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'To Be Sure of The Evening World, Order in Advance from Newsdeal Your weer Getting er 33 Che [* Open to All. | Circulation Books VOL. LXI.. NO. 21,496—DAILY. Coprright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). NEW YOR LIEVED LOST IN BLOW UP MILLIONS | TO-NIGHT’S WEATHER—Fair, Nd TRUNK MYSTERY CLUES MAY LINK SLAYER WiTt TWO NEW ee —_._ Writing Like That of “Pour- verer,” Whose Roommate Was Slain in McAlpin. MISSING SINCE CRIME. Description Also Fits Man Who Killed Hoxie Girl— Leroy Believed in Mexico. New Tork detectives investigating jooal ends of the trunk murder mys- tery to-day were struck with tho strong resemblance in the handwrit- ing of the’ trunk-shipper, ‘believed to be the missing “B, Leroy.” or J. A. Fernandez, and that of “P. Pourvs- rer,” who disappeared after the mur- der of his roommate, Cecil B. Lan- don, in the Hotel McAlpin Aug. 14 last, The missing “Pourverer” also weardéscribed as a ewarthy, black- haired man, which is the description given for Fernandes, as ‘(Leroy now is called by the police, Fernandez’s description, the polios ea!d further, tallied closely with that of the man who murdered Miss Rehm Hoxle in her father's apartment at No, 72 Wost 89th Street on the aft noon of Feb, 2, last. The man 4 admission to the apartment by ask- ing permission to ece @ room whica the Hoxies had advertised for rent. Cecil Landon, who had been a soldier, registered at the McAlpin with a stranger who signed himself as "P. J. Pour’ Within twelve hours Landon ‘was found murdered and obbed. Pourverer had vanished. His randwriting on the register wos com- pared to-day with that in letters to Andrew J. I an expreasman of N West tweet, who received written orders from "O. J. Wood" to send a trunk to “E. Leroy’ in Detrolt, and who in June recetved a letter signed “A. A. Tatum” ordering him to pick up a trunk, which proved to be the one containing Katherine Jack- son Leroy’s body ‘The local detectives that the Fernandeg or 1 a worldwide hunt is nandez who came here in 1918 In the steerage of « Southern Pacific steam- ship, accompanying Joseph Yanez, who has been described as the friend of “O. J. Wood." Later Fernandea's baggage arrived from San Antonio, since given as the home of the man sougat, NEW EVIDENCE THAT “LEROY” 1S IN MEXICO. » Weliof of the De are confident Leroy sought the same #er- Bearing out ‘trott authorities that Fernandez 1s now in Mexico, it was learned to-day thet Branle turned over to the police letter from Yanez sent from Eagle Pass, Texas, on July 2, twenty days before the body was discovered, dt- * recting the expressman to forward all mail for Yanez, Wood or Fe Mexico City. Brante also furnishe police with the Toledo address by Fernandez when he nan sent given (Continued on Second Page.) Classified Advertisers Important! On or Before Friday Preceding Publication Barly omitted. Late a omitted for lack of time to act It THE WORLD. \ aaa copy re YORK MURDERS WILL WILSON LET ~COXLEAD PARTY? ~-» DAO QUESTIONS Friends of Governor Expect Word That the President | Has Surrendered Control. | By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World. | WASHINGTON, July 29 (Copy- | right, * 1920)—Several days ago a (story was published that President Wiison would walt until he had read the speech of acomptance by Gov. Cox and then Wwoukl write him a letter recognizing him as the leader of the Democratic Party. The White House declined to comment on the story and similar silence was ob- served at Dayton, But the incident has caused considerable comment ax the writer learned by mingling with Ohio folks and not a few Democratic politicians, ‘The truth of the matter reveals a rather !nteresting sidelight on the |relations between the President and he new leader of the Democratic Party and also exhibits geome of the delicacies in thelr respective poel- tions. The facts are these: When Gov. Cox visited President Wilson’ in Washington, the latter | talked, cordially to him about the |@eneral politioal outlook and his own candidacy and gald frankly that he | was glad to surrender the leadership lof the party to the nominee of the |convention. This pleased Gov. Cox very much and It was fully expected |that the President would make some jsuch statement in public go thet there would be no doubt in the minds of the yotersgas to who was leading the party In the coming campaign. WILSON MAY WAIT FOR THE COX SPEECH. But no statement or letter has been forthcoming and the impression is thet Mr, Wilson will wait until he examines the speech of acceptance Ohio Governor has expressed ‘himself correctly from the Wilson viewpoint. Out in Ohio, however, tactics like that are apt to be understood as coer- cion, for it is contended that Hiram Johnson held @ club over Senator (Continued on Bighteenth Page.) NORTH HEMPSTEAD WINS GAS RULING Court Holds Rates Could Not Be Raised Without Consent of Ser- vice Commission. The Appellate Division ofthe Supreme. rt, Bfooklyn, to-day vacated an order of Justice Fawcett of the Su prome Court, which aside an in- |junction obtained by the town of th Hempstead to restrain the Pub- Service Corporation, a gas com- pan ) charging $1.76 per 1,000 vet ff gas to its consumers. Justice Kelly, in writing the opinion of the court ompany had no Racons Ob ve Anniversary. rank Bucon, veteran star of “Lights nin'," and Mra, Bacon celebrated yea-| | terday the thirty-fifth anniversary of thelr wedding at thelr home in Bay fide, L. & mnerege - oe jend determines whether or not the | LAWYER DYING OF BULLET WOUND: ACTOR'S WIFE HELD. | Another, Woman Awaits Out- | come of Row After Drinking in Mrs. Sidney’s Flat. SMASH IN CUT GLASS. Baumer Accuses Hostess of Shooting — Second Guest Has Head Badly Cut. 300 West 39th Street and Mrs. Ray Brady of | | Mrs. Carnie Webber Sidney of No | |Brady, wife of Edward J No, 68 West 37th Street, were held | without bail by Magistrate Schwab jin the West Side Court to-day to await the result of the Injuries of | Peter Baumer, a lawyer at No. 1 |Broadway, who was shot after a | party in which there was Iibera) in- dulgence, according to the police, in reinforced home brew at the home of Mrs, Sidney. Baumer ia reported to be dying of 4 pistol bullet wound tn his omdomen in Beleyue Hospital. (Bindy, who Wis cut about the head with broken fags in the souffle preceding the shooting, is also in Bellevue. According to the police, the Brodys and Mrg. Sidney were dining in a Weat 48th Street aurant last right | when they met Baumer and un cider mann introduced as a sea captain. Mrs. Sidney invited the Bradys and | Baumer over to her apartment to get “something with a kick,” shortly | after midnight. The sea captain did not go along. “T played the hostess,” Mrs. Sidney sald later. “I was serving drinks and sandwiches. Baumer and Brady got into an argument, first-over religion and then over nationalities, and the next thing I knew there was a crash of my eut glase—$1,000 worth gone to emithereens—and” of the furniture, ‘Then I heard a shot and Baumer fell. He made his way to the clevator and went downstairs, where he collapsed.” The police say that when Policcman Edward Hatterdorf arrived Baumer said Mrs, Sidney had shot him, but he believed she was shooting at Brady, Mrs. Sidney was brought down, and Baumer Is alleged to have | identified her. She sald, according to the police: “Why, my dear man, I | didn't shoot you. You are mistaken,” Baumer Insisted she did and that it was with a “dity looking pistol.” Detectives found in the courtyard a rusty revolver that had been fired | once, A hole in the screen showed where \t had been thrown from the Sidney flit, Mrs, Sidney denies ownership, Another version told the police was that when Mrs, Sidney upbraided \rady for breaking the cut glass Mrs. Brady rushed to her husband defense and Baumer to Mra, Sid ne ‘The police say Baumer sid he lived with Father Dooley of the Corpus Christ! Ri ‘atholic Church in West 1214st JAZZER MUST NOT WEAR U. S. UNIFORM Coney Island Band Leader Will Have to Shed Even His Snappy | Sam Brown Belt. J. Tim Brymn, orchestra loader at} |the Hotel Shelburne, Coney Island, to- | day was held in $1,800 tne | ff violating gection 1 ational Defense Act, by wea uniform of a second Heutenant, U. S.A. | while directing his musicians. Army officers, who saw Brymn wea uniform with a Sam Fh to the after the performance last night, Brymn, wouring hia uniform, was arrested seistant | Attorney Kobort Gil aid he had waa anmaterial of the uniform 4 WORLD 9 Spectat for ‘ihu Calvon” liver tuce ft Boe: "table ah STAURA July Trunk Murder Mystery Victim Whose Husband Is Traced Here » THURSDAY, JULY 29, ORR N BONUS FOR HARVESTER CO. MEN 1920. Post Office, New ¥ “Circulation Books Open to All.” ] Kotered an Becond-Clane Matter . TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Fair, j PRICE TWO ‘CENTS THREE CENTS IN GREATER NEW yoRM KLSEWHERB fe MB 2 BS ‘ork, N. BIGGEST BONUS YET FOR 40,000 MEN OF HARVESTER C0. Will Share in $20,000,000 Common and $40,000,000 | New Preferred Stock. DIVIDEND OF 12 1-2 P. C. Sixty Per Cent of the Profits to Be Distributed Annually to. Employees. A high record of corporate generon- ity to employees has been broken by the International Harvester Company. At @ special meeting of stockholders, hekl in Hoboken to-day, there was adopted a plan of stock ownership ‘and extra compen sation that is with- out @ parallel in American business history, : v Ths plan as announced provides for an noreage in the authorised amount of preferred stock trom $60,000,000 to $100,000,009 and an increase in the @u- thorized common stock ¢rom $80,000,000 ‘te $30,000,000, Of these stock increases there will be set aside for the 40,000 employees tn this country and Canada 140,000,000 of the new preferred and $20,000,000 of the new commen, As previously announced by direc- tons $10,000,000 of the new common MRS LEROY stock will be used to pay a 121-2 per Thre = EES NEN PN cent, stock dividend to present share- MAJ. BIDDLE QUITS BARNES MAINTAINS ASCHAIRMANOF “MET” GOLF LEAD BIG FIGHT CLUB. BY SINGLE STROKE Business and Personal Affairs Has Total of 143in TwoDa . Responsible, Says Million- aire-Boxing,Enthusiast. A report which from Philadelphia te reached this city states that Major Anthony J. Drexel Biddle of Quakertown announced his resigna- tion as Chairman of the Army, Navy and Gtvilian Board of Roxing © and as President of the ntrol International Sporting Club because of pressure of business, “Owing to personal and business affairs,” Major Biddlo sald, “I fer that I should resign, mive the time and business of these organizat The rumor that Major resigned from the was going the rounds in 2 Mor the club's show it could not be ve The International the r not asked about they wer Major Biddle did not in the Monday drawn at the dire med as mania Sunization, show ag I could not attent to the on Ih had Chur wank at nught, but n the time w nternat almed fuct spectator at the fig Major Bi was one ¢ izers of the International has amony its member inent men thro was the Maj: boxing alon. 4 of tonal Sporting ondon, and n extend his organiza ‘0 branch elolubs throughout the An The boxing bill, wh y duced % Senator James \ ' iran bany and slened i w holders The plan as announoed provides for the setting up of a fund which will accrue 60 per cent. of net earnings of the company, beginning Jan. 1 noxt, after dedicting a sum equivalent to 7 per cent. of the capital invested in the business, According to the imterpretations of the plan now given by Wall Street, and ja the absence of qualifying de- tails, it 19 by no means 4mpropable thet employees ‘beginning Jenuary next wil share in profits to a larger extent than present stockholders, Ry the plan all earnings of the company beyond a 7 per cent, return on the capital tnyested in the bus ness will be divided this year and an- nually thereafter into three parts. Forty per cent. will go to the workers who are not employed in any man- agerial or executive capacity, © nee ond fund of 20 per cent, will be dl- vided among employees who are en- gaged in the managerial or executive departments in proportion to the value which the board of directors puts on their service to the company, and the third fund consisting of the remaining 40 per cent. of the profits —_—>— —McFarlane Is Second, | Play in Open Tournament i} By William Abbott (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) ‘ORPBNWIOH, Conn. July 29.— James Barnes of St. Louis was hold 1 In the second round of in Open Golf Gham- the Greenwich Country by the slender margin stroke. ‘Barnes took 14 ‘cond round) giving hith a astitp al b to-day a single for the two days’ play, and| wlll go to the stockholders. Jan © stroke lead over Willie Me-| The only restriction placed upon a | Farlane of Port Washington, his clos- | worker sharing th the fund i# that est comp he remain continuoualy tn the service Hopes ‘that Walter Hagen woula|of the company throughout the year |rise to the o mand separ and until the funds are distributed. Barnes from hiy lead turned out to ioe ae SRE | ve {ruitiess, ‘The defending champion |OLYMPIC ATHLETES #kidded further to the rear, his sound |t7 for the second romd patting ia} TRAIN BELOW DECKS | na al champion five strokes behind the first position Sea Too Rough for Outdoor Work of Naval Team On the Frederick. Hagen was erratt on the greens, very effective where us he as TANKER BLOWN UP OFF JERSEY WITH 41 MEN IN THE CREW Steamer Not Heard From Since Leaving Here Monday, and Own- ers Fear She Is One Reported Lost Near Avalon—Many Sailors From New York. The big new tank steamer Kehuku, which sailed for Point Lobos, Mexico, Monday in ballast is believed to be the vessel that caught fire and was blown up and sunk off Avalon, N. J., Tuesday morning, when a cloud of smoke attracted the attention of thousands along the coast, Officials of the Columbus Shipping Company, No. 29 Broadway, ex- pressed their fears to this effect this afternoon, At the offices of the company it was said that the Kehuku sailed under the command of veteran Capt. J. Robertson, with a crew of forty men, many of whom were from ‘New York and its vicinity. One of the standing rules of the company, it was said, is for each captain to sendein, twenty-four hours after departure from port, a wireless message giving his position at sea, This is also done every day thereafter while the voyage lasts. WOMAN CAPTURES ALLEGED BURGLARS IN WILD AUTO RIDE Commandeers Machine . in Front of ‘Her Home and Pursues Two Youths. at ten anda half knots an hour and the time of her departure from New York, seven o'clock Monday evening, oMclals of the company say her pasl- tion Tuesday morning would ibe just about that of the unidentified tanker, Though in ballast the Kehuku was an of burner and so carried a large quantity of crude oll, It is feared this caught fire and exploded. Up to 1 o'clock this afternoon #9 word had been received from Capt Roberton, although the company through the radio. companies as well as the wireless from Naval Commun- feations head) warters and other chan- nels has been trying to get In touch with the vessel The Kebuku was built {n Wilminge ton, ‘Del, for the «hiyping board dur- ‘ing the war. Sho is listed as 392 fort long, 51 feet beam and ts registered at 7,600 tons burden Among those on board who came from New York and vicinity were William P, Goldrick, No. 711 Clardens don Street, Syracuse; A. J. F. Doyle, No. 40 Went 128th Street, Manhattan; Mrs, Mabel A. Milne, Convent Avenue, of No. 120 was congratulated to-day when {t was revealetl in Wash- ington Heights court that she was the heroine of an exciting chase in & commandeered automobile which ended in the capture of two alloged burglars. When arraigned before Magist-ate ‘Tobias one of the prisoners said he was Charles Grows, 18, @ seaman, of No. 800 Kast Bighty-sixth Btrest. The| Robert C, Farrell, First Engineer, other, who declared he was not yet) No, 16 Went 4d Street, Bayonne: 16, but looked older, gave his nome| John Coffey, No, 200 Fant 60th 48 Morris Gross, seaman, of tho same address. He will be arraigned tn the Children's Court. Mrs, Milne, whose husband, Will- jam, i6 manager of Keith's Theatro in Jersey City, saw two young men Street, Manhattan; Thomas W. Corey No, 4 0South Avenue, Arlington, 8. Lz Edward Ryan, No. 334 West 40th Street, Manhattan; Charles Staskows ski, No. 81 oNrth Henry Street, Brooklyn; .Morris Wolf, No, 129 East tampering with her door when she | 90th Street, and aMt De Martino, No. returned home last evening after a|15 Nelson Street, Brooklyn. Joseph @hopping tip. ‘They told her thov|W. Conrad, No. 916 North Bradford ‘were looking for a family who appar- | Street, Baltimore, was the wireless ently did not Live there, operator . As the youtha started down the| shortly after 8 o'clock Tuesday stairs Mrs. Milne saw her door was! manning crowds on the beach at Avas scratched and gave chase. Down | jon, south of Atlantic Qity, saw CJ five fights of stairs ehe ran at to] cloud of smoke rising from a point speed after the fleeing patr, emerging | about twelve miles out at sea. The missed pi generally litte ones from the front door but a few jumos| Coast Guand stations were notified tint just stopped at the of the ’ ARD &. S. PRDFIRICK, ty |Dehind them Hampered by bh but a search failed to reveal amy ; : : A ADOARD July | gkirta sho was no tmatoh for them iy cll he rot ine Sao whic ‘ounted f east six ]o9 (py wireless to the United Press). |a running race on the atreet, but she | 88 of the — of the fre. strokes slumped «and indiontions’o promptly commandeered an automo-| Coast Guar als, from the ore the Jong thir A rough sea and indi ations Of rain dig whch was passing. Townsend fnlet jon, No 180, er ; h, the Jong. | threatened to send the Naval athl tol ringing on the running board, she started yesterd: a powerboat with The thir-|bound for the Olympte games below gn wan chasing burglars, and in one s for several days’ search of ks “for thely training to-day. A other instant the car was speeding n the yloinity of the spot (Continued on ond Page.) few it colds constituted the only ! Convent Avenue from 183rd Street.| where it is feared the vessel waa ~~ litiness whoard The pursuit turned into 18st Street, | gunk | ; Rn cate ) (then ty Amster’ Avenue and at ALL QUIET IN IRELAND! ‘The Frederick 19 700 miles out, with |jzgth Street. the car Se es the Matolka followin at 100 miles, — fleeing youths | PETTIBONE FOUND GUILTY. No Disorder tt A measage f Senator Harding, Ie Mra. Milne yelled to Patre | Partin bast 26 th Jrubiiean Hresidental nomineo, car T4uhy. the cause of the chase Accused of Potsoutps Wite—Seme ! Ful Peart u-|ried ireetings and wished the con n& police declared Charles Qross senced to Prison Fer Vitey t + hoon declared |teatants vietory at Antwerp is also known 4 MANCHESTER, Vt., July 29,—Byron t Vand the Hritteh oe aky." and has | ‘ ja. # one to-day wae found guilty anniour at. D) Morristown's Popalat 12,505, @ Wines. Tn 1946, ares: Ny S25] of murder in the second degece, polson® A period of twenty ON, July 20 Census|/wanson Joly & last ow le nington on April 6 ‘The jury had t an outrage | Bureau to-day announced the population charge, which is still pending. Mag- | een out since terday afternoon, from a part of Lre { Morristown, N. J., &# 12,005, a de- istrate Tobias held Gross in $1,500 He was sentenced to life imprison~ [crease since 4910 of two PM for @ eurines ment, ® . al BELIEVED 10 BE THE KEHUKA, ® Figuring the speed of the Kehuku, A