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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE ASSOCIATED PRESS NETS COMPLETE ItoCK MARKET FOUR O'CLOCK. Valnsa 03 No. 223 NEW YORK CITY. MONDAY, AUGUST, 13. 1923.

22 PAGES. THREE V.I-1NTS4 COOLIDGE ORDERS PARLEY TO PREVENT COAL STRIKE; MINE FACTIONS SUMMONED FRANCE CHARGES BRITAIN, IN NOTE, DESERTS ALLIES; MAY NOT ANSWER; BERLIN STOPS ALL REPARATIONS FOR SHERIFF BY FAItl TONIGHT AND TUESDAY; COOLER TONIGHT: FRESH NORTHWEST WINDS. Temperature today, 12 m. (Eagle 77 Year ago (Cloudy) 71 Average for 10 yeart, tame' date 76 Complete Report on Paso HARMAN NAMED DEMOCRATS Choice of Park Commls GERMANY 0 Union Officials and Anthra i cite Operators Called to Confer With Federal Commission in Capital at Once. Hylan in Bed With Cold At Saratoga Became III at Harding Funeral FRANCE WILL NOT COT REPARATIONS CLAIM 0NGE0MAN1 PAYMENTS TO ALL StresetnannPremierofNewGerman Cabinet; Is Also Foreign Minister London, Aug.

13 (By the Associated Press) The new German Cabinet was officially announced today, according to a Central News dispatch from Berlin, as follows: Premier and Foreign Minister, Dr. Custave Stresemann; Minister of Finance, Herr Hilferding, Radical; Minister of Economy, Hans von Raumer, German People's Party; Minister of Railways, Herr Heinrich, director of the Deutschwerke; Minister of Justice, Herr Radbruch, Socialist; Minister of Home Affairs, Herr Fuchs, Centre Party. The Ministries of Defense, Posts and Telegraphs and Labor remain unchanged, being headed respectievly by Dr. Gessler, Herr Stingl and Dr. Heinrich Braun.

Word was received from Saratoga Austria's Reconstruction Is Due in Part to a Woman; Co-operation a Success Woman Restaurateur Who I Aids in Rebirth of Austria this afternoon that Mayor Hylan is ill In bed there with a heavy cold and a little fever and is under the medical attention of Dr. Carl Com-stock. While the Mayor's condition Is not considered alarming, everything Is being done to prevent possible com plications. It Is believed that Mayor Hylan caught cold while attending the funeral services of President Harding in Washington last Wednesday. Returning to New York City last Thursday the Mayor was not feeling wen.

ucspno ine warnings of Dr. John A. Ferguson, the Mayor in sisted upon attending tho Harding memorial services in St. Patrick's Cathedral Friday morning. He left naay afternoon for Saratoga, where he has been spending his week-ends for the last month.

Saturday morning the Mayor's condition for the worst, and he was forced to go to bed. Mrs, Hylan is with her husband, i AT CHARITY FETES Violate Penal Law, Says Carswell Modifies Elks Injunction. That the wheels and other de vices operated at church and charity and organizations' bazars and fairs are a violation of the Penal Law, which prohibits gambling apparatus, although "not prohibited by Holy Writ," Is tho decision handed down today by Justice William B. Cars-well In tho Supreme Court, and on that finding he modified the Injunctions existing in favor of the Free-port Lodge of Elba and the St. Mal- achy Ocean Home to the extent that police officials are permitted to "porform their duty" with respect to the operation of wheel devices in games of chance.

The Court's observations were written to cover the situation at the bazar being held bv and tnv hi Malachy's Home at Rockawav Beach! nd in a separate memorandum Jtts- iiue ittrsweii declares that they are to apply also to thn at Freeport. As a remit shi ot. Nassau County, Police Chief Harlman of Freeport and District Attorney Weeks will make the test case" they promised when the injunction hearing was on, and it is iMui.amu max some one will get "pinched" tonieht or night, after the formal orders mak- Contlnucd on Page 2. OUTLAWS GAMES OF CHANC WIN? sioner, on McCooey's Order, Big Political Sur prise. The Democratic Executive Com mittee today selected Park Commis sioner John N.

Harman for Sheriff. The designation of Mr. Harman completed the Democratic county- ticket, which was made up this aft ernoon as follows: For District Allorne i Dodd. For County dork n-nii. Kelly.

For Register James A. McQuadc, ur birthi John N. Harman. The designation of Commissioner Harman came as a big surprise to local Democrats, whn nniM been hearinsr that vta Peter Hanson or Henry Hessberg were inui vanaiaaies. Assemblyman i rank Taylor also was nun-tloned, along: with Hrnn John Dorman, James J.

Browne and a number of others- hut name had never once been discussed in connection with the Shrievalty. Apparently the only opposition to this ticket is being voiced by John McManus, clerk of the Gates Avenue Municipal Court, who already has his petitions In circulation and will enter the primaries in an effort to steal the shrievalty nomination. The other candidates for Sheriff and there were many of them until noon today accepted the designation of Mr. Harman without a word. I'eter B.

Hanson, who had been looked upon for some time as the most logical man for tho place, sec-ended the nomination of Harman. Situation Wide Open Until Noon. ine snnevaity designation was wide open until shortly before noon today. A mist of uncertainty hung over the whole Democrat Ic ticket until McCooey, "the big breeze," blew Into town from his vacation, and promptly cleared the atmosphere. McCooey returned from Maine last night.

It was learned, following the meeting of the executive com mittee today, In addition to settling the shrievalty squabble, he had also persuaded Hyinan Shoren-stein that Isaac Frank is the best man for Alderman in the 23d A. r. Frank will be redesignated tonight aim inaorsea oy ine KenuDllcans. For the past few months Sboren-stein has been seeking to oust Frank. He charged that the Alderman did not attend to business, and spent too much time In his Insurance office.

Half a dozen candidates entered the field and It looked like the discard for Mr. Frank, until McCooey Bippea in loaay. ine bounty Leaders master stroke, however, Is his selection of Harman for sheriff. The Park Com missioner, through his friendship for iviayor nyian, may win the Hearst support ror Mcuooey's whole ticket. commissioner Harman Is vice presiaent and trustee of thn Municipal Club and vice president and trustee of tho Kings Highway Sav.

ings Bank. He is prominently iden-titled with the Masonic order, being a member of Manual Lodge, No. B36, F. and A. a member of the Montauk Club, the Brooklyn Club, of which he is also a director; the 12th A.

D. Democratic Club. Commissioner Harman was born at Oswego, N. in 1874, and was educated in the Watertown High School and Cornell University. Hie is married, has one son, 11 years ui age, ana lives at 679 16th st.

BLUE IS NEWEST COLOR TO CAIN PARIS' FAVOR (Special to The Eagle.) Paris, Aug. 13 Blue, as related to tho Chinese porcelain shades, has supplanted green as tho- dominant color in women costumes. (Copyright, 1823, Falrchlld.) Messrs. Forster and Hard, carrying- tin tta lion 1 C- i "vcrmary cnrlstlan came In during the morning but took no official part In the transac of the day. Edward Clark, Mr.

Coolldge acting secretary, occupied I nriatlan'n Finds Offices Snic and Knan Mr. Coolldge entered hi now rf ces to find them spic and span with new paint. While the lobby and halls and outer offices have not been completed, the Inner office looks like new. It wlil be some wnk workmen can put on the finishing ouches about the White House offices which have been, under repairs rrcsiaonrs aoparture rrom Washington In Juno. According to custom Mr.

Coolldge found a largo vase of fresh cut flowers on his desk this morning lrom the Government greenhouse. But for the most part his desk was empty, exoept for papers and reports. When Mr. Harding was President he used to have a lot of familiar knick-knacks spread out before him an ashtray surmounted ny a gou Dan, several personal pic. tares, a special lamp and so fern, These things had been removed by i (....

jituuiiis uii raiuruay. xn ptc ture of George Washington, how ever, still stands guard over the uesH. me jev. 'ischemiah Bovnton of Prooklyun preached the sermon yesterday at tho First Congrcgutlonal Church here, which was attended by hut i resilient, una jvirs. I oolldge.

rouowing tne service, the Rev. Mr, Hoyntnn was guest of tho President dinner in the Now Wiliard uotei. i ne orooKiyn pastor Offered un special prayer for "the lone lady of tne wnne nouse wno bears her troubles like a queen and for Pit si-dent Coolidge as he assumes the leadership of tho Nation." Bnynton Pralsps Coolldge'. When the Rev. Mr.

Boynton left thn hotel suite yesterday following his meal with Mr. and Mrs. Coolldge he had this to say about the new President: "The American peoplo ran rest assured that they have a real man In the Presidency. He will i.ot wear the halter of any faction and he Mil not be a Republican In the narrow sense of that term. Mr.

Coollrtgo will always keep hlb word and will guide thn affairs of government w'th a steady hand. He Is progressive In his Ideas on religion sjid I believe, will have no trouble reconciling religion add evolution." ALUEDPDWERS Stnesemann Forms Cabinet. His Attitude Toward "Big Business" Watched London, Aug. 13 (By the Associated Press) The German Government has announced, says a Central News dispatch from Berlin, that the stoppage of reparation contributions to France and Belgium will be extended to all the Allies, as otherwise the financial reform of Germany is Impossible. Berlin, Aug.

13 (By tho Associated rress) Just what attitude Dr. Gus-tav Stresomann, the new Chancellor, will take toward "big business" now that he is Installed as heed of a socialistic-bourgeois cabinet is a question which Is already actively agitating the minds of tho politicians. They recall that Chancellor Strese- mann was wholly Indebted to the influence and support of industrialists 'or his political advancement. wnen tne oia political lines were forced to dissolve after the revolu tion of November, 1918, Stresemann, then a Reichstag leaded of the old National Liberal Party, suddenly found himself marooned, as the newly created Democratic Party of Theodore Wolff refused to receive him into its fold. Formed People's Party.

Undaunted by the rebuff, Stresemann proceeded to organize tho German People's Party, which presently became known as the "Industrialist Party," because it was no secret that its organizer had recruited the new party out of the ranks of liiv industrialists following and won for It their material support. The working out of the post-war problems gradually resulted In creating a right and left wing in the party, Stresemann being commonly viewed as the champion of the liberal faction. When the Wirth cabinet retired nine months ago the United Socialists refused point blank to enter the coalition government In which the German People's Party was represented. Just what has prompted the Socialists to abandon their erstwhile prejudice against or suspicion of Dr. Stresemann's party in connection with the present crisis Is not yet apparent, but the promptness with which they consented to enter into a coalition with it suggests to political onlookers that the new Chancellor evidently, Is in full accord with the demands put forward by the United Socialists with respect to the new government's internal policies.

Is Close to Big Business. Dr. Stresmann grew up wholly in an Industrial environment, and even now he is reported to be on good terms with big business as represented by Stlnnes, the Krupps, Thysscn and others. The new Chancellor's outstanding political virtue, as his friends see it, is his "pliable adaptability" in meeting political situations a faculty which frequently shows Itself In His speeches before the Reichstag, of which he has been a member since 1907. As the new cabinet -represents a purely partisan government, it Is interesting to note that the united Socialists enter the new ministry with a parliamentary asset of 173 Reichstag members as compared with a total of 193 claimed by the three bourgeois parties with which thn Socialists now are allied.

No decision has yet been reached regarding the allotment of the cabinet posts, although it Is known the Socialists desire the ministries of finance, economics and justice, because ot the political importance of these departments. Coalition Regime Planned. Dr. Stresemann today undertook the task of organizing a ministry to replace thn "Cabinet of work" which Wllhelm Cuno brought Into office last November, and which passed out of existence yesterday in the face of a "no confidence" vote by the Reichstag. The leader of the German People's Party plans a coalition ministry, representing his own faction, the United Socialists, the Clericals and the Democrats, which will command 872 of the 469 votes In the Legislature, It is thought that he himself may take the, Foreign Ministry, at least temporarily.

The seriousness of the internal situation with which the new Chancellor Is confronted Is generally recognized, for strikes are spreading, the shortage of many of the necessaries of life Is acute, and there is a growing tendency to disorder, arising from economic causes. The discrepancy between food prices and wages led to rioting in several localities over the week-end. while In this city the strike movement has reached serious proportions. FRENCH TO ISSUE YELLOW BOOK ON REPARATIONS Paris, Aug. 13 The Foreign Office will Issue tonight or tomorrow a yellow book on reparations, containing nil the documents relating to that question that have been oxchnnged up to tho latost British note, which arrived loo lute to be Included.

You will receive A Letter From Home every day of your vacation If you tell your newsdealer -to send you The Brooklyn Eagle while you are away or Fhone Main 6200. SOe a week. British Note Only Stiffens Her Stand Quai d'Orsay Indignant. (By the Associated Press.) Paris, Aug. 13 The British note Is regarded in French official circles as a positive disavowal of Great Britain's war allies and a frank espousal of the German cause.

It i.q thouffht Premier Potneara will reply In due time, although at the Qua! d'Orsay it is held the document smacks so much of propaganda vit might properly be Ignored. "This amazing document propose to haul France and Belgium before a tribunal to answer for their efforts to make Germany carry out her treaty obligations," said an official of the foreign office today. "France and Belgium are not ready to answer such a summons, even from Great Britain." The same official, whose state ments, while unofficial In a strlet sense, reflect the tense feeling aroused In the higher French said the note obviously was intended to influence American opinion. He was curious to know, however, how the Americans would receive a document which made all settlements of the. reparations question depend upon the payment of the debts to the United States, which he remarked fmountcd to throwing the responsibility for the European chaos on the United States.

Ruhr Seizure Not Illegal. The most surprising feature of the note to the French Government officials, It Is mid. was the contention that the occupation of the Ruhr was illegal. "The legality of the occupation of the Ruhr or any other German territory the Allies might choose was recognized In a document signed at Spa in July, 1920. by the British as well as the other Allies, and by representatives of the German Government," an official said.

He referred to the protocol, in which were set forth the decisions of the Spa Conference regarding coal deliveries on reparation account, in which a clause read: "If by Nov, 16, lSibetween-fno' that the coal dellverlei Each wore September and Octobei0 reached a total of 6.000,0 Allies will proceed to of new territory In Germt aescnp-reglon of the Ruhr or elsei The official characterize rlr proceeding" t)ancJ parison made by Lord tween France's war debt leparatton due from Germany.1,"?1" "Our war debts," he said, us to win the war and helped make a greater military cf'or -i ante ui uioii a.v. riiimvai, lid- wnne ine uvrinun uoui reiire.i,,. blood of the Allies that was France does not repudiate her dtnB She has wiped off the war debt ov her by some of her Allies, but t0 intends to pay her own." No Yielding on Reparations. The French reply If a reply I sent will but reaffirm the position of this country as repeatedly set forth heretofore, the official declared. France, he said, would never consent to the British demand that Germany pay leas and that France pay more, which Is the official Interpretation here of the statement in the note that Great Britain must collect 14,500,000,001 gold marks and that, If she does not receive that sum from Germany, she must get it from the Allies.

Britain Plays Her Trump Card by Calling on France To Pay Her War Debts By SIDNEY THATCHF.R. (By Cable to The Brooklyn Eagle and PWIa. Ledger; London, Aug. 12 In the welter of the European chaos, with bloodshed reported In several parts of Germany and the French premier in two speeches yesterday defending the French attitude and methods, Great Britain, plainly peeved, played Its trump card by calling upon France to pay its debts. In a laborious note of 8,000 words, which was prepared as much with the idea of Influencing opinion In the United States as of Informing Franca and Belgium of its policy, the British Government told its allies It believed they had killed the goose from which the golden egg had been expscted to come, but notwithstanding that, it very explicitly notified Franco that she would be expected to produce enough cash for England to pay her debts to the United States, figured, according to this note, at gold marks Leaving aside the argument In de.

fense of its position, the note made public last night discloses Just two things that England wants enough' money out of the wreck to discharfa Its obligations to Washington, but no more, and that It Is believed hore Impossible to arrive at a point where actual puyment can be made until Germany's resources can be again reassessed. Dim-s Not Closo Door. While the British note says that "long-spun-out" negotiations cannot he considered at this time, it leavs the way open for that very thing by saying its proposition is "suhjuct to Just claims from other parts of the The Printer's Devil Who was knighted by a King. He is Pomeroy Burton, and in next Sunday's Eagle Magazine, Hamilton Ormsbce recounts personal experiences he had with Burton when both were reporters on The Eagle, A REAL MAGAZINE! HERE AND NOW One of the most effective signs nt a grade crossing might be a wrecked automobile. The reckless motorist who disputes railroad crossings with locomotives must be the guy that used to rock the boat before the days of autoniO' biles.

Fnlth may move mountains, but flivvers can't -push trains off ffross- lBg9, Arrogant though the water-wagon is, it gets along all right with the milk train. Then there Is a type of the auto bug who actually blows his horn when approaching a railroad track, N.H. EXPECTED Appellate Division Urged to Block Action by Justice Seeger. New indictments charging a conspiracy to defeat the ends Justice may Be returned by the Extraordinary Westihestcr County Grand Jury which recently reindicted Walter S. Ward for the murder of Clarence Peters, according to a statement made to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court today by Thomas J.

O'Neill, Special Deputy Attorney General, In his argument on a motion to restrain Supremo Court Justice A. H. F. Seeger from assuming any Jurisdiction in the Ward Tho motion was specifically designed to prevent Justice Seeger from passing upon a petition of Ward's counsel for permission to In-pect tho minutes of the Grand Jury which indicted the millionaire baker. Justice Seeger at first said he had no Jurisdiction, then reversed himself and claimed that he did have Jurisdiction.

Noon today had been fixed by the Justice as the hour for arguments on the motion to inspect the minutes and when the hour struck. Judge Isaac N. Mills, of counsel for Ward, informed Mr. O'Neill and the five Justices of the Appellate Division that he had requested Justice Seeger by letter to refrain from acting unless he received further Questions Jurisdiction. The Appellate Division was especially reconvened to hear arguments on the contention of Mr.

O'Neill that Justice Seeger, who dismissed the original murder indictment against Ward, was without any jurisdiction to receive a motion for permission to Inspect the Extraordinary Grand Jury's minutes. The higher court reserved decision and accepted briefs from both sides. The hearing was devoted exclusively to arguments on the fine legal point as to whether or not a Supreme Court Justice, sitting in an ad Journed special term, held jurisdic tion to receive motions except upon ex parte matters and both Mr. O'Neill and Judge Mills cited numerous authorities, some of tho decisions quoted having ben rendered by the Appellate Division itself. With reference to the Insistence of Ward's counsel to present, his motion before Justice' Seeger.

Mr. O'Neill said In his brief, which he read: "It Is, of course, easy to under stand the desire of tho defendant Ward's attorneys to have this motion hear.l by Justice Seeger In view of his aforesaid rulings: first, admitting the defendant to bail In the sum of second, admit ting him to ball In thcaum of tnO. 000; third, dismissing the Indict ment aa-anst htm," Judge Mills countered by saying ho wanted Justice Seeger to hear the motion because he had read the evidence of the Grand Jury which originally Indicted Ward for first degree murder and was, therefore, familiar with all the evidence, HlntM at New Indictment. Mr. O'Neill, after, asserting that Grand Jury minutes never are sub mltted for thn examination of a dft fendant's counsel where the ends of Justice may ho defeated so doing, pointed out to I'rorldlng Justice wll Ham J.

Kelly and his associates, that the extraordinary Grand Jury whose indictment of Ward now Is under tire, liar, not even completed Its work. It adjourned somri time ago until Kept. 4. he said, nt which lime evidence warranting further Indict mcnts on a charge of conspiracy to defeat the ends nf Jiitoi might be returned. Thlr.

he argued, was rea son enough for withholding the Grand Jury minutes from Ward's 1 INDICTMENTS PLOT WARD Capital Sees Final Accord With Mexico la 48 Hours Washington, Aug. 13 Conclusion of the agreement under negotiation in Mexico City between Mexican and American designed to pave the way for recognition of tho Mexican Government by the United States, is expected within the next two or three it was said today by a ppokesman for the Government hero. When the commissioners havo concluded their work tho conclusions reached will be submitted to the two Governments for approval. In the meantime, officials here tlecllno to dlscussthe subject in any way beyond expressing gratitlcation at the progress made toward an agreement. Washington, Aug.

11 The Federal Government moved today to avert an anthracite strike by Inviting representatives of both the operators and miners to confer with the Coal Commission here Immediately. A telegram conveying the Invitation to both sides went forward shortly aftcrsnoon. It was signed by Coul Commission officials after they had conferred with President Coolldge. For the present, at least, it was Indicated that tho President desired to leave the situation entirely in the hands of the Commission. Whether he would take any more direct steps later to insure an agreement has not been revealed.

There is no doubt, however, that Mr. Coolldge is fully advised regarding th break between the operators and miners, which is threatening a suspension of work in the anthracite mines on Sept. 1, and will remain in closest touch with all developments. Recently! he conferred with John Hays Hammond, chairman of the commission, and today he had a long talk with George Otis Smith, another of its members. Two Invitations Identical.

The text of the conference Invitation was withheld, but It is under-Stood that the messages to operators nd minora were identical in terms. One went to John L. Lewis, president rf the United Mine Workers, at At-Hntlc City, ard the other to S. D. chairman of the general niicy committee of the anthracite mine operators.

men addressed are the official heads oi' the groups which embarked upon negotiations at Atlantic City last month with the purpose of fixing terms, wage scales and conditions to govern thn continuance of anthracite operations after Sept. 1, when existing wage vontrHcts expire. The negotiations were suspended upon the union's Insistence for in-' stallntinn of the "chccK-orr- system, by which union cities would be collected from all miners by their employers and paid directly to the union. The Coal Commission had refrained from taking anv part in the discussion between the miners and their employers until today. It is known that the Government now will seek to bring about a compromise by which operations In the anthracite field will continue, even though final agreement upon the matter under dispute cannot be immediately attained.

Coal and Reparations Two Chief Issues for Discussion By the Cabinet Tomorrow Eagle Bureau, 901 Colorado Bldg. BY HENRY SUYDAM, Washington, Aug. 13 Two problems of first magnitude confronted President Coolldge when he for the first time went to his desk at the White House executive office today. The collapse of the Cuno government In Germany and the threatened strike of anthracite coal miners on Sept. 1, demand his Immediate attention.

These will form the chief subject of the discussion at tomorrow's initial cabinet meeting and upon his handling of them v'll depend to a great extent his political prestige as President. The more serious uf these questions Is naturally coal. There have already been many statements that Mr. Coolldge might bo expected to deal with thfc coul situation with a firm hand, and such is probably his intention. It Is recalled that President Harding started out to deal with the coal and railroad strikes of last Bummer in the same firm way that Is now ascribed to Mr.

Coolldge, but even with the aid and advice of three cabinet members, Hoover, Dougherty and Davis, he was unable to find any way to stop them. That Mr Coolldge would employ strong-arm methods to avert an anthracite "strike If this would accomplish the desired result is certain. In thn light of existing law or oven of possible legislation, however, It Is difficult to determine In what way the hand of Government can be successfully applied. When It comes to the International situation created by the present chaos in Germany, the administration for the lime being is prepared to "wait and see." Neither the President or Secretary Hughes, both of whom have been out of touch for morn than a week, has any policy ready. That nothing Immediate can be expected on the part of this Government was made clear this afternoon when Slats Department spokesman pointed out that the present German discontents were tho affair of Germany, France and Great Britain, and nut of the Unitod States.

Fire Destroys Springfield Home, Damage $7,000 (ttprcltl to The Eagle.) Springfield, L. 1., Aug. IS The one-story dwelling nt Farmer and Cherry Springfield, was burned to the ground this morning. Thn total lofV Is estimated at 17,000. The house was owned and occupied by Mrs.

Mnrgarot Guey and the causa of ha Or la unknown. TJi'm. in the rrond nf a arrir of artU-lrt on the remarkable reronntruc-' Hon of war-shattered Auntria by Dorothy Thumpton, taff correspondent of The Eagle and Public Ledger, who has lived in and studied the country and its conditions since the days of tKc bread line. By DOROTHY THOMPSON. The Chllds of Vienna Is a woman.

She operates a chain of 12 restaurants, unless she has just acquired the eight more for which she was negotiating when IP js- i saw ner last, and in addition she has eight summer resorts, a Bchool for 1,000 girls, an npurt-ment house for indigent artists and probably a number of other things that I do not know about. Every time I meet her I learn of something new. To spend an hour with her wears me out. She has an energy which would be aDDalllng if she did not apply it in such unquestionably admirable ways. She seerns never to be tired and never to be confusnd.

She is large and solid, with-little bright black eyes and a big head, set on a tnicit ne.cn and covered with a thatcn oi snori, curly, slightly graying hair. Her office, from which she runs a chain, of restaurants, the summer resorts, tho apartment house and the school, is in the school itself, In the center of Vienna. There she re ceives and dismisses hundreds of nor sons' ner day aDDllcants for Jobs. children and their parents interested In the school, poor persons who wish to eat In the restaurants free, peasants who come offering chickens and milk In wholesale quantities and her method in dealing with all of these persons would be nvled bv a Wall Street executive. No one ever stays more than five minutes and no one is ever rudely dismissed.

Shears Off UncssontlaLs. She shears off unessentlals In a sentence, clips preambles and perorations with a smile and a phrase, and the only way you can stay and watch her work is to sit in a corner, looking as much like tho furniture as possible. Her name Is Eugenie senwartz- wald and she is, incldenUlly, wife of the Under-Secretary ot Finance, who is a considerable financier and has played an active role In Austrian financial reconstruction. And the reason why Mrs. Schwartzwald is mentioned In this series of articles is not because she is the Vienna Chllds and an extraordinary execu-tl but because her work has been a very important part of Austrian reconstruction.

Her restaurants. summer resorts and houses are not operated for profit; she receives neither salary nor dividends from an immense financial activity; tier restaurants are co-operative institutions; they pay for themselves and no more. First Trial a Failure. Mrs. Schwartzwald tried to push the co-operative restaurant idea In Vienna immediately after the outbreak of the war, because aha guessed, shrewdly, that tho war would last longer than tho population then expected, and that it would resolve itself into a food question in the long run.

She gathered together a group ot women In 914 and presented the Idea, as a food conservation measure. But the audience was cold. However, in 1917, using a birthday present of $200 from her husband, Mrs. Schwartzwald opened the first Co-operative restaurant, where, by careful buying, she was able to serve, for 2 kr. (at that time 10 (Continued on Page 8.) TO HOLD UP 11 LAW THAT HITS' US Washington, Aug.

13 Representations havo been made by tho State Department to the Cuban Government, asking that action on the rail-toad consolidation bill passed by the Cuban House Friday be delayed until the viewpoints of American stockholders and others Interested can be presented properly at Havana. The bill affects Important American Interests, Including the sugar Industry. Some of them have appealed to tho State Department egalnst the proposed legislation, which they hold to be confiscatory. The matter was discussed at a conference today between Ambassador Crowder. who recently was called to Washington from Havana, and Secretary Hughes.

HUGHES ASKS CUBA CooMge on Job Before 9 First Day in White House; Gen. Lord His First Gdller 1 3CHWTZUAL KILLED IN CLASH WITH TJEPOLICE Several Die, Many Wounded Communists Hold City of Luebeck. Berlin, Aug. 13 (By the Associated Press) Several strikers were killed and many wounded at the Hamburg shipyards today in a clash with the police, according to advices received here. The strikers are alleged to have prevented those willing to work from entering the shipyards, whereupon the police intervened and were attacked by the strikers.

Luebeck, Germany, Aug. 13 Communists are holding this city, after having forced tho Senate to retire. Reichswehr troops have arrived to attempt to restore order. Is one of the three city-states of the German Empire and is governed by its own Senate, presided over by the burgomaster r.nd a house of burgesses. The city proper was founded about the mid-dlo of the 12th century and soon rose to commercial importance, taking a leading part In the founding of the Hanseatic League, of which it became the head.

It declined rapidly In Importance, however, after the Reformation. Its population is about 80,000. Duesseldorf, Aug. 13 Disorders during the week end, accompanied by considerable plundering of food stores and some bloodshed, were reported today lrom various parts ot the occupied territory. The most serious trouble was at Gelsenkirchen, where two civilians were killed and from 15 to 20 injured seriously enough to require hospital treatment.

While outwardly calm has been restored there. It is feared trouble may break out again because of the exasperation of the populace over the food shortage. Further rioting was reported at Crefeld, where several casualties were reported from last weeks's demonstration over the food situation. Th Crefeld police yesterday arrested 120 persons accused of plundering clothlntr stores or compelling proprietors to sell their goods for almost nothing. At Rheinhausen a group of Communists attacked police headquarters, disarmed three policemen and killed one.

At Waltrop a group of workers aimed with knives and clubs went to a nearby farm and compelled the farmers to sell them foodstuffs. It Reds Killed at Seltz, Saxony. London, Aug. 13 Sanguinary Pghtlng between communists and the militia occurred today In Seltz, Saxony, according to a Central News dispatch from Berlin. A large body of communists stormed tho town hall, occupied by the soldiers, and there was considerable fighting in the streets.

Tho bodies of nine communists were recovered. Thirty were Injured, and many of the troops were wounded, tho message adds. Th Tenemrnt Howls Amendments are Included In th Tenement IIoum Law of Stw York SltH. Ju publllhtd. At Em offlcM sad ntwMtsndj, itoj by mill, 10c.

Adv. HAMBURGSTRIKER5 Eagle' Bureau, 901 Colorado Building. Aug. 13 This was Calvin Coolldge' first day in the Presidential offices at the White House. At a few minutes beforo 9 this morning the new President, without any ceremony or commotion, came from his hotel to the office wing of the executive mansion and took his scat behind the broad desk from which the destiny of the Gov ernment Is directed.

His first official caller was General Lord, Director of the Budget. In the course of the morning other officers of the Government camo to tho White House to discuss executive business with Mr. Coolldge. Everything was carried forward in the most matter-of-fact way and the President gave no signs ot uneasiness in his new surroundings. Most of the official documents of the Government were transferred to the White House offices yesterday.

On Saturday Mrs. Harding had supervised the closing out of the lato President's desk and when Mr. Cool-Idge entered this morning there were few reminders about the large circular room of Its former occupant. White House machinery meshed this morning without any friction caused by the change of administration. The same guards were on duly in the lohby.

Pat McKenna stood his customary poBt outside tho President's door. i In the Secretary's room were counsel. Ho was candid In his admission that he did not want Justice Seeger to ct. in the matter because of his past attitude toward tho ease, Mr. O'Neill likewise pointed out that Justice Robert Wagner, named by Governor Smith to presldo over the extraordinary Grand Jury, let It be known that he would he available upon an hour's notice to hear motions by either side.

All motions In the ease should properly come before Justice Wagner, he said, but counsel for Ward had declined to avuil themselves of his offer. In apologizing to the members of the Appellate Division for Interrupting their vacations Mr, O'Neill said: "This Is no ordinary rase, hut one on whlrh the people of the State have their eyes fixed, and, therefore, It Is a rase in which It Is apparent that no proceeding should be ap- firoved or permitted which is ohnox-ous to authority, precedent and I proprloty.".

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