The evening world. Newspaper, December 17, 1919, Page 1

ea geass ee TO-NIGHT'S WEATHER—Fair, colder Unofficial Hearing B Before Fed- eral Judge Landis Is Suggested. (FANS DEMAND TRUTH. _Names Suggested of Witnesses | { Who Might Throw Light | on Charges. . By Hugh S. Fullerton. ij Charles A. Comiskey, owner of *Chicago White Sox and one of i greatest charactcrs baseball ever has Produced, a man of undoubted honesty j and of the highest type of sportsman- ship, has stated in Chicago that, after two months of work by detec- {tives and others, he has been unable to find evidence that there was dis- ‘honesty among the players of bis ‘team during the recent World's Series. Mr. Comiskey declares he has had \detectives working to ascertain what +18 behind the charges, The fact is/ ‘that he has bad detectives working since the night of the second ane of {the series in Cincinnati, when one of ithe best known gamblers in the coun- {try went to him and told him the imories that were being circulated [through the underworld of sport. The gambler made no accusations. He iAela Comiskey where the money was the the he Pp no ho m) days, Friends of the accused took the Pros- ecutor's satement their contention that the and Mrs. Jones wa tale.” 4 StHNAL i wR SSERES }TINBASEBALL WILL NOT DOWN HERE IS A WAY TO SETTLE I DANSEY ARRESTS MAY BE MISTAKE, PROSECUTOR SAYS New Evidence Points to POS-| tne nodies of patients were cold, was} sible Murdet by Two Men — L- Sisoniation Books Open to All.!* |. “TPS” ON DEATHS SENT UNDERTAKER FROM HOSPITAL Kelly Solicited Business at Roosevelt Before Patients’ Bodies Were Cold. ° AIDED BY ATTACHES. |Official Recommended Man in Calliess Case to Father of Slain Boy. | | | | | Undertaker George H. Kelly, Columbus Avenue, solicited | business in Roosevelt Hospital before How bea told to-day. Kelly is the undertaker : vho buried Mrs, Anna Calliess and ndoned House. “ ne ae pee e Joseph S$. Combes on fraudulent ATLANTIC CITY, Dec, 17.—"We] Papers in ono caso and without the ave discovered ne pints aw dith Jones In the ‘Billy’ Prosecutor F.C, punced this afternoon. Release of White and his pusekeeper is only the Prosecutor The Prosecutor on, he added, are ute ae as verifying arrest of White “tragic mis- | said he now | had evidence indicating tho “perfect baby” was killed by two men, whose names he refused to divulge. evidence which y from Charles White and | Dansey Gaskill an- a matter of a few indicated. ‘These ce her's [knowledge of the relatives in either | case, When the graves of these two |perzons were opened in Kensico |Cometery it was found that the un- |dertaker had merely shoved the and covered them up. ‘To-duy's investigation by The Eve- ning World shows that Kelly has been introduced in Roosevelt Hospital to relatives of persons who have just died, and that the relatives have been |assured by attaches of the hospital that Kelly is a good undertaker whose prices ure reasonable, The police records show that Mrs Robert \. Patterson, thirty-three years old, of No. 256 West 70th Street, died from and will be arrested. on the way to the hospital about 1 lace tho re tt Mra. Hercules Dansey, mother of | o'clock on the Terai ne Bek ea Ordinarily Mr. Comiskey’s word the child, has been questioned at] fore 1.80 o'clock nee Sate Ratt would be sufficient. In fact, if Mr. length by detectives, the Pros tor] or a man who was intro a - ah Comiskey would say that there was admitted. He asserted Mrs, Dansey| was at the hospital and z taal ,no dishonesty it might end the en- testified at the inquest that she fol-| permission from the Pres Bienen lire seandal, It will be noted, how-| lowed “Billy” to the White dahila| tives (o bury the body. The fact tha tever, that he says he has not been able to find evidence to support the ‘accusations and that his offer of $10,- {000 for legal proof that his 1 ‘ysere not trying is still in effect. * ‘The fans and the public generally will not stand for a verdict of “not | _proved." ‘They demand to know the facts, Mr. Comiskey has tried as hard | ‘as any one to discover the facts. Both the and Manager Gleason have inj sal ut we ie from a weed patch “The cries were of my son,” id Mrs. Dansey testified. Mrs. Dansey hunted several min- for the boy but failed to find him. Gaskill re said that his working on the theory there, field and heard smothered cries com- Gaskill men “Billy” was taken to an abandoned house by two men and killed fused to reveal what evidence he had He re- the woman had died had been tipped off to the undertaker by an employee of tho hospital, UNDERTAKER RECOMMENDED BY DOCTOR AT HOSPITAL. Another case shows even more uc- tivity on the part of the undertaker. Willian: Clayton, eight years old, of No. 142 West 60th Street, was struck an automobile, and died at the toosevelt Hospital at 1 P.M. Sept. worked hard, have followed tales tO| pointing to a motive for the erime.|6. The records show the boy was hit tele sources and have not been oblel ‘Ths prosecutor emphasined that he| by an automobile owned by Bupreme ‘to prove the charges—nor disprove | hag acted only in a desire to perform | Court Justice Robert F. Wagner and ‘them. his duty and was willing to admit|qriven by Walter Fisher, has chaut. The fans demaild one of two| mistakes if any were found to be] four, ‘shings: Either a verdict of guilty | made, FEA ees ger aba treet iwith a penalty of expulsion from “I'm not working for the conviction] yoy, (old The Evening World tg-day baseball, or a verdict of not quilty.!o¢ white or anybody else," be de-| of nis experiences iy phataver puniah@ene MAY ORIES | anes Uy) uampiy want ihe iaurlersr|ueig het paren Xi enw penn Erde iMeted upon those responsible for the | jyprenended and the ~—mystery| into the hospital,” he sald, “was a tgtories concerning the series. Mr-| eared,” its the) Homlah > anle) “as 8 ‘Comiskey, unaided, probably cannot Fae discover the truth It is not the seven players who 1! are indicted by common gossip that are on trial, It is the good name of baseball and the hon- esty of the hundreds of players whe are not mentioned. ver since the recent meetings in Philadelphia retall meat not giving Dealers Prices, Say Fede: PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 40 astomers the reductions, MEAT PROFIT 100 PER CENT. 17.—Charging rain Philadelphia are tenefit of mar- and are making as high dead, Do you want a lawyer who will treat you right? “I told him 1 did not want a lawyer right away, but he persisted and in orde> to get rid of him I promised him that if I needed one I would let him know, the name of the lawyer he represented. New York there has been what seems 100 per cent, gross profit, Dapart-| “Standing behind the doctor while le |to be a concerted movement on the |:ent of Justice investigators to-day sub-| was talking to me was a thick, heay lpnrt of many of the owners and thelr report to Francls Kane,|set man who kept looking me up and i others concerned in baseball to put ‘the silencer on the story of the jaortes. To drop the matter und fol- how the policy of “allowing the pub- ‘Vic to forget” ts perhaps the worst ‘possible thing that could happen to sthe sport in the United States! Such serve to convince a 1 alleged, a downward trend November down in a way that made me feel un- .| comfortable. When the doctor and I went to the hospite? morgue this man followed us. AS 1 Was looking at cho body of my son, the morgue keeper drew me to one side and said; t fellow is an under- at heavy He has a case in here now and te course would loago, but at] taker. ‘thousands of fans that there is some- Eve. {f you want him to take charge of thing in the stories. CHICAGO, Dec Wo) leading -—-— } The players who are accused are|chicago theatres t announced gn (Continued on Second Page.) entitled to an opportunity to defend] increase in the price of seats for the themselves from the ¢ One|New Year's Hve performances from| that he is cager for |$2.30 to $11, Including war tux. Two aye aqaured OS vie ste jothors will raise admissions for that jpuch an opportunity. night Nal to $6.60, TO LOCAL The fans are entitled to know! Pp nce “of “wine suppers sited y ° a urants ¢ xz=KTh wether Daneel 15) on the ware gt Ap ama ative | AND NATIONAL or not. of amusement seekers turn fis Sl ; = } There is a way to find out. Comis- |theatres was the reason ADVERT ISERS: key has offered $10,000 for proof that | the players did not try to win. Asa lover of the sport in which he vapent his life he ought to be willing tht Witlow and De © changed prices, to pay at least that much for proof | Appeal to Court, that they did try and that they were | ‘ ‘ : honest. Organized baseball certain- Pe widow a axe Jaug ly ought to be willing to pay much Vv¥. cotton more than that to prove tho honesty |died Aug weaving a $) of wi the players engaged by urgent need of Tf only only for selfish purpose Sioued in a. petition fed In ¢ should be willing to bear any ex- | gate's Court to-day Dense that would satisfy (he fans and | pI end to the charger | ; The way they can do this is easy. i Judge Kenesaw M, Landis of the yt an Yo. 4b Went 4 United States Court iy one of the|tumporary ad mS CoDEs beat known and most respected, men | pay aver the needed, but on the bene Alno, he ix regarded | without a o The petition sets fe d her daught nas HEIRS TO MILLION IN NEED, ters of Mo Ps Levy | not — Advertisers who have their copy The World office by 4 P. M, of the day preceding tia lication 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 ¥ P. M, will go next in order, vided copy and order are er po: by 5 P.M, All other business will have to run the chance of being omitted, This applies particularly to local advertising.’ Advertisers’ desires must be known in time to ape, he to the paper limitations of to bodies into crudely made pine boxes | He then gave me his name and; | Claimed Their \ | and Mother. not a kidnapper in the land. who says she grew at all sure of the Bellevue Hospital, went off place. “Every time I Papa Wentz said, semblance to Kitty.” —abandoned—on Dec. 8. read: family. healthy as they make ‘em. sthey are charging to-day. port!” RECOGNIZED HIM BY “The minute I set eyes on said, was the pink mark. “But look at him! since he got home, Could a where except at home? And’ the reporters the mental reservation that at No, 409 East (Continued on Second P = Parry Re wom m, WENTZ, Sees Reésemblance Between ‘OVERSHADOWING GRIME’ Waif Taken From Bellevue Baby Arthur Philip Wentz, months olf, home at last atter five! District Attorney iby Gives Out State-} months with-kidnappers, was as happy to-day in his crib at No, 409 East) ¢ Eighty-second Street as if there were) Katherine Wentz, the baby’s mother, ten years oldi during his absence, described hy ag the “happiest woman in New York.” Jacob Wentz, who last night was not identification in to-day willing to bet any part of his roll that the right baby is in the right look at "I see some new re- The child at the Wentz house was known in Bellevue as the “Nellie Bly baby” because of the note pinned to his dress when he was brought there Harry J. Loise, a railroad policeman at Grand Central Raliroad, had been asked to hold the youngster ‘a minute” man who never came back. The gote “For the love of Mike take this | kid. He Js one too much for the Give him to Nelly Bly. He is seven months old and as afford him on the price of milk are others I am trying to sup- MARK BACK OF EAR. night in the hospital,” Mr, Wenta “I knew I had come to the end of the road and could drop my cross, I give you my word 1 have lived five times five years In five months. entered the roor at the hospital I wus telling them a pecyliar thing about Arthur, When he cried, I said, there was always a pink mark back of one ar. "Well, ho happened to be crying when I saw him for the first time sinee our separation and, sure enough, there He hasn't cried as happy and contented as that any- agreed—-with | 2d street is either | Arthur Philip Wentz, as claimed, or Wentz Now Agrees Baby by His Wife Is Kidnapped Child hed Te-Day by Evening \ } Photographer \ Baby Declared Stolen Wentz Boy and Mother, Overjoyed at Return. | AGAPTIVE IN SANITARIUM, | SAYS LETTER TO SWANN seven) ment Telling of “Political Goat” at Rivercrest, ISTRICT ATTORNEY ED- WARD SWAN when anked to- if he any- thing to way regurding the Extra- ordinary Grand Jury and its ac- selt| tivities, GAVE OUT FOR PUB- LICATION THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT IN ‘TYPEWRIT- TEN FORM: to work “I received a letter this morn- ing from the Rivererest Sanitar- jum, Astoria, L, 1, announcing that they have t rahndow- ing Crime’ in captivity in one of their wards. An inmate of one of him,” the wards Insists she Is the ef- bodiment of the ‘Overshadowing Crime.’ “Dr. Dold, the superintendent of the Rivercrest Sanitarium, when interviewed, says this inmate can talk of nothing else except ‘Overshadow ing Crime.’ “She is absolutely obsessed with the idea that she is the ‘Over- shadowing Crime.’ She wants to be put in evidence as an exhibit— the by a is a living reality, So the ‘Over- Can't abadowing Crime’ quest leads to Rivercreat,”’ There URANTS PLAN TO CUT PRICES BY CO-OPERATION Central Buying, Laundry and Em- ploying Said to Be Only Way to Avoid Boost, Light hundred members of the Resturant Owners’ Assoolation of Greater New York, meting in Hotel Astor, will decide to-night whether to go in for the establishment of a co operative laundry, & co-operative em: ployment bureau and a co-operative purchasing agency or boost the price of practioully every item on New York's bin of fare aproximately 10 per cent ‘The restaurant men ‘is s#iternoon thought well of raising a $100,000 fund und giving the co-operative idea a one year’s tria! “If we can get together and have one purehaging organieat ls of jour own and a central employment agency,” Samuel Rosonberg of the Ideal |lunch roome said wtaurant should come “ewn 10 to 15 per cent Otherwise {t's @ boost, for public ac-| countants have gone over the hooks of Res PINK him last Ast United baby he @ laundry the boy prices! many concerns and found th r {rom jmaking the money the pubille. “Thinks WORLD RESTAURANT. they are inh o bed way.’ A Aen es EE ee a tite eee aie Sach sath, , TAKE BELL-ANS APTER MEALS and oe Sea TUR ae ia cs [lee ie case eiemsT OH mabe es fatten, ee ry cae nee cemene 4 esi 1 gai ih i ce itis tte C. fons ones thef “UNE TORESCN BUT HAS NOT HAD ROW WITH WLSON Cannot Afford to Continue in Public Life at a Personal Sacrifice. SALARY IS TOO LOW. Makes Announcement to Off- set Unauthorized Story of Quarrel With President. By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of the Eve- e ning World.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (Copy- right, 1919),—Franklin K. Lane, probably the best liked man in the Wilson Administration in both Re- publican and Democratic environs, is to leave the Cabinet can no because he longer continue in public life at a personal sacr:fice. Mr. Lane intended saying noth- ing publicly about the matter until he bad an opportunity to consult the convenience of President Wilson, for he did not wish to make the tran- sition in the Interior Department difficult for a successor, nor did he wish to hurry the President into naming @ new Secretary of the In- terior, But an, unauthorized pyd- lication of a story to the effect that Mr, Lane had already,.resigned led him to issue a statement saying thet while he bad not even written his rpsignation, he did contemplate going out of the Cabinet. All sorts of stories bave arisen +8 to the reasons which prompted Mr. Lane to withdraw, reasons ex- tending from an alleged difference with President Wilson on the League of Nations, to a supposed dissatisfaction with the handling of the coal situation. BotH stories are incorrect, LANE MADE SPEECH IN FAVOR OF THE LEAGUE. The Secretary only last Saturday night made an earnest speech at a private gathering in Washington ad- vocating the League of Nations. Furthermore, his plans to withdraw from the Cabinet, it now develops, were known to several friends, in- cluding newspaper correspondents, before the recent coal crisis occurred, On the other hand, it is a fact that Franklin Lane and Woodrow Wilson have not always been in accord. The Secretary of the Interior always has had the confidence of his Chief, but it cannot be said that in the last two yoars the judgment or advice of the Secretary of the Interior have been as potent a factor with Mr. Wilson as earlier in the Administration. This, however, never led to any i!!-feeling. On the contrary, the President and Secretary Lane worked in the closest harmony when the industrial confer- ence recently was in session and in the recent message of the President to Congress he gave public approval to the principal measures which the Interior Department bas been cham- pioning. At bottom, the controlling reason for Mr, Lane's intended resignation is a personal one. The end of his (Continued on Twentieth Page.) COURT LIFTS BRITISH BAN ON CERTAIN U. S. GOODS! | King’s Bench Rules Government Has Not Power to Prohibit Importation. LON Dee, 17.—-The Government was declared by Justice Sir John Sankey of the King’s Bench Division to-day to possess no power to prohibit the im- portation of certain goods, and that therefore its proclamation to this effect was invalid and iMlegal. The judgment s conaldered one of the most important ever render a Jovernment. The case ion was kiven concerned the Importation of pyro. acid from United States, the acid having been acized on its arrival, guciean Yi te nthe wet Second=Cinen Matter New York, LLLS MITES Te EVES \\ Py 28 PAGES. N.Y. PRICE TWO CENTS. 1 INSTIUTNAL PROFIBITION ATTACKED BY RHODE ISLAND, “FOLLOWING JERSEV ACTION | Supreme Court Asked to Restrain Enforcement of Federal Amend- ment on Ground That It Violates State’s Rights. WASHINGTON, Dee, 17.—Rhode Island, through its Attorney Get al, Herbert A. Rice, asked the Supreme Court to-day for permission institute original proceedings to test the validity of the National Prohibitions Amendment and to enjoin Federal officials from enforcing it in that Sta’ Validity of portions of the Volstead Prohibition Enforcement Act affect ing the constitutional amendment also is attacked in the printed motion filed with the court. LIQUOR MAY BE SENT TO GUBA BY JAN. 16 Holders Preparing to to ‘Ship 39,000,- 000 Gallons There for Storage, LOUISVILLE, Dec. 1f.—A way out apparently has been found for dia- tillers caught with large stocks of Nquor on hand by the Supreme Court's decision bolding wartime Prohibition constitutional, A plan was presented to distillers here to-day by representatives of steamship lines operating service out of Charleston, Brunswick, Jackson- ville, Savannah and Wilmington to Cuba, South America and Europe, It contemplates immediate shipment of liquor stocks in Kentucky, estimated at 89,000,000 gallons in bonded ware- houses, largely to Cuban ports for storage und subsequent resale in Cuba or shipment to other foreign countries, seine IF YOU OWN A GOLD MINE YOU'RE IN TOUGH LUCK’ Seekers of the Precious Metal Ask to Increase Price—Big Drop in Production, WASHINGTON, Dec, 17.—Gold mine owners and operators are clamoring to be permitted to boost the price of gold which is fixed by law at $20.67 an ounce, And the Geological Survey preparing # statement. ‘The need for an increase ts described aa “imperative.” Many gold min have closed to escape bankruptey, of- ciuly are told, Government figures are cited to show that production has taken a big drop. The situation t# attributed to the Increasing coat of labor and ma- chinery. The 1915 gold production, biggest in many years, was $101,085,700. In 1916 the total output dropped to $92,590,300, while in 1918 it was down to $83,750,700, ipaeenesers 43 KILLED IN EXPLOSION OF GERMAN AMMUNITION Women Among Victims of dent at Wilhelmshaven—More Than 100 Injured. BERLIN, Tuesday, Dec, 16,—Forty- three workmen and women were killed and more than 100 Injured In an explo- sion wt the Mariensivl ammunition de- pot near Wilhelms to-duy ‘The explosion occurred while were being unioadeds JURY GETS DEMPSEY CASE. Acci- shells Malbone MINBOLA, L. 1, of John J. Dempsey, dent,of the New York Consolidated Railroad Company, on trial on a charge of manslaughter, went to the Jury at 11.05 o'clock this morning, Justice Kapper oharged the Jury when Court opened. His charge uated forty minutes and he told the jurors they must find Dempavy elther of man- slaughter In the second guilty Dec. former Vice Preni- 11.—The case once has been lent to Pr aid him in his walks about the 4 by George Washington, ident Wilson to Whito The proceedings those instituted yesterday on bel of the Retail Liquor Dealers’ Asso- ciation of New Jersey. adopted by the Rhode Island eral State bring a test caso against the amendment and appropriating $5,000, to Isle refuged to ratify the Prohibition) amendment, A ternal Revenue coestlbotged would be named as defendants the court grants Seoce ot aia! tot the that Amendment be declared unconstitu: tional, that such portions of said Volst Act ment Amendment * constitutional and void, and sald dee fendants, nates, sland every one of them be enjol and enfo the aforesaid provisions of the Vol stead Act” within the State of Rhod Isla: Ri from the enforcement of the any ment, the petition contends, beca the “cannot be bargained away, surre! dered, ylelded or transferred effect ally without an explicit and authent jy | act of the people of the whole § according to the Rhode tatand Con- sUtution.” Ei and pated owing to the remaining before the Amendment becomes effective, At the office of Daniel C. Roper Commissioner of Internal Revenue, was said that no Instructions that differ from those already sent have! been despatched bureau Pro! that agents would go ahead with prosecution of all cases and in ing out violators of the War Prohi- bition Act. A loomed glimmering, preme Court's to Jan, 29 as the effective date of the’ Kighteenth This gave the hope that permanent Prohibition would not become effee- tive until thirteen days later than had generally been understood. In- vestigation of the reference to Jan. it was upon that date that the ratis, fication of the amendment was pre claimed. ever, ficient number of State Legislatu bad ratified tae amendment on Jam, 16, and that the amendment would become a part of the Conetitation ai Jan. 16, 192 KILLED BY BROOKLYN BUS Mr Je Mr Place, Hy Seventh from which Kings county Hosp! ‘The bus Was Oy ; are similar to, They Assembly directing that oa conduct the legal Aght. Rhode’ nd was one of the States which ttorney General Palmer and suit, the the purpose of “no-called Bh usurpatory and void, apply or relate to the onforce-| of the so-called Bigh * * be declared un-! thelr assistants, agents subord’ and servants ea restrained from in any mani orcing or attempting to enfoi nd. hele Island must be exem; right to regulate internal affat; arly action upon the Rhode 1 New Jersey nee is antic. ort time now Constituth to agents of the in the fleld charged with hibition enforcement. It was faint hope of the wets, whieh: up yesterday, soon Reference In the Su« wision: of yesterday: Amendment appeared, however, revealed the fact that! The proclamation, how. stated specifically that a gut. 20, —_— Mary MeMona Dice From Ine jen Received in Flatbush Awe, *. Mary MoMann, No, 161 Brooklyn, was run down by, bus last night at Flatbush end Avenues, and suffered ied this morning ip t vated Tho cane iy the property of | Zclkowlts, ai. at Edward ©. Cr perrenally { Dneam Bastinore, who |} ree, Brougot it’ te the White ice 4 |