The evening world. Newspaper, July 28, 1919, Page 1

ea Dia te pe Salah 1S UN AIRS FINAL ADHS ll Vs AMS NINGNSR: PRICE TWO PRICE TWO CENTS. Swat smut, ee || UNEW YORK, K, MONDAY, JULY “JULY 28, 1919 TAMMANY DROPS HUGHES FOR TREATY RICHLY CLAD WOMEN FLED WOMEN caRken NASSAU GAMBLING HOUSE IN STORM FOLLOWING RAID schol Sought Through Number of Open Motor Car in Which They Escaped. NEW WAR ON GAMING. Attorney Who Directed Lyn- “Clean-Up” Offers Disirict Attorney Evidence. Modishly dressed, diamond-bedecked ‘women who were found in Nassau's ex- chastve gambling houne at Lynbrook, when it was raided Saturday night and who braved the storm to flee fee open touring. car are being wought to-day to explain their pres- ence and escape from the rafders. ‘The women, whose identity is still ‘unknown, were ordered to remain on the ground floor of the gambling resort by Nell H. Vandewater, aot- ing Assistant District Attorney, who was in charge of the raid for the Nassau County Assoctation of Cit- igens, while he entered the upper @oor to corral the men running the ‘A® goon as his back was turned the women disappeared. They were scen by officers to go to tho rear of the gambling house on the Merrick Road and climb into the touring car when the storm was at its height. All the women were dressed for the drawing room rather than for a stormy motor |* car ride ia the open. Just as the of- ficers moved to stop them they started the engine and drove off in the dark- nets, flashes of iightning showing them racing toward Manhattan, Before the ficeing women could get under way the officers wrote down the nuraber of the licens¢ tag on the rear of the machine. Mr. Vandewater is also authority for the statement that he ls secking the owner of @ car with a New York Heeote which was parked alongside the one in which the richly dressed women disappeared. PROMISES OTHER RAIDS UN- LESS PROSECUTOR ACTS. ‘Mr. Vandewater to-day sald: “The object of the raid on the gambling house conducted by John Shaunnessy was to show that gambling was going om in that particular house I acted to show the District Attorney who eaid such a place did not exist that he did not know what he was talking about, There are other places out here and if the District Attorney docs not proceed I will “Thore are ready for the District Attorney five roulette wheels, four barrels of chips, a faro table, a lot of playing cards and a mass of cigar- ettes with the initials ‘J. S.' on the boxes. I have the seized gumbling tools locked up in a van and sealed ‘at Riley's livery stable at Cedarhurst, “We secured the evidence July 19 last. 1 then went to the District At- torney’s office and asked him if he wanted some one to make the raid over his head, He said ‘Yes’ and 1 replied, ‘I'll do it’ and I'did.” Included in the chips seized are some for $5,000, and others for $1,000, ‘The rest are for $100 each. This is pointed to as evidence that the game at the house was not for a “piker,” Friends of District Attorney Charles R. Weeks were saying to-day that Mr. Vandewater made the raid @Continued on Second Page.) ‘ ¥ JAIL FOOD GOUGERS, PLAN. OHIO GOVERNOR WANTS NATION TO ADOPT Hopes to Extend This Method of Curbing Profiteers to All | Other States. COLUMBDS, O., July 28, OPE for extension of the Ohio cold storage and food prices investigation to nation-wide DOWN 5 STORIES THROUGH FLAMES fiche | Mrs, Brush and Maid Badly Burned in Explosion of Benzine. FEAR TWO WILL DIE. Soldier, Police and Firemen Risk Lives to Rescue Women and Children, Mrs. Edith Brush, thirty years oli, was badly burned, possibly fatally, this afternoon in her apartment on the stxth floor of the Knickerbocker scope, was expressed here to-day by Apartment House, No, 257 West 97th Gov, A Attorney General Price. gireet, ‘Hor maid, Kate Higgins, Several States requested information} Sts on ‘Ohio's proposed line of procedure | fifty-two, was also burned tn ‘her remaesns atts in curbing prices ‘atid profteers, Complete plans will be made at a| conference here of prosecutors from | eighty-elght counties, Cox and Price | @cnouneed their determination to prosecute and jail every person en- «aged in illegal price manipulation, FLYER KILLED WHEN PLANE FALLS AT HAZELHURST FIELD Lieut. Johnson, Overseas Veteran, Meets Instant Death in 200-Foot Crash—Companion Injured. Second Lieut, Stephen B, Johnson, former flyer of the A. B. F., of Uvalde, Texas, was instantly killed this morn- ing at Hazolhurat Field, Ls I., when the Curtiss H biplane of which he was ob- ver fell 200 feet, Lieut. Johnson waa in the front seat of the airplane which was piloted by iieut. Amos O. Payne, and was re- turning to the fled after a long flight at an altitude of 2,000 feet, The ma- chine sideslipped when 200 feet above the ground and fell. The observer's neck was broken and he died instantly. Lieut, Payne's right hand was broken. DAY IN JAIL, $100 FINE, DAY TEST CASE VERDICT Court Explains Punishment Is Light ‘Because Yiolation Was Not 'Wilful. NBW HAVEN, Conn., July 28,—Sto- phen A. Minery of Meriden, the saloon- keeper selected by the Connecticut Re- tall Liquor Dealers’ Association to stand trial on the charge of selling whiskey in violation of the war time prohibition law, and upon whose case United States Judge Chatfeld last week ruled that the law was constitutional, was sentenced to one day in Jal and fined $100 to-day. An appeal was entered. In making tho penalty ght the Court said he wished It to be understood that the defendant did not wilfully violate the law, but suffered a technical violation in order that the question of the validity of the law migbt be tried out. Minery was released in @ small bond to carry on the appeal. Fined $10 for First Dry Law Con- vietion Here. Harry Deed, a bartender at Beck & McCarthy's cafe at Nassau and ‘John Streets, when arraigned to~tay before Judge Foster in the Federal District Court, entered a plea of guilty to an indictinent charging him with having, on July 3, in violation of the war-time prohibition law, sold a glass of whiskey to an agent of the Department of Jus- tee. Juige Foster fined Deed $10 with the understanding that if he repeated the offense he would get @ jail term. The fine was paid, ‘This is the first eonviction in this dig- trict for violation of war-time prohibi- don, itt. 1 AN efforts to rescue her mistress. Both had been cleaning the bedding and were using benzine and her clothing caught fire. The screams of the women were eard by Policeman Corcoran and Fire Lieut, Patrick J. Barry, who rushed into the house and finding that the |elevator was not running sped up the five flights of stairs. The door) was locked and the fireman kicked | out the glass panel, his ankle. Corcoran ran severely cutting and unconscious. He extinguished the flames by wrapping blankets about both women and carried Mrs. Brush down five flights and to Dr, Seine's office across the street. West 110 St, Station was just a lit- tle behind him with Mrs, Higgins across his shoulders, Lieut. Marry dragged himself down- stairs and turned in an alarm. The houge was in an uproar and the r@& serves were ordered from the West 100th Street police station to quict the frightened women and children. Edward Noland, a discharged sailor, ran up through the smoke and found Mrs, A. Manessian, an aged woman, overcome by heat and smoke, on the fifth floor. ground floor, and she, too, was at- tended by Dr. Seine, Fireman Peter Fitagerald was also overcome by heat and smoke before the flames were ex- tinguished. Noland lost his discharge papers, Mrs. Brush and Mrs. Higging were removed to the Knickerbocker Hospi- tal, where it was sald that the for- mer's condition was critical. The apartment, which Mrs, Brush occu- pled with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. BE, Butler, now absent in the coun- try, wes completely gutted. THIS U. 8. JUDGE HOLDS 2.75 BEER IS LAWFUL Sustains Demurrer in Case Against a Brewing Company in San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, July 28.—Sale of beer containing 2.7% per cent. alcohol was permitted im @ decision by Judge William H. Sawtelle of Arizona, tn the United States District Court here to-day, sustained a demurrer of the Ranter Brewing Co, which asked that a Government action to prohibit the sale of such beer be dismissed. pee TAKE BELL-AN! BaTORR 4nd see how fine Good Di, weu feel.—-Advt. canemninenennne THR WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU, Arcade. Peon (World) Buliding, 6-3 Pek Row. N.Y. City, oe ore oe roo Mowey -_ MEALS jou makes Check into the room and found the women ablaze Policeman Quinlan of the He carricd ber to the j | | | { Three dis Bio Fok Die From Wounds Suffered in Cable Plant Tie-Up. GUARD IS OVERTHROWN, {Police Force Strengthened in Fear of Fresh Outbreak To-Day. Striking employees cf the National Conduit & Cable Company overekm the police and Home Guarda at Mssts)) ings this morning in {wo clashes that turned to rioting when pistol shots were fired and missiles were thrown at the police and Home Guards. Three men were seriously injured and @ score slightly hurt. The seriously injured | Bullock, sixty-five, of Yonkers. Sev- {eral ribs and both legs broken, Re- moved to Dobbs Ferry Hospital in a critical condition; George Haynes of Uniontown, Possible fracture of the skull from @ stone thrown by strikers, and Hugh McLaughlin of Uniontown, badly battered about the face and body by kicks and blows, Thirty-five armed deputies under command of Sheriff Rossitter got con- trol of the situation before noon, but it was feared that thero might he more {rouble when the men leave the factory to-night arrested thus far are John Yannick, Robert ot Yonkers, They were charged with rioting. The Sheriff said ho believed the disturbance was not simply labor movement but a revolutionary demonstration by native Russians, ‘The men employed at the plant have been on strike for four weeks, Last Monday the Sheriff, Home Guards and police drew a cordon around the plant and maintained order all week. The trouble seemed over and the guards were withdrawn Saturday night. Late Sunday afternoon it was hinted that trouble was brewing for this morning. Captain of Police William Cronell organized the Home Guards under Captain Frank §, Croffman and nineteen guards and seven policemen were at the bridge- head entrance to the company's plant this morning. The tirst clash caine at 6.46 o'clock, The strikers were beaten back from the plant entrance and apparently subdued. Just when the police cap- tain was congratulating himsels on his efforts, a pistol shot rang out from the direction of tho south gate, two blocks away, The small guard was overcome and fled from a rain of missiles and was badly scared by shots fred in the air by the strikers. When the Bridgehead guard started to the rescue the strikers took the south gate by storm. With the guard divided the strikers overcame them and prevented a junction by burling stones, scrap iron and clubs. —_—_—>— TEXTILE WORKERS STRIKE AT THREE JERSEY MILLS Walkout Follows Refusal of Wage Demands Made on Behalf of 6,000, A new strike of textile workers was started this morning at Passaic, N, J, {Continued on Second Page). SCORE HURT IN RICTING WHEN HASTINGS STRIKERS FlGnT POLICE WITH GUNS ARMY MAN'S WIFE WON HER HUSBAND, SAYS MRS. STUART Brin Action tor By ected Ask- . HUGHES SUPPORTS “LEAGUE, BUT ASKS WEATHER—Thunderstorms to-night; fair Beton ( “SSS ey NEWBURGER TURNED DOWN ~ BY TAMMANY | FOR RESERVATION — ere Clauses 6 | ecting Monroe Doctrin and | Immigration. [AGAINST ARTI ARTICLE —_X. Favors Statement that U. 8. Would Go to War Without Action of Congress. WASHINGTON, July 8 —Charlor '&, Hughes, ina letter to Senator Fred- erick Hale of Maine, made public to- day, declared in favor of a league of A vary ¥ AFTER HEARST. 4 | Tammany Executive Committee, in session in Tammany Hall, this af, The only personal Adams Varick and Eglin Micha, all} Alimony of $350 a Week. “Phe o-renpondernt I do not intend to shield. stole my tusbasid’s love and affection, ruined my life and destroyed my happiness.” This is the allegation in a suit filed by Mrs. Rose Edith Stuart in an ac- tion for divorce against her husband, | Harry P) Stuart. She asks $350 @ week alimony and $6,000 for counsel fees. The application was made to Justice Callaghan in the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, this morning. | “he Stuarts have been living at No. 215 Exeter Street, Manhattan Beach, land she says her husbark as senior Member of the firm of Stuart, Milli- ken & Co., wholesale jobbers and deal- ers in hosiery and underwear, makes $30,000 a year, The wife is twenty-six and her husband forty-#ix years old, Mrs, Stuart's complaint says that husband lavished presents upon her, including an expensive motor car, and that he allowed her $100 a month r “pin money,” besides paying all her bills and the household expenses, She says sho was very happy until three months ago when the alleged co-respondent came into her life. Of her she says in the complaint; “During the past three months { became very suspicious of my hus- band’s conduct, in that he had invited the co-respondent in my home with- out my consent on @ great many oc- casions, and while 1 would be In an- other room or with my back turned I would see them caressing each other, In fact, I caught her openly with her arms around my husband. “Such was this woman’s conduct while her husband was in France as an officer, fighting for his country, and he {s still in France, in the be- lef that here in this Wonderful land of iberty he left a loving and true little wife, when, instead, she proved to be not only unfaithful but disloyal to her country. “On July 17 I had my husband shadowed from the time he left my house in the morning until we forced our way into Milliken's bachelor apartment located at No, 264 Fifth Avenue, New York. This was apart- ment No. 5, and consisted of one bed- room, @ sitting room, and a bath- room, It was 10.30 at night, My hus- band was thore with the co-respond- ent alone, “Defendant calls himscif my second husband, I lived happy with my firat husband for two years until Stuart came along, followed me all over town, pestering the Ie out of me, telling me what a rich man he wa: that I should run away and get a di vorce from my busband, and that he would pay for It “Stuart induced and persuaded me to go to Reading, Pa,, with him, where he got me lodgings, a lawyer, and paid for my divorce, even supplying me with witnesses, and paying al! the expenses for the divorce.” Mr, Stuart denies all his wife's +8 P / % nations, but maintained that certhin { Poxervations “and <jnterpretation® to the préoseat covenant were necessary ‘ternoon anid landed snugly on the ticket as one of the nominees for {Supreme Coust bench. Justice Jeseph E, Newburger, who, tas served to protect American intereatn, A Phat any sation, attéer’ giVing the two Jsara’ notice of with- Crawal, shall couse 1 be a member vf the League, despite any charge of ‘non-fulfillment of any interna- tiona) obligation, providing’ the withd~avval weuld not release the bower from any debt or liability. 2, That questions relating to im- migration or import ‘duties, ~hen they do not affect any internation- al engagement, should be rpgurd- ed as matters of domestic policy and not within the jurisdiction of the League. 3. That the United States, under Article XXI. of the covonant (re- forring to the Monroe Doctrine), does not relinquish any of its tradition..: atthtude toward purely American questions, and that the United Statcs may prevent . quisition by any non-American power of any territory or control in the wistern. bemisphe. ». 4. That the United States, under Article X. of the covenant, does Avot assume any obligation to em- ploy its army r navy in any ex- edition that ‘s not authorized by Congress. Mr, Hughes's letter was in response to a communication from Senator a the former Supreme Court Justice for his opinion as to what reservations to Hale, in which the latter the peace treaty and League cov- enant should be made “to safeguard the Interests of our country.” PLAIN NEED FOR A LEAGUE, DE- CLARES HUGHES, “There |s plain need for a League ot Nations,” Mr, Hughes replied, “in order to provide for the adequate de- international justice and the ma- chinery of conciliation and confer- ence, and for giving effect to meas- ures of international co-operation which from time to time may ve |agreed upon, “It 18 manifest that every reason- able effort should be made to cstab- lish peace as promptly as possible and to bring about @ condition 'n which Europe can resume its normal | industrial’activity.” | Mr, Hughes said he perceived no rea- son * tained without sacrificing the esse jtial Interests of the United State %/and suggested there was a “middle |action: 14,780 dead from wounds ground between aloofness and injuri- ous commitments.” Regarding the validity of reserva. | tions, Mr, Hughes said there was no need to assume “that 4 resorvation The interprotative reservations sug- ‘| but. was velopment ef international jaw, for creating and maintaining organs of "why these objects cannot be at. | " Tourteen, years, turned The full ticket, chosen ‘after For President of the Board of Uronx, lermyer, POLISH POGROMS ARE EXAGGERATED, SAYS MORGENTHAU pS: da Head of U. S. Commission Convinced After Short Visit to Poland. PARM, Sunday, July 27, — Henry Morgenthau, head of the American Commission to investigate pogroms in Poland, said here to-day that the short visit which he had made to Poland had convinced him that the reports of pogroms were tromendous- ly exaggerated. Mr, Morgenthau added his view that the Polish Jews socletics overlooked the, fact that equal equal datios, If the Polish Jews wished sincerely to collaborate with the state, ho declared, “they must follow the example of their American co-religionists, who consider them- selves, above all, patriotic Amert- cans, > AMERICA’S TOTAL DEAD IN THE WAR 79,772; Revised List Compiled by War} Department Gives Figures by Divisions. | WASHINGTON, July 2%.—-A_ revised list of Amorlvan Expeditionary Force -|easualties, published by the War De- partment to-day, showed 95,959 killed in 23,840 jdied of disease; 6,213 dled of other | causes ; 90,427 woundod severely ; $0,483 wounded slixhtly; 34,380 wounded (de- | gree undetermined), and missing in action, The dead total are 79,772, A revised list of casualties in the would lead to the complete failure of New York divisions follows the treaty or compel @ resumption of | wounitt?” (Continued on Second Page) y-weventh, 711 wounded ; 1h, gary Nerkers), 1,8 1,789 fontne Lins 6 a candidate for renomination on the Tammany ticket, p va to grey the, p! 3 William Randolph Hearst to the nomination of Justice Robert L. Luce as a Supreme Court candidate, follows: Fot Justices of the Supreme Court ..Robert 1. rights involved } ma ae Mr. Untermyer. due to the opposition Aldermen..obert 1. Moran of the we and irwhes Uae For Surrogaie—Seuator James A. Foley. Yor Justices of the City Court—Major Thomas P. Reilly, recently — of the 165th Infantry (old 69th); Assivtant District Attorney Loule Wendel and County Clork Joxeph M. Callahan of the Bronx. __——_—_——_-——* he nomination of Mr. ~_ PROMISES TO SUPPORT HM Irwin Untermyer, Aged 33, Picked for — Supreme Court With Luce, Whom Publisher Opposed—Restof Ticket Ignores All Men He Backed. A dark horse, in the person of Irwin Untermyer, the thirty-three year old son'cf Samuel Untermyer, popped out of the meeting of the ae 3 nh fell upon the assembled crowd of Tammany politicians awaiting the re sult of the meeting with the fores of © high explosive bomb, At once and in chorus arose the question in jones that were audible all the way from. Irving Place to Third Avenue: “Who js Irwin Untermyer?* This was followed by queries as to what the opposition of Mr. Hearst’ to Justice Luce might have had to do with the nomination of Mr. Unter- myer—if anything. Just before the meeting of tlie Tail many Executive Committee to-day, Water Commissioner L, J, O'Reilly, Mr, Hearst's mouthpiece, sald gar publication: ? “T can say for MP. Hearst, whe te out of town on a vacation, that will vote for Justice Newburger aad support him for re-election in every independent.” WAIT TO SEE IF HEARST BOLT WHOLE TICKET, Tammany politicians, accustomed to thinking around corners, wondered why, in the face of this Hearst @ee- luration in favor of Justice Newbure wer, against whom there were aq open Tammany objections and whe has already been designated by the Republicans as the primary a date, he should be dropped to make way for Mr, Untermyer, They, ror |called that Samuel Untermyer and ‘Mr, Hearst are close friends of many | years’ standing and finally eoneluded }to sit back and wait to see if Mr, {Hearst will bolt the whole ticket set ‘up, including Untermyer, or support part of the ticket. possible way on any ticket or 46 am” | Outside of the nomination of My, <i 4 | Untermyer the ticket put before, the | people and virtually certaim of ins hasraamions appears to be @ flat chal lenge to Mr, Hearst In the first plac Boss Murphy stuck to Justice Lace, whose appointment by Gov. mith to — succeed Clarence H. Shearn Mr. Hearst and his papers | the Governor. Next, Tammany refused to de: for renomination to the City Bench Justices Richard H. Smith James A. Allen, Mr, Hearst has insisting that Justice Alien be given: