The evening world. Newspaper, July 12, 1920, Page 1

SURVIVORS OF SUNKEN SHIP ARRIVE NEW THIRD PARTY MAY DEFEAT HARDING To Night's Weather—SHOWERS. John R. S AMERICA'S GREATEST Be AUTHORITY to Descrite Cup Races for The Evening pears World Copyright, 19: Pree. (Ths by The Prem Publishing jew York World). _NEW YORK, MONDAY, ‘JULY 1, To-Morrow’s Weather—FAIR. RPE UN Aa 1920. Enteréd ae Seoond-Clase Matter Pont Office, New York, N. ¥- ee THIRD PARTY REAL MENACE TO THE SUCCESS OF HARDING: MAY SWING THE NORTHWEST * Threaten to Take Away Votes That Have Been Counted On by Republ Republicans, SITUATION AN ANI ALYZED. Small Majority in in Electoral College for Harding Figured Out Present Outlook. By David Lau iaavenbe. (Special Correspondent of The - Evening World.) CHICAGO, Il. July 12.—(Copyright, 1920).—Many things may _ happen twixt now and Election Day, bug if the polls in the Presidential contest were to be closed to-morrow certain other things would surely happen— suohvas;-fot instance, the election of Warren Harding as President of the, ‘United States, And if the third party Movement develops even the mini- mum strength expected of it—name- ly, the carrying of Minnesota, Wis-| Dakota—Gov. | consin and North James Cox of Ohio may be the happy beneficiary and President of the United States, However insignificant the Third Party may appear to Eastern eyes; however much it may be derided as socialistic, ultra-radical and Hearst- made; the fact is it docs menace Re- publican victory more than it does Democratic, For the Democrats who nominated Cox of Ohio deltberately forfeited the West and chose to make thelr battleground in the East. Gov. Cox may Invade the West suc- cessfully, but based on things as they are to-day, he has less than an oven chance of carrying any Western State except Culifornia and Montana. FORECAST OF THE VOTE AT THE COMING ELECTION. It Js perhaps early to make definite orocasta, hut thero ts nevertheless a {xed opinion in the mind of a delo- ate as to what the chances of his wn party In his State are to-day. fter canvassing numorous delogates t the Chicago and San Francisco onventions, asking them not to at- empt to my definitely how their tates were going, but merely what hey believed thelr own chances to de, the writer deduced from hboth Democratic and Republican opinions table in which the electoral yote vould seem to be tending in a direc- fon something Iike this: State, Cox, Harding, Alabaina ., sree 1D ATIMONA cirreeeseeeeens & - Arkansas ,,,,, veo 18 = California ree) _ Colorado , 6 - Jonnecticut ee! 7 Delaware , i 4 Florida ’ 6 Georgia . 4 TAA prrryersreeeee im N\4 MMM pore eserrre renee 2 Indiana vyssrrrerrserees 18 aa TOW westerners eT teed cr) (Continued on 8 WOULD STOP GARAGE AND MOVIE BUILDING nond Py Acting Borough President Josepn A, Gulder of Brooklyn held a conference with the heads of the varieus bureaus of the borough to-day to discuss the ad- visability of refusing permits fop the erection of garages and motion plctury eatres, Commissioner Guilder, a rooklyh butider, sald he felt that 'suen a refusal pf pofmits for garages a tion pleture theatres would holn ma Trinity "to waive the housing problem. ‘our oF fiya such theatres are now be ing, copatrusted in Pialbush Borough President Rivgelmann, who ty expected pa National Democratic said ial. POLAND RESENTS ALLIES’ ORDER, BUT WILL ASK TRUCE Premiers Had Stipulated That Polish Forces Be Withdrawn to Own Frontier, SPA, July 12.—The Polish delega- tion at the oonference here is much dinsatisfied with the terms of the Allied note to the Russian Soviet Government proposing an armistice {between the Bolshevik and Polish armies, They feel, however, that they will be obliged to accept it. SPA, Belgium, July 12 (United Press).—Polish Premter Grabskl, here attending the council of , Premiers, telegraphed to-day to Gen. Pilsudski at Warsaw to open negotiations. im- mediately for an armistice with the Bolsheviki. Various reports reaching here from Waksaw indicated that the situation was improving on the Polish front. ‘The Péles were retreating on the e1:- tire front, but it was stated their morale was excellent and the retreat was orderly, Most war material was saved by tho Poles as they withdrew. In response to appeals for volunteers the Warsaw police volunteered in a body to go to the front. WARSAW, July 11 (Associated Pregs)—The Bolshevik, according to # communication issued to-day, have occupied Smolewicz and Sarmy and the battle {s continuing In the virin- ity of Minsk. The Polish forces are sald to have retired south of the Pripet and In Podolia, but the Bol- shevik attacks have been repelled near Janina and between the Pripet and Puyes, whero the enemy losses are declared to have been heavy. day's despatches announced the ‘ending of a proposal by the Allles o the Moscow Government for an ‘e@rmistico with Poland on condition fiat the Poles retire within the na- ural Polish frontiers. It was set forth that the armistice would be followed by a conference of representatives of all the coun- tlc on the Russian border, and that 4 the Bolshoyild attacked the Polos within these frontiers the Allies wpuld come to the ald of Poland, ALL MEXICO “DRY,” PLAN ADVOCATED BY DE LA HUERTA Provisional President Hopes In That Way to Regenerate Indians and Half-Breeds, MEXICO CITY, July 1. PGISLATION making all L Mexico “dry iu being prey pured for presentation to the next Congress at the office of Provisional President da 1a Huerta, says the newspaper Universal, “Phe Provisional President has decided on thia stop," says the newspaper, "as u means of ao- neration of ed races, consumers of pomplishing the row the Indian and half-b which aloohol,”" are great rida, Yuly a aa ‘ GOVERNOR DASHES HOPE OF SUFFRAGE VOTE IN VERMONT Declines to Call Special, Ses- sion of Legislature Even on Harding’s Plea. ATTACKS THE “SUFF: Criticises Their Methods and Talks About Their Lobby- ing for the Vote. RUTLAND, Vt., w. proclamation July 12.—Gov. Per- issued a refusing to the Legisiathre in special seseion to make possible ratification of the Federal amendment for Woman Suffrage. During @ recent conference Senator Harding is understood to have asked clval Clement to-day call Goy. Clement to call an extra session for the the ‘Suffrage amendment. Gov. Clements's proclamation as- serted that “as it stands and is in- terpreted by the Supreme Court to- day, the Federal Constitution threat- ens the foundation of free popelar government.” The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution, he said, “had been lobbied through Con- gress and State Legislatures by pose of having a vote on Federal Agents, and the Eighteenth had been fédreed through by ‘powerful and irre- sponsible organizations, operating through paid agent “It is now proposed sto force through the Nineteenth Amend- ment for woman suffrage in the same manner and also without the sanction of the freemen. “I have been asked to overlook these considerations as a matter of party expediency, but this {s a mat- ter of principle, not expediency, and the party that invades a well-estab- lished principle of popular govern- ment will suffer in the end. “The provisions for changes In the Federal Constitution to which, we Vermonters are loyal subscribers are in conflict with those Iald down in the Constitution of Vermont. The Federal Constitution provides that proposals for change therein shall, if favorable action is taken thereon by the Congress, be submitted to the Legislatures of the aeveral States for their action, and the Supreme Court of the United States has in a recent decision, Hawke vs, Smith, June 1, 1920, deotared: ‘The referendum provisions of Btute constitutions and statutes cannot be applied consistently with the Constitution of the United States in the ratification or rejections of amendmenta to It,’ “Thin decision leaves the people at the meroy of any group of men, who may lobby ® proposal for change in the Federal Constitution through Congress and then through the Leg- {slatures of the Btates, "If the people of Vermont, tn ac- cepting @ piace in the union of Btates, inadvertently lost in whole or jn part the right of self-fovernment and conferred |t on a Legislature, there to all the more reason why a Legis- lature should not pasa upon a ques- tion which has arisen wince their election and upon which their eon stituents have had ne opportunity to express themselves. “As it stands and ia interpreted by the Bupreme Court to-day, the Federal Constitution threatens the foundation of free popular govern. ment" When Informed of Gov, Clements'a action, Mrs, Carrie Chapman Catt, President of the National American Suffrage Aswociation, to-day lasued the following statement; phe work ef raiifieation will be shed sirongly forward in Tennes MRS. COX NOT A NEITHER “SUFF”’ SHE SAYS IN FIRST INTERVIEW ieectad Too Busy Caring For Hus- band and Baby to Take Part in Public Affairs. By George Buchanan Fife. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World. DAYTON, O., July 12.—Mrs. James M. Cox granted to your spondent the first interview she has ever accorded a newspaper man. It corre- was at Trail's End, the Governor's summer home, a long, low French chatdau, gleaming white among the | trees on a hillside overlooking the Miam! Valley, “about half a dozen miles from Dayton, In all the years that Gov, Cox has been in public life the Hght that has followed him about has never before penetrated to the recesses of his home life, where his wife prégides in he quiet, smiling, helpful way. She has, of her own choice, rémained in the %ackground so far as the public is concerned, holding herself to be all of her husband's private life and not even a part of his public career. Her attitude toward it all is best summed up in her answer to an irt&siry about politics, whether she was a Suffragist or an Anti. She replied, with her meaningful smile: “I am neither; I am the Governor's wife.” When I asked Gov. Cox if it might be possible to have a word or two with Mrs. Cox, he replied. “Yes, I'm sure of it, although you'll find she will be just a bit timid at so unusual a thing. You see, Mrs. Cox has neve talked with a newspaper man in life. But you'll find her just a plain, homg-lovin&y baby-loving American wo! Yes, that and something more, because any woman who 1s the wife of a man in public life and who can smile every hour in a day \s a re- markable woman.” MRS. COX SAYS SHE KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT POLITICS. It was only a moment after that that Gov. Cox led his wife into the little sitting réom on the second floor of Trall's End and to her dismay, manifest In the inquiry im her eyés and the hesitant smile on her lips, left her to the* mercies of her first interviewer. “The only: other newspaper mau who has ever interviewed me is my husband," she exclaimed, her smile broadening, “and it's never about poll- tles, because I really know nothing about politics.” She was assured that this was not the intent of the visitor, whereupon she said, with another smile, in which relief robbed it of nothing of win- someness: “Then there are lots of other things I can talk to you about.” ‘To aid the reader in visualizing Mrs, Cox, she ts rather tall, the strong, flowing figure of an out-of-doors woman, Her hair {s dark auburn, red whore the slanting sun struck through it, and her eyes are brown and fine, A woman Interviewer would haye noted that she wore a dark blue ail wwoater, a white shirt waist with frilly things at tho wrists, a white serge skirt, ploated, and with the nar- rowest of black lines in the material, Bhe had on low buckskin shoes and white silk stockings, She looked as it she had just come jn from out of doors, A diamond and platinum ring and 9 wedding ring of the same metal were her only bite of jewelry, “Here at Trail's End,” Mra, Cox aald, “1m where ny husband and I get away from politica, or at least we did until he wan nominated, Here !s whore we (Continued on Fifth Page.) Classified Advertisers Important ! Pee and Per tos ’oe Te On or Before Friday Preceding Publication arly copy recoly when Bunday ady: tile to Be of time to set It. pmitted, Late eth THE WORLD, mitted for act POLITICIAN; NOR ANTI, IGYEAROLD GIRL S BROUGHT INTO WANDERER CASE ace Aa Slayer of Wife Denies He Wished to Be Freeon Young Woman’s Account. CHICAGO, July 12,—A theory that Carl Wanderer shot and killed wife and 4 hired “robber” because of his Interest in a sixteen-year-old girl was being investigated to-day by the police, Confronted with tho girl In his Wanderer for the first time since his cell, his arrest lost composure momentarily, but firmly denied the girl had had any influenge on his desire to be free. In one of his statements to the police Wanderer had said he shot his wife 80 he could return to the army and be free f.om the care of his wife and the baby they expected next month, The girl, Julia Schmitt, told t police she had known Wanderer some time and had gone to an amusement park with him several times, but did not know he was married. She wax not held, as the police announcéd after questioning that they were convinced she had no knowledge of the murder plot which was carried out in the lobby of Wanderer’s apartment’! June 2. Wanderer to-day maintained his calm attitude in regard to the mur- ders and talked of his dead without emotion. The identification of the hired “rob- ber” as John J. Maloney of Rivor Point, R. L, was further supported to- day by John Welland, clerk at a hotel | where Maloney had stayed three days | Just before he was slain and had reg- Astered under that name, WOMAN ‘STEPS OFF MOVING CAR; KILLED |Carrled Past Her Street, She Gets Off Trolley Before Motor- man Stops It, wife ELWELL GASE HUNT CENTRES ON SINGLE CHECK TO WOMAN Report of Estrangement of Cougle Over Gift Traced by Investigators, BOTH OUT OF THE CITY. Prosecutor and Police Work Together—Capt. Carey Hints at “Sensational” Arrest, The police and the District Attor- ney’s office working together on the mystery of the murder of Joseph B, Elwell centred their attention t6- day on a new story in the long list of the clandestine relations of the whist expert with many women, ‘The new story brings in the name of a young woman, soc!ally prominei.t, who was marriéd less than a year ago. The authorities are anxious to question her and her husband, but sh® {is now outside the subpoena reach of the District Attorney's office, and her husband is known to be still further away. A check bearing Elwell's signature and the indorsement of the woman is the basis of the District Attorney's interest. The amount is several hundreds of dollars, The date tn prior to the woman's marriage, The information thus far obtained ts that existence of the check was learned by the husband, who questioned his wife about it, and that her answer was of a character which brought about an estrangement of the two. District Attorney Swann discov- ered the check, it 4s reported, through his recent elaborate exami- nation of Elwell's banking accounts. A number of bank officials were summoned with their records to re- veal as many as possible of the hitherto unknown names of women who figured oh what has been called Elwell's “Love penton list." This line of investigation ts neces- sarily tedious, but the authorities consider It promising, They are con- vinced that the gnurder was done elther by a woman or by some one acting for a woman, and they be- eve that by making a separate in- quiry In the case of every woman whose name is found in Plwell’s tele- phone list or financtal records they will eventually strike the true trail Some of the investigators, in fact, believe that the true trail has been struck through the ,check described above, but District Attorney Swann dectares that he Js still unready to accuse any person, He im using un- officially the method that the French use officially,—that of suspecting ev- ery possible person until the m picton in a given case is definitely shown to be baseless, ‘This method, which amounts to wholesale suspicion, cannot be used in court, where the presumption of innocence 1s maintained, but it is used to advantage in the preliminary Investigation. Tho Homicide Squad, under Capt Arthur Curey, has been working in- dependently along lines similar to those newly traced by the District ney'a men. ‘The only statement obtainable from Carey's men to-day was that “if we make an arrest it a sensation.” rier, President of the or Works Company and teen other to-morrow when an before for A little woman, about thirty-tive lyears o}a, with a Siath Avenue transfer }in her hand, wae riding west on a Lith Street trofley at 1 A. M. to~tay when | womebudy reminded her she had just| passed her at Bhe ran to the rear platform and be- fore the conductor could «top her had atopped from the moving oar, She struck | on hor head, and Dr, Beloher, from New | York Howpital, sald lat was inatent. killed, She carried no papers by wniok she could be identified. Bm otighed about 180 pounds and wo, — plack skirt, pink waist and long brown cape and had a wedding ring, - | THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU, Amade. Hujitmes (World) Builditig, dsicus oe, X,Y, Civ. T mea eres mn d aKa'int him charg Ing anlawful possession of liquor, it wis announded to-day by Assistant United Staten Distriee Attorney Al t C, Rothwe Mr, Rothwell ent fol lowed a co e, whieh was attended by .ar, Porter and hie attorney, former Judes William M. K Olcott, and by August Hassenflug, special counsel to Prohibition enforce- ment Agent Shevlin Vollowing Mr, Porter's admission lant week that he had purchased four cases of whiskey from William Barnes, St Club steward and for mer ry to Blwell, Prohibition Knforcement Agents went to the Por- ter home at No, 405 Park Avenue and aeined the liquor, corpora. | PRICE TWO CENTS IN GREATER NEW YORK TWO OF SHIP CREW DROWNED WHEN LAKE FRAMPTON IS SUNK BY COMUS OFF JERSEY COAST Survivors of Stéel Steamer Reach New Yorkon Liner That Rammed Vessel and Rescued Them—Wom- an Tells of the Accident—Ships Crash in Fog Near Atlantic City. The Southem Pacific Liner Comus docked at Pier No. 49, Nérth River, at 2.15 o'clock this afternoon, bringing 32 survivors of the crew of the United States Shipping Board steamer Lake Frampton, which was rammed and sunk early this morning in the fog off Little Egg Hartor,: about twenty mites from Atlantic City. / Two men of the crew of the Lake Frampton were ‘ost, scoring fo passengers and crew of the Comus who witnessed the accident, the Comys's passengers declared thére was no interchange of signals: af fore the crash, which stove in the bow of the Lake Frampton. The steamer sank in ten minutes, according to Max Boesman, steward of the Comus, whose right hand was crushed while helping to BOBS HER OWN HAIR “WHILE BROADWAY CROWD APPLAUDS “Don't | Look Prettier?” (Mrs, Me- Partland Demands of Magistrate Later and Goes Free, P*eae SENTER was called to Broadway and 37th Street early t¢-day by ‘the shouts of men ahd the laugh- ter of women. He found a crow surrounding Mrs, Catherine Me Partland, No, 889 Eighth Avenue, who was cutting great locks of onze hair from her own shapely emi and crying, “pop goes the weasel,” as she tossed the strands into the street: “In fact your Hohor,” the police- man told Magistrate Corrigan in the West Side Court later, “her conduct would have led a strangor to believe that the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Ast were more or less ignored in New York.” ' “Are not you ashamed of your- self?" asked the Magistrate, “Of course 1 am," admitted Catherine, “but don't I look a lot prettier, your Honor, with my hair bobbed?” ‘That stumped the Court. “Shun this stuff they are selling these days,” he said “Sentence suspended.” 2 SHS IRE Beh GIRLS OF 11 AND6 CAUGHT WITH LOOT Child Burglars Had Packed Up $1,000 in Valuables When | Surprised. Mr. and Mra. Pinkus Halle, of No. 2042 Slat Street, Brooklyn, returned home Sunday night to find a light burn- ing in the dining room. There was a wuitcase on the table packed with ail- verware and jewelry valued at $1,000, Mra, Hatlo went out and phoned for tho police. Halle searched the hou: lin the bathroom, he said, he found two small girls trying to remove articles of » there, Pollxemun took tho girls to the Chil- ren's Soctety, On arralgnment tn court to-day thoy said they were Nellie Gasco, eleven, and Louise, alx, her sister, ‘They pleaded guilty to Juvenile dolinquency. They got into the house by removing reon from the bathroom window, val wid, ‘They said they came trom ley, N, J, but the police learned ir home {sat No. 866) fh Street, th Hrooklyn. remanded for sentence, They were ai hoist ene of the life bodts carrying survivors of the Lake Frampton, ro There was little excitement amofig the passengers of the Comus, num- bering ns and the Tf in the ship's crew, following mT accident, Boseman sald. (Mr. and Mra. ia T. Byers of Fére Worth, Tex., who were on the Comus with their granddaughter, Mary Jans Joyselin, ten years old, were awak- ened by the crash and burried ou} deck. “From the point we reached on deck from our stateroom, we could Joo right into tho. gaping hie trn in the s'de of the Lake Frampton," Mrs, Byers said. “The ship was stove in with a great hole running from below line down to below the water's edge, A moment late the water wae black with sallors floundering in the sem and ewimming toward the Copmus, Life boats were being filled by men who cut the ropes and dropped, with- out waiting to lowér themselves, Ip dropping, a number of tho Lake Frampton's crew were hurt. “From the nature of the accident, we supposed there would be many lives Jost and were surprised when we learned that only two had been lost, These were men working in the boller room of the Lake Frampton, They were trapped there and died without a chance to get away, “AS we watched the water pouring Into the hole in the bow, the steamer suddenly lurched and then rolled over on the port side, Soon after the waves closed over the ship. At daylight the Comus started on its way to New York.” The first report of the accident was received here by wireless and shortly after being informed of It by The Evening World, officials of thé companies operating the steamers re+ ceived reports from their captains. Capt. P, M. Middoe of the Comus, early this morning sent a wireless message to 8, M. Cooper, assistan manager of the Southern Pacitig, that the Lake Frampton had beem sunk and that three men of his crew* were missing. A later message by wireless from the Comus to the West India Steams ship Company, No. 26 Boaver Streety operating the Lake Frampton for the Shipping Board, from Capt. Frank Powers of the Lake Frampton, reports ed two men, a fireman and an-oller, missing trom his crew, Another message from-Capt. Middoe stated that two of the three men he reported missing had been found ation and rescued, Both captains fixed the time of the accident at about $30 o'clock. The Comas wa» bound from New Orleans New York, The Lake Frampton, & month in dry dock, left New York Saturday in ballast to pick up @ cargo at Norfolk, Ya, The id aot haves