The evening world. Newspaper, May 4, 1920, Page 1

i" i | 4 1 si goods he has accumulated during the ie “Cireatation Books Open to All.” | Sa SSN ba Shalit VOL. LX. NO, 21,424—DAILY.. Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing ©o. (Tho New York World), NEW YORK, TUE SDAY, MAY <: 192 0. “watered as Becond-Class Matter Post Office, New York, N, ¥. ~ WANAMAKERASKS MERCHANT, MANUFACTURER AND WORKER TO UNITE 10 CUT HIGH COSTS ‘John’ ‘Wanamaker, in an city Is What “Even if the Merchant Took Cost Price for Hi: Goods It Would Make More Work for Mill and Shop—We Are Still on Parade—Scar- “This Is an Opportune Time for Any Man) Who Has Influence to Loosen the Screws! That Have Wound Up the Machinery of Distribution and Manufacture to the High Point of the Present Hour.” Puts Prices Up—People Will Have to Go to Work.” By George Buchanan Fife. Staff Correspondent of The Evening World. PHILADELPHiA, May 4.—"i don't know what they use aboard ship when they want the ropes manned in an emergency, but I do know that if + the distributing merchants of this country, the small ones as well as the _ larger ones, were to come on deck in the prevent emergency of high cost of | tiwag and man the ropes, as they can easily do, it would be possible to rer duce that cost in no uncertain degree and in a comparatively short time.” This is what John Wanamaker, one? of the greatest merchants in the com- _ mercia history of the Nation, suid to {a representtaive of The Evening: | World as part of his response to the | _ threadbare inquiry What can ‘be universally done to bring down the cost of exist- ence in America? The interview with Mr.. Wanamaker hinged upon the advertisement which | ais two groat establishments, in 1115 | ty and New York, issued ubove aa signature ln the newspapers of buth vitles yesterday, announcing a redu 6,000 ‘MOONSHINE’ STILLS ARE FOUND IN DRY (?) SOUTH | | Congress Is To Id Gi tareines! TACK IN HIS SOUP, y CHILDS DINER GETS: He Ate Four Years Ago | Is Still in Abdomen, SHOWN BY AN X-RAY. ! |Physician Says Fatal Opera- | tion May Be Necessary | at Any Time. A verdict of $25,000 damages caused by a tack ina bowl of soup was awarded to Dr. Moritz D. Spitzer, No. 22 Sast 14th Street, to- in his sult against the Childs Company, The verdict was given in Justice Finch’s part of the Supreme Court. The evidence showed that Dr. Spitzer ate the soup in a Childs Res- taurant at No. 42 East Mth Street on Decembor 28, 1915, and that the tack is still in his abdomen, Two of the. witnesses were in France dur- ing the war and their testimony was not available until now. Dr. Spitzer said he first felt a tack in his gums, then a sharp pain in his throat as he swallowed, He found ahother tack still in the plate of soup, he said, and showed it to the manager of the restaurant, who was at @ loss to expluin it. X-ray photographs showing the tack in the abdomen were part of the evidence, Physicians said the tack might r-¢ main for years without doing any harm, but might at any time necessi- | day, Restaurant Ron ef s@:per:ceal. from agtual'pr! tute a serious and possibly fatal op- in a $20,000,000 stock of merchandise. ' aration, Added to this was his agreement to} Of Prohibition Laws Will fulun expend $1,000,000 cach week in tak! sing | Cost % = fe RAISE YOUNG FORD’ 'S TAX. over any desirable merchandise and 208t $88,000,000 a Year, * paying cash for it in order to cun- | —_———— Detroit Council Pate Figure at tinue the reduced price stles. | WASHINGTON, May 4.—Enforce- $1,171,000, MANUFACTURERS MADE HIGH! men of ‘Proniation will cost thce| DETROIT, May 4.—The assessment PRICES, | United States $8%.900000 a yeur, injon the personul property of Edsel “Permit mo to my.” he went | contrast to a pre-dry period internal) Ferd, son of Henry Eord, was, raised “that the public will in lurge meas- ure de judsing wisely andyrightly by laying the onus of the present high | salos, Representat Phe | ocrat, prices upon the manufucturers, high prices do not originate the distributers, But I realize matters have reached a pot whig@f it is for the distributers to do someshing to save the situation, “This is an opportune time, in- deed, for any man who has in- fluence to loosen the screws that with that at!) u revenu $444,000,000 from liquor Mussuchusett to-day. declared in the stil ° to-day most und of pies than of the $28,000,000 was ever before to jaunt down violators o ion laws Gallivan, Dem- Nivan axserted there are more il- Anti-Saloon 3 tor $1,471,000 above the 191 gure by the City Council, sittimg us 4 board of review. His assessment’ now totals 91,680,000, aysainst $169,000 last year, In arriving at this figure the council! increased the um named by the as- sessors, Who puts the assessment noari, 4 million above the statement filed by Mr. Ford. MAY 9 MOTHERS’ DAY. cks Sunday in Public f here were 2,006 stills found in|@ev+ Smith have wound up the machinery Of | coorgia in 1918," he declared, "and Prociamath distribution and manufacture to 14.534 in North Carolina. During the| ALBANY, N.Y. May 4.—Sunds the high point of the present |i. nen Prohibition was voun, (May % Was oMcially designated 1s hour. The manufacturers, having | 5 59 stilly wore destroved “4 Ma Mothers’ Day in a proclamation issued fits of good times, |, So '8 Were de ed by Prohi-|ig.gay by Gov. Smith had tho benefits of g bition inspectors and 300,000 gallons| (oo should help in satisfying the peo- ple that they are disposed share with them the high cost of ind this can only be done ning prices. the / distributers, to N 8 the mer- “But chants, must, it seems, make tho be- ginning. And the small merchant can TT do It as easily as the larger ones, He will do wisely to turn into money the] ¢ past six months, “Even if he took cost price for Pp rohibt question, Gallivan de them he could take the money |olared. “You cin nu more settle the and add to his business with new | prohibition question or keep it out of stock, which would,make more work at mill and shop, And more such work would use up stocks on hand in these producing plants (Continued on Twellth Page.) Classified Advertisers Important! Qlaasified advertizing copy for ‘no Bonday World should oe in The ‘World effice On or Before Friday Preceding Publication jit late advertising je mow for lack ef time to wet it, THE WORLD of ‘inoonshin ‘an said Kentucky, politics than you ea fective. elgin yea confiscated, Besides the stills raided in Georgia ‘orth Carolina and Nebraska, had ‘been found in Ala- hama, 48$ in South Carolina, 388 in ennessee, 546 61 Virginia, 121 ginia, Contro! of Congr sweep back thy n.” “Every tea kettls anc paid he, stew pan is placed under suspicion ce the Volstead Act has become ef- It prohibits everything with more than one-half per cent. alco- hol, and yet the sap of every tree jows in violation of that law.” CALLS SUFFS “OLD CATS.” has not tau ne under dog —— iberty Bonds, (-Bold-—-Quoted, Poba Mulr & Oo. 61 Mrogdway.—Aarh Galli- in 191 in dorida, 40 in Mich- igan, 41 in Texas and 40 in West Vir- ess and the Presi- fential election may be decided hy the HYLAN TO APPROVE $5,000,000 BILL TO RAISE CITY PAY ill Also Sign Measure ‘Reducing Years’ Service for Eligibility to AYOR HYLAN announced to-day that he will ap- by Comptrolier Craig permitting Now York ‘City to raise 35,00 Police Lieutenant. M prove the bill introduced 1] for the payment of city salary in- creases this year. The Comp- troller, speaking in favor of the measure before the Mayor, ex plained that if the bill does not become a law it will be impossible to pay many of the salary in- creases the enty 18 commited to I understand that news of the | sing gf this bill will make a | aid the 1 being she case f n why T shouldn't that 1 will affix my to the measure as soon as possible,” ayor Aiso announced that t he ould the bil reducing: J from two years to one year the service #quirad 4” + police r Beant befure oe 3 cligtble to a pointment to @ dieutenancy, L | FLOPERIN AGELL AFTER BEATING BY VERDICT OF TOF $5000 BRIDE'S BROTHER Dr. Moritz P Spite: & Says Tack check ix £8 00 $25,000, Wedding Gift of Joseph Dooley,’ Is Under Investigation, DECLARE HE HAS ALIAS. Family By Marriage Known Also As “Dr. Kelly.” “the biggest surprise the Baumann | family ever had up to that time w: when Loulse danced into the house | at No. 106 Park Avenue in one of the very nicest parts of Orange, N. Ju last Friday evening with a natty young, gentleman and, throwing her aris about her father’s neck, said: “Kiss me and give us your bless- ing, papa; Joe and I are married" And then came a surprise which almost knocked this one galley west, for the deliriously happy bride hand- ed her father a piece of paper edlen+ jated to still every WONet banish eaeW suspicion—a check for $25,000. “Joe's wedding gift,’ she sald. “Take it, papa, and keep it for me." At the present writing Joseph Dooley, allus Dr. H. C. Kelly, the bridegroom, is locked up in the police station at East Orange, charged, like Brother-In-Law Frederick G. Bau- mann jr. with mutual assault. The 25,000 check is being investigated, Louise Baumann Dooley, uncertain about her right to the mame, is in tears. The Oranges are talking, The mutual assault case will come up be- fore Judge Ellis again on Thursday. Frederick G. Baumann -is a New York business man, Baumann jr. Is manager of the Universal Cutter Com pany at No. % West 22d Street, Man- battan, Following reveral family’ eonfer- ences regarding the marriage, the check, young Dooley and the fifture, the elder Baumann yesterday is said |o have insisted that the young people come to Manhattan with bim and be married all over again in his pres- ence. t Orange “understands” that the second marriage took place in Trinity. « Meanwhile Baumann Jr. !s reported to have been “hearing things, among others that Dooley had been registered at the Hotel Pennsylvania as Dr. H. C. Kelley, and that he owes a taxi driver in that region some $40. Last night Baumann jr., with these things in mind, recognized Dooley on a Lackawanna train out of East Orange. Dooley said he was going “only as far as Nowa "You're coming to Manhattan,” said Baumann jr, “and make gocd} 1 want to know whether you are Dooley or Kelley or neither.” They were marching from one car to another when, it is alleged, as the young husband ducke A crowd was under a stoop. ching Baumann wallop his brothe law when Re- serve Policeman Vetter step and placed both under arrest for gaging in a fight.” ¢ ON nformed in as “DP, CH | Kelly," asked the byidegroom in |court this morning whether his name {is “Dooley or Kelly.” Told by the court to answer, the prisoner said “Kelly.” He claims to come from Harrisburg, Pa, and says he served in the Medical Corps: during the war. The mysterious check is drawn on the Oxford Savings Bank of Frank- din, Pe. ol Youth Who Astounded Orange H train began to pull out of Brick Chureh Station, Mr, Dooley gave Mr Baw a vigorous shove toward the cing jumped to Brick h platform and took to his heels, Baumann jr., recovering him- self, started after. They vaulted fences, crossed’ back yards and had covered several squares when the! MRS. OGDEN L. MILLS ADMITS DIVORCE IN PARIS INTERVIEW MRS OGDEN ‘1. MILLS Former Miss Rutherford Is Living in Home Once Occupied by Gen, Pershing. ‘ Copmety 1920. by The trem Pythtishing Oo. (The New York Kveuing World.) PARIS, May 4,—Mrs. Ogden L. Mills jr, admitted to-day that sho is divorced, adding, “I thought every- body knew about it." She refused to go Into details, even refusing dis- closure of the name of her lawyer, saying that if she made a statement "Mrs. Vanderbilt might not “ike it.” Mrs, Mills is living in a palatial home at No, 73 Rue de Varenne, which was Gen, Pershing’s hi ™ In Elder D: Mra, Wm. K. Vande Ogden L. Mills jr, millionatre and former State Senator, married Miss Marganet Rutherford, datighter of Mrs. William K, Vanderbilt, sr, on Sept. 20, 1911, at the Chateau de Quesnay, one of tho Vanderbilt es- tates In France. Many prominent) Americans delayed their: return fom | France in order to be present at tho! wedding, which was the event of the ‘There was a ‘vlvt! ceremony Vau- 0. season. Lirst at the Hotel de Ville at villes, a vilage near the chates Mrs. Mills is a sister of Mrs, ( Hatch, She made her debut in New York in the winter of 1910-11 Since her marriagé she has been considered one of the must exclu- sive matrons of New York und New port society. During’ the war she was active in Red Cross and other war work, She went to was announced, months at and Mr. Mil's wei France to this spring, it spend several} eau, where she married. | IRISH OFFICER JS SLAIN, | Sermeant Killed and Two Consta-! re Ambush, | A police sergeant | ables wounded | were fired on from ambush! ng from Listowel to Bally-| ty Kerry, according tol ges here to-da —aep: 8 Winn $50,000 Verdict, Aresoni won 4 $50,000 ver- s Court to-day reme a wert 4. he int when the Daylight Suyimw Hearing on May 17 not Was heard ALBANY, N. ¥:, May 4 ing Fowler Bill to light saving law will be given by Gay? Jernor Smith at the executive chamber at lp, M. May 1 card steeds Stent CLOSE “RED” GUARD AS POLICE GET TIP OF DEMONSTRATION BRIERE OES All Meeting Places of Radicals Watched and Bomb Squad Is on the Alert. FIRED AT. ATTORNEY IS Prosecutor of Emma Goldman and Berkman Attacked Near His Home. The police, still keeping secret their operations following the tip that there was to be a ‘Red” demonstration here | to-day, are watching all the anarchists’ meeting places, aided by Department of Justice agents and Secret Service mon, ‘The bomb squad, headed by Detective Jame are trailing teading “Reds” instructions. to arrest Gegan, with ‘them should their actions be open to the slightest suspicion. The police and Federal agents are also hunting for two Anarchists who atiempted to Harold Content, Assaminate Capt. formur. Assistant United states Atter- ner, * ehisis, Capt. Content, who lives at Park Avenue, refused to talk about the attack until efforts of the police to keep it secret had failed. He was passing a work bridguy be- tween his apartments and a house under construction across the sircet last Saturday night, when a single shot was fired at him, He said this morning that he had not seen any onc and that the report that more than cye shot was fired was incorrect, as was the report that he had chased two assailants who disappeared in Madt- son Avenue. Capt. Content said that on Apri! 30, the day before the shooting, he had received a threatening letter from Anarchists, who informed him of the contemplated assassination. Becausc such messages have frequently been mailed to bim he did not pay any at- tention to it. The name of the Anarchist group which sent the letter was not ‘revealed, and the police re- fused to say whgt it contained. More of the history of Andrea sal- sedo, the Anarchist who leaped to death yesterday morning from the Department of Justice offices into | Park Row, has been learned from the Itallan Consulate here, He had been under suspicion of the home Govern- ment ever since he landed in this country on Nov. 27, 1906. The records show that he was a printer and was twenty-five years old when he arrived here, Vice Consu! Rocherte said to-day that instruc- tions had been received from the Itallan Government to keep the An- ornment’s expense. oe FAKE BELL-ANS AFTER MEALS and 694 foe See GOOD DIGESTION tuee pon lank Aamo who prosecuted HYmma Goldman, oder Berkman and other Anar- | Document Filed by Arnstein.and ceed: dicate which preyed on Wall Street CUBAN SUGAR LAND ITS PRE-WAR PRICE: ms ¥- OR ARE Consul General Tells of Pros-| perity—Homes Sell as High as $1,000,000, the !} Montana Apartments, 62d Street and Sugar land times aa much. now aa it did betore the war, according to Loopoldo Duls, Cuban Cgnsu) General to Now York, in Cubs costs fifteen who arrived on the Ward Line steun- ship Mexico to-day from Havana, ‘A tract of about thirty-thime acres of sugar land which formerly sold fur $1,000," he sald, “now brings abou 115,000, ‘Mhe present prospericy of Cuba is reflected in the prices, A sugar mill at Carnaguay valued be: fore the war At not more thun §%,0V0,- QW was recently sold for $14,000,000 and still] more recontly it changed hands again for $17,000,000. “The City of Havana is becoming a city of palaces, with values mullt- plied, Mom of the new homes coat {rom $500,000 to $2,000,000, Rodman Wanamaker bought a residence for $1,000,000, which was formerly valued at about one-tenth of that. This is ; a fuir sample of the way prices have | been going up.” The slip brought 250 passengers jad 4 curso of pineapples, early 2,000 crates, One of the passengers wus Edward Rolund Pottle, American Vice Consul ut Bilbac, Spain, He says that is the richost city In the world’ for \t# size, including 200 nillionaires in a population of 120,000. archist under surveiliance, but that] \\tomobiles made in the United he eluded the watchers, He sald that Stat to goll for $5,000 bring $10,000 | he was going to live with his brother-| i)". he suid, Me added that the in-law, Pletro Bertuglia, at No. 167) coote of Spain are very fond of goods Mott Street, Brooklyn. in U. B.A.” He said When the Italian authorities sough! niards emigrate to Salsedo at that address, neither bh [i month. nor the brother-in-law could be| }found. ‘The former was tocated a'| MISSING WIFE ‘BACK Lynn, Mass, about 1912 and was then TO BURY HUSBAND lost sight of until Sept. 29, 1916 when he returned from Italy: While at : tbe Lynn he published a work entitled | Mrs, Elizabeth Smith in Deep Mom- “Life and Memoirs of Clemente Du ing, Weeps at Bier of Man Who val." Who Duval was, the Italian Dropped Dead. Consul could not learn, The dead rs, Etlzabeth Smith, missing from man haa a brother in ttaly, her home at No, 810 Macon Street, W. J. Flynn, head of the Depart-| prooklyn, since April 20, when she went ment of Justice, sald to-day that Sal-]our shopping, returned at 10 o'clock to- seda had been held by his own ¢ Jday for the eer ' there was ty ne | Joseph Sint! more m ng detained by his ' disease aternoon tn ; : the froquola Yacht Club, Brookiyn BS 5GGR 8 FOR for Phe. Rvonis ij Ni! Gmitk who was clad iting World 0. ing where “pria mourning, wept at the b or of her hus ner” was and t atter ured the band, She refused to make any further reporter he had no wish toh statement about her absence than that mn is well furnished and the| she saw the report of her husband's. man orders his meals from|death in the papers and resolved to re- ng restaurant at the Gov- |" ALPE REE 5 Abe, Pe eS TO.MORROW'S WEATHER—Fair and cool, Court Tells of Arrangements Made and Cohen’s Threat of Murder. COSTS 15 TIMES: var PEWS UN Waar PRICE TWO CENTS | tener = : 1 GREATER NEW YoR! CONFESSION BY EASTERDAK EXPOSES PARTS AL LEADE ~ PLAYED IN THE BOND T in United States Others for Divisi From confessions and other testimony taken in bankrupicy pro gs growing qut of the $5,000,000 bond and stock thefts by 3 syn="— houses through messenger boys the public had ‘its first cormprehensive glance at “the cast” of the plot. Bat testimony was filed in the United States District Court, . ‘> Aasistant District Attorney cael | retuoea to-day to commention the | ¢losures in the Federal Court, men now in cuxtudy charged complicity in the rutiverins and Sule of the proceeds, He declared wished to say ‘nething to with the urrost of the others wad the Thrinwing to justice of the men | inurderea Benay Rinkowita in Com jnectiout for the, fortune tn renerttey t | nich he had stolen. : BROKERS TELL OF PARTS. PLAYED IN THE PLOT! Tho tuvestigquiors know Uthat soon flier the assassination of Horm (tosenthal sextterod the — so-catied Newpor Club group of gamblers on ‘he East Side a eountry-wide, sye. ‘on haw been developed for inier- uiuinging information, securities af wther vafunbles irregularly acqui in which were netive prise tightens tien intimately associated with po, Witiqal leadors, kawyors in thin ay ond other cities and keepers of quests Jonuble revorts-~all of whom will be. vrought inte court to tell what they | can be inude to tell of the methods by which trusted messengers and ole were beguiled or blackmailed | tm dishonesty and the loot changed into cash, . +3 The testimony made public to-day” Included the statements of Wand W. Kasterday and Norwan $. Bowles of the former Washington brokerage firm of Sullivan & Company; Philip IL, Kastel, onge a broker here and in Chicago, Louis Blect, an associate’ of Kastel, and ‘Miss Raye Cohen, sister of Nick Cohen, close friend of “Nicky” Arnstein, “From thone rep> ords may be sketched the parts im the piot, a8 the witnesses have sworn they were asiigned to the actors, JULES W. ARNSTEIN — Known in his own world as “Nicky,” for whom the police have conducted /# fareical cross-country “hunt” weeks, At a meeting Oct. 12, 19! with David W, Sullivan, with whom Easterday was associated in a Wash~ ington brokerage firm on the’ verge ot bunkruptey, arranged by Lawyer R, M, Newman, told Basterday he had “some stocks” he wanted Sulll- van to dispose of. with Arastein, who refused to talk to Sullivan in Husterday’s presence. the next day Arnstein, Cohen and Sullivan went to Washington, Arn~ stein and Cohen passed from $600,000 to $700,000 worth of securition through Sullivan's office within the following month, Arnstein was ad® vised y his own lawyer, William J, Fallon in Easterday’s presence, not to have anything to do with seourt~ ties taken from “Benny” Binkowltm, murdered in Connecticut for atolem. bonds he had with him, Arnstela told Easterday on the télephone he had $2,000,000 for Sullivan, PART SAID TO HAVE BEEN PLAYED BY NICK COHEN, , ference with Sullivan and Easterday by Arnstein at tho meeting im a bar room near the Bretton Hall Hotel ars ranged by Lawyer Newman, said they were getting “from « safe place” 9 shares of bananas asin pe Nick Cohen was _ NICK COHEN--Brought into cote. 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