The evening world. Newspaper, September 20, 1919, Page 1

(es Paymaster Held Up and Robbed Below Deacwiewo — PRICE TWO “CENTS. ~ Copyright, 1010, by The Preee Febtiching Ww MILLS TO RUN DESPITE STRIKE; _ PLANS TO GUARD STEEL DISTRIC _NEW ‘YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, claro, “Open to All.” 14 PAGES “Circulation Books 1919. MASTER CRIMINAL SQUGHT AS MAN BEHIND THEFTS OF $1,000,000 BONDS BY BOYS woe vam SKS ATO IMA ves 2) HOPES NEN UP Thieves | as Fools, Then Disappeared. he companies which insure broxere Family of President of Inter- boroughCalled to His Bedside. against the loss or theft of securities to-day set down the latest “casualty” | (the disappearance of $141,000 in Tab | erty bonds with Messenger Leo Julof-! Following a relapse yesterday in sky of the house of E. D. Levinson & the condition of President Theodore Qo.) to the operations of a master| Shonts, ‘President of the Interbor- | eréminal and his lieutenants who| ough Rapid Transit Company, his| work upon the weaknesses of the! Physician, Dr, J. Bentley Squier, said youths employed as runners in the/to-day that all hope for Mr. Shonts’ Wall Street district. |Fecovery bad been abandoned. His | ‘The list of thefts of securities in| #™lly was called together last night since Jan, 1|9%4 sathered at his bedside early the hands of messengers since Jan. 1) 14/5 morning, totals $750,000 reported officially, be-| Mr, Shonts has been ill since June} sides $250,000, of which no public re-/21 last and has undergone three oper- port has been made because tho vic-|ations since that time, the first being tims fear their financial standing! would be impaired if the thefts were made known. ‘The private etectives and those of the Police Department are satisfied that organizations of murderous rob- bers have been systematically preying on Wall Strect. They have cunningly avoided outright highway robbery of the old school and lias Insidiously worked to brea:. down the characters of the youths who become their tools and who are naturally inclined to ape their employers by frequenting the restaurants of the downtown district, play pool and Dilliards, bet on them- selves or others and get into small debts which they are easily lured to multiply until t..ey feel forced to ac- cept loans from “good fellows" who later bulldoze them into crime The arch-robbers are believed have confederates in various parts of to relieve acute lung congestion, duc to plourisy. On several occasions reports from Mr. Shonts' home at No. 900 Park Avenue, have indicated that he was hovering between life and death. Mr. Shonts was stricken while at work in his office, Congestion of the lungs almost immediately developed. COL, ARTHUR WOODS QUITS AS ASSISTANT TO BAKER Ex-New York Police ( ‘e Commissioner Feels Task of Aiding Returning Soldiers Is Completed. WASHINGTON pt. Arthur Woods, Special Assistant to the Secretary of War, in charge of employ- ment of discharged soldiers and former to i Police Commissioner of New York, re the country, some near New York and [signed to-day. It was said Mr. Woods the weels larger part of the task of re- ay us Rocky to tind sanctuary for the young men who comunit crime at their behest. When the tool goes to one of these hiding places there is no particular compunction about murder- ors to civil occupations has been completed. The work of the bureau is to be con- tinued under Col. Matthew C. Smith, of the Regular Army. acres AUSTRALIA RATIFIES, National A mbly Approves Treaty va Voce Vote. MELBOURNE, Sept. 20.—By a viva the Austrailan National Aa- yesterday ratified the German treaty and the defenatve alliance France, Great Britain and the United States nT to Attend Wedding. Sinith Is at tae Bilt- (Continued on Second Page.) vore vote bly CLOSING 7.30 P. M. Sharp | Governor Her Alfred EB. Gov. on June 24, when he was operated on | ¢ CONOR WOOO Art SNe oer FLoop scEN TH LYE STON. In Heart of Galveston, Where-Boats __ Were Used in Streets After Storm 0664 PO MSFT O ELE OS ERUSERS SEARCH SIX MONTHS INDUSTRIAL FOR 450 MISSING FROM LOST LINER American and Cuban Warships Scour Gulf Waters for Passengers and Crew. KEY WEST, Fla, Sept, 20.—With| a wrecking crew and divers examin- | the s hull and with sc | ing of boats seare ing surround! ers and islands for trace of bo survivors, the fate of the 450 pi gers and members of the crew of the ig wat- ssen- Spanish steamer Valbanera, whico foundered during the hurricane last week, Was expected to be cleared up to-day, The naval station here has| offered all facilities and will send U. S. warships to help two Cuban | bots, in the he V aisace ra, ish ports to Havar from on the night of Sept. & when xho | appeared off the entrance Harbor, Yesterday a steamer ing that name but reported by div to be much smaller than the missing bs arch bound from Span- » Was last beard moro and will remain here until Mon-| vessel was found sunk off . 4 Shoals light, 40 miles from K Saturdays for day on y To-morrow he will attend the wed-| The wreck was located by the SUNDAY WORLD ding of James P. Holland, State Presi- Poni SuAre."s meter i, - BF e808! > 5 dont of the Federation of babor, and) cy a bed of quicksand in about. 40 WANT ADS. Mra. May Marion, in St Andrew's! feet of water, Divers who examined —————— Chureh, Flushing {the hull reported the wreck bore tne . The ——_—— name Valbanera but sald the vesse Mant Advertiesmen te (or) i Pershing Here on Bible Sanday, | appeared only half as large ax the Sunday World must uid Bpcein! preparations aro being made! Missing Liner . The World's Main Office on or for the 110th anniversary service of E sign B. R. Roberts, commander the New York Bible Soctety to be held on Biblo Sunday, Dec, 7 at 4 P. i» the Cathedral of St, Joha the Divine. Gen, Pershing will take part in the worvice, before 7,30 Saturday evening, Positively no Advertisements will be accepted after this Lime. === vin Bend your Sunday Wor Want Advertisement in to-day 1° muke eure of its publication, —_~> of the sub-chaser, also sald ho avd seer the name phite on the Valhan ero on the wreck and his states nt confirmed bellef that the sunken vea- sel was the one sought, | At tho office of Pinillos, Tequierdo & Co., No #0 Wall Street, local agonts for the steamship Valbanero, it was sald to-day that hopes for the whip | and her passengers still are held, { Economic Problems Due ainst Strikes, War— FPREPPC solute in. months ws | eral Palmer TRUCE URGED BY PALMIER > Would Permit Solution P| GIRL LOSES A $100 WAGER | THAT SHE'D KISS PERSHING BEFORE HE : LEFT CAPITAL War Worker “Gets J Arm About Gen eral’s Neck Before Members of Firm Ag: Pp dustrial as urged by Attorney Sept. 20. rmistice to-day to permit the To —An ad for six jew orf tution of economic problems arising | out of the changes wrought by war bring abou at and better other hand, the warned, selfish class cant prosperity even by nanced force, mendation Plorce, stein, Liy James P. the New World o: after co! manufac busines str! (This ts in line with the rece John & Isadore not stil or He kes, chairman, secretary of the Cost of | appointed president Fede 1g Committee, Holland, York § ir report to Mr n Labor inference turing, an era of times for Attorney demands by ulate obtaining strongly wi associations, all.” the permanently by and Such a period of freedom from un rest, he declared, would result soon | in Increased production, which would “easier living Ont General | any of nation demands discounte- | m- | by | ration, Holland, pub- | 1 exclusively In the Bo Day, vening was made h Industrial, commercial Mr, und Hol- land has repudiated the report.] “Labor is asking a large share of tho Joint product of money and labor in much mertt in the claim,” and there declared Attorney General Palmer (Continued on Booond Page.) His Staf WASHINGTON f Interfere ROBBED OF $3 500 - IN GEDAR STREET DESPITE GUARDS Paymaster Held Up Below “Dead Line” in Broad Daylight. BANDIT’S | LONE WORK. Grabs Bag of Money With Threat To Kill and Escapes in Doorway. Miohael Dobbins, thirty years old, of Jersey City, an employee of Burns FOG O992-96-GO-O9-06-53-9-3900-08 Trrothers, coal dealers, No. 60 Chureh 99S9-99-06-9-6-5-o Street, $3,500 in Cedar Street, below the early thix afternoon by a Dobbins, accompanied by guards who walked behind him, two wos on his way to Jersey City to pay the company’s employees there. ar As they between a man and me Street enwic walked down Ce Washington and suddenly confronted Dobbins thrust a’ revolver at him, “Giv that satchel,” he muttered, at ‘the same time wrenching it from the man's hand, Before the guards could interfere the highwayman darted into the hallway of a ne of the OW tation ’ the building in roof to cellar but were unable’ to find the robber. Nor was any one in the |puilding able to throw any light on his escape. Joba Simonelll, twenty-ong, driver, living at > First Ave- nue, was arrested at South Chariton and Varick Streets this afternoon after a of cight biecks, He was rescucd by Detective Trabucel rom a crowd of truck drivers who were severely beating him, and taken \to Polie Headquarters on a charge of \robbery. Miss Gladys chase Cohen, cashier for Casino Hrother truckers, at No, 165 |Watts Street, accused Simonelli blinding her with a white po rat HWatts and Greenwich Street and [stealing $875 had just | from the bank for the pay-roll, money was not rec BRITISH STEAMER AFIRE. Arabian Prince, With New York Cargo, Beached at Gibraltar, of drawn The she ——--- ween wa XPORTS OF a fi LOTHES FN. os Here EDITION 5. EUS MTT E EVIE PRICE TWO CENTS, [Plants Will. Run as Long as pel wee held up and robbed of ployees*Report for Work, Says Steel See ee DM whe. Join Fight. an SHARON, Pa, Sept. pet. Rohetens of the Nosth Works of the. Carnegie Steel Company today. took a strike vote, and it ty reported” that 9 per cent, of the B00 men declared against strike. 4 PITTSBURGH, Sept. 20,—With 18,000 men already out, both sides. were rushing plans to-day for the great steel strike scheduled to begin early H Monday, Reports that the United States Steel Corporation would close all sts. plants in the Pittsburgh district unless there was 100 per cent, loyalty, shown by the workers were denied to-day at the offices of the Carnegie, Steel Co,, a subsidiary.’ The plants will operate as long as men report for | work, it was said. PLANS TO FIGHT STRIKE LEFT TO LOCAL PLANTS, SAYS STEEL CORPORATION some of the steel companies, je a UNION TO BEGIN “COUN | e a NOSES” MONDAY. Not Intention to Close All Mills). "At national strike headquarters Where Employees Are Not 100 | day, W. Foster secretary of a Ps national committer of the er Cent. Loyal Per Cent. Loya Workers, was asked how many | JT was tearned from offices of |he expceted will answer the ‘® Without waiting for the formal bes wmning of the strike, hundreds @& workmen throughout the steel lis trict have thrown down their teat and others are being locked out by the United States Stect Corp- | caf, Mr, Foster replied that he oration in this city to-day that pot know but that the anion w the methods to be employed in | begin “counting noses” Monday. | combatting the strike would be Mr. Poster wag also asked wi left in @ general way to the dis. cretion of the heads of the vurt ous plants and subsidiaries, The plans to be followed are aot ex he knew of stee! companies through= out the country fortifying their plants, and syd the committee been receiving reports for a long tiftie® pected to be uniform bat will be | that guns, machine guns and ammu- governed largely by lwcal cundi- [wition “have been taken inte mille Hons. teomi tine to time. © It is not the intention of the “We have been hearing these thi corporation to close all pints | fora long titfle,” he said, “but I bawe where the employees are not 100 loyal to the company. If this policy ts adopted tn some wit will be at the discretion { the plant managers the beads of the subsidiary companies not bow down.” The vational strike committee fam arranged for mass meetings in et@ky steclh workers’ community in vountry to-morrow, Mr, Foster sald? able to definitely pin them ood per cont or NE woman war worker faces | O the loss of $100 as a result LONDON, Sept. 20.--Fire broke out| vf which the plants are units, The Allegheny and West of 4 wager that she would [yesterday In a hold of the British Steel mills at Brackenridge kias Gen, Pershing before he left. [steamer Arabian Mrince at Gibraltar ALLIED THREA T pended operations at 8 o'clock Waahiauton Ag the expedition. |The vessel haw been beached und tho L morping. in order th give the aif nahh # she oxp Ihola te being flooded. Latest reports ; mon an opportunity to hold © miiRa ary Commander was leaving said the fire was increasing, | D’ANNUNZIO REPORTED ing and consider the adviaabilte ee ess ML See ieee ¥ 2 jared Arabian uiliaa 184 tons sae = walking out Monday, according te ; woman who edged her way to gros, left New York July r Harry’ FE. Sheldon, President of q the front of the crowd surround- | Aden, Singapore, and Manilla ar }Poet Said to Have Received Notice . the: . ing the er nee made a rush for | rive i at praltar Sept, 15, to be fitted eh & Allegheny Steel Company and J : jee = Meter bait ee to Remove Force in 24 Rurdick, Vieo President of the Wes 4 nim, ith a new sha pou 0 tons 3 . . - of cargo wan to have been discharged Hours. Penn Steel roy embe e Gene ‘3 sta orm . Members of the General's stam [0t (o0ke We | employ normally 6,000 to 6,000 grabbed her, but not until she had | r | PARIS, September — %.—Captain Preparations are going forward an arm around Gen. Pershing‘’s At tho offices of the Prince lino |Gabricle d’Annunzio may be given] anticipation of the strike Monday as Poi gay eit NM Lg er Atl She ‘carrion a while our of Flume, upon which ‘city a}eompanies, Coal, it Is eald, will Reicha <p erat ea PER OT ne was Injured | turned their guns, according to ad-)eompanies to avoid a shortage this aise tes Kinteaitine caee vices received here by way of Berlin, | Winter Shieh woul ocour if ‘the t aot thach a a fl Jants continued to operate normally, In the mean timo the young ono JEWS ¥ MA ACR Latboch and Vienna. It in Indicated |? woman, apparently nking an 15, SSACRED. that this ultimatum will come from] [ Was admitted to-day by Nanatios her precipitate ae le » ve J sa are i“ Phen ded a ‘ had Atrocities in Trans Danube Region (the Allied Powers, representatives of [of tho United States Steel Corporation wagered $100 that she would kins | App h Armenian Manancres, | Which are reported to have conferred |*hat unton organization has reached Gen, Pershing before ho left BUDAPEST, Sept, 20.—Reports reach: |At Abbazia, about two miles north-|% mreater total thas had b Washington, west of Flume, to which plice they | been conceded, > told of manne Budapest to: trang-Danubs ing “ in the region suid to ap ere rushed urried to The strike plans day by delegates who Captain @’Annung retired wher en- Amert ‘proach the Armenian murders In extent, | tered the latter city Hept, 20.--Viscount Grey The terror of the Hungarian whites ROME, Sept, 20 (Havaw).--Premier|aftected districts following the of Fallodon new Hrilish Ambaasas|haa been directed ngninat tho Jews in| Nitth and Foreign Minister Tittons| day session here, One feature of Jor to t tod States, Jett London | widespread pogroma, accordiug to the| have disagreed over (he Biumo tnet-|campalgn is that no workers wil) Mate RUINiaky yrrel, Viscount tinagts (ineormation received here, 18 re-/dent, the latter disapproving of the|!eft by the unions to preserve private secretary, ta Recampanying the [ported Uiay 13,000 Jews have been | promicr'e attitude, accorditig to the Pany Property, such ee : new Ambassador te the United Bletos, ‘slaughtered, Bowspapers, furnace fires and i a ile ate