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AR ene, HOOVER FUND, $66,332: dene TO-NIGHT'S WEATHER—Unedttled, . ‘ : To Be Sure of Getting The Evening World, Order im Advance from: Your Newsdealer [“ Ctrontation Books Open to Alt.” | VOL. LX. NO. 21,442—DAILY. Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing ‘Co. (The New York World). NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1920. “Circulation Books Open to All.” Entered as Second-Class Matter Post Office, New York, N. ¥. ANDITS GET $40,000 IN BROADWAY HOLD. EDWARDS, $12 TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Unset <GOSTUR i ue EWES IN GREATE! WAKE UP, NEW YORK. NEW YORK, 30 YEARS BEHIND, IS LOSING OCEAN COMMERCE BECAUSE A MAN POWER PORT —_—— car noun ONARMENA GIVES. GONGRESS JOLT COSTS KEEP MOUNTING Request for Power to Take Over Mandate a Surprise to Both Parties,” Many Plans for Harbor Im-| provement, but Nothing Is Being Accomplished. By Martin Green. | lef reason why ‘the commerce | ort of New York is declining, | commerce of every other | on the Atlantic seacoast is in- | By David Lawrence. creasing, 18 because the methods used | (Special Correspandent of The Eve- in handling freight in this port are ning World.) so primitive that costs mount auto- WASHINGTON, May 25° (Copy- matically, while the methods adopted right, 1920).—President’ Wilson has tossed another football into the of treaty réquest that in in other smaller and less advantage- | gridiron His | cept ously ‘situated ports are up to date controversy. and progressive and costs of handling there are reasonable. the mandate trusteeship ‘Traffic follows speed and cenven-| over the newly established Republic fence are served by developments in|of Armenia revives the pro and con machinery. jof the League of Nations debate, New York is a man-power port. | though in this imgtance thé President Practically every pound of freight | uses the expressed interest of the moving in or out of the harbor is | Senate in the fate vf Armenia as a dependent entirely, at one stage | vehicle for the tmtroduction of con- or another in its course of transit, {crete measures of assistance for the Congress ac- or jon humat muscle. In Mon. | distressed Armenians, treal, Boston, Philadelphia, Balti- The action of the President was re- mod, Norfolk, Charleston, Sa- | celved with mingled surprise and vanaah, New Orleans and Gal- | doubt in the ranks of the Democrats vestan mighty ‘machines perform the bulk of the labor; man power incidental. Outside the Bush Terminal there is not @ modern pier in New York Har- bor, although two municipal piors which are under construction on the Staten Island shore will be equipped with labor saving and speed-up me- chinery. The average Now York p'cr, with its wooden floors and side walls, its rellance upon steam winch power supplied by steamships and its equip- ment of hand trucks is thirty years behind the times. RAILROADS DON’T REACH PIEF 3. Railroad tracks skirt the greater part of the West Side water front cf Manhattan, but there isn't a foot of railroad track on a \"3,hattan pler pelow 42d Street. In every other At- lantic seaport and in every port on ithe Great Lakes direct railroad <on- ection with piers was accomplisned ears ABO. Every pound of export or im- pert freight passing through New York from or to points out- the city is handled by light- The lighterage system is still exclusively used in foreign ports where the water is not deep enough to allow steamships to draw alongside the pie but it has long since been discarded in the principal porte on the At- lantio and Pacific seaboards of the United States and Canada, Where so much man power is used in shipping there is, naturally, a heavy labor cost and a heavy pare as well as the Republicans. The President took no one in his conn- dence, He neither consulted leaders of his own party in Congress as to the probable sentiment there, nor did he broach the matter to certain members of the Cabinet who would be vitally concerned with the ad- ministration of a mandate should it be’ accepted, The feeling persists that Mr. Wil- son is merely following out a moral commitment which he entered into at Paris ‘at his informal conversa- tions with the statesmen of Europe. At that time he felt absolutely sure that America would do her part in preserving the peace of the world and particularly ia helping to their feet the people of the newly liber- ated countries like Armenia, ‘The President's task in acting as arbitrator of the boundaries is strictly within the Executive's jurisdiction and involves no consent on the part (Continued on Nineteenth Page.) HARDING POINTS OUT HOW TO CUT H.C. L, “Frozen Loans” om Goods Held Back for Speculation Main Trouble, He Says. WASHINGTON, May 25.—Economy in individual expenditures, reduotion of non-essential loans by banks, increased production and improved transporta- tion are needed to reduce the cost of living and deflate credits, Governor tieth Pi j (Continued on Tw == MERCHANTS PLEDGE $50,000 TO BREAK TRUCKING STRKE Fund Will Be Used by Inde- pendent Company to Relieve Tie-Up of Fretght. ‘ ) One Seizes Gems While ‘Others ‘Hold Workers at Bay ‘With Revolvers. WAR TO* THE FINISH. Cani’t Tolerate Situation Any Longer, Says Morgan—Labor Combination Denounced. Bs Flee Down Crowded Thor- The Merchants’ Association started oughfare in Motor Believed this afternoon to raise a.fund of $500,- to Hava Been’ Siclen Oo THREATENED WOMAN, | t | | | 000 to be used by an: independent e trucking corporation in a fight against) gaye men: with. drawn’ irevolvere the interlinked strikes of labor organi-lweixed into the jewelry store of zations which have all but paralyzed the handling of merchandise in transit into and out ‘of New York. More than 2,000 members of the association met at a special luncheon at the Hotel Astor to act on the trans- About 500 more, David Gumbiner at Broadway and 105th (Street at 26 minutes past 12 o'clock to-day. Two of them went to the spiral stairs to a work gallery at the back of the store and ordered Leo Gumbiner, son of the proprietor; ‘Theodore Sanders, head salesman, unable to get seats for the luncheon,| anq gamuel Kamerow, a watchmaker, filled the galleries and ante rooms. The} ay of whom were on the gallery, to consensus of the principal addresses was a declaration of war against the labor organizations which are accused of trying to establish despotic control of the city’s commerce by decreeing what merchandise shall be transported and what shall not. At the plate of each guest was a pledge card with blanks to be filled in with the amount of his subscrip- tion, It was agreed that the con- tributions would not be collected un- less the total of the subscriptions reached $500,000. The money js to be used by the trucking concern,formed iby the Citi- zen's Transportation Committee. A special table was set aside for labor leaders. T. 'V. O'Connor and Joseph (Ryan, heads of the Interna- tional Longshoremen’s ‘Union; Hugh Frayng of the American Federation of Labor; William Kehoe of the teamsters; and (Peter J. Brady, Leg- islative Agent of the American Fed- eration of Labor, were at’ this table, William Fellowes Morgan presided and made the opening address. “This meeting must result in a¢- tion,” he declared. “Any one who is not in the frame of mind to do his full duty with loyalty and determina- tion in this fight would better quietly and promptly leave the meeting.” Nobody left Mr. Morgan said that the chaotic transportation had brought about conditions which “the (business com- munity cannot and must not tolerate any longer.” He denounced the labor combination known as the Transpor- tation Trades Council—a combination of the various labor unions that han- dle goods in transit, He asserted that this combination must be 4o- feated, and added that “we will do the job ourselves and do it thor- oughly.” “Our movement,” he said, “is not |intended to deprive workers of the right of organization nor of the right to the legitimate use of the power of organization, But we will not permit the sacrifice of the city’s welfare The food, the necessities of life, of portation problem. put up their hand sand stay quiét. Another man put a revolver at the breast of Mrs. Gumbiner, who was the only person back of the counters and foreed her to walk backward t# an office under the stairs where Allen E. Alleyne, the store porter, was dusting. This robber stood guard at the office door, | While four bandits held the workers at bay, the fifth grabbed $40,000 worth of jewelry and all fled to the door. All five then backed out of the store.’ Kamerow fired a shot after them as they reached the street. The five men ran around the corner to a Cadillac sedan car, the Heense num- ber of which onlookers reported to the police and made off toward West End Avenue in it, Leo Gumbiner also fired a dlank cartridge to call outside help. ‘The whole neighborhood was in a tumult, and false reports were cent to the police that the Phoenix- Chatham branch bank on the opposite corner had beon robbed. A few minutes later a report was received that Cadillac car with the reported license number had ‘heen stolen at quarter past twelve from | Columbus Avenue and %th Street; | still later came a report that the/| stolen machine with five men ‘n it| had passed Broadway and 94th Street at a high rate of speed. Mrs. Gumdinger described the leader of the band as unusually tall The others were of average height, she said, and all were well dressed. BANDITS HOLD UP | JERSEY TROLLEY, | ROB PASSENGERS Escape After One Is Knocked Insen- sible on Speeding Car, But Revives. Four highwaymen to-day boarded « Jersey City-bound trolley car at Paterson Plank Road and the ele ‘at- (Continued on Second Page.) CAPITAL. ae (Continued on Second Page) =| WOOLEN CO. LIFTS Harding of the Federal Reserve Board declared to-day in responding to a Senate resolution of inquiry as to what steps the board contemplated Classified Advertisers / meet the existing inflation of curren mportant JP |iiitna’ reaite tnd’ consequent high prices,” Classified advertisin CoP’, for 4 ‘frozen loans’ were. liquified,” The ty ed ould be in Governor Harding stated, “and if com- modities which are held pack either for On or Before Friday ||| svccuiative purposes or because of luck of transportation facilities, should oO Preceding Publication Ito the marketa, and iN lathe’ stocks of | merchandise. should be reduced, the | sultant release of credit would have a most beneficial effect upon the general situation,” _ welll Petestena, eure Melle, Stockholders Increase §: Lunchrooms | 860,000,000 to 8100,00; Sates ae SPRIN LD, Mass., ‘The proprietors of 1,000 j-| Stockholders of tae Amer and iunenroome, largely of the Company pecial meeting here to-| . 5 . day authorized the directors to increase | #4 dairy’ variety, were asked to-day the common stocs of the corporation| by Local No. 1 of the Waiters’ Union ‘from $20,000,000 to $40,000,000 and the| to reduce the workday from ten to nine preferred stock from $40,000,009 to| hours und were given until ‘Thursday ! 260,000,000. 9 P. M. to sign an agreement running} It was voted to offer common | from June 1 to May 31 of next year. stook to’ present stockholders in the| "No ‘demand js made for higher ratio of one share of new ‘stock for] wage Secretary Willidm Lehman | every thr said, "as that would mean an increase shares of stock now held. in oa in the price of food, and we do not want} | 7 Penge to do anything to increase the cost of 14—Quoted. done ul AGS, 8h Breadwaremagrs. ying” i 4 atihy 1 ce FIVE AUTO BANDITS HOLD UP. ARAZA SAN BROADWAY JEWELRY STORE. AND ESCAPE WITH $40,000 OUT OF DEATH CELL TO FREEDOM AFTER UNJUST CONVICTION New Witnesses Show Flana- gan, Sentenced to Die, Is Innocent of Murder. Sentenced last October to die in the electric chair for murder, Frank Flangan was taken from his cell in Sing Sing Prison to-day. by order of Judge Crain and brought to the Tombs. Witnesses produced by Mar- tin Flanagan, brother of the con: demned man, and Lawyer Robert M. Moore, working with Probation Of- ficer Halpern convinced Judge Crain Flanagan was at least entitled to a new trial for the, killing of Patrick Mulhearn, bartender in Rooney’s ealoon at 118th Stret and Park Ave- nue, a year ago last night. Assistant District Attorney George Brothers, who crossed questioned new witnesses in open court before Judge Crain said to-day that the new evidence was such that he doubted if it was'worth while to put Flana- gan through the ordeal of a new trial and said he probably would rec- ommend a dismissal of the charge. Mulhearh was shot by the leader of a band of highwaymen who tried to rob the cash register. The band scattered after the shooting. Two weeks later Flanagan, Alex- ander Johnson and nine others were arrested, charged with holding up Namair’s Syrian coffee house at No. 95 Washington Street, June 5. The robbery charge failed but the police produced one Vincent Lopes of No. 1684 Avenue A, who said he had secn Flanagan shoot Muthearn, ‘Assistant District Attorney Dineen prepared the case for trial by Brothers. George Frederick of No. 1205 Brook Avenue, John McCabe of No. 172 East 12th Street and John Ahearn of No. 470 Brook Avenue described the shooting. All failed to corroborate Lopez; all said the murderer was one of a band of short, swarthy men, Nevertheless the jury found Flana- gan guilty, An application to the Court of Appeals for a new trial was denied, Johnson was also tried for complicity in the murder, but was acquitted. James Hughes, a carpenter, of No, 118 East 119th Street, after Flana- gan's sentence, wrote to Judge Crain saying he had seen the shooting and until he learned Flanagan was a tall, heavy set man suposed the real mur- derer had been caught, He told the judge the murderer was an under- sized, dark-skinned man, as were his companions. Judge Crain turned the letter over to Moore and Martin Flanagan gave up hix employment and went to work to save his brother. Four persons who were In the saloon corroborated Hughes about the short stature of the raiders and the man who shot Mul- hearn, So did Mrs, Julia Hecht who saw the murder from the pigeonhole jadies’ entrance” of the place Edward Von Hagen bered that Flanagan was of the. remem atan a coming her husband home from Franc, turday night before Decor- ation Day The news of Flanagan's release | from the death house was taken tolto report off |his aged mother at 1367 First Avenuo|ing medical adeatment, by The Evening World for Frank, she said, ny proud of his brother Martin for sav- ing big srom & Giagrapeful death, — Overjoyed she wes ye BY RIFLE BULLET: NOT OWN REVOLVER Wounds in Bréast and Abdo- men Fail to Bear Out State- ment of Herrero. PRICE TWO CENTS | THREE CENTS’ R NEW YORK ELSEWUERS EDWARDS NOT BEING BACKED — BY THE LIQUOR INTERESTS, geaesk ts MANAGER TELLS SENATORS. tatiana Lacey Vick Answers Point Blank Questioni MANY ARRESTS MADE. Carranza’s Guards Taken Pris- oner by Obregon, Who Finds They Were Unhurt. VERA CRUZ, May 25 (Associated Press).—Reports of an autopsy per- formed on the body of Venustiano Carranza at Tilaxcalantongo fail to agree with the claim of Rodolfo Her- rero that the President committed suicide rather than be taken captive, it 18 asserted in official quarters here. Surgeons who conducted the au- topay, It 1s declared, found Carranza had been struck by two rifle bullets. one of which penetrated his breast and the other his abdomen, The bul- lets entered from in front, and it was the wit- nessed the operation that the Presi- dent had been assassinated, It Is sald. MEXICO CITY; May 25 (Associated Press).—dn accordance with his oft- repeated request, Président Venus- tiano Carranza, slain last Thursday conclusion of those who morning at Tlaxcalantongo, was buried yesterday afternoon in Dolores Come- tery, where, in the shadow of Cha- pultepec, the poorest of Mexicans have for many yedrs found their last resting place. As the funeral cortege left the home of the late Chief Executive, the extraomiinary session of Congress was being called to order to choose a President ad interim, to hold of- fice until a new President, to be elected Sept. 5, is inaugurated, Adolfo de la Huerta, Governor of the State of Sonora, was named after Congress had been in session for an hour and a half. Col. Herrero, who says Carranza killed himself, has offered to come to Mexico City to prove his assertion, In the raid on the Carranza camp at Tiaxcalantongo forty prisoners were captured, Some of these were later released, but eleven Genera Manuel Aguirre Berlanga, Secretary of the Interior; Ygnacio Bonillas, former Mexican Ambassador to the United States, and Paulino Fontes, Director of the Nationa] Rallways, were brought to this city. They have been taken to the prison at Santiago, COP DOES STUNTS STOPPING RUNAWAY Catches Reins With Foot, Is ‘Hurle dand Bumped About, but ‘Hangs On, Joseph E. Bimpson of the Hast 104th Street Station to-day tool all kinds of gs a runaway te of chances in stopp! hores attached truck in 112th Street going east from Lexington to Third Avenue, Ho missed hid frat grab for the lines, jumped over the tail board, caught the with his feet, swung the truck nt and to an open nto a fire } knocked himself gulley west into th street , Meanwhile women and children w. screaming and yelling, while men got out of the way. Bimpson grabbed th the nigh horse and the 1 Avenu line of truck by Presidential Investigators — Campaign Fund Hoover Manager Closely Questioned About Candi- date’s Place of Residence and Fund. WASHINGTON, May 25.-Walter W. Vick, manager of the Presi- tential campaign of Gov. Edwards of New Jersey, denied before the’ Senate Investigating Committee to-day that liquor interests were “un- derwriting” the Governor's campaign. Mr. Vick was replying to questions by Senator Reed. He had tes- tified that the total fund raised for his candidate was $12,900, a BUCKET OF PAINT SPLASHES CROWD ON BROADWAY Women Weep on ‘Policeman's Shoukler When Shower From Fire Escape ‘Ruins Hats. BUCKET of‘ light yellow paint tipped over on the fire escape at the sixth floor of the Bartholdi Building, 23d Street and Broadway at noon to-day, sprinkling scores of pedes- trians, Straw hats, furs, over- coats and suits were liberally spattered and a subway kiosk was covered About 160 men and women went into the building to await the agency or superintendent so they could give their names and ad- dresses with claims for damages. Policeman Mulligan of ‘Traffic Squad E spent a ‘busy hour try- ing to console crying women, 31-YEAR POKER DEBT PAID WITH ‘INTEREST’ Twenty -Seven- Year-Old Fluid Given by Saloonkeeper to Creditor, of 1889, In the spring of 1889, on @ Saturday night, there was @ poker game in the back room of Casey's saloon in Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, One of the players was John H. Liddy, a young fireman, Another was James Hughes, When the game broke up Hughes owell Liddy $3, which he said he would pay “in a couple of days."* But the two lost track of each othe: In the course of years Liddy became a United States Customs guard at the Barge Office, a job he now holds, Hughes eventually got back to Brook- lyn and started a Mrytle Avenue saloon of his own at the corner of Washington Avenue. This morning Hughes discovered for the first time the address of his old creditor, Over to New York he came, paid the $3, and with it presented a glass receptacle containing @ volatile fluid stated to be twenty-seven years old, It 18 Impossible to learn what the fluid was, for it has disappeared, PRICE ON VILLA’S HEAD. Handit Bide Defiance to the New dows ne the Ther the cop clung t » the 1 one attached} the truck brough 0 4 atop, n he wrote out , which had Macauley backed off the map. H said no persons were injured, but that he had suffered injuries to his back, Doth h He mit! anyhow and, went hor ms and stom! was w uty refus Govern t. Texas, May 8) (Assclatd Francisco Ville, bid. a the newest Mexican vernme again has become an out- ‘aw among his own people. The Sandit with a small force of men reported to-day between Parrai and Jimenez, Chihuahua, the hunted quarry de facto troops, with a price of 100, 000 pesos on his head; He had deen ordered to say by to-day whether he would submit to the new xvernment. | a aneominee SEIT® PASO. EL et wa “Have you got any othen money Pledged or substantially pledged, for further use” asked Senator Reed. “Some indiyiduals have promised, me further aid,” Mr. Vick replied, Q. Have any group of men prom- ised to underwrite your future ex- pense, whatever it is? A. No, sir; the amounts are small, Q All right, Jet's put it bluntly. Have the Uquor interests undertaken to finance your campaign? A, No. His campaign is not a ‘wet’ campaign in any sense. He is running solely on the platform of his personal convie- Hons as to personal liberty and buii- ness efficiency, He hasn't himself had @ drink of anything with alcohol {nh it or thirty years.” “That's not New, Jersey's fault,” remarked Chairman Kenyon. “And he's never been connected with the liquor business in any way?" Senator Reed asked, “Not at all,” was the reply. NO PROMISE OF OFFICE GIVEN BY GOV. EDWARDS. ‘4 Q. Has thete been any pledge of promise of office to anybody in case of Gov. Edwards's election? A, Alba solutely none. Questioned concerning aw indepen- dent campaign organization formed at Chicago for his candidate, Mr, Vick Said it was aimed at the ‘promulga- tion of a “demand for personal ib- erty” and that supporting Gov. Hd- wards was only a single one of its objects. Frank §. Hurley of Chicago, he said, was in charge, “Contributors to our campaign,” he said, “are Cornelius 8, Edwards, the Governor's cousin, * $3,000; David F, Edwards, his brother, $3,800; Charles E. McWilliams, New York City, $500; Theodore H. Smith, Jersey City, 92,500; T. A. Roudie, New Jersey, $8,000 and J. U. Terry, $100." HOOVER'S CAMPAIGN FUND PLACED AT 666,332. Expenditures of $66,392 exclusive of the California Primary expense, have been made in the campaign .of Her- bert Hoover for the Republican Presi dental nomination, John F. Lugey, manager for Mr. Hoover testified ‘Total receipts were placed at $52,186. Senator Reed questioned Mr. Lucey and before going into the matter of campaign expenses he asked as to Mr Hoover's residence, Mr, Lucey rv+ fused to coincide with the Senator's suggestion that Mr. Hoover's real residence was London, Englang, but he was not positive on the polnt “I want to know something about expenditures,” Edge inter. rupted. Chairman Kenyon ruled the question in order. “First, I can give you all the figured but those in the California canypatgn,” Mr, Lucey said, They were handled there.” “There have been many charges on both sidea about that," interjected Chairman Kenyon, “We have sumiy moneda the men who know." (Mr, Lucey told of the or, of the Hoover National | iS iat MES tt Senator