The evening world. Newspaper, December 24, 1920, Page 1

ING WORIDS CHRISTMAS, WOUNDED SOLDIERS FUND. CAS EE jt inves J = cbhe “Circulation Books Open to All.” | Circulation Books Open to All. ] VOL. LXI. NO. 21,621—DAILY. Content 1920, by The Press Publishing . Co. (The New Xark World). ‘ NEW yoRK, ‘FRIDAY, “DECEMBER 24, 1920. Entered as Post Office, Seeend-Clane Now York, N, ¥. % Matter ENRIGHT QUITS AS POLICE LIEUTENANT | AAA AAA AA LL PLP PALL LPR LL AL, SPL APPL PLL RLS HOTEL BURGLAR ATTACKS GUESTS IN ROO LAWS TO STOP SWINDLING ~ OF FOREIGN BORN DRAFTED; PROOES Ot QUILT PLE UP Evening World's cide Escioate o| CARDINAL GIBBONS Bring Remedies, State | and National. PRISON FOR GUILTY. Cases Already Developed to Be “Followed to the Gates of Sing Sing.” By Martin Green. As a result of The Evening World's exposure of the methods of irrespon- sible grafters who, operating #8 “bankers,” "brokers," “agents” or promoters of imm Jon, have swin- dea foreign-born residents of this city out of many millions of dollars, constructive progress has been made along the following lines: | Bills are in preparation for intro- duction in the in of the Legi lature opening on Jan, 1 which will | repeal or amend existing corporation and banking laws to the end that all dealers in foreign exchange who are at present ope! ng without supervi- sion by the State authorities—and there are thousands of them—will be driven out of busin The Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve Board have been placed in,possession of informa- tion designed % aid them in remedy- ing evils which allow grafters on the foreign-born to operate under a show of Federal authority. Evidence is in preparation for the Senate Committ on Immigration which shows that the laws prohibit> .ing the importation of contract labor re persistently violated by immigra- tion agents and powerful corporations, and that the business of enticing im- migrants to the United States for profit has grown to such proportions that there is no longer more than a pretense at the observance of the re- strictive rules, ® PORT CRIMES NOT TO BE OVER- LOOKED, EITHER, Investigations of acts which, on their face, violated the criminal laws . are under way, but evils that have endured’ for years among racial groups which are, in so far as direct association is concerne: remote from our institutions as though they were living in the lands of their birth cannot be reached in a hurry. When a criminal action is brought based on evidence gathered by The Evening World ‘it will be an action that will stick clear to the gates of Sing Sing. Jn a previous article The Evening World stated that impotent banking laws permitted a great share of the (Continued on Seventh Page.) Classified Advertisers Important! 4 advertising copy, for maday’ “World enould be 1B World “office To- day, Fi viday nav Sinltted’ tor tuck or tt THE WORLD. oul tts aii Lata nil HAS A BAD NIGHT Reported Better To-Day—Gives Up Mass in Cathedral and Can- cels Engagements. BALTIMORE, Dec, 24.—Cardinal Gib- bons spent a restless night but was feeling better this morning, inquirers were told. For the first time in many years the Cardinal will not participate principal mass at the Cathedral here on Christmas Day, but a midnight mass will be said to-night by his secretary at the home of Robert TT. Shriver, Uniop Mille, Md., where the Cardinal went for a rest nearly three weeke ago, doctor said Jast night that * alow iprovemont is noticeable in the Cardinal's condition.” In order to con- serve his venerable patlent’s strength, the physician bas discouraged visits. Plans for the Cardinal's New Year's ptloi ve been abandoned and ments of the prelate have RUSSIAN SOVIET MONEY WORTHLESS Commends Evening World’s Crusade to Stop Swindling of Russians Here. (Gpectal to The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Dec. #4.—The wide- spread ramifications of the scheme to |swindle gullible persons, particularly those of Russian birth, by using the exchange for good shown by develop. ments in Washington in connection with The Evening World's expose. Investigation shows that’ Goyern- ment departments have had inquiri from Chicago, Detroit, New York City, Philadelphia, cities in Connecticut, and even from Texas within recent making Inquiries as to the value of rubles 4s an investment, al! the letters mentioning thé two-hun- dred - and - f fty - rubles - for - a - doliar basis of exchange. Many of these requests for information came from large banks, In addition, mem- bers of Congress have been deluged valueless rubles | Arorican dollars 1g with inquiries from various sections | of the country, The Information has been given in every inatance that the ruble is valueless and has no poteptial worth, Th uniform shows n well-laid plan by some de- signing interests to “cash in" on the action of the United ‘States Govern- ment in lifting the ban on exchange, One official here charac- terizey the scheme as comparable only to the Ponzi >erations. The Evening World's investigation of the matter has-been brought to the attention of Gov. Harding of the | Federal Reserve Board, He explained (Goatinued on Fourth Pagey . in the }| Benedict, GOV. HARDING SAYS nature of the Inquiries | Soviet | COURT RESTRAINS RATE INCREASES IN RED HOT DECISION Justice Benedict Declares Law Affecting Interstate Fares Unconstitutional. UPSETS STATE RIGHTS. Enjoins Long Island and Staten Island Roads From Imposing Higher Tariffs, A temporary injunction restrain- ing the Long Island Railroad Com- pany and the Staten; Island Rapid Transit Company from Increasing their passenger, Pullman and milk and cream transportation rates until trial of the Issues involved, was to- day granted by Justice Benedict of the Supreme Court, Brooklyn. A forty-nine page decision accom- panied the order. ‘The aetion upon which the decision | was rendered was brought by the State Attorney General's office after | the Interstate Commerce Commission had granted permission to the roads to increase their rates 20 per cent. It was the contention of the Attorney General's office that it was beyond the constitutional power of the com- misaion to increase rates in ‘intra- State commerce, “The present case,” said Justice “involves @ drastic asser- tion of power on the -part of the Federal Government. It now seeks to lay Its hand on purely intrastate rates for intrastate transportation lishing its right 80 to do, the last vestige of State authority over carriers’ rates will be destroyed. “There seems now to be a danger that stato sovereignty will be for- | gotten or lost in an enlarged but un- constitutional expansion of federal contro} and’ power over matters which are entircly within the limits of state jurisdiction, “If such a condition shall aver be brought about, our entire sys- tem of Constitutional Government will be at an end, and, upon the ruins of our St there wil arive a centralized power which must inevitably merge either into ab- solutiam on the one hand or into anarchy on the other, and the magnificent example of a Govern- mnt of the people, by the people, and for the people will perish from the earth, If the general Government can, by means of Congressional or Executive Jagencies, regulate and control all |commerce, both Inter-State and Intea- | State, must !t stop there? Can it reg- ulate all the relations of life, includ. ng those of husband wife, parent and child, master and servant, Jand- lord and tenant, by making general everal States? Wh jbe d ie the ~~ Christmas 24, e shall the line no line? wn, or Dinner, Saturday, Special #100 | Friday, Dee. ‘4 Scup Chicken Louisiana | roam suttea Vermont ‘Maron "Cracbery. Sayoe Fs Roast Youngs Goose, Apple ues atesneg "Rirags ans Mince Pie, Pumpkia Pie or Cabinet Pus “ Coffee je es ee carriers and to exercise over their| the same authority it has exercised | over Anterstate rates of interstate | carriers. “If it shall succeed in estab- laws superseding the statutes of the | WOMAN ACCUSED OF CAUSING DEATH OF LIEUT. HORTON ALL RENT LAWS TO BE TAKEN TO COURT OF APPEALS Rulings in the Apppellate Divi- sion To-Day Bring Final Adjudications Nearer. The Appellate Division to-day handed down decisions in a number of rent cases in which appeals had been taken from Supreme and Cly Court decisions, thus bringing nearer final adjudication of the rent laws by the Court of Appeals. In the case of the Edgar A, Levy Leasing Co., Inc., vs. Siegal, and the Clement Realty Company vs. Wood, in which rent was demanded based on leases made subsequent to the enact- ment of Chapter 136 on April 1, 1920, jand before the enactment of the amending chapter, No. 944, the de- cision upholds the tenants’ defense onable and oppressive. The court up- holds the Legislature in passing remedial legislation to limit the land- lord's recovery to “a reasonable rental. regardiess of the rental demanded as a condition of making the lease.” An action based’on the enactment of Chapter 942, passed by the Legis- lature on Sept, 27, resulted in a deci- } sion for the landlord, the court hold- ing thnt forbids the issuance of disposses w rants pursuant to final orders here- tofore made ts invalid and void as an attempt by the Legislature to deprive the owner or landlord for the pertod of two years, one month and four (Continued on Second Page.) that the rent demanded was unreas-/ the chapter, In so far ag It| ENRIGHT RESIGNS HIS POST AS UEUTENANT OF POLICE, BUT IS STILL COMMISSIONER * ‘SAYS MRS. BROOKS LOADED REVOLVER Could Now Give Up Higher Position < Get Pension 1750. AIDED BY SPECIAL LAW. tain a Pension. | Counsel for Bralbet of Man Saeoe | j At J o'clock this afternoon,Comrais Slain by Dying Hero Makes | aoner richard 12, Bnright announced | Surprising Defense. |that he had fosignod—trom the rank _ of Lieutenant of Poltae. But at 2 Bernard Sandler, for ‘o'clock this afternoon he had not re- Nicholas Lareseh, indicted for the signed from the office af Commis- murder of Police Lieutenant Mloyd|yloner of Polico nor had he geen re- Horton, to-day to|moved by Mayor or Gov Judge McIntyre, in General Sessions, | smith, when he pleaded not guilty for| Police circles are asking if the Com Laresch, charged Mrs. Lucille Bmma missioner is getting ready to resign Brooks and John Cavanagh, ma-|hs post as head of the Polee Depart- terial witnesses, with having given;ment before Jan. perjured testimony before the Grand Miller takes office, His resignation, he sa'd, was hand- Jury and with having instigated the 44 \, ements prea ig Me murder of another man, which re-|now a civillan Police Commissioner, sulted In the killing of Horton, |but he has @ pronounced edgo on any “The two persons who instiguted |Othér civilian Commissioner that ever h 38 bec this murder," Mr, Sandler said, “havo |"*4 Off'ce because he is ontitied to gone scot free. They earned im je pension when he loses his job ea ty aii parhuras tac amounting to $3,750 a year. i perjured tes 7 Th re ton of the Co, * mony before the Grand Jury. NG, FOBERAIOR GS Ae se 8 1 sioner from the uniformed force anaes advisedly when 1 make this | sears away any entanglements ari charge, 1 know that they Instigate! ing trom charges which might be! the murder of anothor’man which re-| made against him as a policeman | sulted in the kijiing: of Hartan, ‘and which might interfore with his} “The revolver in the case was $3,750 penson when he retires from ownd by Mra, Brooks: Sho loaded It |ine office of Commiasioner of Police. | and gave it to a boy, a mental de-, Commissioner Enright was ap-| fective, to be used in killing a man who had insulted her because of | which insult she feared her husband ‘This defepdant had nothing whatever to do with the murder of Horton, The Police Departntent has developed | REPLOGLE STEEL through Inspector Coughlin that the| DROPS 19 POINTS woman loaded the revolver and | AGAIN » TO-DAY Cavanagh, her paramour, of an at- tempt that had been made to attack | Sigck Which Precipitated csiaye| | (Continued on Second Page.) in Market This Week Has An- | as attorney in an address Hylan 1 when Gov.-elect (Continued on & _— ond Page.) “HOW tect, m THE § Arthur E. Stilwell, “ ait bw natn EP DIRECTED BY BROWNIES” ee Oe This true story of his own career, ARTHUR E, STILWELL, noted railroad builder, e STRANGEST EVER TOLD. | Begins MONDAY, DECEMBER 27TH. | | otber Sensational Tumble, Stocks of the Replogle Steel Com which preotpitated a collapse e stock market during the early part of the week by declining 19 points, suffered another sinking spell | to-day and duplicated its former sen- | | sational decline, Its closing price EVERY EVENT OF MY LIFE WAS pany, in t by This morning it opened at 45, dropped 4200n comparatively Ix igineer, archi- iner and organizer of banks. and then shares fell to 80, 1e of truling only f 19 potnts 100 in The Evening World, ae | IN PLOT 10 KIL. Hasn't Served Long Enough [30 FO 60 YEARS. Uniformed Man to Ob. wont wisn von | THE EVENING WORLD R. L. IRELAND AND WIFE FIGHT THIEF IN MURRAY HILL HOTE, Former Partner of Mark A. Hann ¥ Has Desperate Encounter With} Burglar in Apartment—Tries Shoot Intruder When Hit Wi a Chair—Rdbber Flees. oe Robert L. ireland, a former partner of the late Mark Hanna, until recently a director of the M. A. Hanna Coal Company, was from sleep in his apartment on the fourth floor of the Murray Hill at 6 o'clock this morning by his wife, who said she heard some one ing about the apartment, Mr, Ireland, who is about fifty years okl, jumped from bed taking an automatic pistol from the bureau, ran into the living ¢ St a desk he saw a man working over Mrs, Ifeland’s jewel case We 4 screw driver. The jewel case had been removed from the bedchaiaber, FOR HOTEL ASTOR Tho man looked around deliberately and raised one hand. Mr. Ireland saw YOUTHFUL ROBBER | ina: nc was sort, macky and: Ss swarthy, with 9 deop scar across hit Judge Gives Hawthorne Long Term | ebeek With a switt movement the man | and hurled it. Ireland's « to Insure Imprisonment Until an Old Man. AWRENCE HAWTHORNE, one of three youths who on Dec, 15 held up guests in a room in the Hotel Astor, was to- day sentenced to from thirty to | ea wught up u light chair Jat the pit of Mr. Mr. Ireland anid afterward, ‘shut 1 trigger of the pistol. Mr. Ireland and i sixty years in Sing Sing by Judga wear bs a ae McIntyre in the Court of General The intruder “had followed the Gensions, The Judge told the'pr s- |ehatr and had gre oner that had he pleaded guilty ‘ gravee It se Sa to swing it at the coal man’s to all the indictments against him | my, freland caught at it and hoe could have sentenced him to |yougit for it until the ehale serve 285 yea. > apart. “It was my intention to send you to prison for the rest of your life,” said Judge Melntyre, “but under the peculiar laws we have in vogue ff 1 did that you would be released in a little more than twelve years. So that you will not be able to be out in that time and A broken piece of tho ebair with a sharp jagged edgo came ai in, Mr. Ireland's grasp, Ho the man with it repeatedly over” head and then recovered the This time he did pull the trigger, the eufety catch had been thi into action and {t would not fire. Vi gain resume your activities In Mrs, Ireland ran into the site crime, T intend to impose an inde-~ room screaming, The robber caught terminate sentence, that will | ber and swung ber between himself insure your incarceration for at least a period that will not Uber- ate you until you are an old man,° TO STOP PAROLES OF CRIMINALS IN CHICAGO, NEW PLAN end Mr, Ireland just as the ‘safety catch was thrown out, Using Mire Ireland as a screen the robber backed to the door and dragged her after down the hall. Releasing her ho down the back stairs pursued by ad [reland, who Jost trace of him at te! cond floor, } The ms of Mra. Lrelaind : | aroused many of the guests and thee by Chief Fitz- | amines to the omee over the tele | Poche had caused Manager Sandals © to the first floor, | Buried to him by telephone what happened and all the avatlable boys, porters and clerks were sont the entrances on 40th and 41st u and Park Avenue. Capt. William Bailey, with a of reserves, rushed to the hotel im automobile and took over the gu at the entrances. All the ’nd vacant rooms and the b store rooms and engine room searched thoroughly without The guard was maintained while | wearch was repeated and up te)? Request “Made mortis in Brfort to Draw Lines Tighter. (Soectal to The Evening Worki,) CHICAGO, Deo. 24. NEW fight against crime was A iraicuraten to-day by Chief ‘of Police Fitzmorris. All rets are to be cloned at 1 jock and request will be that paroling of stopped for one year made criminals be quired (o identify themselves. —— Cap*. Balley was fairly well aatishigd: after questioning tie hotel gtaff, thats the would-be thief was not a person Will Not Be Published To-morrow, (Christmas Day) as a guest, Nobody could that a man of the description Mr. Ireland had been «© Mr. [reland levelled the aytomatio ge | pital and calicd “ut up yonr hands," | “I saw him reach for the, ehain |) couldn't bring myself to press the” The impuct of tho chair doubled = A o'clock all guests leaving were B® |) who had guined entrance to the eae ——