The evening world. Newspaper, April 29, 1920, Page 1

Ng “a cepa tenements TO-NIGHT'S WEATH ER—Fair. STORM IRISH POLICE VOL. LX. NO. 21,420—DAILY. ico 94 (re he oa “Yon world). NEW YORK, THURSDAY, pede 29, - SHOOTING OF BOY WHO BROKE BLUE LAW REVEALS MOST PRIMITIVE TOWN W ANERIGA * No Curfew Bell Because No- * body Stays Up Late Enough to Ring It;;Motion Pictures and Phonographs Looked Upon as Lures df Satan; Nothing Doing on Sunday Except Going to Church and Singing Hymns. One Disturbing Element Is ’ the Returned Soldiers Who Have Seen Life in France— Church Runs the Govem- ment, and Elders and Oys- ters Have Made the Town Safe for Methodism of the Old-Fashioned Kind. By Delos Avery,” (Special From a Staff of The Evening World.) ORISFIELD, M4, April 29.—The Methodist Wpiscopal population of , Tangier Island, down Chesapeake Bay, has ceased t@ worry about the life of young Roland the boy who was shot for refusing to go to church. He is getting well. They hav¥e ‘sent him home from the nos pital here. and during bis conva- lewoence he will have a sort of spécial @apensation, permitting him to sit - om his father's front porch, or’ any poreh he likes, whether a church ser- vies is in progress or not. But if the people have ceased to Worry about the lad’s survival, they @re just beginning to worry in earn- est about what they call “the revolu- tonary tendency” which the Incident i of the shooting has started on the i island. 5 ‘The Eiders, they who have made of the official Methodist Church dis- Gtpline the supreme “be it enacted” of the grimmest religious community fm the United States, are worrying lest they lose their power, lest the forces of evil seize upon the shooting OB\n0, opportunity to break down the bafricade of righteousness and let in all the evils of Crisfield, inetuding + motion pictures and jazz phonograph ePresords to take the place of the wheezy records from the Methodist ‘ . Hymnal, which are now the music afd the night life of the town. 7 _ Where is nothing like Tangier. The » blue. waters of the bay and the blue sky above it are not so blue as the laws that govern the island. Lawes ; originating in the new little frame ; building of the Swain Memorial ‘ Church and thence transported 10 Larry Crocket, the reverend Mayor, ‘and by him to the Town Council, for enactment. He who owns a musical instrument or am instrument politely called mus- feal, shall not play it during the hours of church service, even though he muffle the walls of his dwelling. A boy who owns a baseball, an ob- ject tooked upon with disfavor and suspicion at any time, shall not toss, | > throw, rol or otherwise convey Wid / baseball to another boy on the Sab- bath. In fact, on the Sabbath, there are only two things that may be done: You my go to church—in fact you must—and when church is over you * may go home and sing religious songs \ watil bed time. f NO ONE STAYS UP LATE ENOUGH a TO RING CURFEW BELL. “Bed time there is a curfew, but not oMfictally. There are two reasons as- signed for thie. One js that there | peally is ho need for a go-to~bed bell. te many citizens of Tangier, though | (Continued on Second Page.) —<—<_——- EST. NOW WILL PRICES ‘OF MEAT GO DOWN IN RETAIL STORES? POLIGE ATTACKED BY - ARMED BAND NEAR RISHC CAPITAL Barracks Pree After Trees Are Felled to Block the- Roads. | MAIL TRAIN IS ROBBED. Masked Men Hold It Up at Kinsale Junction—Priests . Attacked. i DUBLIN, April 29%—The Rush police barracks, ten miles from Dublin, were attacked by an armed band this morning. This is the first incident of the kind “s0"nhear the capital. The attack’ was prepared in the usual way by felling trees to block the roads and disabling telegraphic communication. Even the junction of the telegraph system of the Great Northern Railway was cut, Avail- able information shows that the Ser- geant in charge of the barracks re- gelved fatal Injuries and other police- men were ‘wounded, while the roof of th barracks was blown off. Increased ‘hostility compelled early @bandonment of last night's Sinn Fein demonstration in front of Wormwood Scrubs prison in protest ‘against con- finement of hunger- striking Irish political prisoners there. | Anti-Sinn Feiners stoned priests who were re- citing the rosary. ‘There were numerous clashes, Six persons were tnjured in a struggle for possessoin of 4 Sinn Fein banner, Po- lice chargea the rioters, using their batons impartially, and the demon- stration was dispersed. CORK, April 29.—A large party of armed masked men held up the mail train from Cork for Bantry this morning at Kinsale Junction. Tyo mail bags were taken. ‘This ig the third time the train has Been robbed of mail matter at the same spot, Livestock Has Big Wholesale De- R, BUGHNE H. PORTER, to-day’s reports from the 60th “By the end of this week New than the prices of a week and ten decreases in the wholesale market “When live lambs were selling for lamb chops. Live lambs to- to-day in the Daily Market Re- selling at $9.60 a hundred pounds, ratio. Hogs have ‘dropped but the livestock markets of Buffalo the customer the benefit. The when the wholesale price ia up, it Butter was to'day reported to \STEINWAY TUNNEL to Forty-First Street and Delaney will advise the Board of Esti- Route of the Interborough from tts Point under 41st Street at Seventh Ave- @ point midway between Fifth and Sixth der 41st Street to a point about 300 feet ‘This extension of the Queensboro between the city and the Interborough. West of Seventh Avenud, at a level be- Subway, and that is now used for Subway system, cline, Which Should Be State Commissioner of Street Stock Yards and based York should be buying veal dnd days ago. should be passéd.along to the for 85 cents, a short time ago, the day bring 16 and 17 cents.” port at 16 and 16 cents. ‘The price Against last week's $12.50. not proportionately. and Chicago,” Dr. Porter said, trouble is that while the price to seldom drops back when the have dropped nine cents a pound TO BE EXT: ENDED Seventh Avenue, mate within a few days that he {s pre- Present temporary terminus under 4d nue. The so-called Queensboro Subway Avenues, thence under Bryant Park to West of Seventh Avenue. ‘The estimated Subway line is a modificatiog of the line As originally proposed, the tube was to Jow the existing fourtrack line that, had service between the east and $608,269,185 CUT HYLAN VETO SAVES CITY CHAMBERLAIN Mayor Does Not Believe Comp- troller Should Have Power to Audit Own Accounts, Mayor Hylan to-day vetoed Comp- troller Craig’s bill which sought to abolish thé office of City Chamberlain and merge {ts functions with those of the Finance Department, of. which the; Comptroller ts head, Tt is known that he believed the Comptroller should not have power to audit his own accounts and he conaldered that personal animus prompted the Comptroller's attack on Philip Berolzhelmer, the City Chamber- lain, who is an appointee ofthe Mayor, Comptroller Craig said the Mayor's veto “only postpones the necessa: form until the Legislature meets in January.” WALLIS NAMED AS ELLIS ISLAND HEAD Fourth Deputy Police Commission- er to Succeed Howe as Immi- gration Chief Here. Despatches from Washington to-day announced that the President had nom- inated Frederick A, Wallis of this city to succeed Frederic C, Howe as Com- missioner of Immigration at Klis island Passed to Consumey. | D Foods and Markets, studied upon prices there, sald¢ lanyb ‘at least one-third cheaper “By Saturday or Monday all the consumer. New York customer paid 60 cents Calves om the hoof were quoted” last weeks was 24 cents. Bulls are Cows have declined in the same “The same condition prevails in “and ail meat stores should give the consumer always advances wholesale price goes dgwn.” since last week. Will Run From Present *Terminus Transit Corfstruction Commiasioner pared to extend the Steinway Tunnel Street East of Lexington Avenue, to a Extension will be under 41at Street to 4lst Stroet and Sixth Avenue, and un- cost of this extension Ls $3,200,000, as originally iaid down in the contract be carried across 424 Street to a point rmed part of the original Interbor- west side trunk lines of the Manhattaa OFF U. S. EXPENSES Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill Is $428,216,944, or $320,000,000 Less Than for Current Year. 1 ASHINGTON, April 29. jin’ funds Mor Heavy cut maintenance of ern: ment departments for the yeas begin jning July 1 are shown In the Sundey Civil Appropriation bill, reported by the House, Appropriations Committee to day. . The bill appropriates a total of $428 216,944.92, which \s $608,269,185,68 les ‘than the amount requeated by various departments and $320,462,456.43 les than the similar appropriations, for the eurrent Gace) years Mr, Wallis has bew Commissioner of the E nt bince the beginning of the Enright ade ministration. Classified Advertisers Important!| Cinasified advertising copy far Tne Sunday World mould be in The Werld office On or Be fore Friday | Precéding Publication vertiaing ie now tmitted’ for task’ ef timento sernit THE WORLD | 920. iF IVE STATES PASS LAWS TO PERMIT SALE OF BEERS Maésachusetts ts Joins New New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Wiscon- sin in Fighting Bone-Dry Nation. BOSTON, April 29. QV. COOLIDGE to-day has, for signature, @ bill passed by the Legislature, author ising the manufacture and sale of cider, 2.76 beers and light wines. Five States have, by similar laws voiced the objection to bone- dry laws, in Rhode Island, a bill Providing for 4 per cent. beer is a law; New York has passed a law providing for 2.75 beer, New Jersey permits 3.50 beer, while Wisconsin has kahit Blade oll 2.60 beer. TRUCK SPEEDED BLOCKS BEFOR KILLING BOY IT HIT Child Hangs to Bun to Bunter While People Shout In Vain for Driver to Stop. Willlam J. Jackson of No. 2118 Mad!- on Avenue and Charies Jenkins @f No. 1789 Third Avenue, negro chauf- feufs, and Charles Howard. @ white man, of No. 173 East 99th Street. They told how a truok driven by Jackson, who. had Jonkins and How- ard on the seat with him, killed nine- year-old Solomon Goldberg in upper Third Avenue last night under sen- sationnlly dramatic circumstances. Jackson was held on a charge of mur- der and Jenkins’and Howard were held ag accessories. The testimony established that Jack- son, apparently thinking he had struck and Injured the Goldberg boy, ai Third Avenue and 105th Street, put on speed and tried to get away, unaware tht the lttle fellow was hanging to the bumper, screaming, and that when finally the boy fell off at 110th Street and was run over Jacksén continued his attempt to escape and racat his machine through a mile of crowded Harlem streets, Goldberg, whose hothe was at No. 310 East 100th Street, grasped the bumper or fender of the truck when it struck him, wrapped his arms around it and braced his feet against the front axle. The accident was seen by a number of people who yelled to Jack- son to stop. At 106th Street Charles Wallet of No, 77 Middleton Street, Brooklyn, took up pursuit of the truck, yelling to the three men on the seat. He was Joined at 109th Street by Louis De Stasio of No. 2185 Second Avenue who Jumped on the vehicle and was kicked off by one of the men on the seat, Two wheels of the truck ran over little Goldberg when he was compelled to release his hold and he died in a corner drug store, At Third Avenue and 112th Street Wallett and De Staslo attracted the attention of Patrolman Murphy of the East 104th Street. Station, who ap- propriated a mail truck driven by Abraham Strumbauff, of No. 159° East 109th Street. ; Jackson turned east at 117th Street, | south at Second Avenue to 116th Street and: east thero to Pleasant Avenue, where he headed north. The mail truck was gaining, but was a block behind when the straightaway chase up Pleasant Avenue began. Jackson turned west in 124th Street and north in Second Avenue. Strumbanuff caught Jackson's truck! 27th Street, got ahead of it and | bidcked its progress. Other policemen ‘arrived and helped Murphy protect| the three prisoners, Jackson main- PRINGPAL ACCUSED OF KISSING GIRL, 13; BEATEN BY FATHER ,Child’s Mother Says Mordorf of Brooklyn Admitted Offense, TELLS OFFER T@ QUIT | Mrs. Woolsey Declares* Head, of P. S. 139 Only Begged'for | Mercy During Thrashing. , An admission that he hugged and | kissed Mary Elizabeth Woolsey, aged j thirteen, in his office ts alleged to jhave been made to the girl's parent: | Mtr, and Mrs. Stephen Woolsey, by Dr. Oliver CG. “Mordorf, principal of Public School * No. 139, Cortelyou | Road and Bast 12th Street, Brooklyn. |r. Woolsey thrashed Dr. Mordorf, according to Mrs, Woolsey, and Dr. Mordorf offered to resign on May 5. A reporter who sought Dr. Mordort learned that he was at the lome of the Rev. Robert M. Moore, Pastor of Five witnesses appeared in Harlem St. Marke M. B. Church, where Dr, Police Court Mordorf’s tamily has taken a leading SA og fe tee part in church work. Over the tele- phone, he declined to, disouss-the case and referred the inquirer to his at- torney, Dennis R. O'Brien of No. 1651 Broadway, Manhattan. Dr. Mordort lives at No. 56 Rugby Road,.in the Flatbush section of He is married and has a The Woolseys are | Prosperous and live at No. 280 East Woolsey Brooklyn, married daughter. 16th Street, Brooklyn, Mr. is in the butter and ogg business at No, 38 Washington Market. written a formal demand to Dr. Mor- Mra. Woolsey. “Several weeks agé,” said Mrs. Woolsey to-day, “my daughter, Betty, came home and said Dr. Mordorf had stopped her in the hall, called her a pretty litde girl and hugged her. I thought nothing of this, realizing he was a married man, “But on Tuesday Betty came homo erying and very much excited and said Dr. Mordorf had again ‘met her in the hall and asked her to come into his office, She said he kissed ‘her and hugged her. The child broke away from him and said she had to go to her grammar class, Dr. Mor- dorf then told her that he would like to help her with her grammar a’. any time, but not to tell any one he had kissed her, “1 immediately telephoned my hus- band, He told me to stay In the house and he would take care of Dr, Mor- dort. However, I went and stood in front of the school. Dr. Mordorf came out, I told him to go back into his office and wait until my husband saw him. He sald he had a \very pressing engagement and could not wait. I then told him if he attempted to move away from where he was standing, I would scream and call an officer. We went back up into the office and my husband arrived witn his brother. Dr. Mordorf admitted :he truth of my girl's statement to us. My husband thrashed him soundly. He | aia not beat him as much as he want/ Jed to, but Dr. Mordorf wouldn't put up 4@ fight and only eried for mercy. My brother-in-law wanted to ki! him. | “Dr. Mordorf offered to get down | on his knees and humbly beg Betty's | pardon, but we refused to listen to | him, He then asked that the matter be kept quiet until May 6, when he | would resign.” One of the teachers at the school | declared that Dr. Mordorf had been ‘Dr. He has retained Attorney Robert Gray of No. 49 Cedar Street, Manhattan, who has dorf to resign by May 5, according to MRS. S. J. WAGSTAFF | WHO ASKS DIVORCE FROM CLUBMAN 4 MRS. S.L WAGSTAFF SUES FOR DIVORCE. IN NEWPORT COURT Files Action Against New York Clubman, (pects Dewpateh to The Rvening . Work.) NEWPORT, R. 1, April 2.—Mra. Pauline French Wagstaff has filed in the County Court here @ petition for divorce from Samuel J. Wagstaff of New, York. The petition is basod upon charges of alleged non-support, Mrs. Wagstaft Js @ daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Tuck French: Hér sister, Julia, ran away from Newport some years ago with Jack Geraghty, a chauffeur, Her aunt is the former Mrs. Alfred’ Gwynne Vanderbilt. Samuel J. Wagstafr is an attorney with offices In Nassau Street, He is a member of several clubs, His mother, Mrs, Alfred Wagstaff, at Babylon, L. Ly said; “Why not ask Mrs. Wagstaff about it? I suppose she is at the Hotel Commodore with her mother and grandmother.” At the Commedore a woman fm the Amos Tuck French apartments said: “Mrs, Wagstaff {a not in. I know nothing about anything.” “Polly” French and Samuel J. Wag- statt were married in St John's Protestant Bpjscopal Church, New- port, in 1908, INDICTED AS ARMY FOOD PROFITEERS Merchandise Dealer Accused of Overcharging in Sale of Peaches and Tomatoes. On evidence furnished by W. A. Nico- lett, an agent of the Department of Justice, and Col. Carson, zone supply officer of the Army, the Federal Grand Jury found an indictment charging speculation and profit to-day against J. A. Ki dise dealer, ut No. 105 Hudaon Street, It is charged Kirsh last Novem- ber bought at a sale of surplus army supplies 20,000 ‘cases of evaporated peaches at 15 cents a pound and sub- sequently disposed of them at from 171% to 18 cents a pound; also that Kirsh bought at another sale from the army 2,000 © » of tomatoe in 10-gallon cans at nis a can and haa wold 1,000 dozen cans at 44 cents a can. ne WHAT WOOD THINKS OF OHIO. | Delighted W What He Calls a Substantial Victory. | tained that he did not know he had) (here for thirty years und had al-| VALPARISO, Ind., April 29.—Major struck the Goldberg boy, ways acted properly, | Ceneral Leonard Wood issued the fol- Fo 7 RR | -— —<e -— lowing statement here to- on the ROOSTER BLINDS CHILD. | cassiaws Lesvos parte ro-atgny, [resulta in Tuesday's primarien: ihe —— | PAR April 29.—Former Premier| tremendous vote polled in Ohio was a JERYM, Pa, April 29-—Elizabeth | joseph Caillaux, convicted by. the High| substantial victory, We ot practically Hockady, four, spied a new Plymouth Gourt of “ecomrherce and correspond-|half the yotes and a quarter of the Rock rooster in the nefehbor's back ence with the enemy,” and sentences] delegates. 1 am much detighted. with d had climbed over the fence to te enforced residence for five yeara| the result.” greet it outside certain specified zones, will a aes |" Women rescued the child after the leave Puris tocnight for his home at roonivr bad pecked ou; uw of eyes. Mamers, durthe iio "Depart tment, Racing Entries on Page 2 a es ae Pest Otica “New erty We Former ‘Miss “Polly” French|~ CMS s way Office at Seven men, masked and armed, at the point of their revolvers made coin. ISSUE “PUSSY FOOT” INSURANCE AGAINST ENGLAND GOING DRY| Londoners Can Cover Risk For Next Year at Ten Shillings + Pemgg® Pounds, LONDON, April 32. 66 PQ U88YFOOr” insurance is P the term which has been applied to a rate of ten shijlings pet 100 pounds sterling market to cover the risk of the passing of an act of Parliament within twelve months prohibiting the gale of alcoholic liquors in England, SMITH WON'T SAVE 4 SUBWAY SLAYERS Must Die in Chair To-Night al? Spite of Confession by One of Them. Pi ALBANY, April 29.—Gov. Smith late this afternoon announced that he would not interfere with the quadruple electro- cution at Sing Sing prison late to-night, ‘The men condemned to die were con- vigted of the murder of a subway ticket agent in the Bronx. The Governor mys that a confession. to-day by Joe Milano, one of the four, is simply an admission that the evi- dence brought out at the trial was all true, Justice Mitchell, to set aside Joseph Usesof's conviction and grant a new trigi in STORAGE OIL T TANK IN JERSEY ON FIRE Tank of Barber Asphalt Paving Co. at Maurer Ablaze—Other Tanks in Peril, " A large storage oll tank of the Barter Asphalt Paving Company at Maurer, N. J., cught fire at 3 o'clock this afternoon, ‘There are scores of tanks nearby. ‘The Perth Amboy Fire Department was called and fought to keep the flames from spreading. INTERBORO’S GAIN $332,223, A gain of $392,223 in income after de- ducting all charges is reported by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company According to the company's figures, its total income for March, after charges was $193,483 a8 compared with a de- Acit for March of last year of $138,737, Marked increase in traffic is reported for 1920. The company's deficit for’ the past nine month: ich in. February was placed at over $2,000,000 Is now Pinced at $1,994,779. CHICAGO HAIRCUTS 75 CENTS CHICAGO, April Haireuts In at en Chicago barbershops will ty-five cents after Monday, to-day in connection with promulgation of a new scale for Journeymen barbers, of the master barbers said * higher price would mean. fewer: hairs ts nd were undecided hethe: post an increased ‘charge, "ner % eats AKE LI-ANS AVTER MEALS and poy (GOOD DIGESTION mares ye ‘ Sai PRICE TWO CENTS ROBBERS HOLD UP CASHIERS ~INVFIFTH AVENUE BUS OFFICE. WHILE THIRTY MEN LOOK O Sweep Up $2,000 and Escape Auto—Fire One Shot. Fifth Avenue Coach Company in their money cage in the company office at No, 605 West 132d Street, at Broadway, early this moming, at After that they escaped in a motor car which had awaited th with engine running, at the Broadway corner. {--—_ OP There were half a dogen now béing offered in the Landon! | bis*hands, | ‘The tellers on duty were Frederiole EDITION. EB! SUA! Ys Bay While They held up three receiving tellers of the away with about $2.000 in Wills : . * tors im the office at the time, all them depositing with the tellers th fares they had collected during ¢) yung, But they wel prevent the guns of the robbers trom fering, ‘The tellers’ office Is a smal) one step upwaré from tl behind its three high windows oe 4 tellers were at work when the mon_broke into the outer room Commanded every one to Caro: Glesieck, George Triffs and Heary Horn. When the order to throw ap their hands was given simultaneously with the appearance of a robber hie each of the windows, gun in two of the tellers dropped to the floor + screening themselves thus from Ce possible bullet, The third teller. not move so quickly as his panions and a shot rang out. This shot apparently had the aired effect of cowing the teller and he was hurriedly to open the door leading froth” conductors’ ‘room into the cage. | covered by the who were also tikes * the conductors had: turned these were hasitly swept into a by one of the two gunmen, ¢! holding at bay the had been ordered fe Et containing about $3,000, w! been counted and made ready bank, managed to move his 46, to screen it, and the robbers never — saw it, When the two tellers dropped to tha floor of their cage at the first sight of the robbers they succeeded in giv~ ing an alarm which sounded in the garage back of thelr cage. The rob~ bers, however, knew nothing of this, and while they were at the business of stowing- the hastily gathered money in their bag the door leading from the garage into the cage opened and * several of the company’s mechanics — started into the inclosure, . There were at least twenty-five of | these employees, but as soon as they saw the guns in the hands of the robbers they backed out. They then went on @ run for the garage, got out” one of the buses and started out of the building, reaching the street just — as the robbers made their exit, dash- ing for the waiting car at the corner. _ Although it was not possible for the bus to keep pace with the robbers’ car, the bus kept after it to Manhat. © a tan Street, three blocks to the south . and there the motor was lost, 5 E 3 af Detroit Bandits Get $18,000, DETROIT, Mich, April 33 armed men to-day entered pawnshop, held up th ¥ the f diamon > be: