The evening world. Newspaper, October 1, 1920, Page 1

To-Night’s Weather—F; See Pa ‘AIR, COOLER, Fire Department avece Win Honor Medals ge 14 STREET; ROB Pour of Them Attack J. A. Newman, Who Was Carry- Money from Bank. FLED DOWN 2D AVENUE. Gime Takes Place on East 52d Street—Escort of the Cashier Beaten. Four men jumped out of the hall- ‘way et No. 142 East 52d Street shortly before noon to-day, stuck a revolver finte the face of J. A. Nowman, cash- fer of the American Cigar Company, } and another into the stomach of Ed- ‘ward Bobniofink, 4 machinist in the @ame employ, and in less than five minutes Inter were dashing south on notes, Newman, who lives at No, 2% Eas fremont Street, and Bohniofink, at No, 215 Bast 66th Street, had left the) Corn Exchange Bank at p2d Street and Park Avenue, with the money ta two packages, Bands of the factory, located at No, | 41 Bast 524 Street, only a couple of Blocks distant. y (Newman had made tho trip every Friday for the last eight years, always attended by a guard, a a eMtraight road to and from the bank And the factory. He carried the prck- ages, as usual, under his arm. When the hold-up men demanded that he} and his attendant throw up thelr hands Newman tried to put the money under his coat, Two of the robbers rushed him shout fifty feet along the street in the Wrection of First Avenue, and While one forced him against o ratl ing, beating him on the hend with the barrel of his revolver, the other snatched the money dnd yelled to his companions to beat tt, Meanwhile the machinist had put Up a fight with the two men who had tackled him. He made a grab for the revolver held at bis stomach with It was to pay the or nine ‘one hand, and reached for his assail. @nt’s, throat with the other. Both reaches fell short, and the second man, getting behind him, relieved tim of his loaded revolver, holster and ali, and then slammed him a few hard punches on the jaw. When the ory came to “beat it," Bohniofink was thrown into an aréaway ‘ey ~ The machinist was on hia feet and legging {t for the East Sint Street which ts only around} ioe station Me corner, before the fleeing robbers had turned Into Second Avenue and started south, Detective Henry ran out of the station und, commandeering an automobile, was soon flying down the avenue, in the direction taken by the thugs, who were then out of ight. Very few people were on the atreet while the holdup was taking place, The block is of the ordinary type of the east side tenements, interspersed with grocery stores and candy and cigar other shops. The police were unable to find any | one who had witnessed the attack and | retaway ull which happened A blacksmith named MeGrath was! shoring Ju I almost directly op- posite the sceneof the hol tup, across the atreet, but neither heard nor saw anything of it, until he heard the yells of the cashier, after tite rob bers had gone, An Italian fruit, ven- der at the corner was being sorved with @ summons when Newman went by Second Avenue at a fast walk, and 9 eae cop looked after the cash- VOL. LXI. NO. 21,550—D. ARMED BANDITS HOLD UP -GIGAR CO. CASHIER ON THE *Becond Avenwe, with $8,700 in bank-|!nal Courts Building between 12.30 [baie States AILY, HM OF $8,700 TOL CASE CASES BOMB SCARE AT GRIIAL COURTS Business Suspended in Building Until Phone Répairer Claims “Explosive.” , —_—_—- A green g@uitcaae, bound by copper | rivets and éontaining a few coils of | wire, @ gimlet, a coupe of hammers and ® screw driver, almost caused the suspension of business in the Crim- | | And 1 o'clock this afternoon. A.eor- don of firemen gathered about the! firehouse at Lafayette and White) Streets and directed all pedestrians to the other aides of both ‘streets with the result that an immense mob gathered in the vicinity. Thero was a suspicion suitcase was a bomb, It was found in a telephone booth on the ground floor of the Criminal| Courts Building by a detective who had observed it lying idle for half an| that the hour, Tho sultcaw was very, very carefully carried over to the fire. house of ine No. 83 and very- very carefully deposited on the floor of a large vacant reom in the rear. Hardy adventurers approached the sultense and jheld their ears to tt, Some deciaréd they could plainly hear something ticking after the manner of a clock. A telephone mes- sage was sont to the Bureau of Com- buatibles at Police Headquarters and Expert Bomb Openers John A. Calla- han und James R. Dixon started in a fast automobile for the firehouse. When they got there they had to fight their way in. Reaching the sult~ case, they walked around jt three times and then Callahan pulled out his knife and prepared to cut into the suspicious object. At that exact moment a young man burat through the crowd and cried: “Hey, there! Don't injure me bag!" “And who are you?’ asked Calla- han, “Hartey Mozee, repair man for the New York Telephone Company,” plied the young man, proudly display- 1920, Co, (The by The Press ‘Rew York Workd), TENANTS ST TH ND EVICTIONS TAKE PLAGEINTHE ITY Exodus Which Would Have Been a Reality Forestalled by Evening World Effort. INSTRUCTION TO COURT Leases Signed Under Duress Will Not Hold in Court— Old Rents to Stick. ‘There are idle vans to-day—and it is Oct. 1, A situation believed to be without precedent on New York's moving day has been brought about through the new tenants’ relief laws passed by the Assombly in Special Session after one of The Rvening ‘Worlds hardest public welfare cam- paigna, Last year people who wanted to move on ‘Oct. 1 had to make their wo | BIG COMPANIES CAN SELL SUGAR AT 12c A POUND Arbuckle and Federal’ Concerns Buy Raw Product at 9 Cents, URCHASDRS of raw sugar to-day at nine cents are understood to be Arbuckle @nd the Federal Sugar Refining Company. ‘Therbfore, it will now Be ponsibie for those companies to* Reduce the price of refined sugar to twelve cents per pound. i. FF. Atkina, former director of the Asierican Sugar Refnigg Company states that the drop in in value of 9950,000,000. which, he states, BES AT POGANY IN“CAL A DOCTOR RATED AT $2000 Arfist Takes Exception to Lines reservations weeks or months tn e4-} That “Hold Him Up to Pub- vance and pay extraordinary prices, ‘erhis morning President Charles Mor- ria of the Van Owners’ Association declared that in spite. of the van em- ployes’ strike the number of vane ready for service was greater than the or, iterateur, brought sult in Supreme demand, At the headquarters of the Van (Charies Frohman, Inc, and Fania Mar- Owners’ Association It was estimated that about 2,000 families had been hia name in the three-act comedy “Call moved before noon. The number of y a put | the Doctor,” which had its premier at regular vana available was 1,276, in addition there were many trucks to be had which ordinarily are not used for such purposes. the ‘aanociation sal move to-day. Officers of the Van , following from the comedy, spoken » pla: that the strikers were a von soot tlnk any acta of violence |*Y the defendant, Fania Marthotf: not committing and would commit none. “A, man can wolk into « van office | Wille Pogany. The first time he seo almost anywhere,” sald Mr. Norris, “order a van, and get it immediately, ‘The people are not moving this year, They are aitting tight.” ‘The Municipal Courts in Brooklyn and the Bronx were practically idle, Nearly all cases listed either were withdrawn or went by default. There was very little moving. Officials of [2m and personality in this Brosdway 14 they believed | Production has held him up to public not more than 4,000 families would| °F", damaged his fame and almost lic Scorn and Ridicule, Witte Powany of No. 61 Washington Square, Solith, Ulustrator, soento paint- Court to-day against David Belasco, inoff to recover $200,000 for the uso of the Empire Theatre Aug. 31 last. Pogany claima that the use of his wrecked his family lite He quotes In \ the compisint the “I beve a mwoetheart, Pogany— me he love me at one look, Dear boy, just now be have no work. His pictures he do not yet sell, but I lend bim a Httle money, He pay me back when we marry—maybe.” This, Pogany complains, holds him Up as & poor, incompetent artist re- NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1920, OF ITY REALTY uP $40 000000 Marked Rise in Assessed Valu- ations on Big Buildings All Over City. PERSONAL TAXES DROP. —2- | Equitable Building Boosted $4,000,000 and Woolworth $2,500,000 in New Tax List. ‘The teoks of the Boar of Taxes and Assessments wero opened to-day 'tor puibite inspection of the amensed|NAME NOT YET GIVEN. valuations on which taxes for 1931 fre to be based, The assessed val- uations for the city have been jh- creased $1,399,007,494 over those of 1920, making the total asbessed. val- uation $9,608,017,467, Jacob A, Cantor, President ot the Board, ani & ‘decrease of $186,874,660 for the current year in personal faxes in the city. This, he stated, waa ‘caused by legislative enactment exempting all intangible Property from taxation. “Constant exemption of personal Property from taxation is the cause of the decrease,” sald Mr, Cantor, “but the decrease ia more than offset ‘Dy the income tax and the increased {@z on corporations.” The assessed valuation shown by boroughs ta: Manhattan 65.420,873.165 702,049,084 626,777,096 128,585,470 16,148,120 Total «cence Increase ....... TENTATIVE PORSON + -99,608,017,467 1,300,607,404 AL ASBID35- ceiving money from a woman, Fur- thermore, he says in bis recital af the wrong done, he is & married man, has James Dooley, & Brooklyn moving | 1. seven-year-old boy, and such yan operator, said Oct, eens wit stage mention therefore is dowbly un- ferent from March 1 or July 1 aa f@r) qairanie § He quotes these further | City are $786,947.40, while the 1921 as hin business was concerned. ‘Thomas S. Healey, a Fiatfush mov- ing van man, said all his vans Were! sayy Pania Marinoff, in her character; Th® Seseaved valuation shows « of “Balog-Mari,” high strung Hun-|™*rked increase in the following artist, to “Joan Deering” (Miag| *tructares: idle at 1 o'clock this afternoon, Municipal Justice John R. Davies Total ......$080,079,860 §785.98T,400 Decrease, 1921, $156,874,560. ‘The 1920 gross personal taxes tn the gross personal taxes wil) be $630,- “Pogany Wille ts not tgue to me,"}07286. garian of the Seventh District Court, 185th | janet Beecher), the doctor of domes- Street and Morningside made the following announcement: ing a badge to that effect. "I was repairing the phones and left the bag ¢ while I went out to lunch.” ereupon he opened the bag and yed the tools, &c., heretofore by ° ed. Just like the movies. REVENUE MEN SEIZE $250,000 IN DRUGS Raid the Plant of Aberdeen Chemi- cal Company and Arrest Six Men. Revenue agents Aller, Manning, Mel~ lin and Kaske! er eight months of work made a raid on the Aberdeen Chemical Company, No. 61 Liberty Street, to-day, seized more than $260, “Tenants who have been com- pelted to sign lenses since April 1 providing for rent inoreases on Oct. 1 are not necessarily bound by these ses. Such tenants may remain in their apartments, offer the old rent to the landlord, and if he refuses to accept It they him go into court and the new rent demand- Many of these igned under what Tenants thoy thought they no homes to live in lonses were amounts te signed beca would ha if they didn Chief Justice Aaron J. Levy of the! .1) that he has suffered ainte the (Continued on Second Page.) BE th 000 worth of morphine and cocaine and arrested six men who, they claim are the chief agents In the largest Illegal wholesale drug distribution plant in New York and probably in the country The transactions of the combination necording to the agents, have aggregut- many millions of dollars alnce pro- hibition went into effect, | ‘The prisoners are Alfre dent of the himaclf Cling ver Kahn of Phila ns delphia Heyman of the Bornan Chemical Corporation, No. 105 Hudson Street, They were arraigned before Htchoock Classified Advertisers Important ! Chaaaitied Ths adverttai Bunday World World office, To-day, Friday Early copy receives the prate; when Sunday adverti¢ing haw omitted. Late adyortisiog ta ne binitted for lack of time fo wet i THE WORLD, nk coor should pe in ve it Avenue, | tie aimioulties of the play. “Money { give all the time and he blow it an American girl.” Pogany protests that this ls using bis name and personality in soand lous, slanderous, defamatory way, holding him up to pubdlic scorn and ridicule, not only as one taking money from & woman, but as taking it under false pretenses from one woman to| ¥,,!; spend on another woman, And Po- gany ia 4 married man! He sets forth that the lines com- plained of show “Willie Pogany,” the comedy Hungarian artist, to be a “fraud, cheat, deceiver, wicked per- son and immoral,” Pogany asks $100,000 damages for opening of this play and the nightly speaking of these lines, He asks an- other $100,000 for the unauthorized use of his name for advertising pur- poses, Attorney Morris Cukor of No. 63 Park Row represents Pogany, The artiat describes himself an a native of! Hungary, irty-elght years old and! sa “recognized by the artistic, liter. | ary and theatrical professions a» an artist of bigh ability,” tm 822.50 | a ford 1 ay 31.000. Men’ ‘ar xf Men's Yall and. Winte Too sinaie ahd double berasiad totes In the bevwn. “aren, gay,” blue fea mixtures, “AML glee 32 le dk Our | fog to-day 80, ‘ a 23282882: (Continued on Second Page.) LOCOMOBILE CARS CUT $1,350 IN PRICE It Was announced to-day by the Haren Motors, Ina, operating com- pany for the Locomobilt, Mercer and Simplex cars, that the price of atana. ard Locomobile cars had been reduced $1,260 and the Mercer models $1,000. “The reduction is due,” the an. nouncement read, “to our bellef that who stories, $66,000, Chick Gandil got away with about ¢ | timaten, Ruth, home run king, injured to-day! when hia automobile) Meriden andWail ngford, Entered ne Genre nnnnnrnennnneorn0nt DOOCCODPEC COC RNPOUCODCDPCCLCCE EO LODAS Recond-Clase Pout Office, New Yorks . ¥. ASSESSEDVALUES JURY HAS NA N WHO “FIXED” BALL GAN SEEKWAN WHO PUT UP $30 00 cA | TOF BAL GAMES “Master Mind” of Wealth Fur- nished Piker Gamblers With Boodle Fund. Indicting Players Js Enough, Says Fullerton— Get the Chief Plotter, Bre e Whe ls the mater mind st ty baseball scandal? What man financed the diegrace of the American National sport?, Whe supplied the piker gam- lore who did the dirty work at Chicago, who met the players, who made the araangements and Whe divided the money? It was not Bill Burns, Bil Burns waa ae ball player, His family is re- puted to have money and hé is known to own land in Texas on which it le said off nas been found. But Burns never had money enough to finance e0 gigantic a conspiracy as this one. Tt was not Abe Attell, Attell has Dad money in largo amounts, but never that large, and during the last few years up to 4 time a day or two prior to the world’s series he was rated as belng “close to the cushion.” It was not Maharg, the Philadelphia ex-prize fighter, who wan Associated with Bil Burns in attempting ot) promotion, It was not the St. Louls manufac- turer whose name has been frecly m.ationed, He hag some money, and in known to have bet considerable sums, but his aggregate wealth is not enough to finance such a deal. It was not tho Des Moines brothers ‘been mentioned ever since the deal. Their entire business would not have been sufficient collateral to raise the sume needed. It was not the other St. Loule gambler who claimed to have been double crossed, for be never had that much money and would not have bet tt if he had, ‘The ageregate amount of money all these men could have raised on their own posseasions would not have been enough. ‘The bafl players, eight of received, according te their It i» charged that $50,000, ording to ball player es- 4 that it was given him to (Continued on Second Page) eee : BABE RUTH IS HURT IN AUTO COLLISION Home Run King’s Car Sideswiped by Truck on Connecticut Road. MERIDEN, Conn., Oct. 1.—*Hiabe” was slightly rollided with a truck, The aceldent ocourred between where the ran beneath a raliroad treatie road e apirit of the times demanc ; the spirit of the times demanda a re- |: tis car ie enid to hrve aide-awiped duction tn prices so that the purchas : yaiue of the dollar may he m,|th®, tuck: throwing the car off th ing val ® | oad. It brought up in a eld creased to a point where there ts sufficient buying power to properly finance the business needs of the country.” Tires also are scheduled to suffer swoop!pag price reductions, it was pre dioted to-day when the Lae Tire & Rubber Company announced reduc- Mona of from 1b to 0 per cent, si with him also was slightly hurt Ruth's injuries consisted of a few light cuts. A man who was riding ~— THR WOULD TRAVEL prnean. postr tN (Woud) 4 63 Pete eee Uereliens “ache “toe ae oe TT Not | | Six Said to Be in Gamblers’ R That Won $250,000—New E dence Found Here by Chic Prosecutor—Two New Yor! Will Testify. : CHICAGO, Oct. 1.—Investigation by the Grand Jury of the: gamblers te: “fi World Series last year was resumed today is expected that at least three more indictments will be voted this roon, Charles Comiskey, owner of the Chicago White Sox, asked Attorney Hoyne to investigate last year’s world series Imm F the conclusion of the games, Hoyne éaid to-day after his from New York. Hoyne’s office conducted the investigation for three or fe Me ae ‘ ur Ga indicate its mature. He denied he had asked BORAH QUITS STUMP IN FIGHT FOR HARDING Orders No More Speaking Dates Be Made—Evening World Story Confirmed, : (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 1, 1990, ENATOR BORAH of Idaho, haa written Republican head- quarters at New York and Chicago, asking that no more speaking dates be made for him in the Republican Presidential oampaign. Benator Borah also haa sele- #raphed to Senator Hiram John+ on, another of the League of Na« tone irreconcilables and is await- ing « reply, Mr. Borah declined to discuss the mosenge, but there were reports that it had to do with the League of Nations issue, Genator Borah recently com- pleted & apeaking tour in the in- terest of the candidacy of Bena- tor Harding. There was no ex- planation here to-day of the reason for his messages to head- quarters, The Idaho Senator will remain Washington the rest of this week and thea will go to Con- necticut to epeak in suport of the candidacy of Senator Brandegee, another of the League irrecon- cilabiea who is seeking re-election to the Senate. Senator Borah alao will hold himself in readi- ness to epeak in the Interest of a members io ayndicate which bribed the dicted White Sox ‘players, have obtained by the Grand Jury, August Herrmann, President of Cincinnat! team ‘and former of the National, Comminsion, at Hoyne’s office this morning with a portfollo of decuments and papers relative to the case of Hal Chase and Lee Magee, who were driven from ganized baseball nat year. had been requested by the Grand to bring ‘the papers, Christy the © Hoe said he had affidavits of Mathewson, formér manager ‘ Cineinnatt team;. Greasy Neale, flelder; John McGraw, and Pt other Senators opowing the | Jim Ring and Regan, League, who are candidates for Judge Chartes A. McDonald of re-election, Criminal, Court has declared tn a The Evening World yesterday Dubiinhed a special despateh trom its Washington correspondent re- porting that Borwh and Johnson were about to abandon the Hard- ing campaign. Senator Harding denied this story in a statement issued last night at Marion, mal ktatement that “there need he doubt about the prosecution of players and thelr co-congp! LEGAL PROPOSITION sou) SAYS THE JUDGE, “The legal proposition is the Judge continued. “These men hatched a piracy in the Warner Hotel to ‘throw’ the World's Series, in rhe at an did ‘throw’ it, IRISH POLICE OFFICIAL SLAIN. | enced, suit toe nis, from Shot F Every suspicious, game which has ome « played within the Inat. ¢! BELFA Oct, =A pal ery in either Jeague, will Was ambushed yesterday gear within the purview of investigne! curry, Cour Sigo, by a florge Gecause of the statute limitag: of armed elvitinns. Dleteibe 1 | “Hiuok" Weaver will appear Urady woa shot dead, the b , ed tell his story, He asserts ber, vouch Ne Was present in Cl {room when, the series was “tp, he did not join or récetve any money, Uncontrmed houses have been burm im reprisal! “It you tell that to the jury, for Une attack “ae you will get a ples, new special HOMLD, WERE ie, t paper, an indictment for per: wy Pa ae eed was the comment of @ legal If tation, ae, hone) eal Mei gaute eels ase | tO Whom he was telling, ‘ abe hele lara, Whe Toor, World Bide! | “idappy” elsch turned an ing trick im the