The evening world. Newspaper, December 31, 1920, Page 1

Circulation Books Open to ain” VOL. LXI. NO. ee Co: (The New Fork World). NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1 VALERA 30 SAVED FROM FIRE NEAR VANDERBILT HOME Katered as Fost Office, 920. PET TERRIER GIVES ALARM AND SAVES MANY FROM FIRE saeco, Barks Rouse 30 Occupants in Boarding House Near Vanderbilt Homes. SMOKE FILLS ROOMS. Firemen Break Through Grilled Entrance and Get All Inmates Out. ' “Pete,” a bull terrier, barked until the family of Francis C. Boanard awoke in their apartment off the basement floor at No. 19 West 52d Street, a few doors from Fifth Ave- nue and the homes, of Frederick K. Vanderbilt and Gen, Cornelius Van- Gerbilt, at 8 A, M. to-day, Besides. Boanard and his wife, Rose, there were their nine-year-old daughter, Wthel, and her chum Helen Craig, eight, who Is visiting her during the holidays, The apartment was so filled with smoke they could not find their way out, They were groping about in the thick cloud shouting “Fire!” when Neet O'Leary of the East 5ist reet Station and Tieut, McKeon of Truck No. 2, who had come in re- sponse to an alarm sent In by a citizen who had seen smoke coming from the windows, discovered their plight, The detective and fireman had to break through the iron-grilled base- ment door and then through Wooden door leading into the hall- way, before the Boanards and their child guest were released, The four-story and basement build- ing is a fashionable boarding house, in which thirty persons reside. The flames ‘had started in the sub-collar in some rubbish, and the smoke had filled the house before any one was aroused. All those living above the Boanard apartment reached the street safely in their night clothes except Charles A. Conway, an adver- tisement writer, having two rooms on the tap floor, He awoke so late he could not reach the stairs because of the smoke and shouted for help out his back window. Firemen Frederick Hess and Thomas Fitzgerald of Truck No. 2, ‘who had gone through No, 17 adjoin- ing, to the rear, yard, broke in the rear door and, going up to the top, let Conway to the frpnt of the build- ing and he went to the street down an serial jadder. The flames burned through the gub-cellar ceiling into the Boanard apartment and wrecked it, but did not get any higter, doing a damage of $1,500, The commotion aroused many rominent persons in the neighbor- Rood, in Fifth Avenue and in’ loset and ‘West 52d Streets but few of them went any nearer the scene than thelr front windows, which were filled with faces until the firemen re- turned to quarters, Out To-day 1921 WORLD ALMANAC Facts and Figures By the Thousand 50c a Copy—By Mail 65¢ Presidential Election Returns. 1920 Census.—Sporting Records. Published by NEW YORK WORLD PULITZER BUILDING the|s 1920 WETTES1 IN MANY YEARS, RECORDS SHOW ' In Fact Has Never Been Equallad —Rainfallin Boston 63.78 Inches, BOSTON, Dec. 31 HE outgoing year, which was the first full twelvemonth under the Eighteenth Amendment, may or may not hive been the “dryest” in history, but meteorologicatly it was the wettest in many years. The Blue Hill Observatory to. day reported an aggregate rain- fall for the year of 63.78 inches, the greatest in the thirty-five years of records there ARMY FLYERS TO TRY FLIGHT ACROSS U. S. Hope to Traverse Continent, 2,079 Mil s, in Less Than Twenty- four Hours. SHINGTON, Dec. 31.—Army avi- ators will make « double attempt to fly acroas the United States from Call- fornia in a single day én Washington's birthday, Feb, it was announced to-day at the War Department. One plane piloted by Lieut. Alexander Pear- son will leave Jacksonville, Fla., for San Diego, Calif, and another plane, the pilot of which has not yet been chosen, will leave San Diego for Jack sonville. Both are expected to reach their destinations in less than 24 hours, The distance is 2,079 miles, ‘The flyers will make stops at, Houston and E} Paso, Texas. ‘The distances sre Jacksonville to Houston, 804 miles; Houston to El Paso, 660 mites, and El Paso to San Diogs 615 miles WILLERS CONVICTED, GETS 5-YEAR TERM led Spy Found Guilty by Martial of Desertion From Army. TON, Dec. 31.—John A. w a former captain in the army, who when a ed in New Yotk Dec. 7 claimed that he had acted as a German spy while serving with the American forces, has been convicted by court- martial of desertion from the army and sentenced to five years in the Federal enitentiary at Leavenworth, it was announced to-day at the War Depart- ment. Willers still is to be tried on charges of theft and embezzlement. WALKS INTO BANK AND TAKES $50,000 Attacked by Officials, He Seeks Refuge in Storeroom and Is Killed. Court NASHVILLE, ‘Tenn, Doc. &1—An unidentified man entered the Pecple’s| Bank at Springfield, Tenn., this morn-| ing and making his way unobserved to the bRnk vault helped himself to $50,000 in bonds, He stood off bark officials and wounded an officer, but takirg uge in a store room he was killel by other officers. oe GREETNGS FOR PRESIDENT. Wilson was recetving New ings to-day from all over the Among those from whom came were King Victor Italy, KingeHau‘von of N Chariotte of Dueny of Iaixemburg, Brand Whitlock, American Minister to Belgium, and “Nathon Straus, New York PENROSE OPPOSES BONUS. Chairman of Finance Committee Also Will Fight Tariff Bin. WASHINGTON, Dec, 41.—Oppoal- ton to the house emergency tariff | bi} and to the passage at this ses- sion of the soldiers’ | * bill was] Indicated to-day iby Senafor Penrose | n of Pennay Chatoman the | Senate mittee, Ww world 0 on} CARUSO RELIEVED BY NCW OPERATION; DOCTORS HOPEFUL Cannot Tell When Tenor Will Able to Sing Again, Declares Surgeon, PROGRESS IS REPORTED. Physicians Declare Singer Is Doing “as Favorably as Possible.” Dr. John F, Erdmann, the surgeon who operated last night on Enrico | Caruso, ‘to-day gave to The Evening World the following statement: “Last night I took from Mr. Caruso fifty-two ounces of pus, a little leas than half a gallon. After that I put two drain pipes in him to give con- tinued relief. The most important aspect of the case now is the medical one. I have not seen him since Inst night, but shall call on him again to- night. I cannot say as to when he will he able tO sing aguin, None of us can tell.” “Was the amount of pus unusually large?” Di, ..indmenn was -asked. “Yes,” he sald. The following bulletin was given out at noon by the six physicians and surgeons in attendance on the singer: “Mr. Caruso had a very com- fortable night and is progressing as favorably as possible after his operation of last night.” Bruno Zirato, secretary to Caruso, sald the singer had been “very great- ly relieved" by the second operation he had undergone in forty-eight hours, ‘This operation Was to establish a drainage from the pleural cavity, the drainage to be maintained until the condition of empyema is terminated. In the case of Caruso, it was sald, the operation varied slightly from the usual procedure, which Is to re- move a smali portion of a rib and insert tubes for the draining. In Caruso's case, instead of cutting a rib, the drainage tube was placed be- tween two ribs. ‘The “very great relief"*reported by the singer's secretary was the result of the elimination of a large quantity of purulent matter. This almost in- stantly makes the patient more com- fortable, but it is said that he will have to lie on his back for many days while the drainage continues, and she convalescent period afterward is us- ually long. It is regarded as practi- cally certain that Caruso will not sing again this season Dr. Erdmann, Caruso’s sixth physi- cian, w Hed into the case yester- day afternoon and the operation im- mediately performed. It was done Without an anaesthetic. A few hours | later the following bulletin was is- sued: “Mr. Caruso has been successfally operated on by Dr. Brdmann for em- pyema, His condition is satisfac- tory.” The bulletin bore the signatures of Drs, Erdmann, Samuel Lambert, An- tonlo Stellay Evan M, Evans, Francis J, Murray and Philip Horowitg, —_- ta ORLD TRA Arcade, ubitage World) ftow "Feloo Cronk 03a foe bight. Money ‘agen and’ tran wales-adet, (EL, BU! Hookman eis open. ances Sad for EAU. pity das | FOR A SELF- Judge McIntyre in General Sessions has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Harty P, Gibney of No. 51 Clark Street, Brooklyn, who is under having stolen $5,762 from his em- ployer, Sidney Z Mitchell, an invest- ment broker of No, 71 Broadnway, Gibney, said to have influential connections, was arraigned before Magistrate Simms on Dec. 24. Magis- trate Simms fixed ball at $10,000, On of a bonding company. appeared be- fore Judge McIntyre before whom Assistant District Attorney Sullivan | was trying @ case and requested the signing of a bond for $5,000 for Gib- ney, who waa tn the Tombs. Judge McIntyre and Mr. Sullivan accepted JUDGE FO Rental Suit NEW YEAR GREETINGS. WE, the tenants of No, 72 West 99th Street, do give thanks and homage to Almighty God for the wisdom and justice which He has given to the Judge who sat in the Fifth District Muntolpal Court, Part IL, at 10 o'clock, Dec, 80, to judge between right and wrong, May he live long and_have a proxperous and happy New Year, We remain, respectfully, : ‘OUR TENANTS. This advertisement 1s in token of the appreciation of Mrs. Mary Gumbs and eleven other dwellers in the tene- ment at No. 72 Weat 99th Street for the action of Municipal Justice Wil- lam C, Wilson in the Fifth District Court yesterday. Arthur H, Aynes leased the build- BY WAY OF The Caronia of the Cunard Line ar- tived to-day from Southampton by| way of Halifax, bringing 1,943 pa: sengers, foremost among whom in beauty and pep was Miss Anna K, Woodman of London, nineteen years old, who got a drink In Halifax, which is supposed to be as dry as Sabara She knew how to do things like that because she had served in the | ified advertia copy tor re turned n ‘yesterday after an absence of nearly a year ove | casioned by serious iliness. ———aer Calls for Twenty Men, 1,000 Apply. KANSAS CITY, Dec. 31.—More than| 1,000 men made applications yesterda: New York City following an advertisement of a Kan sas City, Kan, twenty mea. contractor culling for |; ol The Bunday World should be ia |], The World otticy To-day, Friday | Early copy receives the pr. when Sunday adv omitted, Late advertising ts Gmilted’ tor lack of time to eet It, THE WORLD, ||! | President of the W. W CLEVELAND, Dec, 81.—W. W. Sly, President, and George J. Fanner, Vice Sly Foundry | | Company, were murdered ‘by five pay- roll bandits who escaped with, $4,200 / in cash after holding up the two men at the company’s plant this morning. Sly and Fanner died instantly. The two company officials were re- turning from a bank in an automo- | "bile with the weekly payroll, While! bandits were stolen 2 SAR AAARARAND nnn JUDGE M'INTYRE WAS DUPED WHEN HE SIGNED $5,000 BOND Declares Gross Misrepresention Was Made to Him, and Orders Bench Warrant for Gib- ney to Raise Bail to $25,000. bond of $5,000 on his confession of the following Monday a representative TENANTS IN “AD.” THANK Publish ‘New Year Greeting’ After Increased —__—_—_. NIMBLE GIRL BOARDS SHIP Mistook Whistle of Coronia at Halifax, Where She—er—Slacked Her Thirst. FIVE PAYROLL BANDITS SLAY | HEADS OF CLEVELAND FOUNDRY After Killing President and Vice President! Hold-Up Men Escape With $4.200. automobiles crowded «hem |driven by ‘Sly, forcing him to into the bridge railing tw avoid collision. The bandits jumped out of their | . Second-Chaws y New Verky Me Ye CONFESSED THIEF the statement as to the amount of the bond withofit question, having no other information than that given to them by the bonding company in whom they had confidence. Judge Mcintyre was informed to- day he had signed @ bond for half the amount set by Magistrate Simms. He said he was indignant that he had been made the subject of a gross misrepresentation, and on the motion of Assistant District Attorney Sulll- van set the machinery In action to bring Gibney before the court. He stated that a now bond of not less than $25,000 would be required, “It is apparent,” Judge Molntyre sald, in signing the warrant, “that there are persons frequenting the Crim!na} Courts whose methods will bear a searching investigation,” R RENT DECISION Is Dismissed ing last July. Since then the rent of Mrs, Gumbs, who ocoupies four rooms, has ‘been increased to $24 in two advances. Yesterday Aynes summoned the twelve tenants, from all of whom he had exacted increased rentals, before Justice Wiison to show cause why ‘they should not pay still nother increase beginning to-mor- row. From Mrs. Gumbs, whose case was regarded as typical of all, he asked $27 a month Mrs. Gumbs, through counsel, showed that the building was in wofully bad repair and that Aynes had refused to make changes which were essential to health and comfort. The proceeding was dismissed by Justice Wallace on her showing. THE COAL CHUTE | | | transport service in the war, cross- ing the channel four times a week. She thought.there would be two whistles when the ship was ready to sail from Halifax, and instead there was one. So when she reached the plier the vessel was in mid-har- bor, coaling. She hired a launch and |wot out to it just as it was starting. So they helped her aboard by way of @ coal chute and all was well, crossing ® bridge at the plant, two machines and demanded the payroll When Sly attempted to draw a re- | volver the bandits shot and killed | him and Fanner and then escaped in one of their cars. tween warelfouse people that before liquor FURTHER ARRESTS PREDICTED SOON I LQUOR Pot Another Huge Whiskey Ring in New York. NATION - W IDE Fortunes Sa d to Have Been Made Through Sales on Fraudulent Permits. INQUIRY. Government officials who are seek Ing to stamp out the {legitimate trat- ficking in liquor in New York have amassed evi co against a second whiskey ring that has beon « domi- nant factor in the Wegal trade, and a number of arrests are shortly pre- dicted, Agents who have been close on the trail of members of this group said to-day that it !s a far more powerful organization than that broken up in the arrest of twe men and two women at the Hotel McAlpin last Wednesday night Thiy newly discovered whiskey ring is said to have amas#ed fortunes In the last few months through the use of fraudulent permits, This organiza- tion has an executive board of appor- tionment, which anbitrartly deci as to the amount of Mquor to supplied to bootloggers and specifies certain districts in which they shall operate, “If we can break up this second ring we believe we will have stamped out the root of the Iquor evil in New York City,” wax the declaration of a high Prohibition enforcement official to-day, That a Nation-wide inquiry into the whiskey ring scandal will be im- mediately instituted was indicuted to- day when George Stebbenson, who was arrested Wednesday evening at the Pennsylvania Station, was taken to Washington. Anthony Poppano, charged with being associated, with Stebbenson and those arrested at the McAlpin, is being held in Wash- ington under $10,000 bail, At the office of Charles R. O'Connor, | Federaj Prohibition Director for the State of New York, it was sald that there is no definite method of check- ing up a to the amount of whiskey which was obtained through the op- erations of the group of men and women now under arrest, It was ex- Plalned that the telegraph system of | handling liquor removals from bonded warehounes had been dstablished but two months ago, It was through in- formation obtained from the telegraph bureau that the whiskey ring was able to operate. ‘The two women arrosted yesterday were omployees in the office of Director O'Connor. It ts said those whose arrest may take place here- after are other employees of his of- fice, inchiding several women, and that the trail t# expected to lead to men well known In private and of- ficlal life. Complote revelations will startle the country, It was predicted to-day. Thero was an understanding be. the Federal officers and the (Continued on Second Page.) U. S. Agents Get Evidence of | | total of $249,135,0 | 802.854.887 in 1919 and §178,5 BACK IN IRELAND WITH 1 $8. 000,00( TO-MORROW'S Weath: EDITIO THE Aa Ireland this morning, according to Secretary, who is in this city. selling campeign. NO ACTION YET ON ENRIGHT AS HEAD OF POLICE Re- signed Nor Been Removed Up to Date, A Richard E. Bnright had neither resigned nor been by Mayor Hylan or Gov, Smith, ee SHOW AN INCREASE Adams Street Court Has 616, as Commissioner Has Neither T & o'clock this afternoon removed as Police Commissioner BROOKLYN DRUNKS Against 483 in the Year of 1919, Despite Prohibition, the Adama Street Court in Brooklyn has had more cases of drunkenness during the past year than during the pre- vious year, according to figures com- piled by Finger Print Expert Gerard Horn, and given out to-day, In 1919, according to these figures, there were 483 cases of intoxica:ion brought into the court, while in 1920 there were 616 The increase by months over the previous year became marked toward the end of the present year, In De- comber, 1919, there were 43 cases, while in the present month (here have been 76. BANKS SET NE NEW RECORD. 6 The New York Clearing House As- soclation, which comprises fifty-three of the largest bank and trust ‘compaates of this city, these in turn having world- wide ramifications, record operations for the cale: Exchanges mounted to 13,364, ed the agai colossal THE EVENING WORLD |) Will Not Be Published To-Morrow, Police say both cars used w% the f a NEW YEAR'S DAY WASIBNOTON $1.—Bida rang-| ing from $10 to $3,154,000 were received by the Shipping Board to-day for bulld~ Ings offered for sale Charles J. Deins, Collingwood N. J. offered the $4,156,000 for board property t Camden, & Cross attered $10 for fours © at Chester, M. Strike Recalled. amonn De Valera, “President of the Irish. Republic,” landed in Boland acknowledged that hig recent statements that De Valera was somewhere near New York resting from) his labors in promoting subscriptions to the bond issue of the Irish | Re- pubtic were fiction, intended to cover De Valera’s surreptitious return, Ireland from the British authorities, De Valera came to this copntry in June 1919, without permission, fiom the British Government and was understood to have gained na liner by working as a stoker, There was an unconfirmed rumor he sailed for home as a stoker on the Aquitania. : According to those who were intimate with his affairs im this country he carried back with him $8,000,000 as the proceeds of the bond | honors they denied to printee—you — at the statement of Harry Boland, his ” It was recalled thut jupt votore the |death of Lord Mayor MacSwihey of Cork‘at the end of a hunger strike, De Valrea suid publicly that it Mage |Swiney was allowed to die he sould return to Ireland and, if would starve as had Mac! Secretary Boland would not ¢o on the purposes of DeValera’te turn, % Since the arrest of Arthur who was acting head of Fein, the organization in Ireland been without a chief. Premier’ George was recently asked: if De Valera would be allowed to return to take part in the negotiation# be-. tween the British Government and the Sinn He replied that the , “channels of communication with the — United States were open,” but mado no promise, DE VALERA LEAVES FAREWELL, MESSAGE TO AMERICA. Mr. Boland gave out o typewritten sheet which he said was De Valera’s farewell message to the United | States. It was as follows; “Land of the free and home or’ the brave—Marewell! May You ever remain as I have known you, land of the generous hearted and the kindly, May you stand through time as they would have you who love you—tibe erty's champion; and oh, may you never know yourself the agony of @ forelgn master’s lash, “I came to you on a holy mission— the mission of freedom. I return to. my people who sent me, mot indeed, as I had dreamt it, with the mission accomplished, but withal with amop« sage that will cheer in the dark daya that have come upon them and tiat will inspire the acceptance of suéh sacrifices as must ye be made,” “So farewell! young, mighty, fore tunate land, > wish that T Cam ex press can measure the depth of jy esteem for you or my desire for your welfare and your glory. And fare= well, the many dear friends C have” made and the tens of thousands who, for the reason that t was the repres sentative of a noble nation and @ storied, appealing cause, wave me m3. uy ‘ wil not need to be assured thet Ipee land will not forget and that Ireland will not be uneTeatetit STEEL COMPANY Y CUTS PRICE” Reduct of #7 a Ton on pe Effective To-Morrow,. A reduction of approximately $7 on standant pipe was announced by the Republic Iron & Steel ¢ The change in price is moriow. Other independent ree A) preg 400, werd at Lorain, O, Awan later, ; Agus Hane a Spoewer