The evening world. Newspaper, April 12, 1920, Page 1

SOLDIERS UNLOAD U. S. MAIL: TO.NIGHT’S WEATHER—Rain. FO ee ett “L” CAR IS HURLED TO ST Back Get the Country Peace Basis Che [Circulation Books Open to ANt.”| » ary “Circulation Books Open to All.”’ tet TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Rain: colder, LDA SMITE: VEN EDITION x) Xe VOL. LX. NO. 21,405—DAILY. Copyright, Co. 1920, (The New ‘The Press Publishing York World). NEW YORK, MO NDAY, APRIL = 12, 1920. Post off Entered as Second-Class Matter New York, N. ¥. 18 PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. GALLANDERGIRL_ WRECKED ‘L’ CAR FALLS. ‘WUILAW STRIKES. CITIZENS HELP RUN TELLS OF TORTURE. AS WOMEN WEEP Charges in Court That Father Threw Board With Nail That Stuck in Head, PARENT ONLY LAUGHS. Judge Rebukes Performer as Daughter Says Stepmother Branded Her. Minnie Gallander’s story of how her father once threw @ stick of wood at her, a nail in it lodging in her head, so moved the women who crowded the Jersey Court, Brooklyn, to-day, at the trial of Joha Gallander for alleged felonious as- sault, that they cried aloud in sym New Avenue pathy Galtander, fifty-seven, ts a clay modeller known in vaudeville as “Gallundo.” He tives at No. 150 Grant Avenue, Cypress Hills. ‘The girl, who hus been in the care of the Children’s Society the since she ran away from home of her father and late stepmoiier in May, 1918, went to court accompanied by her sister of the Society and Assistant District Assis- Peters Attorney Helen McCormick. tant District Attorney Albert conducted the prosecution. It was difficult to believe that the Minnie of to-day, a healthy girl of seventeen, with pretty curis over her shoulders, was the emaciated waif picked up two years ago in one of the Brooklyn suburbs and taken to a hospital. She wore a blue skirt, a white waist and white silk gloves. When she be- gan her story there was a frightened jook in her big blue eyes. CHARGES MOST ABUSE TO STEP- MOTHER. Minnie’s most serious charges to- day were directed against her late stepmother, Madge Wenbam, who died from influenza a few months after the girl ran away. A discoloration one inch long on her left arm, she said, Maxtge made with a hot knife. vt stepmother, she said, struck her in the back with an ice pick. A mark three inches long extending from the wrist up the left arm wns caused by her stepmother’s needle. The girl's father did not appear to take her testimony seriously. Gallan- der snickered during much of it and more than once he laughed aloud. Finally he attracted the attention of Magistrate Walsb “You stop that laughing, sir,” the Magistrate said. “You are not attend- ing a matinee.” When it came Minnie to show the marks of her alleged treat ment which remain sh stepped into an ante room and exchanged the white waist for a sweater, Then she rolled up the left sleeve and showed Magis- time fo (Continued on Sixth Page.) Important! Clarified eAverttatns % Sunday Werkd should ‘World office On or Before Friday for ‘The im The Preceding Publication SSS THE WORLD ta tenet wt ht. Annie, fourteen; an agent} ¢ P0006 0908 09090 le of “L” >8BOPHODDHOHOHG Car Left on Track, While Rest Was Knocked Into Street. | Coach of 9th Avenue Local, Which} Ran Past Signal, Splintered in Collision With Express Near Rec-| tor St—Hurled Against Building. Eleven persons were injured, tw TO STREET; tl INJURED $ $900G0655459 poOD9O0000O 2980 HOD9O04O® ‘o of them perhaps fatally, when a down-town express train of seven cars on the Ninth Avenue elevated and a local train collided while the express was switching into the local track above Rector Street at 9.30 o'clock th his morning. The second car of the express struck the first car of the local, an old, wooden car, cutting it al- most in half, and sending the forward part, reduced to kindling wood, with its trucks, down on the Greenwich Street sidewalk. down with the debris, ‘The injured are: FAL MAN, MRS, WLIZABETH, fifty, No, 408 West 41st Street, internal injuries; may die, EBURLIN, FRED G. 12 West 88th Str forty-seven, No. fractured skull may die MAYNARD, J, D., sixty-five, No. 448 West 151st Street, lacerations of head and body and possible interna! MOSS, ‘THOMAS, forty-two, Kast 49th Gtreet, cut about the head. CANTER, EDWARD, 11st Street MURPHY, LOUIS, No. 350 West 119th injuries. No. 319 face and No, 300 West Street. FULACO, JOHN, No. 158 Hobson street, Laure! Hills, L. 1, clerk Italian} Immigration dety. PAGE, ROBERT, acalp wounds, KUNKEL, L S., thirty-nine, No. 236 East 26th Street, cuts about arms and head. STEWART, A. N., fire insurance agent, No. 11 West 84th Street, SMITH, THOMAS, fifty-seven, No. 606 Van Cortlandt Avenue, Yonkers,] Most of the passengers were carried @. motorman of the local, SARAMA, PETER, No 146th Street, fractured ankle. MOTORMAN OF LOCAL TAINED BY POLICE. Smith was detained by the police temporarily, but was released after a preliminary investigation in custody of the Interborough Company, Aasis- tant District Attorney Joyce has be- gun an investigation for the District Attorney while Deputy Public Service Commissioner Edward J. Glennon is conducting another for his office. “The expreas train had the right of way,” said Deputy Glennon. “Smith 303 West DE- | ran by a signal which was set aguinst him.’ “T suppose Imay have made a mis- (Continued on Second Page.) THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREAD, fade, Pullen (World) Building. 68-65 ‘pare sa ee is Teleaboa ° 4000, | i | } OdOODSO2 YF ONE DEAD, 1 DYING, AFTER HIGH LEAP IN CELLULOID FIRE Unidentified Man Appeared Screaming on Third Floor— Body Found in-Ruins. | e ap-| A man with his clothing at peared scrgaming at a third story} window at Houston and Bedford Streets at about 1.30 o'clock this at ternoon. Firemen were at work below. “Don't jump!" they yelled to hin There was no ladder available the ins nt, but th ‘ a large bale of excelsion a short distance which four men rolled toward the building for him to alight on, but he jumped too soon and was mortally | wounded He identified. ‘The wo upper floors ¢ were in flames t great rapidity from a celluloid manu-| facturing concern on the third floor.| The body of a man, burned to death, | was no the bunidis had spread witi was found on the fourth floor, His, name has not been learned | Morris Ritzfeld, proprietor of th: luloid co ro, sald the fi startea| from friction at a lathe. He tried tol beat it out with his hands, which were bady burned The building dates from civil times, when it wa a8 an armory machi ahop’ tu Union | used by floor was makers. The alcohols and | hat they use, and Ue celluloid of the floor yw, made spectcular blaze. ‘Three alarms were sounded | before there were firemen and ap- paratus enough to subdue it, The damage was about $25,000. Final rites for the dying were ad~| ministered to him by Father Moratto ot the St. Raphael Society for Ita (immigrants, | Lee, President of the Brotherhood of »| Gompers, President of the American $| Federa >| up “soon.” They based the prediction ling of the original wage ‘increase WEAKEN IN WEST; GAINING IN EAST | Insurgents Modify Their De-| mands in Chicago District and Claim Victory. SOME MEN RETURNING.|! Loyal Unionists Volunteer to Break Tie-Up Anywhere in Country. CLEVELAND, April 12-—W. G. Railroad Trainmen, and Samuel ion of Labor, predicted to-day that the yardmen's strike will break on reports from all parts of the country, Gompers said: “Reports indicate that the insurgent strike is breaking. I intend doing everything I powsibly can to bring about an immediate ad. justment and believe that the wahout will be over soon.” “Local and national conditions point to an early return of all workers,” “During the morning I have received about forty telegrams telling of action taken by men in decking to return to work." CHICAGO, April 12.—Developments west of Pittsburgh in the switehmen's “outlaw” strike to-day were regarded by railroad brotherhood officials as pointing toward a gradual dissolution of the insurgent forces, but in the t, where the walkout was joined in several districts by trainmen, the situation assumed a more serious as- pect. In the Central and Far West numer- ous reports of defections from the strikers’ ranks followed the report of the first important break at Colambua, O., where 600 switchmen voted to re- turn to work. At Chicago, the admitted keystone of the walkout, railroad officials were presented “terms for settlement of the strike,” which included recognition of the new union formed by dissenters from the Brotherhood of RatIroad! ‘Trainmen and the Switchmen's Unton of North America, MEN GIVE UP ONE OF THEIR DO} MANDS ON ROADS. In the settlement offer, proffered by John Grunau, President of the Chicago Yardmen's Association, who called the strike, at least one radical concession was made—abrogation of the claims for ack pay demanded by the older or- ganizations in thelr contracts with the Government. That possibly would mean a saving of hundreds of thou- sands of dollars to the railrouds, Other clauses in the proposed set- tlement agreement demanded graut Lee said (Continued on Second Page) _— -ANS AFTER MEALS and seq | DIGESTION makes rou feel, Ade, | TAKE BE dow five GOO! Notice to Advertisers: The Evening World is obuged to! omit 18 columns of advertising to. day for lack of space. Publication, can space may bern receipt at The Worl Display advertising copy for the sup. plement Sections of The Sunéay World M. Thursday, P faust be received by 1 P.M. Thur preceding — publica Bushey’ advertising copy for ine Mt Display advertising ° Main Bhest of The Sunday World must be received by @ P.M. of tie orecegia ay and re by 13 o'clock moon Saturday, Display copy or orders received ta: than ua’ provided abo: will not eerve to earn Character, contract of oth THE erwing.. WORLD TRAINS TO NEW YORK ~ ®e FACTS IN OUTLAW STRIKE TYING UP RAILWAY TRAFFIC Many New York Trains Taken Off by Erie, Pennsylvania and Lackawanna. HB situation of the railroads entering New York this af- ternoon was: ERIE—Passenger and freight service suspended east of Port Jervis except for occasional through mail trains with office workora, trainmasters and super- intendents as parts of crews, LACKAWANNA—Preight «nad local passenger service suspend- ed; through trains running \rreg- ularly with volunteer crew Mieven ferryboats and nine tugs \ RAILROAD OF EY — All paswenger mervice suspended, including Reading connections. General Managets’ Assockation anticl- paten resumption this evening and to-morrow. LEWIGH VALLEY — Operated through and local trains subject to delay; some freight service. Four tugs workin. WEST SHORE — Maintained fair passenger service in spite of walkout of passenger and freight yard workers, but moved no freight. Two ferryboats run- ning. PENNSYLVANIA — Cancelled nearly half the through pussen- rer trains; local trains sent out without reference to time table on announcement in waiting rooms as trains were made up; office workers operating yard engines and switches. One hundred and thirty-two cars of perishable freight received; embargo on all other freight in eastern area Promise to get all commuters home with slight delays, Six ferryboats (three extra) and nine tugs in service. LONG ISLAND — Operating passenger trains under same con- ditions as Pennsylvania; no freight moving. Two ferryboats ronning. Road crews have re- fused to strike, but absenge of switch crews throttling opera- tion. NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD annulled num- erous trains, including the Mer- chants’ Limited to Boston. The departure of the Knickerbocker Limited was uncertain, Service between New York and New Haven was subject to indefinite delays and annulments, and all parior, dinning and club car ser vice dropped. No freight was bandied THE NEW YORK CENTRAL, tmough nearly ail its trains were an hour or more lute, cancelled no trains incoming or outgoing. Din ing cars were dropped and pas sengers supplied with sandwiches wofore starting. Live k and perishable freight from the West arrived regularly, and ears were lai@ out along the west side yards, where produce dealers were urmed 0 with their trucks and do their own unload ing an promptly possible Seven tugs were working BALTIMORE AND OHIO—First suspended then partly resumed freight service on Staten Lyland, Passenger service from Pennsy!. vania Terminal subject to same delays as Pennsylvania service, HUDSON AND MANHATTAN TUBES—Cloved to passengers, Instruction trains running con- tinuously in preparation for re- suming service to-morrow, So is WORLD RESTAURANT Someta) for to-day, Somday, Ape 12. 1930.» simi, French fried potatows. 00; rosst free fenall e fe ever alae Oe to Boston. Pavonia Avenue, Jersey City i local post offices, cut on mail cars, It was reported local service. honte to-nigat, Seventeen army trucks, each with a cl two armed guards began unloading mails trom the West which had b.en accumulating, to take tiem out alone the suburban lines for distributior « ) Crews Abandon Four Trains Carry- ing Mails—Jersey Central Sus- pends All Passenger Service—- New Haven Cuts Off Express Following interruption of the mails by violent interference of strikers with Erie trains at Paterson, N. J., and Port Jervis, N. Y., early toway soldiers from Camp Merritt, N. J., appeared at the Erie Terminal ai wteur and two helpers and that armed guards were to be. ¢ The spread. of the strike was shown by fie suspension of the Lackawanna commuter service, the suspension for the early afternoon and perhaps indefinitely of the Central Railroad of New Jersey local and through passenger service, and the demoralization of New. Haven The Pennsylvania and Long Island announced that in spite of irregular conditions during the day they would get all Commuters | ‘The Cleveland Flyer, leaving the Erie station at Jersey City at 9.45 | P_M,, stopped at Paterson to take aboard twelve trucks of mail. A band | of “outlaw” strikers surrounded the engine and when the fireman refused to leave attempted to drag him from his cab. The fireman and | the engineer fought them off with a wrench and a shovel until a train- | master from Jersey City, who was ina Passenger coach, ran forward and CARRSON CHARGES “ABITATORSSEEKT ~PARALZE. RT [Receiver to Discharge Any Man Heeding “Revolution- ary” Strike Plotters. Lindley M, Garrison, the Brooklya Rapid Transit Company, receiver for issued a formal statement to-day in which he charged that revolutio) ry the system ag they have tried to paralyze agitators are trying to paraly the railroads. The statement, copies of which are to be posted in all car barns and em- ployees’ waiting rooms is us follows: “T now have an agreement as to working hours, wages, &c., with com- mittees selected by the men in prac- tically every branch of the conypuny's stem, ‘Irresponsible are seek- ing to induce the employees to break (hese agreementy without warrant, and by 80 doing are seeking to injure the employees and the management. ‘There agitators is no warrant or basis for any such conduct, The management will stand by every loyal employee, and will discountenance disloyalty from any source “The present movement, which has spreud so alarmingly, is not @ bona fide lubor movement, but is revolu- tionary in dbaracter and wanton tn effect. “Any employee of the system who gives aid or comfort to this revelu- tionary movement will be instantly suspended, and ff after investigation by the management im connection with the respective committees of enrployees| he is fownd gufity, he will be dis-' charged?» ordered the train to start without waiting for alt the mail, * When the train moved out, the fire- man collapsed from exhaustion and the trainmaster stoked the engine as far as Port Jervis, W. F. Griffiths, General Pas- senger agent of the Lackawanna, had a telephone call early to-day from 8. H. Gillespie, head of a committee of Morristown (N. J.) , business men. ‘Why can’t we have a train te the city?” Gillespie said. Because we haven't got the firemen,” said Griffiths, wearily, “If we furnish the firemen will you furnish the train?” “You bet we will,” the rai man said. The committee then produced three men who used to be firemen and now are business men. They I! had their overalls and their muscles. The qualified. The train left Morristown at 9.02 and reached Hoboken at 10.24. it starts back this afternoon at 4.15 sharp, mn care. And to-morrow “We'll furnish the train as te: as they furnish the firemen,” sai Griffiths. “They are good firemen and they can stay on the payrolt as long as they like.” He would not tell their names. J. J, Mantel! of the General Man- agor’s Committee to whom this report agers Committee to whom the report of the held up mail train was made this morning from Port Jervis, said that three later trains, the Southern Tier Limited, the Chicago Limited and the Cleveland Express, all mail trains had been a#bendoned there be- cause of the desertion of firemen. All express and baggage cars were cut out-and the mail cars and sufficient passenger coachey consolidated into & substitute train which came on Tast with an offictal of the road as ‘The story of being strike bound, in the foothills of the Catskill Moun tains, wae told by Mrs. EG. of Lynbrook, I. ky and Cott) of Corning, who is Hotel Theresa. “When the train reached vis,” she entd, “it was met of rafiread men who swarmed about the engine and dragged the fireman