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Wood Cancels Engagement For Brooklyn Believed That Factional Dis? pute Over Dinner Plans for Saturday Resulted in Calling Off' His Speech 213 Delegates Claimed Nation-Wide Poll of "Les? Gives Gen. Wood Great Lead Over Rivals General Leonard Wood's Eastern managers have cancelled his engage ment to sneak to the Republicans of Brooklyn in Kismet Temple nexl Saturday nicht, limiting his engage? ment in this city to one address at Carnegie Hall Saturday afternoon. It is believed in organization circles in Brooklyn that the rupture in the criminal dinner arrangements between Senator William M. Calder and Elec? tions Commissioner Jacob A. Liv? ingston, Republican lender of Kings, impelled General Wood to steer clear of factional trouble in Brooklyn by re? maining away.

With 111 delegates pledged or in? structed for General Wood, and 102 more "as good as pledged," the Wood managers both here and in Chicago ap? pear satisfied with the progress of the campaign. During the ensuing week 111 delegates aro to be chosen as fol? lows: Illinois, delegates, primary Tuesday, April 13; convention May 10 (eight delegates-at-large to be chosen at the state convention May 10); Ten? nessee, 20 delegates, convention, Apr'1 Massachusetts, 35 delegates, pri? mary Saturday, April 17; Delaware, 6 delegates, primary Saturday, April 17, convention, April 20. Claim Twenty in Tennessee In Tennessee, the outlook is that the entire delegation of twenty dele? gates will be instructed for General Wood. Seven Congressional districts already have named fourteen delegates pledged to Wood. The state conven? tion Wednesday is expected to ratify these fourteen, and also instruct the six others for General Wood.

In Deleware the six delegates prob? ably will be uninstructed, as that state has an unbroken precedent for sending unpledged delegates to con? ventions. In Massachusetts, Representative W. W. Lufkin, the Wood manager, says situation is satisfactory, indicating that General Wood will have twenty Jour out of the thirty-five delegates from that state from the opening of the convention. General Wood will speak in Pittsfield, to-morrow.

Wednesday night he will sneak in Boston. Thursday he is to speak at Wilmington. in company with Senator George H. Moses, of New Hampshire, his Southern manager. At noon Friday General Wood will speak in Philadelphia, and Friday night, in company with Senator Moses, he will speak at-a mass meeting in the Newark Armory.

Saturday af? ternoon General Wood will speak in Carnegie Hall, and afterwaiM will meet many of the New York State delegates and members of the Republican State Committee. Followins his appearance hefe. General Wood will return to OJiio and continue his campaign there until the eve of the primary, April 27. Fortv-eight delegates are to be elected In Ohio and the Wood managers expect to capture a dozen or more. Mrs.

Robinson Speaks in Chicago Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, pister of the late Colonel Roosevelt, In an address before a large audience in Chicago Friday night said: "I am supporting General Wood for the Republican nomination for Presi? nt not because he was my brother's friend, but because he is my brother's type. If I were to support my broth? er's friends I would have to include thousands of admirable men of all kinds? Progressives, soldiers, boxers, literary men and scientists. Leonard Wood and my brother had in common characteristics than any other two men I have ever known. Just as I would have supported Theodore 5.

i5 he were alive, I am now supporting General Wood. He is like Roosevelt in character, cour age and common sense and stability in equipment for the he has the experience and the highest type patriotism to a degree that no other man I know has." Mrs. Hepburn Heads Committee Mrs. A. Barton Hepburn yesterday was made chairman for New York of the women's division of the Leonard Wood Campaign Committee.

Miss Juliana Cutting, chairman of the women's division of the department of the East, in making known Mrs. Hepburn's apopintment, also that.among th-e women who will serve with her are Mrs. William Fellowes Mrs. Frances McNeil Bacon and Mrs. Benjamin C.

Porter. Mrs. Florence Howe Hall, a daughter of Julia Ward Howe, came out for Gen? eral Wood Fifteen parlor meetings are planned for this week by the women campaign? Saturday there will be a mass meeting at Carnegie Hall, with Gen? eral Wood as the chief speaker. Mrs. A.

M. Curtis, a famous negro speaker, wiil address a meeting at the Casino, Madison Avenue and 135th Street. She worked with Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, founder of the Women's Re? publican Association, years before women had the vote.

T. Williams, associate editor of "Les? lie's," yesterday sent to Representative at the Wood headquarters, the result of a nation-wide poll that pub? lication has taken, with the following result: General Wood, Senator John i son, Governor Lowden, 204; Sena Y'r Poindexter, 172; Senator Harding. B8; Herbert Hoover, loi; Per? ching. 53; Governor Coolidge, 56: Sen? ator Borah, 68. William A.

Baker, editar of "The Post-Standard," yesterday made the following statement: Statement by Baker "The result of th? primaries in Mich? igan indicate that it is time for a warning to the Republicans. I do not winh to be pessimistic, but the truth is that the results of November elcc Otl arc not a certainty, ag poli? believe. The Democrats are not defeated, by a long Jt incum? bent on the Republicans to put up the strongest man possible. New York is ft crucial state. Its vote will go far in determining the election, and Senator Johnson is the weakest candidate the Republicans could name for New York support, He could not carry New York.

The Kant, doe? not like the style of that seeks to make trouble with England and Mex? ico. New York has not forgotten the defeat of Mr. Hughes by the vote of alifornia, which Wft? due to the action of Senator Nor ha? jt attack upon the Republican party. "That Genera! Wood or Governor Lowden or Senator Harding would eATt'j New York by a large majority 1 have no ifoabt, It Is my btlii-f that! Wood 2s the utongimt man trith tat people and could be elected," Mary Pickford and Her New Hutband I The motion picture actress and Douglas Fairbanks, to whom she was married soon after she had obtained a divorce fom Owen Moore. It is their latest portrait.

The Pickford-Moore divorce pro? ceedings are being scrutinized by the Nevada authorities. Nevada to Question Moore in Attacking Pickford Divorce His Presence in Minden When Papers Were Served Called 'Obvious' by Official Who I Files Collusion Charges Special P.apateh to The Tribune LOS ANGELES. 10. Owen i Moore, former husband of Mrs. Mary Pickford Fairbanks, will be called as a witness in the trial of the action brought by Leonard B.

Fowler, Attor r.ey General of Nevada, to set aside I the Pickford-Moore divorce decree, it 1 was announced to-day. M. Fowler, who has declared that the attack on the decree will be launched in tho courts next week, says that Moore undoubtedly will be questioned as to his reason for being in Minden, New, where he was served with the papers in his wife's suit. The complaint asking that the decree be set aside will allege that the court had no jurisdiction, because Mrs. Moore had no residence in Nevada, and that Moore was brought into Ne i vada as a matter of collusion, Mr.

Fow i 1er says. "I am not prepared to say whether other action will be brought," said I Fowler to-day. "My interest lies in i getting the decree set aside, because the dignity of the State of Nevada is at stake." The action is being prepared by As sistant Attorney General Richards, who conducted the investigation, and will be filed by him next week at Min? den. "Miss Pickford first tried to explain to the court that Moore had come to Nevada to look for a coal mine," Fow? ler said. "Then she changed this to a gold mine.

She explainefl that Moore had first gone to Virginia City, but, failing to find proper accommodations, came to Minden. Was anything ever more obvious? Why should he come to Minden, where there are no gold mines, and why see-k accommodations in that place, when he could find plenty at Reno?" Scotch Seek Independence Resolution Calls for Full Con? trol of Home Affairs GLASGOW, April the aus? pices of the Scottish Home Rule As sociation a meeting was held to-day at which a resolution was adopted asking the government to pass a bill giving to Scotland control of purely Scottish af fairs. The meeting was non-partisan, and speeches were made by Alexander Mac Callum Scott and Neil MacLean, mem bers of the House of Commons for Glasgow. Motor Truck Kills Girl Beulah Rosenblum, nine years'old, of 563 Howard Avenue, was run down and killed by a motor truck yesterday after? noon while crossing Bergen Street at Nostrand Avenue with her father, Da? vid; her mother and her brother, Leon? ard, four year? old. The girl had hold of her father's hand when she was struck.

He received a glancing blow, and his right leg was fractured. His fall knocked over Leonard, who was badly bruised and cut. Mr. Rosenblum was taken to tho Jew? ish Hospital. His wife, who was pros? trated, and her son were attended by the ambulance surgeon and taken home.

Frank (Ihimento, of 4X4 Seventeenth Street, Brooklyn, driver of the truck, was arrested on a technical charge of homicide. Rock Fails Jewel Thief Armin Jlollingcr, a jeweler, of 1210' Third Avenue, sitting at his work? bench with a magnifying glass screwed to his eye late Friday afternoon when a customer entered. He rose. As he did so a huge stone crashed through the plate glass window of his If the jeweler had been sitting at the bench he would have been hit. The window was smashed for the pur? pose of stealing jewelry on dis? play.

After throwing the stone the would-be thief thrust in his hand, but was unable to reach the jewels. He disappeared down Third Avenue. Gems valued at between $10,000 and $50,000 were in the window. Complaint Against Pattern Concerns Here Dismissed WASHINGTON, April 10. Upon its' own motion, the Federal Trade Com? mission to-day dismissed its formal complaint against the Buttcrick Com- Butterick Publishing Company, Publishing Company, Standard Fashion Company, arid the New Idea Pattern Company, all of New York City, containing allegation? of unfair! competition and the use of so-called tying contracts in the manufactura ami of dress patterns.

Dismissal, the commission an- nounccd. wm mad? without prejudice to the right to issue another complaint. I I Mrs. Hoove? Disapproves Candidacy of Husband i She Does Not Want Former Food Administrator to Run for President Special to The Tribune. PHILADELPHIA, April -Mrs.

Iler lert C. Hoover, wife of the former Food Administrator, does not approve of her husband being Presidential i candidate. She said so to-day follow ing a luncheon at Bryn Mawr College, during the annual student conference en vocation. The remark was made af? ter Miss Clarinda Garrison, a member of the senior class and president of the Bryn Mawr Hoover Club, had been introduced to Mrs. Hoover.

i Answering prolonged applause to the raining of Mr. Hoover as the.country's next President, Mrs. Hoover declared that she was "not in favor of Hoover clubs, since I do not approve, of my husband running for the Presidency." Mrs. Hoover was the guest at lunch con of Mrs. Charles Rhoades, wife of one of Clio Bryn Mawr trustees.

Speak i ing at the luncheon, Mrs. Hoover urged the increase of teachers' salaries. Bryn Mawr is seeking a $2,000.000 endow nient for this purpose. "Every working man today," she said, in what was considered luxury some years ago. If the laborer is worthy of his hire, surely the teach? er is worthy of her hire." Geddes Leaves London For Post in America Anihassador Davis and Bonar Law A Those to Bid Sir Auckland Farewell LONDON, April Auckland Geddes, the new British Ambassador to" the United States, departed to-day for Liverpool, where he will board a liner for his voyage to America.

There was a large gathering at the Suston station to see him off, among the number being Ambassador John W. Davis and Mrs. Davis and Andrew Bonar Law. In a message to the press. Sir Auck- land told of his appreciation of the manner in which the British press had helped him since his appointment.

"The press," he said, "is one of the i most important, perhaps the most im portant, engines whereby mutual re I spect and understanding between the British and American people can be maintained and developed, and whereby their relations can be kept free from misconception. In the admirable tone of the British press I see every indi cation that I may regard it as a power i ful ally in my efforts to promote inter national understanding." Schroeder. Record Doubted "Aviation" Declares 36,020 Feet an Overestimate The altitude record of 86,020 feet established by Major R. W. Schroeder at Dayton, Ohio, is challenged in the current issue of "Aviation." In the 1 article it is stated that when proper al? lowances have been made for temper ature corrections in the recording in? struments it will be found that Major Schroeder's'achievement will stand at just over feet.

It is stated in the same article that the record established by Roland Rohlfs last year at was re? duced about 2,000 feet after the read? ings the instruments had been cor? rected. The article then enters into a techni? cal discussion to prove its contention, although it is stated there is no inten? tion to discredit the performance of Major Schroeder. It concludes by stating that the latter did not eclipso the record established by Roland Rohlfs, which, still stands as a world's record at slightly more feet. British Soldier Detained Held Because He Is Listed as Third-Glass Passenger Sergeant David H. Emery, of the British Army Medical Corns, a native born American citizen, was transferred to Ellis Island for examination yes? terday when he arrived at this port on the Royal George, of the Cunard Line.

Sergeant Emery protested against this procedure and said he would bring chargea against the immigration of? ficials. ThcMcrgeant was taken to the immi gratioWkstation because- he was listed as third class passenger. An agree? ment between the United States and British governments provides that all third class" passengers are subject to examination. Sergeant Emery served in Mesopotamia and Gallipoli, being recommended for a D. S.

0, for vnlor during the lighting at the last-named ph.ee. Dr. A. Do GraefT, Dutch Ambassador Japan, his wife and thron daughters, were passengers on tho1 Royal George, They will loavo for ban Francisco to? day, whene? they will sill for Tokio. Johnson Men I To Make Fight For Maryland New Jersey, Indiana and Nebraska Also Believeil To Be Susceptible tc His Radical Campaign Strike May Be a Factor Reaction Feared as of Prolonged Tie-Up an? Its Resultant Hardship! By Carter Field The Tribune's Waxhingtort Bureall WASHINGTON, April tive Maryland, which only go-s Re publican when the Democrats put up man the old line Democrats regard a Socialist, is to be invaded by Hiran Johnson.

Maryland politicians of both partie have been trying to avoid any primary and so far they have managed keep the candidates out. But at a meet ing hen; to-day of Johnson supporter it was decided to enter the Californi; Senator's name. Senator Joseph France, of Maryland, is not only ver; radical, but fought with Johnson kill the peace treaty, and also to repen all the war legislation. Senators Norris, of Nebraska; Ken yon, of Iowa; McNary, of an Borah, of Idaho, decided on a tentativ speaking schedule in behalf of John son. Norris and Kenyon will iro Nebraska, where the primary is schetl uled April 20.

The others will help i I Maryland, New Jersey and Indian; New Jersey's primary is April 2' Maryland's May 3 and Indiana's May The four states have ninety delegate; Railroad Strike a Factor The Johnson managers believe the win in all these states. Nebrask is more or less radical in its tfnder cies. Senator Norris still is stron with the people of his sty.te. The onl thing, it is believed here, that will sto Johnson in Nebraska is for the preser numerous railroad strikes to sprea? The trend now is to radicalism, but few more days of unauthorized strike with their resultant disorganization shipping, which are bringing hardship on the general public, may brihg a action in the opposite direction. In Indiana General Wood still leac all of the other candidates, but a Johi son victory in Nebraska would be big asset for the Californian in lud ana.

New Jersey, wiiich votes April 27, I being claimed by the Wood people, bi reports coming to the national capit; show that it is anyobdy's fight, lTi less there is a reaction against radica ism, chances would seem to fav? Johnson. The industrial vote in Ne Jersey is very large. Senators Frelini huysen and Edge, who are candidat? for delegates-at-large, have told the that anything is likely happen. The fact is tho Johnson stock going uii so fast that it has got old line Republican politicians worrie They are anxious to have Johnson he them sidetrack General Wood, when that task is done they want bo through with Johnson. The puzzler now is how arc they going let go.

McNary's Action a Surprise In getting into the Johnson campait Senator McNary, of Oregon, mildest the "mild" rescrvationists in the trea fight, caused some surprise. He co skiers domestic issues of more portance than the treaty, and is willii i to support Johnson ever, though latter is demanding that the Versaill Treaty never be ratified, either with without reservations. The Johnson people are out to 200 delegates from the primary ele tion states. Johnson already has Mic igan's thirty votes, two from Minneso and ten from North Dakota, and it understood that La Follette is ve likely to turn Wisconsin's delegati of twenty-six over to Johnson after is given a complimentary vote. Th Johnson hopes for the ninety delegat of Nebraska, Indiana, New Jersey a Maryland.

In the West Johnson pects to get California's tWenty-s delegates, ten from Oregon and eig from Idaho. The last are chosen convention. Radical Party Considered Johnson will not need this number delegates to make the politicians sorts of trouble in Chicago. If Job son goes on winning with the radie votes he will be a power in the conve tion. There is much talk here now a radical party, with Johnson as candidate.

Recognizing the radical trend throug out thu country, the co vention, it is suggested, if it decid to turn Johnson down, will try select a candidate he will support ai give him a voice in writing the pin form. The Johnson campaign lias disclos a trend toward radicalism that is surprise to Washington. Early in year conservatism seemed to be rule. The explanation made here this change in sentiment is that Department of Justice blundered in i war on the "Reds" and Congre frightened the country vby trying pass drastic sedition legislation. Johnson Is Confident Of Carrying New Jersey Talks of Outlook Before Leav? ing for Nebraska; Ping Bodie and Senator Meet Senator Hiram W.

Johnson, before leaving town yesterday for Nebraska, where he is to make campaign speeches for himself, said he was sat irfied with his prospects in New Jer? sey and that the Johnson men will conduct a live'y campaign there for the preferential vote. "I am as supremely satisfied with' the situation in New Jersey as I was with the situation in Michigan," he naid. "If anything, there has been enthusiasm in New. Jersey than there was in Senator William Kenyon. of Iowa; Senator of Idaho; Rep? resentative D.

Schall. of Minnesota; Representative John T. Nolan, of California, and Magistrate T. McAtco, of San Francisco, will make addresses in New Jersey in the interest rf Senator Johnson within the next, few weeks. Ping Bodie.

tho Yankee outfielder, I got well acquainted with Senator Johnron in California, was one of the shouters at the" meeting in St. Mary's Hall in Hoboken on Friday night. Bodie was with him. After the speafc over the Bodies were among those who crowded to greet the Sena? tor. Ping worked through the jam and shook hands, hut his wife was six lines back.

Ping was strong for wom? an's and gradually worked Mrs. Bodie closer to the Senator. Finally he reached over the shoulders of two men, and, tapping the California Sen? ator en the shoulder, said: "Hey, II i rani! I want you to meet the wife." The Senator did most graciously. Then a mutual friend said to Ping: Say, Ping, you'd better lay off on that 'Hey, stuif. He's a Senator, you know." "Lay off retorted Ping.

"Didn't he call me Ping?" 7 Mexican Bandits Slain; 118 Are Reported Hanged Wholesale Execution of Raiders I Takes Piare as Towns? people Look On AGUA PRIETA, Sonora, of a wholesale exe-I cution of bandits at Nuevo Minos, in central Sonora, yesterday were brought hero to-day by Roberto Carrillo, chief of Carranza's secret service. He said a company of federal cavalry had trapped a band of twenty-five bandits in the Canon Diablo, just south of Nuevo Minos. According to advices, Carrillo said, a pitched battle ensued, which lasted about six hours, during which seven bandits were killed, the others surrendering on the condition that they; be extended immunity. The eighteen prisoners were taken; into Nuevo Minos, given trial and sen-i fenced to be hanged. Before sundown a platform and scaffold had been built i in the public square of Nuevo Minos, i The military commander then ordered' the bandits executed in the presence of the residents of the little town.

About three weeks ago the raiders looted Nuevo Minos and murdered several of the citizens. France to Speed Budget Chamber to Begin Debate on Bill To-morrow PARIS, April 10. -Debate on the bud- get. by which it is intended to raise i 8.500,000,000 francs, will begin in the Chamber of Deputies on Monday. Morning and afternoon sessions' will be held with a view to expedite the measure so that it may reach the Sen- ate in the shortest possible time.

From the income tax it is expected be received; capital! changing hands inheritance or! gift will he called upon to furnish alcohol and high priced wines will add and new taxes on gasoline and electricity, it! is estimated, will turn 1150,000,000 into I the treasury. Finally, a tax of 1 per cent'will be levied on all sales, which is increased to 10 per cent on luxuries, and this will yield 5,000,000,000 francs, it is be- Social Democratic League Opposes Recognition of The National Executive Committee of the Social Democratic League, meeting at the McAlpin yesterday, went on record as strongly opposing any recog? nition of the Russian Bolshevik gov? ernment. At the session were Charles Edward Russell, president of the league; Edward M. Weston, of Chicago; Pro- fessor Josiah Moss, of South Carolina; i Jesse C. Drake, of Virginia; James Lord, head of the Mining A.

F. of James Mackay, of Boston, and Professor W. B. Montague, of Co- i lumbia University. Britain to Trade With Russia, Forecast as Conference Ends COPENHAGEN, April is of- ficially announced that the British i delegation has concluded its negoti- ations with the Russian soviet repre? sentatives respecting trading relations between Great Britain and Russia.

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l'OK I HOOKM5T. N. Y. Delegation Without Strings Koenig Asserts County President Believes Meinfoei's Will Seek Senti? ment of Chicago's Gather? ing Before They Decide Wood Is Strong Upstate Western and Northern Parts' Report Formidable Move? ment in Soldiers Aid Samuel S. Koenig, president of the County Committee, said yes? terday at the National Republican Club, that the delegate situation, so far as the New York contingent is con? cerned, is nebulous and that few of the 'members will indicate their choice for the nomination until they reach Chi? cago the firet week in June.

"I believe the New York delegates will wish to confer with those of other states before they make up their minds," said Mr. Koenig. "After we have been there for two or three days, doubtless a meeting will be called and there will be something doing. 1 ex? pect that Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler wiU get a flattering vote from among the Nerw York delegates, but as foi myself, I shall go there with the idea that it is the first duty of a delegate to cotnsider the needs of the country and the party as a whole rather than personalities.

We certainly need to choose a candidate who can win." Hefner, of Erie, Without Choice Frederick Greiner, the veteran Re-1 publican leader of Erie County, also at the club, when asked about his can- didate for President, said: I "I hawen't any choice. I am not a I to the convention. I thought I would let the younger men have a chance. Roosevelt wore alive he I would bo the candidate, and there I would be no question about his nomi? nation and election. In and around I Buffalo tlnare is rather more talk about General Wood than about an other can- didate.

I that the delegates will feel the next President must be a man.oi* sound common sense and with busincsss capacity. The country needs business reconstruction. There will be no about electing a Re publican President if the delegates pick out the sight sort of candidate." Assemblymain H. Edmund Maehold, chairman of the Ways and Means Com? mittee, and in'touch with affairs in the northern part of the state, said that the Wood people are more active than any one else in Watertown and other, in the Northern Tier. "The Wood admirers have a strong! organization in Watertown, and reem to be working all "around the northern part of the state," said Mr.

Maehold. Gen. Wood's Admirers Confident The supporters of General Wood think that he will get from fifty to sixty New York votes on the second ballot. Both Governor Lowden and Senator Harding are expected to figure in the York delegate distribution i after the first ballot. It is generally understood among New York Kepubli- cans that former Senator William J.

TuHy, of Corning New York City, arid former Representative John Dwight of Dryden, delegates the Stetiben- Chemung-Tompkins district, will vote for Governor Lowden, and former Gov erruor Charles S. Whitman also is re- I garded as a Lowden man. William Barnes and Senator Henry M. of Albany, and ex-Senator, Elon R. Brown, of Watertown, are I classed as Harding men, with Lowden as secomd choice.

The Wood men count on the major portion of the delegates frorn the greater the two Long Island dis I tricts, and all of the northern tier dele gates, with the possible exception of ex-Senator Brown. The friends of Charles E. Hughes, who made the race four years ago, cherish the hope that on the fourth or fifth ballot, if the convention shows signs of becoming deadlocked, there will be a successful drive made for him. Yesterday they called attention to the defeat of Cleveland the second time he ran and his election four years after? ward, as showing that a reverse does not necessarily disqualify a candidate from being chosen again. Smoke From $500 Blaze Overcomes 30 Firemen Two Hundred and Fiftv Motor Trucks Lost in $500,000 Brooklyn Fire Thirty firemen were overcome by smoke early yesterday morning in a i fire which caused about $500 damage in the basement of the Consolidated Stock Exchange.

Insulation on the wires leading to stock tickers was afire and made a most offensive smudge. After receiving attention tho firemen were able to resume the fight. and Patrick Dourling. electri? cians, were severely burned by tho ex plosion of a gasolene tank in the Mar ket Garage. 176 Waverly Avenue, Brooklyn.

Two hundred and fifty motor trucks were consumed in the garage fire which was one of the most stubborn Brooklyn firemen have met for years and necessitated four alarms. The Dourling'brothers are members of the Brooklyn Edison Company emergency crew and were withdrawing fuses from a switch box in the cellar of the building when the explosion came. They probably would have been burned to death but for Fireman Au? gust. Zeeler, of Hook and Ladder Com? pany 102, who carried them to the street. They were taken to Cumber lard Street Hospital.

Sailors from the hospital ship Mercy helped subdue the lire, which was across the street from the Flushing Avenue naval barracks. The damage was estimated at $500,000. Saks Co. Lease New Site on Fifth Avenue $35,000,000 Aggregate Rental Involved in Deal for 49th Street Corner Farthest north in Fifth Avenue de? partment stores was attained yester? day when Saks Co. obtained a 105 year lease on the block front between Forty-ninth and Fiftieth streets, on the east side of the avenue, except for the property occupied by the Democratic Club.

The aggregate rental will be $35,000,000, making it one of the most: valuable leases or the kind ever exe? cuted in this city. A building eight or ninq stories in height, providing floor space" twice as expensive as that in the present Saks i Co. store, will be put up, hemming in the Democratic Club on three sides. The new store will have a frontage of 160 feet on Fifth Avenue, 208 feet op. Fifetieth Street and 200 feet on Forty ninth Street.

Work is to start in Octo- ber, 1922, and the building is to be i completed in 1924. The Buckingham Hotel now stands at the Fiftieth Street corner, next to the Democratic Club. The Forty-ninth Street corner is occupied by the Bel gravia. Negotiations for the lease were conducted by Eiisria SnilTen and Henry Mandel, as brokers for Saks and Stephen H. Tyng, on behalf of the George Kemp Realty Company, the lessor.

Norwalk Gains 3,346 WASHINGTON, April tion statistics announced to-day by the Census Bureau included: Corning, N. 15,820, an of 2,090, or 15.2 per cent over 1910. N'orwolk, 27,557, increase 3,346, or 13.8 per cent. White House Silent I On Reports Wilson Has Had a Abandonment of His Daily Motor Trip and Failure to Hold Cabinet Meeting Responsible for Rumors From Tfto Washington tivreau WASHINGTON, April insistent rumors last week that Prosi I dent Wilson had suffered a relapse and i had been compelled to forego his daily motor trips because of his physical condition, no official statement was forthcoming from the White House to i day to correct the impression that the President's condition is again such as I to warrant the assertion that he "is a very sick man." When the attention of Dr. t'ary Grayson was called to the current re I ports he steadfastly adhered to i icy of declining to pay any attention to rumors.

Other White House how ever, said the President takes his daily "outing" on the south lawn of the White House grounds an 1 apparently is gradually improving. Dr. Grayson'? Position Dr. Grayson is undcrsh od to take the position that a public statement giving the real condition of the President's health will not stop the rumors that frequently crop out. He has told close friends that there was no significance to the abandonment of the motor trips about the capital, and that in his opin? ion the President was in better condi? tion at the present time than at anV period since the beginning of illness.

The President was said to he well and that so long as improvement was noted Dr. Grayson was not dis? posed to make any change in the daily routine. It was suggested to-day that the few motor trips taken by Mr. Wilson in March had resulted in satisfying the natural curiosity of the President, who has been anxious to permit vision to roam beyond the of the White House grounds. The recupera? tive value of the trips, it was said, was not such as to warrant daily excursions in the White House car.

The fact that, no Cabinet meetings have been held since the resignation of Secretary of State Lansing in Feb? ruary and that the President has seea none of his official family for more than two months has increased the gossip that the President's condition was such that he has been physically unable to perform the duties of his of? fice. In Touch With Affairs Offsetting this viewpoint, White House declare that govern? ment affairs were progressing in such good order that Cabinet (huassions of affairs were unnecessary. It was said that the President con? tinues to be constantly advised on all questions and to direct the policy to be followed in important matt? rs. The recent nominations of members of the American diplomatic corps were cited as instnees of the President giving persona! attention to official atters. The failure of the President to ap? point the Labor Hoard created by the railroad bill was said to In? unavoida? ble because of the difficulty experi? enced in selecting the three members to represent the public.

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