The evening world. Newspaper, July 22, 1920, Page 1

YACH TS ve a Bebewltal lion ir and Warm, weary R. Spears IN SHAPE FOR RACE TO-MeRROW Fatered ne Second-Class Mattor Post Offlee, New York, N. ¥. TO.MORROW'S WEATHER—Fair and Rae [EMEP ENS I ae CLASH, WTAE EVE ESSS PRICE TWO CENTS IN GREATER NEW YORK TUNEL CENTS FLSEWHERS Z Z THE Lee ae ees ane roa Ac ne i ENCER MAY CUT SAIL INE VALATONS re, EAMES HONG PE | cae pi wnpieyp. MISTEBASEDIN "=m WABI POL, NIEPRETED. A HULL SCOUR "Resolute’s Canvas and Compasses Adjusted—Lipton’s Men,Strangely aa r Cheerful in D Have Found Way to Increase) Her Speed. (Special Staff Corresponde HIGHLANDS OF THE NAVE of three rae. nf the nrasen’ P t ] she and the Resolute have enjoyed ed from Sandy Ho slowed away, d 2 her de to-day, was to Shipbuildin There dry dock the challenger was put in} and a big force of workers vegna washir d polishing her hutl ant her keel to put her tn athe 4 possible condition for to-| morrow’s rice There was rome disappointment among the Shamrock’s crew when was found that a few thin streaks along water line ther Was no oil on her bull. Some of the 4 s had believed { the andy Wook ad the cldionger's H. nw New York Yacht n unee rock had saxke 1 new mensure- ment committee bad been tn- forme suid, that the intention was down the challenger big ail, which would reduce the time wance In favor of Resolute from u and 1 second to 6 nd 40 This plan, undorst was subject to A topmast removed from Shamrock IV. after the first race was returned yesterday from the plant of the Aero-Murine Corporation at Keyport, N. J. whe it had been reshaped and repaired. It was put aboard the yacht last night to be restepped, ap- yard while the tened and pol- gner Nicholson, when the taken down a week ago, Parenily, at the bottom ts being br ished, De topmast we said Was nothing particularly tho matter with it pt that it . might be better than it was “and one does not I to put In a showery day without an umbrella, does one?" \ RESOLUTE TO MAKE SMALL CHANGES IN HER SAILS. Sir Thomas Lipton planned to spend his day between the Staten Is- land shipbuilding yard and the houseboat Killarney at Sandy Hook, going back and forth in the Victoria, Which is not only the quarters of the crew but the home of Burton and Mrs, Burton, Designer Charles Nich- (Continued on Twentieth Page.) Advertisers Classified Important ! | Classified advertising copy for The Sunday World should be tn The World office On or Before Friday Preceding Publication Parly copy receives the preference when Sunday advertising has to be omitted. Late advertising ls now omitted for lack of time to wet it THE WORLD, FD IN DRYDOCK efeat, Believed to By Lindsay Denison nt of The Evening World.) SINK, July 22 t series for the America’s Cup safely eat yesterday in the first real sailing weather | | since they began racing a wee ago ok to the yard of the Staten Island Company at Port Richmond. “LITTLE MOTHER” LEAPS TO DEATH 10 ESCAPE SPANKING: er 11-Year-Old Angelina Dread- ed Father’s Punishment for Fighting Neighbor, Bleven-vear-old little Ang of her ia Scire, mothe three younger | brothers and sisters, died this morn- ing in Gouverneur Hospital as the result of Injuries received when she | jumped from the fire egcape of her 136 Cherry Street, to escape the spanking home on the fourth floor of No. she feared from her father, ‘The “little mother” had the care of the smaller children, did the cooking and looked after the home generally, besides attending the Market Street school. Now it is vacation time and Angelina had more time to devote to her little wards outdoors, But yes- terday she quarrelled with her neigh- bor “Marie,” a child of her own age, and pulled her hair and scratched her face, Marie's father went to her and said: “Never mind, I will tell your father when he comes home and he will punish you properly.” Angelina, the neighbors say, loved her father and he returned her love and appreciative of her duties as the “little mother.” But the child Was sensitive, Angelina went about her household duties as usual and prepared the evening meal, but brooded all after- noon over the prospect of a spanking. She remained Indoors until she had finished her work and then «he heard the heavy step of her father ascend- ing the stairs. Her fittle he in her throat. As the steps came nearer she went toward the window and before her father turned the knob of the door she was out on the fire escape. | Selre senior found the table set and si Shamrock IV., wh | aisp. the family meal upon it, And this note fram the “little mother! was in| he centre of the table; It is no use to get Kill, and 1 | throw myself out the window be cause I need I was killed to- night." | ‘They found her tiny form crum n the row yard of the home |time waa lost in getting hor to the hos. | pital, But her note contained her last words, for the skill of surgeons could Jnot save her life. She died with a amile on her fa [rainea VORB GY UeIon without having re-! THE CITY'S FIGURES Decision Made in Case Where Landlord Wanted to Fix Rent on Highest Assessment. URGES LAW CHANGES. Bronx Realty perts’ Figures No Longer Trustworthy, Says Justice Robitzek. Property valuations made longer trustworthy, Justice Robitzek in his by Bronx veal estate experts no are Muntcipal Court, asserted to-day in ing of 150 tenant-and-landlord case Frank Willett, a landlord whose Property at No, 3004 Heath Avenue had been assessed by the city at 379,000, offered the valuation’ placed on it by Jacob Leitner, 4 Bronx expert he had retained, who placed the figure at $190,000, The landlord sought permission to charge renty on a 2% per cent. basis figured on the new valuation. “Bronx real estate experts and brokers have become so enmesh:d in the atmosphere of speculation and high prices that it is no longer po sible to get a fair assessment or valuation from them,” sald Justice Robitzek. "The title companies ha become #0 disgusted with their tions that they avill not stand for the Assessments on property by Bronx experts. Justice Robitzek offered to fix the rent on the $180,000 basis If the land lord would sign a request to the City Assessment Department asking that placed his $79,000 assessment be raised $51,000.’ This plan discouraged the landlord, who declined to ask for a highor assessement. Justice Robitzek announced he would recommend to the Lockwood Housing Committee the extension of a stay in holdover proceedings from three to five years in place of the fifteen monts' stay granted tenants ordered Ho also will recommend that the Jaw limit dispossess reasons to three: Where the landlord wants the premlsts for his own actual use, where the ten- ant is objectionable and where the building 1s to be altered s0 com- pletely that it has to be vacated dur- ing alterations. ‘The Justice was Inspired to announce this in refusing the request of John Finkbeiner, who wanted to evict nine- teen teenants from his house at No. 4298 Park Avenue in order to inaugu- rte a new rent scale, which the Jus- tice figured represented a return of 53 per cent, Justice Robitzek lectured a landlord named Mayer of No. 772 Forest Ave- nue, who wanted to oust a tenant be- ause the Jatter had complained to the Board of Health about conditions in the Ho also reprimanded a out nse, landiord named Fuchs of No, 4293 Park Avenue, who sought to oust a tenant named Sieber, who had begun a dam- age suit again him for injurtes alleged to have been suffer.d by one of the tenant's family in falling through a hole in the floor. ae NO HOT WATER; $100 FINE. Brooklyn Woman Apartment Own-| er Pays In Preference to Jail. Mra, Idette ©, De Rentce, owner of #n apartment House, at No, 300 Lincoln! wax fined $100 to-day In the Court | ial Sessions In Brooklyn, for fatl- | to furnish hot water to her ten- was given the alternative of sin Jail paid the fin but s that she would to the District Atto Do Renice to ntry four years ago from Parla, of the # teatifed June 1, this One that sho sald to a complaint; “You tenants can go and whistle for hot water.” Aire, De Konise denied this assertion, vents on in anawer LONDON, July 2 PEAKING in the House of Commons this afternoon Sir Hamar Greenwood, Secretary of State for Ireland, estimated the value of property in Ireland de- stroyed by the Sinn Fein at £2,005,772 (normally about $10,- 000,000). Greenwood's statement was _based on official roports. BELFAST RIOTING RENEWED; THREE DEAD, 20 INIURED a Post Office Wrecked snd Po- lice Open Fire on Mob— Fifty-four Arrested. BHLFAST, renewed in the falls area of West Belfast during the mill dinner hour to-day. The post office was wrecked and the police fired on the rioters, In the melee a soldier and several otyil- fans were wounded. During the afternoon serlous trouble veloped in the east end of Belfast when a mob invaded a distillery and tried to get the workers from the premises, Order was restored only by the arrival of a mashine gun detach- ment, There was continuous stone-throw- ing in Kashmir and Cupar Streets this afternoon and further looting was re- ported from the Newtownards diy- triet Revolver firing developed at Mack- fe's foundry, near the shipyards. Ax the workers were leaving the foundry at noon they were fired on by a crowd of men said to be Sinn Feiners, Some soldiers stationed nearby returned the fire, Two of the foundry workers and one soldier were wounded. Tho cas- ualties among the attackers could not be learned. There was sanguinary fighting last night between Sinn Fein and Untontat mobs and the situation this morning was tense. The military with armored cars were patrolling the affected arena. Casualties thus far recorded are two men and one woman killed and twenty treated at hospitals for serious gunshot wounds. Many wounded did not report to hospitals, Fifty-four arrests were made. ‘The primary cause of the trouble is believed to be the recent murder of Col. Smyth in Cork, a& many men employed at Bel- fast came from Banbridge, which was Smyth's native town, This morning the workers retuyned to the shipyards as though nothing although the trouble was started in the yards yesterday after a happened, number of Sinn Fein employees had been attacked. The authorities be- eve they have the situation in hand, Unofficial estimate places the prop- erty damage and looting done by the mob at £100,000, DOCTOR LOSES SUIT FOR LIQUOR PERMITS)! Court Holds Lack of Prescription Blanks Prevents Physician From Supplying Them. Federal Judge Knox to-day dismissed the sult of Dr, Melvilie A. Hays, an order overriding the department ri ing under which Charles R, O'Connor, | § Federal Prohibition Director for New York, refused to Isaue more than 100 whiskey prescription blanks in any one ninety days, to any doctor. Judge Knox said he would entertain a sult in equity, supported by uMdavit showing that Dr, Hay's patients were in need of the stimulant which the doc- tor’s lack of prescription blanks pre- from supplying to them, July 22.—Rloting was WN ELWELL NQURY Takes Possession of Army Automatic of Which Former Lieutenant Told Him, CARTRIDGES TOO. Ex-Officer Meets Investigators at His Home and Turns Over Weapon, GETS Assistant District Attorney Dooling who has charge of the investigation of the murder of Joseph B. Elwell, turfman and whist expert, in his home on June 11, went this morning by appointment to the house of William Mayhew Washburn, No, 62 Hast 79th Street, and there took possession of & 45-calibre army automatic pistol, about which he had been told by Washburn when he questioned the latter last week. Besides the pistol Mr. Dooling fuund a number of cartridges of the sume calibre and apparently, he sald, of the game make as the shell which was found lying close to Elwell shortly after he was shot, Washburn came into the case when it was learned that tile wife, formerly Mise Dlizabeth Clarkson, had received a check for $200 from the turfman as a wedding present last October. Both Mra, Washburn and her husband, who was a Lieutenant dn the A. B. F, have been examined by the District Attor- ney’s office regarding their relations with the dead sportaman. Mr. Dooling was accompanied this morning by detectives from Capt, Carey's homicide squad and met shburn und « friend, Harold Con- t, former Assistant United States Attorney, by agreement, outside the 79th Street house. This had been closed for the summer and was opened by an operative of the Holmes Pro- tective Agency, Washburn led the way to his room, There in a drawer, where he had told the District Attorney and police they would find it, was the army auto- matic, together with the maguzine and a number of cartridges, some of which had been dismembered. Other cart- ridges were found in @ closet in the room. There are many thousands of similar pistols owned by fore former army officers, CORPSE WAS HOOTCH 500 GALLONS OF IT! Hearse, Held Up by Federal Agents, Had Man Made Up as “Priest” With Driver, SEYMOUR, ing to a report Conn., re July 22.—Accord nd here to-day, ew York © to-day, er recorded ot The July contracts on th ton Exchange sold 43. jwenting the highest price a future act In tures exchan on pol night's « hh arch dat 43.14, tited from « been py repre che story an advance laat new aeation from rying out their plans to get cotton here Instima for delivery | _ Vorest Proetetion Week Sept, 12-18. | ALBANY, July 22.—In a tlon issued to-day, Gov, Sm nated the week beginning Sept. 12 ax “Forest Protection Week to bring to the public mind the necessity of taking nk ndequate care to protect the forests of | the ie Bia, SCRAPING TREATY Political Observer Says He Has Surrendered to Hiram Johnson on League, WANTS SEPARATE PEACE Draws Issue on League Ap- parently Just as President Wilson Wanted It. By David Lawrence. (Speolal Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) MARION, Ohio, July 22 1920).-—Senator Warren has surrendered (Copyright G. Harding to Senator Hiram Johnson and ta in faver of acrap- Ping the treaty of peace, which con- tains the present League of Nations. Mr. Harding proposes, if elected, to make « separate poace by Congres- sional resolution and to ask the na- tions of the world to create a dif- ferent Leugue of Nations trom that proposed by Mr. Wilson, Senator Jobnson had threatened to bolt the Republican nominee if he did not acvept the interpretation of the Republican platform which the Call- fornia Senator had enunciated, Unless Hiram Johnson reveals himself merely as a poor loser, there 19 nothing In the Harding speech of acceptance ax It relates to the League issue to which he can take objection, Unquestionably, Senator Harding | does not believe the League which Is now in existence in Europe has much of @ hold on the American voter and he takes his place, therefore, alung- side Hiram Johnson, who has man- iged in the : any rate, to rouse @ considerable following for his views, MANY ARE SURPRISED AT TONE OF HARDING SPEECH. But the speedh of Mr, Harding comes as a surprise to those who had expected that the presence of Eithu Root in Burope and the record of the Ohio Senator in vouing for the Treaty of Versailles with reservations would commit him to an endeavor at least to fashion something out of the pres- ent international structure, But Mr. Harding rejects tt absolutely and calls for “a ‘new association” of nations, Irrespective of how many reserva- tions, interpretative or otherwie, may be proposed by Gov. Cox, the Democratic platform commits him to (Continued on Eighth Page.) ae. DAY’S PROGRAMME FOR NOTIFICATION Will Hays Presides and Lodge De- dant, at Federal agents stopped a funeral hearse . 4 naar rere and\fouea tbat ¢ pposed livers the Formal Speech was composed of spirits—600 at Marion, of ‘em. man attired as a priest and| MARION, Ohto, July 22.—Following equtpped with a prayer book was neated |{s the programme of the Harding notin- peside the driver, it is anid. Jcation ceremony at Garfeld Park “ie - | Wit H. Hays, National Chairman, | ding, | JULY COTTON 43,75. r Spangled Banner," sung by Rv - publican Glee Club, Columbus. | Highest Price for Future Controt In| Invocation by Bishop William F. Old- Reached in Rise of 125 loints, 1 of Broad Street xdiat Church, Columbus, now atu- 1 in South rioa Speech of notification by Senator Age Speech of acceptance by Warren 4 CONSIDERING EXTRA SESSION | |, ALBANY 22—dov. Smith eald to-day thitt he would give “serious con sideration’? to a reque Mayor Hy. lan that he call a special session of the Legislature to. act on. legislation signed to enable New York City to op- erate « W tem of buses. Jao sald he was recely ch day urging him to call lature into sesaion tg consider meeource, housibg and reconstruction NATION-WIDE VOTE ON LEAGUE — IS WELCOMED BY HARDING IN ACCEPTING 6.0.P. NOMINATION | ll nla le | Praises Senate for Rejecting Treaty and Would Make New Proposal for Association of Nations—For Party SponsorshipinGovernment MARION, O., July 22.—In opening his speech of acceptance in ré- sponse to Senator Lodge's formal notification of the Republican nomina-_ tion for President, Senator Warren G. Harding said he believed in. party sponsorship in government. He welcomed a popular referendum on the League of Nations, advex cated increased production to cut the high cost of living, pleaded for obliteration of sectional and class conflict and declared for industrial peace 00,000 CHEER FOR HARDING AT HIS NOTIFICATION Home Town of Candidate Overrun by Visitors—Suf- fragists in a Huff. MARTON, O,, July 22.—Wwith alt Marion bedecked for the occasion and with 60,000 visitors to acclaim tim, Warren G. Harding was formally noti- fied to-day of nomination for the Preaidency by the Republican Party. Before the ceremony « band of mili- tant Suffrngists marched to the Sena- tors home somewhat piqued because he had sent an appeal to the Repub- lean membera of the Tennessee Legis- lature for action on Suffrage. The purpose of their visit was to make an appeal to the candidate. They had not counted on this sudden move by Senator Harding, but they went through with their programme any- way, and asked the candidate to use his influence for ratification, More than 100 women, members of the National Woman's Party, repre- senting fifteen States, marched in procession carrying banners up to Harding's front porch, headed by | Alice Paul, the International Chatr- man, Mrs, Bertha C. Moller of Min- neapolis was in charge of the dele gation. Mrs, John Gordon Battelle, Presi- dent of the Ohio Woman's Republican Club, introduced the two speakers, | Miss Sue 8. White, Tennessee, State |} Chairman of the National Woman's Party, and Mrs. H, O, Havemeyer, New York. “We have come to you, as leader of the Republican Party to ask you to do everything in your |power to urge Republicans in the Tennessee Legislature to keep faith with thelr party's platform pledge by «iving an unanimous Republican vote In Tennessee Aug. 9." Miss White said. | Senator Harding told the delega- Uon he would answer thetr request in his Speeoh of acceptance. “My conception of Suffrage contemplates (Continued on Twentleth Page.) a - Wm, Cornwallin-Weat Dead, MIL w OKD, England, July “Mra. a-Weat, widow of the late Col |Willlam Cornwallls-Weat and mother |the Princess of Pleas and the Duchess Jot Westininater, died at Arnewood, near here, yesterday, after 4 long Ulness, — ONL Breeta for to naked lamb ie. Dination aren hove dinner, an » "RAN f MHERTALMAT: “not forced but inspired by the common weal,” Prohibition he gave only a notice, saying that despite divided — opinion regarding the Eighteenth Amendment and the statutes enacted to make it operative, there must be no evasion in their enforcement. He declared it hia “sincere desire” that ratification of the Suffrage amend- ment be completed to permit women to vote this fall in overy State. URGES REPRESSION OF THE DISLOVAL AND SMALL ARMY, Reviewing and commending briefly many other planks of the party platform, the candidate deciared for collective bangaining ¢or farm- ers, repression of the disloyal, “gen- erous Federal co-operation” in re- habUltating the rutiroada, intelligent defiytion of the currancy, ment of Government ald tn reclama- tion, a genuine expression of grati- tude to veterans of the World War and maintenance of an ample navy and “a small emy but the best in the world.” “No man,” he aaid, “Is big enough « to run this great Republic. There Rover has been one. {t was not eur- prising that we went far afield from safe and prescribed paths amid the war anxieties, In the name of demoe- racy we establinhed autocracy. “Our first committal is the restora- tion of representative popular govern~ ment, under the Constitution, through the agency of the Republican Party, Our vision includes more than a Chil Executive, we belleve in a Cabinet of highest capacity, equal to the reapon- sibilities which our system contem- Plates, in whose councils the Vice president, second official of the Re= public, shall be asked to participate, The same vision includes a cordial understanding and co-ordinated ag= Uvities with a house of Congress, GIVE SENATE CREDIT FOR SAV- ING INDEPEDENCE, “The resumption of the Senate’ authority saved to this Republio its independent nationality, when autocracy misinterpreted the dream of a world experiment to be the vision of a world id “It ig not difficult, Chairman Lodge, to make ourselves clear on the quem- tion of international relationship, We Republicans of the Senate, ca: sclous of our solemn oaths and mind- ful of our Constitutional obligations, when we saw the structure of a world super-government taking vise lonary form, joined in a decoming warning of our devotion to this re. Republicans of the Senate the of independent American eminence and influenge, which it was proposed to exchange 1@p an obscure and unequal place in nerged g ernment of the world, party means to hold the heritage American nationality unimpateed: unsurrendered. “We do not mean to shun @ esponsibility of this republig civilization, ‘There ds no American heart, We barter ee ee ee ee a