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ARLES F. M 100 WOMEN ON ELWELL'S TELEPHON To Be Su Your WMO re of Getting The Evening World, Order in Advance from Newsdealer . 7 TO-NIGHT'S WEATHER—Fair. Che “Circulation Books Open to All.’ | irculation Books Open to All. VOL. LX. NO. 21,466—DAILY. Copyrin! Co, (The 1920, by The Press Publishing New York World) NEW YORK, WEDNE SDAY, JUNE 23, 1920. Entered as Second: ‘ost Office, New -Class Matter York, N. ¥. Ss RRICE TWO CENTS | timex cars IN GREATER NEW YORK DRECT FO Speculation About Turfman’s Movements Before Murder Brought to End, MANY WOMEN QUIZZED. Scores of-Names Revealed in Slain Whist Expert’s Telephone List. George A. Weltérs, a negro taxicab driver of No. 210 West 137th Street, took Joseph Bowne Kiwell home six hours before he was divcovered, shot through the head, in the reception room of his holise at No, 244 West Vth Street. ‘The negro, mho owns a “bucking” taxicab, picked up the racing man and whist expert near the New Am- sterdam Theatre on 42d Street and drove him to 66th Street and Broad- way where hissfare stopped him to purchase a copy of the Telegraph. The tax! then proceeded and set Elwell down at his house at 2.80 o'clock, ‘Walters was positive in his identi- fication of a photograph of Elwell which was shown to him, and his de- scription of his fare before seeing the photograph, was. complete, He said that Elwell paid him 75 cents for the ride, This new evidence would indicate that Elwell went directly home after leaving the Lewisohn party in front of the New Amsterdam Roof, where he had entertained them at the Mid. night Frolic, ‘The Lewisohns fix the time of their departure at abour 2 o'clock, and say that they saw Elwell proceed leisurely toward Seventh Ave- nue on 42d Street. Mrs, Amelia Hardy to be ques- tioned again by the District Attorne on a story published as en interview with her placing the responsibility for the murder on a racetrack hanger-on, who claimed that he was instrumental in selling a horse for Elweil, and that the latter refused to give him @ com- mission. The horse referred to in the sale is Pastoral Swain, which-was sold to Carey C. Winfrey, former truiner for Piwell, for $5,600, the sale taking place on June 4, a week before Elwell was slain. SCORES OF WOMEN ON EL- WELL'S 'PHONE LIST. Between 50 and 100 women are being questioned by investigators in athe Elwell case. They are women in all stations of Iife—married and sin- gle, women in high places and women of the white lights. Some of them were intimate friends of the murdered man The names were obtained by the police from Elwejl’s private phone lst, which, it has just been learned, was found tn his house. Detectives are taking the best op- portunities afforded them to protect the names of the women. Those who (Continued on nd Page.) Classified Advertisers Important ! Classified advertising copy for The Sunday World should be tn ‘The World office On or Before Friday Preceding Publication Early copy receives the preference when Sunday advertising has to be mitted. Late advertising is now omitted for lack of time to set it | THE WORLD, TAXICAB DRIVER FOUND WHO TOOK ELWELL HOME M THE THEATRE & GOV. EDWARDS USES REAL CHAMPAGNE AT CHRISTENING GOV. EDWARDS CHRIDTENING SEAPLANE Sone . Goy. Edwards of New Jersey chris- tened the a ton passenger flying boat, at the plant of the Aeromarine Plane and Motor Company at Keyport, N. J., yester In accordance with his “wet” platform, the Governor used a bottle real champagne to christen the boat, the largest clvillan passenger flying boat in America, _>- 20 LABOR LEADERS Aeromarine, new ARE INDICTED sight Officers of Jersay City Build- ing Trades Council Involved. Twenty labor leaders are under in- dictment in Jersey City asa result of strike agitation, it became known to- day. The indictments were returned before Judge McCarthy in County Court yesterday, and are based principally on charges of conspiracy involved in bulld- ing trades strikes, Several minor charges include assault: and other acts of violence. Among the men Indicted are the tol- lowing officers of the Building Trades Council: Theodore Brandle, William 3. Hart, William J. Meyer Buckley, Charies Sterling, John Hayos, James Larkin*and Michael J, Walsh, JENKINS DECIDES TO NAME M’ADOO Kansas City Editor Telegraphs His Paper That He Will Make Speech. KANSAS City, Mo,, June 22,—William G. McAdoo will cod In nomination for the Presidency before the Demo- eratic National Convention in San Francisco, despite his personal objec- tions, Dr. Burris A. Jenkihs announ to-day | Dr. Jenkina, managing editor of the Kansaa City Post, to-day wired the |newspaper from Pueblo, Col., that hi hud decided to make a speech placing | McAdoo tn nomination. He sald the [cision was reached after consultatic with other members of th delegation en route to San 1 ter. Bure re~ foreol—Adve pe takki (Rasing Entries on Page 2) | etx oy Met, For in NEW YORK MAKES “SMITH CANDIDATE FOR. PRESTENGY Movement of Empire State Delegation Finds Backers From Many Sections. WOMEN BEHIND — HIM. Work of pected Activities in Early Convention | to Aid. | By Martin Green. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) SAN FRANCISCO, June 28—'The | Vice Presidential boom of Goy. Alfred E, Smith, chaperoned to San Fran- cisco by the women delegates and al- ternates from New York, has grown over night Into something of impor- tance. Gov. Smith ts to be placed in nomination for President. Me deosn't know jt yet. Somewhere out on-therprairies the Governor of New York is speeding this way, en- tirely unaware that somo orator of] the, standing of Bourke Cockran, for Instance, {a to present his name to! the convention. Doubtless he will pro- test when he arrives, but he Is to be the candidate of the State of New York, and inasmuch as he Is slated to take a prominent part in convention proceedings prior to the time the nominations are made, !t is quite pos- lsible some State up in the A's will yield to New York, and ‘“uat Alfred F. Smith will find himself named as New | York's favorite son early én the list, Requests that Gov. Smith be noml- nated have come to San Francisco from all over the United States. Natlonal Committeeman Norman EB, Mack has a basketfull of telegrams land letters advising that New York come out of obscurity and take the lead in the Democratic Party. Mr. Mack showed me a telegram td-day |f{rem a prominent Democrat in Mil- waukee calling attention to the fact | that Grover Cleveland was about the |same sort of Governor of New York that Gov. Smith is, a> - that Grover Cleveland pulled the Democratic Par- ty out of a deep hole in 1884, Unless the Tammany delegation bound here lands with cold feet, Gov. Smith of New York may bring the Empire State into the position it de- serves. —_ TILDEN AGAIN WINS NET MATCH ABROAD American Star Defeats Opponent in Fashion, Winning in Straight Sets. |M’ADOO OUT OF IT TOO. WILSON ABSOLUTELY OUT OF RAGE FOR PRESIDENCY VIEW OF SAN FRANCISCO amie. TAUBHT MRS, RED Chairman Cummings, Spokesman, Cannot Account for Third Term Talk. President’s Influence May Have Been Deciding Factor in Withdrawal. NE, GEORGETTE Modiste Found Servants Wear- SOCIAL USAGE, SAYS; By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ing Evening Gowns, She a World.) SAN FRANCISCO, June 23 (Copy- right, 1920).—Gov. Cox ot Ohio has profited most by the efforts of Willian G. McAdoo to eliminate himself from the list of avowed candidates for the Democratic Presidential nomtnation. ‘That isn't saying Cox will be nomin- ated, for the situation has hardly erys- Declares, Mme. Georgette de la Plant, the beautiful modiste named by Mrs. Margaret C. Reid, in her divorce guilt King,” to-day appealed to Supreme Court to reform the divorce decree tallized and the real purposes of Messrs. Wilson and McAdoo have not | name from it. Mme. Georgette, as the modiste is better known among her society clientele, states in her papers that at the time of the suit she was in Paris, that no papers were served on her and consequently she had no oppor- tunity to defend her reputation. In a motion before Justice Donnelly, by her attorney, Thomas J. McCros- |sin, Mme. Georgette claims she was made the innocent victim of the mil- Honaire's divorce suit, She was named in Mra. Reld's cross bill, in answer to | the orlginal suit.in which Mr. Reid charged his wife with being too friendly with a captain in the Serbian army. At the trial of the suit, servants in the Reid home testified that Mme. Georgette lived there with Mr, Reid, while his wife was visiting Atlantic City in December, 1918. In reciting the story of her ac- quaintance with the Relds, Mme, Georgette declares in her moving pa- Pers that Mrs. Reld first wag brought to her shop, No. 9 West 56th Street, in September, 1918, by @ well known so- clety woman, Mra, Reld became a fre- quent visitor and bought $28,000 worth worth of lingerie. yet carried conviction with the dele- | gates, | They cap't believe that Mr, Wilson wants a third term and they can't believe that McAdoo doesn't want the nomination. Yet the truth is #0 simple and so obvious that delegates are reluctant to credit it, ' FACTS ON WHICH CONCLUSIONS! MAY BE BASED, Here are some facts upon which the reader can base his own conclu- sions: 1. President Wilson talked for an hour and a half with Homer Cummings, Democratic National Chairman, at the White House three weeks ago and never showed the slightest interest in his own political future, nor did he explain any preference as be- tween candidates, 2. Mr. Cummings is in constant touch by wire with the White House and is really the Presi- dent’s main channel of communi- cation with this convention and if 4 stampede or movement for Wilson were to be started‘Cum- mings would know of it. And all the newspaper talk of a third term a en enaible tq Mr. Cum- | “On one visit Mrs. Reld brought her mings, and with her and in Mme, Geor- 3. Mr, McAdoo never intended’ | DUsband wi i ” " gette’s presence told him of hor af- fection for the moc and praised her in extravagant terms, it is stated. Later, Mme. Geogette continues, to be an active candidate for the nomination but his friends have always understood that he would accept if drafted by the conven- Mrs, Reld sought her ald in runnin William T, Tilden of Philadephia] that kind of an.approach to the " Sa aeaie 1A a ea EHO ME esenlregl mebr er a on correct social usage. Mme, Geor- a Surrey County player of about 4. Mr, MoAdoo has been rest- [Sette says she found the servants scratch form, in to-dag's play of the| ing in Southern California and | Westing evening gowns, and she told British Tennis Champtonship Tourna-| gpending as much time as pos- | Mrs. Reid this was not proper, In- megt here, ‘The match was contested on if : stead, she ordered black taffeta the centre Course. (Continued on Third Page.) dresses, buttoned to the neck. Th: Tilden won in the quickest fashion _ servants at first rebelled at this, and Mwenty indies, ana tien taking ine| JOHN JARDINE A SUICIDE, |caticd ame. Georgette “that Frenci i Seeaty, 8 A Trae Mes ys ie lt woman,” This, she declares, was the |inixea lifted drives with cut strokes ana| A#€d Architect Planned Several| pasiy of thelr hostility and resulted anely. | AML bebseeina t Carnewle Libraries, lin thelr testimony against her. on the a urgund superb gum MORRISTOWN, N. J,, June 23.—John Mme, Georgette alleges that she played by Tilden Jardin venty-five w York arch!-) went to live in the Reid home be Zenzo Shimidzu, Japan, defeated | tect who planned several Carnegie! caine Mrs. Reid wanted to go to At- Andre Gobert, the French crack, by | Mt to-day committed tulcide st! lantic City and told her she could not G, J, Scheurléer, Holland, won from | thy aged man had. shot. himaolf, us-| consent to preside over her home and Nicholas Michu of Roumania by 7—6, | slimed detectives to investigate represent he in social matters, Dur. 6—1, 4=6, 6—8. ; ; Jen tetines, ine was ice resident Of ing her residence at the Reid home, Bnei heals m eenenna Dies Coun Carne President, was a mem-| she declares, Mrs, Henry J. Topping 2 eal tonne BIA De eek, (eae CLL of Greenwich, Conn, Mr, Reid’ 8. 6 Laugh re, Dudh 2 sister, and other = m tm of the . ty, and a son now living In | family were present well as + 5 Tempe’ om Falls Mins Helen Foster n Bride T friends of Mr. and Mrs, who See trap-ahooting| Milas Helen Foster, daughter of] were visitors at various times Charles A. Foster, No, 287 New York Argument on the ¢ Was set down team which will represent the United | \ Jn. Brooklyn, will becomo the| fer next Friday, | States in the Olympic competition sailed | pride of Ensign Eugene Owen Lovejoy, _ for England to-day on the steamer Fort |U.'8. Nat 60 o'clock this afternoon | | Same WORLD TRAVEL BURRAD, ter sald it waa planned {0 have meme {ner ‘The. bridesmald “will be. Siep Yi Deimgtone estas 4000, bers compete in the English champlon-|Marjon Foster, sister of the bride, and Tom for a Beton Spe, Sah Od ships betore wuiny to Autwerp. | the‘ Went ‘man will be Munter winch: > Bon it ‘ agaliifeDaniel.G. Reid, the “tinplate awarded Mrs. Reid, eliminating her ‘GIMBELS INDICTED ON 207 COUNTS IN PROFITEERING CASE Firm, Vice President, Manager and Buyer Named in Federal Court. 175% PROFIT CHARGED, Others Alleged to Range Down to 71%, With 55 Held Reasonable. Indictments containing 207 counts. alleging the offering for sale of men’s clothing at unjust ang unlawfal profit, were returned by the Fedeval Grand Jury to Judge Learned Hand to-day, against Gimbel Brothers, Frederick Gimbel, Vice President: Joseph J. Dowdell, General Merchan- dise Manager, and Charles D. Slaw- ter, buyer for the men's furnishing departinent, * oat Tho indictments wet forth that 56 per cent, would be reasonable gross profit, but allege that prices charged represented from 71 per cent, to 175 per cent. Some of the counts allege that at @ special June sale of overcoats, @ jeoat bought for $22.50 was marked | $40; another, bought for $30 was marked $60; ong bought for $34, was marked $70, The members of the firm named in the Indictments were formally ar- rested Saturday by agents from the Department of Justice squad investi- gating prices here. WATERBURY QUIET AT STRIKE FUNERAL Police Armed With Riot Guns Draw Cordon About Home of Slain Man, WATERBURY, Armed with riot 109 policemen here to-day 4 don about the home of LAjberto killed in Monday's riot, while the eral was being held. Police took every precaution to pre- vent any attempt to turn the funera! service into a demonstration for 15,000 brass workers who have been on strike eleven weeks, Truck loads of strikers arrived here from Bridgeport to attend the funeral Thousands of people lined the hilis nd sidewalks when the funeral started. The police dispersed a band and allow Conn, June 23.— guns, two squads of wa cor- Lino, filn- only funeral carriages to follow t hea Two truckloads of police fol- lowed the processton. * — NO SUGAR RATIONING HERE. Ample Sopply im Sight Mates En- force Order Unneces |foreed the D by Justice 1 to frult and vegetable can- pres now ass nérs Mr Riley made the rvers, statement in an Jswer to questions abut a report that Chairman 8 Ne Masaachu Jactts Conmlsat eanttion of Lite had recelved word from the Department Jor Justice that the sugar rationing would not go into effect. The order for sugar rat 6 has not been rescindyd, Thin Letter Nenrly Six Years in the Malls. | pt. 17, 1014, Alexander More of ville Cen let ted mw letter }to his nephew, Harry Drummond, |ployed or a Newark newspuper, This morning, five yours and nine mont after t was posted, the livered to Drummond. Rockville Centre 17,1914, and waa Indianapolis June lette It postmarked again at 1920, TANIMANY LEADER ACCUSED WITH JAMES E. SMITH OF CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD Arthur T. Baldwin and John A. Mec- Carthy Also Indicted on Informa, tion Furnished by “Jimmy” Hines and Louis N. Hartog in Glucose Case—Four Counts in Indictment. The indictment filed by the Extraordinary Grand Jury last night with Supreme Court Justice Weeks was made public this afternoon. It accuses Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall; Arthur J. Baldwin to ary. Armin W, Riley, specta! aanistant to the Attorney General, to-day sald that | the rationing of sugar to hotels and restaurants, which was to go Into effect last Monday, probably would not be en- of the law firm of Griggs, Baldwin & Baldwin of No, 27 Pine Street, John A. McCarthy, formerly a business partner of John Murphy, deceased brother of Charles F,; James E. ‘Smith, Assistant District Attorney, and the Com, Products-Company, + The indictment accuses them of conspiracy in having entered into an agreement to defraud the United States Government by falsely certifying suit. bench, ex-Judge Willidrs M. K. Ol- | O6tt, Terence J, McManus of No, 170 | Broddway, announced that they rep- resented Mr, Murphy and would ap- Pear for him in his absence, Isidor Wasservogel, former Assist- ant District Attorney, of the law firm of Wasservogel & Medalie, No, 120 Broadway announced that they repre- sented Bmith. Peter F. McAllister, of the Griggs-Baldwin firm appeared REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION JULY 27 Senator Thompson Objects to Eight-Day Limit Imposed on Candidates. At a well attended meeting of the Re- publican State Committee, held in the National Republican Club, No, 64 Weat 40th Street, to-day it was voted to hold a State convention of delegates and alternates at Saratoga Springs on July 27 at noon, Resolutions pledging the State Com- mittee's support to the Republi¢an nom- nator Harding and Gov. Cool- ge, Werg Unanimously adopted amid rousing cheers, Senator George F, Thompson, given the floor, sald he would be a candidate jand did not think eight days, stipulated in the resolutior would be sufficient to place his candidacy before the delegates. He asked that he be given a fair chance. ‘BEE WRECKS AUTO; Insect Lights on Woman Driver's | Face and Car Dashes Into | Phone Pole. | A bee was the cause of a motor acci- dent near Piermont, N. Y., to-day in which P, A. Appleton, Mrs. Appleton and two women whose names have not n learned were seriously injured. he four were driving from Mr. Ap- on's home to the Piormant railroad station. Mra, Appleton waa at the wheel. A bee Ht on her face, She screamed, struck at the bee, and the auton ran into @ telegraph pole, | Mr. Appleton was seriously injured. |The other two passengers were knocked Juncongcious, but appeared to be recov- ing rapidly when taken back to the Appleton home at Grand View, where four physicians were culled in _ «te Have Sw oy. June 23.—The Federal Coun- cil has given Mts approval to the re-eatab~ Ushment of the Apostolic Nunciature fn ‘switzerland, which Was discontinued in |as74 during the period of religious agi- tation culininating in that year ' a dase | WORLD RESTAURANT, |estrae cca tgsoee fete Mails is as to their income returns and in trying to coerce a litigant to settle a civil: When Justice Weeks went om thet —————————— for Mr. Baldwin and Mr, McCarthy, Frank H. Hall of No, 17 Battery Place represented tue Corn Products: Company. ¥ The wityesses before the Grand Jury were James Hines and Lewis N. Hartog, and it was on their ten- timony that the indictments were found, " When Assistant District Attorney Smith's name was called bis attorney put In @ plea of not guilty. Ball was fixed at $1,000, the same as in the other cases, The date for pleading was set for June 28, The indictment consists of thirty- two typewritten pages and is signed by Charles D. Newton, Attorney Gen- eral of the State of New York, and Edward Swann, District Attorney. There are four counts in the indicts ment, The first count recites the induce- ment of the conspiracy and how tt Was initiated and carried out. It re- cites how Hartog had been engaged in the business of manufacturing Malto-Dextrine, made from gh among other things, On March 5, 1918, it is charged that he entered into a contract for the ex- port of Malto-Dextrine to England. Glucose at that time was scarce and! the only place it could be obtained jm large umounts was from the Corn Products Refining Company. At that! time, the Ladictment says, Charles F.. Murphy was the leader of Tammany Halt and as such had large political and financial influence elty and State. ‘Arthur J. Baldwe was an attorney at law and James BE. Smith was Assistant District Attor- ney in New York County. On March 5, 1918, the indictment continues, Hartog and Munphy en- tered into a written agreement where- by Murphy acquired @ one-fifth ins terest in Hartog’s export business ind agreed in consideration thereof to assist Hartog in developing and” financing the business under this agreement. Arthur J. Baldwin rep- resented Murphy as attorney, The agreement between Hartog and Murphy, as set forth In the indict-” ment, shows that the capital stock of” Hartog’s concern, the North Kensing- ton Refining Company, has Increased to $1,000,000 from $10,000, On April 5, 1918, Hartog and Mur- phy, it is alleged, became jointly Ine} terested in the business. and it was eatimated that the profits of the sald business, subject to war tax, would be approximately $1,000,000 a year, and. that such profit, under the changes in | the Excess Profits Tax Law might) be mubject to a tax of 80 per cent, and would be, in any évent, subject to a tax of about 50 per cent. ; Lt in alegeed in thee indictment aes . ‘ ie et te ae ek me lee °