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New-York tribune., 1921-03-13

into hall already we'll filled with
women, all of whom seem inter
ested in each other and the thou
sands of things they are talking
about and not in the least conscious
of you. Suddenly a butler shouts
your name. 1t seems as if he
shouted it whether he had to or not.
and for a second you feel that
every one must turn to look at
your shrinking self. After the
first fear Of drawing too much at
tention you feel the ache Of not
drawing any from any one. The
women who are receiving pass you
on from one to another. You are
brushed here and there, from one
room to the next, and finally out.
You leave with feeling of your
own insignifcance, and wonder why
you had to go at all, what difference
it would have made if you had
stayed away.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-13
By Hannah Mitchell

n ROM their homo towns in the
South, the Middle West, the
West, the wives and dauch-
.ers of newly elected Representa-
lives to Congress look to Washing
ton as the field where they may find
their real scope socially.
Through the windows of their
newly rented apartments in the
capital city the view seems to have
changed. They ind few and per
functory welcomes. Every one in
Washington is busy with a round
of social affairs which seems suffi-
cent without any newcomers. The
mist of Indifference is harder to
penetrate than the ice of hostility
might be.
New-York tribune., 1921-03-13

CONGRESSIONAL CLUB
- and its reception hall.
Only aUiUes or other feminine
members of the families of
Senators and Representa-
tlues may belong to this club
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
Burglar Shot
When Trapped
During Raid
Breaking of Glass Betrays
Intruder to Occupant
of House Who Phones
From Room for Police
Gordon Surrounds Home
Robber Snaps Gun Twice at
Waiting Detective; Gets
Two Wounds i'm Return

Nathan Halperin, manufacturer of
jersey cloth, returned with his wife
from the opera about midnight last
night to their home, at 1919 President
Street. Brooklyn, three-story de-
tached houe, and was preparing to re-
tire when ne heard crash downstairs
and the tinkle of falling glass.
The sound came from the kitchen
the door of which had glass panel
and Mr.. Halperin was certain that a
burglar had gained entrance There
was an extension telephone in his room
and he called Police Headquarters
which connected him with the Atlantic
Avenue police station.
Within three minutes after the first
PIT of glass struck the kitchen floor
Sergeant Sherman and Detectives
Mclaughlin and Seckinger were in
front of the police station waving to a
to the Halperin home was made in
record time.
Police Surround House
Sherman stationed himself in front
of the house. The detectives circled it,
Mclaughlin to the left and Seckinger
to the right.
AS SeChlHEeT TOunQeQ tno corner al
the rear of the house the kitchen door
opened and man stepped across the
threshold. The shadow of the detec-
tive, flung before him by the distant
street light, caught the mans eye. He
raised his right arm and Secknge1
caught the dull CLEAN of a blued bull
dog revolver.
Two clicks came in quick succession
as the hammer fell upon defective
cartridges or empty chambers. Seek
niger waited for no further warming
but drew his own pistol and fired. One
bullet struck the man in the right side
Another went through his left eye.
He fell, but as Seckinger approached I'd
thrust his right arm beneath his coat
Seckinger seized his wrist before he
could complete the motion, and with
his other hand tore open the strangers
coat, revealing pistol of large cal
ibre slung from his shoulder by an
elastic loop.
professional Burglar" Taken
The shots brought Mclaughlin and
Sherman on the run. An ambulance
was called and the wounded man was
taken to St. Johns Hospital. He said
he was William Martin, "professional
burglar" by occupation. He had nc
home, he said. A jimmy and a pair
of soft kid gloves, which would con
ceal tingerprints without impairing dex-
terity greatly, were found in his
pockets. He was charged with burg
larry. His wounds are serious.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
Trail of Bloodspots Betrays
Alleged Slayer in Brooklyn

Revolver shots on Sands Street,
Brooklyn, are not unusual, but they
generally mean business, nevertheless,
and as soon as Patrolman Finn heard
five or six reports last night he has
tened to the saloon at the corner of
Gold Street whence the sounds came.
He found Tony Manoleti dead on the
floor in front of the bar, bullet
wound in his head. Beside his body
was stretched that Of his brother,
Samuel, who had bullet wounds in his
chest, back and arm, but was still alive.
A waiter was the only other person
to be found in the place. and he
averred that all he knew was that
there had been an argument" some
thing which Patrolman Finn already
had surmised. AS soon as he had started
the wounded man for the Cumberland
Street Hospital and called a patrol
wagon for the removal of the body of
his brother, Patrolman Finn looked
about 20 see what he could see.
The first interesting object he be-
held was drop of blood on the floor.
His interest was further attracted by
the fact that there we're others beyond
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
Law Indorses
Irish Compact,
Stunning Foes
Veteran Unionist Blasts Last
Hope of ssDie-Hards'' to
Block Treaty by Dra-
matte Speech ill House
Urges North to Accept
Leaves Lord Carson Only
Prominent British Figure
Opposed to Peace Plan
From The TribuneS European Bureau

From The Tfibu'se'S European bureau
Copyright. 1921. New York Tribune Inc.
LONDON, Dec. 15.--The last hope OF
the "die-hards" in the House of Com
mons was blasted today when Andrew
in that House, announced his support
of the Anglo-Irish treaty. The hopes
of the Opposition rose as the veteran
Unionist entered the chamber for the
first time in many months. He had
been counted on perhaps to lend great
leadership to the campaign against the
pact. Instead he stood up amid cheers
to say: 81 am in favor of this agree
ment. 1t would be cowardly not to ex-
press my opinion"
This declaration by the former leader
of the Conservatives left Lord Carson
formerly Sir Edward Carson) the only
outstanding figure in British public
life opposed to the Irish treaty.
Bonar Law said that he differed with
Lord Carson's view because all efforts
to compel Ulster to come in on an all
Ireland parliament had been abandoned.
He expressed the opinion that the bit
ter feeling growing up in Ulster on the
ground that the north had been be-
trayed was not justified. Ulster, he
added would make great mistake if
it refused to accept the agreement.
These few sentences came as cli-
max in the second day of debate in
Parliament on the Irish agreement. A
debate between Premier Lloyd George
and former Premier Asquith enlivened
the session of the Commons, but in the
House of Lords Lord Birkenhead did
not make his expected reply to Lord
Carson's attack last night on the treaty.
Asquith Criticizes Delay
Asquith challenged Lloyd Georges
assertion that the peace agreement had
come at the right time. He insisted
that the government should have at
tempted earlier to bring about this
peace, and warned that an end to diff
culties had not yet come. Asquith rec
commended that the treaty be approved,
but renewed his attacks on what he
called the governments attitude
toward tie Irish army and navy
The "diehards" tr ed to push their
amendment which would express re-
gret over the proposed settlement,
Colonel Gretton saving as he offered it
that the Conservatives intended it as a
test motion. If it was defeated, hc
said, they would accept the decision
Premier Lloyd George replied that
any alterations made in the treaty by
either side without the consent of the
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New-York tribune., 1921-12-16

that and that they led toward a side
door, while the wounded man had been
carried out the front door.
Finn followed the trail. Geld Street
is dark between the street lights and
he had to use his electric torch to see
the trail. He followed it, however.
for six blocks to 1888 Jay Street, where
it led him up two flights of stairs to
a room occupied by Samuel Romulo
Romulo was sitting on the bed trying
to bandage a wound in his thigh with
strips torn from sheet. He refused
to say how he came by his injury,
and, after searching him in vain for a
weapon, Finn sent him to Cumberland
Street Hospital. There charge of
homicide was entered against him, af-
ter his fellow patient, Samuel Manoleti,
had identified him as one Of the men
who had shot him and his brother.
According to Manoleti, the shooting
followed an Intellectual attempt on the
part of Romulo's companion to steal
5000 which Tony Manoleti had in his
pocket. His story, however, di not ac-
count for Romulo's wound, and the DO
lice are far from certain that they have
the whoel story.
Both Samuel Manoleti and Romulo
said they were butchers. The former
lives at York and Charles streets
Brooklyn. His brothers. home was at
l342 Sixtieth Street, Brooklyn.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
4-Power Pact
A Gold Brick
Reed Declares
Conference Trying to Sell
Bad Agreement Quickly
to Unsuspecting Public,
He Says in the Senate
Not Worried
Expects Few Votes Against
Treaty, and Movement
to Depose Him Wanes

IRON The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-Beginnine
a speech in the Senate against the
four-power agreement late this after.
noon, Senator Reed, Of Missouri, Demo.
crGt, one of the leaders of the irrecon.
cllables. against the league covenant
and the Versailles Treaty, called the
agreement "gold brick" which the
Conference on the Limitation of Arma
nent sought to sell quickly to "an un.
suspecting public"
Senator Reed pictured the plan fol-
limiting of naval ornaments as a
pack horse" on which was to be loaded
the alliance for the protection of the
British and japanese interests in the
Orient and in the Pacific.
The Missouri Senator did not COM
plete his speech, owing to the fact he
was indisposed, but will do so to-mor-
row. when he will 60 into details con-
corning his objections to the four
power treaty. He is bitterly opposed
to the agreement and is expected to do
his utmost to defeat it. However. there
is no indication that he will be able to
muster more than few votes,
Administration Senators, calling at
the White House to-day, assured the
President there would be only SLIGHT
opposition to the four-power treaty
when the test is finally taken. Senator
Underwood, Democratic leader. one of
the American delegates to the confer
ence, visited the Capitoi to-day and
conferred with many of his colleagues
Senator Underwood left no doubt tha,
he expects ratification of the confer
ence agreements and that he expects
but few votes in opposition either to
agreements.
Democrats With Underwood
Senator Underwood was in his place
in the Senate through a part of the
afternoon session. A large number Of
the Democratic Senators conferred
with him and took occasion to assure
him they would not join the 1novemen,
which has been begun to unhorss
him as leader. Even Senator Glass. Of
Virginia, leader of the movement t.
rnhorse Senator Underwood as leader
sat down by his side and told him thai
statements by himself appearing il
newspapers against the Underwood
leadership were Unauthorized"
The days developments indicated
that the movement TO oust Senator
Underwood from the leadership of the
minority will not get far, although
there is no question of the hostility
of the radical Democrats toward hin
and their purpose to overthrow hin
when they calculate they can command
the votes to do it. At the same time
a number of the Democratic Senators
who will not fight Underwcod's reten.
tion of leadership reserve the right to
vote as they see fit on the four power
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New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
Nine-Cent Fare
Discovered i'm
Hylan Bus Plan
Initial Investment Would Be
$73, 100000 to Replace
Cars With Motor Vehi-
cles, Transit Board Hears
Present Jitneys a Menace
Price of Safe Service More
Than 8 Gents; Receiver
ship Cost BRIT. $643, ,655

Mayor Hylan's plan to junk the sur
face lines and replace them with buses
was somewhat shattered by facts laid
before the Transit Commission yes
terday.
1t was established that an initial in
vestment of $73,000,000 would be re-
quired to provide suitable bus accom-
modations for the billion passengers
which the surface lines carry annually,
and that it would cost more than eight
cents per passenger to supply such a
service with the 5,48O busses neces-
sary.
Discussion of the bus subject was
taken up by the commission through
John A. Ritchie, president of the Fifth
Avenue Coach Company, which operates
on Fifth Avenue, Riverside Drive and
other thoroughfares.
City Jitneys Criticized
The type of vehicle now operated
under the supervision of the city ad-
ministration, referred to by Clarence
j. Shearn, special counsel of the com
mission, as "these jitneys that are hop
skipping around" was criticized by the
bus expert, particularly from the
standpoint Of safety.
Asked by Mr.. Shearn what advantage
the city busses had over those of the
Fifth Avenue Company that enabled
them to get along for time on a s.
cent fare, Mr.. Ritchie replied:
"They pack them like cattle to the
point of danger. The vehicles are not
only overcrowded, but often to a de-
gree that makes capsizing imminent.
These jitneys select short routes where
the haul is seldom over four miles"
There was no more comparison, Mr..
Ritchie said, between a bus and the
jitney than between a streetcar and a
cattle car.
Mr. Ritchie said he could not see
how the commission could extend the
bus service as a feeder adjunct to the
tive-cent fare.
Fare to Exceed Eight Cents
'In other words" inquired George
McAneny, chairman of the commission,
you think that approx mately eight
cents would be the minimum cost per
passenger for comfortable bus opera
tion on any street in the city"
"You couldn't get it down to eight
cents, no matter what part of the city
you operate in or under what con-
dition, provided you were to~give ade-
quate service" responded Mr.. Richie
Mr. Shearn asked:
"If we are gong to tack bus serv-
ice on to the streetcar lines, and do it
at five cents, it would have to be sec
ond-class service. and you don't think
the public sentiment would stand for a
tirst-class and second-class service
like they have in European railroad
trairs?"
81 think you will fnd," Mr.. Richie
repl ed, chat those who couldn't afford
it would insist upon riding in the first
class and t'ose who could probably
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New-York tribune., 1921-12-16

advertising calls For new facilities for
which there is not space in the present
Tribune Building.
Until within recent years the great
body of morning newspaper readers
could be served by delivery system
which made situation of the plant un-
important. But the city is rapidly
moving into the country, and the morn
ing newspaper must follow population
Suburban circulation has become so
great that a plant we'll situated with
reference to railroad terminals is es-
sential to a successful morning news
paper
The Tribune plant that in 1914 was
turning out 10000 papers daily was in
1920 producing 10000 papers daily of
as many as twenty pages week
days and from eighty to one hundred
pages on Sundays.
Ard in that plant, where in 1914 a
total of 100000 lines of advertising
was considered a splendid volume for a
year, a total of more than 10,000,000
lines was handled in 1920.
Meanwhile. during the same period
other departments had increased cor
respondingly. In these days of spe-
cialization and wide interest in world
affairs newspaper, to be complete,
must cover almost every phase of hu-
man activity. To provide complete
ness requires the services of a great
staff Of men and women, who in turn
require considerable space. At present
they are scattered over many of the
twenty stories of the Tribune Building.
During the last seven years the
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New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
The Tribune to Move Up Town
Into a Big, New Model Plant
Present Quarters Near City Hall Outgrown by I'm
precedented Increase i'm Circulation and Business:
Adequate Building Will Be Erected i'm w. 4Oth St.

The Tribune is to have a new home.
Pressed for space in which to meet
the constantly growing demand for it's
newspaper, The New York Tribune is
compelled to acquire new site upon
which it will erect building and in
stall new plant, with adequate facili-
ties not only for it's present require
ments but for future growth as well.
the purchase by The New York Trib-
une, Ogden Reid president, of the plot
of $4,000 square feet of land at No.
219 to 229 West Fortieth Street, in the
heart of the great uptown business
section. Here building will be
erected for the exclusive use of The
Tribune, in which adequate space will
be provided for the expanding activi-
ties of all departments and sor future
growth. Building operations will be
started soon, in the hope of having
the new Tribune Building ready for
use by May, 1928.
Then will end an occupancy which
has. extended over period of more
than eighty years. for it was in
1S41 that Horace Greeley established
The Tribune in small frame build
ing at the corner Of Nassau and Spruce
streets, from which was issued the
paper that has played so large q part
in the affairs of the city and nation
during three generations. Twenty-Five
years ago the present Tribune Build
ing contained model newspaper plant,
and to-day it is modern plant in every
respect, but growth of circulation and
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16

From The Tribunes Washington Burecu
WASHINGTON, Dec. l5.-The body
of Representative John A. Elston, of
the 9Th California District, was found
in the Potomac River late this after
noon under circumstances which point
to suicide Representative Elston was
from Berkeley and was lawyer and
a graduate of the University of Cali
fornia. He was forty-seven years old
A rambling note scrawled in pencil
was found in one of Mr.. Elston's pock-
cts containing the words "circum-
stances which spelled ruin" and other
references which his friends do not
understand. So far as revealed here,
Mr.. Elston had neither financial nor
other serious troubles, and those who
knew him best believe he suffered a
nervous breakdown from overwork and
wh.ie unstrung jumped into the river.
The note Mr. Elston left read:
81 am in chain of circum stances
that spell ruin. although my offense
was irnocentlv made in the beginning.
hope all the facts come out. My
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
Girl Loses Suit When
His Mother Says Nay
Plea in Broken Troth Action
Saves Defendant in a Shat
tered Romance of Florida

F. Cannon Forbes, manager for the
Johns Manville Company at Atlanta.
successfully defended in the Supreme
Court yesterday a 100000 breach of
promise suit brought by Miss Laura
Sigh, a milliner Of Jacksonville, Fla,
by explaining that their engagement
was subject to the approval of Mr..
Forbcs's mother, who withheld her con-
sent. The jury decided against the
young woman.
Miss Sigh testified that she became
engaged in May, 1919, after friend
ship of six years. A few days after
Mr.. Forbes had promised to make her
his wife, said Miss Sigh, she received
a letter from him announcing that the
engagement was off.
Mr.. Forbes admitted the promise, but
declared it was understood by Miss
Sigh that if his mother withheld her
approval the engagement would not be
regarded as binding.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
Congressman Dies Mysteriously
In Potomac; Believed Suicide

stay means embarrassment to my dis
trict and to worthy people clean and
generous"
Mr.. Elston disappeared Tuesday
night. He complained Of feeling i'll
Tuesday morning and in the afternoon
ent out sor trxicab ride. He ended
this near the Treasury, and this was the
ast SEEN of him alive. Detectives in
stituted a search when he could not be
found to-day, and his body was finally
recovered from the Potomac near the
Highway Bridge. His hat and coat,
floating in the stream, led to the dis
covery of the body.
Mrs. Elston is in Berkeley. Repre-
sentative Elston recently received q
telegram announcing that daughter
had been born and he seemed pleased
and proud of the fact. His close
friends ON the California delegation
are at loss to account for his ap.
parent suicide and can explain it only
on the theory that his nervous system
went to pieces. The body will be sen,
to California for interment.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
Film Show for Royalty
At the Kings Side Door
future Brothcr-in-Law of Prin-
cess Mary to Direct New En-
terprise Near Buckingham

FROM The Tribune's Europecs Bureax
ropyright, 1921 New York Tribune Inc.
LYNDON, Dec. ia moving pic
su sure theater for London's society
. .0.k Is to be opened this winter in
: uisused, deconsecrated church within
stones throw of the private en- en-.
trance to Buckingham Palace. The
honorable Edward Lascelles, Princess
s;alys s;ays future brother-in-law, will be
,a.r ,,.e.tor OF the new enterprise, and his
s;se H;seIess IN 1t is expected to bring con-
~ s;ueaanie us royal patronage. The Prince
Maies aid other members of the
sosai household are enthusiastic screen
ME- queen Mother Alexandra even
House. '"o"' :" marlborough
n.s:as tne new theater will not run in com
fss.sion H.. with commercial moving pic
49, ts houses. Its interior will be deco
ssea on lavish scale.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
Agreement on U.S.. Navy Ratio
Announced; Japan Saves Mutsu;
- Demands May Be Modified
$500, 900, 600 Year Saued to u. S.;
amounts to So for Eacf, Taxpaye,
From The Tribune,s Wqshinqton Bureau

From The Tr3bWme's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON Dec 15The naval reduction agreed
by the United States Britain
about So
announced to-day will the United Treasury
oo00O next and $100O0000O annually life
building holiday The greatest initial
work warsps under construction which
been expended Inhe future the bulk of the Treasury
from reductions the number
smaller appropriations needed them
The navy $500 ton or
total of annually for the reduced fleet
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
Flu in US. Army on Rhine
$50 Cases in Light Epidemic,
hut Nh Deaths

COBLENZ, Dec. Is (By The Asse-
ciated Press) Many OF the Amer.c.n
soldiers are in the hospital suffering
from influenza, which is epidemic.
There are at present $50 cases of the
disease, which is of moderate type.
There is little pneumonia, and no
deaths have occurred thus far.
The moving picture houses have been
placed out of bounds by the army
authorities. e
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16
SHINES to Visit u. S.
Soon, Is Berlin Report
Financier Expected to Confer
With American Bankers on
Reparations and Russia
Bu Wireless to The Tribune

bV " WTGteS8 70 TIC ITl6Ule
Copyright. 1921. New York Tribune Inc
BERLIN, Dec. 15.-It is reported in
financial circles that hugo SHINES is
going to the United States soon after
the new year to confer with American
hnanciers on reparations, as we'll as
on his scheme for the formation of
an Anglo German Franco American
combine for the restoration of Russia.
While the report must be taken with
reserve, persons close to SHINES
neither deny nor affirm it.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16

"Ths Best Writing Papers
are Whiting PapeSs."-Advt.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-16

PARIS, Dec. Is (By The Associated
Press The text of the German note,
which is signed by DR.. Wirth and au-
dressed to the chairman of the Kepara-
tions Comm ssion, follows:
"As had the honor to explain to the
Reparations Commission during it's
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