The evening world. Newspaper, June 13, 1919, Page 1

"BANK MESSENGER SHOOTS BANDIT AT eg MO TS PRICE TWO CENTS, Conrrighty 1910, by Press New York ree YOM ANE ase RE ea Feeney ie: veg riadanimaiaiee hee fats ¢ The Publishing _NEW _YoRK, _FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1919. BIG FOUR WORKS ALL DAY RUSHING THROUGH REVISED TREATY WITH THE GERMANS Cite Nino fo Nine Sections and Send Them to the Draft- ission. ing Commi: TO PUBLISH AT ONCE Changes So Complete As to Render Obsolete Text Issued by Senate. PARIS, Juno 13 (Associated Press.) ~The treaty with Germany will be entirely rewritten and reprinted, for the fneorporation textually of the ex- planations and clarifications con- tained in the Allied reply to the Ger- maf counter-proposals, While unchanged in principle, virtually a new document will be Presented to the Germans. tood that the new ' treaty will be made public on the day of ite delivery or the day after, The Council is unde of Four, it de- velops, decided that simply to attach the reply to the original document was impracticable, as important clauses would be left ebsoure’ and imperfect, hence the decision to rewrite the document. It was commented in Peace nce circ: to-day that action renders obsolete the published in the United text States. ‘The Council of Four to-day devoted both of its sessions to the revision of the text of the treaty. When the forenoon session ended the council had sent to the revision commission nine out of cightcen reports, Among those remaining to be passed are sev eral dealing with important subjects. These subjects include the Saar Valley, Alsace-Lorraine and the League of Nations. Many of the divergencies from the old text in the new treaty are of a minor nature, but some are highly important, This is notably true of the second para- graph of Article 232, where the English text of the old document limited compensation Germany was to make to damage done the civilian population of the Allied and Associated Powers and to their property “during the period of the belligerency of each as an 1 on Second Page.) _ FOR TIRED ra Ae (Continnur te Mons due to ‘Adrt CLOSING TIME 1.30 P. M. Sharp on Saturdays for SUNDAY WORLD WANT ADS. 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MISS MARION HOLLINS WINS GOLF TITLE IN FINALS OF METROPOLITAN CONTEST HITCHCOCK’SAYS KNOX RESOLUTION WILL BE DEFEATED All Sachoorsis but but Reed and Eight Republicans Will Vote Against If, . - WASHINGTON, June 18.—SHenate Democratic leaders in @ Oonference decided to battle the Knox | resolution to a knockout, | Their campaign will be designed to | prevent passage of the resolution un- | tll President Wilson has. presented the signed peace treaty to the Sen- ate to-day Senator Hitchoock said every | Democratic Senator except Sen- ator Reed, Mi and that about | would vote against it. | Some of the Senators attending to- | day's conference sald a vote on the resolution would be opposed and | probably be blocked, Those attend- ing the conference were Hitchcock, | Williams, of Mississippi; Smith, | Arizona; Walsh, Montana; Pittman, Nevada; Chamberlain, Oyegon; King, | Utah, and Thomas, Colorado, Democratic leaders are confident they have the votes toy prevent the Knox resolution being made the un- finished business of the Senate, or even being formally called from the \ealendar. If Democrats can keep the | resolution from’ béing formally laid sfoure thé Senate, there can be no yote on it, though it can be debated j without limit Senator Hitchcock, Administration | spokesman, to-day conferred with a |recently returned Peace Conference joficial regarding the effect of the | Knox resolution passage upon peace | negotiations. amgtienennepoes | SELECTION OF REFEREE | FOR FIGHT UNDER WAY | |Boxing (¢ control Board Soon Submit Names to Willard and Dempsey. Within a few days the Army and Navy Boxing Control! Commission will submit to Jess Willard and Jack Demp- y the names of powsible referees for thelr fight July 4 at ‘Toledo, Ohio, is decision was taken by the Com- mission at a meeting held in New York this afternoon, A. J. Drexel Biddle, the famous amateur sportsman, ts chalr- man of this commission. The commis- sioner praised the sportsmanship of Tex Rickard, manager of the fight, for seek- ing the co-operation of the egmmission in selecting the third man in the ring, After Witard and Dempsey have eli- minated those whose names do not find favor, the final decision will be left to the Commission, to a Page to Remain Ambassado) ROME, Thursday, June 12 (Associated Press).—Thomas Nelson Page, the American Ambarsador, will leave here the end of this month to spend a leave of absence in the United States, King Victoy Emmanuel hag warmly congrat- ulated Mr, Page on his decision to re- main ad Ambassador to 1tul ————— RACING ON PAGE 2 . \ w USS Ss _MARION HoOLUINS Ore BV AM ORR SS A By William Abbott. (Special Haff Correspondent of ‘The Evening World) ARCOLA, N. J., June 13.—Miss Marion Hollins of Long Island, to- day won the Golf Champ! Links, defeating Mrs. Gavin one up in Ue al round, Th h went to the st hole before new champion could capture the title, Miss Hollins was in her best form and ran away from her opponent early In the match, running up a lea of Women's Metropolitan Arcola re the William nship on four holes, With victory in her hands she grew careless on the putting greens “with the result that Mrs. Gavin was able to tie her on the home green. It was necessary to play three more holes before Miss Hollins puld de- monstrate her superiority over the ttle English woman and the excite- ment on the links was inteAse, Twice the contenders tied and Miss Hollins finally won after @ brilliant perfor- mance at the third hole. FLYER COVERS 175 MILES IN ONLY 83 MINUTES Lieut. Col. Drennan Sets New Speed Record Between Boston and Long Island, WASHINGTON, June 13.—A new speed record for heavier-than-air flying has been made by Lieut, Col, Leonard H. Drennan, the War Department an- to-day, He ¢overed 175 mil Boston and Hazlehurst Field, | in $3 minutes in a de Hay- ¥ 10 0 BELLEFONT Walter Winton, late W. W. of the Seranton million twenty Winton, aire and heir to $2,000,000, who came jhere to attend the closing exercises at Bellefonte Academy, was killed |when his automobile overturned wife rounding a curve near State College. Two college studgnts with.him were |sertously inju ———— AKE BELL-ASW MEPOLE MEA peohow fine Good Digvstion m fool—Adves Long Island Player Is One Up Over | Mrs. Gavin in 21-Hole Match at Arcola, IMNSTER TAUGHT HER TO DRINK AND “ SMOKE, WIFE SAYS But Mrs. Neifert Denies That Cigarettes,Cocktails and Card Parties Broke Up Home. Mrs, Emilie Neifert resumed the witness stand to-day before Supreme Court Justice Glegertch, where her uit for separation against Rev. Josiah Martyn Neifert, former as- istant rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, is on trial, and denied that cigarettes, cocktails and card parties were the three matrimonial “e's” upon which her twenty years of married life were wrecked, She insisted that while she amoked occasionally, indulged now and then in @ cocktail and @ card party, the, real “C"' responsible for the upsetting of ber marriage was Miss Caroline Cooper, the Danbury (Conn,) nurse who attended the clergyman during an attack of rheumatism. After Attorney Nicholas Selvagzi, for Mrs. Neifert, completed his direct examination Attorney L, C, ‘Tomp- kins, for Dr. Nelfert, subjected the wife toa gruelling cross-examination “Didn't your husband object to cocktails, cards and cigarettes?" asked the lawyer. “Quite absurd,” said Mrs, Neifert arising from the witness chalr, “Re- member, Mr. Tompkins, that it was Dr. Neifert who introduced me to them.” | “Do you Mathews a remember that a Mr. was living in your house ‘ hat you sent him whiskey in the tiorning with his breakfast and that | your son, Morton, took the whiskey jo him, also the breakfast?” inquired | |the lawyer. “Your Honor,” said | appealing to the Court, “these are {indeed insidious remarks by this man, I did send Mr. Mathews break- |fast when he was ill but I can’t re- member whether I sent whiskey,” “Did you ever call the witness, your husband names?" asked the attorney, “Mr. Tompkin: the witness re- plied, “I have been married to this man twenty years and I may have called him names during that time. Who does not? Do you refer, Mr. Tompkins, to the time I called him a name because of an affair he had in my house with a young girl? “Yes, ad did call him a snake,” re- plied .the witness, "Did you call him a damnable hypocrite the couple," said Mr. Tompkins, “and Messengers for Colonial Bank Who Were Held Up by Bandits ‘BANK ROBBER SHOT CLERKS WHEN THEY! ~—DIDNTT OBEY HN |Hamby Tells How “is How He Robbed Brooklyn Institution—All of Loot Gone. TELEGRAPH UNION MOVES FOR PEACE WITH POSTAL CO. Offers to End End Strike on Prom- ise of Wage Agreement After Wires’ Return, Gordon Fawcett Hamby, thé selt- confessed holdup man who has ad- mitted he shot Henry W, Coons and De Witt C, Peal in the Bast Brooklyn Savings Bank while engaged in rob- bing that institution on Dec, 18, was arraigned in the Brooklyn County Court before Judge May this after- noon to plead to two indictments charging murder in the first degree, He entered a plea of not guilty and was held without bail for trial, which probably will be called on June 28. Hamby asked the Court to assign a lawyer to work later on with a law- CHICAGO, June 13. toward a settlement of the nation- First steps yer of his own selection, He sald he wide strike of commercial telegra- | has been too busy since reaching New phers were taken to-day when offi-| York yesterday morning to retain clals of the Commercial Telegraphers' | counsel. The prisoner was taken to 4 Street Jail, eo he | Union of America submitted to the Sarna Lage Jail Plush: in i" i f under special guard, because Postal Telegraph Company condi- | nown he has friends whe would not tlons upon which an agreement could] hesitate to take a big chance in at- be based. tempting to rescue him, The conditions, in effect, provide} Although his boast is that he never “I don't remember, Perhaps.” | that the atrike would be called off, #o| took part in anything than @ A dramatic clash between Mrs. | ar as the Postal is concerned, if that | “five figure Job,” and says he must Neifert and Lewis Cruger Hasel! of | company will agree to Ww adjust-| have stolen $450,000, Hamby claims No, 126 East Tlst Street occurred| ments immediately after full control| to be penniless, “I had $17,000 when when the latter took the stand in| has been given the company by the|I reached Tacoma,” he said,” but behalf of Dr. Neifert and was ques-| wire administration, the police and the pollti@lans got it, Slonaa “about aintonh the olgteeank The conditions, which are under-| They even got my watet* he ee | stood to have been requested by the} Hamby will not tvll his name, where "You know these two children of| Postal Telegraph Company, were for-|he was born oF the name of, the | warded to New York officials of the | “petty larceny crook” whbd entered the Would You. bétleve them Under oath?” company to-day, according to reports | East Brooklyn Savfngs Bank with would not believe them because they | here. | him and with whom, he says, he split are both untruthful,” sald Hasell.| Union offcials said that an order | the $13,000 aa they escaped ino “They tell white lies,” . 5 | taxicab » issued some time ago by Postmaster | t “How dare you say that? why Mr, ! Dy “ ol o } Hasell.” shouted Mra, Neifert, as sho| General Burleson and still in ef Hom im brouas to Manbatien arose and advanced toward the wit- fect prohibits the: commercia! tele. | ‘M8 morning & a aopears |ness ‘until reatral by Court At-igraph companies from signing wage | #nce in the line-up before masked de- tendant Michaci Walsh, “You know ives, The plain-clothes men say eR rs! contracts with thelr operators, For farctheas siecsacrers A | is the truth so help me God," this reasgn, it was stated, the condi- De 18 Absolutely ane pop gail’ Eiaaall . tone ‘Wuartiee drawn as to provide|tiom they ever saw, end of | On cross examination Mr, Selvaget “pee anid | ~ red lforced Hasell to admit that he had ‘at actual wage agreements would) (continued on Twentieth Page.) formed his opinion of the children’s not be entered into, nor other conc seanescanemdllissietnerites veracity from what others had said sions granted until after the Govern- ? out them and because once OF ment’ had discontinued all control | $25 Men's Sui * $14.95 ; twice they had made promises to him Sty Raeeinat he Clothing Corner, Hrdad which they did. not. Keep. With the announced determination Or bar Marea Brest (ica Wael irs, Nancy Cooper ci ( stifled tarrie yper, that mother of Miss her worth Bullging), Will well to-day and ) men's and young inen's (Continued on Nineteenth Page.) aghtweeht daughter was a darling and the ac- py i + cusations linking name with the THK WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU, ‘gle or double t clergyman w Arcade, Puliteer (World) Building. y style for 68.03 Perk Row NY. City models; some si Bey « Bal Telenhume lkerraee M00 spect al prices for to- and Matrder, Our Book Chek om = end parosle open day and $14.95 & $17.95. Open Saturday nlght til 100 Mm nvestinen uly & Cow eed weveliem’ checks fer 10, Seeehhel le “Circulation Books Open to au”| 28 PAGES __—_—_—sPRICE TWO CENTS. _ Hub Clothiers, B'way, cor. Barclay, | Table i ew WEST BIS ATHER—Fair, warmer to-night and Saturday. wi . Ce UNIONS OFFER 10 SETTLE POSTAL STRIKE HGrWAYMAND WHEN FELLED | SK ESCAPE palo Bein LE Ho ROPS$100,000 BY A BULLET: NV GREEN AUTO | Eyes of Gray 5 inic-stricken when one of’ their HOUSE ae ARMY BILL WITH LIMIT OF 300,000 deisontusien Cut From $1,250,- 000,000 to $718,000,000 in Measure Sent to Senate. WASHINGTON, June 13.—Without « cord vote the House to-day passed nd went to the Senate the 1920 Army Appropriation Bill carrying a total of $718,000,000, and providing for a tem- porary army of 300,000 men. The orig- inal measure recommended by the War Department carried $1,260,000,000, BROOKLYN PASTOR WINS $46,000 FOR INJURIES Rev. J. en Malish Sought $75,000 for Fall From Hart Avenue Station Steps. Rey. J. Howard Melis! stor of Holy Trinity Church, Columbia Heights, Brookiyn, was awarded a verdict of $48,000 against the New York Consoli- dated Railway Company by a jury in the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, to-day, for injuries he claimed to have received by falling to the street through one of the steps at the Hart Avenue station of the Myrtle Avenue line on June 14, 1917. The clergyman, who sued for $75,000, testified that he suffered a broken wrist and fractured pelvis, and sald his right hip had been disabled permanently, He was confined to the house for six months and spent $3,000, he teatified, for medical attendance, DUPONT POWDER WORKS THREATENED BY FIRE Three Small Buildings in Com- pany's Arlington Plant Destroyed. Three smal! buildings of the Arling- ton plant of the Dupont Powder Works at K rN. Jy & royed this ich originated in a dump composed of waste and pyrolin, The fire started at 2.30 and at one time} ned to reach the storerooms filled | the with combustibles, At three o'clock the flames were under control, The damage ts si to be slight, and so far as can be le cone Was injured, — Werld Restaurant Kpectal for to-day, dane 1 18, 1919, Fried filet of sole with Peled pork “chops (2) with vrench tried po {aloes Young Robber Throws Ammonia in Haired Colonial Bank Messenger on “L” Station Platform— Money Bag Recovered. Six young men in an olive green touring car at 10.55 o'clock this, , morting atianmpted 4 Wild West hold-up of two gray-haired messengers of the Colonial Bank at tie comer of Columbus Avenue and 81st Street. Hymber dropped ths hag on the sitewalk In-the frantic excitement of The entire police force is on ihe lookout for the robbers, The two bank messengers were attacked by three of the bandits jon the platform of the Sixth Avenue elevated station, The hold-up, which just missed being another East Brooklyn Say- ings Bank tragedy, was enacted on three corners of the street, was shot In the back, | On the northeast corner is the Colonial Bank. Directly across the street, on the west aide, is the down- town stairway entrance to the ele- vated, On the southwest corner the olive gréen auto was waiting, ite motor in motion, The Colonial Bank is one of the busiest uptown institutions. It ix opposite to the Hotel Endicott and in the same building the Colonial Hotel. The robbers had apparently studied the movements of the bank messengers, for they knéw exactly when the men were due at the ¢e- vated station, between them stepped Messengers Davia Ryan apd Menry Boylan, Ryan is ffty-nine and Boylan sixty-sevem years old. Both are retired polices men. They had been coming out of the bank with bags of securities for years. If they saw the green auto they paid no attention to it. The former policemen cromed tho street and started up the stairway: Three young men were coming down. And then—quickly! One of the young men squirted a spongefy) of ammonia straight into Boylan's Boylan, crying with pain, I¢t go of the bag. Another of the bandits struck Ryan over the bead with a blackjack and when Ryan released his grip on the leather bag the highwayman picked up and ran with his companion down the stairs, MESSENGER’S BULLET STRUCK BANDIT IN THE BACK, Ryan, recovering quickly, drew his revolver and fired. He used to be one of the best shots in the Police Department and neither eye nor hand has lost its expertness. The bullet struck the man with the bag im the back and he toppled upon the sides walk, face foremost, dropping the bag. The wounded man's compantons stopped to pick him up and, having yet lo cross Sist Street to the gréen auto, left the bag behind them, Harry Sediey, a motion-picture actor of No, 14 West 70th Street, was sitting in a beetbiack's chair om the southwest corner withit a few feet of the green auto. “There were two young men in the car when I noticed It first,” said Sed ley, “and another youth stending om the running board. They were men in the twenties, well dressed aad smart looking. “I didn't notice them again unt I heard the shot—I thought it we wd ta the paakfire, 98. 9. saternees Out from the bank with the bag” Tt! gi a 1