The evening world. Newspaper, December 9, 1919, Page 1

COAL STRIKE IS SETTLED INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 9.- -The miners agreed to President Wilson’s proposal to end the coal strike this afternoon after only a few minutes’ deliberation. q TO-NIGHT’S WEATHER—Rain. PRICE TWO CENTS. ————— —— ew Y by The Press Pablishing Che [Circulation Books Books Open to All.” | to All. 9? NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER tlt ‘ork World), ~ ANOTHER WOMAN ACCUSED IN BILLY DANSEY MYSTERY: psi ant Out m Aarest of | WILL RUN STORES TO cur aeeejaws Shaer. | LIVING GOST TO EMPLOYEES, | a | THREAT TO MERCHANTS: ’ SHE AND HER BABY ILL Wri y ere No Use to Raise Wages Under | Authorities Silent on Evidence} |, eerie | pe i a = Present Conditions, Says Head They Have Against Charles | ; a | of American Woolen Co. White and Mrs Jones | vainie LAWRENCE, Mass., Deo: 9. P Yr Cobthasaeds: 8 ILLIAM M. WOOD, Presi- een @ Wort ‘ dent of the American HAMMONTON, N. J., Dec Woolen Company, to-day served notice upon retail business men of this city that unless prices tectives attached to County Prosecuto. Gaskill’s office admitted to-day tt of commodities essential living they held a warrant for Mrs. Su ré marked down sharply and | White in connection with the alleged] within a short time, he would set murder of “Billy” Dansey, the thre: up a retail stoi sanization ind-one-half-year-old baby whose body here on a big scale to supply em- ployes of the company vweth was found in a swamp six weeks after) Procerics, provisions, fuel, cloth. | he disappeared. ing, hurdware and other articles. The warrant was not served ye Referring to the discontent pre- | terday when Charles A. Whito was| Valling over existing prices, Mr i t rder and Wood said that it was uses | arrested on the chacge of mu! 4 less to raise ¥ «nd find the | Mrs, Edith Jones, housekeeper in the effect lost in an increasing cost | White home, was taken in custody on, of living, “1 am acting from a the charge of being an accessory after, Christian point of view.” he said, : ; nd added that, having mo wis the fact, Mrs. Susan White, who Is fe ative local morehants out the wife of James L. White, brother of usiness, he would give thom ‘a Charles A. White, and her baby i reaxonable time" to readjust their prices, | in bed. She is under surveillance by nat county detectives. } | “It's an outrage,” James White said AUTO MOTORS 10 RUN | in commenting on the arrest of his brother and Mrs. Jones. “They BIG PLANT ON GASOLINE: would have taken my wife also yes- terday, as they had a warrant with 7 — them for her arrest, but for the fact Detroit Car Faclory, Closed by Fuel that she and our baby are a ti Orders, Will Use Hundreds of know nothing of the case except what aay bs me have peck in the papers.” | ngines to Turn Wheels, | Charles A. White, twenty-nine, a) DETROIT. Dos. %—One of the larg. farmer and neighbor of the Danseys, st automobile plants in the eity, com is in the County Jail at May's Land- | pelled be close by the orders of the Na ing, charged with the murder of little pause Admilolatrasors wil ie Billy, and Mrs. Edith Jones, his housekeeper, fifty-three, is held as an accessory after the fact. to opera of furnishing the motive power its machinery, Hundreds ' bile automo: motors will be hooked up to turn Mrs, Dansey, little Billy's mother. jthe factors wheels collapsed again on learning of the ar- | : es rests, At her home, which adjoins | ’ | that of the Whites, Mrs. J. H. Aigner, FRANK GOULD'S DIVORCE | wife of a captain in the navy, said IS UPHELD IN FRANCE Mrs, Edith Kelly Gould’s Plea of “No Jurisdiction” Overruled — | by Court. | 9.—The ¢ that Mrs, Dansey could not be seen, | and added: “If White was responsible for the| death of Billy, I feel that the death | was the result of an accident and that it could not possibly have been a murder deliberately planned.” PARIS, Dec eree of divorce White has always borne & S008) os tained by Frank J. Gould of New reputation here, where he lived York, from his wife, Edith Kelly Id, for fifteen years, He was ently | was sustained in judicial proceedings mustered out with the Hammonton | here to-day. ‘The court overruled Mrs. ¢ company of the New Jersey militia re- a's plea nerve, He is manager of his fathes’a|that it had no jurisdiction because of | dablia’farm and has been active in| her, being ® resident of the United| fraternal circles, ae Thus far the authorities have re- ” ured to divulge on what evidence) LONG COLD WAVE COMING, White and Mrs, Jones are held, but weil Detective Benjamin Nusbaum, one of on Ase Gendeal, those who made the arrests, said: SHINGTON, Dec. 9,—A prolonged “Charles S, White knows what hap-| period of cold weather over the entire pened to ‘Billy’ Dansey. ‘The bay was|country is indic the W Bu- dead at the very hour, 10 o'clock in|reau announced to-day, by the abnor- the morning, when White says he saw Ml high pressure over the region weat him in the dablia field. We are posi-|°f the Mis rec peared acne tery, but it would hurt our case if we| ‘The cold wave in the West is spread bi ing wastward and southward with. zero | told more at this time. ‘The develop- | ire weet ires aa tar so asthe Texa ficial sc Panhandle, and cold. weather " see a cast in the Bast and South to-night} (Continued on Second Page.) CE ee | Our Next President, —: LD RES ; Tre face of the man woo in all jrobainlity WORLD RESTAURANT, 0 Me ‘the next Promdont the Unter sais | Spesial for. c0:day. Tumday, De® 1919 POO I tek SMM Wont Ola meth | ema tewk sith Noh ial phate, oh, gam, Vow ke adn) TOM Marlene are eee, ate Laie out, Weald Sulbding “ade ‘ i UNDER DETECTIVES’ GUARD ‘emergency ward, lor | fire | pr PATIENTS CALMED BY NURSES WHILE FLAMES THREATEN ad [wo Firemen Hurt in Factory Next Door to College Dormitory. MANY FAMILIES WARNED, arly Morning Blaze in West 15th Street Causes $25,000 Damage. More than 200 patients in New York Hospital were calmed by nurses [at LA. M.to-day while firemen, from the rear the yard the institution, loft building ‘Two injured played hose on a fire three doors away firemen were treated in the hospital's and scores of fam- illes in the neighborhood were ready to leave in c the flames spread. The fire started: on the third floor the six-story loft building, Nos. 31-35 West 15th Street, which ix filled with manufactories. It was first aeeo by the hospital's night watehman, | August Rocklitz, who was having alarm telephoned *when the au matic went off Deputy Chief Martin sent a second and a third alarm, which brougit | Chief Kenlon ‘Threé doors trom the fire wus the hospital wit pa- tients, and next to the burning build ng Was students’ dormitory of St. Francis Navier Colle » five story building, housing thirty sie pricsts and broth Hospital Supt. Howell and Night Supervisor of Nurses Miss Minnie jJordan mustered a ¢ ft nurses and went through the wards, assur- ing the patients there was no danger And no ony became excited. The priests in the dermitory” were pre paring to go to the street when told | the Was no danger, apd all ve mained apd watehed the fre from }the windows, Mamilies in five houses back in 1ith Street were gotitied to be ready to vacate their homes, but it did not become necessary Lieut. Darey Burns of Engine No. § and Fireman Charles Am En- gine No. 72, were severely cut on the hands while fighting the scupe. They were Archer jund sent to Kenny of the Auxillary Fire Depa ment furnished — thee lights, which made impossible turthe injury to the firemen by The fire Was confined to the building and did $25,000 damian five from uw tended by quarters. Chi one |$500,000 A PINT TAX ON WHISKEY DEMANDED Reform Bureau to Ask Such Levy if Wartime Dry Law Not Sustained. Is WASHINGTON, Dec, %—A tax of half a million dollars on a pint of wh key will be asked of Congress, the In Reform Bpreau's Executiv decided here to-day, in t Supreme Court declares th Prohibition Amendment un onal \preme Court has decided tha he taxed lo de 1 Dr. Wilbur F. Cratts, head. tu, in explaining the committee's a tion. _ 200,000 Idle in State Now Through Coat The t DETROIT, Dec, 9— Approximat 200,000 idle industrial » s In Michi- san anxiously watched miner trike developme polis to jay. Business ractically every © r affairs to. & gix-he ast 50,000 other Tactory workers were expecting to hrown ul Of work to-night or to» morrow, 4 ‘ be i ‘ “ | a ( we eo Wom1n pre in the TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Rain or snow. SS ST MMP ENS TN WaT prone. 9 tba SM DATEL OBE 8 PRICE TWO CENTS. “Circulation Books Open to All.’ 1919. 32 PAGES GIRL CAPTURES BURGLAR AFTER BATTLE IN HOME! Ser cee Miss Elsie Rogers Recover: $3,000 Jewelry in West End Avenue Chase. HAD NO TIME Surprised by Own Coura She Thought Thief Would Terrorize Her. Miss Elsie Roger: No, 878 West End Avenue, got acquainted with herself last night, and was aston- shed by what she learned of her own personality. “T had often speculated on what T would do if | saw a burglar,” Mise COAL TIE-UP TO FAINT. | Dansey Case ENDED TO-DAY; - MINERS TO RETURN AT ONCE How New Coal Orders 'Prompt Acceptance of President Wil- Will Affect New York; |_—_80’s Plan by Union at Indianapo- : lis—Miners’ Scale Committee | All Business Suffers Ready—Judge Anderson Adjourns Hearing of Union Officials. | |Nixon, Put in Control, Reduces Subway and L' Lights One- Third — Police to INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 9.—Settlement of the strike of 400,000 bitu- Enforce Drastic Regulations. |minous coal miners will come probably to-day,!or within twenty-four Although New York City dopend« largely for heat and power on an- | hours ut the latest, was the cor lent prediction in advance of the meeting here this afternoon to consider President Wilson's proposal seeking tw end the coal crisis. Hopes of a prompt acceptance of the President's offer were heights ened by the postponement this moruing until next Tuesda Jpinndaivon or tied are RAREST shire of court filed against eighty-four general and district oflicials of the United Mine Work- thracite coal, the supply of which ts normal, and conditions here with re- spect to bituminous coal are much more favorable as to reserve supply for bower than jn the West and Middle West, the orders issued by the United | States Fuol Administration for the conservation of coal have the same force in New York as elsewhere in so far as they relate to bituminous coal vonsumptfon, + A Federal bureau role makes no discrimination because of local condi- Rogers told an Evenin)s World re- ons ‘ ers of Americ: connection Ww x porter. “And every time 1 tried to 928 and New York will be compelled, under @ atrict adherence to the i i erica in connection with Judge Anderson's injunction order to analyze myself in xdvance, aa it 20 orders, to suffer heavy monay lonses and inconveniences for the bene. | Call off the strike. t felt sure that the test thing if of communities in other parts af the country which are entirely depend- © United States Attorney Slack vould du would be to seream, 40d ont on the bituminous supply. moved the postponement ot the cia- cond ty fine . o ral U - baci For instance, the Edison Company which furnishes the current for baneling of the Federal Grand Jury, mot her burglar last night and 7 | Summoned by Ju ige Anderwun to ines that she bad been all wrong, Street and business lighting—except where private plants are used-—and the vestigate alleged vidl. ot t f sercaning. she deliberately current for power in thousands of light manufacturing plants, has on ample Dti-trust laws by opehe turped on the jights and grabbed the tor ere and co " A en Rae ,{eHuminous coal supply on hand and in reserve and Is constantly receiving | eps *y aoe coal dealers, aud tho + ellow hen he wrikgled away a court fixed Wednesday, Dec. 17. narimieaaWraitlie: Hie Ape Mias| Coal The supply is sufficieut for the operation of the Edison plants for all ’ the dute ee Rogers, instead of fainting, 140 down purposes for two months and, assurencer come from Washington and in he postponement of the con. tae wwe oehase | empl he T ol ; : ; ; Hanapolis that the bituminous strike to all probability with be ended in tempt t bg ulso included the cases IR Us Sued fer erriranay ‘ te local unions at Chutun, i adees abbed hime y ‘ y nd, Which were named in a sepurut ch and pinned ine asuinet as Nevertheless, the tecal authontics having te dew ait 1 conserva | ; : utariad una ° | wall ae HRI ntinsvaie cfc foc tiie DRG ji n os who mamime to deal with com) conmervati edis to deal) Factories Limited to Half Time|Ames REFERS To pRospEcTs 4 “il » policofian camel with New York ax though New York were Chicago or Kansas City : ~ FOR SET Pala Man ACepie | ANW evantl Or CInRe and Light and Heat Cut ETTLEMENT, viong anc ' lope ure under way to throw huadreds of thousands of people out of ; The court provvedings were opened then she did net faint j | wo eh Three days in the week, fo restrict the hours of bupiness in the busiest Down, * by Solicitor General Aines, whe une 108 PASE scason ofthe year and generally to turn the life of the city pat —— pricy reviewed the legul phases of POUL RLS eS she eed HG MASe because there ix a werious fuel shortage in other parte of the country WASHINGTON, Dec, 9.—In_ the | {Me strike oituation, and culled att eworn DP coulan't rin the wis ie ; en to the prospec » eee tan Hike. that feo twas a{ it fact that those communities had ample opportunity ty stock ay face of an expected wettiement of thin i ne J . ehag spects fur settioneat hadn't run like tht sine oy, eae ‘- - me BR DR of the strike. Hix statement, how= ! Saunie einlle NIXON TO ENFORCE ORDERS HERE. bituminous coal strike at Indianapolis, |ever, gave ny indication of intention j | The W End Avenue apartment is Under the direction of Gov. Smith and at the request of the uel Administrator Garfield put in}on the part cl th vernment to d® | occupied Mrs, Willan He Rogers) administration Public Service Commissioner Nixon has assumed change] effect to-day the mont drastic regula-|™i4» the proceedings aga:nst [ond hor two daughies Miss Elsie] of the enfor mnt of the Fuel Administration orders in this city and theltions for fuel economy since the re- | Mae's ind Mrs. John HH. Grieset, AM threo! iy state Public Sorvice Commission will take change in the other cities and gvintionn of Abtateuan. Ik ihecaGli When the Government instituted i have been prominent in welfare work.| Ooo eat f she : COMEMpPE proceedings against the ol | oa y in connection with the State In settled to-day, he declared, fuel iy of the at ns pecially incon ‘ Commissioner Nixon sent to Mayor Hylan this afternoon a request that Nag the United Mine Wurkers prisons and among the families of the saving measures will be necessary, as}of America” Mr, Ames said, “tt | the city appotnt an official or a commiiasic to look after enforcement hb " prisoners sl several weeks will be required before |{MOURME the measures justified and ] Lately Miss Rogers tag been] through police channels, ‘The idea is 10 have the Police Department act 4/1. itior’e normal supply can be|*tl! €Atertains this opiniva, How= / working on Christos 1 bags for la direct enforcement influence, tations , evi we have been advised that a | the prisoners Sing Sing—and it Commissioner Nixon, dealing with matters within his own supervision,| Probably the most important regu- | @etlne will be held this afternoon to | iw among the possibilities (at The 1 ae steady issued orders reducing the lghting of elevated and subway | lation ix that preseribed for manufac. | COUsider | semen: of the strike nd / burglar she caught last re Ug ei trains 321-8 per cent, He also arranized a conference with the police au-| turing plants using bituminous eoal|‘% Government confidently expects j aug tne a thorities to ask their opinion about the advisability of reducing the street [or coke, which will be restricted tw |‘ Rei haiti ey take stone, | sift from her | com ith the onde pure Oyen F smen went | lights and to request them to instruct policemen to turn off unnecessary |operition of three days a week on ed r of the cout Last pight: the threr, Wome ‘ the basix of present «working huurs,| OF termination of the strtk. aml } lem theatre and returned at about} lights tn stores. at Exception is made to plants manufue- | ‘ere Will be speedy and complete re | FAC aeubi As thoy entered their Although the order issued by the Railroad Administration, by direction of | “AUMDUOE lt MMe 1 BM necessary | wmMption of work in the mines. partment, whieh is on the second | ing’ Puel Administration, directly specifies that it applies only te bituminous |e uots and those consuraing anthra| 28 View of these facts, therefore, | fluor, they heurd i i eon iy ie coal, authority is given by the Fuel Administration to the Railroad Adminis: | cite coal, gas and other fuels It is| te © roment would request that | Kitchen, Miss Hoxers Puret Into the tion to take charge of the distribution of anthracite coal and issue orders | understood that plants already huving|‘2® Court Postpone the hearing on | Jkitehen and Mashed on the lights jus ; \ aupply of woft coal on hand would {contempt charges until next Tuesday, | b time to see two negroes, one al-]as to Its use, Dec. 16." m GN. Snider man of| net come under the provisions of the eady going down the fire-escape, the That authority has not been exercised. but GN ! an of] net © Judge Anderson made no comment other climbing over the window the Regional Coal Committee for the Greater New York district, interprets Ail treet lighting. except that{0® the request of the Government oi It was the second that she ght the order to apply to all kinds of coa!. Commissioner Nixon holds that it necessary for public safety, must be|*tatements by torneys for the | | Just before she t hier ; 4 he| sopites on! bituminous coal. urtailed, and with few exceptions|™ nes that this course met with their 1 mas running down 17th Strv ard | » Edison Company tusea bituminous coal for light and power. Under| storey, office buildings and induatrial|“pproval, but merely announced that Broadway, she saw him W gt | Commiss Nixon's interpretation of the order all power furnished by| plants are to go on reduced rations|‘he hearing would be continued until | package Into bee . ‘ fis Ha | 8 con) must ut off as vided by the « as regards lighting and heating. Elec- | the date specitied, Likewise he agreed | hat pi eas psc | Na dlehiinaets ation reads as follows trie railways must reduce schedules|to a request by United States Attor- ] Benes had relieved he a ‘ | 33 t . her r r t. minimum requirements, and about|Ney Slack that the ssion of the 4 proved to contain $ No ornamen lights, white way or other unnecessary street | r, and p n of ‘i all forms of amusements except | Federal Grand Jury called to investi- worth of her jewelry ’ ta, outline lighting, electri. signs oF iuminated tll boars Ow | theatre affected. There ts no in-|gate alleged violations of the Lever An lnapection of the apartment a Windows or show case lights, are to be operated, This does not affect’ |iention of interfering with the|Law and Anti-Trust Acts be post= erward showed that relars Bad} street lighting necessary for the y of the public theatres. poned until Wednesday, Dec, 17. acked four suitcases With valuables} Caroryl reading shows that this forbide show! y lights except such - _ SENATE COMMITTEE TAKES UP [of s total value el AbOUE $10,000, Bik Lis dg are necessary for the interior iMumination of auch stores as may| QUEEN LAUDS LADY ASTOR. PRESIDENT'S OFFER. a Roser celag. Ve. the {do business after dark 1, as further perusal of the orders will show, these The postponements were affected ] oi ‘y J Min N 0 WwW am tor n many part b t be few and far between “Credit to Womankind,” Says Marie immediately preceding the ee en hin t hehe ya ka : SERGI aKTAR on Pars of Roomanta, meeting of miners’ officials this | dead See bage y ; reaps tour autelheaavateania tar paws LONDON, Noy, %—"I congratulate/afternoon to act on the plan | jthe name of Robert O; ¥ was) residential districts and shag shied t streets Is now fur-) yoy with all my heart. Your example|of President Wilson for ending arrested later at the nnsylyania| pished by ted w windows. | the United States Fuel Adminis-|\y a great cred womankind, the strike. The plan wag submitted 4 station, Both negroes were arraigned | tration rules no #ho how case lights may be used. This mea Queen Marte sumania sent this ae hos ae ou rie Haein lida CA VET AUT LA ofall ae Means) vevsuge to Lady Nancy Astor, first | Acting President John L. Lewis ‘ | before Magiatrute sthinghaam street light illumination only after dusk man member of Parliament. ‘Thel/and Secretary Green of the United day in the What Side Court and held]” pho gecond regulation will close many business places all day long and|mestagewas received Mine Workers by atiorabe daniel 4 in $2,500 ball onoh . The q4 , ise my TAKE Palmer !n Washington last Saturday ey Ox > implicate the pair in| ‘ and see ; ‘ P| ax other recent burglaries, (Continued on Second Page.) Pe} No intimation of the proposals eon iy b " { , X A i ‘ \ eer Woee wk. ntoneaclapnroticel