The evening world. Newspaper, July 31, 1919, Page 1

Copyright, 1919, ren 3800, York Co. WRECK DELAYS THOUSAN DS OF COMMUTERS ARMY FOOD FOR NEW YORK CONSUMERS AT BARE COST; DISTRIBUTION STARTS SOON AUNAWAY CALPS onshore Deputy Commissioner of Mar- kets O’Malley Obtains Right for City. PREPARING PRICE LIST. Plan Finally Agreed Upon Vir-| tually That Urged by The Evening World. (Special to The Evening World), WASHINGTON, July 31.—New York City will get part of the army's $125,000,000 food aupply surplus. This | termoon when Deputy Commissioner of Markets O'Malley of New York conferred at the War Department with Major Squiers, chief of the sub- sistence division. Plans for the distribution of the food in New York were discussed a\ length, Complete details worked out, but the general pian is that the food is to be sold fo muni- clpalities or any person designated by the municipal authorities as the distributing agent. In ‘New York City, Commissioner O'Malley will have complete charge of the distribution, according to ten- tative arrangment, The Commis- sioner will have the authority to sell to any persons he may select and he expects to take steps to see that the distribution is on an equitable basis and all those who apply set their share of the cheap foodstuffs, He will anounce his plan when he re- turns to New York to-morrow, ‘The food will be sold at cost, taking into consideration the transportation charges. ‘The price lists are not yet ready for publication, but may be by to- morrow. The War Department is now working on this feature and as quickly as the costs haye been worked out the prices will be an- nounéed, ‘ Mr, O'Malley was accompanied to Washington by J. B. Stafford and Frank Wilson, representing “the Mayor of Buffalo, which city also ts eager to obtain army food, in ac- cordance with the plan discussed The pla, briefly stated, embody- ing largely the suggestions of The Evening World, is to have quan- tities; of canned goods, frozen and canned =m censigned to the New York and Buffalo authorities on a 30-day basis, to be paid for when distributed for o: Payment would be made not later than thirty days. The distribution to consumers would o¢ through police stations, fire houses or other city departments, and the price to the public would be that set by the army officials, with only enough adyance to cover the actual expense of handling. PLAN PUT UP TO BAKER FOR have not been APPROVAL, ‘The proposition was considered by Mr. Morse, Assistant Director of Sales, and bin associates, und Axeiat- and Secretary of War Crowell, who has supervision over the aules of sur- plus army property, Because of the question of policy involved and the (Continued on Second Page.) os ata PANTS STRONGER THAN THE COP'S a deen: Pretty Nearly All Brooklyn Tums Out in Ex good ship Wha noon to-day when Day dusted of a five-month-old was wild-eyed. Well?” “what's the charge? “Look at my pants!” cop. They were just driving up to the Aaron Levy & Co, slaughterhouse at Avenue with thir calf and six others in a big touring car at 11 o'clock when this one— in Chittenden County, Ver- mont, and educated and everything— saw one Jackie point at him (the calf) and say to another jackie: No. Hudson 262 raised the butcher coming Ups and said, way to Mr, Levy's. When they opened the back of the wagon the Chittenden was the first calf ou’ bush together Island bossy and Into the subway. ner of Nevins and Dy brought Bim boy The work complication of other A ta wer. the, Clty fi aD igeNT AL free a Pte bay . iy a, Ailonia ‘saab hob joie iaiaby wl "vin carvows aid bas Sa i 2 to Mr. Hummeretein de Cisneros, singe TAKE ae peeand or lie a HAMMERSTEIN RALLIES. citing Chase of Escaping Veal. has known since the day Christopher J. Columbus shoved the nose of the eritwas into Gow- anus Bay came to a hectic end at Policeman Ned into the Bergen Street Station with a rope around the neck calf. The call So was Ned Day, sald Lieut. Schiotman, Profiteering?” to-day?” tellers, i th Ned Day was standing at the cor- He had a hard time of it until a kindly rope enough to reach across the bridge policeman suffered severe erations of the pants and, while the courts have yet to act, it's a sufe bet that they'll kill the cult for this day's ean Streets. lac Hospital, suffering from diabetes and a diseases. fe bouquet of flowers was #ent onday by Madam gasped the “ts And the other jackie sort of sntacked his “['ll say he is.” You can imagine how the calf felt. Memories of the big barn and a great pasture at the foothills of the Green Mountains—where you look off on sone side and see the lake—it all came back to “Boss” and—well, was darn tough ride the rest of the County boy it. And for fur- ther details you can call up Brooklyn, There were only five butchers in the chase to start with, calf reached that part of town where Hudson Avenue, Fulton Street, Flat- Avenue and Nevins Street come everybody meets everybody else, was 200 pounds of crazy veal and hundreds.of men, boys, dogs and autos were after him, Once he got but whén the on -Long the Fioniies TWO BURN 10 DEATH INGRASH, TYING UP NEW HAVEN LINES Thousands of Commuters East of Darien, Conn., De- layed for Hours. |WRECKAGE ON FIRE. Company Says Engineer Dis- regarded Signals, Causing Fatal Collision. STAMFORD, Conn., July 31.—Thou- sands of commuters from points east ot Portchester and passengers on through trains, east and west-bound, were held up for hours to-day by a rear-end freight collision of two New Tenses iene in Bast Ng OP Ma in Ing, ahd. to clear the trace It was necessary to cut off the electric cury rent for @ stretch of 12 mil A long freight train was held up at Portchester early this morning by a block signal, Another train, bound west, ran into it. Henry Brickley of| New London, motor engineer of the second train, and Charles E. Rust of New Haven, an instructor, were | .| caught in the wreckage and burned | to death. The wreck caught fire, but the blaze was kept under control. It is said that Brickley disregarded a stop signal. Two towerm.n flashed the warning to division headquarters and the power was shut off to allow wreckers remove the piled up mass of wrecked cars, With the power gone all trafic between New York and Boston was at a standstill and com- muters due in Manhattan on the early morning. trains were stalled miles from their offices. The official record of the wreck made by Superintendent C. H, Mot- sett of the Harlem River Division, is as follows: About 5.30 to 6 A. M,, Extra 098 west, with 52 curs, was stopped by flagman from Shop Extra 1103, who it it with rear end of Train Extra 098 track No, 1, Caboose and about elght cars derailed, badly damaged, block- ing tracks 3, 1,2 and 4, Some of the| ° wreckage piled up on track No, 1 came in contaét with overhead trol ley, setting fire to the cars and motor 0102 of M.H.-8, Engineers Brickley and Rust pinned in their motor in the wreckage and killed either outright or suffocated and burned by fire before'they could be extricated; bodies not yet recev- ered at 9 A. M From evidence now at hand, ac cident caused by Engincer of M, H.-8 disregarding the automatic signal, fe New Haven and Harlem tool trains ordere and on the way to derall- ment. ‘Tracks 3 and 4 will be open for traf_le first. Track 4 should be cleared about 10.30 A. M., and track 3, about the same time, probably a little later, All through trains and local trains e uy 01 died of apoplexy in the truck he was driving in West 4th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, to-day, Apparently Carlston felt the stroke comiag on for be drove to the curt and halted bie machine just before death, siding Inspector ‘Thor France Resumen Pow NEW YORK, SEUREDAS, JULY 3 ie WEATHER—Probable showers ann and to- SSS PP) lain SAaITME BY “1919 War Crosses Worn as Earrings, Gift of Hero Admirers, Is New Fad ae Miss Helen Wesche, of Farmingdale, L, Own EDMIDee I, rectntly appeared on Park Row wearing for earrings two French War Crosses, one of them bearing a palm, started an innovation She got them from two of her hero admirers and in the personal adornment line. date to Suc DEMOCRATS PICK GAFFREY FOR FIRST DISTRICT BENCH Assistant District Attorney, Candi- cceed: Municipal Justice Wauhope Lynn. When Justice Henry W. in congratulate you." Herbert, pre- the Court of Special sions, Manhattan, opened court to-day he informed Assistant District Attor- ney William J. A. Caffrey that Justice Salmon desired to say a few words td Ses- sclentious work In this court you have been selected for higher honors. You about three-quarters of a mile east of| have ‘been designated by the Demo: , East Port Chester signal station on| cratic voters of the First Municipal Judicial District as thelr candidate for Justice to succeed Wauhope Lynn. We Caffrey, formerly a State Senator, has pward of three yea: nd bred in the old Ninth been an Assistant District Attorney for| He was born Ward and has beer a lawyer for many years >_> TUNNEY MAY QUIT POLICE AFTER SECRET INTERVIEW Sommissioner of Account to Disclose Nature of ts Refuses Meet- ing With Inspector, It became known to-day as Tunn rders of Chief Pol the Commissioner te With All G aI July xa between France a all parte ot |4ord to-day. Was reopened that Police acting under} urgeon Patrick} between New York and points east|J: Murray of the Police Department, | of Port Chester will suffer severul| appeared before Commimioner of Ac- Shows Sisme of Coming Ont of | hours delay, counts David A. Hirshfield yesterday Coma, His Wife Saye, —— aa afternoon, Tunney has been ‘on sick Oxcar Hammerstein, opera and the- leave. atrical producer, was improved to-day, DIES AT AUTO TRUCK WHEEL, Commi ¢ Hirshfield this morning according to Mra, Hammeratein, who waid the Interview lusted about half an said he showed aligns of coming out of Chasfe pee a poplesy ei but he refused to dlaclave the the coma. The impresario’s physician, | ee Pe edind as a fon nature of the interview. Dr. Otto M. Schwerdifeyer, did noi | Charles Cartsto o, Im Becond | wilt Inapector Tunney resign?” hd hold. out much hope, hot Bey | AyShhes &. aa eee sen inted by the! g aaked tell t th a Star Motor Car Corporation, No. 14 Hammerstein is at the Lenox Hui [Star Motor, Cer Oy cannst tell yeu anything’ about him or what transpired durtng our in terview,” replied UNIVERSAL MILITARY = TRAINING BILLS URGED Congress Measures Provide Every | Male Citizen Between 18 and 20 Must Serve. WASHINGTON, military vided July 31.—Universat naval training is pro- in bills introaguced in Congress to-day by Senator Chamberlain, Ore- won, and Representative Kahn, C fornia, Chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee. and was working at East Port Chester.| yim | ‘The bills provide that every. male Train M. H, 8 motor 0102, and 51/ «1 is my good fortune,” Juatice Sal- | *itizen betwebn the ages of eighteen cars, Conductor Foley, Engineer! 'st'ty ar Caffrey, "to be aple to|12,twenty must take six months train- Brickley, with Engineer Charles ¥.| mero? tnt, Mecsuse of your cone | ne (either in the army or navy) un- Rust acting as instructor, collided | yet: ‘ eet {ime he bas, been 1h the) service ake months or Js physically unfit TRANSFERS TWO GENTS BEGINNING TO-MORROW B. R. T. Has Million Ready for First Day-—Hylan Promises Finish Fight Against Order. | The ink is drying this afternoon on 1,000,000 transfers which, if the &ppes of the Rapid Transit Com pany will take Brooklyn come true their place o head of the list of best Two conta euch, please } Af all the transfers printed for the | |B. RT. with the Aug, 1 date were j Sold the company’s revenue in pennies alone would be 000 for the day, But some are free, The total number of types of transfers, including the rare free gnes, ix L04—varying according to the line you ride on Th Brooklyn. In Manhattan no jos are as yel available, though are for transfers will’ also. be in effect Mayr Hylan announced to-day that ho will not let up ins hia fight. to | Qverturn the two-cent transfer T have instructed the Corpo unsel Lo resort ty every legal within his power to cheek thi graceful grab by the greedy corporation,” he suid. "We necessary, go Into the courts having jurtediction,” |Coney Island Hospital. MOTHER FRANTIC AS MEN FAIL 0 SAVE BOY'S LIFE —_>——_ Surgeon Sure Youth Taken From Water Is Dead but Works Two Hours. EXCITEMENT ON BEACH. Girl Companion Gives Alarm | and Body Is Recovered by Guard, William Leabey, seventeen, No, 1629 Union Street, Brooklyn, was drowned at Manhattan. Beach at noon to-day. He was with @ party which included Dis mother. Hie body was brought to the beach by Eddie Zimmerman, « lifeguard, and for two hours, though | it was certain the boy Was dead, Uficiay respiration was used by hand and then by @ pulmotor brought by Ambulance Surgeon Weston from ‘The mother was not told her son was dead until the last vain effort to revive him had ended and then she became hyatert+ | cal and swooned, Young Leahey went into the water with Helen Lear, fourteen, No, 219 Macon Street, He was a poor swim- mer and the girl went out from the beach ahead of him. When she turned at the life line, he was not in sight, She went back and told Zimmerman where she had last seen | the boy, and Zimmerman dived on the spot and found his body on tho bottom, Fifteen hundred persons on beach gathered at the door of the bath house in excitement while the guards and Dr. Weston worked on the youth, No explanation could be found for his having gone to the bot- tom and remained there while he was drowning. After Dr. Weston had given over his efforts and had gone to the am- buiance at the gate of the beach inclosure more than half a mile from the extemporized hospital, the body ot Leahey was moved by # mus- cular spasm, which those who saw It thought was a sign of returning life. A policeman ran out of the buth- house and down the beach after the surgeon, scattering beach parties He overtook the surgeon and the two raced back. Everybody who had left the place followed. Hot towels nd the pulmotor were used for the a another balf hour, but without effect basco 40 VILLISTAS KILLED. Forty taken pris GALVESTON, Tex Villistas were killed, eleven oner and many wounded in a battle be- Jiween Carranza cavalry and Villlstas under Pancho Villa near Las Vegas, on the State Ine between Durango and Chthuabua, Mexico, yesterda 5 information was contained in an ofMfcial cublegram from Mexico City the Mexican Consul here Villa escaped into the mountains of Durango. to cscbb a teas ITALY TO TAX FORTUNES. min Ready * Mapected to Vield 20,000,000,000 Franc: July 3h—A ROME, bill embodying the proposed tax on private fortunes, | which In expeet yield between 20,000,000,000 and 25,000,000,000 france, will be ted in Parliament this week nes under 60,000 francs will be ¢ ld 1 Tannel. Heh Channel, conne ny and, were presented to the Ca ™ Port” Albert Glaveillo, Minister of ESULTS, Page 2 TRIES, Page 14 \Cables Stretched Across Streets Fo MN HELPS SOLDIERS CURB. CHICAGO DISORDERS AFTER ROTERS PLOT GREAT FRR lowing Use of Torch on Homes: “Black Belt”—Scattering F Continue, but Mobs Disappear.’ CHICAGO, July 31.—Chicago was comparatively calm to-day the first time since Sunday, and public officials expressed the belief the use of 6,000 State troops had effectually” quelled the 1 fio:s which resulted in thirty deaths and the injury of more than 1,000. sons, © State militiamen gre patrolling: Therdaniger districts “on” U Side, Their appedtance on the streets; his md the effect of u violent disturbances. They were alded in their work by a driving’ ra which kept crowds from gathering in streets, na “TERRORS OF PEAGE (serene soomia nod WORSE THAN THOSE OF WAR,” SAYS FOCH White men end nogroes, but nom apo “| Hate All This Posing,” Adds the attacks were reported. Allied Comtmander- State, city and county officials tinued to co-operate im the aion of violence, Gov. Franit Lowden, in a statement issued morning, called attention to the that the city was not under in-Chief. Jaw and that no such action tm s LONDON, July 31. |t™mplated unless conditions gfOw ARSHAL FOCH, in an inter. | ™Aterially worse, ee . He explained that.the are working in connection with AB Police and that rioters ‘4 be prosecuted in the municipal State courts and not: ton thoritlea, ¥ FOOD SENT TO NEGROES | LATED IN HOMES, . When Goy. Lowden thousands of negrogs who tually been held view given at his hotel in M London to-day, ‘sata? “For me the terrors of peace are worse than those of wi 1 hate all this posing.” Major Gen, Maxime Weygand, who is accompanying Marshal Foch, aid it was for England to decide what should be done with the former Ger- man Emperor, “He is covered with shame and ignominy and branded as homes ‘sittce Sunday race riots were in urgent need food, he gave orders tualitating 4 delivery of supplies to the Beit.” With the coming of daylight it discovered that rioters'in a a of the streets on the South Side stretched stee! cables across the’ ments with the evident intent: preventing the Fire Departinent answering alarms and perhaps bits ing the apparatus. & coward,” the General declared. “The French people think that that is enough punishment.” PERSHING WANTS OUR DEAD TO REMAIN IN FRANCE Will Ask Plans for a Permanent Cemetery With Appropriate Monuments. Mayor Thompson in @ PARIS, July 31Gen. Pershing said | 'stued to-day suid that one to-day that he would advise against | for hia appealing to Gov. Lowden the removal to tho United States of the American dead buried in France. He said he was arranging a confer ence with American artists with a view the use of State troops was that had information of a well plot to burn down’ a large section to making plans for t beautifyi the “black belt. 4 ie " or eautifying : of @ permanent cemetery and the ere | The met that the whites hed’ tee tion of monuments to America’s dead, |#Ttd tothe torch, “he said, * Wal . clearly shown by fifty incendiary fires in twenty-four hours in the by Bro district Ovcar Nelson, thirty-two old, white, was found In @ West street with two serious stab wi in his chest, The police believe was tho victim of a rave riot aft PERSHING TO SAIL SEPT. 1. Leaves Coblene To-Niehe f ctton T Final PARIS July leuve for the United States Sept. 1, was learned to-da, Pershing will it Gen, Pershing will leave for Coblens| Latter the police found Iaajah: to-night for a final ten-day inspection | #ler, 4 negro, unconscious in @ of the ‘Rhine district and the battle} near the stockyards, where he. arena: been attacked by white men, Mi dio of his injuries, Thomas Copeland, elghteem, negro, died to-day of bullet w, received Im yesterday's riots, Negroes curly m the day the windows of @ aoe ata 36th Street, owned by a % and carried away & quam! A number of minor tween small groups of groes were speedily, State troops, Several pas be the ros FLIES ACROSS THE ANDES. SANTIAGO, elll of the Itallan Aviation Mission now in Argentina, has Just completed an alrplane flight from Buenos Alres to Valparaiso, his trip marking the frst ig by alr of the South American nt from Atlantic to the croosed the Curdiliera Andes esterday and lauded at Saotlago lay afternoon.