The evening world. Newspaper, June 4, 1920, Page 1

TWO HE To Be Sure of The Evening Worle i Order in Advance from Your Newsdealer TO-NIGHT’S WEATHER—Rain. Gettin Che VOL. LX. NO. 21,450—DAILY. Copyright, 1120, Co. (The New York World). _Ciroulation & _— Open to All.”’ y The Press Publishing NEW YORK, FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1920. Entered nw Second-Cinss Matter Post Office, New York, N. We RPP ERS TS AITile BUGS PRICE TWO CENTS IN GREATER NEW YORK WOMAN COOK ANDER FRIEND HADES FOLOW wus ADDED HELD IN KIDNAPPING OF BABY FROM CRIB IN NORRISTOWN * BABY BOY WHOSE | KIDNAPPING LED TO Woman Was Employed Three Days Last April in the Coughlin Home. REWARD IS NOW $7,500. Anonymous Letter May Re- veal Identity of Actual Per- petrator of Baffling Crime. NORRISTOWN, Pa., June 4.—James Malone is under orrest in Philadel- ph‘a, following the arrest yesterday at Coshocton, Pa., of Catherine Dun- dem, & former cook in the family of George H. Coughlin, whose thigteen months ‘old son Blakely was stolen from the nutwery in the Coughlin home here Wednesday evening. The ~bily informatigg given out regarding the arrest pf ne ie jrat he is a friend of the Dundon woman. Catherine Dundon is held merely as & suspicious person. Tho private de- teotives who made the arrest declined to give any information regarding thelr action except that she was for three days in the Coughlin household fm Philadelphia. Mr, and Mrs, Coughlin, after offer- ing @ reward of $6,000 for the return of the child in response to an anony- mous letter, apparently written by the kidnappers, made !t known to-day that eo far as they were concerned they would try to secure full immu- nity if the baby Is returned un- harmed. The County Commissioners have offered an additional reward of $1,500, ‘The letter, covering four pagss, bears a Norristown postmark, hav- Ing been dropped in a box not far trom the Coughiln home. It was ad- dressed to “The Parents of the Stolen Child on Sandy Hill,” and signed “a Stranger in Norristown.” The pen- manship is vertical, as if written by a schoolboy or girl. The salient fea- ture is the allegation that the writer stole the baby, and to prove it Cough- Un ts referred to threo nicks on the sill of the window of the nursery through which the baby was carried out to the ladder, There are nicks on the sill. Hence, the credence tn the authenticity of the missive. It ig also aid the letter asks a substan- tlal sum of money for the return of the child and cally for acceptance by advertisements in the Norristown papers. It is in response to this request that the $6,000 reward ia offered, It is sald friends of Coughtin came to his rescue financially because he 1s not able to produco the sum de- manded. Just how the child t» to bo deliv~ ered and bow the muney ts to be pald is pot made public. A friend of the family sald the pluns are secret be- cause it js not desired to make a step that would endanger tho child ‘The character of writing lends to the belief that the letter w ten by a child In # family © ere—a child who has atte public schools and learned w there, and has written the letter at the dictation of some one who took the child for ransom, Jn ee Charoh Commanton Set Stolen, Thieves broke Into the F Ref Church of Yonkers last nig and stole the allver communion svt, out $1,500, which was presented the church in 1868 by the late Capt. Joseph Peene. The thoft was discovered this morning by the sexton, Thomas Hudd, worth ———— HE WORLD THAVEL BUREAD, be a {Word Bausivy onl as ae Be es er bie | ARREST OF WOMAN SaaS * BLAKELY COUGHUN MOTHER ACCUSED OF THROWING BABY eran “Didn’t Want to Be Tied Down,” Police Say Brooklyn Woman Told Them. Mary Marino, a comely young Ital- jan woman of No. 2048 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, was made a prisoner this afternoon in Liberty Avenue Police Station, Brovklyn, after, the police say, she thrown her five-years-old daughter under an automobile because she “didn't want to be bothered with the care of her.” Evangeline, the little girl, her skull fractured when she was knocked down by a car owned and operated by Samuel Miller of No, 1233 Eastern Parkway, a! in @ critical condition in St. Mary's Hospital, Mother and child were crossing Rockaway Avenue at Eastern Park- confessed that she had way, hand in hand, when Miller and neveral pedestrians, according to the police, were horrified to eee the mother shove vhe girl in front of the machine, “Well, what's the use?” policemen say the mother asked them. “My hus- band and [ are separated, Why should I be burdened with his child? I'm young. I don’t want to be tied down. I didn't want to be bothered with her." Bryan in Chicago. Bryan arrived here this morning and went to the University Club. Virv I aw, Chairman of the Prohibition met Mr pmimitttee, S SUITS, SPECIAL 821.95, Clothing Comer, Broadwar, corner Barclay Street (Opp. Woolworth Building), will day and 8: Spring Bulte In blues, browns, greens, grays cy mixtures, single or double-breasted. forin fiiting military st9T®, alash or patch pockts, very | latest young a nodeis, all sizes, Our special | price for to-day and Saturday, $21.95, Others at ee asa Quee Bavurdey aight Ul 10, MUM CUTIE, Meondwey, mt, serving UNDER AN AUTO CHICAGO, June 4—William Jennings! 1G,] Bryan for, rdxy 2,000 men’s and young! BANQUET ATTENDED 10 COST OF FOOD BY Jersey Prohibition Director Demo Admits He Saw Drinks Served. NEWARK MAYOR THERE. Affair for Revenue Man, It Is Reported. George A. Demo, Prohibition En- forcement Director for New Jersey with headquarters at Newark, con- fided to callers to-day that he was in 4 sad state of bewilderment and inde- cision. Mr. Demo attended the dinner given to Internal Revenue Collector Charles V, Duffy at the Robert Treat Hotel Wednesday night, celebrating the impending departure of Duffy for the Democratic National Convention at San Francisco, Among others who were present were Democratic Leader James R, Nugent, Mayor C. P. Gillen and pretty | much all official Nowark. || It was noted yesterday at City Hall that many officials were A. W. O. L. | from thelr desks. Some of the ab- sentees were found in hammocks in | their front yards and in cool and ‘other sequestered spéts during the day plaintively remarking that all in the world they wanted was for every- body to leave them alone. There was much talk in familles and in less do- mestic gathering pluces regarding re- ports that large Quantities of cham- pagne and whiskey circulated at the banquet boar. Curious persons sought out Director Demo and asked him !f the rumor as to the presence of contraband was true and if he had seen any unlawful drinks. | “Yes, he said, after considerablo thought, “I did. I puzzled about the matter all through dinner and all night and all day yesterday. Because of the calibre of the persons present, thelr high reputation and responai- bility, Iam frankly at 4 loss to know what I can do except to report my obeervations to Supervising Director Leo A. Crossen of the Middle Auantic States District at Philadelphia, I shall do that; yes, I am sure that Is the thing to do." Director Demo said later that ow- ing to the Importance of the case he had decided not to make a written report of the dinner but to go to Phil- adelphia either to-morrow or Monday and personally Iny the matter before his chief, Director Crossen. When he was asked specifically about the drinkables alleged to have been served at the dinner he sald that he could not swear that any intoxi- cants were served. He saw some amber and dark red fluids served, but as he neither tasted nor smelled them he cannot declare them to have been alcoholic. There was also something that looked like lemonade, he added, which was poured from pitchers, but he wag likewise in ignorance of what this was He was asked whether he had seen any intoxicated persons at the dinner, and this he refused to answer until thelr cases get warrants, te before they can ea front » RESTAURANT, Peo fost cneens ‘esimnar maiere ripe |Champagne and Whiskey at; he had had @ conference with his chief. About the dinner in general, he sald: “Such dinners are possible in New Jersey on aceount of the red tape which tes my hands, Here, by de- cision of the courts, we cannot go to a place and selge intoxicants or Hquors of any kind without a search waite ven then, warrants issued | un the Volstead Act have been| » found to be faulty and we have lost several cases. “Prohibition enforcement agenta must get all their evidence and have BY DRY LAW CHE LACK OF TERMINALS Taisssligeiaes Public Suffers Through Fail- ure of City to Furnish Equip- ment for Handling. BLAME PIER SITUATION. Perishable Supplies Scattered | Outside City and Hauling Charges Are Increased, By P. Q. Foy. (Special Food Expert of The Evening World.) Millions of dollars will, in the im- mediate future, be added to the cost of foods, due to the failure of the City Government to furnish adequate terminal facilitieg for the prompt handling of the perishable foods that are intended for local consumption. The innsylvania Railroad is now compelled to force merchants to haul hundreds of carloads of © these foods by night, as the rail- road olaima it not sufficient dock space at the New York piers to handle auch a large volume of supplies. Beginning next Monday the Penn- syivanta will only bring the large or barrel package products to the New York plers at the foot of Laight itreet on the North River, leaving the cérloads of basket or crate vege- tables at the Kearney, N. J., and Har- rison tracks, a distance of from seven to nine miles from New York. Only potatoes and cabbages will be brought to the city piers, This adds an extra expense of from $85 to $115 for each carload that has to be hauled over from Jersey City on trucks, ‘The railroad charges the New York freight rate to growers and shippors and does not make any deduction on account of scattering it around the various out-of-the-away places tn Jersey, seven to ten miles away from the point of delivery called for in the bill of lading. Over three hundred cars were reported at the different sidings last night in Jersey. About one hundred carloads of Texas onjons were at Harrison. This will cost of teen cents a crate to bring them to New York, or $85 @ car, totalling an extra expense of $8,500 on onions in one night. \The other two hundrod carloads to be hauled over will cust about $20,000 more, making a total of nearly $30,000 added to the cost of this class of food--an unnecessary and un- Warranted addition that the oun- sumer will be compelled to pay in tho (Continued on Eighth Page.) Sates HUNGARIAN TREATY OF PEACE IS SIGNED Ceremony at Versailles—Ambassa- dor Wallace One of the First to Arrive There, VERSAILLES, June 4 (Associated Preas).—The treaty of peace With Hun gary was signed in the Grand Trianon Palace here at 4.25 o'clock this after- noon, ‘The Hungarian treaty was the first of the treaties framed hy the Peace Con ference to be signed ahead of time. Premier Millerand of France was one of the earliest arrivals at the Palace, being followed shortly afterward by Hugh C, Wallace, the American Ambaspador, ‘The peace terms Imposed on Hungary to-day have aroused much opposition that ‘fount Albert Kned As head gation, de- & rag of iniquity,” y {the Hungarian Peace Ds clared to be Flyer Makes nce Record. PARIS, June 4 i nen aviator, estabshed a new world's rec- ord for an endurance flight when he landed to-day after having been up for & continuous Might of 26h, 19m. Te. ——— WHAT 15 (LAK MGLIEDWHY ree Bellen) tos indigestion —Adre, WOOD IN THE LEAD WITH 248 VOTES; NO. NECESSARY 492 Johnson Is Second Wit With 167 Votes, Only One Ahead of Gov. Lowden, CHICAGO, June 4, ITH seventy-three contests ent line-up of yotes in the Republican National Convention ig as follows: Wood Johnson Sproul Lowden .... Harding Pritchard . Sutherland . Poindexter To Necessary to a choloe SEEK TO |ENJOIN JERSEY JITNEYS Thirty-Six Complaints Filed Against Operators in Various Parts of State. Thirty-six bills of complaint against thirty-six operators of jitney busea in various parts of New Jersey have buen fled In the Court of Chancery tn Tren- ton by the Public Service Rallway Com- pany, it was learned to-day. “The ‘bills ask that injunctions be Issued against the fitney mien on the grouads that the operation of thor buses te illegal and a nuisance, It is charged by the company that the damages inflicted upon it “are immeas- urable In extent and irreparable in obtained only in a court of equity.” Temporary restraining orders are not sought, It is set forth that the com- pany’s business representa an invest= ment of more than $160,000.00 upon which it says it {s not camming « fair return. It is alleged that often the progress of cara ts invpeded by jitneys using the tracks. President Thomas N. McCarter of the company issued a statement in which ho suid: “We have filed these bills to protect our rights. If the Court holds we ure right, the actions will not be Hmited to the thirty-six instituted." aes SHAMROCK II HERE AFTER 30-DAY TRIP “Trial Horse” for Cup Challenger Sighted Off Sea Girt by Out- going Steamers, A radio message to the International Radio Company, Bush Terminal, Brooklyn, this afternoon, from the viatn of the Panama Steamship Company's liner Panama, which left here early to-day, reported passing the Lipton yacht, the Shamrock Il. six miles off Sea Girt, N. J., at noon, Sea Girt Is south of Asbury Park. ‘The Shamrock 11, which left Eng- land May 6, for Now York, where she {s to act as “trial ho for the America’s cup challenger, the Sham- rock [V., asked to be reported as “all well.” She will prooeed to Jacob's Shipyard, City Island, where the chal- lenger now is and where she will be put in trim for the trial races pre- liminary to the cup contest sali ais New York Delegates Leave Saturday, Tho New York delogation to the Re- publican National Convention tn Chi- cago will leave here on a special train Saturday at, 2.05 PM. it wae an- nounced ‘The train will carry front of tho. sighty-elght alternates who repr Classified Advertisers CLOSING TIME 5.30 P. M. SHARP SATURDAY FOR The SUNDAY WUabv’s Classified Advertisements ANCH OFFICES CLOS FORE "CLOCK ‘auvertise lor The m. received Sungay Wore after “hae. ORY The su yore ont in the Veal Me ON OR BEFORE PRECEDING SOE CAT | Loeb as Money Raisers. character, ao that adequate relief can be! ‘| JAIL FOR DEBTORS, RICH NEW YORKERS MET ONGE-A WEEK TO GET WOOD FUND Treasurer Stebbins Names Elihu \Reot, Satterlee and CITY WAS A RICH FIELD, | Nearly $500,000 Was Distrib- uted From New York Alone, Witness Tells Senators. WASHINGTON, June 4.—Horace 8, Stebbins of New York, Eastern Treas- |urer for the Wood National Cam- paign Committee, appeared before the Senate Slush Fund Investigating Committee to-day and explained the Eastern financing of the Wood cam- paign. Mr. Stebbins aald he, had “re- ceived money which was sent through William Loeb and hie assoc’ “I pald it out iby authority ot Gol. Procter and Mr. Loeb," ho sald, “Mr. Loeb sent $225,000 from New York te Chicago,” Chairman Kenyon | interposed, “does that appear in your ! accountat” “Lt don't want to get any duplica- tion," the witness replied. "That $225,000 was included in moth my ac- counts and those at Chicago.” Both A. A. Sprague, the Chicago Treasurer, and he at New York, Mr. Stebbing explained, were inchuiding that eum in their statements. “I received between Feb. 20 and May 17 $30,000 from Mr. Loeb,” he continued, “At the same timo a memorandum of that ‘amount was sent to Chiongo to Mr. Sprague, though the money {tself nevgr got there. Then I recetved $77,190 from Chicago and about $40,000 from the Ways and Means Committee in New York City.” PROMINENT NEW YORKERS COLLECTED FUND FOR woop. “That committee ts somposed of rather prominent men in New York?" asked Chairman Kenyon. “Yes,” Mr, Stebbins answered, add- Ing that Herbert Satterlee was Chair- man’ and that the committee “had about 100 members.” Some of the other members are Harold M. Go rich, of the Goodrich Tire Compan: Elihu Root, Harold B. Clark, banker; Archibald G. Thatcher, Langdon G. Morgan, lawyer; Dean Sage, lawyer, and Ambrose Monell, International Nickel Company. “We had a luncheon every week in the endeavor to ri funds,” he continued. “We considered New York too good a field for contributions to leave it to « committee financing a local cam- paign only, so all the committee's collections we nt to me,” He named a further final figure of $15,000, which was given by Mr. Monell, account for a total of approxi- mately $263,000, One check for $1,000 from Ogden Reld, be said, was re- (Continued on & —— ond Page.) CREDIT MEN" S IDEA Committee Urges Courts to En- force Laws Against Com- mercial Frauds. ATLANTIC CITY, June 4—Jall ventences for those who do not pay their billa was recommended tn the ro- port of the Investigations and Prosecu: | Hons Committee of the National Asso- elation of Credit men in convention rere to-day, The committee appoalod to the Judictary of the country for rigid enforcement of the law to die. courage commercial fraud. “It 18 most Important that foe credit associations set forth thoir views vigorously #o that resident courte may the point of view of credit grantere and opiigations igating upen them in stamping out neediest and expensive waste, ine m report ted, yi Other Candidate Is Against Hi Is Making Himself as Big a Menace as Colonel Was. Hie (Special to The Evening World.) CHICAGO, June 4.—The actual arrival of Hell Roaring Hi Jc son with the opening of his widely announced shock offensive steam rollers, big and little, of all other candidates, separately or in: has thrown the preliminary gathering for the Republican National Con. vention into noisy confusion and indecision. @ Johnson tum no time in throwing J UNDER-SECRETARY FRANK L, POLK QUITS Poor Health the Reason—President Wilson Pays High Tribute to His Ability. WASHINGTON, June 4.—Under Secretary of Stato Frans L. Polk hus tendered his resignation to President Wilson and the President has accepted it, It was announced at tho White Howse to-day. Polk's resignation was no surprise. Tt hi ‘on known for some time that he wished to resign because of puor health and for financial reasons, Hin resignation takes effect June 15, “The argument of necessity on ac- count of your health in the matter of your retirement is one which [am estopped from answering or combat- ing President Wilson's letter to Polk atated. "I feel that 1 have in con- acience and warm frienfship no cholow but to accept your rvaignation, though 1 do so with the utmost reluctance and wish again to express the admiration | have felt for the devoted and tntel! gent way In which you have performed your dutl In the departinent. ‘We shall all miss you very aadly and the public service will be poorer on account of 1 idm."* ‘WILSON APPOINTS COAL WAGE BOARD To Settle Dispute in Anthracite Field—Award to Be Made in 60 Days, WASHINGTON, June 4.—President Wiison to-day appointed a commis; gion of three men to settle the wage controversy between the anthracite coal miners and operators. ‘The members of the commission are William O, Thompson, of Columbus, Ohio; Neal J. Ferry, of McAdoo, Pa., and William L. Connell, of Scranton, Pa. The commission's awani is to be made within eixty days if possibie and as to wages will be retroactive tu April 1, the date when the contracts between the miners and operators ex- pired., oe BANDIT GETS 31 YEARS. ‘Three of Four Staten Hola- Up Men 5 William Rookey was sentenced to Sing Sing for thirty-one years and a'x months by Judge Tiernan in Richmond County Court to-day, after he had pleaded guilty on indictments charging robbery and burglary. Tle wae one of four who held up and robbed George Stocffel, messenger for the Siegel Manufecturing Company. Rosebank, 8. I, on May 5, taking the $3,400 payroll, and later stole $20,000 worth of whiskey from the Gogg! Wine Company of Rosebank, Emil for en, who pl lod guilt: on similar ad was sentenced rn fevantton y re elx montha, Somn' Troutman. Griver of tl 4 mobic used in the wheter th t pm Oy AF to the ore f a in \ od Rete om rie "indotmtions Sosa gash ier his hat into the ring and striding tf ufter It to make known to all” stand imnocent and what meant by it He has to tho convention as Theodore velt went to the convention of & forewarned that every other dute’s hand 1s against him, cards are stacked and looking chance to tell the world right awag and often of each trick he feels ie belmg played against him and ie planned. : He has with him a body of!ien- thuslasts, each one with blood inthis eye, looking for 4 fight, In very the spirit of the crowd who Chicago und gathered about velt's headquartera in 1913, his sub-captaina lack such slight trol and direction # Roosevelt | uble ty maintain among his in spite of what he cailed “the in ble lunatic fringe” of his follow! JOHNSON WORRIES THE | TIONAL COMMITT! EMEN,« The members of the National G mittee are worried by Johnson tq'tl point of being fidgety. They thinking of new things which huppen to cherished plans. Their serves of resourcefulness must ways be ready to meet the Johj attuak in a new place, no what the emergency of the p moment may require. ¢ There In a difference in thetr trex mors from those of 1912 in that ithe. elder statesmen led by Kilby Riot, | loving Roosevelt, the man who! rected the merciless massacre of ih official representation as a disturbes, the suavely indirect Murray Crane and the strong arm brethren Wilh Nam Barnes jr, Joseph Kealing, "Big Steve" Evane and others had thel; Plans all set. They were to mink» Roowevelt’s plans impossible «by openly brutal force and they all for Taft. we It ls not now possible to trim together the backers of Wood, Low den, Harding and the rest into.anp such compact formation. They esma to the battle hating each other and each wondering bow much he can get for himself out of the free for el) scramble which Johnson ts joyously promoting. MAY HAVE TO BOLT JUST Ag ROOSEVELT Dp. Johnson has said often that he wit abide by the action of the conven. tion, But signs multiply that he ty making it impossible for himself: te stick to that pledge, even as Roose, velt threw similar’ previous sewer, ances out of the window whem he strode out on the platform of | the famous rump convention and harmony | lynching party early tn the Sunsies ‘ morning after the 1912. con) and yelled to a ‘hall full of frenzied tnsurrectionary bolters “OF COURSE, I accept [ase " thereby electing nee