The evening world. Newspaper, April 8, 1920, Page 1

' %, “OUTLAW and cold. Get the perm P B Back on.Peace cod | VOL, LX. NO. 21,402—DAILy. cade hd 1920, by The Press Faviishing (The ‘New York Worl: 1 INDICTMENTS DUE BEFORE NIGHT STRIKE ON RAILROADS SPREADS ove NEW YORK, EE Dl idelead ‘APRIL 8, | NEW ERMARLFRENCH CLASH res i REPORTED NEAR FRANKFORT: EBERT SENDS MORE TROOPS ‘Outbreak Sea Hite ‘Homburg Fol- lows Killing of Rioters in Frankfort. ‘FALSE REPORTS GIVEN. \Gas Shells Hurled by Ebert Troops on Red Forces in Duesseldorf, | YONKERS HERO RESCUES 2,000 FROM THE TURKS PARIS, April ?£—tt is reported from Coblenz that there has been a colli- sion of French and German patrols between Bad Nauheim and Nicder WoNetadt, north of Homburg. } Im the exchange of shots a German officer wes wounded. * German regular troops have bom- barded Duesseldorf with gas shells, age Set Afire When Arme- nian Village Is Destroyed. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 7 (Asso- ciated Press).Turks have destroyed the village of Harouniyi, northeast of Adana, and burned the American Or- phanage there. Two thousand Armen- according to-a Mayence despatch to ian orphans were removed under fire the Matin. Jand taken to Adana in sufety by Duesseldorf, one of the most im- | wriiam Gilbert jr. of Yonkers, N. portant manufacturing cities in Ger-|y, They wilt probably be sent to many and the site of the perpetual! Cyprus, as the Adana district is much exposition of all German manufac-! disturbed. tared goods, lies on the Rhine, in the! Railway communication has been neutral zone in which German troops | Testored between Adana and Aleppo. {Turkish c sees forbidden, by the ‘Treaty’ urkish Nationalists have taken ver control of the village of Bardi- ef Versailles, to operate. | za}, on the southern side of the Gulf Additional German troops are om of Ismid, about fifty miles from Con- their way to the Ruhr Valley, accord-| stantinople, but there are few indi- | dick Leads Children from Orphan- | ing to a dispatch to ‘The Temps to-| day from Mayence. The message! gays the second brigade of marines} is en route from Stettin. At Frankfort the French general “has Posted a proclamation announc-} ing that the reports of an intended | withdrawal of the French troops were falve, \A delegation from the munici-| pality has presented to the general a) sclema protest against the occupa-| tion of the city. Mayence reports that 10000 more! refugees from Ruhr have arrived in| the British zone and been interned. FRANKFORT, April 8 (Associated Press).—A clash in the Schillerplatz yesterday afternoon between French | troops and the population resulted in the killing of six Germans and the wounding of some two score others, It was followed wy a strong display of French military force which re- sulted in the restoration of order by the time daricness had set in. + Ie was a ramor that the French had ! been forced by the pressure of the | Allies and the United States to with- draw from the city that started the| | trouble. The crowd jeered and taunt- | ed the troops, yelling “You've got to | get out!” at the Senegalese who were | patrolling in front of the guard house | on the square. | A French officer ordered the crowd + to disperse, and when the order was ignored a machine gun was brought into play. Disturbances also oveurred | in other parts of the city. The firing attracted u great ,to the square, encircling the rhe French then began to br reinforcements, four tanks crowd up tween (Continued on — You cam stilt buy cranberries Iona than lawt_your—Ady HT Glaasfed Aveta | | Important: i] aneieted navertiainn cany ar $y) Sunday Worla @hould © in il) Woetd effice 11 On or Before Friday | Preceding Publication | cond Page.) They when Sunday adveriiany tas emaltied, | Late pf ng fmutied’ for tmey gf ttm to ‘sen THE WORLD |has been in tho N cations of trouble in Anatolia. Hadjin, north of Adana, is still cut off from the outs: te world, and other | Armenian villages aro being besieged | by the Turks, according to advices received here. Hundreds of refugees are arriving in Adana daily. The railway ‘between Adana and Konia, to the Northwest, has been cnt. Leo Burke of Hornell, N, Y. and Webster A. Anderson of Craw- | fordsville, Ind, both workers in the American Committee for Relief in the Near East, have reached Adana from Ulukishla, about half-way between Adana and Konia. They were fired |upon several times during their trip, | but were not injured, Damad Ferid Pasha was formally inducted into office as Grand Vizer to-day, William Gitbert, twenty-five years old, is the son of the Rey. William Morris Gilbert, pastor of St. Paul's Episcopal Church on North Broad- way, Yonkers, During the war he took the naval training course at Pelham Bay and won a commission in the navy as ensign about a month before the armistice was signed. He was then put on the Naval Reserve list. : He Joined the Near East Relief and * Kast for more than a was year. slationed at Oulow-Kishla, | Turkey, a supply depot, and was later sent to the orphanage northeast Adana, He was about to receive his degree in Union College, Schenectady the war broke out. He poet of his class. STARVE ON DISABLED SHIP. when | Mystic tm Helpless Condition and Food Sapply In Loy BOSTON, April 8.—'The United States Shipping Board steamer Mysile in drift in a helpless condition off the Gut of St. Law: fecor ton ndio mestuge from the el steomehip intercepted at the « Aveor ' supply ont Tie Mystic w Ne We oH Randall & Co. of Be ~~ WORLD RESTAURANT, Boat yh ° is, igueven at! iene Babe ie tae ouas" 3 we For weven months he} \Judge Tells Lawyers to Go was chosen | | the tenants an additional year at this |rate, Landlords showed @ marked | ants went out of the courtroom happy petitions dfd not conform to the new | sustained. | vs. Delevanty. ON LAST APRIL RATE PLUS 25 PER CENT. Four rs Ry Tenants Happy at Getting Another Year on This Basis. BLOW TO LANDLORDS. Ahead and Appeal if They Doubt His Decisions, In &5 per cent. of the landlord-ten- ant cases in the Second District Municip! Court of the Bronx this morning Justice Robitzek adjusted the dispute on the basis of the April, 1919 rent, plus 25 per cent, and gave disposition to agree ‘9 this basis of adjustment, and more than 400 ten- that their rent troubles w re settled for twelve months. In about 5 per cent. of the cases, the tenants were instructed to find new quarters by June 1 or July 1. In the remaining 10 per cent, of the caves, Justice Robitzek dismissed the proceedings on the ground that the statutes. This latter ruling evoked disap- proval from landlords and their law- yers. One lawyer intimated that the court was browbeating the land- lords and hinted at an appeal. "Go ahead and take your appes! if you want to,” replied Justice Ttwbit- zek. “I am not so vain as to my legal record as not to be willing to risk a chance of reversal if by so Coing I can grant these tenants need- ed delay in this extraordinary situ- ation.” WOMAN ACTING AS HER OWN COUNSEL WINS. A Mrs. Schultz appeared as her own counsel and scored a victory over counsel for the Tiebout Con- struction Company, which owns a house at No. Tiebout Avenue, Mrs, Schultz said that two years ago she was paying $26 a month and last month she paid $45. Now the landlord wants $50. Acting on the advice of the Mayor's Committee on Rent Profiteering, Mrs. Schultz moved that the petition for eject- ment be dismissed because it did not allege that the increase, whic! amounted to more than 25 per cear, was justifiable. The motion was An ususual case was that of Cohen Cohen owns a three- family house in which Delevanty | lives at No, 1987 Washington Avenue. | Cohen lives on West 127th Streot, He} sought to evict Del in order to} move into his own house. He said tliat negroes had invaded West 127th Street and that negro families were | ovanty (Continued on Second Page.) /MORE PICKETS HELD |\AT BRITISH SaaS | =| | | Three Are Refuse Sent House io Give Bail are to District of Columbia af Detention. VDON W\ SHINE Apri 8 Irish pickets| British Em and wore promptly ar: police ‘Bex of viol Federal Statutes that makes Ssy again ed by on priroa oma Misses Taylor Inn, No. » will be he ~_ | few nt GOOD DIGESTION mades rou ‘oat Adve ) * Py MEN IN 3 BROTHERHOODS - DEFY OWN CHIEFS IN STRIKE: THOUSANDS 0 | Illegal Tie-Up Sprea Spreads*as Dis- affection Grows Inside Labor Ranks, FORM NEW Chicago Food Situation Serious and Many Other Industries Are Hit. ST. LOUIS, Mo. April 8—The St. ‘UNIONS’ Louis District Yardsmen’s Associa. | ton, composed of 5,000 switchmen, switch foremen, engineers and fire- men here, in East St. Louis and Mad- ison County, [inols, to-day voted to “resign” if an answer to demands for inercased wages is not received to-night. CHICAGO, April 8—Whether the railroad brotherhoods can control their men or whether the unauthor- ized and “itlegal” strikes sweeping railroad yards from Buffalo, N. Y, Los Angeles, Cal., have so disrupted the established unions that leaders have lost all control is ex- pected to be decided to-day, Railroad officials and union leaders here alike agreed that to-day would bring the real test of strength between the strongly entrenched group of brotherhoods and the “outlaw” unions) which have sprung up under leaders who yoice their dissatisfaction at what they declare is the faiture of the brotherhood officials to get more money for their men. In the Chicago district, where strikes started elght days ago, Railroad General Managers’ Associa- tion has set to-day as the last for the striking switchmen, engineers and fire- men to return, If they fail to heed the ultimatum —strikebreakers will be brought in and the vacant places fill it is said. STRIKE SPREADS ALL OVER COUNTRY. A review of the situation shows: ‘Chicago—8,000 to 10,000 railroad men out; freight service reduced to about 30, to 60 per cent. of nonmal; 36,000 packing house em ployees forced out of work by the shut-down. Kansas City—2/500 men on strike; 9 to 13 roads entering the city affected. Buftalo—2,700 men idle; Iroad yards tied up; an em bargo in effect against all freight Los Angeles—500 to 1,000 men the the seven on strike; three transcontinental lines affected, ‘Toledo—6,000 switchmen out; all traific expected towbe at a stand still within twenty-four hours. Gary—800 men out; — strike spreading St. Louis, Eust Louis and Milwaukee —— Men holding meetings Lo consider organization St are of bra 8 of the new “outluw" unions CHICAGO FACES SERIOUS FOOD SHORTAGE. faced # seriv’ Potato of $7 per yesterday, the Chicaro us t ed short to-duy high record pounds, age new h made a hundred wholesale, jumped another dollar when market opened this morning. Ese receip day as compared to more than 24,1 ris of the veduy rai roads milk trains moving ave been partially suce and a Meat ready pr ndvanced severn he past sult of ing plan Arsimieiat ¢ of work at pac oner Bangor, of (Continued on Second Page.) the) | counsel. apparent. | 1920. Katered as Second-Class Matter Fest Office, New York, TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Fair, continued cold. EDITION WI Vis EVENS “82 PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. F MENNOW QUT SOHN P. O'BRIEN, NEW HEAD OF CITY LEGAL DEPARTMENT JOAN MTERNATIONSL TEN Assistant Corporation Counsel John P. O'Brien was to-day appointed and sworn in by Mayor Hylan as succes- |sor to William P, Burr as corporation O'Brien was accompanied to the City Hall by his friend and closest com- petitor for the appointment, Assistant Corporation Counsel Nicholson. Mayor Hylan hesitated for several days in making a choice between them and se- lected O'Brien because of his farmiliur~ ity with franchise question and his tority in the Bis law service, S- H-H! NICKY SEEN! VISITS MYSTERIOUS MONTREAL BROKER} Amstein, Loaded Down With Money, Shows No Fear of Arrest in Candian City. seecial to The Rvening World.) MONTREAL, April 8.—N icky Arn-| stein, master mind in the $5,000,000 bond theft plot, is in \ or at| least he was tilt last night, Nicky ur- rived yesterday morning and paid a visit to @ mysterious Montreal broker. St. Francis Xavier Street, the brokers’ atreet, gave Arnstein the “once over" yesterday, and it Is on this street that the mysterious broker business The master mind was loaded down with money and had no fear of deten- tion or arrest. He was in the city at} east 24 houra and this fact waa known conducts hig to one private detec Arnstein is thought to curely hidden from the police Several New York detectives are in town, ‘hey declare they ars secking n-year-old messenger who 1 in a Now York broker the real cu their visit | to be the of Arn ae | LION CAPTURED IN JERSEY. | Mack With Affer Roaming Near nonton for Week, HAMMONTTON, N April 8-4 «plared rty aeapod | A nun per ci KH CHARLIE CHAPLIN HIT ON NOSE BY WIFE'S MANAGER heart commend | Comedian Felled After Inviting | His Opponent to ‘Remove Glasses, FACE BEARS SCRATCHES. Fight Caused by Terms of Settlement Offered to Mrs. Chaplin. LOS ANGELBS, Cab., April 8.— Charlie Chaplin's face to-day bore marks of a hotel lobby fight last night! with Louis Mayer, film producer and | manager of Chaplin's estranged wife, Mildred Harris Chapfin. “Ask Mayer and my wife; they can tel you," was Chaplin's statement re- warding the fray. According to witnesses Chaplin met Mayer in the hotel lobby and demand- ed he remove his glasses. Mayer com- Pied and Chaplin missed a sewing. to the jaw. After several exchanges Chaplin fell to the floor, The film comedian’s nose showed several deep scratches to-day. Mayer said the arouble arose over the eettiement to be made with Mrs. Chaplin, CROKER MOVES FOR QUICK TRIAL Says He Is Subjected to Unreason- |$16,c00 worth of copper and street railway stocks between June of af ternoon, SENATE ABOLISHES lll “PILE OFFICIAL PURCHASED $16,000 STOCKS IN A YEAR, VICE GRAND JURY 1S be Indictment Predicted by Smith, With Two of Henry’s Detectives, Keep- er of a Raided Restaurant, and Three of Latter’s Employees. Reeords of transactions with a Wall Street brokerage house by @ |high police official, showing that the officer had purchased approximately last year and March of this, was submitted to the Nelson- Robinson, or regular Grand Jury by Assistant District “Attorney James E. Smith this Mr. Sinith announced that he expected the Grand Jury to return seven indictments, at least four of them before to-night, One, ne pre- dicted, would be against a prominent police official « QnA. charge. of negtect of duty. The others were to be against two detectives of In- Spector Henry's staff, the proprietor of a restaurant recently raided in that inspector's district, and three of tie employees in the place, : @ The Assistant District Attorney also said that he was prepared to take | Police records of recent rakds by membens of the staffs of Chief In- apector Daly and Inspector MeDonald, wefore the Grand Jury in stbstantia. tion of ‘his charges. Mr. Smith said the that the police CHAMBERLAIN’S JOB Mayor Hylan Receives First Real Setback ‘When Downing 'Bill Is Passed. ALBANY, April 8.—By a vote of %) record showed official bought 300 , \shares of Kennecott Copper Company Stock for $10,552.92 on Oct. 1, 1919, dex able Hardships by Having His Funds Tied Up: PALM BRAOH, April 8.—Attorneys for Richard Croker, former Tammany boss, to-day moved to have the suit brought by the Croker children to have their father declared incompe- tent to handle his affairs, transferred to another court. Judge BE. 8, Donnell, Beach Court, who issued the tempo- to 13, the Senate to-day passed the Downing bill designed to abolish the of- ‘ice of Chamberlain of the City of New York and transferring the functions of the offee to the City Comptroller, The Sena: action was the first legislative setback that Mayor Hylan has reeeived at the hands of the Demo- cratic members of the Senate, Vrtually all the Republican members voted for of the Palm the passage of the ‘bill. Domocratic rary injunction preventing Croker or] Senators recorded in favor of the bill his wife from disposing of any prop-|were Black, Cotillo, Dodge, Dowling, erty, has been il] and probably will he unable to hear arguments for some time. Attorneys for Croker sald he would be subject to unreasonable hardship unless there is speedy court action. He and his wife are now restrained from cashing checks or transacting any other such business paste y Union Wil Fight Strikers, RY, Ind,, April 8.-«Members of the Gary local af the Brotherhood of Rall- road Trainmen at a special session yotod unanimously to combat the atrike of the Downing and Kaplan. PRESIDENT URGED TO NAME BOARD Has Trouble Finding Three Business Men to Represent Public in Rail Dispute. WASHINGTON, April 8.-—In view of the railroad strike at Chicago, Preal- dent Wilson's advisers urged upon him to-day to send to the Senate the nom- yard men, Officials of the unton 40-1 ingtions of the nine members of the clare the strike to be unauthorized, taliiead kaos Bnara. ” ‘The President has been having dif- |GERMANS GIVE UP ficulty finding three men to give up their business and represent the pubfic on the board. BATTLESHIP THAT THE U.S. IS TO GET’ ewis CHARGES CONSPIRACY Ostfriesland One of ihe First Of| Prosecutor Files Awanst Fellx Reife: District Attorney Lewis t hn the Brooklyn Court of | sions an information against Felix F Additional Surrenders to Be De- livered at British Port LONDON, April & HE German battleships Nas- Jer Jr., former U, 8. Commi sau and Ostfriesland ar- | sioner, who was held by Magistrate Dodd ; pag on a charge of conspiracy. ‘The co rived e h ort set tel ii : bis | gor cy charge grew out of Rel # constituting the | scnelder's alleged connection with Mrs. ement of the surrender | ‘\nnie Milla extess, in suits sho| inder of German war- j prought against Isaac Jersey. ‘The Mills ships under the terms of the | woman is now in Auburn Prison sery- Treuly of Versailles Jing a term for perjury Ultimately the Ostfriesland will Reifenschneider will be called upon to o tuttied: over to the America plead Monday be turned ov ‘ ty Amer me | vernment, and the Admiralty wwaiting instructions from TRAINING PLAN DOOMED. tes WIL Ank V. Washing date on regarding the vessel wil! depart | ‘The battleship Osuriesiand was | April §.—Defeat of placed in cc nin Septem. { universal military train ber, 1911. H line provi niza- being S46 feet and her beam ga [ate pe the plan, "20" mare faate lia GoMmulamant cetia o- | oer a vote on the they planned to sel is wbout 1.100 men | substitute a programme for voluntary ~~ 1 tr alaeteen op; spore yours od. > oe positing $7,500 at the time and paying $1,000 three days later. The remainder was pald Oct, 29. In June, July and August of Jast year the same official, he said, bought B. R. T. stock and pald In two instal- ments, the first being $5,115.05 and the second $343.33, The figures show, Smith added, that the oficial owed the firm $10,552.92 on Mareh 31, 1920, The Grand Jury convened at 2 o'clock. first witness, He carried into the jury rcom with him records of raids made by his own and Inspector McDozald’y staff in Inspector Henry's district, DR. STRATON APPEARS TO TELL OF HIS TOUR. The Rey, John Roach Straton, Pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, was the second witness. He was ex- pected to tell the Grand Jury the de- tails of bis investigation in the White Light resorts in the Fourth Inspec- tion District, commanded by Inspector Henry. Miss Grace Humiston and three of her welfare workers were also to testify and in all twenty-four wit- nesses had bedn summoned, In speaking of the charges against the two detectives of Inspector Henry's staff, Mr. Smith declared he would have two witnesses to tell the Grand Jury of what he described asa ‘brutal attempt at bribery.” According jo the Assistant District Attorney, last December, a broker, with offices In Wall Street and an apartment in West 734 Street, whose wife expected to become a mother, decided to advertise bis apartment for sub-lease, On Dec. 8, Smith myn, 4 man went to the door of the apart- ment in answer to this advertise- ment, Hardly had he entered when two detectives, both of whom are on Henry's t, according to Smith, followed him into the apartment, ac- cused the broker's wife of violating, the tenement house act and ordered the man out of the place, At this point, Smith qays, the broker came in and one of the detec- tives is quoted as having said: What the hell do you want here? “Why, I belong here, I'm this lady's husband,” the broker replied, “That's what they all sa: says the detective answered, ‘The woman was arrested and sub- Smith of four months for all youths | seqventiy found not guilty by Mag tatate @, Norris, pr sdiywsides ena Chief Inspector Daly was the »