The evening world. Newspaper, January 30, 1920, Page 1

KU. S.§ TO-NIGHT’S WEATHER—Probably snow. ‘vou. LX. NO. 21, o43—DAILY. Copyright, Co. ARBO) bY The Freee Publishing yw York World). Che [ie Circulation Books Open to An” NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1920. Entered as Second: Post Office, New York. TEAMER BREAKS IN HALF AT SEA orld, , “Circulation Books dated to All.”’ TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Colder. 32 PAGES. 8 PRICE TWO CENTS. ———=—=s FIRE WRE CKS VA NDERBIL T CALLER Y Behalf bly Ov days ago, I nat Col. determined night, bles, to tional E. Hughes. Col the thi Long projec’ Up to there was Speaker busy with the semblymen inst light next LAE Arcade Row Che ‘ \tovey tales —~Adrt, Sunday W charge Judicis ALBANY, Jun a new twist to-da take lines ) follow Col. lation in which they them hannels. ’ . « Num ior barrage of er Effort intending to the week-end. The Speaker cut short his proposed week-end vacation when heard Roosevelt } other members of the Assembly had next Monday when the Assembly reassem- trial out of hands of the Judiciary Committee, Theodore to move the as Roosevelt's original plan to move on the floor the discharge of Judiciary Committee ther consideration of the case of the suspended Assemblymen. He had cured promises of some up-State sup- port and was practically assured of backing of the New York and Island Assemblymen when ‘his was blown up by publication of his intentions. yesterday could have counted on at least thirty voles in support Co of his every Sweet, up. Phen Col, Roosevelt gramme. He has not now plans However, Col. Roosevelt alone in the and switch into Monday orders al CLOSING TIME 7.30 P. M. Sharp on Saturdays for SUNDAY WORLD WANT ADS. tt Advertisements for The wenty World must be in The World’s Main Office on or before 7.30 Saturday evening. Branch Offices before 7 P.M. Positively no advertisements will be accepted after this time. Send Your Sunday World Want Advertisement in Early to Make | Sure of its Publication. | LATE ADVERTISEMENTS MAY | BE OMITTED. he move prospect would rally probably fifty votes om Monday evening if he could spring his coup as a surprise. forewarned, ate leaders and with Assemblymen who might ibe disposed Roosevelt, ‘but need the vod will of the Speaker to aid legis- ate interested. altered his pro- disclosed his evening ieee 4000 Jay roels capa ‘Roosevelt ree Plans in Socialists, Others Are Ready to Act. but + SPEAKER AGAINST VOTE. Bitter Fight Certain in Assem- io ‘y Committee. Dis- By Martin Green. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World. 30.—The trial of the suspended Socialist Assemblymen took following the un- expected arrival in Albany of Speaker Sweet, who went to Lake Saranac two remain over seat the suspended members and then | yroceed against them along Constitu- | Lagat pose oe en Charles jdays with the assembly in the nat- jlonal capital of the representatives jof practically all from fur- | Roosevelt that was not desire to put an end to trial of the five suspended As- the charges constitutionally Half a dozen others propiring to jump into the Iime- and the (Continued on Second Page.) and the re- and he got and checks for SWEET RUSHES 10 ALBANY TO TRY 10 HEAD OFF BOLT: ~ SHOWDOWN IN TRIAL MONDAY FARMERS REJECT POLITICAL LINE-UP WH LABORS Representatives of 4,000,000 | Real Tillers of Soil Oppose Gompers’ Plan, By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, Jan, (Copy- right, 1920)—An alliance betweén organized labor and the farmers of tbe country, which has so often been suggested as the nucleus of a mighty {political force in the next election, |seems to-day about as plausible as a Political combination of employers and employees, And the developments which em- phasize the tendency to clash rather than unite ‘have come in the last few the farmers’ ganizations in America, who insist that not only must the railroads go back to their private owners but that Government ownership in any form must not prevail in this coun- try. . wo or- days ago Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, and a delegation represent- ing the railroad crafts, went to the White House and asked President Wilson to postpone tie return of the raliroads and grant a two-year ex- tension so that a fairer trial could be given Government operation, and so that economic readjustments might be amoothly.accomplished, ONLY RADICALS AMONG FARM- ERS IN THE DELEGATION. In that delegation were representa- tives of four farmer organizations— George P. Hampton, Managing Di- rector of the Farmers’ National Coun- cil; Paul Schweinburg, representing the Wisconsin Society of Equity; A C. Welch, President of the Minnesota Society of Equity, and George H. Griffith, Minnesota State Manager of the Non-Partisan League. Indignation which is unmistakable in its intensity has come out of the National Grange and affiliated (Continued on Twenty-fifth Page.) $1, 400,000 ASKED > TO BUY ‘CITY BUSES Will Take Lines ‘Place “Of Surface Which Have Ceased Operations, meeting of the Board of Hylan Deputy Plant ‘Car At the Estimate structed to-day Mayor in- W. W. Mills, and Structures Commrssioner, to re- quest an appropriation for The estimated The original request and the estimated 200 city operated motor buses, cost is $1,400,000. waa for 100 buse cost, $570,000, The city operated buses are to take the place of various surface car lines ve ceased rd of I mate calendar ‘ Specta} for to as, Fri ech and breuck eh, d'yo HAMBY IS BURIED "IN PRISON YARD; + BODY UNCLAIMED es Sing Prisoners Dig Grave Man Electrocuted for k Murder. jHU NT F OR ACCOMPL ICE. | | Nation Séarched and $1,500] | Reward Is Offered—Slayer’s Identity a Secret. Sheriffs, ee and detective agencies all over the United States jand Canada have been asked by the Police of Brooklyn, co-ope! District Attorney Harry arrest on sight ofte Blton C. Wing, M1, who the District Attorney charges was Gorden Fawcett Hamby’s ac- complice in the hold-up of the Bast Brooklyn Savings Bank on Dec. 13, 1918, when two employees of the bank were shot and killed. For the arrest and conviction of young Wing the directors of the bank offer a reward of $1,500. Concealing his identity to the last, the man known as Hamby was exe- cuted in Sing Sing Prison last night. o'clock, Neither coming forward Without any Hamby’s body to claim his body, religious services was buried in the West End Avenue, a witness of the execution, thought he recognized Hamby as a young man by the name of Walsch who visited his office on Dec, 29, 1917, hut District Attorney Lewis declared to-day that he had pSsitive knowledge that Hamby was neither in nor near New York on that day. Brooklyn's interest in the Hamby case, the District Attorney said, cen- tres in the hunt for Wing, who is de- scribed as 5 feet 4 inches tall, weigh- ing about 140 pounds, with blue eyes, protruding ears and light ohestnut hair, inclining to be curly, The United States coat of anms is tat- tooed on his right forearm. “The man whom we know as ‘Elton Wing,’” Mr. Lewis said, “has no crim- inal record of any kind in that we can find no conviction against him any- where, He probably never was with Hamby on any other job than the East Brooklyn Bank, for it was Hamby's unfailing custom to pick a new pal for every job and break with him promptly. “We know, from Hamby’s story and our own investigation, that the man who was executed last night followed the sea, had been to Europe many times and knew South American ports as well as he knew New York, On one of his voyages he appears to have fallen in with young Wing.” DETZER FREE FROM MILITARY PRISON Court Martial Neither Recommends Dismissal or Confinement of Captain, Capt. Karl W. Detzer was released from arrest on order of Trial Judge Advocate Major William . Kelly at rnor's Iwland today. Capt. Detzer who has been undergoing court-martia) for the last eight w charged with mistreatin prisoners in his custody at Le Mans, F e, had been a prisoner since Oct. 8 1919, Major Kelly in notifyin Col, J. c. F, Tillson, Commandant of Fort Jay, to apt. Detzer, set forth that th courter had neither recommended the dismi nor confinement of Capt Detzer. -_ TAKE BELL-ANS AFTER MEALS and see tow fine GOOD DIGESTION mares you (eel Adri, “4 He was pronounced dead at 11.16 friend nor relative US. SHP BREAKS fe WUHALF AT SEA 03 MEN MISSIN Tank Steamer Mielero Sinks— Boat With 19 Survivors Picked Up. |CAPTAIN STILL Wireless Messages Tell of Rescue of Part of Lost ‘The American tank ste from Matanzas, Cuba, Baltimore, broke in at sea, according to a wireless mes- | sage received here to-day by the| Naval Communications service One boat with the chief officer and | eighteen men has been picked up| by the steamer Ozette, and another boat with the captain and twenty-two men is still missing. | The loss of the tanker was re- Ported by the steamer Ozette by wireless relayed through the J. 8. 8. Clemso&. The position given by the Orette indicated that she picked up the men approximately 150 miles east of Savannah, Ga, The message reporting the rescue said: “Picked up life boat containing chief officer, third mate, fourth engi- neer of tank steamer Milero which broke | in two on Jan. 26 and sank. Captain's boat with twenty-two men of crew | mer Mielero, | Jan, for two and sank prigon burial ground at 10.30 o'clock [still adrift. Heavy northeast seas / this morning. The body was ih a| moderating.” | plain coffin, Prisoners in charge of] The message was dated at 1.30 A.) Keeper Robert Martin dug the grave] M. to-day. and filled it in, There were no floral corer erie Burial was at the State's! The Cubs Distilling Company,| eeta ees which operates the Mielero, received Dr, ‘Thomas W. Edgar of No. 763|t0-day the following message dated | yesterday from Lionel Conery, first officer of the ship: | “Mielero abandoned Monday at 5,30) A. M. Broke amidships, Eighteen men in my boat on board S. 8, Ozette picked up to-night. Spoke to Captain | (of the Mielero) last night and he had remainder af crew." The Milero was of 6,853 gross tons, and was 389 feet long, 54.7 fect beam and 29.3 feet draught. She was built in 1917 by the Fall River Shipbuilding Co. at Quincy, Mass. Her cargo consisted of 1,600,000 gallons of molasses in kulk. Capt. A. C. Simmons was in command, MILLERAND WINS VOTE OF CONFIDENCE French Chamber Sustains — the New French Ministry, 510 to 70, PARIS, Jan. 20.—The Cabinet of Premier MMllerand was given a vote of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies to-day at a session attended by vir- tually ail the members, The vote was 510 in Ministry to 70 against it, abstentions from voting, 1,000, 000 VOTERS ENROLLED IN N. Y., ONLY 5,941 “DRYS.” Official Figures Made Public by Board of Elections Show Where City Stands, HERE are 162,974 more Demo- cratic voters than Republi- can voters enrolled in Greater New York, according to officia) figures of the enrollment of political parties, issued to-day by John R, Voorhis, President of the Board of Elections. favor of the and with no i ADRIFT. Vessel’s Complement. | and sixteen members of crow) W. B. Leeds The. Democratic Party in Gredter New York has a total en- revwent of 545,967 ay against 383,993 under the Republican emblem, 54,71 Socialist enroll- ments, 5,941 Prohibitionists, and 88,596 enrollments defective blank. The total male enrollment, all boroughs, all. parties is 718,611 egeinet 969,607 lemale. 4 *f |e Bie to Be a Princess as Bride of Greek King’s Uncle nS, WB LEEDS mete ae eet Wedding of Prince and Widow of Tinplate King To-morrow, A desputch to-day from Geneva, Switzerland, stated that Mrs. Will- jam BB. leeds of New York and Prince Christopher of Greece will be | married there to-morrow. Their on- agement has been Mported and de- nied frequently during the lagt twe years. The deposed King Constantine will be unable to attend the marriage of the cablegram Duke of to his younger brother, says, (but will Sparta, ono-time Crown Prince, send the represent him Prince Christopher and his bride are to spend their honeymoon in St, Moritz It will be the first marriage in recent years of an american woman and a son and brother of a King. ‘The bride will become a cousin by marriage of King George of England and Queen Victoria of Spain, and an aunt by marriage of King Alexander of Greece, Prinoe Christopher is a son of the late King George of Greece. Mrs, Leods is a daughter of the late William C. Stewart of Cleve- land, She was Mrs, Nancy Stewart Worthington when she married Mr. Leeds, the “tin plate king,” who died in 1908 leaving a fortune esti- mated at $14,000,000, The Leeds New York home was at Fifth Avenue and 89th Street. -_ Cuteheon Named on W Board. WASHINGTON, Jan. W. M, Cutcheon of New York City was nominated to-day by the President to be a director of the War Finance Cor- poration Fin co -Franklin 825 MEN" Tee “HUB Barclay Street (Opp. Woolworth Bullding), well today and Baturday 2,000 men's ad young wu men's Suits and Overeoate io blues, browns, greens, grays and fancy mistures; single oF double- breasted, form-fitting military style for younx men, very latest models; somo slik lined; all elses, Our epeeial prices for to-day and Satucday, $27.05 Open Saturday night 10, HUB oor, Manes RADE CHARLES 1U.S.LIFTS SECRECY BAN ON RETURNS FROM INCOME TAX Statements Filed May Be In- spected and Copied Under Certain Conditions. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—Income tax returns are no longer to be con sidered confidential, The returns made by individuals and corporations alike may be inspected and copied There are some provisos, but they are easily met, and secrecy !s a thing of the past. This situation is brought about by a@ revision of th sulations covering the inspection of returns The re- vision has just been announced by the Treasury Department in ‘T. D 2961, which was approved by the President on Jan. 7 The order provide at “The return of an ind dual shall be open to inspection as follows; “By the person who made the turn, or by his duly constituted at- torney-in-fact; “By the administrator, executor or trustee of the taxpayer's estate, or by the attorney-in-fact of the adminis- trator, executor or truster, where the maker of the return has died; and “The President orders that returns of individuals, partnerships, associa- tions, joint-stock companies and {n- surance companies filed under the provisions of Sect 2 of the Tariff Act of Oct. 3, 1913, Title L. of the Revenue Act of 1916, Title I. of the Revenue Act of 1917 and Titles TI and III, of the Revenue Act of 1918, | or under laws hereafter enacted in substitution or amendment of the in- come and herewith shail be open to inspection, in accordance sions thereof not (Continued op Eighteenth Page.) tax or capital stock tax provi- | inconsistent ; and SOR, Compliance | ¥ BURNED: Fifty-Seventh New York's famous Vanderbilt sign holds its annual art exhibitions, paintings from all over the country. LODGE GAUSES FINAL BREAK IN TREATY PARLEY ae Refuses to Accept Amendment Drafted by Taft, and Demo- crats Walk Out. Jan, 20.—'The definitely partisan conferees broke off compromise to-day all negotiations for treaty ‘The final break came when Senator Lodge refused to accept a reser tion to Article X drafted by former | President William H. Taft and pre- sented to the bi-partisan conference by the Democrats. The Senators walked out of the conference and announced method Democratic they would seek some other of obtaining ratification. The Democratic leaders next step would not be determined until there had been a consultution among tho friends of the treaty. They indicated that nothing would be dene for a few To-day's development caused great surprise in view of an announcement earlier that Article X, would not be > at to-day’s session, and conferences would be held in ubeyanoe, (but not broken off during a brief from Washington of Senator Hitchcock eee TEN GIRLS INJURED IN BOBSLED UPSET said the conside! that the Eight Taken to Hospital When Huntington Racer Overturns on Striking a Rut. HUNTINGTON, L. L, Jan. 0.—Th contests of the Huntington Hob-Sled As- soclation held this afternoon were marred by an sturt, when the Greyhound, a sled owned In private cars and ambula All those injured are residents of Hunting- The 0 erlously Injured Charles F. Romago, | aight of one eye. ow 1 are Mias Et Mrs Mrs. lua Arcu werty aul les. 4 is Mrs. hel Marris, Willlam Bi Miss May Halvey, ye Butt, Mixs Elizabeth Fox, rand Miss Jacobson, Hag- ju wher, 4 # but the loss to art is said to be beyond value. FAMOUS ART COLLECTIONS IN VANDERBILT GALLERY LOSS $500,000. Fine Arts’ Exhibit Building in West Street Wiped Qut by Flames—Falling Walls En danger Firemen’s Lives. Gallery, where the Academy of Dee in the building of the American Fing Arts Society at No, 215 West 57th Street, was destroyed by fire at 11 o'clock this morning, and with it valued tapestries, bronzes, antiques and The money loss is Placed at soon The building is a four-story struca ture facing on West 57th Street an@ oxtending through the block to No, 216 West 68th Street. Ite occupants Arts, tute of Architectural Art and the American Water Color Society. | In the Vanderbilt Gallery at the 8th Street ond, an exhibition was to oe Opened to-morow afternoon under the auspices of the Architectural League and a dinner had been ere ranged for to-night. The gallery bud been filled with the contributions of exhibitors from all parts of the United States, all kinds of art for the “home embellishment,” and painters and Jecorators were put at work puttihg on the @nishing touches for the erq habit. WALL OF FLAME SWEEPS INTO FINE ART EXHIBITION, Products of young painters as well 18 those of well li. oa ar’ ++ had ind Howard Greenley, ‘ of the League, with # ver of workmen were oe up Italian sail cloths over the exhibit when, shortly before 11 o'clock he heard an explosion which be ste tributed to a short olreult. ‘T* ore was | 4 ery of fire and in a moment a wall of flamé swept into the gallery. The oils, the paint, the pictures so proudly hanging on the walls and the decorations made splendid food for the flames, which spread out on all sides. The decorators did their at+ most to control the fire and to save some of the objects of art and were burned for their pains and finally had to run for their lives, The great glass skylight above the gallery came down inside with crash and the flames leaped into the air through the $8th Street end of the building. Directly across the street is Engine Company No. 23, of which Capt. Paddy Murphy is the head, and with the speed of demons he and his men had the apparatus out an@ bad attacked the wall. Meantime am alarm bad been turned in and Hat« talion Chief Curtin came up ia his red machine, Another explosion wae heard in the building and Chief Curtin yelled to Murphy's crew to “beat it." ‘They gob away not a second too soon. A room adjoining the gallery, filled with the tools and paints and oils and torches of the decorators, had caught and a@ the flames burst through inte the gallery there was a fearful backe draught which knocked out the 68tlp Street wall. FIREMEN BARELY ESCAPE WHEN acckdent just before the! | str and driven by Thomas Haggerty, turned over when striking @ rut and Injured ten| the of the twenty girls on the sled, Eight were taken to the Huntington Hospital who may lose thp| red sprained ligaments of the WALL TOPPLES DOWN, The wall toppled down into the t and were it not for the prompt tion of Chief Curtin, a number of firemen would have been buri |under the debris, Chief Curtin turned in a second and |a third alarm, In the vicinity, on alb sides of the burning building, are big apartment houses, the building of the United States Rubber Company und jother costly structures, Im the | Academy Building are a number o€ | studios and at least 200 young men an@ {women were at work at their cane | vases and classes. Two girls ip one are the American Federation of Fing National Academy of. Designs New York Chapter of American Ingtin = — a eer ee NR ee = ee et — oe a = eee. ee ee ee