The evening world. Newspaper, July 2, 1917, Page 3

, pila Em 8 More Than 1,000 Children Greet the President’s Daugh- ter at Celebration. STIRRING City Officers Among Speakers: at Ceremony Under Auspices of The Evening World. SPECTACLE. The presence of Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of the President, at the City Hall to-day to address more than a thousand school ghildren was the feature of the celebration of American Forum Day commemorating the new law opening the public schools for civic purposes and com- munity centres, as advocated by The Evening World. The exercises at City Hall were only preliminary to those to be held to-night in Washington Irving High @chool and at twenty-eight social centres throughout Manhattan undér The Evening World American Forum. Miss Wilson was received in the re- ception room of City Hall by Police Commissioner Woods and Theodore Rousseau, Secretary to the Mayor, and went from there to address the Children. One of the pleasing notes im the gathering of the Public School \ pupils, Boy Scouts, members of the Mpnior Police and the American Junior Naval and Marine Scouts, was @ group of children from Public Behool No. 114, entitled “A Group of All Nations.” At the conclusion of Miss Wilson's Speech she was presented with a bou- quet by Paul Thomas Breen, thirteen years old, in the name of the Naval and Marine Saouts. THE BOY SCOUTS ADDRESS TO MISS WILSON. Young Breen said: “Miss Wilson, on behalf of the American J-nior Naval and Marine Boouts, numbering 40,000 boys resid- ing in 153 cities and towns of 39 Btates of the Union, I greet you. This small unit, of which I am a member, Fejoices to meet you and welcomes your visit to our city. “We sincerely hope that your stay here will be a pleasant and enjoyable one. The American Junlor Naval and Marine Scouts of this city wish to offer our thanks to you for the interest you have taken in the pas- sage of the recent law by the State Legislature which provides for the opening of the school buildings to the people of the community when school is not in session. “This law particularly effects be- gause we use the schools for the pur- poses of our drills and meetings and in many instances we have been obliged to pay for euch use. We thank you for what you have done and it gives me a great deal of pleas- ure to ask you to accept from us these flowers as a taken of our ap- preciation.” Miss Wilson was introduced by Sophie Irene Loeb as “the most demo- eratic girl in America." MISS WILSON’S GREETING TO THE CHILDREN. Miss Wilson said: “It makes me very happy to be here to-day. I feel that I know you all each and overy one of you—and that 1 have known you all your lives. We are all working for the same purpose for the common cause. We all love our country. “We are all serving our country and the country is serving all the world Thank you so much, God be with you till we meet again.” Miss Wilson arrived in an automo- bile accompanied by Sophie Irene “Loeb and L, Trimm, Commodore of the Naval Division in the Am ean Junior Naval and Marine uts, and escorted by a body of marine scouts in another automobile, Catholic Protectory Band opened the exercises by playtag “The Star Span gled Banner. The air was repeated by a tiny Bos Seout on the bugle while the great crowd stood with their hats off and in a position of salute Park Commissioner Cabot Ward made the first of the brief addresses at the oc “We must make a tremendous ef On a Hot Day Aek Your Grover. TEARS MISS WILSON SPEAK ON AMERICAN FORUM DAY ) the enthusiastio cheers of the hun- dreds of men and women that crowded the large auditorium of turday night Mr. W. A. Mazus, one of the lead- jing P. of this city, who pointed t together,” said the Park| to-night, Following the addresses, fort to ge te ath oe ne Fark! there was a play of "K sclusko in Commissioner, “for the common pur-|the Battle of Rastaiurce,” dealing pose of our country, We are at war,| with the Russian invasion of Poland and we want to go to the war as one | In 17% It’s MY-T-FINE | nation. We must get together behind our President. “We welcome this opportunity to! know each other better, and we are; Which was used by the bhi ake of Barnet Baff, the West Washing- | particularly grateful that we have with us the daughter of our great President, who is one of the greatest standard bearers for democracy in all history.” Police Commissioner Arthur Woods was the next speaker, He said: “I don't know why we want a po- liceman on an occasion like this, or if we do need a policeman the represen- tatives of the department who are facing me are enough to handle any disturbers of the peace who might show themselves, “I have to be more careful now than I used to be because in addition to the regular blue coated policemen I now have thousands of alert khaki clad members of the junior police to| look out for.” The children gathered early for the occasion, Most of them came as pub- lic school children, but there were several hundreds who marched to the hall in their uniforms as members of the junior police and several hundreds | more who marched as members of the Boy Scouts and of the Marine Scouts. Many of the school children were in costume in the garbs of various mem- bers of the Allied nations. Three groups formed tableaux, one showing | Miss Liberty, one the Spirit of ‘76 and one typifying the Spirit of 1917. The biggest human American flag ever seen in lower Manhattan was formed by 1,000 children from Public School No, 114 at Oak and Oliver Streets. “CITIZENS IN THE MAKING” TAKE PART. Acting Principal James Smith ar- ranged the flag, which was rep- resented by, children garbed in red, white and blue. The outstanding feature of this demonstration was tho fact that practically all the children taking part were of alien birth, citi- zens in the making. They represent @ dozen nations of Europe. While the City Hall Park celebra- was in progr there were held twenty-five other demonstrations In honor of American Forum Day. In the course of the afternoon the guests of The Evening World including Miss Wilson visited four of these outlying festivities. The points touched were Seward Park, the “Heart of the Melting Pot" at Hester and Essex Streets; Hamilton Fish Park at Stanton Street and Avenue C, Tompkins Square at Seventh Street and Avenue B and De Witt Clinton Park at Fifty-second Street and Eleventh Avenue. Other activities were held in the following places: At the Battery, Cherry Park, Clinton and Cherry} Streets; Columbus Park, Baxter and | Worth Streets; Corlears Hook, Jack- | son Street and Corlears Hook; Wash- | ington Fer Twelfth Street, near First | Avenue; Hudson Park, Carmine and Varick Streets; Chelsea Park, Twen- ty-eighth Street and Ninth Avenue; Thomas Jefferson Park, it One Hundred and Tenth Btreet; c rmans- ville Park, One Hundred and Fifty- second Street and Amsterdam Ave- nue; Astor Field, One Hundred and Forty-ninth Street and Eighth Ave- nue; Yorkville Park, One Hundred and First Street and Second Avenue; Queensborough Bridge, foot of East Fifty-ninth Street; John Jay Park, Beventy-elghth Street and East River, At to-night's Irving High School meeting Mrs. William Grant Brown, President of the State Federation of Women's Clubs and head of the Women's Organization of the Coun- cll of National Defense, will be tem- porary Chairman and introduce Miss Wilson, Sophie Irene Loeb will tell of the v of the new law just passed by p gislature which prescribes that at the request of twenty-five citizens of a community the Board of Educa- tion shal! open the school houses as community centres and clvic forums, pesidinhe hacia A POLISH NEW YORKERS CHEER EVENING WORLD'S AMERICANIZATION WORK That caniz ‘The Evening World Amert- tion Forum crusade has made & marked impression upon tho Pollsh people of this city was evidenced by ashington Irving {!igh School last out the success achieved by this pa- per in spreading the doctrines of Americantzation among the foreign born, asserted that the Polish people are grateful to The Evening World for initiating this movement He then introduced Harry H, Sehlacht, urged his auditors to attend The wh ening World Americanization rally Served Cold! |the Tombs awaiting trial. THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JULY 2,. 1917. "FRANK FERRARA NAMES TWO MEN AS, BAFF'S MURDERERS Did Not See Shooting, but Im- plicates Charles Dragina and “Tita.” Frank Ferrara, who drove the car ton Market poultry dealer, to-day related his share in the onime and {dentified the rifle, with the allencer! ; attached, with which the poultry- man was shot down. He exonerated Arichiello, now in the death house at Sing Sing, con- victed of participation in the mur- de Ferrara himself came from the death house to-day to give his tes- timony in the trial of Joseph and Jacob Cohen, David Jacobs and Abraham Graff, who are on trial be- fore Supreme Court Justice Tomp- kins for procuring the murder of Baft. Fer-ara testified that he did not seo the shooting of Baff, but told of his employment to drive the car by Charles Dragina, formerly an em- ployee in a laundry in East One Hun- dred and Seventh Street. Dragina, who was recently arrested in Los Angeles, where he was living under the name of Jack Rizzott!, 1s now in Another man implicated by Ferrara is known to him only as Tita, “Early in November, 1914, Charlie came to me up in Little Italy and said: ‘I want a poultry dealer down- town killed, ‘There's $3,000 in it and a closed car must be used.’ “He introduced Tita to me and we drove downtown to look over the ground. I had @ chauffeur with me named Dopey John, and I told Charlle that I intended to use him when the trick was pulled off. “Charlie said, ‘Don't do that. We have you on the job and we don't want it advertised all overs Harlem,’ He told me to get the speediest car I could—I worked in a garage—so on Nov. 2%, the day of the shooting, I told my boss that I had a hospital call for that afternoon. So I took the Biggest and speediest car we had and met Charlie and Tita at One Hundred and Third Street and First Avenue, “They had a rifle with them which they put together. We went down to West Washington Market, stopping at Fifteenth Street and Tenth Avenue. There they got out and walked west on Fourteenth Street. They were gone twenty minutes and when they came back they ordered me to drive into the market. “I told them there was nothing doing until I had got the lay of the land, So Charlie went into the mar- ket again and I followed on foot There was a ‘cop' on horseback there and a large number of people in the streets about the market. When I had seen this I said again there was nothing doing, telling them that I wouldn't do a thing until it got dark, and that then I'd take a chance and drive in. “Charlie said this was all right and that they'd walt, I walked back to the machine and Charlie and Tita walked off. I waited an hour and Charlie came back alone. Just be- fore 6 o'clock Charlie told me to drive in, as there were not many people about the place then. I drove him to Thirteenth Avenue and Gansevoort Street, where he got out and told me to stay and keep my motor running, adding that I'd better face the car to the east “I stood on the curb near the wheel and Charlie went north’ on ‘Thirteenth Avenue, just behind a po- liceman in uniform. After five or ten minutes I heard two shots from the north and then I saw Charile and Tita running toward the car, I jumped in and started just as Tita got his seat. Charlie ran and jumped on the running board, because by this time I was going full speed “{ could hear people crying ‘Stop!' But I put on more speed and went up West Street, I had narrow escapes from collisions. “We went uptown as far as One Hundred and Fourth Street and First Avenue, and there Ch and Tita | got out, Charlie giving me $12, “On the way uptown I heard Tita and Charlie in argument over the rifle, Tita sald he'd thrown It away, and Charlie cursed him for a@ fool, saying that it was wort and when found would be evidence against them, “When Charilo gave me the $12 te sald he'd see me later for the car money over to the boss and he gave me $2.40 commission “On Thanksgiving night a boy told] me a man wanted to see me, and I went out and met (har Third Avenue and One Hundred and Sey enth Street We went to a me show and he gave mo $200, of which he told me to keep $150 and give the rest to the bossa to have * car re. | painted “I didn't want to bring boss into t, T told Charlie that the be t take the mone “Then Charlie said for me to keep it myself. “That night I met a friend of mine named Joe Bereyell! and I gave him $180 to put in the pank for me I didy't want everybody arvuad bere Lo I turned the | Wants America to Win Honor of First Crossing and Chafes at Delay. | By Nixola Greeley-Smith BAY fost the war is over we shall see passenger tri- planes travelling from New York to London In ‘forty-eight hours,” said G. Holt Thom- as, British expert in aviation, in an address in Bng- land. “Why not make it thirty hours?” , ‘inquired Henry Woodhouse, Amer- Sd foan authority, when he heard of It. “Why wait till the war is over? Why not do it now?” asked the | Winged Victory of America, Ruth Law. “As a matter of fact,” continued the holder of Ameriaca’s record for long distance flight, as we lunched together on the roof of the Hotel McAlpin, Sat- urday, “I'm to meet a group of New York capitalists this afternoon who want me to make the New Yory-to- London flight right away. I've prom- ised to look the machine over and if it's @ practicable one I may make the try. But I won't say positively I shall do it till I've seen the machine. The London-New York flight is the next big thing in aviation and it ought to start from this side, If we wait till the war is over to make the attempt, why, it will be case of everybody's do- ing it. So I say why not cinch the record for America? Why not do it now?" It was a new and gallant Ruth Law that faced me across a table in the McAlpin, a Ruth Law that drew the eyes of men and women by the smart khaki uniform of a United States officer which she is permitted to wear as an assistant recruiting officer of the United States Army—her territory being, as she told me herself, “the United States map and the at- mosphere.” The rosy face and sparkling blue eyes of our champion aviator looked more than usually demure when set between a visored cap and a atiff khaki collar ornamented with bronze eagles, Because we were in a public dining room Miss Law's uniform in- cluded a short skirt, but when she x get wise. He put the money in the Harlem Savings Bank. Later on I drew it out in installments. Subse- quently I met Charley in December, two weeks after the murder, and he gave me $50 more. He told me then he would try to get me some more. “Stick to us and we'll stick to you,” he said. “I saw him again Christmas week. He gave me $50 more. ‘That's all I can get you,’ ho said, ‘And that's all we got.’ He said: ‘Be careful. Keep tight. The papers are full of this thing.’ “Did you ever seo him after that?” asked Mr. O'Malley. “Two or three times.” “Did you ever see Tita before or after the murder?” “No, only the day of the murder.” Ferrara denied that he knew Cardi- nale, the go-between in the Baff mur- der, or any of the other defendant “I did all my business with Dragina, he said, “I never mentioned the murder to anybody till I was arrested.” Q. When you went down there you knew 4 man was to be Killed? A. Yes. Q. And the money you took was for | your part in the killing of the man? A. It was, On cross-examination by Frank Moss, Ferrara repudiated all his pre- vious statements to District Attorney trial, declaring that the story he told to-day was the only true one, Harry Baff, son of Barnet Baff, was called before this witness, Baff was asked by Mr. when he had first talked to Moses Rosenstein, who ts now in the Tombs, ter in the case and 1s awaiting call us a State's witness. About two months after my father was killed,” Baff replied, “I told him try through the courtesy of the Itallan Government, and has already testi- \fi Rosenstein also said to me nere’s @ man named Fisher who knows the number of the motor cur that was used when your father was killed.” Rosenstein assured me that he had taken no actual part in the murder and offered to go with me to ! grave and swear to th got Into the c | David Jacob’ another actual ones who had had my father killed When we got to the cemetery Rosenstein clasped my hand over my held holy that he had told me the truth—that the Cohens had got the job of murder done, I reported all thin to Capt Carey af the Homicide Burcwu.'* menage: Pee nt es poe | Chicago, whose assistant I Swann and those made on his own! “Winged Victory of America,’’ Ruth Law, PERSHING’S MEN Ready tor New York-to-London Flight, MARCH IN PARIS ob OF | Impatiently Asks, Why Not Do It Now? RUTH LAW ia KRAKI.. made her ten-day flight fifteen Western cities for the Liberty Loan she was dressed like the regu- lation United States officer—breeches, | puttees and all. } 67 HAD my picturo taken in this | sult this morning,” confided | the army's most attractive re- | crulting officer, " the photographer said with, oh, such @ tone of disgust in his voice, was, ‘Why the skirt? Don't you know it spoils the picture? I had to explain that I didn’t wear it when IL was) really working. When I made the} Liberty Loan filght I started at) Cleveland, Ohio, you know, took in Toledo and a few other Ohio towns, went to Lincoln, Neb; to Bartles- ville, Okla.; to Joplin, Mo., and from there to St. Joseph and St. Louis to Chicago. I took along this skirt as my only baggage. It was rolled up| and strapped to the back of the ma- chine, Certainly the same old m chine in which I flew from Chic ugo | * to New York. “And I'm going to tell you some- | thing! I don't know whether I should or not, but Henry Dov of New York assumed all tho penses’ of my Liberty Loan and his idea of ‘expens: give me a check for $15,000. I was glad to hear of this good fortune, for until she told me, it had seemed to me Ruth Law's had brought her more laurels lucre. It had earned for her in the bronze medal of the long distance championship of the United States in aviation, but little gold save that minted in the treasury of the gods and banked in her yellow hair 667M PROUD of my uniform,” Miss Law declared, “and think the Government ought to| permit women who are doing patri- ote service to wear a Government uniform. I wear this through special | permission of Capt, Franklin Kenney, United States recruiting officer in am. There are hundreds of thousands of women in this country who are doing just as | | valuable service as the men who ens | just in the army. Why not give them a uniform? That would be a format recognition by the Government of their services and would give them something to be proud of, The women in Europe all have their different uniforms, The women Who run the street cars in London and Paris } awfully cute short skirts, really coa with skirts, and they wear lit on the aide of their head, and th ve caps y're | very proud to wear them, I can tell O'Malley | having pleaded guilty to manslaugh- | that I could do a@ lot for him and asked that he tell me the truth about | the murder of my father. Then Rosenstein said: ‘I'll tell you all I know, Cardinale knows all about 4," Cardinale, a business rival of Raff, | |has confessed his share in the crime, | that of hiring the gunmen to do it. He fled to Italy and went into the army |there, but was returned to this coun- father's grave and swore by all be| you. I'm recruiting for the United States Army in every branch, but of course I'm giving special attention to aviation, I think the requirement for aviators are much too hith present and will have The sight test 1s too seve » © jown for one thing. I'm practically blind in one eye—that ts, I've had a bad case of astigmatiam since I was a Iittle girl, put with my goggles on I have better than normal sight, And I'm not a bad one-eyed aviator, am I? “Br the way," Miss Law obser 1s she atirred her toed reflectively, “a British in this other day n't make proplanes in “when w British or Arm officer me army now the dos country that our enough Fr qu ountry he calls his mi and they Start out In an aeroplane Here United States officers wait tor trains, He thought tt awfu apld Rut of course we are awa other countries in lots of « Miss Law ended with a litt patriotism, “and I belleve our patriotic duty to go after the trans atlantle record | Do you know T was #o bored by the siowness of the trip co: from Europe this spring I made my mind I'd never take it ¢ if [can make tt in thirty hou aeroplane I'll surely change mind.” at —-—--- Lafayette Baths in Bankraptey. untary petition in filed to-day against thaand Hotel et No. 403” through @ @.VNOW WAG &.URDERWOOD.m DR. ADLER QUITS AS HEAD vy, OF JEWISH BODY IN CLASH ‘and the first thing | Resigns Day After Re-election Fol- lowing Stormy Scene Over Send- ing Delegates to Washington. Dr. Cyrus Adler, President of the nited Synagogue of America, resiene to-~lay following the action of the mem- b the American Jewish ¢ ers in voting to send a delegate to ngreas in Wash- neton on 2 Dr. Adir was re- lected only yesterday, Discussion of the question provoked ormy scene in the convention, which Ja ree Harlier acrimontous debate developed |when a resolution was introduced call- ing ne Synagogue to Join with the nughout the world and. voice a legally r nized and ured ‘h land for ple in’ Palestine. 1 Was offer by Udward . Chairmar of the nd finally wes tumult began when Dr lomon Solix Cohen declared that "the Zioniat os St exists in America to- yrrupt, athelatic and anti| NO CLASH wir LINE Secretary of War Explains Letter to} Ms h ( den namittee, which Zt rel Bredinnder declared that aH We realize the nist pro amme there is no h the Jews 1 America or els ener w OVER GOAL, SAYS BAKER Gifford Was Written Prevent Misunderstanding, WASHINGTON, July Secretary oker issued a statement to-day dis- laiming that there was any differ- of opinion between Secretary ano and himself over the reduction f the price of coal, and saying that letter to Director ford of the nal Defense Council was writ- to n to prevent what he regards as a pu misconception of what was ng on In the coal situation, Mr. Haker explained that some pub- i tements of the results of the n 4s betwe etary Lan coal op oR n rat A the f of the operators to redu of coal might be construed as g that a price has been fixed. not retary ker § vuld or ‘ld t deral Tr mmission had determined the coat f production, ‘The price finally ar dat will bear a@ direct relation f that course, | ~* STREET CAR MEN AGAIN |S THREATENING A STRIKE Be yrganizers Here and Start May Made on the Third Avenue System, nem? ff w fat on iff, Of course we're Thin was Frank at noon to-day when 1 friends, Organizer H Vahey i n the Jo eral other th koing to t enue system, iH ad if the unt here are to be two meet n to-night to whip the tine the finally put ra hia luck with intends 1 is not ruin | TOGELEBRATE 4(°" Elaborate a Biephiitions for Ke joicing Over Arrival of | American Troops. PARIS, July Paris ts make Wednesday the most history, It's tot lea Day.” Gen, Versiing course, dtawn lots of cheer, by at's going to happen on Vo of July will just make ring. There the welkiua are plenty of American so diers in Paris now free, swinging # | “Saminies” Hivening \ ide with which er ground. Parts aval Off white GE 3 208TH; OW Ma PROMISED of Kinga 4 aftefnoon, viow that the ave, geting dd the m6 to 1 cents » inquiry at ut If proof of woution of Not imagined price vise thy neh of the Knte y admitted to plemy of navy [ad eon raised, ut red inqutr: officers, But t pectacls of serried wx telephone ‘eal te that aie ee he - ta f serried | tan A telephone call to that sffice ranks of France's intest defenders | brought the ve from a man who ° i {anid was the manager, but refused te mar a De ed rt rf arching is one that will be saved | dyn hia name, that “it wie ace ee it up for July 4. | bubite s or the newspapers’ business Afratigeme e ootblete what the fee companies did.” | Hgements were comploted with | "if anybody wants to investigate tw /Gen, Pershing’s approval to let them al." he added. jthe despatch to Paris on Independ- once Day of a full battalion of Amer. fean troops in regulation order. They will exhibit to the Parisian populace, | They are due in Paris to-morrow | morning and from that time until they depart, probably on July 6, Paris pro- | Doses to show them the finest time j ever, But the American parade is to be only one part of the celebration. There will be speeches and special amuse- ments—and back of it all the solid, heartful gratitude of France, express- ing itself to its newest ally, First news of the American troops’ arrival was heralded by the biggest headlines Paris newspapers have used in many a day. Unofficially the ar- rival of the first contingent had been known for several days, but announce- ment was withheld to insure safety of other transport units. French editorial writers outdid themselves in welcoming the Ameri- cans. “France che the vanguard of the ereat army coming to help France and the Allies in their immense task,” declared L'Intrasigeant. La Presse says: ‘The appearance of American troops is the first reall- zation of America's help. Those who have arrived are the vanguard of an army whose numbers {is unlimited— an organization whose dash, power and courage are equal to any. His- tory will remember the day when the descendants of Washington crossed the ocean to serve the cause of lib- erty—the same cause in which our ancestors helped them.” “The great New World democracy does not do things by halves,” assert- ed the Journal des Debats. it enters the conflict with full realization and with full resolution. They will neg- lect nothing, spare nothing to attain those alms. America’s help will be y for | | | marching | thelr steps | ve. 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