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New-York tribune., 1920-03-07
Alfred J. Talley Slated
To Succeed Justice Dugro
Governor Said to Have Decided
toeAppoint Chief Assistant
Disfrict AttOrnev

Governor Smith will appoint Alfred
]. Talley, Chief Assistant District At
torney, as Supreme Court Justice to fill
the vacancy caused by the death Of
Justice Dugro, It was rumored at the
Criminal Courts Building yesterday.
Mr.. Talley, it was learned. had con-
santed to become a candidate for Su-
preme Court justiceship at the election
next November, and his candidacy was
to have been announced shortly. He
admitted this, but was silent on the
matter Of the Governors appointment.
Mr.. Talley will be supported both as
the Governors appointee and as a can
didate at the elections by Justices Of
the Supreme Court and the Appellate
Division and judges Of the Court Of
General Sessions. He also will have
the Endorsement Of tho Bar Association
and New York Lawyers Association.
Mr.. Talley, who Is forty-two years
old, was admitted to the bar twenty
two years ago. He was Civil Service
Commissioner in 1908. He figured in
the charities controversy during the
administration Of the late Mayor
Mitchell, and made public the wire
tapping charges, which resulted in in
dictments.
He is counsel to the Knights of Co.
lumbus in New York and Typographical
Union No. 6. Formerly he was coun-
sci for the New York Civil Service So
ciety. Fort twenty years he has been
on the Tammany Hall law committee,
He has been on Mr.. Swann's staff for
four years.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07

was So per cent, and in the cost Of
living a7b2 per cent, but the period
started with the railroad wages al
ready nearly ii per cent behind the
cost Of living.
In this period about 10 per cent of
all railroad workers have fallen further
behind the cost Of living In their earn
ings. This includes the higher grades
OF workmen. the engineers, conductors.
machinfsts. boilermakers and most Of
ficials. There are $4,000 men in this
class.
It may fairly be assumed, however,
that unless the government has raised
Q railroad mans wages so per cent dur
Ing those twenty months, his earnings
are still not quite equal In purchasing
power to those of 1914. There are about
as per cent of the men In this class, q
total Of 826,878. This class Includes,
in general. most Of the other better
grade men outside the shops--brako-
men, agents. firemen. clerks, etc.
Increase Of 60, per cent or moro since
cally all cases. Nearly million mon
have had this. Most of the shop men,
skilled laborers Of all kinds, section
men and practically all of the unskilled
men come In here. Because Of the
great number Of low paid men, men
under $500 a month, in this class, the
cost Of these increases is not in pro-
portion to the number Of men benefited
Similarly, the cost of bringing the
more skillful men, who have not gained
so much. UP to this level, will be fal
greater than their numbers would in
dicate. Since. in general, the differ
ence between the pay of skilled and un-
skilled work has been lessened in the
last few years, it is improbable that
the old relationship ever will be rcgs-
tablished wholly.
The neat article ioill deal with the mr-
rest In the railroad unions and the
causes Of the troubles
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07

1919, show that the percentages Of in
creased pay were as follows: Boiler.
makers, s4.ey carpenters, 6o.4s linotype
operators, 40.S; plumbers, 43.6; ma
chinists, 89.8; structural ir0nworkers,
4S.7. The average for the six trades
was 5s.8 per cent. Compared to this
is the railroad mans average increase
in scale Of pay Of 1898 per cent. The
railroad man seems to have the best
Of the comparison.
Show Minimum Earnings
But the union scales do not show
actual earnings, only tho minimum,
Actual earnings were considerably
higher, both because many mon con-
stantly are paid beyond the minimum
there was much highly paid overtime.
actual earnings, but the National In
dustrial Conference Board, which has
a reputation for accurate statistics, In
vestigated the earnings in eight lines
Of business last year. Their figures go
only to March !, 1919. and so do not
compare accurately with those given
above. Wages were rising all last year.
These statistics show increased
earnings, as distinguished from wage
scale, as follows: Metal manufacturing
trades, Ill per cent; cotton goods,
80; wooden goods, 80; silk, 50; paper,
rs; boot and shoe, 76; rubber goods,
10, and chemicals, 1o4. The average
is 80 per cent. In comparison with
this is the average increase in railroad
earnings OF 1915 per cent. So that in
actual earnings the railrahd man fell
behind those in other industries during
the war period.
In other words, the average railroad
bonuses and overtime Of the war rush
as did outside workers, but he has put
his wage scale on higher plane than
the others have, and so will be con-
stantly improving his relative position
as the overtime stops and earnings
drop down to the same level as the
wage scale.
In that process there shortly will
come time when the railroad man will
be ahead Of those in other lines. In
| fact, the conference board figures show
that this already had begun to take
place last spring, for the average earn
ings were 3.4 per cent less in March
than they had been in the previous
| September.
Rail Wages Fall Behind
When the general average Of rail-
road wages is split up into the actual
/ earnings of the different classes of
men, however, there is different
story. For this purpose figures are
available only from December, 1917, to
July, 1919, and comparisons cannot be
taken back to 1914.
For this twenty months period the
average increase in railroad wages
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07
Newberry Manager
Describes Efforts
To File Expenses
King Says Subordinates
Worked Strenuously to
Have Report Ready on
Time, But Failed at Task

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, March g.
Why the Blair report Of the Newberry
Senatorial primary campaign receipts
and expenses was incomplete was dis
cussed on the witness stand to-day In
the elections conspiracy trial by Paul
King, campaign manager. He told Of
the orders he had given that every out
standing obligation Of the committee
be included In the document filed with
the state September 6, 1918, and then
Of the strenuous but futile efforts Of
his subordinates to meet that order.
"The morning Of September 8 when
I reached the Office found the report
still incomplete" said King. "B. Frank
Emery had been told to get it up and
F. was informed that he had worked
all tho preceding night, finally fainting
from exhaustion at o'clock in the
morning and being sent home in a
taxicab.
"1 then took hold Of the situation and
state. Hannibal Hopkins, director of
publicity, had been writing, telegraph
ing and telephoning Tor bills for news
paper advertising. and we thought we
had them all. We did the very best
we could with the report and made an
honest effort to have it complete.
"When Frank w. Blair, treasurer of
the committee, came to sign the report,
| told him I thought it was complete.
He then attached his signature to the
affidavit"
King said he did not know just when
additional claims began to arrive. He
said he went on a vacation the next
day. Then he was called to New York
for nearly two weeks and was able to
give no further attention to Newberry's
political interests until about Octo-
ber 49,
King also related that Samuel Odell,
former State Treasurer. first suggested
that James W. Helme be run in the
Democratic primary to keep the mass
Of organization Democrats from voting
for Henry Ford in the Republican pri-
mary. This relation restored to the
record testimony technically wiped out
when Odell was freed from the con-
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07
Traffic on 9th Ave.
Blocked by Flood
When Main Breaks
Section Near Bryant Park
Inundated; Pedestrians
and Vehicles Retreat;
Three Blocks Cut Off

A geyser, spouting as high as the
IL" structure from broken 20-inch
water main at Fortieth Street and Sixth
Avenue, last night flooded the Bryant
Park section, halted trolley cars, drove
pedestrians and vehicles to hasty re-
treat and marooned three square blocka
in the heart Of the city.
1t was shortly before o'clock that
tho column Of water, breaking through
the pavement, threw into panic hun
dreds of pedestrians. They went sour
ryipg in all directions. Police reserves
from the West Thirtieth Street station
roped off the area bounded by Sixth
and Seventh avenues and Fortieth and
Thirty-seventh streets.
The water flowed south in Sixth Ave-
nue. and west in Fortieth, Thirty-ninth
and Thirty-eighth streets, rising curb
high. The Sixth Avenue surface cars
had to suspend operation through the
flooded district.
Many. cellars, including that Of the
Beaux Arts Hotel, were flooded. Three
men being shaved in basement shop
at lay West Fortieth Street, their faces
stlli lathered, rushed with the BARRIERS
to the sidewalk when they found the
place suddenly deluged. Much of the
water found an outlet in the B. R. r
subway stairs at Fortieth Street and
Broadway, but the underground train
service was not stopped
Inc freezing temperature caused a
heavy sheet of ice to form over most
OF the flooded territory, and walking
was hazardous.
1t was nearly 8 o'clock before an
emergency crew from the Water De-
partment repaired the break.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07
New York Leads i'm Autos
57l,662 Cars and 1862
Chauffeurs REGISTERED

ALBANY, March 6.-New York State
registered 571.662 motor vehicles in
1919. and leads all states in the coun-
Try in the number of its cars, Secre-
tary of State Francis M. Hugo reported
to-day. in announcing that the states
automobile receipts for the year ap-
proximated $8,000,OOO.
There were 10000 more cars regis
tered in 1919 than in 1918. Mr., Hugo
said, and the state has an automobile
for every sixteen residents.
There are 1852 chauffeurs and
according to the report
1881 automobile dealers in the state.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07

man who stole the taxicab drove ia.
the creek purposely and leaped 10 sly w
ty before the car left the road.
It il believed now that the ser....
which the watchman in . lumber ',s vs,s
heard early Tuesday did not prseesS
from the yellow taxicab. but from ~.
other car whose OCCUPANTS found
themselves poised unexpectedly On s shs
succeeded In turning around and -. @
ting out Of the Academy Street chi fsss A.
sac.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07
Taxi Taken from Creek Turned
Over to Owners, No Fatalities

The harbor police returned 70 It's
owner yesterday the taxicab they raised
from Sherman Greek, at Academy
Street, and declared that the incident
was closed. Careful graphing Of the
creek bottom convinced the police no
lives were lost when the car plunged in
on Tuesday morning. They believe the
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07
Storm DELAYS General Wood

MANCHESTER, N. H., March 6.-On
account Of the storm. plans for the
reception Of Major General Leonard
Wood, who was on his way here to
present French memorial certificates
to the next Of kin of men who died in
the service, were abandoned to-day.
It was understood the general was de-
layed between New York and New
Haven.
New-York tribune., 1920-03-07

spiracy Indictment by court action On
March 3.
King said he had almost nothing 70
do with financing the Newberry cam
paign, relating that whom the FIRST pro-
posal to manage it was made to him he
was told that business friends and as
sistants Of Truman H. Newberry would
furnish the funds. He got one check
&or $1,000, but took the donor to see
Treasurer Blair and handled no other
contributions.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-03
Countess Markievicz
Tried for Conspiracy

DUBLIN, Dec. 2-At the royal bar
racks today the Countess Georgiana
Markievicz. Member of Parliament for
the St. Patrick's Division of Dublin
City, who was arrested two months
ago, was tried by court martial on a
charge Of conspiring between January,
1918. and September, 1920, to organize
"Fianna Eireann," otherwise known
as Sim Fem Boy Scouts.
This organization has been charged
with conspiracy to murder military
police, with unlawful drilling, the
carrying of arms, furnishing recruits
20 the Irish volunteers and generally
promoting disatFection.
The countess looked extremely i'll to-
day. Newspaper photographers who
took snapshots OF the countess were
held by the military escort, who con-
tiscated the Photographic plates. The
news paper men were searched when they
entered the barracks where the countess
is being detained.
The countess to-day refused to rec
ognize the court, and the session was
occupied with the examination of wit
nesses for the prosecution.
Dealing with the law Of conspiracy,
counsel for the crown quoted state
ments which he said had been made by
the accused on her arrest. The pro
ceedings we're enlivened by the countess
acting as interpreter for counsel, who
frequently stumbled over the pronun-
citation of Irish rames in the transla-
tlon Of documents he was reading
New-York tribune., 1920-12-03
Mrs. MacSwinev to
Get Big Reception
On Arrival To-day
Customs Officials Guard
Against Annoyance to the
Widow of Cork's Mayor;
Police Boat to Meet Shin

Mrs. Muriel MacSwiney, widow Of the
Lord Mayor Of Cork. who died recently
OF self-imposcd starvation, will arrive
here to-day on the White Star liner
Celtic from Liverpool and Queenstown.
me ship is expected to dock about
$3.50 p. III.
With desire to protect her from anv
unpleasant annoyance, Collector Byron
h. Newton has arranged to have her
baggage examined aboard the vessel as
soon as 1t comes into Quarantine.
Mrs. MacSwiney," he said, will he
given every privilege and protection
that the customs could accord to any
other woman coming into this port under
similar circumstances
nave arranged to have customs Of
tcers meet her on board the Celtic at
quarantine, and they win examine her
baggage on the ship, so that she may
leave the pier without delay.
Il have issued baggage inclosure
passes to committee, who may meet
her at the pier the instant she lands.
and this committee can escort her TO
whatever place they may desire. These
arrangements VIII protect her as much
as possible from any demonstration of
the crowd"
Arrangements have been made TO
give Mrs. MacSwiney a big demonstra-
ton on her arrival at the White Star
pier. A committee will 60 down the
nay at q. m on the police boat John
t. Hylan. 1t is said an effort will be
made to transfer the Irish visitor from
the Celtic to the police boat and land
her al the Battery.
On arrival Mrs. MacSwiney will be
driven to the Hotel Walcott, where she
viii hold an informal reception for
those who are in sympathy with her
and the Sim Fcin cause.
Pier passes have been granted to
Mrs. Harold Garrison Wizard, Mrs. AL
fred h. Smith, Mrs John +. Hylsn. Mrs.
James Walsh and Mrs. Rossa Downing
Among those who have received in
vltatlons TO greet the widow Of the late
Lord Mayor of Cork are Mrs. John
Winters Brennan, Mrs. Carl Van Doren.
Mrs. Murray F. Hubert, Miss Nora
Power. Mrs. Brandon lyman, Mrs. J. &.
Hickey and Mrs. Edward L. Doheny.
hungarian organizations which will
60 down the bay TO welcome Mrs. Mac
Swlney VIII carry with them d Hunga-
ran flag which Louis Kossuth brought
10 this country in 1851. AS the United
States is technically at war with
Hungary, the flag viii not be unfurled.
however The societies having it in
charge are the New York Hungarian
Social and Benefit Ladies' Society, the
New York Hungarian Ladies' AID So
ciey. the New York HIem Ladies
beNeht Society and the New York
Protestant T9iier' SOcie+,,
New-York tribune., 1920-12-03
Z 'arrners' Ills
Seen as Grave
Danger to U. S,
Congressional Committee
Hears How Nonpartisans
Are Taking Advantage of
the Situation in Nebraska
Plea for Relief Is Made
Political Upheaval Likely
Unless Government Votes
Early Aid, Witness Saws

from The Trf6ur>'s Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2-Tightened
credits, market slumps and unsympa-
tnetlc government officials afford pow
erful ammunition for the Nonpartisan
League IN its campaign to control
farmers Of the country, ]. A. shrovey.
secretary of the Nebraska Farmers
Union, declared to-day before the Joint
meeting Of the Senate and House Com
mlttees on Agriculture. which began
considering relief measures.
Unless the short session Of Con-
sreso does something at once to helm
the farmer and the Republican Admin
istration follows with a constructive
program, Shroyer predicted political
upheaval in the country. The witness
is dirt farmer. He opposes the doc
trlnes of the Nonpartisan League and
IS fighting organizers now at work in
Nebraska.
Due to AL the economic ills from
which the Nebraska farmer is suffer
ing, despite the best crops in the his
tory Of the state, the Nonpartisa n
League is max ns headway, Shroyer
said. The situation in Nebrasks is only
typical OF that in other states, he as
serted
Nonpartisan League organizers were
referred to by Shroyer RS Bolsheviki.
The league. he said. has sixty auto
mobiles, with two organizers IN each
canvassing Nebraska for new mem nbe rs
at $1S each.
"a few days ago ! was in Custer
County, Shroyer said, "and wheat sold
there that day for Sll5 bushel. | re-
marked to man on the sidewalk that
1t was pity the price OF 'vheat had
dropped SO low.
"'Pjty nothing, he replied. Let 'er
go. The further down the better. 1t
will be that much easier for US TO get
members.'"
The witness explained to the COM
mittec that the man turned out TO be
an organizer for the Nonpartisan
League. He was gloating over the mis-
fortunes of the farmer, and was prom
ising for SIS to bring about relief. and
doing a thriving business.
Farmers Voted fer Harding
Senators, there is real danger un-
less the farmers Of this country get re-
lief from this situation,' Shroyer said.
Il am one Of more than million Demo-
cratic farmers who voted for Senator
Harding with the hope OF getting fair
treatment We turned over this time
Two years from now we c>n turn again
if we don't get sympathetic treatment" !"
The witness emphasized strongly
that organized farmers OF the country
are going to insist to their utmost that
President-el elect Harding appoint a real
dirt farmer AS Secretary Of Agriculture
In addition to dirt farmer Secre-
tary cf Agriculture in the next Admin
New-York tribune., 1920-12-03

istration, Shroyer said the farmers
want these remedies applied.
Extended and equal credit
The immediate opening OF foreign
markets.
olishment of dealing in future. as
provided by the Capper bill.
Placing of tariff on farm products.
Staoilization of markets.
Eugene Meyer jr., former director OF
the War Finance Corporation. told the
committee the corporation. if revived.
could do much toward opening up for
eign markets for our surpluses. The
opposition Of Secretary OF the Treasury
Houston is the chief obstacle. he said.
Two bankers. one in New York, the
other in St: Louis. are the only per-
sons outside Of the Secretary that
Meyer had heard object to a restora-
tion of the corporation
Secretary Houston has been asked 10
appear tomorrow and give his version
OF what will happen if the corporation
ia revived
New-York tribune., 1920-12-03

madam liquor license Inspector. who
shot and killed Beverly Trumble, inn
proprietor, in a raid on the latter's
hotel, was to-day bound TO the Cour.
Of Assizes on a charge of killing and
Staying.
The magistrate Of the Windsor police
court refused to admit Spracklin to
bail. declaring he had no jurisdiction.
Spracklin was taken TO the county jail
at Sandwich pending arrangement as to
bail.
4 request was made today By Mrs.
Trumble, wife OF the slain man, that
special crown prosecutor be named
for Spracklin's trial. Spracklin con
tends he Shot Trumble in self defense.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-03
Both Sides
Lean Toward
Irish Truce
CONTINUED from paes ons)

NNV"""uco iTeh pRse ono)
will not be allowed in the Liverpool
area, according to The Evening Stand
ard. The Home Office and military are
responsible for the prohibition. Of
ficials Of the Home Office, however re-
fuse 20 say anything concerning the
archbishop.
Uniformed men visited Killarney.
ireland, this morning and indiscrin-
lnately smashed nearly all the windows
in the business section of the citv.
Damage estimated at several thousand
pounds was done with small hammers
an and stones. says Cork dispatch to
Ihe Evening News.
The crime, it is said, appears to have
been conceived in mere mania for
obstruction, as the property attacked
belonged 10 people of most conflicting
political vewS and OF differing re.
hgious denominations.
GLASGOW, Scotland. Dec 2.-The
police arrested six persons of Irish ma
tionality here to-day, three of them
women, on charges Of reasonable con-
spiracy.
1t is stated that gelignite, yunpow-
der, guncotton, detonators, hand gre
nades, revolvers and cartridges. as we'll
as Sim Fein literature, were found in
their houses.
DUBLIN, Dec. 2.-It is officially said
that notices will be served by the
Dublin & Southeastern Railway next
week terminating the services Of it's
remaining employees. These number
1000
This action, which will mean the
closing down OF the operation of the
railway. is due to the repeated refusal
of sne trainmen to carry troops.
The Eng g-ish Labor commission to-
day visited Balbriggan and took evi-
dence concerning the recent destruc-
tion wrought there
Arthur Henderson and William c.
Adamson conferred here with the Arch
bishop OF Dublin with reference to
conference with the Catholic hierarchy
III an attempt to obtain cessation OF
violence and reprisals. 1t was inoi-
Gated that the hierarchy was sympa-
thetlc with any such effort
MIR. Henderson and Mr., Adamson also
interviewed Arthur Griffith, founder of
Che Sim Fein, who is in Mount Joy
Prison
New-York tribune., 1920-12-03
S6O,OOO,OOO Loans
To Farmers Proposed

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.-1m-
mediate loans Of s60,o00,0o0 from
government funds to aid farmers
in the face Of falling prices of
their products is proposed by
Senator Hitchcock, Democrat, of
Nebraska, in a bill drawn to-day
after conference with Governor
Harding of the Federal Reserve
Board. Senator Hitchcock plans
to present the measure when Con-
gress meets next week.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-03
Trolley Men Vent Spite
On Dancers; Now Jobless

GOSHEN, N. Y, Dec 2.~Young folks
in the vicinity of Port Jervis decided
the other night that there'd be nothing
better than dance and that there was
nothing better thar tne Red Mems
wigwam as a place 70 hold it.
The hall was hired and the dance
was held, despite the fact that young
trolley carmen in the vicinity Of Port
Jervis had planned a basketball! game
on the very same night in the very
same hall. When the dance was over
New-York tribune., 1920-12-03
Oppose Dry Philippines

MANILA, 2. /, Dec. 2.-The Joint
committee Of the Senate and House,
appointed az the last session of the
Legislature to study the liquor ques-
ton. has prepared report against the
passage Of q prohibition law in the
Philippines, il was announced yestcr-
day. The report says that there is no
necessity for prohibition, a the liquor
business in the Philippines declined
slightly in volume last year.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-03

four conductors and four motormen re-
fused to operate four trolley cars 70
take the dancers home. The dancers
walked-in decollette and the chill
night air.
To-day the streetcar company took =
hand in the affair. Four new conduc-
tors and four new motormen were
nired and four old conductors and four
old motormen were dismissed.