The evening world. Newspaper, January 17, 1921, Page 1

TO-NIGHT’S Weather—FAIR; COLD WAVE. WALL STREET MAYOR AND ENRIGHT BACK RA ern ew pen nn et BANDITS BEAT AND ROB PARK AVE. APARTMENT AGENT? The | EDITION VOL. LXI. NO. 21,639—DAILY. Co. (The Copsrixt, 121, hy TT Press ¥ meat |“ Cireutation Books na to Ge | New York World), Aa*% BIDE DUOLEY NEW YORK, “MONDAY, JANUARY 17, “hs ee. TO-MORROW’S Weather—FAIR. 8 PRICE THREE CENTS jecond-( tues Matter New York, N. ¥. BOLIVAR BROWN ~— MMINESS SAYS AT INQUIRY HARDING LIKELY TOCALLCONGRESS TO MEET APRIL 4 Auditor Declares He Believed One Man Was Murdered at Crane Plant. —— SHIPS C AL LED, MENACE. ian Fordney of the Way's i | | and Means Committee An- Congress Committee 1 old| hounces the Date. Lake Eagle Nearly Fell Apart | Pp tech earl When She Put to Sea P ING practically has devided A. . to call uw special session of Assaults upon Shipping Boand om the new Congress on April 4, the finding of the body ot] Sreunta OF the House, under eircum: Chairmen 4 : which led the witness to bel just returned from murdered, and the sending umer Lake Hugle to had been “repaired” at hipyard in such a condition hat was a menace to human life importan and nearly fell apart, were amo come befure the spe the alleged irregularities in private mn of the new Congr hipp yards brought out to-day LION, O. 1i.—No ¢ t been f t Mardin, wh nm the Congressional Select Com mittee umed its hearings on Shis | ping rd operations at the Hotel] Special se Pennsylvania. With Representative | sitid to-d : Joseph Wal who presided o may not be set un neeting. Mw were Represehtatives , Henry J, Steele and Tom augurat | NO.584, HEAVENLY SPEED MARVEL, IS | BREAKING RECORD Doing More Than 1,300 Miles a ‘Second in a Getaws ay From the Earth, CAMBRIDGH, Mas: THE n the Con broken all on March 4 es L. Lafferty, a Shipping Board Id auditor who for two yean, wus stationed at the Crane Shipyards to check up the cost of repairs made on Governinent ships, testified that pri- vate yards are charging exorbitant rates for Government work. He ad- mitted, however, that but two oases ot alleged padded p lia had come under his personal observation In the a joke,” said Laf- who added that the drydock habit of gett 5 things up.” gether and Questioned on this point ae Mr, Lafte id that ometres & soc- eat ~ sed ever at- © price-fixing and collusion among ak shipping men was based on hearsay Saat nance ied and what he had observed in connec- v ike Chberweat bas ( © Observatory tion with bis work One of the great es, the wit-| to-day trom Dr M. Sepher of acas declar ped from tw] the Lowell Ovservutory, Flagstaff, changing of contracts after repairwork| Ariz. In announcing the result of observations there. spectrograph REPORTS LANGDON’S ta from lump sum con and material” bad been tracts to ‘time con (Continued on Second Page.) _ BARS ROLLING PIN TO CALM HUSBAND|"#« Ve wing and Kin stead MAN y CHICAGO, Jan DIN Ta panene at Viadiv ery peeforth b used only for husband n fr if Robert ¥ Gautt, Northwestém Ut carta oir Mn ead ery ci the To Tey site word i y | , § i 'Perhap: an a) ‘l {o the dep 1 2, Trobe se the remedy y rh oper should spond more time or buen metab king, When a husbend naga and Ia that shot and kitted Wait wile out of pure. deyiltry, ho should /m bis vestausant at 286 Ric b whatever te Bandy.” race, Maringr's Harbor, on Oct,, s& WIFE A SUICIDE} Woman Justice | Declines to Kiss the Bridegroom ; | | | Mise ALICE J, ONBILL.., Speculation Now Ended as to} “Judge” O’Neill’s. Action at First Wedding. GREENWICH, Conn, gan. 17.—And did the Justice of the Peece iiss the bride, m N lidn't, for when the ceremony 4 the bride- groom, whe, by the by, niypened to be a Southerner sped the hund of the first woman Justice of the Peace of this city and kissed it with | and entht And su the first. marr y performed |by Greeny first womun Justice ended. When Alice J. O'Neil Tustice of the Peace wags specula pen at the cor ceremony, Pas wich Justic Iiverybody would k found, so f Go . Oxden of Brookland, Justice, Miss suggested Ma., that t O'Ncill ¥ | Troops GREAT |the city. ried the wee G MoNall. | 1 | hund," HARDING DECLINES EVEN CHARITY BALL puld n propriety the sort at time - THE WORLD PR AVIR ME TAL ti The mililary took possession of | the market centre. Most of the real- dents were cut off fr thelr fish and vegetable stn only traffic permitted wa: pons, The soldie ve rolling kit Within wide district als | are Ure vou In one of these tm- | ortunt crses : 1 prisoners sh ERSHURL. BOMBS AT POLICE STATION IN CORK in nip in Cars Hurry Rioters Motor and Armored to Scene Take Flight. RAID IN DUBLIN. Miles of Barbed Wire Strung in Effort to Trap Irlsh Leaders. CORK, Jan, 17.—A police station in the centre of the city was attacked by Sinn Peiners at 4 A. M. to-day. ‘The attacking fores threw Mmbds and fired hundreds of chots, , anostly from revolvers After a lasting half an, hour the polles beat off the Sinn Pelfera! Armored motors filled with troops rushed to the scene when the sound of firing and the detonations of bombs were heard, but when ghey arrived Si Vetners had already nut dis mportart the a DUBLIN, Jan, 1 Vein leaders the great which 1,000 British soldiers sought to-day in a barricaded seo- tion of Dubli ‘A houss to hows and room to room search wom made of the mile square area, made man-ti; by miles of barbed wire, SIx arrests had been re- ported early to-d but the tivo most sought Nad not been found, ‘They wore Michael Collins, Commander in Chief of the Republican Army and his assistant, Mulcaney, There were reports the hunt on for “Pres\- dent” Bamonn de Valora, but rellab reports gaid that official was not in * sion prize for re to be Rumors were, that nded tn | part to prote © cou ring the | trial. All Ireland outside Dublin ugituted with raids and threats At Tha 400 men and women | ed up in a } by the The prisoners were driven id near the police bur- led to stand while rclainution of mur were thre pe cuplured. ; | ‘|/PULLS OWN TOOTH; pS ak % By Bide Dudley BEST BOY STORY SINCE HUCK FINN FULL OF ADVENTURE, FUN AND ROMANCE ice SNM FEIN STARTS TO-DAY —MAGAZINE PAGE WHITMAN FORCES ASIDE NEW RULE THAT MENACED INQUIRY HOLD-UP MEN FLEE IN AUTO WITH $2,000 AFTER FIRING - SHOTS AT BUILDING AGENT BANDITS IN AUTO HOLD UP AND KILL ~~ TWODETECTIVES York Cent Central Were Guarding $ Toledo. POLEDO, ~ 0. Jan. 17. bandits killed Louis Schroeder ané York Central Rali-| with AF, Uni with guards. ‘© both mor bandits Long, Now road detectives $12,000 here to- nroeder and Loug, in an automo- were talking the money n Station to a downtown bank. One vlock from | youths in a muchine locked wheels their car and escaped day. and opened tally wounded. Officers $12,000 in ‘Three | A from the the station fire on hrorder and Long] nan, red.the two money | satchels and sped toward the 4 town district three jown- | Two blocks away they a ere oa of Montana Apartment Beaten by Two | "Well Dressed Bandits. ONE WORE EYEGLASSES. Order Door Opened as They Stuff Money in Pocket— Safe Crackers Busy. ENRIGHT IS STILL POLICE COMMISSIONER P Mla: Mier sich Seba hick le | Grenged, dark one wearing eye- Into the Montana ‘Two youmg, well skinned bundits, gluswes, walked {of Park Avenue and 624 Street at 10 o'clock to-day, entered the offica of W, Irving Davis, superintendent of the bailding, near the main entrance on the ground floor and drew rovul- They ontered Mr. Davis to 500 which he had just Corn Exchange Bank ver, | brane the across street and was sorting out op his desk. exchanged vhots with Trafflc Patrol-| Davis started to guther up the man Willard, who failed to stop Cich ab tiem pelle skieia disth ther. 5 Rareray | forehead with the butt of a re- by The bandit car, with Moodatains on or anid Davia dropped ian posantasty ies ers $ = ii nals ed hey ann The bandits grabbed at the ee oe eee nae, | money und obtained nbout $2,500, Ax within a mile of the one of t aed hey reached the door, stuffing thetr putes af proeder and Ly ne ter being ot. died within a WILSON APPOINTS LEAGUE DELEGATE| | plunder Into their overcoat pockets, Dayis sot up and started after them. One of the men fired « hot at him, but missed, und Davis collipsed at the | door, As nbout $100 on the flovr. In the lobby wero Patrick Cunley, the thieves fled th Apartments, at the northeast corner y dropped | Ex-Governor to Shelve Sec. 184 That Would Compel Officers Who Testified to Report It to Head of Department. — baa Mayor Hylan and Police Commissioner Enright wid not appeag toxlay before the Grand Jury which is investigating graft in the city. This statement was inade shortly before noon by Mr, Whitman, who is” conducting the inquiry before the jury and it followed an hour's cud ference he had with these two city officials in his private ruurn. : One result of this conference was the imnouncement by Mr. White When the caso of Samh Friedman againft Mrs. Jolin Juntus, one of the 250 Iandiord-tenant cases in the Second, District Municip! Court of the Bronx, was called to-day before Judge ftobit- ok, Mrs, Justus, the tenunt, sald: “Your my landlady, Mra Friedman, bas boen lontent, but £ fust can’t pay my rent T have elght chil- man that Section 184 of the police regulations, which was the first sturnbling block Mr, Whitnran encountered in his effort to probe the Police Department, will be sescinded at once. . ————& This section, whi tne Mayor and {the Police Commissioner refused ww LANDLORDS HELP set agide at the request of Mr, Whit- man, required every uivaiver uf the Nepartiment examined by the Distriet Attorney or before « Grand Jury ww farnish the Commimioner immediate’ yy with a detailed statement of every~ (Wiing that happened if the matter a¢ inoue in any way affevied yolioe ar fairs or involved any police oftker, — [including the witnens nimsetr. . 7. 3 P The abrogation of the eectio, ant Judge Suspends Hearing of 250] sine str, Whitman's acosse ju obtain? Cases to Head List of Ing the detall of euch pollowmen as he Subscribe wishes to conduct his inveutigntiuus Subscriber. [nto graft were announced tn the ful~ - . lowing statement from Mr. Whitmmd! “The District Attorney i» « Conatt-, tutional officer. the Governor and net to ttn Muyo He ts the chief criminal law offices of the county and he propusum to at Qs such till further notice, “ection 144 of the pullow .egulae hoor, tons will be resciuded at once, The regulation, ax I am inforued by the Commiswionor, wus adopted for dle cipiinary purpores aolely. “The Police Department aw: every member in che department, frou’ yas trélman to Conamissioner. wll com ‘ role form to the requests of the Distrieé og ie Gi Attorney in connection with his .cfe | She admitted that whe owed $21.69 | forty to enforce the law. | for her January rent and $16.5000 her| “We will have ail che mmu nu een 4nd they will be asslgued oo us whew wo ask for them, aud euch men a, we ask for.” dren, one crippled, and my husband, | who is @ mechanic, recently haa hin pay cut ten per cent and pow tx work- e dayu a week.” lant month's rent | Morria Polsky, himself a lafidiont the doorman, Emma ¥ at.| UPsing & case againak « tenant | Oe TECTIVE THOMAS MAY NOW ince Senate Rejected 7 tendant, and Dorothy : | trereusen Aa je Puce oe GET BUSY. —Will Discuss tranii- vator operator, Tho robbers puinted| Could start a oo jon, The Judge} Vhw foregy’ ng rcension of che Come rratior Uueir revolvers at the trio, and they,| headed the tit with $5, several land. | mlastoner io tiken tu indicate strongly ah) having heard the hot fred at Davis,| lords put in a similar amount*and| that Detective Sergeant Al ‘moma, WASHINGTON, Jan, 17.—owignd] oxerciind diserotion und kept quilet,| tenants cuve from @ quartor to @| Who Invemtiqated for Mr. Whttatasd B. Mal itor of the Depart-| phe wondits ran to the roar of the| dollar, When the eaumt was tiken| When he waa Divtrict Attoruey, and ment of I peen appointed by | tony * turned to te right tou side| te collectora had enough to pay up| us In Lodymuard as Governor, with Amvrteun repre: | door opting litto 62d street | stra, duutus’s two monthi? Gack reut| Row be amined ax chief of the state ternational Com: | ceaiee A ttunce| Of trvestigatore ww oblain material for Gene DIES OF POISONING alg tisburgh Laborer Wished fo Ayoi Dentist’s Chair—Doctors > lfforts Fail, riot y ind . i pr ‘ i ff ft Seems physicians were ucfiective. fy.’ dau. to tonal Tabor Oifice | m a date to be ‘ TO OPEN THE DOOR. le Folerno, a elwuffeur tor no of tho Mon- snding Juut tu the | ut of the cold the | sap. of ruache volvers te und ordered . the door. } ie obeyed. 1 vere jumped inte i i 1 4 Lexing r and ‘ Montinued op Second Page) ete, BANDITS ORDER CHAUFFEUR) the present Grand Jury, Jt wna upom, Mr, Whitinan’s requedt for bls ser viows that Mayor Jiylat mud Commins Boright refured ae sovently, A police oMvial who ts kaown te, 9 nuust Lo} simular neady | fie. | in 20 Fusbitaek Lond: Tudee ale ha be on frieadly terms with Mayer RRA Tiylan mild to-day that Major Geuy failed w John &, O'Ryax, Conmaunder of the a fehia (eure th Division during the war, baw Jule been offered the post uf Pulice Cathe iawstoner, The offer, ho sald, waa \tmude kyt k’viday and he was ives ys fur tly couvideration. otticia) declared weveral sung police ! % tata of syur Hylan ja told Countian we ih t Enetygbt tut Qe whebes iain $1oscnr + in up to realign, He did not may that tg an 345, 1 been | rete wo yet in Mayor Hye” eo) relatively | han’a tan : nid out. Tt Avsid vonverniag the reporty Gams 7.000 un eaid: “Ll would not accept if it were offered to ma.” eke reached the ©) i) whwat the catire city! omni disposition of rant casen, | Hylan and Commissioner Agree With | He ts ainenable 10 | ee ee oA IT RTE SE IE i ul