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New-York tribune., 1921-11-29
Refuses Gut
I'm lob Printers' WAGES

DR.: John Lovejoy Elliott, president
of the Hudson Guild Neighborhood
Center, acting as sole arbitrator in the
wage adjustment proceedings between
the closed shop branch of the New
York Employing Printers Association
and Typograph phical Union No. 6, yester-
day denied the demands for wage re-
ductions made by the employers of
5000 compositors in the New York
book and job printing trades.
The employers originally asked for a
$40 a week reduction. but the issue as
presented to the arbitrator was for a
cut of $5 a week. The union put in a
claim for SIS week increase
BY the terms of the decision, wage
scales will remain as they are. Day
workers will receive $50 week, night
workers $53, and the midnight shift S56
The contract under which the arbitra-
tion proceedings were held provides for
basic week of forty-four hours. The
scales established in DR.. Elliott's Ge-
cision will remain in force, by the
terms of the contract, until October 1,
1928. Provision has been made, how
ever, for readjustment on October I,
1922, if either party desires It.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-29
Police Fight Iugmen for
$50 Bottles of Scotch

Following running battle between
police launch and the tug Mary B, in
which more than 100 shots were fired,
police of the harbor division last night
arrested seven men for violation of the
Mullan-Gage law and confscated 400
bottles of Scotch whisky
The police say they discovered the
tug pulling away from q LARGE trans
Atlantic liner berthed at the Bush ter
minals. The Mary B was running with
liehts out Acting Sergeant Donaher
ordered flights out" on the police
launch and ran in on the tug A fusil-
ade of shots met this attempt to pre-
vent the tug from getting out into the
bay. The police answered with a score
of bullets.
1t is believed that while the fight was
on, large quantity of liquor was
thrown overheard from the Mary B.
When the mcn on the tug shouted that
they were through" they passed a line
lirr opt. They were towed
to Pier A. Manhattan, where they were
arrested
New-York tribune., 1921-11-29
British Favor
Plan to Extend
Arms Council
While Reports on Sugges-
tior Of President Harding
Are Vague, General Sat-
isfaction Is Expressed
Bv Arthur S. Draper

From The Tribuses European Bufedh
Copyright 1921. New York Tribune Inc
LONDON, Nov 2S--Two bits OF
Washington news have proved of pro-
found interest here. These are Presl-
dent Hardngs suggestion for an asso-
citation Of nations to follow the present
conference, and the other that gentle
mems agreement" rather than formal
treaty, is the plan of the American
Administration for binding the mem
bers participating in the armament
conference.
There is no positive reaction to
either plan, largely because the re
ports are still somewhat vague, but
general satisfaction is expressed that
President Harding favors further con-
fcrences. The British are in doubt as
to whether the President intends the
proposed association to be a rival or "a a
substitute for the present League OF
Nations. That doubt also apparently
exists in the minds of the Washington
correspondents, for some say the plan
is for new league; others that IT
must not be considered rival OF the
existing one, while still another group
reports that thus far the President
merely has offered hint or sugges-
ton, instead of having formulated any
positive program. Consequently, most
Of the comments are couched IN the
broadest possible terms. 1t is the gen
eral hope here, however, that the
President will lose no time in develop
ing the idea.
On the other hand, there are several
positive reactions following other re-
cent Washington developments. One Of
these is the feeling that Americans
are beginning to take a personal in
terest in European affairs, owing to
the growing realization that no real
settlement which excludes large body
Of people can be made.
For Land Armament Discussion
The British think that land arma-
ment, as we'll as naval power, should
be considered, and it is believed here
that the same opinion is gaining
strength in Washington. AS long as
the present League of Nations is COM
mitted to the maintenance of the
Treaty of Versailles neither America
nor Germany will join it. AS the CO.
operation of these two nations is es-
sential to the reorganization of world
peace the only alternative appears to
be the formation Of a new association.
Friends and workers of the present
league agree that there is need for an
association. although they contend that
the league is an Indispensable interna-
tional organization. One prominent
publicist expresses the opinion that
President Harding does not intend the
suggested association to be a rival OF
The league, because he has Elihu Root
who was instrumental in creating one
of the most important departments
the international Court of Justice-as
one of Americas delegates.
The question has arisen here
whether Premier BRAND took the
course he did at Washington because
he saw the necessity of drawing
America into participation in European
! affairs.
Should America invite Germany tc
sit at the conference and give the same
guarantees to preserve peace as the
! other nations offer, the British would
consider this a momentous step in the
| right direction.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-29
Experts Back Hughes Plan

WASHINGTON, Nov. % (By The AS
sociated Press) Definite steps toward
agreement on the principles of Secre-
tary Hughes's proposals for a naval
building holiday and naval limitation
may result tomorrow from the meet
ing of the full committee of naval ex-
perts to which the task of detailed ex-
animation of the plan was referred.
The experts have completed their
analysis of the major elements of the
plan. and it can be said authoritat;vely
for the American group that no techni-
cal flaw in the Hughes proposal has
been revealed.
The American basic offer of Give
five-three" naval ratio between Great
Britain, the United States and Japan
has stood. in American opinion, every
test OF fact applied by the experts.
II embodied no mistakes or errors of
calculation.
A report on the economic wisdom Of
che proposed ten-year naval holiday
and the submarine problem will be pre-
scented to the American advisory COM
NJ ttee Wednesday by Admiral Rodgers,
chairman os the sub committee on
naval armament, which has been study
ing the question.
naval ratio should be under the Ameri-
can limitation plan, it was learned to-
night on the return of Admiral De
Bon from Newport, r. L., is that France
wants IN aggregate capital ship ton
rage equal to that of Japan as COM
pared with the United States.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-29

are not sufficiently developed even to
make sure whether the Japanese will
be permitted to retain the Mutsu,
though the general understanding is
that they will be permitted to keep
her, and that they will scrap older ton
mage sufficient to maintain the 6-b-S
ratio.
Since the fate of the Mutsu cannot
be definitely announced yet, the fate
Of the Colorado, the American dread
nought, which is so near completion,
cannot be stated, the decision as to the
two being much intertwined
AS it was put by one of the Ameri-
can delegation to-nighti the chief i'm
portance of the situation ia not which
ship may be scrapped or retained in
commission, but the acceptance of the
principle of the proportionate strengths
of the fleets of Great Britain, the
United States and Japan at 5-5-S. With
this accepted, it is pointed out, any
inequalities which may be caused by
the superiority of this or that ship
will be gradually smoothed away by
the operation of the replacement
scheme, under which ship is consid-
cred obsolete and may be replaced by q
new vessel when she attains an age of
twenty years. The only limitation on
this is that no new ship built to re-
place an old one may exceed $4,000
tons.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-29
Alleged B;ganlist at 20
Has 3 Wives, Say Police

Abraham sherma, twenty-nine years
old, said by the police to have adj
mitted having three wives, was arrested
last night at the home OF his third
wife, 1927 Forty-second Street, Brook
lyn, charged with bigamy on complaint
Of Mary Euyzerman Sherma, who lives
at 13 East Ninety-eighth Street. The
young woman told Detective Cavanagh,
OF the Elizabeth Street police station,
she was the second CT Sherma's wives.
His first wife, with one child, whom
the police sought last night, is said to
be living at 22S Est Thirteenth Street
Mrs. Buyzerman Sherma told the po-
lice Sherma married her March G, 1920,
in Manhattan. He left her, she said,
and married Miss Bertha Schuhat, of
Montreal, daughter of wealthy fur
rier, Raphael Schuhnt, on October 25,
1921. The father accompanied Detec-
tive Cavanagh in raid on the most
recent of Sherma's homes last night
Sherma made no resistance to arrest
The young woman known as his wife
tainted.
Sherma was locked up in the Tombs
and will be arraigned in Tombs Court
this morning
New-York tribune., 1921-11-29
Woman Faints i'm Court
After Prison Sentence

After she had psen convicted of n
charge of driving an auto while intoxi~
Gated, Mrs. Pearl Van Horn, twenty
eight years Old of Sl2 Broadway Raw
onne, N. j., was sentenced yesterday ia
thirty days in the pen.tentiarv by Re-
corder William J. Cain, OF Bavonne.
When the sentence was pronounced the
woman wept, and then tainted.
Motorcycle Policemen Edward Jones
and Owen Olsen testified that last Sat
nrday morning at ? o'clock they saw a
car swe-Ye toward them on the Boule-
yard, near fifteenth Street, Bayonne.
RefHre shcy could get out of the way
both We're struck The auto crashed
into telegraph pole.
Mrs. Van Horn was said to be the
driver of the car, and two young men
Daniel Ray, n 226 East ii9th Street.
and Edward Black, of 2o5 West 10tst
Street, Manhattan who were in the
ear but who escaped unhurt. were held
rs material witnesses. Mrs. Van Horn
received an Injury to her back which
rreyentea hse from appearing in court
until yesterday.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-29
China Suspects
Financial Guile
Ina Corlsortiu1r1
Has Confidence i'm Ameri-
can Bankers, but Fears
The May BE Controlled
by Foreign Associates
By X. P. Wang
Associate Editor Of the "Situm Pao," Of
Shunghai

Associate Editor OF the Sntn Pdo, OF
Shanghai
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2S.--One of the
objectionable features of the con-
sortium, from the Chinese viewpoint,
is the fact that the agreement on the
consortium plan, which is 50 vital to
China's financial future, was concluded
among the banking groups Of different
powers without even consulting China
herself. and that China was called
upon to accept the terms thus arbi-
have been under the m;sconception that
China was in great need Of money and
would accept any terms offered. 1t is
this which has aroused the opposition
of China. If the bankers still hold to
their misconception. they should dis
card it if they wish to see their plan
carry through. The latest failure to
get through loan of $40 100000 few
weeks ago should serve as lesson to
the financial imperialists of the world
The matters Of borrowing and lend
ing money between nations should be
treated purely on a business basis The
money lender and the money borrower
should be considered as equal parties
and, as such, there should be friendly
negotiations and genuine contracts.
Such contracts must be signed with
mutual approval and with mutual sat-
isfactlon. Anything short Of such an
agreement cannot be regarded as valid
or as a good contract in terms of COM
mercial law. Now, the consortium bank
ers are trying to impose on China loan
contracts with terms formulated by
themselves and against the interest of
China. How can these contracts be
considered as genuine, and how can the
/ hn HnI -
them?
The consortium bankers are propos-
ing and advocating that they should
have the right and power to supervise
the proceeds and returns of all loans
hereafter to be made to China, and that
they should always be consulted first
any time China needs money. Such a
proposal not only carries the idea that
the foreign bankers should have con-
troll of the future financial destiny of
China, but also embodies the restric-
tion that China shall have no freedom
of choice as to whom she would ap-
preach for money and from whom she
would receive financial assistance in
developing her industry and resources
Through that way the financial China
would be always at the mercy of for
elgn bankers; and once the financial
China is gone the political China will
be under foreign control. too. If such
an Interpretation is implied in any one
of the four Root resolutions, then we
might as we'll discard the resolutions
at once before more msinterpreta-
tions might arise.
China must have freedom OF borrow
ing, and above all she must have de-
velopment Of her resources, and she
refuses to be under the boss-ship of
| political bankers of the Wcrld.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-29
Navy Lieutenant Sues
Lawyer for $500, 600
specia, Dispatch to The Tribune


WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.-Trial was
trict Supreme Court of suit to re-
cover s50O,000 damages brought by
Lieutenant Lorimer G. Graham, U. S.
n, against a l.. Humes, rich New
York lawyer, for alleged alienation of
the affections of the former Mrs.
Graham, now Mrs. Humes. The former
Mrs. Gtaham, who was Miss Elsa Port
ner, of Washington, obtained divorce
from the naval officer at Reno and
SOON afterward married Mr.. Humes.
An important feature. of the proceed
inCs today was the fling of deposi-
ton from William G. McAdoo, forme,
Secretary of the Treasury. Mr.. Nc
Ado, testified to the moral uprightness
OF Mr.. Humes.
Lieutenant Graham alleges the di-
vorce obtained at Reno wss void and
lie Is suing Mrs. Humes for divorce
At the same time Michael Glennon, OF
Norfolk, Va. q banker, is suing his
wife for divorce, charging misconduct
and naming Graham.
Judge Daniel Thew Wright, counsel
for Graham, said both Graham and
the defendant, Humes, had courted
MISS Portner eleven years ago. He
SAID Graham was the successful sutton
ana Humes had been rejected. He
charged that early in the war. while
Graham was home only on alternate
week-ends, Humes renewed his atten.
uons to Mrs. Graham. She was then
nvlng ct a summer cottage at Spring
Lake, N. j.
he alleged Humes continued these
ateentions when the Grahams returned
70 washington in October, 1918, and
gave her costly presents
:, Wilton j. Lambert. attorney fo,
Humes, charged that Graham DESTROYED
nls wife's affection by brutality.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-29
Britui, Confident Peace
viii Come OF Conference

LONDON, Nov. 2s.-The following
authorized statement is issued by
Reuters:
approximations expressed in vari-
Gus directions concerning the proceed
ings at the Washington conference are
net shared in authoritative British
quarters. While the possibility of diff
ferences of opinion arising and tempo
rary setbacks being experienced is
never lost sight of, yet the British view
is enc of real satisfaction and great
hope, for on the naval question alone
more has been done than most people
before the opening of the conference
would have been prepared to expect.
But apart from naval disarmament,
tie utmost Importance is attached in
this country to the restoration of world
peace which cannot be effected merely
IN this way
There is great anxiety regarding the
moral atmosphere of the world, and it
is pointed out that one cannot isolate
hemisphere or distinguish between
naval and other ornaments. 1t is felt
that the recovery of the world and the
restoration of financial stability must
depend upon the treatment of arma-
ment questions as world wide issue.
$50 far as Great Britain is concerned
she wants to employ her unemployed
and pay her debts, and she is gravely
disquieted By any symptoms which seem
20 threaten the continuance of insin-
cerity and unrest, whether in Europe or
elsewhere.
"The British government is deter.
mined to answer the American summons
in every direction in the general pur-
pose of ridding the world of the menace
of new war"
The statement adds that this being tho
Premier's view, his desire to go to Wash
ington is stronger than ever, but unit
a week-"a frightful period in Irish
history"-is passed it is impossible te
se,- whatha1. he will leaye ENGLAND
New-York tribune., 1921-11-29
Cholsnondeleys Divorced
!soectol Gable to The Tribune

convrisht: 1921, New York Tribune Inc.
LONDON, Nov. 2S--The decree nisi
granted last year to Lady George
Choimondeley, the former Clara Eliza
beth Taylor. of Washington, an actress.
was made an absolute divorce in conrf
to-dsy. Lord George Hugh Cholmon-
deley, the divorced husband. il the sec
ond SON Of the Marquis of Cholnondclcv
and by his marriage to the Gaiety The
ter chorus girl in 1911, when he was
twenty-three years old. forfeited an in
herltance Of $4,000 left him by the late
Lady Meux on condition that he marry
"a lady in society"
Clara Ellzabeth Taylor went to Eng
land with Dolly Warden" and later an
peared there in several successes. She
WAS married to Colonel John Alexander.
who divorced her in>1s0s. She returned
to the stage and two years later was
to Lord George.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-29
rom The Trioune's washington Bureos

From The Tribune's Washington Bureus
WASHING GTON, Nov. 2S-" Although
our guests are full of compliments for
our hospitality" one of the American
delegates is said to have remarked,
"they seem anxious enough to get
away. The spell of the coming holi-
days has descended upon them, and
many are hoping that they can sail
in time to be home by Christmas Eve"
All of which has reused similar
hopes in the minds Of the special cor
respondents, and daily conversation
somewhat as follows takes place with
the representatives of the different
nations:
Reporter-Do you think the confer
cnce will be ended by Christmas?
Delegate-Who knows?
Reporter ell, do you expect it to
be ended then?
Delegate--It can't be ended soon
enough to suit me.
Rcporter-May we say you have al
ready engaged your steamer passage
Delegate--I wouldn't care to be
quoted on that
Reporter-Do you see any reason
why it should not be ended soon?
Delegate--I am not prophet.
Reporter--Have you made any plans
for Christmas yet?
Delegate Christmas is still far off.
Reporter-What do you think are
the chances of the conference being
finished by Christmas?
Delegate-There is always much to
be finished after the conference is
through.
Reporter-will the conference be
through by Christmas?
Delegate--I will tell you for your
own information and guidance, but not
to be quoted either directly or indi-
rectly, that if it is through by Christ
mas | shall be delighted.
Whereupon it begins to dawn ON the
reporter that the delegate is not sure
just when the conference will be ended,
and so he drops further questioning
until he sees a delegate of another
nation, and then repeats the process.
Admiral Kato was in high spirits to-
day, and actually laughed aloud. He
was little late in meeting the news
paper men. and found the room full
when he arrived Bowing formally as
he entered. he took his place at the
end of long table, and instead of
sitting rieidly, as is his custom, with
a sphinXlike expression, he leaned
back little and smilingly gurgled
some Japanese. Whereupon the in
terprcter looked up and announced:
"Baron Kato says: 4 have not any
New-York tribune., 1921-11-29
Home-for-C Christmas Longing
Has Envoys i'm Mental Turmoil
All in Washington Seem Anxious to Know Whether
Sessions of Arms Conference Will Be
Ended Before December Is

thing to say to-day, but If you have
any questions to ask, go ahead"
After pause an enterprisine re-
porter, knowing that thene still was
much hesitation on the part Of the
Japanese about scrapping their new
dreadnoueht. the Mutsu, in cheerful
voice called out:
"ls it true, Admiral, that you are
still in favor Of scrappng the Mutsu ?"
The Admiral burst out laughing and
every one Joined in.
The phrase ''to accept in principle
is becoming hackneyed these days. The
more cynical say that "to accept in
principle given proposal is the same
as to accept a dinner invitation with
the express understanding that you
will net attend. The phrase comes from
the French, zen principe" and means
in reality that as far as the general
proposal is concerned it is acceptable
but that there may be certain rescrva-
tions to be made after the thing has
been thoroughly examined. Everything,
however, now is being accepted in
without. So, for example, the fact
has been accepted in principle that no
difference of opinion developed be.
tween Premier BRAND and Senator
Schanzer But this has not prevented
correspondents from asking every con-
ceivable question as to how the story
got started We're it not for the for-
mai denial by all concerned that the
incident ever took place it would look
IS if the theory Of closed sessions had
been accepted. in principle only.
One of the American delegates is
said to have remarked to a correspond
ent that the actual conference was
tame compared with the correspond
ents' conference. Judging from the
splits and rumors of splits still being
daily featured by the different papers
this is true. 1t looks as if most OF
the correspondents, if they could have
their way, would like nothing better
than to see nation fighting against ma
tion and delegate against delegate. The
idea of the delegations composing their
troubles outside the ring seems OBJ.
noxious to many of them, and it is diff
fcult to escape the feeling that they
would enjoy the conference better were
the delegates all Dempseys and Car
pentiers, and each session a battle
royal.
The fact remains, however, that the
actual conference, such as it is, is pro-
ceeding peacefully, harm oniously, eX-
peditiously, with a better spirit of ma
tional amity than has pervaded any
conference in recent years, and quite
lacking the sensational events thai
are regularly ascribed to it by Ger
tain writer's with "pugnacious" imagi
nations.