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Get Ass . | aad report sclded 'to. 'and six. to report a, warm end them go last. * he. hail and . have animua®* le on, the opera: , & - cost - and agalyst The tiwi» voted. fo - . have - on . Jouks geems e Bim . mittee TI am , and II ale could no. and . rstand ar thit ab not of yoores and there» this pros esterday byterian Fred presi- Mi. ; |C. _ Mrs. Henry S. Min- as of of Cong» super» State vocating e infant re reore . ig- at time $250 city > do- es met of the organ- Eni State.\ ate to de- and work, of Gen- was mest Sis (the tates, 2. x UARD ate of com- Gornt R. \Pat\ FP. O as as a §. everythin mh ona p a * GAMBLERS: - 2 nod - ~~ [For More Hana Century : - | ~a Creat Newspaper® + If It Happens in Albany It's in The Argus ALBANY, RNEN 18, 1920. ' ~* ITB WEATHEN, For Albany and vicinity, cloudy. SEVEN CEN ego . - : Gamblers Over Héad-of _ %n \~ Safety Chigh *, In four Sensational raids, 61311: ducted, itswwas:said, over the h ad 'of J. Sheldon Frost, commissic Police James . L.. Hyatt, Sheriff Frank A. Cos§ and Captain John Dugan, ' .of the. Third / precinet, gambling parapher- nalia 'were confiscated} and \four [. mén were. te a § < James prictor of the Totem Chib; In 18 Greén'street, one of the, places leged to be his assistant, were nity. of ~climbing in the wagon i with the other men, , « While Sheriff Coss. and- his party. were. raidiig the Totem Club, a party of policemen from the Third precinct under the di- 'rection of Sergeant. Thomas J. Smythe, 'raided the. St. Francis hotel in Broadway. No arrests were made and no paraphernalia confiscated, . the police. reporting ng quict, although gamb« ling is said to have been in pro- A- gress a few minutes before. Captain Dugan tool: personal charge of the raid conducted nearly an hour afterward on the «oom of the.O'Brien Association, 46:Orange street. Here parapher- |. nalis was-confischted, but no ar- | rests were made. > » 'The eaid on the Totem Club wa con- ducted. under: the. personal direction of Ebhorif® Frauk Coss and. attaclies of the district attorney's offi¢e. 'They surprized more than 150 men alleged to be gainb- Ting and took jnlo custody : < Henry Bremmer; 44 years, old: & James Moran, 35 years 'old, i Christopher .Fieming, S1 years old: George Burns; 49 years old, » Sheriff Coss served warrants on Irimes McGrane, alleged to be the proprictor of the Totem Club, and. William Droode, ' alleged to be the manager. Neither of the men were taken into custody.\ It was explained they. can be called for examination later. , , The other men were charged with vic. lations of the State gambling laws and admitted to bail for $1,000 each by City Court Judge Edward J. Halter and Re- corder Edward Easton, They will be given m hearing in Polic, coptt this morning at 10 o'clock, \Tip\ Belore aids, * , The reason for the failure of the raids conducted by Caplain Dogan is said to be on account of a \tip\ passed out yes terday 'afternoon. 'That the raids were to be conducted was known as carlf as yesterday afternoon. Newsboys had the facts early Iast night.. When the police arrived they fould only '@ few men iit ting in the rooms of the O'Brien Asso: iation. At the St. Francis. Sergeant Thomas J. Smythe of the Thint precivet, yrhoadi te the raiders, reported. \noth- Ing doing. - {The Totem Club raid was the most Epectacular that has been conducted in Albany in many years. Arriving in Green street shortly after 11 oclock. the raid. Tx smashed = flass fu the front of the [ place and swung the lock on the door. Rushing in Steptan Tromball. an attache of the commissioner of public safety's ofice. crabbed a sult case fall of gear ters and half dollars allered to be the \bank\ for the crap games the raiders declared were in progress when they ¢ =_ To, l Sheriff Directs Roundup\ of Mllegedeqopbigfiof Served With | ~. prices were going up. - and ; H. ”w |, sof qulig}°saféfy, and Chief 'of, raided,\ ahd Willian. Droode, al-] | served. with warrants by V‘Shheri‘l‘f . ~' Coss and'did not suffer the indig-. £ . +400 nl E TPP OFF '- SEIZE STORES OF ¢. FOOD PROFITEERS h ET * leged. to haye profiteered,- may have. their grand Jury here finds. that they hoarded'to boost: prices.. . ¥bod. distributors appeared before the grand jury 'n.answer to summons today to explain why cars, | containing thou- sands. 'of bushels of potatoes and other produce, stood idle in freight yards while potato prices jumped: 75 cents n: hundred age. © - ' »In an effort to lower food prices, the government plans to turn over 19;000,- pounds-of ariny ments to the city for distribution at cheap prices, dut SHOUT SAND ROTHER M Rnymogui Stott, 14 year old son of Mr. and Mrs, Peter Stott of 2 Clinton street, was shot by his:brotlier, Harry Stott, 18, | while engaged in target shooting in Ken- wdod at 5.90 o'clock yesterday afternoon, 'and died half an hour later in St, Poter's hospital, . The bullet entered Raymond's side and passed through his Intestines, resulting in Internal hemorrhages. Coroner John E. Mullen took charge of the body and Dr. Thomas M. Holmes of Delmar, one of the toroner's physicians, performed an autopsy, | 'The body was turned .over. to George W. Babcock; a Ravena undertaker. ono - 'The Stott brothers, with a, companion; left: home, with in old 22 inch long: re- peating rifle to. go to Kenwood for tar- get practice\ Whe rifle did not work properly, according to the 'story. Harry told Coroner to adjust the breeek Tock. the weapon,; he said, 'It necidentally, ex- ploded, Ie heard Rayriond yell, he told; and. saw him hi Raymond, was standing near .the tar- got m_ distance of about 15 feek from where Harry was. 'Harry hurried «hona, to tell his mother of what had Happened; while his companion ran .to a nearby house. and trlephoned for the hospital umbilance. - Raymond never regained consclousness. Hs 4s . , Are. Stott became hystérieat on Tearn- fur of 'the news of the-death of her son find a pBysician was called to attend her. The Stott family only recently. moved Ast he raised to Albany from Ravena. 29s STUDENTS OFFER TO OPERATE IDLE _ ELEVATORS IN N. Y. New York, April 17.-College students; who turned gut hundreds strong to move freight and passenger trains when rails road insurgents went on strike, late to- day came forward as volunteer strike breakers in the walkout of elevator op- erators in this city. Announcement was made from New report for work at the Equitable Build- Ing Monday morning if the strike is not settled before then. __ , . Employes and union officials differed today ax to the number of operators, men and women, who had walked out.. Service 'was maintained in many office buildings and aptrtment houses through. the aid of wartime women workers and tenants. Loe TIMES ASSERT $ ASIRISH VICEROY London, April 18-The Sunday Times said. today It hed learned Lord French Fad Fesgncd the vieeroyship of Ireland. F toed m lt u, | 4 Chicago, April 17.-Food dealers, al- | - GLASS wtores confiscated by the government if a |- gERmMaNy - MAIN .. Who investigation was started whc'li' © pounds on reports‘of an alleged short- -| ing. with ;|feat attitude at the feace conference and 'lix the expressive words of Nu,\ celebrated : ~| satisfactory, to all can Mullen, 'and \he: attempted |- *| with considerable spirit, as Nitti, ramification h ssi lost 5:1. i?“ be!- each | possible explosive, York that 45 coller? 1d 1 act that Trambifch; bead C Equitable Baik Jugo-Slay® delégation. the Italiai government, bas not been in- vited to attend. Bot the main diss ion will center upon German affaire They bave lost no part of theif position in standing the fortnnate settlement of the Franco-British di€erences, to which I te- Terred at length last week in my cables fo this newspaper, , British points of view todas appear to be prfedis prigh . _._ fIsore and more in opposition to each FRENCH RESIGNS U\ ; \The British rep a many, General Malcbim Bingham. Mas- ferman at Berlin. Reginald Tower in tain their advocaey of sach a kindly en-. foragmt of the Versailles treaty as woul tnpon the basis of the nations, Kea. purzled 1 - a ite, FOR SUCCESS OF ALM CONFAB French Publicist \Sees .. Many, 7Fprmerv Ambassador Believes in ~]. *~* Independence for - Controversies, Hovering ' .~. : Over: Table. ~ .- A. Up and Turkey Will - Be Heard. _}. This week Pertina: little: to be offimiistic wilh regard which has) great potentialities: of .qoo and evil. The differences betweew Brits d and France, whith mnadjusted, would have ' @ goriain fashion, Rrance: stil reccuby- her armed forces, those bor is, of. Germany, which. she recent vaded~% th. Ahotaftiouncement \tint: nvasion . her own protection. sand England ' has not. withdrawit, from. the Council of the Allies. But all is not en- lira-If calm. and, promising» Italy re- (mains bifter -as the result of the Amer- expert, \The treaty remains 'a dead: let- ter and every effort to find a middle way 7 but promote is ultimate * desruction.\ . The | Perlinag dispatch, which follows, is not optimistic ut . reveals * situations wilal to. the world. + By.PERTINAX. , ~. (Copyright, 1000.) . 20 Paris, April 17.-On the eve of, 'the San Remo conference, for which the statesmen now arc, gathcring, the sky is still full of clouds.. One hundred years ago the Congress of Vienna was fol- lowed by,'a succession of minor conferences. at: Letbach Trop and Verond, cach entrusted witfi carrying out some detail of the decisions arrived at at the bigger meeting. I . , The procedure is repeated now. Following . tipon the Versailles conference, we svent to London and next Siturday 'we shall be in, San Remo. The great difference between that time and this is that as. we all start for San Remo, clouds of failure seem to dim the prospects' far more darkly than they dimmed the prospects of the negotiators, of last century. The Turkish treaty will loom largely. among the ,problems of. the San Remo conférence., Russian affairs will be »discussed and possibly the Italian premier, is said, to have come to the conclusion that official relationships should be resumed with that great country despite its Soviet rule. - Who shall say what this discussion will give rise to? > Must Setéle Adriatic Problem: The Adtiatic problem with its many overlooked of course, despite of 'the ® having failed to take the minimam pledge required the éenfer of the stage. Notwith- the French and the ntatives in Ger- antrig, and Rennic in Allenstein, main- be tantamount to its revision | SUNDAY MO Italy's: Claims: Must 'Be Taken . c v. the areatest liv- ing expert. ow international affairs, {sees to the. imminent San-Remo conference; been. sure to levesttnale in. nothing but. disaster, have' been arranged faflcr inference: charged. that G, APRIL « «005 IC NEAR NORMA * ican Lives IES molt JUNTED 5 \oil © - Sonora. Arizona Senator Says State Will Resist Passage of .._; <= , _ Mexicans. ko g, . . By the Associated Press.». Washington, April 17. -De- mand:for protection of American lives and property. in Mexico and he border was voiced at the ol today. mer ambassador to Mexico, was unless a stable independent state United States ought to intervene as Tar south as the Tampico dis-. trict, Democratic-senators were severely attacking the adminis- trathn's policy on the Senate foor 'and urging that no permis- sion be given allowing, Mexican, troops -to cross American terti- tory. * . Denouncing | Carranza's \murderous _ bandits,\ Democrat; declared\ that if the federal government did not prevent their, passage through Arizona to attack Sonor rebels, he hoped his state would. Ashurst said? TI now warn the executive branch . of tiils government that it has'an en- tirely - Inadequate force of troops on - tha Mexican border to protect Amori- gan citizens in the United +States from | these murderous bandits of Carrdnzn. | > {o. Arizona has once before been made the highway for these | inurderers, and now they again want to itse our State as a base from which to attack the only «lecent government | in Mexico. 20 If the federal government will not \ protect Arizona, Arizona will pro- with her good right arm. Denounces Wilson Policy. Former Ambassado¢ Wilson informed a Senate committce that President Wil- son has drafted m plnk for the Dem- ceratic platforgn \declaring that perce reigns in Mexico and the | administra- tion's nolicy has been vindicated.\ | , 'Any man who supports President Wilson's Mexican policy is unpatriotic and | un-Amefican,\ Wilson continued. He . said the | administration's | policy could be explained only by the Presi- dent's, \obsession that he knew every- thing about Mexico and that no one else knew anything,\ and a \determination to expand the power of the presidency beyond all precedent.\ e 'The Mexican embasty here fonight made public: telegrams exchanged be- tween President Carranza and Governor de. La Huerta of Sonora just prior to. the \recostion' of that state from the Mexican federal government. .* In a telegrant to President Carranza on April 4, Governor de La Hucrta by Carranza was ending the force of federal troops into Sonora to depose the governor becat«« of his support to. the candidacy of Gen- eral Obregon for President and \subs tute him by another person whose poli may satisfy the tendencies of the gov- ernment of the republic.\ troops . as Ashurst, Arizona Correcting erroneous Itapression given in oficial quarters yesterday, the State department fonight fesued a state- ment that the»\Mexican government has not 'requested ~ authority ~ \to- __ move its troops across Tnited States Territory,\ 16 attack the 'revolting\State of \Sonora. It was explained that 20 Mexican fed- eral army officers with their wives in Hermosillo, eapital of Sonora, hed asked cARRANZ& MEN Denouncep , While“ Henry L. : Wilson, for-| ¥elling\a \Senate committee that | is set up. in northerr? Mexico, the |. 7, and sale of Hawaiian pineapples, Swift 'and Libby of Chicago, and Libb; Evroncous Impréssion Correcled. answer complaints of unfair competition trary to -provision of the Clayton act.i MONTREAL FOLK : the nousual sicht. Telegntph operators, Washington, April 17.-\The railmad jin the Tobby of the Hcue abandoned. labor beard ant down to business today tection of Amer PfC+ {OVERALL PRICES. JUMP _ 'TO- RECORD FIGURES AS SWEEPS NATION »divected by a traflic cop on Fifth over regalia; . Collin 4 .' TROLLEY LINES Steam: train Denver, Colo., April 1 street car system was parnlyzed and wire communications in. Colorado badly de- moralized after 12 hours of one- of the worst blizznrds on record in this section. Trains were not, permitted to leave the Denver whion station, 'and a-number of through trains. wore held at way stations, Tenving passengers. stranded. Sections of Denver were in darkness on account-of- high tension wires being short circuited: City telephone service also was demoralized, 'The wet, heayy snow was driven by a 40 mile wind, Miles of poles were snapped near Palmer Lake, Colo., eutting off Colorado Springs, Pucblo and other points. PRESIDENT PAYS ~ FLORAL TRIBUTE TO R. C. SULLIVAN Chicago, April 17-A wreath of white caSnntiosm'. bearing the card: \From the Président,\ -was placed on' the grave of Roger C. Sullivan, Democratic political chieftain, today. 2. n old woman, for years a recipient of Sullivan's, kindness, placed a small potted geranium beside the présidential wreath, Between these two, thousands of per- sons of high and low degree, made effort to pay respect ta the memory of the man who liked to tell how he came to Chicago a farm boy and rose to be one of the most powerful factors in lilinois and national politics, Trafic was practmljy suspended by the long fureral procession that followed Roger Sullivan to his grave. TWO COMPANIES \CITED AS HAVING TRIED MONOPLY | Washington, April 1¢-Charged with attempting to monopolize the growing; and Company of Chicago, Libby, Mei?\ i Neill and Libby of Honolula were cited today by the federal tuide commission to and of acqniring competitors' stock con-} The averments assert that the companies : acquired control of five competing pine + aple concerus in Hawaii. | \ Thiué members kt the newly former\ \Over Leff fo xight-Migs Edua~Richnond,; Roland Bottomiey service here touight was stopped, the city |- [parade on Broadway, it became \?o A\\ Copyright International, » | AnD Club of New York beng: 'They are shown in their-economy aud 3 » thie. * +88; Representative Puts ~~... Them On. ~ By the Associated Press, / New York, April 17.-Just as New | Yorkers\ today | launched their campaign on the high cost of clothing by staging an overall known that second hand army averalls, recently sold by the gov- ernment for 16 cents a pair, were being offered for sale by-dealers for $3. . This discovery was made, by Edward W. Ward, director of a department of the Knights of Columbus that helps soldiers re- cover lost baggage,. > 'The overall parade wax staged by 75 members of the Cheese Club, an organ- ization of dramatic critics, 'and | press agents, who braved the rain to march down the great White Way in denim, A crowd _ of several | thousand. | persons ¢heored Thomas Oliphant, president, when the parade halted at Forty-sizth street to permit him to deliver an oratorical at- track on the, profiteering clothiers. . His request for a boycott of that class of dealers and support of the movement to wear overalls until clothing prices were lowered brought cheers from the crowd, comprising mostly \white collar\ work ors, It was announced that the Cheese Club and delegations of the Knights of Co- Tumbus, _ Women's - Civic Federation, Bronx Business Men's Club, American Figing and the Rotary Club will march in another parade Monday, Representative Dons 'Em. Washington, April 37. - Representa- tive Upshaw, Democrat, Georgin. ap- peared iu the House today. wearing overalls,. His suit caused something of a sensation, but in reply to questions of members he said there was nothing un- usual about it: that it was simply a morn - to > strike at the high cost of clothing. - Representative Upshaw said he bad been promised the cooperation of IHep- resentatives Ferris | and Carter. Demo erais, Oklahoma, in organizing an over all etub, | Representative Connally, Pem- cerat, Texas, Mr. Upshaw said, . would ~ }] railroad ( [ proved conditions, with here and: it there a show of lingering stub- # bornness by the strikers to con- HURRYING BAGK - Improved Conditions Reported most \INsURGENTS\ BACK Gains in Passenger and Freight: Movements Reported in' - Most Districts. By the Associated Press. [8 Trafic on the country's main arteries of transportation affected:. nearer normal last night than;ait; any. time since its disruption; *\\ With the machinery . of the railroad labor board in Washiffge 1 - here. jfcame reports from the principal ; gentres of vastly im- tinue an struggle, In the New York metropolitan district, \insurgent\ firemen and apparently - hopeless (CSS. but their absence from the ter- minals, according to reports, is not retarding progress in the gains made in both freight and - passenger movements, * A strike last night of pnssengor triin switchmen in Cleveland was short liveil, > They were ordered to return to work fine - mediately by the president of the Yarl« men's Associntion and dil «o, with tha . exception of one erew that could not he found. More than 1,000 switechmen and other yard employes in \Toledo reported | far work yesterday and got back their | old rous Full crews would be one ating toduy, it was said, on nll the 23 railronds entering there and freight would be mov- ing normally in two or three days. > tral yards at Detroit is called off by Mon- day, it was anuonnced, an attempt would a be made to break the tieup with former gwitehmen recrnited from the ranks of idle factory workers, , Other roads would do likewise, it was said. * New Aspect. The strike in the Chicago terminal district took a new aspect with an addi< tional demand for recognition of the Chf« caro Yardmen's Association as the gov- erning body of railway awitchmen aud yardmen. Jobn Grunau, its president. de- nied it was planned to call off the strike, Switchmen of the Florida East Coast Railway in the south Jacksonville yards bave returned to work. necepting a pro- posal auxin the findings of the railroad Tabor board. Striking yardmen in the Buffalo vis- trict voted last night to return to work. In Scranton, contrary to expectations. the walkont, Lackawanna. had not been settled, but there wore indications it' would end today. Switchmen in the Lackawanna and Erie yards at Elmira were ondered back Inst night. - All roads entering Thiladelphia re- ported detidediy: improved conditions, . A. 0. Wharton. international president of the railroad employes department of the American Federation of Labor, Teft Kansas City last night for Washington arganize an old elothes clob alopg siroi- Yar lines. . . Wherever he went the Georgia mem-. ber was an object of eariosity about the' Capitol. | Nightreers passing throuzh the: corridors stopped ard razed at Fim. CATCH VIEW OF pernjssion \ to | pass through Tnited States territory® from Northern Sonora; to E1 Paso, in civilian clothes and un-. armed. en roate t6 Mexico City. The request was understood to + : , Montreal April IZ-A report Hati k cir be: s have} mend T iof Congress to join in been rade to Toited Siktex fomigration Joles W. (\Nicky\) 'Avastein, a fogi- tigh cost of Tiving. : authorities at Nocalez, abd Major (en- tive from New York where be is wanted. a broke fo. - . a a F by the leral Di . commanding the south rres y - Tn the ratting parte. was spear! The Times detared - bistons: of the [Rete which \tn \expareed' af The oh, *C totse cased thaws to wei vos Trumball. Charles W. Beatles, of} Irth Catholic c¥orch bave been by their well known repopmantt|Sesreiaty . The Séate ecpartment \a\ Caused elaborate Plans to bef Wm attorney's 3 Thames! ored to Rome to confer with The another resort To militarstie fores.linformed Eaker That Te precedent to be f made Tor his exntore. | Accondine 'eses. wf the «ltormgy's wice. Wfifzfi‘rm “figs-£4 v in. Jorg pleasant way. by 'the Iradi-{ followed was not Th grant the reqornk Trport imam‘?‘a Sr. James t= , the ths al - home fule e --- qstrert. Votre mes - (Continued on Stcomd Page) The qguper said. _ ~ (Continadd on SecondPaze) XContivaed on Fourth Parey wht tim in disposi, a . Sth 2. L wued \ \ w, sin pie f - i ~ . a ’ 10, \ ' m minal roe omnis mien SLIPPERY NICKY |} Pazes ran out of the House chamber and peeped around the stone pillar to ses: hele | work. _ Policemen conmratalafed; bim. and employes said they would fol-} tow ls example. Later Mr. Upshaw made a sneei in the House in which be urged all rseabers? m wombatting the . Labor Profest« f Chicago, April 17.-White the everall | movement is spreading thmorhont hei tontral west. it bas already beaoh fot Ter Springfield. Wij - : Down To Business o-- -, bo n eitFeczent tr Spril I. T I. N. Doak, to altend meetings of the railroad labor board this week. Labor Board Gets with the election of It. M. Barton of Tennessee. a member of the pablic group. as permanent ehairman. nud the mppoin{ment of C. P. Carrithers. of Teras. as pertsanent setretary. Mr. Car- vithers was formerly of ad-. beand 1. of the railroad admin- istration, j ll With Hts machinery in orer to adinst the ware Vemands of nearly 2,000,000 ‘ggfimé Tu - as it Stood when the beparthan sifostment beard Tailed vice prefiGent of the « ha .A + RAILROAD MEN ~- TUNE . from Principal Centres | @- of Country, aet o 2000 by the \outlaw\ strike was far > ton: Set.in motion to adjust vir-\ l ious wage controversies, ther enginemen voted to remain out; |; Strike Ends Quickly. [C Unless the strike in the Michigan Cone __
