The evening world. Newspaper, May 20, 1920, Page 1

TO-NIGHT To Be Sure of Getting The Evening World, Order in Advance from Your Newsdealer _ che Ctrenlation Books Open to an? | * Ciretilation vl Books Open to All.”’ wt UNION mf | SRE ae Vote Is Taken to Go Back to Work At Once. ° > MEN FEARED PUBLIC Decide to Settle Differences | Within Ranks and Avoid || General Hostility. | —_—— 1 ‘The milk drivers, after one of the| shortest and most remarkable ‘walk- outs ever known in this city, voted » “whentmously to their wagons at noon to-day. At @ meeting in Sokal Hall in East 744 Btreet near First Avenue, 500 of the strikers assembled ghortly after 11 o'clock to take counsel for the con- | /otimuation and re-inforcement of ire j\strike. The majority had no fd Uf calling it off. Louis Etler, Max Sobart and others | fddreased them. Etler told them} they had gone about the settlement of their grievances in the wrong way; that they had antagonized the Public when they needed the .public with them. Secretary Scharf, whose grievance | at being illegally ousted from his po- sition was perhaps one of the strong- est, spoke in similar vein. He sald .that after talking the matter over his confreres and members of the press, the conclusion was inevitable that they should fight their fight from inside the union and not on the out- wide to the detriment and inconvent- rence of the public. {. Both he and Etler urged the taking \x of the matter and threshing it out! to @ finish at the regular meeting of | {the union in Arcadia Hall, Bronklyn, (to-morrow afternoon. They owed it ;f@ their employers, as well as the ‘public, to do this, ‘When a ypte was taken the strikers were unanimous in calling off the \ strange strike, and all haste was made to notify the dairies that all hands (were on their way back to work. | The men at the 67th Street stables reported back for work promptly. John P, Pederman, superintendent at ) the g8th Street distributing station, aid some of the men had returned to ‘work, but that most of them had gone ‘heme for some sleep and had prom- fged to be on hand in the morning, \ Chatrman Kehoe ‘of the District Council of the Teamsters’ Union was lédta the men feared “rough work” at |) the reconciliation meeting to-morrow which 1s to be addressed by Auditor George Burke of the International Union and President Stabinsky of the focal union, against whose authority tap men revolted. “If there's any rough-house star*ed," {Kehoe sald. “It will be those fellows who start it. We intend to give qvery- "oody a square deal.” ‘Many of the returning strikers said bry would not attend the meeting or ‘Lbe bound by its action unless Stabin- sky was forced to give a full account bof himself along the lines the insur- Cre ‘have demanded, A, pitched battle ef Throop Avenue id on Street, Brooklyn, this { € Picnine between strikers and drivery ef the Hy-Ground Dairy Company | ‘ended in a victory for the latter with| the aid of the police. Bottles were thrown and fists flew, but no arrests ‘were made. { In the Bronx extraordinary precau- return to iy ,tlons were taken by the compaaics to | protect their drivers from the #tyikers’ (‘flying squadrons.” All wagons were ‘kept at the distributing stations un- fl after, daylight ‘The “insurgents who went Frooklym failed to get out 4 sin » 8 far as could be learned. About two hundred of them in vaus | ‘nd taxicabs wept to the Sheffield arms station at Fulton Street and 0 | York Avenue about 5 A. M., but j Sent w police ordered them away, and y went, ry - + INSURGENTS’ FULL SUPPLY ASSURED cy, HONEYMOON TRIP © OF THIS BRIDE TO BEGIN IN CLOUDS) Aviator Has Special Biplane Built for Two to Fly Here From Boston. BOSTON, May 20: HE “Honeymoon Express," the latest thing here 1n con- veyances for newlyweds, 43 being tuned up to-day in prepata- tion for its maiden trip, ft is 4 two-pagsenger biplane, finished 4: white énamel afid with “Honey- moon Express” lettered on the fu- selage. Edward A. Terhune jr, who was @ aval aviator during the war, had the plane built fdr his wride, who desired a honeympoa in tie clouds. They will leave here to- morrow’ with Terhune piloting the machine to Springfield, New York and Atiantic Cah ah me SAYS “CAVE MAN” FORCED HER TO WED After Ceremony to Prepare Bridegroom’s Dinner; Ran to District Attorney Instead. Angelo Fezza of No. 345 36th Street, Brooklyn, awaits examination undbr $1,600 bail fixed by Magistrate Folwnl! in Adams Street Court on charges of using cave man methods to make Miss Catherine Gormley of No. 333 Third Street his wife. Mrs, Fezza told her story In tears to Assistant District Attorney Helen MeCormick Monday afternoon. She had rejected Feaza-a score of times. she said. But he had aytaid her on the Sands Street elevated” station as she was going to work in the American Can Factory, she declared, and had threatened her with an instant and painful death in public tf she did not marry him at dnce. Terrorized, ‘she permitted the cere- mony to be performed in Brooklyn Bor. ough Hall by Deputy City Clerk Quay) Fezm told her to go to his home and start dinner. She went to the District Attorney nln = CARRANZA | STILL DODGES PURSUERS Reported to Have Been Going in Direction of ‘Tuxpam Oil Dis- trict Yesterday. WASHINGTON, May 20.—Mexico City papers yesterday reported that Warranza waa at Zacatian, east of Mex- ieo City In the direction of the Tuxpam oll district, to-day's Stite Department summary sald, They also reported Gen. Obregon as returning to Mexico City from San Luis Potost without having completed his proposed trip to Tampico for conference there with Gens. Arnulfo Gomez and Manuel Palacz. BOSTON, ay 20.—The destroyers Rodgers and Converse have been or- deed to 1 ovced to Mexican waters to relieve v ‘ls now on duty there. Rodgers. wag on her way the Converse was preparl morro®, Classified Advertisers Important ! Classified advertising copy tor The Sunday World should pe in The World office On or Before Friday Preceding Publreation Marly copy receives the preference en Sunday advertising hax to be fitted. Late advertising Is now omitted for lagk of time to set it "HE WORLD. The | RIOTING CONTINUES ALL OVER IRELAND; MORE TROOPS « Fatal Clash Follows Follows an Attack: in Limerick on a Meeting P of Masons. NAVAL BRIGADE LANDS. Soldiers ‘Prevent New Out- breaks at Londonderry and |, Also at Skibbereen. ee paneer ite DUBLIN, May 20.—Cavalry patro's were active throughout Ireland last night and early to-day. A squadron WOMAN CHARITY WORKER ORDERED HELD AS SWINDLER -Warrants Out for Mrs. Betty Lee, Accused of Passing Bad Checks in Newark, VANISHED AFTER LOAN. Had Interested Cfubwomen in $800,000 Plan for Work- ing Girls’ Hotel. Circulars were issued by the New- ark police to-day asking for the ar- rest of Mrs. Betty Lee of Cnicago, a of hussars replaced constables in po- Neing the Bray district. Troops patrolled Londonderry to prevent a renewal of rioting. The mil- vicinity of Skibbereen. A detach- ment from a naval brignde arrived with three guns to take over the bar- racks. One man was killed and a woman and girl wounded in clashes between civilians and police and soldiers last night in Limerick, Streets were pa- trolled by the military to-day. Fighting started last night when | crowds attacked a hall where the Ma- | sonic society was meeting. Stoncs | were hurled through the iwindowss of *| she building, | ‘Troops hitherto have }merely as additional police officers. In fights which have occurred at police barracks the attackers Fenerally been ten times more num- «roux than the defenders and, ay they have also been well armed, the con- tert has been unequal. . Many recent murders of polfeemen have occurred on patrols where the routes of tho officers were known, many bWelng shot from ambush. It will be more difficult in future for | raiders to carry on this sort of war- fare, as armored cars will be used. The wholesale burning of police barracks in the recent past appeared to be, mere wantonness, but now it appears these acts were attributable |to the foresight of Sinn Feingleaders. It was anticipated that an ension of military activity was contemplated by te Government and that these taurrecks would be used by detach- ments of soldiers, Difficulty is prehended in finding “lodgings for soldiers in remote districts. Some pri- vate houses have boen taken over for this purpose. A proclamation signed by “Presi- dent” De Valera of the’ “Irish Republic” and Dail Eireann, the Nationalist “Parliament.” has been cyculated in the South and West of the island authorizing the setting up of arbitration land courts to settle dispute and end the land wor. “We are engaged in a life and death struggle," the proclamation said, “with independence on the one side opposing wealth, power and armed legions of an unscrupulous empire on the other. Tlie courage and faith of our long-suffering but un- conquerable race is necessary, Every hand and brain is needod in the fight | When it is won Dail Bireann wil sce that justice is donc’ to all.” - a |U. S. GIVES WARNING been used Must Not to Russia Without Reciprocal Release of Americans. WASHINGTON, May 20.-—-Hungarian Communists held by the tAustrian au- thorities must not be transferred to Russia without the rgeiprocal release fof all Americans now detained in Soviet Russia, the Depart nt of State to-day nfarmed the American Commissioner in Vienna, WUAT is SURE RELIEV—Way i's Beli-aue tor indigestion, — Adee 4 ; & have | the | TO,THE AUSTRIANS |: Turn Communists Over prepossessing organizer of philan- thropies. It was stated that warrants had ‘been issued for her arrest on charges, of, issuing worthless checks itary also was reported active in the! and the misuse of funds. + Mrs. Lee about six weeks ago be- gan interesting women of the New- ark Federation of Churches in a pl for an $800,000 hotel for working women. It was enthusiastically re- cetved. Among others who were im- pressed were C. Wenham Smith, an organist, and his wife, About three weeks ago Mrs. 1: volunteered to get the aid of Senator |Cummins, whose secretars@ she said was her close friend, in getting tickets for a European trip for the Wenham Smiths, She showed them a letter signed by the name of a man named Woodson who, she said, was the ‘Sen- stor's secretary, promising to procure the tickets and passports on réceipt of $24 each to pay for the tickets Mr. Smith gave her two checks, Mrs. Lee left Newark Thursday last, giving up her apartment at the Aberdeen Hotél. Joseph Fink, 4 broker and active church worker, was tie only one’to whom she had spoken wbout going away. She borrowed $150 from him to visit “a sick gister n Chioago.”, Barly this week Detective Farrell, wha guards department stores in Newark, was consulted by a merchant who told him that the store, which had already suffered $50 loss by ac- copting checks from Mrs, Lee, had now on hand two apparently certified checks for $244 each made to hor by Wenham Smith and was doubtful about them, Farrell learned not only that the checks were genuine, but that Wennam Smith was the father- in-law of Police Commissioner Ford Since then the Federdi Trust Com- pany of Newark has had returned to it from Trenton a worthless check for $150 made out to Mrs, Lee and hus declined to cash another for $100 which came to it from a bank in Southold, N. Y., which has 00 account in Mrs, Lee's name. There was u large attendance at ja meeting of the Federation tast ‘Tuesday, at which Mrs. Lee was to have spoken. She did not appear ang court uction followed, STOCK DIVIDEND TAX FOR SOLDIER BONUS Congress Committee Votes Impost o& 40 Per Cent.; Refuses to In- | crease War Profits Levy. WASHINGTON, May 20.—A 10. per ent, fax on stock o last March 16, was approved to-day y the House Ways and Means Commit- lee as a part of the taxation scheme for nanoing soldier reliof legislation Adoption of the tax provision by a wargin of oneevote precipitated such a | ight In the committee that favorable report on the bill was delayed, with op ponents of the stock tax seeking recon ideration The committee also refused by a strtet party vote to accept an 80 per cent. re trouctive war profits tax, proposed by Democratic Committeemen. _~ “Horoayn.” ino biggest musical comedy bis in tow Contury Theatre,—Advt, s dividends, retroactive | SOCIEFY BEAUTY WHO DIVORCES N. ¥. SPORTSMAN (Copyright, Central News.) MRS, WILLIAM A. SLATER JR. MRS. M.A. SLATER | WINS RENO DIVORCE FROM MILLIONAIRE Agee Woman Gets Custody of Son for Nine Months Each Year. | RENO; Nev., May 20—Mrs,. Mudo- line Allen Slater has been granted a divorce from William A. Slater jr. of New York, and is allowed to resume ber maiden name, Madeline Allen, and to have custody of their son, born tn 1914, for nine months in each year They were ~virried in 1913 In April,” 1914, before the son was born, Mrs, Slater said in her ecm- plaint that her husband left her and that she did not hear from him for some time.. He spent bis time at clubs ind with discreditable associates and surfoundings, she sald, and upbraided her for not wishing to join him tm this Kid of Life. She was a nurse overveas and on her rcturn her husband forced her to ive with his parents, she sald. In the fal) of 1916 she threateried to leave her husband, but her father asked her,| hot to obtain a divorce during his ‘fetime and she acquiesced, and she was a “nomina) wife to the defendant but not a wife in fact” until the spring of 1919, when her father died. Willinm A. Slater In Helr to Many mi Slater, the son of Mra, Willlam A. Slates of Washington, D, C. al- though owner of yachts, automobiles and fast horses and helr to many millions, in 1911 astonished the social set by going to work a8 @ day labover in the Slater Mills at Jewett City, near Norwich, Conn, for # salary o $6 per week, He bad just left ool- lege and expressed a desire to learn the textile trade. His grandfather, John T. Slater, founder of the mills, established the million dollar negro school fund in the South. Young Slater on Aug. 10, 1913, married Miss Madeline V. Howe Allen at York Harbor, Maine. The vouple spent their honeymoon in Burope Mrs. William A. Slater Jr. ls con- | sidered one of the most beantiful | women in Washington society. . She is young, tall, with light hair, blue eyes and a clear complexion, She and her \busbund took 4m ugtive part in so- jcvety DAYLIGHT SAVING STANDS; GOVERNOR ALBANY, May 20. AYLIGHT saving will remain in effect in New York State, joy. Smith to-day vetoed the Fowler bill designed to repeal the Daylight Saving Law. . . > Six Bell~ans bot Don't Forge.—advt. ae FREIGHT MOVING IN CITY FASTER; NO FOOD EMBARGO grr sry . New York Central Lines Re- port Conditions 70 Per Cent. of Normal. In the wake of the wholesale slash- a. ot prices aff over the nation gmes nows of improvement in the freight situation which will havo a tendency to keep prices down, if not bring about a still further reduction. “Freight conditions on the New York Central itnes,” said an official of that company to-day, “are now withir? 70 per cent. of normal. The trouble has not been inthe New York yards. It is the reflection of the trouble which started with the strike _]at Pittsburgh and extended tg the yards of Buffalo and Detroit. Be- cause of these conditions we have taken no more freight than we can handle, but are delivering what we do accept with the expedition The of former days. Interstate Com- merce Cominisston, in my opinion, wf! clear up the situation in ten days at the latest.” At the offices of the Now York New Haven and Hartford Company are within 85 per cent. of normal and that all the freight’ offered is being accepted. The 700 “vacationists” of the New York and Now England Railroad VETOES REPEAL| Company, 4 subsidiary of the New York and New Haven, at a mecting to-day in the Bronx decided to stand hy their delegates to the Chicago wage convention and remain Idle un- tl granted recognition. Officials of the Pennsylvania tine denied emphatically a statement that there was a 48-hour embargo on foodstuffs. ‘They declare that all per- ishable stuffs are being moved with regularity, wS 18 coml, and that freight Is being moved Fast and West. More than 600 carloads of freight started West yesterday, they said. A‘conference will be held this after- noon between rapreventatives of the Merchanw’ Asvociation and the coast- wise longshuremen, the latter being represented oy Thomas V. O'Connor, President af the International Long- shoremen, who eaid, he would call out the Boston iongshoremen to-day ‘This will mean chat every union port (Continued on Second Page.) oe RAILWAY UNION ABANDONS STRIKE. AS NOW OBSOLETE Station Agents in Biennial Meeting Decide to Utilize U. S, Labor Board in Future, PITTSBURGH, May 20. HE “strike” clause su the by- laws of the Order of Kuilrog” Station Ageats nas been eliminated, and hereumer griev- ancs will be taken up for settle- ment with the ‘edema Matliroad Labor Board, I. H. Mortou, Presi- dent of the order,. announced to- day. The agents, meeting in biennial * convention, have yoted to do away with the clause authorizing the calling of strikes to enforce de- mands of the workers, Mr. Morton said. He said the strike weapon had become obsolete in the opin- jon of a majority of the agents, it was stated that freight conditions | FOOD PRICES DOWN IN STRIKE OF BUYER Copreight, A020, by the Prey bls NEW YORK, THURSDAL, MAY 20, 1920. Ranta es ««§-: PRICE TWO CENTS | syns oxen the great “buyers’ strik are aroused, sional help, TIMMY VALENTINE? BARES $1,200,000 Confession Reveals Work of Expert Cracksmen in Wall | Street District. ‘The confewsion made this afternoon by Richard Armstrong, expert safe opener, of the “Jimmy Valentine” type, made just before going to trial in General Sessions, disclosed the op- erations of a gang of eleven cracks- men In robbing gafes in the financial district of more than $1,200,000 in Jewelry, cash and securities in two months, Armstrong had pleaded not guilty to the charge and the jury for the trial had been completed, but when the case was called Armstrong changed his plea and reveaied all the workings of the gang. According to Armstrong's dramatic story told to the police, he was the leader of the group, a sort of ag- grandized ‘Jimmie Valentine.” In -he many safe “jobs" conspleted by the gang in the two months they oyer- ated, he said, they never “blew” a safe. All were opened by his long | fingers, which, the police say, have | been sandpapered down to a razor- like thinness on the ends, his nails having been clipped to aid bim at his trade, Tho safe robberies named as thow {n which his gang took part include one of $143,000 in securities and jew- elry, taken from the firm of Deering and Deering, 135 Broadway, in Febru- ary, ‘The gang’s dDiggest haul, Armstrong suid in his confession, was $250,000 from the Fifth Avenue Building last January With the acceptance by Judge ito- salsky of the lesser plea, Armstrong’ pledged himself to aid the police in recovering the stolen goods, Ouly $36,000 of the entire sum has been found up to this time by the police, it was said to-day, hove held under arrest by the po- lice in connection with the safe rob- veries are Henry Miller, Edward Sheridan, naw out on bail; Thomas Corcoran, whose brother John died at his home three weeks ago after veing permitted to leave the Tombs because of his Mines; the White brothers, who are in the Raymond Street Jail iu Brooktya, and William Baraclough, who, the police say, has also made a confession which corroborates the Armstrong tale. Mrs, Nellie Lioyd,. Mrs, John Elsis and the latter’s husband are held as material witnesses in the House of Detention ‘The police began to-day the search for the missing jewelry and .bonds taken by thi FAS of safe robbers time bas come when prices munt take , - A SAFE ROBBING JOBS | Mounced he would seek action to-day ‘® Senator Kenyon to-day in an i Messages From All Over Country Call on Congress for. Aid, and Sena- tor.Kenyon Urges Organization | of Anti-Profiteering Societies. WASHINGTON, May 20.—Food prices soon will feel the effects of « ” officials predicted to-day. forecast in meats, dairy products and poultry if consumers hold back on purchases as they are now doing with regard tg clothes and merchandise. | Telegrams pouring in to Senators and Representatives from all parts , of the country to-day weré an indication of‘how thoroughly the people These messages denounced profiteers and urged Congres. ° terview catled for organization of anti-profiteering societies in every section to carry on the strike against unreasonable prices. ' Senator Kenyon iid these organizations should pledge their members not to purchase goods from dealers charg! exorbitant prices and calling for social ostra- clam of profiteers, ' Senator Walsh, Massachusetts, an- on his resolution for appointment of of 4 Senate committee to ascertgin the relations between high prices and the concentration of wealth in the hands of « few peuple in the United States. The railroad congestion ts the only retarding element in the opinion of most officials. Congestion of traffic is likely to create artificial shortage of commodities in some districts, it is feared. The Interstate Commer Commission is tuking active steps to reduce the car congestion and rail officials are co-operating. Exportation of American méate is 'kely to be largely reduced within the next fow weeks. This would throw sreat quantities of meat into the United States. markets, a condition tending toward price reductions. Director Julius Barnes of the Unite? States Grain Corporation scouted pre dictions that bread will be forced to 25 cents 4 loaf soon by rising wheat prices. South America has an enor. mous wheat crop in prospect, Haraes said, indicating the United States will not be called on to export the usual quantity of grain, Secretary Alexander of the Com- merce Department ‘sald: “The pyr miding of prices could not go on in- definitely. It,is best for metas effect gradual | reductions themselve than for prices to tumble precipi- tutely, Iam tnelined to believe reduc- tions now being made will not greatly interfere with normal healthy pro- fits. caine 10 TO 25 P. C. CUT IN ALL FACTORY PRODUCTS PLANNED National Association of Manufactur- ers Joins Movement to Cut Price of Commodities. Out of the welter of reports of price cutting throughout the country comes a definite word of encouragement from the National Assoc) ion of Manufacturers, consisting of 400 members with 6,000,000 employees, who have been in session at the Wal- dorf-Astoria, -A resolution passed by that body expresses hearty accord with all sensible efforts to reduce the price of commodities and urges its members to co-operate. It was pointed out that owing to the great variety of articles turned out it was impossible to fix upon any specific figures in suggested reduc. tions, but the members stated that the price cutting would be from 10 to 25 per cent. to begin in September, James W. Edgerton, President of the Tennessee Manufacturers, spéak- ing of the matter, said: “I believe ¢ Reductions were |