The evening world. Newspaper, May 3, 1920, Page 1

RUSH TO-NIGHT'S WEATHER—Fair, Get the Country cool, frost. Back on Peace Basis Cirewlation Books Open to All.” | Carls, _{"Ciréulation” Books Open to All.” | Te ELLUM NA VOL. LX. NO, 21,423—DAILY. ~ ooprvignt, Fe ong Co. by The Press Publishing (The ‘New York World). NEW YORK, MON DAY, MAY 3, OKLAHOMA TOWN WIPED QUT SX REMEN ALT BY TORNADO THATKILLS 50." AND INJURES 150 PERSONS Peggs Is Completely De- stroyed by Windstorm of Sunday Night. RESCUE WORK., special Trains Bearing Doc-| ¥ “In 1916 Miss Broderick tors, Nurses and Helpers to the Scene. MUSKOGEE, Okla., May 3.—Fifty | persons are reported killed and more than 150 injured in a storm that has destroyed the little town of Peggs, Okla., Cherokee County, last night, A special train carrying doctors and nurses and equipment left Muskogee for Peggs this morning. All doctors | and nurses in Tahlequab also have gone. Practically every store in) ‘Tahlequah, which is the county seat of Sareanee County, has closed and undred people have gone to pals cS rae rescue work. Direct communication with the town ja impossible, all ve ee Muskogee to Peges being 4 Reports to the Peis Shimer Democrat from Locust Grove and Tahlequah, where dead and Injured from Poggs are being taken, said that not @ house was left standing “in! Pegss. ‘Thirty-seven bodies have been re- covered by rescuers from wrecked houses in the storm demolished town of. Pegas, according to a telephone; rt from Tahlequah. Twenty of | fe-bodies are reported to have been taken from one building. The village of Poggs 1s about sixty miles east of Tulsa. The place is off the railroad. Tablequah, fifteen miles | south, is the nearest railroad station, | ‘Those familiar with the roads say it is practically impossible to reach | Peges by motor car. John Littleficid, his wife and six of their seven children were among vhoge killed. The only physician in the town, Dr. W. R. Hill, also w kihed, ——— 16-YEAR-OLD GIRL TRIED FOR \ MURDER. | Acquitted Once of Killing Real; Father, She Faces Jury For Shooting Her Stepfather. ST. LOUIS, May 3.—Sixteen-year-old | Ursula Broderick went to trial for the third time here to-day charged with the murder of her stepfather, Joseph F. | Woodlock. Attorneys suid she was the | youngest girl ever to face a firat degroe| murder charge in Missouri. | ‘A continuance was granted the fist time her case was called for trial and at the second trial the jury disagreed. also shot and Killed her father, T. P. Broderick, and a Coroner’s jury exonerated her when whe testified she shot in defense of her mother. ‘ The State contended at the trial for} thé alleged murder of Woodlock that he was killed as he slept. Miss Brod- erick testified she killed him when attacked her, Mrs. with plotting her husband's will be tried aiter her daugh’ 1° Woodlock Is charged death and r Class ified Advertisers Important! Classified advertiaing copy for The Qynday world ould be in The On or Before Friday Preceding Publication receives the praference | to | $265 STEEL TRUST CASE REHEARING DENIED IN SUPREME COURT Government Loses in Second Effort to Have Corporation Dissolved for Violation of Sherman Law. WASHINGTON, May 3. HB Supreme Court to-day re- fused to grant the Govern- ment's request for a rehear- ing of the anti-trust sult against the tion. United States Steel Corpora- The Government's motion for a rehearing was based on the conten- tion that the court%s decision in the ‘Steel case on March 1 conflicted with thut on April 26 ordering the dissolution of the Reading Com- pany and certain of its rail and coal subsidiaries, Both’ came wore decided by a 4 3,000 CHILDREN HELP IN SEARCH FOR MISSING GIRL ; | Foul Play Feared in Case of Henrietta Bulte, Reported Held for Ransom. The assistance of 3,000 pupils of Public School No, 169 in Street, near Second Avenue, was en- listed to-day by Principal Helen A. Stein in the search for sixteen-year- old Henrietta Bulte, the pretty Cuban- American girl who disappeared three weeks ago to-day while on her way the Harlem Savings Bank with to deposit in the name of her | father, Miss Stein visited each, of sixty | classrooms and read to the boys and | girle a detailed description of Henri- etta, who was a pupil in excellent standing in TB. “I feel sure," Mias Stein said, “that there is foul play in this case, Hen- | Metta was an unusually bright child | of excollent character, not at all the sort of ‘girl who runs away from home. We know that in talking with her schoolmates she sald that when me was older she meant to be u mov- ing picture actress, but in my opinion it didn’t mean any more than the usual ¢alk of schoolgirls, who aro al- ways dreaming of the future asd ‘going to be’ schoolteachers or Red Cross nurses or the wives of multl- millionaires, “She did go to the motion picture theatre occasionally but never with- out the knowledge of her mother." Detectives from the Bureau of .Missing Persons, Miss Stein said, had talked with a chum of Henriet and learned from her ail that could. Henrletia's father, living with his wife a cigarmaker and Henrietta’s younger sister at No. 116 Hust 116th} | Street, had not decided at noon to day what to do about the Jetter bh received on Saturday advising him that Henrietta was being held for ransom, The letter was printed by stenctt It was mailed in Manhattan. Bulle turned it over to detectives. as THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREAD, Aicaue. Uy (Wolly) ai tne ae bo soo, how, SX. C Unedk tobm for baggage wud parce open dali end " 08 Wrevellam’ chenin tor ‘| other firemen were treated at East 119th) they| S TRUCKS COLLIDE. ON THIRD AVENUE Fire Apparatus Crashes Into) Butler Vehicle, Throwing Occupant to Street. DIDN’T HEAR THE SIREN. Chauffeur ‘Held for Reckless | Driving Blames Noise of Elevated for Collision, Six firemen on their way toa burn- ing scow at Nineteenth Street and the East River shortly after two o'clock this afternoon on Truck No. 3 were injured in a collision with a truck of the James Butler | Groeéry Company, driven bf Thomas | Murphy, at Third Avenue and | Thirteenth Street. | The fire truck which was in charge jof Lieut. Rudolph He Sanders, riding on the running board, was ‘proceeding (at regular speed with Edward J. | Chapman at the wheel and William J. Riley, ‘tillerman. he siren was shrieking but Murphy says that he did not hear it In the noise made by the Elevated overhead. Chapman, acting in concert, at- | tempted to swerve the fire truck north, but the cumbersome structure could not be bandied that easily “and it struck the Butler truck a glancing biow and then plunged info one of the Elevated pillars, The extension lad- der was torn from its holdings by the impact and everyone on the fire truck thrown to the street, “Murphy was also catapulted to the pavement, An ambulance was burned from Bellevue Hospital and Dr, Gihratt attended Lieut, Sanders for lacera- tions of the left arm and leg and sent him back to fire quarters at 13th Street near hird Avenue. Five the hospital and sent to their homes in automobiles, They were: Edward W. Chapmam, chauffeur, lacerations of the left hand. and sprained right wrist; William J, Riely, tillerman, wrenched back; Michael Woods, lacerations of the face and head; Michael O'Shea, the same; Edward way, lacerations of the face and hands. Murphy, Butler's chauffeur, after being treated for a Iacerated scalp, was placed under arrest for reckle#s driving. He gave hig age as twenty- eight and his address as No, 656 Weat 237th Street. i PETITION BACKING MORDORF DROPPED At Request, It Is Said, of Counsel of Accused Public School Principal, A petition expressing Dr, Oliver C, Mordorf, Principal of Public School No. 139, Brooklyn, has been withdrawn, it was said to-day by Mrs, 8. 8, Van Kirk, who was circulat- | ing it and had obtained 100 signatures. She declared the paper had bi | motor confidence in yeey: BLUEBEARD TELLS HOW HE MURDERED. FIVE OF Hs WIVES. “Perfect Wooer” Wooer” of Los An- geles Confesses Another , Murder to Officials. FORGETS THEIR NAMES. Declares He Choked Woman and Threw Her Body Into Lake Washington. LOS ANGELES, Calif. May’ 3.—In @ second alleged confession, which officers were checking to-day, Walter Androw Watson, alias James Huirt, admitted killing a woman he had married, but whose name be could not remember, according to Thomas Lee Woolwine, District Attornoy, who yesterday. This made five of his twenty-five wives the man was de- clared to have admitted slaying. ‘The District Attorney sald Watson told him he ha@ married the woman in Tacoma, Wash., and that he choked her and pushed her overboard while they were boating on Lake Washing- ton, near Seattle. He was quoted as saying he then rowed ashore, leaving the woman's body in the water. “Naturally I told no one about it,” the District Attorney quoted him. Woolwine said his investigation showed that Watson married Mrs. Bea- trice Andrewatha, a Canadian, in Ta- coma on Feb. 6, 1919, and that she was sald to be missing. He said ho nad advised Washington authorities of Watson's statement. JOHNSON MEN WON'T TAKE WOOD OFFER Refuse to Share Expense of Jersey Recount on a Fifty-Fifty Basis. No effort will be made by the forces supporting Senator Hiram W. John- son for President to raise $25,000 to meet a similar offer from the forces of Major General Leonard Wood to guarantee the expense of a recount of primary ballots in New Jersey, A. C. Joy, Assistant Eastern Manager of Senator Johnson's campaign, an- nounced to-day. Capt. Robert Foster of Newark, leader of the Wood forces in Hasex Cuty, has telegraphed Gen. Wood at Indianapolis offering to raise the $26,- 000 for the recount providing it in- ! cluded the whole Eiates RECORD PRICE FOR OATS. Bidders Offer $1.05 « Bushel on Chicago Board of Trade. CHICAGO, May 3.—The highest price ever paid for oats was offered to-day, On the Chicago Board of Trade bidders fopened the May oats future at $1.03 1-4 and quickly ran it up to $1.06. May oats being Practically on cash, basi were run up by tradera who had con- tracted for May delivery, At Cairo, Til, oats sold at $1.07. i NO DRY LAW DECISION. withdrawn at the request of Dennis R | O'Brien, counsel for Dr. Mordorf, | Dr, Mordorf is alleged to have kissed | Mary Blizabeth Woolsey, aged thirteen, in his office. She is the daughter of hen Woolsey, of No Hine HO yn. BUILDING SHI SHRINKS AS WAGES GO UP Chicago Operations Are Cut’ | Half by Raise to $1.25 | an Hour, @HIGAGO, May 3.—May Day brought increaes of $2 a day to the building in Chicago. Mr, and Mra, St 380 Bast 16th St in trad Supreme Court Recessen 17th Without Actio: WASHINGTON, May 3.—The 5) preme Court recessed to-day until May 17 without handing down a de the constitutionality of the Pi Amendment or the Volstead ment Act. MORE DRUNKS T THAN EVER UNDER DRY LAW, SAYS COURT “N font ntil May ATMONAL Prohibition produced more drunks than there were ever be said Magistrate Dale in the said the confession was made to him| |stvEN CANDIDATES | “SAFE” DRYS IN THE | PRESIDENTIAL RACE as Saloon League Mentions Wood, Hoover, Poindexter, Lowden, McAdoo, Hughes and Bryan. atathacntatt Ala., May 3. BAKER, superin- TadetE of the Anti-Saloon League of America, in a statement here to-day said Pro- hibitionists might safely support in the Presidential campaign Her- bert Hoover, Major Gen. Leonard Wood, Gov. Lowden, William G. McAdoo, Charles Evans Hughes, Senator Poindexter or Willlam J. Bryan. ‘ » The statement ts taken by ieague men to mean that the dry organization will fight all others heretofore mentioned by it and not included in this list. ‘They are Harding and Johnson, Répub- licans, and Cox and Edwards, Democrats, KIEFF CAPTURED FROM THE REDS BY: POLISH ARMIES) udski’s Men Capture 16,000 Bolshevists and Much Booty in Ukrania, WARSAW, May 3 (Associated’| Press).—Pajish forces occupied Kieff| Sunday, according to extra editions of the newspapers here to-day, Gen, Pilsudski, President of the Polish State, led the Yroops into the city. Bolshevik forces had backed up against the Dnieper River in an effort to prevent the Polish and Ukrainian forces from taking Kleff, toward which Gen, Pilsudski's men |rought thelr way from three direc: tions, In fighting just east of Bendzczow, ten uhlans in a night raid captured 140 Bolsheviki and then took Bialopol Prince Stanislas Radsiwill, personal Adjutant to Gen. Pilsudski, was killed by a shel from an armored train during a» Red counter-attack which was designed to take Malin from Capt, Radaiwill, The Poles, in a flanking manoeuvre from the north captured Kalodmwska with #,000 prisoners and also took two armored trains and ten cannon at Kalingwska, fifty kilometres south of Berdichev, Beyond Winnica the Phies captured 8,000 prisoners, fourteen cannon, one armored train, two sani- tary trains and many armored auto- mobiles, (The Polish advance into the Ukraine along a front of 180 miles began last week for the announced purpose of expelling the “foreign invaders,” or Russian Bolshe- vik, from the Ukraine. The Ukraine, as an independent repub- lic, would create a buffer state he- tween Poland and the Bolsheviki, The capture of Kicy is important, as it is the capital of the Ukraine and the outlet for its vast stores of agricultural products.} CONSTANSINOPLE, May 8 (Ansso- clated Press)—Seizure of Baku, on the Western coast of the Caspian Sea, by tho Russian Bolsheyiki on April has aroused the Georgians, who have called four additional classes to arms and announced that they will not permit the Reds to enter Gvorgia through Azerbaijan, The Georgians thus far able to prevent entering Georgia th have bee Bolsheviki from ugh the moyn the Waxes wore Increased trom $1 an hour} Adams Street Court, Brooklyn, |tain passes in the vicinity of Viudi-| to $1.25 for some twenty crafts, inelud-| to-day, In susgending sentence on | Kaykaz, | ing carpenters, bricklayers, plasterers, urley Strickevers, fifty-seven, The capture of Baku makes the plumbers, steamfittera, glaziers, fathers} of No. 21 Park Street, charged | armenian situation more precarious, | and structural iron workers, They now h intoxication. as the Bolsheviki doubtless will help $10 for an eight-hour day ind he whiskey handed out tho Moslem Aserbaljan ition to day is poison,” continued M a ca lead ceaes Tato tth| trate Dale. “Because of that the | Armenia bic esa irs bs courts tiroughout the bolmugh —e wphese ingreasos AB ay have rea are filled with drunks, You mu. '¥ARE BELL-ANS AFTE: vullding wajivi ey bare, roi lay wbutt. 9 tee GOOD DiGsETION : ¢ a “A Ae | \s a & 2 ois : b 4 . = anne i Sema | Destroyers Going to Vera Cruz | SLAIN IN MEXICO; MORE SHIPS SENT U. S. Embassy Demands Im- mediate Arrest of Slayers of Greenlaws, . WARSHIPS’ ON COAST. and Tampico to Protect * Citizens, WASHINGTON, May 3—Two American citizens, Hben Francis Greenlaw and bis minor son, were killed by Mexican bandits yesterday, the State Department was informed to-day by the American Fimbassy in Mexico City. Greenlaw for many years was in| the lumber busines in Mexico, om- | ployed by a British’ company. The American Embassy at Mexiga City | atated it had formally called on the | Mexican Government to apprehend | and punisi the murderers. | The killings occurred at Palazadas, wbout 125 miles from MexieorGity American destroyers have been or- dered. to Vera Cruz and Tampico tu protect Americans there, It was said; that the vessels would not inter- yene in Mexican affairs and that their despatch was a precautionary meas- ure. Only the cruiser Sacramento is now on the Bust Coast of Mexico. She was lust reported at Tampico. The Navy Department acted on the request of the State Department, where it was explained to-day that the warships would take aboard Americans in those two ports in event that should become necessary. No reports of any disturbances In either Vera Cruz or Tampico have been received by the State Depart- ment, but revolutionary outbreaks have ocourred near both porte. Advices to the Government to-day said the line between Mexico City and Vera Cruz had been cut, but they did not indicate the extent of the damage. Efforts are being made by the State Department to-day to confirm or deny the report current in Wall Street, in New York, that President Carranza of Mexico has ed in the face of the revolutionary movement, SAN ANTONIO, Tex., May 3— Francisco Villa has offered hin aid to the Obregon revolutionists in Mexico, and has asked Gov. Huerta of Sono for permission to enter the state and confer regarding the cam- paign against Carranza, pens sail ARMY LOSES $500,000, May Day Wa: ine at Followed by Suspictoas Blase. SAN ANTONIO, Tex, May 3.—Fire Atated by militury authorities to have been of incendiary origin did damage eatimated at $500,000 in an Ordnanes Department warehouse at Camp Travis, pear here, Rug machine — guns, omatic rifles ant s, trench | nives of various type equip: | ‘amp Travis in the waa safely removed With the approach o warning to t May Dey s| uard against pe plots | je CAMP Was passed among remen and military police, it Was stated at the same to-day WILSON’S TEXAS VICTORY. —— | Ex-Kenator Bailey, Who Fought! Adminiat fos, Badly BH en. Jered as Becond-Class Matter Now York, N. ¥. TMOANEREAS “RED” LEAPS TO HIS DEATH AFTER ADMITTING PRINTING BOMB PLOT PRICE TWO CENTS IN GREATER NEW YORK ar 1D UT a st ah Cle a THREE CENTS SLSmwHeRE CIRCULAR HE Andre Salsedo, Federal Prisoner, an - _Accomplice of “ers,” Blamed for Wrecking Judge. Nott’s Home, Floors to Park “Anarchist Fight- Jumps Fourteen — Row. Nearly a year after attacks were made on public officials and prom- © inent us of anarchy in elght citles of the United States—including C. Nott here—by bomb explosions, Andrae Salsedo, confessed ‘onfederate of the would-be assassins, killed himself here to-day by Judge C. C. jumpiny from the quarters of the in dce on the fourteenth floor of the Park Row Building. He was smashed to death on the sidewalk epposie the. .in entrance of the Federal ‘The bombs. were exploded Jus» Building. ~ GRAS. W. MORSE INDICTED FOR SALE OF SHIP ABROAD apace With Colleagues, Former Fed- eral Convict, Charged With Violating Shipping Laws, Charles W. Morse, Captain W. 8. Mitchell, now head of Morse's Lon- don offices, the United States Steam- xhip Company and the J. G. ‘MeCul- lagh Steamship Company were jointly indicted to-day by the Grand Jury un- dor Judge Leaned 8, Hand of the United States District Court for violut- ing the Shipping Board Act. It charged that Morse and McCullough, who was then captain of the steamship J. G. McCullagh, American bullt‘and owned, conspired to well and did sell the #hip to the Tunisian Government through La So- clete de Houilles at Agglonicries, without permission of the Shipping Bourd and withput offering the ship to the United States at the price which the foreign purchaser was ready to pay, The penalty may be five years in prison or a fine of $5,000 or both. The McOullagh, a 2,000-ton ¢reight- er, was torpedoed and sunk by the Germans in May 1918. Morac, who had figured in many promotions of steamship and ice con- cerns, was convicted in the United States Court Nov. 5, 1908, of having misapplied the funds of the Bank of North Amenica and made false en- tries dn its book. covering some of his “high finance’ operations. He was sentenced to fifteen years in the Atlanta penitentiary, but was par- doned a Httle more than two years later by Prosident Taft on the assur- « of Brig. Gen. G. H. Torney of the Medical Corps that Morse had not six month live at most and would die within thirty days in WASHINGTON, May 3.—Telegrams | poured into the White House to-da congra@lating President Wilyon on the victory In the Texas primaries Iaat Sat-| y over the I menuges wax ono fron Thomas B. Love, National Committe: nan from ‘Texas, wateh wald ‘ WORLD RESTAURANT, ik Mag’. aay: | p ane rate mt In \gury privon. Morse made a quick ree: ivery from {his Hiness and an butlhding his fortune again by. ate i ations, Tle hud many Gover contracts during the war married the divorced wif of a | re be 48 Dodges xas in Laol 1904 Dodge sought to ave the wire ide, Dodge and hin ney ‘nt to prison for per- aud procuring perjury, => © Sapare Clab. First Deputy Police been made the first the Policy Square sucial organization with 830 joemen as members. He was notified of td ora, Queens. Leaeh tn i Leone Club, vol oy 8 a Season « onic Tosnpic. Ast vestigators of the Department of Jus” sy 1919, Hia death brought with it the first public news that Federal and city au- thorities have bedi Felting tangible: results in thetr effort to bring to jus- tiee the men who plotted wholesale murders of terroriam, Salsedo was the man who printed the circulars on pink paper found at the scene of all the explosions headed “Plain Words” and ending with the signature, “An- archist Fighters.” Others of the conspirators have been in custody in the Park Row bullding sincd he and they were ar- rested March 7 | They have been voluntary prisoners. Ten or fifteen of the men implicated in the plot are known to be in Italy and Switzerland, Plans are being perfected to bring them to trial here or in Italy which prosecutes at home offenses of its citizens committed in foreign coun- tries, Others are known to be in t country, Salsedo made his confession on the day after his arrest in the presence of his counsel, C, N. Dornato, at No. 21 Park Row. With others arrested, some of whom made confessions, Salsedo ex- pressed @ terror of being murdered by anarchist till at large if it were known they had talked to Flyan and his men, At their own suggestion’ quarters were urranged for them .n the Park Row Buliding, adjoining the offices of the investigation bureau of the Dy+ partment of Justice. Here they slept and had thelr meals, and they did not leave the building exeept for exar- cise under arrangements cv .bey were fairly secure from being recogolxed. SAL8EDO RADICAL WRITER AND - A PRINTER, Salsedo had a wife and two chil- dren in this city, He was a writer for the radical journals as well as a printer. His wife was allowed to visit with him frequently at the De- partment of Justice rooms and in the office of Attorney Doranto. She | is said to have spent much of yes- terday with him, “Salsedo occupied a bed," Chief * Wiynn said to-day, “with one of his accomplices, He got out of bed so quietly this morning that the ac- complice was not waked until the suicide was discovered and our mea entered the dormitory to learn what they could." The fall of Salsedo smashed bis body almost beyond recognition. it broke the heavy glass and metal side- walk light over the extended vault of the building, Chief Flynn sald the death of Sa)- sedo would not interfere materially With the hunting down and prosecu- tion of the principals in the “An-' archist Pighters’” plot. All he knew had been reduced to affidavit form and corroborated by the statements of other men who are in custody and who have promised to be Government witnesses, News of Salsedo's death will give the first information to some at bin) a