The evening world. Newspaper, July 24, 1920, Page 1

To-Day's Weather—SH OWERS. {* Circulation Books Onen to All| VOL. LXI. NO, 21,492—DAILY. oe Coprrighty 1990; }9 The Prove Fabtishing ‘The New York World), f “Circulation Books Open to Ain” | NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1920. Entered na Recond-(1 Post Office, New jase Matter York, . SLAYER OF WOMAN IN TRUNK MYSTERY INSANE, SAY POLICE This Belief Supported by Many Clues to Identity Found With Body. POISON TRACE SOUGHT. Analysis of Brain Conducted To-Day —Convinced That Victim Was From Detroit. Analysis will be completed to-day of the brain of the young woman whose suneled ‘body was found in a trunk in the general storage warehouse of the American Railway Express Company, No. 2% East 4ith Street, yesterday. brain was the only organ left ‘tiim¢ might aid in determining the chuse of death. L¢ trages of cbloto- ‘ form ere found, it will tend to bear Oat the theary that she was the vic- thm of @ criminal operation. the sbipper of the “mystory tn which a woman's nude, ted body was found intended to Glau dt In New York, probably for disposing of it secretly, was indi- cated to-day when Andrew J. Bra- nick, expressman, of No, 212 West 35th Street turned over to the police a letter signed by “A. A. Tatum,” the murder trunk consignor, directing him to pick up and hold the trunk here. The letter, said Burnick, was dated Detroit, June 10, and enclosed a re- ceipt of the American Railway Ex- press Company, on which he was to ottain the trunk at the company’s station, 334 Street and ‘Tenth Avenue, -When he applied there, however, the employes had no record of the trunk and referred him to the unclaimed baggage depot, No. 333 East 4éth Street, where the trunk was opned | yesterday, revealing the body. As no such trunk hed arrived there when Brenick applied for it he gave up the quest, The trunk ‘arrived here June 13 trom Detro!t, whence it was shipped June 10. The most the police of New York can do is to aid in establishing | os whatever the victim's identity, erime>was committed was in Detroit, They have sent the Detroit anthori- ties aa much of @ description as they could get of the body, the woman's finger prints, and a list of the cloth- ing and other articles found in the trunk with the body, The Detroit police have not made any progives in the cuse, as far as known, trunk was addreased to Jemea Dou ws, Now York’ City, Tecotis show be shipper gave his name and address as A, A.. Ticturn (or Tilturn), No, 106 Harper Street, Detroit, plecell a yaluation of $100 on the ‘trunk @nd prapaid the charges to New York, about $4.70, WIFE DISAPPEARED AND MAN MOVED AWAY. At the Detrolt address the police learned of a young couple who rented en apartment June 7 under the name of Mr, and Mrs, BE Leroy, Soon afterwards the man left with two heavy trunts, saying his wife had gone the night before, He eald the two blankets, two sheets and a table cloth missing from the apartment were in the laundry and would be re- turned, The body will he re-examined to- @ay for a long edar on the right side, following word from Detroit that @ young woman who disappeared re- cently had such a mark, The police did not notice it yeaterday, ‘The following articles of fernale at- tire found in the trunk: A brown three-quarter cloak, with ee: em flecond Pago.) 5th Av. Loses $1,000,000 Dog ! Yard Wendel Lot at 39th Street Will Be Site of Six-Story Building. The million-dollar yard whioh for | years was held vacant at Fifth Ave- |mue and 39th Street as a playground for a dog- will be vacant no longer. Tradition has been tossed out of the windows of the mansion of broken shutters on Fifth Avenue next to the yard, and @ $200,000 loft building, six stories high, will, take the place of the pampered pup. The four sisters of the late John Gottlieb Wendel, who inherited ‘ws vast holdings in Manhattan real estate, have received from sbeir architects, John B, Snocts Sons, plans for the building. The dog is dead. The sisters—Misses Ella, Georgiana and Mary Wendel and Mrs, Rebecca A. D, Wendel Swope—live in the house of the broken shutters, that mansion of Liens that everybody | remarks as he passes up or dowg Fifth Avenue, 33 Many years ago Jehn Wendel declined {6 se. spot which waa coveted by overy jan interested in Fifth Avenue real estate for $500,000, because his sister's pet dog couldn't play in ‘the streets and had to have a yard'to run in, ‘Later the bid was $800,000 and Mr. Wendel declined to be tempted, and even $1,000,000 was offered. | Those who were privileged ‘to know anything about the eccentric old man who preferred to ride in a carriage 116 years old behind an antiquated family friend, a horse of doubtful age, driven by @ coachman who Was in the employ of the Wendels many more than a score of yeurs, remember that his| Properties, valued at $50,000,000, or) thereabouts, were never improved) while he lived. BAR HARBOR TRAIN DERAILED IN CONN. Few Passengers Aboard ani None Is Hurt, Officials of Road ’ Declare. DAYVILLE, » Conn, July) 24,—The ‘southbound Bar Harbor express; en route to New York, was derailed just south of the railroad station here early to-day, According to railroad officials, | few passengers were on the train and none was Injured. ‘The train wes modo up entircly of) sleepers. The locomotive and husgage | car remained on the rails, while four of the sleepers ran up a alding and became derailed, ‘The main Norwich and Wor- cexter line of the New Haven road was| com jetely block: ces TRY TO REVIVE LIGHTNING VICTIMS BY BURYING THEM Long Island Parents Cover Dead Children Up to Heads Belleving They're Only Stunned, When Dr, Howard W. Neatl, Deputy Medical Mxaminer of Queens, went yesterday to view the bodies of Jennie Stahurskt, nine, and her brother Edward, two, who were killed by lightning in Bay Bide, he was astonished to find the Httle bodies in the rear yard buried up to the heads in mud and earth, Relatives explained that they be. leved any on struck by lehtning was onty stunned, and if burted to the head in the ground would be povived when the eleciricity was drawn out of them by the earth, It took Dr ail @ consjderuble time to convince them that the children were dead, “Well, It's only because we ata not bury one of the faintly them quickly sisted. enough, | he sald, PLAN NEW SUBWAY IN EIGHTH AVENUE; EXTEND OLD LINES Additions Increase Capacity of Transit. Lines 40 to 60 Per Cent. STATEN ISLAND TUNNEL. Experts Map Out Scheme for Board of Estimate—Line Under Central Park. An increase of capacity of from 40 to 60 per cent. {s provided in ten- tative plans for extending the pres- ent rapid transit lines. One feature ‘s an extension giving Washington Heights a 38 per cent. increase in service. Another {s an extension of Unea to Staten Island via a tunnel ‘under tho bay, and an extension to Flushing. The plans will be submit- ted to the Board of Estimate this fall. The Washington Heights increase of service {s proposed to be through a subway in Eighth Avenue, the re- location of the transfer point be- tween east and west side lines from | 96th to 59th Street, the elimination | of tracks connecting the two branches | | between 96th and 110th Streets, and | operation of the new Lenox Avenue tracks. The proposed line under Eighth line on the terminal of that thoroughfare to 59th Street, |110th Street, No decision has been reached as to the extension of this proposed line below 12th Street. An alternate plan calls for the ex- tension of the B, R, T. subway from 57th Street, where it now turns east, due north under Contral Park to Fighth Avenue, to 128d Street, to St, Nicholas Avenue, thence to 158tr Street. It {# unterstood the Wash- ington ‘Heights Taxpayers’ Associa- tion will prefer the latter plan, A city diticial said to-day that the cost of completing the present sub- way work would be about $50,000,000, the dual system ‘contracts would be let. He has been assisting in pre- paring the new plans, which he sald were based on a close study by ex perts of areas needing better service. “The city will bulld the new line “and they will be operated jby the rapid transit company which offers the best terms. An Interborough official sald it would take about eight years to make ready the new lines needed to meet the growth in travel, two years to prepare the preliminaries and six to construct the lines, The city will have 1,000,000 more population then, he estimated, The city official dis- puted these figures, He declared purt of the proposed new lines should be ready for operation in four years, | and all in eix. LIVE. TO. BE 125? | WU TING FANG SAYS.HE WILL TOKIO, July 24, U TING-TA former Chi- nose Minlvter to the United returning: to China after a holiday epent In Japan, de- 44 to discuss the Chinese revo- but insisted (hat he would wer than Count Okuma be while the former Japancses ate beet, pork and fish, wo Statcsman was a veg- | | States, | h cline lutio} live | Pre the ¢ etarian mi Wu Ting-fang claims he will live to be 126 years old. Count Okuma recently boasted he would obilive Wu sbielette ti | fo. Jy v Avenue would be from the southern | thence under Central Park to | and that in a stort time the Inst of | ICE CREAM SODAS SOLD AT PROFIT OF 100 TO 250'P. C. Prices Raised From 5 to 17 and 28 Cents in Some Places and Quality Inferior. O-DAY ice cream in New York cost from’ 17 ents in most places to 22 amd 28 cents in the more “éx- elusive” shops, Only one place could be found that sells at 10 cents. Three years ago, when these sodas contained a generous serv- ing of ice cream, they cost 5 cents in a majority of places and 10 cents in others, ‘The kind served to-day contains & dab of ice cream, poasthly an ounce of milk, an ounce of fruit dlavoring syrup and a tenth of a cent’s worth of carponated water. Aud Uile is werage cost of the ingredient: lce cream .. Carbonated Water Flavoring sYrup . Labor . .$ 0284 + 0015 + 035 + 0035 Cashier 0025, Overhead 1 ‘This means that most dealers are now making more than 100 per cent. profit, while many of them are grabbing off 250 per HEAVY RAINSTORM BLOCKS SEWERS, FLOODS CELLARS ee Almost Like a Cloudburst, It | Sweeps Over City—Water in Subway Stations. A thunder storm that almost jreached clouaourst proportions swept over the clty about 4 A. M. to-day. Lightning struck a three-story house joccupied by James Klinkle at East- ern Boulevard and Layton Avenue, the Bronx, but no one was hurt. Sewers overflowed and flooded cel- ‘sin East Houston Street, in South Street and in a section of West 56th treet, ‘The city baths, on Carmine Streot were inundated, ‘The Interborough reported consid- jerable water in the subway station at 234 Strect and Lexington Avenue, fanhattan, and at Borough Hall, | Brooklyn, but not enough to inter- fere with the operation of trains. Lightning played pranks again with the wires running into reporters’ quarters near Police Headquarters, |but the reporters are gotting #0 used to it that the pyrotechnic display did not cause a single one to “beat it The Marine Departmont of the po- lice was on the lookout for trouble, tut no cases of boats adrift or sunk were reported, and the Naval Radio Station reported no 8. 0. 8. calls. The storm appeared to have been Jout on a sort of a joy ride. The Bronx got its worst visit between 1 and 2 A M, but lower Manhattan not until after 4. At times the rain came in torrents for several minutes and jthen quit abruptly followed by an- other deluge Brooklyn reported that a few streets in Flatbush, land other outlyt Jed, but no damage ot conseque }wue done, 8 | nasemente ¥ Vineded and Tracks Ine undnted tn Jersey Clty, | The he ratnate in Jersey City at 6 o'clack this m sewers and flooded lower part of tho etty | In Pavoni Avonuo and at Bergen and) Jowett * the Insulation on elec i trie wire ire by lightning and pole wa carriod a a | he. tracks of the Jersoy Central andl Lehigh were ny tn * Under water Jat Merritt wt, Jersey City, and Avenue C, Bayonne, {momentum REDS GRANT TRUCE ON POLAND'S PLEA, MOSCOW REPORTS Army Command Ordered to Begin Negotiations at Once, Says Wireless. | FIGHTING IN THE SOUTH Bolsheviks Said to ‘Have Over- whelming Superiority in Numbers, LONDON, July 24.—The Sovict Gov- |ernment of Russia to-day notified Pol- jand that the Soviet army command had been ordered to begin immedi- ately negotiations for an armistice, lt is announced in a wireless despatch from Moscow to-day. WARSAW, July 23—The Bolshe- vik thrust has carried them past the ‘Poland boundary tne sot by the ‘Council of Ambassadors. Along the railroad in this region the Poles are reported to be flwhting to stem the of the southwesterly drive which fs ewinging tho Reds | loward Poland's capital, but in many places the tired Poles are compelled to withdraw, without much resist- ance, in the face of overwhelming numbers of fresh Bolshevik trops. Holshevik reserve divisions as- sembked by Gen, Brussilot weeks prior to the launching of the offensive are daily being thrown in all along the northern front, They are making headway against thé acattered Polish lines in the open country, where both sides necessarily have thin lines at many places, owing to the length of the front attacked or defended. 1t is not warfare Iike that in France, where vintually every inch was pro- tected. Lembeng newspapers assert that Bolshevik officers in the Lemberg Hospital admit the present Bolshevik offensive is a final-effort, which will not continue for more than a fort- night, as the Reds are demoralized and discouraged. One of the Warsaw newspapers, commenting on the military situa- tion, declares that unless the Bol- shevfx advance is checked in the region of Grodno, the Government should issue an alarming peal to the population. So long as the chief command remains quiet, it adds, it would indicate the Toles aro pre- paring a decisive blow at the ad- vancing enemy. ALLIES MAY SEEK U.S. AID FOR POLAND Only Moral and. Financial Help Is Likely’ Now to Be Called For, | WASHIN( i, July An in quiry from the Allied Governmenta 1s to whether this country would rticlyate in he nd from B, pected within It ts not any protection of Po hevik Invaslo is ex » next few ¢ ected that there ¥ jon that this country but Great Britain and are committed to: take will pr %, be send troops, France, su whieh ¢ active part, eff hin thelr now if the Rur- | orders ty go s wi own ave our moral and nort ficlais of fully explained the that Department) decision tx po ‘The only defini ution Ix the Americ s action undér con-| possible extension | for the purchase of purplus Am: . war outer Fol e are quantith of such supplies rope which cottlt be turned over ” the Polloh authoritica, 17 pA nt unt ta! PUGILIST KILLED IN BOXING BOUT AT JERSEY CLUB panes Blow on Temple Causes Death of Frankie Mahone, New- ark Featherweight, REFUSED TO GIVE UP. Declined to Allow Seconds to Throw Up Sponge in Con- test With Willie Davis, Francis Monahan of Newark, known in the boxing ring as Frankie | Mahone, a featherwelght, died early to-day in Alexian Brothers’ Hospital at Elizabeth. He was knocked out last night im a boxing bout by Willle Davis of Elisabeth, with a blow on the temple, The bout was held by the Foresters Boxing Club. .Mahone was being beaten and had been knocked down in the fifth round. His second wanted to throw in the sponge, but Mahone rofused to allow it, ‘The men were in a mix-up when Mahone fell after his opponent dellv- ered a severe blow. His seconds carried him to his cor- ner, but were unable to revive him and he was rushed to the hospital, An autopsy will be performed to-day, SHOT DOWN BEFORE RESTAURANT CROWD Laundry Manager Dying From Three Bullet Wounds in Mysterious Attack, Benjamin Zwrin, twenty-six, a laun- dry manager, of No. 92 Attorney Bt is dying in Bellevue Hospital with thr. bul s in his abdomen after being shot while in @ restaurant, in Second Ave~ nue, near Third Street, in view of a score of patrons. Loeked up charged with the shooting is James Loctienti, twenty-elght, of No. 27 Bt, Marks Place, who was caught by Patrolman Charles Wiawman during @ ghase in which several hundred took part. Zwrin was about to sit down at @ table when @ man brushed by, at the same time firing a revolver trom his hip three tim ‘The man then calmiy turned around, th the revolver into a basket and walked out, closing the door after him. Loclient! Was taken back to the restaurant and Zwrin wae asked to Identify him, but merely sahrug- ged bis shoulders, B. R. T. TO OPEN NEW SUBWAY LINES |Queen Plaza and Montague Street Tunnel Service Will Start To-Morrow, ' The Brooklyn Rapid Transit’ Com- y will begin running through ns in the 60th Street tunnel to ens and through the Montague vet tunnel to Brooklyn at 12,01 o'clock next Sunday morning, The now service will add more than seven miles of route to the B. Rt, T. service. subway stations in Beovklyn New Jinciude those at Seventh, Atlantic and Kalb Avenues and Court sirbstantial extension of the Ave-cent furo to Coney Leland, and 300 new Lears will be added to the B. R. T, tee, 600 of which are now ready, WOMEN ACCEPT B. R. T. PAY RAISE) At least half of the women employees of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit are tn favor of accepting the 10 per gent, fat vd workers of the lines, tings of the B. KR. ‘Tt, Women's que for Erwl Opportunity, in which at leant half of the RB, T. women voted to ‘seoept and not hold out f to be demanded by the workers are the 10 per cent 25 per cent. The night workers met Jay and last night ‘weld thepr mecting. during the yew service will mean al the day workers FOR DECIDING southwest, which seemed likely to hour storm of thunder, lightning an: ica’s Cup. The overnight storm, which tore the Montauk, Resolute’s tender, from her moorings, but did not drive her ashoré, was still muttering an! flashing in the southern horizon as: the contending yachts left nee moorings, Neither yacht was damaged at all, it was reported by the crews wh went aboard them early. If the wind holds, as seems likely, there is a prospect for racing under driving conditions such as are rare in the history of cup races. POLICEMAN KILLED BY AUTO AT CONEY Steller Run Down as He Steps from Taxi After “Lift” on Way * to Stathan. Policeman George Steller, fifty-two years oid, of No, 269 Crescent Btroet, Brooklyn, attached to the Coney Island} Station, died early to-day In Coney Ialand Hospltal from @ fractured skull after belhg struck by an automobile, He lmd gone off duty at midnight and was on his way to the station to “turn in’ when @ taxicab chauffeur ffered him a “iif.” In leaving the tax! at Surf Avenue and West Ath Street he stepped in front of an automobile driven by Edward Ellenbogen, No, 638 Kelly Street, the Bronx. He was hurled sey- eral feet and fell on his head, For many years Steller was attached to the Headquarters Division in Man- hattan, He is survived by a widow and two children, ae WOMAN HELD AS THIEF. Evcort Says She Grabbed #39 When He Went to Pay Taxi, A woman who described heraelt aa Susan Bonft, fifty, of No. 366 East 59tn Street, 1s locked up in the Weat 100th Strect Station on @ charge of wrand larceny, A man who gave bis name av Lowell W. t of No. 143 Mast ath Street, alloges the woman snatched §3) from him while he was paying the ture of a taxleab In which they were riding, Lowells, according to the pollee, salt d the woman had an altercation in axi, and at 39th Street und Broad> thy got out ‘The Ioanof moda followed. pid GUN TO SHOOT 80 MILES. Being Ballt by Britinh—To Hurt 8-Inch Shell. |he jth Announcement to this effect by the Lord Mayor of miles. br hey made bheuigd, PE Gluten Soe tea STIFFEST BREEZE OF SERIES BOTH YACHTS SAFE IN GHLE Defender’s Men Say Only Rank Bad Luck Can Take Cup Away From America—Challengers Pay High Tribute to Yankee Skipper. - SANDY HOOK, N. J., July 24—When the Resolute and Shamrock began-making sail, the wind had piped up out of the southwest to 18 knots. Crosted waves beat upon the shore. It was just such a day asa real sailorman loves to weigh anchor and By Lindsay Denison. # (Special Staff Corresponde nt of The E: HIGHLANDS, N. J., July 24.—A fifteen riot’ breeze from the” lute and Shamrock are to race to-lay in-the deciding:cantest for the Amer- RAGE TO-DAY; ning World.) | grow’ heavier, remained after a six- id rain on the course on which’ Reso- ‘To-day's course is a, thirty, mile beat to the windward and return, ‘In the previous smces, Resolute Rus proved supreior to the challenger la a thrash into. the wind. The wind was nearly a gals, ashore. The limbs. of trees on the slopes of the Highlands, threshed and t¢wlat and groaned and there was @ sbr’ howling in the guy cables of the ob- servation towers. ‘The heavy seu fhad flattened out the | sea off shore, but the few sndling vea~ eels (In tho vicinity of Ambrose Ligat were seen to be well »gefod down or using only headsuils In the last race skippers’ are Mkely to take chances like a baseball eap- tain in the last inning with a man on third and two out, Resolute was first to dress for the party, Her mainsatl was up by 9.30. and her headsails in stops, Shamrock's main sail was sent up @ quarter of an hour later and a reef was taken In it Dy 10 o'clobk, Reso- lute did not take this pregaution, but Burton apparently felt it: would be easter tovundo his reef paints opt. side than to shorten, before the steady rising which. was beginning te fend heavy rollers to the stony Uremic waters along the beach, Shamrock moved ont from wer | moorings under her reefed mesnenil: {and jib at 10.12 A.M. She went as though sho, tke an arrow from, 2 bow, i Pilot. “Applejack Andy” Ap; avoided the trip down in his backed fishing motor boat © and went to Sandy Hook by rail Sea Bright, signalling Killameyy the eWatera Union tower tt , wend off-for him n'a launch, 7 Sir Thomas Lipton has had, hig LONDON, July 24-—A mun ls being | crew as he climbed aboard Duilt at the Viekers Works at Sheffield! boat Sir Mhomas has hired eighty feet tong that will hurt an eight! aitional tender, “And Inch shell between seventy and otehty] A vagy Nant ae nasil (OI Oh tle joke about his invisible tor which was made for Henry #ord. “We'll have no need of his moter to-day," observed on tor and