The evening world. Newspaper, May 24, 1920, Page 1

TO-NIGHT'S hetcedlaheiematdld Showers. To Be Sure of Getting The Evening World, Order in Advance from Your Newsdealer { Circulation Books Open to All.’’ /VOL. LX. NO. 21,441—DAILy, Copyright, 1020 by The Press Publishing (Th w York World). NEW YORK, MONDAY, MAY a4, 1920. Entered ne Second-Cines Post Office, New York, WAKE UP, HILADELPHIA FORGES AHEAD NEW YORK! Gives It Great Advantage. By Martin Green. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) equ-pment and conveniences for handling freight, Philadelphia is away with the object of always keeping a few jumps ahead of the demands. There is the difference between the reputedly backward Philadel- phia and the reputedly up to date New York. In Philadelphia the port facilities have been developed in advance of the growth of trade. In New York the port development has dragged far behind the require- ments of commerce, and the result is that shippers are seeking a new outlet for their war The City of Philadelphia specializes in harbor improvement. Btates and abroad. The city of Philadetphia circular- izes shippers, setting forth tho advan-| ages of this port over New York, and| SON ASKED the responses reflect the advantages of this sort of campaigning. Whilo Philadelphia has the leeway of about | 2 cents per 100 pounds in freight 4 ‘on goods shipped from the interior f or| export, that is not the only reason it is) rapidly robbing New York of its su- premacy in shipping. Philadelphia is drawing shipments | out of territory in which New York: has the advantage in freight rates bes Many of pepsi Senator’s cause shippers know that when they send their goods to Philadelphia the goods will be put on a ship and sent to thelr destination, while goods sent to New York are liable to delays of weeks ang there ts no chance of prompt) movement through the plain Intentions. By David W. Lawrence. ently directed und persistent | ,, 1s to public spirit and the far- 1 : Rikteansee of pubdlic officials who | *#lles, League of Nations and all, yealized the importance of the ship- condemned? ping interests of any port. One of} Republicans wh: ‘those to whom credit is due 18 J.) senator and wan (Hampton Moore, the present Mayor of Philadelphia. { Mr. Moore, long a member of the ‘House of Representatives, was’ a teady worker in the Federal Gov- | now, erninant for the city he represented, He obtained much favorable legisla- Indeed, Leland Stanfort, pouring money into local improve- will put Philadelphia at the head of all American ports in modern- ized harbor facilities, The city is (Continued on Second Page.) (Continfed @@ Begond Page.) . TH $51,000,000 PORT PLAN; “GRABS NEW YORK YORK SHIPPING ea Specializes in Harbor ie tae tak and Is Rapidly Taking Lead in Atlantic Commerce—Direct Con- nection of Railroads and Ships stereck on» ot major Gos. reonara The De- p@tment of Wharves, Docks and Ferries is not only an administrative branch of the City Government but a solicitor of shipping all over the United | POINT BLANK IF HE | INTENDS 10 BOLT Friends Anxious to Have Him Ex- port of New (Special Correspondent of The Eve- commerce has been the result of In- | Johnson bolt the Republican National ‘onvention unless the Treaty of Ver- like the California to help him win the Republican nomination, but who are not in sympathy with his stand on the treaty question, are eager to | resident of Stoneville, N. C., has put Won and the city backed him up by | the question squarely before Senator| Has 40,546 Johnson, but says that as yet he has| =. lees HTHCOEK TELL SENATORS ABOUT FUNDS FOR WOOD 7 Campaign a ee Say Largest Sum Spent in Any State Was in New Jersey | | | | IN MARYLAND. t! Ne ‘ood Men in New York and Other States Financed Their Own Campaign, $12,500 WASHINGTON, May 4.—Frank A told a Investigating Committee to- the State by 000 tn The next largest was Wood's campaign managers, nate that so argest sum day far as he knew spent in any the Wood organization was $1 New Jersey. PHILADELPHIA, May 24.—This is the second port of the United States $12,500 in Maryland. in point of foreign and coastwise shipping, and unless New York wakes up |. sad modernizes her harbor it will be the first before long. In point of Di€F Grates,” the Wood supporters “fi- Mr. ork ‘as Hitchcock said in a.number of that in New other in nanced their own campaign in their advanee of New York, and although there are facilities here for handling OW way” without asking assistance twice the business now offered, the city is going ahead with improvements, from the Wood organizution. Mr. Hitcheock sald that {n Michi- | gan the Wood campaign was financed | “by local people’ without any call on | the National organtzation, Col, Fred Alger of Detroit, he said, was the State Chairman, Mr. Hitchcock identified himself as “one of the managers of Gen. Wood's | campaign.” | HITCHCOCK NAMES THE MANA- | GERS FOR GEN. WOOD. “Who are the others?” Chairman Kenyon asked. “William C. Procter is the gen- | eral manager,” the witness replied, “while assistants in charge of vari- | ous sections include Representative Gould of New York Thomas C, Mil- ier and Senator Moses of New Hamp- shire.” “This committee would like to know the amount of money expended in your campaign, Its sources and who the contributors are," Chairman Ken- yon continued. "Can you give us that?” “All that can be obtained,” Mr Hitcheock answered, “but the treas- urers of the campaign organizations have the data. I asked to be excused from the financing work, though after my connection with the cam- paign became established some checks were sent to me by individuals amounting to not more than $20,000 or $2,000, I think, All of that 1 York at any time in either imports or ning Wortd ) sxports. . WASHINGTON, Muy 24 (Copy-| turned over to the treasurers. ee r ‘The growth of Philadelphia in ocean right, 1920).—Will Senator Hiram ‘Then !n addition the Leonard Wood League, which has 60,000 mem- bers or so all over the United States, has an independent fund collected in is | its own way. I don't know about that at all, ag I have had no connevtion with it or its expenditure.” EXPENSES IN MICHIGAN “THEIR OWN AFFAIR,” SAYS HITCHCOCK, Asked how much the Michigan or- (Continued on a *| JOHNSON’S OREGON LEAD. to Wood's 39,769 on iatest Reta tents to keep pace with tho en-|recelved no answer. Tle is a fuj]-| PORTLAND, Ore. May 24,—Com- lurging advantages opened by Wov- | fledged Republican and was asked to| Plete returns from thirteen counties *<enment engineers, eon the committee in North Car-| #4 incomplete retume from the H ta other twenty-three counties 1m- | olina which would promote the can-| State's ¢ BART OF Si oeaey ReAY OPI f Hi J to-day showed Senator Hiram John OVEMENT. yo ram Johnson in that PR : son retaining his lead for the Repub- BLS RUN HANDBOOKS OPENLY AT POLO GROUNDS; Ble BETS MADE ON GAMES Hundreds of Dollars Change Hands in All Kinds of Wagers in Grandstand. THEIR WORK IS BRAZEN Carry It On Under Eyes of Strangely Blind City De- tectives and Magistrates. The “handbook boys" are deserting the horse races for the ball games. Such is the opinion of Evening World investigators after a careful inspection of the Pulo Grounds on Saturday and Sunday. If what ex- isted on these two days Is any cri- terion for other days during the base- ball season, it can be sald without fear of contradiction that any one desirious of placing a bet, however small or large, can always be accom- odated by one of the “boys,” Whether or not they find their fav- orite posts at the Polo Grounds more remunerative than the old haunts around Times Square and 125th Street can only be judged by their daily appearance, On the two days re- ferred to, the same “boys” were on hand ready to meet all comers. Scores of them were recognized by The Evening World investigators as being the same persons formerly seen daily about 42d, 116th and 126th Streete ‘making book” on the races. Whether or not they are known to the private police who patrol Brush Stadium was not manifest from any action that the private police were seen to take, ‘That they were known to the regular “fans,” however, was plainly evident, HAVE REGULAR “CURB” SYSTEM OF SIGNALS. The favorite betting rings seemed to circle around stanchion No, 23, back of third base, and also back of home plate, Most bets were with- held until the announcement of the batteries. With wuhe announcement quick action took place, the “boys” dashing through the stand taking up all proposals. private bets between friends were withheld until it was learned what odds the “boys” up back were giving. For Saturday's game the “boys” were giving six to five on St. Louis and on Sunday's game, due to the reappear- ance of “Bube” Ruth, the odds switched to 8 to 6 on the Yanks, If one desired to place a bet he did not have to look far for a taker as of seats brazenly, but quietly, solicit- ing bets, One of the “boys” would always be at his post in the rear and the regular fan, known w him, would curb market style, his wager, A favorite pastime in the boxes seemed to be to make up @ pool and call one of the “boys” from the rear ranks, who would «accommodate them, Some of the most active operators (Continued on = == In 1916 the city appropriated $'%.-|" Eo torq acoopting membership on| lican Presidential indorsement in the , 000,000 for pler improvementa! “I at| ing comanittes, he went the following | OFeHON primaries sum has been almost all expended or | (on to senator Johnson: foniee (eaicne nave. Gannedn 10sde ted up in contracts. Two larg: piers!" “erhere is on foot a conc and Major Gen, Wood 39,769 on the Delaware Kiver at the toot of | + eataa “eg ic ‘ id Painsccat _— Christian Street were recently com-) {rated and organized mevoment Gas Roeder's Funeral, | to put you over by w substantial | a oO! § progressing rapid The funeral ser te sta pleted and work is progressing rapi po 4 ly on two more piers, even larger, at majority in our North ‘colina | Rowdier will be at 8 nek the foot of Wolf Street primary June 5. [um requested jevening a enee, No. 29 Rey tha’ nlaak af theiniean to serve on your Committee in [McDonough stiert, Urovilyn, ‘The i maavibsianaithia, ‘Mayer Moore (ula State to promote your cam- | Gcorge E , ne Embu : i vals Do you intend bolt |odist Eph 1 Chureb will cor ledged to a programme which | P#ikn 1 ‘ epee phi from the Repubsican ‘Party. un. |fervice. Burial will be in E Cemetery GBUREAD, ding, Gi-Us Anade ark | tows": | Ghee Foun for’ parcels oped day and ebeom fur agzage Mewes edem eed unveliecs Beekinan 4000. | Classified Advertisers Important Clasmifed advertising The y We The {d office copy. tor Id should be tn On or Before Friday Preceding Publication Marly copy receives the preference ||] when Sunday advertising has to be omitted. Late advertising ls now omitted for lack of time to set it, THE WORLD, As a rule most of the| the “boys” went through the rows/ only have to wig-wag back to him,! MISS MARIA TUCCI, WHO TELLS HOW SHE SLEW SISTER | DISMISSAL MARIA TUCCI 14-CENT SUGAR “BARGAIN” LANDS WOMEN IN COURT Ninety Pounds They Bought From Peddler Had Been Taken From Candy Store. HEIR ability to snatch a bargain when they saw it, to-day led Mrs, Felexa Naida, twenty-seven, of No, 858 Hewitt Place, the Bronx, and her neighbor, Mra, Pauline Yarkawska, twenty-five, of No. 863 Hewitt Place, into Morrisania Court. According to the thrifty houso- wives a peddier offered sugar for sale at 14 and a fraction cents a pound, Mrs, Naida took fifty-five pounds and Mra Yarkawska thirty-flve pounds. They had ho Sooner put the sugar in the bins than Alex Agalas, who keeps a candy store at No, 876 Westches- ter Avenue, found his barrel con- taining 300 pounds of sugar was about one-third gone, Agalas called Policeman Mullin who followed a trail of sugar to the Naida and Yarkawska apart- ments and arrested the house- wives on a charge of receiving stolen gvods, Magistrate Douras freed the | women, advising them to return the sugar to Agalas who sadd the sugar which the housewives bought for $12.80 had cost him | $20.80, -_— — GOVERNOR TO SIGN BOXING BILL, IS TIP jC Somes From “Source Very Close to | Him’—This City to Be Mecca of Pugilists. According to given to an Ey reliable information ning World representa- Alfred E. Smith will sign the | Walker Bo Dill late to-day. The |information was received from # source close to the G Nor, The Walker bill calls for 15 rounds to a decks 1 will make New York: the mecea vf A world | uve Gov _— Whitman Offers Servicer. Vormer Gov, Charles 5. Whitran of fered his services to District Attorni Swann to-day to help tnvestigate t charges made by Goldman and Freed- m sinst Assistant District Attorney 4 b. Smith. Mr. Swann replied atefully but explained that the matter assed from his hands to those of troordinary Grand Jury, KILLED HER SISTER TO DEFEND HONOR, SAYS MARIA TUCC! Girl Slayer Takes Stand Own Defence at Mur- der Trial. IS REPUSED. Defendant in Tears as Tragedy 1s Described by Her Attorney. Marla Tucci, old, slender and pretty, gave testimony to-day in her own defense at her trial on the charge of murdering her sister, Angelina Conti, in their home at No. 99 West Houston Street, March 6 javt, The girl testified calmly, but seemed embarrassed by the refusal ot Judge Wott to permit her to answer questions showing family scandais in Italy because of Mra. Conti's behavior there. ‘The girl was permitted to tell how her -sistér came to this country in 1919, following closely her cousin, Michael Mongiovi, who was @ con- stant evening and morning visitor at the ome here, and then she told her versions of the quarrels between her- self and her sister in her sister's frantic efforts to keep Mongtovi Inter- ested by urging Muria to Invite his advances, Judge D'Alvia of Newark, chief coun- sel for the defendant, told the jury that Maria had killed her sleter in de- fense of both her own honor and thut of their family. Mrs. Conti, she said, had felt her relationship with one Mi- chael Mangiovi, her cousin, in peril, and in order to strengthen it hud be- sought Marla to accept his attentions. ‘This the girl had refused to do, he sald, and dissensions immediately arose which culminated in the shooting on the morning of March 8 last. On this morning Angelina, he con- tinued, had threatened her sister with a knife, which Maria took from her, and then with a revolver, It was, he said, in the struggle to pos- sess this weapon, that Angelina was killed on her bed. During the attorney's address Maria was in tears, constantly dab- dling at her eyes with @ sodden handkerchief. Maria’s brothers, Michael, who lives in Montclair, and Giuseppl, who lives in Bloomfield, N. J. testified of Maria‘s visit to thelr homes after the killing with her sisters daughter. They sald she said nothing of the shooting and told them her visit was due to “family troubles.” The lust witness for the prosecu- twenty years tion was Mary Chiarello, a second floor tenant in the West Houston Street house. who testified that a' 218 o'clock on the morning Angelina Cont! was shot, she saw Maria Tucci and @ man she could not Identity passing down the stairs, There was no child with them. This testimony was in confilct with that of Conchitta Cont, the nine-year-old daughter of the dead woman, who said that ner aunt, Marla, “and a man” took her from the house, pe hs a ote American Flyer Missing om Trip to Soviet Lines, WARSAW, May 24.—Lieut. Harmon ©. Rorlson of Wilmington, N. C., a pilot in the Kosciusko Aerlal Squad- ron, has been missing for several days, when he began a flight under- taken to obtain # report concerning the Bolshevik lines on the southern front in the Ukruine. | ER you don’t believe it—Just see what an erudite but athletic college professor who turned | crook and joined a band of thieves led by a beautiful woman | did in “THE MASKED WOMAN," By Johnston McCulley, which begins in The Evening World, Tuceday, June 1, PRICE TWO CENTS POLICEMAN FORCED TO JUMP AFTER SAVING 20 PERSONS IN PATERSON HOTEL FIRE More Than 100 Guests in Peril in. $125,000 Fire That Destroys the. Building—Many Leap to Safety Into Nets of Firemen—Five Hurt. § Policeman Schelke of the Paterson (N, J.) police, after saving the lives of scores of persons in the burning of the Manhattan Hotel, opposite é the Erie Railroad station at Paterson at 3 o'clock this morning, kept at his | wor: until the flames forced him to jump from a second story window, He is in the Paterson Hospital with severe injuries. U.S. SENATORS DIG INTO GEN. WOOD F GIRL WIFE KILLS HUSBAND; CLAINI IT WAS A AGSDE niedeg Snapped Trigger of Revolver to Awaken Him, Mrs. seventeen, Says questioning. She deciyred the revolver was owned by her fathef, John Martin, of Rich- field, who ts dead. her home last night, she said, by hor mother, Mrs, Mary Loges, who remar- riea@ after the death of Martin. mother had Just moved from Richfield, N. J., to Paterson, and asked her to keep the gun, After she had awakened her hus- band, he did not get up immediately, she said. She took the revolver, which she did not know was loaded, with the intention of enapping the thus @wakening him. She bad done thie with the eame re- volver before, when they lived Richfield, and no cartridge was ex- ploded. However, when she pulled the trigger to-day there was an ex- it lp alleged she admitted, A charge of murder was placed guint Mra. Mensing. She pleaded not guilty before Recorder William Young and was held for the Grand ‘The police show @ disposition to believe the young woman's story, but wre continuing thelr invewtiga- trigger and plosion, Jury. tion. while the [ott Raa PITTSBURGH, unconscious os SIX BANDITS ROB BANK; GET $115,000 Raid Place at it Noon; |; Knock Cashier On Head and Lock Him in Vault, Muy 24.—The First nk at Finleyville, Pi und robbed shortly who escaped, rding to word received here by the National bi here, was raided ufter noon by six men, and i ae al MoAdoo, We have no second liane, het water, Sure Relief, Feet. —— have P looked titution was rifled, A sheriffs posse has gone in pursuit, Henry Mensing, aged thirty-two, was shot and killed by his wife Edna, aged in thelr home at No. 608 Main Street, Paterson, to-day, accord- ing to tho police. Mra, Mensing in- sisted the shooting was accidental and stuck to hor story during three hours’ It was brought to are sald to have escaped bonds and securities The cashier, The bandits with $100,000. in and $15,000 in cash. was the only man In the bank at the time, Is reported to have been knocked in Of the 100 guests who were sleep. ing in the hotel many escaped by laa ders set up by the firemen and by life — nets spread when the principal fire escape and the stairs were shut 7 Wades Just ahead of Schelke, who had finished kicking at ali the doorg on the second and third floors and had run back to she second floor > the ala of the Dgads called by woman's screams, He got into their room just after they had jumped and lot no time in following them, though the firemen had not yet spread life vets. The Dodds were only slightly hurt. Daniel Sully, who jumped at a life net from the third-story window, fell across the edge of it. He is in the General Hospital with a broken leg and a strained back. Fireman Will- ‘am Smith's head was badly cut by & failing timber and he was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital. Schelke was on duty about the stay tion. Flames burst through the front of one of the stores which are along the ground floor of the building and Schelke, calling to a railroad man to Sive the alarm, ran up the hotel en- trance stairs and started through the Placo kicking in every door as he came to it. The fire, which must have beew smouldering and gatherings headway for hours, spread like a flash and filled the halls of the upper two , stories with smoke. By the time Bchelke had routed out all the room- ers on the second floor the stairway, up which he had come, was impass- able with flames. The building was completely do- stroyed, only the outer wall re- maining half an hour after the fret alarm. The building had @ frontage of ato feet on Market Street and 100 feet on Paterson Street, and was owned by the Manhattan Hotel Company, of © which Theodore Barclay is President, The damage yas estimated at ame 000, —_—- Sugar Up Another comt.} ‘The American Sugar Rein’ - Pany to-day advanced the of eugar one cent to 22% cents, ng the third advance of Its kind/within « week. ‘The necessity for this/advancs arises by reason of the tncréasing east to the company of raq jugar,” read @ statement ismued by the American Sugar Mefning Company, d Mem Get Stay, . N. ¥., May 34.—Additionad .” respites until the week beginning Aug. 2 were granted by Gov. Smith to-day to James P. Cassidy, Joveph Usefot, Charles MoLaughlin and Joseph Agiiand under sentence of death for the mur- ~ der of Otto Fialo, ticket agent at the Intervale A Station ta New, York, Nov. 13, 1018. SEREERND 2a Z Newark Newapaper Out for MeAdeo, ‘The Newark Ledger to-day came out for Willlam G. McAdoo for An announcement on its editortes oeee said: "This newspaper's first choles gor the Presidential nomination ts W, @ the Democratic party” 0. ey