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_£ . ' City Doesn’t Own Streets and The Evenin Order in Your Newsdealer TO.NIGHT’S WEATHER—Fair. To Be Sure of Gettin Worl vance * o! VOL. LX. NO. 21,429—DAILY. at, 1920, by The Press Publishing hap 9 Cine’ ewe York World). NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY 10, 1920. BUSES RUN BY CITY ILLEGAL, APPELLATE COURT DECIDES IN BROOKLYN TEST CASE Justice Cropsey Sustained In Granting Injunction to Halt Their Operation. NO STRIKE EMERGENCY. | Can’t Use Them For Jit- - neys, Says Opinion. The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Brooklyn to-day handed down an opinion affirming the decision of Justice Cropsey that the buses run by the city and Grover Whaien, Commissioner of Plant and Structutes, were operated vllegally, ‘The opinion stated that the emer- gency created by the B, R, T. strike ‘ had passed and that the buses should lew York and Rhode Ivland who have been withdrawn. ’ { The sult was instituted by the| Brooklyn City Railroad and Justice} Cropsey issued an Injunction against the operation of the buses. The citg appealed, In the opinion, which was written by Justice Blackmar and concurred in by the other justices, it was stated ‘that the city had no power nor au thority to operate bus or stage lines in the streets “unless it be found in a grant by the people, represented in the Legislature.” As to the “home rule” act, under which the city claimed the privilege of operating the lines, the decision said: » “The city is not only a political sub- division having governmental powers, | but @ property owner, The city does | not own the streets which are used by the public at large, so the city cannot use them for the operation of on of the Appellate Di- vision may cause Capt. John K. Kuhn, receiver for the trolley lines eperated by the Richmond Light and Power Company, to apply for an in- function restraining the city from running buses along the trolley lines on Staten Island. He had said that he would take no such action until the ’ Appellate Court had rendered its de- cision in the Brooklyn cas Corporation Counsel O'Brien, when! told of the decision, said: “I have not yet seen the decision, i but I understand that it sustains the | tuling of Justice Cropsey. If this is true we shall take the case to the ‘Court of Appeals, the highest court j in the State. “We shall also request a stay pre- venting any interference with the} operation of the buses pending that appeal, “We intend to fight this mutter through for the benefit of the people of New York.” GASOLINE N Now 34 CENTS. Garage Mew Not ion Half Boo The Standard Oil Compan York to-day gave not that the price of gaso! ins creased one and one-half centa a gal- ‘jon to 30 cents wholesale, beginning to- morrow. ‘The retail price will be 34 cents a gallon. f Cent and a Classified advertising Sagar” world ‘moulds tn’ Tes On or Be fore Friday receives the areference Hi Or rt cAvestiains ime to te SESS cor teen SF time ho ‘eal It, THE WORLD | (Special Correspond: as ing Wi {favor of the President's position on |the peace treaty that after all Mr, | carry on the fight for the League of Na- "the White silt dati nail ihe Rls a WILSON'S LETTER’ ON TREATY DEFIES N.Y. DEMOCRATS Washington Regards It as| President’s Reply to Stand Taken at Albany Conference. By David Lawrence, it of The Even- orld.) WASHINGTON, May 10 (Copyright, 1920.yPresident _ Wilson has defi- aptly answered the Pemocracs of failed to go on record in their respec- tive conventions in favor of the Treaty of Versailles and the covenant of the Leagtte of Nations, The President, moreover, has antici- pated the Democratic National Con- vention by asking the Oregon Demo- erats wo blaze the way by a declara- tion of their platform and by their votes in the approaching primary, Mr. Wilson risks something by put- ting the issue to a test in advance of the convention, but Oregon has shown itself heretofore so strongly in Wilson would appear to, be ee certain of indorsement. But if will be moted that the Presl- dent asked the Democrats not merely to support his own position on the treaty, but “to’ condemn the Lodge reservations;” Unquestionably, the Republican Convention at Chicago will endeavor to do the very opposite, namely, “to commend the Lodge res- ervations,” Mr, Wilson considers that Senator Knox spoke the truth the other day when he frankly admitted that reservations “do not Amefican- ize.” The Pennsylvania Senator made it easler for Mr. Wilson to make a clear qpt tssue. WILSON FAILS TO INDICATE ANY PROGRAMME ON RESERVATION. But there is one weakness in Mr. Wilson's course which did not escape ‘gomment here to-day. While the President rejects the Lodge reserva- tions he does not indicate that a pro- gramme like the Hitchcock reserva- tions waquld be acceptable. He leaves the inference that he still wants the treaty and covenant to be indorsed without the crossing of a “t” or’ the dotting of an “i.” Notwithstanding the advice and| suggestion of many of his friends, the President has throughout the treaty fight permitted that impression to go | out to the country, Even when he! indorsed the Hitchcook reservations in the last moments of the debate last | March, het did not emphasize the (Continued on Second Page.) piabercatase aia ats COLBY WILSON CHOICE? Pots Him ’ nation, N, May 10.—Balnbridge Colby may be the n President Wil- son has picked as the right candidate to Washington 6 o tions, as Democratic Presidential nomi- nee, it was reported to-day Oné report is to the effect that th | President took Colby into the Cabinet with the express purpose of grooming bim for the Democratic nomination Other Democrats suy Paltwer will get CLUE IN MURDER OF RUCKERT GIVEN Week Ago to Enter Slain Man’s Home. ’ |PUT UP GAME BATTLE. Assassin Now | Believed tu Have Been After $500 Vic- tim Drew From Bank. der of Frits Ernest Ruckert, Vic facturing Company, apartment on the top floor of Ni 1127 Washington Street, enter his apartment had been mad a week ago, Varath, his fiancee, from whose hom chauffeur after they had spent th followed by a supper. Miss Varath ag her home, No. 103 directly above his room. for some moments and then, sur Gus Halkan, his valet. went up to the roof and made a thor. any one. that morning. Jolly evening at the theatre and h on the drive home. me at my house 1 began to worry. 4 me and I coujd not sleep. When thi house was roused soon after 2 o'cloc to tell the awful news to us it was who opened the door, “I was among the first to reach th hdspital and was with Mr, until he died. was murdered for his money! He al him, “He did not have an enemy of men, him and he had done much to hel their condition and lessen tl their living. last and talked business with M Richter, his partner, and left dir tlons regarding some of the contra Just before he died he said to me I've taken care of you The police had expressed the pelic (Continued on i $60 SHOES CAUSE lecond Page.) House approval, McAdoo’. friends suy he can win on own merits and can get the nomingtion with out White House help. all 4 BY HIS FIANCEE ncialiines Miss Varath Tells of Attempt ‘ The mystery surrounding the mur- Président of the White Metal Manu- who was shot by a masked man carly yesterday | morning: in the dining room of his The story waa told by Miss Clara he was driven to his death by his own evening at a theatre in Manhattan, “A week ago that very night,” sald Garden Street, Hoboken, “Mr. Ruckert was awakened by a noise on the roof He listened there was a man on the roof, vailed fogether they | ough search, but were unable to find “I had a premoniticn that some- thing was going to happen to Fritz! We had had a most was most cheerful at the supper and But when he left strange feeling of danger overcame, Rucker Oh, I am sure that he| aygustus Drum Porter for next Mon- ways carried several hundred dollars with him and I am sure that some one found this out and lay in walt for | in the world and was one of the most kindly His 40 Oemployees all loved cost of | He was conscious to the AKE BELL-ANS AFTER MEALS and ge. ki in |v ne GOOD DIGESTION ambos fou ‘nel. Ady, MIAJOF political parties, re “QVER HEAD” OF HENRY TOLD AS ure to Report “Suspicious” \ Houses. POLICE MA ORK Jury Quickly Smith Has Tilt With | Accused Official. DEFINES Inspector John Daly, second witness ¢ | called to-day in the trial of Inspector Dominick Henry, charged with glect of duty in failing to suppress viee in his district, caused a two-hour ne- Gelay of the proceedings by insisting jo. | that Henry's bulletin of “ nothing to Hoboken, was deepened this afternoon when it became known that an attempt to report” as to suspicious resorts in January, 1919, did not mean that Henry intended to report that his dis- ¢ | trict was spotless. “There is a printed order,” Daly said, “which defines ‘suspicious’ as | applied to divorderly houses. A piace was not under that rule to be reported ©] as ‘suspicious’ unless”—— Mr. Bourke Cochran, counse] for Henry. insisted that the rule pe pro- duced in text. Assistant District At- | torney James BE. Smith said he could not go on’ with the case until the point was settled. Court adjourned while ¢ | cured a copy of the rule “Mr, Smith seems to have called a lot of our witnesses,” Cochran said - | during the wait. “Oh, I always like to protect the defendants’ interests?’ said Smith, “Thank you 80 much," sald Henry. Smith got red in the face, “No remarks from you!” he snarled “Ne remarks from you at Daly pro- @/at Henry, all!” ‘The rule, finally produced by Daly A| fefined the conditions under which an inspector was to put houses on his | list as “suspicious.” Kk} Daly told of his work in making 1) raids insHenry’s district. Before going into the Henry trial ©! Judge Malone set the second trial of t] former Third Deputy Commissioner -|day and the trial of Policeman Fred Frapklin, charged with grafting, for the following week. Inspector Henry seemed in high good humor. When consulted regard- ling challenges he was always appar- ently for accepting every talesman | without question, P| ‘The jury was completed before noon. Itz members are: James C, Simpson, publisher, No. 270 Riverside Drive; "| William C, Abbott, civil engineer, No (Continued on —— cond Page.) “‘T am going, dear, but don't worry.| REPUBLICANS MEET | TO PICK CHAIRMAN Committee in Chicago May | Make Choice Until Not To-Morrow. CINDERELLA TO KICK CHICAGO, May 10.--The Repoblican eet |N onal Committee which met here to~ Chicago Girl Calls Dealer a! gay to select a te wry Chairman | Gouger and Wants Him Jailed | for tne National Convention, June § for Life, | shortly after, convening went into ss eusion which was expected CHICAGO, May 10,—Chicago's Cin- er aay which =P detella, Miss Mary Bottoroff, owner of |” ane petection of the temporary Chair- the smallest feet hereabouts, wears &! man, it was said, would not be made small sive 1-5 shoe and 1s endeavoring until the Committee on Arrangements to land her “prince” in @ cell. Here Is) mot tate to-day or some time to-mor- Cinderella's “kick”: fs “There is not a place tn Chicago| ‘the name o sie Henry Ceket where I pan get shoes the size I wear. Lodge was the only one op ¥y spoken { went to a man to get a palr made. He} o¢ jn connection with the temporary charged me $60. He is a profiteer, 4 Chairmanship, Republican leaders sald. want hin put in Jatt for life." ‘The man} ‘The committee has nothing to do with mage answer as folloys: “1 lost money] selection of a perman airman or On ithe shoes y time she came] formation of rules for the National 'n It took halt Tonvention. snd’ Hise | ine " aH) ate More women were represented than at any previous gathering o: HIS TRIAL OPENS — Daly Defends Inspector’s Fail- Gompleted— MRS. WM. HASKELL, WHOSE QUICK WIT SAVED HER $20,000 MRS. W. N. HASKELL. CALLS OUT ARMY AGAINST PEACE Hungary Orders Mobilization of Four ‘Classes, Budapest Reports —Hotly Resents Treaty, PARIS, May 10.—The Hungarian Government ‘has érdered mobilization of fdur classes of the army, a Buda- pest despatch to-day sald, VIENNA, May 9.—"The hand signing the peace treaty will be accursed, read placards, posted throughout Buda- pest last night, according to a despatch here to-day, All Hungary has risen’ to “demand refusal of the Entente’s Peace Treaty, handed to the Hungarian delegates in Paris May 6 with ten days to sign, the despatch sald, The country was de- xcribedé as jndignant because of the Allies’ refusal to grant Hungary's counter proposals. \ Opposition to the treaty was led by the Radical Christian party under Herr FHedrich, ‘The Radicals believed the nte would not: be able to use coercive measures AUTO HITS BOY; RUNS AWAY Hurt—Car Was Moving Rapidly, Anthony Dalisser, echoolboy, on his to his home at No. 599 Morris Avenue, the Bronx, at noon to-day was struck by a rupldiy moving touring car in Mott Avente «ar 149th Street and ‘probably fatally ‘\o- Jured. Witnesses say the chauffeur slightly slackened speed as the car struck the boy, but immediately re- ed his original fast. pace and dis- into the Grand Concourse. p car waa of the touring type with ed the po- on the & seven-year-old sun Heense plate, The vietih was Hospital by Dr. Sc taken ttner. POLICEMAN FOUND SLAIN. | Body Discovered in Bridgeport Nullding With Rope About Nec BRIDGEPORT, Conn. May 10, to Lincoln Lieut; James J. O'Nelll of the Police! Department was found 4d by stran- | gulation in the basement of a house de- | Jing built ate 0 Bronx Avenue he |to-day, A f rope was about his neck ayd another plece on the drain| . The discovery was made yy @ carpenter 1 officer's duty, being due at at li o'clock, ‘This waa tho last, seen of him ally |BIG MARKET FOR BROOKLYN. | | report |tion house WHI Be Ballt on Site of Flatbush | Car Barns, It became known to-day ‘ail throu h the sale of a piece of prop- erty at Flatbush Avenue and Duryea Place, Brooklyn, a public market will be erected the site The property ‘was bought for $200,000 | A $500,000 market pbuilding will be} jerected. ‘There will be 200 stores. ‘The | | plot, 250 by 250 fect, was: formerly the jold Fiatbush car barns ‘The company | ng the market will be kn Public Market ite was py owner Ward dre i le Portes E. Giimor and’D! M wel AMERICAN WOMEN ROBBED BY PIRATES ON THE BLACK SEA} woo Daring Ship Hold-Up Nets Large Amount in Money and Jewels. WAR . VESSELS Robbers Escape in Small Boats —U,. S. Woman Saves $20,000 by Quick Wit. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 10 (As- sociated Press).—Pirates held up the French packet Scuirah, from Batum, May 6, for Marseilles, and after rob- bing the passengers went ashore in boats which they compelled members of the crew to man. Among those on board were Mrs. Haskell, wife of Col, William Haskell, Director General of American relief in the Near East, and Mrs, Daly and Mrs, Booth, whose husbands are con- nected with relief work in Armenia, They were forced to give up their money and jewelry at the point of a revolver, ‘The pirates boarded the steamer at Batum. At 9 o'clock at night fitteen men sprang up from various parts of the ship, covered officers and pis- sengers with pistols and threatened to kill any who opposed them. After drifting for some time, the American women were taken aboard a French destroyer and later trans- ferred to the American destroyer Cole, which arrived here to-day, The plan for the robbery had ap- parently been worked out in the greatest detafl and was skilfully exe- cuted. The pirates were careful to keep control of the wireless appara- tus, preventing the Allied warships, of which many aré in the vicinity of Batum, from being advised of what was going on, Meanwhile the pirate crew forced the steamer to take a route along which a steam launch awaited them. NEARBY. From 9 o'clock Thursday night until | nck the following morning the pirates kept the passengers in a state of feur, ‘The surprise was sprung while the majority of the passengers were still in the dining saloon, and they had no opportunity to hide thetr valuables, Mrs, Haskell, Mrs. Duly and Mra, Booth were in their cabins, which the pirates searched repeatedly. Mrs, Haskell saved $20,000 in a money belt by throwing it into a waste- water receptacle. But sho was robbed of money and jewels wortn $2,000. The American women say the met who robbed them all wore black masks and were apparently Russians, although possibly some may have been Bulgurians, One pirate wore a tweed Knickerbocker sult and carried binoculars over his shoulder like a seasoned globe-trotter, The band car- ried grain sacks, into which they threw their loot. The steainer was crowded with refugees, most of whom had con- verted thelr property into money to avold confiscation by the Bolsheviki. | —_-~. POLICE GET $200,0C0 eet FURS IN LOFT RAID Reported Identified Stolen Property, and Four Men Are Arrested, Detectives of the loft squad in a raid this afternoon at No. 102 West 37th Street are reported to have re- covered furs valued nt $200,000, The police say the furs have been identl- fled as stolen property. | Goods as Four prisoners were removed with the goods to the West 87th Street Po- lice Station, arasge damian WORLD RESTAURANT. p ay May “10, 192 ‘Roast (ret) iam a ante “ Be, Pried reel Fa and rmaet\ YO” Table Syote alae’, 6 uh thor, Works Babbding, “Adee PRICE TWO CENTS FORCE eg s Tampico, Great Oil enh Oi Surrendeie to the Revolutionists—Carranza " Not to Be Executed—15 Rebel _ Chiefs Reported Put to Death : 4 by Carranza’s Aide. EL PASO, Tex., May 10.—Mexican revolutionists overtook and: dispersed the troaps escorting President Carranza in his flight fromt- Mexico City, “causing them serious losses,” according to a message, from Gen, Alvaro Obregon to Goy. De La Huerta, Supreme Com- mander of the Liberal Contitutionalist Army, made public here to-day. MEXICO CITY, May 10 (United Press).—President Carranza wes captured Saturday, according to a confirmed report here, bh ‘ The Present was overien at Apiac, in the Stale of Tati after he had fled from ‘the capital. His personal safety was ~ Apizaco (Barron-Escandon) is eighty-six miles from Mexico Cily at the junction of the rail lines from Mexico City and Puebla. tt is nob stated by whom Carranza was captured, but it presumably would be by Obregon or Gonzales forces, since these leaders have beem operating this vicinity. U.S. DREADNOUGHT GOES TO KEY WEST, TAKING: MARINES Waa to Washington Hears of No Dis- orders in Mexico, but Is ¢ ‘Taking Precautions, WASHINGTON, May 10, — The dreadnought Oklahoma was ordered to-day to proceed from New York to Key West, Fla., for possible duty in Mexican waters, The ship will siop en route at Philadelphia to take on a full com- pany of marines from the League Island station, She is expected to arrive there to-night, ‘The Oklaboma should reach Key. West several days ahead of the transport Henderson, which is now en route to League island to take on 4 additional forve of 1,200 marines. So far as could be learned, no orders have been issued to either vessel to proceed further than Key West. Estimates of the State Department place the number of Americans in Mexico at between 6,000\ and 7,000. This number includes radicals and draft evaders who croswed the border to escape arrest or court proceedings. The Department had no additional advices to-day, from the American or from any of its agents ‘@ HOUSTON, Tex., May 10.—Tampioo, the great oil town on the Gulf of . Mexico, capitulated to forces of Gén. Obregon yesterday, according to radia, despatches, The advices said the town went: over to the revolutionists without se- rious disorder. The message received here was filed’ with the United States gunboat Sacra. mento at Tampico by an official of the’ Mexican Gulf Oil Company, and way ° addressed to the Gulf mene Com- pany at Houston, ‘The advices stated that ravelatlontaa troops entered the customs house Sun- day at 4,30 o'clock, The military com- mander escaped on the Government steamer Julisco with files and record, AGUA PRIETA, Sonora, Mexteo, May 10.—Carranza was assured trial’ * under thé laws of Mexico for pele ff his offenses in statement Gen, P. Elia Calles, War Minleter off the Revolutionary Government. “It is my belief that a man who violates the law should ‘answer under the Jaw,” Gen, Calles sald. “I say, emphatically that the revolutidniste * will not execute Carranza, I ant confi- dent he will not be assassinated, Villa must not become a political or military factor in the revolution o¥ in Mexico." EL PASO, Tex, May 10.—Officers to take charge of the new Mexican Government began leaving here for Mexico City to-day. Gen. Antonio I. Villareal, Military Chiet of Neuvo Leon and Coabuiila, Gen. Francisco Serano, Chief of Staft » and Gen, Urbaleuo, Yaqui Chief, were among those departing, The Ojinaga Garrison joined the revolutionists yesterday, Capt. Leom- bardo Zendenjas commanded the re~ volters, Col. Nalinas and Lieut, Col, Torres fled to Presideo, Tex. The rebel Government gained $50,000 in gold and other funds when the Nuevo Lareda Government swung to the Obregonists, according to re~ ports. Nuevo Laredo to-day was in command of Jorg Borquez, BROWNSVILLD, Tex., May 10.— ‘The evacuation of Monterey, capital of the State of Nuevo Leon, by Car. - ranza forces is reported, Governor De Las Santas was said to be en route to Matamoros, opposite Browns~ ville, where the State Government” will be established. Mazatlan was occupied by the revs » olutionary fortes under.Gen. Angel Flores at 4 A, M. to-day, ametea. to latest reports. (special to The Evening World.) NOGALDS, Mex. May 10,—witb, Mexico City in risen, 18 the revo- Cette in eAtbaicen Les s In Mexico, With Mexico City, Vera Cruz and Tampico in the hands of the revolu- tlonists, six American destroyers |were en route to-day to Mexican | waters to await eventualities and to { arora protection to American lives in the Mexican Gulf ports. OMcial confirmation of the fall of the Mexican capital was received yesterday by the State Department from the American Embassy, which reported there was no disorder in the apital incident to the transfer of authority, Tampico and Vera Cruz also were reported quiet, oe jguah THY WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU, ose vet a Ba ss dm, wae oF erabeaes