The evening world. Newspaper, July 20, 1920, Page 1

il ) | ~ John R. S pears AMERICA’S GREATEST Be AUTHORITY Describes Yacht Race SEE T0-MORROW’S EVENING WORLD [* Circulation Books: n to An” | Fi VOL. LXI. NO. 21,488—DAILY. Copreight, Fag by, The Prose Publishing New York World). $600,000 000 MORE WAGES AWARDED 10 2,000,000 RAIL WORKERS BY LABOR BOARD Increase Is 21 Per Cent. and Retro- a active to May 1—Amounts to 60 Per Cent. of Demand—Union Leaders Meet to Decide on Action. CHICAGO, July 20.—The United States Railway Labor Board fox ay awarded the nearly 2,000,000 organized railway workers wage ‘nicreases totalling $60,000,000. The increasé amounts to’ approximately 21 per cent. of the present rates of pay. “The Board assumes as the basis of this decision,” the award says, “th. continuaneg in full force and effect of the rules, working conditions iid agreements in force under the authority of the United States Rail- ‘oad Administration. The intent of this decision is that the named in- crease, except as otherwise ‘stated, shall be added to the rates of com- pensa‘ion established by the United States Railway Administration.” The award ts retroactive to May 1 of this year and grants to the rall- ‘oad workers approximately sixty per cent. of the billion dollar increases |" which they sought. Presidents of all the leading Protherhoods and representatives of the railroad managers were present when the decision was made public. Union heads went into session al- most immediately after the decisian was made public. They expected, by thei r approval or disapproval to-day or to-morrow, to indicate whether there should be a strike or not. John Grunau, head of the Chicago Yardmen's Association, declared the award applies to all railroad men, without regard to what organization they are affiliated with, but Judge R. M. Barton, Chairman of the board, pointed out that the decision specif- jeally named eighteen unions and tome 400 roads as the parties con- cerned, and does not name any of the new unions formed by the rail strikers, : “We decided,” Judge Barton sald, “that we would hear the claims of all organizations which were properly brought before us, but no union whose men were out on strike, and therefore violating the terms of the Transportation Act requiring submis~- sion of disputes to the board before iriking could properly come before The increase awards for the most were on an hourly basis, ranging from 13 to 19 cents per hour for the more poorly paid workmen to an average of 8 and 10 cents for the (Continued on RAILROADS AT ONCE SEEK HIGHER RATES cond Page.) increase of $1,017,000,000 a Year They Demanded Does Not Include Raise in Wages. WASHINGTON, July ately upon receipt of the announcem of the Railroad Labor Board's award, railway executives here went into conference to-day to frame thelr recommendations to the Interstate Commerce Commission for advances In yates to meet the added expense of $600,000,000 to the carr! The Commission now has under con- sideration the application of the car- ers for freight rate increases to pro- . Yide an added income of $1,017,000,000 annually, but these increases do not tuke into account any wage advances, The railroad executives said to-day they would ask tha Commission to spread the Increased expense created by the Board's award upon both pas- aenger and freight rates, but that pro- portion had not yet been determined, CHICAGO, July 20.—An eighteen per ont, increase In freight rates will be ssary to meet the twenty per cent. award granted railroad employees jay, BE. T, Whiter, representative of ‘oads in the hearings before the allway Labor Board, announced to-day. os 20,—Immedi- t THINKS MAJORITY OF RAILWAY MEN ARE SATISFIED Head of Conductors’ Union so Declares—Other Leaders Withhold Opinions. CHICAGO, July 20. THING a majority of the railroad men appear to be satisfied,” sald L. E. Shep- pard of the Order of Ratlroad Conductors to-day, in comment- ing on the decision of the Rail- road Labor Board Timothy Shea, head: of the Fire- men's Brotherhood, merely said the board's decision would be considered carefully at a meeting of nearly 2,000 union leaders, and a formal statement made after each section of tho award bad been considered. E. T, Seles ee Chairman of the Executive Board of Railway Managers, after a cursory read- ing of the decision, said: “I have not read the decision entirely, but I can say that the railroads will ablde by thé board's award.” A. H. Smith, President of the New York Central HRaliroad, said to-day: “It ts to be hoped that the award will bring to the men a contented state of mind, in view of what has gone before in waco advances, reduction of hours and betterment of working conditions. “We have the greatest railroads in the world and as able a, force as any, This, with means to pro- vide necessary facilities and equipment, will permit transpor- tation soon’to catch up with the country’s requirements,” SWATTY RUTH MAKES 32D HOMER Hits Ball Over Rightfield Stand in First Game of Double- ° Header, “Babe” Ruth, crack batsman of the New York American League Club, added another home run to his major record to-day, when », knocked out his thirty-second home run of the season, The hit, obtained off Pitcher Faber in the first game with Chicago at the Polo Grounds, landed the’ ball over the right fleld stand, There was no one on bases, WORLD RESrAURAY, omen ont Toreaat Ul Re a ROS league MRS, WASHBURN QUESTIONED AS 0 ELWELL'S CHECK She Tells Assistant Prosecuter | Dooling She Knew the Slain Gambler Only Casually. SANDLER’S ODD STORY. Lawler Tells of Attempt of Elwell to Sell House and of Wine Party for Twe. Assistant District Attorney John T. Dooling, who has bean investiar- ing the murder of Joseph, Bowne bi well in his home, No. 24 West Toth Street, on the morning of June 11, said to-day that he had interviewed Mrs, Elizabeth Clarkson Washburn, who tn’ October of last year receivad a check for $200 from the murdered whist expert as a wedding present. Mr. Dooling said that the interview tock place at-the’ home*prw Ta’ friend of Mrs, Washburn last night, He refused to say who the lawyer was or where he lives. He said that Mrs. Washburn told him she haa not seen Elwell since February, 1919. °| “The only communication,” said Mr. Dooling, “that she had with El- she told me, was the letter ac companying the check on her wed- well, ding morning, She never received any other check or anything else from She had known him for five ars, having met him at the home of her unclé and aunt in West 56th Street. She met him subse- quently at the same place and with her sister was his guest on his motor him. or six boat and at his cottage in Palm Beach, “She told me that she had never been in his house here, at Saratoga or Long Beach, On the morning of his murder sho says she suw him on the New Amsterdam roof, but did not talk with him. ‘Her acquaintance with him, she said, was only casual, and when she met him she was always ac- companied by her sister or her brother- in-law, or both, “On the New Amsterdam roof she was with her sister and brother-in- law and a second gentleman, whose name {it is not necessary to mention The letter which was found in El- well's house, she sald, was written to her by a woman friend who had been in the parties at Long Beach, She had mentioned it to Elwell and he said that he would like to read it. She gave {t to him and he never re- turned it. She thought so little of its (Continued on Second Page.) dain : TRAVIS WITHDRAWS IN GOVERNOR RACE Values Honor Too Highly to Enter Campaign to Make It Po- ical Attack. Bugene M. Travis, State Comptroller, to-day withdrew a8 a candidate for the Republica: nomination for Governor. Ho also intends to, withraw from public life, it 1s reported. Mr, Travis explained that he did not wish to jeopardize the chances of his party either in Btate or national elections adding that: “I value my honor too highly to enter any campaign that will make it the subject of political attack." In his talk with Republican leaders to-day it is reported that Mr, Travia decided to withdraw because of pub- Helty in connection with the pending in- vestigation into his conduct of the office of fate Comptroller following a charg: of extravaganca in handling public moneys, f Jobe aoe H Ee Nbr — Aart fp | BANDITS =. Make Their Escape in Waiting Auto That Rushes Through Crowded Eighth Avenue. SCREENED BY It and Overcome Milk Offi- cial Carrying Money Box. Flourishing pistols to the door of the company’s branch, No. tective ing furnished a license number. Capt Cornelius Wiliemse of the the work of men of the band, At 10.45 o'clock this forenoon Wil- liam Theiler, acting superintendent o1 the Borden branch tn started to drive in a buggy from the company's stables at Nos, West 29th Street across the street to the office at No. 400. clains leading from the office to the side between : Fowler and Theiler were to take the Street, Accounts differ as to the moves im- mediately preceding the attack, had loitered near the barn crossed and confronted Fowler. muffiing his outeries and at the eame time forcing the cashier back against the iron ral! around the stairway wall. ‘The railing struck Fowler in guoh @ manner that he had to throw out his hands to retain his equilib- rium, The bandit’s other hand jabbed Acting with his accomplice, (Continued om Second Page,) aia a DRIVES AUTO OFF BRIDGE TO DEATH Newark Man Pinned Under Car at Bottom of Canal After 15-Foot Plunge, Street, repaired, Thomas J. Second Street, Newark, an automobile through the railing, turtle, the body, Kenny worked tn an Elizabeth gar- age, He lived with his parents and had a six sisters and a brother, World War veteran, TURSDAY, JULY 20, A BUGGY. Suddenly Jump From Behind| hait pursuit, two banditse who had wrenohed, $9,- 953 from the hands of a Borden Milk Company cashier in broad daylight at available detectives of the Third De- Division and all the police on post this afternoon were on the look- out for the bandit car, a witness hay- detective division, directing the hunt, said this afternoon that he believed the hold- up, which was one of the mest reck- leas and daring of recent months, was “Gopher” 29th Street, 405-407 He timed his tart to pick up without delay William Fowler, who was coming up the five street level and who curried a tin box containing $9,353 in cash and $600 In checks, Monday's receipts for the west 14th and 42d streets. money to the Corn Exchange Bank branch ,at Seventh Avenue and 33d One witness said that two young men who the street screened behind the buggy At all events, us the cashier stepped to the side- walk one bandit ylolently pushed his flattened hand over Fowler's mouth, announced to-day that Judg. H. man a revolver against Fowler's abdomen, the second bandit covered Theiler with a pistol while snatching the money box Apparently falling to see @ rafling and a red danger lantern marking off a section of the Canal Bridge at Halsey Newark, N. J, which 1s being onny of No, 43 last night drove dropped fifteen feet into the water and was pinned under the car when It turned Post office employees heard the crash and notified Policemen Seery and Groasbert, who dived in. They recovered GREAT ADVANCE AGAINST POLES Seven Polish Divisions of First Red Attack. ARSAW, July —(Aasociated 100 West 29th Strect, to-day made ‘98.)—The long awalted general at- thelr excape successfully in ‘a Word | ‘ek by the Bolshevik! along the line car driven by an accomplice. All the |°f the River Styr, im Volhynia, com- menced Monday and has been re- pulsed by the seven Polish Divisions, according to an officlal statement from Army headqparters to-day, The Bolsheviki on the Northern front are in sight of Poland proper. North the Niemen River, according to Mon- day night's official statement, the Bolsheviki have assembled maasce of troops and are attacking along the Viina rajiroad im thelr drive on Grodno. Yt is estimated the Bolsheviki are continuing an average daily advance of from’ nine to twelve miles in some places: Owing to the rapid advance north of the Pripet marshes the American Relief Association has evacuated Brest-Litovsk, where it) has been feeding 100,000 refugees, Koyel, southeast of Brest-Litovak, the headquarters of the Koscluszko squadron and junction point for six railroads, a town for which the Poles have been fighting with all avatlaple troops, also has been evacuated by the Americans, * The Poles are outnumbered five to one on the southern front, according to the American aviators, and they are also handicapped by the use of filve different styles of rifles, result- ing in ammunition BB delays: MOORE DECLINES TO MANAGE COX FIGHT Ohio Man Who Held Line for Cox at Frisco Refuses National Chairmanship. COLUMBUS, ©., July 20.- f t Gov. Moore, and the Governor's: convent: manager, had definitely and finally refused election as chairman of national committee, Gov. Cox presented Moore with a gold watch for his work at San Fran- claco, It bears the tnscrtption: “The man who held the Line.” A memorial asking the committee to aid in seeking ratification of the Woman Suffrage amendment was presented for Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, ‘The committee ‘unanimously adopted @ resolution urging ratification of the Federal Woman Suffrage amendment by the Tennessee and North Carviina Legislatures. _ the Classified Advertisers Important ! Claasified advertising copy for Tee Tee Bungay a should be in On or Before Friday Preceding Publication Suny Sens Sine at eats Bunday advei ar ee uf nday Sealtiea cot lack of time to net Te THE WORLD. |Warsaw Claims Repulse by, of Grodno and just East of 1920, ON STYR BEGINS, Cox Edmund Ohio's national committee- Jon | | Vout Office, [ “Cirentation Books Open to AIL”"4 MaCland Mattes New York. N. ¥. eee HEE aura ay Ss 4 TI NAL SFAP ( La Ma) quires WO UT 7. AS. EDITION ca AT PSTOL POINT SMSKEDewors HOLD UP AND ROB BORDEN CASHIER: GET $9:953 BOOTY ~-HOLD UP PARTY IN AUTO AT SEA CRT Meet W! ith Resist Resistance and One Occupant of Car Is Shot in ) Abdomen. IS WOUNDED. | RC )BBER Girl Leaps on Highwayman, Pulling His Hair and Scratching His Face. SPIUNG LAKE, N. 1 purty of three mon and uh duly 2 6 women returning home Bigget’s Sea Girt, was held up ut 1.80 o'clock this morning by four masked bandits in a high powered motor tar The pundits pulled their machine directly across the roud, blocking It The men delieved ‘nt first they were from Inn, victims of & practical joke, then sprang out and gave battle. In the party were Leonard” Kor man and Charles H, tasking of Point Pleasant, N. J., Capt. Finnengan of Hoboken, an operating department ehlef of the Lackawanna Tullroad, and the Misses Catherine and Irene Kinney and Winifred Chesey, Potnt Pleasant * Haskin wis the first to Jump out He seized a bandit standing on the running board of the other car, pistol drawn,’ As Haskins reached him the man fired. The bullet clipped away Haskins's ear, but he did not loosen his hold. The bandit and Haskins rolled to the ground, fighting desper- at all of Meanwhile Capt. Finnegan and For- man we neugINE the other rubbers, The attack was clilefly fistic. Capt. Finnegan knocked the revolvers from the hands of two of\the bandits and Forman had the third on the ground. Then the man Haskins was fighting fired again. The bullet entersd ilas- kins's stomach and he doubled up on the ground, Miss Cathering Kinn the only one of the women to lea! the car, cried out: “He'e shot, Harry!" Sho leaped on the bandit, tearing his hair and ripping the skin froin his face with her finger nails. Capt. Fin- negan was able to break uway for a moment and come to Haskin‘ ald. As he reached his side the gunman was turning the weapon toward the girl, Capt, Finnegan selzed the man’s wrist, pointing the barrel downward, The gun exploded, the bullet lodging r the man’s leg. As the bandit fell the others decided the fight had gone against them and fled In their automobile, Haskins and the wounded gunman were taken to the Spring Lake Hospital in the other machine. Nono of the other mon was hurt be- yond body bruises, Hakins's wound “}may prove fatal, After leaving the men at the hospital Forman drove the women home. Miss Catherine Kinney was overwrought from her experi- ence Her fingers were torn and bleeding from her attack upon tite gunman. Patrolman Gunther of the Spring Lake police reached the scene of the hold-up just as the bandit car was moving off, It disappeared so quickly that he could not get the number Capt Finnegan said in the darkness and from the fa that the Bandits wore masks he could not identify any of the men, According to the polloe the wound- ed gunman is Rifel Merige, twenty- three years old, no address known Tt le he served overseas with the American Army during the war. He refused to disouss to omptly Seized. Cal, July 20.—Jack Johnson, fugitive pugtilat, crossed the international boundary Mne to-day and At PRICE : TWO CENTS IN GREATER NEW YORK == CHALLENGER GOES AHEAD ~ AFTER DEFENDER OUTSAILS HER ON FIRST HALF OF LEG Shamrock Shamrock . Resolute ..... of the astern Resolute turned 2.16.45. minutes and thirty-five seconds, tive Resolute on the entire course, BETTING FAVORS YANKEE ' YACHT TO WIN THE CUP Wall Street Also Gives Oulds on To-Day’s Race—No Sham- rock Money Up. BETTING odds quoted in Wall Street to-day on the Resolute were: ‘To win to-day's race, § to $. s To win the series, 2 to 1, Practically no Shamrock money has been offered to-day in the financial district AGAIN AT KEY, EDISON SENDS WIRE MESSAGE Historical Society to Preserve His “Clicks” on Imperish- able Disc Record, SING a telegraph key for the firat time in nineteen vears, Thomas A. Edison, to-day ent from Orange, N. J., to a com- mittee of the old time telegra- phera and Historical Assoctatior here, the following message ‘to ber inscribed on an imperishable phonographic diso and placed in the Association's archives; “Amid the activides of a busv life full of expectations, hopes and fears, my thoughts of early association with my comrades of the dota and dashes have ever been @ delight and pleasure to me, I consider {¢ @ great pleasure to record in Morse characters on an indestructible disc this tribute to my beginnings in electricity through ‘the telegraph’ and with it a God speed to the fraternity throughout the world.” During the thunderstorm yesterday, a bolt of lightning killed Eric Erickson, who had sought shelter in tall meadow grass in the Hewletta Bay Park. section, was placed under arrest on @ white slave charae, (Racing frie on Page 20.) Lang Island. | The lishtnt aot se oot cece Renae iy the same |\Shamrock 600 Yards the Turn, but Fails to Overcome Resolute’s Handicap—Little Hope of Finishing in Time Limit. Retolite |... dicicsosis trates ined MARK. . SANDY HOOK, July 20.—Ten imiles of the thirty-riile triangular course covered, the challenger Shamrock rounded “the ‘first mark ahead American defender Resolute in to-day's Shamrock turned the first mark at 2.28.28 saluted by the excursioon fleet which blew great blasts on their whistles. Résolute was 600 yards the first mark at 2.32.41, 1 Shamrock’s elapsed time to the first mark was é in Lead at START. Hour. Min. Sec. 12 15 48 12 16 26 28 41 international cup Face. 2.12.40, Resolute’s, Shamrock's lead at the first mark in elapsed time was three * : +, 7 U Shamrock’s lead in time at the first mark does not take into con- sideration the time allowance of 7 minutes, 4 second, which she must The wind Dreezed up more to the 1 & northwest ag the yachts turned. Res- vlute substituted @ No, 2 jib topaall for the ballooner she had been using. Shamrock chung to No, 1 until « mile away fromy@he mark, when she shift- ed to a smaller gall. Hoth were able to almost lay the course to the sec- ond mark At 240 P. M. Shamrock was leading and had set a baby Jib ropsalt. The feature of the sedond hour of the race was the Work of Shamrock’s Uttie forestaysail which hauled her by Resolute and at one time gave her a Jead or more than half@ mile. This triangular was set on a main- stay leading trom the end of the bow- Sprit to & block about two-thirds of the distance to the crosstrees. It was full all the time and proved a won- dorful reaching sail, especially with the No. 1 jib topsail out ahead, The race appeared from shore little more than @ good drift, in which, as on Saturday, the sloop getting the lucky puffs of air showed to the best advantage: Several excursion boats loaded with spectators evidently concluded that the yachts could not finish within the time limit, for a number of them put back to New York, ‘The Shamrock was thirty-eight sec onde ahead in crossing the starting Une but due to difficulty with her sails, wes passed by the American boat, The Resolute hit a soft spot and the challenger footed out ahead. ‘The committee set signals for this triangular course: First, a reach south southeast; second, a beat weat by north, and third, a reach to the finjah northeast by nerth. ‘This course leads. to @ point: about 14% miles eagt of Long Branch, back toward the Josey shore to @ point off Shrewsbury Rook, and ¢hen back to the Ambrose Channel Light. ahtp. The starting signal was blown at 12.16, Shamrock crossed et 12.16.48, offictay time, and Resolute et 12.16.26, At 12.22 Resolute passed Gheamrocic to leoward, after the Shamrock orew: had cleared the fouled jib OO co down at 12.25 and vas | 2 see