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ALL MERCHANDISE ADVERTISED IN THE IS GUARANTEED tXXXI No. 27,373 First to Truth: THE WEATHER Fair to-day; to-morrow cloudy, proba? bly rain: little change in tem? perature; north and north east winds. l'ull on lust pngr? (Copyright. 1021, New York Tribune Inr.) WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1921 TWO CENTS In New York THREE CENTS Within 2D? Miles FOI KNTS Jerome Links Graft to Evils IftW Spend 30 Millions on Piers and Only 11 Millions for Education He Inquires Only 12 Buildings Diirirr flis Term Money Expended That Was Not Raised- in Ad miiustralioii of Mitchel Former District Attorney William Trarers Jerome, talking to 10,000 per? night at Xiblo's Garden, iTOth Street and Third Avenue, at? tacked the record of John F. Hylan as Mavor of New York, denounced him associate dishonest men, and ras cheered to the echo when he de Ear.iied to know why it was 000,000 had been spent by the adminis? tration on docks, with only $11.000,000 for lie answered his own questions with a wealth of detail.

Sneaking on the school situation, Mr. Jerome declared it dovetailed quite handily with the dock situation, al? though perhaps many at first glance aijht not see the connection. "During the entire time of Hylan's said the speaker, "only twelve new schools have been built. That strikes me as queer. The taxpay? ers of New York have never been nig? gardly about spending money for schools.

So why is this? Let me add right he? thai not one cent of the money required to build twelve schools raised during Hylan's ad mi'risU'atioP. was ail raised under Mitchel. "There we begin to see the juxta? position of tire dock and situa? tions. The administration has spent fer docks, as against $11. 000,000 for schools.

What is the answer to that? It's a queer situation, isn't it? Shows How City Lost "Very well, let's look into Uic dock a little. The value of private docks was increased within a year per cent. The value of city docks ill creased in the same period only one half of 1 per cent. "If the City of Now ifork made a present its docks at their real value -if they gave them away with a pound of would get more money froi? the I ites ii collected the at present. That is mighty roer fnrar.ee, I'll say.

'But let's run it down. Here's where they come where the joker is. For twenty-four docks the btains $1.484,000. The lessees Kit them for S63 a day on the average. Thy turn around and lease them for or $240 a day.

"Do you think the lessees get away with all this wealth? Not on your life they don't' Not while Tammany's on th? job. They understand tinance right. That's the reason why more de-cks have been built than 'schools un? der John F. Hylan. There is more money in docks than there is in schools.

Appeals to Public Conscience Early in his lark Mr. Jen me said: "1 am here to appeal the thought conscic of the voter. We have lad enough of yapping. Wc don't want more hot air. Let's get down to cases.

It a serious game we are up this of selecting a hired man is competent to transact the busi our city. "We must him for his errpe fiHiCP. not merely because he was a poor boy and honest. Hylan had been a poor hoy and he may have been honest, but that doesn't qualify him to Mayor of the City of New York. "Let me point to the outstanding feature of his career.

That outstand? ing feature is his association with Al? fred R. Goslin, who many times was Mied into court for alleged irreg? ularities. "I have in my possession many indorsed by Goslin, and under name appears the name of F. Hylan, present Mayor of New lork." and prolonged applause greeted Jerome's reference to the Goslin He proceeded to review the ex- by a Xew York the jwtby Mayoi Hylan for which ye said tho newspaper was ready to de ttd, the driving of Hylan out of Hurt. Mr.

Jerome referred to Goslin "this crook" in the course of his "dress. He charged that the Mayor remained in constant association w'th Goslin during that period. Shows Hylan Bached Down Jerome amid cheers: "the Mayor, in reply to the charges Wde agair.st him in 'The New York World's' exposure, said he had been Ettrged with bad conduct and with Pressing a reputation that was foul 2J You may say ho not have dared deny the charges a suit unless the charges had (CunllRuiid on page Expert Sees Chance Men May Live to 300 Years Prohibition and Increased Knowledge of Correct Living Aids to Longevity t' t.j Tribune ago. Oct. 2b.

-With the advent prohibition and the hvgiene and right nga may live to 300 cirlf? I11en wiser and more of what they put into their ttJkA- (my more attention to promptly a per oniv loo yPRrs win be rrfer. This is the aentl fet? Association of -fc underwriters, in ninth an "y'ieasion here. fttelV )V' Pai'th- of Omaha, sounded fa ncte of Pf'miso for the race. HlxiJLan actuary employed by a great 'isurnnco companies as an WDert "16Ulanco companies as an mortuary tables. R'' nt prophecies," said "The human race has added t0 lha 'enuth of the life of man in tho la8t fifty ycars ri- noint to a simi fc.

'ho fifty years. rW at the ittea of e' f'-'f 'Hugh at the Sojif be yftara olt! now Roventv-flvc CJ Hack to ii Sea, Piled Up by Gale, Floods Tampa; Damage $1,000,000 JACKSONVILLE, Oct, business section of Tampa is practical? ly flooded under three feet of water as a result of the Gulf storm, according to advices reaching here to-night over crip? pled transmission linos. No loss of life has been reported, but industry is at a standstill. The entire west coast of Florida is feeling the effects of the storm and is virtually isolated in so far as coimuunication is concerned. Damage amounting to $1,000,000 is believed to have been caused by the hurricane.

Tampa is without lights, telegraph, telephone or streetcar service, accord? ing to the advices which were received here by way of Plant City, about thirty miles northeast of Tampa. The flooded area in Tampa was de? scribed as extending froin the baj I shore seawall to the heart of the busi? ness section, a distance of about a mile Fashionable residences along the baj 'shore drive were reported severely dam aged from the high water. A gale ol fifty six miles an hour was reported it city. At Plant City the lainfall for tht last forty-eight hours registered inches, with a wind of thirty-five mile: an hour blowing. No information as to the plight St.

Petersburg, twenty miles acros the bay from Tampa, has been re eeived, but it is believed the city i faring much the same as Tampa. cities are protected by a sea wall. The heavy rains throughout the state have thrown many cities and towns into darkness because of the disruption of power plant facilities. Notable among these are St. Augustine and Orlando.

At St. Augustine pedes? trians and property were endangered by broken live wires dangling across the streets. Three small blazes in the business section also resulted. Or? lando was in total darkness and news? paper plants suspended along with other business. WEST PALM BEACH, Oct.

The St. Petersburg wireless station went out of commission this afternoon, according to a report, from tho Jupiter wireless station, eighteen miles north of here, and the St. Augustine wireless station also is said to be out of com? mission. The center of the tropical storm early this afternoon was a short distance west of Tampa and moving northwest. The maximum velocity of the wind was given as fifty-six miles the barometer at Tampa at noon read 29.04.

Considerable damage to shipping is feared. The freight steamship Thames, plying between Jacksonville and sank to-day about fourteeti n-vi 1 es north of Jupiter, but Captain E. J. Wuhl and his crew of fifteen men reached shore in lifeboats at Gomez. A small wooden vessel also is believed to havo gone ashore near the same place.

Curran Charges Hylan Neglect in FireDepartment Says Sterilizing Plants in Manhattan and Brooklyn Medical Offices Out of Commission Two Years Lives of 5,000 in Danger Declares Methods of Middle Ages Prevail Five Addresses in Bronx Grave negligence on the part of Mayor Hylan in regard to the various city departments during the last four years was chai-ged last night by Henry II. Curran, Republican-coalition candi? date for Mayor, in his speeches at the Hamilton Community Council in Niblo's Garden, 170th Street and Third Ave? nue, and other meetings. Mr. Curran declared that while the Mayor has been prattling in the City Hall about "special interests the city departsuents under his charge have been falling into a state of deplorable mismanagement and "something even worse than that." Mr. Curran turned his special atten? tion last night to the Mayor's negli? gence of the Fire Department.

He dis? closed a situation in that department which is a serious menace to the health and lives of the lire-fighters, because of the lack of proper medical. treatment. Mr. Curran showed from sworn testi? mony of the physicians in the Fire De? partment that the equipment of the medical board had been so neglected by the Hylan adti3inistration that the ten physicians employed to furnish medical and surgical treatment to the uniformed firemen were unable to sterilize then instruments. Points Out Horror of Situation "You voters know what this means," said Mr.

Curran. "It is not necessary for me. to picture the horror this situation. Under Mayor Hylan the medical officers in the Fire Department have come to neglect the first princi? ples of sterilization and use of anti? septics. From the medical standpoint these offices under Hylan have become places of tilth and pest holes for the spread of disease, and infection among tne 5,000 uniformed firemen and from them to their families and the public at large." The Bronx meetings were large and enthusiastic.

Hundreds of persons were unable to crowd their way into the meeting at Niblo's Garden. The meeting at the Hamilton Community Council. 502 West 145th Street, was a close second in numbers and enthu? siasm. The coalition candidate also addressed a meeting at the Republi? can District Club house, at Z2, Mac dougal Street. In the afternoon he spoke in Earl Hall, Columbia Univer? sity, and at the Bronx Woman's Club, 190th Street and Jerome Avenue.

There were prolonged cheering at the. night meetings and shouts of "No. no!" when in closing the Borough President asked: "How 3nuch longer have we got to stand for the hypocrisy that cloaks incompetence and double dealing? Have we got to have four more years of this?" Mr. Curran's speech follows, in part: "Mr. Hylan demands that we allow him to enjoy four years more as Mayor of New York.

The burden of proof is upon him to show that he is fit to be Mayor. I have shown you enough al (Contlnued en paus six) Britain Would Abolish Protectorate in Egypt Substitution of a Permanent Treaty of Alliances in Draft Agreement With Envovs LONDON, Oct. "of the British protectorate in Egypt and sub? stitution of a permanent treaty of al? liances is provided for in a draft agree? ment which is the result of negotiations between the British government and an Egyptian mission, headed by Adly Yeghen Pasha, the Egyptian Premier, which is now in London. The document is ready for signature, but the Egyptian delegates are said to be reluctant to sign it. being dissatis? fied with the details of the proposed al? liance, which it is said they fear will prove unacceptable to the extremists of Egypt.

Great Britain stipulates for the retention of a British garrison in Egypt on the ground of necessity to insure the safety of foreigners and for the security of British eonnnunications, although it intimated that if the pol? icy of Egypt proves friendly to Great Britain a much freer hand will be given the Egyptian government in the course of time. It is said Great Britain has gone very far toward conceding the requests of the Egyptians, nearly all of which been satisfied, and it was intimated in official quarters to-night that unless the Egyptian envoys sign at an early date the may be withdrawn. Real Beer Goes On Sale To-day To Druggists Purchases by Individuals Under Mellon's Ruling Limited to Case on Each Prescription by Doctor Breweries Start at Once Stocks Already on Hand To Be Released Meanwhile as First Aid to Thirsty Stocks of real containing from 3 to 5 per cent alcohol, stored by some breweries since before prohibition, are available under physicians' prescrip? tions to-day. Many big breweries yes? terday announced their intention of be? ginning to-day the manufacture of medicinal beer to replace stored stocks when exhausted. Under the new Internal Revenue De? partment rulings, signed by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, brewers con? tend, druggists have the right to phone breweries to deliver stocks to fill pre? scriptions and physicians have the right to write unlimited prescriptions.

Physicians have a right to write one prescription for a case, or three and a half gallons, and to write another pre? scription for the same patient as soon as his case of beer is consumed. However, the brewers expressed themselves as not being desirous of flooding the city with beer, or in any way abusing the new privilege. Their aim, expressed by various authorities, is simply to care for the legitimate demand for real beer of medicinal value. It was pointed out by William H. Hirst, attorney for the New York Brewers' Association; that the brewers had respected all laws and that because of the natural bulk of beer it had not lent itself to illicit handling by boot? leggers.

He said he desired to clarify many points in the new ruling before expressing an opinion about it. Sell Only to Druggists "Regulations under which manufac? turers have to operate to manufacture 'medicinal beer or cereal beverages are definitely fixed under certain structural requirements," said Mr. Hirst. "The manufacturer is permitted to sell only to licensed phari33acists under prescrip? tions of registered physicians and for specified medicinal purposps." He ad? mitted the unlimited prescribing power of physicians, under which a patient might keep beer on hand in his home at all times for his own tonic i3eeds. Arthur Liebmann, treasurer of the? Liebmann Sons Brewing Company, said his plant, had a large stock of beer on hand.

"We cannot tell the full mean ing of the regulations until we have seen them," he said. "From advance reports it appears there will be neces? sity only of complying with the letter of the Law before we can begin delivery to druggistb. We will make all haste in fulfilling the necessary legal re? quirements anJ will increase the out? put of our establishment at once." Sev? eral other brewers made practically same stat rment. Ruppert Discusses Policy Colonel Jacob Ruppert, president of the Ruppert Brewery, issued the following statement: "The new regulations have not reached me from the Department of the Treasury as yet. Considering the regulations as printed in this morn? ing's newspapers, I shall naturally, as (Continued on page three) Astor Urges Women To Support Arms Parley Afiks Her Sex in Britain to Reply to American Sisters' "Call Across the Seas" LONDON.

Oct. 25. A nation-wide appeal for English women to demon- strate their support of the statesmen at the Washington conference is con-1 tained in a letter to "The London Times," signed by Lady Astor and Mrs. Margaret Wintringham, Members of Parliament, and three other prominent women. The letter urges the press, clergymen, teachers, parents and school children to help to get every woman to: seize this opportunity of expressing hope for the success of the and ndds: "We believe that the Primo Minister will go to Washington with such a mandate from the women of this conn- try as shall ring through the world." On the supposition that the steamer carrying the delegates will Novem? ber 5, the letter suggests that on November 3 every woman and every girl years of age send a signed postcard, bearing "Godspeed," addressed to the Premier or chief Brit- ish delegate aboard the Aquitania at Liverpool.

The movement is advocated as a re? sponse to American women who have! "called across the seas." Irish Parley Near Collapse Over Ulster I Lloyd George's Demand for Guaranties and Sinn Fein Insistence on Unity Threaten Split To-day Delegates Prepared To Quit England Unionists Consolidating Opposition inParliament to Halt Independence LONDON, Oct. 25 (By Tho Associ? ated Irish headquarters to-night an attempt was made to con? vey the impression that a break-off to? morrow of the peace negotiations and the immediate return of the delegates to Dublin are within the range of probability. The differences, it was intimated, were caused by Premier Lloyd George's insistence that any set? tlement must provide suitable guaran? ties for Ulster and the Sinn Fein con? tention for the unity of Ireland, irre? spective of the wishes of tho North. Among tho British officials there ap? peared to be a disposition to believe that the committee which was in ses? sion this afternoon would present its report and that a full conference of the delegates would reassemble, to? morrow. From The Tribune's European Bureau Copyright, 1921, New York Tribune Inc.

LONDON, Oct. sitting for almost two hours this evening, Premier Lloyd George, Austen Chamberlain, representing the Cabinet, and Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins, represent? ing the Sinn Fein, separated without having arrived at a definite agreement upon which the Irish peace, negotia? tions could be continued. The official communique, issued soon after the Committee of Four adjourned, stated merely that "a full meeting of the con? ference was postponed, as the commit? tee was sitting," No mention was made of any subsequent sessions of the con? ference or of the nature of to-night's discussions. There is reason to believe that the Sinn Fein delegates have countered Lloyd George's attack on De Valera's telegram to the Pope by raising the Ulster issue. While the Irish repub? licans have intimated ever since the signing of the truce that they might eventually come to an agreement on the question'of allegiance to the crewn, they have contended stoutly for recog? nition of Ireland as a whole.

Committee to Meet Again Within the Premier's Downing Street residence, there were gathered during the meeting to-night Sir llamar Green? wood, Erskine Childers and Sean Mil roy, the last named the Dail Eircann member for the Tyrone-Fermanagh dis? trict. The fact that they carried maps was taken to indicate that the question of allegiance had been broadened to in? clude Ulster. After the conference both sides held separate meetings, and it is expected that another meeting of the Committee of Four will be held to? morrow, with perhaps the committee later reporting to the full conference, It would seem that at least the most difficult stages of the negotiations have been passed. With both sides desper? ately anxious to avoid a break and the return to hostilities, Lloyd George's plan of trying to settle differences by small committees is considered admir? able. In any case no break can come until all the delegates have had the opportunity to participate in the dis? cussions.

In the last twenty-four hours mes? sages have been flying back and forth between London and Dublin, and at Sinn Fein headquarters here there is no sign that the delegates are prepar? ing for a speedy return to Ireland Similarly, the press seems to reflect a spirit of optimism, although stress is laid on the seriousness of the presen! discussions. Unionists Form Opposition In Parliament the Unionist "die hards," so numbering forty, arc organizing to make a campaign against the government's Irish policy and some bitter criticism is forecast when the debate, is held. There are two distinct groups of Unionists, and although both are insistent on the test of allegiance for Sinn Fein, the. majority group is just, as anxious as the Liberals that the government should carry the negotia tions to a successful conclusion. Premier Lloyd George is showing nc alarm over the revolt by this smal! (Conllnurd on page three) CharleSaNerve Broken, Tries To End Life Former Emperor Is Saved From Shooting Himself by Wife Accepts Terms Laid Down by Horthy Assigned to Abbey Until Allies Act Probably Will Be Interned Outside Europe Regent May BeElected to Throne VIENNA, Oct.

25. is reported that former Emperor Charles to-day accepted unconditionally the terms of? fered him by Admiral Horthy, the re? gent, and that the ex-monarch, a pris? oner since the collapse of his last at? tempt to regain the throne of Hungary, has been assigned to the Benedictine Abbey of Tihany, on Platten Lake, where he will make his residence un? til further orders. The dispatches from Hungary are si? lent as to the fate of the ex-Empress Zita, who was captured with Charles on Monday. Abbey of Tihany was founded in the year 1054. It is situated about fifty miles southwest of Budapest.

Platten Lake is'the largest body of water in Hungary. Its waters are slightly salt and abound in A dispatch from Budapest says that Charles attempted to commit suicide by shooting following his arrest on Monday near Komorn. Former Em? press Zita saw him preparing to shoot himself and prevented him from car? rying out his intention. Still Prisoners in Castle The former Emperor and Empress are now prisoners in the Esterhazy Castle at Tata Tovaros, and Thomas Beaumont Hohler, British High Com? missioner in Hungary, is hurrying there with the representatives of other na? tions to insure the safety of the pris? oners, who are in charge of Colonel Siemen Falvy, commander of the na- tional army. Members of Charles's Cabinet and i other prisoners have been removed to the military prisons in Budapest.

Among the prisoners are many royalist officers and prominent legitimists, in? cluding Prince Ludwig Windisch Graetz. The ex-monarch is being treated with the utmost consideration, but has been refused parole. In diplomatic; quarters, it is said that Zita is not considered as being under detention and that she is free to go where she desires. The belief was expressed that! a Hungarian castle will be placed at her disposal and her children sent for) pending a decision as to the fate of i Charles. When Charles and Zita landed at Oedenburg last week from the air- plane that had brought them from i Switzerland for the attempted restora- tion to the Hungarian throne, the ex- Empress, according to a witness of the landing, scrutinized the crowd of mon- archists awaiting them and, missing many of those she had expected to see, she turned to her husband and i remarked: I "We might as well shoot ourselves I now but for tho children." No greater punishment for Charles than renewed exile is spoken of in Vienna.

It was reported to-day that i Italy had offered him asylum. There were various rumors that Charles had been wounded by an assas- i sin. The rumors were without con- I firmation. Horthy Would Delay Disarming Regent Horthy, according to the "Abend," has telegraphed the Council of Ambassadors, calling attention to the attempted Karlist coup as estab- lishing the. value of the Hungarian army to Central Europe and request- ing that it be not disbanded or at.

hast that its disarmanment under the I peace treaty be deferred indeiinitely. Against this request, says the "Abend," the Little Entente demands the immediate and completo disarma- i merit of Hungary to a point even lower than is provided for under the terms of the peace treaty. Karlists, under Stephan Friedrich, former Hungarian Premier, to-day oc- I ci-pied Oedenburg, in West Hungary. Horthy's Election as King Forecast BUDAPEST. Oct.

25 CBy The Asso- ciated election of Regent Horthy as King of Hungary is among i the imminent possibilities. The As- sembly is to be convoked within a few days, and it is belieeved the dethron? ing of Charles will be the next move by the Horthy government if the for-, (Continuad on psg? four) Tattered Prowler Chokes Girl In Jersey Home, Snips Hair WESTWOOD, N. Oct. 1 and children of this place have been ordered to remain off the streets at night, asid a posse has been formed to hunt down a "tattered stranger" who i has made mysterious visits to this sec? tion and has thrown a real scare into residents. The tattered stranger is wanted par- ticulariy in connection with an attack upon the seventeen-year-old daughter of Walter M.

Haws, a Wall Street i broker, which occurred in the Haws here on Saturday night, when all the members of the family but Mar- jorie were out. Shortly after 8 o'clock the girl heard I a tapping on the front Before opening it she asked who was i knocking, received the answer, I "Chief of Police Bird." At this the girl opened the door and was confronted by a wild-looking crea- ture, tall and thin, with a thick, greasy black beard and a skin of sallow com? plexion. Miss Marjorie slammed the door in the man'a face, but not before the stranger succeeded in getting his foot against the jamb. Then the man forced his way into the house by superior strength. In the hallway he sprang Rt the girl grabbed her by the throat and did not release his hold until the young woman was insensible.

Leaving on the floor, the man went to the kitchen and obtained a largo carving knife. With this he returned and slashed the hair from Miss Marjorie's head. The girl was found sometime later by her mother still unconscious in the hallway. Tho police were notified at once and a posse was formed. The sec? tion about Westwood was scoured for the most of Saturday night but without any success.

The search has been con? tinued for the greater part of two days but no trace of the mysterious wild man has been found. A police guard has been placed at the Haws home as a precautionary measure and the women and children ordered to remain in doors after dark. The visit of the tattered stranger to the Haws home on Saturday was the third which he had made to that resi? dence. He made his first appearance there on the tiight of October 8. On this occasion, an on the last, the girl was alone in the house.

Before open? ing the door, however, she peered through the curtain and saw the stranger, who insisted that she let him in. He threatened to shoot her unless she complied with his wish. The girl refused and dashed upstairs and tele? phoned the police. When Chief of Po lice George Bird reached the scene however, the man had disappeared. The second visit took place on Co lurnbus Day, when Mrs.

Haws was a home with her daughter. This time while the girl held the door closed, her mother telephoned the police, but. agaii the man made his escape before tin authorities arrived. Roads Deny Board's Plea To Defer Further Wage Cut to Avert Rail Strike Mail Bandits Bank's Bonds These Packets Make Only One Portion of Spoils of Broadway Robbery; In? spectors Seek "Insider" The United States government will pay $5,000, alive or dead, for each of the three highwaymen who held up a mail truck in lower Broadway Mon? day night, escaping with four pouches of registered mail containing cash, jewelry and negotiable bonds. The Chase National Bank alone had ten packages of bonds in the stolen pouches, with a par value of $463,000.

This represented only a part of the loot. It will require two weeks, post office inspectors said, before they can estimate with any degree of accuracy the full value of the contents of the purloined sacks. No arrest had been made at a late hour last night, but throughout the day City Hall postoffice swarmed with inspectors seeking to uncover a lead that would help them identify the gov? ernment employed confederate who they believe assisted the robbers. "Insider" Sought Inspectors base their belief that the robbers had a conference upon the fact that they selected with sure hands four registered pouches from a truck that contained a total of seventeen pouches of ordinary mail and eleven of regis? tered mail. The investigators, strongly 1 believe that the stolen sacks were marked or tagged within the postof? fice in some manner that enabled the bandits to identify them in the dark? ness of narrow Leonard Street, just off Broadway.

That was the scene of the robbery. Frank Havranick, the driver of the auto truck, left the old postoffice at City Hall at 10 o'clock Monday night, for the Pennsylvania Station to catch a train leaving at 10:40 p. m. He had progressed only a few blocks up Broadway, asa rule practically deserted at that hour, when a green touring car drew abreast of his machine. Beside the chauffeur at the wheel there were two men in the rear seat.

Havranick, who was questioned again yesterday, clung faithfully to every minute of the story he had told the night before. His record of three years in the postal service is good and inspectors said that absolutely no sus? picion attaches to him. The driver said the touring car swerved in front of him. To avoid a collision he also turned his car and came to a stop. Then otie of the three; motorists leaped to the.

step of his truck and with a heavy revolver held on a level with his stomach, ordered him to turn into the side street, which happened to be Leonard Street, of little more than alley width. Deliberate Work Havranick obeyed, and the instant his truck came to a stop he was forced to the sidewalk and searched for the key to the padlock on the wire doors at the rear of his machine. When this was obtained one of the highwaymen climbed inside among the pouches, an? other stood by to receive them, and the third saw to it that Havranick did not so much as shuffle his feet. It was the speed with which the rnan inside the truck made his selections that proved of greatest interest to the inspectors who questioned the driver. Unless the men had advance knowledge of the contents of the sacks the logical thing for them to have done, in tho opinion of the inspectors, would have been to have taken all the pouches.

Havranick, an accomplished chauf? feur, kept his eyes busy while the three, were at work. He recognized the make of the car, but was unable to distin? guish more, than the first three num 2-0-0. The. robbers before departing with the precious pouches called out to Havranick: "Don't you follow us or you'll be kiiled by our men at West Broadway!" That was the direction taken by the green car, and Havranick obeyed their injunction not to follow. Instead he hurried to Police Headquarters and made a report there.

Negligence Charged At least one investigation of negli? gence at the City Hall station of the is expected to result, from the fact that there was no armed guard on the seat of Havranick's truck. Wagons carrying registered mail are supposed never to move without such a guard. The government's liability does not exceed $50 tor each package registered. of registered mal, where the value is large, habitually insure the contents. Ths was done by the Chase National Bank, it was said there yes? terday.

An official of the bank explained that the institution was acting merely as registrar in the matter and that the owners of the bonds were fully pro- tected by insurance. The Chase Na? tional packages contained the fellow- ing: Government of the Argentine Nation two-year 7 per cent gold notes, dated October 1, 1319, and due October 1, 1923, having a face value of $458,000. The numbers were 3.678-87, 4032-33, 4051-2, 40J5-7, 4101-21, 4124-36, 4253-00, 4448-77, 4578-87, 7285-7308' and 35791-355390. The parcel also con- tained $5,000 worth of Canadian North- em Railway Company 6 V. per cent; sinking fund gold debenture bonds, due July 1.

I94ii, the numbers of which were 2938-42. Seaplane antl Crew Saved NEW ORLEANS, Oct. sea-1 plane 893, missing since Sunday, and her crew of two, nave been picked up by the gunboat Galveston, according to a wireless mesoage received here late to-day. Hays to Draft Men to Move Mail in Strike CHICAGO, Oct. H.

Hay3, Postmaster General, left Chicago for Washington to-day, after conferring with postal offi? cials here regarding the move? ment of the mails in case of a rail tie-up. Every effort would be made to move the mails, Mr. Hays said. "A survey had been made show? ing the number of men in the va? rious states with experience in operating cars and mail," Mr. Hays said.

"If the emergency comes, these men will be drafted into service as in war time." House Asked to Expel Blanton For Vile Speech Mondell Resolution Says Texan Published "Gross? ly Indecent and Obscene Language" in the Record Based on Printing Row Attempt Likely To Be Made to Let Him Off With Rep? rimand May Apologize WASHINGTON, Oct. House was asked to-day to expel one of its L. Blanton, Demo? crat, of the 17th Texas causing to be published in the Con? gressional Record an affidavit which related to a row at the Government Prinitng Office and which was charac? terized as obscene and unprintable. Presented on the Texan's forty-ninth birthday by Representative Mondell, of Wyoming, the Republican leader, the resolution was placed on the table for consideration and vote Thursday be? cause of Blanton's absence from Wash? ington. He left here Monday night for Wheeling, W.

to make a speech in accordance with arrangements made prior to the action of the House Mon? day in expunging his undelivered speech, containing his offending affi? davit, from the Record, but is expected back to-morrow. No Expulsion Since the Civil War Examination of House proceedings, parliamentarians announced, failed to show where a member had been ex? pelled except during Civil War days. Many demands for expulsion have been put forward, but censure only resulted, some Representatives resigning before the House acted. A two-thirds vote of members pres? ent would be required to expel Blanton. In the question of voting on the Mon? dell resolution leaders declared the House would vote without regard to party lines.

The Texas delegation will meet to-morrow to discuss the case, and it was said to be quite that a substitute measure providing for censure instead of expulsion would be presented. The storm that had been sweeping the House since the discovery on Sat? urday of the Blanton "extension of re? marks" in the "Record" did not seem to grow in fury until after elimination of the speech, which was not made on I the floor. Finding a number of mem? bers were preparing to demand action, I the Republican leaders took the bull by the horns and called a meeting of the steering committee, to which veteran Representatives were, invited and asked to express their views. Thirty min- utes later Mr. Mondell entered the chamber with a resolution in his pocket, Apology To-day Is Forecast Meanwhile attempts had been made to get in touch with Blanton to notify him of the step contemplated, and at his office it was said he would return to-morrow and "make a statement" in the House.

There were intimations that an apology was in prospect. There was a tense- moment in the House when the leader, rising from his seat, sent, to the clerk's desk a paper with a request that it be read. The roll call, just enaed, showed Blanton I absent. Necks were craned as Mr. turning to the Democratic side and pitching his voice, asked, "Is the gentleman from Texas present?" Getting no response and declaring that it was a serious matter, and be? lieving it unseemly to proceed with its consideration in the absence of the ac- cused man, Mr.

Mondell announced (Continued on next pag?) Bets by Check Recoverable British Bookmakers Hard Hit by Lords' Ruling LONDON, Oct. far reaching and, for England, sensational decision has been rendered by the House of Lords i in a ruling that money paid by check in a settlement of a gambling debt is recov- by the loser. The decision open? an avenue for pos- litigation involving hundreds of thousands of pounds sterling, and if all losers insisted upon their rights under the law it would mean the ruin of scores of the bookmakers who do a big business at all the race meetings. The ruling has caused a furor in sporting circles, and the bookmakers have called a special meeting to consider the situation. NOW IT'S THE AREA-REA with Gilda Gray and Five South Itlnndi-rf.

The 121 W. Carriers Reply They Are Powerless to Take Any Other Position; Must Reduce Freight Rates No Real Issue With Unions, Thev Insist BoardWarns Pay-Question Cannot Be Reached Be? fore July; Rules First CHICAGO, Oct. 25 (By The As? sociated United States Railroad Labor Board to-day turned to the railroads in its attempts to avert the rail strike scheduled foi October 30, suggesting 'that tho road3 temporarily postpone seeking further wage reductions because the board's docket was so crowded that wage decisions for all classes of em? ployees could not be rendered before July, 1922. The carriers, however, informed the board that they were "powerless to take any other poai? tion" than their present one. In a formal statement the board informed the carriers that it would not consider any petitions for wage cuts until the questions of rules and working conditions now before it were fully settled.

The board then unofficially let the carriers know, it was learned, that since a ruling on wages for all classes could not bo handed down before July, 1922, it would like the roads formally to an? nounce postponement of their plans to seek further pay cuts, taking the attitude that such an announcement might avert a walk-out. Carriers Refuse to Yield The committee of the Association of Railway Executives which con? ferred with the board announced, however, that the carriers would stand pat on their plans to seek tho new pay cuts on the ground that wages must be reduced before freight rates could be lowered, and that since the strike was called technically in protest of wage cuts already author? ized by the board, there was no ne? cessity for the roads to take other than an inactive part in the strike controversy between the board and the unions To-night board members, in discus? sing the statement, said the board might take up a new procedure in ren? dering decisions, handing down in? dividual ruling? for individual groups of employees, instead of one decision covering all of them. It was pointed out by one member that the statement left to the board the right to reiulcr a wage decision for any one class of employees as soon an the rules and working conditions for that class had been settled, but that this procedure would stretch into months before all classes could be bidered. Conductors Not Involved In this connection a union leader clared there were severa! organiza, tions, noticeably tho conductors, which had no rules questions before board and that consequently a peti? tion for lower for them might be taken up by the board immediately without the board in any way going back on its statement. The statement was not to be looked on in any way as an ultimatum to the railroads, board members said, but wai presented in the that it might bring action from the roads which would tend toward averting the threat? ened walk-out.

In its communication to the roads the board declared that if both side? would consider the delay'necessary be? fore wages could again be reduced they would realize that there was no cause for immediate strife between them over this poirrt. The unions, not taking into consider? ation this delay, were crossing bridges before coming to them when they e.illed a strike, the board's statement said. Rules to Come First It pointed out also that tho carriers had repeatedly urged a quick decision on the rules and working conditions question? now before the hoard, ami that it had deter weeks ago to srttle this matter before taking up anything else. Of the 2,009 cases submitted to the board during its eighteen mo istence 1,300 still are unsettled, the. statement said, adding that proper co? operation between the unions an roads wo'ild hav? i marry of them coming to the board.

The board's statement, iriemhers said, was issued to-night, the the strike hearing to if the transportation i- being violated by the union in their str.ke in the hope thai il would result representa? tives of one side or the other volun? tarily offering some plan to the crisis. The board itself has no nite rdarl. it was said, and will try in the hearing merely to bring oat all the facts in the case. A forma! statement it sued by the executives' committee the car riers were powerless to take any other position tiran that of seeking further wage cuts. July Cut Held Only Issue "Railroad exec not awara of any present dispute between them and their employees," said the state? ment in part.

"The strike vote was taken solely asrainst a decision of the Labor Board reducing vages, by 12 per cent, last July. "The railroads have determined to seek to reduce rates and a means to that end further to reduce.