The evening world. Newspaper, August 9, 1919, Page 3

eH 1 Felony Charge Lodged Against Three Accused of Block- ing Tracks. MORE ARRESTS MADE. Motorman Phones for Help, Saying House Is Sur- rounded by Crowd. A felony charge was placed were arrested to-day for placing Against three B. R. T. strikers who ucross “the Fulton street tracks at Manhattan crossing, a block from the East New York car barn, rail- road ties and a wooden structure wsed in erecting an “L” line, They were taken to the Ralph Avenue station, The men gave the names of Fred. Sohmidt, twenty-three, No, 348 * Quincy Street, a machinist; Bernard Schwbill, twenty-four, No. 436 Penn- | sylvania’ Avenue, motorman, and Samuel Tupeck, thirty-four, No, 193 Pitkin Avenue. Flying .squads of strikers on motor trucks came in contact with flying #quads of police in automobiles on several occasions to-day when they uttempted to interfere with surface ears. A big crowd of strikers gath- ered at Garfield Riace on Seventh! Avenue waiting for a Flatbush and Seventh Avenue car when an auto- mobile filled with police swooped 4own on them. It required but little argument to disperse the mov. At 7.30 this morning the B. R. T. headquarters received a distress call by telephone from Motorman Howe, at No. 100 Lynch street, who said he ‘was being kept in his house by a mob of strikers who threatened to kill him if he left the house. He asked pro- tection on his way to work and an automobile with guards was sent tu | get him, LOYAL EMPLOYE’S WIVES TELL OF THREATS. + Appeals of frightened women by telephone to the B. R. T. offices in the early morning hours to-day gave no- tice to the officials that “entertain- ment committees,” who said. they came from strike headquarters, were visiting the homes of motormen and conductors who had not quit work. Mrs. Jane McElroy of No, 251 Sar- atoga Avenue, the wife of a conduc- for, said three men came to her Aa house last night and said that if she did not get her husband home and } keep: him at home he'd be “brought home on a stretcher.” Frederick Tiernan, @ guard on the Fulton Street elevated, said a brick had been thrown through the win- dow o fa car on his train between Sumner and Reid Avenues, striking & passenger who was carried off the! train. H ‘A worker named Bunce was knoeked from a flat car at the 23d Street sta- tion by a shower of bricks, John Hienean, a sixty-four-year- old conductor of No. 64 Rockaway Avenue, was taken from his car on the Rockaway Avenue line and beaten, ‘A car carrying thirty-two police- me nto Maspeth was stopped and stoned and the winows were broken, No arrests were made and there were no ambulance calls, ‘At 9.30 a woman telephoned the B. RT. offices that strikers had stopped a Halsey Street car at Clas- won Avenue and “bled” the alr tank. The car was disabled. She said four policemen made no attempt to bother the strikers and an emergency wag- on was sent to patch up the car. Vhe woman said the motorman and eonductor were both aged men and that they begged the strikers to al- low them to return the car to the barn and promised not to take it out again, Their appeals were not heeded she said. THREE GUARDS ARRAIGNED AND FINED $5 EACH. Three striking elevated guards were arraigned in the Adams Street Court, Brooklyn, charged with disorderly conduct and fined $5 each or two days in jail by Magistrate Walsh. They ‘were accused of being on the elevaied station at Myrtle Avenue and Bridge Street and calling guards on’ trains cabs," “Strikebreakers”~ and vile names. The men are John Stantino, twenty-one, of No. 142 Dean Street, Eugene O'Shea, twenty-five, of No. 151 Smith Street and John Dugan, twenty-eight, of No, 24 Franklin Avenue. The following bulletin: was issued shortly after 9 o'clock by the B. R. T.: “Supt. Riley reports fifteen cars d yent out on Grand Street. First trouble experienced at Grand and High Streets, where the strikers dumped large rocks from a van on the rails, A carload of police sent from the depot, and after clearing rocks away they dumped load of gand on rails, Cars then diverted by way of Flushing Avenue and at Flushing Avenue and Creek Street, offices of lumber company, the strik- ‘ers pulled down telegraph poles and put them across the rails, These ob- structions finally cleared and cars proceeded, “There was when cars stalled last gy” ine } dit te considerable rioting at these points, eh car carried four policemen, Cars proceeded to Park Rew and finally returned to depot. The depot 10UU VLU GANGS OF HOODLUMS BLOCK CARS, PULL OFF CREWS AND “DEFY POLGE IN BROOKLYN ‘ ™ CITY PLANS SUIT TO COMPEL CUT IN TELEPHONE RATES P. S. Board Not Inclined to Make «Effort to End Extortion, Corporation Counsel Burr is plan- Bing to institute a test case to compel & reduction of telephone rates in New York. This action ts forced beoduse of the apparent disinclinction of the Public Service Commission of the Second District to do anvthing in tho matter, Many ctvic and business as- sociations of the city will join Mr. Burr in his fight. The commission held its first and, to all intents and purposes, its last in- auiry into the reasons for the wretched telephone service in New York City yesterday. It listened to a long state- ment by F. H. Bethel, Vive President of the New York Telephone Company, In whicl he admitted the service could not be much worse and promised to make every effort to improve it. After Mr. Bethell had been cross-exatnined the commission adjourned the hearing without date, Only passing reference was made to the demands for reduction of the company’s rates, The commission studiously refrained from question- ing Mr, Bethell about recent dis- closures that his company had taken from New York subscribers during the last four years $17,000,000 more than the Public Service Commission had authorized it to. When the question of rates was broached it was remarked that “some time in the future” this would receive consideration. But there was no definite assurance that a hearing on proposals to reduce rates would be held in the near future. The im- pression that several persons pres- ent gained was that the commission is not disposed to launch a drive against the company for cheaper tolls, despite recent disclosure of vast profiteering by the company. Members of the commission who are disinclined to force rates down- ward estimate that a rate case would cost the commission $50,000. The fact is that it would cost the com- mission virtually nothing. It has io its employ well paid experts, who could be assigned to an investigation of the company’s finances and report within a reasonable time to what ex- tent the company is profiteering, It has been shown that not only has the telephone company during the past four years been extracting from the New York subscribers an average of $4,000,000 a year, to which it is not entitled, but has been hiding millions more in profits through the expedient of appropriating excessive sums as a reserve for depreciation. Even if the commission were re- quired to lay out $50,000 to prosecute & rate case, irate telephone users point out that this expenditure would result in a saving of millions to tele- phone subscribers in the greater city. “STRIKE JITNEY” DRIVERS CALLED ON TO PAY LICENSE Federal Government Will Collect Tax Upon All Who Carry Passengers. Internal Revenue Collector Gardner of Brooklyn estimated yesterday that about 800 persons operating ‘strike jitney” buses and autos without a Federal license had been served with notices by deputies by under Revenue Agent William Muller. Hundreds of autos are being used to carry passen- & to and from Manhattan in the absenc of trolley transportation caused by the strike, ‘Autos cartying not more than seven passengers were notified they will have to pay a tax of $10, those car- rying more than seven persons a tax of $20. This tax must be ~aid before Aug. 31. After that/date those served with the notices will be Hable to a 50 per cent. delinquency fine, peat latinas CALLS LUSK BODY A MENACE amue At~ lative Committee, ‘The New York Women's International League met at the Hotel Astor last night in tribute to Miss Margaret Bond- field, Secretary of the National Federa- tion’ of Women Workets of Great Britain, who is about to return to Ei land. Miss Bondfield said the Brooklyn strike showed the American police “are an adjunct of the vested capitalistic in- terests.” She criticised the judictal system with regard to strikers’ right to picket 7T Lusk committee, shd said, was a menace to the country, orge Grieve of No. 215 Fourth Ave- Master was instructed to send the ears out again with a carload of pelice proceeding the cars and an- ether carload of police following the care and to make every effort to keep the Bne open,” nue, while standing on the crowded platform of the B, R. T. subway sta- lion at 41st Street, off onto the tracks. —H to the New York Hospital suffering from a possible fracture of the hip, bet President Wilson Reading His Message Urging Laws to Curb the Food Profiteers o | oe POH 6-65 O4466-00690500-006-66666 TO GUARD PRINCE OF WALES AGAINST PERIL OF ICEBERGS Warship to Cruise Off Grand Banks and Clear Way for- Royal Visitor. ST. JOHN'S, N. F., Aug. 9—Precau- tions against the possible presence of fee floes and bergs in the path of the Battleship Renown bringing the Prince of Wales to Canada, were taken to-day. It was announced that the cruiser Dauntless, which preceded the escort- ing fleet to arrange for the Prince's re- ception here, yould cruise about the grand banks forthe purpose of locating fee and would then proceed to sea to Conception Bay. Several unusually large bergs have been reported in vicinity of shipping lanes. during the week. ‘AMERIGANS MUST HOLD GERMAN PRISONERS Supreme Council Can’t Be Released Until Three Powers Ratify Treaty. PARIS, Aug. 9 (Associated Press). ‘The disposition of prisoners held by American forces in France was dis- cussed yesterday by the Supreme Coun- cll of the Peace Conference, and it was decided that it was Impossible to re- lease such prisoners until three Powers have ratified the treaty with\Germany, It will be necessary for the United States to co-operate with France, in guarding the prisoners and this will probably make it necessary to retain some American soldiers in France. BELGIUM TO REMAKE = _ DEVASTATED FAR Government Will Work Acres for Owner Under Most Scientific Methods for a Time, BRUSSELS, Aug. 9 (Assoclared Press).—The Belgian Government has undertaken a vast project for reclaim. Ing the devastated farm iands in the battle zone, The farms will be taken over from thelr owners and worked under the latest scientific principles, and then returned in first class con- dition to them. Owners are to be paid 5 per cent. interest on the pre-war valuation of the property during the operation by the Government which, however, is prepared to purchase the land outright in the event owners do not desire to keep the farms, | operation of the project, wich 1s de- signed merely to hasten in the aa- tional interest the restoration of the vast territory laid waste by yhellfire, —_—_—_. 18,000 Pa =" May He Called Ont Next Week. A strike of 18,000 painters, decora- tors and paperhangers in Manhattan end Brooklyn, members of the Broth- erhood of Painters, Decorators and Faperhan of America, is to be called Aug, 15, it was announced yes- terday by I. Polstein, Chairman of the Strike Committee. According to Polstein, the men demand $1 an hour, an eight-hour day and a five-day week, They now work 44 hours a week and are paid $6 a day. escort the Renown to her anchorage in| King Albert will fix the limit of the! GUNMAN’S VICTIM, WITH DYING GASP, REVEALS SLAYER Collapses in Patrolman’s Arms Before He Can Give Motive for Shooting. ik With his dying breath Tony Cen- | |tenio of Brooklyn told Patrolman | Farrell early this morning who a few | moments before had fired five bullets | at him, all of them hitting their mark. | Centenio was too exhausted to tell | exactly where he lived, and when he | Was asked why he had been shot he, back dead in the patrolman's | arms, Centenio was killed in front of No. 413 East 12th Street after he had Decides They} been chased by two men across a | Charles | vacant lot between Avenue A and |First Avenue. When the shots were | fired the men ran backward toward |Avenue A and llth Street and dis- | appeared, ‘As soon as the patrolman reached the wounded man's side ho raised him and asked him his name. “Tony Centenio , No. 1929 Street, Brooklyn," he gasped. “Who shot you?” Centenio gave the assailant’s name and where he was employed. Why did he shoot yc |Farrell, bending low to the man would say Centenio's Body grew limp and he | ceased breathing. The man he named jhas not been ca | Centenlo was recogn tiv who saw his body at the morgue a¥ a man who was sent to| Elmira in 1916 for robbery and whose | picture is in the police gallery. He was arrested on charges of burgliry and robbery In 1918, but was set free each time, “STOCK YARDS STRIKERS | THREATEN MEAT TIE-UP | Predict 70,000 Men Will Be Out | To-Night Unless Police Guard Is Withdrawn. —Despite ps from thi 86th s J asked, hi what} with- vie CHICAGO, Aug. drawa} of State tre cinity of the stockyards, unic Jelais to-day asserted the walkout of butchers, scrapers and other workers | at the big packing plants would con-{ |{inue until il police and extra guards had been removed, While union leaders a 40,00 n had work rotest Against the placing of 1,200 extra po licemen 0 deputy ‘sheifts in the » return_of negro work: officials, declared D0 men had struc elain than 1 unions press their claims and the police guard is not withdrawn, It was predicted 70,000 men will ‘be thrown out of work, and the meat industry completely tied up. The strike would affect the whole coun- try, since shipments of livestock to the Chicago yards would have to be Jeurtailed or entirely stopped. <> ———— t White Men Indicted In Chi- Ri Rio! Aug. 9.—Three white mon held on charges of assault to murder, the first whites indieted in connection with the recent race riots | rr CHICAGO, | to-day were the { Hungarians ended DEPOSED EMPEROR REFUSES 10 TAKE HUNGARIAN CROWN Charles Says He Can’t Be a Mere King—Roumanians to Withdraw Troops. LONDON, Aug. 9 (United Press). ~The Roumanian commander-in- chief at Budapest intends to evacu- ate most of the Roumanian troops within a few days, Vienna advices received by way of Copenhagen said to-day, PARIS, Aug. 9+Former Emperor of Austria-Hungary was begged by Magyars to mount the Hungarian throne when the fall of the Peldl! ministry was determined upon, according to a despatch to the Journal from Zurich, ‘The former monarch refused, having been King and Emperor, he could not go down | the social scale and be content with o simple King’s crown. The Duke of Hohenberg, son of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose aseassination at Sarajevo in 1914 waa ine Immedaite cause of the great war, also refused the crown, according to despatch, which says that the thelr quest by choosing Archduke Joseph as a last resort, The Inter-Allied Mission at Buda- pest, after a conference with Arch- duke Joseph and Premier Friederich, has forwarded to M. Clemenceau a report to the effect that the Hntente representatives are in full accord with the Hungarian Government, ac- cording to @ Vienna despatch re- ceived here, At yesterday's session of the Su- preme Couneil of the Peace Confer- consideration was given a mes: from Archduke Joseph announc- ing the intention of his regime to execute the terms of the armistice and asking recognition and authori- gation to send delegates to Paris, The message of the Archduke out- lines the polley of the new Govern- Morgue, f f hat it will call ment and says that it will call @| oi, sorente of arthur. Phillips properly selected constituent As- | Wents, the baby stolen from his car- | sembly to reorganize labor with a| view to increasing production, Despatches from officers who have been co-operating with British and Italian representa tives in Hungary report that Buda pest is quiet but that ali transporta- ion, |e being held up. King Ferdinand of Roumania, who|child, It had been dead about two was to have arrived in Budapest | cays. Thursday, has postponed his visit to| Mr. and Mrs, Arthur Wents, the that elty, according to a Zurich de- | parents, have received at their home, spateh to the Journal. BERNE, Aug. 9.--An official Rou- manian statement declares that re- Roumanian troops in Hungary are false, accord- ports of excesses by here, In all, 55 persons have been in- | dicted on various charges, ranging from assault to murder, ing to & despatch received here from P| thing that follows: American relief including that on the Danube, | PANTS IN ONE TALE _—— Add Woman, Fighting Greek and Barrel-to What Hap- pened in One Night. and the mid-Fifties 1s considerably devastated to-day, in spots, and the) police blame Cornelius J, McCarthy, whd never will get out Of jail if the cops have anythiag to aay about it. ‘The ingredients of the rather night- marish tale include a lady with « regard for the privileges of burglars, two Great Dane dogs with anti-cop sentiments and much finesse, the outraged pants of Policeman Freder- ick Norman—— But let's get started. ‘The police say “Con” MoCarthy gut out of prison a While ago and re- turned to ale old: profession, The police say his old profession is bur- glary. And the police say every- In the midst of the general dull- ness of yesterday afternoon MoCar- thy went down to No, #5 West 66th Street, got into Pau) Christo’s room (the police say if}, selected Paul's fanciest clothes, including his Bun- day shirt, and went over toward the “L" station, Paul came home, got mad, and fol- lowed. He caught McCarthy and took the clothes back, McCarthy gi mad and followed Paul, At ul’s dodr MoCarthy, having his Irish up, wailloped Paul in the jaw and went away—but Paul kept his clothes, After a while MeCarthy came back and Mrs. Etta Taws, who has an apartment in the ‘same building, found him in her dining room, ‘the police ‘The neighborhood of Ninth Avenue | | wicked hatpin, a Greek who has go| A GAN EUROPE FACES STARVATION - UNLESS U. S, GIVES CREDIT Hang Profiteers, Demands Labor M. P.—Britain Resumes Food Control. LONDON, Aug. %—Kurope faces starvation the coming winter unless the United States extends credits for the purchase of food, according to the report of American food experts, who will present thelr findings before the peace conference Monday. “America’s food surplus will rot in the warehouses unless Kurope is say. She drew a hatpin and the battle raged all over the place, McCarthy eventually retreating, while Mrs. Taws surveyed triumphantly the wreckage of her furniture. But McCarthy (the police say) was! not through. Policeman Norman, having mended his pants, tells the rest, “John Rafferty of No. 407 West 65th Strget told me last evening,” says Norman, “that somebody was tryin, to break into his house through the cellar, “I drew a gun and climbed into the back yard, not knowjng that mova | kept two Great Dané dogs there, each as big as a pony, These dogs had a plan of campaign and they came at me scientific. One grabbed my pants, thus attracting my attention. 1 couldn’t very well shoot him without danger of hitting an innocent by- stander, I being said bystander myself. “While T was arguing with this dog, the other, one, watching his chance, made a’neat jump and took my gun away from me. All I could do was pull my nightstick and wal- lop. both dogs until they got tired and let me alone, Then I crawled into the cellar and found my man hiding behind a barrel, I brought him ia.” The police say the prisoner was none other than McCarthy, who wus to be arraigned in the West 54th Street police court to-day on charges of burglary. The term “chronic bur- glary” is not known to the law books as now written, GABLE COMPANY ASKS “DEFINITE” TAX COMPLAINT Says Dispute Is Mere “Difference of Experts’ Opinions”— Motion Denied. Former United States Attorney Gen- eral George W. Wickersham, counsel for the Commercial Cable Company, yeater- y asked Federal Judge Hand to direct the Government to make more certain and definite Its complaint against his client for the collection of additional in- come taxes amount to # 40, The complaint alleges that the Com- mercial Cable Company from the years 19 to 1915 inclusive, fled incorrect, misleading and false returns with the ‘ollector of Internal Revenue, and in therefore subject to penalties amounting to 5 per cent. and interest of 1 per cent on the taxes withheld, The dispute between the Government and the Cable Company, Mr. Wicker- sham explained, is due to the difference of opinion among experts as to the amount to be allowed for depreciation of the company’s property, After heari: Opposing argument by Assistant United States District Attor- ney Myan, Judge Hand denied the mo- j tion, b ‘anted Mr, Wickersham a bill of part jare #0 as to fix the date on! which the penalties come due. — aa |BABY DEAD IN BROOKLYN NOT KIDNAPPED CHILD Parents of Stolen Arthur Wentz So Decide After Visit to riage in the Bronx, fter @ visit to the Kings County Morgue early to- day, announced that a baby that had |been found in the dumps at Sutter Avenue and Crystal Btreet, Browns- ville, was not thelr child. The body bure marks that corse- ponded to those on the missing Wentz baby, but it was of a boy sev- eral months older than the kidnapped tided over the present finanolal crima,” it is pointed out. “Hurope is unable to pay either in cash or com- modities.” British labor leaders ‘to-day were demanding direct action against prot- iteers, “I'd atring up all persons who would take advantage of the sacrifices in blood made by the country,” J. H. ‘Thomas, Laborite M. P., declared, George H. Roberts, Food Coatrolier, Announced to-day that the Govern- ment had decided to resume control of the supply and distribution of im- ports of bacon, ham and Jard and that the prices to be charged would also be under supervist ‘GITIZENS OF LONG ISLAND USE “LONG WAY AROUND” Traffic Over Queensboro Bridge Heavy, Due to Strike on B.R. T. The “long way around” for Long ™l- anders over the Queensboro Bridge and via Manhattan and Queens County trol~ leys has been taken by thousands due to the atrike, Traffic from 58th Street over the bridge to Corona, Elmhurst, Astoria, Steinway, College Point, Flush- ing and Jamaica has been very heavy. Three years ago the New York and Queéns County line won o strike and the 600 employees are not organised. Union attempts to line up the carmen this week have had little effect though the men are considering a demand that the fifty women conductors be laid off. The rate now {s 41 to 49 cents per hour, On the Manhattan and Queens Trag- tion Company line to Jamatca the car men are said to be organising, The Fourth Street station of ti ueensboro Suyway, first stop out o} the Grand Central station, has han 15,000 extra passengers a day the strike, many using truc! Vernon Viaduet from th section to reach Manhattai to over the reenpoint Jat ring tn New Brit- LONDON, Aug. ment bill providing prosecution and penalties for persons guilty of profit- eering, the text of which was made public to-day, empowers the Board of ‘Trade to investigate prices, cost® and profits, and to investigate complaints of unreasonable profits, whether wholesale or retail. The board is authorized to declari reasonable prices and to require that articles be sold at those prices, In caso of failure, the board is em- powered to proceed against offend~ ers in court. Imprisonment is pro- vided for convicted offender: -__oo / Harlemite, Captured at Came brai, Relates Experience—Is _ Out for Alderman. . Back from service overseas, Charles — A. Geoghegan, %, of No. Sit ‘West 185th Street has announced hie can- 4idacy for the Democratic nomina< tlontion for Alderman in the 19th Dis. trigt. Fighting with Co, “B" of the Uth Engineers at’ Cambrai, he was taken prisoner and spent a year in German prison camps, being released after the armistice was signed, — * He joined the 11th Engineers, whieh sailed from here July 14, 1917. Lamd= ing at Plymouth, England, bis anit passed through to France and on 9 Nov, 20th went to tle front at Cam- bral. He said to-day: “It was on Nov. 30 the Boche got me. I was a laison, despatch runner, and was golng to an advanced stax tion with a message. The order had been given to retreat, but I know it and kept on ti I into the arms of a ¢-foot Saxon. He ~ wi glad to wee me, for 400 marks And two weeks leave had been offered — for the capture of first prisoners. With 10 other Yankees I was Jharched all night through the snow to & pen, and later taken to the dig prison camp at Tuchel, West | Prassia, Our treatment was abomie — — nable, We were marched four days through the snow with nothing (| eat or grink, ‘The civilianshurled insulte at us in every town. At Tuohel, on Jan, 31, 1918, we ten Amer. leans were hitched to a big army truck, and sent out to break roada through 10-foot snow drifu. We wore wooden sabots, and these dropped off and we tramped barefoot for 15 kilometers to a wood, pulling the truck, and thon hauled it back full of big ones for frewood. ; in the camp Russian pi were dying of starvation and treatment, but the little ‘He fed us only on 180 grams of bread dally, the bread being made of sawdust, potato peelings and A watery hot soup completed day's ration, Tn four months TF off from, 175 pounds to 115 almost dead when Red Cross fant, arrived. sy: Jee e Us, too, with suy 5 ‘ ‘n the sumther, b= the Ameri- cans were winning, ings were bet- ter. We were sent to a camp at Rastaat, near Baden. There 40,000 prisoners. there, 3,400 bell American: German censor, and 3,400 o' didn’t cead quite the same, for boys. Then propaganda work The Boche sent in Capt. Hans Tauscher, the man charged here with plotting ‘to blow up the Welland Canal, to make friends with us, but he didn’t succeed. And as a result was put on bread and water punishment camp at Heuberg month. “Then came the armistice, the Ger- man Guards deserted, and the world forgot us, The Red Cross food stopped. Ragged, starving, the 40,000 prisoners organized their own gov. ernment, set thelr own around the camp, and waited. Some ran away, but most of us stuck. A month passed, and then we determined the only thing to do was to march to France, But the day we set start a U. 8. Medical Corps train rived with food, supplies and tors.” GIRL'S LEAP FROM TRUCK SENDS HER TO HOSPITAL Brooklyn Stenographer on Way to — Manhattan Jumps Off Auto After Lost Purse. Annie Athenus, eighteen, a stenog+ ~ rapher, of No. 2874 West 28th Street, Coney Island, was bound for her employment in Manhattan this morn- ing on a big motor truck when her pocketbook slipped from her hand in 18th Avenue near Benson AY : Before we ruck oe a full stop the girl jumped, ing upon her head, She was removed to Coney Island Hospital where, in addition to 7 bruises and lacerations, the surgeons think she may have suffered a frae- ~ that the fon be ture of the skull. of the says No, 726 Home Street, Bronx, two ac- ditional letters demanding money and threatening to kill the child. One was for $200 and the other for $65, The police have found no clue to the kid- happers and the letters are believed ty be the work of “cranks,” i Busiest Part Bobby folks start in on meal when the.