The evening world. Newspaper, May 21, 1920, Page 2

so iet pony, ot of a ; e Interstate Gom- “materially J. Mantel, y General announced r railroads i eomply with the this plan in mind . now that going 10 the blockade is most J, $. OFFICIALS SEE " CONTINUED CUTS IN LIVING COSTS Houston Tells. of Rea- t in price conditions over country is predicted by high officials, The increasing’ toward price cutting now in every part of the Nation Is as fairly positive Indication * condi~ the Mm better world conditions, What is it of Drices the that the av. articles of in Predicted a full ho calling of by the banks. & Company, largest j| hibition applied to the more populous naan 'Y, May 21.--No horl- decline in commodities has place here and none is looked ‘There are numerous reductions, merchants say, more by the season thun pressure by Bales of dress and dry’ goods, in women's ready to wear and shoes, range from 10 to 25 per cent, in reductions. Kansas City ts a primary market INORDWATE sugar they have a very simple rem-, ‘and|Pertment in the movement to cut! down tho cost of living, is the author of the suggestion that the best wry be amazing to the average hovae- holder, ts not to be considered) eat ten and fifteen years ago?” re- Dut rather as an tndicauon| marked Secretaty Houston to the - imately eighteen pounds was eaten. for April were valued] At the end of 1875 this had gone up to amounts vary between 70 and fn Increase| pounds; in the year 1918, when tho commodities, but! rood Administration was urging con- clothes | servation, the por Pas? | average consumed last year?” con- pounds, surely there is no necessity for such @ large consumption, used to get along on less and if wo could only conserve a third ot 93 sugar wo! where the over consumption of sugar occurs, It isn’t the sugar we take with our coffee or with cereals that counts up. But we eat so much more cake and pies and ico cfeam “and pandy. Time was when children were cau- $$ te. USE ARMSTRONG USED SHOWS WHY PRE. HEAD, NOT FGERS, OF SUGAR SOARS, 10 OPN SAE Average Per Capita Consump- “Mitts Like a Longshoreman’s, tion of 93 Pounds Last Year, | Nat a Jimmy Valentine's,” Says Secretary Houston. He Says. str ll IT WAS ONLY 18 IN 1865. | Richard Armetrong, organizer of a band of youthful thieves of brokerage If Consumption was Decreased ms was arraigned before Judge One-Third, Says Secretary, Crain im General Sessions to plead to ) |a charge of burgiary tn the third do- Prices Would Drop. Bree to-day, after he had pleaded | guilty yesterday before Judge Roslasky By David Lawrence. to another theft amounting to $143,000, (Special Serpepeosens: af The Eve- Armstrong swaggered into court and ning World. Jeered the detectives for calling him WASHINGTON, May 21 (Cupy- @ “Jimmy Valentine” or a man who right, 1920).—It the American poople could solve the combination of a cafe want to bring down the price of DY the sensitivences-of his fingera to the vibrations of the safe-knob, |. “Luse my head, not my fingers,” ho edy avaiable, David Franklin Hows | +14 them. “Look at tay nice” (he | ton, Secretary of the Treasury: 10 held out his hands). “They're a ‘long- | used to be Secretary of Agriculture, shoreman’s hands, not @ Jimmy Val- And Who is Just now trying to oxcrt | *tine’s! Armstrong’s lawyer asked Judge Crain to dismiss the indictment on the ground that an agreement had} been reached that al) indictments! against Armstrong would be dis- the influence of the Treasury Deo-!| Assistant District Attorney Dooling Ojected to the statement and by e agrement with 8. 6. Liebowits for ‘Did you ever look over the data as Armstrong, the pleading was ad- to the amount of sugar folks used to] journed. To-day's p dikes grew out of the robery of the safe in the offices of the Australian Commission writer as he took from the shelf in| at No, 61 Broadway, Jan ty 28 There hia office w thick volume called “The |are indictments for other robbaties of the United) pending against Armstrong. As he lett the court Armstrong en- countered his former associate, Will- jam Baraclough, being brought in to plead to the same charges. What the two said to eaoh other was unfit to print. Baraclough was transferred some time ago from the Tombs whore the other ten men involved in the gang's robberies are locked up be- cause of a way heavy objects had of falling from the upper tiers.near hira besvohaad he passed through the cor- rr. Baraclough, who said Armstrong’s vanity and loose talk led to the arrest, of the whole crowd, was furnished with counsel, Abraham Horowitz, by Judge Crain and on Horowitz's ad- vice pleaded guilty. Sentence was postponed until March 27 to give him a chance to ald the pollds in hunting up stolen securities, of figures is the that was consumed dual in the United Im that year, di- capita congmeetion was 77 pounds. r “Now, what do you think was the tinued Secretary Houston, “It was 93 ‘We ds per individual, the price of uld come down immediately, and the thieves which they were working and sat at toned against too much sweets, But their elders aren't observing the rule themselves. We could get along and be just as healthy as people havo been for the last forty years if we consumed less sugar, If each individ- ual ate one-third less there wouldn't with all manner of protection against glycerine. “We had no record of the combina- x sky yesterday. , withboldi: the information he was Cee ea eertee tae laree eatant| “They must have opened it by saz."| seeking. aera sald this was false, Gatside the home-nin the restauraifte, |. “Foor boob,” sald Armst: ng to- -y, Sree ee ee ee or “that's all he knew about his own|[ 0 = — soda. nl f eae ant tide ct |omMce. I found the combination on a had risen, although the ex-|card in the top drawer of the dusk arent, Use ples, and other | next to the safe.” tre’ sweets in the home was by no means a small factor in the ninety-throe | Detective Sergeant Irving O'Hara, pounds per capita consumption last | Mayor Hylan's brother-in-law, who investigated the crime, learned to-day yea™. Nobody, on the other hand, excuses | nat q specialist from a safe company had been called to open the safe in the the profiteer who has taken advan- bod ‘of the demand for sugar to raise prices, but if the demand had not | absence from the office of anybody who foci Laue areas nea never | was carrying it in his head, and after National Prohibition bas| wierg Armstrong truthfully said he deal to do with the ov spe| found it months later. Baraclough was so much incensed by his encounter with Armstrong in the court room door that he demand- ed to be taken to the office of As- sistant District Attorney Dooling to tell all he knew “about that cheap According to Dooling, Baraclough said he and Armstrong and men they selected as amociates entered from fifty to a hundred offices while they were operating together, ‘Deer- ing robbery was the only one tte] a large profit and that was but $90, id not $143,000, Baraclough said. Just before the Deering robbery the sections of the United States. CANDY SHOPS ATTRACT MORE PEOPLE NOW. Ot course, in many cities like New York, the acndy shop and soda foun- e taken the same quarters ly occupled by the saloon and decorated so handsomely as to act a constant flew of people who tempted to eat candy with their luncheons, ‘The Government used to be able to only just’ keep quiet and let the busi- ' want to boss everything. What would Baraclough's part tn the thefts of! please you immensely would be a law the gang was to obtain employment! making you Chairman of thé Board as af elevator boy or assistant jani-|o¢ Education in particular and the tor in buildings in which brokers had| entire City of New York. in general.” offices. He learned whore valuables} When La Guardia were kept and stole thg combinations.| resolution directing the Comptroller Armstrong was sald to be particu-|to submit to the bourd an itemized larly deft in using the combinations.| list of unpaid claims against the If cleaners or others entered the| Board of Education, including sick building Baraclough gave the @larm| funds, Craig objected. left. the safe on| Guardia was discourteous and that desks, pretending to be busy with| Guerdia tried to reply, but the Comp- books and papers. In this way the| troller continued talking. The Mayor thefts were carried on in bulldings| declare’ La Guordia should be heard. thieves who used dynamite and nitro-|from pounding shouted: tion of our safe,” a member of the| you like, but let La Guardia show his firm of Deering & Derring, which was|P° robbed by thé gang, told Judge Rosal-| cost the city thousands of dollars by THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, MAY “JIMMY VALENTINE” ARMSTRONG TELLS OF $1,200,000 LOOT | | 1CHARD ARMSTRONG LY KILKENNY CAT FIGHT STAGED AT THE GITY HALL (Continued From First Page.) ning @f this administration—if you'll ness proceed at these meetings in an orderly way. We've stood for your whims long enough. I for one will not stand fot them any tonger-~ You introduced a He sald La his resolution was ‘unlawful, la When the Mayor showed wegriness the gavel, Craig ‘You can make as much noise as wer under the charter.” La Guardia charged that Craig had INSURANCE MAN'S . SALARY $161,000 President of Broker Firm Doesn't Know of Any Other Yearly Pay as High, W. HH. La'Boyteaux, President of Johnson and Higgins, insurance brokers, at No. 49 Wall Street, New York, admitted to-day at the trial of the sult of Thomas J. Prinfiiville, of Chicago, in the Court of Chancery in Newark, that he received a salary of $161,534 last year. Prindiville asks for the recovery of dividends which he claims were not paid him from 1918 to date, He further asks that the cor- poration be enjoined from paying “al- lepjed excessive salaries. Testimony given by Prindiville show- ea that La'Boyteaux and the First Vice-President, George V. Coe, eacl drew $161,543 in 1919, ‘Do you know any other man this country wi i ary as high as $167,000?" La’ Boytexux was asked by counsel for Prindiville” "Boyteaux admitted that he did , bedside tt, morning. control the amount of sugar that could be used in candy, but the Gov- ernment control of food consumption | is a thing of the past. Very few et- forts are made toward conservation, | It is true that the food administra tion did not apply iis power of law but depended upon publicity and the power of appeal to get the co-opera- tion of the American people, but the Moensing system Was as effective as any statute could be, ‘The Government, therefore, can only point out the facts from time to time to the American people. And Secretary Houston believes'that ifthe fathers and mothers will search their recollections just a trifle they will recall that the world and the United States particularly got along just as well, and perhaps better, in the thirty 70 per cent, ce with oure 5 otal which brought tn years before the Buropean war by eating less sugar than folks do nowa- two men married girls who were cousins and prémptly began quarrel- ing. Armstrong, his former partner said, had knocked Baraclough down and taken from him all the securities stolen from the Deering safe and afterward doled out $800 to him as his share, Baraclough eaid it would take him six months to remember all the offices they had robbed. Pines Mies Sctsatl NEWBERRY RETAINS HUGHES WASHINGTON, May 21.—Ohartos DB. Hughes has been retained by Senator ‘Truman H. Newberry to present his ‘appeal trom nis conviction, to the Su- preme Court of the United Btates. It was denied by Senator Newberry, how- 3,060,000 POUNDS OF SUGAR LOST IN 51 FREIGHT CARS Shifted Around on Side Tracks for Weeks and Finally Dis- appears. CHICAGO, May 21.—Fifty-one freight cars loaded with $060,000 pounds of sugar are being sought in the railroad yards here by Fed- eral agen: DETECTIVE SHOT. IN DUEL WITH AUTO BANONTS MAY LE Police Seek Wounded Robber Following Battle Near Fifth Avenue. , Detective Sergt. John Fitzpartick is in Bellevue Hospital with an even chance for life after being shot in the left abdomen and in the right arm and side by automobile thieves whom he caurht im the act of stealing the car of Dr. McCall Anderson from in front of his home at No. 60 West 55th Street. The robbers escaped in the| far, one of them wounded. Inspector Cray, who had put every detective in the city on the alert to catch the three men with whom Fitzgerald had a nine or ten shot battle with revolvers, was gl- lowed three minutes at Fitzpatrick’s Cray re- fused to tell how, complete a deserip- tion he had of the men, who had been under Fitzpatrick’s suspicious obser+ vation for twenty minutes before he attempted to make them prisoners. One man was arrested late las: night under suspicion and two more, caught in a Turkish bath in the downtown Italian district, were taken to headquarters to be questioned. The battle in West 65th Street near Fifth Avenue, about 10.45 o'clock last night, was witnessed by scores fot persons, including many guests of the Hotel St. Regis, the Hotel Goth- am and the Devoh Hotel. The shots aroused the occupants of some of New York's most prominent resi- dences. Around the corner in 64th Street are homes of the two John D. Rockefellers, and the battle was with- in sight of the residences of Mrs. Robert Warwick, James Yearance, Dr. William A. Chisholm, and Will- fam M. Ivins jr. Immediately after the shooting a telephond message to the East 61st Street Station advised the police to look for one of the thieves at “No. 31 Broome Street.” Detective McKet- trick found this was the office of a lying-in hospital. He tried No. 341 Broome Street, the Italian Gardene restaurant, and found there Louis Galgano, a clerk, of No, 27 Macdougal Street, wearing a straw bat and a new ‘|suit of clothes and having @ sore on his upper lip. The alarm called for 4 man so dressed with a “spilt lip.” MoKettrick arrested him. Galgano was held in $1,500 bail on a charge of felonious aswault by Magistrate Marsh In Yorkville Court. Dr. Anderson's car was found at midnight in Motg Street, near Broome. Detectives to-day examined the in- terior of the abandoned car, the rear seat of which showed blood stains, indicating that Detective Fitzpatrick was correct fn his assumption that he struck one of he fugitives. The seat was taken to quarters. Detective Fitzpatrick was golng through 55th Street on his way to the station when he saw the three men looking at the automobile, which was a few doors from Dr, Anderson's home at No. 55. One man entered the car, took the driver's seat and caught hold of «e steering wheel. Fitzpatrick showed. his shield and drew his revolver at the same mo- ment. The men yielded and he backed them up aguinst the wall of No. 50 West 55th Street. Still keeping the men covered, Fitz- patrick asked if any one in the crowd knew to whom the automobile still standing just back of him belonged. Then two of the thieves drow revol- vers and opened fire. The crowd scat- tered. some women screaming in sar With the vot shot Detective #itz- patrick staggered and the second shot brought him to the sidewalk. Lying almost at full length he opened fire on the thieves and one of them went down, The other two Immediately ceased firing, lifted thetr companion into. the automobile, which was headed east, started the engine and were away before many of the «cared witnesses realized what they were do tn; Detective Fitzpatriék, thirty-seven years old, is single and lives at No. 15g East 48th Street with a sister, Miss Ellen F trick Police Head- ‘or ‘sp Bas FLU ual ay d on quali TPETTOGTLULIUE LULU LGA TULILLO LLU LLUEUULELULGe ULE LP LPoE ever, that he was dispensing with the It io the sugar has been days. And if everybody conserves just one. Oa there will be more avaii- le ‘whole country and th bverniient Will be ‘belter ‘able to } thot, th shifted around on side track@ for two weeks and, according to in- férmation tn the hands of District It te believed Newberry wes dissatisfied with the management of his case and for that reasou has given Hughes full 1 4 4 2u,.1920, ‘JOHN FITZPATRICK, DETECTIVE, WHO WAS SCRANTON BARMEN, OVERWORKED, NOW Town “Wide Open,” Does Huge Liquor W tenders here are threatening to strike higher pay. Brewerles are doing more busi- ness than constant influx of liquor shoppers, some of them coming frum as far aw: 8 Flint& 2006 wide-open town between Havana and Tokio. M York, Philadelphia, Detroit, Buf- falo and, scores of other cities to stock up. PEACE RESOLUTION Adopted in Form It Went Through WASHINGTON, May publican peace to-da; as it to th Thee was Repre: he * through" jan additional hour of debate. man cussion. fj Representative Porter said passage of thy President to state whether or not he intends to relinquish the extraordinary war gress idents have done after the tion of war or if he intends to remain a dic lobnox| pel tl forts COMMISSION DREADNOUGHT. ‘The super-dreadnought Tennessee, one of the largest war vessels in the world, will be commissioned at the Navy Yard in Brooklyn on June 3, it was announced to-day. Governor A. H. Roberts, of Tennessee, is expected to be present. ‘The ship will have a crew of 1,420 men. in the Navy Yard, Naval Training Stations. native Tennesseeans have been recruited for TTT ULLLLUULLLLLULLLLLL LULL LURE LUCE LLELLAL Flint’s Fine Furniture * GUARANTEED. IMPARE: ninhee with others—regular Hire BA ime, me and Value, teped fhefonty usive ch we Ou tryt OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF ORIENTAL RUGS AT A REDUCTION OF 25% FROM PRICES ALREADY FAR BELOW PRESENT VALUES. INCLUDING ALL. SIZES FROM MAT TO CARPET DIMENSIONS THE HOOVER VACUUM CLEANER IT BEATS AS [T SWEEPS AS IT SUCTION CLEANS SOLD AND GUARANTEED BY FLINT'S AND TWE MAKER, ltt ae Horner West 36S, nse SHOT BY THIEVES CORN EE FivzeetrrecK THREATEN STRIKE Trade; Motorists Flock to the Oasi SCRANTON, Pa., May 21. ITH about 200 hotels selling Hquor ‘and beer openly eeven days a week, bar- for shorter hours and ever before, with a ay as Detroit. cranton claims to be the most fotorists come here from New bee i EN PASSED BY HOUSE Senate and Now Gbes to President. 1.—The resolution was adopted ¥y by the House In the same form Re- passed the Genate and now goes e President. only sentative Flood Republicans the a short debate. complained that -toumht to “jam measure, and asked for Chair- Porter refused to grant longer dis- e revolution would “‘reauire the powers vested in tim by Con- as all our former war-time Pres- termina- tator and use these drastic and fous laws as a weapon to com- he Gente to desist from its ef- to omerize the treaty of peace, ‘The ceremony will be brisf. There are already 800 of the crew The others are at Six hundred he shin. Before you buy Coke BASEBALL CHES MOVE TO WE OU BETTING AT CANES Major Leagues Will Employ Detective Agencies to Sup- press the Evil. CHICAGO, May 21.—Drastio AOtlony to stamp out gambling on baseball games of both the American atid Va- tional Leagues was decided upon here early to-day at a conference of four baseball chieftains, According to an announcement by Ban Johnson, President of the Amerl- can League, who met wit) Herrmann, President of the Cincin- nati Nationa! President Churles Stoneham and Manager John McGrew of the New York Nationals, it was decided to employ detective agencies in the campaign. Mr. Johnson said strenuous efforts would be made to smother.the gambling evil. No action was taken et the con- ference, Mr. Johnson sald, relative to the cancellation by the Giants of the New York Americans’ lease of the Polo Grounds in New York. The Giants announced a few days ago that the lease had been cancelled, effective at the close of the season. ‘The decision to take drastic action to stamp ou, gambling followed the charges filed in the United States District Court in Cincinnati yester- day by the Chicago National League Baseball Club (The Cubs) that Lee Magee bet against his own team and endeavored to win these bets by in- tentional bad playing. The charg-s were made in a pétition to dismiss the damage suit brought by Magee. This was the first tlne the exact nature of the reasons which actuated the Chicago management in releasing Magee last winter was made public. The petition of the club states that on Feb. 20 of this year it was learned from Magee, “that he had been guilty of dishonest ball playing,” and “that his ability as a ball player having been impaired and destroyed,” the club gave Magee written notice of his unconditional release. ‘The petition further recites, “pre- vious to making the contract the plaintiff was guilty of betting agalnet the team of which he was a member and sought to win bets by intentional bad playing to defeat the suid team.” The club also alleges that “as a result Magee Was an until person to play baseball when he entered into the employ of the Chicago Club.” Magee, in his suit, asked for the amount of bis salary, $4, and a possible share in the World's Series receipts. He charged that his liveli- hood as a ball player was destroyed through the sudden abrogation of his contract, ER og REA SEEN, DRY DAY FOR PARIS. Saloons to Be Cloned Against Taxes. PARIS, May 21.—Saloons throughout Paris will be closed from 4 until 6 o'clock this afternoon as a result of general_strike called by the proprietors in protest against additional taxes be- ing levied on cognac, rum and other fa Strike beverages. The General Federation of Labor de- clded to-day to call off the strikes it had ordered in support of the ratiway- men’s walkout @ decision for the resumption of work was reached by a ANOTHER WOMAN IN MYSTERY OVER AUOTORES WL (Continued From First Page.) ps that some of those who saw Auditore sign the will may have heard him make statements of considerable value to a contestant, “I have been informed that a signed agreement existed between Mr. Apfel and Dr. Monae-Lesser as to the dispo- sition of the $80,000 mentioned in the will.” Mr. Taylor had a photograph of what he said was a letter purporting to be in the handwriting of Miss Le- bonsky, presumably dictated by Audl- tore and si; by him, which, the a Carry |attorney claimed, was sent to Joseph B. Phillips, Auditore’s confidential man of business, The letter, which Mr. Taylor declared Phillips received the day before Auditore died, con- taified this paragraph: “This thing must be done to-day without fail. If you can’t agree with Mr. Apfel, get a new will drawn to- day for the interest of the wife and family.” Another parograph read: / “I hope Mr. Apfel won't got stud- born about anything I put in here as I want him to be paid for any- thing he has done for me.” Mr. Taylor said he was never able to get @ copy of Auditore’s will nor to see it until after Auditore was dead. The erasure in the will, he said, was that of the name of Mr, Apfel and the substitution therefor of that of Dr, Monae-Lesser. The Auditore family, Mr. Taylor continued, insisted upon the perform ance of an autopsy upow the body, beheading MASTER OF LIPTON YACHT ARRIVES T0 PREPARE FOR RCE (Continued From First Page.) Thomas would sail on the chalier during the races, but thought it quite probable, Asked if his wife, Emily, a sinall Jady with gray eyes and hatr and a Pleasant smile, would sail with bic, Capt. Burtoh said: “I have time and she has been with me in. 999 of them, ‘he public can draw its own conclusions," “She does not carry navigaviun papers,” he added, in .response ia questions, “but she's the best yachts- woman on the other side, and knows more about yacht racing than any man I know.” “She's your adviser then?” he was asked, “Better make it my referee,’ he said with a grin. Capt. Burton declined to speculate upon the chances the challenger has for lifting the cup. “I can tell a lot more about that ten minutes after the first race starts,” he said. “Bobby” McLean, American ice skating champion, back from Norway vote of 96 to 11. ee: Awylum Att nts Found Gatity of ‘WORCES Moseph R. Bassett of Waterbury, Conn., and Charles Wilson, attendants at the State Hespital in Westboro were found guilty to-dagvday a jury on a charge of man- slaughter in connection with the death of John M. Weeks, who died following an ication of the “water cure” by the attendants, when he was submerged {ne tub and strangled by the twisting ‘around his throat, according evidence looking brown blocks, embedded chopped Nuts in pleasing variety. this delicacy. SPECIAL, HIGH GRADE SMOOTH ALMOXDS —Cris, flavery carefully selected Al- ménds, are each centred in a dainty hell of Parest Confectloner’s Susar and presented in seven delicate fruit mwa 44¢ POUND BO: FEE Regen IT +a [ee etter ne ae od oy For Friday and Saturday, May 21st and 22d. CHOCOLATE COVERED NUT CARAMELS—Big toothsome squares 0: righest Caramel, the velvety fragrant, veivety, unexcelled Chocolate completes and Sweden with $51,000 won in meets jabroud, wouldn't admit that he had |been defeated as reported by the \cables. | “It ended in an argument,” was the way he put it. | Among the other passengers on the jliner were Mrs. O. H, P. Belniant and |Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson, wife of ithe artist, who has been visiting her |sister, Lady Nancy Astor. | The Adriatic brought 521 second jelass cabin passengers and 1,156 in the steerage. Among the latter were 300 rosy cheeked Irish colleens, her to help solve the servant problem. with white crispy A jacket of our POUND .0: CHOCOLATE — COVERED Le 8 HL STRAWBERTMES te. A D POX pe Roth OHOLOLATE COV? Btores! Mow York. Newark end Hoboken, For exact location see telephane directory. ‘Tho wpeoitid wolmbt Includes the container, Sailed 1,000 races im mr + 4-