The evening world. Newspaper, December 23, 1913, Page 14

ice eeneaeeteeeererniniitimeteaneneemenesneniianee BILL TO SUSPEND CONDITIONALLY THE PANAMA TOLLS ACT, Gives President Power to Nul- lify Clause Giving Free Pas- sage to American Ships. WASHINGTON, Dec. @.—A foint Fesolution to conditionally suspend the Operation of the provision of the Pan- ama Canal act granting free passage ‘to American constwise vonnela waa in- troduced to-day by Chairman Adamson of the House Commerce Committee. The suspension would be audject to the following conditions: “At any time after the Panama Canal hall have been opened and successfully operated for two years, if, in the juda- ment of the President the revenues de- rived from tolls of vessels other than those engaged in the coastwiee trade in the United States shail be sufficient to @efray the cost of maintaining and op- @rating the canal and the expense of Government and sanitation of the Canal Zone and all diplomatic questions touch- Ing the treatment of vessels as to con- ditions or charges of traMc at the canal shall have been adjusted, then the Pree- ident ia authorized to issue an executive order declaring such suspended exemp- tion of full force and effect." It would further provide that from the date of such an executive onter ————— A persistent ‘purpose to produce perfect biscuit National Biscuit Company is inspired by a persistent pur- pose to produce per- fect biscuit and to de- liver them in perfect condition. 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On the flyleaf he wrote, “To the FIRST 1914 BABY born in Lo: the town gifts including beer, wine, ine, O., will receive from mercha! @ theatre pass for life, and corsets or barber service for life, as the case may be. CELESTIAL CHOIR NOT EXEMPT—Chistmas programme Smithtown (L. 1.) church, according to the local paper, has on {ts lst Of | terson Market Court how she had been ‘Hark, the herald angels sin.” ‘ JOHN D. GETS EXTRAVAGANT—In Cleveland yesterday John D. Rockefeller bought himself crate of twelve dozen fresh eggs. POURING ICE WATER over his wife while she slept was the diversion | rection. Ae ® result of the story of of Brooklyn man, who got thirty days for it. WEALTHY WOMEN have quit wearing algrettes and given them to ee Friday. their servants, news comes from Boston. LAMPS ON BABY CARRIAGES are required !n an ordincnce intro-|twenty-four-year-old youth whom she duced in Cincinnat. PRETZEL PEDDLER has just died in Basten, Pa, $60,000. leaving a fortune of the exemption should be allowed, but unt) that time vessels of the United States should pay the same tolls as othe: ‘The free toll provision now ts under [Atptomatic protest. ACQUITTED OF MURDER, LEEWAN GOES TO PIECES, | Mrs. Lynch, Who Saved Him, Dis- appointed by His Arrest for Drunkenness. William J. Leehan, acquitted on Saturday of the murder of Mra, Caro- Une Turner at Toms River, and turned loose in the Night Court after being | rested yesterday afternoon for intox!- cation, went last night to White Plains, “I am disappointed,” said Mrs. Jasper Lynch, who helped him to acquittal, to The Evening World to-day over the telephone, ‘but I expeoted that Leehan would do just as he has dong. I told his wife over the telephone to conault a lawyer in White Plains and see if it lan't posnible to have him committed to some inetitution for a year, In the hope of breaking him from the liquor habit. ‘My interest in Lechan was imperson- al. I did not att in his defense in the hope of reforming Rim. He had worked for me in the Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Animals for only three months. Before he became a drunkard he had @ good record. This was seven years ago. I knew that he waa not guilty of the murder of Mrs, Turner. I did not want to see any in- nocent man railroaded to the chair, I would have done the same for any man no situated as Leehan, When he was released on Saturday might, his aunt and his uncle offered tim a home at their farm in Manchester, N. H. He was to remain with them until he had overcome his craving for Mquor, then 1 was to add §200 to a sum they were to give him and start him out West to begin anew. 1 disappointed.” pa Pc cs CHARLESTON WINNERS. FIRST RACE—Two- -year-cids; eelling; five and a helf furlongs.—Deposit, 114 (Turner), 4 to 6, 1 to 3 and out, first; Dainty Mint, 111 (Byrne), 16 to 1, 6 to 1 And § to 6, second; Bulgarian, 114 (Borel), 18 to 5, 7 to 10 and 1 to 4, third. Time, 1,09 1-6, Masenet, Runaway, Ambition, Good Will and Marty Lou also rai SECOND RACE—Three-year-olds up; selting; mile amd twenty yarde. Karl of Bavoy, 106 (MoCahey), 8 to 1. even and 6 to 5, second; Golden Treas- ure, 18 (Davenport), 9 to % # to 5 and 4106, third, Time, 1452-6, Port Arung- ton, Brave, Toddiing, Volthorpe am! Lady Oram also ran. $300; all ages; one mile and an eighth —Bob R,, 105 (Buxton), 41-2 to 1, 11 to 10 and 1 to 2, fire! (Deronde), 7 to 10, to and out, sec- byl Nap! tt 1 tot Bieo, Bryealims and and saree also cla removed to seri Cy 3 only te} address as Fae met eel mince an) DOM ‘ | wood, #7 (Martin), 3 to 1, 6 to 6 and 3 to Pardner, 110 SENATOR WON'T REVEAL ACCUSED WOMEN’S NAMES Says Alleged Shoplifter Is Wife of Friend Prominent in the West. Ex-Senator Spooner refused to-day to Teveal the Identity of the two womon who called upon him for assistance last night after they had been arrevted for shoplifting, The two women, appearing to be mother and daughter, were ar- rested on the complaint of one of the store detectives in Altman's at Fifth avenue and Thirty-fourth eet, and taken first to the West Thirtieth street atation and thence to the Jefferson Market Jail, where they are atill locked up. Articles valued a4 © taken from the hiling places in the women's and gave every evidence of breeding jement. They gave their names Police as Mre. and Miss Benson, but refused to give any address. “ANT have to ay is thi said the Senator in his office at No, 4 Wall street to-day. “This woman is from the West. I knew her husband for many years, He was a lawyer, and held important public positions. je died few years ago. When this lady came to New York @ year or so ago she called upon me for a letter to the own- er of @ house which she wished to rent. T had never seen her before and knew nothing of her personally, but gave a letter which told what I knew concern- ing her husband anc the positions that he had held, A Httle later my office— through Mr. Savage—did eome law bual- ness for her. “I waa called up last night by @ lieu- tenant of the police, who informed that this woman end her daughter were under arrest and desired to see me. went to the station to see what the trouble was, I learned this morning (hat the case wae put over until to- night. She is naturally concerned that her name should not be mentioned, be- cause of the prominence of her husband, and there je no reason why I should not respect her wiah.”’ pe JAIL FOR POOR-BOX ROBBER. Luigi De Palmo, twenty-six years old, was sentenced to-day to six months in the penitentiary by Justices McIn- Collins and Zeller in Special Ses- sions, De Palmo had pleaded guilty to robbing the poor boxes in various churches throughout the cit “You are ut the meanest kind o! thiet there galt Justice MeInerne: in paseing sentence. “A man who steals the funda of the poor deserves no con- sideration. You won't apend any of the ney you received in this manner for tmas anyhow." Palmo has promised to tell the po- THIRD RACE—Gelling handicap; all] ce Knows a Gene OF Shureh poor Bex ages, six and a half furlongs.—Monoe. | ees) F Tenees vous 408 avy, 105 (Buxton)( 2 to 1, 4 to 5 and 2 to| ; Armor, # (McTagaart), 6 to 2.| pewwe Pennt and 2 to 6, second; Dick Dead- Ly WASHINGTON, Der 28. —omclain of | 5, third, ‘Time, 1.2126. Cracker Box,|the Iethmian Canal Commianion have | {o¢ ##! save & burned; a curtain Prince Ahmed, Linbrook and Verena cet tap ay cay pole one and one-half inches thick and He a: Ok nerd ee ar to Puc @ shiP gn opium layout. They are of the opin- also ran. through the Panama ‘anal to-morrow | {un tnat the arreat of Bassele, nloped in FOURTH RACE,—Solline; handicap; | an a Christmas gift tc the American 4 people. Vrivate adv reported such a plan was quietly be- ing considered by Col, Goethals, Lat- reports to h cian n «from Panama Stem 9 ae ws neeniememed mie clothing. The women were well dressed | | the bud an ei 26° Ely he 7 gHLD WHITE SLAVE SEARED WITH RON | BY BRUTAL GAPTOR Hired as Housekeeper, Lured to Flat and Forced to Life of Shame. Helen Willoughby told to-day in Jef- forced to a life of shame, how she had been followed always by the Cadet whoae victim she was, and how she finally escaped and sought police pro- teen-year-old girl, Magist: Campbell * Frank Bez: te 1d the man she accuses, la, in $3,000 bail fo? ex- he girl clung to the arm of her als- ter, Mrs, Frank Bower of West Fit- street. Her eyes were fixed on the charges with sending her out to parade the streets, a slave, for his financial gain, Her face had black and blue marke, and she tenderly nursed an arm that had been burned with a poker. ‘Now and then a spasm of pain crossed her face and Placed a hand just above her heart, where there is a weund made by a atiletto. Bessela, who in case of conviction, faces @ term of fifty years in State's prison, was arrested after a terrific fight in his apartment at No. 28 Weet Thirty-seventh atreet last night by De- tectives Mahoney, Dolan and Finn, Since Sunday, when the frightened girl slipped away from her pursuer, the de- tectives had been looking for him, Ma- honey narrowly escaped death as He wrestled with the paJ -olad man, who waa armed with the same stéletto the Willoughby girl saya was one of her torture instruments, The other off who had climbed the fire escape, broke through a window and Bezzela was sud- dued, GIRL IN OPIUM STUPOR SLEPT THROUGH FIGHT. Through !t all slept another young girl —Carrie De Mar, f-rmerly of Borton— who had been living at Bath Beach. A complete opium layout was found, and the detectives say this girl had sunk into @ stupor from the effects of the dru She said she had come to Bez- tela's flat only yesterday, having met the man in a restaurant, the same place where the Willoughby girl says she en- countered him. | In a@ low voice Helen Willoughby told of her experiences since meeting the man Thankagiving Day. “I needed work," she said, “and was looking for a job In a restaurant. I saw that man watching me and I was afraid of him. He asked me if I wanted to work for him; he sald he needed some one to be his house- keeper. Oh, if I had only known what the ‘work’ really was. went to his flat on Thirty-seventh street. He sa'd he would pay me good wages and he smiled at me. But, oh, how he changed when we got to the flat. He locked the door, and I will never f t his look as he turned to Me again. Then he attacked me and after that drew a knife and said he would kill me if I ever told anybody what had happened, “I waa eo frightened TI could hantly walk, but he made me go out into the street, and he told me he would be fol- lowing me all the time, with that knife, wo if I told a eingle person or called a Policeman, he would kill me no matter what happened to him. I could see in Nis eyes that he meant it, and I did what he asked.” STABBED BECAUS € FAILE TO MAKE MONEY. “He told me I would have to bring a lot of money to him every night. Oh, {t was horrible! On Deo, 19 I returned to the flat with less money than he hought I ought to have made He stabbed me. I thought I was going to die, but he roughly attended to the wound and told me to watch out what I did or I would get it worse. “The next night I came in with only a little money and he seized a poker jand burned my arm so that it still hurts, Other times he beat me with & heavy curtain pol Mra, Bower, the girl's sister, told the reporter the same story. Detective Mahoney and Dolan secured from the man’s flat a poker, with which | lure a jpumber of them out @@ white slaves. They also ¥| Watch the Series |: THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1918. ‘ eer 7 CHILD WHITE SLAVE, WHO WAS PRISONER OF YOUTHFUL CADET. GOODOSGOSHGOGHOHTSDIECOSOOSE« p] H Se Wovuctey & F 3 ® DDOGHOOGDOHHGHOOGPHISGOOGOHOSOS YALE’S CHESS PLAYERS WIN IN SECOND ROUND. of the mecond round in the Honor; Intercollogiate Chess Tournament to-day went to Yale players, who at with Columbia men, — Harv: and Princeton tied in the early s of the second round. T. A. Lightner opened to-day's round with a queen's pawn and in 31 moves won from J. M. Bird of Columbia. £. Carter took 62 moves to conquer his opponent, D. M, Beers of Harvard, A Ruy Lopez was used by Leede, Colum- bla, in his first of 20 moves that se him a half point from Beach of Yale. Currier of Harvard began with a French 3 & defense, and in 60 moves beat Jarman Jr. of Yale. The total scores to-day stand: Har- vard, 4; Yale, 3; Columbia, 11-2, and Princeton, 31-2. — —>—__- CHARLESTON ENTRIES. The entries for to-morrow's races are as follows FIRST RACE- All agen; selling, five and a half furlongs Elale Hemdon. * 16; La A 113 " hey, 108) Hatwa Coon, 118, Elna OND RACK. “Dany is Pe and a half furlongs. 100, *Madge's 104, Serenata, 106; Otra *Jezail, 101; Old Jordan, 0; 106, Tam Hancook, Woodrow, Malix, 106; hiless, 100, THIRD RACE—Threc-year-olda Selling: puree $820; six furlo 112; Henry Hutchinson, 1115 “Billy Vanderveer Dwyer, 10h itt and upward; Prince Chap, ody, 100; Lor: Dangerous March, 115; Cock- ‘Chartier, 116. H RACE—Three-yearolds; selling handicap, one mile. Coleata, 107; Btar Actre Marshon. 108. puree $500; Dick Deadwood, 98; 110; Loan Shark, 96: FIFTH RACE—All ages: selling; purse $300; five and a half furlonge.—*Bat Masterson, 106; Apeon, 111; Kira, 111: *viley, 108; Cut’ Maid, 0; Elsewhere, 113; John Marrs Helen M., 00; Silas Grimp, Premier, + Question fark, S19. Tomboy, 0; Terre Bianca, Mie Dr ollie, 113, BIXTH RACE All ages; selling; purse $200; mile and twenty yards.—-Mad River, 110; Germ: 107; Sam Bernard, 100, Keno, 107; Spindle, *Faen, 168. Ruiseau, 107 HilNe Baker. 10 vamel, 116; *L. M. Eckert, 108, Patty Regan, * Apprentice allowance, T slow, JUAREZ ENTRIES. The Juarez entries for races are as follows: to-morrow's year-olds; purse. — Bertha V “General Warren, 97: *Colonel MeDwngall, 100, *Lattle Bit, 100, 102; ‘Thomas Hare, 102; Curona, 100; 1025 Alabama Ram, 102; George, 102 rim, 102; 105; Old Goleb, Lane, 110, RACE Selling; three-year-olds and *Birka, 105; upward, one mile.—*Dynamo, 101; *Sadie Bha- piro, Joo Woods, 107; *Bea Uneas, 107; te, 107; mendation, 112; Little Mare THIRD RACK ~'Two-yen Handicap; six furlonis OS. Kedpath, 102: Milton, Hing, 165 Sosiua 2; Blamey, 14 PRTH RACK All cap; seven furlongs, arent, 0; mir Mretful, ert Getty, 1): Voladay.jr., 106; Bonne « 105 FIFTH poward 1 Nprand M ie Coghill, OS: Sir John, 101 108; Sagar Lam Marlton Club, 108, “Apprentice allo renee on claimed, CLEMENTS KEEPS ‘HIS OFFICE WASHINGTON Dec, %3.—Judson C, eoined the etilette said to have been gave his oe a, en in and bd fo. ‘ox street, ‘Bocas, but there is Re ouch aumbes, | used ‘by the accused man. The prisoner] tod: Clements of Georgia was reappointed by President Wilson a member Interstate Commerce Commissio! hia nomination was hurried te tae | Hoge Set eee ete meinterenenmer sete et of tl | ton, VENNER LOSES HIS SUT “AGAINST BELMONT OVER | »_TNTERBOROUGH STOCK Insisted 15,000 3000 haves Were Given Belmont Without Value in Return. Clarence H. Venner, who haa been varlously deseribed as “an artificer of ® | litigation” and “a menace to corporate 3 | society” lost hits two miliion-odd 4 lar sult against August Belmont, the Interborough Rapid Transit Company | and others of the original Board of | Directors to-day. Supreme Court J tice Van Siclen, before whom the suit has been on trial in Brooklyn for many ; weeks, decided that Venner was not unting of the 1 shares of Interborough Rapid Transit stock which was paid to ‘August Bel- mont & Co. for the franchises of the Pelham Bay Park and City Isiand Ratl- Venner, with the Continental Securi- ties Company, which he included a complainant, contended that the tran fer of stock to Belmont had been tn the nature of bonus. He concluded that the franchise which Beimont sold for millions had cost him only $35,000. In the trial of the sult the answer was made that Belmont had accepted stock of questionable value and had iven in return franchises without which the operation of the Interbor- {ough would have been impossible, Justice Van Siclen dismissed the in- terest In the matter of the Continental si it as Venner's alter ego, and he 8! ‘tained the contention that Belmont had | given to him, Besides Mr. Belmont, those made de- fendants in the auit were Andrew Freed- man, Mra, Emma Jourdan, executrix of| the estate of Gen. James Jourdan, Gar- diner M. Lane, Mrs, Georgie A. M Donald, executrix of the estate of John B, McDonald; Walter G. Oakman, John Pyerce, Willam A. Reade, Cornetus Vanderbilt, George W. Young and Wal- ter Luttgen, directors or representing the original directorates of the Inter- borough. —_—>—_—_. BOY WORKS NEW GRAFT. Ba Get Money From Fac‘ory Smok: Charged with spector of the value for the atock transferred Vaed “Exempt Firem 2 to impersonating an in- Bureau of Fire Preven- George Werner, a boy of seven- teen, who is only five feet tall and lives at No, 5% Ashford street, Brooklyn, jay was held in $500 ball by Magis- trate Nolan in the Centre Street Court until the police and the Diatrict-Attor- ned can investigate his record. Werner, according to the statement of Ja Bistong, a trouser maker of No. Chrystie street, accepted a fee of $5 to refrain from making an “arrest” for a violation of the ordinance pre- venting smoking in factories. Werner, it fs said, went to the novelty works of the Beach Manufacturing Company at No. 1% Canal etreet and complained to the manager, John D. Phillips, that the “no smoking” signs were missing in the establishment. Phillips thought something was wrong when Werner flashed an old exempt fireman's badge, and called the police. The arrest fol- lowed, 1% Sa ed STOLE MRS. BELMONT’S DOGS Mrs. Ethel Lorraine Belmont, who was the wife of Raymond Belmont, one of the som General Sessions before Judge Crain to- day against George Richards, a young chauffeur accused of grand larceny. lilehanis, {t is charged, stole Mra. Bel- ments two Pekinese dows valued at $150 each from the home of Mrs, Cecilia Erodiey, No. 1 East Twenty-fourth street, where they were ‘boarding, The testimony showed that Richards was also boarding with Mra, Bradley and that his wife was {1 and he needed the money, Mra, Bradley alleged she saw him walking off with the dogs un- der his coat DYSPEPSIA wl Scalty of No, 75 Nagau st, New | yoree'Rinet eS ve beenearoublat with menoel taking them, and my rheumativn hi a ‘ ONY . lord werk one eeeS fille urities Company by declaring that, of August Belmont for about! & week, was a witness in the Court of| AILEY’ § RETIREMENT AS POLICE CAPTAIN ASUBIECT OF INQUIRY Investigation of Board of Polic> Surgeons Is Likely to Follow. Assistant District-Attorney Frederick J. Groeht, acting undor Instructions from D'strict-Attorney Whitman, be- | gan an inquiry to-day into the facts and circumstances of the retirement Jrecently of Pollee Captain Dominick | | Riley, now under Indictment for } bribery in connection with the wire- tappers! scandal | Dr. Marvin P. Palmer, Ch'ef of the | Board of Police Surgeons, was inter- |rogated by Mr. Groehl. All the papers jrelating to Riley's retirement were ‘brought to Mr, Groehl's office from | Pollce Headquarters under subpoena. The pollce surgeons who examined Riley and recommended his retirement wil] be questioned by Mr. | morrow, Nelther Mr. Groeht nor Mr. Whitmaa | would talk about the testimony given by Dr. Palmer. It will be remembered that Capt. Riley, while In command lthe Elizabeth street precinct, applied for retirement. Ho was transferred to a Brooklyn precinct. A few daya later Potlce Commissioner Waldo, upon the statement that Riley ‘was suffering from neart disease, re- tired him, | It was asserted tn the District-Attor- ney's office that a gencral Investigatio into the Board of Police Surgeons might follow, At the time of the Aldermanic ‘inquiry into the Police Department, At- torney Emory. Buckner gave instances ‘Why not give him a dozen bottles of Evans’ Alo? Your Grocer or Dealer. Wholesale City Depot, 35th at. @ 12th a uable than good health. There is no soap on earth’ ~— At all Drugststs tn all Notions Groen! to- | of] immediately | of men having retired on account of Hines who afterward fitled other posi- tions the duties of which required them > to be in perfect ph: During the past month th a general rush of police lous to be retired before Jan. 1. 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