The evening world. Newspaper, September 9, 1920, Page 2

"sheet fund wooden cars stored easthound overhead express mployees, Be gecenical han iihers "toaad | gome one had entered nine ot | care and put on the Sabah which ed the burned out the Batteries gett coe nr fires were eee htses Nigelad reached any of three trains were | oes, ser com. | jun temporarily and @ few ties ned. ‘The company expected to | DANE the trains running again during | “the ruth hour. ct the same hour, a policeman son duty at a Lexington Avenue ele- ‘wated station saw flashes of elec- and heard @ popping sound from the «treet, He looked down in| “time to see the white hot trolley wire - tm Sumner Avenue, between De Kalb | Gd Greene Avenues, a distance of _ four blocks, fall to the street, Some ; [Oe had inverted one end of a piece of game pipe in the track and hung the ty over the wire, short ciroulting a is pervent and burning out the wire. A of men was put to work re- the line under a police guard from the Gates Avenuc Station. Earlier in the night, while a two- cae Franklin Avenue-Drighton Beach train was passing along the embank- between Elm Avenue and Kings ghway, it was showered with over- egge and broken botues, Ten ers suffered so from the esse 3 had to get off at the next sta- tion and return home to change clothes. The bottles hit no one. The ombarders got away. The leaders of the Amalgamated lation declare that Mr. Garri- will fail to organize an adequate transportation force and event- must turn to its old men who refused to return to work. meeting of the Executive Com- jee of the strikers will be held, ‘afternoon to consider the matter Of Rppealing to the American Fed. erafion! of Labor for financial add. \wlan is tg ask for an assessment trom h member of the A. F. . which would mean approxt- y $5,000,000. Payment of the week strike benefit for each er will b effective on Sunday, tye strike will have been on bay K OF SERVICE REACHED ON B. R. T, LINES, /- Say trains were ti 64 cars, and 61 surface lines 937 cars, This marked the peak strike began @ yy: An official of —no}ferther Increase on any of th resent, but that th y wou'd continue to bulld up the material now on hand. increase the service further at “would more than p operation and ote congestion. MWe will devote ‘efforts to building up @ new and nent organization. We have a nucleus for the organization In ‘old employees who returned and jenced motormen and gu cams to us from other cities. } new men coming to us aftor rday noon will enter the service uch, whether they were forme! loyees or not. They will receive cent, more than was being paid At ithe time of the strike, but’ will have to start nt the minimum wage by the company, The men re- ed to work after the strike of a agro at a wage increase of 23 per cent. In July Receiver Garrison no- them that he would give them her 10 per cent. they were receiving before the of a year ago, which would an increase of & per cent, on at they were getting on Aug. 29, ‘was announced by the B. rw afternon that the Flatbush-Sev~ Avenue line would be operated leht. The last car will leave ugh Ha at 11380 P. M. This wilt We lthe frst surface line operated at t since the strike began. ow night it is planned to add the Slope line and the Flatbush and possibly the Green-Gates ues line. eight per cent of the normal -day B. R. T. trolley service was ration in Brooklyn to-day, ac- eording to a report made by the any 80 the Public Service Com- he eB R, T. also reported that 3¢ cent, of its old employees had re- to work, but on the surface only. HOW EVENING. WORLD "NALED FAKE. ON VE RTH NR , ‘ae (Continued from First Page.) | 1) | | dahin! of the truth of any euch ru- mor, adding that tt was clear to him that wantbicrs were at work trying ‘ to inflnence the odds, “It's a rotten | Arik and only goes to show what Dareball betting has cane to.” he pate A similar dental was received trom Frank Roth, Feld Secretary of the elu, and then came the word from from several local branch esta>lish- » Menty of New oYrk curb brokerage "out is, ut that nil detal's were hick- somes had-been burt ty uw way, Rothe th, Te sos kur wa HARDING SCORED GREETED BY BY _ CROWDS. Left. Good 4 impression as His | (Special Cor Senator Harding made a hit in Min- nesota. ception in the Twin Cities will hardly begrudge that statement and Repub- licans will pr.vately admit that tho Senator did ever so much better than they expected. | pleasant eurprise—a dignified figure with plenty of human oatch the imagination of a orowd Gov. Cox two days ago and that given Senator Harding is not dificult, the conditions were almost exactly the same. the same State cratic nominee faced a hostile crowd, the Republican nominee stood before a reverent, almost affectionate audi- ence. HIT IN MINNESOTA, ‘REPUBLICANS’ VIEW enator Did Better Than Was Expected According to Lead- ers of the Party. Opponent Did—Reception Likened to Roosevelt's, By David Lawrence. reapondent of The Eve- ning World.) 8ST. PAUL, Sept, 9 (Copyright).— Democrats who anw his re- He was to them a qualities to ready from the outset to like him. Comparison of the reception given for Both candidates talked at Fair. TH Demo- ‘They liked Harding's pictures before they saw the man. They were ready bellevera in bis philosophy of anti-Wilsonism; they were born-and- bred Republicans and felt satisfied Warren Harding came from good Re- publican stock and would do. Gov. Cox, on the other hand, won friends and made some votes. He left a gogtlthpression but an one Repub- Nean expressed it even George Wash- ington couldn't carry Minnesota on the Democratic ticket this year, The Democratic nominee won more ap- plause when he drove a horse around the race track than by his speech at the State fair but he did get a rous- ing reception when he spoke at the Auditorium at night. , Senator Harding’s firet experience away from the front porch was, on the’ whole, a big success. The Na- tonal Republican Committee selected ‘fa gooll place for the experiment. Tho | twin cities are more than eager for “normalcy,” and most people here who cheered Harding imagine he will bring some sort of change in eco- nomic conditions that will relieve them of present-day worries.” Both Gov. Cox and Senator Hard- ing were asked not to talk politios at the State fair. The Democratic nominee spoke of his candidacy therefore only by ‘implication, The Republican nominee was in the hands of friends on the State fair board and took all sorts of liberties even! to the cataloging of Republican pledges. And the crowd relished it They understddd his discourse on agriculture, liked the tone of his voice and the cut of his jib and gave him the kind of a greeting that was unmistakeable both in warmth and sincerity, i Over in Minneapolis the Senator captured the town eveh more di sively, Streets that turned out hand- fuls to see Woodrow Wilson a year ngo were packed from store window) to surb, Some of the natives say Theodore alone got such a reception in Minneapolis, Certainly the writer can teatity that Minneapolis, while generous in its applause at Wilson meetings, never stopped work in mid- day the extent that thousands of people did this time for Senator Harting. Similarly in St. Paul in the evening, | the Republican momince stood in the State capitol and shook hands with | thousands of people. For two hours the eager Republicans waited for a ! | chance to greet Mr. Harding. It re- minded one of White House recep- ons of ancient days when long lines of guests waited patiently to shake the hand of the Chief Exeoutive. What does it all mean? The Wri- ter asked a Republican friend whose Judgment fen't as partisan aos his political affiliations might Indicate, He said it was the desire of the peo- ple to greet a new Presidential fg- lune, Indeed, it suggested in Mts pay- chology the long-live-the-king © thusiaam which come out of the body polities when there is @ change in ruler in other lands Right yeare is a long time for man to be President of the Unit States and Minnesota's greeting to Harding was that of a Repudiican stronghold cager to ace the citadels of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, which the | government pmanded again by Fatening “vorld had cailed by tele- |Ropubiican soldiery. They caine preju- phone. The newspaper office in|eed in favor of Harding and came Acvident had reached there, coming | at that mon an { standing at this side both were lnvehine at the mmor Inquiry about New York brought tn It was pt over pporte \ one report that the rumor had started a “apy Ae ts Si as ted IM lin the Waldorf-Astoria and perhaps Meveland that the fatatities had oc-|been put on a wire to the West as ferred on f yond peny that city, Lt }s00n ax the plotters had their story Wes nicrely reported thar the men | Mil coc Howey the rumor RA been in a motor accident some. | 44 no! f the brok- bes ors of the reports “whe stated that the entire Yankee ton The denials of the truth of the ru-| had heen in a train w hile on mor went farthey aa the afternoon | the way from Pittab land Bite on. Miller Hurginn, manager | where they alurt to-d with a of age the Cleveland Indians. Peet the Yekers, promptly wired that | riog Tr Rvening World went on the street tefing the real news dows Lodhi aus it $60,000 COLLECTED at that date it\was desirable to keep the knowledge of Republican plans from the opposition. by Edmund!/Moore, his personal repre- sentative, found to paragraph Blair's copy was omitted from that sent ‘by graph of 35,000 and $10,000 be acces moving the $1,000 limt fixed by Chair- man Hay: Governor merely suggested that con tributions of received.” While he planned drives in fifty- four cities, Mr. Blair said, it was, found impossible to carry out the eci- #0 eheouragin: | stated, Skirts i in Golf Are Now Old Timers; _ Knicky’s Are In—Good to Look At NEW FING STOME. WveRuaTONak The picture is that of Miss Hortense Lederer of Chicago, whose family was rich before the war, She you¢allit when she aims for a hi has perfect command of the what- jome run at the poor little ball. There's comfort in watching her—eveh if she foozles, FOR G. 0. P. FUND IN COLUMBUS, 0. (Continued from First Page.) the Governor's oopy was be incomplete, An entire which appeared in Mr.ja The para- contributions od, ree the Governor, suggested that ‘The copy furnished by the “from $5,000 upward bs programme because of local condi- tions In some places. He mentioned Minneapolis, St. Paul, Dallas and Houston as cities where the drives were abandoned because it was “not xpedient,”” ho sald, to start them, ‘Our experience in Atlanta waa not he explained, refer- ring to the testimony yesterday of 'C. W. McClure, Georgia State Chair- man, about the failure of the drive there, In answer to a question by Sena- tor Reed if he contemplated organ- izing drives In fifty-four cities?” the witness yes. “So if Gov. Cox or any other man charges you had plans for ‘organising in fifty-one cities, he simply under- didn't het” “Yes, sir” + ONE COPY OF FORM GONE OUT OF HIS OFFICE. formation was confidential worker there, mittee approved it and in respon- sible? suggested the Senator. ers of the that they be allgwed to raise $350,000) been issued to slow up campaign, the witness sald the in- because { was issued nearly @ year ago and Senator Keed finally obtained as- sent to propositions that the National Ways and Means pointed the State Chairmen, sent paid workers to aid these chair- men and finally by taking money raised by these agencies approved their acts, Committee ap- then “So tf a quota of $400,000 was fixed fom Cleveland, by the State Chairman and used ag @ goal by your paid \your National Com- .Mr. Blair explained that the lead- Cleveland Drive asked +s that city's part of the Ohio quota of $650,000, with the proviso that it they went to $400,000 the difference would be applied to the purpose of the County Committee in ¢ Cuyahoga County. When asked if instructions had because of the revelations before the commit- tee, he answered: “Not to slow up but to speed up, a matter of fact subscriptions made up of the followh es enclosed in |. paper, with handle Chocolat: Ib, bo} ry high Hoon th, bor hale Water Ta it tive 'Leftypove and Bouthers Fa Our Two Big Week ATL ANT wie antl CHOCOLATE COVE! ED CREAM PEPE MINTS—Thene ave ble tuothsome disks of rleb= ext Sugar Cream, ex~ quisitely fMayored with h OU of Kep~ pe loned In covevings ur excelled, fragrant, yel- » nox O9C Mr, Blair testified that one copy of form No, 101, which he sald was. ivsued, when the National and Means Committee r ed tt, had gone out of his office ther Harvey H, Mather, Kansas Ways und Means Chairman, or Paul C Gehert, Kansas director, had re- ceived jt, he said. Senator Reed attempted to bring ov. that document which Mr. Blair sald dixplaced Form No, 101 was not in tended for that purpose, and asked how Dudley §. Blossom of Cleveland, who testified yesterday, hud been able to follow the Form No, 101 plan ex actly if he had never seen it, Mr. Biaig explained that the canv prign plan was commonly uacd for money drives for hospitals, ¥. M. C, A buildings and in war drives, and that all bis assistants had worked in such activities and knew the general prow dure, Senator Reed read from the sub document 4 sentence saying a plain of Campaign was appended, and ayked for # copy of that plan. “Why, that wax Form No, 101," Mr t but later withdrew his an xwer on the ground that he pad mis- understood the question, and declared {hat in spite of the statement in the substitute document no campaign plan was attached to It In presenting a document labelled “Confidential information for regiona directors” of the Republican fnancia: ND BOX ‘The specified weight makes us unanimous,” mnted the witness, permitted to quote our President.” s Luck for Those Who Have Postponed Their Vacations Until Now HEN packing your vacation trunk, be sure and leave W ‘space for one of these splendid combination packa tached for convenience of carrying, Week End Combination N No, 2 % 2 one Our Big Daily Special for Fridey and Saturday, Sept. 10th and 11th QUOTOLATE: COVERED SwEnr KATS—A ection of Cheer at Soveest ar tes peesentcd ln a vm Mop of Poe go havens 69, ne a ; ty recite BPS eetactastincas’ wil please ot HCIAL. pba 34¢ POUND “BOX exe "tadpitane directors, his work that id Senator “If you approve have been increasing since Gov. Cox fated in Indiana. ‘Phe campaigns in made his charges to such an extent Indianapolis, Mort Wayne and South that | think he really ought to be Hend had not been particularly suc- listed with my paid workers.” aad, it scarcely Asked about sald the “No, sir,” said Mr. Blair, “but many , wished WITH SENATOR. managers, The witness sald there were two phases of the fund drive— firat, an attempt to get contributions of from $100 to $1,000, and, second, “a popular campaign for small con- tributions from the many” after the and “the rank and file aroused to the {sues of the campaign.” Senator Reed asked if there wan & the campaign. Mr, Blair said he had drawn 4 proposal for a “last week” campaign, but It had been modified to apply to the general popular cam- paign opening this month and pro- viding for contributions from twenty~ five cents up. Mr. Blair said his! more elaborate plan was given up be- cause certain conditions were laid down by Col. William Boyce Thomp- son, Chairman of the National Ways and Means Committee. Under questioning by Senator Reed he sald the chief conditions were an edict that the Blair proposal should not apply to the seven Eastern States where Col. Thompson has full charge. He sald that these seven States con- tained 85 per cent. of the Republican yoters who might Be expected to con- tributé, but his elaborate explanation was stopped by Chairman Kenyon, who said’ the committee wished “to get rid of speeches by both sides.” Mr. Blair then gave a list of paid workers supplementing that turned in last night. They proved to be assist- ants to State directors in Lilinols, Indi- ana and Ohio, and two general travel- ling representatives working out of the Chicago headquarters. These lat- ter were Frank Alvis and C. A. Fen- ner. For Illinois F. A. Hahn and W. F, M. Dickerman and F. L, Sims, and |‘, He ime: and |internal injuries and Both arms broken. | debt of $10,000,000,000 to us until for Ohio, R. O. Atkinson, now stationed) In his po ree giote beat definite decision as to the terms of t Cincinnati, Mr. Blair, asked to name cities in which special agents were located, recalled Boston, Cleveland, Cincin- nati, Columbus, Toledo, Akron, Youngstown and Springfield, Ohio, and roit. He said there were about twenty in all. He said the | Columbus campaign had yielded about $80,000. Dayton, he sald, had not been frultful grgund nor had Springfield, He said he knew of no campaign in Zanesville, Sandusky, Hamilton, Steubenville, Middletown and other cities of that class aside from the usual county campaigns. A Mr. Verity, steel manufacturer, was mentioned a# having charge in some of these centres, The witness had an indistinct recollection of a cam- paign of some sort in Portsmouth, In Michigan there were no special organizations outside of Detroit, Mr, Biair sald, and similar condition ex- selected sweets, the fedividual ge continer, wrapped in plain box Milk Chocolate i si eon ey cet -End Extra Specials | Hidton RSME VN | Burivest plumpest with AN STYLE CHOCOLATES Let, candy lover knows these old fashion goodies, readily Mdentified by centres of Fiohest Vanilin flavored Whipped Cream and Jackets of our famous Blair's first volunteered his testimony and said that his evidence consisted of five letters addressed to Joseph H. man, Postmaster at Augusta, and a written statement from the latter cer- tifying that he had given the letters to Mr, Farlow. ‘The comthittee agreed that the evi-| ine dence was hot entirely competent in that form, but It was received. The | was dated Jan. 22, there was another March 4 and three in were bs digas hes Mr. © April. Boeschenstein's name. emphasized that “contributions must and one of the letters was rubber stamped for delivery “at home address only.” Postmaster was a Progressive and added that he was himself a Repub- lican “and proud of It.” idle le ONLY ONE LEG; TRIES TO DIE Leaps Off Riverside Drive Viaduct. Charles Hayes of No, 2775 Basford Avenue, been amputated at the knee, attempted suleide this afternoon by jumping off B, Thweet of Peoria and W. E. Stokes/ ine Riverside Drive viaduct betngen ft Chit were named; for Indiana, | 124th and 125th a: icra Rattkerbocker Vospital ‘aytng, bay a be voluntary,” ‘Bro could not stand It any longer.” to conduct people think that the Republican Washington's $60,000, under State committee's plari of a campaign for auaploss and the National Committee Airect covenants openly arrived at ‘is had no organization there. being misrepresented, if I°may-be quotas for Seattle and Spokane were not fixed by the National Ways and TESTIMONY TURNS TO DISPUTE Means Committee was brought out. In Oregon the National Committee ‘The testimony turned to the dis- was organized, but the Ways and pute between Senator Reed and Mr. Means chairman Bieir as to the amount of’ publicity resigned and there was no particular that was desired by the Republican drive Mn Portland. The witness said the figures of $25,000 for Georgia, and returns of about $11,000 apoke for themselves. Eastern drives were not within Mr. direct knowledge. He said he had been told that New York and National Convention had deen held | pitrstyurgh were organized but under- stood that Philadelphia was not, ex- plaining those places wero in territory plan for a big drive near the close of | mp, Hs: An alleged attempt by Charles 8, Boeschenstein, Democratic National Committeeman for Mlinois, to solicit camtpaign funds from a Postmaster was presented to the committee at second hand by William O. Farlow of Augusta, N., cereful, he Chicago was weil, Organize witness said, but in Milwauk Reed, “for we think he is doing a pape was 80 modified “a to great work.” make | fon, “Voluntary subscriptions have also Francisco, Los Sarsles and bere increased because many people think were mentioned as organized, but Mr. wo are being persecuted,” supple- Blair said that campaigns were rae in the contemplated in “Do you mean that this committee Lould and Kansas City. is persecuting you?” interjected Sen- ator Kenyon. worth ment atage Seattle, the witness State Central Committee the drive for Outlines ‘That the HELENA, Mont, for the State had) Gov. Cox. the Governor, acres of iand, the Boyce properly applied, of Col, William waste. the United States. a farmer. Farlow had STAND ON LEAGUE MAKES US PPEAR NQUITERS, SAYS GOK === === What He He Declares are Practical Benefits to Flow From League. Sept. ments in behaif of the League of Nations adapted to affairs of the West were presented there to-day by He outlined what he de- clared were practical material bene- fita to flow from the League, “It has recently bean figrured,” “that the cost of one battleship would reclaim wo million “Multiply this by forty-eight, number of States, adapting the plan of one Battleship for each State, and you have a staggering total, and, if the answer to the problem’ of housing In our cities, the answer to the question of increased production for sustenance of human life, the expenditure required in total would reclaim 160,000 square miles of It would bulld ten perma- nently paved arteries entirely across “Think of this in terms of reclama- and afl distrust ench of the other has been removed, This can only come when we join the thirty-eight other nations of the world whieh have already affixed their signatures to the articles of peace, Reconstruc- tion cannot be definitely undertaken until we know where we stand with the nations of the world.” Gov. Cox also invelhed against o separate peace with: Germany and TOM WATSON WINS IN SENATE RACE Gets Georgia Nomination by 197 County Unit Votes to 40 for Hoke Smith. ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 9.—Incomplete and unofficial returns compiled by the Atlanta Journal to-day on the Senatorial race In yesterday's Democratic primary thdicated that Thomas E. Watson won the Senatorial nomination with 197 county unit votes, or more than the necessary majority of 195. Reports from 117 of the 155 counties in the St not complete for all coun- ties, Indicated that Gov. Dorsey had 67 votes, Senator Hoke Smith 40 and John R, Cooper nothing. Similar returns from 120 counties in the Gubernatorial race indicated that former United States Senator Hardwick had 172 votes, Clifford Walker 138, John N. Holder 12 and W. R. Brown nothing, me DAUGHTER ACCUSES FATHER. Suspected of the the abduction of his fit- teen-year-old daughter Jessie, Louts Marino, barber, forty, of No. 163 East 116th Street, was held to-day in $6,000 on complaint of Vincent Pirsaro of the Children's Society. In Jefferson ket Court, Magistrate Simms adjoudned the case for hearing on Saturday, ‘The girl says her father tried to Lad her to accept the attentions of strany 9.—Argu- said the All Farlow said the ;tion of arid and waste lands, if you will, and think what it would mean to have one milion, exclusive of thou- sands required in shipyards and am- munition plants, turing their activ- ities to the production of the neces- sities of life, rather than to employ- ment in the creation of agencies for destruction of life.” ‘The United States is looked upon by its associates in the war as a na- tion of quitters, because the Sena- torial “oligarchy” has blocked its en- trance into the League of Nations, Gov. 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