The evening world. Newspaper, September 4, 1920, Page 1

icago Cubs Accused Of Losing Deliberately Normal Holiday / Service Promised on B. R.T. Lines To-Night’s Weather—FAIR. To Be Sure. of. The Evening Order in Advan Your Newsdeal Getting World, ce from er: Che Olreniation Books Open to AIL” VOL. LXI. NO, 21,528—DAILY. © bag 1920, by Tho Press Publishi tra (The New York World Ds NEW YORK, ee! SEPTEMBER 4, f _ Cietation — ‘Open to All’ » | 1920, Weather To- Morrow and Monday—FAIR. Second-Class Matter Post "Otten New «York, N. Ys HOLD UP WEN GET $21,500 IN CASH AND JEWELS FROM AUTO MAN NEAR BROADWAY P.iS. Smith, Victim, Head of Auto Rim Co., Made a Desperate Fight. THIRD ROBBER\ OUTSIDE Kept Engine Running—aAll Es cape North From 53d Street on 8th Avenue. P. 8. Smith, owner of the United Auto Rim Company at No West Sad Strect, near Broadway, occupying ‘the third loft, was called from his private office at’a little after 9 o'clock to-day to One of whom Smith recognized as a man he had Broadway and ¢# two callers. them, n frequently 2d Street, cam: ubout for- ward with a smile acquaintance. As he reached Smith the man swung a hea th army revolver from under mith’s face, Smith reached out with his first, striking the man on the wrist. The revolver was knocked twenty As the man recoiled Smith caught up a heavy screwdriver from he swung a heayy blow to the other man's face before starting for an open feet across the floor. window to call for help from the street. GET AWAY WITH $21,500 IN BOOTY. The second man sprang at him eatching him about the knees with a football tackle, so that he fell and then struck hin ff the face with the barrel of a revolver. The first robber, recovering, ran up and kicked Smith repeatedly on the d und in the face while the second turned out the prostrate victim's pockets, A wallet Conta ning $18,500, which Smith was about to deposit in bank and an unset diamond of 6.70 carats worth $1,500 were taken from his clothing. A diamond set ring worth $1,500 was wrenched from his finger. Smith got to his feet and ran after the pair shouting as they ran to the stairs. Henry Greenstein, a workman, ran from the rear of the loft and climbed owt on the extension of a building ooking toward Broadway. By shouts and gestures he started Policeman Tiffany on the crossing at 53d Street on the run toward the entranre, ‘Tif- famy was just in time to ‘see the rob- bers run out and jump into a car which a third man had wealting for them at the curb with the engine run- alng Closel behind them wag Matthew (Continued on Second Page.) Classified Advertisers CLOSING TIME 5.30 P. M. SHARP SATURDAY FOR TheSUNDAY WORLD’S Classified Advertisements Snorer OFFICES CLOSE FORE 6 O'GLOG Positively no Classified Advertice. inte Will be received for The Rinday World after 8.30 P.M. Advertising copy for The Sunday World should be in The World office ON OR BEFORE FRIDAY PRECEDING PUBLICATION as though of old| skirt of his coat and pointed it| table with which | AMERICANS TIED | WITH BRITISH IN in London Games—Thomp- son Sets World’s Record. LONDON, Sept. |American athletic |Queen's Club to-day, stars of each nation in competition, ended in a tie. Five events went to America and five to England, | England scored two victories at the | start of the meet by winning the 120- | yard hurdles and the half-mile relay. Earl Thompson, the Dartmouth star, running for Canada, set a new world record for a grass track when jhe won the 120-yard ‘hurdies in 144-6 seconds, (The record for a cinder track is 148-6.) H. R. (Barron, Philadelphia, was second and Walekr Smith, Chicago, third, Davidson of New Zealand was the finst home for England in the half- mile relay, finishing six yards ahead of bis Yankee rival, His time was t minute, 283-5 seconds. The Ameri- can team was composed of F. J, Shea, J. K. Scholz, University of Allen Woodring, Philadel- phia, and Morris Kirksey, San Fran- cisco. The British team also won the two- mile relay by thirty yards in\7 min- utes 85 1-6 seconds. It was composed of Hector Phillips, Canada; P. J. Baker, England; B, J. Mountain, Eng- land; and B, G, D. Rudd, South Africa. The American team comprised J. W Driscotl, Boston; A, A.i Michael De- vanney, Millrose A. A, New York City; Jole W. Ray, IMinots A. C.; and Lieut. D, N. Scott, United States Army. ‘The American team won the 400- yard relay. Baker of England took the high jump with a leap of 6 fest, 3 1-2 inches, R, W. Landon of the New York A. C. was seoond with 6:2 1-2. ‘The two-mile race was won by the Americans, 17 points to 14. The time was 9 min. 301-5 gec. M. C. Dresser of the New York Athletic Club and H. H. Browg of the Boston A. A. fin- ished first and second respectively, with Nicholls of England third. The American victory in the 400- yard relay race was won by 12 yards, in 89 seconds. The Americans were J. Merchant, Olympic Club, San Fran- cisco; F. J. Shea, U. 8, N.; Allen Woodring, Meadowbrook Club, Phil- adelphia, and J, V, Scholts, Univer- sity of Missourl. ‘The British team was made up of Davidson, New Ze: Costerlaak, South frie Darcy, England, and Mawby, Eng- land, In thé 440-yard hurdles three Amer- icans, J. M. Watt, Ithaca, N. Y. W.; M. Meanix, Boston A. C., and Floyd C, Smart, Chicago A. A., qualified for the final. None of the British hurdiers qualified. The mile relay race waa won by the Britieh team. 4.—The British- meet at the after the meet was under way, over- flowed the grandstand and packed the tragkside. It cheered the win- ners and ouvtrivalled in numbers and ATHLETIC. CONTESTS |Five Events Scored by Each with Olympic The crowd, which kept surging in CHICAGO CUBS AGAIN INVOLVED IN BETTING SCANDAL | Accused of Deliberately Losing | | Tuesday’s Game With $50,000 on Opponents. | INQUIRY IS ORDERED. | | . Charge Apparently Based on} Last Minute Change In Pitcher’s Box. CHICAGO, Sept. 4.—President Will- | lam Veeck of the Chicago National | League asoball team, to-day began | investigation of charges made here to-day that the Cubs had deliberately lost last Tuesday's game, which Phila- delphia won 3 to 0 and that profes- sional gamblers “cleaned up” in a bet- ting coup as a result, | Said to Have Been vo Been Subscribed to by McAdoo, Baruch and Paul Warburg. |\LONG LIST OF NAMES. High as $5,000 Reported To Be Paid for “Men Who Won the War.” By Martin Green. @ book!" As will be disclosed at the session of! the Senate Committee invest “itd campaign expenses in Chicago next Mr. Veeck said he jad no evidence either to prove or disprove the charges, but would make every effort to sift the matter to the bottom, “My impression has been that there ‘was less gambling this year than ver before,” he said. “I thought that might be attributed to the fact that we went after some fellows pretty hard last year." Lee Magee, of the Cubs, and Hal Chase, of the Giants, were let out for “indifferent ball, playing’ last year, and it was later brought out in a hearing granted Magee that the real cause was the fact that he was sus- | pected of having bet against his own team in a game at Boston, Veeck recently hired private detec- tives to watch gamblers at the Cub: park here and more than fifty ar- resta resulted. ° The basis of the charges made in connection with Tuesday's game 1a! that Detroit, Boston, Cincinat! and Chicago gamblers are sald to have placed $60,000 on Philadelphia, fore- ing the odds on Tuesday's game from 2 to 1 on the Cubs to 6 to § on the Phillies, A few minutes before the game was called Manager Fred Mit- chell ordered Alexander to pitch, al- though it was not his ordinary turn. Mitchell 16 quoted as saying: “I sent in my star twirler because I wanted to win that game badly.” PITTSBURGH, Sept. 4—*"I know nothing whatever about this report from Chicago concerning betting on baseball in Detroit, except what 1 have heard from the newspapers,” said ‘Manager Mitchell, of the Chicago National baseball club here to-day. “[T pitched Alexander the day in question ‘because I wanted to win the game, Meadows was pitching for Philadelphia, and {t takes a good man to beat him. I understand the charge came originally from a Detroit fan who did not Sign his name to the letter, It seems to me that if there was anything in the charges, or he believed there was anything in them he would not have neglected to put down his name.” Hoa li BABE RUTH GETS 45TH HOME RUN} Slams Ball in Bleachers in Boston | and Equals Recond Made 4 In 1895, BOSTON, Sept. 4.—"Babe” Ruth of | New York Yankees cracked out his forty-fitth home run of the season to- day in the third Inning of the first game of a double header against Bos- ton. There was no one on base. Jones) was on the mound for Boston. The ball went Into the right fleld bleach- ers. The 35,000 fans went wild as Ruth trotted around the dases. Ruth's feat tied the home run rec- | ord made by Perry peroen of the enthuslaein thal vn ny save the | Minneapolis club in opening ‘a the Olympic Stadium| The score at the Pag ‘of the fourta | at Antwerp, —\mvainicvmeee [oning wag Yankees, 4; Boston, 4, } Tuesday, the Hudson River Valley Schoo! of Literature has produced an- other masterpiece which the Republi- can members of the committee will éndeavor to compa from the pen of William Barnes of Albariy, entitled “Republicanism of} 1920."" Maurice M. Minton is the author the the Republicans are to exploit and the name of his book is ‘The Men Who Won the War.” Mr. Minton's home ts at Fishkill Landing, Dutchess County. The | point of similarity between his book | and that of the Hon. Willlam Barnes | which the Republican campaign man- agers seek to establish ts that both / books were written for private lation and the list of subscrib: the Minton book is every bit as im~ posing—from a dollar point of view— as the list of subscribers to the lit- erary effort of Mr. Barnes If information which has reached the Democratic National Committee is correct there is in Chicago at this time, awalting the assemblage of the committee on Tuesday, 4 long list of names of prominent Democrats head- ed by William G. McAdoo, Bernard Baruch and Paul M. Warburg who have pledged themselves to pay—if they have not already paid—Mr. Min- ton all the way from $500 to $5,000 for copies of “The Men Who Won the War." It is claimed by the Repub- Mcan searchers in the field of litera- ture who dug up proof sheets of the Minton book and claim to have @ partial list of subscribers that the en- ergetic Mr. Minton has collected or will collect more than $100,000 for his brain child, ‘The work of printing the book was entrusted to the J. J. Little & ae mpany, No. 486 East 24th Street, ani pense to the Republican book hounds, it was to have been distrib- uted to its distinguished subscribers on Aug. 1. But there was some de- lay due to Blown of copy and then along came The World disclosure of the blossoming out of the Hon, Will- |iam Barnes as an author, VOLUME POSTPONED AFTER REVELATION OF BARNES'S BOOK, ‘The political effect of the revelation that Mr. Barnes had, through solict- tors, obtained pledges from the lead- ing plutocrata of New York to pay from $1,000 to $2,600 for coples of his book was such that the issuance of the Minton volume was Indetinitely | postponed, However, Mr. Minton had been quite open in his pursuit of sub- ecribers, and the fact that he had written a book for private circulation (Continued on Fourth Page.) —<—<— yORL octet sat RESTAU MAT, Mi cabimge, Oct veal a hotee ainnet, "tlin i e{_: 4Racing Entriee on Page 23 “Oh, that mine enemy would write} e with the classic SLUSH FUND INVESTIGATORS HEY NOW che GET DEMOCRATIC BOOK 10 OFFSET BARNES'S VOLUME ANDREW D, PARKER ‘WILLS BIG FORTUNE TO HIS LANDLADY Former Police Commissioner Makes Remarkable Last | Testamerit, Just Filed. | Former Police Conunissioner An jdrew D. Parker, for thirty years POLICE INSPECTOR; DALY IN HIS PLACE Cray, Who Has Been Head of Detective Bureau, Fourth Deputy Commissioner. COUGHLIN PROMOTED. Shifts by Enright Place Some of His Friends in Better Paying Positions. | Police Commissioner Enright, with out explanation, announced to-day some shifts among high officials and high officers in the Police Department, which will have the effect of placins some friends of the Commissioner in better places on the payroll, William J. Lahey, who has been see and Deputy Commissioner on leave of i) |gucat at an exclusive toarding hous: kept by Mrs. Caroline M [150 Mth Street, the bulk pf his Hoyt at lett large estate to his landlady, It wos disclosed to-day when hia will was filed in the Surrogate's Office fd | probate, Parker died July 6, last, Hix will, after noting a bequest of $1,000 to |first cousin, Miss Louse Doughty of {No, 246 West 129th Street, directs: that the residue of the estate, est! |mated at $250,000, be made into a jtrust fund and the income pald to |Mrs, Hoyt during her life To forestall a possible contest of the will, Parker, who was a lawyer, ineerted the following paragraph “No one is aware of any of the pro- | visions of this will, and I do not in- | tend that any one shall he until after my death, No one has exercised any influence upon me touching the exe- cution of any of the provisions | thereof." The will was dated July 3, 1912. It was filed ‘by Murray, Prentice & Howland of ‘No, 37 Wall Street. —_ BIG NAVAL BALLOON | PASSES OVER CITY IN VARYING WINDS Skims by South Brooklyn, Makes Union Square and- Then Beats It to the West. The big spherical gas balloon which | is to avy represent the (United (states! the National Elimination| rials at Birmingham, Ala., late this month for the Gordon Bennett dis- tance contests Oct, 23, passed over the city at noon to-day starting from the naval alr station at Rockaway Beach The balloon, of which Lieut. Jaffe Emerson # pilot, had a lot of vary- ing winds to contend with. Ones the hig gna ball came very close to the shipping along the South Brooklyn water front and after throwing out sand ballast went nearly a mile toward the sky, drifting off to a polnt above Union Square and stall- ing in conflicting currenta for a quar- ter of an hour, After descending half ule the pilot found a new wind 1) drove him over the Hudson 11 he Aiseppeared in the haze JOHNSTON Vi WINNER IN TENNIS MATCH Defeats Carey of California, 6—3, In Semi-Final Mateh of the QOhampionship, William M. Johnaton, tide holder, won in | the national singles tennis champion at | } Cokket Caner of Boston, ¢ j Acting Inspector, his first set in the semi-finals match of! ‘arent Hille this afternoon by defeating! standing at his desk most of to- 3 absence since shortly after the ap- pointment of Commissioner Enright, resigned and was immediately report- ed to the uniformed for Chief Inspector, with sup and made ision over the uniformed force and the Date | tive Bureaus of all the boroughs: place carries a salary of $7,500, a hisses | of $1,500, Lahey on retirement wil be entitled to a pension of $3,75 Fourth Deputy Inspector John Daly, who was formerly Chief th-| spector, was moved up to the Second Deputyship, made vacant by khe resignation of Lahey and Inspector John J. Cray, who has been In charge | of the Detective Bureau, was mad ,Fourth Deputy, to take the place of | Daly. Acting Capt, John Coughlin, who has been in charge of detectives in Brooklyn and Queens, was made tuking the place of Cray. He will be assistant |Chiet Inspector Lahey with an In spector’s pay, Acting Inapector Sam: uel Belton, who has been in charge ot the Spectal Service Squad, was| made an Inspector with full rank, By reason of thaving served ix) months {n Deputy Comminsioner- ships, Lahey and Daly are to retirement at one:half the salary of a Chief Inspector. After six months Cray will be eligible to the Chief Inapectorship and to retirement at $3,760. S.S. BALTIC, LOOK OUT! IRISH WOMEN POST NOTICE OF DOOM Four in Launch Affix Warning Placards as Big Ship Sails— Lipton Aboard, A launch In which were Irish sympathizers pulled an to ¢ ci eligible | ¢¢ Cc on wi vl D DI four women alongside the | the bail by Judge Tiernan of Richmond the District posed the reduction of bail, stating two addresses, FIVE B. RT. CARS BURNED ON TRACKS IN RIDGEWOOD; — MANY STRIKERS BACK ON iy Six New Lines sou Cbeuan and 406 Sur- face Cars Are Run—Holiday Ser- vice to Coney Planned To-Morrow —Union Members Use Service. At the B. R. T. offices this afternoon it was sald that normal service At2 peration, and 406 surface cars. ECKERT WITNESS SEEKS RELEASE: WRIT DISMISSED Katz’s Bail Reduced to $15,000 —Brother of Judge Tiernan Held as Bootlegger. Supreme Court Justice McCook to- day dismissed a writ of habeas cor- pus sued out by Hyman Bushol, torney for Max Katz, who waa held ate esterday as « material witness in Kokert murder case in $25,000 ‘ounty, Justice MoCook reduced bail from $25,000 to $15,000. Alfred V, ‘Norton, chief assistant to Attorney, strongly op- » the Qourt: “There are enough people interested in this scandal to produce the bail. duced, this man will never appear in If thia bail ts re- ourt.” Katz was arrested some time ago n a short affidavit charging him ith being implicated in the murder, his charge was dismased for lack of evidence, and he was released in $100 bail as a material witness, Katz, whose personal cards give No, 718 and No, 218 vision Avenue, Brooklyn, was ar- rested yesterday at the request of intrict Attorney Maloy, In Brooklyn to-day Willlam P. Tiernan and Harry Hugot wore held in $1,000 bat] each by Federal Judge etoamship Baltic this afternoon when |cmattield for alleged conspimey to she was halted in midstream after T the V Act, The trial leaving her dock, and pasted two lange | Volate the earad tg signs, identical in wording, on the ship's| Was set for Oct. 6 ide, The signs read ‘Steamship Baltic may be scrap- ped at any time. Her day's work port Navy Lieute: Senior Lieut. Patr is done. She is an ow t. She in of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was taken dirty. Up Mannix. Up Mesiwiney. |\11 this moraing In front of No. 187 2own tyranny.’’ “4 venue ie bes y Oificers and men aboard smiled. The | Willourhiby Avenue when on his way to women got away and gleefully gave| work and died before the arrival of an thelr names and addresses to the ehipl ambulance from the Cumberland Hos- aoe Baltic was oc-| pital He lived at No. 20 DeKalb a a of the casioned he fact that she started | jook with a number of per- ton eboe board who were not passengers land that several passengers who were jie on the pier | to, get thom aboard ad chartered a tug Prominent among the passengers de- | parting on the Baltio were Sir Thomas lapton, who promised to challenge in for the Amorica’e cup; J. Stuart Blackton, and tha Honorahle’ Ronald. [indaay, counsellor dor the British Em- - — Senator Spencer Calle on Harding. MARION, Ohio, Sapt. 4.—Preparation of his Labor Day speech kept Senator day Wel oc back inc gam: (irene first set. His superior rvice enai him to break through Canec'e oat the fowth gam», | Sina fie. shad uo spooiatments | although he saw a fow visitors, tn- . weed or of Missourt and} soceral other Republican leaders of tha'| ‘Avenue, Brooklyn, and came originally from Providence, R. 1 Tue Evening Worto Will Not Be Published LABOR DAY, Monday, Sept. 6th. was expected to-morrow and Monday and that all lines would be running with the exception of those to Coney Island. Only the Smith Street sur- e cars and the Brighton Beach L will cover the Coney Island route. o'clock this afternoon 140 trains made up of 616 cars were ty The police are hunting for ths “reds who at 2.30 o'clock this moth- ing set fire to and destroyed several at Wyokoff Avenue and Palmetto Street. W. D. Mahon, President of the. Amalgamated Association of Streét and Electrio Railway Employees, left Detroit at 1 P, M. to-day, acoording to P. J, Shea, and will take personal charge of the strike to-morrow, FIRE IN B. R. T. YARD ROUTS 200- STRIKEBREAKBRS. The fire in the Ridgewood yard routed 200 strike breakers who were sleeping in the barns a short distarce from the burning cars. ‘They went to ge street under the protection of twenty-five policemen, The company fire brigade from the barns fought the flames until the city apparatus arrived, Two cars were practically destroyed, three were badly damaged, and many other scorched. The company estimated the damage at $10,000, Detectives ‘were sent out immediately with tne formation that it was said would re- eult in several arrests. Company officials blamed the fire on the “Bol+ shevik element” of the strikers, Six additional surface lines were opened to-day, making twenty-seven in all in operation, ‘They were the Smith Street, Fifth Avenue, St. John's Place, Union, Fifth and Graham Aves nues. The company said that the ays- tem was 48 per cent. normal, Many of the cars were open and only 4 few carried the screens, Police. men were at both ends of the cars when the latter were crowded; at other times only one patrolman rode on the front platform, The cars, gen+ erally, were well patronized and ears ried among the passengers as many women and girls bound for their work, ag they did men, A great crowd gathered in Lone Island City, most of them laboring! people and union members, and cheered lustily when the fimst Gra- hom Avenue eurface car made iis appearance crowded with pagsen. sere. This line covers the Wiltame- burg and Greenpoont sections aud crosses the Vernon viaduct to Long | sland City, with ite other termigal at Park Row, ° More than 60,000 persone dally make the connection through the lige with the Fourth Avenue subway to reach Manhattan, and they have using buses, jitneys, wagons trucks to and from thetr destima- tions, Thousands, in addition, make the journey to the Long Island faé- tories. & The B. R, T, notified the Newtow olloe to-day that on Tuesday % ing cars will be started from tha” Maspeth barns, operating ‘betw. the Fresh Pond station of the Land Newtown, North Beach and Flushii Samuel Gompers, Ametican Cederation stopped In the city to-day ee imei surface cars In the Ridgewood yards _ + nor Cee See cies neat rs SS air eis | | ae ne