The evening world. Newspaper, July 23, 1918, Page 8

mm ee 4 ¢ & ¢ ae 3 *] Bh DKER BEFORE SWANN IN THEFT * pm ee i New Yorker Who Paid $14,000 for Necklace May Help Solve Mystery. Beott Anderson, a broker with @Moes in the Woolworth Building ‘end a home in Valley Road, Upper Montclair, N. J., came to New York Peday with two detectives who had eked him to seo District Attorney @wann and shed what light he can on O80 of the strangest jewel robberies Weoorded in the files of the oldest de- Reactive agencies. ) Diamonds and pearls to a value of $846,000 belonging to New York deweiry firms were stolen in Chicago After the thieves had arranged to Dave them assembled there. After his interview with the Prose @ator Anderson was arraigned before Magistrate Brough on a short affi- ‘Gavit charging him with receiving Stolen goods. He was held in $10,000 Pall for examination Thursday. , ‘A limousine drew up before the sbop of the Heller-Rose Company, jewel- Jers, in Chicago early last January. A footman opened the door for two | women who got out and entered the | shop. They wanted a necklace of » @iamonds or pearls, but after looking Over the stock said there was nothing Quite fine enough. The firm proposed te send to New York and get an as- @ortment of the best, and the women @aid they would return. They did return on Jan. 26, accom- Panied by an elderly man who helped them judge the jewels. Two neck- laces were selected and the women @aid they would return for them in the afternoon. A moment after the departure of the women a man stepped into the a hat were those women doing here?” he demanded. “Who are you?" said the salesman. _ For answer the man produced @ My of Rogues’ Gallery photographs the women. “They're the rast pair of jewel wes in thecountry,” the man sal}. “I wouldn't be surprised if they'd Fobbed you already. Better look and "The employees became excited and Tapidly brought out trays of jewels from the safe, arranged them on show and began to take an inventory, all the jewels were thus ar- the in who posed as a de- drew a pistol and backed the en against a wall. Three other entered with guns drawn. The Is were swept into a bag and the ployees: Seeks A a Ber > i ~ OF S246 000 ENS four men withdrew. ‘The alarm was instantly given, but the thieves had an automobile waiting and they escaped after a revolver fight with the police. It is reported the man who had posed as a detective is now in jail in Chicago under the name of Dris- coll Thomas J. © detective, lear that the jewels were brought first to New York and then to Boston, where they were sold for a fraction of their value to a man who knew ‘heir origin, Then some of them had peen resold, and it was learned that Anderson had been igan, a New York interested and that one of the neck- laces, worth $20,000, was in his safety deposit box in Newark. He sald he and two other men, one of — them known to him as a jeweller, had been offered two necklaces at a bargain They bought one and had the other under consideration. keeping it In the safety deposit box pending a decision. > NILROAD MEN MUST BACK UNGLE SAM, M'ADOO SAYS “If We All Do Our Duty We Shall Soon Plant the Kaiser Face Downward. MILLYARD, Wash., July %.—Mrector General McAdoo, in a speech here late yesterday to railway shop workers, an- nounced that he would give his decision on Thursday on wages and working con- ditions for railway shopmen throughout the country, At the same time he told the shopmen that their duty was to give & square deal to the American people in return for the square deal the Railway Administration had promised them. “The strength of our position must always rest upon public opinion,” he said. “What I do for you from time to time must be done with reference to what is just, not alone to you, but to the public, which has got to pay the bill, I want to give you a square deal and the public wants to give you a square deni, but the public wants you to give it a square deal as well “Lf we all do our duty as well as our boys are doing theirs in France, we shal! toon plant the Kaiser face downward and keep him there. Let every railroad man hold onto his job and back Uncle Sam to the limit.” oa EMPIRE CITY WINNERS. FIRST ward; RACE-Three-year-olds and| claiming ;pure $700; mile and seventy yards.—African Arrow (Imp.) 102 (Ensor), 3 to 1, even, 2 to 5, won Marion ¢ . 109 CR Simpsos to 5.1 to 2, ‘second: Paddy Dear, 113 third. 1.45 1-5. Iron Cross 24, Kohincor , Corydon and Elderken also ran pidhcpiaibene ae Hangs Himself Rather Than Go to Work, Maurice Brody, twenty-four, of No. 91 Debevoise Street, Brooklyn, hanged himaelf to-day rather than go to work. He was arrested this morning under the Anti-Loafing Law. Pending trin! in Special Sessions he was locked up in the Tombs. Half an hour later « trusty saw him suspended from part of his cell with a noose made out of a sheet. He died after doctors worked for half out, (Bande), 18 to 5, 6 to 5, 1 to Tim Spa Hep Your Tyreruone Company Keep Tue an hour In an effort to revive him, Hep Your Terrpnone Company Keep THe Lines Open ror War Work 800 Hours A Day WASTED! ‘Tevernone SUBSCRIBERS in New York City waste 800 hours a day of operating time and the use of equipment, by calling ‘‘Informa- tion”’ for numbers correctly listed in the Tele- phone Directory / Tuis LABOR AND EQUIPMENT IS NEEDED for war work and it can be saved for this pur- pose if subscribers will a/ways look in the Tele- phone Directory for numbers before calling “Information.” To HELP KEEP THE LINES OPEN for im- portant war messages, will you please make this an invariable rule for yourself and your em- DO NOT ASK “INFORMATION” FOR A NUMBER UNTIL YOU HAVE FIRST LOOKED IN THE TELEPHONE BOOK AND FAILED TO FIND IT THERE NEW YORK TELEPHONE COMPANY Thrift—Good for you and goc\, Uncle Sam, Buy Thrift Stamp 7 _ THE EVENING WORLD, DEFENSE CONOL MEMBER SEED RANCUAT SCADA (Continued from First Page.) ment Company and Ralph Rosenthal of Hanever & Rosenthal were held in $10,000 bail for a pleading on July 30. ‘The others, who were held tn $5,000 each on the same charge, were Polly Clamon of the Manchester Waterproof Company, ——- Cohen of the Yorkshire Manufacturing Com- pany, Louls Fried of the Louisa Fried sompany, 8. Halpern of the Interbor- | ough Raincoat Company, Simon Har- ris of the Harris Raincoat House, Harry FB. Lazarus, Morris Lesser of Lessor & Stenge, Charles and Beuja- certain kind of ritther coment which ™n Plottel of the Plotell Raincoat TUESDAY, JULY 23, es Opzn ror War Work he described as “rotten.” Another alleged disclomre of Ro- senthal's was that he got contracts for coatm at $5.121-2 and $6.621-2 ach, although a few days later the Government fixed a flat maximum price of five cents lower, ‘This price, it ds understood, was made on rec- ommendation of a defense council committee. Many contractors, it was Ainclovert, received orders at the fixed price, although their bids had been lower, 3 An ofMfwer of the Bydeman Ruiter Company, under arrest, admitted that when tnapection of his product was transferred ¢rom the Quartermasters Depet to his plant it was easier to have goods accepted, so Department of Justice oMcials announced. Some concerns, it was learned, wert required to discontinue manufactur- ing clothing materials in certain cit- jes and to perform their contracts in New York, where the system of “un- derstanding” was well developed among Government inspectors, Spe- clal permission also was given a fa- vored few contractors to make changes in manufacturing processes which, it 18 maid, added thousands of dollars to their profits. Papers seized in connection with the arrests showed that wealthy young men sought exemptions from the draft by getting menial jobs with | manufacturers holding Government contracta. Felix Gouled, a clothing manufac- turer of 3 ». 1 Madison Avenue, was arraigned before United States Com- missioner Samuel Hitcheook this afternoon and held in $20,000 bail in connection with the raincoat bribery cases, Gouled arrested on at complaint sworn to by John DeMund, | an agent of the Department of Jus- tice, charging conspiracy with army officers in the handling of army con- tracts for clothing. Fifteen of the manufacturers and manufacturers’ agents who were brought into the Department of Jus- tice net yesterday were arraigned before United States Commissioner Samuel Hitchcock in the Federal Building to-day, The charge against all was violation of Section 39 of the United States Criminal Code, which covers attempts to bribe inspectors on Government contracts, 1. M. Halpern of the National Ce- ‘ Company, Joseph and Willlam syite- man of the Sydeman Rubber Com- pany, Joseph Wood of the same oom- pany and Arthur Zittel of the Auto- mobile Raincoat Company. More arrests are expected in the graft scandal, which is said to be nationwide, although it centres in New York. Raids were made by agents of the Department of Justice on hundreds of offices in New York, Brooklyn, Providence, Boston and other manufacturing centres, The ar- rests in New York and Brooklyn yes terday were the first outcome of this seizure of correspondence and books in the various offices. Every American eoldier in France Tecalves as part of his equipment a raincoat costing the Government $5. Tt is reported that contracts aggro- gating more than $40,000,000 already have been filled. Complaint by Gen. Pershing as to the quality of rain- conta served to his men in France is maid to have led to the investigation. This developed the fact that rotten cloth, uncemented seams and scanty material were being passed by Gov- ernment inspectors, ee Soncen Saree FOREIGN TRADE OFF $75,000,000 IN YEAR Increase of $287,000,000 in Imports Overbalanced by Decrease in Exports. WASHINGTON, July 23.—American foreign trade decreased slightly in the fis year ended June 30, offical figures announced to-day by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, show- | ing a total of $8,874,000,000, compared with $8,949,000,000 the year before, a decrease of $75,000,000, Imports for 1918 show an increase of $287,000,000 with @ total of $2,946,000,000. Exports decreased by $362,000,000, the total being $5,928,000,000. The trade balance for the year was $2,982,000,000, compared with $3,631,000,000 in 1917. Imports of gold amounted to only $124,000,000 as compared with $977,000,- 000 in 1917, while exports were $191,- 000,000 as against $292,000,000 the year before. Sliver imports totalled $70,000,000 or twice the amount in 1917, and silver exports increased $78,000,000, WALL STREET GOSSIP United Cigar Stores Co.—Quarterly dividend of 2 1-4 per cent. on common stock, payable Aug. 15 to stock record Aug. 2. This puts the stock on @ 9 per cent. anniial basis, an increase from 8 per cent. since May 15, 1917. Bethlehem Steel Corp.—A_spectal meeting of stockholders has been called for Aug. 8 in Newark, N. J., to author- ize $50,000,000 bonds under @ consoli- dated mortgage covering all the prop- erty and assets of both the company ‘and corporation, also to consent to the fasuance of $70,000,000 bonds under the aforesaid mortguge to secure the lasue of $50,000,000 of 7 per cent. notes and to ratify the sale of sume to syndicate, American Hide & Leather Co.—Re- port for twelve months ended June 30; surplus, $2,346,382; increase $566,871 and equal to $1%,04'a share on preferred stock, against $13.68 earned in previous year, Company—Regu- dividend of four per payable Oct. 1 semi-annual on preferred stoc! cen to stook record Si Mother Lode Copper Mines Company —At special stockholders’ meeting the tale of all the assets of the company to the Mother Lode Coalition Mines Com- pany was ratiled by an almost unani- Tous vote, American Hide and Leather Company —Regular semi-annual dividend of 2% per and extra two per cent. on preferred stock, payable in Liberty Bonds Oct. 1 to k record Au Central Leather Company—Quarter ended June 30 shows net income after "EMPIRE CITY ENTRIES. PMPIRE RAC N. Y,, July rhe entries for to-mor- Tow's races are as follows FIRST RACK ‘bao ywar-oble Dandicay six furlongs, Yurrat a Pirate, 18, ABOOND ACH ‘Thee yearokla and upwant gelling: “one mile and @ tha Home. mer! Fics 130, Rew: Nell Tom; Yaak of con lence 1g; seo, Mu a a To Tn wont, 10h, Square Bo, ty SR. He Frooties, 06; Kult HL! Stary Than ireNiy clainiing: ou Btistmwe odly. 1K) teaaie COCK, Gang ey Dan 108 Condwt.” 107 Roowrit Th Fr iandicay: one Beconiat {10 Malog ka Ban MiMi Ace th ng, about six fur 113; “Me wn Star, | 108) hey hie, rove 308) mini,’ 11a; Masque, med with thin five eotrien, teen wore exeiiiced SINT WAGE Pwo sear olde five furiongs Nanaie Flack. Villan Shaw Senta, 1) Hatnoniation, 1125 Mane’ (cs tie ITE! Ming ioral. 1 Aggmen tice allowance, ¢1aiiti Weather cleat, track fast : _ ‘ond Losses by Robbing, in 1914 Total $10,310,500 Representatives of the railroads and the New York police met at the Grand Central Terminal to-day and selected & committer to create a bureau to han- die the problems of Uae loss and damage hase of rail and water trans pd npwant 108 and Youineed,, ‘100, Three-Jearolde and upwant Tile ane meventy, ania, dca bi , ; ante at ite Knicker. RA: xtewnt co Pap, 128 1a, Knfilade, 110: 190: a eet, bea! 116; eet at 10s) #0 ~ 108} 1 Ou , Lo, of which seven. maiden fillies; Jean of Are Suet Te An ¢ aon he meeting was called by Doherty of the Federal Railroad Ad- ministration. He said the losses by robbery and other catiées in Wilt ? TRACK, YONKRS, | 1918. UPSTATE LEADERS UNITE —___ONSMITH FOR GOVERNOR realized he could not get Tammany’s gubernatorial support. The opening of the convention was preceded by a parade along Broad- | way of adherents of George R. Lunn, | former Mayor of Schenectady, one of the numerous Gubernatorial candi- | dates. Just before the marchers got off Charles F, Murphy, accompanied by Congressman Thomas F, Smith, | slipped almost unnoticed through the | crowd and walked to the convention (Continued from First Page.) the world safe for democracy; and as an carnest of their loynity re- pudiate every truckler with our country’s enemies who strives or has atriven to extennate or excuse guch crimes against humanity as the rape of Relgtum, the sinking of the Lusitania and the German policy of assassination by subma- | rine; who seeks or has sought to | hall. sow dissension among our allies, | William Church Osborn, Guber- or who now secks to capitalize by | natorial candidate, heard that the election to public office the latent committee of forty-five up-State treason whose total annihilation | jeaders proposed considering his name in the most preseing need of tho | among others for the Governorship. hour.” He wrote to William H. Kelley, When Justice Seabury walked to| Chairman of the Committee, that the the front of the auditorium with his|Convention “has no legal right to resolution there were cries of “Sit! choose party candidates,” because down!" and “Shut up!" from = all|/that power is reposed solely in the parts of the hall. INnally he was| people at the primaries. permitted to read the resolution. If| Osborn then paid his respects tc he expected any dissent he was mis-! one of his opponents, too well known taken, for the resolution was unani-|to mention, in the following lan- mously adopted. Patrick E. McCabe | guage: of Albany, an ardent Hearst man,| qt is possible that forces hostile moved its adoption. Maurice E. Con-| to democracy and of sinister import nolly of Queens, also a Hearstite, and|to the war aims of our country ma: Senator Foley of Manhattan second- | attempt to control the conference. If od it this should happen I trust the con- TAMMANY MEN TALK ference may be able to defeat them THREATS BY HEARST. and that the deliberation may be The whispering wireless of political) guided by a lofty desire for the in- gossip was passing a sensational! terest of the nation.” story to-day of a double threat aim-| ‘There are already signs of a break ed at Murphy by Hearst and the) in the Smith-Walker tentative ticket. supporters of Mayor Hylan. Friends of Walker aay he and not Murphy is said to have received| smith should be recommended for two messages in his room in the| Governor, W. W. Furley, leader of Grand Union Hotel before dawn to-| proome County, from which Walker day. The threats were thinly veiled. | nails, is said to be so sore over the One ts said to have been to the effect | attempt of the steering committes to that Hylan might be induced to fire| sigetrack Walker that he is consider- every Tammany job holder if Mur-| ing going over to the Hearst force phy gave in to either Alfred EK Smith} Temporary Chatrman J. Augustus or any of the up-State enthusiasts. | Kellogg, in his keynote speech before ‘Tho other threat, which 1s under-| +), convention said every effort stood to have been uttered by a man | close enough to Hearst to speak with | Jauthority, was the withdrawal of the | Hearst newspapers’ support. | ‘These reports were industriously eir- | culated for the obvious purpose of | showing the great pressure upon Mur- | phy and of providing a possible alibi) for the Tammany Boss if another | “dirty day's work” had to be done fin- ally in the Hearst interest. It is now recalled that for the past ‘few months the Hearst newspapers, which were formerly bitterly opposed to Gov. Whitman, have been strangely silent, ‘This silence has been a sword of Damocles hanging over the head| |of Murphy. It meant that Hearst was softening the way for a sudden shift to Whitman in the event that he OF expenses and reserve for taxes, &c., $2,522,482, against $4,520,804 in corre- sponding quarter of 1917 a EY Governntent, national, State and tocal,| votes of various interests, cuits ae should be bent, without any diverting | Peoples in the hope of perpetual re-extended power, r perchan.e issues or distracting controversies, to} advancement to the Presidency.” the primary purpose of prosecuting the war to a successful and perma-| Wounded B: andtather Was e rminatior in Civil War, “ay Gahue @ va | Ptivate James Manning Newton, se- Mr. Kelfogg devoted a considerable | yerely wounded June 24, was a member part of his address to criticism of the | « With Infantry ani x grandson of administration of the State Republi- |} RR Uiaucon under” AGmital can Party and Gov, Whitman He during Ue bs os ue _ ’ " nhis aunt ear, No. declared that the Governor's four] Sith his aunt, Nts et eer o executive action were de-| His mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Newton, ager od and four. sisters live in Manhattan. \. 1 “solely to the upbuilding of a] and) four misters iy personal machine and the angling for | por of the 15th Machine n, is a mem= Gun Battalion, of Women’s White High Cut Lace Boots $3.25 Were $4.50 to $9. Sizes incomplete. Women’s White Low Shoes $3.25 Were $4 to $6. Pumps and Oxfords, Short Lines BROOKLYN OPPENHEIM.CLLINS & C Fulton Street, Brooklyn Continued for Wednesday || Greatest Sale of Summer _ Dresses Ever Held By This House Pressed Steel Car Company—Quarter- ly dividend of $2 @ share on common stocld and $1.75 on preferred stock. Common dividend is payable Sept. 4 to | stock record Aug. 14. Preferred pava- ble Aug. 27 to stock record Aug. 6. | —_— \ CLOSING STOCK QUOTATIONS. With net changes from previous close, old Mine. . a Coane s Sugar 6 Car Bary % CaO a tics 8 | ide ‘de’ Tasacs, Hah. of % Llneed 2 i] Locomotive iy Smelt, “& Tel % Am, Steel ary =} Am, Sugar... =1 4m, sum, ‘Tob... +38 An. Tel. & Tel, Co % Am: Woollen 6 =14 Anaconda Mining =}% Atl. Gulg & W. I =i" | Taldwin “‘Laeo, - % Heth. Steet Ih etfs + Sceuttiesas aE FF, frtae 3 a Wi = Perroleuin Midvale St Miweuri@ National Cond Nat. in. & St N.Y. ee STE Haare! Harmoly lair Oil 1 FRESE CS PE FEF SESE REE FEO Wahu Watts yf, A = Wewting"F = Wile Oredand’ Gs; 20% 2 SK > iipeoreland Gs 04 > Ral walen. 368100 “wbares, ee ae NEW YORK COTTON EXCHANGE. en Te hawt 5 27.50 27.56 87 25.76 26.75 40 26.10 24.48 60 24.60 24.60 a3 3400 Hoo 34. 4! 34.67 34.00 NO EXCHANGES. .. larket closed weak off 43 to 146 points, AN ADDITIONAL 1000 Cotton Voile Dresses Through our enormous buying power we have effected a remarkable purchase of Summer Dresses in striped or novelty figured designs; twelve models to select from. Were made to retail from 6.50 to 9.75 Special Sale Price, 3 95 All Sales Must Be Final. Sixth Avenue at 19th St. NO APPROVALS,