Pet In Dilemma. And If tho sovereignty question Is ! brought up before the ground Is amply and carefully prepared It will mean a certain breakdown of the peace negotiations. Nevertheless, the question of these courts seems to have beqn raised, and raised sharply, at the meeting te-day. Disappointment over the turn alTalra have taken was plainly reflected in other Irish quarters besides those of the peppery Mr. Collins. There aro some spokesmen for the Irish side, howaver, who welcome the Government pressing the matter of the courts as of negotiations. It to the Irish chart* that al! viola- i tlon* of the truce were Invariably i cnargeable directly t* the Brltleh forces, I These men now my the surest proof I that their charges are correct Is that the Oov em merit Is unable to bring up j any serious allegation of truce break- i ing on the part of the Irish except ; In this matter of the courts. It Is understood that other questions in connection with the truce are going on smoothly, each side sending a warning to their partisans thst they must be ntore careful than ever before to avoid provocative acts. The Sinn Fein delegates held a long | conference In their own headquarters this evening, however, and it Is presumed they are trying to decide whether It Is better to attempt to force the sovereignty question about the courts when the conference opens to-morrow. Rack Has Own Intnrpretptlan. While the strength of the formula, "to determine how Ireland can beeome i SMoclated With the community of na- i Mens known as thV British Kniplre," lies | In Its amenability to each side's Interpretation of the situation. Its weakness lies In the possibility that ofther side may at any time atnrnipt, premnturely to force Its own Interpretation of such I questions as this of the courts. Both sides remain alive to this, however. The cooler heeds on both sides de not j i . Continued on Fifth Papr. i t V 3 mi w; warmer to thwest winds. I I f, 55! lowest, 41. d on Editorial page. 5?DAILY. GIANTS CH/ 1-0 VICTOR SAVED B] < He Stabs Drive by Baker; Quick Play to Kelly to Frisch Ends Game. PECK'S ERROR COSTLY Bancroft Scores Only Run on Captain's Fumble in First Inning. HOYT FALLS IN 8D TRY Ruth Easily Cut Off in Batting: for Pipp?Small Crowd Sees Series Windup. _ --- j FINAL STANDING OF THE CLUBS. Won. Lost. F.C. Giant* S 3 .625 Yankee* 3 5 .375 The Giants are champions. They beat the Yankees 1 to 0 in the eighth and final game. At last they found the vulnerable heel of Waite Hoyt, the Flatbush Achilles. From his chilled fingers slipped two basos on balls in the first inning. This and a blunder by Peckinnanah. the Yankee rantnfn nrn. duced the only run. Thereafter the Yankees knocked frequently at opportunity's door. Once or twice it opened a few inches, only to be slammed in their faces. The chief slammer was Arthur Nehf. Twice he had pitched against Hoyt and lost This time Well, having done our duty by the frozen (facts, let's skip to the ninth inning and our new world series hero, Johnny Rawlings. There something was done that belongs with the miracle plays of baseball. Part of the hurry of the crowd as it boiled out of the Polo Grounds was due to the fact that everybody had something to tell the home folks. Also it was necessary to rush away to some spot where there was plenty of air. where one could gasp and gulp and recover his breath. The paper that is running a "greatest play you ever i?w contest noM go no further. The winter league experts may decide, when other years and other series are pulled into the perspective, that yesterday's was only one of many stunning episodes in the people's sport. But you couldn't malce any of the short memoried citisens believe that last night. Anyway, the last Inning proceedings struck the multitude dumb, and anything that brings about wholesale aphasia in a baseball mob must be worth the reader's attention. Sett In* for Baseball Fiction. It was, then, the ninth inning, the last of the ninth, with the Yankees up and the score 1 to 0 against them. Such was the fervor of the moment that many a Yankee rooter knew not whether he was cursing or praying or merely babbling the strange sounds that are supposed to encourage those hard birds out on the field. Here was a setting for baseball Action, or for one of those rare eleventh hour splurges that occasionally grace the game in actual combat. And who. my children, was that roly-poly young man advancing to the plate as the Arst batter for the Yankees?advancing and swinging a wicked club and pawing the ground and yanking the peak of his cap and rolling a great auid of sum with his tongue and theoretically terrifying Pitcher Nehf with the mere lightning of hie glance? Babe Ruth, of course. The crippled slugger, kept out of two' preoeding games,' had been up to this moment of yesterday active only as a coach off third base, where he kept his left hand in his sweater pocket and spanked his thigh with his right as he hollered for Yankee runners who never got as far as third. And now, with the Yankees toppling on the edge of the last ditch, Hugglns had sent him out in the faint, hope that, slashed elbow, lame leg and all, he might make a hit. All Cheer Roth's flock. "Ruth batting for Plpp," the umpire screamed. The crowd, buzzing and then screaming too. Implored the Babe to do what was right?that is. the Yankee crowd did, and Gtant rooters too Joined In the cheer for the bandaged Ruth's gameness. Ruth was set for a mighty heave. He held his hat at Its very tip, so that its full force might he available. In storv hook hasebail he would have knocked a homer, then and there, and tied the score. But what he actually did was this: Fouled the flrst bail, let the second one be called a strike, let the third pass for a ball and hit the fourth. Jt was a wide one with a curve like the "t?" at 110th street. Ruth hit It. not Into the Harlem River but toward first base, a trickling little bouncer that was pie for Kelly, on fluty there. Thus the home run champion disappeared from the world series, having fought the good fight and lost. One out. A few seconds later It looked as If Ci?r'fn??rf on Fourteenth Page. HE N] NEW YOR iMPIONS; Y IN FINAL f RA WLINGS >. r~ \ Total Receipts $900,233; Attendance Is 269,976 T)ESPITE the great falling off in attendance at the last Sme of the world series yestery the aggregate total of gate ~ j il. tann nnn i^cijivo paaocu uic fi^uv,vvv maiiv ?passed it with a little to spare, for the exact total is $900,233. This figure sets a record for the event for future baseball championships to aim at. It is $177,819 in excess of the best previous gate collected during the 1919 series between the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Sox. Only 24,510 paid to see the final game between the Giants and the Yankees, but the total attendance figure, 269,976, also establishes a record for the event. The final total of the club owners' share is $472,675.72, but the New York National and New York American League clubs do not retain all of that sum. The rules provide that 50 per cent, of the clubs' share for the first seven games shall be paid into their reSective league treasuries, and at in case an eighth game is necessary, as was the case yesterday, then 75 per cent, of the clubs' share of the receipts for that game must go to the league treasuries. This makes the final distribution as follows: Advisory Councils $135,034.20 Nat. League treasury... 97,885.38 Amer. League treasury. 97,885.38 N. V Kflt TiMflriin Huh 108 1)97 N. Y. Amer. League club 108,027.16 Players of winning club (Giants) 131,635.00 Players of losing club (Yankees) 37.756.67 Players of Cleveland and Pittsburgh clubs.. 43.878.34 Players of St. Louis (A.) and St. Louis (N.) clubs 29,252.22 HOYTAUHERO IN WORLD MS Bnt Does Not Have Such Fint Support in Final Game as Nehf. RAWLINGS STARS IN 9TU Giants Win Title by Right oj More Games Fairly Won and Better Batting. To the last hair raising out th< Giants and Yankees struggled jester day at the^folo Grounds in what turned out to be the last game of th? world series. With Aaron Ward leg ging it for third with all the speed h? could summon after a wonderful stoj by John Rawllngs on Frank Baker the ball was sailed with tine speec and precision by George Kelly t( rrnnn r risen, ana a ecorcning doubK play closed the game with the Glanti winners. The National Leaguers tooli the last game, took It by the close anc whitewash tally of 1 to 0, and wor throe straight fronj the Yankees tt do it. It is seldom any antagonist can beat the Yankees, worthy champions ever If they did lose this series. thre? straight. Well, the Giants did it, an<! if that doesn't make them worthj world champions nothing could. Th< Giants won by right of a majority ol games fairly won and by might of better batting. They added to their prestige In as hard a world series as evei was fought, and in which the Yankees lost in prestige not an lota. "Tell them how lucky the Giant! were!" exclaimed a fan as he passed the press pen at the finish of th? game. The Glnnts were lucky. Nom cAn gainsay that. Most world series winners have the better of fortune*! favors, and the Giants basked In the sunlight of fortune's smiles more thar a world series winner tmttallv does. But that factor In, by the way. Arthui Nehf. pitching against the Walte Hoyt the best young pitcher in the whol? professional arena, and who cams through with another display of skill, Hand and anng frold?-bordering close upon contempt for the Giant batters? pitched splendidly himself. Ho and hi* support, which dated to Its brightest blar.c when there was most need of it? that is. the nintli inning?did work which makes a team champion of champions. Hoyt pitched superbly and made the best hitters of the Giants look Ilk* "suckers," If you are familiar with such modern phrases, but for every helpless batter on the Giant side there was on? Ysnkco phalanx, and In the way of pitching which completely overtopped th< lads of the nshen utensils siickerdorr took Its victims equally from each side. Perk Mnkes a Mesa. Hoyt pitched shutout ball, but so dir Nehf, remember that, and he had hcttei support than Hoyt That Hoyt dldn'i have as good support as his southpaw rival was his misfortune and not Nehfi fault. Hoyt's backing had but one blot but that blot was fatal. A miss by Roger Pecklnpaugh of a ground bal about which there was nothing difficult let In the only run of the game, anf with two out. This was In the first Inning, and In that round the Glanti didn't make a hit or anything hearing resemblance thereto. The biggest ovation of the game war given to Hoyt when he walked to thf bench for the Yankees' ninth Innlnft He smiled, and It was no forced smllt either, but the smile of a youngster whe was pleased that ho had pleased hi* well wishers, as well as one putting e brave front en adversity and not considering defeat In a baseball series tf?? Conffni/rrf on PoWeeefb Pope. EW YC (COPYRIGHT. 1921. IT '.HE f X, FRIDAY, OCTOBER BOOTLEGGERS' CHIEF KILLED AS HE SHOOTS AN INNOCENT VICTIM Joseph Yiserti, Convicted of One Murder and Suspected of Another, Dies in Duel. ?. j MADE HALF A MILLION Suspected as 'Squealer,'Gunmen Open Fire on Him as He Steps From Car, ! TERROR IN NEIGHBORHOOD i Police Find Slain Bronx Roadhouse Keeper Had Long Record of Crime. Joseph Viserti, alias Joseph Peppe, proprietor of a roadhouse at Fordhain road and Southern Boulevard, The Bronx, who is reported to have made more than fSOO.OOO in bootleg operations, was killed yesterday afternoon in a pistol duel that began in front | or a cofTee house at 367 Broome street and ended Inside with the slaying by I Peppe of Louis Rango, a Jewelry sales: man, of 139 Forsyth street. Rango j was sitting at a table sipping coffee when Feppe ran into the place, pistol i in hand, and was caught between the | Are of the opposing gunmen. | The slaying of Peppe, who was well known to the police, as he had been ; arrested thrice for murder, on one of which occasions he was sent to prison but pardoned subsequently by Gov. r Whitman, is thought to have been due to a belief among his henchmen that he had "squealed." On the occasion of Peppe's last arrest for murder, which was October 3, he made a long statement for Inspector John D. ) Coughlin, head of the detective bureau, the nature of which could not be ascertained. % Persona in the neighborhood whers ^Ithe slaying occurred, which has been the scene of other bootleg murders during the last year, openly asserted Peppe .might <be. termed-a king if there-were isuch a person among the bootleggers. | Before prohibition, they pointed out, Hhe had little or nothing. Yesterday he I drove up in front of the coffee house |in a Mercer sedan, as he had done on . many occasions before. Then . he displayed an unusual amount of Jewelry. | When he was arraigned October 3 in the Brooklyn Traffic Court on a speeding charge he wore a ring the diamond in which was reported to be worth ?10,000. L'sed Iron Pillar as Shield. Three shots were fired as Peppe stepped out of the car. Reaching for ! his pocket and pulling his pistol he ' darted into the oof fey house and ran 1 to the rear. Peppe slipped behind an , iron pillar and aiming his pistol toward the street door fired four shots. One of these, hit Rango under the left arm I and he fell to the floor. The salesman > had been having his shoes ahlned by, an urchin when Peppe ran In. The boy had completed polishing one shoe &ad 1 ran to the street abandoning his box, : when the shooting began. Costible hlnrln nt fJ> Klluhath t ppAt a WonH of the salesman. who had been sitting at the table with Rango, dived underneath It and remained there until the smoke cleared away. The Rev. Father Anthony pallsl. formerly a chaplain at the Tombs, was riding through Broome street on a street car when the shooting began. He ran Into the coffee house almultaneously with a score of policemen who had been attracted by the shots. The priest found Rango dying, and administered the last rites of the church to him. Peppe was dead. The pistol with which he had killed Rango still was clutched In his hand. Tt had four empty hambers. Only one of the bullets had hit the salesman. The other three imbedded themselves In the walla Shooting Causes tproar. The tenement district surrounding Broome, Mott and Elizabeth streets turned out such a crowd of men, women snd children that It took the reserves of two precincts to restore order. In the throng were many persons who knew Peppe Intimately and who heaved a sigh of relief upon learning he was dead. At first it was thought that Rango was a bodyguard Peppe alwaye had near him and whom he la understood to have paid (100 a week. But papers were found in the salesman's pockets which led to his Identification by his brother. Domlnick Rango, of 214 Grand street. Two score detectives and policemen searched the neighborhood, but could i find no one who had seen the man who , shot Peppe. Firemen of Engine Com. pany 55, w hose quarters are but a few ' ; doom front the coffee house, imi) they iiaw a man run ea?t. through Broome , street a moment after the shwts were i heard, but he waa running eo faat they i did not ret a look at hie face or a i chance to aee what kind of clothinr he i was wearing. When It was learned . i Peppe had arrived at the coffee hottee > Ir. an automobile a search waa rnnde for i the liar, hut It could not he found. It discovered later thnt the chnttffeur , had driven the car to Peppe's houae. 3S5 Knit lOSHi etreet, to Inform Mm. Vleertl I of the shooting. Peppc had been getting Into trouble m ever since he purchaaed the automobile r He waa arrealed several times for apeedi , Inr and It was upon the occasion of his last arreat, October 0, that a homicide charre was lodred aralnst him and he I waa taken before Inspector Cotirhlln to t make the statement which possibly may I have been the cauae of his death. He t | waa aecuscd at that time of parttclpai tlon In the slaylnr May 17 last of Joseph r Larunlna. proprietor of a soda wato* stand at 20* Kast 107th street. Witi cesses to the murder failed to Identify t him and he was turned out. Feppo'a police record dates back to > April, 1013, when he was arrested on a ( murder charge In connection with the i death of Jerri Malda. He pleaded guilty i to the slaying before Judge Roaalnky In General Hesalons and waa sentenced to II Sing Sing Prison for from 7 yearn and Conli'nttefC on A'ltiflk Pope. >RK H IUX -HERALD CORPORATION.} 1/1 1Q91 ENTERED AS SECOND it, 1V6X. POST OFFICE. NEW asm FORPROTEGTING crrr INTRANSIT INTERESTS | Says It Should Have Four f of the Seven Members of Board. LOAN COVERING DEFICIT j I -3 I With Preference Ahead of Purchase Money Bonds to Be Issued. AND RECOURSE TO COURT | Blames Hylan for Chaotic Conditions, C'urran for Not Suggesting Remedy. Samuel Untermyer, speaking' last J night before the City Club, declared j that the Transit Commission's refl'd- j Justment plan "could hardly have leaned more heavily In favor of the railway security holders If It had em- ? anated from their own offices," and in _ lieu of features of the plan to which L he objected he offered modifications f designed to give the city the place of, advantage throughout the entire plan.1 He charged Mayor Hylan with "the j chief responsibility for the disrupted r and chaotic condition of our transit I system," and after a scathing arraignment of his administration challenged ? the Mayor to debate on the solution of the transit problem. Mr. Untermyer said that Comptroller Craig Is the only | man In the Hylan administration with ! sufficient ability to ofTer a remedial ; plaor, but that he has not had the ? "raroral courage" to do so. He closed his speech with a criticism of Henry. H. Curran, Republican-coalition can- | I didate for Mayor, for failure to suggest an alternative for his recent ob- j Jections to the Transit Commission's' plan, and made the public proposal that Mr. Curran accept his suggestions. .Senator Charles C. bockwood, Mr. ti Curran's running mate for Comptroller, d heard Mr. Untermyer's speech and af- C( terward told a reporter for The New ^ York TIerajld that he would support the changes which Mr. Untermyer proposed. ; Senator bock wood issued a statement j yesterday criticising the CommUaion'a 1 F pplan in several details, and hs said last1 ti I night he would have another statement \ ; In a day or two In furthsr opposition ' to the Commission's plan and advocat- i v I ing Mr. Untermyer's modifications. ).ti It was reported last week that both ? Senator bockwood and Mr. Curran I would support the plan after It had been * made public. Mr. Curran said at that n time that while he had discussed the n proposed modifications with Mr. I'ntermyer. he was not sufficiently familiar with them to state his position. j n M- Curran reiterated that position n last night. | Q .. i..ntermyer said the Transit Coin-, | mission Is "entitled to the thanks and tl to the confidence of the community In h i Its Integrity and disinterestedness of I j purpose," but that he believed the com| mission had "had the wool pulled over I their eyee." He conceded, however, that II (the only means at hand of solving the ? : transit problem Is through the commlsi slop and he expressed confidence In the jwtlltngneee of that body to listen to sug- h; gestions and act upon them. I* HI Mr. I'ntermisr'i Haggedteaa. In a word, Mr. Untermyer proposes: of That the* city lend the money to 1 in i cover'any deficit for operation at a , f* I five cent fare. I ^ That the city's future Investments , ^ be given a lien ahead of the purchase money bonds to be issued for the 1 *' properties and that bonds of the same j H class as the purchase money bonds he d( Issued for the city's present Invest- I ai nient. j E That the accrued taxes be paid. I in That the city be given four. In- | stead of three, of the seven members i of the proposed board of control and , be given "substantial" representation j I" on the boards of the operating com- T ; pan tea t< That the city be given recourse to ^ Judicial review of the Transit Com- w mission's acts. That the bondholders be not allowed to share In the proposed "bonus" for efficiency in operation. *1 m th scnrrw in?,?w? * / ??- , Mr. T'ntermyer charged Mayor Hylati r? with "th? chief responsibility for the i p* disrupted and chaotic condlton of our | Jo transit system." be "Thla particular Individual." he aald. ! ref>^rlng to the Mayor, "la about aa hi capable of comprehending thla difficult it j aubject as la a cow of understanding ; tfl astronomy. 1 doubt whether he hiu , p, ' over reed the Transit Commission's re- pi , port and plan, and I am sure he would p| ; not know what It was all nbout If he of [ had dona ao. g< ] "Whllj fares have been constantly i 01 Increasing through the elimination of ar tr&tafer* and the service has been atecdlly deteriorating to the point of a exasperation, until our cltlaena are now ^ paying higher fan*s and getting poorer tl service than ever In our history, this p| i man has stood Idly by not knowing what in was happening. hl "He has absorbed hut one Idea, and )n I that has heen to capitalise his own p, 1 hopeless Inefficiency Into a political ^ j slogan to deprive the ignorant And so t) we hear him dully, mechenh ally, >- ?. i Dentin*. day by day. the cry. 'We wan' a five cent fary; "the Interests'" ire . abusing nie and trying to rob you.' And " on that record and with that faUo , J? alarm hs expects to ride back Into of. ; " flee. We shall aep whether such a thing la posalble." | Mr. tTntermyer diagnoses the Mayor's i case as follows : Wl "He did not himself have, end did not I have the sense to look elsewhere for, the hrslpa to rescue It fthe transportation j system) from destruction." Ci i Mr. Unterrnyar conceded that thetranj ait act represents an unwarranted "InterI ference with purely local afTalrs," but added : ( Ih "It. has probably nsvei occurred to the f\ Mayor that whether for better or for *h worse his election or defeat ran no ti longer make any difference In our aad situation. The entire transit question w has been taken out of the hands of the W ? <? | Continued on Sixth Pago. | tb ERA! CLASS MATTER. YORK. N. Y. PIER GRAI BIG SHIPS W W tSUUULL Railroads Plan to Red to Cut in Wag QHICAGO, Oct. 13.?A proposal t wages of railroad employees wi road freight rates is to be presen Executives at its meeting here to-n The proposition is to be submil road officials which last week conf Washington, it was stated by a rail The proposition to pass all fi along to the public, it was stated, railroads to make freight rate redu their railroads to operate at a prof The railroads emerged from tl serted. The 6 per cent, profit pro^ failed to bring any material relief t and had the Railroad Labor Boai wages effective July 1 many railro fore the end of the year, he said. To effect a reduction of freigh tain present revenues for the raili was formulated. Increased businei rates, is expected to provide the in railroads to operate at a fair profit, tADIUHl TO EXTEND" LIFE TO 100 TEARS 10 Predicts Dr. C. Everett Field, Director of Institute in West 70th Street. 1 1UCCESS SEEN IN TESTS! fadioflctive Treatment Already Adds Full Decade to the Human Span. The generation of New Yorkers born J wenty-flve years hence may confl- : ently look forward to enjoying a entury or more of life, If experiments 1 ow being conducted In the use of adium bear full fruit. It was prelcted yesterday by Dr. C. Kverett j leM, director of the Radium Insti- j Lite, at 20fi West Seventieth street. "Work which is being done along arious lines by the Rockefeller Instill te. as well as a fuller development f the rejuvenating powers of radium, dll increase the span of human life laterially, and I think most scientific ten are agreed on this," said Dr. "iefd yesterday In discussing statelents regarding the possibilities of adlum treatment, made by Dr. E. tlllman Bailey of Chicago before the *ierapeutists in convention there. "It as often been said that a man Is only s old as his arteries. I believe that wenty-flve years from now human fe may enslly be extended to 100 ears. "For the last ten or fifteen years it as been noted that radium has the to oansa Ka ran Kaomf Inn fit t ilta which tend to deposit In people of tvanclng axe and cause arterlosclerds. The radium brings the salts back ito the blood and It has been used ef ctlvely for this purpose at Gsrman and ustrlan spaa for ten years. We have >en administering It for arteriosclerosis, i well as various other diseases, since 114. but we havo found that the low isage mentioned by t>r- Bailey Is not i effective as Injection snto *he veins, xhaustlve tests have shown its power developed by the latter method upon much greater scale. "But even In Its tiniest forms radium servlceabre In lengthening human life, wenty-two of the 140 springs at feura>ga arc radioactive and for centuries le Indians brought their old chiefs and arrlors there for treatment. The curtve results of the springs for rheum 1 m and diseases of old sge were long to noted. The same things 1a true of e hot springs in Arkansas and Cole.do and moat of the European spas. If idlum la administered In augar coated >llets through the mouth. Inatead of Inner! Into the velna. better results can i obtained hv concentrating the dosage. | "A aeries of teats on both animals and i jman beings has developed that thai icrapeutlc effects of radium, admlnls- | red Intravenously can be traced for a srlod of twelve weeks. It Is probably nsslble to trace the effects of radium | Ills for three or four days. For a raae f rheumatism a low dosage may be >od, but when a patient Is brought In i a stretcher he needs an enormous nount of radio active energy. "Radium, of course. Is not a drug but physical agency. It develops alpha, da and gamma rays, which give every ssue of the body the stimulus of explovo electrical bombardments? -a sort of ternal massage, as It were- which ring the bodily secretions bark to noral. 1 have seen the memory, digestive wers and general strength of patients ghfy years old Improve wonderfully , irough the Intravenous administration ' radium "Hardening of tho arteries I* cheeked "cause the salts are redistributed right's disease Is prevented through le same process. All of one's organs s stimulated. Already radium treatant can. In many Instances, add a full rcade to the lives of the men and . omen of to-day." AUSTRALIAN FLEET CUT. | nminnnnrslth'i \a?al I'.stlmate for K :t,1 MO.OOO. MstnofRNK. Oct. 13.?The Minister of ie Navy, William Smith, to-day Introiced in the House of Rer resentstlvea e Australian natal estimate totalling 1,1*0,000. He announced that tho commoneaith's sen going fleet had been reduced i two light cruisers, one (raining ulser, two sloops, four destroyers, ires submarines and a few auxlltarlea JD THE BEST The New York ] best of The Sun the whole revitali and sounder nev PRICE TWO CE IN NEW YORK CITY. 7 TING IS Dl OUT OF Tt WITNESSE <*. ] luce Rates Equal is of Their Employees o meet all future reductions in the ith corresponding decreases in railted to the Association of Railway lorrow, it was announced to-night. 5 tted by a special committee of railerred with Government officials at | road official. i iture decreases in operating costs was in line with the policy of the ' ictions and at the same time allow it. le war facing a huge deficit, he as/ided for by the transportation act tecause of the decrease in business, ^ rd not authorized a reduction of ads would have been bankrupt be- ^ t rates and at the same time mainx>ads the plan announced to-night ss, brought about by lower freight creased revenue necessary for the , it was stated. dlilONER IT!: SUSPENDS US AD)!: s b Deputy Michael Laura Ac- a cused of Trying to Defeat J Ends of Justice. c ASSAULT CASE INVOLVED * e o Suspended Official Is the Democratic Candidate for Sheriff in Kings County. Michael Laura, Deputy Commissioner of thp Street Cleaning Department and Democratic candidate for Sheriff of Kingn county, was bus ponaoa irom auty yeiwraay artartioon by Commissioner John P. Leo. In a I statement last night at the Chi copse ' I Clnb, In St. Nicholas avenue and 147th 1 | street, Commissioner Leo said that he 1 : suspended Mr. Laura for "trying to defeat the ends of Justice" by tned- ' I dllng In a case before Magistrate Qas- 11 I per J. Liotta In the Platbush Court, In 13 I Brooklyn, involving a charge of as- I ssult brought by a street sweeper. i named Kelleher against Philip Mr- J Manus, delegate of the Brooklyn j branch of the Drivers Union. i The Deputy Commissioner was notified of his suspension during u conference In the office of District Attorney Harry A. Lewis of Kings. The ^ conference was attended by Mr. Lewis, J Mr. Laura. Commissioner Leo and j John Savarese. an assistant In Mr. 1 J Laura's office. j j The action of the Commissioner fol- U lowed an Investigation begun by the District Attorney In which both Mr. j Laura and Mr. Savarese were questioned by Mr. Lewis. This investigation. It was | said last night at the District Attorney's I r office, will be continued this morning t when the further action of the District I ^ Attorney will be determined. Magistrate to Be Questioned. t , At Mr. Lewis'* office It was also said j that Magistrate Liotta would be asked ; j to attend this morning's hearing, where ( j he will be questioned In the effort to; learn the details of Mr. Laura's alleged meddling and effort to Influence the do- ' f clslon of the court. Mr. Leo a aid that about three weeks g ago the sweeper Kelleher came Into his ( office and asked for some light work i until he had recovered from his Injuries. ' r The man presented a very battered and 1 beaten appearance, the Commissioner j f added, and when he was questioned he ^ declared that McManus had bra'en him because he had refused to Join the union Mr. Loo Instructed the man to make a ' complaint against McManus. This was " done. McManus was arrested, the case I li being set down for a hearing last Tues- n day before Magistrate Liotta. j 0 Late In the afternoon of that day the ' c attorney who had been obtained to rep- ! resent Kelleher w ent to Mr. lieo and said that Juet before the esse was called he * had heard reports of a telephone men- " sjyye aald to have been from twura to fl the Magistrate. This message, the attor- j ney Informed 'the commissioner, stated that the Deputj Commlsaloner wm Interested in the Kelleher-McManu# ?m, p and "wished to have whatever Influence he possessed exerted In behalf of Mc-' Manna," and also aaked that the rase he dropped If thf Magistrate found It poealble to do ao. ' The attorney told Mr. Leo that on ac- , r count of till* nieasuge hr had aaked the M Magistrate to adjourn the case until yra- _ terduy, which nut done. Mr. Leo said he took the matter ut> with Mr. Laura at t once, and that although I .aura denied n any knowledge of the mc range he, Leo ( obtained sufficient Information to warrant him taking the matter to the Distrlct> A Mot nay. Mr. Lewi* at once sum-1 p moned Mr. Laura and Mr. davare?e to , hit office with Mr. Leo. Reaawn far Ceattameaer. j The District Attorney would not say f what had taken place during the eonference. It waa learned, however, that Mr. Laura declared he knew nothing of any message, either written or b> tele- ! it phone, being sent to Magistrate Llotta. p Ho is understood to have satd later, however, that he knew of the tnessage M but tlmt it was sent wilhouT his knowl- t< edge or consent by his "confident l> assistant." It was this Information that Impelled the District Attorney to announce that he would continue his In- i h vostlgatlon to-day. ! t| Mr. Leo declared last night that Mr. h Continued en defeat* Tape. I IN ITS HISTORY.. j Herald, with all that was intertwined with it, and zed, is a bigger and better /spaper than ever before. ixTrpQ f THREE CENTS - ir J- ^ WITHIN 200 MILE8. t TOPR CENTS ELgBWHERB. RIVING US PORT; S VANISH French Line Manager Tells Meyer Committee Lack of Pocks Forces Use of Boston and Other Harbors. tffOItT 2 WHARVES NOW juekenbach, Unable to Get Facilities for Fleet, Says Foreigners Are Favored; Bribe Hint Spurned. 151,000 PAID FOR A LE ASF "lerk, Sub-Renting City Property, Runs Rank Account to 31illion or More in Few Years. Edgar F. Luckenbach. president of he Luckenbach Steamship Company, ne of the largest American shipping oncerns, testified yesterday before he Meyer committee in City Hall hat he was approached by B. W. -ougheed, the ship broker, who tated that for $60,000 a lease could ? fixed up for pier 85. Brooklyn, fr. Luckenbach refused to make the ayment and did not get the pier, n sweeping charges made against Commissioner Murray Hulbert, Mr. <uckenbach stated that tne head of he Dock Department gave prefernAO t a DrltiaVi uhinnino cocnoraf A?v>v? VV JL/l 1WDU ClUJpjJi VUI (It/I OtiVUQ ver American companies. Albert E. Clegg, vice-president of he Kerr Steamship Company and a irominent figure in shipping inteists, testified that his company paid he city $51,000 for lease of pier 33 n Brooklyn and in addition gave >34,500 to "some one" whom he could lot Identify as expenses in connecicn with that pier. The Lucken?ch concern formerly had ?he pier. Wr. Kerr, head of the company, knew ill about the arrangements, the witness said. James F. Gill, treasurer of the Oriental Navigation Company, testi'led that on August 14. 1919, he paid (13.500 to P. J. McLaughlin, broker, n connection with obtaining a pernit for pier 86. Hudson River. Philip Derondl, president of the company, nade all the arrangements, the wit\css said. Broker Named in Other Cases. B. W. Lougheed is the same broker rho was named last week by the v ""ranee and Canada Steamship Corporation as having received either 125,000 or 335,000 (the amount was >ot fixed positivel.vl for having ohalned a pier lease. He sailed for Europe In September and has not reurned. Mr. Kerr, who made the arrangenents for $34,000 expenses in connexion with pier 33, is in Europe, Mr. :iegg said. Mr. Derondi of the Oriental Navigation Company, named as having paid $13,600 to McLaughlin, is in Surope, Mr. Gill raid. Mr. McLaufchin has not been found by suhptena it-rvers. who have been hunting him or weeks. The committee's hunt for persons aid to possess first hand information if the mysterious expenses and arangements in connection w-lth p'.er eases appears to end at the water ront. Several other witnesses will ie called on this subject, however. Mgch information was obtained llustrating how fortunes are being nade out of the city's piers which are eased At small figures and sublet ar normous figure# by those lucky nough to get control to snippers who annot get piers for their cargoes. Frank J. Hoey, formerly a steamhip clerk, went into business for him If In 1916. I.ater he established the Irm of SabhRtlno A Co.. stevedores fe had a charge account at the Dot !. Jepartment and was fortunate getting l?r leases. Small Coals, Big Receipts. At different times Hoey had two hr#e or four lenses. The average entitle paid to the cltv, testimony howed. was something like $20 a day "he prices at which the piera sublet anged from $100 to $200 a day. Testimony showed that the SabbatIno & "o. bank deposits from 1918 to W21 tere $05$.IPS. Frank .1. Hoey's deposits for the sumo period were t.OSS.Ol*. Freight steamships of the French .Ins bearing great cargoes have been nmed away from this port and soot r> Philadelphia. Boston and Baltimore Imply because the company wan unWe to get piers in New York, <Jscar t. Cauchois, assistant general repre. rntatlve of the line In this country, mid the committee. He said his cornany had been willing to pay almost . ny price for piers, but foi two years us In en unable to get uceotnmodalons here, and so the business is elng diverted to other ports. It was revealed that the profits oJ