The evening world. Newspaper, January 26, 1921, Page 1

M’SWINEY’S BOOK GIVES. LAST V TO.NIGHT'S Weather—PROBA THE BLY SNOW. WALL STREET NING I l saat EDITION Bea LX. NO. 21 (647—DAILY. Copyright, oe 21, by We New York World). . Circulation ‘Books Wd to All,” The Press Pablishi: EXPERT OPENS Bh GOVERNOR'S TRANSIT PLAN SPLITS. 6.0.P. 0.P. tRNA SA RARDIN AAAS NEW. YORK, We ec a IRIE RSIS 26, Ba NDELL’S TWO SAFE “Circulation Books Ones to Al.” 1921. Kntered an Seco Fest Oftlee, New Yorks N. ¥. Class Matter FILES AND LETTERS. FOUND IN SAFES OF BRINDELL’S UNION eddie ik Took Just 20 Minutes to Work Proper Combination * y Sense of Hearing. PAPERS BEING SCANNED Mr. Untermyer Plans to Finish the Trial With Two More Witnesses. ‘The two steel filing cases seized by Samuel Untermyer from the of- fices of the Building Trades Council as evidence in the extortion trial of| Robert P. Brindel! opened by an expert to-day. | All yesterday afternoon a sXilled mechanic from a safe manufacturing company labored over them and came to the conclusion that they be “drilled.” To-day Joseph No Grand Street, whose business were Biancolo, 215 describes him as an expel “twenty years experience” opener and repairer of safes for legi- timate purposes, was He twirled the knob of the first cab- inet and listened with his head cocked one side, bird-like, to the rattle of the tumblers within. ‘Then he laid an al- most affectionately artistic against the door, and haif closing his| eyes and smiling with grave concern! from time to time, turned the knob| ‘with almost imperceptible movement, Ym a bare twenty minutes he jammed | down the lever handles on each side | o@ the front and swung back the leaves of the door, ‘There were disclobed a number of books of typewritten sheets, abvious- ly minute books. It was reported later that these were records of the meetings of the rd of Busineas Agents up to Oc- , 1919, which was superseded wie Brindell organized the Building Trades Council at that date Other books revealed were ledgers of account, correspondence files, con- tracts, a gavel and a quantity of badge ribbons. "The second safe had lista of walk- mg delegates with their credentials apd a lot of old correspondence of the Board of Business Agents, Thore were also three file boxes of letters] ef the Building Trades Council. The staff of Mr. Untermyer at once set about making an inventory of the} gontents of the boxes, They made at) as an called ear the same time a swift search for the) particular papérs covered by the subs poena duces tecum to & Ros- | (Continued on Right . —_ THE WORLD TRAV Azcae,, Pulitage Wo Yet. I Shak roan for barsace Bt. Momay orders and tra afe—aart: Classified Advertisers Importan t! Gaaritied anvertising copy tor The Sunday World should be Tee World office = On or Before Friday Preceding Publication | Classified Advertisem for Week Daya Received DAILY AFTER 8 A. M. I] For publication the following day EARLY COPY Receive tha, Proterance When Advts Be ‘Omitte od vi HE W ORLD.. |MISSING BARNARD GIRL INTERESTED IN MOTION PICTURES ~ BALLOTING OPENS FOR ELECTION OF EPISCOPAL BISHOP Rireite |Delegates at the Last Minute Vote to Admit the Public Ballo''ng for the election of a Bishop of the Protestant Episeopal Diocese of New York to succeed the inte BiMop Charies S Burch was dogun this afternoon at a con- vention in the Synod Hull of the Cathedral of St, Jonn the Divine ‘The Rev. William T. tor of Trimity Church candidate Manning, rec- was the firat His name waa offered to the convention by Baylis, a lay delegate from St. James's Church. put in nomination Edmund L. ‘The work of the convention proper Preceded by the colovration of Holy Communion and a memorial ser- was viee for Bishop Burch. Owing to the ‘ness of Bishop Newark, tdward S$. Lines of who was to have been Lioya. Bishop of the Diocese, cele- brated Holy Communion and also de- the celebrant, Bishop Arthur 8. Acting vered the memorial address He patd a bigh tribute to the ghar acter and achievements of Jtiahop Burch, Fle declared the diocess hud | suffered 4 loss which will ¢ felt more and more as men realize more clearly how that unusuil gift called “human- ness was conspicuous a charac: teristic of Bishop Burch, He declared} this was felt and responded to by ul whose lives touched » Eben Nite th at his notable Garee Ar AOrviCes the convention was called Jer by ue Itey Novese the Mey. Har P Nichols Was named lermanent Chair ouvent " traduetion of @ resolution authorizing the payment «Continued on Beoond Page.) APPEAL TO MOVIE SCHWAB ABSOLVED STUDIOS IN HUNT. BY INVESTIGATORS | FOR MISSING GIRL OF SHIPPING BOARD |Miss Blanche Spellman, Bar- Charges That nard Student, Daughter of N. Y, Lawyer, Gone. He Got Pay- ment From Government for Expenses, Found Untrue. HAD ONLY $30 AT TIME. INJUSTICE DONE HIM. Bought Clothing Suitable for Bethlehem Steel Head Grateful Southern California in After- | Over Decision of Congres- | | noon—May Be in Chicago. sional Committee. | Search for Miss Blanche Speliman,! WASHINGTON, Jan 26.—Charges a Barnard College student who has! that Charles M been missing since Monday from psyment from the hwab had received jovernment for ex her home, No. 1 West 92d Street, to- penses while serving us Director Gen-| day was extended to Chicago and erul of the Mmergency Fleet Cor- the movie communities of Los An-| poration were not proved and nm true, the Walsh Investigating Com- | “confi-| mittee declared to-day in an author~ | goles, Cal. Investigation following a dentin! alarm” sent out by the bu- reau of Missing Persons nas vinced those making the search that Mies Spellman’s interest in (he! sertative Sterle, movies may explain her disappear- ance, Two friends have told of her gtudy of the films, which led her to} spend much ‘of her Ume writing| scenarios instend of pursuing ber) a great injustice work in Burnard. She said she in-| scnwap tended to leave home, they suid. Mr: Gteste auld Monday, Miss Spellman went to 4) made with the kiowledke department store where her father bas | cent of the members of the an account and bought clothing suit- zed statement. The expressed opinion of the con-! mm tree was In @ statement by Repre- Damecrat, of Penn aylvania, who sald It was based upon testrmony and documentary and that evidence members individually felt) had beea done Afr. the statement and commit was tee. able to California and later had lun-| Arter returning here to font cheon at the Hotel Pennsylvania. The| new Yonk the committee discusued | Pennsylvania Railroad records show) i irurmully the testimony relating tol no through passen or to Los Angeles |. voucnar for $260,000 ig tek on any tmin Miss Spellman: MUEM| joe paid Mr Sehwah for expenses | have taken, and it is thought 8b¢/ ang qinated Mr. Steele to imuke the may have booked to Chicago, Where] itatement. she ins a girl friend, intending to stop en off there on the way to the Pacific] “I am indeed gratetul,” sald Mr Coast. She hud only $30 with her at| Selva when told that the Walsh the time. Committee had berucd a statement tn She is the daughter of Benjamin F,| Washington clearing him of charges | Spellman, a lawyer, a@t No. 115 /of receiving payment from the Gov-| Broadway, and formerly jaw partner | ernment fur expenses w! serving of Charles A. Towne. Her parents | as Director General of the Mmergency are ill us a result of her disappear- | Fleet Corporation ance. Her brother, Howard, has| “It us tiv best news | have ever been constantly searching hospitala| heard,” he sald, bis voice shaking and visiting homes of friends and | with emotion relatives in hope of finding some] ‘Phe insinuxtions agalust me are as trace of her. false us Judas, but they hurt-—God “It is just possible my daughter| knows how they hurt!” Blanche has left home to go into the| These were the words of Mr ‘movies,’ Mr, Spellman to-day told] Schwab as he sut last night with his an Evening World reporter. wife at dinner jn thelr Riverside Drive “Lf go," he continued, “she did it| home u few hours after he had broken upon impulee. Sunday afternoon we] down and wept on the witness stand took a long automobile ride, during| at the Shipping Bourd inquiry whigh whe seemed very happy, and| “Of course, I know, and my friends gave no inkling of anything which | Icnow, and I believe the vast majority might lead me to believe she had|of the people Know that I am inno- planned to ieave home, Sunday eve-| cent,” he continued, But it is cruel ning she remained home to prepure| that even one person should suspect, for soboo| examinations the following| if even for a moment, Lhat after day and studied untii long after mid-| honorable business ¢ of might” ai “Monday morning, there being no (Continued Pwo.) clases, my daughter went shopping, NEW RENT LAWS | ARE RETROACTIVE | ‘CANADA 'PHONES —— | OVER 5,000-MILE LINE Leases) (Continued on Highteenth Page.) Signed Before Via Are Inoperative. | nty Judge Reuben J 1 voklyn to Ottawa .Talks to Vancouver New York, Denver and Seattle. OTTAWA. Jan -Long distance telephone communication between Ot tawa and Vancouver to-day was estul- lished. Voices at ends could ix hewrd distinct! the that | the wire was milon 1 when al waa put fror rf In emergency ‘ent laws pas tember fused to A. ¢ dwell fact 5,000 throug call tught Th York, route was fr ritawa vin 0, Denver, Sn) New Lake Cit 0, Seatuey, tenes to Va “ ~ Jin | Skating in Ce Hark. The Park Department announ red ball was up for ive ka (wal Park to-day, Maniely | tard ' view ed the nf by uglt “ OBREGON BURNED SAVING CHILD IN GASOLINE BLAZE GROVER BERGDOLL IN GERMANY; JUST EVADES CAPTURE —_— President of Mexico, Who Has but One Arm, Rolled Boy in | Grass and Put Out Fire. | MEXICO CIPY, Jan RESIDENT OBREGON of Mexico wis burned slightly late yesterday In savi a sire | smal) child from burning sea shot Fired During an Attempt it was learned to-day, The Presi- To Kidnap the Draft dent, who has only one arm, | Syade rolled the child in the grass and Evader, tofe the blazing garments from it. His hand was scorched |ONE FRIEND WOUNDED. He was driving down the Paseo | qe eS from the Presidential castle when he cune upon a gasoline truck, {Auto In Which He Is burning and spurting fire into the | atree Riding Held Up Near Nearby was a obild, his cloth Ebersbach. ing soaked in gasoline, fighting ~ - - the flames whieh curled around BRRIAN,“Jon, 2-<An atlempt wax hun. The President lawped from his car instantly, and picking up eeutly mAds at \Mberdach sto kid the child deposited him on the [tap Grover Cleveland Bergde gross of a nearby lawn, rolling | American draft evader, and a vom- him to-extinguish the flames and tearing away the blazing rags. ‘The child was badly burned but the President's prumpt help sawwd _ Mie lite. ASSEMBLY PASSES: LOCKWOOD BILL IN panion named Steoher, by five men in an automobile, two of whom, were American military inteHigence officers and one an American sergeant, ac- cording to the Ebersoucher Zeitung. Bergdoll) was being driven te Huersbach railway station ¢ wedding guests when the [bite was suddenly surrounded and its loaseeaue ordered to surrandor. Tv ae party attempted to eseape mid one of be Amerionns fired, wounding a Ge friend of Boergdoll in the right hand. Police officers appeared and the to mewt autome man Give men fled, but the twe ced in telligence officers and another of the men were arrested later FP “The allegation is,” says the Tage were desirous yffered by the ties for the capture ermans and under iction on thelr own ‘plat, these me lof earning the reward American auth of the two young took the above initiative” Failure of Effort to Vote Orig- inal Measure Laid to MeWhinney. (Seenial Pram 4 at Coreen of TM) Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, wanted ALBANY, Jan 26.--The Lockwood|by the United States authorities on Housing Committee's plan. for in-|te charge of being 4 draft ovader i ead the investigation |"2%, arrested in the home af his creased powers In the lnvestigation| mother, widow of a wealthy Philw- into the bullding and renting cond!-|delphia trewer, in January, 1920, He tions in New York City was rejected! was tried, convicted gerter from the anny of being a de- bsolutely in Lhe Asseunbly this after and aqntenced noon, stabbed by (ts euypoeed tr to five years at hard labor, He be in the committer gan serving the sentence on Marvh 30 Assenublyman ‘Thomas A. McoWhin- |last. ney, of Nassuu, turned a complete] He wus permitted to go home to someraault and left the stipporters| Philadelphia In the custody of two of the resolution up in the air ‘The| guards on May 20 on the plea that amendment to the resolution reported| he wished to got $150,000 im gold back frum the committee, the amend-|which he had iidden in Muryhind ment ®eing the resolution as it was; while a fugitive ‘the following day first introduced by \Mr, McWhinney!ha left bane by a way unknown, in the Lower House, was defeated by! a vote of 82 to 41 and the emasculated resolution passed by 110 to 31 jumped into his automobile and fled with lguac Stecher, Ie chauffeur. later he was reported to have been Senator Lockwood, amazed at the|scen in the area of Germany occn- stand of Assemblyman McWhinney,|pied by the Ainerican forces, and a mude this statement man pamed U W. Hartman, who “The reported statements of Assem-| said he was from Philadelphia, on blyman MeWhtinney m his morn-jarriving Im the United States from tng on the floor of the Assembly an} Eure amber last, clalined he amadng and beyond understanding, | had arrest of Bergdoll jn Mr McWhinney attended the meeting | Coblenz War Department in of the committee, considered the pre. | Washington asserted it was without | Uminary report and the proposed con-|!pformation regarding the raported tinuing resolution and approved then} arrest and said it had no news that both verbally and in writings, He bag| Bergdoll was actually io Germany, copies In his possession for ten days before he wi able, under the Awem- | EX-GOV. COX SLIPS biy rules to introduce then im that poly, and never until thie morning| '1NTO WHITE HOUSE eg there been the slightout intimation that he did not still faver them. His}Gets in Through Side Entrance, atement that part of proposed Then Jeers Reporters continuing resolution wi a plun to 5 divert the committee's work is wholly He Outwitted snfounded WASHINGTON, Jan, %6.—Former Mr. MeWhinney « ° James Cox uf Ohto called on Pree « Loekwood Housing Committee | lent ¥ af Hte House twas his second the F and had 1 Lis demane range eave? maile avin ‘ ‘ manded aft domocra fer Pals) mia aM (Continued op Second Page) entrance shivering in «ne cold w to quesion bim op bls activa, @ a UP-STATE CITES WN FIGHT “ON MILLER TRANSIT PLANS FOR NEW YORK CITY LINES. + |Principle of Home Rule Is Regarded as at Stake—Opponents of 8-Cent Car Fare Scheme Will Hold Out = to the End. By Joseph S. Jordan (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) ALBANY, Jan. 26.—Gov, Miller is facing @ split in the Grand Old Party with its top-heavy majority in thé Legislature, over the transit problem Greater New York, and the situation has not been at all clarified by assertion yesterday of the Governor that the city has nothing to do Lihe affairs of its traction Hines, and that it never did have any over their operation, their rates of fare or anything else in com with them, This stand, it is pointed out, forces the larger cities of the State to Join the metropolia ia Hghting the Governor's transit plans, é ‘fhe Governor's remarks were made in answer lO the request of Mayor Hylan and other representatives of the city, that he recommend to the He flatly refused to make the recommendation, The refusal was emphatic, and as he lectured the city officials the Gove ernor pounded his desk vigorously, The New Yorkers, including Mayor Hylan, Aldermanic President La Guardia, Borough Presidents Curram, Riegelmann and Connolly, startied and angry, reddened and shifted nery ously as they looked at mania Counsel O'Brien, who frowned. Each of the city nae in turn had urged the necessity of the relieve traffic congestion ‘BROKER’ KEPT CASH SENT 10 POLAND 10 AID POOR PEOPLE Morris Feintuch First to Be Ar- legislation. —, Tg Mt Ge Cy rested as Result of Evening 1 *° 8! the Governor wey ie save joul interruption, Then in « twentye World's minute lecture he gave nis decision, —- |and Grover Whalen, rising, put ‘st growing out of che | fingers to bis Nps, and blowing! with | kiss, said feelingly to the sewspaper |men: “Farewell, Omaibus BUL" “PIECEMEAL LEGISLATION” AND “LOOSE TALK.” vus” ‘The frst Diet riot ‘The Evening Wortd’s critsade aguinst of the forelen born Attorney's en-operation the exploitation of thie city wae reported this after-| In refusing ald to “Dust neon from Norfolk, Va.. where Mor-|isiation, Gov, Miller declated ty Feintuch, until recontly an Ea#t|was dealing with the tracts Side ‘hroker” enguged in the trans-| problem piecemea, and he wee of money, was taken inte wtedy on Jwo indictments found last week in this olty. Feintuch will be extradited and speedily placed on trial This man was one of the numerous “philanthropists” who spread word miasion against this method of procedure, declared that the State had never ait tempted to really exercise its polite power until the organization of the Public Service Commission in but that it bad never delegated ff t the city, because it would have beam around the cast #ide that they were|a delogalion of power which resides ‘about to viait Centra) Burape and]in the Legislature and nowhere eles, would be pleased to take over from| The talk of robbing the city of ite New York gifts of money to rela |p described as “loose tall? tives” Heretofore it has been hard which had arisen from a misooneep- to reach this class, tut a way has|ticn of the constitutional clause whieh ween found when the oumplalnants|foquires municipal consent to the hag> refuse to be bluffed off ing of ralls by roads. Municipalities In July, 1920, Feintuch taking a|!™posed conditions because they had ree sum of money entrusted to him | ‘he power to refuse consent, When by people of the cast side sailed for |clty entered jnto a co-partnership Poland. Among those who entrusted | With companies on ownership of aus Shim were Philip Winter of Way" the city should be subject ty « Street and Leah Kaz-|'he same regulation by the State a@ f No. 100 Columptna Streot. |[*Y other corporation, intuch agreed to give Winter's wite| According to Gov, Miller's diotags id’ (Gunsentay im. Polar, $200, {the city has been exercising a power and usmat hor in buying 4 steamship [Over the transit corporations for Gam \cket to New York, For thia ho |Past fifteen yeare which It did mae charged Winter $50. He agreed to| Boasee® This applies net only to 2am feta Ucaarsiate aaterrin. the | York City, but to all cities, townsiang sine Lown, $140 villages in the State, ‘The Governul Teintuch guve Mes Ww eyo /nontends (hat the State simply @it dnd Mee, Kaainan’s sister $40, Mog, | 00¢ @xercise ita police power, it ‘inter eventually got to New York, |. Tne Governors) statement jag | 5 |the Legislature this morning with @ PEaIV pee September.) tree of a bombshell, but tailed AVDe Ey RAGOG) CORONA, Of the liake any of the ght out of the x apie te aH Male rontw of the Scent fare. In fact, rie and HiKiiy Tet The) yuk mors fight into them, and ¢ O'Aesiniant District Atiorney O'Neil {are being made to-day that apt jnvestigatod (he Cases ahd ubtalned {men who were with the Gover * lane WBALOUDEDS, late i fRRORE On Lhe public Legislature that the city be empowered to operate its own bus lines t~ ca ee LE LL LA a ee