The evening world. Newspaper, March 16, 1914, Page 1

TO REORGANIZE STOR AT COURT TENNIS i 7 j ———— Mercantile Creditors May Take! oe * Over Simpson Crawford C { over to the bank depositors > It {* probable that the cretitors 4 will take prompt steps to find out If ‘ ANAL The Circulation Books Open to All. | Siegel Victims Demand His $45 “Cirenlation Books Open to All.’ PRIOR ONE CENT, — ‘The eee York World) Preee ala NE ‘ ’ ENGLAND'S CHAMPION Come to Them. and Change Its Name. i Ji | — | The announced intention Siegel Vorel, penses of defending themselves in tho of Henry partner, Frank 6. | to devote $450,000 to the ex- and his | criminal proceedings which have been | started by the District-Attorney was | ived with indignation by deposit- ors in the bankrupt Stegol bank i the creditors of the bankrupt Siegel | stores to-day. The sum mentioned | Was what Slegel and Vogol announced | thelr friends had raised to he turned and! ‘there is in existence this mystertous « $450,000 fund, and if they find it they | will try to annex It to their own bene ft. In the meantime Divtrict-Attor- ney Whitman's aides are preparing for the and Jury 4 evidence re- ut Vealing the twisted and reckless fin- \ ancial and mercantily methods of } y el in the ¢ duet of his JAY GOULD. : and his stores: . 5 . attention of District-Attorney Wins Eleven Games Before t Jed to-day to Sieg :. ae - statement that he will use the $450,000! Briton Takes One in contributed by his friends as a de an fe. fense fund. Mr. Whitman smiled World’s Title Match. 4 Apparently he looked upon the threat of Mr. Si Lin the same Heht the attempt of depositors, backed by Meola 10 The Evening Word.) Slegel influences, to make a bargain! PHILADELPHIA, Mareh 16a. Gould, | champion, lof World's easily ¢ by which prosecution should be post- poned in « to give Siegel and Voge! a chance to rehabilitate busl- world’s profess sof three champion, tn the first ser ness enterprises they have wrecked, i Mr. Siegel, in his statement, said | Matches on the courts of the Philada that, 1f allowed to xo his way, he|!auet Club her AY. “The Aear can pay off his Indebtedness In five *# 0, G1, t—4, 6 years. If he were allowed to go hig! Gould played wonderful game own way for that length of thine he Met from the start and before play would be immune from prosecution— eed fur it was quite eviaent | unless he committed some indictable nslixh champion was in for i offense in the Interim—for the statute | ating, of limitations on offenses such as he | s work was that of am is charged with runs for only five prfec' otion, He was years, all the time and never dis- 1 the least a oof nervousness, PLAN ON TO REORGANIZE simp. |! ¥ SON-CRAWFORD COMPANY, =| “PParently being tie A group of the mercantile creditors |e, buHdinK, of the Siegel stores Is considering to- |and never seemed to et started right day a plan for the purchase of the | /tis admirers predict ae will find him- stock and fixtures of the Simpson- | selt In the second match on. Wednes- Crawford Company store and its re. | {4}, and show mucl! betior phe open organization under another name. ! championship of the world," was be The plan has progressed to the point | gun shortly after noun day at of an attempt to come to an agree- ee quet Club of Philad phia, ment with Henry Melvilie, receiver of | tour to-morrow, with the continu the bank of Henry Siegel & Co., as on Saturday to the Indebtedness of the store to the the contestants has not alr bank, If thie agreement: can be |{o¥0 on Gould to win the title reached the establishment will be ainony the spectators present were launched without delay. George Gould, father of the American For a time the mercantile creditors player, and Foxhall Keene, who came looked to a reorganization of both the UP from the South to see the match Simpson-Crawford Company and the Fourteensh Street Store, but Leo A. Price is expected to take over the Fourteenth Street Store if it be pos- | sible for him to arrange It. The plan of the mercantile creditors contemplates using the money raised by the preferred stockholders for the reorganization of both stores for the rehabilitation of the Simpson-Craw- ford store alone. DENIES OFFER OF $200,000 TO THE POSITORS. coolest man in —_—- ALLEGED ASSAILANTS OF CONTRACTOR HELD. Stanley Horman and Harry Bress- r, of assaulting Maurice 4 contractor, at One hun- and Fourth street and Centr Park West, on the night of Feb. were arraigned in the West Si Nice Court to-day and waived exam ination, Magistrate Simms held then in $5,000 bail each on a charge of felonious assault Ki accused Keating, dred 1, Joseph M, Hartfield, attorney for) A RUDK Boal sivoly.. Idensifad both prisoners, id they were two 0! the mercantile creditors, sald to-day | [/).0ner | Aney Ware 180 drawn revolvers and slashed his fi that the reported offer of $200,000 | with a knife, e woman Who is a im cash to the bank depositors was 4 knife, The i wed to have hired gunmen to do t entirely without foundation, ig | Keuting because she thought Keatir “There has been no such offer,” he | Kijied her dow has not been found by sald, “There has been discussion of a | the pdtic > (FOR RACING SEE PAGE 12) (Continued on Second Page.) "ps SIEGEL'S VICTIMS DEMAND ) $450,000 “DEFENSE FUND” | TO PAY BANK DEPOSITOR ‘of the il dressmaters from all ove UNSHINE DRESS | AND GHOST FROCK SPRING FASHIONS Grasshopper and Rose and Tulip also Among Modes at Chicago Convention. SOME REAL WONDERS. | | Dressmakers Now in Session; | Say Egypt Will Sway Styles | for the Coming Season. cn of Club, which opened its spring AGO, the March 16.—If the mem. hers Chicago Dressmakers’ onven tion at the Auditorium to-day, can | have things thelr way, women will dress in most fanciful clothes this sea » of the dresses at the style ad “The Ghost Frock,’ Drege’ “Th » Gown,” and and Tullp Frock.” all original desig tub, and hown to about 1,000 the Middle ings of yellow and pink, which show and it looks as thou stout woman was going to hive inning. | |/CHERUB By Sewell W YORK, MONDA Y¥, MARCH 16, 1924. Lat + BURNED TO DEATH; DEVINE Ford +| West congregated tn Chica twiee a 'venr view the styles Mr Alla Ripley, President of the club, sbows a gown which she says inspired by Chicago. Tt ts made MARGARET WILSON th a smoke grey chiffon under-! © MARCEAY- taffeta, which looks like an inverted | 7 a: : unbretla, lined with gold. A ; TION \3 Michigan nh velvet belt and | : touches of irridescent green and sil p if EXPLA A is ver white from the neck and sleeves, | : j make chia dress suggestive of sun Ve light eho iw and the ate y i : mosphere of the smoky city by the y : like. 12 Another one of Mme Fit | ON @ | dresses was suggested by the 1? | hopper. It is We of olty SATS IFC W > chiffon, overskirts of yellow ° | A bouffant et in the back is —_—— |¢ | draped to suggest the body of the . . : tashopper, Depending from the {Panama Canal Controversy ¢ | shoulders is a drapery of Irhd nt | x 2 . a7 P blue chiffon lined with sil tnis| Closed So Far as the Presi- ° sugsests the wings of the graeshop SRBC HRI ¢ per, and underneath this are plalt dent Is Concerned. fuse and feathers and intends to have |! social centre work in this city, sa ISS RLEANORWILSON BH ano MR MCADOO 16 PAGES est Photographs of President’s Daughters And Secretary McAdoo, Fiance of Miss Eleanor FLABDDDD EGGS EDODD HOE HL 2D SEDO DEGEHOS OTE HT EOE 999900 0,000 Defen se Fund WEHATHOR—Fatr to-night « i ‘Teesday; warmenh, — . FINA | SSS PRICE ONE CENT. Pere ee este eteeieerees 3 : ————— 01 AVILBY G. VoL with every movement of the body in Tach ag--am.| ___ PHOTOIRA As e c WASHINGTON, Mareh -Am- | fig aaace. Bre ee fee aan de ha oieak fandtion: of) Hint } ndsomext engagement rings ever showing 0 black taffeta gown, with a speech ‘touching. ‘upon Une 1 bat ivilaipl ch aL LC hoo} around the bottom. With this {Monroe Doctrine and the Pana j White diamond solitaire, in an old ree mn the bionmera, or pantieta of {tolim repeal! is aatistactory to Prest-| 4j " fuxhion claw setting, engraved in the Ain ice eles Vi NE la eldent Wilson, who regards the inet | FD lvack. Naturally, Miss Wilson refused aur mre er UNG: “BHO. ORT leu far an the hint | A to tell what inseription was on the white chiffon ! vee When « full Pa i Heal pete ay poech Is received it will HER FAMILY DOESN'T Now that the friends of Miss Wii that Egyptian. effects mY ; to the ate, whiek | > have seer much worn, They are not quite so! ST alsa ced ‘are ‘{netat unanimous as to the hoopskirt ques J tatn’s renutilion _—_ ent on Knowing Just whon the wed tion. ; Old callere: toe UR thite ding will take place and who will D | president Wilson told caters to- | Next Whit nse i n There in a radical change tm the) ayy that any agilation wer Mr Next hite House Mar make up the bridal party, Undoubt- ‘a 1] irts. There i muel " used by om aria, > e Sa t rs fashions) of abirts, hi a4 Ks huch ences were caused by 4 pected to Be Elab- ly Mrs. Sayre will be her sister's more material in them and they are snding of what the An matron of honor and Miss Margaret much wider, le uid, and that a fuller re- | orate Affair, Wilson und Miss Nona McAdoo will Whatever may be the proud boast | joie cp the apevch showed that the | ‘ bo the bridesmaids. ‘The wedding will of Paris or New York, Chicago sets y otly stated tal —--— srobably be in Jane. Ae tdor had correctly: 3! the} ' y in Jar the fashion for the women of the Mid current to-day. Intimates ite Ae diet ree Bie ie j d that dte| CACM OR he eM iee y ie share mien ne'n th bh ant " die , and the edict for the spring sidont is satintied that Mr pat there might be a double wedding is bustle eflects, shirrings, ruffles and | : Eleanor Wilson, frances of William |i) th. Wager remy. us ene ote eaedie ne slew !G, McAdoo, Secretary of the Treas- | fashion, i ury, admits she loves weddings with | loyd Fishe han engineer prominen The Story of a Wall Street -7Man’s Strange Search for Adventure TO-DAY’ BEGINS erececoccoccccce: IN S EVENING WORLD Over next door to . | one of that kind, lin his offiee at No. 41 Mark iow t hibit, where the § Merchant MYSTERY IN THE CASE,| although President Wilson and Mrs, | diay that re was noe truth what Tailors It holding its annual Wilson hope to make the ceremony over in the report of his engagement vena ie to LOWELL, Mass, March 16—Mra./ as simple as their position will allow, ty Missy Mancaret Wilvon hydlvaiie Wy Ov John Bumitield was found burned tol it is generally believed it will be > by, women, oath in the collar of her home under| more largely attended than the mac-| AVIATOR PLUNGED INTO SEA. Hips are decidedly not the thing ‘peculiar circumstances to-day, riage last November of Misa Jessie z for the 1914 man. Models diyplayed © ; Maree 5 fur as the police were able to learn} Wilson and F, B, Sayre, aetna paw da el tight fitting, bi or tore tipuren that Hogar eis i there had been no fire in the cellar| Because of the suclal uctivities of Intimate contact with a football grid- land there was nothing but the burned | the bride-to-be It seems inevitable | iron or base mond. body to indicate there had been a} that the coming White House wed- SAN SEE Spain, March 16 | When the makers a ding will be an unusually brilliant | ~Hanouilie Wrench aviator, was tail meet this spring it is esponding to a call of a when he fell inte “ a " affair, plane of colors. Men's shirt fouad the we fair, plates thie, ace fearfa run to the brightest colors right position Tho ring which Secretary McAdoo BORG. Che Ant: | the rainbow. ‘the cellar wall haw given Miss Wilson is one of the | , | THIS WEEK’S COMPLETE NOVEL ‘ H | ONBINBTE PARIS EDITOR SHOT BY MOTHER OF FRENGH MINISTER OF FINANCE Gaston Calmette of Figaro Wounded Badly When Mme. Caillaux, in Vengeful Mood, Opens Fire on Him in Office. ~AOOTING IS PROMPTED BY NEWSPAPER ATTACK Woman Resents Charges of Extortion Made .Against Her Son, Which Caused Sensation in France. PARIS, March 164—Gaston Calmette, editor of the Figaro, was shot and severely wounded to-day in the office of the Figaro by Mme, Call- |laux, mother of Joseph Caillaux, French Minister of Finance. The reason for the crime is said to be vengeance against M. Calmette, who had been waging a campaign characterized by great bitterness and animosity against the Minister of Finance. M, Calmette ts one of the best known news- paper writers in France, At the time of the shooting M. Cale motte Was preparing to leave the of flee when Mme, Calllaux entered, mette she advanced toward him and ‘ } without uttering a word drew a fe | volver and fired several sho one of Jwhieh lodged In M. Calmette's chest. | He fell groaning to the floor, in January used of attempting to extort money from for electoral » ry various persons rposes and the Inel- to a heated debate in of Deputies, ‘The charies categorically dented by M. Coillaux, but the editor of the Figaro persixted in his assertion, 'BOSUS DOROTHY ARNOLD = nt wave rhe Chamber Great Secrecy Surrounds rest in Coffee Houses on t Side, Lower E; Desrtve iat, sfevFenga anal be HYPHOTICG SUBJECT fective Sergeant Nicetli of the - ee wierters staff, this afternoon arreat-| Police Sav Wor Whe Cla'med to ed seven alleged gangsters In the lowe: ae ‘ see eu WF) Be Missing Girl Was Influe cant side. Hear Catherine and Mone | . A nuuad Of detectives enced—Seek Two Men. Ms nil a piunber of saloons and) LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 16— frow he KoubPaIieA atthe Game ‘ined on a general charge of aus- , ; ; | picion, Mee. “Sila” Splawn- Miller- time, the d abner leer ant! Dell was held in the clty Jail tox mon chosen from the crowds of pas|duy, She had ¢ trons for arrest laiming she was Dorothy Arnold, At Headquarters. De onan the New York society girl who van- : : shed In 1910, Detectives are seek- Hioner Rubin and Inny PRUE ing & physician and another man amined the seven prisoners at gre at | wate by Mra, O'Dell's husband, tenkth ‘They refused to yive their; Charles O'Dell, to be responsible for | uix wife's condition, reasons for the round-up, except to! “physicians who examined the nay that there had been many bomb! young woman sald ahe was suffer sin the section ant a num-| from aente hysteria, apparently ins ue AR CRUMAAHECTNT RAIS flee juecd by hypnotic influence, That she had recently been under the In- On Halvatore Va fe of the uence of a powerful drug was the privoners, w found a thirty-eight assertion of the police, who said the LDFO AULOMALIE A othe an admitted this, HUES AOD eK _ Another “"\trs, O'Dell repudiated her bue- prisoner also had @ gun, but he dis- 1, her sister and even her mother play A permit siened by Magistrate | ye day. Corrigan No charges were wile Se ation, t they fre being held while the investigation by the Deputy Com snd Paure! IN AUTO ACCIDENT misstonery yunder way The polien said that if any informa. tion Was gioen out in the matter the 5 Patarnriteiiartaiche iieniat ey ™* Daughter of Celebrated Naturalist, The arrests of the men followed Riding With Him, Was wvefully Jatd plans in whieh the tectives were ready for trouble and Badly Injured, eunplay There was no resistance, LONDO} y, the March 16,—Sir John Mure brated naturalist and anographer of Edinburg, was killed 1y in @ motor car accident, His daughter was sertously injured, Sir John Murray was born in at Coburg, Ontaria, Canada. Ho ae a8 a naturalist on the historic voyage ,of the Challenger during her selen- title crutse lasting from 1872 to 1876, i He lectured in the United States at 3P.M, Boston and Chicago tm 1921, however, The police of the Ouk street station, Which has this precinct, knew nothing of the raids, it the entirely is said, tatler i Dee Tandled from headquarters: ee eeaiercaes SAILING TO-DAY.