The evening world. Newspaper, February 27, 1920, Page 1

ie ap eee | ; ~ ‘ ‘ CHAMPION JA TO-NIGHT’S WEATHER—Faii DRAFT DODGER Che Circulation Books Open to All.’’| and warmer. VA b% Get the Country on Peace Basis TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Fair and warmer. 4 I IE | DITION OPE MITE EVENS SSS : BS x » “Circulation Books Open to All.” ky = ———= —=— = — = —S===——=_ — — ————— ——— mY . VOL. LX. NO. 21,367—DAILY. Congrighty 5900 bo tee Eee NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1920. ree a ee Br 28 PAGES. 8 PRICE TWO CENTS, selec a Hose n erat Ae Readhch otha eles olf lbaria ats ‘ nee, h. lla Sl cearpnetine ed ota is . 7 A -AVIATOR FALLS SIX MILES IN PLAN PROSPECT OF BIG TAX BOOST THREE YEARS AFTER WAR HAS, Jj ALARMED CONGRESS LEADERS Republicans See Party Disas- ter Unless Expenses Are Slashed Billions. “MUST CUT TO BONE.” Turn to Scrapping of Ship Board and Plans as the Best Way Out. Ly Martin Green. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Fob. 27.—Realiging the absolute necessity of slashing estimated expenses of government for the next year to the extent of at least two and one-half billions of dollars, members of Congress who are not afraid to face the true condition of fhe nation’s finances are concentrat- ing their attention upon the Shipping pert nt. the suggestion of The World that the activities of tdis branch of the government be dis- weontinved forthwith. Phere does not appear to be an- other peice of governmental machin- @p which offers such an inviting prospect for slaughter, because it af- fords tremendous opportunities to SENATOR ASKS LS. TOPAY NDENNTY - TOSOVETRUSS France of Maryland Wants to! and Trotzky. WASHINGTON, Feb, 27.—Soviet Rursia’s proposal to the’ United States | for peace will receive no consideration from the American Government, it was said to-day at the State Depart- ment. WASHINGTON, Febx 27/--A_ joint resolution providing for recognition of Soviet Russia was offered in the Senate to-day by Senator France, Maryland, Republican, It was re- ferred to the Senate Foreign Rela- tions Committee. The resolution is a joint one requir- TWO PARLIAMENTS ESTABLISHEDUNDER IRISH HOME RULE Southern Section Will Have More Than Twice as Many Members. MERGER HOPED FOR. Greatly Increased Powers Pro- vided for if Bodies Join Hands Later. | LONDON, Feb, 27.—The Govern-| ment to-night made public the text its Irish Home Rule bill duuced in the House of Commons on of intro- first reading by title. The measure| follows ciosely the outline given to the House by Premier Lloyd George in December last. By its provisions two parliaments would be set up, one for the North of Ireland and the other for the South of Ireland, the Northern Par- Nameént to consist of fifty-two mem- bers and the Southern of 128 mem- |bers. The representation in the Im- perial Parliament would be twelve for North Ireland and thirty for South Ireland, which is provided for! in the bill, |ing approval by both Houses of Con- gress and signature by the President. The northern area would be com- posed of the counties of Antrim, MRS, DANIEL RID AWARDED DIVORCE MODITE NAMED Servants Tell of Mme. Georg- ette’s Visits to “Tin Plate King’s” Home. HE DROPS CHARGES} Separation Agreement Carry-| ing $30,000 a Year In- come to Stand. ma _ { After being out less than five min- | utes, the jury In Justice McAvoy’s | department of the Supreme Court to- | ON man record for altitude hekd by Roland Rohlf when his Le Perre) day awarded a divorce to Mrs, Mar- Recognize Regime of Lenine | wednesday and passed through its|®aret C. Reid, third wife of Daniel | G. Reid, the “tin plate king.” Fol- | lowing yesterday's announeement by Mr. Reid's attorney that he would not contest the action, the end of the trial came suddenly. In tnatrueting the jury, Justice MoAvoy directed that it return a negative answer to the’ question whether Mrs. Reid, had committed a statutory offense with Capt Samp- son Tchernoff, originally named as Co-respondent by Reid, and said that the only question to be answered was whether or not Reld, between Aug. 24, 1910, and June 4, 1919, had been | unduly intimate with various women. This question was answered in the affirmative. Mrs. Reid, who throughout the trial FALLS SIX MILES IN PLANE, FLAMING GAS STREAMING BEHIND HIM LIKE & COMET Record for Altitude, and After Sensational Plunge Rights Ma- chine and Escapes Uninjured. DAYTON, Ohio, Feb, 27.—Major Rudolpa Schroeder broxe the plane climbed 37,000 feet (estimated), over Dayton to-day. In the flight Schroeder's oxygen tank gave out, and his ship fell six miles before righting itself. The gas tank burst, making a fan behind the falling machine, which was taken here for a comet! The temperature at fis height was 55 degrees below zero. He fell within 2,000 feet of the ground before regaining consclous- ness sufficiently to right his machine. “ Major Schroeder was temporarily blinded, and is now in a local hospital. .His-gondition is not setiéis.* “ RAID YIELDS PAPER 6 RED GROSS MEN, LIKE THAT USED IN TWO NEW YORKERS, E AND LIVES BLOWUP AT BROOKLYN FIRE COSTS LIVES: OF FIREMEN; FIVE OTHERS ARE INJURED t ‘Major Schroeder Breaks One-Man|One of Victims Blinded and Is Ex- pected to Die—Blaze Starts in Hold of Boat and Spreads With Great Rapidity. — Two firemen were killed and five injured in a fire and explosion that until early to-day menaced the Nassau works of the Brooklyn Union Gas Company, at Kent Avenue and Rush Street, Brooklyn, The dead are: RENNAN, THOMAS, thirty-eight, No. 162 Washington Park, Brooklyn. RKLE, MICHAEL, thirty-seven, No. 246 Woodbine Street, Brooklyn. © The injured are: EXTRA CALLMEYER, FRANK, twenty-eight, le No. 110 Forbell Street, Brooklyn, LUDGATE, ISAAC, Acting Battalion DEMPSEY INDICTED ‘AS DRAFT DODGER Chief, forty-five, No. 60 Newell Street, B-ooklyn, BROWN, SAMUEL, fifty; No, 1559 Fighter and His-Manager Both’ Ac- cused by the Federal Grand 47th Street, Brooklyn, HUGHES, JAMES, forty-six, No, 60 Jury in San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27.—Jack Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, BRENNAN, JAMES, No, 267 Lexing- ton Avenue, Brooklyn. James Brennan, brother of Thomas, Is expected to die, He is blind and is burned all over the body. He and’ Tn TT | It specificaly directs the President, | Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, London- Dempsey was indicted by the Federal dtop vending hundreds of millions of |through the Department of State to | derry. had sat almost unneticed tn a corner Grand Jury here to-day on the charge Chief Ludgate, who is burned about | ni 1 | | the hands, face dnd body, but not se- aim. | communicate at once with the Gov-| A “Council for Ireland,” composed | °f the court room, was called to the MAILING OF BOMBS, HELD BY THE REDS conspiring to defeat the operation of Mt geod dollars after bad, and reclaim- | .nment of Russia, assuring the peo- | of forty members, half of whom | stand for a few minutes just before | the draft law and on the charge of ees ie the Williamsburg Hos« ing other hundreds of millions-which | pie of Russia of our friendship, sym- | would be selected by each of the|the conclusion of the case. She de piain pends | poles evading the draft. beet FS ae fae: are in Cumberland ‘ a¥e tied up in Josing enterprises. pathy, and desire to co-operate with | parliaments, is also provided for in|nied allegations of unfaithfulness Jack Kearns, the heavyweight cham- gs Up to this fime sub-committees of | them me. House Appropriations Committee! gia) with} FIRE STARTS IN BOAT AT RUSH STREET. d to re-establish full and cor- categorically. Type Also Found Similar to Seventh Man Travels 800 Miles |P!on’s manager, was Indicted he bill, The legislative powers of het cut from estimates of expendi- tures aggregating about $285,000,000 approximately $70,000,000, or 25 per cent. The saving has been made in the estimates for Indian Affairs, Riv- ers and Harbors, Diplomatic and Con- ular Service, Agricultural Depart- t, Military Academy and the Leg- islative Department and allied off- shoots. SLASHES BEING MADE ARE NOT DEEP ENOUGH. Allowing for a great increase in the . of cuts in estimates still Py bo reported, the limit of solving, acoording to the best figures avail- able, will not exceed $1,125,000,000. The situation confronting Congress ie this: * ‘The estimated requirements of the Government for all purposes in the next fiscal year, including the current deficit, will total, ap- proximately $9,000,000,000; these estimates are likely to be cut, ap- proximately $1,120,000,000; leav- ing net requirements of $7,880,- 000,00 The best informed members of Congress estimate that the re- ceipts of the Government from all sources will not exceed $4,500,- 000,000; exces. or requirements eyer receipts promises to total proximately $3,380,000,000 The, deficit on June 30 next wil total, it is estimated, in round numbers 000; and the estimated increase in the deficit during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, $380,000,000 This is rock-bottom figures. (Continued on Twenty-fourth Page.) SUNDAYWORLD “Help Wanted” Ads, LEFT IN THE WORLD OFFICE TO-DAY (PRIDAY) ARE SURE OF PUBLICATION, EARLY ADS. GET THE relationship of friendly course, trade and commerce.” The France resolution would pro- vide for the establishment of friendly | relations with Soviet Russia, lifting of the embargo, extension of trade, with Russia, arrangement of credits, with- drawal of any American troops re- {maining on Russian soll, and for |“any needed explanations and rep- |arations which may be due from this country for our invasion of Russian territory.” The resolution further directs the President to “convey to the people of Russia expressions of our appre- ciation and gratitude for their heroic part in the war and our felicitations to them for having overthrown a despotic Government, and assurances ot the desire of the American people to co-operate with them and to as- sist them in every proper and possi- ble way in the efforts to establish in- stitutions which will insure them an ordered liberty,” France has been bitter in his at- tacks on the Administration. He has peal of the Espionage Law pending a resolution to de- » with Germany. He id one irreconcilables” in the treaty Saat BILLS TO CHANGE EDUCATION BOARD One Senate Measure Would Have Commissioner Named By Mayor. Feb. ALBANY, the edu 27.—A bill amending law by establishing de- education in first and es was introduced in of the to-day by Senator Kaplan The measure abolishes boards of edu- cution in such citles and places th education system under the jurisdic- tion of a commissioner named by the! Mayor for a term of seven ye \ enator Burlingame introduce sure New York ¢ changing the system by decreasing t Board of Education’ membership f to three membe rs to be name remaining two to nd the ermen, js! ducation h Dm fy, one of the ny the Mayor be the Comptrol- President of the Bourd of —<— LAST TWO DAYS OF BIG SALE. 725 Men's Suit oF Overcoat, $17.96. Clothing Corner, roadway, cor. Bar: ance of our 823 men's and 4 Overwata in blues, browns, - « inter- | 9% & TAKS the council would be only those |granted it by the two leg but the framers of the bill will form a nucelus around’ which would be built one parliament for the whole of Ireland. Almost unlimited executive, legis- lative and judicial powers are pro- | vided for such a united Parliament, |but the powers to be conferred on |the separate Parliaments would be considerably curtailed. Responsibility for organizing the united Parliament and the power to create it is left entirely with the two Legislatures. ‘The bill provides that the united Parliament, if formed, | would control the customs and ex- | cise. | At the outset, according to the bill, |the Parliament w ould have full con- trol of education, local government, the land policy, agriculture, roads and bridges, transportation, old age pensions, insurance, municipal af-j} fairs, housing, hospitals and licenses. All the judicial offices would be con- trofled by the Irish Parliaments, ea in | bedy controlling the offi jown district, but there would be a} Court of Appeal for the wholé of Ire- ‘8 its land, presided over by the Lord Chancellor | What the Government considers Jone of the chief safeguards in draft- jing the powers of the Parliaments is ja provision specifically prohibiting either body from establishing any particular religious creed or penaliz- ing any one for belonging to or not] belonging to any religious denomina- | tion, | pete RS | GIRL FOILS R IN BROOKLYN Hold-Up Man Takes to His } | When Miss Harring ms For Help. a ss Mary Harrin | Anighy hold M t, Brooklyn, | Gravesend Avenues, Brook this af- | ternon. | rhe man asked to use the te and suddenly pointed a revolver Start She ended to give bh nded, but y up the fled. pre tep: sercamed and the mar —s— KLI-ANS AFTER MEALS and seo wow Ape GOOD DIGESTION mares rou (esl Adm : OBBER | a "| Attomey | WASHINGTON How Madame Gorgette, a modiste of No. 9 East 56th Street, moved into Mr. Reid's apartments at No. 907 Fifth Avenue, when Mrs. Reid left | for a week's stay in Atlantic City and insisted upon occupying Mrs. Reid's bedroom, was told in a depo- sition of Amanda Gunnerson, per- sonal maid for Mrs. Reid from April, 1913, until June, 1919, when Mrs, Reid left her husband. ‘The deposition was sworn to before Justice Newburger Dec. 12, 1919. Miss Gunnerson said that Madame Gor- gette got into the habit of coming into the Reid apartments to show Mrs. Reid samples of lingerie, and that she often interested Mr. Reid in these creations, On one occasion, ac- cording to the maid, Mrs. Reid went to the theatre and Madame Gorget:e remained to show Mr. Reid some ar- ticles she had brought. Mr. Reid, the d testified, asked Madame Gor- gette if she had brought any models. “No,” the modiste is alleged to have replied, “I prefer to be my model.” On this occasion, the maid testified, Madame Gorgette showed Mr. Reid a transparent petticoat, Miss Gunnerson testified that on the morning of Dec, 5, 1918, Mrs, Reid left for Atlantic City and that Madame Gorgette accompanied her to the sta- tion and returned to the Reid apart- own (Continued on Second Page.) poss a secre PALMER UPHOLDS RAILROAD MEASURE; WILSON ACTS SOON Declares Cummins Bill Is Con General Esch- nal in Report to Presi ad B. HE ¢ Ra was returned to the Whit liouse to-day by the De- partment of Justice, to which it was referred Wednesday for an opinion as to its validity. The President is expected to act on it to-day or to-morrow Attorney Genoral Pan formed the President that he n- saw | no constitutional objection to the measure. Racing ‘Entries on That on Pink Warning Sheets | by Sled With News of Cap- —Red Literature Seized. | ture—Treated Well. Detective Gegen of the Bomb Squad | has never ceased to work on the) famous “Postoffice Bomb Mystery” of last. May, when bombs wrapped in| Irkutsk with nows of six other Amer- paper of. a peculiar texture were |icans who are held by the Bolahevikt, mailed to about thirty prominent men. | 8ccording to despatches to the Red ‘This morning Gegen, accompanied patopirtnass gag ae pent by Detective Miletich of the same|tured by the Reds, but they pers squad, and Benjamin Simon, an tn- mitted him to go through the lines vesigator from Attorney General| With word that his companions were Newton's office, went to a rooming being well treated. He travelled 800 miles by sled, as the railr |house at No. 305 Bast 115th Street, ee roa He and found a young Italian man in WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Capt. Edward Charette of Stockton, Cal. Red Cross worker, has arrived at up. Upon arriving at Red Cross Head- quarters at Irkutsk, he gave the fol- lowing list of Americans held by the one of the rooms and arrested Vieto | Mariani, alias Mario Viagenro. eaaai | He was taken to Police Headquar-| ajezunder C. Tweedie | ters, Then experts on paper and) Club, West 40th street | printing types were vent fr, Also a} Otto W. Lowe, No, 362 West Sov- \telegram was sent to Cambridge, | eMty-seventh Street, New York. | Mass. and a reply came back at once] Joseph R. Medill, Jaroso, Colo, saying that Nathan Tuffs, the Dis-| Harry J. Do: ©. 4051 West le ot Attorney, was starting fur New | Sixth Stre Philadelphia; and No. Gtk 1900 Pacific Avenue, | ‘This was because a search of the | NJ: . William H. Ford, Kingston, Okia, | | H. N, Bonzo, next of kin, Pedro tinued on Second P: » Coon beds Bonzo, G., Martin, Manila. ESE E sei Donnalley was suffering from a SENATE IS URGED broken leg and Tweedie was slightly TO BUY BERMUDAS il with typhus. The Americans were being permitted to remain in Krasno- Allantic | Kenyon Believes Great Britain | Might Give Up Islands Because of Debt to America. WASHINGTON, Fob first the Bolsheviki were determined to carry then to Moscow, but later | the orders were changed | | > — | ALLIES TO INQUIRE tion requesting gotiations with the ment for acquisition of LONDON, Fé 7.—The Allied Islands was offered Ke nnuda. Kenyo: xi ~upy a strates rings rt, the with keeping as it afte up prices. lying ition ange 4 tax between the coast of the] yarek, where they were captured. at! "| INTO LIVING COSTS profits Dempsey on the conspiracy charge. ‘Two true bills were returned, Dempsey and Kearns are reported enroute from Los Angeles, If they do not come of their own accord telegraph warrants will |be issued. ‘The conspltacy charge on conviction covers a maximum prison sentence of two years and a fine of $3,000, It is a \feleny charge, ‘The draft evasion ls @ misdemeanor and covers a Jail sentence of one year, aber iie MEANT NO AFFRON ALLIES TO WILSON Lloyd George and Millerand Further Explain Their Position on Fiume. LONDON, Fob, 27.—The reply mad by Premiers Lloyd George and MW lerand to President Wilson's latest communication on the Adriatic ques- tion repeats the assurance that they “never had the ing the views of the United States Government.” The reply, which js dated Feb states that the absence of an Ameri- can representative had proved i practice an almost insurmountable obmacle to the success of the ne- gotiations. —— CARRY TWO WOMEN \FROM BURNING HOME Firemen and Chauffeur Bring Vic- tims Down Ladder in the Bronx. Schiff, a chauffeur, automobile the Bronx, t Almost appeared and Barnard ui pmnan ran to her aid, ees f |to aren the wire rope ladder with wh United States and Virgin tlanda | The fin stions will TE boop i aladinicd ana dia this recently acquired from Denmark. Ken- | mien amith their offi; | ing he climbed the ladder, took her on | yon believes that wel Meith: notte ted | bis shoulders and carr er to sufet | amount of 3 $%; She proved to be Miss Toby Ish Ki trip 10 | sapeeiad for Wena mine . Parsley sauce OLIVE O4L Pg Mw babies Hiremen carried out her seventy-year eid mother, who had been overcome, 2 a cdl i UML TRAVEL BUREAU, rosea MMM oar (Word) Sunding Beas “dare | | Bos ys, X,Cus. Telephone taken 1008, fear sod’ trevelleny” check “lot Aart, 2 intention of making | | a definite settiement without obtain- | At 8 o'clock last night fire started’ in the hold of a supply boat at the gas company's pler at the foot of Rush Street. A second alarm brought several companies, and in two hours the flames were under control and all the companies returned to quar= ters except Engine Company No. 251. While a crew of fifteen men were wetting down the fire, dames sud denly jumped from the boat to @ refuse tank of tar—called drip. pings"—a short distance away on the pier, Firemen rushed toward the tank to extinguish the blaze, but within a few seconds there was an explosion that sent blazing tar and oll in all directions, Seven of the firemen, many of them blown yards away, disappeared ‘im the heavy smoke and their comrades, some of them themselves burned, d a rescue squad. five men now in the hospital carried to safety before the the dead were recovered. The latter were burned almost beyond nition, and it was more than an hour before it could be learned which of the Brennan brothers had lost bis life. Chief Ludgate paid no attention |to his injuries until he saw his mea had been cared for, Before going to the hospital be telephoned his wife to allay her fears, Just before the first started Chief Ludgate had been eine No, 261 how exactly one year ago last night he had been (rapped in a biaze in Wallabout Street and badly burned. |20,000 GALLONS OF TAR REFUSE were bodies gt i House BLOW UP, A third alarm was sent In after the explosion, but the tire was under con- | ol at midnight, having done @ dam- © Of $10,000. e abou It is estimated there 4 gallons of tar refuse up. wt big gas storage tanks ¢ company developed an nidentifed hero in an employee of ompany, He opened the escape es of the tanks and the gas flowed off to reservoirs blocks aways In the mean Ume froboats had are rived and did good work until the danger was over. | Pire Marshal Brophy has begun an > the causes of the fire ang inquiry explosion Thomas Brennan had been in the Fire Department nineteen years and has been six years with Engine Coma yn a a ll.