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New-York tribune., 1921-09-17
German Industry Plans
Reparation Loan Abroad
Would Pledge Trade and Farm
Credit for Gold to Meet
Government OBLIGATIONS

BERLIN, Sept 16 (By The Associ-
ated Press. DER Tag" says the plan
being entertained by the German in
dustrial world for the purpose of en-
abling the government to meet it's
future reparation obligations is to
raise private gold loan abroad on the
credit of German industries and agri-
culture.
A semi-official statement regarding
the conference Wednesday of Chancel-
lor Wirth with representatives Of
banking and industrial organizations to
find means of furnishing the govern
ment with gold and foreign currency
for future reparation payments, says
good will is being displayed on all
sides to assist the government in a
practical manner to discharge It's obli-
cations. The discussions, which the
statement says are the most important
the government ever had to conduct,
will be continued with repre- resentatives
OF the agricultural interests.
The newspapers concur with the
manufacturers that now the Allied
ultimatum has been accepted every ef-
fort must be made to fulfil it. The in
dustrial interests reckon on their abil-
ity to produce from 1,000,0O0,0O0 to
1900, 100000 marks, and thus mitigate
the position of German exchange
caused by the governments continued
purchase of foreign currency. The in
dustrial world expects the basis of the
government to be widened so as to per-
NIT adequate representation of the eco
nomic interests.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-17
Auto Stealing G Charged
To Prenatal Influence
Mother Wished for Car, Pleads
Yoush in Futile Effort to
Escape Sentence

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. Sept. 10
When Robert Evans, eighteen years
old, was arraigned before Judge A. NJ.
Comley to-day on a charge of stealing
an automobile, with suspended sem
tence over him for similar crime COM
mitted weeks ago, his counsel entered
plea that prenatal influences were
responsible for the youths acts.
Evans was born about the time auto
mobiles were becoming popular. Ac-
cording to the Defendants plea his
mothers great desire in the months
before he was born to own an auto
mobile was the cause of his supposed
mania to take an automobile wherever
he CHANGED to find one and drive away.
States Attorney Homer S. Cummings
said that Evans was before the city
court Of Bridgeport in 1920 for taking
machine and driving to Stratford.
The case was dismissed because the
car was returned in good condition.
The young man was arraigned two
months ago in the city court, and again
three weeks ago in the Superior Court
on similar charge. On the latter
occasion he wxs sentenced to the State
Reformatory and sentence suspended.
The suspension was revoked to-day,
and Evans will be sent to Cheshire
Reformatory for one year.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-17
Chinese Urge u. S. Invite
South China to Farley
1000 in Mass Meeting Here
Adopt Resolutions Asking
Recognition for DIR. Sun

Four thousand Chinese, representing
10000 of that race resident in the
United States, in mass meeting yes
terday afternoon in City Hall Park, en-
Enthusiastically adopted resolutions urg-
ing the Administration at ashington
to ask the South China Republics par
ticipation in the disarmament confer
cnce and parley on Far East questions
at Washington in November.
The Chinese attending the meeting
apparently were unanimous in senti-
ment on the matter. No counter dem
onstration developed when the South
China leaders in America declared that
95 per cent of the Chinese in this coun-
try favored the government of Presi-
dent Sun Yat-sen at Canton.
The Chinese, after marching through
Chinatown to the City Hal, were well
coined by DR.. Royal S. Copeland. Com
missioner of Health, who appeared in
behalf of Mayor Hylan. DR.. Copeland
said the American people sympathized
with the fight being made by the Chi
nesc for democracy.
DR.. Ma 500, diplomatic repre- sentative
of Washington of the South China Re-
public, urged Chinese present at the
meeting to do all in their power to
gain recognition for South China. The
Peking government was described as
militaristic and under Japanese dom
ination.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-17
Compers Ends Old Feud
And Visits Debs i'm Cell
Assures Him of Labor's Interest
and Issues Statement
Urging His Release
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

ATLANTA, Sept 16.-~The breach
which has existed for many years be-
tween Samuel Gompers, president of
the American Federation of Labor, and
Eugene V. Debs, former candidate for
President of the United States on the
Socialist ticket, was at least partly
healed to-day, when Mr.. Gompers
visited the imprisoned leader in his
cell at the Federal prison, assured him
of the interest of his organization in
his cause and Of his own personal feel
ing in the matter, and later gave out a
statement, declaring that 'there is
neither justice nor necessity in longer
denying Eugene V. Debs his freedom. :"
Mr.. Gompers said that for a long
period he and Mr.. Debs had been in
innate friends, but that during the last
twenty years they had differed in opin-
ion and the close connection had been
broken. In explaining the difference Of
opinion, Mr.. Gompers declared that he.
himself, took the progressive and con-
structive path, while Mr.. Debs marched
the other way.
However," stated Mr.. Gompers. ga
man should not be imprisoned in times
OF peace for actions committed or words
expressed in times of war"
While at the prison Mr.. Gompers
spent twelve minutes in speaking to the
other inmates.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-17
Both Parties Soon
To Reorgganize i'm
County and City
Republican Committee Will
BE First to Meet; Tam
many Faces Row on Lead
crship i'm the Thirteenth

With the primaries over. the various
county and district organizations of
all parties arc preparing for their an
nual reorganizations in compliance
with the election law.
The first of the county committees
to meet will be the New York County
Republican Committee, of which Sam
uel S. Koenig is chairman. He will be
reelected for his eleventh term as
county leader.
Tammany Hall will organize on
Thursday night. But the actual head
OF Tammany Hail, Charles T. Murphy,
Wlll not figure in the proceedings, as
the chairman of the Democratic
County Committee is largely the holder
or an empty title. The incumbent is
Sheriff David H. Knott, who was not
even considered by Mr. Murphy for a
place on the ticket despite his services
as Sheriff and his work for the ORGAN
ization.
The Iammany meeting may develop
INTO a real row If Andrew b. Keating
who defeated Augustus NJ. Wise for
the leadership of the 18th Assembly
DISTRICT is not seated. 1t was charged
at the Board of Elections Yesterday
by Edward f. Broderick, counsel for
heating, that the friends of Wise were
planning to upset the results Of the
PRIMARIES by stealing the certificates
of election of the county committee
men elected on the Keating ticket.
Broderick asked John r. Voorhis.
PRESIDENT of the Board of Elections, to
give hlm the certificates of the PTS
county committeeman elected on the
Heating ticket. Wise, he pointed out.
had but 294 committeeman elected
brodenck said that possible lraud
might result if the certificates were
mailed, as had been suggested at the
Board of Elections
Commissioner Voorhs said that he
would determine to-day how the GER
tifcates should be delivered to the
committeeman.
The Tammany county committeeman
meet on Tuesday night to- elect their
executive members.
The Republican County committee
men meet tonight The only charge
among the district leaders will be in
the 18th, where Morris Levy, former
Schwartz
New-York tribune., 1921-09-17

porting the candidacy of Major Henry
II. Curran.
These newspapers without .cxcep-
ton have charged that 'proiiteering' in
Wharfage rates by pier lessees or pri-
vate owners was chargeable to admin
lstration Of the Dock Department.
They further asserted that in my
testimony before the Meyer commit
tee had endeavored to shift the blame
the Corporation Coursel's Office.
"Citation of various pier leases
where wharfage charges during the
war netted swollen profits to dock
lessees were quoted to bear out news
paper statements and innuendoes re-
tiecting on the Dock Department. Such
presentation OF the evidence taken in
the Meyer committee is without founda-
tion in fact and is plain misrepre-
sentation.
Profits Made by Leaseholders
"The Meyer committee records show
that the Hylan administration in no
way whatsoever is responsible for
profits made by privare leaseholders Of
dock property.
"The record further shows that the
Legislature OF the State of New York
is solely to blame for the conditions
mentioned by reason of it's failure to
pass in 1920 the wharfage bill drafted
by Corporation Counsel O'Brien at the
request of Mayor Hylan, giving the
DOCK CommIssioner complete authority
to regulate wharfage charges at all
piers in the City of New York.
"The opinion given by CORPORATION
Counsels Burr and O'Brien, following
similar opinions by their predecessors.
upheld the right of lessees of dock
property to charge wharfage fees with
in their discretion and in excess of
legal rates.
THE newspapers this morning seek
to make it appear that these opinions
were given il favor of dock leaschold-
ers for the sole purpose of promoting
profiteering in wharfage rates.
AS a matter of fact, the opinions by
Mr.. O'Brien and Judge Burr and those
of their predecessors in the Corporation
Counsels Office were based upon con-
struction of the law in relation to this
matter as construed by several court
decisions.
Decision by Judge Hand
"The principal case which forced the
city to stand aside while Wharfage
rates were kited was handed down by
Judge Learned Hand in the Federal
Court in the Arend case, a private dock
owner in Brooklyn, whose excessive
charges were upheld by the court.
The city had no recourse under this
and other decisions than to maintain q
policy of non-interference in wharfage
rate charges by dock lease owners and
holders pending amendment of the law
by the State Legislature. Meanwhile,
however, further test of the law is
being made under the direction of the
Mayor upon a somewhat modified and
more favorable state of facts.
"Perversion of facts through willful
Misrepresentation on the part of news
papers opposed to Mayor Hylan de-
serves the condemnation of all fair
minded citizens, who must be convinced
by reading the testimony of the Meyer
committee that administration of the
Dock Department under Mayor Hylan
has been the most efficient in the city's
history"
New-York tribune., 1921-09-17
Receipts of Income
Tax for Quarter
Total 80 Million
Payments 80 Million Less
Than Same Period Last
Year; Marked Falling Off
From Those of Last June

The total payments on the third quar-
terly instalment of the income tax, in
Guiding United States Treasury certifi-
Gates of indebtedness, received up to
midnight last night had reacehd but
$S9,001, 500. This is $36,000,000 less
than that received for the correspond
ing period last year, according TO Of
fcals in the office Of the collector for
the Manhattan district.
Yesterday but $6,000.000 was received
at the collectors office, as compared
with SIS, ,0O0,O 900 on September 16, 1920.
a startling number of defaults is held
to be the main reason for this slump.
Up to O'Clock only s4,0S3,0 had come
in, but later mails bearing some Of the
larger as we'll as hundreds of smaller
payments, brought the day total to the
six million mark. Included in the
quarterly total are United States Treas
ury certificates amounting to $780,
900.
The receipts show a marked falling
OFF from payments on the second in
stallment in June, as well as from the
third quarterly of last year. The June
payments totaled S95,7OO 600
OlhCialS IN tHe ONCE Oh rank n.
Bowers, collector for the Manhattan
district, said the receipts indicated that
large number of the persons who had
pleaded for extensions of the time limit
because of their inability to pay had
been unable to get the cash and HAD
defaulted. They face a fiat penalty Of
per cent and, in addition, I per cent
for each month. Poor business con-
ditions among industrial concerns and
the tightness of money were the ex-
plantations given in letters to Mr..
Bowers for the inability of firms and
individuals who had made large in
comes during 1920 to pay the taxes on
those incomes now
New-York tribune., 1921-09-17

Proclamation Setting Date Fol-
lows Check Of Petitions;
1000 Excess Signers

BISMARCK, N. d., Sept. 1s.-North
Dakota's recall election, aimed at state
officers elected with Non Partisan
League Endorsement, will be held Fri
day, October 28, under proclamation
prepared to-day by Thomas Hall, Sec
retary of State.
The proclamation was mailed out
tonight to county auditors who will
post formal notice of the election.
Preparation Of the proclamation be
gan to-day Immediately after check
Of recall petitions had shown the
number Of signatures obtained was
from 1000 to 5000 in excess of legal
requirements.
The petitions, circulated for each
official against whom the independent
faction Of the state aimed the proposed
recall, bore signatures in the following
number: For recall Of Governor Lynn
j. Frazier, 1888; Attorney General
William Lemke, 1927, iand John Ha-
gan. Commissioner of Agriculture and
Labor, 73,187.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-17
Pier. Lease Profit
Shown i'm Report
Filed by Referee
Shearn Submits
Findings ON Objections
Made by Mrs. Erickson
10 Accounting of Estate

Evidence showing the profits that
flow from leases on city piers was
presented yesterday in the Surrogates'
Court in report filed by former
Justice Clarence j. Shearn, as referee.
Judge Shearn was appointed to hear
objections filed by Mrs. Clara C.
Erickson, to the accounting of the
New York Trust Company as executoe
and trustee under the will of her has
band, Alexander Erickson, who was as
sociated with Frank F. Boulton in the
operation of the Federal Lines, Ltd,
whose steamers carried munitions to the
Allies from the United States. Then
properties suffere< a great depreciation
Erickson's affairs became much in
volved and his widow objected to sew
eral items in the accounting.
The report of Judge Sscsrn shows
that the Federal Lines had a SUBJ
lease on Pier B, North River, when
expired February %, 1919. Prior to
this expiration the steamship COM
pany was notified by the lessor that
it had received an offer of SO per cent
increase in rental for the pier and
that the Federal concern would have
20 meet the increase, from $60,UUO to
100000, if it desired to renew 1t is
transfer of the lease and also acquired
lease on Pier A, on which he made
a profit of $1,000 by sub-letting it to
F. and J. Auditor. Judge Shearn also
referred to the large profits made by
Erickson & Boulton during the war
by supplying wharfage to ships char
tered by the Portuguese government.
Mrs. Erickson objected because the
New York Trust Company, as executor
and trustee, failed to renew the lease
on Pier for a period Of ten years
and failed to cause Boulton, while
still alive, to account for the profit
lease. She also objected that Boulton
should not have been permitted to
make profit to the exclusion of her
husbands estate.
Judge Shearn held that while Boul-
ton, as an individual was justified in
his action, the trust company could not
take similar action with regard to the
pier lease because it is contrary to the
law for executors to take part in &.
speculative transaction.
Also the trust company showed that
it had no knowledge Of the pier lease,
because of the complicated condition
VI inc LIiCASoH cSldIe, uHtll long alter
the shipping mans will was probated.
So far as the Federal Lines were con-
cerned, said the referee, they would not
have been justified in renewing their
pier lease because of the falling off of
their business.
Mr.. Erickson left gross estate of
about $1,50O,OO0, which was reduced by
debts, administration expenses and
other charges to net value of $780,
1872. He left his widow the income
from a 100000 trust fund.
Judge Shearn decided that the OBJ
jections of Mrs. Erickson to the ac-
counting of the New York Trust Com
pany were without foundation.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-17
126,1O5 ON
Part Time I'm
Schools Now


bic session are in the report as on
part time"
There are no double or triple scs-
sion figures given in the official sta
tistics issued yesterday. Those of last
June, however, do not altogether Ribe
with Mr.. Prall's statement, because
they show that in addition to the 22,68s
high school students then on part time
there were also 1860 on double session
Given by boroughs, the official fig
ures issued yesterday show that in the
elementary schools tho registration
was as follows: Manhattan, 29O, ,522 !;
Brooklyn, 316,6l8; Bronx. 115 943;
Queens, 74,466, and Richmond, 18 $50.
The part time figures for the cle-
mentary schools show as follows: Man
haitian, ] g 80G Brooklyn, 10 ,3o9; Bronx,
1c,437; Queens, l0,271, and Richmond,
963.
The estimates of tho register on
September 30 next are even more amaz-
ing, and the other new schools which
the Hylan administration hopes to
complete by the first of the year will
barely be able to care for the increase.
The figures given under this head are
total for all day schools 926,8S1, as
compared with the registration of $751;
405 for the same date in 1920
or this number it is estimated that
there Will be 5,975 in the elementary
schools, 85,9lf in the high schools,
1893 in the training schools and 3,402
in the vocational schools. The shrink
age in the high schools is based on She
expected number Of pupils who will
leave to take up business.
Experts, however, do not agree with
the Board of Education on this shrink
age this year, because, they point oul,
the deflation that is going on in busi-
ness at the present time will compel
those high school students who would
normally quit their studies TO remain
at school.
The traiIrny and vocational schools
do not affect The situation in any man
ner. All the part-time instruction Is
in the high and elementary schools.
Subtracting the mcager attendance al
the two former classes of schools, an
analysis Of the figures shows that vir-
tually one child in every eight in the
high schools and elementary schools is
not receiving full education because
of the breakdown of the Hylan admin
istration.
This situation is further aggravated
by the fact that approximately 100000
more ere on double or triple session;
or, in other words, one-third of the
entire school population is being un-
duly handicapped in education by the
failure OF the city government to pro-
vide for their needs.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-17
Seekers of Oil Warned
Authorities Say Mackenzie Val
ley Fields Still Are Prospects

EDMONTON. Alberta, Sept. 16.-The
public was warned not to be too opti-
mistic of the future Of the Mackenzie
Valley oil fields by speakers before the
meeting to-day of the Canadian Insti-
tutc of Mining and Metallurgy.
George Shepard, geologist for the
Imperial OH Company, and Drs. D. Z
Dowling and n. Y Williams, who are
recognized as authorities on the north
ern fields, all counseled moderation in
speculating on the possibilities of oil
development there, stating that moth
ing had yet been discovered to warrant
some of the wild statements" made.
Drilling operations now under way
are expected to give an indication as
to the amount of hidden wealth buried
under the frozen northland
New-York tribune., 1921-09-17
Foreign Language Press
Editors Aid Festival
Representatives of 40 Papers
Invite Harding to Exhibit
of Americas Making

Editors and publishers of forty for
eign-language newspapers met in the
Beard of Education Building last night
to consider plans of cooperation in
forwarding success of the festival and
exhibit of Americas making, which
opens at the list Regiment Armory on
October 20.
On motion of Morris Mendel, pub
Usher of a Hungarian newspaper, a
resolution was passed inviting Presi-
dent Harding to attend the festival.
The purpose and aim of the exhibit
were declared to be r showing of the
contributions of three hundred wears
toward the making of America by i'm
migrants of thirty-two races, and to
promote greater harmony among the
races in America.
Charles J.. Storey explained the ma
ture of the exhibits and Milton Wright
lholcated the necessity for cooperation
on the part of the foreign
press.
New-York tribune., 1921-09-17
Gas Rates i'm Brooklyn
Again Ordered Reduced
Second Cut Within Month
Brings Cost From $l.SO
To $I.3S

The Public Service Commission,
which has been holding hearings on the
appeal of the Brooklyn Borough Gas
Company for logalization of charges in
excess Of taxes fixed by the statute,
yesterday ordered the company to re-
duce its rates to $1.35 effective imme-
dntcly, pending further investigation.
This is the second reduction Of the
price Of gas in Brooklyn within the
mqnth. The company had been charg-
ing $3.50 prior to September 1. On
that day the commission ordered re-
duction of 10 cents.
The commissions examination of the
company's contracts for oil is said to
have shown marked drop from war
time prices, and the reductions ordered
are understood TO be predcated largely
upon that fact. When the first reduc-
ton was ordered. the company was
cited to appear on September and
show cause why reduction to $l.35
should not be made. Hearings on the
appeal will be resumed on Septem-
her 21
New-York tribune., 1921-09-17
Curran Begins
His Vacation ON
Staten Island
One of Best Summer Re-
sorts ON Coast, Declares
Republic an Mayoralty
Candidate as He Relaxes
New York Good Enough
Expects TO Ride in Bus
and Visit Bronx Park Be-
. fore Launching Campaign

For the next few days the telephone
number of Henry II. Curran, Repuh
lican- Coalition nominee for Mayor,
will be Somewhere in New York"
Mr.. Curran. with Mrs. Curran, left
yesterday for a brief holiday to re1t
up for the coming city campaign,
They headed first for Staten Island.
"Mrs. Curran and l are going for
a vacation" said the Borough Prcsi
dent before leaving his Office in the
Municipal Buiding. 1--WE will spend
the first week in one of the best sum
mer resorts on the Atlantic Coast,
Staten Island. Perhaps the next
week end we will be somewhere on
Long Island"
Mr.. Curran said he thought enough
of New York to want to pass his vaca
ton practically within the city limits.
Such course also has the advantage
Of keeping the nominee near enough to
the center of political activities to
keep his finger on the public pulse and
talk over the telephone with his cam
paign managers.
"Mrs. Curran and | probably will