The evening world. Newspaper, August 10, 1920, Page 1

POLAND MUST PAY PRICE, PREMIER HINT: WANN SUMMON ee ak $$ 0) To-night’s Weather—SHOWERS. WALTER HAGEN Discusses the Open Golf Championship in To-Day’s Sport Pages Che VOL. LXI. NO. 21,506—DAILY. by The Press Publishing yw York World). NE -DEPOSITORS OF PONZI FAIL TO GET THEIR MONEY: FOOLED THE AUTHORITIES, HE SAYS . "Wizard of Finans Finance” Admits] He Has Handed Out “What You Call Bull.” OUIJA CAUGHT NAPPING BESIDE CAN OF ALCOHOL Board’s Shameful Silence Gets PEELS PITY FOR POOR. B= esa Alberts into Court on Wanted to Go to Italy to Visit, . “Wet” Charge. Mother, but Couldn’t OUIMA BOARD carried in a big bag from Brooklyn to Hicksville, L. 1, to-day hy Samuel Alberts was not the faithful oulja, “for {t fatled to ptify its owner that a five gul- Get Passports. (Special from a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) BOSTON, Aug. 10.—Thousands of lon can of alcohol reposing be- exeited Ponzi depositors poured into’ side jt in the bag had attracted gata) kde the attention of Prohibition En from the surrounding | "i | torecement Agents Connolly, Col- ountry, and are making @ desperat®) jing and Davis, who were in the effort to withdraw their méney. At in , the Ponzi offices, No. 27 School Street, What's in your bag?” Albetts six men held the crowd back with ihe W&# asked as he stepped from e : the train. wmonition—“Come Friday and you “Toye,” he replies will got your money,” j Two dolis atso were found in Ponz} had just telephoned this order; the bag when It was opened from hie home in Lexington. At the “I got the can in Brooklyn,” | explained Alberts, “but 1 asked Hanover Trust Company, of which é . for-sweet oll.” He glanced in- Ponai owns one-fourth, it was sated) Gira nd. at oulja no Ponai'a checks wore cashed when! ~ te wa» arrested and Justice weveral excited ‘Tallang from, LAW-| «stot of Hickaville held him in nce attempted to get thelr aPoney-| $1.99 ball for arraignment in One had a certified check for asl Federal Court, Hrookiyn, charged but despite the certification it was! with Voisteud Law violation. fused, Ponzi's shortage at the bank | a eerie TOWN TO BE BURNED TO RID IT OF RATS is covered by An rasig 000 from the $1,500,000 he deposit there. Ponzi deposited more then “.vv,0v0 n the Hanover Trus npany dur- ing the jast three days to cover his| People Obliged to Live in Tents in ent of $500,- now has on shortage. there. his money was | the Outskirts to Avoid taken from smal! banks in New Eng- | ; bonic it ie. and before the Rank Commission of | Bubonic Plagu Massachusetts stopped Ponzi checks.; The fear that thousands of + An official of the Hanover Trust es-| Which infest the town of Paita, Peru \imated Ponat's abilities at $6,900,000 | ™2Y Spread ibubonte plague, has cause and added the Government to decide to burn the ‘town and rebuild it, according to Wil- “He would have. been solvent iti iam sfoas, who returned to-day on the they had not stopped him from tak-| Lamport and Holt Liner Tennyson, that ing in money,” docked in Brooklyn. Moss, who is di- It is estimated Ponzi has taken in|rector of an adding machine company } $200,000 every day for the last 20/has visited every country in South days he did business. He promised| America, He said that Paita Is a town 50 per cent. on that amount; this|9f 5,000, which has 1,000 buildings Byery family there had dost one or more ou © his Habiliti is brken ibe seclepae eased valance guean mbers from yellow fever, The feur 900,000 when these notes mature et | or the thoukands of rata that infest tho the end of approximately 45 days. | piace spreading bubonic plague caused In cash (hia known assets) he has|the Government to order the inhabi f “ oI |tents to evacuate the town and live tn $1,500,000 to meet these obligations | tents on the outlet. » Bivent” Pe) MRS, CHISHOLM 13838T NOT CRAPS HOLDS ON TO JOB CODE CAR NUMBER) Has to Change Her Home and Her Name But Doesn't Quit Her $18 Position. (Continued on + So the Figures 1 teal tothe Deten- tion of Two Men for Stealing i ing Mrs, Dorothy Decker Chisholm, wife Libstein’s Auto. | of Charles B. Chisholm who has brought A‘card with the pencilled inavription | #uit against Willlam C. Parker, society iagasterl cu 5 | man and photographer of Morristown, ¥'13838T" caught the attention of Do-|N'"y,"for $100,000 for alienating his * tectives Owens and Horan of the auto-| wife's affection, te! to ‘The Eve. mobile squad to-day when they searched | ning World to-day was sul a prisoner who gave the name of Her-|2olMding down her $18 per week job. gerd " . “Since I gave out the exclusive inter: man Gerber, They asked him what it! view to your paper sald, “T he meant | had to change my address from 22 Has Just a memo of ‘ & crap game,” said | HAghth Street to other quarters “Tt means 1 owe 18838 pen-| Change my name, but I am atill holding my Job.” , he “I” ntanda for "Tom," ‘That's | 08 $9 my F the name ef the man I owe the nll -$0."° SUBURBAN TOWNS GROWING. But the detectives teamed that reer Nes of Philip uae ne New Rochelle Gains 7.440 In Tea f ears, White Platuy 5,082 No. 117 15th Street, Brooklyn, whose|_ Years: WE Lcbtcereoe car was stolen Sunday. The license) WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—The Con plate with that number waa found. I/ Aus Bureau to-day announced that New 2 the car in which the prisoner rode, ‘Thiy| Roctelle, N, ¥.. bas a populatic fact and others led to the arraignment! 36.213, an Increase of 7,346, or 25.4 per of Gerber in the Coney Island Court | cent. aince 1910 later and to his being held in $2,500) White Plains has 21,031, an increas sail. With Gerber was Agraham Weiss | Of 5,082, oF 31.9 per cont sf No. $3 Avenue C, Manhattan, and he se fn held In $2.00 ball ¢ witn Liberty Ma alae op nivel arog netieht Bod et the theft of Libstein’s car Johy Mutr & Co. 61 Hrosdway.— adr ner REJECTS PAY DEMANDS OF BR. T EMPLOYEES the Committee He: Asked for Closed Shop, Not Wage Scale. SEES LINES BANKRUPT. | “Suggestions” He Declares Means $15,000,000 More a | Year in Operation, A letter from Lindley for the ‘Transit Company, tives of the M. Brooklyn —“Rapi¢ Garrison, receiver to the representa- committee of street, rail- way workers who asked for increased pay was handed to Edwin L. Smith, John P, Shea and six others by Wil jam & Manden, general monager for | the receiver, at noon to-day | Garrison explains that his reply had been delayed two weeks because ,of the necessity for an analysis by statisticians of the effect of the de- mands made by the workers on the finances of the transportation com- panies of Brooklyn. He then rejects : vin, who is ‘n St,’ Luke's Hospital. | jevery proposal made by the com- mittee on both of two grounds: First, | S!@vin was found in front of Me that the committee has demanded | Graw's home at No. 301 West 109th} the establishment of a closed shop| Street, after a ride uptown from the instead of a wage scale; second, be- | Pambs' Club with McGraw and for- ci use the Increases demanded would : pamloes ¢ mer Commander Leggett of the navy. | ree the bankruptcy Of the company:| Two of Sinvin's front teeth were he “suggested changes” in the) roken, there waa a crack in the Rarseanl bene sen he pompaiy.and| 46; of hin MEAL leeds ne soem. tan ite_wor re Hisaat out, Receiver lead breed Mergen ° teste ot char Arrangements for the examination] ey nin as o ate resets ine | o! Mot by the Dist Allorney Baw arth Hons of the} was made through Emi] Fuchs, for- Amugamated Assoviation of Street "i aS mer City Mngistrate, who is Mc and Electric 1ilway Employees, the], . Graw’s attorney. District Attorney surface railway men, ih mechar men and the elevated and subway work “T urements,” he continues would make an absolutely closed the umstances there is time {n entering these no po at th any negotiations regarding pro posed ‘agreements. 1 have always retused to maintain a closed shop. | have always refused to enter into a contract with anybody other than «| committee of employees, As you} know I have taken this course under instructions from court whose (Continued dhe Me ind Puge.) John J. McGraw, manager and part owner of the New York Na-| | Ulonal League Baseball Club, has} been summoned to apnenr hefore | noon for w “YORK, TUESDAY, ‘AvaUST 10, a M’GRAW IN INQUIRY Entered 920. Fest Ottice, New Vert, N. ¥. i Becond-Claws Matter SWANN SUMMONS MPGRAW IN INVESTIGATION 10 LEARN CAUSE OF INIURY 10 SLAIN —~— Connection with Sport Won't W. H..-BOYD, ACTOR, MAN WHO PUNCHED M’GRAW IN THE EYE Protect Hi Says n if He Is Guilty, | Prosecutor. SUSPENDED BY [LAMB Giants’ Manager Maintains Si- lence as to Agsault—Actor Still in Hospital. District Attorney Swann next Thure- | day to give a complete account of the events Sunday of Saturday morning, which injuries of Jacob Miller, night and caused the u comedian known on the stage as John C. Slay Swann said: “The connection of Mc- Graw with a popular branch of aport will not protect him if he has been guilty of rowdyism and brut diss orderly conduct. He is to be held to responsibility for ordinary decency of conduet in direct proportion to hi prominence in the public eye.” Preparations were made this after un X-ray examination to de PRICES OFR RAISINS RAISED 5 CENTS) Fixed by Association to Yield 15 Cents to Grower, Despite Big | Crop This Year. | 9—The Cali | Company to FRESNO, Cal, forfiia Associated Aug: Raisin day named prices for the 1920 raisin | crop on a basis of 15 cents to the grow- | ler. ‘This ts an tnor five cents a pound over lust yea | In announcing the (Wyle M, Griffin, Presi aswo. elation, said that it was three cents un-| fer that paid by independent packera| an’ three a recent nuction sale cents under that indicated at in New York, ‘The extimated tonn 200,000, a American Motorboat Wins Harme-| worth ‘Trophy Race COWES, Isle of Wight, Aus. 10. | joan motorboat Miss America, | by Garfleld A. Wood of Detroit) and representing the Detroit Yact won the first race for the Harmaworth trophy, the international motorboat prize, contested in the Solent, off uh of Wight AN Visit 14th 50: flooe’ | Det lermins the exact nature and grayits of the injuries to Slavin McGraw, » has been suspended by th Lambs' Club, continued in the » sion of his a roment to-day, als wife refusing all requests for int views and declining to make any statement Dr. H. M,N, Lyle, the surgeon at tending Slavin, announced the com edian was improving slowly, but that was not sufficiently be questioned, sure tives Fitap and L West 100th police led to the investigation, that oy would not be in fit cond, to talk to them this afte Lyle safd possibly the de talk in to-morrow It rned t that first of conscfousness sked bromo ho >horent The a” trick BERGDOLL COURT MARTIAL CONVENES deta uC treet stat lon. she Dr ctives eduid noon Second Mer Famil Philadelphia of Face Evading Dratt was perk for nothing to say day in his Sl He i vin had selt William leading H man Boyd Broadway well a known in produc- (Continu Jon Second Pa, mi Classified Advertisers Important! Classified advertin The Sunday W The World off On or Before Friday Preceding Publication M een ng copy for 1 should be to Early copy recety ference when Sunday ad has to be w nd killed i omitted. Late rls now |] u 7 = pitted for Lack » ant It it ¢ 4 THE i ORLD. NF r a oad - BABE RUTH Days in Tells of His Boyhood Baseball, a a) 000,000 WAGE “NOREASE GRANTED 10 EXPRESS MEN Awe = Affects 80,00 80,000 Men and ; s Made Retroactive to ge 1 of This Year. re 16 CENTS AN HOUR. Amount Granted Will Be Added to Nation’s Bill in Higher Rates. Thirty million dollars was added to-day to the Na- CHICAGO, Aug. 10. tion's express bill. ‘The United States Board awarded the | 80,000 employees of the American Rail- Railway Labor way Express Company 116 cents an hour. on increase of The decision is re- 1920.4 | Under the terms of the Exch-Cum- jmins T Act the express company will be permitted to raise its troactive to May 1, sportation abor cost. Arguments in the rate cane been presented befor Commerce Commission | already have | the Interstate at Washington, y-dny’s award does not go into the question o As roles and working conditions was the case Inst | month, when the $600,000,000 ployees, Board inerease m announced that a de- new working rules handed down later granted railway t was cision covering would The express express d on applies to al 2,500 shop given an inerease of | 18 in the railway award last month. The award to ex- press men is slightly better than the aver railroad men, express em- employees save who were on men, cents houv Lge to the Board as norease finding that | were not so well other lines of rail- the patd ae road work ware men in Increase, amounting will give m sengrers rain service ployess an increase of $3840 a month. All a will an increase ne 16 cents an and other to hour, em- other employe receive of $82.64 "Train service employees work on a 246-hour month basis while all other employees work o1 204-ho bas! Presidents of the Express unions who w present when the award was halided down, were non-com- mittal on jis acceptability, but the one mpression was that the Lat Hoard had b n slightly more ve than elther unions or the eas company hyd expected Two of th unions had demanded in rewken of $51 per month, while the sther two asked an Increase of $85 monthly. Brotherhood of Railway and hip Clerks, Freight Handlers, press and Station Employees will a grand dge meeting here to- cht to pase on the award.” About 46.000 of the 40,000 express employees: re said to be members of this union - HORSES ON HER MENU CARD. Waltress Misunderstood Nangry Detective and In \rrested. Florence Hoffman, thirt on yearn old, « waitress, © 4 x Ave was held . trlal in pecial n ch ¢ ‘book rokink era nx to-day before Magistrate J Marah tn Wash ton Hele ourt L tve Heffernun testified was hung he went mre loyed nt Ne in & Lew I ted 0 card, bu 1 i, the waitress placed ard. Her arrest BATTED OUT THREE HOME RUNS A D | rates sufficiently to meet the increased | LLOYD GEORGE HOLDS POLES: ~TOBLAME BUT STILL HOPES - PEACE WILL BE MADE SOON In Statement to House of Commons, He Hints Strongly Poland Must Pay Price of Aggression, but In- dependence Must Be Preserved. LONDON, Aug. peace,” | ment in, the House of Commons tonday with regard to the Russo-Polish |cPisis, 10 (Associated Press).=—“l am still hopeful of were the opening words of Premier Lloyd George's announce- The House was crowded and the tension wasfhigh in anticipation jof the Premier's “peace or war" statement, As he entered he was warmly | cheer Al, , | MM. Krassin and Kamenefi, of the Russian Soviet delegation here, 4 were in the strangers’ gallery. Replying to an interjection as to what the position of America would be, Mr. Lloyd George said: e certainly are «oiling to appeal: to America. There ie of course, the... dificulty in America that up to the present she has not ratified the treaty, and that the treaty is the subject of% conflict between the .two great par- thes, “It in not in our power to say what, view the American executive would * luke. 1 am only judging from the attitude of America at the peace @on~ ference. She Was a strong protago- nist of Polish independence. No man could have taken @ more determinedt and zewlous part in aetting up Polish” ndependence than President Wilaon. ; And | am certain that whatever dif. ferences of opinion there may be in DANZIG RAILWAY CUT; POLES MASS FOR BlG BATTLE Defenders Occupy Strongly Intrenched Position st of Ww arsaw. PAIUS, Aug: 10 (Associated Press) The Russians have captured the| America with regard to the League own of Clechanow, thus outting the | Of Nations there would be no dif- Warsaw-Danelg ratiway, according to | ference of opinion in thelr general at- titude towards Polish independence,” , Dhe Premier declared that up te te present Great Britain wes taking no steps to assi@t in eny attack on Soviet Ruesia inside her own terri- reports from the Frenwh Military mis- | sion to Warsaw received by the For- eign Ofice day; and severlug Ue moat direct line of communteution be- Waraww tween ‘and Danzig, over ge whlch Poland hax boon receiving mu- | ‘OF: siace the Britth Governmentis’ | nitions und supplies from Allied | Ch4need policy was announced. sources . | Lloyd Georgo declared the Pol- ish attack was not justified in the opinion of the British Govébnment and that the Soviet Government, in Yestenday's Polish communique con coded that Bolshevik detachments | eco l Cles ow re ee deapatches repprt Eh@l| to take into account the facts of the the Poles have repaired a more round- attacks made by the Poles upon Rus sia and that these attacks were d,- about line between Warsaw and Dan- aig, running by the way of THOrD, jivereq despite warnings of the Allws Bronyberg and Dirschau |to Poland ‘The battle which is expected to de-| The Soviet, he declared, was en- elde the fate of Warsaw has not yet titled to demand such guarantees really begun, according to the latest 24 would be exacted by any power news reaching Paris, but both sidea| aeaingt a cepetition of attacks of that are gathering forces for the final) ying. What was challenged, he sald, otruge)e, was that “nothing justifies retalia- Gen, Haller’s newly formed army! tion, repriaal or punishment which ples « strongly intrericted post | goes to tho extent of wipiig out tu f tion In the fork between the Narew | k h tional existence." got shed sia oer tn arm) | “Apart altogether from che mort ty oblate Plock. <1 epmunes right of any power to demand the ex- Warsaw of @ numerically superior tinction of another nation as punish enemy, a8 was demonstrated in the fap rp EI Napoleonic campaign in 1807 and arch ie Byron rycen fare a > ik Navel. Cad : during the Russo-Polish War in 1931.) ment Premier Moy’ George In the opinion of military observers | "Purope has to = considered. Phe im the principal danger for the Poles is; 1pendence of Poland and its exist- the advance along the Prussian |°nce as an independent nation fs an frontier, because it would force them | e##ential part of the structure of Bury to extend their front westward when pean _ Repartition of Potanct upon peace. they need to keep thelr armies con. | Would be not merely 4 crime, it wouls i centrated as much as possible east of be a peril, and we havea to consider t Warsaw botn these contingencies as @ basis H ‘The Poles thus far have heen able | for our poltey.” ‘ to ignore this adyance, which ts) The Premier declared that the sole ‘ merely a demonstration, but it is con-| purpose of the Allied policy waa to t sidered likely that the Red staff will secure peace on @ basis of indepen- ¥ % + lence for ethnographical Peland. He § (Continued on Second Page.) anid the Hythe eonfarenas' sienna { ferent must. | the Allies should advise Poland to en- | " dulghi Hound: | deayvor to negolate an armistice end, ; # ake peace as long as such indepen- ; (Racing News on Page 18) dence waa recognized. That regom+ Not Babe's Unusual in School Days AY Tee penne ta pp men se