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

—_—— HOLD ley . aeaaaaamaamnamanal vb MEN GET $18,00 FAKE PATIENT BEATS AND ROBS DR. EMIL HARTUNG To-night'’s weather—CLOUDY; LOCAL SHOWERS. few Lurk World: The Press Publishing N DR EMIL HARTUNG BEATEN $18,000 PAYROLL STOLEN Former County Physician of GEMS STOLE ‘$3,000 re Attacked After Being Lured to * House Near Home “to Great , i. Invalid. Lured to a house a block away from (his office by @ call from a man sup- | podedly seriously ill, Dr. Emil F. Hart- yng, for sixteen years County Physi- ‘cian of Kings County and one of the yest known practitioners in the bor- ough, was attacked, knocked senseless Sand robbed of jewelry worth $3,000 and day. Dr. Hartung is at his home, No, $ Marion Street, under the care of It is feared his skull Mure physicians. fs fractured, but his mind fs clear. Three days ago a stocky young man giving the name of Harris called at Dr. Hartung’s ofMfce for treatment. He called again yesterday apd complained of various aches and pains. At 10 "o'clock to-day Dr. Hartung was asked “hoy telephone to call on Harris in a tiouse in Marion Street. + Mme doctor walked to the house, a two-story frame two-family dwelling Ihetween Howard and Saratoga Ave- | nucs. Ho was mot at the door by @ young man ho had never seen before ‘and was escorted to a bedroom on the ( ground floar, where he found Harris tn ‘bed. Stepping to the bed jplaced his bag on a. chair, As he stooped to examine the patient he card a noise behind him which Hrompted him to straighten up and turn, The second man had put on a ask and was covering him with a jrevolver. | Dr. Hartung leaped for the man iwith the gun and they grappled. The Tman known as Harris jumped out of bed—for the first time the doctor noted he was fully clothed—and got into action with an fron bar which “he Red taken to bed with him. He struck Dr, Hartung on the head and the doctor dropped unconscious. } When he recovered he found feet tied and the door locked some time he managed front door and attract the attention of @ passerby, who called an auto- mobile and took him home ! phe wound on Dr, Hartung's head ‘vequired eight stitches, He was cov- ered with bruises and Ling the doctor his After h the his ciot two gold watches and chains—onc heirloom left him by his mother all the doctor's money ! Police investigation ¢ ;the two robbers rented ‘which n Dr. Hartung was er week ago. Harris posed as an Persons who saw the thieves lew the house after the 1 ‘ y walked rapidly to Ralph Aven disappeared around the corner, oe WORLD RESTAURANT, Brolied tres mackerel THA several hundred dollars in cash to-| _ ywas almost entirely torn off in the | Be | fight in the room, Tho thieves ob-| — tained a five-carat diamond ring!) Classified Advertisers valued at more than $2,000, a horse- patti Bal.) rs shoe diamona scarfpin worth $500, and | ‘Aug, 7} suited tomate with culeks, READ, bat BORER Park b ewer. parti as cat teghane itehinay a, ‘and parcels open | Few ede and bine ‘cuaehe "tne FAKE PATIENT MRS. WANAMAKER DIES AT SEASHORE Wife of Philadelphia and New York !. Merchant Expires in Atlantic City. | | ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 20.—Mrs. Mary B, Wanamaker, wife of John Wanamaker, department store proprfe- |tor, died in her apartment at the Hotel | Ambassador here to-day. j | Mra, Wanamaker had been ill several months, and about a week ago suf-| fered a relapse, Members of her fam-/ lly, Including her husband, were at the bedside. The Wanamaker stores wiil be Slosedt to-morrow and Monday, | |2,000 GALLONS OF | | GASOLINE EXPLODE | Two Dead, 12 Injured When Res-| ervoir Blows Up—Blast | Heard for Miles. SYRACUSE, Aug, 20.—Twaq men were) Killed and twelve hurt when a 2,000-gal- | lon gasoline reservoir, the proporty of the C. Mills Ol) Company, exploded | shortly before 10 o'clock, this morning. | Sear discovered the bodies of the men under tons of mortar and debris. Tho last vestige of the station was blown from its location into the streets, a radius of three blocks. ‘The explosion was heard for mi Windows in nearby dwellings and man- ufacturing planta were wreckekd, Street cara were blocked, Every anibulance in the city, including a portion of the Fire Department, responded. sabes al WRANGEL IN NEW DRIVE IS REPORT Anti-Red Commander in South Said to Have Begun Big Offensive, PARIS, Aug. 20.—(United Press)— General Wrangel has begun an anti-| Bolshevik offensive in the Crimean district on a large acale, according to unconfirmed dispatches recelved by the French war office this after-| noon, CARL MAYS FINED $25. Yankeen's Secretary Pays, Telling | Judge of Pitcher's Breakdown, Carl Mays, the Yankee pitcher whoso| pitched ball killed Ray Chapman, tno| Cleveland's shortstop, to-day was re-| ported {n a nervous breakdown which| onfined him to his home, No. 385 Wdg- |combe Avenue, preventing his appear- ing in the TrafMc Court on @ charge of speeding. | Charles MoManus, Secretary of the sew York Americans, explained thia to Magistrate Mancuso, pleading guilty for | and paying ‘@ fine of $25 im- CLOSING TIME 5.30 P. M. SHARP SATURDAY FOR The SUNDAY WORLD’S Classified Advertisements BRANCH OFFICES CLOSE BEFORE & O'CLOCK Postively no Classified Advertise: ments will be received for The Bunday World after 5.30 P. M, Advertising copy for The Sunday World should be in The World oMfce ON OR BEFORE FRIDAY PRECEDING PUBLICATION }land.” said the informant, |portant witness who knows just who UNCONSCIOUS AND ROBBED. BY BANDITS WV HOLO-U O WN PLOT BY TYPEWRITER CO. CASHIER ee Three Men Attack Frank Zieris in| 69th Street on Way From Bank . and Escape With Cash—Police Pursue in Commandeered Auto. Frank Zieris, cashier of the Hammond Typewriter Company, and a bookkeeper who was aiding him in carrying a satchel to the factory at No. 537 East 69th Street from the branch of the Guaranty Trust Com- pany at Madisoh Avenue and 60th Street, was held up by three masked men at half past one o'clock to-day and robbed of the weekly payroll. According to Herman A. Peterson, the Treasurer of the company, the ‘robbers.got $18,000, They attacked Mr. Zieris and the’ bookkeeper on 69th Street between First Avenue and Avenue A, a block and a half from the factory, Capt. John Duane and Detectives Prantner, Grossman and McGuire | were at the East 67th Street Station when the robbery was reporféd and commandeered an automobile in the effort to trace the robbers, According to the story told to the officers of the company by Zleris, the men jumped from a taxicab upon him and the bookkeeper, whose name was Hovey, and pushed them against the wall of a bullding at the muzzles of their revolvers, Zleris attempted to draw bis own revolver but was disarmed after @ tuasle. Hovey took the satchel from Zieris and started on the run for the factory but stopped when one of the bandits fired three shots afier him, The robbers then took the bag from ‘him, leaped into thetr taxicab and drove away toward First Avenne. HINTS MISTAKEN IDENTITY IN PRIEST’S $4,000 SUIT AGAINST LORD AUCKLAND Lawyer Denies Father O'Keefe Lordship'’s father {n 1915. Lady Auckland undertook to paint a num- Loaned the Money to ber of sacred pictures for the church Irish Baron. ‘in payment for thelr board. ‘The ‘pictures were not finished and still ; hang in the church covered with Intimations that the suit of the) screens, Rev. Father O'Keefe, rector of St.| Lord Auckland married Miss Susan L. Hartridge of Jacksonvilla, Mla., in 1917, and returned to England, Father O'Keefe states the loan of $4,000 was made at that time with the promise that it would be returned whon the Matthew's Chureh, Hastings-on-the- Hudson, $4,000 alleges lonned Lord Frederick George den Auckland, sixth Irish baron of the name, might bring out a case of mis-| for he he EW YORK, FRIDAY, 19 ee ee Antis Lose Their Last Chance to Bring Up Mofion to Reconsider. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 20.—Sut- frage leadefs forced adjournmen: of the Tennessee House to-day before Speaker Walker made any motio. to reconsider the ratification of the Ked- eral Suffrage amendment. Opponents to reconsider, but the Suffrage forces planned to make such a motion to- morrow and then to table it, taus making impossible any further parlia- mentary tactics to reconsider the House's original action. on Wednesday Apeaker. Walker ohanged hia vote from nay to aye, in order that he might be in @ posidon to offgr a motion for reconsideration, but the time In which he could make his motion explred to-day The Ant!-Suffragists sought to have tho House adjourn until Monday, but the Auffragiata’ voted thelr motion down, tho movement being defentod by the samo vote that the ratification resolution was adopted Wednenday 49 to 47, The galleries and the promonade at |the rear of the chamber, as Wednesday, were crowded with suf- frage advocates and th opponents, |Enthuslanm of the spectators could not be held in check and as various legislative leaders arrived, mingled with applause, Appearance of Representative Harry T, Burn of MoMinn County, whose vote Wednes- day for ratification was regarded as having carried the day for suffrage, prompted a demonstration, Aa the House adjourned hundreda of suffragivts joined tn alnging "My Country, ‘Tis of Thee,” fairly shout- ‘eet land of Nberty.” ted over und’ over. the v.ctory as won on They regarded Deyond question, Judge Joseph Higgins of Nashville, President of the Tennessee Consti- tutional League, stated to-day he had prepared ¢o sue out a writ of injuno- tion agulint Gov, Roberta and the Hecretary of State restraining them from certifying the resolution to Washington the moment it was evi- dept the’ Suffragista had won the | content 1 action will be taken, |r ground that this Lex | pited by the Btate [Constitution “from acting on the amendment taken id nobleman was in better elrcum-| a aken identity on the part of the|ytances, Lord Auckland with hial wife and | RAILROADS MUST priest were made to-day by a friend of the baron, At the office of the peer’s attorney, Howard Dickinson, 83 Pine Street, all information Was refused, "No money whatsoever has panned from Father O'Keefe to Lord Auck- "An im- two children turned to this country, In the course of a soclul call Father O'Keefe says he casually mentioned the matter of the $4,000 und was astonished to jlearn that his lordship regarded the money us a “freewill gift." Indignant, Vather O'Keefe retained Leon Dashew, lawyer, of No, 21 Park Place, and started sult, with several revently re- got the money ts !n Australia and his testimony will be taken by deposl-|jotters and photographs to be used tion,” on supporting evidance, Howard It ts intimated that the monéy waa) Dickinson of No, 63 Pine Street, at- given by Father O'Keefe to a certain! terney for Lord Auckland, said to- young man under the impression he | day A rerlous mistuke has been was Lord Auckland 6. When the case comes up for lord Auckland and his mottior Os ober we will be prepared were pests of the priest, according to suow that this money was n to the complaint, when they came to loaned (9 Lord Auckland and no « this country after (he doath of hia! tivation son bin STATE POPULATION Rogers pulacion PUT AT 10,750,000 ats WO, a Lt Census Bureau Estimates Growth aver 1,600,000 since 1916, of 1,609,000 in New York in Director Rogers estimates that the Last Decade. stal population of tha United starce WASHIN MN) Ate -Accord-| When the count is finished jn ing to on catimate made publig tw-|tover, will be shows to be 109,000,000, » ‘ Y iA 4 | HAVE POLES THAT | BOYS CAN’T CLIMB | ors cannot | simply nding owners of poles must make them boy-proof or be legally re- sponsible for any injuries to tho hoya wustained in olimbing, « | juby In the United States District Court ded to-day, The jurors awarded a verdict $10,000 damages David er, and $1,000 addiciona help hence all uoned a high volt fering in) | the ampute Hie counsel «d boy's propensity to ts weil known, it was ‘ ot the railroad to safeguard the prop erty _ (Racing News on Page 2.) ¥ NO VOTE IN “| “Johnny choors | f “Cirenlation Books Open to All.” ] To-morrow's weather—CLOUDY; LOCAL SHOWERS. 20. AGRA DEPARTS ~ FOR CHCAGO TO JON THE GATS thus lost their right to offer a motton|(Can Be Summoned on Short ment from the American Commissioner at Berlin: Notice if Wanted by Pros- } | ecutor—Slavin Better, John J. McGraw, manager of thy Slants, left for Chicago to-day to take bdseball team, duapite the protests o1! his advisers and the tnjuries to hia! head While these tnjurtes prevented Nim from going to the Districe At- torney's office to explath how he re ceived them or what he knew of thet Injuries whioh have kept Jo 1 oF Stivin, comedian, In St, Luke's Hoa- |pltal for almost two weeks, MoGraw |inalsted on going to Chicago. Evers, who was acting vr Of the Glante, was suspended | mana |indefiuitely for m run-in with an um. | | pire, Dave Bancroft, shortutop, has {been injured serlously, and Larry McGraw. The team needs me, as this \t# a mee, Before McGraw left, hw counsel, William Jj Pation, notified P. Francia Marro, Anssistant District Attorney, that if ho 1s wanted, McGraw can be| summoned back within twenty-four to| fofty-el, t hours, Frllon anid when the truth comes out McGraw will be| exonerated, Dr, Aus'in Hollie at &t pital to-day issued a bulletin that Slavin's condition was slightly im- proved, that he had spent a restful | night, was more rational to-day and| was taking more nourishment A. O. Brown, head of the house com- mitteo of the Lambs Club, when in-| formed to-day that Prohibition Mn forcement agents were contemplating another investigation to determine it Nquor had been on the premii | Doyle has had to take command,” sata | | uclal moment tiythe pennant Luke's Hos. o6 of the purted any o8 Wikhed t be given the | and added that the Lambs ha had ho liquor on | the premines, havitig raffted all off at| the time that Prohibition became ef- | fective, Concerning the reports that | the injuries were sustained in figits at tho club, Mr Brown wld that tho | committes stood by its original atata- clubhouse, said the Lambs | investigation the authorit make, Every Prohibition ald will gents, he sal Yam | Find the answer in Sweethearts for Three By Roger Batchelder A Gripping Novel of East Bide, Wect Side, All Around Now York. Beginning Monday, August 23 | | In The Evening World | Entered as Second-Clay Post Office, 2 1-4 Inches, wae made by the Ameri- PRICE THREE CENTS New ¥. SUFFRAGISTS IN TENNESSEE POLISH VICTORY GROWING, = TILL HOLD THE WHIP HAND; G00 FRENCH OFFICERS AID; HOUSE TO-DAY. SOVIET ARMY IN DIRE PERIL British and French Missions Return to Warsaw — Heavy Artillery Fire Increases Panic of Fleeing Russians—Thousands Taken. WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Brest-Litovsk has been occupied by the Polish Army, according to advices received to-day by the State Depart- His despatch was based: on a report received by hint from Posen, . PARIS, Aug. 20 (Associated Press)—The military successes of ‘he Poles continued yesterday, according to a report to the Foreign Office to-day from the military mission in Warsaw, under plans élab- After the amendment was ratified command of Rta practically leadertess/Crated by the French General Weygand and his staff of more than 600 French officers, All these officers now are either aclively in command of the forces that are freeing Warsaw frdm the Russian Soviet menace or are aiding the Polish commanders. n, respectively the CHCAGOANWINS =": POLE VAULT; SETS sx cmon et NEW WORLD RECORD It fs considered that French and Polish co-operation In the con:mands of the various forces now has reached O matistctory sta, J. J. Jusserand # with Gen, Weygand and the Polish atafe, ‘Tho success of the Poles in throw= ——— Ting bac « the Bolsheviki In the battle Foss Makes 13 Feet, 5 1-8 In pet Warsaw, wom ches—American Wins 200- |‘"" Metre Dash, « Polish victory," General Weygand told ons at Warsaw who had come French ie him that he was the most —— vonalar mit °ola “ ANTWERP, Aug. 20 ‘Chanctdgtedi| alin Ag? al ee ha eee Press), K. Foss, Chicago A. A | Warsaw” won the final of the Olymple polo} Advices received here from the yault here to-day, breaking the world’s| coe poeedeecas cgars “ a Weygand, record with @ vault of 18 fect 5 1-8] follows: OO Oe inches. The previous record, 18 feet “Preparatory military operations were executed by the Polish generals can athlete, M. Fs Wright, in June,| S0Cording to the Polish plan. ay -~ role, as well as that of the other a5 Frenoh officers, was limited to filing Allen Woodring, Meadowbrook Club, | certain gaps in the detain of exeoue Philadelphia, won the 200-metre dash| tion. It is the Polish nation that has at the Olympic games to-day in been its owh savior, If the Polish neconds flat. The record ix 21 3-6 pec: | leaders know how to profit by victory ondy made by A. Hahn of the United! T am conyinced that the Bolshevile States at St. Louls in 1904. Army will soon cease to exiet.”* Charles W,. Paddock, Los Angeles! The French Government has ree A.C, finished second; Hf, F, Edwant,| ceived advices that Polish trope England, Lorin Murchison, | have occupied Bela, west. of Brest- New York A. purth; G, Davidson, | Litoy ak. Gen. Budenny’s Bovyt New eens fth, and Oosterlaap of cavalry, how: r, is progressing in Bouth Africa, wixth » direction of Le: ‘sinertea agora 1S points. in the | th? direction of Lemberg, the mector from which the Poles have been obliged to withdraw troops to rein- force the northern front, ‘Tho situation at Dansig te etait causing Worry, but It i expected to final of this event the full distance, Woodring jumped ead at the start and held defeating Padde yard with the latter 81-9 yards hess Piduhed ee ae ne be cleared up when two French aut Murchison for third place in the| yottieships mow o final 100 yards. Forty yards from the Y i "sin Rec arrive and offer Sir Reginald T, tape the three Americans were lead but Mure off Edw ‘Tower, the Allied High Commissioner ng the field, mn was UN lat Dangig, suficient forces to contrel to stave d's wavage © io) AN the docks and permit the unlouding - ‘ - of I h munitions. 2 : vanly Hm i ha ae WARSAW, Aum 0 (Associated : Mee ta {Cites The extreme right wing of des Hi iter tthe Pol Army is marching on 1s ha heat, | BresteLitavak, on the Bug River 1p seal tie nthe hey wthnas miles east of Warsaw, according to een ch em ay [# oMflelal statement on the fighting down th 1 issued shortly before last midnight, ‘ erlaap to prevent h WIA SC* Verne right wing has captured Siedlee ond jund Bielsk, the statement says, Bogland won Aret piace in the Anal) pny Polish left wing has taken Pate heat of the 8,000-metre steeblochase | rust, about thirty-five miles north of - Warsaw, and is continuing tts preg- (Continued on Second Page.) reps in the direction of = — vse the centre, the Pelish forcem are At cogs Tousteinn, Wty fe today, —aavt, | marching im the direction of Ostran z os Ce a tn me en ee ri er oe ee gree er Spee = eae a