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Imperial Valley press., 1921-05-11

LONDON, May 11.-Germany, an
conditional acceptance of the entente
reparatons was delivered to Lloyd
George this morning by the German
minister to Great Britain today.
BERLIN, May 1.-Germanys reply
to the Allies ultimatum, accepting the
terms laid down by the supreme coun-
Gil, is confined to repetition of the
exact terms of the decision of the AL
lies with regard to disarmament. tle
trial of war criminals and the financial
conditions imposed. The reply states
that Germany Internationally accepts
these conditions.
WASHINGTON, May n.-Admin-
istration officials here express the ut
most satisfaction over the decision of
the German government to accept the
reparation terms of the Allies. 1t is
known that the prospective invasion
of the Ruhr valley by the Allied forces
have been regarded by the United
States with deep concern.
American government economists
appear to be convinced of Germany's
ability to meet the obligations i'm
posed. They professed to see in her
acceptance a promise of economic re-
vival that would cause a happy reac-
tion throughout the world.
With the indemnity questions out
of the way marked relief was shown
by the state department and it is now
expected to proceed more rapidly with
the consideration of the numerous
problems connected with the develop
ment of its foreign policy along gen.
eral lines of insistence upon equal op-
portunity and recognition of American
rights throughout the world.
CHERBOURG, France, May IL
Col. Edward NJ. House, upon his ar
rival here this morning from America,
expressed regret that the conditions of
the Versailles treaty had not been
more vigorously enforced by the AL
lies.
LONDON, May 1.-THE acceptance
of the ultimatum by Germany was
brought about. according to Berlin
dispatch to the London Times, by DR.
Worth, the German Centerist leader
who has just formed cabinet from
the Center party, the German demo
Gratis and the majority Socialists.
/ DR.. Wirth pointed out in the Reich
stag the alternatives to the ultimatum
sal dthat Germany could sign, thus
putting on Germany burden the END
of which could not be foreseen. or re
fuse to sign, after which would fol,
low occupation Of the Ruhr, with ter
rible results to Germany's industria
and economic life.
\ The unity and freedom of Germany
he continued, had weighed most with
\ the new cabinet, and the ministry haC
decided to accept the London terms
which they would undertake to5fulfil
within Germany's capacity. This woul,
be possible only through the work ant
energy of the people.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-05-11
SMALL, TOWN STUFF.

WICHITA, Kan, May 10,-Bandits
entered the stockvards bank today and
forced the cashier to open the safe
and escaped with $4,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-05-11

Alamo Park four miles east of Braw-
ley now open. Dancing Wednesday
and Saturday nights. Plunge open.--
Adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-05-11
Weather Report t

Southern California-Tonight and
fair; gentle westerly winds.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-05-11
G [: R N A n !
AC;CE P 7 s
TERMS Of
ALLIES
United States Government
Will New Form Policy Of
Equal Opportunity of Am
erica Throughout World.
(By Associated Press)

LONDON, May 11.-Germany's I'M
conditional acceptance of the entente
reparations was delivered to Lloyd
George this morning by the German
minister to Great Britain today.
Imperial Valley press., 1921-05-11

CHERBOURG, France, May IL
Col. Edward NJ. House, upon his ar
rival here this morning from America.
expressed regret that the conditions of
the Versailles treaty had not been
more vigorously enforced by the AL
lies.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
L a11liliar Fraud
Said to Yield
Million i'm CITY
Four Arrested Accused of
Obtaining Business Mems
Signatures i'm an Exten-
sive Directory Swindlc
Collected for Advertising
Trick Formerly Was Worked
by Fake Book Agents
With Farmers as Victims

Four men were arrested yesterday
following their indictment on charge
of second degree grand larceny who
are said to have lived in luxury for
years on the profits of business di-
rectory swndle as simple as that with
which fake book agents used to de-
celve farmers into signing promissory
notes.
The alleged victims in this case,
however, were not farmers, but some
of the most prominent business houses
of the country. Joab II. Banton, acting
District Attorney, estimated that at
least $1,00oOO0 had been obtained from
firms in this city.
Game Was Old in 1907
According to Detective Joseph A.
Daily and representatives of the viei-
lance committee of the Associated Ad-
vertsing Clubs of the World, who,
with jerome Simmons, Assistant Dis
trict Attorney, have been hunting for
months for the perpetrators of the al
legged fraud, the game was a profitable
one as far back as 1907 and was an old
one then.
The prisoners are James n. White
of GIT West 142d Street; his brothers
John F. White, of 800 Bedford Park
Boulevard, the Bronx, and Michael
White, of 1856 Fifth Avenue, and Will
liam B. Orr, of 1715 Seventeen Street
Brooklyn. Arthur A. Bowen, of sos
West End Avenue, a solicitor for the
alleged fake business directories, was
indicted two weeks ago.
The four men arrested as PRINCIPALS
are said to have devoted their entire
business careers to the scheme and, at
the time of their arrest to have de-
veloped it to such an extent that thcy
actually had purchased and published
annually an apparently Legitimate
business directory, the principal profit
in which, so far as they are concerned
is said to be the obtaining, in it's name
of the signatures of business men tc
subscription blanks, which later are
altered, by changing the first line, te
advertising contracts.
That is the essence of the game the
men arc said to have practiced. Their
solicitors, it is alleged, would approach
the head of firm or some other high
official and explain that a new business
directory was to be published, and ir
order to gain firm foothold it's pub,
fishers had authorized them to senc
complimentary copies to certain high.
class business houses.~
Method of Working Scheme
The president, or the secretary, OF
the treasurer, it is alleged, would be
asked simply as q matter of form ant
to keep the record straight, to sign hi.
name to an application blank for one
! Of the com nj imant9ry rouics
Substitution Of one or more lines fol
the first line of the application form
it is said, changed the blank into al
advertising contract to which, O.
course, the name of the officer of tn.
company was affixed. Detective Dal,
is said to have discovered yesterday
the negro printer in Harlem who hat
been doing this work recently
The directory, of which the alleged
| dupe was to get free copy, is said tt
Continued on page thrss)
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
Outsider May
Direct Science
Church Papers
Court Warns Litigants They
Must Agree ON Official by
Tuesday, Else He Will
Put Receiver in Charge
Dust Two More Trustees
Directors Drop Eustace and
Harvey, Want Mckenzie ,
Adams and Patton Named
speoia. Dispatch to The Tribune

BOSTON, Dec. 30.-The possibility of
the Christian Science Publishing So
ciety, which issues the various publica-
tlons OF the church, passing under con-
troll OF man not member of that
faith arose here to-day, when Judge
Crosby, in the Supreme Court, an
nounced that unless the board of di-
rectors of the Mother Church and the
trustees of the publishing society
agreed by next Tuesday on a new trus-
tee to succeed Lamont Rowlands, re-
Gently removed, he would appoint a
temporary receiver or trustee for the
society.
Judge Crosby declared that while he
would like to appoint Christian Sci
enlist to this position he would not
necessarily do so, but would select
man who, the ourt was confident,
would manage the society wisely for
the best interests of the trust created
by Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy.
Oustcd Men Ask for Receiver
This decision followed an ail-dav
hearing which developed considerable
acrimony on both sides. The directors
of the Mother Church, after voting the
removal of the remaining two trus-
tees of the publishing society TODAY.
petitioned the Supreme Court to ap-
point. full new board of three trus-
tees. Following this move counsel for
the trustees just declared removed
petltioned the court to appoint a re-
ceiver for the publishing society on
the ground that there should be some
responsible person at its head This
resulted in the warning of Judge Cros-
by that the church officials must reach
an agreement or face the possibility
OF having trustee who was not mem
Der of the church.
Judge Crosby ruled that John V. Ditte-
more, ousted director, who has pending
a bill seeking TO prove he was illegally
removed from the board, may take part
IN the conference for the selection of
a trustee. This trustee, OF receiver.
when appointed will act only temporarily
until the deposed officers have hear
ing on the question whether their re-
moval was legal.
The trustees removed to-day were
Paul Harvey and Herbert W. Eustace.
Lamont Rowlands previously had been
ousted by the directors. The court was
asked to appoint William P. Mckenzie,
OF Cambridge, George Wendell Adams
and James <. Patton, of Boston, to fill
the vacancies in the board of trustees
Sherman L. Whipple, attorney for
the trustees, disputed the legality of
the directors in removing his clients
and said that these trustees were now
functioning and would continue to do
so until an adjudication by the court
on their petition to be allowed to
resign. Mr.. Whipple then suggested
that temporary receiver take charge
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New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
Fire Drives 200 Hotel
Guests Into Streets
omoke nc From Burning Bakery
.auses Many to Flee From
Beds i'm Scantv Attire

-, - hre which destroyed one-story
psHery In the rear of 4 Union SQUARE
a. an early hour this morning drove
hssfiT hssi TWO hundred guests Of two
s.n av.sss situated near the bakery to the
p me blaze was discovered by Peter
FITS pplSilrs' twenty years old, of 401 East
slhilaeenth Street, who turned in an
S'aln'. Before the arrival of Engine
SSo;m,5pany So;, ID smoke from the burning
ggauolng began to pour into the Hotel
SSsse'ede' at 102-104 East Fourteenth
nsise1. The night clerk notified the
manager, N. NJ. Stockton, who, goine
~ - me switchboard, aroused each Of his
NC guests. There was some confusion
~ 'ne men, women and children in the
aua uaei leit their rooms in scanty attire
''S hurried to the street.
D. sshmoke also entered the New York
EEasnskeiier, which is located at 100 East
varIeenth Street, and the seventy five
suesss OF the place left the building in
tba; ofoerly manner. All returned to
sn.;I s'tir rooms after the blaze had been
nnl nnnslanguished. The cause of the fire is
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
Wagner x Co.,
Brokers, Assign
For$7 $7,500,000
Action of House That Has 81
Widely Scattered Branches
Follows Bankruptcy Suits
in New York and Chicago
Is Investigating
Head of Firm Blames Clos
ing Out Of Stocks on
Which Concern Was Long

Announcement was made from the
rostrum Of the Stock Exchange not
long before o'clock yesterday that Z.
W. Wagner & Co, members since April
13, 1916, and one of the largest wire
houses in the country, had failed. A
few minutes later the Committee on
Business Conduct of the exchange an
nounccd that 1t had commenced an ex-
animation of the firms affairs, as a re-
suit Of which the members were sum-
moned before the committee. This was
followed by the assignment.
Henry K. Kaufman, attorney, speak
ing for the firm in connection with an
involuntary petition in bankruptcy filed
in the afternoon, estimated liabilities
at $7,50o,oOo and assets at $5,0Oo,oO0.
The petitioners in the bankruptcy
proceedings are Peter J. Rogers, 3S3
Park Avenue, who declares the COM
pany owes him $4,000, representing
money advanced for purchase of stocks
on margin; Rudolph Guenther Russell
Law, Inc, 131 Cedar Street, alleging a
debt of $500, and Frederick Bos-
CuSdedlls 3f,UUU, SCI UOWii dS represent
ing money advanced for stocks pur-
the petitioners are Hays, Hershfeld e.
Wolf.
The assignment Of the firm was made
to Clarence c. Taylor and Chester Legg,
of Chicago. Judge A. N. Hand ap-
pointed John S. Sheppard, of 81 Cedar
Street, as receiver, with abond of $780,
900.
Charges Against Firm Member
The causes leading up to the assign
ment were considered at special
following the close of the stock mar
ket, and, although no official statement
was issued, it was learned that serious
charges were made against the firm, of
which +. w. Wagner is the floor men,
ber. Mr.. Wagner was in Chicago yes
terday. The member against whom
charges were brought is allowed ten
days to prepare his reply and then he
will be tried by the governing com
mittes. The interest of the governing
committee is associated with the cam
paign which the Stock Exchange has
launched to make sure that no rules
are violated.
At 33 New Street, where the firm has
Offices, the news of the failure brought
CONSERVATION to scores Of customers
seated in front of the large blackboard
where fuctuating digits recorded the
course of the stock and commodity
markets. There was a rush to learn
the status of their accounts, but in
quiries were met with the announce
ment that all information must come
from either the receiver or the as
signees.
On New Street the crowd became so
dense that special policemen were
forced to keep the curious from con-
gesting one of the financial districts
thoroughfares. From 3 o'clock on ac-
cess to the firms offices was denied
to all those who had no permit to enter
or who could not give a satisfactory
reason.
Arthur Garfield Hays, of Hays &
Wadhams, issued statement in be-
Continued on page fsur)
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
Gets U. $. Court Order
Against Shanley's; Plants
i55 Raiders at Choice Ia
bles in White Light Cafes

Cold and dry--extra dry, in fact
was State Prohibition Director Ralph
A. Days prediction yesterday for New
Years Eve on Broadway Not only
that thoroughfare but every street in
the city frequented by holiday-makers
on the ex-festival of New Years Eve
Is to be as dry as enforcement agents
and injunctions can make it, accord
ing to Mr.. Day.
The injunction adjunct to his forces
was invoked by Mr.. Day yesterday.
He obtained a temporary injunction
from Judge A. N. Hand of the United
States District Court to restrain the
management of Shanley's Restaurant,
III West Forty second Street, from
selling liquor.
Application for the injunction was
made under the common public nuis-
ance" section of the Volstead act. Not
only is the offender liable to the usual
penalty for infraction of the law, but
under this section his place OF bust
ness may be closed for a year, and in
defying the order of the court he is
guilty of contempt of court, for which
ali additional penalty may be inflicted.
1t is Mr. Days intention to resort
freely to the use of injunctions in his
campaign against New Years Eve
liquor. and he intends, regardless of
the conduct of the defendants on that
holiday, to prosecute the proceedings
tcsAhe end and urge that the iniunc-
tions be made permanent
Besides the injunctions, he will have
155 enforcement agents abroad New
Years Eve. Many of them, he said.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
Turtle Thrills i'm Mad Dash:
Smashes Mile Mark i'm 4 Years

barring the strsining Of tendon, moth
ing could prevent the Pearse coors
from being borne by world champion.
In the final hours of the race, when all
eyes were on the clocking, the pace was
rather better than one hundred yards
in five months.
Professor Pearses race was con-
Quoted as an experiment to determine
the mobility of the animal. and he an
nounced that the average distance COW
cred by 1876 turtles over a five-month
period was 115 yards. These turtles
came from the same marsh as the
champion, on the shore of Lake Men
lota, Wisconsin. In,that swampy region
the density of turtle population is five
to twenty-five an acre, which provides
the professor with quite stable of
youngsters from which to select prom
is.ng two-year- for his academic
steeplechasing.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
Kills Horses He Cannot Feed
Owner Penniless and Unable to
Find Buyer for Team

NEW LONDON, Conn, Dec. 30.-J ohm
Feldbar who lost his farm near Glas-
tonbury recently and most of it's equip
ment through foreclosure proceedings,
became desperate to-day when weeks
search had failed to reveal purchaser
for his team of horses, almost his sole
remaining asset.
He had no feed for the animals and
no money to buy any. Taking his
rifle, bit of personal property which
had escaped the auctioneer, Feldbar
led the team into the woods near his
home and shot the horses dead.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
2 Chinese Slain:
White Wife of
One Missing
y
Orientais Found Hacked to
Death With Cleaver i'm
West Side Rooms Where
Girl Often Was a Visitor
HusbandBelievedW ealthy
Callers inAuto Frequent,and
He Knew of Drug Raids,
Women's Names in Book

Through the Investigations of an
officer of the Chinese-American Citi-
zensWsAliience the police learned last
night of double murder in small
apartment on the second floor of a
boarding house at 1856 West Twenty
eighth Street, where HON Shew, an
Americanized Chinese of mystery, made
his home
The condition of the two bodies, that
of HON Shew and Chinese weighing
nearly 200 pounds and identified as
Tcm Sat, would indicate that death
had occurred at least three days ago.
HON shew's last appearance in Twen.
ty-eighth Street, according to friends,
was on December 4.
The two men were killed and their
bodies hacked with a cleaver, which
has not been found. Sat also was
stabbed with a knife found in the
kitchen. The police are looking for a
-year-old white girl of beauty
and reinement who lived in the board
ing house at frequent intervals As HON
Shew's wife. They also are investigate
ing the rumor that HON Shew and the
ether victim were killed as the result
of drug deal.
Victim Said To Be Wealthy
Friends OF Hon went to the Office
of the alliance in Mott Street yester-
dav afternoon and informed Lee Du,
executive manager, that their failure
to reach HON Shew, who was of wide
acquaintance, but with few real friends,
at his apartment had reused their sus-
picions. Lee Du went to the boarding
house. He talked with Mrs. Thomas
Dolan, who showed him to the apart
ment of her Chinese boarder, reputed
to be wealthy. The door was locked
and repeated knocking was un-
answered.
Lee Du went at once to the West
Thirtieth Street police station and
three detectives returned to the board
ing house with him. The door was
forced and opened in upon suite
which had been furnished tastefully
but simply, after the Occidental rather
than the Oriental custom. The gas
was burning in every jet. Everything
in the three rooms was wrecked, tables
were overturned, chairs upset and car
pets scufF1ed into the corners.
On the bare floor of the main room
the body of HON Shew was stretched,
The face and right hand had been
chopped away The body was clothed
in a tailored suit of fashionable cut.
In a smaller room, which opened off
the main room, the other bod was
found. 1t had been thrown back
across a wall settee. The furnishings
of this chamber were even more ccm-
pletely demolished than those of the
one in which HON Shew was found,
indicating that Hom's guest had
fought more desperately than his most.
In this mans pocket birth certificate
issued in San Francisco was found.
1t recorded the birth of Tom Sat,
thirty-one years ago.
Detectives, after superficial exami-
nation, dismissed the theory that the
two men had killed each other. On the
wall of the living room they found a
large portrait of HON and his American
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New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
soecior psspotcl, to Yhe Tribune

TORONTO, Ontario, Dec. 3o.-Pro-
fessor A. S. Pearse, of the University
of Wisconsin, admitted to the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science in solemn session here to-day
that following the horses vas not half
as exciting as racing thoroughbred
turf against time. All the parapher-
MALTA required is a turtle, a watch and
plenty of time.
Turtles that the professor tagged and
let loose have achieved what is believed
to be world record for speed among
turtles. Under mis- tutelage and stop
watch work one turtle has travelled a
little over a mile in 3 years II months
10 days. The tension during the last
nineteen days can better be imagined
than described.
By the last week it was seen that.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
Big ) Agree on Ratio
For Airplane Carriers;
Fix 27,000-Ton Limit
'SlLLY,' Says Harding, Commenting
On Reported Break With Hughes
From The Tribuno's Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON Dec 3The President to-day characterized
silly the himself
Hughes.
truth The Executive the correspondents and
suspend
to be quoted Sy and o said the President
with emphasis "There nothing in it, SILLY and capital
which have
newspapers
Secretary
President the conference
satisfactory message brought kept
Eughe eforlu at White House.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
Marines Convicted of
killing Managua Police
Sentenced to Ten Years Inn
prisonment as Result of
Clash in Nicaragua

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Dec. 80 (By
The Associated Press ).-The American
marines who have been on trial before
a naval tribunal composed of officers
from the United States cruiser Calves
ton, in connection with clash here
with the Nicaraguan police, have been
found guilty of the staying of three
Nicaraguan policemen.
The marines have been sentenced to
ten years Imprisonment at hard labor.
The killing of three Nicaraguan
policemen and the woundng of FIVE
citizens in Menagua in street fight
between marines and civilians, was
told of in advices from San Juan del
Sur, Nicaragua, last week.
Washington accounts of the incident
said it had taken place on December
s, giving the names Of three American
marines, who were slightly wounded
in. the fight, as Sergeant Lee Henry,
of Louisville, KY; Corporal Ray Frey,
of Carthage. Mo-, and Private Arthur
Owen, of Spokane, Wash. The marines
were described as being attached to
the American Legation.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
Man, Pursuing Thieves,
Wounded by Patrolman
Victim Shot as Officers Gun Is
Discharged When Latter
Falls From Auto

The theft of two spare tires from
the rack on an automobile standing at
Madison Avenue and Sixty fourth
Street last night resulted in a chase
in which ten shots were fired and one
man was accidentally wounded.
Charles Allmark, chauffeur for Mrs.
Jeannie l.. Newcombe, of $50 Park Ave
nue., saw four men remove the tires
from the unguarded car. They jumped
into their own machine, standing near
by, and drove north in Madison Avenue
to Ninetieth, Street. Allmark, driving
the Newcombe car, pursued them. At
Sixty seventh Street he picked un
Patrolman John Mulrayne, Of the Fla ast
Eightyeighth Street station.
At Ninetieth Street, Patrolman Mul-
rayne fell from the running board
accidentally discharging his revolver
The bullet struck Almark in the foot
He was taken to Reception Hospital
pital. The thieves escaped.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
Day Resorts TO h,junctions to
Keep Broad,vay Dry Tonight
Good Liquor Scarce;
IL Dead Here So Far

s'rom 7'ho T,sbuno's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Dec. SO.--"IVc
hare made 1t ertromcly hard to
gel good hquo, it Ne'o York"
saiG JONES e. Jones, acting Pro
hibition Commissioner, to-day.
"Ninoty- eight per cent of the stuff
confiscatod there nerer sag tho
inside of q bonded acarehousc.
NcU Years Eue should be the
drycst cucr ,,1town to the metrop-
OILS"
Three now dead from wood alcohol
were reported yesterday, making
eleven so far in the holiday total.
In hospitals sixty-three victims of
alcohol were in various stages of ill
ness. Forty-ninc Of these we're in
Bellevue.
Deaths reported yesterday were
William Doolcy, fourteen years old.
of 322 West Twenty sixth Street;
William J. Samuels, forty-thrce years
old, a waiter, of 201 Second Avenue,
and Mrs. Madalinc Newbig, seventy
years old, 80 West End Avenue.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
Egyptian Troops Fire
on Mobs During Rioting
se reported Slain and Fifteen
Wounded in Outbreak
at EuMa

pniho; Dec. so (By The Associated
Eyva.!! During rioting at t5u. 4
ns e'y'lan .n troops were compelled to fire
ma asrs Me mobs. 1t is reported that five
venus ons were killed and fifteen
leaSa'n a'n lagloul Pasha, Nationalist
asst, as,ss, and his five followers, who were
Ann s.. at Cairo last Friday, sailed
i 80 euez for Ceylon last night.