The evening world. Newspaper, August 4, 1919, Page 1

ye SS IPERS 7 CES MI VE EVES EDITION Ushi WSR P RICE TWO CENTS. STORM IN. Cnvrighy 1910, oy Hee Pree New York World). NEW YORK, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, (1919. f “Cireulation Books Open to am) 18 PAGES EDITION a VE PRICE TWO CENTS. i PDLS a7 Yi SENATE OVER FOOD COS ACTIVE PEACE ARMY OF 510,000 PLANN IAMS ON SUBWAY TRANS AND SHRINK INQUIRED INTO BY P. 5.6. Fifty Volunteer to Testify to Substantiate Evils Exposed by Evening World. ACTION TO COME LATER Failure to Live Up to Orders by Traction Officials Are Taken Up. ‘Deputy Service Commissioner Ba- ‘ward J, Glennon opened this afternoon & werien of hearings denting-witr thre conditions of overcrowdinng, short trains and shrunken service on tite subway lines of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, exposed by ‘The Evening World, Im addition to the investigators of the! Public Service Commission there were present in the hearing room about fifty citizens who had volun- teered to testify to their personal ex- perienods as subway passengers which substantiate The Evening World's charges. The Interborough had @ humber of officials and employees on hand under the leadership of its counsel, James L. Quackenbush, At the opening of the hearing wit- hesses were called to tell how the pas- sengers on @ crowded train marked Dykeman Street were ordored out at 187th Street station on July 29. No explanation of the reason for dumping the passengers on the platform was given and about 90 per cent, of them Tefused to leave the cars. The train was run on a siding in the under- ground yards and kept there an hor and a half. At the expiration of that period it was backed into the 187th Street station and the passengers got off and waited for a Dykman Street ‘train. While the train was on a siding several women fainted. The witnesses, said there was apparently no reason for transferring the passengers at the 187th Street station insofar as the me- ehanical condition of the car was iat General Manager Hedley of the In- terborough has been summoned to ap- pear at the hearing and answer the charges that the road is operated with the design of crowding as many pas- sengers as possible into the cars and not for the purpose of expediting travel or promoting the comfort of subway patrons. Among the charges against the Interborough are these 1—That the service maintained by the Interborough during what are known as the non-rush hours, Detween ten in the morning and four in the afternoon, is not suffl- eient for the public, 2That there is plenty of equip- ment to sive comfortable service @uring the rush hours, but that it is withdrawn in an effort. to squeeze every penny possible from the public, That train destinations sre ehanged along the route by train hands after passengers board the trains, and that the cars are not run through to destinations origi- nally marked, as required by law. 4—That at certain points in the dual asysten.—especially at the 167th Station on the Jerome Aye- nue line, the platforms are not large enough to care for transfer- ring passengors, thereby endanger- ing lite. IN SERVICE GIRL CONFESSES POISONING BABY, POLICE DECLARE eoniiltinomes Also Put Death Dealing Fluid Into “Family Teapot, Detectives Say. According to the Brooklyn police, a thirteen-year-old girl, Frances Sulin- ski, confessed to-day that she had killed by poison little Solomon Kramer, three-year-old son of her employers, Mr, and Mrs. Kramer, for whom she worked as a maid. she also confessed, the police say, thht she tried, after killing the baby, to poison the whole family. “I worked in the Kramer family at 589 Sheffield Avenue, Brooklyn, for my board,” Frances Sulinski ts sald to have told Detective Frank Dough- erty this morning, “and I couldn't get along with the baby’s old nurse; and that is why I poisoned the baby and he died. I put poleon' in the tea, too, nurse but only because I wanted to kill the old nurse, I had no designs on the family.” When Justice Collins later in the day heard of Frances Sulinski's al leged confession in the Children's Court, Brooklyn, the girl was re- manded in the care of the Children’s Society until] to-morrow. In the meantime, the Justice suggested, the killing of the Kramer baby should be called to the attention of District Attorney Lewis, Investigation ehows that at the close of the school year Frances was in grade 1A of Public School 173, in Pennsylvania Avenue, and was ac- counted a “bright” pupil. “I couldn't get along at home,” she said, according to Dougherty, “so I went to thé Kramers’ and asked for employment, In the beginning I was on wages, but later I asked that they pay me no wages and I be taken into the family. “The nurse did not Ike me and was disagreeable and I thoaght if the baby was gone they wouldn't need any nurse, 80 I crept upstairs to the baby’s crib when nobody was about and put this disinfectant in his mouth. Before I could get away little Bolly began to cry and I ran.” Medical Examiner Edward Martin, who performed the autopsy on Satur- day night, reported that death was caused by @ corrosive poison, the company hav- defled the or- ders of the Public Service Com- mission, often falling to ubey ex- plicit orders, 6—That the stations are not kept in a sanitary condition and that the health regulations sre von- tinually violated by employees acting under direct orders from their superiors, The hearing Nace ume, einai ib BkbiweANS BELORG MEALS how fine Good Digestion makes is expected to last WEALTHY FURRIER LURED 10 DEATH LIKE BARNET BAFF coduiigpheans Police to Question Missing Companion, Whom Victim Accused of Extortion. LAID TO STRIKE FEUD. Second Man, Wounded, Says Shooting Followed Quarrel Over Young Woman. ‘: All the mystery of the Barnet Baff murder which so long baffled the police of New York envelops the whooting to death of Joseph Cohen, wealthy furrier of No. 678 Broadway, who waa killed yesterday afternoon ‘ett o'clock: IM the midst of scores of ™merrymakers at Conéy I#and. Cohen, like Baff and Herman me thal, was lured to his death message. Harry Korman, who is a partner of Max Baron in the fur business at No. 681 Broadway and whose firm has been doing work for Cohen for years, is in the Coney Island Hospital with three bullets in hie body. He and his partner were with Cohen at the time of the latter's murder. Kor- man is under arrest charged with homicide and a general alarm has ‘been sent out for Baron, who disap- peared immediately after the shoot- a| manent military policy which was ing. Korman admits having telephoned early in the morning to Cohen at his home, No. 23 North Beach Street, Rockaway Park, asking him to meet him and Baron at Coney. He denies that his message had anything to do with the shooting, He told the police and Assistant District Attorney Reuben Wilson of Kings County that he and Baron had taxied to the Island with Bam Nuss- baum, @ musician, and an unknown woman, after having spent the night in @ wine cellar; that he got Into a MILITARY BILL IN CONGRESS PUTS YOUTHS OF 19 IN ARMY |” AFTER COMPULSORY TRAINING)». One Field Army V Army With War Strength of 1,250,000 Per- manent Department Plan. NO CHANGE IN GUARD. Active Force Is to Be 510,000 Men—Three Months’ In- struction for Young. WASHINGTON, Ave,’ 4—Mata- Mine of High Explosives and| Stine, v'e oe seme snd I vtally a Goviment dpe ty tothe tenanes of one Field Army with @ war stre posed fn’ & Bilt estabtehinge a” per- Sent to Congress to-day by Secretary, Baker. ‘Tho active force of this army would be 510,000 regulars while the remain- Ger would be young men who had taken a three months’ military train-| ing course, which would be com- pulsory for all 19 year old youths. This reserve strength would be used to fill out the twenty infantry divi- sions and one cavalry division into) which it is proposed to divide the Regular Army. ‘Under the War Department's plan youths would be subject to military service for two years after complet- ing the course of military training and In event of war the Selective Service Act in force during the great war would become operative. PLAN NOT YET REFERRED TO GEN, PERSHINC. Gecretary Baker said in a letter ac- companying the bill that the plan had not yet been referred to Gen. fight with an unknown man in a res- taurant on 234 Street near Surf Ave- nue over the woman and that the man pulled a knife, whereat he beat @ retreat. His object in calling Cohen, Kor- man said, was to have him on hand to ball him out in case of arrest, for he intended to find the unknown man and beat him up. He didn’t tell the police that there were two other men in his taxi party until the police got the information from Nussbaum, the musician, MOVE IN WAR OF FURRIERS AND STRIKERS, POLICE BELIEVE The police believe that the murder of Cohen may be a sequel to the Johnny Spanieh murder ten days ago. Cohen had been making the fight for he furriers against the striking work- men, It is said by the police that the unions have employed guerillas on their side anf that the employers have pursued the same tactics, Johnny Spanish was the gang leader for the union and in the opinion of the police, he was “done” by the gangsters of the employers, ‘The feud was on and a reprisal was jooked for by the police, It is their opinion that the union’s gangsters went to the top and got the leader of the movement against them, ‘A peculiar phase of the Cohen murder is that he had Max Baron ar- rested for extortion in last April. The case is still pending in General (Continued on Second Page.) —<—<»—_—_—_—. THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU, Areade, Pulliser (World) Buflding. 63-43 Park Row, X,Y. City. ‘Teiephons Beekman 4000. ‘Corck room for Daguage and parcels open day sod Aight. Momey orders gn@ Ureveiirn’ chown fer 1 perme Pershing, but that pending his return from France it could be used as the basis for hearings which the Senate Military Committee ts to have before grafting legislation establishing « permanent military policy, “The bill as drawn,” said Secretary Baker, “provides for « system of uni- versal training for @ very brief period applicable to all male citizens with suitable provision for exemptions and deferments, “Tt does not, however, provide for any reserve obligation since it is un- necessary with @ system of universal service in time of emergency. The period suggested for training ts brief, Dut not too brief, it is believed, to obtain a careful stock taking of the health and physical condition of the young manhood of the nation and the institution of such remedial measures ‘as may be practical, nor too brief to militate the habits of orderliness, co- ordination and self care which proved so valuable in the recent training of men preparing for active military service. Nor is this period believed to be too brief to entail great advan- tage to the country should any future emergency require it to call for ser- vice,” Regarding the chemical service, Mr, Baker wrote: “The work appropriate to be done ‘by the chemical warfare service in peace times ought, in my judgment, to be carried on in the Engineers’ Department and should consist of such research and preparation as would enable our army always to de- tend itself against the aggressive use of chemical weapons and to over- match any adversary in offensive op- warfare 1 Phot. TNT EXPLOSION of 1,266,000" nien fx _pro=|~ AND FIRE MENAG RARITAN ARSENAL Mass of Shells Not Far + From Flames, BONHAMTOWN, N. J, Ami 4—|Bendled by Capt A. A. Stewart, sone Two freight cars containing some T. N. T. exploded from some un- known cause shortly after noon to-|!" Washington to-day follow: day in the area of the Ra ritan arsenal. The explosion and resulting | fire set off an ammunition magazine containing shrapnel shells, ‘Three! men were injured and were taken to the Army hospital at the Arsenal. The explosion caused considerable excitement among the residents in the neighborhood. Bearing in mind the |explosion at the Morgan plant last year, they hurried from their homes into the streets, The camp fire department's men could not get close enough to fight the fire effectively because of the ovntinuous explosions of the shrapnel sheila, Three hundred feet from where the fire is burning is a magasine contain- ing ceveral thousand six-inch high explosive shells. Army officials also stated that a mine of TNT is 900 yards from the scene of the fire. The Nixon Nitration Works, eff- ploying 180 men, directly opposite the arsenal, shut down on account of the fre. GERMANS THREATEN 'a| TO BURN 24 ZEPPELINS Will Refuse to Deliver Them as Required by the Peace Treaty. COBLENZ, Sunday, Aug. 3 (Asso- ciated Press).—Germans in charge of twenty -four Zeppelins near Berlin threatened to burn them rather en deliver them to the Allies as re- quired by the peace treaty, according to information obtained by the Amer- jean army authorities here. ‘The Zeppelins are of twenty-five tons capacity and could fly from Ber- lin to San Francisco, according to German sources. Several were built id to be seek- nthe, Zeppelin hoping to find Buyers for the airantbs there, fe this permission is not given, according to army Information, ‘or some oth * actory solution offered the, Ger- mans will destroy the airships rather than allow the French and British to possession of them. cee aa a UP GOES PIE IN CHICAGO. Manufacturers at e From & to 5 Cents, CHICAGO, Aug. 4—Chicago manufac- turers of pies increased the price of their product to retaliers to-day three to five cents. The price of what is know im the ti "raised gg Mal et | while ‘the Brice of extra special pies, which are from fresh frult from % to 40 cont each, = Price - Continned oa Bacon’ Pag ~ Sienna ey Hees, es bt Seis O'MALLEY GETS RMY FOOD PRICE FOR SALES HERE WILSON 10 DEMAND LAW. THAT WILL MAKE DRASTIC CUTS IN PRICES OF F Sold by City Direct Will ni | |President May Lay: Cabin esident y Lay inet Com = ee “mittee’s Plan Before Congress if Pleased With Volunteer | OFM Of a Message— Profit Co-operation Offered. and Speculators, Must Go. ; Edwin J. O'Malley, Deputy Com- missioner of Markets, has recetved a price Ist from Washington on War WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—The high cost of living and its so were the tpks dacused atthe White Hots, onthe dor of th Will plage hia first order for foods to de wold by the city direst to the con- suinér At once, ‘The order will be all other matters. sad tip down he Chapt Dyan oe ee sty ft food The Department of Justice was engaged all da hering data which the President will, it is said, es snes ey xing a Congress, probably in the form of a message, In the Senate afternoon: tape was basifvapurnee & distribution station. ‘The Government prices announced Meate—Beef, corned, No. 1 cans, 90 cents; No. 2 cans, 68 cents; six pound leans, $2. Beef, roast, No. 1 cans, 29 cents; one pound cans, 41 cents; two pound cans, 6 cents; 6 cans, $2.20. Hash Corned Beef, one pound cans, 23 cents; two pound cans, 40 cents; cans in crates, % cents per pound. Bacon in twelve pound tina, 34 cents pound, Voegetabies — Beans, baked, No, 1 cans, 7 cents; No, 2 cans, 18 cents; No, 8 cans, 18 cents. gf Fe oF 3 Beans, stringless, No, 9 cans, 11 MEMPHIS, Tena, Aus. 4. pie cents; No, 10 cans, 48 cents, BADED by « brass band satya Corn, No, 2 cana, 12 cents. H and a decorated automo- fh Peas, No.’ 2 cans, 11 cents, bile, wearing @ banner Tomatoes, No. 2 cans, 11 cents; No.| with the words, “The Shame of {t 21-2 cans, 18 cents; No, 8 cans, 15/ All,” @ procession of citizens to- cents; No. 10 cans, 45 cents. day accompanied Edward T, Pumpkin, No. 2 cans, 6 centa; No.| Leech, editor of the Memphis 3 cans, 9 cents; No. 10 cans, 24 cents,| Press, to the jail where he will Squash, No, 2 cans, 6 cents, @erve ten days for alleged con- Mr. O'Malley was delighted, he said,| tempt of court, with the large number of offers he Leech was sentenced following bas received from persons whe want| the publication in bis paper of to help. There are many voluntary} an editorial entitled “The Ghame offers, he said, and some offer to help| of It All,” which the court held at their own expense by donating| Ww dirested at Chancellor Israel epace. Peres. Leech contended the edi- ‘The wife of Dr. Julius Kaunits, No,| torial was general in tone and 255 West 108th Street, offers to give| Was written in connection with her services in conducting one of the} the political situation in Mem- distribution stations, She has done} Dhis. It did not mention Peres, somewbat similar work for the Red| Vollowing the decorated car im FOOD BOARD RULE. Senator Gronna declared the’ pagk= A meat market owner at ifist Street and St. Nicholas Avenue offers to give half the space of his store as @ distribution station. Citizens of Richfield Park, N. J., headed by John A. W. Donaldson, whl moet to-night to discuss the pos- sibilities for Qnancing a movement to purchase several carloads of bacon from the army for sale at cost in Bergen County, N, J, ‘The procession traversed the streets of the business part of Memphis. Crowds on the curbs chegred as it passed, BiG DROP IN FOOD ON CHICAGO MARKET Hoensing plan during the wan Senator Kirby, Democrat, of Ar kansas, asked if the Government srain corporation was not sow manipulating: prices. “What is this man Barnes doing?* he asked, “Mr, Barnes has been criticised in afl the wheat States,” Senator Groana a Corn Tumbles 51-2 to 8 Cents meh s “tee. beau a OLD BASEBALL STAR WEDS. and Pork Down $128 |SaeNeh Get nan Ser “BA Lange,” 48, Gets License to a Barrel. effort to reduce prices.” - Marry Girl, 24, CHICAGO, Aug. 4.—Grain and pro- Senator Nelson said the Canadian : Government had taken over the wheat crop in that country and “wiped out’ Canadian exchanges, Senator McCumber, Republican, of North Dakota, stid flour at $14 a bar tel was the “cheapest thing on earth to-day.” “Compare your flout bill of 8% cents @ day with your cigar DIM.” Senator McCumber said, in ‘ William A. Lange, « famous old Chi- cago baseball player known to the fans as “Bil” Lange, to-day took oul « marriage license to marry Mins Mona Virum, twenty-four years old, of San Francisco, Lange, who was @ member of the Red Cros baseball team that went overseas to play for the amusement of the soldiers, sald he had been divorced and is forty-eight years old, He an- nounced he was going right uptown to ask the Rev, Percy Stickney Grant to act as “ump! Jona crashed heavily downward to- day in value, Selling was on « large scale, influenced chiefly by the wide- spread agitation against the high cbet of living, Within an hour, corn prices dropped 5% cents to 8 cents @ bushel and pork $1.85 ® barrel, December delivery of corn, the principal option, fell to $1.49% and Jenuary Pork to why there was so much clamor flour prices and so little about t for clothing, shoes, medicines. ana” ether articles, Senator Pittman, Democrat, of vada, told the Senate wheat and f prices gould not be blamed present Adminis! HACKENSACK, Aug. Lee, daughter of Mr. and Mra, Samuel Lee of Montvale, was drowned Jast evening in the electric light plant pond in Park Ridge, She went in bathing, and it 9 thoumht that her feet became ontangied in the thot of a tree tm the bollem of vi, oll woneb aeaeACmay tig «