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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1922
PRICE TWO CENTS
IN NEW YORK CITY.
f THREE CENTS
WITHIN 200 MI I.E.I.
I FOl'R CENTS ELgEWHER*.
CITY TRIES TO SEIZE
I. R.T. FOR'DEFAULT,')
BUT M'ANENY BALKS
Transit Board 'Required' to
End East and West Side
Contract.
THREAT OF MANDAMUS
Commission Replies That It
Seeks Service. Not More
Litigation.
VALUATIONS RIDICULED
Dc Ford Joins Shearn in Par
ing $100,000,000 Figure and
Charging 'Padding.'
The Transit Commission will not be
b party to "any unnecessary and de
structive enterprise" which would pre
cipitate a receivership for the Inter
borough Rapid Transit Company and
Involve the city in endless litigation.
This was made clear last night by
Chairman George McAneny in a state
ment in regard to the afternoon's ac
lion of the Board of Estimate, which
undertook to force the commission to
initiate default proceedings against the
lnterborough that the city might take
over the subways operated by the com
pany under contract No. 3.
Comptroller Craig said it might be
necessary for the Board of Estimate
to ^ek a mandamus against the com
mission to further the latest venture
i>f the board in the transit situation.
'Hie board held a special meeting and
j asseti a resolution offered by the
Mayor on March 31 calling for action
to declare the Interborough in default
l> tiusc it liad been "trimming: the ser
vi. the equipment Is "unclcan and in
ii repair," the train service in rush
Iwiirs la "grossly and notoriously viola
? ive of contract No. 3" and "such cotuli
ions constitute a menace to the morals,
hralth, comfort, convenience and wtl
.!/?: of the people."
No. 3 contract Includes the Lexing
ton avenue and the Seventh avenue
lines. It was generally considered,
when the resolution whs introduced, that
ii was only the beginning of a drjve
against all the contracts.
"Will \nt Join DrHtrnctlon."
The statement of Chairman JlcAneny
follows: ' *'lT
"The commission naturally will give
< onHlderation to any communication re
reived from the Board of Estimate and
promptly answer It, but It would be a
Useless thin* to have any Impression
given that it will become a partner in
any unnecessary and destructive enter
prise.
"As the people of the eity are well
aware, the commission Is preparing in
an orderly way to require of the Inter
borough company the utmost in service
that the money at Its command will per
mit it to Rive. Exhaustive hearings
have been held, throughout which the
city itftelf has'been represented by the
Corporation Counsel. The members of
the Board of Estimate are of course
aware of the nature of these proceed
ings, and they know tnat service orders
are about to be Issued.
"As we have had occasion to remark
previously, what the commission is after
at the moment ic more service and not
more litigation. Under the plan pro
posed by the Board of Estjjnate there
Aould be nothing but litigation, includ
ing a precipitation of the receivership
that up to the present time every on?
concerned has been cooperating to avoid.
"Among those who have been opposing
?he receivership has been the Corpora
lion Counsel, who during the last several
w<~eks has appeared In behalf of the city
in Judge Mayer's court against the
ffortn made by one Vernier to accom
plish the very thing thnt the board now
Mould accomplish through other means."
The resolution pa*ec\l by the Board of
Estimate read In part:
"That the Transit Commission be and
is hereby required forthwith to fcHm no
tice to the Interborougli Rapid Transit
1 'ompany. as such lessee, of Its Intention
thirty 'lays thereafter to serve notice of
such defaults upon the lessee and direct
ing the lessee to cure the defaults within
ninety days In accordance with the re
quirements of Article bXXXIX. of said
contract No. 8, dated the 19th of March,
191S: and be it resolved
"That If such defaults be not reme
died within such time, the city of N?w
York electa to tcrmlnato such contract."
City's Tactics "Bolshevistic."
The Transit Commission expects to
issue orders st once directing the Inter
borougli to remedy tho conditions of
which complaint Is made. A member of
the commission said:
'The Board of Estimate istalkingabout
'?ervlce in a Bolshevist wny at the very
lime when the Transit Commission, In
the way provided by law. Is preparing
to issue orders for better service after
%areful Investigation."
The Board of Estimate, sitting as a
ommlttee of the whole, discussed the
matter for an hour before taking action.
In speaking of the default proceedings,
Comptroller Cral* said:
"The Transit Commission Is supposed
to do this on Its own Initiative. Of
course that will never happen and we
will have to put it up to them. The
contract provides that tho commission
sets nr< tho city'* representative. If
they refuse we will have to go to ctfurt,
and may have to bring proceedings of
our own to have the company declared
!n default."
"About the time you authorize the
Traction Commission to give notice the
Int'Vborough will go Into bankruptcy
and you'll have to give notice to the re
??:-or." remarked Murray Mulbert,
rvexidant of th" Bourd of Aldermen.
Tiierr. was ?om.' talk of what it would
'??si to "recapture" the lines, which can
riot happen In Am course for many
rcirs. Th# Comptroller thought It
Continued on Pi(i* Four.
I licultli iil nn<J ll'ii.-I ,<mj l>?tu ir.int<
A ?Ivy i lining will be (mind en I'ac 4 t"
Farmer Stung by a Bee
Dies in Ten Minutes
HARRY COLLERD, a farmer of
Pine Brook. N. J., died yes
terday ten minutes after he
had been stuns on the temple by a
bee. He was cutting wood when the
bee stung; him and he complained
to members of the family that the'
sting had made him "feel sick all
over." In a few minutes he was
seized with paralysis of the right
side of the face and the throat and
lie'died before a physician could be
summoned.
Coroner Thomas J. Lewis said
death was due to a stroke of apo
plexy caused by the shock of the
sting and a weak heart.
'NICK CARTER'KILLS'
HIMSELF WITH GUN
Col. Frederic V. Dcy, 61, Long
a Friend of Faurot and
Byrnes.
FOUND IN RENTED ROOM
Wrote 40,000,000 Words in
1.000 Novels Until Char
acter Played Out.
"I can't stand the gaff, Joe. so I'm
going out. Everything has gone to
smash and me with it. Good-by and
God bless you."
This is what Col. Frederic Van
Rensselaer Dey. creator of the "Nick
Carter" detective stories, wrote yes- '
terday to Joseph A. Faurot, Third j
Deputy Police Commissioner, a few
minutes before pressing the muzzle of
an automatic pistol to his temple.
His body was found lying on the bed
in a room at the 'Hotel Broztell, 3 East
Twenty-seventh street. The bullet had
passed through his head and crashed
a mirror on the opposite side of the
room.
Col. Dey. whose nove!s have thrilled
two generations of youth, was 61. His
wife. Mrs. Haryot Holt Dey. an editor
of a woman's magazine, and a son lived
with him in Nyack. They have been 1
visiting Dey's stepson by a former mar
riage, S. C. Cahoon. at Noroton Heights,
Conn.
Inspector Faurot vras an old friend
of the Colonel and had given him, out
of actual police experience, the Ideas for
many of Nick Carter's udventures. Be
fore Faurot's tlmo the author used t'J
get his material from Inspector Thomas
Byrne*, chief of detectives twenty J-etr?
ago. and Inspector Aleck Williams. Un
like other writers of detccilve fiction,
however, Dey never attempted to ap
I ply his theories to the solution of rjal
mysteries, said Faurot.
According to the hotel management.
Col. Dey registered art J. W. Dayer of
Nyack last. Saturday night. He wrot?
four suicide letters, which he mailed
early yesterday morning In the hotel
chute. The discovery of his body re
sulted from a letter to Street & Smith,
his publishers, telling of his intention to
kill himself.
Another letter addressed to Major
Joseph Caocavajo, commander of the
Quentln Roosevelt Post. A. L., asked
that provision be made for Col. De/'s
brother. Warren Dey.
Inspector Faurot went' to the hotei
as soon as he received Col. Dey'a letter.
He found the police and Medical Kx
amlner. Dr. Norris. already there. Dcy
had left a note on the table giving in
structions for his funeral, which will be
arranged by Klk's IyocJge No. J. and
asking that his private papers be turned
over to Inspector Faurot.
Faurot said T)ev h':d no* written
anything for about two years. Nick
Carter had parsed out. but Col. Dey.
uner the name of Varlck Vanardy had
since created a new fictitious detective
named Crewe, familiar to all who read
detective stories.
Nick, however, was the Colonel's first
and best Tove. During the twenty-five
yars that the old sleuth foiled des
peradoes, train robbers, counterfeiters,
forgers, murderers and countless other
malefactors. Col. Dey wrote more than
40.000.000 words and published more
thari f.000 co-Tiplete novelettes.
They nppeared for years In the ga<idy
colored paper rovers on which Nick
'"arfer would be pictured struggling with
the villain on the brink of a precipice or
engaged In a pistol duel with a gang
of desperate crooks. Ilow many thous
and dignified, mlddleaged men to-day
can remember being spanked for sur
reptitiously reading Nick Carter behind
the bam or up Iij the attic?
TO DROP PROSECUTION
OF CARLIST COUP AIDS
Vienna Not to Act Against
Sigray, Andrassy and Others.
Fpn-tol Coble to This New Voik llmui).
Copyright, I9it. bv Tim Nnw York Hmui.d.
Vienna, April 26.?Arrangements arc
to be made with Budapest noon after tH>
return of Count von Bethlen from the
Genoa conference for dropping tin
prosecution of Count Anton fl^rrty.
Count Julius Andrassy, Gustav flratx.
one time Hungarian Minister of the In
terior. and other participants In th^ last
Carllst uprisings, when an effort was
made to restore f'harles of Ilapsburg to
the throno of Austria-Hungary.
Negotiations already lire under way. j
with Count Paul Telekl acting aa the
Intermediary of the OovfTnment party
and the legitimate. According to evl- '
dently well founded reports It Is In
tended to continue Admiral Horthy'a
Government another two years by mak
ing concessions to the legitimists. In
cluding the expung'ng of all charge*
against the Monarchists wbo took part
In the coup.
Countess SJgray, formerly .Miss Har
j riot Daly, walled on the Mauretanla
I Tuesday In company with her sister. |
| Mrs. Jamoa W. Gerard, an J ex-Ani- :
bassador Gerard.
fcfcV MILE4 HAS P\EI*OVU. !
Wasiiinoton. April 26. ? Liieut.-Oen. |
Xelson A. Miles, veteran of the civil and i
I Kpanleh wars. Is confined to his home |
with pneumonia. Oen. Mile# wui |
ii Monday, end phyflelana to-day *
reported that hie condition had improved.1
I
CHARGES MILLIONS
OF BOGUS U. S. BONDS
ARE IN CIRCULATION
Representative Johnson's
Statement in House De
nied by Treasury.
he Promises proof
Asserts Former Assistant j
Registrar in Wilson Re
gime Made Discovery.
HUSH ORDER REPORTED
Watts's Attack on Attorney-1
General Spread on Records
of Chamber.
Washington-. April 26 (Associated I
Press).?The statement was made on
the floor of the House to-day by Rep-!
resentatlve Johnson (Rep., III.) that It
"will later be shown by official docu
ments that there are probably hun
dreds of millions of dollars of duplicate
bonds in the United States."
Prompt denial of the statement was
made by high Treasury officials, who
declared an investigation by Secretary
Mellon of the Bureau of Engraving
had disclosed there was no truth In
reports of the circulation oo a large
scale of counterfeit Government se
curities.
Challenging the Johnson statement,
Representative Wingo (Ark.), Demo
cratic member of the House Banking
Committee, declared it was calculated
to cause uneasiness in the country and
that he did not believe Mr. Johnson
ought to make It. "unlefcs he can back
it up as the truth." ?
Mr. Wingo expressed belief that an
investigation would show that Secre
tary Mellon, in denying "reckless
charges" about the existence of dupli
cate bonds "did not lie to the people
of the country."
GItpo Baals (or Chartt.
A9 a basis for his charge as to al
leged circulation of spurious securities,
Mr. Johnson said that J. W. McCarter,
Assistant ReginTrar of the Treasury
during the Wilson Administration, "se
cured information in the course of nla
duties which convlncod him that there
had been enormous duplication of Gov
ernment bonds which hud been printed
by the Bureau of Kngravlng and Print
ing and had gone through the office
of the Registrar of the Treasury."
"I think Mr. McCarter took the right
attitude when he presented the mat
ter first to a distinguished Democratic
Senator from my State and very prop
erly presented the matter to the As
sistant Secretary of the Treasury," Mr.
Johnson continued. "He was very
quickly informed at that time by the
former Administration that nothing was
wrong; that there should be 110 Inves
tigation, and Mr. McCarter, who had
developed the fact, as will later be
shown by official documents, that there
are probably hundreds of millions of
dollars of duplicate bonds in the United
States, was discharged from service
by his Administration for presenting
those facta to members of Congress.
1 think ? mnn that took that attitude
in the former Administration was Ill
advised in what he had done."
"Does the cntlenmn nay that a Dem
ocrat from his .State called the matter
to the Senator's attention?" asked Mr.
Wln|0.
Matter of Public llrcoril,
"T will say that that is all a matter
of public record," Mr. Johnson replied.
"I took personally all of this data
down to the Department of Justice
myself early In the year 1921 after we
had tried In every way to secure action
from the former Administration. Tlww
letter# were written by Mr. Uefflngwell.
at that time an Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury, and are easily procurable.
I have them In my flies, and I will be
glad to Insert them at this point."
There was objection.
Mr. Wingo then said his "question
was the date on which thla gentleman
brought this information to you."
Mr. Johnson : "The gentleman sent the
information to me in Its real definite
form In the fall of 1920."
Mr. Wingo: "You did not bring It to
the attention of Secretary Mellon?"
Mr. Johnson : "I did not. I brought It
to the attention of the Department Of
Justice, where I think It ought to have
gone."
Mr. Wingo: "Does the gentleman have
Information upon which he can pass a
conclusion that there ore millions of
duplicate bonds printed?"
Mr. Johnsoh: "f will say that t took
down seven typewritten sheets, single
spa. or numbers of duplicate bonds
and some bonds running 100.000 higher
than the bonds Issued. Tlrerr Is no man
who can tell how many were Issued."
Mr. Wingo: "The gentleman was fur
nished a list of them: has not the gen
tleman conducted an Investigation, op
Tontlnned on Page SI*.
Dial Rebukes Bonus Men
With Story of a Cripple
Special Dispatch toTim New Yoik Hums.
New York Herald Bureau, i
VTn?bington, D. C., April M. (
SENATOR DIAL (Dem.. S. D),
in scoring the bonus and other
raids on the national Treasury
to-day told this story in the Senate:
"The other day in my office at
home a cripple was telling me how
difficult It was to make ends meet
on his farm due to economic condi
tions. But he said:
" 'However, I thank God every
day that I have not accepted one
dollar from the Federal Govern
ment in the way of charity.'
"What we want in this country Is
more of this spirit and less of that
which provokes men to demand
public funds for patriotic services
on the first excuse."
CHASE BANK SHIPPED
$500,000BONDS LOST
No Trace Found of Libertys
Sent to Institution Out
of Town.
MAILS ARE NOT BLAMED
Surety and Insurance Compa-;
nies Still Fail to Ask Help
of the Police.
It became known yesterday that the
Chase National Bank was the "institu- j
tion south of Fulton street" that lost
the half a million in Liberty bonds j
stolen on April 17 or shortly there- ]
after.
Beyond that the mystery surround
ing the disappearance of a fortune in
negotiable securities is as dark as ever
Perhaps the most novel feature is that
neither the city police nor the post
office inspectors, in the Jurisdiction of
one or the other of whom the matter
lies, know anything about it. Not a de
tective nor an inspector is working
on it. They have not been officially
notified.
Here is the- statement Issued yester
day by the Chase Xatlonal Bank, when
[ It realized that its name was being
| linked with the loss:
Thl? bank on Monday, April 17,
made a shipment of $560,000 United
States Fourth Liberty l,oan 4'; per
cent. bonds, duo 1333-S1*, to an out
of town Institution. The shipment
was made by registered mail and in
sured. The bonds bifr not been re
?eh*MI W the consigned. TIh* ship
ment la covered by insurance and the
entire matter is now in the hando of
j the Insurance companies.
Last night at his homo at 630 Park
avenue. Albert H. Wiggln, president of
the bank, raid that the investigation of
; the affair rested wholly In the hands of
1 the InsuraiK-c companies.
'The bonds did not reuch the bank to
| which we were sending them," hi suid.
i "Just where they dropped out I do not
i know, for that is one of the things that
I is being Investigated. J cannot say
I v.hether they were sent to the City IlaJI
| station or to some other."
Questioned as to whether bank em
! ployees received from the Post Office
| I> partment any receipt for a package,
' Mr. Wlggin said that this was part of
j the Insurance companies' inquiry.
Asked if the hank to which they were
j consigned received any package at all,
I he said hat it had not received the
' package, in question.
| That the National Surely Company
j and the other Insurance companies are
: still much in ooubt as to where tho
\ bonds dropped out of sight was tnado
pUIn when William J. Griffin, Vloa pfl-sl
| dent of the National Surety Company,
1 said before the name of the Chase Na
tion Bank became known:
"lTntil tho liability, If any, of the
I National Surety hiis been fixed it Is not
I in u position to disclose the names of
the owners of the bonds."
if they vanished In the offices of the
bank, or while in the hands of bank em
ployees on the way to the post office,
then the surety wnipany is liable, as the
bunk employees are bonded with it. On
the other hand. If the bonds slipped out
of sight after the |>ackagc had been
placed In the custody of the post offlo
authorities, the loss is the Insurance
companies'.
j That the post office lias received no
| complaint was verified at the Post Office
Department In Washington.
'KID' WEDGE OBLIGED
TO LEAVE HARVARD
[III Health Drives Ex-Pugilist
Back to Arizona.
Npri int ftixpatrh to Tiib Nrw Yo?k Ifnui.r.
I ("AMHRtnoK, Mass., April 26.?After
I having gxlned admission to Harvard and
| started toward a degree In philosophy
| Frederick "Kid" Wedge, a number of
i the graduate school, had to leave here
. for his home in Arizona to-night on ac
| count of Illness.
| Wedge, ii former prise fighter ann
lumberjack, redeemed himself when
more thnn :>>. and after attaining a col
lege degree and prlnclpnlshlp of h hlith
school In th * West made his way t<'
Cambridge In box cars and automo
biles.
Two Dogs Tunnel Into Paddock
and Kill Four Deer After Fight
Hp-hoi D<jtpatch to Tim Nkw Yo*k IImaip i Mitchell found the doga attacking
Tmcntojj, April 25.?four deer wer* j the '.ant of the four docs. which was
killed and another seriously wound*I; making a same stand with the ani
in t'adwalader Park paddock here to- mala *narllng at Its throat. He fired
day when a bulldog and an Airedal" i and wounded the terrier, which tried |
tunneled beneath the wire fence ?Uf-lto escape, hut was killed by a second
rounding tho Inelosurv and attacked shot. A third ahot rtruck the other!
the does. j <!og. but It broke from the paddock
John H. Mitchell, park superintend- j and was loat In the darkneaa.
ent, waa awakened by the baying of' Search la being made for the other
doge. Seining a shotgun he rushed to i dog and every effort will he made to
the paddock. Ducka were squawking, identify the owners of the animals,
buffaloes bellowing and the cries of tho This Is the third attack on park
?vounded deer, mingled with the b:irk> stock by dogs. About five weeks ago
in" of the dost, made the place a bed- they Killed a ttijrfcey and two week
'.am. : ago tliuy attempted to kill the rabbilu ?
A
BONUS ACTION HALTS
1NSENATETO AWAIT
LEGION'S GUIDANCE
Committee to Hold No Fur
ther Hearings Until Poll
Is Completed.
i
TO ACT ON DICTATION
j Negotiable Insurance Policy
With Cash Feature Now
Gains Ground.
LOAN AGENCY PROPOSED
Also Bizarre Pawnshop Scheme
?Dial Assails Treasury
Raid Promoters.
By 1,0ns flKIBOLD.
Special Dispatch to Tub New Yo*k Hekalo.
?w York Hrrmld Bureau, )
Washington. D. C., April 30. (
Bonus Senators on the Finance
Committee are awaiting further orders
from the American Legion before
framing a bill sanctioning a bonus raid
on the public Treasury.
This fact was virtually admitted to
day by Senator Capper (Rep., Kan.)
in explaining the failure of the com
mittee to continue its recent confer
ences with the organized promoters
of the bonus enterprise.
There will be no further hearing?
j for the present or until the completion
j of a poll which the American Legion
i is conducting among its 344,000 mem
j bers. This poll, according to Senator
! Capper, will disclose the majority
. opinion among the bonus claimants
regarding the form that gratuities In
tho shape of Government money
should be provided in the bill.
In making the announcement Sena
tor Capper, who is the chairman of
the agricultural bloc in the Senate,
said:
"The bonus bill which the Finance
Committee will propose undoubtedly
will be one that will prove satisfactory
to the cx-scrvlce men."
-Hafn Point la fluent ton.
! Senators for. against and undecided
ion the bonus do not question the ac
j curacy of Senator Capper's statement.
I Hut some do seriously question the
readiness of the Senate itself to ac
| cept a bill which will prove objection
j able lo the President, the Treasury
Department and the people generally,
and particularly the farmers.
Several Senators who had been led
to believe by spokesmen for the agri
cultural bloc in Congress that the
farmer Is in favor of the bonus wore
somewhat disillusioned to-day by the
result of The New Tonrc Herald poll of
officials of twenty-three State Farm
Federation bureaus, who stated their
opposition to the bonus by odds of
more than 2 to 1.
Critics of the bonus scheme are, of
course, helpless until the Finance Com
mittee ptoduccfe and reports a bill to
the Senate. That will not-bc until the
ex-service men who are clamoring for
cash down approve a plan for getting
| money in the most dlrcct and quickest
fashion.
Not a member of the Senate enter
I tains the least doubt on this score.
' They are already prepared for an an
: nouncement by the American Legion
! that the overwhelming majority of
I bonus claimants will indicate their
i preference for some sort of negotiable
' Insurance policy whleh will get the
1 money out of the Treasury in the most
j satisfactory manner.
Q
In Knnsns.
; Senator Tapper to-day confirmed
this impression by making public the
j rexult of a questionnalr* distributed
[ among ox-service men In Montgomery
county. Kansas. Of cour.?e the result
of the poll established the preference
of the ex-service men Interrogated for
an Insurance policy plan with an im
mediate cash value and the homr aid
proposal such as contained In the bill
' passed by the House. As ??oon a* the
i approvul of the other ex-service men
I who are supporting the demand of the
organized propagandists for cash ut
! once is received the Republican mem
bers of the Finance Committee will
frame a bill favored by the American
' I.eglon nnd call in their Democratic
associates to take It or leave it.
The willingness of the spokesmen of
' the American I-eglon and Foreign
I Veterans to accept Insurance policies
fwlth a cash feature) is regarded by
Mr, Capper and bonus Senators as
presaging Its adoption by the com
mittee. The only problem they say Is
to "work out a borrowing plan which
will Ixj acceptable to th?* bonus claim
ants and the Treasury Department."
Aj President Harding and Secretary
Mellon have disapproved this sugges
tion "the only problem" promises to
be moat difficult of solution.
CJrntesqne Wnirves* Ions.
Senatorial candidates for reelection
who. according to Senator Borah, are
Intent on using Government money to
pay their political obligations do not
appear to know Just how to devise a
scheme for financing the bonus raid.
Some of the suggestions made for !
doing so by Senators usually credited
with clear thinking are quite as gro- !
teaune as these proposed while the j
Continued on rage Six.
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LLOYD GEORGE SEES EUROPE
IN NEW WAR IF GENOA FAILS;
SAYS U. S. CAN FORCE PEACE
ENOA, April 26 (Associated Press).?Premier Lloyd George
I J drew an alarmist picture of Europe to-night. In addressing
^ the British and American press representatives he declared
that the object at Genoa was to clear up political difficulties, which
were full of menace.
He compared Europe to seething racial lava, which, like the
earth's crust, was seeking a proper level. This adjustment was full
of peril. He emphasized that Europe must take cognizance of hungry
Russia, which would be equipped by an angry Germany.
"The world must recognize the fact," he said, "that Russia and
Germany combined contain over two-thirds of the people of Europe.
Their voice will be heard, and the Rusao-German treaty is the first
warning of it.
"I wish America were here." he exclaimed. "Some people think
we want the United States for some selfish purpose. This is not true.
We want America because she exercises a peculiar authority. Her
very aloofness gives her the right to speak.
"America could exerrise an influence no other country could
command. She could come here free and disentangled, and with
the prestige which comes from her independent position she would
come with the voice of peace.
"But America is not here, so Europe must do her best to solve
the problems in her own way."
Mr. Lloyd George gave it as his opinion that the disorganiza
tion of Europe would affect the entire world, including the United
States. He was amazed at people who ignored the portentous fact
facing Europe to-day. Unless the Genoa conference succeeded in
arranging a pact of peace he was confident that in his own life,
certainly in the life of the younger men present, Europe would
again welter in blood.
"We triumphed in the war," he said, "but our triumph will not
last forever. If our victory develops into oppression, vengeance will
follow, just as Germany's action which started the world war was
followed by vengeance.
"We must be just and equitable and show strength; we must
realize that Europe is not on good terms and that storms are arising
which we must deal with. We had hoped that the end of the great
war meant the end of brute force, but unless Europe's problems
are solved there is no assurance that force has given way to right."
LADY ASTOR FORCED
1 REPEAT SPEECH:
Viscount Hires Hotel Ball
room to Accommodate Over
flow in Baltimore.
OPPOSED TO SEX PARTY I
Tells Women to See That
'Neither Windbags Nor Car- !
petbaggers' Arc Elected.
Spi' ial Hi*r>atch m Tub Nick H>?k Hmmv ,
Baltimork. April 26.?Viscount As
tor came to the rescue of about 1,000
disappointed women who were out
side the Century Theater to-night try
ing to get inside to hear Lady Astor ,
deliver the speech she came all the
way from England to make to the
National League of Women Voter.-'.
Two thousand delegates to the con
vention and other* were already
packed inside the roof garden, and
3.000 more were wedged up and down
the street when the little member of
the British Parliament, accompanied
by her husband, arrived.
"Ill arrange an overflow meeting,"
announced the Viscount to the clamor
ing multitudes that were driving the
police of Baltimore well nigh to dis- .
traction. And the husband of "Oui"
Nancy" engaged the ballroom in th"
Hotel Belvedere and had It announced
from the platform that Lady Awtor
would speak twice.
Then the Viscount seated himself i
on the floor of the ntuge upon which
his wife and the officer# of tl.e league
were distributed and waited to escort,
her to the next gathering.
Southern hospitality won slightly
strained when the overflow meet I rip I
was announced. Mrs. Charles K. KIM- j
cott, president of the Maryland League
of Women Voters, called upon 210 j
hostesses to resign their seats In favor
of that number of registered v I siting ,
delegates who could not gain admit
tance. The first to withdraw were ap- I
plauded and when Mrs. Ellioott herself
marched out there was an uproar.
This was the largest gathering of
women I<ady Astor had addressed situ"
her arrival in this country and the re
eeption accorded to her has not been
equaled.
She urged the league not to form a
aex party, but to go into the existing
political parties and help them.
She called upon them to establish a
single standard of morality by ralslnu
man's and not lowering woman's, anil |
she averred that iw m wer" the weaker,
sex, wllich women have known all the :
time, but lacked the moral courage to j
tell.
She said that the ben thing the
league of women voter* could d) was
to keep the bos.x^s frightened.
"I think women posses- both cour-'
age and faith." tidy A'-t'ir snld. "When
I speak' of women I don't mean every
woman?I mean real women, women
who care abn-it. real 'hinge. The ..on
of women who have not only tMrne
men but have given (hem such un-e|f
Ish love that th< world i- heen throuxh j
them a bit of what th-- lo\e of Qb-l Is;
like.
"Now !' w? i>OH?ri* courage and
faith It. will lie of no value unless we;
use it. ! Faith Is 1 )<e n bei.eflt- it la
only helpful if it lemis us to knowledge
Belief In God will only help ua if It
lead# to knowledge of Ood.
"We women must turn to account j
son-e of thl.< courage and faith. We
nttfttt put Into publle life there qualities!
which women haw had to put Into their
life?unselfishness. 'leanliness and klnd
ne??. The w-orld needs It . I don't sup
pose the world as a whole was eve- !
more In ne< d of kindness than it is now. |
"W'c need not ask ourselves why th??>;
world needs help Vou have got to car.
vour mind ovef the world and you will get i
the answer. The continent of Europe part- i
ly iievh. fated and still haUng; Russia!
almost a* far apart as ever before. I
suppose thin must be the aftermath of |
war You can't let hell lose on earth for
. Continued on Page Four.
THREAT OF POINCARE
BRINGS ALLIED MOVE
Will Be Called On to Explain I
Talk of Forcing Repara
tions Payment.
TREATY STATES TO ACT
Signatories to Versailles Paet
to Consider Issue Before
Genoa Parley Ends.
JOHN McH. STl'ABT.
Spri-inl CahU In Tim NSW Vikk n.
Cupi/rifiht, 1923. b)i Tub N*w York Hmui.p
Genoa, April 26.?With Prime Min
ister Lloyd George insisting that Ku
rope shall not again bo h shambles,
an<l with Premier i'olncare threaten
ing that France will take her own
measures against Germany if it fails
to carry out the Reparations Com
mission's requirements of payments
due May 81 a meeting of the heads of
the States signatory to the Versailles
treaty will be held in Genoa before the ,
economic conference breaks up. It j
was not stated upon whose initiative j
such a meeting was called, but the
British announcement said it was "to
consider the grave questions raised in '
M. Poincare's Bar-le-Duc speech."
In other words, the Allies are going
to ask M. Poincare what he means by
acting "with or without the consent
of the Allies" in forcing Germany's"
acceptance of tlie Reparation* Com
mission's demands. It Is frankly
hoped in French as well as in British
quarters that a joint program can be
established.
The Russians have shown wni> dls- '
position to nttempt to postpone the .set
tlement of their case until the develop
ment of May 31 Involve* the.r cast
with Germany'?. But Insistence upon
prompt action regarding Russia '?
* here evident to-day and testifies to
the general unwillingness to permit this
new complication.
In French quarters it is believed tha'
M. Polncare i* not pleaded with the
developments. When informed by Uotiis
Berth on that the meeting of Versatile^ ]
.-Ignatorles had be'n called and tha'
M. Polncare would he the only heao
of n State not present, the Premier re
plied that he would be unable to come
tc- Genoa, and ord'red M. Barthou to
return immediately to Paris to explain
the situation. The tone of the message
was thought to have n+ connection with
the reported protest by M. Barthou
against th* Ha -le-Puc sp. ecn.
In British quarters the hope la also
exprea'od that M. I'olncare may yet
find a chance to come to Genoa lor tii?
meeting, and K may be Hgifj that, thougti
it was hoped the meeting would be held
within a fortnight, it could be accommo
dated to M. Poincare's wishes, 't will
b? the flrat time thai Grrmfn recc'.ci
trancy shall have ionti before all the
signatories of the Versailles Treaty at
once. Hitherto such affairs na^ oeen
dealt with by the Supreme Council.
It is emphasized, however. that the
meeting of the Versailles signatories
will be entirely independent of the
Genoa conference Itself, and that It l?
extremely unlikely that thr. Germans
will be allowed to participate in th
Versailles discussions. French Insist
ence upon this phase Is particularly
strong, though It finds a ready echo In
British quarters. Both still refusing
to allow the question of reparation to
enter into tho discussions of the eco
nomic conference.
There Is some Indication to-night that
the Russians and the Germans will seek
to the Utmost to play t!i?ir treat> against
the coming decisions of the Allies. Cog
nisance of these stent lias been taken by
the British, and Mi. Lloyd George is
reported as ready with a counter move
That consists in n -nlttlng the entire
Russian question to a aubcommlsslon of i
the Genoa conference should the Rus
sians refuso to accept th? terms no*
abort prepared by the allied experts
Continued on Tnf* Two.
4
Differences of Opinion on
Demands Cause Delay
in Action.
COMPLETE ON FRIDAY
Powers at Genoa Make It
Clear Threat Will Not
Be Made.
Rl'SSIAN PLEA OUTLINED
French Give Out Bolshevik
Promises and Their Claims
on Other Nations.
By FRANCIS McCl'LXAGH.
Special Cablr to Till Nirw Vo?K Hbm*
Copt/right. I92i. by Tub Nbw To?k
Gexoa, April 26.?Something much
akin to a deadlock has been reached
in the allied experts' discussions on
Russia's war debts, pre-war debts and
compensation for the confiscated
property of foreigners. Owing to
acute differences of opinion and the
great volume of the Russian experts'
statements, the allied committee has
put together from stenographic re
ports, all the Russian statements and
exceptions on the first seven points
in the London experts' report to clear
the Russian position in preparing
their own report containing the maxi
mum the Soviet delegates can expect
in reply to their demands.
But the British deprecate the us#
of the word "ultimatum." as there is
to be no threat and no time limit in
the allied presentment, and the dele
gates say a formula probably will be
found to save Russia from the ap
parent repudiation of Socialist prin
ciples, and to bring her to the ac
ceptance of the principle that foreign
States can interfere with Soviet legis
lation, What the Allies will insist
upon is that the Russians stop their
haggling.
Slilrmrit Ileady
The Bolsheviki delegates told Tin:
Nnv York I-Lkrald correspondent to
day that "the essentially political
demand for the restitution of conlls
cated and nationalized property in
Russia violates the Cannes resolu
tion and probably is due to the pres
sure of Entente financiers who have
concessions in Russia."
It is anticipated that the allied ex
perts' statement will be considered
to-morrow by the French. British
and Belgian delegates and then
handed to the political commission
No. 1 and its sub-commission for
final discussion. The statement is
not likely to reach the Russiaus be
fore Friday.
In regard to a financial consortium
for Russia the Italian expert Olan
nini says that the representatives of
the Entente had discussed the matter
and had concluded that it was not a
question of pouring money into Rus
sia but turnishing credits on goods
thereby permitting her to remedy the
disastrous situation. Acknowledg
ment of her debts must precede such
credits, he said.
A national bank or a corporation
of national banks, he explained, could
not deal with the matter because the .
could not expose themselves to th?
political risks Involved or survive
Ion? immobilization of their fund*,
whereas a consortium among State*
could tackle the question If it had the
nccessary Russian guaranties.
rtnuwlan llenmnils Outlined.
Obnoa, April 2?! (Associated Pres?).
?The French delegation gave out a
statement to-day embodying what It
understands to he the exact Russian
demands presented at the meeting of
the experts on April 24. A summary,
issued with the explanation that it is
bas'd on the notes taken by the vari
ous experts o." the Powers, follows:
"It is agreed on condition that im
mediate and adequate financial as
sistance is given to Russia and oa
conditio* that the Soviet Government
of nus>-ia is recognised de Jure. that.
"Article 1. The Russian tJoveinment.
promises to pay the financial obllgn
tlotts of the Imperial Government o?
Russia contracted before August 1
1!?14, with foreign Powers and their
national*. It is understood, however,
that persons in legal possession of th??
ahov?? obligations before March, HIT,
will have the right of reimbursement
unoer the conditions stipulated in th<*
article.
"(Note A). The present article doe*;
not apply to States with whom Russia
has territorial disputes which are not
yet settled. (This presumably applies
to Rumania.)
"(Note B). The questions treated lit
the note to Article 1 of the London
memorandum will be reserved for ex
amination by ?* political commission.
(This note ref?rs to security on debt,
on which there are various solutions >
"Article 2. The Russian Govemmei t
will oblige the local Russian authority s
or Ofvernment* to recognise the flnut -
cial arrangements contracted hy the;n
wiUt the l'owers and tbsir national*.