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¢ ; . ‘ VERY DRY LAW U i . baw KNOX AND HOOVER LEAD AS DAR TONIGHT’S WEATHER—Fair. To Be Sure of Getting The Evening World, Order in Advance from Your Newsdealer tn % i} ‘ OT. M1 (“Circulation Book. to All” | . f “Circulation Books Open to All.”’ | SAS WAN LLL S Od Vile. BUEN EDITION Be PRICE yright, 1920, ‘The Press Publishing Comet Cree ‘New Work World), VOL. LX. NO. 21,452—DAILY. NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1920. IN GREATER NEW YORK TWO CENTS TEE cen cmt BANK’S “PILL BOX” ' DEFENSE TRAPS FUGITIVE AT DOOR 1.) 46 MEN INDICTED Lj | FOR $6,000,000 e4 _FREIGHT THEFTS | hewvest Side Gang” Accused | » of Big Robberies in Railroad Yards. | (MERCHANTS ARRESTED. HOLDUPMENTE OLD GUARD FOR LOWDEN, “ANDAR PATRONS DERSHIP abkxtse_ooL LACKS LEADERS! te zon OL ee eee Lock Five in Wash Room} for Vice President—Wood Barrel "spe With $300 Lo | WOULD MEAN FALL | Reported In Chicago to Be Run- | © 882! DF THEOLD GUARD, ning Dey. | Hang Out “Back in Ten Min- pate sid utes” Sign and Work While | Scores Pass Door. Pacific Customers in Panic When Exit Is Locked and Guns Are Levelled. ILLIAM N. LANDRESS, paying teller at the Pa- cific Bank, 49th Street and Seventh Avenue, wes in his little cage this thorning when he saw Jackson L. Kaphan and whom he had wanted to see to explain certain things in connec- tion with a number of checks signed with the name of Louls Al- beris of No, 131 West 49th Street. Kaphan marched to the window and presented another check for $3, also signed with Albert's sig- nature. | Something in Landress's fave gave Kaphan warning and ‘he started to run for the door, Lan- dress pressed a button, the door swung to with a bang, and down from above dropped a “pill box” . which the bank recently Installed for protection against . hold-up men, The “pill box’? is equipped® With revolvers poihted directly at the door and coverering any one Who attempts to force it, Kaphan halted and threw up his hands. | FOUR IN* ARMED BAND. Gilk, Wool and Whiskey In-| cluded in Vast Loot—Rail- By Martin Green. | way Men Arrested. | (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) CHICAGO, June 7.—A political convention prognosticator is with- out honor even in his own country. What follows is not to be accepted as convention prognostication, It is a record of an actual miniature con- vention held last night in a room in a hotel, the participants being nine delegates to the National Convention, and these delegates representing different States, which, grouped, would represent nine different sections of the United States, Nine groups should, in reasonable expectation, display what the | of the various political teams have! sentiment of the convention will be when it closes possibly next week. ' Political Future! of This Group | Depends on Success of Lowden at Chicago, Forty-eight men charged with com- Plicity in a conspiracy by which fallroad cars in and around this Gity have been looted within the last six’ months of goods valued at more than $6,000,000 were indicted by the Federal Grand Jury this morning. The indictment specifically charges the men with thefts amounting to $1,- | 100,000, but according to Assistaut The holdup news of the day comes this time from Brooklyn, Of course the thiéves who made a $8,000 haul at the point of their revolvers, got away in a motorcar. They bound and gag- Bed the customers they found in the store they looted, a haberdashery in Flatbush Avenue, undue haste By David Lawrence. ‘forcement. (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) CHICAGO, ll, June 7 (Copyright, 1920).—Inside politics, like inside seball, has its mysterious feints and passes, but thus far the captains working without because they took the | eee (or sees at Aromney| Tn the meantime customers in | Precaution to piace a sign, “back in |made little progress around the bases. For newspaper purposes this story must be told backwards, The con- ery, o = t °° e fro ro e ‘ twa 7 ctive! . teat, : 5, 1 | Yestigation which Jed tp toeday’s| ‘B® bank were panto stricken., | ‘" ae on the front door of the | Conferences between the respective clusions and results of the miniature convention must be given in the in- | F a telae Kaphan was arrested, In the West’ ,| 810? before they began the gagging. missed, Tound up, more than $6,000,000 has been taken, half of that sum within] Pere nce checks fon #0 tig the last-few weeks, from cars in the} eu ; ie Seeger tcntral Rati, | 224 $08 respectively with Alberts ' yards of the New York Central Rai! name. He was held in $1,000 ball | Foad alone. tor the Grand Jury. managers lave been held with the, oth At 8 o'clock this morning Dav! troduction, Feldman, 4 clerk, opened up the new furnishing shop of the R. W. Bennett, Co. at No. 106 Flatbush Avenue, A They are as follows: | That, unless some new and overpowering element of leadershtp arises | from the gestation of uncertainty prevalent in Chicago, the candidate | for President will be Philander C. Knox of Pennsylvania, and the candi-| Side Court he pleaded guilty to dea of persuading rivals that they, had better give up trying and throw their strength “where it will do most good.” missed, Among the men indicted are Emil and William Lichtenfels, brothers and} partners in a wholesale grocery busi- | hess at No, 413 Willis Avenue, the| Bronx, and Nathan Zimmerman, of No. 2060 Davidson Avenue, Bronx, | Proprietor of the Bronx Storage! Warehouse Terminal at 135th Street and Ryder Avenue, The Lichtenfels were arrested by detectives of the squad of Capt. Mc- Queeny, who followed a truck loud of stolen silks to a Warehouse. Ail of the “John Does” and “Rich- ard Roes” named in the indictment buve been arrested and are at liberty on bail varying from $5,000 to $20,000, Three other men, all railroad de- tectives, will be indicted Jater this week, sald the Federal authorities to-day. | The band, which called itself the) “West Side Gang," is sald to have been operating in this city for more} than eight years and to have stolen Vast quantities of merchandise, Detectives at work on the case as, well as the Federal authorities de-| clare the gang to have been perfect- ly organized, including railroad ,and| lighter employees of various grades, | as MARIA TUCCI GETS 8 YEARS IN PRISON) Judge Says Only Her Sex Saves | Girl Who Slew Sister From | Chair. i Marla Tuccl, convloted last week of, iret degree manslaughter for having Killed her sleeping sister, Mrs. Angelina Conti, by shooting her twice with ay revolver at No. 99 Houston Street, March 8 last, was sentenced to not less | than elght or more than fifteen yeara| in Auburn Prison to-day by Judge Nott! ia General Sessions. The girl, in black, was brought into court by Deputy Sheritt| Belle Norton and wept in her handker- | chief continuously while waiting. Judge Nott said he was sure that were it not) she was a woman, the jury would have found a verdict of murder in the first| degree. Overruling the usual motions | for a new trialvand a stay made by Judge Alola, of Newark. her counsel, he sald it was not possible for the court to palliate a deliberate crime by dressed | walked Thomas Jenkins, | few minutes afterwards two cus- | tomers, one of them Dr. Simon of No, 833 Parkville Avenue, came in to buy some shirts. While Feldman Was waiting on them, James J. Quinn, a letter carrier came ni with the morning’s mail. Just as he was about to hand it to Feldman, the four robbers ap- peared, entering and closing the door carefully behind them, They asked to see the manager and when Feld- man said that he had not yet arrived, the quartette drew guns and cried “Hands up!" With this came the command to Feldman to open the safe, and he could only reply that he didn't know it, that the manager alone had it. The reply was for all the world like a cue, because at that instant in the man- ager. The robbers didn’t know him, however, and he too was ordered to Join the hands-up party. Then the thieves went through the pockets of the five victims, takimy watohes and money. After that they looked over the stock and selected $2,000 worth of silk shirts and cuff buttons and the like, setting them to | one side. Son, for instance, are saying to Low- den men that the Illinois Governor's his proxy, kill him with the Progressive: that if that wasn't sufficient the Mis- souri scandal about the purchase of delegates would do it, Really, the Lowden, TWO CLASSES OF JOHNSON DELEGATES AT CHICAGO, On the other hand, there are two. classes of Johnson delegates—the thick and thin supporters who will stick to the finish and those who came from States which voted overwhelmingly for Johnson, but who personally don't Uke Johnson because of his unpopu- larity with the political leaders of the Republican Party. These Johnson delegates must vote for the California Senator as long as there 16 a chance for him to win, but the managers of other candidates arg already trading with them for second choices and third choices. ‘The Lowden people continue confl- That, if this new and overpowering element of leadership does emerge | vote against Roosevelt in 1912 through | 24 take charge of things, sald element being strong enough to overthrow | Senator Lorimer, would) tho influence of Hiram Johnson, the candidate for President will be Herbert and | Hoover, Of course, all this comes out of the proceedings of the miniature convention, ‘The delegates who took part therein are organization Republicans Johnson men would not admit it, but, and veterans at the business of being delegates. None of them at tho! if it came to a showdown they would) start was for Knox or Johnson or Hoover. Six of them were for Lowden, be for Leonard Wood rather than! pwo were for Harding. PREJUDICES TO BE CAST ASIDE, “Gentlemen,” sald the delegate who was selected to act as chairman, | “let us in this instance cast aside all prejudices and get right down to the real object which has brought all of us here, namely, the election of a) Republican President and a Republican Congress, and the consequent di tribution of Federal patronage which is now held in a great measure by | our friendly enemies the Democrats, If we exercise common sense we will Now, how about Lowden?’ It was agreed after consjderable discussion that Lowden was the choice of the Old Guard, so-called, which now lacks the leadership that | in former years*made the Old Guard potent, It was further agree@ that the Old Guard, under @ quadruple leadership which appears to have been | tentatively worked out, could put Lowden across with the backing of the win, requisite nerve, But the disclosure thatdelegates for Lowden had been bought—had | accepted Lowden money to put it more gently—had probably killed Low- Supporters of Senator Hiram John-| date for Vice President will be Hiram Johnson of California. MOST SWEEPING DECISIONS BY SUPREME COURT UPHOLD PROHIBITION IN ALL WAYS Petitions of Rhode Island and New Jersey Dismissed, Injunctions Ob- tained by Beer solved—“Concurrent” Feature of Amendment Provides Joint En- Makers Dis- WASHINGTON, June 7.—The United States Supreme Court to-day rendered a series of sweeping decisions completely sustains ing Prohibition; following are the points decided: Féderal Prohibition Amendment sustained. Enforcement Act held Constitutional. Petition by Rhode Island to enjoin enforcement, dis- | Petition by New Jersey to prevent enforcement dise Injunction obtained in Wisconsin against interference with manufacture of beer dissolved. Decree dismis: held. ing ‘action to enjoin enforcement of | amendment against Christian Fiegenspan of Newark, up< ; = Decrees, of similar nature denying injunctions to Sea Louis Brewing Association affirmed. Federal Court decrees dismissing injunction proceed+ ‘ > g ings by the Kentucky Distilleries and Warehouse Company |. of Louisville, Ky., to enjoin enforcement of the act against it were sustained, Injunctions sought by G: Mass., wholesale liquor dealer eorge C. Dempsey, a to restrain enforcement of the Volstead Act were also denied by the court. WETS’ FIGHT LOST, SAYS CHIEF LAWYER FOR THE DISTILLERS ® The court's opinion was very shart, setting forth only the court's eonolu- sions, Chief Justice Waite rendered “ supplemental opinion concurring {n> the one rendered by Justion Van De- Vanter, but going more , tu me GHICAGO, June 7. | segues involved, ily into the ©VY MAYHR, of Chicago, “1—The edo; who angued the case for the | oe co, tion by both Houses, distillers in the Supreme “oneness, cach by a two-things Court, said on hearing of the de- cision upholdine the Fighteenth jvote, of @ joint resolution an amendment td the Constitu: | suMictently shows that the pti ;was deemed necessary by all who voted for it. An express Geclaration and to have been operated with all! , At this hour in the morning there|dent. The Wood people realizo they|4¢n. That although he was the favorite child of the Old Guard, the revela-| Amendment and the Volstéad act: fe i. oS wena Wi mes conduct silewe|. 4 tions of what his people did in Missourl—without his knowledge, of ‘course “ tT the efficfency of a real “big businoss"| gnces, the woman may be released —_—_—— have been slipping in the last two he fight 1s lost, ‘The avenue @aporetion, shor ehtut sattena 'o walters. foeuttenalinvanvon| daccad) Seah) ‘4, but they, too, know that it/—have marked his boom for ultimate assassination in the house of hie} of the courts ts now exhausted.” ‘The investigation which the Federal Johnson wants to do it he can] best friends, It was further agreed that the bulk of the Lowden support, \ officials and the railroads have boen| ¢ Leonard Wood the nominee being trained, is subject to the Old Guard leadership and wil! follow the trail MUST GIVE UP NICKY'S CASH | that they regarded it es necessary ta | not essential. None of the resolutions Hearth, began several months ago, | THE MORNING WORLD “Old Guard,” who, by the way, com- Then up came the proposition of who are to be the leadera tn the | Judge A. N. Hand, tn the Federal Dis. | Posed. cantata such a declaration, / vith the disappearance of silk valued | || prise the managers of the Lowden! emergency. The delegates, who have been here since last Tuesday, by a| ict Court to aay, teed an order di- ce 2 e two-thirds vote in eadh A all silk worth $8,000,000 has been| | who will contribute daily articles during the Republican | |Jonn "Hammond, the new hea ut Ok final suy will rest in the minds and deductions of John T. King of Con-|dersiceve, trustee in bankruptcy for pep daiaees is a xoteot two mee it 1s sald, by the gang, since! || Convention beginning in Chicago Tuesday; among these | |lahoma. ‘They fought the Wood man necticut, who {8 the representative here of Senator Boise Penrose, the | J" (Nicky) Arnstein, Tho money Sie daieaparyped Dresent—agssuming the last January. | special writers are: jagers in many a State and won. veal leader ‘of the Republican Party; Dare Mulvane ef Kansas. Cheries| ¥2* ‘#008! st February by Fanny © of & quorum—and not a vote !" petectives at work on the case say rs ; , WOOD'S NOMINATION WOULD . 7 See zt ; ; : | Brice, w f the alleged “master |Of two-thirds of the entire members ‘eat more than a dozen railroad em- V. BLASCO IBANEZ, the great Spanish author, who will MEAN FALL OF OLD GUARD, | D. Hilles of New York,and Joseph Keating of Indiana, Back of those four | juin’ in the $5,000,000 bond thefts, and | Ship present and @bsent. Missourl } a analyze the events of the convention and give his im- is represented, according to the {deas of the delegates to the miniature | pressions of great personalities. convention, the common sense politics of numerous other leaders who are If Gen. Wood is the nominee it will] mean the fall of this new “Old Guard." | ' (Continued on Second Page.) winnings at poker, is gatd to have been part of Arnstein's Pacific Railway Company vs. Kansas, | 248, U. 8, 278, aba Their political future depends up ‘ r ‘ Judge Hand als Arnatein, | « ML ,., . CORRECTION | IRVIN S. COBB, America’s famous humorist, will write in || |the success of Lowden, and to be able influential bt Car. ranpons best known to themseives, do not desire to} Judes Mu pati eh ‘ The (referendum provistons of im i | Papi 4 |to manage the campaign itself wili|@ppear In the - ceeding. t “ ile of | State constitutions and statutes can- | A COR | his well-known style, n the distribution of offices in the uasets anc la hureday FIRST TOOK UP CHANCES OF WOOD. Always with the idea that the paramount purpose of the Republican | Party in this campaign is to win, the delegates took up the char Gen. Leonard Wood, They agreed that up to this time he has a Newark Dinner to Duffy Not Held in Robert Treat Hotel. nt of victory. lly understood by the an eye also to the futu But, speaking of wha are something thorough- was ad WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE, famed as editor and writer, LOUIS SEIBOLD and CHARLES MICHELSON will do the news reporting. JAMES MONTAGUE, of “More Truth Than Poetry” fame, will give a dash of humor to the news from the con- delegates with 8 of the manag: saying to each other favorl In a report of the dinner given last Wednesday night In Newark, N. J., to| Internal Revenue Collector Charles V.| Duffy The Evening World erroneously h | (Continued on Second Page.) | will weaken his prospects. Therefore, it was assumed Wood, as one of nse and barked like) Arcade, JUNE 15 Q : THE WORLD, ; i | ss —- | * > be out of the running after he has made a full d I, located the banquet hall in the Robert| || A |the three leaders, will be out of the running after he has made a full dis- | | Dp Keeat Hotel. ‘The fact fs that the din| | vention. LOOGE TO BE ONLY CHAIRMAN | ‘icy cr tis strevgts ta the convention. which wil nette sufalone iy con] ALLPOPLQML ¢ ner was held in the Washington Res- + = = ed Ninceg him, Classified advertising copy for ( taurant. It was in celebration of ¢ + | Leaders Decide He Shall Preside at i i ; ‘ t Gen. Wood, alth The ay World should be ta departure of Collector Duffy for the All Seastonsn, | Mr, King, it should be remembered § against Gen ood, although The WV 1 office Democratic National Convention at San Special to The Fveulng World.) he was the original Wood boomer, The charges made by Senator Moses, Onan Before Friday Franclaco, he T HE U OHICAGO, June Senator Ladae|one of Gen, Wood's lieutenants, that the National Committee has cheated | Asa) Publi ; " will be permanent a well ws tempor-| the General, have not helped the chances of the candidate | Preceding Publication Siz pettans, jhot water, Bure Bellet, BY ar: the Repubilean Con- | toarly copy r F edt Rint ace. Asa SATnR pia aiie ik verrtian On the next round the candtdarcy of »————— aereammal MCT a Tyr > EDGAR RICE AUR ROU GHS ale wae. defi decided by the) yiram Johnson came up and ail the; THR WORLD TRAVEL BUREAD, Il] Smitied. tate P is ee ADIN THECHAN ; aders here to- orld) i es m1 ° j 1 WORLD RESTAURANT. STARTS IN EVENING WORLD TUESDAY caciuissieties “GAY Be | nine delegates ar Pultiaes (World) Bui mitted for lack of time to aet tt I AT 18 SORE RELINY—WHY IT" va balay gh Lndigeatlon,—Ad vt. 5 (Continued on Second Par sa ——-- | but that every hour passing between now and the calling of the convention Classified Advertisers jnot be applied consistently with the | Constitution of the United States in the ratification or rejection of amend: ments to tt. Hawke ys, ®mith, U. ecided June 1, 1920 he prohibition of the manu. » sale, transportation, impor. » and exportation of intoxieat- tuors for beverage purposes, ag lied in the 18th Amendment, i# within th wer to amend reserved by Article V of the Constitution, . ), That amendment by lawful pre- | posal and ratification has become @ factur tat respected and given effect the as other provisions of that instru» part of the Constitution and must f oe a aaa he Ie