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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-29
Laue Says Ship Board
Gave Him No Notice

Herman Laue, who recently was sup
planted by Mr.. Brundage as advertising
manager for the Shipping Board toll
advertising men who gave him dinner
last night at the Waldorf storia
Hotel thst he was surprised when he
learned that another had his post
A. D. Lasker, the new head of tire
Shipping Board. he said, had offered
him position with his advertising firm,
which he hao refused. That was the
only warning he had, he said, that his
position with the Shipping Board Wa 5
In jeopardy, until he learned that his
successor had been appointed.
Admiral Benson, who was at the din
ner, said that as head of the Shipping
Board he never had entered into any
agreement with the United States Mail
Steamship Company which might result
in remitting or abating any Of it's
charter hire. The company's explana-
ton of it's failure to pay 100000
charter hire, said to be due the gov
eminent, was that there was an under
standing with the old Shipping Board
under which eventually the amount it
had expended in refitting the chartered
vessels might be deducted from the
charter hire.
Admiral Benson said that il any lack
of patriotism was evident in any action
of the Shipping Board while he was at
it's head he was willing to be stood
up against wall and be shot. He
wasn't going to be the goat, he said, in
the dispute between the new Shipping
Board and the United States Mail
Steamship Company.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-29
Harding Asks Legislation
OF House Before Recess

WASHINGTON, July 28.-Passage Of
revenue, Shipping Board appropriation
and railroad Legislation before the sug
gcsted summer recoss of the House
was understood to have been urged on
House leaders by President Harding
tonight at White House dinner con-
ference.
The recess, under the legislative
scheme on which there was an apparent
agreement, is scheduled to begin be-
tween August 20 and %. The Pres
would be possible to clear up the
calendar of the legislator on which
he urged speed by the latter date at
the outside, and that by pressure the
House might clean up its work and
start a rest at the earlier time men
toned.
Those at the dinner included:
Speaker Gillett, of Mas sachusetts;
Representative Fordney, of Michigan,
Chairman of Ways and Means Com
mittee; Representatives Madden, of Il
linois, newly chosen chairman Of the
| appropriations Committee; Winslow,
of Massachusetts,; Porter. OF Pennsyl-
vania, Chairman of Foreign Affairs;
Butler, of Pennsylvania, Chairman of
Naval Affairs; Mann, of Illinois. former
majority leader; Green, of Iowa, rank
ing member of the Ways and Means
| Campbell, of Kansas; Mcndell, of
Wyoming, Republican floor leader;
Tess, Of Ohio; Burton, of Ohio; Kelley
/ of Michigan chairman of sub-commit-
tee on naval affairs, and Greene, OF
Vermont, of the Military Affairs Com
rnittee, in the absence of Chairman
Kahn, who is out of the city.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-29
Turks to Flee Peninsula
To Escape Greek Pincers
Fear Being Cut OFF on Ts,nid
Tongue as Hellenic Army
Plans Flank Move

LONDON, July % (By The Associ-
ated Press) The Turkish Nationalists
have decided to cvacuate the Ismid
Peninsula, says an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Constantinople to-day,
owing to the Greek advance in the d.
rection of Adabazar. at the base Of the
peninsula. which lies to the east of
Constantinople, between the Sea of
Marmora and the Blac.. Sea.
CoNsTANTINOPLE, July 81 (By The
Associated Press) The Greeks, it is
rumored here, ere planning a landing
on the Black Sea coast of Asia Minor,
with a point on the Eastern coast of
Thrace az the base for the expedition.
The landing, if one is made, will prob
ably be effected in the vicinity of
Eregli, the ancient Heraclea. l25 miles
cast Of Constantinople.
(The purpose Of this move would be
to outfank the Turkish Mationalists
compelling their evacuation of the
Ismid Peninsula, which is reported
imminent. If completely successful,
this move probably would force back
the Turkish right wing to the vicinity
of Angora, aided by the Greek sue
cesses in the Eski- Shehr area, which
have compelled the Kemalists there to
fall back toward their capital)
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-29
Fourth Term Urged for
County Clerk Scf,neide.
Non-Fartisan Conmii,ee !.
LAWYERS Obtains 2.G7s
Names 10 Pcf;,ioo

A non-partisan committee Of ]s~
of New York County has been f,,.'
for the purpose of inducing the r,s.s'
cratic and Republican parties n
nominate County Clerk Willia,, =
Schneider, now serving his third ..,.'
in that Office.
This committee has distributed 49,.
ton blanks among the lawyer, A..
thee now bear the signatures Of orr
practitioners, many Of them leader, i,
the bar and representing nember, :.
both political parties. The peti.;o,.
bearing these signatures, some Of tb,-
accompanied by letters Of indorgems,.
have been photographed, and eon,.'
will be sent to Samuel S. Koen;v s,S
Charles r. Murphy, the Republican ana
Tammany leaders respectively, "a =.
evidence of the desire Of the siyns,.
that Mr.. Schneider be continued in h,
present Office
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-29
Benson Won't Be E'Coat''
In Ship Board Wrangle
Denies U. S. Mail Co. Had an
Agreement for Remission Of
Charter Hire on Repair Bills

Admiral Benson, former head of the
Shipping Board, denied last night a
statement made by officials Of the
United States Mail Steamship Com
pany, now in difficulties with the gov
eminent, that there was an under
standing between the board ana the
company which might lead to remis-
sion Of an amount Of charter hire equal
tc the sums the company mad put Into
reconditioning vessels under charter
from the board.
He made his denial at a dinner
given at the Waldorf Astoria by ad-
vertising men 10 Herman Laue, for
mer advertising manager of the Ship
ping Board.
Admiral Benson said that there was
no understanding between the steam
ship company and the Shipping Board
so far as he knew, by which any pro
visions Of the contract between them
might be altered He asserted that he
was not going to be the goat in the
dispute between the present SHIPPING
Board and the United States Mai
Steamship Company as to charter hire
If there was the slightest lack OF
patriotism in any of the acts of the
Shipping Board while he was in con.
trpl, Admiral Benson said, he was will.
ing to be stood up against a wall and
shot
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-29
T'amnany's Platform
Committee Organizes
Concrete Policies Favored In
stead of Criticism OF Re
publican Candidates

The Tammany platform committee
mes yesterday at the National Demo-
cratic Club for organization. Edward
J. McGodrick, former Supreme Court
Justice, was elected chairman. Mrs.
Dorothea Courten, Of Richmond Hill,
Queens, was made secretary. The COM
mttee consists Of five members from
each borough.
Herbert c. Pell jr, chairman Of the
brief address. Fe declared that it
was better policy to have platform
dealing with concrete policies than to
have one filed with criticism of the
Republican party and It's candidates.
He approved of the four years Of the
Hylan administration in the city gov
eminent and said the administration s
accomplishments justified the party
workers In going again before the peo-
pie and asking for their suffrage. The
committee adjourned subject to the
cal lof the chair.
The full mem bership Of the platform
Manhattan - jeremiah T. Mahoney,
Miss Annie Mathews, Edward J. Nc
Goldrick, William Allen and Mrs. N.
Taylor Phillips. Brooklyn--M. ]. Tobin,
Mrs Agnes L. Ward, John j. Curtin,
Harry J. Rosenson and Mrs. Helen 4.
Braun Bronx-Justice Joseph NJ Cal
lehan, of the City Court; Miss Mary
Shea. NJ. Maldwin Fertig, Assistant
Corporation Counsel; Frank Oliver,
Assistant District Attorney, and Miss
Mary A. Clark. Queens - Mrs. Julia
Mclaughlin, Miss Dorothea Courten,
Arno Greiner, Joseph L. Cosgrove and
John Hetherington. Richmond-F. Will
sey Owens, Mrs. Camille McSorley,
Charles Hoyer William Kelley and
Thomas Cremins
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-29
Hartman Denies Line
En Debt to Ship Board
United Mnil Offer to Purchase
Vessels Will Be Considered in
ORDERLY Way. Saws Lasker

From The Tribunes Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, July 28.-W. Averell
Hartman, chairman of the board of the
United American Lines, to which the
Shipping Board alocated the nine gov
eminent vessels seized last week from
the United States Mail Steamship Com
pany emphatically denied here to-day
that his company was indebted to the
Shipping Board.
Accompanied by General Counsel Al
Icon, of his company, Mr. Hartman
called at the Offices of the Shipping
Board and conferred briefly with
Chairman A. D. Lasker. The confer
ence, Chairman Lasker said, had no
connection with the controversy over
the governments seizure of the vessels
from the Mail company. Mr.. Hartman
explained that he came to Washington
to pay his respects to the new Shipping
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-29
Raid Atlantic City Hotels
County Officers Take 9 Persons
and 100 Quarts of Whisky

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., July 2s.--
flne persons were arrested and 400
quarts Of whisky seized in series of
raids launched last night by County
Prosecutor Burton Gaskill on six
hotels in Margate City and Somers
Point. 1t was alleged after the raid
that whisky was discovered in every
place visited. Those arrested are
charged with violating the state pro-
hihition enforcement act. All the pris-
oners will be arraigned next Wednes-
day.
1t was said last night that this is
only the opening number in regular
program Of drives to be conducted
under the same auspices. All those ar
rested, together with the liquor taken,
were sent to the Atlantic City Jail in
taxicabs- One Of the prisoners. Jacob
Schck, proprietor of Schjck's Hotel, 1T
Somer's Point, declared himself as a
special deputy sheriff of Atlantic
County. William Maynard, proprietor
Of the Fisherman's Hotel, Margate,
who has served one term for illegal
sale of liquor, also was among those
imprisoned.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-29

Board. and that he did not contemplate
taking up with the board anything ex-
ccpt routine matters, the nature Of
which he refused to disclose.
A non -commitnl answer to the offer
Of tho United States Mail Company to
purchase the ships now in litigation
YVES made to-day by the board. Chair
man Lasker authorized the following
Abatement on the offer Of tho company:
States Mail Steamship Company to
purchase certain ships is concerned, it
will be trented in an orderly way.
To Keep Ships Sailing
1.-THE main purpose Of the United
States Shipping Board with regard to
the United States Mnil Steamship Com
ernments interests and to keep ships
sailing This the board 10 determined
it will do
at must not be forgotten, however
that the board has other important
matters to attend to--such as the
securing of an appropriation from Con-
gress to maintain the operations of
the boards vessels"
Asked as to the status of financial
arrangeme between his company and
the Shipping Board, Mr.. Hartman
said:
"The National American Lines as
such is not indebted to the United
States Shipping Board. The company
Is an operating company, handling the
vessels of four other lines, namely
the Americana Hawaiian Company, the
American Ship and Commerce Naviga-
ton Company, the Shawmut Steamship
Company and the Coastwise Trancpor
tation Company.
"Thesc companies have purchased
some vessels from the Shipping Board
under the partial payment plan, and
some instaIlmcnts on the total cost are
still due to the government, but the
United American Lines is not respon-
sible for these obligations.
Hartman Refuses Comment
"Our company is also operating ten
or twelve Shipping Board vessels
which have bee allocatcd to us, for
which we receive the usual commits
sion as operating agents, but none OF
these vessels are chartered to us, and
we, therefore, are not obliged to pay
any charter hire"
Chairman Lasker continued mis- tcsti.
mony to-day" before the House Com.
mittee on Appropriations in support OF
the Shipping Boards request for $125,
100000 required by the board for the
remainder of the year. He admitted
that he made some brief illusions tc
the litigation between the United States
Mail Company and the Shipping Board
but would not disclose to what extern
the inquiries of The committee member.
went The hearing will continue to
morrow.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-29
Ship Board
Threatens Rate
War ON British
tcOntlaaod from page one,

(conuauod from page cnc)
against British ships in American ports
might be adopted should the American
protest fail. but che officials hora de-
scribed these negotiations as too deli
cate to permit of comment at this time
1t is realized here that to bar British
ships from American ports, as the
board has authority to do under the
shipping act, might lead to serious
international incident, and the impress
sion is given that such recourse
stands we'll in the background even
though it never is lost sight of as q
possibility. The general expectation IN
that a few days/will see a complete ap-
probation Of the American attitude
abroad and REIMBURSEMENT which will
be satisfactory to every one.
Success for the boards policy is be-
lieved by Administration officials to
presage large increase in the mer-
chandise carried in American bottoms,
aiding in the task of putting idle Ship
ping Board ships into service. In the
case Of Alexandria alone. the direct
cotton shipments which 1t is hoped to
transfer from foreign to American YES
sels amount to something over 100000
tons annually.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-29
British Forced Rejection
Of Ship Board Lo'U Eds
Ul.imntun, CIiraax Of 2-Year
Fight by American Interests
for Egyptian Cotton Trade

The United States Shipping Board
ulti.natum to British shipping interests
on the Egyptian cotton controversy is
the result Of futile effort made In the
last two years by American shipping
interests to break the British monopoly
on the transportation of the cotton. The
turn in the contest came last May when
bids were invited by the Alexandria
Produce Association from Liverpool
Conference Steamship Lines and the
United States Shipping Board for
handling shipmenss OF the staple to
American and United Kingdom ports
Tho bid of the Shipping Board. it
was reported, was 20 shillings ton TO
the United Kingdom and 40 shillings to
the United States.
The Alexander Produce Association
comprises ninety five Egyptian ship
pers. Its cotton business is handled
by board of sixteen. When the bids
for handling the cotton came up for
consideration it was said that fifteen
Of the sixteen were in favor Of award
ing the contract to the Shipping Board
but as it was not unanimous no con-
tract could be made.
U. S. Offer Of Compromise Refused
The Shipping Board offered to com.
promise the matter, agreeing if it were
given the American business, the bids
for the United Kingdom would be with,
drawn. This offer, the American Cham.
Der was informed, was refused by the
Liverpool Conference Lines and threat
of reprisals were made to obtain the
business
/ ~; I,,1,
said that the representatives of thc
break off negotiations with the Liver
used in obtaining contracts for ship
ping cotton. The advices said tn.
! Americans intended to adopt protec
/ tive measures, declaring intimidation
had been used in competition fo
freight and charging that discrimina
ton in favor Of British bidders hat
been exercised.
In the cotton season of 191o-'2o
Egyptian cotton to the amount O
270,000 bales was shipped to this coun
try, the greater part OF which went t.
New EnglanG spinners.
1t was announced here recently b,
Winthrop l.. Marvin, general manage
of the American Steamship Owners
Association, that Manchester spinner
were insisting that American cotto,
should be shipped to them in Britisl
bottoms, insured by British insuranc
asserted, when he was informed by Gal
weston members CT his organ ization tina
they had bcoa compelled to cancel char
ters for American ships on which the
were to load Manchester shipments an
engage IN their place British tonnage.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-29
n anime Kills
10000 a Day
I'm II Us 8 ia
tconunusd from paso ons)


crops would be requistioned and con-
fscated by the government The peas
ants have been reducing consistently
tho areas they cultivate until the total
land under the pillow in Russia has
fallen to an extremely small figure.
Moreover, the Soviet government has
confscated the horses and cattle be-
longing to the peasants, thereby leav-
ing them without traction power to
develop their farms.
The result has been that whatever
cultivation has been done has been
with the most primitive tools and
methods, and there has been conse-
quent drop in productivity. Caught
between the effects of the Bolshevik
governments agricultural policy, which
was ahandoned finally when it was too
late, md the natural misfortune OF
drought, the Russian people are now
facing extinction by millions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-29
Norris Collapses After
Speaking ON Farm Bill

WASHINGTON, July 2s. - Senator
Norris, OF Nebraska, chairman of the
Senate Committee on Agriculture, was
overcome by heat exhaustion in the Re-
publican cloak room of the Senate this
afternoon. He had just finished long
the Kellogg substitute for the Norris
farm export financing corporation and
assailed the alleged secret conspiracy
by which the Administration sought to
sidetrack the Norris bill.
Senator Norris had gone into the
cloak room when he turned pale sud
denly and sank down. Senators Curtis
and Keyes saw him and at once helped
him into the Office Of Senator Ball
nearby. Senator Ball, who is physi-
clan, soon revived him with ammonia
and relieved him with cold applications.
He later went to his home and said he
felt no serious effects
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-29
Daugherty Reror, On Debs
Held for Harding's Resur,

WASHINGTON, July 2S.-Attorney
General Daugherty's report to Presi
dent Harding in the matter of a par
don for Eugene V. Debs, Socialist
leader, imprisoned at Atlanta for vio-
lation of the espionage laws, will be
deferred until after the President re-
turns from his ten days visit to New
England, Mr.. Daugherty said to-day.
Study of the case mad progressed
and recommendation could be dictated
in short time. he said, but would be
withheld until after the President
return.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-29
Soriets Talk OF Paying
Debts They Repudiated
Reported offer Said To Be
Base OF Negotiations for
Food for Coug,tyy's Starving

COPENHAGEN, July 2S. - Rnmors
arc in circulation in Reval, says a dis
patch to the Politiken from the Estho-
MAN capital day, hat az an extreme
measure in an effort to obtain help in
the present crisis in Russia, Nikolai
Lenine has proposed to the Soviets the
acknowledgment of the national debt
which the Bolsheviki Cancelled after
the revolution. The proposed payment
OF interest and capitaI would not be
begun before 1925.
/ According to rumors. which the dis
patch outlines and wnicn are lacking
in confirmation from other quarters, so
far as known here, it is proposed that
conference be summoned between the
Soviet government and the European
creditor countries to determine the
exact amount of the debt and arrange
for the immediate resumption of Zip
| lomatic and economic relations.
Leonid Krassin, the Sovicts' Minister
OF Trade and Commerce, is reputed to
have been commi ssioned to ascertal 4
the attitude of France in this connec-
ton.
WASHINGTON, July 2s.-secretary
Hoover made public to-day the text of
brief reply received by radio from
Maxim Gorky, at Petrograd, to Mr.
Hoover's recent message as head of the
American Relief Association, saying
American relief i'll Russia must be pre-
coded by release of Americans detained
| by Soviet authorities.
"Your message gratefully received,
; the radiogram said. Detailed reply
will be sent from Moscow by president
| Russian Famine Relief Committee
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-29
Small Objects to Being
Tried at Springfield

CHICAGO, July 26.-Governor Len
Small, whose arrest is sought in Spring
field in connection with his Indictment
for embezzlement while he was State
Treasurer, said to-day he was ready to
stand trial anywhere except in Spring.
field or Sangamon County. The Gov
ernor was in conference here to-day
with political friends and advisers.
Il want an immediate trial. he said
81 have no fear cf the outcome if am
given an honest hearing. I cannot get
a fair trial in Springfield or in Sanga-
mon County, and these mon who are
raising such hue and cry about ne
know I never could get square deal
in Springfield. They also know the rea-
son why.
"The people of the great State of
Illinois need have no fear as to the
guilt Of their Governor. I am limo
cent, and demand fair opportunity TO
prove it. am willing to face any jury
IN the world outside of Sangamor
| County"
The Governor later went to Kan
kakee to spend the night with his
| family
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-29
From, The Tribwne's EMropean BureaA
Copyright, 1921, New York Tribune. Inc.

Copyright, 1921, New York Tribune Inc.
LONDON, July %. - Great Britain
will not yield to Frances insistence
upon the immediate dispatch Of troops
to Upper Silesia, it was learned here
auth ortatively tonight. The French
note intimating that the scheduled
meeting Of the Supreme Allied Council
on August 4 would not take place un-
less the British government sanctioned
the sending of reinforcements to the
East has not altered the stand of Pre-
nier Lloyd George and his advisers.
They met twice in conference to-day
and decided to notify France that the
British view still is that the dispatch
of troops is not necessary.
The British government will advise
Premier BRAND that Lloyd George in
sists on the desirabiity of an early
meeting OF the Supreme Council, but
will offer no further concession to gain
that end. In some quarters it is
thought that the latest French ,naneu-
yer will force postponement of the
council meeting.
Germany has notified France, in con-
nectlon with the refusal Of the Berlin
government to permit the French rein.
forcements to cross Germany on thei,
way to Upper Silesia, that the Wirth
government is willing now to stand by
the decision of the Supreme Council al
its forthcoming meeting. If the coun.
Gil decides that French troops should
be sent to Upper Silesia, Germany will
permit their passage. This puts Ger
many closer to the British point o:
view.
Barring sudden coup by France, i
is suggested that diplomatic negotia
tons over the subject of sending NOR,
French troops may continue right W
to August a and that the Suprem,
i Council will meet on that date ane
consider that question immediately
thereby aYerting a crisis.