The evening world. Newspaper, December 29, 1920, Page 1

_ Che {* Circulation Books Open to All””| - VOL. LXI. NO. 21,624—DAILY. Conyrtanty 1920, hy The Press , Publishing (Co. (The New tom World), ‘NEW YorK, _WEDNES DAY, ‘DECEMBER 29, + TRAVIS, WENDELL AND JUDSON INDICTED FOR ‘MISMANAGING? STATE BOND DEAL HGHTING ENDS AT FIUME; COMMISSIONERS ARRANGING THE TERMS OF SURRENDER D’Annunzio, Having Yielded Authority, Is Being Ignored in the Negotiations. 400 REPORTED KILLED. Buildings Blown Up by the In- surgents Before the Truce Was Declared. FIUME, Dec. 29 (Associated Press). —Gebdfiele d’Annunzio early to-day surrendered all his powers to the Fiame Communal Council. Gen. Caviglia, commander of the yegular Italian forces, will arrange the conditions of peacé with a dele- gation of the Council to-day. Mean- while all military optrations have been euspéiided. | ‘The truce was arranged during the nigtt and will continué until the con- eiusion of the conference. Mayor Rickardo Gigante of Fiume and Capt. Hostwenturi, in whose hands D’An- munzio placed the defense of the city, are the spokesmen for Fiume, D'An~ nunzio apparently being Ignored. LONDON, Dec. 29.—The Central News publishes a despatch from Paris to-day stating that 400 of, D’Annunzio's men were killed and 1,000 wounded. ROME, Dec. 29.—Several members of the Chamber of Deputies suggest @ reopening of the Chamiber to discuss the eituation in Fiume, They also ask an inquiry concerning the work! of the Inter-Allied Commission which is delimitating the Austria-Italian frontier, as it is said that Brenner Pase, one of the chief frontier gate- ‘ways for which Italy entered the war, will be assigned to Austria. cans Cea POET'S SOLDIERS DEFENDED FIUME WITH MACHINE GUNS ROME, Dec. 29.—D’Annunzian le- glonaries at Flume set fire to o powder magazine in the Recina Valley, southeast of the city, Monday night, TWOLADS HOLD UP LIMITED TRAIN FOR THE EXCITEMENT Tired of Humdrum Life at Kankakee—One Dead, Other in Jail. KANKAKEE, IL, Dec, 29—Work- ing in their father’s little automobile shop in the’ village of Greenville, near heré, was an uneventful existence fon Jacob and Joseph Scott, twins, eo the twenty~fomr years of age, do- cided to hold-up the crack No. 2 New Orleans-Chicago train on the Mlinois Central. As a result of their venture, Jacob was dead to-day from the bullet of a railroad detective'’s gun and Joseph two, was in jail here. Their father and mother in Greenville were heart broken, The lads boarded the flyer in true Wild West fashion. James Rowe, a flagman, was the first to learn of the holdup. He was climbing aboard the | rear car as the train was gotting over the ice covered rails at Gilman, IL, when he felt three revolvers sticking in his ribs, As the twain swung aboard the train the two-gun bandit scolded his brother for forgetting his other gun, The Ind explained that he had left it at home, With handkerchiefs over their faces they dashed into the Pullman, gave the order to “stick ‘em up,” and a score of startled passengers obeyed: ‘The brakeman was directed to take the hat of Miss Margery Fawcett, Y. W. C. A, Secretary, and pass it down the car. All were instructed to drop in their valuables, About $2,900 in cash and jewelry was collected. Sev- eral women argued with the youths and induced them to allow them to keep some “keepsake” or “heirloom.” The lads were real gallant and re- fused to take any of the brakeman's money, saying they “weren’t picking on working men. The robbery was according to a report from Abbazia. Whe explosion, which occurred to- ward midnight, set fre to the woods surrounding Fiume to the east, and great clouds of black smoke rolled down over the city. In some quar- ters the belief was expressed, the de- epatch states, that a petroleum re- finery near the powder magazine had Also been set on fire. Italian regular troops surrounding Flume continued to advance west and north of the city yesterday, while on Continued on Ninth Page.) Classified Advertisers Important! ified advertish y for ihe’ inday World be in ‘orld office On or Before Friday Preceding Publication Olaseified Sores for Week DAILY AF¢ER 8 A. M. For publication the following day, completed in about thirty minutes, ‘The Inds were captured a few hours} later at Aroma Park Station near Kankakee, Jacob made a dash to escape from the officers and locked himself in a wash toom, Ordered to come out, he started shooting through the panela‘of the door. After he had emptied his revolver, Special Agent John O'Neil returned the fire through the door and when it was broken down the bandit was found mortally wounded. Both youtha were dressed in the height of fashion. They looked like fashion plates, the passengers on the train said. “I can't believe my boys did it,” said Mrs. Scott to the United Press to-day. “They were always such good boys, 1 cannot understand why they would do mush a thing.” DOG BITES BO BOY AT PLAY. Animal Reas Amack Near Sechool— Shot by Policeman. dog ranning at play ‘ear School No. 199, at Hast 2th and Cortelyou Road, Broo! bit the leg of Dantel O'Leary, telyou A small stray among physician. “FOREIGN” BANKERS IN A NEW RAID ON GOOD U. §. DOLLARS poet They’d Strip Aliens Here by an Artful Trick to Fill Hungarian Banks. AN UNAMERICAN DEVICE. One New York Bank Preys on Ignorant Immigrants Who've Saved a-Little Money. By Martin Green. Promising profits of from forty to fifty times the investment, one of the leading foreign exchange banks of this clty—the Nemeth State Bank, No’ 10 East 22d Street—is running adver- tisements in Hungarian daily news- papers advising people of Hungarian birth to send their money to Hungary and deposit it In the banks there, ‘The advertisements promise not only @ stupendous return on the money deposited in Hungary, but an interest rate higher than is paid by American savings banks. The bank offers to transmit Hun- farian kronen to Hungary: for peo- ple who desire to buy Hungarian kronen with American dollars. significant since last February the American Bx- press Company, because of the un- | stable state of the finances of Poland, | German Austria, Hungury and Gaticla, has refused to send anything ut American dollars to those coun- tries. The American Express Com- pany, on its daily foreign exchange rate card, does not quote a price for Hungarian kronen. A Hungarian crown may be to-day worth one-third of an American cent, or less. This advertisement {s confirmation of the charge by The Evening World that the average foreign exchange panker, dealing with foreign- language speaking people, ‘6 more in- terested in their money than in their Americanism. Owing to the lack of qnotations on Hungarian kronen from any but speculative sources, the op- portunity offered to a broker or banker to profit in selling them in Imited only by his own destres, be- cause the law does not regulate the price of foreign exchange. Here we have a large foreign ex- change bank, inspired by a desire to help Hungary and at the same time help itself, advising people who make their money here to send It out of the country, and offering them returns that may be realized some day, but certainly not for along time to come, The Nemeth advertisement is the only one that has been called to the attention of The Evening World thus far. Here is the translation of a display advertisement in the Americal Mag- yar Nepszava, a dally newspaper of this city, and the Szubadsag, a dally! newspaper published in Cleveland, O,' IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM THE OLD COUNTRY, Dr. Elmer Hantos, Under Secre- tary of one of the Government de- partments and financial authority, | wrote the following important | (Continued anne Tenth Page.) PLAN TO REORGANIZE INDUSTRIAL BOARD | { —Republivan tead- | | It ts} In this connection that} ALBANY, Dy era are seriously considering a reor- | ganization of the State Industrial Com- | mission, it was learned to-day. The present’ commission conaiats of five mbers, with three deputies and a personnel of between 1,100 and 1,300. ‘The pronowed Banded commissio lan chilis for a alngle thf old, of No. 1118 © Road. | ans approxima Patrolman Cunningham of the Parkviilé | pumber of Station shot the animal boy's [the present « wound wag cauterized by familly and that there is much duplication of ge \ FEDERAL GRAND JURY IDIGTS "38: SAND AND GRAVEL BOSSES FORVIOLATING SHERMAN LAW Eight Firms and Eleven Indi- viduals Charged With Con- spiracy in Restraint of Trade ALSO FIXING OF PRICES. Action Is Taken on Testimony Brought Out at Hearing Be- fore- Lockwood Committee. The first Federal action growing out of the revelations by the Lock- wood committee was taken to-day when the Federal Grand Jury re- turned an indictment against eight firms and eleven individuals charged with conspiracy to violate the Sher- man Anti-Trust Law in connection with dealings in sand for building purposes in this district. r of the firms named are in the wholesale business and four in the retail, The wholesalers indicted are Gallagher Brothers, the Goodwin Sand and Gravel Company, the Phoe- nix Sand and Gravel Company, Inc, and the Crescent Sand and Gravel Company, Inc. The retail firms are the Manhattan Sand Company, Inc., the Lenox Sand and Gravel Com- pany, Inc., the T. L. Keating Com- pany, Inc., and the Colonial Sand and Stone Company, Inc. The individuals indicted are: John J. Gallagher, Vice President lof the Goodwin-Gallagher Sand and Gravel Corporation and Vice Presi- dent of the Manhattan Sand Com- pany, Ine, Peter C. Gallagher, ‘Treasurer of the Goodwin-Gallagher Sand and Gravel Corporation and Treasurer of the Lenox Sand and Grovel Company, Inc. Frank F. Gallagher, Secretary of the Goodwin-Gallagher Sand and Gravel Corporation and Assistant ‘Treasurer of the Manhattan Sand Company, Inc Joseph Gallagher, Secretary and Treasurer of the Manhattan Sand Company, Inc ‘ William J. Mahoney, President of the Lenox Sand and Gravel Company, Ine, Richard A. Scanton, the Lenox Sand and Gravel pany, Inc Frank Rowscy, Manager of Manhattan Gand Company, Ine. Lawrence Rukeysar, President of the Colonial Sand and Stone Com- pony, Inc Eugene P. Clark, Executive 8 tary of the Sand and Gravel Der Board of Trade. Thomas and Martin Lanigan, partners trading ag Lanigan Brothers. There are four counte in the indictment. First, that the de- fendants knowingly and wilfully engaged in a conspiracy to re- strain trade and commerce; seo- ond, that they entered an agres- ment to eliminate competition (Continued on Second Page.) NO ACTION YET ON ENRIGHT AS HEAD OF POLICE Secretary of Com- the ©o- Commissioner Has ‘Neither Re- signed Nor Been Removed Up to Date. T 5 O'CLOCK this atternoon Richard EB. Wnright had neither resigned nor been as Police Commisstoner Hylan or Gov, Sypith. removed by Mayor TWO MEN MISSING AS LINER SINKS LIGHTER IN BAY |Tugs Rescue Five of Crew After Nieuw Amsterdam Hits | Vessel Off Battery. ‘The Nieuw Amsterdam of the Hol- Jand-American Line, which started for Rotterdam this afternoon, struck and sunk the lighter John C. Craven, bound from Perth Amboy to Brogklyn, be- tween Pier A and the Statue of Lib- erty. ‘Two of the seven men on the lighter are unaccounted for. They are John Kohler, deckhand, of Woodbridge, N. J. and Henry Stark, fireman, whose home is near 45th Street and Kighth Avenue A fleet of tugs hurried to the scene after the collision. The lighter was cut cut in two and went'down at once. The first surviver to be brought was Joseph Savoy, Hopetown, N resoued by the tug William J. Tracy The tug Cavalier rescued Jacob Hornsby, Captain of the lighter; Ed-| ward Blydenbursh, engineer; John Purkale, a deck hand, and B A. Hicks, No. 439 West 53d Street. They were taken first to the Broad Street Hospital, where they were treated for submersion, The Nieuw Amsterdam, which had 310 passengers, anchored near the scene of the collision. Mr. Blydenburgh, who was at- tended for injuries to the acalp, said he was in the engine room when the lighter was rammed, “T rushed up the gangway to the deck, but by the time T reached ft, it was level with the water and T had to swim, T saw Capt, Hornsby and Steward Hick also swhnming near me and together we swam for about in 5 minutes before we caught @ plank | which helped support us till we were picked up ‘by a tug and transf to the John F. Hylnn,.”’ The lighter was towed to Pier 4 by John ¥. Hylan, Only her wae showing above the water. Seales Sse |GASOLINE OUTPUT SETS NEW RECORD the mast 000,000 Gallons—Kerosene Up Also. | WASHINOTON. record for a month's output finery products in the United States | wan made October, according to tix ures annow 1 to-day by H. F. Mason. statiatician for the Bureau of Mines. Dec, 29.—A new Approximately 446,000,000 ions of gasoline was made, Mason's report ahowed, though the dally production | was ulmost 100,000 gallons lene than in |the shorter month of September Gasoline in storage began accumu- | lating, the report with | 113,000,000 gallons gain over Septom- | showed |ber, Mason predicted further accu \mulations during winter, due to lemaller use of motor cars Kerosene produced by the refin- jerien in October amounted to 218,-| | 700,000 gallons, & daily average of | 900.000 more than September, but 1 $0.80 tear ‘shan October 1918, Keras ntocka reached. 84,000.00 Orta er at, an increase of about tour Vmpultign' gallons to Harbor A, thon| Production in October Reaches 446,- | “Circulation Books Open to All. 4 Katered 1920. Post Office, New York, N. ¥. TO-MORROW'S Weather—CLOUDY and WA! , FNAL inh Second-Class Matter YOUNG LEEDS TO WED GREEK PRINCESS, IS REPORT IN ATHENS| Son of Princess Anastasia Likely to Be Affianced to Constan- tine’s Niece. ATHENS, Deo, 2. TLLIAM LEEDS, gon of Prin- * cont Anastasia, may marry Princess Olga, daughter of Prince Nicholas, and niece of King Constantine, it is rumored in court circles, Prince Nicholas ts a brother of Prince Christopher, the husband of Princess Anastasia, Mme. Manos, widow of the late King Aloxander, has not the status of royalty, but 1# personally on friendly relations with members of the Greek ruling house, Princess Anastasia, wife of Prince Christopher, ts recog- nized as a Greek princess, |Princess Anastasia of Greece, bwenty-one years old. The Pring jOlga, to whom he im reported to be engaged, is seventeen, the daughter of Prince Nicholas. Young Leeda passed most jearly life in England, at Eton ot his He came to this country and entered Montolair Academy, N. |J., his mother intending he should be- |come a thoroughly American boy, At that time Mrs, Leeds was spend- ing a considerable part of her life abroad, the nine-year-old heir to @ great furtune, estimated at not leas than $30,000,000, left him by his father, \theh “Tin Plate King," occupying |ereat Leeds ewtate at Montolair, a WILSON DECLINES OFFER OF $150,000 FOR ONE ARTICLE) | White House Announces President No Article Is Worth That Amount. Bel WASHINGTON, Dec, 2 RESIDENT WILSON has P refused an offer of $150,000 from a syndicate to write an article of his own selection on the ground that no article was worth much an amount, it wea loarned to-day at the White House, Details of the offer were made public, but the bid ts the highest ever ma‘ Scores of publishern have come to the White House with offers not for the output of the President's pen after he leaves the White House, While one man haa tn timated thut he had an agreement with Mr, Wilson, it was sald at the White Houne that all offers have been declined. Just what the nature of the Prowident’s writings will be has not been disclosed. According to White House officials there will be no memoirs, ea {ue TORE tA PA | Goa oe baeage William Bateman Leeda, the gon of | eldest | being a otudent | when he was about nine years old) COAL MAN INDICTED BY U.S. GRAND JURY AS A PROFITEER ‘George Johnson ‘Accused of} Overcharging $3.55 a Ton— “Just a Starter,” Says Riley. George Johnson of No, 90 West | Street, a coal dealer, to-day was in- dicted by the Federal Grand Jury on a chgrge of profiteering im coal last | Ovtober when the coal shortage was acute, ‘The indictment charges Johnson, |who operates as. George Johnson & Co,, with selling 208 tons of anthrm- |elte stove coal, costing him $7.85 a TRAVIS AND WENDELL INDICTED FOR GROSS MISMANAGEMENT. OF STATES BOND PURCHASE: Albert L. Judson, Broker, Alleged Have Made $800,000 in De Through the Comptroller and Deputy, Is Also Indicted. Four indictments alleging .grand larceny in the first degree fraudulent auditing were this afternoon filed against State Comptro Eugene M. Travis, James A. Wendell, Deputy Comptroller-clect and 4 bert L. Judson, a stock broker, by the Grand Jury which investi stall charges of gross mismanagement and waste in the purchase of bonds fo tne Sinking Fund during the Travis regime, ee The indictments were handed te ° Judge Mointyre, in General § and he, instead of issulng bench rants for the apprehension of the notified their coufwel to produce in.court at the earilest pow#tbie ment, Judson is the only one of three at present in this city. The Grand Jury investigation as a reeult of John Doe prow before Chief Justice Frederto J, nochan of the Court of Speciat sions, Travis having been held for jrand Jury on charges of ylolat) Bections 1864 and 1872 of the Lay. which make it @ felony to apply State funds. Sensational testimony wus add in the John Dow inquiry as to methods employed in investi 000,000 of State funda, District Attorney Pecora she that through Judson the State bought this umount of 1 bonds and that his profit during Travis administration amounted more than $800,000. Virtually entire $31,000,000 worth of bonds bought from a small coterie of Net York brokers and almost invaribly & prices in excess of those quoted 'b ton, for $11,50 per ton, @ profit of $3.65 per ton, and 382 tons of anthra. te nut coal, costing Mm $7.95 per ton, for $11.50 per ton, a promt of $3.55 per ton. The indictment alleges that 40 cents per ton would have been a rea- jsonable wholeaaler’s profit. The sale is alleged to have been made to the Seiler Coal Compuny, also of No, 90 West Street, Johnson js also under indictment, charged with misusing | priority shipment orders in the name of the New York Steam Company, No, 280 Madison Avenue | Armin W. Riley, Special Assimant to Attorney Genernl Palmer, who pre sented the evidence, said the Johnaon | Indictment js “just a starter.” | “Further indictments may be ex- | pected,” Mr. Riley sald. “They will | affect operators as well as dealers,” —_ DRY LAW ARRESTS NUMBER OVER 17,000 Attorney General Palmer Predicts 40,000 Cases to Be Handled in 1921. | WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—Attorney General Palmer in testimony before the House Appropriations Committee, | made public to-day, declared that up to Sept. 30 17,566 arrests for dry law violations had been made, of which 117,428 cases were recommended for prosecution by the Department of Jus- | thee. ‘Ot that number about tea thourand | arose during the last’ three months | of that period,” he said, “and I am | advised by the Bureau of Internal | Revenue that the ratio wil increas. If it does not Increase, there will be forty thousand of those prosecutions to bo handled by District Attorneys dur- |= the neat year.” other brokers. Market quotations were © (isregarded, according to t brought out before Justice Ki or else were rejected coincident with the acceptance of offers Judson and other favored bro The latter, according to the ( mony, were William 8. Fanshawe Co, and Gibbons & Co. One of the most sensational actions brought out in the b waa that known as the “moral gation purchase,” in ‘which ft, shown that $2,013,000 worth of bo were bought from the h firm throngh Judson at seven polmti above the market quotation, with & resultant loss to the State of at $150,000. Fanshawe testified that as a sideration for the purebase of @ bonds, Comptroller Travis den from him all the correspondence luting to the transaction, Wy had testified previously that “moral obligation" to buy the existed. But Travis testined he believed there was such am @ gation. The bonds were accepted & Travis in September, 1917, at though the market quotation & time was 82 Another transaction brought was the purchase of $3,250,000 worthy bonds through the Metropolitan Company, these being bought by Ji son with State funds and then ferred to the State at an app advance over the price Judson paid, In connection with this letter authorising Judson and Metropolitan Trust Company to into the transaction was read the records, It was addressed to George A. Tuyl, Prosident of the Mots i Trust Company, was written