The evening world. Newspaper, March 2, 1920, Page 1

q ‘i i: of the Year ola “Love $ Gamble’ Most Thrilling Novel BEGIN IT TO-DAY! ‘VOL, LX. NO. 21,370—DAILY. Coprright, 1920, by, The Press Publishing The New York World). NEW’ YORK, "TUESDAY, “MARCH 2, 1920, bed “Circulation Books Open to All.’’ Entered Feet Ort EDITION ba S ITH EVENRSS ma ee 24 PAGES. Second New York, Ny ~ ASSEMBLY NOT TO STOP ANT 1-SALOON INQUIR ANTISALOON MEN NEW YORK'S CONGRESS GROUP MAKES STATE FOURTH-RATER ~ IN NATION'S ECONOMY FlGHT 10,000,000 Here 5 Oak Mont Vitaly | MRS. VON TILZER, FREED AFTER SHE STABBED HUSBAND ROBBED OF INFLUENCE. | #*** Interested Practically Voice- less in Crisis. Their Delegation, Which Should Lead, Accept “Back Seats” and Avoid Work. By Martin Green. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World. WASHINGTON, March 2.—New York, more vitally interested than any other State in economy in Federal expenditures, has not only been voice- less on the floor of the House in the present crisis in the financial affairs of the Government, but despite its preponderance in merabership in the House and tts claims to force futl and constructive representation in com- mittees, it is overshadowed by other \ States in this respect. This is cs- pecially noticeable when the experi- ! | ence gained by long service of many} -oex | | of New York's representatives is taken into consideration BAY STATE TOWNS VOTEFORLIQUO Dry few York's weakness in conualtiagl representation, aside from the lack of | aggressiveness on the floor which distinguishes the delegation from the Empire State, that the Republican majority has not been fair—that New | Yi rk City's almost solid Democratic | contingent is given no show in com- | nittee assignments. As a matter of | fact the Tammany delegation has | been fairty well treated, all thing) Former considered. Tt is further urged that the rules) of the House, which favor priority of | service rather than ability, work | against the possibility of the New| York representation in the House, | numbering 10 per cent. of its active | membership, measuring up to its nu- merical strength in effe€tiveness, In| this case it is time, in justice to the | 10,000,000 people of the State of New York, that its representatives in the House get together and do something about it. HOW NEW YORK’S POWER IS BELITTLED IN HOUSE. ‘Admitting that comparisons are odious, there are times when com- parisons are more /liuminating than any other form of argument put forward to illustrate a fact, The fact is that New York's power and influence in Congress are not commensurate with her rights and privileges as the great- est State in the Union, | New Y. House at this time by twenty-two | Republicans and nineteen Demo- srats. The fomtyrene New York (Continued on Ninth Page.) ————_———— MOVE TO CHECK HUGE EXPENDITURES | Wh Public Debt of $25,404,331; | 707, Congress Committee Against | ‘Lange Naval Appropriations. WMSEINGTON, March 2.-—A_ de- Feane of $264,057,257 in the public debt was effected in February, the Treasury announced to-day, leaving the total debt $6,404,331,707 Members of the House Naval Commit ine Indicated to-day that no provision would be made in the annual Naval Ap 390006000 | Von Tilzer. 3 | found some of his wife's friends there ‘holds. Arrested ‘TRENTON. ropriation BIN for beginning work on the $70,000,000 naval F a clme Bay. | Rear Admiral Carles J. Badger sald the Wavy General Board favored de clopment of such a base, but Chairman Huther eaid everything could not be pro-| Hoe ural “in the present state of Gov-| rament @inance," and that in framing | 9M for the nex! fiscal year the com-| \ Favor Bil ALBANY, N. Bill, designed da Agric eciay MOLD mI ae Would give ‘first aitention io ine (igs YR Strongholds in Massachusetts Now Favor Sale of Whiskey. BOSTON, March 2.—Complete re- turns to-day from the 61 Massachu- setts towns which hed their elections yesterday showed that 33 registered a heavy vote in favor of Practically all of these towns were previously “dry” strong- selling liquor. Lexington voted “wot” for'the first time in 40 years, OTABS HUSBAND; FREED ON STORY OF HIS DOUBLE LIFE TO BLOGK INQUIRY. Admits She Tried to Kill,Jules| bate Tilzer, Music Publisher, After Quarrel SAW “OTHER WOMAN.” Declares Wounded Man For} Three Years. Gave His Affections to Rival. lakes Mrs, Estelle Von Tilzer of No. 204] West 94th Street, who admitted to the police this morning that she had | tried to kill her husband, was dis- harged in the West Side Court after Jelling of an alleged double life led by her husband, Jules Von Tilzer, a music publisher and brother of Harry Mrs, Von Tilzer was arraigned be- fore Magistrate Simpson on a charge of felonious assault. She is a frail, little woman, thirty-nime years old, and told her story in an unemotional voice. Von 'Tilzer first testified that he went home last night at 11.30 and drinking. . The friends left at 1.30 this morning, Von Tilzer said, and his wife, who had been injured in an automobile wooldent, became thysteri- call “Did you have any words with your wife,” asked Assistant District Attorney Maurice Lynch. “I never have any words with my wife," replied Von Tilzer. “T said nothing. She did all the talking, I was not particularly interested at the time. I do not remember what she said, I fell asteep. The next I knew was a sharp pain in my left side and blood on my body. She was standing over me with a knife.” Von Tilzer identified a long bread knife, which appeared to have been freshly sharpened.* Mrs. Von Tilzer was then called to the stand. WIFE SAYS OTHER WOMAN RE- VEALED, DOUBLE LIFE. “Last Saturday when I came home from the doctor’s the telephone rang,” she said. “I answered it, and a woman's voice said: “‘are you Mrs. Von Tilzer? Are you secking a divorce?” "tn order to find out what it meant, I anawered ‘Yes,’ and she said, Tl give you all the evidence. He has been Tiving with another woman for three years and he told her he was swung to the damp column after be- ling a strong “no license” town for twenty-three years, ae DEMPSEY WARRANT HELD UP|™" Champion Not Slacker Charge. Heavyweight ' Los ANGELES, represented in the ror the arrest of Jack Dempsey and his manager, Jack Kearns, on charges of conspiracy to evade the draft, arrived to-day. Dempaey and Kearns hotiéed United |gtates District Attorney O'Connor they |were ready to give thenwelves up. aE ;WOOD ENTERS JERSEY RACE, Him in State Presi-| dential Preferential Primaries. March 2.Petition name of Major | Petition Put for the submission of the Gen, Leonard Wood to voters of New Jersey in next preferential primaries was filed with the | Secretary of Sta ‘The petiuion, si ‘Morris County tram Mott, Morri Leonard Wood Lé d by 1,400 voters of | own, representing the a single man, She just recently found out that he was married.’ “This woman said that she was a third party and that sho would ar- ge a meeting betwean the other (Continued on Second Page.) ELECTION HELD UP WHEN TOWN CLERK SLEEPS TOO LONG Winsted Man's Alarm Clock Fails to Go Off, but He Is Again Chosen for Office, WINSTED, Conn., March 2. OWN CLERK EDWARD A, WILMOT, of Torrington, a Republican, is a very sound sleeper, He slept go late yesterday morning he interfered with the prompt beginning of the election in his town. The polis were supposed to open at 6 o'clock, The receivers of votes appeared punctually at the Borough Clerk's office, where the |COMMITTEE ACTS HALT ALL EFFORTS Assembly Leaders Will Make No Further Effort to Block Investigation. SOON, | Judiciary Body Will Make | Probe as Soon as Socialist Trial Ends, ALBANY, N. Y., March 2 forts will be made by legislative lead- ers to block an Assembly investiga- tion into the Anti-Saloon League, | Simon L. Adler, majority leader of the Assembly, said to-dny, On the contrary, the leaders expec to take whatever steps ma essary to speed up the investigation and got it over. ‘Chairman Louis Martin said that his committee is prepared to take up this work as soon 4s it has completed the Socialist investigation, ANDERSON LAYS * DRY INQUIRY TO No ef be nec- BARNES-TAMMANY Atbany Vote, He Says, Indicates Wets Have Quit Trying to Block Prohibition. Roused by the vote of sixty-one to fifty-two by which the Assembly at A¥bany last night adopted the Cuvil- lier resolution to investigate the Anti- Saloon League and its activities at the Capital, William H. Anderson, Superintendent of the league, to-day attributed the resolution to the “Barnes-Tammany bunch” and, warn- ing the Republican organization of What the “moral element” in the party will do to them if they go too far, practically defied Albany to do .\s worst. Louis A. Cavillier, Democrat, au- thor of the resolution, has introduced @ bill legalizing the sale of beer .n New York State with an alcoholic content up to 6 per cent. A type-written statement by Supt. Anderson was given out at League headquarters, No. 906 Broadway. Mr. Anderson, a young woman seoretary said, has been il] with tn- fluenza at his home in Yonkers for ten days. Asked if she thought the vote of the Assembly had had any effect upon his illness, the youny woman said “Yes, he is feeling much better.” Mr. Anderson's statement says the vote indicates that the “wets” have abandoned their efforts to block the enforcement of Prohibition or else is an effort of the Old Guard to throw @ wrench into Anti-Galoon machin- ery in the interests of Senator Wads- worth. Most of the Republican Assembly- men are good men, Anderson says, ‘but many of them are always ready to betray their party to Tammany. His statement reads, in part: “There are 0 many comical aspects ‘Co! snued on Second P VOTERS MAY PASS ON AMENDMENTS Bill of Johnston, of New York Would Take Ratification Power Away From Legislatures. WASHINGTON, March —Decision aa to the ratification of Constitutional amendments would be by the voters of a State instead of the Legislatures, Vailot lists are kept, and waited | and WAITED for Mr. Wilmot, | who had the key to the vault con taining the paper After twenty minutes Mr. Wil mot wag called up and leepy | voice said: over the tele Been! {idn't omin’ right down,” tmot hurried to his d hy we der a resolution introduced by Rep- entative Johnston, Democrat, New| k. The resolution also proposes submis- sion of constitutional amendments by two-thirds of the ute Legisiatures as well as by Congress. my _>- Jeontinwe Ue upton RAKE BULL ANE ANTER MEALS pate CRC ON the ' FRENCHIEST OF "Tras e At ie STIRS F mC PASI Wee ane cnewawere New Knee-Length Skirt From Paris Is Feature of Stunning Costume, This Frenchiest of French suits, ‘featuring a knee-length skirt, caused a stir when worn recently in Fifth Avenue. The costume ig made up of an oton coat suit of blue poiret ‘twill, trimmed with three rows of white and black ribbon; with the new -elbow-dength’ “@leéver—and the short skirt. GOV. EDWARDS SIGNS JERSEY BILL FOR 3.50 BEER Measure Passed by Legisla- ture Becomes Effective After Peace Treaty Is Signed. TRENTON, N, J., March 2.—Gov- ernor Edwards shortly after noon to- day signed the bill passed by the Legislature to allow the manufac- ture and sale of beverages containing 31-2 per cent. of alcohol. The law, however, does not become operative until termination of the state of war. Senator Simpson of Hudson County and Assemblyman Barret of Essex, both Democrats, were among those who witnessed the signing. The pen used by the Governor will be pre- snted to the Personal Liberty League, organization of which has been start- ed in New York, Gov. Edwards to-day declared he was going to San Francisco to carry the antt-Prohibition fight into the Democratic National Convention. Bdwards said that although the “Anti-Saioon League ip continually misrepresenting my attitude, and al- though its un of incompetence, Wil- liam Jennings Bryan, sailing around in the ewiaried heavens of fanaticism attended by the lesser fuminaries, have directed their beams against me, yet they have only served to lighten the issue and have not ob- soured my attitude.” Attorney General Thomas F. Mc- Crann will use the law as basis for a test case against the Prohibitiun Amendment and the Volstead act to be filed this week with the United States Supreme Court. It was the opinion of the twelve | Senators that Congress had gone too far when it arbitrarily decided that to be non-intoxicating within the meaning of the amendment a fluid mus} contain less than one-half of | one per cent. of alcohol, — NO MORE FREE SEEDS. So Congress Cu $240,000 From Nation's Budget. WASHINGTON, March 2.—Acting- on the recommendation of the new Sec | retary of Agriculture, the Senate Agri- culture Committee to-day voted to eliminate from the annual agricultural Dill the $240,000 voted by the House to of distribution of __ SEVEN DROWNED | AS STRANDED SHIP BREAKS ANT AND SINKS Sailors Who ihc: vealed on Steamer Bohemian Saved ‘on Life-Lines, MANY ARE — INJURED, Tug Pushes Way Close to Shore to Pick Up the Survivors. HALIFAX, March 2.—Seven lives are believed toh crew of the Leyland liner Bahemian) abandoned the ship as she was break- ing up on the Sambro Ledges this morning. Several others were injured The ship, bound from Boston to Liv-, erpool, >an aground in a blinding snow- storm while endeavoring to put into Halifax yesterday. Her sixty-four pas- sengers were taken off in safety, 120 members of the crew remaining op doard. Late last night the ship began to pound heavily, At 4 o'clock this mora- ing ‘It was decided to abandon her. ‘Three boats got away safely, but the other men were unable to take to the boats. The tug Roebling went as close to the stranded ship as possible, and the transfer of those still on board wax attempted by life Hines. It is believed the loss of life occurred then, Soon after the crew left the vessel | she troke In two and sank. At 11 o'clock last night, before she broke up the ship's agents received the folowing wireless from Capt. Hiscee, her commander: “Lighters alongside and wrecking pump. Ship pounding heavily. Crew refused to discharge cargo. Poor prospects saving ship. Main mast Ex-Secretary of Treasury Belie e been lost when the| presumably to nurse along his political boom, be found discussing ways of reducing taxes. And the most novel sige gestion he makes is that the United States shall buy several Britisht =” colonies, such as the Bermudas, Jamaica, British Honduras, Barbadoes, publican peace treaty reservation deolar- |#ome of the British possessions ar@ cide all domestic questions under the | stance, has plenty of sugar, though League of Nations was readopted by the |jts rum isn't particularly useful at Offer of Deal Would Be.Accep — Urged as Means of Lowerin Taxation and StabilizingExchange, By David Lawrence. (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, March 2 (Copyright, 1920) —William Gibbs — McAdoo, former Secretary of (he Treasury, is in town for a little ¥ = = = eo = > =a ae 7 oo | BS cn ~a vs = =sS = Having dealt with matters of taxation, it is natural that he shoul” # the Bahamas, Nassau and other islands off the Atlantic Coast ot this contjnent. ¥ In payment, McAdoo declares the United States should. give ‘Britain credit on her war debt to us, This, he believes, will help Great Britain and ourselves because it will tend to stabilize exchange and mean an earlier settlement of the European debt. 4 ‘# It is hard to estimate what te 7 SENATE VOTES AGAIN | price of the islands ts on the markeg FOR RESERVATION of international barter, but not long ago the United States purchased the Dapish West Indies for $25,000,000, OF — : rs course the British possessiofis sre Readopting Declaration on much more valuable than that: f Domestic Questions, Tho price might be caiculated.on WASHINGTON, March 2.—The \Re- |the basis of exports and imports amd” 14 Democrats Join Republicans in ing the right of the United States to de- | worth a good deal. Jamaica, for tu= Senate to-day iby a vote of 56 to 25 after Boulder underneath. Will continue to do all possible." As bales of cotton were seen being | crats voted with Me solid Republican wan belleved the| membership for the reservation. On Its Captain had been able to persuade | origina! adoption last Nove). the vote his crew to obey orders. Tho craft | was 69 to 26, with eleven Dem« .. ats vot- was stranded 300 Bad from shore, VESSEL IND DISTRESS cast overboard, ropeated efforys by the Democrats to amend it had failed. ‘Fourteen Demo- pg in the affirmative. A substitute for the Lodge reservation proposed by Senator Hitchcock and pro- viding that the United States is not SENDS) S, ©; S. CALLS] (ia, toi, eave ene Moose Hausic, From London to Mobile, Breaks Three Propeller Blades Near Azores. MOBILE, Ala, March 2.—Broad- cast S. O. 8. calls were sent out to- day by the steamer Moose Hausic, bound from London to Mobile, ac- cording to the Van Heynigen Brok- erage Company, to which the vessel was consigned. The message said three propeller blades were broken anc the vessel wos in o helpless condition near the Azores, ‘Twe More Vensels Are Reported in Distress. NEWPORT, R. 1, March 2,—~The steamship Cedar Springs went ashore on Rose Island, near here, to-day, Tho vessel 1s in no danger. She 1s expected to be released at high tide late to-day. The revenue cutter Aouahnet {9 reported towing the disabled steamer Hilton to this port. — GIRLS IN FIRE. PANIC. Four Engine 1, But Learn Alarm Miss Filimenia Mizzuola. eightec years, was working on an electric w “ machine In the plant of the Spe- cieity Knee Pants any, No. 82 Mulberry Sire wo na ne be gant She Fire scrambiing for the exits, One, Jenn « nda, fainted. A dozen or more reached the #treet and somebody turned nan alarm, which brougit four en- gine companies: Bernate discovered ther: was hurt, but escapes in the sacken Reply to Prem matic language, submit It to the Py tent for final approval, and p the cables note will go forw evening. lo 4 ‘The Senate at once took up the Lodge reservation on the Monroe Doctrine and Senator Lodge moved its adoption with. out amendment. : oe ADRIATIC PARLEY SUDDENLY BROKEN No Reason Given for Ending of Conversations Between Italy and the Jugo-Slavs. LONDON, March 2.—The conversa- tions between Premier Nitti of Italy ind the Jugo-Slavs, in which Foreign Minister Trumbitch and f@mer Pre- mer Pachitch participated, have yeen suddenly broken off, ‘The entire Adriatic question re- tion will be reported when the Peace | financial Conference reassembles in Rome toward the en ft the month pe a NEW WILSON NOTE DRAFTED. Adriatic May Be Sent To-Morrow. WASHINGTON, March 2.—President Wilson has completed his new note to the British and French Premiers on the Adriatic situation, it was said at the! White House to-day It remains for the State Department 9 put the communication in dip! ie it on thought that the It is not Happe: to agot ), March 2.—-William J, @ra- Deputy County Comptroller, has nye refused to — it back in commodities in a shee time. going, for it is said that British sei | ment is not a bit adverse to disclss sion of the matter, What, for instance, would be the opinion of peoples in the Bermudas, | Bahamas and 80 on about being an~ nexed to Dry Land? . Seriously speaking, there has been an annexation movement in som@ of these British Islands: for some time, ‘They have wanted to be annexed to the United States for various reasolis, mostly commercial advantages grow- ing out of geographical proximity. But the advantages of prohibition hgve not yet taken hold of the British imagination. Perhaps the Islands could be got ready for annexation only after wah of the Anti-Saloon League's agenfe — had been able to sow the seed whith mains in suspense, and it seems fairly | Was so effective inside the United certain that no solution of it will be | States. reached while the Supreme Council is) Mr. McAdoo, however, sees tha sitting in London, but that the ques-| question purely as to its bearlag ol: relations between | tho British Empire and the United Statos, Says Mr, McAdoo: “Tt is highly desirable, both oa our own account and that of our Allies, that the settlement of our louns to jour Allies be rendered as quick }and as easy as possible. Our chief debior is, of course, Great Britain, and this arises naturally out of the fact that pat Britain’ bes liberally pledged her credit to sustaia that of her Allies. Now for tho past one hundred years Great Britain Was held certain slands in and near our shores, Ja this time. On the whole the United States could find a billion dollars worth of value in some of these islands without much trouble and get Were it not for the principle enuti= eiated by the distinguished father-ine |law of Mr. McAdoo, namely tie {principle of self-determination, 1 would be easy to get the ro By } 4 J & maica, the Bahamas, Barbadoes. .) | until to-morrow | Nassau, British Honduras, apd the | | Bermudas, off our South Atidntio | Coast boy | | cept a $900 salary Increase! BOL Jooperaine the phos) ity These British possessions, # loua held by @ friendly maritime power, wv antic ——, wo eee oe 0 ene “oer ee soe