The evening world. Newspaper, September 14, 1920, Page 1

‘To-Night’s Weather—FAIR. BRITISH EXPERT PICKS AMERICA’S BEAUTIES 5 e Page 3 VOL, LXI. NO. 21,535—DAILY. WASHINGTON VOTE TURNING TO COX: RADICALS F FORM Eastern Pait'-of St of State Looks Republican, but Western Sec-, tion Is Democratic. MUDDLED OVER LEAGUE. | ‘ Laborers and Railway Men and! Families All Drifting To- ward @hio Governor. (This is the fourth drticle of a series oy the Special, Correspond- ent of The Evening World giving his view of the political situation inthe Northwestern States.) By David Lawrence. Correspondent of The Eve-| ning World.) SPOKANE, Wash, Sept. 14 (Copy- right, 1920)—Eastern Washington looks Repubecan by a narrow) mar- gin, but it is the western part of the State, where the radical vote bulks large, that.wili determine the com- piexion of Washington's seven eléc- tora] votes. ‘This part of Washington, affords a glimpse of the normal. Here the unrest and a desire for a ehange is expresyed by Democrats as well as Republicans of the business and pro- fessional men’s class, And the women, (Speci however, of the same eocial stratum echo the game thought, The League of Nations question “been so completely muddled section of the country “* Lo be hardly ® controlling {nfuence, either @vith mei or women voters. ais Among the masses, particularly the laborers and railway men and thelr families, the drift toward Gov. Cox ja, pronounced and to the Democratic leaders here it spells the same series of turn over symptoms that gave the ‘State to Wilson in J916 by 16,000 plur- ality That was so much of a surprise to Republicans that even they temper their predictions with a grain of rem~ {niscence about the surprise of four years ago—for it was a surprise to have a normally Republican State go Democratic, which even in the spilt of 1912 had given its electoral vote to Roosevelt. ‘This is Indeed a progressive State nd the Progressives hold tie balance of power along with the radjculs, In .other words the old line Democrats and Republicans are in the minority, ywhile the independent minded voter is the ruling force at the polls. CONFLICTING VIEWS EXPRESSED 7 BY THE LEADERS. Conflicting opinions as to the direc- tuon of the Progressive and radical vote are expressed in private by the | Jeaders. The Democrats are deriving comfort out of the fact that Roy Slater, formerly Progressive Repub- jiean Chairman, has come out openly for Cox because he believes the lat- (Continued on Ninth Page.) ne ieee RESTAURANT, . Tueday, 50h" 14, new spliiach, Goo; ki bho a ai ieee ified advertising The Buntay World Should be tn ott On or Be F 1 Preceding Pablication copy receive the preference aubdas Aayertlsink has to | Rescued by Police War Hero} in Central Park; Refuses to Explain y Act, [DRIVEN THERE IN XI. ive ft Hoiet Here Six Months | Declines at First to Say Who She Is. Remain ate to piec; away a marriage’ certificate issued in | Boston, Mass. to Isabelle. Proctor Miller and Alfred Lincoln Fowle and | a paper relating td a application for a change of name, a well dressed | woman of about fifty jumped into the lower lake in @entral Park early to- day. She had gone to the park in a | taxi. Policeman Martin Gill, a world- war aided by Thomas J. Dempsey of No. 210 West Fifty-third Street, rescued her after a struggle. She was taken to Belleviie Hospital, where it is said she willrecover. ‘The torn pleces of the marriage certificate found on the shores of the lake were pasted together at the Ar- seha, Station. The other paper, ap* parently issued. prior to the marriage certificate, tells of the application rene, Frances Isabella Miller for permbssion to change her namo to Isabelle Proctor Miller and the grant- ing of such permission by the 'Middle- sex County Probate Court. All that {could be made of the Registrar's ndme was "George M. Ba—." | 5 The waman's attempt to end her j{ife occurred aboyt 3 A.M. 'The taxi river who brought her to the park left her at the erftrance. In sight of several persons she took the papers fromy a aifk handbag, tore them up and placing the bag containing, a pair of eyeglasses, a handkerchief, long silk gloves and two postage stamps, but no money, mounted rock and. jumped into the lake, Patrolman Gill, who was bayonetted {n France/and received several shrap- nel wounds, cqme running from 57th Street and Sixth Avenue, threw down his coat and revolver and jamped into the water. ' \" rearing and throwing veteran, a woman's neck and started for land with her. Near ‘shore he became stuck in mud and could not move. Dempsey helped the policeman and his burden to safaty. Gin ‘after being attended by Dr, Samtlton of Flower Hospital reported sick and went to bed. Dr, Samilton | (Continued on Second Page.) EDWARD A. MAHER, Suddenly Taken Ill After Western Trip He Passes Away After Day. Edward A. Maher, one-time Pre dent ‘of the Third Avenue Company, died last night of heart dis- ease at hia home, No, 345 West ssth Street. He lad returned home Satur day after a trip to San Diego, where he had visited for months with his daughter, § Maher. Although apparently tn nor- mal health when he arrived, plained Sunday night of feeling il and remained in’ bed yesterday, His daughters in New York, Mrs. Jane Crane, Mrs. Julla M. Geraghty and Mra, Catharine Heydt were pres when he died. Funeral servic be held at 10 o'clock Thursday mov ing at Holy Trinity Church in 82 Street. Mr. Ftnilwa oral, nee he com in Maher was seventy-two old, Hd was Mayor of Albany before | becoming prominent in New York traction, He President of the hthe Union Kailway Company, Bronx | Third Ay Rallway, He retired from active two years ago. was nue The policeman got @ hold about the | RAILROAD MAN, DIES Cal. | will) years | Woman Sums Into Lake™ | After Tearing Marriage | Certificate to Pieces KILL HOLD-UP MIEN AND SERVE PUBLIC, ~ SAYS PROSECUTOR age Policeman Hunt¥ Who Killed Footpad, Exonerated by Assistant District Attorney. Killing them is a great service to the | community, " Join P, Hennis, Assist- ant District Attorney in charge’ of the Homicide Bureau, to-day reported to | pistries Attorney Swann in exonerat- ing Policeman Walter Hunt of the Bast 35th Street Station, Hunt killed William Kane of No, 339 East a9th Street, after surprising him and an= other in the act of holding pp the cashier of an all-night lunchroom early Sunday morning, Kane tried to stab the policeman who shot the hold-up man dead. “It is the duty of the District At- torney’s office to back up the police- men in such cases as this," declared Mr. Hennis in his report. “While it is harsi to realize that young men, not muoh more than boys, have to be shot down at times, I repeat, the elimination of stick-up men by killing | them {s reall 4 saving to the com- munit “There is so much work and wages are so, good that there is opportunity tor everybody. Even if they don’t get killed during a hold-up, it Is pretty certain that they will go to Ja they go to work, they -will hav take no chances and will be of ser to the people and not a disgrace.” APPLIES TO COURT TO EVICT A HORSE to Bronx Landlord Begins Novel Dis- | Possess Proceedings Before Municipal Justi Peter C. Kelly, lawyer Ferr@, landlord of No, 218 Bast‘; 48d | Streets the Bronx, appeared before Mu- | nicipal Court Justice Mi Scanian jin the Bronx to-day with a request for the eviction of a “tenant” In the base |ment of the building who was undesir [able because of alleged caused occupants of the Court asked who was the the basement nd was told horse belonging to a man named Pas- quale Rouc | "What ighed the even & Tandlords SENTENCE OF YEAR FOR JACK JOHNSON CHICAGO, Sept former world's heavy for Antéulo hou the world Justice, poor nag any more. is coming adjourning the an't escape M—Jack Johnson, welght champlon, * year and a day entiary and fined al Judge George violation of the ry for the Mann The reaffirmed that jon Johnson tn 1913, when victed of transporting a white girl Pittsburgh r Immoral Act gentence passed Surope, forfalt- and from then hen he surren ing his $30,000 ba [until a féw weeks a on the Lov as a fugitive $20,000 FOR $3. of t California, be om justwe 5 126 Bank Althou accused fing only from Charles Garzon of No. Street, in Ai | Beach Street trate Mancuse 20,000 ball tor an alleged hold wlghtee ip Sept of No. d to-day by Magis D1 ri rt in brone Kehoe tbe Gi | "The elimination 6f stick-up men by} If! annoyance | pur-| | AUTOR (ACTORS MAY BE ARRESTED IN MPGRAW CASE |. dal Gives That Players’ Resort a Clean Bill. 1 | DRUG STORES ' ON LIST. Crusade of Dry Agents to Get| | After Those That Dispense | Without Prescription. - ‘The result of the investigation of the Lambs Club by Federal Prohibi-' |tlon agents, following the altercation |in which John McGraw, the baseball | manager, figured so prominently, will | be embodied’ in a report which is to| be made to-morrow to United Btates Attorney Francis G, Caffey. ‘This re- port, according to o statement to-da: by August Haussenflug, chief coun sel to the Prohibition Bnforcement Bureau in this city, will call for the immediate subpoena or arrest of one prominent playwright and four actors well knows on Broadway. ‘They will be charged with violation of the Volstead Act, ‘The Lambs Club ftself will receive | far as the sale of Iquor is concerned. “As for MoGraw's case,” Mr. Haus- senflug continued, “that ts up to the United States Attorney, I don't think that McGraw could be convicted, as all the liquor he is alleged to have |wocured, was consumed, there's none left for evidence. i Now that the Lambs Club matter jis all in hand, the Prohibition En- forcement forces to-day set fn mo-! jtion an attack along a wide front against drug stores in this city which, according to reports, have been dispensing alcoholic beverages | without beneNt of a physician's pre-| scription. In charge of Thomas | special squad of a dozen inspectors, |designated as the Pharmaceutical | Squad, set out on the tour of investi- | galTon. They will visit drug stores} | throughout the Greater City, check up on the withdrawals by | druggists, the disp ions by pre- scription and see how these balance with the stock on hand é i ae | \PASSENGERSON MAIL PLANES so Hughes, Post Office Awards Contracts on 3 Routes for $685,000 to Chicago Company. CHICAGO, Sept. 14.—Passengers as well is mail will be carried on their air mail routes contracts awarded to the Lawson Alr Company of | Chicago, to-day Post Office Department ‘The first service will start between Pittsburgh and Indianapolis, via, Co- lumbus and Cincinnati {n November, WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. — Contracts for thre air mail routes at a total cout of $685, y the Post Offic Lawson Line by the Department to Company of | Chicago Airline for airplane mai Pittsburgh to St Louis by | way of ‘Columbus, Cincinnati and india polis of $147,000 w yeur | tween New York and Chicago, via H |rinburg, Pittsburgh Fort Way Ind., for $238,000 « and for servic |between New York and Atlanta, via | Washington, Raleigh, N, C., and Co- }lumbia, 8, C., at @ cost of $300,000. COOLIDGE SAYS HARDING IS AS GOOD AS ELECTED ‘ON, COOLIDGE, of the p aft victory Maiue, tele- Warren G. Hard wa good a, { {tnagatty into Lagat Lambs’ Club Scan-| a Hintered as Second-Class Matter Post Office, New York, | PRIMARY TO-DAY; BOTH MACHINES WORKING WELL Leaders Confident “Designated” Candidates Will Win—Look for Heavy Vote, ) RIMARY polls open to-day * from 3 to 9 P. M. o'clock in greater city. Outstde of the city,‘from 7 A. M. to 9 P, M. Candidates {or ull State offices, twenty-one Justices of the Su- preme Court in five judictal dis- tricta, a United States Senator, forty-three members of Congress, fifty-one State Senators, 160 Assemblymen and forty-five Pro: idential Electors, besides various county offices throughout the State will be named, Machine leaders of both parties are confident the “designated” candidates will win in every oon. test. ‘A heavy vote in generally pre- dicted Mayor Hylan has ordered pb- lice at every polling place and a special Watch against fraud |30 MORE OUTSIDE ELECTION BOOTHS | Shortage ofl Store Secs Causes More General Use—Fifty More for Election Day. Disinctination on the part of atore- Keepers to rent a part of their prem- ines ,for election®polle, as tn days of yore w hen they pestered political lead-| ers for the concessions, has caused the Board of Elections to instal thirty ad- the primary eleetions. Fifty more booths will be ready for use by Blestion Day. The prevailing rent for atores this year 18 $85 for lection Day, $9 for Saturday and 95 for every other week | awy, Blection Commissioner Charles &, Heydt designed the new style election booth, It is electrically lighted and pro- | vided with an exit independent of the entrance. ‘There are separate compart- nents for men and women, NO THIEVES FREED IN THIS COURT) Will Never Suspend Sentence in Cases of Unlawful Entry, Says Judge Haskell. “Vwill never suspend sentence on any one who goes onto others’ premises a ateals there,” said County Judge Hask in Brooklyn to-day, when a plea for sus- pended sentence was made to him tn the Case of Sol Sweedier, elhteen years oll, of No. O49 Hopkinson Avenue, Brooklyn. Sweedler war charged with petty Iar- ceny, He hd stolen $4.80 from the office of 4 motion picture theatre, ‘The ple@ for clemency was made on the grounds tRat the theft was amall, and that the lud had never been In trouble before. >. Grand Jury Takes (Jp Me WOODSVILLE, N. H, Sept The case of Robert. T. Grange, ill, charged with shooting Henry B. Maroney of Mudford, Mass, at Dartmout College last June, was b fore the Grafton County Grand Jury when it assembled to-day. Meada is in Jail here. Case. 4 ‘ODDS OF 3 TO 1 ON HARDING NOW IN WALL STREET Cox Backers Ask 4 to 1—Re- publicans Offer Odds of 7 to 5 an Ohio. These fered pps were in Wail § gor Harding would be ident in November, the highost odds of. Harding since he 4 by the Repub ckers were asking 4 to 1 cans offered 7 Harding would carry the of Ohio, The same oddw offered that Harding would poll a bigger vota in the State of Wow York than Al Smith, the pros- he last election, Evén money wan off@re that Judge Nathan Miller, Repub lican Gubernatorial candidate, would win in to-day’s New York primaries. offered to-day that Pr were on wan to 6 that State were ent Governor, polled at 4| prodigal Meads of La} “ARON STAND ON JAPANESE TOLD 10 CALIFORNIANS Says Nation Must on. Mish Bath Pace Coast/State on Immigra- tion Problem. MUST LIMIT THE DANGER, | only Such Aliens as Can Be} Assimilated Should Be Ad- mitted to Country. | i \. | | MARION, O., Sept. 14!—To a deie- | gation of Californians Senator Hard- | ing declared to-day that the Nation | must “stand behind” the States of ==: | the Puclfic Coast to relieve them of | the aiffculties of Oriental immigra- | tion and must see that only euch aliens a3 can be assimilated and im- | dued with thorough Americanism are admitted, The dangers of racial conflict, sald the Republican numince, must be rec- | ognized and provision made to re- | duce them to @ minimum. He sug- | gested Ufat such steps could be taken | without offensive reflection on’ the race and without raising the ques- ton of racial infertority or suequality. Goy, Willlam D, Stephens acted as a clean bill of henith, as It were, sq ditional street polling vooths to-day for spokesman for the delegation, and in| a short address emphasixed the keen interest of the West Coast in the Ori- ental question, the tari and other tsaues, In his reference to the Senate oll- garchy charge, the nominee declared it was not surprising that the Demo- crats should be displeased because longres#, had exercised ts constitu. tlonal powers during “a seven year period of fine words, much dictation, tinkering with business and unwar- |ranted assumpton” by the Executive, “The nate ‘oligarchy,’ as they jeall it, and the ‘oligarchy’ of the House of Reprosentatives,” he con- | tinued “forced them toward offi- clency, in making war and forced them toward some effictency, though muoh belated, In reconstruction for peace, and interfered to stay the waste of the taxpayers’ and prevented America from béing caught In the snares and tan- | ges of thelr blundering in Paris.” Discussing (he race question as pre- | vented In the Pacific Coast, the can- Aidate said “To-day you have come here from the Pacific Coast of our country, I do not doubt that Americans on the Coast are troubled in thelr minds about the Oriental question as it is That aquéstion raised every linterpretation of our watchword |tAmericn Pest! for it involves four | sets of vbligations. It Involves our obligations to great foreign powers, lit involves the obligations of all | America toward oe group of Amert- | can States and thetr people, But it j also involves the obligations of that group of States to the N. “There money, called Is abundant (Continued on Second Page.) RESULT IN MAINE REASSURING, SAYS SENATOR HARDING “American People Mean to Return to Representative Government,” MATION Sept, 14.—Senator Harding issued the following state- ment on the Gune election re- sults The result in Maine is rea surance that the American people mean to return to rep- ntative government under the Constitution through the agency of the Republican Party and that Maine takes the lead in declaring for America unmortgaged to the Old World but still ready to serve humanity as American conscience imp —_ “WAY DOW weatinn T & MOE GE REPUBLICANS BIGGEST VICTORY IN MAINE; THER MAIORTY 18 65 ‘Every coauteees. in | but Three of Twenty Cities ried by the Republicans on the — League Issue. | | | | the State and Car- 4 ! PORTLAND, Me., Sept. 14.—Maine gave an overwhelming plu gin of 65,568 over his Democratic Norway. any other Gubernatorial candidate in GONNECTICU VTE FOR RATFATIN OF SUFFRAGE ‘Both Houses of ‘Legislature Go Over the Head of Gov, Holcomb, | HARTFORD, 14.—The Connecticut House of Representatives mn., Sept this afternoon voted to ratify thé Suf- fraog6 Amendment to the United States Constitution. Within half an hour the Senate took similar action This action was taken over the head of Goy, Holeomb. The Governor at a Joint session had issued a call for a spectal session Sept. 21 to vote on ratification, saying the present one waa called only to pass legislation enabling women to vote. Leaders on both sides opposed the programme of the Gev- ernor. Irrespective of the final result of the tangle resulting from ratification by ‘Tennessee, whioh was the thirty-eixth and necessary State to pass the amendment, equal suffrage is now part of tte Constitution. ' —_ NEW YORKERS ‘LEAD IN WOMEN’S TENNIS Win Six Matches in Singles Out of Nine in Philadelphia Tourney, PHILADELPHIA, “Sept. 14.—The Fesults of to-day’s play in the Wo- man's National Champlowship Tourna- ment, second round, singles, were Mixs Marlon Zinderstetn, Boston, de~ feated Mrs. 1B, H, Wiemer, Harrison, NY, 61. 6-0 Mins Helens Pollak, feuted Miss Helon Rice, Maws,, 6—0, 6—t Mrs, Rawson Wood, New York, de- feated Mrs, Edmund Duble, New York, +3, 6—8. Mra. ‘cated Mis Kleaner Cottman, Baltimore, 6A, 6—% Miss Bdltt @kgourney, New York, de- fonted Mins Paggy Werguson, Vhiladol- phia, 6—1, 6 Mrs. Molla York, defeated Pbiladeiph Mias Molly Thayer, Philadeiphia, de- {ented Miss Loulse Cattus, 6—2, 6 | fixe Florence Ballin, New York, won \trom Mra. J. Brush, New York, by default Mrs. B. BF. Brigen, New felted Miss Venette Willard, 0. New York, de- Stockbridge, Bjuratedt Mins Mallory, New, Phyllis Walsh, York, de- Philadel- sna > DOWN HAT." ure, fly. — wart. thn ate (Racing news en Pages 2 and 18) R M. Leachman, California, do- | |rality"to the Republican ‘ticket in the State election yesterday. With’a — tetal vote’ larger by 54,000 than the highest ever previously cast in the State, Frederick H, Parkhurst of Bangor was elected Governor bya opponent, Bettrand G. Melntire of The plurality was 17,000 more than. the largest obtained by ~ the history of the State. Four Republican Congressmen were elected by large pluralities, Com: gressmen Wallace H. White jr, Joka A. Peters and Ira G, Heraey retained their seats, and in the First District © where Congresaman Louls B. Goodall, Republican,-did mot seek re-election: Carrol 1, Beedy of Portiand, Repub- + ean, was chosen. Every member of the State Senate Will be 2 Repub¥can, while of a meme bership of 161 in the State Housegpe . Representatives the Democrats uc Ceoded "ih electing fitteen. In the last Legislature there were two Dem ocratic Senators and forty-one Demo. cratic Representatives. ries be die Roy. L., Wardwell of Avy Dublican, war easily ve-el Auditor, All the new County At neys and all the new County Shi are Republicans. The voy of the State for Governop — with returns ‘rom forty small towpy atid plantations In remote distrigts: missing, was Parkhurst MetIntire The incre: very largely accounted for by presence off women at the polls ea b the firstetime, All over the State women showed themselves enger te stasp the opportunity. of exercising their new’ privilege and they undaunted by 4 heavy downpour rain in the afternoon. The showed that most of them voted the Republican tleket. About 90,008 women registered, and it ts believed 75,000 voted. Democratic State leaders were me lent as to the possible significance of the vote with relation to the Prep: dential election in November, ; Col. Parkhurst after being aseup of bis election, gave the viewpoint the Republicans in 4 statement du whith he pointed out that the cams patgn had bgen “vigorously contested by the Democrats on Natiénal isaves” and said that the outcome gaye + “most conclusive evidence that voters of Maine resent the aul cratic and un-American admit tion that the Democrats have He declared that it was “eq an endorsement of Harding and idee." Matters of merely State importance were hardly touched upon in the ys : iy campaign, The leading speakers wetea. men of national prominence, bet parties striving to effect a good shows ing in the “barometer State,” the of State in the Union to hold ite Si election in advance of the voting f President. For the Republicans addresses delivered by Gov, Calvin Coolidge Massachusetts, Senator Henry Lodge, Senator Joseph 8. huysen and others, The vent into the State Franklin Roosevelt, Secretary Daniels, pot Secretary William G, MeAdoo Homer $. Cummings. ‘The theme of all these speakers was League of Nations, upon which upheld thelr respective national platforms, is ‘The total vote tor Governor, the missing towaos mene