The evening world. Newspaper, September 23, 1919, Page 1

ru» "ann anipeamieetrenserahe TO-NIGHT’S WEATHER—Cle: <n cooler. Coprrinht, 1 by The Press Pu Co. (The "New York World). Che [*Cireulation Book: Books 1 Open to All.” | to All.”’ us Coniers With “Forum” on City Pay Raise romped NEW OPERATING Also Seeks to Know Intention of Mayor Concerning the New Service. CITY TO SEIZE GRANTS. | Whalen Says Hedges Made a) Mistake in Giving Up the | Storage Battery Cars. | Public Service Commissioner Nixon; to-day sent a letter to Mayor Hylaa requesting information as to who is backing the Mayor's bus enterprise on ‘the-east-wide, the name of the re- sponsible ‘head and the intentions of the city concerning the service. ‘THE letter followed tho intimation that court action might follow the city’s contention that Louis Riedl, who held a permit from the Board cf Estimate, had failed to supply the required number of to take the place of the abandoned storage battery cars, and was not connected with the enterprise. “No obstruction will * the'way of trying out the possibilities of @ jitney servee, but every effort wthin the law will be exertei to aid the city officials,” said Mr, Nixon. ‘The Commissioner said that he had | given temporary permission to an in- dividual to meet an emergency, but as things had tufned out the bus service was without an ostensible hcad, He wants to know if the bus line has ob- tained a license and has put up a bond to cover itself in case of acci- dents. His feeling in the matter is that nasmuch as tho buses are running in @ “hapbazard manner,” the Public Service Commissioner, who is respon- sible for the welfare of the public, should endeavor to put the system on ao legal basis. Mr, Nixon entertain the same optimism regard- ng the success of he bus system as does Mayor Hylan. CITY 18 PLANNNG TO SEIZE CAR FRANCHISES, ‘That the city intends to begin pro- ceedings against the New York Rail- ways Company for tho forfeiture of its franchise to operate the east side storage battery lines, now abandoned, | buses be placed in intimated he does not|” 'SOFT GOAL MINERS’ WAGE YORK, “TUESDAY, “SEPTEMBER 23, TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Fair: warmet “Circulation Books Open to All.’ bis “1919 pt ie PAGES | NIXON ASKS HYLAN Wri IS BACKER OF BUS LINES ON EAST SIDE WILSON INTRODUCES WIFE AS BEST PART OF THE “TRAVELLING SH UWal ease cenn, | $93,000 $240,000 STOLEN FROM MAIL ON WAY TO'STANDARD Olt GO Three in Oa One a Chicago Post Office Clerk, Under Ar- rest—Confessions Alleged. a ceive Authorities, While Rob- Smilingly Presents Her in Response | lo is for Her and Wins Approval. RENO, Sept. 23. N one of the crowds which Breeted President Wilson yea- terday, there were calls for Mrs. Wilson. “Hero isthe best part of this traveling show," Wilson said smilingly, as he introduced her, “Mr. Wilson,” replied a man in the crowd, “I would like to make a statement: I am very much pleased with your better half.” The President and Mrs. Wilson Joined in the Inughter. ‘This city’s lack of an auditorium sufficiently large to accomodate the crowds secking to hear Prasi- dent Wilson led last night to an ingeniuous arrangement by which the President addressed tour dit- ferent audiences, The President's talk was given in a smali theatre. Science, with some help from Reno's mechanical geniuses, enabled Wilson's voice to travel over telephone wires to three other theatres in the city. 66 LEADING RUSSIANS PUT TO DEATH BY REDS Professors, Generals and Nobles ccused of Plot to Over- throw Bolshevism. LONDON, Sept. 23.—A Bolshevik dispatch today reports the ery of an anti-Bolshevik plot with rami ons throughout Russia, which led to the capture and execution of six- ty-six men on charges of conspiracy. The plot ts sald to have originated in Moscow, Among the men who were executed were the former Duma member, N. N. Stohepkin, Profs. Astroff and Volkuff, Prinee Obolensky and Gens, Kuerietatt and Machoff, Others arrested were Prince Andrent- koff, Baron Stromberg and M, Troza- the widely known Menehevik teader | bers Got the Genuine One. CHICAGO, Sept. 23.—Three men one of them John WedJda, ‘clerk in | the Chicago Post Office, who is said | to have planned the robbery, were arrested here early to-day charged with stealing $240,000 of a shipment Federal Reserve Bank bere to the Standard 01! Co, of Indiana at Whit- ing, Ind. Of the stolen funds $93,620 was re- covered. The remainder, acdording to an alleged confession of two of the men, was abandoned at the out- skirts of Chicago when the automo- bile in which they were returning from Whiting broke down. A “piece of police luck" is pointed to as responsible for the arrest of the men. Chicago city detectives un- earthed the robbery when Leo and Walter Phillips, brothers, twenty-five and twenty years old, respectively, were arrested in connection with the robbery of a saloon in which $500 was obtained. Informed by a “stool pigeon” that tho Phillips brothers were involved in the saloon holdup, which occurred later in the day of the holdup at Whiting, the officers at first believed they had stumbled on a big payroll or bank robbery when one found $20,000 in the elder Phillips's pocket. A fourth man, said to be the owner of a small farm near Chicago, was being sought to-day. Police say they believe most of the missing money was buried on his property. Postal inspectors said they bde- Ueved Wejda sent a “fake” bag sim- ilar in appearance to the moncy bag in the consignment to Whiting, “A man named Joe Schwarz, em- ployed at the station, was to take the bags in a handcart to the Post Office,” the inspectors said, “He got the wrong bag and took it to the Post Otfice, from where it was to be taken to the Bank of Whiting and from hero to the Standard Oil Com- pany of Indiana, When ho returned to the station the bag containing the money wags gone.” | IS RECOVERED. | Used to De-| Of $415,000 last Thursday from the PAY SURVEY OF CITY EMPLOYEES Réchition thes Introduced for Pub- | lic Hearings and Inquiry | on Salary Question. MEETS “FORUM.” Mayor Explains What Has} Been Done Toward Getting an Increase in Wages. Enero TIE- |HYLA Robert L, Moran, Acting President | of the Board of Aldermen, introduced u | resolution at thia afternoon's meeting | of that body, calling attention for a} survey of the entire salary and wage Two Persons Shot While Out- break Is Being Quelled at Farrell, Pa. FARRELL, Pa, Sept. hearing will be held and an investi- persons were shot, neither seriously, gation made by the Aldermen #0 that and several others were injured in re- the findings of that body may be!newed rioting here to-tlay, when submitted to the Board of Estimate, State police and local authorities dis- which alone has the power (o grant) Lt | persed crowds that had congregated | Salary increases. The Salary Committes of the Civil, 0 the, main street. Last night one question of clty employees. A public 23.—Two Service Forum, which claims a mem-|Man was shot and killed, a State |bership of 150,000 State, county and| trooper was shot and seriously city employees, held a conference | Wounded and another State police- with Mayor Hylan at the City Hail|™an was injured on the head with to-day lasting an hour anda hait. | brick. Frank Phial, Assistant Comptrolicr,| This morning the authorities Jasked tho Mayor on behalf of the|W!cKly succeeded in scattering the Forum for a 20 per cent. increaso in| TOwds. the salaries of city employees getting |, After the trouble was over several | portage Perea thousand strikers and their sym- less than $2,000 a year and @ 10 Ber! Dathizors went across the Olio State jeent. increase for those receiving more] jing, several miles from mt ts than $2,000 a year. hold a mass mecting. The Bunces The meeting was not public of Farrell has forbidden the holding lose Mayor Hylan satd of meetings in the borough, “I told the Civil Service employees that the Board of Estimate had re- cent’ held a conference at which it was decided that the salaries of po- licemen, firomen and street cleaners would be raised immediately, It was also decided that all employces in other departments who received less than $1,800 a year and who had good records should be increased, but the extent of the incre was not de- teymined, What increases if any, are to be awarded to employees recelv- ing more than $2,000 a year wag not At its ing became known to-day. Crowds had congregated on Broad- way, the main street, and at the re- quest of the borough authorities the State Police tried to disperse them. Part of the street is being paved and many in the crowds threw bricks and other missiles at the troopers, When the shooting was over and the crowd dispersed, it was found that at Jeast three persons were shot and many were injured by flying missiles. Paul Prach of Farrel! was shot in settled at the Board of Estimate} the face and died at the Buhl Hos- mecting.” pital. ‘We found the Mayor entirely] E, Milligan of Butler, a State sympathetic,” Chairman Prial sald,| trooper, was shot in the hand, and “and we have every reason to bolieve that he understands ‘the justice of our request. We left the conference sure that the Mayor will impress upon the Board of Estimate the arguments which we laid before him. Among the gation that ci Cyrus Lowe of Sharon received bul- let wounds in the hand and leg. Two additional troops of State con- stabulary are en route to the steel region on a special train from the eastern part of the State, it learned from Pittsburgh to-day. NEWCASTLE, State constabulary, was members of the dele- ed on the Mayor were 4 3 ) Moran, President of the The inspectors said Schware did | Joseph was made known this morning by | Bar iace. tia canlantn Patrolmen's Benevolent Association; |!f{8 and scores of policemen patrol Grover A. Whalen, ¢ ommtaelones of SCALE BEFORE CONVENTION Wejda some months ago noticea|Acting Capt. Ayres, President of the Hing the strests about the ste H plante Plant and Structures, who is also} that every Thursday a registered|Police Lieutenants’ Association; Jc s hte ; ai ue ion ; arin badosed| gupervising tho operation of tho jit) sei - pnekage consigned to the ‘Bank o¢|seph Courtenay, Prealdent of tho| Tite last night was slightly smproved ney buses brought here by Mayor! Provides for GO Per Cent. Increase] Whiting trom the Federal Reserve |Volico Sergeants’ Association; J reat : ee | sig dae? sw sree eee: & ®l Dowd, President of the Street C Nine persons, two women and seven . sclared that “Receiver in Pay and the Six-Hour- Bank here went through the Chicago! ing sweepers and Drivers’ Ass n shot last night, in addition Whalen declared th et Dat Post Office, according to a confession |tiun: President Peter J. Van $ ee ae chat puineaea Job Hedges made a mistake w . ay, officers say they obtained from him.|and former President McNabb of the] injuring of another with & club } | gave the city four paying surface car) oy evict aND, 0,, Sept Tho ree| One day, the alleged confession | New York City Letter Carriers’ an attack on the plant of tho Car p lines,” Ho added that the Corporation| yor of the acale committee embodying | continued, Wejda observed that a] ‘lation; President John Daly of the eel Company Counsel was now reviewing tho rail-|the proposed demands of the United|torn package contained money, and |rsanized — Vederal | welghers | and of the injured likely will di any’saction “in letting the| tine t 2 gaugers; Charlo: . repre. | it is sald, way company's action _ u tin, n©| Mine Workers of Ameri ® was presented | taking the Phillips Brothers into his}senting the city's per diem em-| The rioting assumed serious pro residents of the east side get to work |(o the convention this afternoon, It tn- | confidence, planned the robbery. ployees;; Albert Guinness, head of| portions when rioters stoned work- the best way they could,” and added 5 the anticipated demands for a —— the Uniforme men's Association, | men on their way to the mifls, Wive that the cessation of tho surface lines | fat 60 cent, increas wages, the which is affiliated wit American | Workmen were caught against a ston In f wall and were being stonod when tion com Sy their franchise fos these|time and one-half for overtime and |w hurst, Pres the Police | Suards were went out to rencuc them. lines, hott 5 1 1 be } I MoNatiaeai a ihepactmahe of anit Re ie nee Teen sented the cond!.i tu n uaa de oe Lo 3 . | CONNELLSVILLE, Pa, Sept _}and stenographic foreca h 386 lonn 2 6 Ap lines now abando Coy ner 4. mine workers The Dittsburgh-New York pight express | 5ojcun ee ca Te Tia | BURFALO: N) Yu Sent Ste Biot missioner, “or they tex United Stat Tan ,/on the Haltimore and Ohio Railroad] Heparts “William R, [{B& which broke out here during the travagantly ope DNA | satixfactory agre sched be leaving Pittsburgh at 12.20 A, Af was| Heady, 8 Naw. York |sithe, wan caeaneaticcoieyee Arivers now at work aie all making, that tin ailed early to-day near Confluence, rvice Society, and Dr, Maud hae) ¥ SUPDRY, Fenares tagater —_——= No axrecme ned In the. Joint Fo representing the a) | nic of Lackawanne at (Continued on Fourteenth Page.) | wa hee at Buffalo shai) W: A+ Glenn, Connelisville, a fireman, | inspectors of the Health Department |Company, was seriously injured in a pect SaaS ti Pee Ibo concluded until after dt has been |W killed. Two passengers we in Comptroller Craig issued a state-|clash with strikers. Two arrests FARH BELL-ANS BEFORE MEALS | vomited ¢ ication to the cone (ured: fallroad officials say, ment to-day favoring an increasn of | w mine and see how fiue Good Digustion fs or rauiAcation to the cons !diter, Connellsville ineer, was ade $250 a year in the galaries of police-| CLEVELAND, 0, Sept. 2%%.--An rou Adve. ~ vention Rain =» scalded, men and firemen, eral patrol service to protect sveel r i \ d a é — - , STRIKE RIOTING RESUMED: STATE TROOPERS RUSHED Further details of last night's rlot- | UNION CLAIMS 32] 100 MEN ouT ADERNENPLAN PITTSBURGH MEN RETURNING: UP GROWS IN THE WEST —_——_—_--+. Even Foreigners, Blamed for Walk- stead and Elsewhere—Most Plants Closed in Chicago and Ohio. PITTSBURGH, Sept. 23.—Further conflicting claims regarding steel strikt conditions were made this afternoon from labor and coms pany sour | Secretary William Z. Foster of the Steel Warkers’ National Com. }inittee said that, according to his reports, 327,100 men were participating LE 1 INU in the strike. Compared with those issued yesterday, bis pints show, increases in the Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Johnstown, Wheeling, Steu+ benwille, Chicago and Birmingham districts. ' jSteel Corporation oration: Head Arrives at The Homestead works of the Carnegie Steel Company, sub; Office agro By Former sidiary of the United States Steel Corporation, were practically “dead, ‘Sage Manse? Tr Gay, Caniete he asserted, Foster insisted tne number of strikers in this district had the Board of Directors of the United | een increased by about 6,000 to-day, States’ MO” Corporation, arrived at hls Me. Foster's claims were not borne out by reports cotiifig from the office this morning, accompanied by two| Carnegie Company and from independent steel company sources, They, men, one Whom, it ia believed, ts acting | assert that 21,000 more men are at work in the Pittsburgh district today, as his bodyguard. Some of the newspaper men who wore than yesterday, waiting to see Judge Gary ident “The ved,” e dec (Ma’ WAR “ha, A” febinee® Miookiva, The ituation is improved,” was the declaration of a representative tective, . of the Carnegie Company. HOW STRIKE STANDS NOW; UNION AND COMPANIES BOTH CONFIDENT OF FINAL VICTORY “We have more men going to woric | #t Homestead,” ho said, “and our reee | ports show additional men are come ing back at other plants of the com pany.” : It was said by a company repres sentative that the situation at the Carrie furnaces at Rankin was bet« ter than yesterday, One blast fure nace was put In operation to-day and Reports From Various Districts Show Numer- ee was expcsied to go im toe ous Plants Closed and Others Crippled POLICE PROTECTION LACKING But Many Running. IN SOME PLACES, i At certain points In Wostern Penn- ONDITIONS on the second day of the steel workers’ strike are | sylvania outside the Pittsburgh diss ‘as follows: trict strike conditions, while not bad, | dered an investigation of the in Cleveland closed, three crip- | 9 Re Vicinity of Pittsburgh, it was strike, ‘The inquiry will vegin pled and one operating at normat | “#!4 1" corporation sources, This, it Thursday and B. H, Gary, Chair- capacity. Three independent | ¥4* fither sald, was because police man of the Steel Corporation, plants, employing 16,000 men, | Protection for the men who wanted to will be the first witness closed at Youngstown. Fifty-five to work was not as adequate as The industry in tho Western thousand reported {die in Ohio | #48 in and near Pittsburgh, districts was much m eriously district At its meeting hero to-morrow tha affected than in the East BUFVALO—The big plant of | Ste! Workers’ Committes ta exe ‘The Iron and Steel Instituto's the Lackawanna Steel Company | Pected to address another letter to reports show that the indo~ closed down to-day and the Don- | President Wilson or the United States pendents are not seriously affected ner Steel Company prepared to | St¢el Corporation, in a renewed ef- by the strike and that about 40 ciate Goran, fort to obtain a conference with Judge per cent, of the United States SOUTH—Al} mills in operation Gary, head of the corporation, | Steel Corporation's employees aro with increased forces. “It becomes more apparent,” said a out, most of them west of the Ohio Further rioting, in which e statement issued by the Carnegie River, persons are reported to ha Company, “that the strike is due ens W. &. Voater, Georetary of ho | cic: cenhpred to-day at Fr tirely to activities among foreign steel workers’ National Commit- | pa’ where ono man wi | workmen, Almost without exception tee, said 100 out of 350,000 men und several injured, One man was vue American workmen are with us in the industry have ceased work, injured in an outbreak to-day at | and aro ei actually at work or | CONDITIONS BY DISTRICTS. Pultal, and nine persons, includ: | are ready to go to work at the frst PITTSBURGH.—Men high up | jast night's clash at Newcastie, | opportunity in the steel industry say that | ‘4 | A most encouraging feature is that 21,000 more men are at work in ry ted Unlona pare, * bd to number of the foreign element re+ | this district than yesterday Poneieae” Henenineela urate urned to work this morning, Tia | While several large plants that | Struck.” Several huntvad owitehs | relieves tho aituation at the Carnobie | operated yesterday ed down | men are on strike In Cleve. | furnaces in Rankin, where it is hoped | to-day, others are operating with | yy a aE Gs velund 250 ore han | to start one of the furnaces during | increased forces | a On ake Reese ae he the day, Other departments of the | CHICAGO—Letween 50,000 and | Homestead plant are operating, and | district and practical every | 4s many men working as yesterday, | plant ix closed down or | RUNNING FULL TIME No disorder is reported from ’thig with a greatly reduced plant this moro! eamen's local, hn The Duquesne plant continues to n ore, voted to g 4 ely oy * <" q Pt. 83.—A perate In all departments and {s ja Quiet preva telekaere oparath it time tocday, | Detter shape than yesterday. ‘There OHIO—Sixteen of twenty mills aie te TAs : is a noticeable increase in the num= | peers 1] It was stated at the naley plant that) ber of me. in the general labor des de uomoane on i] seventy-five men wer 1y, this | partment 4 Ha f fin excess of yar “The Americans are sticking Aviation ¢ Gn eA atone to their work to a man and there gan pele ad. wow Haformst oni d is absolutely no disorder, ‘ Mausniiwa ny caah ig ad “The Edgar Thomsoa works eons equipped with Wireless to notify tinue to operate and more men jc~ lice of the location of outbreaks, ported for work here than yosterday, ot aererne one) out, Reported Going Back at Home-~ epee ees