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toe. i HW 1} t] vf rs Exciting Serial BEGINS IN The Masked Woman To-Day’s Evening World TO.DAY'S WEATHER—Fair, 1 Story — VOL. LX. NO. 21,447—DAILy. Tae hfe Dennen renin en errr Conyetent, 1920, by The Press Pablishing (The New York World), NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 192 asia incl Only Way to Regain Lost) Commerce Is to Make It a National Port NOW. SHIND IN EVERYTHING Co-Operation Between City, State and National Govern- j ment Can Save Situation. By Martin Green. At the present time there are under Consideration a number of important | plans for saving the Port of New| | York; some of them have reached a Point where execution waits only on legislation and money. All the plans have merit in themselves, but the ac- \ | edmplishment of any or all of them—| \, except the plan to consolidate the waterfronts of New York and New, fi, Jorsey.in one port under a centralized j authon’ “will serve to remedy con- ditions in sfots without any lasting peneficial result to the ....0le port. Except for the ‘completion of the great passenger terminals in the Chelsea district and the erection of | { modern pliers above 50th Street, the) building of the Bush Terminal and! the establishment of the Army Stores | base \ war measure—the waterfront of bahded| York has remained stagnant for a ger of a century. Dock Commis- sioner Hulbert’s Staten Island plier) programme and his efforts to effect in South Brooklyn—purely a) gome sort of a zoning system by, which congrstion can be reiic\ 1 on the west side are the first construct- {ve steps looking to relief from the conditions which have led to the de- cay of the commerce of the port that have been taken in a generation, Tho trouble has been that New York is so big and the waterfront interests are so diversified that the shipping situation escaped from authority and wandered off by itself into the fields of general deterioration. No single official and no single private enterprise . ean wave the port of New York. There must be co-operation be- tween State and City Govern- ments, business of all kinds, bank~ ing interests and the public g@n- erally. PORT COMMISSION'S GOOD WORK MAY BE TOO LATE. ‘The Port and Harbor Commission has tackled the job in the right way— but the Port and Harbor Commission, ‘Organized for work two years ago, gnould have been functioning in the (Continued on Dwentieth Page.) _ CUNARD WON'T DESERT Ni. Y. Official Denies Baltimere Confer- © Means Any Change, At the New York offices of the Cu- nard Company it was sald to-day that a conference called for Wednesday at Raltimore would be “merely one of the 1egular monthly conferences” of Cunard officials in North America. These con- | ferences are held from time to time tn Chieago, Montreal and Boston. It had been reported that the meeting might mean the development of foreign busi- ness from Baltimore. The official quoted pointed to the pullding of new big piers at Weehaw- ken as evidence that the Cunard Com- pany has no intention of leaying the Port of New York. TRAVEL BU WAKE UP, NEW YORK! | NEWYORK PORT SURPASSED. BYALL ATLANTIC HARBORS WOOD AND HARON AT SAN FE | IN FACILITIES FOR SHIPPING | Chased Across Country by | movie drama, {neluding the theft of | bail each in Yorkville Court for ex- | rolled by Thomas J, | of the Sherman & Corrigan detective | MOVIE THRILLS =: IN BOY'S CAPTURE AS JEWEL THIEF Train, Auto and Horseback After Robbery Here. Ail the elements of a first class many thousands of dollars’ worth of Jewels, a flight to the sunny South, pursuit by a band of determined de- tectives, by train, motor and horse- back, a man lost in the Texas desert for fourteen hours without food or water, a capture and a recovery of part of the jewels, were disclosed to-day when Wallace Furglar, an eighteen-year-old boy of Woodville, Mie", and George Ramo of No. 251 West 26th Street were held in $2,000 amination Friday. gtand larceny. ‘The movie-drama of theft was un- Corrigan, head The charge is agency, whose men, acting for the Federal Insurance Company, of No, 15 William Street, which had insured the stolen jewelry, made the capture. The jewels were the property of Mrs. Violet Da Curbia, whose former husband is described as a “Brazilian attache.” She lived at No, 34 West Sist Street and in a jewel box in her dressing room on April 24 last were: Platinum chain, 1% yards long, con- taining 800 pearls and clasped with two diamonds; ring with four large diamonds; diamond box-knot pin; gold cigarette case inscribed “V. From Me to You"; brooch in onyx with ninety-nine diamonds; platinum bracelet with thirty diamonds; ring with one large pearl and twelve smaller diamonds; platinum chain thirteen inches long; diamond and emerald ring; diamond and enamel bracelet; brooch of onyx set with dia- monds and black pearls; cameo ring; bar pin with seven pearls; platinum bracelet and ring set with 3-karat ruby. Ferglar came to New York last Apnil, after his discharge from the navy following service during the war. He met Leo Whitely, a negro day servant in Mrs. Da’ Cunbia’s home. Whitely lived at No. 115 West (Continued sien Tenth } Page.) TEXTILE WORKERS GET $1,000,000 MORE About 300,000 Operatives Affected —Wages Now 150 Per Cent. Above Four Years Ago, BOSTON, June 1.—A general increase of wages affecting approximately 300,- 000 textile operatives went into effect to-day in New England textile centres. Approximately $1,000,000 will be added to the weekly payrolls of the mills granting the increases, and textile wages, already at the highest stage in history, will be brought to @ point about 150 per cent, higher than they were four years ago, A, majority “of, the unorgar workers have the ine! THE WO! \ rer hr oa at ) Bees aad have many who to the unions, A few unions have refused St. } $200,000 SPENT IN OHIO FIGHT OF | NOT TOBEPUTUP = | Editor Robert Pg Wolfe of Col-| umbus Puts Cost Higher Than | Other Witnesses a. | LOWDE! N CASH UNSPENT | t. Louis Mi in Testifies He Still Has Money Allotted to His District. WASHINGTON, June 1 F.} Wolfe, of the Columbus} Dispatch and Ohio State Journal, the first witness called to-day by the Robe published was Senate committee investigating the funds raised for the primary Prosi dential campaigns. He said he had} taken an active part In the fight in Ohio between Gen. Wood and Sena- tor Harding, “Politicos {n our State,” he said, “ape in the hands of an inside coterie of men, whom I have felt it a duty to oppose. I wanted to support Sen- ator Harding, but told him that I could not do so if his candidacy went into the hands of this group. Our fight afterward was against an ele- ment in the Republican Party rather than for any !ndividual.” He refused to “go into personall- ties” when Senator Pomerene asked for names of men constituting the alleged “coterle." Q. Your activities were against Senator Harding's mo then, than for Gen. Wood? A. It was against the crowd managing Senator Harding’s candidacy—their control of election boards. Senator Reed asked “What ev dence of expenditure the witness has seen,” and Mr. Wolfe produced a full newspaper sheet of advertisement. “This was carried as an insert in about forty Ohio newspapers,” he said, “containing a personal attack on me for not supporting Senator Harding.” THINKS EACH SIDE SPENT $100,- 000 IN OHIO CAMPAIGN. “My estimate is that each side in Ohto—Wood and Harding—made fight that cost about $100,000," added. His own papers, he soi “didn’t care a snap” for the adver- tising involved. Senator Edge suid Senator Hard- ing’s manager had testified to spend- ing “about $35,000 in the Ohio paign,” and asked for Mr, judgment. “My estimate ts what I have giv he said, “in addition to what legis lative influence and local machinery they had. It would cost an outside candidate three times as much to meet their opposition as they would have to spend.” Mr, Wolfe said he had spent $12,000 cf his own money on letters, post- cards and personal campaign wor “[ told Senator Harding that if he allowed Harry M, Daugherty to pick the delegates to the National Conven- tion I felt it would be a menace to the state,” he said, “and that I would fight for it.” Frederick A. Joss, the next witness, said he supervised all the expend:- rather ger, a (Continued on Second Page.) age irasesse MAYOR GUILTY OF SPEEDING. Schenectady Chief Executive Fails to Appear in Yonkers Court. Mayor George R. Lunn of Schenectady was found guilty of speeding In Yon- kers Traffic Court to-day, Sentence was suspended by Judge William F slakeley. Motoreyele Policeman Henry Hallam \nanded the Mayor a summons on M ailed to appe ™ ‘The case was called several times, but | mayor Lunn obtained an adjournment Tho case wus set for to-day amd Mayor WMLSON'S NAME | This Was Seitled at the Con-! ference Between President and Chairman Cummings. TALKED OF _PL ATFORM | Wilson ¢ Confident F Party Will Stick to the Principles of Last Four Years. By David Lawrence. | (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, June 1 (Copyright, 1920)—The name of Woodrow W! will not son be presented to the Demo- cratic National Convention at |Francisco for a third nomination to the Presidency. ‘This much has deen agreed upon between the President and Homer Cummings, Chairman of the Democratic National Committce, who left here to-day for Sau Fran- cisco, The President at a long conference with Mr, Cummings outlined his idea of what the party should stand for in the coming campaign and dis- cussed the kind of a platform witich in his judgment should be adopted. His position was made clear in the letter to Senator Glags of Virginia indorsing tho Virginia platform, which declares for the prompt ratl- fication of the peace treaty “without reservations which impalr its essen- tial integrity.” : As to candidates, Mr. express no preference. He is confi- dent that the Democratic party in convention assembled will see that path to victory iles only in a stead- fast adhesion to the principles of the Democratic Administration of the last eight years, DOES NOT THINK A FORMAL STATEMENT NECESSARY, ‘The President's own status 1g un- changed from that which it has been for months. He deems a statement by him of the reasons why he will not be a candidate for a third term to be unnecessary. If the convention should reach a deadlock and resort to Wilson as the only man to make the fight on the treaty issue, there will be ample time to cross that bridge when the convention comes to it- But there is no present prospect that such a thing will happen and to issue a third term declaration might be construed as an expectation that the convention might actually reach such a decision, Mr. Wilson prefers modestly to be- lieve no guch contingency will arise, On the other hand, there 1s one cm-~ barrassing situation in connection the vote of the North Dakota delo- Wilson will gation, There 1s some contuslon here about the record. ‘It would up- pear that the delegation ts “in- (Continued on Second Page.) — CONTROL OF WHEAT BY U. S. ENDS TO-DAY Dealers Can Buy or Sell Now at Any Price They Are Able to Obtain. WASHINGTON, June 1.—Federa control of wheat and wheat products ended to-day, the wheat director ceas- ing to function under the limitation of the law creating his office and the food ,dministration control ending by proc amation of President Wilson, This means the passing of the Gov. ernment guarantee of $2.20 a for Wheat established during the war. Some existing contracts re in ried out by the United States ¢ sration which hag been the instru of the Government In hand- bushel Cor ntality wheat, alers, € rept those having contracts fixed figu 4, are now free to buy and at se \ waar 18 SURE RELIEY—wHy 1s Abell-ame for Ladisostion,—Adst. bre Mayor was going thirty sail aoe ovght——sold—uoted. Jenn Moir & Co., 61 Broadway,—aave. sell without restriction, ————————— ah Ferme Weten fare. Retieh, eee ee en eee et to bel ain | WOOL FOR 50 SUITS TENDGK JUST CASH H FOR 1 SUIT) for Somebody—Not the Farmer—of $1,500 on a $60 Investment. Serial to ‘The Erening World,) HICKMAN, Ky., June 1—Roy | Shaw, a well-known farmer living near Hickman, took 200 pounds of wool to Hickman the other day, | | which he sold for 80 cents a pound, or for $60. Then he purchased a suit of clothes for his son and found that the money he received for the wool was just enough to | pay for the suit. He says there are about four pounds of woul in @ suit of clothes, and on that basis the wool that he sold will make fifty suits, which, if sold at $60 4° | sult, will bring the seller Allowing one-half for labor and | | other materias going Into the suit, somebody will get a profit of $1,300 on a $60 investment. TBY.WGAGIRLS HURT AS SWERVING BUS OVERTURNS Thirteen Go to Hos to Hospital After Accident While Returning to City From Outing. Miss Mildred Nigro of No. $1 Hast Second Street, Brooklyn; Miss Helen McDonald, No. 575 Riverside Drive, Manhattan, and Miss Florence Carl- son, No, 252 Rutledge Street, Brook- lyn, are under treatment at North Hudson Hospital, Weehawken, for broken bones and bruises they suf- fered in an accident in which fifteen other Y. W. C. A. girls of Manhattan and Brooklyn were injured by the overturning of a motor omnibus last night at the Boulevard and 3st Street, North Bergen, About 100 young women who had been in one of two week-end camps arranged by the Y. W. C. A, at Bear Mountain, through a misunderstand- ing missed the boat which was to bring them back to the city. Six motor buses were engaged to take the girls to the Summit Avenue Sta- tion of the Hudson and Manhattan tubes in Jersey City, A bus driven by Frank G. swerved suddenly and curb so that he lost mounted the sidewalk, struck the wall and turned over. All the pas- sengers were more or less hurt and thirteen were tuken to North Hudson Hoapital. Those who were able to go home after their cuts and bruises were} dressed at the hospital are: Miss Rose Gorley and Migs Sylvia Gorley, No. 66 West 106th Street,| Manhattan; Miss Elizabeth Keating, | . 88 Reeves Place, Brooklyn; Miss Ha Honleman, No. 49 East 46th Manhattan; Miss Johanna 185 West 117th Miss Wilhelmina. Poussonk, No. 415 Hart Street, Brooklyn: Miss Margaret Anderson and Miss Christina Spenzel, No. 2024 Silver Street, Brooklyn; Miss Clara Tiepea struck the control, It Cer Street, Greenbaum, Street, Manhattai Schlegel, No, 1890 Stockholm Street, Brooklyn, and Miss Mollie Colgan, o, 640 West 126th Street, Man- hattan, Mies Nigro, with a badly cut head Miss McDonald, with two or more ribs broken, and Miss Carlson, with a broken shoulder blade and a badly cut face, were orted doing weil| to-day. BRYA oe et DROPS QUAKER OATS SUIT. U. 8, Anka Dinmt WASHINGTON, June 1 in the Federal anti-trv Queker Oats Company | appeala ainst th t suit were + the o Which re- Great Western Cereal Company the aker Oats Com- on June pany combi Wil | a Now Jener Con a tral Sunday Visturaiy widstabs” Coastigha SS ted | APPLIES i“ Wets of Cane Alleg~ ——— Books Open to All,’ 0. Office, SUPREME COURT KNOCKS OUT DRY Holds That ceptance of Cons! Ahan Amendment Is Final, TO ALL STAT ES} * Called Referendum in Ohio and People Detided tinst Prohibition. ASHINGTON, June 1.—The Su e Court held to-day that Fed Constitutidnal amendments can- not be submitted for ratific a referendum vote in States having referendum provisions in thelr Con- stitutions. | The court deciared inoperative he Ohio State Constitutional Referendum Amendment it affects ratiffeation of Federal amendmests dec proceedings in so far as Ohio Supreme Court es ain: missing {njunetion brought by George S. Hawke of (1 cinnati, to prevent submission of we Prohibition and Woman Suffr: ments to the voters were the Court believed here that this de regard to the Ohlo referen tles all the ca. in which int has been raised. Ohio's ative cast the determining vote on the adoption of the prohibition amendment The Supreme Court failed again to-day to decide the validity of the prohobition amendment of the enforcement act and until next Monday, when the ent term will clo and portions | recessed _ PRESIDENT EXEMPT FROM INCOME TAX Supreme Court Also Holds Levy on Federal Return Money June th Judges Invalid—-Must Paid 1.—The Federal} salaries of the Judges, Includ- WASHINGTON, Income ‘Tax upon President and Fede | ing the Justices of th Supreme Court, | is unconstitutional, the Supreme Court to-day decided in reversing decisions of & lower court. | The decision compels the Government to return all such taxes paid. | ae | State Elks Elect Officers. The annual convention of the New York Sta Elks’ Association is being dat the Elks’ Club, No, 108 West | 434 Street to-day, Theodore F, Kalb- h of Glen Falla, das elected Prost- to succeed Dr, John BE, Dearden Anon W. Foote of Utica, was re- wcretary Upheld. | | Non-Partisan Leagae WASHINGTON, June 1.—Seven of the most important laws enacted by the iPartivan League Lepislature of North Dakota, all of which gave the State power to enter private business fields, were upheld to-day by the Supreme Court Dakota ¢ e Tax Valid. WASHINGTON, June 1.—North Da kota Supreme Court decrees holding corporations chartered — within — the ftate, but located elaewhere, to be sub ject to tt value of their capit upheld ‘tosduy by the Sup ourn Saturday, June 1.—Without Gov. ¥ CHICAGO, June Gov. Franw 0. Lowden, candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination, was confined {ais hotel rooms to-day with a cold he took yesterday dur exercis He was physician to « Padi dA) aE, Postmaster Burt minted, WASHING June _1—President it to the Senate the re . Burton to wv TT Entered ns Sccond-Class Matter N.Y, New York, | eres jstored order when the questioning sud- |denly broke out afresh, BURNING SHIP CUT OPEN TO SAVE MEN INHOLD sy SSS Ee TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Showers. PP EWN VATE EEN PRICE “TWO CENTS GREATER NEW YORK TUT RIGO INNS | Seiwa THRES CENTS ALSEWHERG FIRE ON S.S. POWHATAN TRAPS FIVE BELOW DECK: ~ FUMES OVERCOME FIREMEN Workmen Burn Way Through Steel Plates to Imprisoned Companions With Acetylene Them With Difficulty. \ tire which began in the refrigerating chamber of the steamship Powhatan to-day as she lay in a drydock at the Morse shipyard, South Brooklyn, provided several thrilling episodes, not the least of which was the rescue of five imprisoned workmen by cutting holes in the vessel’s side with oxy-acetyline torches, Five firemen were overcome by smoke and ammania fumes dure ine the tight with the fire and one of these was rescued at last in a dan- atan is not the army transport of that name, gercus condition, The Pow She is a coasting vessel which sank ago and is being overhauled as a result, enn More than a hundted met were at WOMEN IN GALLERY HECKLE U. S. SENATE “Why Not Eject English Hun From Ireland?” One of Shouts. WASHINGTON, June 1.—The United States Senate was heckled from the gal- Them | to-day by a dozen women sympa- | thizers with the cause of Irish freedom. | Stationed fn the four quarters of the gallery floor, the women began their volley of {inquiries when Senator Bran- | degee, Republican, Connecticut, speaking | against the Armenian mandate, made a| passing refere to the “ravishes of the | Hun | Why mot eject the English Hun from Ireland?” shouted the fret interruptor. | Didn't give my boy to "—— began | another woman, but an usher pounced | her before #he finished the sen- der sharp orders from Vice-Presi- ent Marshall the ushers had put out & half-dozen of the disturbera and re- “Why don’t you put them out?” the Vice-President, “haven't you herve enough to remove them? “You haven't enough nerve sainst England, not any of you,” one of the Women as she made @ hasty exit under escort of an usher, ral of the women were taken to the Capitol guard room, but quickly re- u asod. ‘FIVE DIE OF PLAGUE IN MEXICAN PORT asked got) to go replied President Wilson Offers Hospital Ship and Doctors to Fight Bubonie at Vera Cruz. VERA CRUZ, June 1 (Associated Press).—President Wilson has offered to 1 hospital ships, nurses, doctors and medical supplies to Vera Cruz tm- mediately to assist tn combatting the bubonic plague which hag made tts ap- pearance cleven authentloated es having developed to date and five here, deaths resulting, ‘The history of the outbreak agpears to date back to May 16, when the first case I¥ believed now to have developed. ‘The victim in this case died on May 23 and the second victim on May 24, On case of the same nature and upon thorough examina tion {t was found to be bubonie, te th have been the axes noted, five of the viettins dying. May 27 an Judging from the individuals attacked and the location of their homes it seems to be established that the focal polat of the outbreak 18 the warehouses of one of the docking companies, and was car- ried by ra oe Spring Brides Bloom in Brooklym, » month of May, 1,973 mar 0 were taken out in Brook- increase of 202 as an over » correspondinys month last year, That Ju fire trucks were unaibli prides are to be numerous 4s ap-| yet anywhere bear the plase and fi parent from the {act that up to noon| mem had | terdey 61 Licenses bed Geen fakem crt blocks Torches and Save in the Chesapeake about two years work on the vessel when the fire started, ten of them being in the hold under the refrigerating chamber itself. In @ short time their peril was measurably increased by the Ubera- tion of ammonia fumes and the dense smoke of burning insulation cork. Five of these men got out, but there were left behind William Carlin of 1002 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn} Harry Frey of No. 483 56th Street; Charlies Ambrianna of No. 271 20th Street, James McAvoy of No. #6 Waterbury Avenue, Richmond Iftl, and Thomas Murtha of No. 461 60h Street, Carlin, who had an acetylene torch, tried with it to find a way for his companions and himself to get out of the compartment, but the smoke Was so dense that he failed and the others got separated from him, By thiy time the workmen tn the yard had located the position of the refrigerating chamber in the after part of the vessel and with their torches cut several holes in the steét sides. Through these the city fire- men and those attached to the yard poured streams of water while other men on the Powhatan’s deck directed @ cascade down through a skylight This drove the smoke out of the compartment and enabled the men to escape, McAvoy came up the ladder with his clothing ablaze, but t wae put out before he was. seri burned. The ladder itself caught fire and broke when Carlin tried to get up. He was compelled to climb the hose line, All these men were taken to the Dry Dock Hospital. Lieut. William Van Loan and Fire<« men Fred Stevens, and Jacob Haz< rick, all of Truck No. 114, went into the hold of the vessel and after a few minutes there, the hose they carried was seen to have become un= manageable. As this meant that it had got away from them, a crew went down and found all three unconscious in the refrigerating chamber with rags wrapped over their mouths. All were got out and with the exception of Hazrick, soon revived, He was sev’ to the hospital. Later Firemen Joseph Sullivan, of ‘Truck 314 and John Campbell, of Engine 228 went below and likewise ‘were overcome, They were sent to the dry dock hospital and revived soon afterward. When Deputy Chief O'Hara cached ‘the fire he ordered the dry dock flooded, and as the water rose about the vessel the flames were quickly ex- tinguished, The Fireboat Gaynor played #treams on the Powhatan for more than an hour, Officials of the Morse Shipyards complained to the police against the Bush Terminal authorities for per- mitting @ long line of freight cars to be stalled on First Avenue, they eald, made it necessary for dre apparatus to make wide detours reach the burning cennene. Th 0.