The evening world. Newspaper, May 24, 1919, Page 1

PRICE TW _ C) CENTS. Copyright, 1 (The New EDITION lieusninea allie York World). “NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 24, 1919. ALL TROOPS, EXCEPT REGULARS, BACK SOON 23 MEN BURNED IN BAYONNE STANDARD OIL PLANT BLOW-UP: TERRIFIED WIVES STORM SHOP FIREMAN GIVES UP nisin 500 Girl Workers Thrown * Into Panic When Gasoline Explodes. THOUSANDS IN’ PERIL. Crazed Man With Clothes Aflame Jumps Into Bay— Many at Hospitals. ‘The “case and can” house of the Standard Oil Works on Newark Bay | | at Bayonne was blown up by three) egy sae Seudder’s Pond, which formerly was | Fireman Charles Fransen, twenty-) owned by Justice Townsend Scudder seven, of No. 425 Webster Avenue,|of Brooklyn and is now known as Long Island City, gave his life this] Littleworth Lake. morning to save three children, He are Ethlyn Nelson, who owns part | ig | Of the lake shore, was sitting on he died in Bellevue Hospital just two| Or ae ne eave aw aman without a j minutes before his wife could get} nat or coat chest deep in the water. | there, “Get off my property!” she culled Fransen was on the rear end of¢to him. “Get out of the lake!” ; He made no roply, she sal@, but | Engine No. 8 when the motor ma- i Rage ‘ v took a botle from his pocket, ¢ ai chine was returning from an incon-| ine contents, threw the bottle ahend Sequential fire at No, 242 East 42d] of him and dived head foremost into rect, The engine house in Sist|deop water. Mrs. Nelson launched a “iret, west of 8d Avenue, is undergo-|T@ft used by children and tried to nigh 7 |paddle it to where Heinrich went ing repairs and the apparatus has to) down, she was unable to reach the stand in the street. As the engine | spot and hurried to her telephone » 1d |was being backed up to the curb it! notified the police and Dr. B. C. Bray- er collided with the mud guard of tho | rd. explosions a little before noon to-| day, Twenty-seven men were 6ev- erely injured and twenty-three were taken to the Bayonne Hospital in automobile trucks, Nine of them were found to be in such condition that they may not recover from their urns. The Standard Oi! fire-fighting or-| ganization inside the plant deciared| ag 1 o'clock they had tie flames «¢ fined to the buildings immediately ad-| -dacent to that in which the explosion occurred, but the fre was still burn- ing stubbornly at 3 o'clock | The building, which is about 200) fect long and is on the end of a pier| running out into the bay, is used for filling containers with gusoline for export. The 400 workmen fill the cans | yom spigots which deliver the oil} frum enormous tanks at some litte tance from the house. here wus 4 flare at a spigot, whieh was open, followed by a blinding flash and an explosion. The whole building filled with gaso- line flames which poured out of the doors and windows. The workmen came tumbling out through the fire blindly, with thoir arms across their faces. One man ran screaming to the edge of the pier with his clothing all ablaze and jumped into bay. He was taken out unconscious nd sent to the hospital with the others. The explosions shook all the build- ings of the big plant and the open spaces of the inclosures were im- mediately filled with shouting and screaming men and women, There were 200 women and girls at work near the ‘case and can" house. These and the rush through the streets of the whole Bayonne Fire Department started a panic, fol- ““Rewed by a rush of all the women and families of the men in the plant, who stormed the gates and demanded to be admitted so that they might find out ¢or themselves whether their men were among those hurt. The names of the following injured men were ascertained: Patrick Kern, 578 Avenue E; John} Perschki, 125 Avenue 8; Paul G. Ott, 46 West 17th Street; Joseph Kohler, 802 Avenue William Osbhar, 163 Avenue John Stachniwicz, 130 Avenue 8; Henry Torrence, 66 Edge Avenue, Jersey City; Felix Lajanesk, 41 Bast 33d Street; nk Brodow- sky, 105 Avenue 8; Wasy! Puriprotki, 7 West 19th Street; Andrew Z Hua eray, 543 Avenue E; Steve Tarat 188 Prospect Avenue Leander Dex- ver, 340 Prospect Avenu John Ta loski, 29 Hast 17th Street; Patrick O'Gorman, 13 West 13th Theodore Anderson, 11 West Btree Wadisha Olkowski, 189 BE. st 22d Street; Dienetriow Telick, 3 “Past 2ist Street; Michael Salloy, Kast 15th Street; John Fedrocko, John Street; William Foley, 73 Pros- t Avenue; Charles Simski, 46 East | Nick Wrublowski, West 19th Street. q L IFE SAVING THOSE OF THREE KIDDIES Beds EA, Charles Fransen, Crushed by E ngine, Dies Two Minutes Before Wife Arrives. hose truck and skidded, F that they would be run down by the ngine if not rescucd from their posi- | tion, The you ers, bewildered and frightened, knew vet which way to turn and Fransen jumped from the engine and pushed them out of danger, It was all.the work of a second. ransen observed three children ing on the sidewalk and realized Bofore the fireman could get back to his wheel aga ‘Thea v unconselous whe Ch 1 chauffeur brin; was Fra’ o'elc bre befe athed he was caught by the nearest to him and crushed the wall of the Lexington atre, where he was pinned. he injured man was rushed in an condition to Bellevue, re Deputy Fire rles Culkin happened to be visit- Culkin immediately sent his to the home of Fransen to g his wife. ‘The trip of six miles made in fifteen minutes, Mrs, nsen reached the hospital at 10:47 k, to learn that her husband had his last just two minutes engine nst re, as TAKE BELL-ANS BEFORE MEAL ‘and se bow fine good diges Adve. gestion make CLOSING TIME 7.30 P. M. Sharp on Saturdays for SUNDAY WORLD WANT ADS. Want Advertisements for The Sunday World must be in The World's Main Office on or before 7.30 Saturday evening. —— Positively no Advertisements will be accepted after this time Send your Sunday World Want Advertisement tn to-day te make eure of its publication. Commissioner | HEAD OF SILK FIRM DRINKS POISON AND “THEN DIVES IN LAKE Frederick W. Heinrich Ends Life at Sea Cliff After Wading Into Pond a member Heinrich & Heinrich w. Frederick W. of the silk firm of F. Brother, No, 95 Madison Avenue, whose home is at No. 8 McDonoush Street, Brooklyn, committed subside to-day at Sea Cliff, L. I. He went to Sea Cliff a week ago with his family and opened their sum- mer home. Shortly before 11 o'clock this morning he told his wife he was going for a walk. A few minutes later he inquired at the home of Mrs. Charles Nostrand, whose husband lay ALL TROOPS IN Soaps. Demobilization Returns More Than 60 Per Cent. of Men to Civil Life Says March. WASHINGTON, May 74,—Revised plans for the return of the overseas forces provide for the sailing from France of all troops except these in the regular divisions by June 12, Gen. March, Chief of Staff, announced to-day. Units now in the service of ewppry’ are scheduled to sail 100,000 in May, 200,000 in June and the small as: | | dead in the hause, for directions to Heinrich was recognized as soon as the two men got his ody out of the water and the ph jan strove vain- ly to resuscitate him, There were | discolorations around the dead man's lips but it was not possible to tell | what had been in the bottle to cause them. The body was taken to Dodge's morgue in Glen Cov where an autopsy will be performed. Heinrich had been under a physi- cian's care for a long time as the re- sult of a nervous breakdown, parkas Sines THREE GIRL WITNESSES CHARGED WITH PERJURY Admit to Court They Falsified in Connection With Auto Death Case. ‘Three young women are in the Tombs |to-day awaiting action of the Grand Jury on a charge of perjury. They were committed late last night by Judge T. Malone of the Court of General Sessions after a jury before Judge Malone had convicted Morris Pollack, a wealthy truck owner of No. 1905 Douglas Street, Brooklyn, of manslaughter in the sec- ond degree, ‘The young women—Annie Dubner and adie Bernknopt of No. 810 East Ninth | Street, and Fannie Miller of No. 85 Es- sex Stgeet—witnessed an accident on Oct. 7 last in which a truck driven by Pollack ran down and killed Louis Reid- ler of No, 268 Broome Street. They of- fered their service as witnesses for Reldler’s widow. On the strength of their statements to her that Pollack was driving recklessly, failed to sound his horn and did not stop after the accident Mrs. Reidier obtained a settlement of $2,600 from Pollack in a civil suit. ‘The girl told the same story to As- sistant District Attorney McDonald when he was preparing the indict- |ment against Pollack. On the stand, |however, they gave directly conflic: ling testimony. They said Pollack |was blameless and that Reidler wa: run down because he was intoxicated, Under questioning by Judge, Malone they finally admitted that they had their testimony given to 05 der in July. A definite schedule has | been arranged for closing all the | supply section and leave areas now |under control of the A, EB. F. Heads quarters. Genoral headquarters at Chaumont | will be closed early in June after | which time the Coblenz sector will be supplied direct from Antwerp. Dumobilization of the Army has now returned more than sixty per! |cent. of officers and men to civil life, | |it was announced officially. ‘The total, including partial reports to date, was |wiven as 2,215,161, of whom 11 were officers, Sailings from overseas |since November 11 last have totalled 1,152,427, The return movement in the week of May 20 established a new high rec- ord for transporting troops either on the eastward or westward movement. During that week 133,893 officers and men were embarked for home, Gen, Pershing has informed the War Department demobilization has progressed to a point where he will discontinue releasing individual offi- cers and men whose discharge has been requested for unusual reasons. If released individually they would arrive in the United States after their units, Allied military forces ready for action on the Western front are be- lieved sufficient to handle apy mili- tary problem that might result from a German refusal to sign the peace treaty, Gen. March said. Gea, Foch has under his command, Gen, March stated, sufficient French, British and American soldiers to accomplish whatever the Allies wish in a pos- sible campaign against Germany. French and British troops, he said, greatly outnumber Americans, 558 | The War Department, Gen, March stated, will be able to make some an- nouncement regarding return of a American forces as soon as the pear. treaty is signed and the Paris confor- ence decides troops are no longer needed, Lieut, Gen, Robert L. Bullard, for- mer Commander of the Second Army in France, who arrived in the United States yesterday, will be commander of the Southeastern Department f the Army, at his present rank, after he concludes temporary work on an important board in the General Staff Office, Gen, March added, Steps to expedite the army bili were discussed to-day betwoen Sen- ator Wadsworth of New York, pros- pective chairman of the Senate Mili- tary Committee, and Chairman Kahn, of the House Committee, Im- mediate appropriations for current expenses are planned with postpone- ment of army policy legislation. Mr. Kahn said he thought the first bill should provide money for an “ayer- age’ army of about 600,000 men, under expectations that the army would consist of about one million men July 1 and be reduced to 100,000 * ‘by mid-winter, FRANCE EXCEPT REGULARS 10 SAIL FOR AMERICA BY JUNE 12 SIXTEEN ON GREW OF BURNED BOAT UNACCOUNTED FOR All Passengers on Virginia | BéliéVed to be Safe—Women in Narrow Escape. BALTIMORE, May %.—The old bay liner Virginia, bound to Norfolk from Raltimore with 150 passengers and a full cargo of miscellaneous freight aboard, was burned to the water's edge near the mouth of the Potomac River last night. ‘The office of the steamship com- pany this afternoon gave out a list of survivors that totaled up to the! are sald to have sailed last night on the Virginia, It is feared, however, that a number of the crew were lost. Only sixteen of the sixty-two were announcéd as hav- ing landed. The Virginia tett last night with pasengers for Norfolk. About 1 o'clock when she had completed more than half of her journey, fire was dis- covered in the forward hold, It d so rapidly that the fire-fight- ing apparatus proved uscless and cap- tain W. G. Lane ordered off the life- boats. As the second number who here spre lifeboat was being lowered a spliced rope attached to the davit rted and eighteen women were dropped into the water. Shortly afterward another lifeboat with thirty-five women was over- turned, All are now believed to have been saved. The fire started in the freight hold. Its origin was undetermined, A. C, Johnson, No, 324 Horald Ave- nue, Kichmond Hill, N, ¥,, was on the burned boat. He sald the fire started aft, “The fire bell rang and I tumbled out of bed and pulled on a pair of trousers and finally got a pair of boots,” he said. “For a time I, to- gether with other male passengers, helped the crew to fight the fire, It soon appeared hopeless and I was taken off in one of the lifeboats. No one saved anything. Everybody lost everything and only a few people were able to obtain sufficient cloth- ing to keep themselves warm,’ ——— THREE RESCUED IN HUDSON Boys Fall In While Playing on stern Bank tn Park, Robert Donovan, 11, of No, 417 West 160th Street, fell ino the Hudson river this morning, while fooling around the bank in Fort Washington Park, Thomas Donovan, the same age, but no relation, living at No. 461 West 150th Street, also fell in when he tried to rescue his friend, cries of the boys attracted the attention of William Drew, who also jumped in after them, AN three were in a fair way to be drowned when Policeman Frances Fu rowing on the river in day off, heard their cries and rescued them. > British Laborite Here On Caronta. The Cunard liner Caronia ar: here to-day, Among the passengers was the Rt, Hon, J, HL Thomas, M for Derby, England, one of the leaders of the British Labor party, It was he who prestes the {preatened renroad, strike in Engian le was a labor delegate to the League of Nations conference. KIDNAPPED BABY’S PARENTS DISAGREE OVER CHILD FOUND Infant Recovered in Subway Claimed By Father But Re- fused By Mother. \ three-weeks-old boy baby was kidnapped from his carriage in front of a department store at 121st Street and Third Avenue yesterday after- noon, and a three-weeks-old baby, wrapped in a coarse, soiled sheet, but otherwise naked, found last night under a soat in the Hunters Point Avenue station of the subway in Queens Borough. And here the complications begin. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Kostinen, 211 West 146th’ Street, jthe baby boy who was kidnapped in Harlom, went to the hospital to-day was a of No. the parents of and looked at the baby boy who was found in the railroad station, Kos- tinen immediately decided that the. boy was his and his wife as promptly decided that she had never seen the infant before, “But he cries like our baby,” said the bewildered husband. “But he is not our baby,” said the wife and mother and she wouldn't take the child away from the hos- pital. The Kostinen baby, when stolen, wore a white dress, white socks and |a white cap decorated with white and enjoyment of hia | | blue ribbons. If the three-weeks-old baby found in Queens Borough is the Kostinen baby the kidnapper appa- rently stole the child for its clothes. The detectives on the case are of the opinion that the baby abandoned in the railroad station is Mrs, Kos- EOCH'S TERMS FOR AUSTRIA REDUCES ARMY 10 15,000, WIPCS OUT NAVAL POWER Although Minister Dernberg Is Quoted as Saying “Officially” Ger- many Will Not Sign, London Re- ports That Rantzau Is Seeking Slight Change as Excuse to Do So PARIS, May 24 (United Press).——The treaty will be signed by the Allied and German delegates between . une 10 and 1S—or the armistice will be broken—was the forecast in ,vace circles to-day, The Germans are now expected ‘o hand the Allies their final counter. Proposais by May 29. These will be printed in book form and will be almost as voluminous as the Allied treaty. TO ATTEMPT LISBON FLIGHT TILL MONDAY before replying, and will then allow Indications At Ponta Delgada Are the Germans about the same time in which to make up their minds about That Rough Weather Will Con- tinue Over Sunday. signing, LONDON, May 2% (British Wire- less Service).—The German Govern- ment at present is sincerely anxious to ai conclude peace and to sign the (Aewoetat eet Prew.) Allied terms, according to the view PONTA DELGADA, May 4. |of the Rotterdam correspondent of EATHER reports received Wis morning indicate that the strong easterly winds ‘between here and Lisbon will con- Unue to-day and to-morrow. ‘This makes tho start of the se the Dally Telegraph formed from re- cent events in Germany. The only thing the German Government is looking for, he says, is some altera- tion in the terms which it can inter- tinen’s and that she hay repudiated ‘t under the tnfluence of hysteria caused by the occurrence of yesterday, Mrs, Kastinen wheeled the baby out in his carriage yesterday afternoon and left him in front of the store when she went in to do some shop- ping. Though she was not ten feet away, when sho looked out through the window five minutes later the baby was not in the carriage. She searched the neighborhood but could find no one who saw the baby removed. Then she told the police at the East 126th Street Station and since then the search has been general, > — 'N. Y. INSURANCE BROKER FOUND DEAD IN BROOK Edward A. Hobbs, Su Suffering From Nervous Breakdown, Had Wandered From Home, (Special to The Evening World.) WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., May 24.— Edward A. Hobbs, a New York insur- ance broker, was found dead early to- day lying face downward in a broc between Chappaqua and Pleasant- ville, ‘The body was discovered by workmen on the Harlem Railroad and Coroner Mills began an investigation. Mr, Hobbs, who was fifty years old, | had resided in ¢ Park at Chap- | paqua for five years. He fought with the British Army in the Boer War, For several months he has been suf- fering from a nervous breakdown and| watch a close was kept r him.| Early yesterday morn eluded | the members of bis family and wa red away, He leaves a wife and two children, Mr. Hobbs was with the Connecticut Mutual L mpany in the Woolworth Building for ten years. For the ps year he has been with the State Mutua Life of Worcester, M In addition he having served in the British army| through the Boer war, he had managed a West Indies plantation trav extensively. eyed enae tee: Pret to the German people as a con- cession in order to say that the treaty no longer retains the form whieh made it “inacceptadle. Flyer Sets New I it VPRSAILLDS, May 24 (Associated Record. Press).—Count von Brockdorff-Rant- Peketga ll tay gay He Pega se ip zau and the other members of the claca Brachpapa to-day broke the | Gorm : . ainplane to an altitude of 23,787 feet in forty minutes. He carried three | Morning, with the exception of Dr, cuicannaie Theodore Melchoir, the financtal ex- pert. All tho members of the party were smiling and seemed in good spirits, PARIS, May 24 (Associated Press) —It is announced that the treaty to bo presented to Austria will be considered at a plenary session next Tuesday and will be laid before the Austrian delegation probably on Wednesday, The Council of Four yesterday and to-day considered the military terms as framed by Marshall Foch, Com- mandoer in Chief of the Allied Armies; Gen, Diaz, Supreme Commander of the Italian Amny, and other military leaders, Austria's formidable army of upward of a million men, which was second only to that of Germany, is re- duced by the treaty to 15,000 men; virtually all military supplies would be surrendered or destroyed and fur- ther military production abolished, lane NC-4 for Lisbon unlikely before Monday. —~— TAFT AND HITCHCOCK TO TOUR FOR LEAGUE Former President and Democratic Senator Will Speak in Three States Next Week. WASHINGTO May 24.—Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, ranking Demo- crat of the Foreign Relations Com- mittee, one of the chief supporters of President Wilson's fight for ratifica- tion of the Peace Treaty, has accepted an Invitation to aecompany former President Taft on a three-day speaking trip next week in the Middle West, They will make addresses at Spring- fleld, Tl, on Thursday, at Kansas City, Mo., on Friday and at Omaha, Neb,, on Saturday, in each case at & State con- vention of Peace League societies. The naval terms are similarly Mr, Taft is understood to have ex-|8Weeplng, all warships being sur- pressed an earnest desire to confer on|fendered and Austria's position ag @ plans for the ratification fight naval power termi Count von Brockdorft- -Rantzau, | Panama st ed Up by|head of the German Peace Mission, Strike. and his colleagues conferred ; t yester- PANAMA, May 24.—The street cara} day at Spa with Philipp Schelde- f the Panama system were tied up to-} mann, Mathias Eraberger, Bernhard (by & als be : rn and co) Dernburg and Count von Bernstorft, cae ort a. i" on pple receive 171 In the eve Count von Brockdortf. ents an He dan increase! Rantzau left for Versailles and the pe members of the German Government started for Berlin, TAKE BDELL-ANS BEFORE MEALS desaegliraigling nd eee bow fing gid digestion makes yu tak ~ | Newspapers hero unanimously ap- prove of the “fairness, justice and precision” of the reply of the Peace Conference to the notes of Count vo _> WORLD RESTAURANT, Special for today, Saturday, May 34, 1041 fritters, Raked Bored, Yumpeus | ben nee ‘eae ii ae Tate,