The evening world. Newspaper, July 10, 1920, Page 1

John R. Spears AMERICA’S GREATEST YACHTING AUTHORITY to Describe Cup Races for The Evening World Che “Circulation Books Open to All.” | oar CHIEF ISSUE IN COX CAMPAIGN “Circulation Books Open to All.” | TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Fair and Warm, EXTRA Jen LELSE ITs EVES Co.’ (The Copyright, 1970, by The bing Press Pul ‘New York World). NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1 HIGHLY PAID CITY OFFICIALS GET THE BlG SALARY RAISES UNDER “20 PER GENT. PLAN” Large Percentage of Political Ap- pointees and Friends of Those in| Power Among Beneficiaries at Expense of Poorer Paid Munici- pal Employees. How the higher salaried city employees in the departments of Mayor) Hylan and Comptroller Craig will benefit by the proposed flat {ncrease of 20 per cent. is shown in the accompanying list. When a 20 per cent, in- crease is granted to a $1,500 a year clerk it means an increase of only $300 a year. When a 20 per cent. increase is granted a $6,000 a year political appointee {t means a salary advance of $1,200 a year. The Legislature allowed New York City to borrow $5,000,000 with which to Increase salaries. It is claimed by the poorer paid employees that the 20 per cent. raise decided upon should not apply equally to all city employees irrespective of their salaries but should be used to aid those who most need it. It will cost over $400,000 to meet the 20 per cent. increases of higher salaried employees in the Mayor's and Comptrojler's lepartments alon It is roughly estimated that it will cost in the neighborhood of $700,000 to pay the flat 20 per cent. increase to employees receiving over $3,000 In all city borouglis and county departments which will be affected by the $5,000,000 appropriation. There are many city employees recelving above $3,000, among them lawyers, onginecrs, secretaries and specialists, who admittedly earn their salarics. But a very large percentage of the higher salarted beneficiaries under the flat 20 per cent. {nerease are political appointees—relatives, friends and favorites of those in power. Following is a list, by departments, of higher salaried employees who Will benefit by the flat 20 per cent. increase: CITY CLERK'S OFFICE rst Deputy M. J. Cruise pity City Clerk Jobn F. Yashier Thomas B. Jones Dlerk Edward W. Hart he y 2:83 PRESIDENT BOARD OF ALDERMEN. feu to President La Guardia, Fred Oppikater. $§.500 ~ Quayle?! aminer Frank Bowers. . aminer Legislative Private Secretary to President, Miss BOARD OF ESTIMATE, oretary Wilifam O'Connor Beoretary Joseph H Assistant Secretary Director FP. Rerit - Assistant Director Paul Lozier.... Assistant Engineer John F. Sullivan Assistant Engineer John A, McCall Assistant Engineer Winfred H, Rober: (Continued on Second Page.) New Canadinn Premier Sworn In. OTTAWA, Ont, July 10.—Arthur Cent. Freight Increane, Meighen was aworn in to-day as Prime! MONTRBAL, July 10.—The Canadian Minister of Canada, succeeding Sir (Railway Association, represcnting all Robert Borden entire Borden Cabl-|lines in the Dominion, today applied to net resigned. The new Premier will name | the Railway Commission for a 30 per Linistry Monday inonsass ln falas t-saten Canadian Railways Ask 30 PF. “UNCLE SAM of FREEDOM RIDGE” (COMPLETE) By Margaret Prescott Montague ~ The Story President Wilson So Heartily Praised While Talking to Louis Seibold of The World Staff in His Famous Interview of June 18th. Read this paragraph, taken from the Seibold article published in The World of June 18, 1920, | The President told me that he naturally found great pleasure in reading, in which he is not restricted, I asked him what works or stories had recently impressed him most. He said he had read three or four good detective stories “to balance the serious stuff.” He made an admirably told tale that made so profound an impression on the President as to provoke him to say, with a deep touch of sentiment, ‘That lady has written a story which breathes of a patriotism so pure and wholesome as to make the other things of life seem of little ||| WOMAN IS BURIED 920. Entered an Second-Cinss Matter Post Office, New ¥: PRICE TWO CENTS THRER CENTS IN GREATER NEW YORK ELSEWH ‘ork, N. Ys ERe RIPE BUTTERMILK OVER 2.75 LIMIT, CHEMIST FINDS Every Seller of This Beverage, He Says, Is Liable Under Prohibition Law, “KR WILMINGTON, DEL. AL ripe buttermilk” con- tains 3 per cent. alcohol, Dr. Herbert Watson, Btate Chemist, informed Judge Hastings in City Court. vender of buttermilk is Hable to prosecution, Watson said Long before the dry wave en- gulfed the whole United States, buttermilk had become very Popular among the “brass rail brigade,” much to the astonish- mient of the barkeepers. It was gold at almost all bars. It was reserved for a scientist to dis- cover the reason. BEFORE RELATVES EARN OF DEAT Body of Mrs, Laute ‘Not *Em- balmed, Though Undertaker Puts in Bill of $225. When Mrs. 706 11th visit her sister, Elizabeth Lyons of No. Avenue recently went to Mrs, Julla widow, who lived in a furnished room at No, 244 East 53d Street, she learned her sister had been killed by a dentally inhaling illuminating gas, four months previous, and had been buried in the Mount Olivet Cemetery on Feb. 23 by William J. Dargeon, undertaker, of No. 954 Amsterdam Avenue, without the consent or knowl- edge of any of the dead woman's relatives, one of whom, Mrs. Eliza- beth Carrol, lives at No, Third Avenue, a distance of only three blocks from the house where her cousin had died. Mrs. Laute was found dead in her room on Feb. 18. The police noti- fled the Medical Examiner's office, and after Investigation, Dr. Schwartz pronounced the death due to accident Detective Donohue of the Bureau of Missing Persons reported he had learned that the dead woman had relatives in New York, including her father, who is an inmate of the City Home, ‘but he was unable to locate them. : Among the effects found in Mrs Laute's room was a book of insurance receipts, showing that she had made payments up to date on a policy of $290. The beneficiary of the insur- ance was her father, Richard Roder- ick, an inmate of the City ‘Home, Blackwell's Island, and the origina! policy was in the possession of her sister, Mrs, Lyons, However, the Public Administrator's office declared there was no beneficiary to the estate, and after the body had remained a. (Continued on Second Pago.) YANKEES WIN AGAIN AT TENNIS ABROAD Johnston and Tilden Defeat French Team !n Doubles of Davis Cup Meet. Laute, a LONDON, July 10.—William Mf. Jobn- ston and William 'T. Tilden, of the American team, to-day de! Andre Gobert and William 41, Laurenta of France in the first double match for the Davis Cup at bourne. The Amer Jeans took the match In straight seta 6-2, 6-3 and 6-2 most flattdring reference to a story recently, printed in the Atlantic Monthly and written by Margaret Prescott Montague. The title of it is “Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge,” consequence. I wish that every per- ||| son that questions the benefits to hu- manity that will be guaranteed by the League of Nations might read it | Don't forget to read it, Seibold.” | Exclusively in THE WORLD To-Morrow wv Gare fi _ Throws Away 15,000 tn Jewelry, y York police are holding a negres for the Saratoga police, who asked for the arrest of a Miss Josephine Barnes on a grand larceny charge. Detect Charles Webb arrested the woman at 125th Strect Stating of the New York Central last night, On the way jto the station house threw away a ‘packet contaiging $15,000 In jewelry, a detective picked up ra WHOLE ROW OF DWELLINGS, FACTORY AND LUMBER YARD GO UP IN BROOKLYN BLAZE renee ae Saloon and Lunchroom Also Destroyed in Fire That Causes $2,000,000 Loss FIVE PERSO! Many Barely Saved from Tenements—Ship yard Em- ployees Save Big Plant In three-quarters of an hour to- day $2,000,000 wo. h of homes, ware- houses and lumber was burned in the | block ef ‘Third Avenue, Brooklyn, be- 27th and 28th Streets. Only the direction of the wind and per- reckless tween sistont flame fighting city firemen and employees of the James Shewan and Sons shipyards prevented the spread of the blaze to ho shipbuilding plant with @ loss of millions of dollara more. Fire started in the lumber sheds of the W. .A, Starr Lumber Company, against which $750,000 worth of spruce lumber was piled. When Policeman James Murphy of the Fourth Avenue station first saw the smoke and sparks the spruce was al- dy burning, and by the time the firemen arrived it made a giant bon fire, sending streamers of crackling ‘lames 100 feet in the alr, A stiff breeze blowing from the waterfront and Murphy, seeing the immediate danger to the row of nine ‘two-story frame tenements along Third Avenue, hastened to give ning to the dwellers there of their peril. The houses were barely emptied, other poligemen joining with Murphy in hustling the occupants to the street and making sure that no children or sick persons were left behind, before the fire was eweeping wer them, All were destroyed, The Bayside Sash and Blind fac- tory, a half million dollar plant, was n the sweep of the blaze a moment later. There were only three persons in the building and they got out safely, A saloon and lunch room in a two story building In which the proprietor, George Daniels, lived with his fa. withstood the heat even less than did the frame buildings when the Dlast was at its height. Deputy Chief O'Hara sent tn four tlarms as soon as he arrived, making ve in all and blocking the surround- ng streets with fire apparatus. The workmen in the Shewan yards were mustgred in fire fighting formation ulmost as soon as the city firemen arrived and their hose and chemical engins and thelr new fireboat helped save the big plant Robert J. Wagler, a fireman of Tuck No. 230, was struck and knocked Jown by a blazing plank, flying like a burning shaving from the lumber yard, and was badly burned about the body and arms, He way attended by a surgeon from the Methodist Epis- copa) Hospital. Mrs. M. Kogel was also treated for shock and hysteria after she was helped out of her home at No. 802 ‘Third Avenue, just before jt crumpled Firemen William Rudloff and fred- erick Schiich of Engine No. 27) and M e! Nolan of Truck No. 122 were slightly injured by ‘burns and cuts about the Hinds and feet, Joseph Vitel of No 30th Street, a work man in the Shewan plant had his| hands badly mashed. | By noon, Assistant Chief Martin, who started from Fire Headquarters in Manhatta fourth wlarm, * said the flames were under control avd would nol get across the street jout of the tWirned bloc |not get into the shipya wind made an aniikely change. , and could d unless the The S INJURED} EX SOLDIER READY TODIEFORKLLNG WIFE AND TRANP | Wanderer Admits Double Mur- der in Fake Hold-Up Was to Get Woman’s Estate. CHICAGO, July 10.—Formal charges of murder were prepared to-day by State's Attorney Maclay Hoyne to be preferred ngainst Curl Wanderer, former army sergelft, who COnteNsed last night to the killing of his wife and a tramp. The motive for the murders was first given by Wanderer as @ desire to go back to the free from marital ties, It army, was Inter revealed, according to the police, that he wished to Inherit her estate and did not in tend to rob her. In his confession, the police satd, Wanderer declared that he had delib- WIFE MURDERED IN FAKE HOLDUP AND HER SLAYER Se eas erately shot to death his ibride of a few months in the hallway of his home and that he also had shot an unwitting victim of his planning, a man, unarmed, whom he enticed there so he could kill him and then him of having tried to rob him and his wife, who in two months would have become a mother, ‘The unidentified man used by Wan- derer to pose as a robber and then slain was partly identified as William Noeth, who in 1911 or 1912 was em- ployed by the Gentry Bros.’ Circus while in South Bend, Ind. ‘e shill go before the Grand Jury and ask Wanderer’s indictment on a charge of murder,” State's Attorney Hoyne said. "It 1s one of the most cold-blooded and revolting crimes in Chicago's history We shall ask an immediate trial and the rope.” WANTS TO BE HANGED, SLAYER SAYS NOW, “LT want to be hanged,” Wanderer commented. “I hope to join her in death. I wonder if she will forgive me, Well, I loved her too much to let another man get her. But I didnt want her myself.” Wanderer said that he did not wish to desert his wife and join the army, but wished to be “free.” He was moved from the cell he oc- cupied in the Detention Home yester- day to the death cell, from which sev- eral murderers have gone to their fate. : “T ke the cell all right, but 1 can’t rest on these he declared “Get my blankets from my old cell.” This was done, He continued: “I certainly will sleep much better now. I feel better with that off my chest. 1 had bad dreams, and the picture of the hallway with my wife lying there came back once acouse boards,” in a while, 1 feel like a new man, and I'm ready to kick off whenever they want to take me.” One of the anomalies of the case |which misled the police for weeks was the romance of the couple and thelr apparently happy marned life, Wan- derer, who had never smoked, chewed, drank or indulged in slang, had but one love affair. the one with Ruth Johnson, who became his wife at th conclusion of » war rom “She was the only git) T ever kissed,” he told the police, He tuok her to ehureh every Sunday. They married after the ex-Lieutenant returned from tire wus expected ty Qurn forhours, ies + PARES HIS SKN GRAFTS I ON WE TOSWVEER FE Chicago Surgeon Averts Am- putation of His Mate’s Leg by Heroic Operation. CHICAGO, July 10.—Orlando P. Scott, one of Chicago's best known surgeons, who as a Captain in the Medical Corps of the American Army operated on liquid fire cas French battlefields, one cases on the to-day performed of the most amazing operations in surgical annaly by slicing twelv: inches of skin from his own leg and transplanting it to that of his wife to save her from disfigurement, Dr. and Mrs. Scott are recovering from the double operation, although Dr. Scott will bear the scars through lit From his own thigh Dr, Scott sliced the strips of skin which he grafted onto his wife's foot and ankle while another physiclan attended to his wounds, He took no anaesthetic not @ loc nd he made the bitter sac yut wincing, his principal concern & for his wife, whom he consoled during the operation with soothing wor Mra. Scott's injuries were the re: sult of an automobile accident, Her right leg was broken in five places and the skin was stripped from it in long gashos. Holding his wife's unconscious rm in one arm the surgeon sped the hospital, where he called on Dr. Ira Roberts to operate. The pa tient, however, regained conscious | ooona, OUMEMESTALMANT: Hoe; ‘salinun sale Corned beet and | payonnat Bas Weta he COX 10 APPEAL TO NATION FOR RATIFICATION OF TREATY: REGARDS LODGE AS A BIGOT Will Start Tour of the Nation in California and Visit Every State —Favors Two Clarifying Reser- vations to the League Covenant. By George Buchanan Fife. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) DAYTON, July 10.—As Gov, Cox has already made official an- nouncement of his intention to undertake a campaign of speech-making’ which shall take him to every State in the Union he can reach between August and November, as distinguished from the rocking-chair-on-the-\ front-porch campaign to be staged simultaneously at Marion, it may be stated that the Governor has made deliberate choice of the chief issues upon which he will base his campaign, _>.These-are Ratification of, the League.of Nations. and the Treaty of » Peace. These he believes to be the real issues in the struggle, far transcending Prohibition, Woman Suffrage, labor and everything else, for he believes that ratification of the league will forever prevent a tion of the recent gigantic clash of nations, to which he says most of the problems which are now vexing America are due. But while he favors a ratification H, C..L. HITS BETTING [ioc Sr tos wagur of tials chron ne AND COMMISSION _ |¢luding the tempest-raising Article OF 5 P.C. 1S ASKED he ts willing to accept two reser- Stakeholders More Than Double vations, He favors these, it la well understood, in behalf of those who Charge for Wagers On Elections and Sporting Events, may fear the integrity of this coun- Be cocen beware! That old try is involved In @ ratification of the league of Nations in its present form, HAS TWO SUGGESTIONS AS TO LEAGUE RESERVATIONS. octupus, Ce Lay wil se wtnani HES Oe Revell The two reservations Gov, Cox is r another tentacle | reaay to aces Ned around you if you don't watch 0 accept are these: One—A reservation which will dispel the bogey whioh has frightened some people into be- lieving that the league will be- some an offensive alliance in- stead of one to end all conflict, Gov. Cox wants to have the United States become a signa- tory to the league with the clear understanding that the nations make the compact to preserve peace and making it possible for the United States to withdraw in gase other nations act in bad faith or contrary to this under- standing. Two-A reservation whieh shall state unequivocally that, as @ party to the leag the Gov- ernment of the United States can Go no further than its Coneti- tution permits, and that the power and right to declare war are vested solely in Congress, The Governor ig convinced that if the people can be assured of the in- clusion of two such reservations, there will be no difficulty whatever in =| winning them over to a belief in the out, Persons with sporting proclivi- ties who intend to back up their opinion onthe outcome of the election or the yacht race must not forget that they are living in a hectic period. Even betting commissioners who occupy such positions only as a side line to their regular business have more than doubled thelr charge for handling Bets. Until recently a person could Place a wager of any big sport- ing proposition and pay 2 per cent. to the stakeholder, But the cost of betting has now shot up in about the same proportion as the cost of food, fuel and cloth- ing, In other words, 150 per cent Owing apparently to the greater danger of infection from handling money, or some other reason not made entirely clear, betting commissioners have de- 4 they must charge a com- mission of & per cent, for hand- ling bets, old ness just as she was about to be| Supreme advisability of such a league placed under the anaesthetic, among the nations of the world. It D no,” she cried. “Not a|!# his opinion, according to the same trustworthy authority which ex- plained to-day his views upon the league, that had it not been for Sen- ators Borah and Johnson, who stranger, | want you to perform the operation,” It Is not customary for a surgeon to operate upon those near gnd dear to him, Dr, Scott was in no con-| threatened to lead a bolt if Senator dition to work. The accident had | Lodge assumed a conciliatory atti- been a shock to his nerves. Imme- | tude, the league would have been rat- diately, however, he composed him- | ified in the Senate, This was pre- self and set the leg vented, he believes, by much less Mrs, Scott was on @ fair way to|than @ one-third minority, with recovery, however, when complica-| Borah and Johnson as the real fac- Jtlons set in, Gangr formed and} tors, Sone one who {s very close to a skin-grafling operation was decided | the Governor sald to-day: on, | “Cox looks on Senator Lodge's Dr. Scott removed a sharp razor| subsequent attitude a subordi- from his kit, bared his right leg and | pation of the civilization of the began to chip off the little bits of | world te the welfare of the Re- skin, Which he turned from time to] time and placed on the bare wound by political created to embarrass President prompt: bigotry, f his wife, the wil and prolonged with et ‘the publle son + eee cee -