The evening world. Newspaper, May 21, 1920, Page 1

TO.NIGHT’S WEATHER—Unsettled. To Be Sure of Getting The Evening World, Order in Advance from Your Newsdealer ) SAVES PAYROLL IN BATTLE BANDITS ESCAPE IN TAXICAB Robbers Spray Victim’s Eyes, Then Knock Him Sense- less With Revolver. SHOTS FIRED IN FLIGHT. Thieves, Foiled in Attack on Man Carrying $4,500, Race Past Police in Auto. Louis F. Beyer, messenger for the State Bank at No. 376 Grand Street Y and an ex~-policeman, was sent to- day to the Ploneer Braid Manufac- ‘ turing Company at No. 261 West 19th Street with a bag containing $4,500, for the company’s weekly payroll. In front of No, 233 West 19th Street two men ran up bebind him and at- tempted to wrest the bag from his hand. At the same time the door of a taxicab, which had been moving slowly down the street beside him, pened and a third man jumped out and joined the highwaymen, A shot ‘was fired into the air by one of the robbers, while another squirted an ammonia spray in his face, Blinded, Beyer held on to his bag with one hand and fought with the other until the was knocked senseless by a blow from the butt of the revolver. Several persons ran up as he 1) @ropped and without waiting to pick up the bag, the three. men climbed imto the taxicab and made off west on 19th Street. ‘The cab plunged recklessly through ‘the noon hour crowd, swerving to the curb and up on the sidewalk when its course was blocked by two trucks epproaching abreast. A hub of the car struck a doorstep, knocking off the metal cap, as it careened toward Bighth Avenue. ‘At the corner Policeman O'Shea H stand in the middle of the sidewalk with his revolver out and motioned for the cab to stop. Its speed was not slackened and O'Shea fired at the driver as he stepped aside. At the same time a man from the back of the cab pushed open the door and with one foot on the running board fired three shots at O'Shea. All of them went wild. O'Shea, weighted \ down by his rubber raincoat, ran across Eighth Avenue, firing two more shots befere the cab whisked downtown around the Ninth Avenue able to report the corner. He was { number of the car and a close de- scription of the highwaymen, | Beyer after he was attended by a New York hospital surgeon, was able to deliver the $4,500 at its destination. _— Classified Advertisers CLOSING TIME 5.30 P. M. SHARP SATURDAY FOR The SUNDAY WORLD’S Classified Advertisements NCH OFFICES CLOSE BerORE 5 O'CLOCK Positively no Classified Kavatiad ments, will be received tor Sunday World after 5.30 P, M 0} by fo q s a. wae TenE wo'h the World offices ON OR BEFORE FRIDAY PRECEDING PUBLICATION CARDINAL GIBBONS ESCHEW POLITICS BALTIMORE, May 21. 6% OU are the queens of tne Ii domestic kingdom. Do not stain your garments with the soll of the political arene. No man or woman can rule weil over two kingdoms,” Cardina Gibbons told delegates to the Catholic Women's Benevolent Le- gion in session here, warning women against being active in politics, “You rule the home, the hus- band and the children, and should not attempt to dabble in politics. “If you try to rule over two kingdoms you will surely loso both of them. If you leave the home, if you divide your time be- tween domestic affairs and polit- teal affairs, you will become the i perfect In your own sphere." POLIGE CAPTURE JEWELRY STORE ‘Hit Him on Head When He Orders 'Hands-Up. Squad Police Headquarters and fuur. big touring car this afternoon when, inner pocket of his coat and drop it into the right-hand pocket of his overcoat. Lieut. Richard MaKenna of West 123d Street gave the signal and the touring care pulled up at the curbing as tho youth with the gun stepped into the jewelry shop of Henry Sacks, No. 1936 Third Avenue, and asked to be shown “something in diamond rings.” In the store at the time were Sacks and his two clerks, Abraham Wets- man and Isaae Borofsky. Sacks wait- ed on the customer, showing him one {ring ata time. “Oh, bring out the tray,” said the young man. Dackse was saying “just as you plecse" and stooping for a tray when the youth pulled his gun. “Hands up, everybody,” he said, “and stand right where you art Sacks, Welaman and Borofsky say the last word was hardly out of his mouth when Detective Smith of head- quarters was in the shop—and seven others were on his heels—and had | tanped the gunman twice over the ud with what looked like a black- kK. | The detectives—Smith, Cronin, and Davis of the and McKenna, England, Lynch of West 128d Street— the youth off to the Eagt 104th Street Station. A surgeon from Harlem Hospital took two stitches in ‘his head. y name," the detectives quote \their’ prisoner as saying, “is Roy jAllen Garner. I am nineteen years Jold and belong in Quincy, Il, “Last |August 1 was discharged from the Navy and decided to stay in New York. In March | was stricken with jpneumonia, A fow days ago, when my funds were running low, I spotted . Sheridan, [* Circulation Books Open to All.” | “Circulation Books Open to > al | Contes: (ane New Kerk Wella)e NEW YORK, FRIDAY, 192 MAY 21, 0. Entered os Post Second-Ciass Office, New York, |) BANK MESSENGER HELD UP, ANOTHER WOMAN IN MYSTERY OVER AUDITORE’S WILL Millionaire Stevedore 'Infatu- ated With Baltimore Girl, Prosecutor’ Hears, URGES WOMEN TO |PLAN TO EXHUME BODY. Widow to Fight Provision Putting $80,000 Fund in Doctor’s Hands, Information that “another women” figured in the life of Joseph Auditore, the “millionaire stevedore,” has reached District Attorney Lewis of Brooklyn. “T have been informed,” Mr. Lewis said to-day, “that this woman go in- fatuated Auditore that once when he lost track of her he employed a de- tective agency to locate her. She lived in Baltimore, and was, I am Just above 106th Street, they saw 4| atternoon with Mrs, Auditore. of the West 20th Station took his} young man take a revolver from the | added that he was inclined to have (8a eke window and the diamonds, 1 bought a rpvotves. told, better looking than Miss Jennie Lebonsky, of whom the had tired and from whom he had sought to break away. This infatuation was known té both Miss Lebonsky and Mrs, Audi- tore, his wife, so fam informed. But the Baltimore woman was not In- tuated with him, so she avoided YOUTH HOLDING UP |e 2 sm ao» ms placed inibrs: Monas-Latese’e hands by Auditore, to be ‘disposed of us in- structed,’ was intended for Miss Le- bonsky. “Auditore's will was an unusual Watch Attempt From Start, document. A name in it bad been ob- literated and another substituted, and the peculiar character of the trust to Dr. Monae-Lesser and certain other provisions make the case look dubi- Four detectives=¢rom the Gang| ous, The question of the exhumation of from the West 1234 Street Station | ayaitore’s body, which is in Green- were headed up Third Avenue in a | wood Cemetery, Mr. Lewis said, would be determined after a conference this He the exhumation performed, not that foul play was suspected but to con- firm or allay suspicions which the case had aroused. Franklin Teylor, attorney for Mrs. Auditore, said to-day that Charles F. Apfel who drew Auditore’s will, made an offer to her to withdraw as executor provided she would not con- tes¥ the probate of the document. That, Mr. Taylor explained, would leave Mr. Apfel as trustee for the Auditore children and place in his hands the management of a very large part of the estate for, pre- eumably, eighteen years, as the youngest Auditore child is only three years old and the estate cannot be divided until this one reaches legal majority. Mr. Taylor said that ob- jections to the probate would be filed when all the necessary citations had been made. “In will contests,” he added, “it is permitted to examine all witnesses to the document, and it is barely possible (Continued on Second Page.) est fires, which have been raging in the Adirondacks near Harrisville and Brant- ingham Lake fon the past few days, threatening large timber tracts, have been checked and are belleved to be un- der control, Hundreds of men have been fighting the fi Women Members of Smoke. BTON, May 21.—Women mem bers of the Rural District Council, tt is announced, ‘are to be permitted to amoke “to keep them in good humor, edly ventilated room,” ob ete ‘ CAPT. W. P. BURTON -SAILING MASTER OF YACHT CHALLENGER 1 “VORP BORTON MASTER OF LIPTON YAGHT ARRIVES 10 PREPARE FOR RACE Capt. Burton Prouder of Wife Than Decorations, and She Will Sail With Him. When he White Star liner Adriatic docked at her pier, foot of West 23d Street, brought, among the 306 first class passengers, Capt. William P.' Burton, who is prouder of the little wife who accom- panied him than he is of the Order of the British Empire with which he has been decorated or the fact that he has been chosen as sailing master of the Shamrock IV, in the coming races for the America Cup. Capt. Burton said that the “trial horse,” Shamrock II., now on her way from England, via the Azores, should reach here about the end of the month, and that Sir ‘Thomas Lipton is duc about the same time. Capt. Burton {s going immedjately to City Island, where the Shamrock IV. is tied up, in order to hasten the work of getting canvas upon the yacht and tuning her up for the races. He would not tell the nwpber of men he expects to have in his crew. “That would give away the amount of canvas we expect to spread,” he explained, “as we shall carry one man to each 20 square feet of sal spread." He was not sure whether Sir this morning she (Continued on Second Page.) RIOTS IN IRELAND AVERTED BY TROOPS Each Side Continues to Send “Death ‘Notices” to Leaders— Cavalry Near Dublin, DUBLIN, May 21.—Troops were still patrolling Londonderry, according to ad- vices here to-day. The situation was deseribed a8 “quiet but apprehensive," Magistrates accompanied each patrol to Instruct the troops on a proper course of action in quelling disturbance: Each side continues its use of rorist'’’ methods. “Death noti are being received by both Uniontat and Sinn Fein leaders. Cavalry outposts were stationed at a | point ten miles from Dublin to-day, while mounted patrols tra ali | Fouds leading into the city. Bealde reg- ulation — equipn ie troops were admed with boi Major Tudor has bs. over to Hoboken and for $12 to expedite business and a» an antidots been ‘appointed oict of the Irish, con le ‘ow H > | THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU, AGED MILLIONAIRE KILLED IN 12FLO0R FALL FROM HOTEL speienaes Carl Teschemacher, Dye Man- ufacturer, Believed Victim of Dizzy Spell. CAME FROM GERMANY Had Retired From Active Busi- ness at Start of the World War. Carl Teschemacher, seventy-four yearns old, a millionaire retired dyer, jumped or fell from a balcony out- side his three-room apartment on the twelfth floor of the fashionable Standish Arms, No. 169 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, at 6.30 A. M. to- day, and was instantly killed. He wore trousers over pajamas and a pair of bouse elippers. Policemen Collins and Frasier of the Poplar Street Station were only a short distance away whén the body struck the curb. The man was prow nounced dead by an ambulance sur- geon from Long Island College Hos- pital. Teschemacher lived with his daugh- ter, Helen, a school teacher, who had not missed ‘him when notified of his death. ‘Teschemacher was born in Baden, Germany, in 1846, said his daughter Helen to-day, and came to this coun- try in 1883, where he settled in Brook- lyn, and founded a dyeing business on Raymond Street. He became naturalized as an American citizen in 189. In 1914, after the World War opened, he re- tired from business because of difm- culty tn obtaining raw material, but became financially interested in the firm of Kaltenbach & Stephens, rib- bon manufacturers, in Newark. Hia daughter said her father had lived a retired Ufe since the begin- ning of the war, going out but little. It was his custom, she said, to walk on the little balcony outside his bed- room window every morning re breakfast. She believes he suffe one of the dizzy spells to which he was subject and fell. Funeral services will be sheld Mon- day and burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery. RAILROADS TO GET $125,000,000 FUND Ordered by Commerce Commission to Enable Purchase of New Equipment. WASHINGTON, May 21.—A loan of at least $125,000,000 out of the $300,- 000,000 revolving fund to enable rail- roads to purchage equipment re- quired to meet transportation needs of the public was approved to-day by the Interstate Commerce Commission. Other recommendations for the dis- bursement of the revolving fund pro- vided in the transportation act were as follows: Temporary reserve for clatms and judgments $40,000,000; appropriation for short line railroads $12,000,000; temporary reserve for maturities 000,000; appropriation for addi- tions and betterments which will pro- mote the movement of cars $73,000,000, New equipment required by rail- roads to meet minimum needs is es- timated by the Interstate Commerce Commiasion at 2,000 locomotives, 100,000 freight and refrigerator cars, The commission estimated that equipment already ordered and to cost $125,000,000 represented probably lessgthan 2% per cent. of that needed. Cw prey WEEKLY KILKENNY CAT FIGHT STAGED AT THE CITY HALL School Fund Brings Row With Mayor and ~ La Guardia Pitted Against Craig. WHIMS TIRE HYLAN, Tells Comptroller He Won't Stand It and He Can’t Boss Everything. ‘There was a three-cornered fight at @.Board of Estimate meeting to-day {n which Mayor Hylan, Comptroller Craig and Aldermanie, President La Guardia were the si performers. When not attacking the Comptrolier himself the Mayor was lending a helping hand to President La Guardia, who, although a Republican, bas lined up the Mayor in the open breach between the Mayor and Craig. In the midst of a row, punctu- ated by the Mayors gavel and the applause of @ large audience, some ‘one-whiepered “fh La Guardia’s eyr and he hurriedly left the room, “What's the matter?” was asked ap he jumped into an automobile, “My wife has just given birth to a aicl,” Was the answer, While La Guardian was speeding home Mayor Hylan and Comptroller Craig were at it hot and heavy when William Silber, Chairman of Local School Board No. 11, asked immediate action on a $550,000 appropriation for emergency repains to public school bulidings, “Why don’t you make application for the removal of the Board of Edu- cation?” asked Craig. “If that body had done its duty it wouldn’t be necesswry for you to be appealing here to-day." “I don't think such a step is in order,’ replied Sitber, “The Board of Education has done its ful duty in this matter,’ said Mayor Hylan, “A eurvey was made and the most ungent among the re- pairs were considered.” “Mayor Hylan ‘has been the only chief executive who hag had the power to appoint an entire board of education,” said the Comptroller. “I doubt if any of its members has per- sonally visited the schools and in- quired into their conditions.” “I'll admit that the only good that has been done in this administration haw been by the Comptroller,” said Mayor Hylan, “He has a corner on woodness and efficiency. All others are thoroughly bad. But the Comp- troller knows that only very neces- sary repairs could be made in schools during the war. We are going along as fast as possible now. You have nothing on the Board of Education.” “I have enough to have a new board of education,” retorted the Comp- troller, “And along with that new Board of Education we may as well have a new Comptroller,” observed the Mayor, “We'll pass a resolution giving you all the credit for every good act that has been accomplished since the begin- (Continued on Recon Page.) _ - MAYOR DEFIES CITY STRIKE Providence Relects Employees) De- mand for Higher Pay. PROVIDENCE, R. 1, May Mayor Joseph H. Gainer has served notice on the Municipal Employees’ | Union that its demands for a twenty- |five per cent. increase, an eight-hour |day and other changes would not be granted by the city ‘The Mayor's action followed receipt |by him of a letter from the union em- bodying the demands and declaring that the men would strike next Mon- day if they were not granted a special meeting of the union will bej 1 REDUCTION OF ONE-QUARTER - IN PRICES EXPECTED FROM - ACTION BY RESERVE BOARD Large Sums Borrowed by Sasa tors to Carry to Be Called In—Commerce Com= mission Distributes Freight Cars, — WASHINGTON, May 21.—Prices will be reduced at least 25 cent. if the Federal Reserve Board is of credit deflation, officials in touch with the nation’s banking system predicted to-day. ‘The breaking up of the freight Interstate Commerce Commission Is also expected to result in a of prices. As tree disposition of commodies Is resumed a decline in Je which may reach 10 pet cent, is looked for by some Gavernment s © George Hodges of the American EMPTY WHISKEY BOTTLE SALUTED BY PASSENGERS Pennsylvania Station Crowds Sec Pint Flask in Terminal Building. climbing the P irs ¢rom the Long Island platforms of the Pennsyl- vania Terminal to-day found a pint whiskey bottle, ornamented with bond stamps and everything, but very, very empty, standing on the edge of the middle of the middle of the top-most step. ‘The crowds divided respectfully and passed the reli¢, sometimes with bared heads and sometimes with cheers. The racket finally bie |hes to-day. ohh Biatmae” water, Gare Bellet, Cee attracted the attention of a policeman in a distant part of the tation who took the thing into custody for disorderly conduct, LIBERTY BOND RALLY BOOSTS ALL STOCKS Second 4 1-4s Lead with Recovery of 250 Points. ‘Liberty bonds to-day showed a rally- ing tendency for the first time since recent Hquidation broke the market in the Government's war obligations. Gec- ond 41-43, which touched the lowest price of any of the Issues, led the rally with @ recovery of 250 points, while Fourth 41-46 advanced 236. ‘The cry of Wall Street houses ci Ing attention to the attractive yields offered by war loan investments at current levels apparently had checked the fall of these bonds. ‘The sharp rally of Liberty bonds had & favorable effect on the entire stock lst. Steel common, after an early low Qt 91, got above 92, while other steels rallled from 2 to 4 points. The buying of olla was a feature. Pan-American, which had sold as low as 91 on Wednesday, jumped to 97. Motors were not in such i demand. Humors that the Government intends to reassume regulation 0! ugar Market precipitated extensive selfing sugar shares at mid-day, losses ex- fonded from 2 1-3 to'6 int points. Provision Prices Tumble in Chicago CHICAGO, May 21,—~Prices came rown helter-skelter to-day on the Board of Trade, All grain and provisions joined in the tumble, Corn and pork underwent extreme breaks, respectively 7 3-8 centa a bushel and $2.05 a barrel, July delivery of corn touching a8 low as $1.64 1-8 and July pork $34.75. RS UE SE $35 MEN'S BUIT OR TOPCOAT, 824.95. ‘The "HUB" Clothing Corner, Broadway, Barclay Stwet (Ov, Woolworth Buildin Hl xl) to-day and Satunlay 2.000 men's and young men's Soring Suits and Tovcoats in blues, browns, ores 4 and famy mixtures; single or foulle breasied, form-fitting military style, slash or patch, HD Us lal ha. | AVES PRICE TWO CENTS = Commodities Are able to carry through its programme — car congestion started to-day by the Ratiroud Amsdclation said: “It will enable manufacturers to vastly in- crease production and this will ena shortages of commodities in many localities,” The Federal Reserve Board believes speculators have borrowed jarge suman at high interest rates to buy com= modities and stocks and hold them for higher prices, The public has pald this. The Reserve Board has doterminaa that this vort of borrowing must and long standing loans must be paid. Funds for pure speculation will ‘be, denied. Borrowings for dealings Ja luxuries and non-essentials will be halted. Long standing loans will » called in, Officials here differed to-day s230 whether or not the board would able to carry through its Drogramme of deflation, ‘The three orders issued by the Ips terstate Commerce Commission a6 follows: ‘ That the railroads shall rouce an shipments by the most availabie aka least congested linés, regardl:as ot the individual preferences of shippers, ‘That the Western railroads supsly to the Bastern roads within twenty days a total of 38,600 empty open-top cars, the purpose being to pmville us equipment for the movement of coal, from the Eastern mines. That the Eastern roads suply to the Western roads within thirty 19,800 empty box cars, the underlyin, purpose being to provide equipment for the movement of grains to the t East. “aie ‘The orders mark the first definite A move on the part of the Interstate Commerce Commission to end the dangerous congestion at freight tépe minals and to relieve the acute shortage of empty cars at pointe where they are urgently needed to prevent a slowing down if not com. plete stoppage of hundreds of large industries, It ts understood that :n the mati of controlling the movement of ed and empty freight and coal care the powers of the Interstate : merce Commission will be vested the Car Service Commission of the 4 American Railway Association to the extent necessary to bring the quick est and greatest amount of allevige tion to the present condition, In the re-routeing of cars care © PI be taken by the carriers to avold ty terminals with large shipmenta 4f through freight, and by that tf dave! hoped the congestion at ¢! detrei oy ing points will be relieved, tiny ‘The act provides @ penalty i