The evening world. Newspaper, April 1, 1914, Page 1

NM’KAY RESIGNS AS HEAD OF POLIC Father Says Auto Kidnappers Stole Girl The | COMPLETE NOVEL EACH WEEK IN THE EVENING WORLD — PRICE FATHER FEARS AN AUTO STOLE SCHOOLGIRL WHO VANISHED FROM HOME Bessie Wood Starts for Camp- fire Meeting at Ridgefield Park and Disappears. BOHOOL IS DISMISSED. Pupils Turned Out to Aid Police in Search for the Missing Girl. Although no trace had been found Bail. late this afternoon of pretty Jessie —_-_ Wood, the sixteen-year-old high| Sheriff William J, Doyle of Weat- achool pupil who disappeared bron cheer to-day arrested i: the Sev- her home in Ridgefield Park, N. J.,| ¢Mty-second street entrance of the last evening, enough facts had come| subway Richard Darling, President to Nght concerning the girl to make! Chief of Police Molia doubtful of the theory thet three men, strangers and Mugh looking characters, had kid- napped her and taken her away in an automobile, though her father, Perey L. Wood. head bookkeeper in} the Hudson River Branch of the! Corn Exchange Hank, sticks to this explanation of his young daughter's absence. Jn the first place, it was Ioarned to- @uy that on last Monday Jessie had Her mother discovered 't, asked ahout It and was told ft belonged to & girl friend who was saving to buy) @ suit. The girl, Tone Loncz, a six-| teen-year-old schoolmate of Jessin, @enied to-day that she had ever had G17. How Jessie came by the moncy as a mystery. Again, it was not Miss Lentz, but the missing girl herself who bought he material for and made a sult and Dat, working in Miss Lentz's ho! unbeknown to her parents, HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS JOIN IN| THE HUNT. Reports that the girl hud been seen here, there and everywhere fairly flowed In on Chief of Police Melia after Walter G. Davis, principal of the Ridgefield Park High School, dis- missed school immediately it con- vened this morning, despite the fact that spring examinations were to fave begun, and set the pupils to work hunting for their schoolmate One of these clues, In light of what 4s now known of the girl, seems to bear a strong possibility of truth ‘This is the statement of Henry E. ‘Walsh, of Maywood, a special police- man employed by the Erie Railroad, ‘and on duty at the Little Ferry sta- tion of the New York and Susque- hanna Railroad, an Erie subsidiary, a mile below the Ridgefield Park sta- tion. Walsh told Melia that he saw a girl whom he recognized as Jessie Wood board the 8.08 train for Jersey | City at the Little Ferry station last | night. He said he said “Hello” to her and that she bowed in reply Walsh said the girl wore a black sult and a black hat with two black pompons, and this is exactly the out- fit which, her parents discovered to- | day, Jessio had made in secret In the | last week. Lentz visited the Wood this morning when she of Jessie's disappear- | ance’ and asked if her room had been searched. 't had jot, aai| the girl accompanied Mrs. Wood on a tour of Inspection, She noted that there was no blach suit or hat in the | clonet and remarhed it, !t was tho| firat the Woods had heard of such an tht. BLACK SUIT AND HAT ARE MI88.- ING, Yet Mr, Wood is positive that his Gaughter did not leave his home until 810 o'clock and so could not have been at the Little Ferry station at 8.08 o'clock, that ehe wore @ plaid skirt and blue gweater and was without a hat when @be left, Furthermore she ran back ONE CENT. | wife—a ‘girl of eighteen, to whom be "| Darling's lawyer also represents Mrs. Shaw. He declared to-day that} Darling was not afraid to face the He its positive too) |“ Circulation Books Open to All.” | ca IS epreient, NEW YORK KIDNAPPERS DARLING ARRESTED FR STEALNG WE OF BANKER SHAW He {s Taken to White Plains and Admitted to $3,000 of the Darling Realty Company of No, 203 Broadway, as the result of an indictment brought amaitine «trim in White Plains charging Nim with taking the wife of Robert M. Shaw, a banker of No. 20 Broad street, into that county for immoral purposes. With his lawyer, Frank Case Hay- den of No. 42 Broadway, Darling wont with the Sheriff to White Plains, where he was admitted to bail in the sum of $3,000, The indictment at White Plains is the result of effort on the part of Mr, Shaw to got satisfaction for the desertion of himself by his young had been married only a year and who, he charges, eloped with Darling last January. Mrs, Shaw ts now su- ing for an annulment of ber marriage on the ground that she was under uge when she became bis wife and Shaw is suing Darling for $50,000 for alienating her affections. |indictment and that Mrs, Shaw had gone to White Pliins to avoid attacks by her husband, and because she feared for her life at his hands. He placed in the annulment proceedings record in the Supreme Court, Man- hattan, to-day, an affidavit from her declaring that her husband bad fol- lowed her from place to place and had attacked, choked her and called her vile names, Mrs, Shaw swore that he did this at the Hotel Martha Washington, where she was stopping with her mother, and at other places, Joseph A. Shay, counsel for Mr. Shaw, admitted to-day that it was through his efforts that the indict- ment against Darling was secured in Westchester, He added that every effort would be made to prosecute the real estate man for the breaking up of his client's home. Darling and Mrs. Shaw met at a tango tea before she ran away from her husband. —<—<>_—. JAMESTOWN RESULTS. FIRST RACE Four furlongs; two year-old maidens,-Royal Blue, 109 (Hutwell), 5 to 1, 8 to 6 and 4 to 5, first; St, Helena, 109 (Waldron), 30 to 1, W tot nd 4 to 1, H Villa, 112 ¢ Wt " B to |, thir me Broom, Broom Blower, Flossie Le Plantagenct and Hapsburg I, also! an (SECOND RACE-Five and a half! furlong three-y old selling, | Colors, #8 (Murphy), 4 to 1, 8 to 9 and 4 to 5, first; C linsley), 10 | to 1, 8 to 1 and & tc second; Col | McDougall, 103 (Book ) to 1, 10) Time, 1.11.) Mordee' angon, Cannock, Diamond Cluster, Water Lad, Uncle Ed, Pea-| cock, Tom Hancock, Old Jordan and Dr. Charcot also ran to 1 and 3 to 1, third FOR RACING SEE PAGE 12, RAGING SRE PA STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY. A.M, | pe dhl SAILING TO-' | AS MLSOM PUSHES PANAMA BL FG First Filibuster Follows An- nouncement of President’s Plan to Hasten Repeal. JONES TAKES THE LEAD. Despite Opposition Adminis- tration Expects to Win With Majority of 16 Votes. By Samuel M. Williams (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, April 1.—The Panama Repeal bill was sent by the House to the Senate at 1 o'clock to- day. Just before ite arrival Senator Jones of Washington, Republican, unexpectedly launched into a set epeech on the canal subject criticising President Wilson with much sarcasm for attempts to have the executive branch of the Government dominate the legislative. Senator Jones had not been speak-| ing five minutes when messengers from the House arrived with several bills, There was a momentary terruption with the Senator atanding in his place. Vice-President Marshall had the clerk announce all the bills received excepting the Panama act. Senator Burton of Ohio inquired what had become of It. “It iw on the presiding officer's deak and has not yet been handed down,” replied the Vice-President, Senator Jo demanded his right to proceed and did This was the beginning of a Senatorial filibuster, which is liable to be carri: on in various ways for some time. News had reached the Senate of an announced White House plan to force quick action, and there was immediate atiffening of back and re- sentment among the aticklers for Senatorial prerogatives, especially among those opposing the President on the tolle act. As Jones continued his long talk in monotonous voice, which nobody was paying particular attention to, there was much confer- ring among Senators on what line of procedure to follow, Senator Jones suddenly cut short his speech at 1,30 o'clock and the canal tolls bill was laid before the Senate, It was referred without de- bate to Senator O'Gorman’s commit- tee on inter-oceanic canals, No fur- ther action is expected until next week. Senator O'Gorman called a meeting of the committee for next Tuesaday. TWO RESOLUTIONS IN SENATE ON TOLLS QUESTION. In the Senate two resolutions were introduced and referred without de- bate bearing on the tolls question. One w by a Progressive Repub- lean, Norris of Nebraska, calling for arbitration, and the other by a Pro- gressive Bull Moose, Poindexter of Washington, calling for information on foreign relations, The Norris res- olution referring to the repeal act sald: “This shall not be construed as a surrender of the right claimed by the United States to regulate traffic pass- ing through the canal, The protest filed by Great Britain is recognized as presenting an international ques- tion suitable for settlement by arbi- tration, The President is authorized to begin negotiations with Great Britain for settlement of the question by arbitration,” Senator Potndexter's resolution after criticising the President for not telling why he was so anxious to have the toll act repealed, stated: "The President is respectfully requested to inform the Senate, in confiden he desir what are the unnamed matters ‘of nearer consequence and greater delicacy’ referred to in his mensage, and that consideration of Toll act be deferred until can be obtained." FEDERALS MARCH TO ATTACK VLA Rebel General Still Fighting at Torreon Sends 3,500 Men to Meet Enemy. | | HEROIC HOIST WHITE FLAG? Report That Huerta General Offers to Surrender and Is Granted an Armistice, JUAREZ, Mexico, April 1.—That the occupation of Torreon by the/ Mexican Conatitutionalist troops un- der Gen. Francisco Villa ts being se- riously menaced was the word brought here to-day in despatches from Torreon to Gen. Venustiano Carransa and other obiefs of revolution. the| | APRIL CHILDREN SAVED. IN BLAZE WHICH HURTS RESCUERS Six Injured in Fierce Fire in, Crowded Tenement in Hester Street. VOLUNTEERS. | They Drop Youngsters From} Fire E Many Lives, apes and Save Qutek work by pollcemen, members of the Street Cleaning Department, firemen and citizens probably saved the lives of several children in a fire that swept through the upper floors of a five-story tenement at No. 19 Hester sirvet to-day. To gain time in climbing to flats in which there were children, women and old men in dan- The Torreon vattle ts still on and r, the rescuers dropped several of 1, 1914. advancing on the city from the east! laa cohen Pe coriae | the little ones from the lower land- » if} Tha new selumn reported maroh- | tay: to the Pallet ef Gen. Velasce was |eaid to be uhder the command ef Gen. Joaquin' Maas, and to number men. To meet him, it wae re- ported, Gen. Monclovio Herrera with 3,500 men wae detailed by Gen. Vill: An engagement between these two forces was expected hourly. Gen. Carranza to-day informed tule that reports of the fall of Tor- reon were premature. EAGLE PASS, Tex. April 1.—De- |spatches from the American Consul at Durango forwarded to Washing: ton via this city are reported to-day to announce that the Federal n= mander at Torreon has offered to sur- render to Gen, Villa, that a truce has been granted and that the Fed- eral and Constitutionaliat eta have met and are t ling the terms of capitu Gen, Velasco, it is said, first called for a three-hour armistice and offered to surrender the town if the garrison could march out with honors of war and {f Villa would parole the officers and guarantee not to kill the volun- teers as he has threatened. The des- patch announcing the truce and offer of surrender has been forwarded to Washington, William P. Blocker, American Con- sul at Piedras Negras, refused to re- veal the contents of the despatch from Durango but admitted that the mes- sage had been received and forward- ed to Secretry Bryan. According to information from authentic sources, Gen. Villa had taken the railroad station in Torreon, and for the past two days has been working his way from house to house towa he centre of the city. He is mald to¥ have taken nearly half the town by assaults, which resulted in an appalling loss of life on both sides. Last night Gen, Velasco hoisted a! white flag, it is sald, and asked for American, British and German con- | |lowed her upstairs and pulled her \LACE IN NEWSPAPERS | Ings ct fg eacapes into the arms.of | peraons below. — The blaze was in the heart of the | most populous section of the east side, and so close to a great public | “Circulation Books Open to All.’ Weather—Rain warmer to-night; Thersday faim raNAL ¢ 16 PAGES PRICE ONE OENT. ——————[—<—[_$_$<_[{[_$_ _ — —————E BY MA | MAN WHO MAY TAKE M’KAY’S PLACE AS HEAD OF THE POLICE ' ARTHUR H. WOODS achool that the principal had to shut off from the pupils the sight of the smoke and flames by pulling down the window shades. Half a dozen of the persons in the tenement house were injured and two are under treat- ment at Gouverneur Hospital, Vague neighborhood talk of incendiarism was heard during the fire by fremen and policemen, Tho fire started on the third floor, where painters had been at work, and shot up the stairway. It happened that there were on the fourth and fifth floors several children, locked in flats in the absence of their mothers. Alex Yellin, four years |old, and Benjamin, his brother, two and a half years old, were in the flat of their mother, Lena, on the fourth floor, = MOTHER BADLY BURNED TRY- ING TO RESCUE BABIES. The mother was in a store on the ground floor when she heard the alarm of fire. She dashed upstairs, intent on rescuing her babies, but was unable to break through the wall of flame on the third floor. Charles Hutchinson, @ foreman in the Street Cleaning Department, and Sergeant Hickey of the Police Department fol- back to the street with her face and hands badly burned, Then Hickey and Hutchinson went up the rear fire (Continued on Fourth Page.) —>— SMUGGLED TO IMPORTER three hours’ truce to present a prop-| osition for surrender. ‘The truce was! granted, it is understood, and the Federal commanders offered to turn | over the city with all military stores | if the lives of all officers and men | were guaranteed { Tt is also understood that Villa at first demurred, saying that many of | the garrison, includin n. Orogeo, | at ren WASHINGTON, Bryan late to-day had received no | despatches from Consul Harmim, at Durango, reporting an armistic bes | tween Villa and Velaseo at Torreon, | and State Department officials were | inclined to believe the report at Kagle Pass was based upon the Consul's three despatches which were received here last night. They at first reported Velasco as about to evacuate the city and en incorined the State Depart. t @ report wes based tiem met considered April 1. Secretary who {8 said to be in pon, were | traitors and must be executed valuable smuggled laces. He was It is said another armistice was!taken before United States Commis. | arranged for ty-das, however, when |ioner Houghton and held tn $2,500 bait | ee etd peepabis accap, the offer ror examination on the charge of It is known that a F 1 column | smuggling pf reinforcements | Mn for "Phe Live wan wrapped inside of| Torreon March 40, but aw all railrond | peweonuera which were put lines are cut It will require several) DCWSPA which were put in the days for the relieving force to arrive | mail at Naples, ttaly. ‘Phe news: | | with i reliable. H. K. Lustig Arrested as Mail Is Handed to Him With the Goods in It HK. Lustg, a lace Importer, of No. 156 Fifth avenue, was arrested to- hy la Customs Inspector Cosimo Ranil- | as he accepted mail containing papers were addressed to Lustig and to MP Gandais, who shares offices bim From one of the new: papers dangied a bit of lace and the| postal clerk handling the mail re- ported this to his superior. He in |turn called in the customs people. ‘The postman delivering the mail was followed by Ranilla, and as the! papers were handed to Lustig he was! vrosted, Gandale le sald to be tal UrOpe. : et ¥ Police Commissions DOUGLAS | MSKAY HE HAS RESIGNED. THREE AVIATORS KILLED ONE VEDRINES’ BROTHER, Two of the Victims Hurled Groum in Flaming Machine Set Afire by Explosion to RHEIMS, France, April 1.—Emile Vedrines, a brother of Jules Ved- rines, the farnous French aviator, was killed in a fall while making a flikht in his monoplane over the aviation field here to Emile Vedrines, although not as well known as his brother in aviation! circles, was an experienced flyer, — | Later In the day two other aviators were killed by the aeroplane | tehing fire in mid-air causing | the machine to collapse and fall to the ground. They were Herre Leon Testulat, who was piloting an aero- plane in which he was accompanied | by Clement Avigny as & passenger. | Teatulat received his ‘pilot's certiti- cate in April, 1912. —————E RUBE WADDELL DYING. Great Southpaw, tm San Antonio, | May Not Live Through ight. | SAN ANTONIO, Tex, April 1—Rube Waddell, in his time one of the great: | est xouthpaws in the history of bam bali, is dying at the San Antonio Sani- farium. His physicians state that eA rat? Eee’ vsee ine stuvertfer tome eu MIKAY'S RESIGNATION KEPT QUIET YOR FOR SEVERAL DAYS Police Commissioner Says He De- manded Acceptance at Once but Agreed to Remain Not Lat- er Than April 15. WOODS, FORMER DEPUTY, . MAY GET THE POSITION Mayor Refuses to Make Public Mc- Kay’s Letter, but Says He Intended Writing in Praise of His Work. Police Commissioner Douglas I. McKay announced this afternoon thet he handed his resignation to Mayor Mitchel last Friday morning ‘at 1090 o'clock and had asked that he be relieved from duty forthwith. But, he, added, he had told the Mayor that he would remain, if necessary, until April 16, The arnouncement of the Commissioner was made after he had reed | an article in the Evening Post which stated that he would be eupplented jin three days because the Mayor felt that a more experienced and older man should head the Police Department. The article was evidently tm spired by some one formerly connected with the Evening Post, or now coa- nected with that paper, who is close to the administration. MISSING CANOEISTS NOT ON STEAMSHIP Parents of Jordan and Brown Hoped They Were Picked Up Sunday Afternoon The parents of Thomas Jordan fr. and Clarence Brown, young canoeists who disappeared together Sunday from Gravesend Hay, received another blow to-day from Bal where the tramp stean rn arrived pt. Iverson of the steamer North- western which was supposed to have picked up the Brooklyn boya missing in @ canoe, sald thia morning that he had seen nothing of them and did not know anything of the Mrs. Jo in, of Ne Seventy- fifth street, Gravesend, learned from William Decker and William Crom- well, two fishermen, that they had hailed the cance and had talked with the two young men Sunday after- noon, They offered to give them a tow back to the bay, but the canoelata declined, Later the canoe was seen in distress two miles away by the two fishermen, but the tramp ship stopped near them and after a short while proceeded on her way. No trace of the canoe was left on the water, and the fishermen believed Jordan and Hrown and their little craft had been hauled aboard, ——> __ AN ORANGEMAN IS IRISH, BUT ACANUCK WON'T 00 Dub Aldermen Vote fer son's Name for a Street, but Op- pose That of Bonar Luv DUBLIN, April | ticked up te Car. New signs w lay renaming three Dublin's streets ft had been p posed by the municipal corporation thus to immortalice Redmon 1, O'Brien, son and Bonar Law, but Alder, pjeoted to the last named. for ¢ ar Orangeman,” sald Kelly lust an Irishman, but the the Unionist parry Is mere! adian Nelly'# amendment scratching "Bon- ar Law street” was adopteil —>————— otch= Two New Judges Sworn In, Former Magistrate John F. Hylan and form Assistant District-Attorney Rob Hoy of Brooklyn, recently appe additional Kes Rings County Court ‘Gov were swor Dike, Taxpayers suits to prevent their cling as judges have been threatened, but es, in such an action have oe 4, Commiasioner McKay was annoyed when the Evening Poat article was called to his attention. He wes Prompt in stating that he would eet. be “deposed” or “supplanted.” My resignation,” he eaid, “hee been In the hands of Mayor Mitehel ever since last Friday morning at 10.30 o'clock, I handed the letter to him personally, The letter explicitly stated that it was my desire that the resignation take effect forthwith, but that if the Mayor had not picked any- body to take my place IT would wait until he had chosen some one. How- ever, | stated that I would not remain after April 15 in any event, SAVS REASONS FOR QUITTING WERE SET FORTH IN LETTER. “Inasmuch as the letter of resigna- tlon gets forth in full the reasons why I want to get out of the Police Department I shall not discuss them, T have never talked about any prt+ vate conversations I have had with the Mayor and shall not do @o at this tin “The Mayor has my letter, He has my permiasion to give it out for pub- Neation. If he does ao I may have something to say. If he does not I cannot say anything while I am com- nected with the department.” “Did the Mayor intimate to yeu | that he had selected your successor,” |Commiasioner McKay was asked, “He said nothing about my eue- cessor,” replied the Commissioner, “At this time T cannot discuss what the Mayor said,” What inspired you to hand in your resignation last Friday tne Com- Had you re- ived an intimation that your resig- nition would be acceptable at the City Ha 'My letter of nm reason why lenation expl was offered,” was “Lf you want the letter ou will have to yet it from Mayor Mitchel." Prior to the announ miasioner MeKay th ening Poat article, which stated that Arthur | Woods, the Mayor's Secretary, would probably be appointed Police Commia- sloner, Was shown to Mayor Mitchel. MOONSHINE AND BUNK, THE MAYOR DECLARES. The Mayor looked over the artiele and picked out the assertion that he would appoint a successor to Commis- sioner McKay in three days, “That is moonshine and bunk,” he | declared. A fow minutes later he was asked if he had not in his possession « let~ ter of resignation from Commisstoner McKay. He replied in the afirma- tle, “The fact is,” he said, “that Come missioner wanted to quit eome buf remained bccause the the reply nent of Com- time ago