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Als to suc- Town» has fm of He had Savicgs 190%, with the time feerm . TO8TH YEAR-NO. 112 «~ £05 F ORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNIT ED STATES HAS JUST BEEN ADDED TO THE LONG LIST OF CELEBRATED CORRESPOND- Cus y 5. ENTS WHO CONTRIBUTE IN THIS VICINITY EXCLUSIVELY TO THE ARGUS _ For More Than a Century \_ a Great Newspaper -| - <> % U so . c+ rgus ~ THB WEATHER, For Albany and viculity, fair. < \L Eel) OF STRlK If It Happens in Albany ll’s in The Argus THREE CEN TS Empwe. . «4 MORE TROOPS IF REQUIRED f ~j-- Supreme Councll Prepared for Any Emergency, Greek - Troops Prepared t“. ' i h By the Auaaplutod Press ,) San Remo, April] 21. -The >. supreme council of the allies is |, / _.: fully } prepared to\ -the lurkrsh treaty: by -mrl|tary force,. if necessary. The 'council. ac- éepted today. aplan drawn for the |- employrient of the allied armies. B by: Marshal Roch,. Field Marshal |-> Sir Henry Wilsbn, British. chief |. _ of staf, \and . General Bado'fllo, Italian chief 'of staff, who. were. present at the morning session- Two hundred thousand allied - troops now are within the borders ' of the Turkish, empire, strategi- cally disposed, and these forces |; can be increased, if. Turkish re- |. sistance dévélops formrdably, to any csscntial« number, - Greece |' will probably supply the largest number of troops. i : Supplementary/nun! plans were also approved by the council, to which Baron Beatty, commander of the British grand eet, and (Admiral anarnssour, asslat: ant ,to 'the.chief of the general staff 'of tho French navy, explained the plans inf person. The treaty which 'the councit purposes to finish today does not Include, the final arrhngements for mandatory states. They will simply be cut apart from Turkey and disposed of by the . supreme council in the future. The council has deter- mined to leave Kurdistan part of Tutk- fsh territory for & periof of two years, and then decide whether to leave it with Turkey or make, it- sonar-ale province under a mandate, France is making fresh proposdls respecting Smyrna. 'This morning the council discussed the, composition of military, naval. and actial commissions in Turkey. : It gave to the military aud naval experts the in: structions necessary for preparation 'of data for compilation by the- editor l comrhmléce on” articles relative. to. Torkish treaty. “The limit to be fixed -for the rrght i - requisition to be exercised by these com- missions also was considered. The ques- tion of Turkuun was settled by the conneil. The council Ind a dreary, three hours' afternoon , session | over Turkish bond- . holders\ rights; then over boundaries _ Imt did not finish the treaty» altogether, 'The news of Germany's request. to re- fain an army. of 200,000 reached San Ttemo first. through 'The Associated Press dispatches. and was discussed -in an animated in conference cirt cles. 'If is recalled [that 200,000 was Marshal Foch's_ original figure for the German army, but .it was reduced to 300,000. at the instance oll’relmer Lloyd G e{illnee'prlsrxneta decided to end the council on Satirday.. Many questions <eill be left: pusettled, but each minister hak infernal problems at. demanding his attention. 'That ls oficial explanation.. . - The Mexicas embasce Issued a formal Statement on the situation, declaring ‘hc revolution to be coly a mo * The statement added, bowever, that 1! The secession movement should xpread, it Would result in \the stoppage of busi- ness, turtailment of wealth and interna- tional commerce, and the andefimte post- ponement of the foreisn debt. The embsssy said the only stafe gov- cram-s sympathining with the tybemon Enrique Estrada of Zeca- (manithe—owmoraf Mict rme on the & Retina Walla now , expres “A! MEATS FROM ALBANY MARKETS EXBIBIT-FOR - FEDERALGRAND® JURY (Spcclnl to The Arm\) . YRACUSE, Aprit 21,-Meat pur- , chased. in Albany markets by Captain Holdndge of the depart- ° ment of justice and broight here on ice was thie picce de resistance of evidence in Albany méat profiteer: ing cases presented to {federal grand ury here this afternoon. sed here whether Judge < Harland Howe will return to Syra- cuse on Monday to preside at retrial of (Janell and Leonard as planned., -L _--ogee he.. R ENGLISH LAUGH AT DEPENDENCY REVOLT RUMOR New York. April 21-Representatives here of the British governnient today pro- feséed ignorance of muy investigation ot reports that a-plot was being batched in \ew York to foment simultaneong upris- ings in various British®dependencies, _- Cable despatches received yesterday from London stated that British officials were conducting an' inquiry into con- stantly reiterated reports that a conspir- acy was afoot in this' city for revolts in ef Egypt, India. Ireland and Canada. IY AND Navy Y INCREASE Is DECIDED UPON Washington, April 21-Pay Increases of 31 percent for the enlisted peerronnel of the navy and % percent for the enlisted (personnel of the army with sraduated in- Tease for commisnoned officers in both were tenfatively acreed upon day by the Senate and House confer-ca service pay NH. Eul Increases woold be retroactive to Tast January 1. ce. \On“! Board\ Doubt is THAETIUN SMB\ Assembly Battle Ends When Unexpected Adlournment 290 PRUMIS ll] WEARfllB T0GS UNTIL DEATH OF H. G. L WHHKFHSHUUT SPEAKERS WHO W|I| Not 'Buy ‘Unnecessary Clothes, Meeting Dull Before Pledge Amendment the family budget, clothing be brought down. the ultimate consumer, 'have this effect and would serve the pur- pose of showing profiteers where they stand in public opinion. Colbert, lender: of Mrs. Blizabeth v. can the price yf, Reaction of he said, would as Men Scorn Effort a LOUISE RETURN Meeting Dissolves in Uproar. = |majoRity 12 vorEs’ sHohr R ls Forced. * Two hundred Albanians pledged themselves last night at a meet- ing.in the Education bulldmg, to refrain from buying new clothes Albany county's Demoerntic women, and their cooperation in the movement. Pledges were passed and. most of those present signed them, but the women fell in line ouly when the words signifying \any Llolluug' was changed to. \inneces- Mrs Joseph Gavit in brief talks pledged |. for Peace, cHickeo FREIGHT MoviNG: ‘a’bmtm—dn- Hilbert Was at Home 'With Her, She ’Testrfres, Giving Lie to Charge of-Detectives. \ (By the Associated Press.) New York, April 21.-Frail and gray-haired, Mrs, Augustus D. Porter, wife 'of the suspended third deputy police commissioner on trial charged with wilful neg- lect of duty in connection with New York's vice. crusade, took the witnes$ stand today in her, husband's defense, the only woman in the court room. She'testified that Porter was at home with her on the night of November 12 last, at the very hour plainclothesmen swore they found. him under compromising circumstances with a woman in a faided upper West Side apart- ment _, M When she had finished her direct tes- timony, the prosecution anounced \ho questions,\\ and both sides rested. The cass is expected to go to the jury tomor- ”fire. Porter. who said she had been mmaftied 14 years, asserted she remem- bered November 12 very well, for she had come home from Morristown. \N. J., day béfore-Arinistice day-and her trunks had not arrived until the night of the 12th. Her husband had belped ber unpack them. she testified. and a friend of his bad called and spent a con- gamble part of the Genm' wxlh then.} This man. Beroai j Red earlier in [Erma-nth!) called ' on Porter and remained with him until Wande-«IW perseess two patrolmen and fermer members of State enminal anarchy «latolé % ex-lvts original plan to wear at the and central Eorope and to bring the har-. mmmfiml'k). It mar—arr c—mya \{ bills, 'before definite action had -| bers'of the house battled over the A nutrcxpatron of a decrsrvc vote .f on an oral. roll call and Spenker Swedt testi-! Reallzatlon Bills Could flot be Passed Sa|d 'to. Have Prompted Move. - Republican leaders of the As- sembly, created a distinct sensa- tion last niglit by forcing an.ad-|* journment of the house in the centre of debate on the first of the..three Jenks Sitraction. grab\ been taken\ on | the <measures. For more than. three hours meni- bills and were just warming up in when - Majority Leader Adler stopped | Assemblyman - George N: Jesse, who was speaking, and moved to adjourn until today. i Minority Leader Charles -M; Donohue opposed the motion and demanded sin ex- planation. | He charged that a motion to adjourn with the understanding that the House would today: resume where it Teft off last night was absolutely against the rules, Majority Leader Adler changed «This motion and made it a regular mvoe for adjournment, this was put through had adjourned the sersion before many of the members realized it. Speculation as to 'the motive behind the unexpected adjournment was great. 'The majority of the members opposed to the Jenks bill insisted that thesadjourn- ment was taken because the Republican leaders vealized they could not pass the bill# last night. It is understood that 12 more votes are needed and the city representatives declared they never would be obtained today or during the, remainder of the session. One of the Jenks bills permits munici- palmos to enter into an ngreement with traction corporations for operation of street railways on the cost plus system. The other bills open the way for general fare increases and authorize the abroga- tion of existing contracts between rail- way corporations and municipalities. During the debate all three measures were bitterly denounced as deliberate \steals.!\ Those who had spoken mgainst the measures up to the time of adjourn» ment were Assemblymen Curillier, UI man, Demm. Pollet, Evans, Amos, Dick- stein. J. F. McLaughlit, Lee and Jessé. \ssemblymnn O. J. Smith was the only member to speak in favor of the bills. Assomblsman Cavillier. declared that the. bills provided \'not alone for flexible aperation of the railways, but for flexible fares,\ and opened the way for \whole- sale ¢xploitation of the public.\ POLISH TROOPS INFECTED WITH 'TYPHUS FEVER New York, April 2i-The armp trans- port Pocahontas, which arrived here to- day from Danzig m“: 1.626 repatriated P0h<h troops, was. ddnncd. at quaran- tine because of typhis being reported on board. The men, it is understood, will be sent to- Hofman Island before they are al- lowed to Iand. Two cases of tephus fern were discov- ered among the Polish soldiers, who. with | 150 civilian passengers. probably will be held k: quarantine for at least two wee Larkin Trial Nears End. 1 New York, April 2L.-Th«®proceeation In the case of James J. Larkin, Trish not . absolutely necessary, as a means . of reducmg the 'cost of clothing, Miss Martha Axferoad, mauguntor of: the \old clothes\ movement, ' presided, and was chosen temporar) chalrman Miss Axleroad will appoint a commit- tee of five men and five women to canvass Albany in an. effort to \enlist every. citizen in the club.\ With vain pelting.down and threaten ing havoe to\ $80 suits, only a matgin of the expected crowd apperred at \Chanegl« Hall st \8 OLIQQL, the time set for the, start of war on old man '.. C. T. ve elderly gent doze in a rear \We must vealize (hat ns long as the. demand for clothes exists there will be no effort on the mu't of the producers and ving: pmdees down,\ he de- clared: gu'lm, llmmn' endorsement of the \old clothes\ sury clothing\ and plained she believed it would be proper for each person to place his or her own construction on plirase, Up to this time the meeting had\ been lucking. in enllnmu young man in a fan the centre. agile and started sounding off on economy in dress he eyen woke up an who liad mauged to wen tailers .to Miss the. but t drive, memiing Axelrod when one pearl vest fook fo l‘ollmmig is the pledge offéred : We, the undersigned. believing of per| Livestock Shipments Normal; 180 Strikers Back on >. Jobs. the mau, leader of the outlaw Chicago released from jail at Jolrel. Til, today; after friends had deposited $10,000 bond, was expected to call, a new meeting of striking switch- \ men to end the walkout, follow- Chicago, April fl.—John = Yardmen's Association, who was \- 'Miss Axelrorl read reveal letetrs ing. the move, . one , from Theodore Roosevelt in | which \good sound tommon sense.\ © Must Prune Budget.* Professor . A. Assmblyman he - ox» pressed sntisfaction of llu- movement's A. Walker of 'the State College for 'Weachers declared that ouly by judicious expenditure 'and priming of that: the present high prices of most of the necessaries entering into the udget are unwarranted, and g. that we are romewhat for encouraging: extrava- ng. heveby voluntarily pledge ourselves to refrain from buy- ug ing mnnecessary clothing rluuug the profit-rut inflation and to endorg» (Continued On Second Page.) EPIDEMIC 'OF STRIKES, MORE THAN PROFITEER, -. BOOSTS LIVING COSTS EW YORK, April 21.-The lat» ost series of strikes-amount- ing to an epidemie-have done nitely more than profiteering to commodity prices and the cost of living, Francis H. Sisson, New Nork banker, declared in an address at the xlnmml babquet of the' National Wholesalemen's Furnishings Associa- tion here tonight. . 'The railroad strike has cost the day and occa- rloned great dumnge to the, general funncrnl and industrial situation, Sisson asserted, adding that an roads $3,000,000 .n Mr. incomplete list of direct Tosses strikes in 1019 placed the cost of ' labor alone at nearly $?25,000,000, 250,000, On the \sinister aspect\ of Flan, communists' Influence in strike, suggested by Attorney eral Palmer, Mr. Siseon said: and to industry at more than Organized labor partly has nwakened to the fact that in this attack on law and order stands shoulder to shoulder with capital and business in the first line trenches, and that it is en- raged in a struggle for its very existence: DENIMS VOGUE FOR RBOOKLYN . SCIETY FOLK New | York. | April 21.-Prominent [Brooklyn society mer and women to- |ODELLS REPEAT STORY OF CRIME Husband and- Wife, - Indicted for Murder, Both on Witness Stand. infi- raise v By the Associated Press. Rochester, April 21.-Tames Ts. Odell and his wife Pearl, both charged with the murder of Edward J. Kneip on the night of Jamiary 7 last, testified in Su- preme Court todny nt the trial of the busband. Mr«. Odell was excused be- fore her narentive of occurrences on the night Kocip was killed had reached events which took place on the Mos- quifo Point road, on the ground that further testimony would affect her de- fense when she herself came to trial. Odell told the jury that his first inten« tion on the night Kncip was killed was to force him to confers his alleged rela- tions with Mrs: Odell before her marriage and then to turn him over to the police, using the confession as evidence azainst him, When, however, Kneip boldly ad- mitted his former acts and made an in- sulting remark about Mrs, Odell, Odell said that he determined to punish him. He deseribed the trip to the spot where Kueip was hand-enfied to a tree. told of Mrs. Odell's attack on Kneip with a file and of their dragging the body to a cul-. vert neath. from ; <1, Rus- the Gen- it ing the tumultuous termination of : a mass niceting today, called hy a committee of strike leaders to vote on returning to work, a Grunau, who was arrested by > federal agents last Thursday, charged with violation of ,the Lever act, notified federal officers he would accept bond, and was brought to Chicago in cus- lody of a 'United States marshal. * At his nrrost Grunau refused. to frig nigh bond, but later was reloased on Ms ° own recognizance, ouly to be taker into eustody again nud stnt to jail on refus ing: to furnish bonds after federal officers charged he had violnted his agreement to take no further part in the strike movement. Strikers Bolt Meeting, Declaring they had been \sold out\ and hooting down nttempty of strike leaderk® . \. ( to appert to them to end the walkout, several thonsnnd strikers todny bolted 'r maes meeting when It wis announced Grungu, who 'was to have\ presided, was still dn jail. The gnlhorm. broke up in an uproar. > Tamult reigned inside and outside the hall for n half hour, but there was . nu violence, and no arrests were ninde. Slimnnon Jones, R. 8, Murphy and M, J. Kenney, who called the meeting, urged the strikees to returh to work ani await netion of the railroad Inbor bourd on their demands for increased pay. | Jones sald to the strikers: T bope that you can sce that it won't do ahy good to fight the gov- ernment.. You ean fight the rail- roads: but not the United States, and gon are foolish to try. The only thing you can do is (o go hack to work and then submit your demands to arbitration. | Our representatives . have been turned down at Wash mglnn by the beard and we won't get any hearingsuntil we have Rone back to work. On the rostrum was an American fla. Jones tolched it constantly as he spoke. As Murphy lwflnn to meal. he was\ greeted with cries of \whore is Grimau? We. want Granau.\ Efforts to maintain order were futile. Some one called out \The meeting's ad- jJourned,\ and there was a rush for the door. Half a dozen men leaped to the plat- form and attempted to aildress the mést« ing. but policemen cleared the hall. railroads announced that 120 men ° returned to work teday and that live» night showed their approval of the move- ment to reduce the high price of wearing apparel by discarding eveninr | elothes and Jewels and appearing at the tweaty-| - cigbhth annual horse show of the Brook- Iyn Bram; and Dnvm' Club in old cloth- fog. hr shortage of bluf- denims, students of Prineston d'niversity said, was the waly reason today why no more than; 25 of their number have douncd the} loose garments,\ Towns in the vicinity} of the university aré sold out of var- mi, they explained. bot a lars» «hip- went has been ordered, and the stadeits promise to wear them when they arome. {The «mg; council 6f the mwngmtrm\ kie wd Canadian Cam orthe\ fecaed an order permitting the three; American a anadian Union or das 'dox Jewish Rabi nrging America \to Tower clases to wear bize denims Tabor leader, on trial for violation of The The Funior ¢lass of Colombia ! heip The common esgse nf eivilization to tiees to eastern i after © When they returned to the scene later, he said. Rncip got up and struck him. 11:3: felled Kueip with ® club, then, he said. Mrs. Odell provionsly had testified that Kueip berayed her dragged candy. that he forced his atten- tions upon her and that after her mar- viaze to Odell be fale improper pro-; posals to her. The defense is expected {n close tomor- i row. and the esse probably will go to' the jury late in the afternoon. giving her ----»a.__._._. American Aid Involved. Lakelood, N. I. Tous were adopted here tonight by the decade at « mun- today 10 xbaslon | check tlassreres Ir wots members sarl. than\ overalls that the Zecattess covertior had jomrd : fonists. and Ins actemcio® & The conferees ace un- the special service division of the poste ; pected to close its exse in Supreme court as Img m wfiebzmmh‘lfi“ \’véf Bere nmibrbow with the caling of twoity hrt mmmvthuafe. {manent. , xwmwma ] ore witiesseng [WWW %, L R . - -& e hys\ i & . * oc. B ~. - a - % ¥ P Ew wees. cde . * : * x. flos > April *L.-Resein-, Mai .nrfm14matl;1 The recolction amores the; and was brid Ei $2500 bai sal support of the rablis to America, | netwes Mar 3, I for ecame stock receipts in Chieaze and the move» ment of livestock and . fresh mest to, . vastern _ points _ were | formal.. Eleven hundred ears of coal were received. C- sana ___ i MEAT PACKER FACES CHARGE AS PROFITEER New York. April 21.-The fourth ar- . rest In a few days of Brooklsn managers ' of In\ packing houses for alleged prufit- «ering ware today when Oliver H. Saun- : ders. manager for the Codahy Packing Company, was taken into eustody charaed with selfin= fresh hinds and vibs of beef af excemive prices, If was alleged hir wid at H conte a Trat similar to that which x few days bef - he bed zauly sold at 29 cents. He not
