The evening world. Newspaper, November 27, 1920, Page 1

VOL. LXI. NO. > aia Dae — Copyriant, 1920, by The Press Publisi Oo. (The New York World). NEW YORK, SATURDAY, ‘NOVEMBER 27, LOrvelseen)) Books Onen to All.” wy 1920. red a Second-Clase Matter Office, Now York, N. ¥. PRICE THREE CENTS JEWELS VALUED AT oT 000 SEIZED FROM MESSENGER: THIEVES ROB SAFE; GET $500: Sere Saylor, Working for Disinond| lei) 000,000 FUND Company, Was Taking | FOR DEFENSE OF Gems from Bi ank. BOB BRINDELL {ELD UP IN 7T H AVENUE. Workers in Building Trades | Voting on Assessment of $10 Each, effort to raise a defense fund of over $1,000,000 for Thieves Get Away | : Two Watchmen in Auto— and Boy Tied Up and Robbed. N | Robert P. Brindell, Presi- ——; dent of the Building Trades David Saylor, a messenger em-| Council, under indictment on ployed by the Provident Diamond] , Chases of extortion, is being made through a $10 assessment on every member of his unions. | A referendum on the question, according to the announcement of the Building Trades Council, Is now being taken by the seven- teen unions comprising the coun- cil, Company of No. 698 Seventh Avenue, D. Burkan,. a clerk of the United Audit Corporation of No. 729 Seventh Avenue, ran up to the traffic po ceman at Broadway and 63d Street to- and reported that automobile bandits had robbed Say- accompanted by Yor of $60,000 worth of diamonds at Leaders ad LO DIVES rea 910 o'clock at, Seventh Avenue and| Press confitence tm overcoming 49th Street, in front of the Pacific! ‘he Oppostion which has de- National Bank veloped to (he sche, counting Saylor said he had taken from the} 0M the effurts of Brindell tibia vault two small tin boxes contain-| negotiating a wage increase of § ang the diamonds left there over-| # d@¥ for the 115,000 workers in the building trades. POLICEMAN SAVES BOY AT BRONX FIRE ' night, as \s customary, for safe keep-| ’ ing. He walked out to. the curb There was a touring car with four passengers at the curb, One of them, hy said, “a man h a brown hat,"| ‘cued from the car and ran up to Se ‘tum and struck him on the jaw,| Dashes Through Blazing Store and staggering him. The man seized the Carries Seven-Year-Old two boxes, which were under the] x imessenger’s arm. When Saylor, to Safety. feaught at the boxes, he suid, the man fuck a revolver under his nose. P Burka, who said he had witnessed the assault, ran to the cab as the man Fire broke out In the groc store of the first apartment house Margaret or of Burgoyne, on a four-story 403 Willis Av Bronx, soon mith FMC DEOWN Nat made frit EN |, 5 o'clock this morning. Patrol- aif oman throw'the boxes into the tonneau| mun Michael Whalen. when informed and turned and threatened Burlwn that Mrs. Burgoyne's seven-year-old with his ¥evolver, Burkan fell buck |son, John, was in the rear of the shop, und the cab started up Broadway rushed through the smoke and jlames Policeman Smithneck of the West and carried the child to safety sith Stree# Station saw a car with aye: fire “couse. mach _expltement st him. at 2Mong the tenants above the store, but TUUN) ‘PRasen mers; ehaSt | pa: “tithe firemen qilclkly extinguished’ the I iway and Sist Street at a speed! jtige v ) suggested to him the car had _> doen etolen. He jumped into a small} LAST OF S, |. CARS ARRIVE, ng to look up the owner, and started | simters Firat Mantcipal Trolleys to tomobile ut the curb, without wait- n purauit. He was joined a moment) Hasin Operation Dac. Nil aia eg or oat The final consignment of seven one~ th Avenue and 60th Street, wh vent Aven vests os jman safety trolley cars for the municl- commandeered @ car when Say-| i ie servi ee wid Burkan ean to him. The po-| Bree On) Byeren Asiana S25 einen lost all trace of the supposed |Tived ™t Arlington, 8, I,, Inst night from +) NHK cAwande! ana sq | Philadel iphia, They completed the order is: 8 and 834) of twenty-eight cars. Overhauling the |ditapidated car barn of the Midland ‘The Wace policeman had seen an|Compauy at Concord is nearly com- mobile like the one described by | pleted. jjurkan pass ulm, going through 53d | ‘The first musfeipal trolley service in eet toward Ninth Avenue, a few |New York State will be ‘put into opera- moments before. But he had not|ton over four routes of the suspended cages a3 Midland lines on Dee, 1 noted policemen in a pursuing taxi cab nor had there been any report seo ee notice station up ta noon ot |CANSING URGED FOR ENVOY. policemen who had made such @! 4 soport reached local Republican chase leaders to-day that Robert Lansing, <aylor and Burkan were sent to the] former Secretary of State, is being West 17th Street Station with thelr! groomed: for appoiatmeht as Ambass- complaint, Saylor was detained a8) babe to China, His friends, in urging him, say he left President Wilson's Cabinet because of a difference of opin- fon on the Shantung question, Word also came of a move in Tennes- j mee to have a Republican from thate | State appointed in the next Cabinet Formet United States Senator Newell | Sanders of Chattanooga ts being sug- | gested for Secretary of the Interior. (Continued on Second Page.) Classified Advertisers CLOSING TIME SB CLARKE, 68, ROOTS EX PARTNER AND BLIND, WEDS |His Bride, Miss "Mise O'Gin, Kin-, | dergarten Head, Many Yéars His Junior. hme |MARRIED IN BAY STATE | —U. S. Attorney Caffey | until Fecentiy head of a kindergar- ten in West 67th Street. Mr. Clarke ig sixty-ejght years old, His bride ts many years his junior. ‘The wedding ceremony wab per- formed fast Wednesday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Ludden ic Chicopee, Mass. The best man wa: United States Attorney Francis C. Caffey, at one time a law partner of the bridegroom. The bridesmaid was Miss Daisy Ludden, a cousin of Miss O'Girr's. In conformity with the wishes of the bride and bridegroom, the wed- ding was a quiet one, Miss Ludden told inquirers. She added that Mr. and Mrs, Clarke had gone to Wash- ington on their honeymoon. Upon their return they will live at No, 640 Riverside Drive. Mr. Clarke was born in Brooklyn and has practised law since 1885, when he entered the firm of Root & Strong, which soon afterward be- came Root & Clarke, In 1907 he entered a partnership with Mr, Caffey and John C. Breckenridge, but lately he has been practising alone. He ig a director in the Washington Lite Insurance Company and gave evidence regarding the management of the Mutual Lite Company during the Hughes investigation, He {s a member of the Harvard Club, In 1879 he married Sarah Rogers, who died in 1907. , MUST ABIDE WITH" ~ “VIRTUOUS TYRANT” Husband Who Is So Good as to Be Impossible Wins in Separation Suit. The Appellate Division of the Su- preme Court has affirmed the judgment? of Justice denying the ap- plication of Mra. Angelique Reese for a separation from Richmond J, Reeso, On leaving her husband Mrs, Reese charged that he was a “perfectly vir- tuous tyrant’ and said that morality alone did not make happiness. She told some of her friends, according to the testimony, that Mr. Reese was so good he was “impossible.” ‘The trial court held that Mr. was an affectionate, kind and unselfish | husband, and that rs, Reese deserted him without reasonable cause, Alex- ander J. Lindsay of No. 43 Cedar Street was attorney for Mr, Roose, - > CAN OPEN SAFE FOR LIQUOR Morchauser, Reese Bridegroom Stitl Practises Law| CITY JOBS NOT T TOS Best Man. A romance came to light to-day | with the announcement of the mar- riage lof Samuel Belcher Clarke, | former law partner of Elihu Root, Jand for the last ten years totally blind, and Miss Charlotte O’Girr, MAYOR HYLAN BACKS DOW; $1,000,000 HELD UP ON CONTRACTS WILL BE PAD So Decides After Three Man-| damus Writs Had Been Served by Contractors. TOP Sought to Obviate Hardships, | Is Explanation of Commis- sioner Hirshfield. | | After Hylan, Commissioner of Accounts David Hirshfield has decided to per- mit the payment of the $1,000,000 worth of pay warrants for construc- tion work, which had been held up for more than a week. “Mayor Hylan and I had a talk,” said the Commissioner 6f Accounts, “and it was decided that rather than subject any honest contractor to the slightest hardship pay warrants will be issued on evidence of good faith, “By this I mean that where con- tractors have done work and deliv- ered material beyond the amount for which money Is due them, and where they have signed waivers or have agreed to do 90, thelr warrants now due will be promptly paid.” “Will you Insist upon the carrying out of the suggestion of Mr. Unter- myer that contractors agree to per- mit the city to hold back 25 per cent. of the cost of a job until it has been completed and passed upon by your} experts?” Mr. Hirshfield was asked. | “This will not be insisted upon in the case of these warrants,” replied | the Accounts Commissioner. "The | Mayor will sign the warrants without | the additional percentage clause in this particular instance and leave the| settlement of that phas of the ques-| tion to the conference of lawyers.” | ‘The mandamus writs were sued out by former Comptroller Edward M. Grout? acting as attorney for the} Uvalde Asphalt Paving Company,-in- | a consultation with Mayor volving the sums of $33,840, $28,255) and $750. Warrants for each have| been approved by Comptroller Craig, | CITY DEFAULTS FIRST TIME IN) HISTORY. When Comptroller Craig leartied! that Mayor Hylan and Accounts Commissjoner Hirshfield had sud-| denly decided to lift their embargo] on more than a million dollars’ worth of part-payment warrants due vari- ous classes of construction contract-| ors be said: “Tt may interest the public to know | that among the payments sa sense-| lcesly held np was one for $100,000 with which to redeem matured cor- porate stock of the City of New York and now overdue, This action of withholding the $100,000 means that | (Continued on Second Page.) —_ INDICT JUDGE FOR MURDER. William H. Meira for Cleveland Killing. | CLEVLAND, Nov. 27.—William H. McGannon, Chief Justice of the Munici- pal Courts faces trial for second degree He was indicted last night Paces Trial JAIL FOR WOMAN WHO BROKE DOOR TO GET HER DOG | Boston Bull Goes to Court and Then to Cell With Mrs, mon, IXIE, a Boston bull terrier, appeared in Gates Avenue Court, Brooklyn, to-day with his mistress, Mrs. Flora Simon, who was charged with disorderly conduct—the alleged disorder being the breaking of a 98s door to get Dixie. Mrs, Simon until recently had a store and living qgarters at No. 1836 Broadway, Brooklyn, but had been evicted for failure to pay rent. The futniture and store g00ds were put in storage, but the dog was still in the building when Mrs. Simon got there last night and found the door locked, She wrapped a handkerchief about her knuckles and broke the glass. Since then she has not permitted the dog to leave her sight. © She was rémanded to the Ray- mond Street Jail for trial on Monday, and Dixie went to her cell with her, She said she had Fefused to pay the November rent because the landlord gave her no heat or light a BURSTING MAIN CUTS OFF WATER | Section of Upper Bronx Suffers— Trolleys and Subways Affected, ‘The burating of a thirty-six Inch main at 196th Street and Jerome Avenue thin morning disturbed the water supply of a large part of the upper Bronx for nearly two hours, Trees were uprooted and for two blocks along Jerome Avenue the trolley | tracks were lifted, along with the pave- ment, about eighteen inches above the street level. ‘Trolley ‘service waa sus- pended and so was the subway service, although there was no real damage to the subway structure, which at that point Js elevated. There are few houses in the neighbor hood, but the basament of the sth Const Artifery Armory at Jerome Avenue and Kingsbridge Road was flooded Deputy Water Commissioner Albert Liebeneau worked with a force of |twenty-five men to get the water shut \off. While the food was at its height the police matntatned @ cordon around the inundated area, The water main that burat was x jeonnecting Unk with the Catskill | Aqueduct, TOP OF MONT BLANC SLIDES OFF; GREAT FOREST DESTROYED PARIS, Nov. 27. HE avalanche that rolled down into Italy along the gorge of the Brenva Gla- cier, destroying the whole forest of Pourtoud, was caused by the ——= - EIGHT FOOT WALLS 10 PROTECT HOME OF LLOYD GEORGE Will clude” Pu Public From Downing and Charles | Sureets, as Precaution. |PARI |AMENT Is CLOSED. Public Fire Excluded — $250,000 in Cork Follows Bomb Explosions. | LONDO: Nov. {Associated Press).—The of barriers |elght feet high, which will exclude | the public from Downing and Charles Streets, was begun to-night. streets lead from Whitehall to the Foreign and India OMfices and the official residences of Premier Lioyd George and Andrew Bonar Law, The capture during raids in Ireland of Sinn Fein documents alleged to give details of a con- spiracy for damaging Govern- buildings in England was said to- day in police circles to be the cause of the erection of the barricades, The barriers to of a sub- tantial character, foundations having been dug to receive them. Gates wide enough to admit an automobile are to be provided for in them. lowing the erection of the bar. . the Houses of Parliament wore d to the public to-day and many persons coming up from the country were refused admission. This offical action followed the de- tention of a strange man in the outer lobby of the House of Commons yes- temlay, Although no official state- ment has been issued, the Evening Standard says it has reason to believe the decision to cloye the Houses to the pub has an important bearing on inister Sinn Fein uctivties in thts country. CORK, Nov, 27.—The drapery stores on St. Patrick's Street here were completely burned out by fire to-day, following a number of bomb explosions, The damage 1s estimated at £50,000, Reports from some quartérs allege that members of the Black and Tans, at the point of revolvers, prevented 4 erection are be ordered all the, yolunte away from the scene In Tipperary this forenoon the Sinn ir helpers Fein clubrooms were burned out. A party of the military returning from an inquiry outside Fermoy was ambushed three miles from that town jagt evening, Two of the soldiers were killed and three others wounded Some arma we: aptured by the ren who carried out the holdup, An attempt was made at Limerick amassinate Gen. Cameron to-day, Ruillets struck his © was having the barr was not njured Londonderry Mail Workers May Break Strike In Ireland, BELFAST, Nov The London derry employees of the Lough Swilly Railway at Donegal have decided to seek reinstatement. This will be the first breaking away from the Irigo railway men, who decided some (ime ago not to carry armed forces of ths Crown or munitions. The move was foreshadowed in speeches made by the Londonderry representatives at last week's trades congress, ~ murder. top of Mont Blanc falling off, Remove De Valers, onde: on 5.30 P. M. SHARP | .|by the Grand Jury making its second vor. to Visit Kingat District Attorney's Right in Vel. Preeatigation into the killing of Harold It looks as If many scores of NainiDavey- in (is Guseen( iaate-ot SATURDAY FOR maton, Teeaday. atend Act Cases Decreed. ©, Kagy, and will be arraigned before| feet of the limestone pyramid |i. csvoiic American, calls on the L KINGSTON, Jamaica, Nov. . . s A . is Gaelic American, calls on the Dail ’ Federal Judge Garvin in Brooklyn to-| syage Frank C. Day in Criminal Court| that forms the summit of | Sort tSaniraned tainca: The SUNDAY WORLD’S | Presigynt-clect Harding is expected to |dny decided that the District Attorney | ‘hig morning, Judge Day wot bail at| Europe's highest mountain apie | Mirnann Mle Irine luilslvas. te fe. eee arrive in Kingston next Tuesday on |tias a right to Me Information with the | s19,999, and fell, thus reducing its height, | “sane, capable man in his place,” De assirte his way from Panama to the nortn,| court direct in Volstead act cases, in- —_— given us 15,783 feet, and destroys | Valera le described as a ‘wrecker A The Governor of Jamaica has ar-|stead of going first to a United Btates| yim Wi Motorcycle, tm) ine one of the most beautiful of | Who models himself on Woodrow Advertisements | 1:08 + prgramme of weicome for | Commissioner coi ing one of te mont beautiful of | Wilson” and the itish are Urged to é Mr, Harding. The decision was based on the caso] Charles Merolo, an electrician, ying e AD! 0 of Ife [46 with him what America did with RANCH, OFFICES CLOSE i’ — — of Gustave Metager of No. 1727 Atlantic] gt No. 603 East Fordham Road, the} {9 reported wits BEFORES Lock |Bx-Marine Gets’ Consre JAvenue, Brooklyn, His saloon was|pronx, is in Fordham Hospital with a| It was one of the biggest ava- — pos ively no clad or and 9100: From ‘Wil {raided by revenue agents Nov. 3 and|¢ractured skull as a result of a collision! lanches In a long time. Millions | Woman Dro Maat ArereNayy inday World after 6.90 P. M CHICAGO, Nov. 27.—Priyate John J,|his safe was carried away, It was|oarly to-day between a motorcycle he| af tons of rock and snow were Foothall Game, : | Kelly of Chicago, ex-marine and one of |reiurned afterward, but was opened! was riding on Fordham Howd and a! dislodged, the great masa tum- |. 7° police r 4 a report this 4 Advertis' for ‘The @unday ||the most highly ponored heroes of the |and it is alleged Hquor was taken from| Borden Milk Company wagon driven| piing down the mountainside for | (noon that Mary Wilcox, sixty years wads should seth The World omes || war, has recelved another modal—the| it. ‘The court held the search warrant by John Hunden, of No. 4690 Park fee bate piped eld of West Voint, had died auddenly at ON OR BEFORE FRIDAY Navy Congressional Medal of Honor.|on which the revenue agents acted was] 4 venue, ten miles, ing miraculously at the Arey and Navy fog! ball amie at} PRECEDING PUBLICATION | |! with the cmegal ‘came a. letter trom. jent to justify the opening of the nee ee aa ck a Pode: as Bie Tealtan vibe | ee ee oe buval, & ‘Point Presidgat Wilson « ' ing News on Page 2) i. yurto physician. rade hice aon arnatlrbene ges tatere iciaeigpetihcad feta ersrne-oSenve semen cw \asemne? sliae Gat ~ Sell dndets 0:9: eencalivenipbitasdb titi ede ioe sbellclonsietnremsinres med ra ws vc lenrRgeSOTN wosieaeatnne bi cel taeaheahnipeiaicares al § « ~-> . Rg Both | the fire-fighters’ operations and later | NAVY DEFEATS i NV HARD FOUGHT CONTEST “BEFORE GHEERI ARMY, 7 100 © NG THOUSANDS ‘Polo Grounds a “Mase of Color and Bedlam of N oise as Fighting Branches of Government Line Up erals Pershing tst Period wP 0 0 Navy... Jeaden skies that threatened rain any nists from Coogan's Bluff and even be seen through the haze flickering right field. > CROWDS CHEER ARMY AND NAVY | MEN AT HOTELS Go to Polo Grounds Annapolis Men West Pointer on * in Autos. Thy vive and brass of the Navy was the predominant color scheme at the Hotel Commodore to-day Just as army olive drab wax the note at the Hotel Astor ‘The midshipmen were in force at the former, but as the cadets came lown by train from West Point in the | morning aid went directly to the Polo Grounds there was little army gray at |the Aator muve that worn by the foot: | nail team and ita officers and attend: | | ants | ALL morning long there war « crowd n the lobby of each of the hosteiries, | thousands x xathered there to see! | friends, + acquaintances and mi the Army-Navy game the institution It ls every yeur ‘The army team was the first to leave! quarters for the Polo Grounds. At 12.30 o'clock the gridiron men left their rooms dun Hero, Neville, Enthusiasti- cally Greeted by Throng. SCORE BY PERIODS ARMY-NAVY LINE-U in Annual Football Clash—Gen- and France’s Ver- rd Period 0 0 riod 0 0 4th Period Figst 0 0 e Army, Navy. Storck ... Lett End. . Parr, Davidson Lett Tackle,,...............,Bolles, ' Clark Left Guard.................. Wilke, Greene . . Centre. -Larson, Breiister . “Right Guard. . Moore, Mulligan Right Tackle.. . King. White .. Right .End. . .Ewen, | Withide Quarterback, - Conroy. Lawrence . Left Halfback... . Modee, Smythe Right Half Back... . Kehler. French . amen Fullback. teneeee cess Hamilton, Offictals—Referee, Al Sharpe, Yale, Umpire—Fred Murphy, Ya.e Field Judge—B. A. Evans, Williams. Head Linesman, Carl B, Marshall, Harvard. By William Abbott. POLO GROUNDS, Nov. 27.—West Point and Annapolis fought their annual football battle at the Polo Grounds this afternoon minute, Light winds brought down before the first kick off lights could on the elevated station in back of ‘The baspball diamond, completely covered with turf, wae a great chalk- marked gridiron with one goal post directly in front of the grandstand and the other owt in centre figld. The battlefield was enclosed with a two-foot barrier covered with the naval colors. At 1.30, when only a few spectators were in their seats, a burst of gray appeared through a gate in left fleld In swung the Cadet Fife and Drum Corps, the standard bearer aod then the West Point battalion, marching in columns of fours The bead of the Hne paraded toward right field and then circled around to their position In lett field as hundred of Army rooters waved 4 welcome to the future Generals, While the band played a lively tune the Into Cadets broke ranks and charged thelr seats where a gray and yellow megaphone awaited each For some time the Army bad possession of the Stadium, GENS. PERSHING AND NEVILLE GET LOUD RECEPTION, Gen. Pershing, accompanied by « mysterious Iady in a fir coat, wag spotted strolling down the side tines, Up leaped the cadets with a cheer for Weat Point and Gen. Pershing, whtolt the Commander of the Expeditionary Army forces acknowledged with a aa: cadet, and formed tn military squad in West 45th Street. Then. under command of | their officers they marched to the Sixth Avenue and 42d Street station of the elevated and entrained for the Polo i there was much applause and and atreamers by those 0 Khor w vhout the, Astor doorway see then off fhe Midsh 1 miavtes {t the Commodore ater entering clos | motor curs. 1n order to avoid the crowd | fn the lobby and ut the main entrance! the © drawn up at the Depew spmen seve sw | Place entrance and there took their pas- | ‘s aboard. Three motorcycle po- Hee preceded the cars to the t | erounds | ""Xt the Commodore the great ballroom was dedprated early to-day for the Mid- hipmeys ball to-night, | went bute. Several minutes later Gen, ‘Ville, the hero of Verdun, in the sky blue uniform of France, was seen down on the field. Up rose the car dets again and this time their cheer for the defender of Verdna. Meanwhile a battery of photographers skidded all around taking enaps of Daniels, Baker aad numerous other luminaries, It was nearly 2 o'clock, The stands were nearly filled, but where was the ° ay The doubt was dispelled when the a