The evening world. Newspaper, January 31, 1921, Page 1

TO-NIGHT'S weather—SNOW; COLD WAVE.” Go. (The > few York World _ The | “Circulation Books Open to All. NEW —-——— Los Angeles Woman Had Been seized by Cousins and Hidden on Ranch, WAS HELD FOR RANSOM. Phone Girl Delayed a Call Kidnappers Made Till Police Arrived. LOS ANGELES, 31.—Mrs. Gladys Witherell, “trom her home here lust Tuesday, Jan. who disappeared was found, early to-day, a pnisoner m a @nall house on a sheep ranch eight miles cast of Corona, in River- sido County, about seventy miles Southeast of Los Angeles. Mrs, Witherell was unbarmed. ‘Two men, who gave their names as A, U. and Floyd Carr, cousina, were arrested. A telephone operator's quick wit led to the discovery of Mrs. Witherel! und the arrest of Carr, The operator _ received a call from a pay station for the residence of ©. & Witherell amt detayed making the call until “he police had been sent to the pay station, where they arrested A. J. Oarr just us wis coneluding a delayed conve: woh he had Promised relutives etter sont them Saturday The police said they found chlo form and other articles in his auto- mobile they believed had been use in decoying the woman from home. At the police gtmtion Carr, it wus «aid, confeseod that he spent Saturday night outside geles, afraid to communicate with the Witherells, ag he had agreed, by letter Mtoyd Carr, aocording to the conf ¥sion of his cousin, was the Teade ~'he kidnappin: ‘The police said A. J, Carr told them hat Floyd Carr went to the Wither- +H home last Tuesday night and told jon w ina had Mrs. Witherell a friend had been in- | jured in an automobile accident aad | was calling fo! Floyd Carr, : 5 to the police, escorted her to an automobile where A. J. Carr was waiting. When she became suspicious two men ehloroformed her. ‘They took her to on & sheep ranch and 4 senall Continued on Ninth Page.) HOME BUILDING AT A STANDSTILL IN NEW YORK CITY dUS- ior Structures + More Families Manhavan, No plans for tenement houses— which classification ingludes all dwellings above two-family houses—were filed Manhat- tan in January, it was announced to-day by \silliam A. Robertson, chief inspector of the new Build- ing Bureau of the Tenement House Department. In Brooklyn plans were filed for two four story buildings which will house eighty families. In the Bronx plans were filed for five five-story buildings, with a total of 180 apartments, The cost of these buildings will be $557,000, No plans were filed in Queens during the month. Filed in in oe Five ba Offered; 200 Apply, INDIANAPOLIS nd dav 1 A owd estimated at 300 men at 8 clock this morning jammed tround the front and rear ent f a tocal§ ten-to-twenty v tore. tn an to a newapaper ad five persons ot Los An-| YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 31, st Offer, red as MevondeClaxe Matter PHONE GIRL’S QUICK WIT FOILS ABDUCT ORS County at 4vring the morning, and the puzzled, ephone | Sheriff Joseph N. J, went to the Hackensack returned Shortly after noon he received a tel- ail from Jacobs K ~ MRS. WITRERELL RESCUED: TWO RIDNAPPERS CAUGHT BY AID OF TELEPHONE GIRL © WARDEN DESERTS son HACKENSACK JAIL: ~-HEHADTOELOPE Sheriff as Surprised as Bride’ Parents When Jacobs Is Married in N. Y. to-day the warden, Charles FE. Jacobs, of Uhe keepers had seen the Warden to “{'ve Just bean marnied, the Warden. in the world. ington for and I'll be right bac ap ten “Pm the happiest man We'te goin a th Ingsley of Berzen [fbany, Jon County gait|, * Conference Committee, consist- | Department. J" ling of Senators Twomey and Boylan] ‘The sentence and the fine cune ond missed }and Assemblymen Taylor and Mum-| shortly after the Grand Jury recon-| None j ill, was appointed hy Scnator James vened after its lunch recess, and Dis- New Yor and Miller’s Scheme. PLAYING POLITICS.| JUDGE ‘CRAIN semblymen, subway, to-day appoe surf pledged IV sherigt, |'0 invite his offfee.| join the Dema home rule and no: sald Thief, honeymoon, en plan at a mee! n person: against 1 to an S-cent fare | fined ats Senator Ten Senatohs and twenty- D City constituencies at Al- | d ats in represen’ five NLY-DEMOGRATIC POLE DETEGTI LEISLATORSUNTE. GETS 30DAYS FOR. @ TOFICTCARPLAR, COURT CONTENT Senators and Assemblymen Sergt. John A. Armstrong Re-| Make Pledge to Oppose fused to Answer Questions | ‘Before the Grand Jury. | on ACTS. | ~ . . or. 7 | Senator Walker Outlines Pur-| Two More Indictments Found poses of Meeting—Others | in Connection With the Ac- Invited to Aid. | ceptance of Auto Graft. A Detective Sergt. John A. Armstrong was sentenced this afternoon to thirty confinement in the Tombs bby Judge Crain in and neral elevated | Sessions for contempt of court in themselv t Gov. Miller's proposed up-State | him by the Grand Jury investiga | ‘4 . ker, Chairman of the meeting, | alf other members of the Legislature from New York fighting the Gover- ing next Monday. Nine af the ten Senators appeured Schackny sent {word that althougi: unable to get to the meeting he wanted to be recorded City to to| refusing to answer questions put to trict Attorney Whitman appeared bo- fore Judge Crain for tho’ second time during the day with a complaint that Armstrong refused to answer ques- tions asked of him, Judge Crain also advised the Grand Jury it might consider the advis~ | abiliyt Of filing an indicument against Armstrong for tho eame offense if it thought he deserved further punisn- for te . | epee. | 2 48 full accord with ite purpose.| ment, piace eng tg a et Twenty of the twenty-six Demo- Detective Sergt. Wilnun J. Hussey, ‘ho Warden told him and the| CPatle Aswenwbiymen appeared In per-| who was indicted shortly. aftor noon Sheriff hung wp and told the re-{S0" Assemblymen Dicksteln, Dono-|tor receiving money iin violation of porters about it. They went to the} due Cann And Mc-/the penal code, pleaded not guilty nome of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Dick-| Ushi could not attend but sent) when arrkilgned before Judge Crain at gon of Teaneck, and notified them|®#Surance of support by qther legis-|2.30 o'clock. Hussey, a member of their daughter, Jennie, had become| ators. Assemblyman Leininger of] the Automobile Squad, iy alleged to the wife of Warden Jacobs. Father] Queens, the only one not heard from,| have accepted $100 reward for the re- Dickson was disposed to be angry was in Albany and ignorant that such}covery of a ian automebile He aid he spased his di: iter had |® meeting had een called Just dafore it adjourned the Grand gone to Manhattan sual, to bus-| Senator Walker said there was no] Jury returned wn indictnent charring iness. partisan significance in the fact that] Wiliam ‘T. Hemmerick of the Auto- Jacobs told the Sherif the cere-| only Democrats were prosent at the| mobile Squad with a similar offense. mony was performed at the Municipal} meeting. The Dem he said,! Arinstrong was before the Grand | Building in Manhattan. wanted to get every one of their mem-|Jury to testify as to the uperations | ae ders vut “into the sunlight” and putjof the Automobile Squad about them all definitely on record, They|which he is alluged to have SCHOOL TEACHERS TO GET THEIR PAY } {4 Have ‘The | school approved. | ceive thelr announced to-day. No versal | is | WOULD CUT NAVY ypiroller’s Been Audited; Will Be ‘Ready T January pi teachers had been and salaries to-morrow, at the Comptroller's oO the reason was of Comptroiler © ment of Saturday before the Chamber of Commerce that ol teache riven he | Personnel of the Cui i WASHINGTON, | of the | jeanne navy" of 100, Morrow, of would refus want later Says Rolls Salaries | of par the 20,000 audited and rs would re- was office tor this raig’s | pay, the money because of tee in faulls in vouchers submitted by the d of EXucation. Mr, Craig said that the board was using funds for purposes other than those for which they had been appropriated and de- clared “politicians'’ were to blame, to a ompared Court on day's meetip noges,” and, havi each Democrat other parties Imes in trying t ne Pull call i} Th ‘Last Hours Congress. WASHINGTON, Jan, 3L.—President Wilson was represented having decided to go to the Executive Room at the Capitol on the morning March 4 to sign Decides Refusal to Violate Confidence. show © said, ed the of He W no squirming or explanations uctual purpose was t (Continued on Second Page.) PRESIDENT MAY GO TO CAPITOL MARCH 4 Wilson Plans to Sign Bills Passed Present to-day pussed in the Right to of to- “count g found jut where ood, to invite those join and ignore ve the city, following made at Mr. Whitman's home on Pri- day & statement of rly typewritten pages. He nva fore Judge: Crain by Dete Thomas, followed by (Mr. Wt and the Grand Jury, and Mr, Whit- man informed the that Arm- strong had refused to answer th: questions put to him by the Grand Jury and himseir. The tint of the Whitnan euid, wa ne 300 Court ree questions, Mr. On or about (Continued on Second Page.) PRESIDENT DENIES CLEMENCY TO DEBS Rejects Attorney General's Recom- mendation for Commutation of Senter WASTITNGTOD ns cios burs of this session and| Wilson has dented a recomm TO 100,000 MAXIMUM] which could not became iow untess | sgh i ‘ : baie ur sentence af TGugene cae before adjournment of uhis} ) Tinted te expire ongress. nn as Was announced at the White House to- listed Forces] 1 will ibe dais dint visit to the Capt-| aay x ips ean A 43,000 by Appro- tol in nearly two years. No reason for the ratusal was given nrfations: Bill | - at the White House. It Is understood rte JUDGE BEN LINDSAY UPHELD. | tne tetter reacted the Wuitk Hous only Jan, 31 Reduction = to-day and was acted on imn Palmer, it is ande would be eeligtble for stood, said arole on Au, with & present possible maximum of| was satin . | 1922, and that if his com) behavior con. WASHINGTON, Jan The deck ° 143,000 is provided for in the Navallsion of the Colorado Supreme Court-| ttinues nis sentence would normally ex- Appropriations Bill, to be reported to) notding Judge Ben B. Linsey of the| Dire Deo. 28, | the House to-morrow. | Juyenile Court of Denver guilty of con- | If adopted, the weeding out proceas| tempt of court becal vatinna Kol " jwill bagin July 11, the businaing Of the reveal the confidences of a twelve-year | HASN T QUIT, SAYS PLAINTIFF Wen deen “Conemea. Hee "| old boy, whose mother was on trial for| N; Y, Manager fer Ford Aethevises | ub-cominittee, Ww ramed the murder of his father, was allowed] De 2 bill, declared that 100,00) men would| to stand by the Supreme Court to-day, | niet ei'hener® bo pufficlent und that Uh would —_ Plantiff, New York manager hy pul on Ya restul Shortage Found in Marlon ‘Treaxarer's | ¢ tor Company and He: mination 0 upda of he Hooks. | t and spokesman L MARION, Ohio, Jar attending the fu- apa nately $16,000 in tt la afternoon > Ml Mat Soufit ud tren to PHD WORLD TRAVEL Woes 1 been told a Bash x H font for, SN. 1 5 n . tha Ohowk room for in ga “ ; und " i ight, Menuy orders au avell tiv 000, was found State Ex . 1 organize fe adn. aumineys, they said here to-day, Uou or ued been rem: ing | contro! of the city’s public utilities.|the Automobile Gquad of the Police | Workers’ ‘Razz’ ‘Too Much, Prince ts His $5 Job i} we Th Wate of H ——- ey / PRINCESS LUDOVICO e workman, anxiou: Lusines started him in ten da: move furniture for his new hotel from lewalk to the upstairs floors. to find heavy c! unprot down to 110 W, 62d Street the gollowing morn- ing, got his $30 pay, re of the ever had a job moving $5 a dey, ATLANT titled son through f PIGNATELLI the chaff of the Ludovico Pignateit Prince, there to-day, as good per as handily his fellow wort Prince's te have to him loyally, saya do twice as much work as the in Wall Street; and not a latter, s Pigr Through With throw up his jab at the Dassador und incur the displeasure of his father-in-law, G. indéed, a8 had moving furniture. and he as ally belied the democracy of the by chafing him because of his re father-in him te: from the ground up, s ago to help the executive fur ™ tac D'ARAGON.. Ludovico Pignatelli d’Arayon Can Move Hotel Furniture stand Puns. n't the guff af the work but workmen Jed Trince dAragon pockets of the Allies. Iideed, ahe | was st 600d! crt experts here caleulnte that the any the hotel it was jearned payroll untij the day te quit, » Hotel Am- jason Waters, earned ‘his man ot jess persed the His Highness came down regularly, it wam stated te yuntry saa |® protective tariff on foreign goods the money goes into the American Treasury and helps pay Government aw WAS | pile and reduoc the amounts that rm the hotel) rust be raised by direct taxation, so he ay, stingly until’ his identity was a fot 12 per cent, tax on oxports agen Honor, the King, give us a] ot only unscientific but unequal litt with this shaze long” was irking,|°24 dlecriminatory and will restrict but the Prince didn't protest ut that,|'ade with Germany as well ns the even if the form of address was seine. [OURtries which are reiched through ‘hat incorrect. Only a iit of the {Germany as a distrébuting oantre in preceded thie tft of the| middle Huropa Anything that re- stricts trade is frowned upon because Air Aguin’ and |it Js realized bere that if Germany King Hoist” were new namen he|!# t pay her annual payments on was dubbed with as new days came, |e tndemnity she mus? make mone but Prine) Tauloview somehow, and she cannot make @Aragon, as became a money if her goods aro not sold. paid no attention to tham until last Similarly—and here is where the Friday, when, it is said, a rude work-|Most vital factor of the whole ques man made a crude play on the hon- | Hon 8 in—aniess can oruble family name of Mgnatell sel, goals to the United , “A little Itvely, there, Pi with not have tho money to buy Tt wus too much. The I? ao. ai ed and re turned to the more rspectful en- vironment of his wife's home at Mer- OF MAINE IS DEAD rick, L. 1 . . Mr. Waters han «nid he is through | Chill Suddenly Develop at a Time with the Prince becaus le won't He Was Thought to Be work, but his wife, who is sticking Improving Dusband can nesle and worked with a will that enabled ain hig way up the stairs with nirs and tubles on Tis hacle TERMS IMPOSED ON GERMANY sce ULL... ASBLOM TOUS, Washington Officials Say Ex- port Tax Will Benefit Allies at American Expens WOULD HAMPER TRADE. | | | Germans May Sign Away, Commerce Rights Before | Harding Take j o Offic By David Lawrence. (Special Cortespondent of The Eve ning World.) | WASHINGTON, Jan, 3 } 1921) While proval here of the ide (Copyr there is genera ap of fixing nounced that a long note had arrived from Paris which said that a unani mous agreement had been reached by the Allies on the reparations ques- definitely the sum the Germans must pay 98 war reparation, there ts con-| siderable murmuring and indeed dis atl attempt to make the American people rman Indemnity. | pay a part of the The section of the Allied propomu which Is coming In for severe criticism would levy a 12 per cent, tax on the exports of Germany, This ineans that the American purchaser of Ge inan goods youll Daye to pay the ts nd that t money would g into the to 12 per cent. taxon German exports | will oparute ag’a protecuve tartff would uperate if imposed at this end it will keep out certain German goods altoxethér, and will let in other kinds | that wnust be bought ms,| But it will bo with this difference: | When the American Congress jmpovas | br the . The action of the Allies in tnxposing An export tax simply means that the American people who buy German srouds will pay the tax to the AMic and thus relieve the Germans of a park, at least, of thelr obfigution SAY TAX WILL RESTRICT THE GERMAN TRADE ‘aritt authorities here tnaist thas (Continned on Ninth — GOV. PARKHURST | in Congressional clpoles ts that which | [other members of the Socialist Party At ITA. Me Jan. 3). rederick je[ Hi Parkhurst, Governor of Muine, died wn, Jat 9.15 o'elook A.M. to-day. Ho failed |to recover from the effects of a digh | thoritie te fection under t tongue with Swhich he wi eked th ke a0, Appar he Was improving until night eveloped and when ch la nt Mr | state Kepub.icen affairs. REJECTION BY GERMANY OF REPARATIONS TERMS ~ FORECAST IN REICHSTAG No Cabinet Would Dare Attempt Compliance, It Is Asserted—Bank- ruptcy Is Forecast—Claim Made That Terms Strike Blow at U. S. BERLIN, Jan. 31 day, it was $5 When the Reichstag convened, tion. P ee 4 ction over what amounts to 80/1 § SUPREME COURT, |?" the quest |nity ahead in the order ofsdmasiness, so DECIDES FOR BERGER |; nay ne aisposed Met ence. ‘The Reichstag then adjourned until to-morrow, ness of the situation.” the various parties were called to de- cide what positions shall be taken, ‘The press is unanimous in declar+ jarmany cantOU cept the teri, “Lat them do what they will, Ger- _ man acquiescence Impossible,” the 'Tageblatt declared. “Millions of children of this and tu ture death by these decisions," according to the Kreuzzeitung. Conviction of Socialist and Four Others Under Spy Act Is Set Aside. WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—Convie- {lon of Vietor L. Berger amt four for violation af the Espionage Act was reversed to-day by the Supreme Court on the ground that Judge Lan- (is should the sult after is been at. heard had not have eligibility ed ‘Those convicted with Berger in the deral Court at Chicago were Adolph | wrmer, National Secretary of the party, William Kruza, editor of | the Young Socialists’ Magazine; J. Lou Tucker Kngdabi, and frwin St. Jobo The Court divided etght to one, Jus-| py tne present Government. It is tice Day filing a dissenting opinion. stated flatly thay no Cabinet, no mat- —s ter what its complexion, would dare 3 DEAD, 19 INJURED to make an effort to meet the terms * laid down, There is feeling that! IN PROVIDENCE FIRE ‘Colkupse of Part of Building Precip- itates Hose Campany lato Blazing Pit OV LO TINK I firemen were 3. Threw nineteen Jan and dalled others injured while Mghting u fire of the Dbnsine ‘Whe dead are in the heart 8 aection here to-day. Lieut, Thomas H. Kelleher THE UNITED STATES. John Tague. It is pointed ont that the Buropean Arthur © Allies in their terms have made a ‘Trapped on a reef and piinded by|direct thrust at the United States. smoke when fi suddenly severed |1t precludes the possibility of « the front wall, 4 company of Mremen| treaty by which any financial claime wore hurled into a fiery pit, Thetr/of¢ America may interfere with the comrades in the street were show- | reparations ered with buge javelins of bldsing| Apart from this definite control of beams and debris, tut, defying the danger from what remained of tho totlering framework, they rashed into the ruins and brought out the liviog and the dead SHIP REPAIR COST CUT TO U.S. BOARD Most Yards in New York District Agree to 12 1-2 Per Cent. Reduntion. Kteduction of 12 1-2 per cent. in the fost of ship repairs to Government vessels, with an approximate saving As rewards the disarma- of $2,500,000 a year, has heen granted | Ment of Germany, the Allied ° ahip yardn in| COverments have approved the y a majority of the ship yards In! conclusions fornfulated in the | the port of New York, it waa an-| note attached hereto, fy nounced her day by Commander As regnrde the question of R. D, Gatewood, director of the} reparations, the Allied Govern- Hourd's Division of Construction nd] ments’ have unanimously a Repairs, | proved the proposals formulated Whe w mid, applied to] In that document, also attached A. ieuta mle mi sub-con-} hereto, raat work, with swrcent. re-|VEILED THREAT OF FORCE , wnges for labor witione IF GERMANY BALK, fuetie Wins tu The Alllcd Governments have Loh led. n on former eecadions and agate 1 * 4 ft) to. day, in consenting to fresh de~ uo yards, Immediately after a session of the Refehstag to yported the German Government intends to refuse to pay the .000,000,000 in reparations demanded by the Allies in their present form. Foreign Von Simons asked the Reichstag to ; the Entente “again has appealed to LONDON, Jan. 31.—With the for- warding to Berlin of the reparations agreement signed by the AMies word comes from the German capital that there is no hope of its being accepted the situation ix fraught with dahger ‘The belief is expressed by the news. papers will force the nation into bankruptey if an effort be made to carry them out ‘The agreement which was sent to German Ambassador at yesterday has gone forward to Ber- and awaited. DIRECT THRUST the lin, Germany's future financial relations with the United States, the effect of the 12 ports is being calculated by some ex- perts as bringing at least 500,000,000 marks worth of American money inte the Allied treasuries, while the Allied industries will benefit by the dump- ing of German goods in the United States, The terms as sent to Germany were accompanied by @ note, which said: Sir: which met in Paris from the 24th to the 29h of January, 1 taken the following dectatonw lays im the matter of disarma. LE Mini@er von Simons an n of paying the indem- “because of the serious- Caucuses of to those terms th generations are sentenced tw Tagticho Hundscbau asserted fore in Germany that the terms Paris an answer is anxiously 1S MADE AT per cent, tax on German ex The Allied conference bas Se en eee, ee ee ee ee