The evening world. Newspaper, December 16, 1919, Page 1

TO-NIGHT'S WEATHER—Fair; continued cold. “PRIC PRICE Two CENTS—DAILY. ‘Coprrigh, Ht, by ‘The Breas (The "New York World). GPENS ATTACK ON bilshing KELLY RUSHED ANOTHER BY TD SECRET BURIAL BEFORE FAMILY LEARNED OF DEATH - IN WLL ST. FRE Combes Had No Relatives, Yet Sent Bill to Son. “SEARCHED” ONE Easy Methods by Which Bosties | | Can Be Taken From a 7 Revealed. Ieee {\Vi Startling new disclosures wore made | to-day in connection with the secur- ing of bodies by undertakers without | the knowledzo of relatives. The Eve- | ning World’s investigations in Calliesa case, which have now! become | bullding at No. 69 Wall Street shortly a matter of official inquiry, showed, after 11 o'clock morning sent (hat it was possible for an unde} through the upper taker to secure 4 body from the City | stories and the 300 occupants hurry- Morgue on fraudulent and forged au- ing down the stairs to the street, thorizations and to bury it secretly) The @larm brought the engine Mees 8 from John, Stone and Liber hitoaa i atte al Sas ae “Dapugy (ej mnlet John ROS Gara eee [Binns and work was started from investigation begun ‘o-d4y| poh the Wall and Beaver Street en- to the unauthorized burial of Joseph | trances. A wall had to be torn down S. Combea, of White Plains, N.Y, by|om the Beaver Street side and the Undertaker George H. Kelly, No. 337| telephone switchboard and wires Volumvbus Avenue, the same undor- pulled out to enable the firemen to taker who hurried the body of Mrs,| reach tho seat of the fire in the store~ Il of Building Torn Out in ighting Blaze That Fille Elevator Shaft. the| Fue in (he cellar of the elght-story this clouds of smoke the Im an Callleas to the grave, The Evening! "oom. ‘ World has learned that the Public! The smoke in the elevator shaft Admin office obligingly |s nade the élevators useless, Fireman A. F. O'Connor, driver for Deputy Chief Walsh, ran up four flights and | round Miss Catherine Duly, telephone fey fons" to undertakera who say that they have not found any latives: I) the Comber case it it shown that | operator for H. P. Micuaells, uncon- hite Usdortaker Kelly told tho Pub-| sctous at her switchboard, He pieked Admint ier Up 18 his avis and carnea her find an: ufely to the street through the heavy “fore burial, ho was able to find tela- | smoke. Dr. Bablin of the Volunteer ivés—a son—to send a bill to for ted her and she was sent wervic The name thit son were shown 0: in of the fire wus not de- wore im the Public Adrainistrator’s of. | termined ¢ when the Public Admin | ‘Two other girls, Mary Ryan and ted Kolly’a word tit no Marte O'Donnell, stenographer and could be found. [telephone operator for the State FAMILY LEARNED OF DEATH | Steamship Company, on the third FIVE DAYS AFTER BURIAL. | floor, wore overcome, They ran‘with Joha J. Connell, Chicf Clerk in the | others out on to the landing and office of Public Adratnistrator Wittiany ard funies were mount- Hi. Hoes, in the Hall o¢ Records, said tack Into the office lay that the first that offien knew " trow two towela over of the Combe a whon Kelly fave wrote, on the sam y Combes died, a kh and Walter Laurea, ag tat Comly ind dicd in the | two elev perators, who stuck te Milly Hotel, No, 153 Weat %6th Strec, | thelr posts until ordered inway by the and that he had a baikbook sh | Sremen, made a final trip looking for in the possession of the police any one who might have succumbed. At the third floor they saw the two Kelly asked that he be permitted to call for the body- The Public Admin stoppod ead Peacnines one, nicking up the girls, ried them to imtrator requested Kelty to make a) Heling wy “diligent search" for relatives of 1h | r the rool they earried, partly deceased. The next diy A, lens and helped phoned that he had n. of No. 71 and hh the taken search,” but was unable find relatives, The Public Administrator then authorized the City Morrue t turn the body over to Kelly burial, Five days later on April Pau Monk, @ clerk in the office of thy Pub- iu charge by in the centre the Reighboraood of four banks, the National City Bank, Bank of New York, Central T Company and Sav Bank, Wall ed with men, women » the panere| 4 children and busin in the La ee ake 2h peers iy Al district wis practically su whi aia a . pended. body when It waa removed from the i at ron Mills Hotel, came across the name) SENATE PASSES EDGE BILL. and address of the dead man's Ab. | ad | bott L. Combes, No. 22 Roverts Ave-| \athortzen Corporations to Extend Credit tn Export Trade. nue, Haddenfield, N. J. A postal card was then sent to Mr, Combes, asking| WASHINGTON, Dec. 16—The Senate him to come and hin father’s | adapted to-day the conference report on be ne ‘ Pago bill authorizing organization of me 5 . corporations to extond credit in Europe The Combes family, for the first |fOTPOTIOT oxport, trade time apprised ef the death ot the| , The measure now goer to the Presi- ent. father, then had the Mount Kensico grave, in which Kelly had placed the} body, opened, and gave thei: hee | « decent burial. NO INVESTIGATION MADE oF| UNDERTAKERS’ CLAIMS, Clerks in the office of the Pub- jstrator reported to-day that they have an average of from three to five ca a week, which it is the practice of the office to turn over to the first undortaker who requests permission to take charge of the body, No investiga- tion of any kind, it was said, was made by the office as to the truth of the claims of the undertaker as to the “diligent search” jade tor relatives of the deceased, ‘ “We make the undertakers come to us," said Mr, Connell, “because in this TO LOCAL AND NATIONAL | ADVERTISERS: Advertisers who have their copy and orders in ‘The World office by 3D. M. of the day preceding pub- licution will be given preference by both The Morning and Evening World in the acceptance of adver tising during the present paper crisis. Positive reservations by 8 P, M, will go next in order, vided copy and order are received by 5 P.M. All other business 5 will have to run the chance of being omitted. This applies particularly to local advertisidg. Advertisers’ desires wust be known In time to shape to the paper limitations of day.» | | | (Continued on Fourth Page.) hort fe-geeidienesetae 300 FLEE BUILDING n the street, | ~ SON FOUND DEAD WAS NOT STOLEN “Must Have Fallen Into Sea,” | Says Woman Accused of | Sk ying, Child. M ADE OF SANITY. other Believed te Planned Also to End Her Own Life. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J Dec, 16-— accused of sac “Buddy” fe rificing her little dumb son in beltet she win back her husband's love, to-day admitted the boy was not kidnapped -18 sho first declared Dr. Louis Souder, county Souder said Mrs, an insane according to physician. and that she declared: “T guess he must have fallen into the water.” Mrs. Blake, who is @argea with “wilful murder’ of five-year-old James W. Blake jr. bas been i in Atlantic Gity Hospital since Friday night when, she had asserted, two negroes attacked her and “Buddy” on a street In Ventnor, choking her into unconsciousness and stealing the boy, According tw Souder, Mrs. Blake started to repeat the “Kidnapping” story to him. “I wld her she knew that was not true,” he said. “She began crying and said, ‘No, it isn't, I can't re- member just what happened. ‘Buddy’ and 1 went down on the pier, He was running ahead of me carrying my purse. I guess he must have fallen into the water.” Souder expressed the hope of “ob- taining a complete confession” from Mrs, Blake before night. ‘The county authorities to-day ex- pressed the belief that she had planned to throw the boy from a row- boat and then commit suicide, William Pepper, conductor on a trolley cur, said she and the doy, pop- Jarly Known as “Buddy,” had spent # long tine riding back and forth on his cur, leaving only a short time be- fore she appeared disheveled and declared two negroes in uniform had boy. | ured dee Pepper jesid, and among otbor questions asked ft it would be possibly ty ubtain 9 rowboat at Loggport when the car are here, He told all the rowbouts ed for the winter, und per- suaded her not to get oft in the rain, a8 she hud no umbrella, ‘Che author- ities ussumne she intended to kill here sell, as had she gone out in the boat he would nut have been able to ex- plain satistactorily the disappearance uf the boy | Before leaving tie cur, Mrs. Blake usked him on what strcet the entrance tu the steel pier at Atlantic! City. She gave him fifty-five cents! “as a Christmas present for being so kind.’ Five physicians who examined her declare Mrs. Blake ts not a drug ad- dict, and that her case is most re- markaile. They say undoubtedly she ig subject to temporary fits of | insanity To-day the authorities are investl- gating the marital lite of the Blakes, dames M. Blake, the prisoner's hus- band, has refused to tell much about it, and there is no definite explana- tion of why they separated four years ano. Netther her mother nor her has been to the hospital to see Mra, Blake. Her husband said he had not decided whether to employ a lawyer for her. sister FRENCHMAN FLIES AT RATE OF 226 MILES AN HOUR Lecointe Makes Dazzling Burst of} Speed in Officially Timed Test. PAWS. Di speed of | approximate ° wus] by Sad! Lecointe noted aviator, in an officially timed » test to-day, | L inte covered the distan wa milometre In to-day's teat at an average speed of 207.225 Iliemetroy (abo 190) Have | could thus | Blake admitted | walking out on the Municipal Pier at} Ventnor with the boy Friday night| WOMAN WHO ASKED FOR FOOD AND HER |Bodies Found in | ‘Room Back of Photogra- } pher’s Studio. MET I I \Friend Tells of Woman, Still | Unidentified, Who Told How Hungry She Was. AT STATION. Willian ©. Harse, 2%, Belmore, L. 1, and-an unidentife woman’ of about the samo age, were | found dead -day form in the | back of the photograph studio Harse | opened two months ago at No. Sterling Place in the Park Slope sec |tion of Brooklyn. Neighbors had been complaining of the smell of gas ee early last evening. Dr. Frey of the Methodist Hpiscopal Hospital, sald the couple had been dead for hours, | On a dresser wus found a letter ad- to Miss Hortense Craig, the envelope of which was the ad-| dress, ‘2011 King Strect, Seattle, Wasb." One of Harse's acquaintances explained that letter was delivered at No. 79 Sterling Place aud that Harse, after trying in vain to jocate a Miss Craig, throw it on the drossor. The dead woman was wbout 5 feet 6 inches tall, with dark hair und eyes and of dark complexion, . Polivemen and doctors said she must have been quite good looking. They wero sure she was fot over twenty-seven. How Harse met the Woman last Sunday evening for the tirat time was told by an acquaintance of the phu- tographer, who spent a part of Sun- day with him, They went uff together fora walk and returned to the studio, where Lurse prepared thelr dinner, cha on HARDING TO BE CANDIDATE. from Massachusetts called on Secretary Baker to-day to protest against the snilea) an hols, walle during some see. onda of his ‘ight he reulized a speed of j 3645, kilometres, (226 miles) an hour, oF (about three and three-quarter miter « romotion of Sureber oe MnO rank over eat at see WARTIME PROHIBITION UNDER POWER DEFINED BY COURI! I Men: HOST DIE TOGETHER sce —>—— Gas-Filled| \ IS reported to-day made of the S (uly rol WILSON MAY ACT TO END’ Directs Brandeis’ Opinion--May Declar “NEW “YORK, _ TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, IRS. BLAKE ADMITS Close ONSTITUTIONAL <5 LS “Cireulation Books Open to All.” 1919, iS) Offic, tudy of Justi Demobilization Completed. (Special Despatch to The Evening World.) ition cases. it he finds that, annul the in the opinion of the Court, the power to act is vested in him, and the end of ven {Objects to Hi WASH it is though INGTON, Dee. 1 1. that President Wilson is having a careful upreme Court's decision in the War-Time nt by ‘ar for the purposes ¢ of this measure. Because of Inquiry Into Prosec utor's » OF fi Designation by Gov WASHINGTON, Dec, 16.—The drafted soldiers are now out of Biberia, hee ‘War Department anrounced to-day, Roane Me os ek aly Joouph M. of Judge Abram 1. of Appeals, to be an Ausistant Distriet Attorney advising the extraordinary | Mabt, Grand Jury whien hi with District Attorney Swann in in- and his Assoc! ju lates, they Ice. Sraith ‘taken Iry. Proskauer, former purtr ikus of the C insu vestigating what It calls “the over- shadowing crime” is not satisfactory to the members of the sald so with emphasis to-day when they gathered at the Criminal Courts Riytlat The objection of Foreman Aimtrall made clear, Was not to Mr. Proskauer himself, but They N and Ninth Avenue Jefferson Market Ne bil Also Took a Newspaper— Obto Senator to Make Announce-| vere ae ment in 24 Hours. | Off With $10 Fine WASHINGT De 1U.—An- arged with stewling two PNAC by pater Harding ofland a newspaper from Ohio, of q contest [euler at 34th Street for the the |John Ryan, forty years old, of Presidency, made Ninth Ay was fined $10 by Maxine Were wumment to chia effect wan made | tate Frothingham in here to-das Court to-day — ‘Thomas Colne, 51 years old Senators Protest Promotions Over! qos West Jith Sireet, was wards. heal WASHIN Dec, 16.—A delega. SS SE tlon of Senators and Representatives| test Drafted Says | By | \Special Correspondent of The Eve- it GRAND JURY BAKS PLAN OF CONGRESS ATPROSKAUER AS TO DECLARE PEACE SWANN ASSKTANT HALTED BY CUR gal Status Ruling on War Time Dry Law ye resident Alone Ha Phat Power. David Laurence, Fntered as Second-Clane Matter New York, ¥. Many persons it Administration circles that he will proclaim the end of demobilizt- TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Fair; contin PAP Wevoe). HIN L008 LSS MT PRE MS She EDITION X 28 PAGES. PRICE TWO © ice Wartime Act. WASHINGTON, Dee 16. tional a New forcing it wa Dealers’ Assoc structor! at Ani. Whence the Report Originated. ANN ARBOR, Mich, Deo. 16 Arbor, ning World.) HQ te Prof, rta, who WASHINGTON, Doe. 1 (eopy- predicted the “end of the 1919),— Phe wag. fe eli) on.| world" for to-morrow? Hundred of cynics over the world je) There can bo no~pence wit the! sve cach uthor thin to-day. | President of the United States pro- “He In no! a professor at Aan claims peace and this he need not} Arbor as tea makings the pee diction suid.” tho Departinent of do until @ treaty of peace I6 Tatl-| “Asionomy at the Universtty uf fled by the United States Govern-| Michigan otetully due tw . jment and accopted by foreign Gov-| dy “L newer heard of hit ina pr ernments. The President is the sole H Oavrry Year SSA dh To Show He Was N No Piker Ryan | President W WASHIN( | witeon wpe outh portico of despite the Roar Adm! pbyvician, }take automo not approv might takio wo! meen: Judge of the proper moment for the; Spends More Than |e mt | n Extreme Cold on sag | NEON, (Divo. 18 ‘cot, SHIPS DRIVEN ON SAND BAR. | Wy White House to-day | Calter Gees to Rescue of Barges eieok seat *| qnd ‘Tae Bound for New York, extromely cold weather tgs i || Tho Const Guard cutter Itasca was Ee Bray s08t Prowident’s| onjarad to-day to hurry to the assist- aid Mr. Wilnon desired to we Philadelphia tug May and obile rides but that ud barges Marina and Edgur A. Sinith. ‘ eae: ta emits tote to New York from Philadelphia, | as |which had been driven by gules onto o ‘ean ele Ue sondbar about two milev north ef Beach Mayen, N, J. and fifteen miles RANT, south of Barnegat. eeneraar onal way—if he is a at of aytronomy to any great extent Then the photographer walked with | eet el inat he was to ive lewaty S8uanee of his proclamation of ld now him," one professor s Island Depot o bis friend tolthe Long Island Depot. | ng technically an ussistant to District | React UeKote) (RL AURAUUIV, HosbkeTa Two girls, one of them tho dead] Ai nn sw Ge area ea aie | here Ie a : eu Peer a aleouone teath omey Swann, ‘The Grand Jur These are the big poluts whicl.! or iis prediction woman, wero near | ie “|has frequently asked that # repre | tingly apart from a nationwide ne! Shei tauler: hae Pontes, een ie sentative of the Attorney General of“ z ; | SAN FPRANEESCO, Dee. 16.— to Harse. “Tuk me for something to} the state, independent of tho District {rest in the liquor question, were| prop alert Porte, architect eat” sho naked. “T can't get home| attorney of the county, be designated deduced from the decision of the] and publisher of a. wctontitic arcuenirg= A ny ds as counsel. |Supreme Court of the United! joumal here, dented to-day he eae oe atuato sain aee es Peaitatlse Moses et al ay ale So absorbed were most ob-| predicted the world wil end Dee, bad anOKe i, = Mees * hd Phan Jurer® | servers in endeavoring to discover] 17. ‘Tho catastrophe was limited ad cu aiid to an Evening World reporter| A ‘ the pr “I can get home,” the smalle ni|tosaay, “that we havo ail respect for| whether or not the country would| by him to-day to the Pacific Cons a ns ft be on a wet or dry bav's that the} whlch, he says, will experience tur said, and said good night. She dis- |the ability, probity and fitness of Mr./ | iho ‘ofthe ct WWHIEn red and Harse and tho other] proskauer as u lawyer and a man, | plain spenking of ¢ unaninous| tie storm: hy is Ne nen 1 left the depot But we do not feel that Gov, Smith| ecision of the Supreme Court ou} Koltsfatseeehii: Investigation showed that the sup-|yjiy ynderstands our situation, Wel matters affecting the status of the | ACTIN: he NOW dare will ply pipe to u gus heator had been] are not seeking to discredit Gov.| Peace Treaty Itself did not have it DG, AF AON Bs arene eciay RCI ee, SE mnae or ue june reason /full etfeet until to- when the _ sup} pipe. deaths are be-]why ne should be discredited, Ct wondsiGh the cour were card lieved accidental, are not attacking Tammany Hall, ah read NEW DOUBT AS 10 TIME TELL. Of CONSPIRACY FoR| “ested by official Washinston. DRY MISSIONARY T00 WET SELFISH ADVANCEMENT. COURT PROBABLY SOUGHT TO OF RAILWAYS’ RETURN “We have evidence which leads us| REMOVE CONFUSING DOUBTS. | 10 FINISH ‘CURSE OF DRINK to believe that several months ago| It ix not possible, of course, to in 5 three men entered into w conspiracy |quire into the purposes whieh the! Hines’s Kecommentiations on the for rae Ne tae a ae OF Ms }Supreme Court had in mind, but| Subject Are Being Coustdered Falls Otf His Soap Box While Conspiracy was a Plan lo bring the |inere were many observers who ny Beexident me : i traction interests of the city under : eee Warning Crowd Against Rum municipal ownership with the abject |OUsht they saw an intent on the| 4 ASHINGTON, Dee, 14. — New and Lands in Court. of forming a new political party |PArt of the Court at this critical) |. oimendations from Director Gen- Martth. Conroy, mlasionary, eas {4mong the employees of the munici- | Moment In the nation’s history to set] eT ytines, uv 10 the return of the before Magistrate Max S, Lavine tn the {pally owned railroads, at reat {he confusion which bas ex-| "Cougs to private control are before West Side Court this morning on a| “Woe desire oounsel who is troc|isted as to whether or not the war] t-cacey writen, Nether Me Ince charge of public Intoxication. Conroy |from any semblance of subordination! ended with the armistice or with} et" See raid he lived ut No. 902 Avenue L,|to any man connected with this ‘over- ESBEAIUNAE Adlaicad We Meceeneite Ww House officials wil) ray tn Brooklyn, shadowing crime’ if there Is auch alii a ; MUIVG) whether they advocate @ departure He was arrested last night when he erime. More than that, we have be- ices he portion of the dec! 100) from the Tresidvots announced pure fall trom susp Dox at the comer of | core us an accusation of erime against| Vhch attracted most attention were] oy, to return the wade by Jat. 4 acnoraineito Pollcaaan “Jone of the District Attorney's assist- Viel planers ? Preparations are going forward at Ing, he was admontshing a crowd of jo /2ts We cannot bring in an Indict- vie. a Mee ain \ itle PFO: | tne Railroad Administration fur tucn- or more to “deware of the awful curs, | ment agutnst this man because we epithe Period | ing the rullways back In accordance of drink.” ‘ have no lagal adviser disconnected} Of war hax been held to extend to | Vin the decision announced by “L was drinking,” he told Magistrate | With the District Attorney's office, the ratification of tho aty of | presidont Wilson th fis message te Lavine to-day, “but if you will turn . : fe . 5 Congress last May, Matertule or- me loose I'll never drink again.” (Continued on: Seoond Page.) (Continued on’ Second Page,) dered on contract are being ubtained When Anger print expert Spector ro- me - fa tar aa posefole Defore the fire ported that Conroy had been previously | - geuvieued wane tines tor tne tame of THE STOLE TWO PENNIES | WILSON WANTS TO TAKE | <.th.nr*u2? ase forme the Magintrate commented: "Well, | Opening the debate on the 1 au ‘a missionary oan get drunk ' |Cummins Rallroad Bill, Senator Poln- weer? Fe") FROM A BLIND NEWSMAN AUTO RIDES, BUT CAN'T YET) cette AE id ai | é ty attacked the pr which would wuthe SUPREME COURT ma Retail Liquor Hea lets of New ied Act to Institute Congress Shelves Bill to Repe ~Permi ings to have the National Prohibition Amendment declared: ures Jersey and Federal authorities. enjoined from) ked of the Supreme ation of New Jersey, © Tis was the first question WHO IS PROF. PORTA? Seartdionns Yerie ea amendment to reach the MAN WHO PREDICTED Court. George W. =I WORLD'S END UNKNOWN| | House did not recetve the Fuld of the | mittee jot War | sty bonded supply includes 63, gallons ¥ Proceedings: on to institute original urt today by the Retail York presented the motion with @ printed briet prepared by association, ‘The Court will later whether permission to Brae: the sult will be granted. {n addition to enjoining tneat of the oighteenth amendment — he amvciation aleo would netic amt Junction wruinst enforcement. Vulstead Prohibition Detendants ritned tn the s“geowere the State of New which retumed to ratify the (onal amendneut; Attorney: Fulmer, Joseph 1. Bodine, « Staten Attorney for Now Jereay, Comuismoner of internal | Panter C. teper, 4; Phe amwovlstion’s Urlet aneged the Constitutional amendment wa ereuge with the ‘stute power, a violation of tne Fitth, [stitutioul Anwndment which [Mibttw the taking of private Without just compensations | Heltler Congress nur the Stat lutures had authority to ‘mty the amendinent and th amendment when pamwed by iwo-thirda of the membership, as Constitution provides, but omy | Chirds of the mombers present | All hope of Congress coming to Huot Litersts vanished day when the House Ageeulture voted 16 fo % agalnat a rep nine Prohibition, os o% ‘The action was taken ona" Aepreventative Guilivan of chunetts, and meuny that ; Ure will be perinatently pyuomholg Several Cougresanen dectared thie good faith on the part of Congress manded that the liquor tmtereu to dispose of Constitutional Prbh tfovt 1a theimnbers favor Ratney of Jinolae Wi ih uunoe goods tlua y Jot New York and Voigt of Wise The only argument for the Was made by ftopreventative ney, wily urged a wet" period til Jan, 16, when the Constiter “Dry” Amendment becomes tive ple of small taight stock for medieln use ‘vernment inight get $500,000,000 in revenue tuxen. ‘Since the Supreme Court has @ cided the War-Pime Act is o Huns! we must submit to the inet. table” suid Mr. Hainey, “mut of wealth have ju.d in stocks to them for yeary, and those of moans sbould have seme op nity.” Ownors of the liquor to-day \- ed Goverament officials with; grams demanding what they do to avert huge losses, clogged the Washington wires.) ernment officials were unable to gil Adeqiate answers, The estimated original ta was placed to-day at approx hat $53,,000,000 for 67,000,000 liquor with which the owners, gq seem to have been caught... ‘Thibe fy addition to the carrying charges lons of whiskey, more than of brandy, app 1,600,000 gallons of gin _ May tusie_crew.of ton and these ururee, ooh. eee) PAINE Lc that a eee eee a