The evening world. Newspaper, August 2, 1919, Page 1

| sows MASSACRE JEWS THREE DAYS AND NIGHTS AFTER CAPTURE OF ODESSA Wholesale Murders C Committed | 700 MUCH CRITICISM by Soldiers in Ukrainian OF SUNDAY BASEBALL Army of Gregorieff. Asal o—} Pastor Says “To Hell With the REPORTED TO. POLAND.| Church" ts Cry of Multitudes in Large Cities. STONY BROOK, 1., Aug. 2—"To hell- with the efrurch;” i» the ery of multitudes in the-Jarge cities, accord- ing to the Rev. Alexander MacColl, D, D., pastor of the Second Presby- terian Church of Philadelphia, . ad- dressing ministera at the Presbyterian New Era Conference here to-day. He said too many were devoting thelr en- ersy to criticising Sundey besebal) rather than putting their efforts into big things. He argued for social servicé, and said that if men could “behold how Chriatians love one another,” eo whole world would knock at the door of Christ for admission. Hider George Nicholson of the King-| ston (Pa.) Presbyterian Church, said‘ that many ministers develop theology to the neglect of the vital “three R's" careful, convincing reading of the Scriptures, sympathetic letters to those who peed them, and a grasp of the opportunities open to them for guiding laymen to large finaficlal in- vestments in spiritual enterprises, Elder Nicholson assailed what he termed the poor preaching often heard inthe Presbyterian Church, and cited | the fact that the congregation of the Fifth Avenue Presbyter' Church in Mamhatian went to Scotland: for a preacher. MRS, HERZ CAN'T SHARE CUSTODY OF DAUGHTER Justice Mullen Upholds Award of Little Elinore’s Care to Her Father. Justice Mullen to-day refused to allow Mra, Edith O. Hers to share the custody of her ten-year-old daughter Llinore with her former wusband, Emanuel M. Kaiser, a lawyer of No. 208 Broadwa: Kalser secured a divorce from his wife in this State after his wife had divorced jim in Pennsylvania, The New York court awarded custody of the child to Kalser, The mother, who married Stephen Hers of Pittsburgh, Pa. and later removed to Detroit, has sought to gain custody of the child for half of each year. A year ago the daughter ran away from her father and od her mother in Detroit. The mother appealed the decision againgt her in this State but the vig Division would not enter- tain appeal until she returned the child to e jurisdiction of the New York courts. Mrs, Hors then asked far & modification of the decree, which Jus- tee Mullen refused today, padi ee se bag View the City from the WORLD RBSTAURANS. re list iSite (Sprardas), fable’ d'Hote dinnerss rable eat floor Foutteen-Day Period of Mourning Set Aside for Victims of Troops. GONDON, Aug. 2—Semt-dsicial Polish sources have received reports that Gen. Gregorief’s troops whieh are occupying Odessa surrounded the Jewish quarter and began a mas- sore which lasted three days and nights, Russian soldiers of Gregorieff's command, it is stated, carried out the massacre. The Jews of Ukraine and Bessarabia have proclaimed a mourn- ing period of fourteen days, Gen, Gregorieft entered Odessa early last month after severe fighting at the time was quoted as saying that he Was ready to join the Allies in a com- ‘bined attack on the Bolsheviki, if the latter began an offensive on the Dniester River. Ceci} B, Harmsworth, British un- der Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said in the House of Commons on July 8 that Gen. Gregorieft was stated to be-strongly anti-Jewish in his sympathies, ‘Tho Under Secretary made this @€claration in announcing that many Jews had lost their lives in the course of operations between the Russian Soviet forces and those of Gen. Greg- orieff, who was in command of a Ukrainian Anti-Bolshevik Army, TREATY RATIFIED BY FRENCH DEPUTY PEACE COMMITTEE Marine Minister Says Nation Seeks Recovery of All Tonnage Lost to Germans, PARIS, Aug. 2—The Peace Commit- tee of the Chamber of Deputies, which by & vote of 34 to 1 yesterday recom~ mended to the Chamber that. the Ger- man_ptace treaty be ratified, before bal- loting listened to George Leygues, Min- ister of Marine, who stated that the ef- forts of the Government tended toward the recovery of the entiro tonnage lost by the French during the war and also the tonnage which the Government had been unable to construct in the same Lea: o MADRID, Friday, Aus. to-day voted a bil authorizing t! ernment to join the League of Nations, ‘The vote was unanimous, CLOSING TIME dha dies wien Whitlack Puts O@ His Home 71.30 P. M. Sharp thendates on Saturdays for BRUSSBLS, Aug. 2 (Associated | Press).—Brand Whitlock, American | {} SUNDAY WORLD Minister to Belgium, who was to WANT ADS. have jeft to-day for a two months’ | vacation in the United States, has postponed his trip, Instead he will Wont tear ieeapeng fee The accompany King Albert and Queen Sunday World must be Elizabeth of Belgium in their visit }] The World's Main Office onor to the United States in October. before 7.30 Saturday evening. SN eee Avetrihns’ Pe Proposals Coming | Early Next Week, | 8T. GERMAIN, Aug. 2—Tht Aus! trian counter proposals to the Allies’ peace terms will be presented to the Gupreme Council next Monday or ‘Tuosday, Fi b —=— Send your Sunday Wer'd Want Advertisement im to-day to make sure of its publication, 300 HOMELESS NCHCAGD FIRES LAD TO NEGROES Three Missing in Blaze in Stock Yards District That Destroys Hundfed Houses. SCORE REPORTED HURT. Black Said to Have Applied Torches to Building—Troops Stop Riot Spread. CHICAGO, Aug. 2—An incendiary. fire which the police declare was started by negroes early to-day swept through the district inhabited by employees of the Stock Yards, de- stroying 100 homes and causing @ Property loas of more than $200,000. ‘Three persons are missing. A score were injured tn the conflagration. The buildings destroyed consisted chiefly of one and two story frame dwellings. Three thousand men, women and children have been ren- dered homeless and the bad feeling |Detween the whites and nogroes greatly aggravated. State troops were sent to the fire to disperse the crowds and prevent a renewal vf ruce riots. A number of witnesses have been found by the police who say they saw several automobiles of negroes with | burning torches in the district shortly | before the fire was discovered. The fire broke out in three sections of the district at the same time. ‘Telephone wires in the district were cut a few moments after the blaze broke out, Several residents declare they saw negroes fleeing after the fire was discovered. Shots were fired at negroes in automobiles who it is said were attempting to escape after the fires were started, One negro was said to have been wounded but was carried away by companions. Fire Chief O'Connor declared that the fires were undoubtedly of incen- diary origin and evidently started by throwing gasoline on the outside of the buildings and applying a light- ed torch or matches, Fire Attorney Donnelly gave the police names of twelve persons who declare they saw negroes bearing burning torches and cutting tele- phone wires. The situation in other sections of the danger zone of the south side was reported satisfactory to the thorities, although there were @ nui ber of minor disturbances. Soldiers and police are still guarding the dis- tricta where the riots took place, pistons: stan ARMY STRENGTH 612,708 WASHINGTON, Aug. The esti. mated strength of the army to-day wi 612,708 officers and men, of whom 16 0 weer in Euroe, 8,477 in Siberia, 944 route to Burope, 66,736 enroute to the Inited States, $51,357 in the United States and 28,924 in United States pos- Sessions. Since the armistice was algned 3,- 113,120 officers and men have been dis- charged, In the agme time 1,798,275 have sailed from Europe for home, Since the army recruiting campaign be- gan March 1 there has been 61,690 en- Ustments, | Only two American divisions remain in France—the First and Third—and they will start home probably within three weeks, aelerereamtinererirans FRENCH SPY EXECUTED, Sergeant Con a for Desling With German Agents at Barcelona. PARIS, Aug. 2.—A non-commissioned officer, Sergt. De Brabant, condemned to death for having maintained noelations With the chief of the German secret ser- vice at Barcelona during the war, was shot this morning at Vincennes, ‘ NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1919. POLICE HUNT MIKE COSTELLO, ACCUSED OF LEADING SHAW INTO HOBOKEN DEATH TRAP Arranged for Murder of “Rub- ber,” Says Assistant District Attorney. STRAW HAT A _ CLUE. Authorities Seek “Link” Mit. chell.to Tryon Headgear Found at Crime Scene, — Important dévelopments to-day in the efforts of the District Attorney's office and police to solve the’ “gang” Killings of Boss Stevedore Thomas (“Tanner”) Smith and Robert (Rub- ber") Shaw were thé gelieral alarms sent out for the arrest of Michae} J. Costello, a boss chicken handler in the railroad yards at Hoboken, and another young man known to Eighth Avenue as “Lefty” Curry. Costello is “named” in the Shaw case; Curry in connection with the killing of “Tanner” Smith, Of almost equal importance,” As- sistant District Attorney John F. Joyce believes, was the first an- nouncement that after the attack on “Rubber” Shaw and George “Chicken” Lewis in Hoboken Thursday night the police found in Second Street, along with the discarded revolvers of the gunmen, a split sennet ptraw hat bearing the imprint of a shop in the nelghborhood of the “Tanner's” Mar- ginal Club, at 16th Street and Dignth Avenue, Manbattan, - . Assistant District Attorney Joyce reiterated to-day his great desire to see “Link” Mitchell, the young man for whom “Tanner” Smith posted $20,000 bail a few weeks ago, when “Link” was arrested after the finding of stolen Liberty Bonds worth $30,000 in a west Side chimney, Nobody has seen any- thing of “Link” since the killing of the gangster Shaw, who is supposed to have directed—for hire—the murder of “Link” champion, the “Tanner,” WANTS TO SEE “LINK” MIT- CHELL ABOUT STRAW HAT. The split sennet straw is 6% in size. Shaw wore that kind of a hat—it is quite gommon this season in Eighth Avenue—but this hat was not Shaw's, Mr. Joyce admits that he would be glad to have “Link” Mitchell's aid on the problem of whose hut it is. “Mike” Costello, for whose arrest one of to-day's general alarms appeals, is a brother of the two younger Costellos who have been under arrest in Hobo- ken since Thursday night as mate- rial witnesses to the killing of Shaw and the shooting—also in the back—ot Lewin, ‘The boss chicken handler, according to the police, was a friend of “Tanner” Smith and the immediate employer of both Rubber Shaw and Chicken Lewis, He was indebted to the Tanner for o considerable part of his business, Mrs, Grace Madden Shaw, the young bride and widow of Rubber! Shaw, says Costello called upon her at the West New York home of Shaw's aunt on Thursday and said he wanted to see the “Rubber” on business of great importance. She knew Costello as Shaw's “boss,” Later, she says, Shaw told her of an appointment with Costello, “That evening,” Assistant District Attorney Joyce sald, "Mike Costello called upon Shaw and Lewis at tho (Continued on Second Page.) nen TAKE ana tes tere fite" Goad Di Diencicn aes LIVERPOOL LOOTING BRINGS OUT TROOPS IN POLIGE STRIKE Loyal Conitntie Make~Bay-} onet Charges—Robbérles Also in Landon. LIVERPOOL, Aug. 2-—Looting ani Flotihg cecurted throughout the night, aa a result of the strike of policemen, and the Lord Mayor appesled early to-day to the military authorities for aid, ‘ ; The latter dewpatched eix lorry Joadg of troops from Crosby, sit miles from here, all fully armed and were also called out. The looting continued In the poorer districts this morning, and the Lord Mayor asked for volunteers to help guard the city. The Liverpool authorities followed the example of the London officials in expelling striking police officers. Loyal police of Liverpool made sev- eral bayonet charges and there wero half a dozen arrests in the attempt to check looters, During the day the strike spread to Birkenhead, on the Mersey op- posite Liverpool, strike patrols bring- ing out numbers of men. The shops of jewelers, pawnbrokers and other merchants there are being looted. In Liverpool, soldiers with vixed bayonets were stationed to guard property from the looting, the greatwr part of which occurred during the night, when many shop windows were smashed. The jewelers: suffered most at the hands of the raiders, A large quantity of goods also was stolen from the sheds on the docks. The losses, it is estimated, will run into thousands of pounds, LONDON, Aug. 2.—There was some looting roported in the east end of London during the night, owing to the absence of policemen on atrike. Six hundred and fifty-two police- men are now reported to be out at Liverpool and 883 in London, accord- ing to the Government officials, The ranks of the London strikers were said to have gained only a handful of recruits, as indicated by this morn- ing’s roll call. A... = MOTHER UNVEILS MEMORIAL i the retum of Its aoldiers from the war all day to- day, The town x one of the railroad entry points for Camp Merritt through which more than half of the A. E. F. Passed on thelr journey overseas and ENrough which. hundreds” h The camp commander the Thir- teenth United States Infantry Band Dumont to help along the festivities Mrs, Flora Holt, whose son was kilied in action in France, unveiled # granite memorial shaft, Capt. John L. Davis, . delivered a memorial address, On the proxramme @ parade, an ath- “Cireulation Books Open PALE BACK, TELLS HOW GiTY Smoked haste di and Goods Will Be reed Products Offered. SALES BEGIN AUG, 11. Staff Being Organized to Carry Out Plan Suggested by Evening World. helmeted, whilé special constables | letic programme and dance. Berlin Reperts More Straseburs Riots, BERLIN, Friday, Aug. 1.—Revolu- ‘|tlonaty demonstrations were reported tocday to have occurred at Strassburg. French officers and soldiers were m: to have bose killed in the dis- nd scr. of shaw throws into the River 1 WASHINGTON, Aug. °2—Die- position of all sarplus sustenance commodities by the War De- partment is provided for in modi- ete Sa oe ne Commissioner of O'Malley returited from Washington to-day with the news. that the City of New York will be in the retail smoked meat and canned goods bual- ness on Aug. 11. After consulta- tion with Mayor Hylan and experts on the question of the probable demand for the sort of products the city ts about to sell, Mr. O'Malley will write out an order on the Director of Sales of the Sustenance Department of Sur- plus Supplies on » basis of thirty days’ credit and after that will come the work of organization of the sales staff, ag suggested by The Evening World. Valuable pointers along this line have been gained from the expe- rience of Newark in the retail selling business. “I have been in touch with Maj, E BE. Squire, Director of, Sales of the Department of Sustenance,” sald Mr, O'Malley, “and all that remains to be done Is the clearing up of some ques- tions ef cost which were bound to arise in @ transaction of this magni- tude, For instance, I learned that the War Department's purchases were not made at uniform prices. RETAILERS CUTTING PRICES IN VIEW OF CITY'S ACTION, “In some instances the price paid by the War Department for certain supplies would not allow us, if we purchased at that price and added our overhead charges, to sell to the pub- le at lower figures than those pre- vailing in the regular retajl trade, On the other hand the War Department obtained at other times and under dif- ferent ‘circumstances supplies at prices which are away below the pre= valling retail quotations. “I suggested an average reduction in the higher priced supplies and Major Squire has taken the matter up with the Secretary of War. He told mo last night that Secretary Baker is enthusi- astic over the idea of New York taking a lot of his surplus supplies off his hands, and that there is no doubt about the plan working out. The news that New York City contemplates giving ite people the benefit of the purchasing Dower of the United States Govern- ment has already reduced rétail prices here on certain products which we will handle from a cent to two cents a pound all along the line.” After @ consultation with Mayor | Hylen at the City Hall Mr, O'Malley | maid the date, August 11, set for the beginning of the olty’s project of aell- ing supplies, is tentative, Some of the supplies are stored at a distance from New York. The project will not be launched, Mr, O'Malley said, until there Is sufficient stock on hand, to guarantee that there will be no inter- ruption in the sales. Distribution stations will be estab- lished in police stations and fire houses and in such department stores as are (Continued on Second Page.) CURRENCY REDUCTION aN wi ron, MINS APPROVAL IN SENA to All: 12 PAGES SHOE PRICES Igoe Blocks Three-Day Recesses Pending Action in High Charges for Footwear — Unions Criticise Leaving Demands to Congress. — WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—The Senate to-day adopted a resolution introduced: by Senator Myers, Democrat, Montana, ordering the Banking and Currency Commitite.to investigate. the, feasibility of reducing: the, | amount of currency in circulation to decrease the cost of | “During the wary" said Senate Myers, explanitig the purpose of | the resolution, “we issyed a great deal of emergency monéy.- The coun try, does not. need, as- much money in peace times, When there is 160 much money in circulation it medns extravagance, reckless living, tortionate prices and an.abnormally high cost of living. *If ‘the ‘mone in circulation were reduced by half the cost tS SO OP i! same proportion,” At the same time the House, lis five weeks’ recess abandoned at the request of President Wilson, who requested that it remain in i consider a new labor crisis precipitated by the demands of railroad Ployees for increased wages, set about rearranging plans to meet {he unexpected development. Although the formal request by the President was that the. creation of a commission to defermine all questions concerning the wages of railway. men be considered, it generally is recognized that the real problem before the House will be that of the high cost of living on which the claims of the, railway men are based and a lowering of which would be expected to #0 the situation, PRICES FIXED FOR SURPLUS ARMY FOOD SOLD DIRECT THROUGH THE PARCEL POST Meat arid Canned Goods Figures Given for Cost at Storage Centres, WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—Prices at which army surplus canned vegeta- bles and meat will be offered to mu- the War Department Director of Sales, These prices, sales officials said, will form the basis to be charged consumers when the surplus army food {g sold through the Parcel Post. The Parcel Post prices can not be determined definitely until Postoffee and, War Department officials settle their differences ovr how much post- age is to be charged. are: Baked beans... Stringless bean: Corn, No. 2 ca Peas, No. 2 cans, Tomatoes ++ $1.28 to Pumpkin . +14 conte to $2, Squash, No. 2 cans.,..,.72 cents Meat prices ure, per dozen cans: Corned beet ......$3.60 to $24.00 Roast beef . 3.48 to $26.40 Corned beef to $ 4.80 Bacon in crates, 34 cents a pound In tin,...... 36 cents per pound, These prices are on board cars at 89 cents to $2.14 storage points. oe $500,000,000 BILL / APPROVED Commitice Reports Farme- eetoldiers M WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—Passnge of the Mondell Bill embodying Secretary Lane's project for farms for soldiers and sailors was recommended In a % rt submitted to the House to-~ dey by resentative Sinnott, Bapublloas. ican, Oregon, Chairman of the Pul ‘The ere, yourtiea tan Committee. pererrtge of $600, and Rie ‘eansustive’ "Weastaes Tad been nicipalities wére announced to-day by | Prices per dosen cans of vegetables |!sher prices next Spring and no/re- BEFORE rity ae Congress will not only taba. ww wages and food, but many nec of life, »! In the House to-day, belief that th packers are responaible for the Prices of shoes was expressed Representative Igoe, Missouri, tn ing the Rules Committee to order immediate consideration of his mission investigate the price of foot. wear, ‘ “The price of hides has increased all the way from 78 to 125. per from April to July of this year the price the stock rajser is ing for his cattle has slightly @6=" creased,” Igoe said, “The packers have control of nearly all the maw hides, and it certainty looks like ; one is reaping large profits.” HIGHER PRICES PREDICTED BY MANUFACTURERS, Igoe submitted’ a statement from the National Boot and Shoe Manu- | focturing Association which predicted, Nef until late dn 1920. » "As a result of the prosperous eon dition of the country and the export demands, shoes In the Spring of 1990 must bring higher prices,” the state. ment said. Igoe then showed the Committes a statement of the Central Leather’ Company for the quarter ending™ : pee 30, admitting its profits werd 239,345, or an increase of more < ie per cent. over the co quarter of last year avd 99 per cant, over the firat three months of fn using, inrmlgnion ce iy rents, Igoe read a statement of 4 Baltimore real estate man who trols more than 400 ap showing that he has compelled all tenants to sign contracts to pay additional taxes that might be sessed by the city. Baltimore Igoe said, had threatened to put taxes on property where the rents ‘been increased. . Mr, Igoe later objected 40 sideration of.@ resolution # three-day recesses of the