The evening world. Newspaper, February 4, 1921, Page 1

Si - To-Night’s Weather—PROBABLY RAIN, _WALL STREET FINAL DITION Che [“ Circulation Books Open to At ee | VOL. LXI. NO. 21,655—DAILY. Copyright, 1921, Co. (The by The Prew Publishing New York World), NEW “YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, Bn AOL ARPS PEPPLLLM SRLS ODDO P ROALD D DLA LD BRINDELL IN TOMBS; HETTRICK TRIAL NEXT f “Circulation Books Mt toA ; 1921, Fntered as Post Offlee, ———— “e-Morrow's Weather-—PROBABLY RAIN: WARMER: Second-Class Matter Now York, N. ¥. iS) PRICE THREE [REE CENTS: HENRY FORD'S FRIENDS DENY STORIES OF BlG FINANCIAL TROUBLE IN His BUSINESS FIGHT FOR MILLER PLAN CENTRES CN SENATE CONTESTS Lusk Cracks G. O. P. Whip in Seat Disputes to Aid Traction Grab. Manufacturer’s Mind Declared to ne TRANSIT BILL DRAWN. Alert and Detroit Bankers Insist He Can Get All the Money He Needs When He Asks For It. By Martin Green. (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) DETROIT, Feb. 4.—With 60,000 workmen capable of earning good’ ALBANY, N. Y¥. Feb. 4—Every wages out of employment in Detroit and vicinity, because of the closing down of the plants of the Ford Motor Company, it is no wonder that the financial condition of the company and the physical and mental condition | of He: ry Ford are the reigning topi¢s of conversation in Detroit and mat- | ters of speculation in banking and industrial circles all over the country. | Ot of the “They tell me” and “I have it from the inside” and “Did you | hear the latest abeut Henry Ford” talk, there has grown up in the last two months a mountain ofvallegations concerning Mr. Ford and his indus- tries the foundation of which is largely idle gossip. It 1s rumored that Mr, Ford is no fonger able to stand the strain ot| running the most profitable industry in the world; that he has shattered) the organization he began to build| up fifteen years ago; that he is in Zinancial straits and“has gone beg- ging for money to Wall Street; that a syndicate of New York and Bos- ton bankers je about to assume con- trol of the Ford business; that there| is a war based on jealousy inside the| organization and that one ciique has gained the sympathy of Mr, Ford ‘by misrepresentation; that he has squandered $75,000,000 in unproduc- tive expansion—in short it is rumored that Henry Ford has blown up. Here are the facts of the situation, {gathered by a careful investigation gn Detroit—but it should be suid, in the beginning, that none of the forth | coming information came direct from Mr, Ford. 1 have been unable to see Mr. Ford, ‘The Grand Lama of Thibet in bis astle in the Himalaya Mountains ts no more inaccessible than Henry Ford in his castle at Dearborn, & guburb of Detroit. The outer anu inner sentinel is E. G, Liebold, Mr Ford’s general secretary. When |i is impossible to get past Mr. Liebold it is Impossible to get to Henry Ford, and at the present time Mr, Liebola is ifnpregnabdle. “When Mr. Ford gets ready to talk the will lct all the newspapers know,” (Continued on Fourteenth Page.) DOUBLE FARES FOR FLATBUSH UPHELD Court of Appeals Sustains Ruling Brooklyn City Railroad May Charge 10 Cents. Feb, 4.—The Brooklyn City ay charge two 5-cent fares ALBAN’ Railroad in jts Flatbush Line, the Court of Ap- penis held, to-day, In affirming a de- cision of the Appellate Division, First Department. time ago the railroad company Som: instituted a double fare charge on the Flatbush Une and the Public Service Commission issued an order directing to collect only one fare. the company phe cas and t nuled Court of Appeals. BANDITS HOLD UP TRUST CO. York nn, t to the Appellate Division Commission's order was an- hen the case was carried to the we Men in Auto With New License Get $15,000 Jn I READING, Pa, Feb, 4 People's Trust © 4 andits mpany suburb, to-day of cash ie bearing « New York Sta leone covered the bank employe with pistols, look the mQuvy Alu sevuti- ties and eso SPUN FA [ ta, SUES TO ENIOIN ENRIGHT PAYING HIMSELF PENSION —_—_— . William J. Schieffelin Assails $3,750 Annuity From Police Head to Lieutenant. William J. Schieffelin of the Citi- zens’ Upion to-day began a taxpayers’ action to obtaln an order from the Su- preme Court restraining Police Com- missioner Enright, individually and as Police Commissioner, from paying himself $3,750 a year from the Poligg Pension Fund under Special Order 292, issued Dec. 22, 1920. Police records, showing _Commis- sioner Enright retired Lieut, Rich- ard E. Enright, appointed Nov. 2% 1896, of the 102d Precinct, Dec, 22, last, on a pension of $3,750 per an- hum, are included in the moving papers. Leonard M. Walistein rep- resents Mr, Schieffelin. Argument on the motion will be heard by Jus- tice Bijur in Equity Part of Supreme Court Tuesday morning: CITY TO RUN CARS IN SPITE OF B. R.T. To Ignore Threat fe to Withdraw Lines Over the Williams- burg Bridge. If the city attempts to operate a car Une over Williamsburg Bridge the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company will cease operation of its Wilson Avenue, Broaway, Tompkins Ave- nue, Sumner Avenue, Ralph-Rocka- way and the Nostrand Avenue lincs cver that structure, according to a report made to the Board of Bstimate by Grover A. Whalen, Commissioner of Plant and Structures. Thy lines link Brownsville in Brook- lyn with the lower cast side of Man- hattan It is claimed by the com- pany that were !t not for the fares collected on rides across the bridge the ines ip ques'ion could not exist. The city operated bridge tine that Commissioner Whalen has under con sideration would be on the three cent fare basis in the beginning. Uiti- ‘mately he hopes to decrente the fare to 4 cent a ride vin threat will be ignored by the ‘ ” anid Me, Wha ido pot think tt will be carried out, pe tion of the aildge taliey lune wil begin Maroh 1,” i erpt en... “Personally | Is Submitted to Governor and With His Approval Will Be Introduced Next Week. | | By Joseph S. Jordan. | (Staff Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) man counts now with the majority party whips of both Houses of the Legislature in their efforts to put through the traction legislation which would take from Greater New York the control of the transit Mines. While the lobby is herding votes in its own way, the leaders within doors are pulling strings and bringing every pressure to bear on all Repub- lican members who show any signs of yielding to the protection of home rule as against the political Whe-up. ‘Tho matter of contested seats has be- come a most serious matter to the leaders, and they are going to pre- ¥ent if possible the seating of Demo- crats, even to the extent of reversing their own party’s rulings in the past. ‘Three contests are on in the As- sembly and two in the Senate, In the former, Republicans are the contest- ants and in the latter Democrats. ‘The leaders are more afraid of the Senate than of the Lower House. tt requires only twenty-six votes fora majority in the Upper House, and if Gréater New York's delegation be- comes a unit, all that will be neces- sary will be two votes to kill the Governor's transit programme, Both contests in the Senate come from New York City. Daniel Carroll is contesting the seating of Abrahain L, Katlin §n the 11th Senatorial D:s- trict, and former Senator John J. Dunnigan claims to have been elected instead of George H. Taylor in the 23d District. Dunnigan is the man of whom the leaders are most afraid, and the edict has gone forth that he must not be seated. His election means one more yote against th: traction interests. LUSK LAYS DOWN “LAW” TO G. 0. P. MEMBERS. Senator Schuyler M. Meyer of New York is Chairman of the Committee of Privileges and Elections, and he and other Republican members have been apparently friendly to the for mer Senator, and more than one hss told him that if the returns showed his election he would be seated be- yond doubt, But it has suddeniy (Continued on Page Twenty-one.) GOES 150 MILES, LOSES 15 POUNDS, HUNTING LOST CAT Pet Disappeared While Water- vieit Woman Was Visiting Friends in Syracuse. Special Dempatch to The Evening Workd, SYRACUSE, N. ¥., Fob. 4, RS, WILLIAM REU, an in- M valid, came 150 miles from Watervieit, N. Y,, to-day to search for her lost cat, On Jan. 1 Mr. and Mrs, Reu were visiting friends here over the holidays. While out for an airing the anjmal slipped its leash and disappeared, ‘They advertised without result, After several days Mr. Reu had to return home, but hia wife stayed on, Later she, too, went home, but continued to advertise. Now she has returned to continue her hunt. Mrs. Reu has grieved over the lows of her pet until she has Jost Mfteen poundsy @. OFFICIAL Chairman Butler of H Tells Colleagues Sims by the United States, A view c rman Butler did not say from his line of questioning of wi Harding. Mr. Butler recently confe: overseas naval forces, was the first ence. would direct our activities toward GIRL WHO KILLED SELF OVER SCHOOL FAILURE A NOVELIST “Pauline’s Dream Violin,” by Stella Trana, Ends on an Unfinished Sentence. Fourteen-year-old Stella Trana, who died at her home, No, 375 Summer Avenue, Newark, after shooting her- self Wednesday when she falied of promotion in school, had been writ- ing a novel. Her mother, Mrs, Vin- cenza Trana, permitted friends to- day to read the manuscript of “Paul- ine’s Dream Violin.” It was not finished and ended ab- ruptly with the heroine listening to the violin playing of a stranger, a He had come into great musician, her home out of a storm after stop- ping at the door when he heard her play. Stella, her father said, much of her time during the term writing and reading, because she was ambitious to become a writer, and it was due to that, per- haps, she failed to make the marks necessary for promotion, a failure which humiliated her beyond bearing. The story of “Pauline’s Dream Violin” starts thus: had spent past “With the soft, gentle air came the gound of music—a violin! Not as you orl would play it, but as if the fairies themselves were touching the strings. Ina Jarge room sat an old professor im his armchair. He had soft, gray hair down to his neck. His eyes were shut. He was soon asleep, It was a habit of his to fall asleep while his daughter played. Then the girt walked quietly out of the room te her mother who was in the kitchen cooking. “The sky darkened and thunder was heard. Then big drops of rain were heard on the window pane. Very quickly she helped her mother close the window.” ‘The story then told of a stranger coming out of the storm into Pauline’s home. . He asked her to play for him, but she finally persuaded him to play eoause she felt he was a great artist. “She sat listening to the muste, which was sweet and goft, al though——" and here the tale broke off, never to be finished. THD WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU. Aieade, lesan (World, Wi 5 adage an’ ‘ope day Times’ vedere t ¢ lai oad tuavallers’” chacta HARDING TO ISSUE CALL FOR DISARMAMENT PARL_Y, ANNOUNCEMENT ouse Naval Committee of Plan—Admiral for It. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. N international conference to discuss disarmament will be called Chairman Butler of the House Naval Committee said to-day when the committee met to hear the of prominent naval officers on the subject. when the call would be issued, but tnesses it was assumed he thought the call would be issued soon after the inauguration of President rred with Mr. Harding at Marion, O. Rear Admiral William S, Sims, war-time commander of America’s witness examined by the committee, With Germany's power crushed, Admiral Sims said, all nations couid reduce their naval armaments by half with safety. He added that he believed the nations would welcome a call for a disarmament confer- Admiral Sims's views were in conflict with those ‘of Secretary Daniels and with the findings of the General Board of the Navy in a report to Daniels, made public yesterday. “I don't believe there is a battleship built that cannot be put out of commission by airplane bombs,” he said, “If I had my way I the development of aviation.” MANDATE GIVES BRITAIN POWER OVER PALESTINE pene: Draft, Published in London, to Be Submitted to League | of Nations. aka | | LONDON, Feb. 4—The British draft of the mandate for Pulestine, which will be submitted to the Coun- cil of the League of Nations at its next meeting in Geneva, provides in lits first article that the mandatory nation (Great Britain) shall have all the powers inherent in the govern- ment of a sovereign state, according to the text af the draft, printed by the Jewish Chronicle here to-day. Among the outstanding features of the twenty-seven articles of the man- date are stipulations that the widest measure of self-government for lo- culities, cunsistent with prevailing conditions, shall be encouraged, and that the mandatory shall be reaponsi- Lie for maintaining such political, ad- ministrative and economic conditions as shall secure the establishment of a Jewish national home and the de- velopment of eelf-governmental in- stitutions, The mandatory assumes the ro- | Sponsibility of seeing to it that no "alestine territory shall be ceded, leased or otherwise subjected to any foreign power; that Jewish immigra- tion shall be facilitated; that the civil and religious rights of all the (Continued on Second Page.) — MIKE GILHOOLY’S “ANGEL” A BRIDE Foster-Mother of Stowaway and Writer Married—Romance of Mexican Inquiry, Mra. Marian Gilhooly Curry, No, 142 West 57th Street, was married to-day to Wallace Thompsen, a writer, of No, 55 West 44th Street, at the home of her sister, Mra. J. F. J. Arclgbald, No, 829 Park Avenue, the Rev. W. Eliis Will- is officiating. Capt. Paul Hudson, editor of the Mexico City Herald, waa best man. Miss Peggy Gilhooly, o sister of the bride, was maid of honor. Mrs, Curry met Mr, Thompson, whose second wife she is, while both were testifying Defore the Fall committee investigating onditions in Mexico, where each served the Government du: the war. He has been Vice Conant Monterey and an editor of various publications, Including ‘Town and Country Mrs, Thompson, the bride, recently attracted considerable attention by adopting Michael Gilhooly, an irrepres- [sible stowaway, BRNDELL GUILTY, HETTRICK 1S NEXT TOBE PUT ON TRIAL Author of “Code of Procedure” May Face a Jury for Con- spiracy on Tuesday. LABOR SHOULD BE GLAD So Says Mr. Untermyer, Who Sees Its Deliverance From the Yoke of a Tyrant. ‘With Robert P. Brindell in the Tombs awaiting sentence for extortion, which may amount to fifteen years’ im- prisonment, step jeleaning up the criminal housing and building situation in this city will be the trial of Jobn T, Hettrick, which is to be berun on Tuesday, according to Samuel Untermyer, who conducted the prosecution of Brindell, Hettrick, who has been indicted for conspiracy in restraint of trade, is the author of the notorious “code of procedure,” which meant tollasive bidding by contractors in furnishing estimates for work. Brindel déhied himaett ‘to-day all visitors at the Tom¥s save his, attomey, John JF O'Connor, When he had had his breakfast in bis cell on the first tier of the prison, the waiting newspaper men sought to sce him, but he sent word that he did not desire to nee any one. Mr. O'Connor told the reporters that nothing would be done in his client's behalf until there had been a conference with Martin W. Littleton, senior counsel, No action will be lUkely before Thursday. The specific charge on which Brin- dell was convicted, the first of seven charges against him, was the extor- tion of $5,000 from Max Aronson for ending a strike and allowing work to be continued on a loft building at No. 285 West 36th Street. Brindell's defense was an alibl. ‘The penalty may be as high as fifteen years in State Prison. ‘The jury was out one hour and twenty minutes and took but one ballot, The conviction of Brindell, which ts expected to bea salutary lesson to labor boselem, js the first notable achievement of the Lockwood Com- mittee’s investigation of the housing situation (n this city and the criminal things which made it a scandal to those who knew what was going on “jnside.” To bring about the convie~ tion, twenty-five combinations of labor and capital were investigated, 222 indictments, Including the seven peturned against Brindell, were found and forty-four pleas of guilty to these the next towar) jecond ab Fags, ) “BEAUTIFUL DREAM SOON FINISHED,” SAYS EX-KAISER “And Now—This,” He Adds, in In- terview With Woman Jour- nalist at Doom, it is under- SF IKISH COMMANDER IN CHIEF WOUNDED LEADING BATTLE AT ROSS CARBERY: ESCAPES. Volunteers Who Went to London in Uniform to Attend the Funeral of aby to Prison for Three Years. \ e LONDON, Feb. 4.—Michael Collins, reputed Commander in Chief of the Irish Republican Army, was shot from his horse while leading a big Sinn Fein offensive at Ross Carbery, the Evening News declared today... The newspaper said Collins was shot while directing the escape of over 100 Sinn Feiners after the attack failed. He escaped with his men. Sentences of six years’ penal seryitude each were imposed to-day dh Belfast upon the eight men who were arrested Oct, 25, when discovered on the Kingstown mail boat, wearing Irish Volunteer uniforms, on thelr way to attend the funeral in London of Lord Mayor MacGwiney of Cork. The sentences, however, were made three years actually in each cas, three years being remitted. _— Three men who were found NO WINE LIMIT , FOR THOSE SICK, KRAMER DECIDES Puts Physicians on Their Honor, but Warns Them to Be Careful. WASHINGTON, Feb. Rol EDERAL Prohibition Com< missioner Kramer to-day put physicians on their honor as to the quantity of wines . they may prescribe for patients, Mr. Kramer removed all re- strict'ona on the use of wines as medicine except “such quantities of wine as physicians may in the exercise of their sound and hon~ est judgment deem necessary.” Formerly wines could be pre~ wcribed only at the rate of one pint every ten days, Physicians, however, were warned not to abuse the privi- lege. The ruling was contained in a@ letter to prohibition direc- tors. — UTAH TO BAR CIGARETTES. All Smoking Im Public Places Pro- hibited by Senate Gilt, SALT LAKE CITY. Utah, Feb. 4.— ‘The Anti-Cigarette Bill forbidding the manufacture und sale of cigarettes in Utah was passed by the Senate last night. Fourteen, voted aye” and three “no.” The bill also prohibi okt of cigars, cigarettes and pipes in any public places, were acpies to-day that ‘a coup wil)’ © attempted in Dublin ‘vy the/ epublican Army, Ki The? .ature of the “big show* not disclosed. The military scoffed # the rumors, but patrols were increased and every lorry sent into the carried a hostage, chained and locked to his seat. Despite this the number of attacks has OFFICIAL REPRISALS CARRIED OUT IN WILLIAMSTOWN, © In an official reprisal carried ot yesterday, the Post Office and a ness house at Williamstown burned, The burnings were on count of the ambush of Jan. - in which Divisional Holmes of the Royal Irish ‘ary was fatally wounded, dying following day, Five constables were wounded in this attack. f The third murter trial arising of the assassination of court mart officers in Dublin last November, et for to-day, was postponed to/an * announced date. It was stated the postponement was in conseq! of an attempt to assassinate an portant witness for the proseoul This witness, whose name was given, was wounded in the attagk ‘upon him, More than twenty persons wore , killed in Ireland in fighting between police and Sinn Feiners during the Saath aellleeeeecsiatt last twenty-four hours, Twelve af the Court of Appeal» Delays Rept Law|dead ure members of the r Decision, Nine of the latter met death two lorries ran into an between Drunkeen and in the County Limerick. Two seriously wounded at the same Dublin Castle has announced another ambuscade took place Ballinhassig, County Cork, a distance southwest of Queenstown, | Four constables were attacked, of them were Shot dead and them was seriously wounded, other man escaped. (Special to The Kvening Workd), Y., Feb, 4.—The Court without no decision til! wbout th LINCOLN He was intensely human TROUGH a ruse, stood, the ex-Kaiser, w.th- out admitting his identity, has been interviewed briefly by a young woman journalist, who went to Doorn and eluded the Dutch authorities, who do not permit William to give interviews or be photographed. She ts euld to have waylaid him on his morn- ing walk, and after asking her what she wished him to say, and being told “a word on the past,” he sald, according to an interview printed in the New York Tunes to-day: ‘Everybody knows about that. It was @ beaatiful dream, too soon ed, and now—and now, Continuing, the ex-Kaiser said: “No one knows the future,” | —this great President of ours. He loved, he fought, he “tended store,” and he could split more rails than any other youth in New Salem. Read the intensely interesting story, by Irving Bacheller, of this country boy whom we shall honor on Feb, 12. “A MAN FOR THE AGES” The first instalment will appear Monday, Feb. 7, in The Evening World. Majot Carew, an auxiliary man dressed in citizens’ clothes, followed inte @ restaurant in yesterday and shot in the arm a man armed w th @ revolver, was sent to @ hospital. His escaped. District Inspector Francis ington Craven was one of . killed in the ambuscade Wedne ‘at Ballinalee, He served in the jduring the war and received gf |Americaa Distinguished Servite |der. : | While commanding the British stroyer Mounsey ‘he saved 600 can soldiers - from. transport Otramtey that: was lost as a result of a coll with the steamer Kashmir off Scottish Coast in October, 2918. WALL aL ' | EDITION Lord Mayor MacSwiney Are Sent _ te ° t ‘ i ' S ' } | ' i i 3) 24 er eee eee