The evening world. Newspaper, July 2, 1920, Page 1

. (The N J*Circatation Books Open to an id Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing jew York World) IS NAMED AS MISS WILSON Swann Announces Identity Af- ter Questioning About Al- leged Threats to Elwell. REPLIES FREELY GIVEN. Prosecutor Says Young Wom. an Denied Any Trouble With Turfman at Any Time, Miss Viola Kraus, the divorced wife of Victor yon Schlegel, District At- | torney Swann sald this morning, the mysterious “Miss Wilson” admitted telephoning to Joseph Bowne Elwell at 2:30 c’clock on the morning he was murdered in his home at No, 224 West 70th Street, and the woman referred to as having made threats against the slain gamblers Ife by Anna Kano, Elwell’s former housekeeper. Miss Kraus was one of the last per- @ons who saw Elwell alive, On the night before the murder she and Mr, and Mrs. Walter Lewisohn, the latter her sister, and Octavio M. Figureoa, a South American journalist, were tn- tertained by the whist authority and racing man on the roof of the Ritz- Carlton, where there happened to be also Mr. Von Schlegel with another young woman. Later the Llwell party went to the roof of the New Amsterdam Theatre and after witnessing the “Midnight Frolic," separated in front of the the- atre. The Lewisohns, Miss Kraus and Pigurgoa, all of them have told the investigators, went away iv a taxicob, leaving Elwell on the side~ walk. STATEMENT GIVEN BY DISTRICT ATTORNEY. Mr, Swann dictated the following gtatement; “In an endeavor to unravel the El- well murder mystery the District. At- torney has centered his attention up- en the main question of Who com- mitted the murder, if it was a mur- der, and the motive for the crime, He has consistently eliminated from his answers to the public press all mat- ters tending to pander to the morbid taste of scandal mongers. “He has declined to allow the Papers to print copies of the pictures of women found among the anurdered man's effects, and he has declined to give the names of young women with whom the murdered man was ac- quainted, “Among these young women war one known to the servants as “Miss Wilson.” As no charge heretofore had been made against this young woman, the District Attorney, follow- ing the invariable custom, declined to give her name to the public press. “Yesterday an original cablegram ‘as shown to the District Atturney in which a former housekeeper of the deceased man alleges that ‘Miss Wil- soa’ had threatened in her hearing to kil! Elwelt if he deserted her again, “This, taken in conncotion with the | former statement of ‘Miss Wilson’! that she had telephoned io Elwell at ) 2.80 o'clock on the morning of his is who | (Continued Fourteenth Page.) Evening World Will Not Be Published Monday, July 5th Fraime oe” NEW ‘yoRK, Eat FIGHTING DEMON RUM, BY -EDGREN We o.p STUFFED GARE chow “Be San ¢ Capra GIRL ROWS 2 MILES |ny OUTTOSEA TOSAVE | CHILDREN ADRIFT, IPTEEN-YEAR -OLD MARY CARCICH, daughter of Capt. «< John Carcich, who runs the Shore Front Hotel at the foot of } Ocean Avenue, Kreeworty lL. L, fought a choppy sea in u rowboat <yesterday to rescue two children who were being rapidly carried out. The'children gere Albert Hub- ert, tive years off, and Mary Le ser, four. They went to Freeport with their parents, who live In Hempstead, While the parents were having juncheon the two | youngsters got in a rowboat to go fishing. “They had drifted two miles from shore when the Car- cich girl saw them She got a | rowboat and When she the children ically. In a raced after them, came up with them were crying hyster- dangerous sea whi tossed the two small boats Uke chips Mary tied the anchor rope of the youngsters’ boat to the stern of her own and fought back against the current Again on shore, she treated the | ttle ones to fee cream and found the parents, to whom she returned the children, and departed with- out saying a word of | rescue, seen MISS VIOLA KRAUS, | NAMED IN NEW ROLE | IN ELWELL CASE) | —————————— MIOLA KK > GITY EMPLOVEES N.Y. WOMEN JUST GET FLAT 20 P. €. INCREASE IN PAY | affects All Whose Salary Was} Not Raised by ‘Legislature —Effective Aug. 20.* | A 20 per cent, ‘ : ary for flat increase of sal- all city employees who did jnot wet their pay raised by action of) the Legisiature (as did the teachers) | Was authorized by the Board of Heti- Mate and Apportionment this after. | noon. The increase |s to become ef- | fective Aug. 20 next. The date was Postponed from Aug. 1 ‘because of the | additional time neoe: | ry for making} up the new payrolis for many more| employees than tt had been intended to Include tn the raise. A spectal revenue bond tssuo of (0,000 will be nelessary to provide the money for the tnore: President La Guardia of the Board of Aldermen offered an amenament that the mintmum increase be $200 a. year, Tho Idea was favored by other members of the Board bit went over for another week in order that a report to the exact ammount tn- volved in the change might be ascer- tained. La Guardia also promised a Mat in- crease of $400 a year for firemen and | policemen, regardless of rank, and that in other departments than the | firemen and potice the increase should | be Hmited to $600 a year. | Comptroller Craig said La Guardia was trying to buy the vote of every office holder in the city: La Guardia said he regretted Craig | was he only man in New York un- friendly to him, “If you keep on as you are going,” replied Craig, "you won't have any friends outside of Sing Sing in eigh- teen months.” as CLOSING TIME 5.30 P. M. SHARP SATURDAY FOR The SUNDAY WORLD’S Classified | Advertisements | ANCH OFFICES CLOSE | BEFORE BO'CL Positively no Classified Adverti me will ber dd for Sunday World after 5.30 P. M. Advertiaing copy for The World shoul prides be in The Worid ofice ON OR BEFORE FRIDAY w | PRECEDING PUBLICATION Yea LL LE iy bo. | we stage a convention, ‘for to-day and Sat HUMANLY MOIST) IS MARBURY VEW Know Gov. Smith Smith Is Honest Because Wife Hasn’t Been RoL ved of $500,000 Jewels, By Elisabeth Marburg (Newly Elected Member of the Demo- cratic National Commictee.) SAN FRANCISCO, July 2 (United Press).—Unt!l 1 the Sar |Francisco Convention I had no idea aitended the country contnined so many super- jmen, Not.a blemish or imperfection in the whole list of Presidential can- didates. Oo hal€ hour allowance his favorite ang got into full swing we were afraid what They are all stai presented he would forget there for and Woodrow Wilson instead of his can- didate, but chances with York. As for the women, after the hit made by “My Brother Theedore's" sister In Chicago they all wanted to get busy and a fine showing was made, The next time, however, that the men tell they Intend putting tho committee of he was nominate Gov, Smith of New me In confidence, Flo Ziegfeld on arrangements. We women of New Yonk beifeve Goy. Smith is honest, because up to | how we haven't detected him buying Rolls-Royce automobile, nor has Mrs, Smith been robbed of $500,000 worth of jewels. We know the Gov- ernor 1s courageous. Review the col- umns of the New York daily paps Alfred BE. Smith has been pro claimed as a “wet,” whereas, he merely moist nad mereiful. We New Yorkers deny we kre stockholders in the Booze Trust— or near beer, or in the hun- dred other sure-paying stock divi- | dends—soft drinks which have been foisted upon the market to the de- struction of the human stomach and |to the detriment of public health Our interest In the whole question is humane, not financial, It's a wonderful convention women finally coming to thuir and their road is clear ahead, Beier Ot 822 Men's & Young Men's Suits, #14, The “HUB” Clothing Corner, Mrondway, | marctay st. (Opocaite Woolworth Building) day, 3,600 id Yours Men's Suits, enuine Malm leach end Coo! Cota Kenyon make, blues, plaids, Urowns, arays, oatural | and fancy mlxed, all eters, 34 to 62 Our special | price for to-day and Saturday $16.05 and $47.05. Open Saturday aight 11 10, Mud Clothiers, Lreadway, corner Uarciay et. —advt. with Brotied ete dia te adr, astonaly when the orator of the! Bourke Cockran took no} own, | soca! | DAY, suLY a, 192 NUGENT OF NEW JERSEY HAS WET. PL TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Thunder showers, ESS SA EDITION a LDUS lA Uo PABA TEES ESN Entered as 0. Pont Office, New Terk, N.Y BRYAN OFFERS A RESOLUTION | TO KEEP THE NATION BONE DRY PALMER FORCES LOSE HOPE: BOOM FOR COX FADING AWAY AS TIME FOR VOTING NEARS Bryan Only Force Against McAdoo, Says Burleson, “and Convention Will Repudiate Bryan’—Ballot- ing May Begin To-Night. By Martin Green, Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening \Vorid.) (Sp SAN FR NCISCO, July 2.—As the convention approaches the | stage of balloting for candidates for President, William Gibbs McAdoo, lee reluctant entry, has the situation well In hand. even money bet. He is better than an William J. Conners of Buffalo sald at? la State convention in Rochester, when he was State Chairrian and his can- didate was John A. Dix for Governor: |"You can't beat somebody with no- | body.” And he was right. William | Gibbs McAdoo is the somebody in | this assemblage of Democrats. There | | | Were a couple of somebodies “opposed to him before he was Informally nom- |{nated, Cox ami Palmer, They d out of the, somebody The McAdgo opposition 1s made up of nobodles and the McAdoo forces are on the offensive. |A CONTINGENCY THAT MIGHT DEFEAT M’ADOO, There may arise controversies ove the platform which will so split tl convention that another somebody will emerge from the hot air of battle |1t might bo that a messuge from the White House would say that Mr, | McAdoo has the nomination pinned to the lining of his inside vest pocket | The Palmer boom has practically |oxploded. Its emblem was a balloon. It bears a striking financial and sen- timental resemblance to the Leonard | A. Wood boom in Chicago. The em- wblem of which was a failure. Postmaster General Burleson sald Jin the convention hall shortly after the proceedings were jnaugurated last night: “There is only one oppositicn to McAdoo that has any force, and that is the opposition of William Jennings Bryan. The cenvention will repudiate Mr. Bryan and Mr. McAdoo's nomination is certain.” Mr, Burleson’s personal forecast of the repudiation of Mr. Bryan Is given as,such, Developments will tell, |COx BOOM, POORLY HANDLED, 1S FADING. Gov. Cox's boom shows signs of | Weakening at the knees. It has not been well handled. Close friends of Gov, Cox admit they have slight hopes of his nomination. They also assert he will not permit himself to be nominated for Vice President, His term as Gpvernor of Ohio does not expire unfil Jan, 8 next, He is a power in Ohio politics and I» so well fortified financially that he looks with horror, his friends say, at any pros- | pect of presiding over the United | States Senate. Ohio delegation, properly handled, might make Gov (Continued on Second Page.) + McADOO IMMUTABLY MUTE. | Preserves Silemce Regarding Pres- i} Idential Nomination, HUNTINGTON, L. 1, July 2 jam G, McAdoo continued this ing bis allence concerning the ‘eratic nomination and would ‘ouss any pha of the San Francisco Convention | Me took the 4.03 tradp for Manhattan, class, Will morn: Demo- not dis aituation ut th | DEFEAT OF BRYAN ON “ORY” PLANK | ~ PLEASES 6OX MEN ;McAdoo and Palmer Also Aided by Omission of the Liquor Issue. By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) | SAN FRANCISCO, | right, 1920),.— | | July 2 (Copy- By implicit but not ox | plicit action the Democratic Convention Natlonat the question—just as you ‘The committee wrangled all night and finally decided to omit any reference to Prohibition, 1s molst or dry on Prohibition please. platform | Since the wets were unable to got an affirmative statement, they pre- ferred omission of a dry plank. The Anti-Saloon League itself regarding the constitutional! amendment and the Volstend Act as a part of the law | of the land has sought no expreston | from either the Republican or Demo- cratic conventions. Everybody, therefore, is satisfied to let the matter rest exe ept William | Jennings Bryan, who worked until the early hours of the morning on a minority report which is to tuchide his dry plank. This he proposed to | carry to the floor in the hope that the dry delegates would not daro to vote against it But thls convention is anxious to get to balloting and will support the majority report of the! Platform Committee WETS ALL WELCOME A DEFEAT FOR BRYAN. A turn down of Bryan would be | Welcome to the wets because {t would to Amend It. their plank inserted in it: REED REFUSES TO HEAD THIRD’ PARTY TICKET Nothing in It, Senator Declares— Has Always Been a Democrat, He Says. SAN FRANCISCO, July 2. ENATOR JAMBS BR. REED of Missouri, asked if he in- tended té support the Dem- ocratic ticket, replied: “T will answer that after they nominate a candidate and adopt a platform. I wil) say this: That there is nothing to the talk of my becoming a candidate on third ticket. "[ have always been a Demo- crat and expect to live and die a Democrat, unless the Democratic Party goes entirely insane, and I don't think it wil, a DAY’S PROGRAMME AT THE CONVENTION IN SAN FRANCISCO Report of Platform Committee First Business, With Balloting on Candidates to Follow, SAN FRANCISCO, July 3. O-DAY'S Democratic Conven- I tion programme te as fol- lows: Mects at 10 A, M. (2 P. M. New York time.) Report of the Platform Com- mittee to be presented and con- sidered, After adoption of platform, bal- loting for Presidential nominee to begin. RYAN 'CHANGE SEAT SELLS FOR $98,000 Cost $4, 500. When Pi Purchased by Broker’s Father, Who Later Gave It to Stutz Executive. Allan A, Ryan was to-day notified by the Board of Governors of the Stock Exchange that his seat has been sold for $98,000, Ryan was recently expelled from the Stock Exchange for his al- leged cornering of Stutz Motor Com- pany stocks last March. The iast previous sale brought $100,000, Mr, orlg|nally cost $4,500, of @ meat Ryan's a It was boug’ at |help give the impression that the af pl TREN RR SHERRIE ORE NS |Democrats in convention assembled] 4 report tong circulated in Wall jre fused to go bone dry, but left it to| street that Mr. Ryan was about to | individual States and individual e. bring suits aggregating — $10,000,000 |didates for Federal and State offices to say what modifications in exlating laws they favored, One part of the country now can Vote wet and an- lother dry without embarrassment to the Presidential and Vice Presiden- tial nominees, The Cox managers were elated by the omission of the plank of the Pro- hibition question, ‘They have been telling delegates (Continued on Second Page.) | months ago. t the Exchange included as one probable actions that of di ciation im the value of the seat alnce the time Ryan ordered it sold, when he resigned from the Exchange three At that time seats wer selling around $110,000. ‘Thus, It was indicated, Mr. Rywn's rumored depre clation action conld be for only $12,000. — ME, WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU, inylting (Work) Building. 3-68 pee How (Deck tain tor yond night, | Money for sale, Aant (Racing Entre on Page 2.) \ Y iad? PRICE TWO CENTS ‘® Growing accustomed to late starts, | Pissed as Reported by the Com mittee Omits Any Mention of the Liquor Question, and Both the Wets and the Drys Are Seeking AUDITORIUM, SAN FRANCISCO, July 2.—All set for the battle jof wets and drys, the Democratic National Convention assembled this nlorning with everything ready for a battle royal. The first skirmish of — the fight ‘was set to come on the submission of a wet plank by James P. | Nugent of New Jersey and a dry plank by William J. Bryan, There was little prospect for balloting for a nominee before to-night, if then, a though hundreds of delegates were clamoring for short work on the plate form and an early start on the voting, As reported by the Committee on Resolutions, the platform omitted both dry and wet planks, and the object of both factions was to have the delegates and crowds were than ever in @rriving for the fAtth: — day's session, and when\the Pipe organ began its recital a hour before the hour set es yening, its harmony gurged out an almost empty For a while the organist confine@ himself to opera, but as the crowd BO+ ~ gan to gather he switched to a lves ller air and got some of the. earty arrivals singing and whistling, There. seemed to be @ holiday spirit in the galleries, as they looked forward te a real show, The hour of ten came and went with: hardly @ handful of delegates on the floor and with great empty patches in the galleries. Only a few of the big leaders had come in. BRYAN CARRIES FIVE AMEND~ MENTS TO CONVENTION. Mr. Bryan caine to the Convention hall prepared to offer five planks as minority reports. His dry plank was the sameeas the one he announced om Mis arrival tn San Francisco tast week. In another plank he renewed his fight for @ national dulletin to be published by the Federal Government, He had been defeated last night tm 4 fight before the Committee om Platform to have a dry plank Inserted on & reported vote of 30 to 12, Mr. Bryan and Mr, Nugent dis- cussed the order of thelr recognition with Chairman Robinson and it wee arranged that after the platform has been placed before the convention Nugent would first offer his wet plane _ as an amendment and that Mr, Bryan would offer his dry plank as a sub~ stitute, At 10.29 Bryan appeared on the platform. He was greeted with ap- plause, mostly arn and rather subdued, as it wi most of the crowd had not pene his presence. As the word spreéd@ @round the galleries that Byan wes on the platform, the handclapping: was resumed and lasted about half # minute. Chairman Robinson came onte the platform just after Bryan, together with Chairman Glass of the Resolue tions Committee, Another minority report, dealing with soldier relief, was ready to be presented by Tom D. Lyons of Okla~ homa, It made no mention of a bonus, but declared for a system of farm and home loans. fight of the Irish sympathizers for thetr recognition plank would take had not been revealed. Despite the trouble that was brew. ing behind the scenes the delegates themselves seemed good natured as they gathered on the convention floor, They filed in joking and la as they asked one another what the fireworks were going to be like, Meantime the band, the organ and a ladies’ trio joined in “Smiles,* LEADERS PLAN FOR PUTTING 4 LIMIT ON DEBATE. One of the plans under tion in the back stage conference leaders was a suggestion that debate om the platform be tt : three hours and that baleden, ya Paty Vag Just what form the ~ NR A NS A EE OE