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| To Be Sure of The Evening Your Newsd = : Order in Advance from ealer TO.NIGHT’S WEATHER—Rain. Getting World, oeeeaneeaaneanaeaneenemenienidenaenanaaanannorenererereee ,\CALLER SHIELDED BY HOUSEKEEPER “Circulation Books Open to All.’ ‘Cireulat Books Open to All.’* — VOL. LX. NO. 21,461—DaILy. Consign, 1920 Nei by The Prem Publishing York World). NEW YORK, T = — Entered ne Second-Cinss Matter HURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1920. TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Clearin: = SEED! Mattes PRICE TWO CENTS | tnen caxrs 1 Me IN GREATER NEW YORK KLSOWHERS WESTERN TOU ON ROOSEY Colonel Compared to Benedict Arnold an?’ Aaron Burr in 1912. Johnson and Other Bull, Moosers Charged With Party | Perfidy by, Candidate. By George Buchanan Fife, (Special 8 Correspondent of The Evening World.) MARION, O., June 17.—There is a story current here in Marion—the number of men sitting in their shirt sleeves whittling or ruminating on the cob)* house steps are ample evi- dence of a mint for such currency— that Warren G. Harding started out véry valiantly last March gn a speech- }tour which was to glorify the iS Republican Party, at least as far as the Pacific Caast, Everything went very well, the speeches were made with the customary welcoming of the erator, “We have with us this eve- ning,” until Harding got as far as Denver, Then, accdrding to the town gos- sips, he turned right around and eame right back. When the gos- sip promoters were asked why he abandoned the trip, they waggled their heads, with sidelong glances. At last one of them, who separated himself from his fellows, said he cal- culated it was on account of the things his newspaper, the Marion Daily Star, had published about The- odore Roosevelt and a lot of other Republican fellows back in 1912, when the Bull Moose party appeared. ft appears that these ‘editorial ut- terances, carefully culled, had been sént out ahead of Mr. Harding, his ftinerary being known, and that they had greeted him not only in the news- papers of several cities in which he spoke, but had been used to advan- tage by “hecklers” in his audiences, who had asked an explanation of them. “OLD POLITICAL STUFF.” SAID HARDING, Mr. Harding's replies to these, it was said, had been that a lot of old political stuff had been dug up; that ft was all past history; that after- ward he and Mr. Roosevelt, for in- atance, had “made up" and were friends again as xood Americans, When your correspondent made his first inquiry about the files of the Star at the office of the Marion Tri- bune, a Democratic adversary, he was told that those of the 1912, months which contained most of the (Continued on Fifteenth Page.) sea ee to Cost More, Jamaica, June 1.— ®Banana prices have been increased $2 4@ bunch wholesale as a result of the rivalry between American and Jarnaican companiés in securing the frulr The present price is the highest ¢ reached and is expected to force banana prices tn the United States to new high Classified Adver tisers Important ! heset fed Styertising. copy for Sunday World ould be in The Wortd office On or Before Friday . CALLED ARCH TRAITOR. HARDING FORCED 10 GIVE UP RFOR ATTACKS FLT AS TRATOR ) GOMPERS BEATEN IN FEDERATION W. ORANGE DENTIST IN FRAT INITIATION Dr. Applegate Says Ceremon- | ies Began on Essex County | Country Club Grounds THEN LED TO WOODS and Molasses Poured in | Declares He Was Stripped TAR AND FEATHER SWANN ORDERS OWENS PUT OUT OFS OFFICE | Detective Complains of Al- | leged Slur by Assistant Dis- trict Attorney Smith, ‘STOOL PIGEON’ CHARGE Prosecutor Calls War Hero Part of “Dirty Police VON SCHLEGELL AGAIN | QUESTIONED IN MYSTERY SAYS ELWELL FLED LEXINGTON UNDER THREAT OF DEATH Racing Man Heard He Left} 'MRS. MARIE LARSEN. WHO THROWS LIGHT ON ELWELL CASE! of Early Caller and Fixed Up Mrs Larsen Took Out Garments Elwell’s Room After Murder— Taxi Driver Says He Took M: and Woman to House. i ict Attorney Swann has three of his assistants, in addition ta After Encounter With Disorder Marks Vote of 29,059, to 3,349 for Govern- ment Operation. ; MONTREAL, June 17.—Govern- ment ownership with democratic op- eration of American railroads was indorsed by the Amerioan Federation of Labor Convention here after one [of the bitterest fights on record by a vote of 29,059 against 3,349. This was @ complete defeat for President Sam- | uel Gompers, the finst real setback he has had in years, tsorder inter- rupted the ‘roll call several times when delegations of the various jcrafts divided on their votes. Charges of “steam roller” were | hurled at the Chair by James Duncan of Seattle and other delegates when it denied the right of roll call to del- erates that spit on the question. Ap- |plause and “boos” and hisses alter- ly greeted delegation votes, The building trade delegations Presented almost a solid front against government ownership, sup- porting Gompers and Administration forces, The railroad workers were supported by the great voting power of the United Mine Workers, mathin- Jst_ unions, textile workers, garment workers and the metaltrades crafts The first clash on the oll call oc- curred when W,. L, Hutchinson, President of the Carpenters’ Union, announced that his delegation cast its 5 votes against the proposal. J, A. Ross, of the carpenters, denied Mr, Hutchinson's statement and asked permission to cast his 414 yotes for government ownership. More than a dozen delegates pro- tested when Gompers barred the Ros: vote, cour carpenters vote against the proposal. Gompers' Ited fn the moulders’ dele ng its 1, despite th ailing ros tre vote for the fact that John Frey, of thelr membership, opposed the proposil H, Johnston, International Presi- dent of the Machinists’ Union, sald: “The proposal represents an idea which the overwhelming majority of the people of the country favor. Un- der the three years of Government control more was accomplished for propos (Contiaued on Third Page.) ENFORCING DRY LAW COSTS COP HIS JOB Counsel of the Anti-Saloon League Accuses Police Department Official That the officials of the New York Po. lee Department disch a who attempted to e Law is the statement of Robe Davey, counsel and Superintende Law Enforcement for the Anti-Saloon League for New York State “An old complaint was dug up against the policeman,” suld Davey, “Phis man Preceding Publication interferred with some men removing liq- thi fe uor from a saloon in*. mabile to Barty copy receiver the preference Hi luo taken to a dinner given by n Brook- when Sunday advertising has to be omitted. Late advertising is now [I |lyn politician, He arrested omitted for lack of time to set it. m and took them to the stution house, Later THE WORLD, thin man oame to my office, tol dhis alory and asked me to press the Gass," _ONRAILWAY PLAN Shoes—Warrants for Nine Dr. Howard Applegate, a dentist of No. 55 Watson Avenue, West Orange, appeared before Police Recorder Lan- der in West Orange this morning, and said thet during an initiation into the [Geta sigma fraternity at the Exsex County Country Club Tuesday night he had been tarred and feathered. He dgclared ‘he had been stripped naked, his body covered with tar and leaves, his face and neck dyed a dirty brown, his shoes and trousers filled with molasses—all this after he had been severely ‘bruised’ by “spankers.”’ Dr. Applegate told the Recorder he was led from the Country Club grounds to a lonely spot in the woods on Orange Mountain and blindfolded. After the initiators got through with him they led him further into the woods and’ after telling him to wait 15 minutes departed. Dr, Applegate waited what he thought was fifteen minutes and then, updn removing the bandages from his eyes and geiting his ‘bearings, discovered he was alone and a mile from the nearest drug store, The dentist got into his molasses filled clothes as best he could and stumbled through the darkness to the Irug store. There druggists worked over him with chemicals for an hous rying to clean the tur and dye from his body From the effects of his experience Dr. Applegate appeared to-day to be on the verge of nervous collapse, Recorder Lander sald Dr. Applegate is a. singer in the Christian Church at Montelair Nine young men of West Orange have been accused in connection with the case, They have been summoned to appear before Recorder Lander at 7 o'clock to-night for examination, The Beta Sigma fratornity is a lo- cal organization composed of gradu- ates of the West Orange High hool. Dr. Applegate is a graduate of the West Orange School and a New York dental college. He Is twenty-four years old Dr, Applegate said that while the Initiation proceedings were unde way he was compelled to sign a pa per stating he would not make com plaints against any of the hazers When he was left in the woods he was to&l the initiaflon ceremony was only half finished; that it would be completed at a banquet in a New York hotel next Tuesday night, at which time he would receive his fra- ternity pin and badge. J. Augustus Wolse of West Orange, (Continued on Third Page.) GORGAS’ CONDITION GRAVE. Friends Had Abandoned Hope for Him, but He Ratlied. LONDON, June 17.—The conditio William G. G neral of the U m than bh been willing go hope for the Gene z 1. but he rallied. While the some improveme ngerously vbande nas be Gen, Gorgas is s Mine Helen Taft to He Wed Joly 15, NEW HAY Conn, June 17.—An} announcement fram the family to-day | was that’ the marriage of Miss Helen ‘Taft, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, William Howard Taft, to Fred Elin, one of the allens held tn co was order tant Secretary Post after representa- tions to the Department of Justice that deportation, was not “the proper remedy." System,” Additional evidence of the fast widening ‘breach between the Police Department and the District Attor- ney’s office was furnished by a heated verbal clush to-day between Detec- tive Martin Owens and Mr, Swann, Owens, the only New Yorke police officer to take an ambulance to France, won a Neutenancy in the French Army and a captairtey in the a. EB. F. ‘The detective was clearly hot under the collar when he appeared in the District Attorney’s office while Mr, Swann was questioning witnesses in the Elwell murder mystery, but kept his temper to himaclf until the Dis- trict Attorney appeared. ‘Then Owens stepped up and said: r. Swann, Fred McCloy, manager of the Columbia Theatre, tells me that your assistant, James E, Smith, told him I was acting as a stool pigcon for Inspector Lahey and am engaged in keeping tabs on Smith." “You say my assistant said that?" snapped Swann. “You believe he alled you a stool pigeon? You come right into his office and ask him Side by side the two entered Smith's atfice a few yards down the hall, When the question was put to bim, Smith denied he had used such language. Owens then said “You called me down here eight rs ago and tried to put me out.” ‘That was on a different matter,” replied Smith, 8 n then took a hand. “You get out of this building and never enter it again,” he told Owens, “You are merely ah instrument of the dirty, rotten, unprincipled police sys- tem of this city that is trying to get something on my assistant. You get out—get out quick.” “Mr. 6 * said Owens, “I want witnesses to this. “You get out of this," cried Swann angrily, “or I'll have you put out You have all the witnesses you want.” When Owens failed to move, Swann turned hurriedly into the De lective Bureau and called Detective taynes in charge. To Raynes Swann said: t this man put out of this building, “You see that he gets out quick," Raynes and Owens, followed by several newspaper men, walked out of the building, Standing under the Bridge of Sighs in Franklin Street Owens said he resented the state- ments which he asserted Smith had made about him, Telephone communication with McCloy brought corroboration of the assertions made by Owens, McC giving the detective permission to tell what he alleged Smith had said regarding the policeman —_ ELIA ORDERED DEPORTED Was Arrested With Anarchist Who Killed Himvelf He WASHINGTON, June 17. ots on June ted to-day by Assia- with the bomb dd at Mu Will take ada, on J Miss | heré from Bryn Mawr 8. Yale commencement — Bi a MA hee wat" wiF uldlgcales, ‘Seat Ella was arrested with Andra Salsedo, who killed himself several weeks ago by Jumping from a window in a De- parment of Juatice office in New York and Mr, Post said he should be tried under criminal lawa beforg his deporta. “Annie’s” Kinsmen, 24 HOURS’ Reported Girl’s Father and! Brother Started Secretly For New York. |Elwell’s room after the discovery of the murder. This is taken by the (Special to The Evening World.) CINCINNATI, Bradley, owner of the Idle Hour Stock near Lexington, now racing horses at the Latoniu track here, said to-day that he had entertained Joseph - B, Elwell, the racing man and whist| in New York, Elwell’ raced his string at Lexing- ton track this spring. find no place to keep his horses at Lexington and Bradley made a place! for him ut Idle Hour and entertained Elwell there, Bradley said he had heard stories of Elwell's association with a young Lexington business woman, and had also heard he had left Lexington hur- riedly after an encounter with father and brother of a young woman} but he had no personal knowledge of} expert slain Elwell could He was aware of the fact that Bl- acquaintance | with scores of fashionable men and! women in New York and entertained his private apartme . left his Lexington hotel hurriedly following a fight with the father and brother of a girl named connected with an oil refining ess at Lexington, fatuated with Elwell. leave the State within twenty-four hours and promptly did 0, the Lexington pol a PHONE CALLS WERE FROM ELWELL HOME MORNING OF MURDER They Are Now Definitely Stated to Have Been at 4.30 and 6 He sald Elwell 0 declared to- T 1s now known positively that two telophone calls were made well house on the morning of the murder, de at 4.30 and the other District Attorney Swann tatement yesterday “Enis Mr. Bradley confirmed. ‘The Identity of the girl been revealed by the Lexington at- thorities, though conjectures are rife and there is a report that both father and brother recently left for New York on @ secret business trip and have not returned. On account of the sudden departure of Elwel| from Lexington his horses have since been raced under the di- rection of Trainer Lioyd Gentry. IS VICTOR. has so far not gave out this Attorney's of- persons to whom some JOHNSTON TENN # few hours before th SWANN’S AIDES ROW OVER ELWELL CASE Joyce Resents Activity of Dooling and Appeals to Chief Over Veteran in Matc MRS. ELWELL SURE |e wares. Nobody tn any of the ston of San Francisco, singles champion, Ritchie in the fifth round of the Lon- tennis. champlonship Johnston won in straight 8 by scores of 6 nation of the Expects Husband’s Family to Avert |4a¥, who, It was thought, might ee. veteran English Interna won decisively Boston yester Attorney John + did not appear to be in a happy Hlwell home in Weat 70th Street that the prospect of w friendly settie- | Mr. Swann sald that he hoped te ment of the %ptroveray over the wi| Mv Mrs, Lewisohn and her sister, | i band, doseph B. Ehwen,| M84 Viola Kraus, appear tall her late huiband, h ulwell, ana Shuai family appear to be | Dut added that they were out of tie it ling to do the {alr thing (Jutidiction and he could not compel by me and my «on, Richard,” saja|thom to come to the city, He sald the widow. "We are prepared to fight | that in the event of thelr refusal te” Recognition General Withdrawn, WASHINGTON, the request of the de {acto Government Yacht Race P to-day to Instruct eight young women, | , Th® Police are looking for « tax® himself, working on the mysterious murder of Joseph Bowne Elwell on last Friday morning at his home, No, 244 West 7oth Street, While Ass, sistant Distret Attorney John S. Joyce is carrying on his investigation in the murder house, Mr. Swann is reconstructng the entire case at his office with the assistance of John T, Dooling and Alfred J. Talley, Mrs, Larsen, Elwell’s housekeeper, has admitted having hidden a. pink kimono, boudoir cap and silk bedroom slippers which she found in Investigators as an indication that Elwell had a woman visitor in the preceding the murder. They have the woman's name, which plese | may not be made public, Mrs, Larsen also admitted having fixed up Elwell’s bedroom. It had previously been believed the bed had not been occupied, ; The District Attorney will again examine every witness who is Io ‘ny way connected with the case, He had before him and Mr. T; this afternoon Victor von Schlegell, the divorced husband of Viola Kraus, who was examined before by Joyce and the detectives at the Elwell house. Apennines. Wah a ee 4 LAST FEW HOURS _[{*"7 frank” said sr, Swann dur 4 few moment when he left the ex- OF ELWELL’S LIFE thes val his assistant. “He said ° us: ‘I wil lanswer any questions AS FAR AS KNOWN | you may put to me. 1 pealize the wee a rlousness of the matter, but you must: ' : rememiber that the name of a lady le gic: x hronological Order of __Events| involved and wil temaig mute #0 From Arrival at Home Friday | rar as abe is concerned.” Morning, June 14. Mr von Schlegell was at the Rita Carlton on ‘Whureday night, accom RIDAY morning, 345—Elwell | panied wy a woman in black while arrives ut his home, No. 244 | Ehwell wus dining there with Mr. and West 70th Street, in a road- | Mrs. Walter Lewisohn, the latter's sister, Miss (Kraus, and Octavio M, Pkrureou, a journalist of the Angen- man in the machine, tine Republic, Hé said that he spoke 4.30—A telephono call Is went | to the party, all of whom were known from the house. to him, including Elwell. Mr. Lewie 6.00—Another telephone mes- peraeree: e + bys: oe sald tha’ we nored him. Bhige Ross ope rate ts 0 Ess EFFORT MADE TO TRACE 6.30—"Joe,” the furnace man, LUNCHEON GuUEsT. sweeps the stoop and steps. He An effort is being made to locate @ daten Wak he weed lee young woman who lunched with Ele, 7.40—T. y, tho postinan, leaves | Well on Tuesday afternoon and left his house in a taxicab. It was learned that a Black and White taxi was sent’ to the Elwell house on Monday after. mille at the door, noon at 2.30 o'clock, but none went. $.30-Mra, Marie Larven, the | there on Tuesday. The cap was housekeeper, arrives and discovers | driven by Joseph Wagstaff and the the unconscious form of her em- | record on the company’s books shows ployer crumpled In a chalr acalnst | that he drove the gir passenger to the wall with a bullet wound Im | No, 508 Madison Avenue and Wun the top of his head. subsequently dismissed at Park Aves > Mrs. Larsen hid silk lingerie, | nue and 70th Street. pink kimono, cap and bedroom The promises at No. 808 Madison valippers, after Fiwell bad been | avenue are oocupled by @ number of, taken to the hospital, wo little shops, a florist, a ehirtwalep nasal shop and other stores handling wom. ster and says good night to the the mail and rings the be §.20—Otter, the milkman, — ceneathtidepripinsicinianad ct aiahps wok = eppetdnatciadbibcagtineinanlidheibuapgiticnhiatinsad hi embered y call: SHE'LL GET FUNDS linc to ine doerigticn ate pret —_—_ gave of Mr. Ebwell's quest of ‘Tues- io Se - hist the same person, Will Contest—Resumes Giving During the examination of Mr. vam, Whist Lessons, legell there was present Lyttle. Mrs, Helen Elwell said this morning |t0" Fox, attomey for the Lewisohns, aguin what they know of the cass, than ever necessary, but it looky sow aa if it}come here from Long Branch, where hey are staying for the summer, he. Mra, Elwell ans that she} would probably send some one frou. uid resume giving whist lessous and! nis oftice to interview them, nded to go to Cedarhurst, La 1, want to get back to the even| diver of the Black and White Coma tenor of my life as soon as possible,” | Pany Who ie said to have told a story, ne which shal whi hall bbs maid; that he took a man and a woman has! and Vanitle Bernardino | detend nn Consul General was appointed by Franaa and took over the offige April! Mena Brito as Mexic ut New York, oe the Elwell house between § WORLD RESTAU BAN, 17, 1920: | o’eloek on the morning of the Se ‘avorite| Hie story, retold by his ss obese eid buldlsg “Aare” | ohautfoura is that he heard the