The evening world. Newspaper, November 15, 1920, Page 1

wb 4 To-Night’s Weather—RAIN OR SNOW. To Be Sure of Getting The Evening World, Order in Advance from Your Newsdealer : 1920, by (The New York World). ‘The Press Pi NEW YORK, "MONDAY, BRONTE RS 15, 4? NATIONS ORGANIZE ASSEMBLY OF THE LEAGUE ANID CHEERS FOR WILSON . ee Paul Hymans, Former Premier HARDING’S TRAIN of Belgium, Is Chosen | STILL HELD UP ‘irst President. First Presid | President-Elect Hopes to Get to Assembly of the League of Nations) {rail ecaside cottags that hax housed {him through three days of wind and| wag formally organized to-day by the tes o OFEM hid jcold. but his effort to get awny came election of Paul Hymans, former Pre- | to grief when ‘us special train, cad mier of Belgtum. as President.) sauge and gasoline propelled, broke a dismal four jours on the wind-swept cheers. Forty-two nations were rep- Pesented and M. Hymans received the last night, but his traingwas held for malas of'85 of them | another try about noon to-day, This remain out of the League.’ for. threatening economic tendencic | whole Crimean Peninsula. | Gen. Wrangel, Crowds in the galleries joined in the | 4°W” Just outside of Point Isabel, After | Rousseau and are expected to arrive |prairie he returned hers after dark | morrow ae | | UNTERNYER IS ON TRAL OF “MEN HIGHER UP" IN BUILDING INDUSTRY GRAFT pede oe ES SOS Sao Sea eer |“Surface Only Scratched 1 hus) SLAIN. | poe in 1 the HSC oiTs ules) by cavesee WOMAN AND BABIES REDS IN CRIMEA “CAPTURE 150,000 - IN WRANGEL LAY seneral anes but 100,000} Refugees Are Unatle to Leave Sebastopol. 30,000 REDS ARE All A ry el > Brownsville Some Time (ONE WOMAN DELEGATE. | : ad Safe—U, . c aye ‘ : Stores Looted = 3, 2 7 eet POINT ISABEL, ‘Tex., Nov. 15 (As- : 2 . i, tera Applause Follows Expression | .ooiy D Suaeiiciain \Vasedion. ‘booker —_ Not Want ant to Divert * STORIES FROM FIRE of Hope that United [up/ 4 rowaways to the outside worl) PARIS. Nov. 15—Sebastopol has! Forces to Inquire Into All - States Will Join |bIe ed by one of the worst storms fllen, the Russian Bolshevik! having | Contracts of City ‘ 3 known in this region, President-elect | occupied the city last night, accora- | = ae ae . oS Harding planned te make another at- fo tagoemation fecsived’ by Ther | Firemen Make Rescues W GENEVA, Nov. 15.—Amid cheers|/tempt to-day to get into Brownaville | During a conference between the ‘ - for the United States, President Wil-|t© pend in comfort the remaining two ign Office. The Bolsheviki| soa Housing Committee and Ladders After Three di yf hid: ‘iait Te: ri reporte e e + son, Belgium and King Albert the/ ats Caeady Nad (ald pode te ne 8 reported to be masters of the. sound of Estimate to-day, Samuel Are Overcome, the Untermyer, chief counsel of for- — members of his staff) | a and M. Martel, French High Commis-|mer body, declined the Invitation of/ Mrs. Amelia’ Ferren, while in a sloner at Sebastopol, were taken on|the Estimate body to go into a gen- butcher shop th!s afternoon, saw board the French warship Waldeck | ora) investigation of all city ¢on-| smoke pouring from the windows of rj her floor of Jersey where she left her children, Bteliu, four, and Alexdnder, He made it cl apartment on the sixth 0. 408 City, tracts at this time. in Constantinople late oon : that the specific purpose of the Lock- to-night or to- Henderson Street, wood Committee on Housing was not had two to. investigate city departments aut Some of those connected with the Foreign Office estimated that Bolehe- offered his only avenue of departur ‘There were more than 100 delogates| for the wagon roads Wore impannable te | Tiki Bad captured between Sect all the elements which contributed sixteen months. she tried to mount ie 0 ungel troops. jolshevil @resent when the Assembly was automobiles, Ieoseee ba hd eonnded are eati-{ toward creating the present housing the stairs, but smoke drove her back walled to order by M. Hymans, who| During the morning Senator Harding] Pete th a5 ooo, situation Climbing up the fire escape, she did some more work on the speech ne vead the call for the meeting issued js to deliver next Thursday at New| American Red Cross storehouses} The Boar of Estimate ‘cconvened broke into her apartment through a by President Wilson, as provided by | Orleans, Just before he sails for|are reported to havw been pillaged] wee, its conference with the Lock- window, cutting her hand badly, and . Panama. It would not surprise some| by x mob. 6 and decided to con- fo, Hl re onsclou the Covenant of the League. of those near him If he took particular) The Waldeck-Rousseau and te wocd: committee ene) SANG DSR UGran UNnORaRig UE An address of welcome was made notice of recent developments in the|other French and the American and| duct a separate investigation of It Gathering ony under each arm, she Ls Ao sa Motta of Switzerland, peta pero) lesen, Tt is known | prjtish ships at bastopol did not]}own of all city contracts, This In- started toward the fire escape, but who said: pat he has watched stock market fluc- ave that port wntil the Bolshevikt! vestigation will be open to the pub- was overvome Wan armeiel lercne. “Washington is the home of liberty | tuations with unusugi tuterest and ig) @*Y" that port wi an tm Boe vist] vestigation will be open to the Pub- was oyervome by the smoke before and the United States cannot long! making a study of uw possible within the walls of the clty:!).. ane resolution was tntroduced iter aialeindere according to the Foreign by the M yor iremi rambling up Indders, diy 3, were loaded to ca- formed the Esti- 8 pssage of After hav informed the Esti-/ oovered the three lying unconscious on hc oe alae ec acaine $2,940 WAS SPENT TO | mets refugees and the rem-| 045 soard that the Lockwood com-| tre floor aud bore them down the ind- : nine Gen, Wrangle’s trgops. ‘cal 4 tha a von tol e 2 mittee had bigger tasks on hand 0) ders safot rhe we a n to Gell rang with spprobetion. The ELECT A WOMAN, | Many ugees were left behind, and . vatigation of city con Secs: fal eines) EGY! Lota Promier referred to the fact that _ eee esta, crobably aum-| even te investigution 0 Joreay. City. Hopital; where (lt was Geneva had been chosen over Brus- |... : = jeheaen iit wae: * uh tracts, and “that {¢ has merely| sis the baby’s condition wax serioun eels as the permanent seat of the| Miss Robertson's Congressional | bered 100.000. ' } scratched the surface” In Its search |oy0 tire which caused about $500 dam . The fate of ees aUs~ . i 6 League, and linked it with a tribute Campaign Manager Reports | The fate | se retugees te CaUS-| after corruption, Mr. Untermyer Of-| ago, w aii RERIA) When A to King Albert. The mention of the $325 Defici icsbelet doeataneptecrratle ¢ C40 | tered several suggestions which He) ratios itine while playing with ame brought renewed upplause $325 Deficit. relief organization has also left the) iq may be adopted by tho city as eh game applause. i ; ¢ matohe Wes oO = . jority of the refugees ection fo elf 4 M. Motta declured the world hopeg| WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—Expend: The maj ba) 4 measure of protection for itself and Ww thors venten GyeretRiy. iinba x a tures of $2,940 were made in the cam-| have been dependent upon th a guarantee of a square deni for for economic reconstruction to row | Jie, on behalf of Miss Alice Robertson! can relief workers for eee —t cue work and extinguishing the flames out of the Assembly's débate, He! or the Second Oklulioma District. the| tenance, honest baila age ntractors they | "9me one made off with one of thelr tee | is . a 5 Gy my col actors they 1 suggested the break Pe up of mon-! second woman to be ted to Congress,| {QNDON, Nov. 15.—As Great Brit- eet ane se peak veer | twenty-foot ladders and w pair of rub- opolies on raw materials ns a neces- aco ain tor8 report bjea to-day With! ain has never recognized the Wrangel| (11, that, mut many thousands of men| Pr boots aa boosh Mahia See of Representa-| Government and is now negotiating) ov: je ty —* — m "Ss ion as Presi Uves by her campaign manager $i m re will be turned out of jobs, Important Re ee ce Vie ri Receipts were sven 4s $2,615 and the| for the opening of trade relations with) 1144 jmprovements will be held up THROWN THROUGH ye votes |ANMelt, It waa stated, will be made up| Soviet Russia, the British Navy will Mine aid eriaeranl eee elf received four votes |% P und the injustice a SL cael ast “ a oe rive se from subsequent collections “to ratity| continue to observe strict neutrality in| vousa follow would be incalculable. WINDSHIELD OF CAR for : ie ne Rena una: the result af the tion.” } tho Black Sea. Reports from Constan-| merefore, the city should not take spn | nation Robertson declared tn her state-| tingple that the British Navy would) .. prutal a step as to hold up all} New Haven and Newark Autos ad one each j ment that ‘no pledges or promises were| | 14 in the blockade of Black sea 2 - . . ‘ . “We du not pretend the covenant! made" to obtain her lection. euisints ie danted Upiehe ance city contracts and pase every con- Crash Head-On—Driver of ts perfect or that {t can’t be im-| The Single Tax Party reported ¢ ports wer bas = S y tractor in the limelight of suspicion. Datlay Arectad proved,’ said President Hymans jn|¢xponditure in the Presidential cam- — WRONG INTERPRETATION BY his Address after election as Presi- | Palen totalled only 18. Receivts| JLIIDGE GETS AFTER. THE MAYOR. Jennery Grant, twenty-nin a | were“placed at $/,122 and there were no Mayor Hylan interrupted Mr. Un-| 2% De Witt Str . New Ha Conn., are denied ae League wan in any| MYuM, contributions! of more than} POLICE SNOOPERS |. urmyer to my: I Inferred from| wax thrown through the windahield He de 4 2MY | $500, ‘Tho list included several dona-| Br akakt CATT EST SHE AN oui ReRA a ot state, threatening the| your letter on the subject that you his car, d n by thony pp way & v hi! & the) tions from persons living abroad, Est te Board shbuld | of the same address, at Pelham Park Mit guiker a cleartag RS Saye They Should) Hunt | Rother. ee ae aul ; a way and Pelham Boulevard, when “Tt in al a clearing house,” he MANA goie e hold up all contracts pending the| way and Tham ard e eid, “de 'o facilitate trequont |W ENIZELOS BEATEN, and Pay Less Attention juteome of the investigation." { Was run into, head on, this after “Circulation ‘Books Open to All.” | 1920. ~GHUDREN RESCUED IN TENEMENT FIRE ONNARROW PLANK Three Walk Nine Foot Roar 4, Stretched Over Areaway, to Safely, MOTHER RISKS Rushes Into Smoke Filled Room to Save Babies—One Tenant Is Robbed. Mra, Yetta Arvin, returning from the» corner grocery, to her home on the fourth ‘floor of No. 78 Lewts Street at 7 o'clock today. halls filled with smoke and was al most knocked down by a some of the members of eight fam- ilies in the tenement who w caping from a quick starting fire on the second floor in the rooms of Mrs. Annie Schuell. found ¢ riish oi LIFE. | MOVIE OWNERS HELD FOR SIX DEATHS ON HUNT FOR BIG BUILDING GRAFTERS To-Morrow’s Weather—KAIN OR SNOW. WSS WUMPPENS UN We? AL favrenenian JAMIMED EXT DOOR CAUSE OF DEATHS IN MOVIE PANIC; OWNERS OF HOUSEARE HELD” Deputy Commissioner O’Grady Urges All Picture Theatres in City Be Closed Until Investigation Estab- lishes Safety—Charged Door Was Locked. Right here in New York City, supposedly safeguarded by a mighty Police and Fire partment, Fire Prevention Bureau, a Welfare Bureau jot the Police, children’s aid societies and numerous other public and ouasi-public organizations whose object is the protection of children and , | lit the face of scores of laws governing such matters this is what happened yesterday: Six children were erushed to death as the result of a panic in an east side motion picture house. A number of others,-in serious con- dition, are In hospitals, Mrs. Arvin pushed through the! fugitives and smoke to her own flat, where she had loft her fourtoon-year old boy Herman, her seven-year-old’ dayghtay,.Kether, and, two-and-a halt. r-old baby sleeping. TN faines racing up the stairs behind her. She slammed the door and groped her we way abuut in the sn The boy were awake, but Wkther was uncon scious. She pulled and dragged them to the back window and placed them on the window sill he back windows of the rear tene: ment at No. 93 ¢ k Street, only nine feet away, were filled with ex Cited spectators screaining with sym- pathy and horror. Just as Mrs, Arvin had decided to drop the children four paved court, Abraham ». 98 Goerek Street Iman of No. 8! stories to the Schwartz of } Williaa Street pushed a nine-foot plank they had found on the root between the houses. It was narrow, and bat to be pushed out to crawl tered and would have fal Schwartz risked his life to step out on the plank and catch him, The rest of the family followed safely Meanwhile Nathan Hurt, atid joerek mn the g the frat across, fal had not @ tenant from the front building on Lewis Street, had put up a ladder aguinst the front wall of the burning tene ment and enabled a number of ten- ants on the fire-escapes to get down, One of them was Mannie Distl twelve-year-old son of Moses Dist aw Ubird floor tenant. Moses had gone out his trousers behind, Mannie picked then! up and dragged them after him, There | were $70 In the pockets und u gold! leaving ch. Mannie, who !s suffering from a rifle bullet wound received in the| siege of Lemberg, fainted when he renched the street, Somebody pre tending to ald him stole the money und the watch contact betvren various states with REPORT IN LONDON)! to Slums. You'd better read my letter again,” | noon by an automobile ow by| The fire was soon oxtingulated. A a development of understanding and f cnniinl | “It seems to me that able-bodied de- | replied Mr. Untermyer, “for I never | Cark Windrum and driven by Vernon slight injury to the hand of young eapetne teotives can find, aa police officers, | dreamed when I wrote it that you] Miller, both of No. 38 Fulton Strect,! schwartz and the peril of the Arvin Only ene woman delegate presentea | Premier and All the Cabinet Except) work of greater benefit to the com-| would be 80 reckless as to attempt | Newark family caused the sending of four One Mentber Said to Have munity than that of snooping around in| to scrap all city contracts, good und| Dr, Barrow found Grant was @uf-| ambulance calls (Continued on Sixteenth Page.) jthe slums in st of unfortunates| pad, The Lockwood Housing Com:| fering from a@ fracture of the skull ————— sia a | Failed, whose moral fibre poverty may have] mittoe js not here merely on a sinell-|and internal injuries, and he was ce-| NEWARK MAYOR SELLS COAL INHERITANCE TAX LONDON, Nov. 13.—-An Exohang on down,” said County Judge Mac-] ie expedition—digsing up corruption| moved to Fordiam Hospital in a nin Brooklyn, to-day as he sus. i DUGe ith hinge s condition. Miller wi rrest-{ Distetbates 180 Tons at Price Leas eleg bah despatch trom Athens un hs for the mere pleasure of the thing, | serious \ “6 arren ON SECURITIES VALID | ir to-tay's dute nays the renutty or [Ornaes sentence on Mina Mary O'NrIll| THF Act “vere our purpose Td bo [ed and taken to Bronx ark Pole wate Dealere Canes l Supreme Court in| far as known, point to a defeat for| vation officers had found employment. | the purpose of clearing the com | assault ~-_ pendent 1 operators to rel bah tank ler Venigel The Premier and Lot the deteatives,” sald the Judge, —= | ayartkal Naw Jee Wem 40 Attacking that sll the members of his Cabinet ex-| "Concern themsvlves with the work of (Continued on Ninth Page.) POLICEMAN SHOT IN SALOON, Ae MBIA YCE pinAliedla numero! cept seem to have failed of elec- | dd our borough of the robbers ea een a hea spilled . tion, the meseage declares. {nnd thieves who have heen spreadir SS Dow, Proprietor and Another Man| CO") Wagons and had At ig pede! hpi ri error in our midst. The patrolman = A - | the firet applicants on hia waiting: He ‘ on of tho} othe Government, Adda tive ie in" unltarm cansciontionas. dows || Classified Advertisers ||| itn attncn, san omcer. which dompriaee 900 namen, Hts 7 . tan us decided ppeal to dl “duty, protecting we ty. ou 1 , | partceann Wit 8 Of Jereay| wan $1860 ato " t ee See NPIPRIO PE CERNE Ftc secs ‘a cost 05 dee al re ine at si t \ a) stamp tax J miereibe Classified advertising copy for to-day to tte | dered from 1 + mtne ¢ x bad been pall Direct disp ft 4 ; . kos The Sunday World should be in at a ma: h Mayor hi ed) by thy t 0 nt eur ‘ I Pre. jd do note hat we The World offic : 4 A wk receive » eal h c h , win i \ —~ | On or Before Friday || .* ae ’ at r i 4 nee Hor ny Preceding Publication © Wat vane at~| Westinahniuse Company (ate Kine, ! ei Sai n et Giosstfed Adcertrrements Recsised fan hia RERINGM TELE ‘ \ ‘ f 1 ; o + Dow sant ’ Speen. ie Dyninh A AFTER 8 A. M. @ yoilceman. dy t patty ; , ae H Srth, stig vir Ram NY i $1.6 For publication the following day ceman wan hol nelnne E WOKLY TRAVEL BOREAL day, vs hop ko ert hy ty een » : 1 EARLY COPY i \ 4 Essex Sire ibe y a ee hk ware Meare rit nit dually prenned the trignen: W. Rapatadt, No. 660 42th atrent Receives the Preference. 5 we # At the Ye for agcag: ain) parcels vpoo. day ed dl) hotgun as he acrambled tyn, wi ares thet he carrie r in | nl by orge Cor A Doak rou for bagcess are Beaks ta poird the auto when a hunting patty | hur! onmine jar and pawned THE WORLD. ' i [A-hour night shite oti between enna | Wee sariing aid sue guve it to him to pawi, (Racing News on Page 2) 700 and 760 men. \ . ‘ * A S i . ee ee er ee oe ee a | justment. Witnesses, at the scene of. the disaster, state that a cellar door upraised from the sidewalk held closed an exit door behind which the children piled up In a heap to have their lives snuffed out. A lock taken from the exit door was fastened by its ring-bolt inte two eye screws. The detective who took the lock from the door maintaing that it was locked at the time of the panic, “® Who Is Responsible? STANDARD CUTS |. Fire Commissioner Drennan stout- ly maintains that members of his GASOLINE 1 CENT | force had reguitrly inspected the ti atre and found no violations, Dilen A. O'Grady, Fifth Deput, Announced as Not Due to Lower! potice Commi toner, who ts in chavae Costs, but to Aid inthe Gen- | of welfare work und under whose Jurisdiction comes the regulation of picture houses, insists that every pic~ ture hduse in New York be imm eral Adjustment. Tank wagon prices of gasoline will be reduced 1 cent a gallon to-day In States in which the Standard Ol Company of | !!*tely closed that « drastic inveati- New Jersey and the Standard Oil Com- | 64ton vf conditions be made. pany of Louisiana operate, h was an- The two proprietors and the man- nounced here lust night by President ager of the picture house where yeu- of the New Jersey company. | terday’s tragedy occurred are under In ‘which the reduetion mii arrest, charged with homicide nclude: New Jersey, Mar - lund, Virginia, North Carolina, Soutn|, T'¢ #uthorities have evidence that Carolina, District of Columbia, Louial-|'"® extt door was hopelessly looked ressee and Arkansa. or jammed, resulting in the deaths of duction ts the result of ¢ costa, Mr, Tengle sald, but is @ to ald in low ing of prices general commercial ad- the children, CHILOREN ADMITTED IN VIOLA- TION OF THE Law. Numerous witnesses have come for+ ward who will testity that scores of ehildren under the of sixteen, unaccompanied by parents or guard- fans, were advultted to the theatre in complete def ince of law. Laws there are aplenty to safe- guard life in motion picture theatres and departments move as part of the ————s SECOND INCENDIARY FIRE IN SCHOOL Blaze in Wardrobe of Brooklyn Building Damaged Two and bureaus Weeks Ago. lated wanes duly it Is to enforce ne laws, but death too! The ond incendiary fire i. two] onitdren, Fok Hee tO ae woeks was discovered this morning Inj: ch le Public School No. 23, at Humboldt and arged with homicide, Barnet Weinberg and Max Schwart Skillman Streets, Willamsburg. Tt was pro- in a wardrobe used as a bookcase in{PTetors, and Joseph Polant, man- roon) No, 40 on the second floor, wh ager of the Now Catharine Motion Ginan 28 meets. Miss Perry, the| Picture ‘Theatre, were arraigned (n cher, discovered it a few minutes} the Tombs Police Court to-day. bee fore the pupils entered the school!fore Magistrate Tobi Before a ni called the Janitor, who extinguished] plea could be taken a question arose i. A fire warm was sent in but the! ay to the amount of ball whieh firsnen found nothing to do. which might = a Haitian be demanded and a temporary ad- journment was taken that Asst fant District Attorney Edwin B. MoGuire sald that tw ted r et lt Je tow in the Catholic Pro- | ™#ht consult with District Attorney tec Swann. = The prisoners were brought to the Tonibs Court from Police Headquar- ters where they had been locked up during the night, They were ar- OFFICIAL SNOW, FIRST OF SEASON raigned on a short affadavit, sworn The firs! fticiad ow of the season |out by Detective Willlam H. Burns, 1 ‘ew York kan falling short of Oak Stre station, the 1 ie tht ring, although [arresting offic he complaint y fhiires gee homicide in that . iene eeeae “While acting together in con- Nia cpl anda cert with each other on Noy, 1% ova ildp't met a} that they did cause the death of t sight} several human beings through hehe vulof the | culpable negligence in having an exit door leading from the ® runraxe was] moving picture theatre at No. 76 Weather] Catharine Street locked and fail- , Ais : eet ore ure to take proper precautions ; i ' jo) to safeguard the patrons of said Pd Fin, ‘Distur st Cor theatre in violation of Section alt maving Hor wv 1052 of the Penal ,Law of the northerly wind Inte (hts afterioon and | State of New York.” to-night. Gale over Bast Gulf, —_———$—— —— } ‘