The evening world. Newspaper, November 20, 1913, Page 1

WHATHER-Unsettied to-night and Friday; colder. iri EDITION. Copyright, Co, PRICE ONE CENT. by The Prose Publishing he New York World), Fight HUERTA DEFENDING HIS ACTS: IS BELIEVED READY TO QUIT “roy, for Five-Cent City-Wide Phone Rate RK, THU PHONE MONOPOLY MEETS DEMAND FOR S-CENT RATE _ WITH A SCHEME FOR DELAY After Admitting Justice of Evening World’s Contention It Asks Matter Be Referred to Commerce Commis- sion, Which HasNo Jurisdiction. Every 600-call phone contract in Manhattan Brooklyn and Bronx, fixed at $48 a year, or eight ‘BOY'S CHANGING TALETANGLES UP A MURDER TRL Identifies Di Martini Repeat- edly as Slayer and Repeat- edly Retracts. SAYS HE FEARS POLICE. Told They Would Kill Him if He Didn’t Point Out the Pris- oner—The Court Baffled. cents a cail, should be dropped to $30—a cut of $18! Every residential phone should be on a five- cent basis! Every business phone, which now pays on a graduate scale of from eight cents to four cents, should be dropped to five cents and be graduated to three cents or lower! Will the New York Telephone Company meet this demand? Hard hit by The Evening World's demard for cheaper telephone rates, the New York Telephone Company admits the justice of a revision, but in keeping with {ts policy of delaying the day of reckoning, secks indefinite postponement. In a letter to the Merchants’ Association to-day the com- pany asks that the public submit to extortions until the Interstate Com- merce Commission can make a valuation of the company's physical prop- erty as a basis for new rates. against the compony’s underground monopoly, which has been dragged in courts for ten years. . The Interstate Commerce Commission has not undertaken valuation of New York City telephone property because it has a five or ten-year job in valuing the railroads on its hands first. The Interstate Commerce Commission has no authority or Jurisdletion over telephone rates In New York City. Its powers re- late only to commerce between States, not within States or cities, ‘The power to reduce rates in New York City rests with the New Wipe out the telephone toll gates between boroughs Now! Reduce rates to tive cents everywhere within the city limits NOW! The Public Service Commission can do it. ‘The Legislature can do it. A The Interstate Commerce Commission cannot do It. John W. Griggs, counsel to the Merchants’ Association, is a director of the New York Telephone Company. The Evening World's demand for reduction of telephone rates in New York City has been recognized by the Public Service Commission, and a special hearing on the subject will begin next Monday morning at 10 o'clock in the commission's offices, Metropolitan Tower, No. 1 Madison avenue, Chairman M. 8. Decker of the up-State Commission, which has juris- diction over all telephone matters, has sent out official notice that the commission will come to New York on that day and give audience to all complainants against telephone rates. Many civic organizations representing large groups of citizens are tortion. Among those who have given notice that they will send repre- sentatives to the commission's hearings and demand a five-cent rate for all New York City, with abolition of the extra tolls between boroughs, are the following: ORGANIZATIONS THAT WILL MAKE DEMANDS. Broadway Board of Trade, Nathaniel H. Levi, President, Broudway and wile foughby avenue, Brooklyn, Harlem Property Owners’ Assoc! Dr, Abravam Korn, President, No. Madison avenue, New York. Real Estate Owners’ Protective Asso- clation of the Twelfth and Twenty-nec- ond Wards of the City of New York, inc, William Capleas, Secretary, No. ew York. ‘ai tron Manu- y, Secretary, econd street, Hold the Fort! Even though evrything seems te go “rong and adversity is knocking loudly at the door, don't give up for relief is close at hand, An_Army About 4,000 Strong Shout Out the Glad Tidings Through as Many Separate Advertisements in the Morning World To-Day That They Come to Your Assistance with All elation, | 1867 47 Amsterdam avenue, Soclety of tect Arch ch New C. Helling, Secretary, No. 14 Utica ave- This would mean a delay like proceedings in the suit of the city! actively engaged in a campaign to obtain relief from the telephone ex | * | Joseph Leopold, a fifteen-year-old hoy of No, 459 Belmont avenue, the Bronx, completely tangled to-day the trial for murder of Charles 4! Martini, accused of slaying Probationary Policeman Cot- ter at Hughes avenue and One Hun- dred and Dighty-seventh street Aug. 4. The boy told Justice Davis, in the end, | that he had testified against di Martini | taluety because he was ‘afraid of being killed by the polive if he did not. The direct examination of Leopold yesterday by Assistant District-Attor- ney Moss brought from him the state- ment that he had seen the accused man | shoot Cotter. It was made with post- | tiveness and detail. To Clark L. Jordan, di Marttni’s lawyer, Leopold sald that he was not sure he had seen di Martini do the shooting. Under further cross-exam- ination he said that he was sure di Martini did not do it Justice Davis ordered Leopold locked up overnight in the rooms of the Chil- dren's Sootety, “Do you remember now, after having thought the matter over last night, anything about th oting of Police. man Cotter?” Mr. Moss asked the wit- Ness when he was placed on the stand VONNIE, BYRNE. ———s Three-Year-Old, Who Only Lisped Before, Expresses York State Public Service Commission, Second Department, and it |'.4¢%",, “Did sou nee the shooting?” Herself Freely Now. It falls to act the Legislature can pass mandatory laws reducing Ges waa that’ man sc “Point him out.” sald Mr. Mose Having your child kidnapped and re- City wants a five-cent telephone rate and abolition F Leopold stopped down from the Jury fiurned ia not necessarily uw misfortur of the (oll gates at once, not ten years from now when the Inter- Hiei "6 lee Pe ners according to the views of Mrs. James state Commerce Commission gets around to appraising all tele- PMMAA RE, torte ee Byrne of No. #43 East ‘Thirty-eighth phone property of th La replled Leop. Street, whose three-year-old daughter, did you tell th that Coroner a Winifred, was away from her home for were eure?” five days. While Mra. Byrne was buying a pair of shves for Winifred last Saturday night Winifred was waiting with her father in a store across the street But when Mrs. Hyrne Joined her hus- band the child wits mysterlously mins. ing, In the ensuing four days no news of Winifred ex pe an anonymous letter from New Jersey stating that the writer knew the where- abouts of child, Last night the child was recognized on West Fortteth “Have you told an untruth here to-| street, where It had been left by a col- day?" he asked Leopold, Jored woman with # group of children “Yen.” said the boy. | who were playing on the atreet tell asked the lawyer, “The detectives told me right after the) Mr. Moss you shooting,” sald Leopold, “that if 1 did not say it was thie man I would be | killed,” | Mr. Moss took the boy in hand again nd once more Kot the positive states ment that di Martini was the murderer. Mr. Jordan at once brought out a repetition of the denials previously made to him Justice Davis took the witness, with) the remark that not much could be done| with auch testimony. the parents « What He did you tell?’ asked the; Winlfred’s blond hair had beep dyed Justice, | with a substance that may or may not ninting ont that man there and) have been shoe blacking, put on in a he did it,” answered Leopold, very clumsy fashion and daubing the “Why did you He? sald the Juntice, | oMld's wit to the waist. She “Hecause T was told last night that| Was in the best of health and spirits and {fT did not point him out 1 would be, Pavenoualy hunery killed,” said the witness, Rut ve ehild's Justice Davia ordered Leopold loexed| hair was not the yf wonder up again unt!) the court and lawyers! ment te the parents. When Winttred Jeould decide what to do about his con-| disany helne on backward child, | tradicttons. she was unal to speak a word of any- | ————__. I thing excent i irwt thing |whe did, on being recovered by her Jevidence of her new ablitty, by several NOMINATION T i | — fed and wae very hungry P Since dust night #he hay been able to express herselt enough to tell her mother that ehe had be that ene had Fight Expected Against Confirma- tion of Ilinois Editor as Am- bassador to Russia, wen taken had bh was glad to be fred's vocabulary man. WASHIN( jell letter ¢ at which it has York Manner of Positions, Workers, Come |! from the Wiite Houne to t soya ep eanding since her return, @he w he Eastern Millinery Association, Ine, | fortable Homes_and Business Piaces |) tu.day when the nomination of Henry. be aml piste etory of her DY samnuer H. Lumis, Secretary, No. 66 | for Rent, Investment Opportunities, |) M1. Pindwil, newspaper etltor of Peorta, eteange | Broadway, New York. Miscellaneous Bargains, &c, lil, to be Ambassador to Russia, wanl ‘This, s 8 what the police are United Master Butchers’ Association . | wont to the Senate by President Wiison, | tring to discover, with litte stierees of America, Brooklyn branch, William AS 29 616 | ‘The nomination was referred to the ‘Thu child hus shown no fl effects ’ ; | Poreign Relations Committers wiere a from her absence except a morbid ter nue, Brooklyn. WORLD ADS. LAST WEEK— Aight against Pindell's confirmation is ror which now and then seltes hen, The New York Lumber Trade Asso: theratened makes her ery Man! and run int ciation, J, D. Crary, Secretary, No, 18 13,664 > the kitchen, where #ie hides underneath Broadway, New York, More than the Herald WINTER CRIIAEN. the table, The Brooklyn League, John F. Gels, era’ ts Bermuda, Te Pertens tae Wage: Indies Now that the child ts back again,” decretary, No. 44 Court street, Brooklyn, = Sputiy Amerion and et Hrint sald Mrs, Byrne veda 1am almost Twenty-elghth Ward Taxpayers’ Pros Let Werlé Ads, Fight a Winning '\ pater cf i) ine a THe Wont glad the Kidnapping happened, for it emer jattle for You To-Day! [Brest Arle id has taught Wintfred to talk—samethi (ontinued on Second Page. _ vy okt de: ¥ ane 4 have never been adie to tench bi ' . / - | Kidnappers Taught Baby R They Kept for Five Days BROADMAY MW In Hiding How to Talk —SOOKE.D WHEN RETORNED T cad't Imagine that any one Intention- ally stole the child, but F think t finding her, they decided to ki and Qyed her hair se that no one recognize her." EQUINES IN PANIC LIVEN HORSE SHOW SESSIO ———. Faney Roadster, Too, Overturt Driver, but No Injuries Result. Ty re wore two exciting moments dir tig afternoon's seamion of the Ho: how and the provided then The frst one evcurred during the Jud ne of fourein-hands, In this cla Judge WoW Moore and Alfred G. Va derbilt were competitors Jack Dot roMr. Val h a round of the arer | Jude Moore tented nig con | throm ow te the rir Something ¢r ed the Judge's whee ere and they reared and plunked un they wot the es over the whith | “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ 22 PAGES WRATRER-Cnsettie. FI EDITION. to-ntght and Friday; colder, RICE ONE CENT. P MOBS MASHER” INPTURE SHOW ‘Didn't Know Youth and Girl Were Doing a “Stunt” for a Film. oe STOPPED BY POLICE, “Movie” Actor Badly Beaten Before Rescuers Learn the Truth. e of them tal ambu- Two husdred p y much exetted; a how with the pmpanying surgeon, 1 policemen and 1 49 detectives Police Headquarters axniated thin yon in the taking of @ “movie” na film that almowt caw @ riot iftieth street, near Broadway. It wasn't Intended that they should ket in the pleture at all. That part of the performance was in the hands of @ diminutive young girl and a young men engaged in doing a “ stunt. He | did It #o well, to the ompaniment of a revolver, that it wan « wonder he os- eaped with hin life, ‘The crowd was after him all right, and it beat him wp considerably before It finished. The ‘movie’ people had thelr young uk past a theatre entrance enue just north of Fit- Heth street. There she wes to be ap- proached by a youthful villain in city thes who was, presumably, to say something unpleasant lo her. AS THE DRAMA WAS ouT. Thon she was to turn haughtlly from sons, fter a at MAPPED the ciper's path, He was to grab her | by the arm, with a anarl upon his hand- some lips, and as she pulled one way he was to pull a revolver and begin filling her chuckful of bullets Now, all this went as arranged, be- cause it went very quickly. Hut there ie nearly always more ‘or less of uw crowd of young men dawdling near the sti r There happened to be partioularl this aftern many me rher, And when the pulled the gun on the sx thing they pulled a riot able villain snapped his kun several thmes—but, curses! it re- fused xplido. Just at that moment the crowd closed In upon him and bore him to earth, So energetic were the young men who had gone to the rescue of the imperilled damsel that the hero {| bit the dust in weveral places, He tried ‘lio explain, but the spoken word did not Milka, the crowd wanted exercine wad the Vivero supplied it What ie of the Imperilled young lady or of the man who was taking the pictures no one seemed to know, They were probably lost in the erowd, which by that time had grown to two N hundred, The nelab val took up the and every turned out to a hand tf « \s and there was anyth: 15) the erstwhile smiling villuia. QUIT THE CROWD TO CALL FOR AID, Tt got to be such @ riot that two of r «omen in the crowd disengaged them. and rushed for telephones, One the Polyelinic Hospital and PT aria ambulance be hurried | tow young wit! hoen mur- sha her one had the rare fore. ' up Volice Headquarters land aay that there Wis & regular mas- Od | gaere on ja| ‘The hospital replied promptly and | second Deputy Police Commintoner # | Dougherty wot busy and aent two of hia beat men on the run, ‘The surgeon | the detectives reached the theatre war at about the same thie wad at trees, But Kr intied the knotw) frat glance it looked as 1 the entire and Judge Moore eventually got tie! nelgiberhood had run amuck, There four out ard under way. Incidentally | were the tangle trying to nyey Mr. Vanderbilt's four {ste aignt ‘ veritually e nd incident oecurred during! the two ¢ ives, the patrolmen and the Judgt sof thirteen roadsters Kl | the hompita surgeon learned what it kin Belle, owned and driven Fred.) was MOONE ani tol ta eh erick Davis, in this clase wan making| THe villain was then Pet ttod to Flee Hy Nae thacseadiein aye and dust himself off and go hin way, he be aes h mt Aa ven ia end of; and the erewd and the offical partes Apseed Santy departed tuo. The next time the and flung vue Ikin Helle took! yitain wants to curl his ip ata protey the upside town vehele along the tan-| young thing he'll probably try It else hark for a few yard and then the| w Vecuuse he certainly waa man- grooms caught her Mr Davis was not} handled hurt | at a ~— o | SAILING TO-DAY. STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY, | sees Algonquin, Tur&e 20] 1PM, 8 Aa.M, Times, 1PM arm. 7m HUERTA WAL GET OUT WASON'S BELEF, AS NEW CONGRESS MEET Dictator’s Government Declared to Be Slowly Breaking Apart and His Elimination Is Now Regarded Only as a Matter of Time. MEXICAN RULER IGNORES PRESIDENT IN MESSAGE He Defends His Acts of Tyranny as for Good of Country—Doubles Taxes to Stave Off Revolt. ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—President Wilson, it became known late today, interprets the situation In Mexico City to indicate that the Huerta Government is disintegrating and that although things might move very slowly, Huert: eventually will be eliminated. The President let it be known that nd summary instructions had been sent to Charge O'Shaughnessy and that no positive steps or actions not already pub- lished had been taken. DOUGHERTY TELS HOW HE ARRESTED WRETAPPERS CAN omer Says He Is Being ‘Framed’ by Men He Prosecuted. The ling of the three British ‘warahips does not in any way change the international aspect of the situa- tion, and In the view of the President morely represents the normal desire of Great Britain to protect her interests. At Tuxpam, where there are Hritiah ofl interests, dt was pointed out at the White House, American ships are now “ffording the #ame protection to Brit- ix) aml American interests alike. tw ‘ed positively that the in- truce: > Rear-Admiral Fletcher in« {cluded nothing #0 speoife as the land- oe of Patines) and that such action ad neither Ned ete been found necessary gor HALE TALKED NO PLAN OF ACTION WITH CARRANZA, che British Embassy this afternoon wave out the following statement: “The statement which appeared in the press this smorning to the effect that the British cru! squadron in Weat Indian waters haw mailed for Vera Crus is Incorrect. Two ships wre being sent, ne to Tampico and ome to Puerto Mexico, und the State Department was accordingly by the British ons Second Deputy Police Commiastoner George #8, Dougherty, In charxe of the wtlve Bureau, t a long state: | ment to-dny incorporating facts taken | from the recorda of the Police Depart: ment in relation to the allogations| Einhasy on Nov. 190 first official interpretat 0 certain confiden men en- lon of the made by parleys at Nogales between William gaged in the “wire tapping” business Bayard Hale and the Conastitutionalists * from the White House to- President told those with the situation that for pollee officials has not bi pru- that they palt i tection to certain po! Al. though Dougherty’s nan n given out by the District-Attorney a! 0 Nogales merely to office for publication, he ta wall aware [Pf'rM himself about the purposes of | whom he Hai that he ia the “civilian official at Hoad- | he Constitutionalists and their charac- quarters” referred to by the District J Attorney's assistants In making public lthe alleged confessions of the conf- dence men Dougherty points to the fact that “Qurley" Carter, Prank Tarbesus, Tom Brown, “Paper Collar Joe" Gray and George MoMae, all of whom are al- leged to have made statements acc ing police officials of collecting graft from the “wiretepping” industry, were arrested by his direction, Carter, Brown, “Paper Collar Joe” and MoMae are under heavy bail charged with swindling. ‘These men, the Gondorf brothers and others, have been swindling ten of wealth in New York for many years through the operation of a form of deception requiring eo preparation. For twenty years they have Been “framing up" shrewd and wealthy ness mon. Dougherty points out that because of hie activity @mainat them they might have very wood reavon to try to “frame” him in order to curry favor with the District- Attorney, Unull Dougherty got after the Gon- dort brothers the operations of the men who ran fake poolrooms for the pur- pose of swindling greedy “con were 4a safe us welling merchandise, (Continued on Second Page) — > -— POR RACING GEE PAGE 16. tins] ter. Mr, Wilson made it plain there was nothing so formal as Negotiations, no plan of action was debated, no names of provisional auccessors to Hiuerta were sugwested nor taken up, but that the Washington Government simply wanted to have, through Mr. Halv, some means of knowing somes thing definite about the Constitutional- ists and their alms, ‘That, It Was povnted out, need not to have depended cn anything the Constitu- Vonaliste said, but would naturally be | basel upon what Mr, Hale would see jor learn from hie talke with disinter- ested persons, So far as the Washing- ton Government knows, the report that | credent were demanded by Carran- | #4 from Mr. Hale has been seen only in news despatches. It was stated with emphasis at the White House that Hale went to map out no plans | The eyes of official Washington ‘were turned to-day on the Mexican Congress and Huerta’s message on his recent assumption of dictatorial powers. The possibility that the new Congress might act on concessions dise credited in advance by t! nited | States was thought in many quarters to be a pivot on which the next move by this Government might turn. | ‘Those who have been of the opinion that Huerta would retire after his acts had devn ratified by the Congress, stil) | held confidence In their theory. So dar es can be leamed the American Gove eroment means to coptinue ite plan of } re nnn ns A nnn innit 1