The evening world. Newspaper, February 14, 1921, Page 1

To-night’s Weather—FAIR AND COLDER. ALL STREET EDITION VOL. LXI. NO. 21,663—-DAILY. Copyright, 1921, by The Pres Publishing Co. (The New York World), NEW. “YORK, MONDAY, STORY:OF A BLUE SUNDAY IN ZION CITY FEBRUARY 14, 1921. eee * Secont=Clnae Matter New York, 3 BLAME MOTORMAN IN LONG. ISLAND WRECK CRAIG PLANS BILL bee mal PME. Tint ony WALSH WAS KILLED FORGITY TO TAKE “PLACES THAT KEEP OPEN BY RIVAL GANG OF OVERALL CARLINES sen ein Sunny ~ BOOTLEG BANDITS Frowned Upon in Town) Sueptotinr Says Says Many of the Where Voliva Rules and | Mystery of Raid." Raid That Cosi Manhaitan Surface Lines Where Movies, Drug Two Lives Believed to Be Cleared Up by Police. 5 w Stores, Dancing, Secret Co 2 apped. y ig, Si ipceamricsahs is Societies, Cards, Tobacco, ECKERT CASE UNLINKED. ATTACKS MILLER PLAN.| Gum, Love Stories and] Headquarters Deiective Sentt| “Jazz” Are Taboo. Only “Recreations” Are Finds No Connection With Tabernacle Music and Vo-, Staten Island Murder. | liva’s, Preaching, Though ¢—————_— ZION CITY’S OVERSEER | Believes Abrogation of 5-Cent Fare Clause in Subway Dual Contract Is Illegal. Ceomptrolier Craig announced to- ‘ ¢ police of Newark and New day ae the protest moeting in City Sacred Airs May Be Brunswick declared this afternoon Hall against Gov. “Mil traction, Played at Home and Chil- that they had cleared the mystery programme that he proposes pre- | dren Play Behind Closed from the killing of Leo Salamandra ing a bill providing for the takin| Doors — Even Babies by bootleg bandits at Kingston, ¥. Away from private ownership of ail! Mist Attend Church. J., last Thursday night and the sub- sequent murder of Frank Walsh, of the bandit leaders, one the traction Ines in this city, inciud ing the subways, elevated and sur-) aes Gh aa | Joy Riding and Sunday The murderers were in, two auto- cee aon tds eats i: W. Iks, Ex t to Chu: mobile accidents due to reckless driv- the surface lines, particularly thoee | a cep! rch, ing in the hours following the mur- in Manhattan operating under long; Under Ban—What New \der. One was near New Brunswick, term exo ant leases, should be se! where they abandoned thelr own vcrapped. fhe taking over of the! York May Expect if Cadillace automabile, driving to the Lord’s Day Alliance Has Its Way—And Voliva Is Coming to Aid Blue Law Programme- outskirts of Newark with a milkman, A few hours later they ran an Essex car into a railway crossing gate in Newark and abandoned it. They were so injured tn the two accidents traction lines would be accompiished | by the exercising of the city's power of eminent domain, the Comptroller | contends. Comptroller Craig believes Gov. Miller's plan, which #ecks to abro- WG. Veuve same, | that the police have been able to gate the b-cent fare clause in the | Set ———————| trace them. It is regarded as certain jual subway contracts, is unconsti- | By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. ney will be arrested by midnight tutional. Replying to a question of | (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) Tho story of the Trenton taxtcab esse N Taiied | TWA MORES eet abe ZION CITY, IL, Feb. 14—There 18 even now # BLUE SUNDAY in| @tiver, William Palmer, who was of the meeting, called by the Demo- wes et Erie a . hired by a man in Trenton early cratic legisiators of New York City} America, Thursday evening and kept waiting at which t Comptroller neg very day is SUNDAY in Zion City, since it allows no movies, nO| pear Salamandra’s place fot an hour Comptrovier Craig stated with on “itheatres, no drug stores, no saloons, no secret societies, no card playing,| under orders to follow the whiskey ettenor Niaseit teiteved. bis plan |80 dancing, no gambling, no jazz music, no swearing, no tobsceO, M0 EO Te en saan snot would pass ¢ est in court. |no love stories, But Zion City’s Sunday is Blue Sunday. I have just lived} taxicab driver, who relieved Palmer from his job after an hour's waiting. told the police he followed kK until it was near the scene af the hold-up, and then his passen- ger told him to go ahead and make for the New Brunswick Post Office, His passenger ullghted there and went into a restaurant, It has been learned that he telephoned from the restau- rant to a cafe in Newark of which one of of the alleged occupants of the | car was the manager. The owner of the car in which Walsh went out on his foray for the Salamandra whiskey is alleged to be his brother. The police are now satisfied that the taxi ‘ Passenger was a scout for a second band of robbers who up the municipal | through it and I know. penership SU; Mie Coa eas: Tt It is the true azure article—nowhere to go, but chureh; nowhere to authorizes the termination of all pri- : vate operation of traction lines with- | stay but home. with its heathenish derivation is) 4 the City of New York. Such a] taboo in Zion City; the Zionists prefer to speak of the “Lord’s Day,” as do bil] would permit the termination of | yur local Blue Law Boosters, the leaders of the Lord’s Day Alliance. If existing operating contracts 90 far} they have theif way with our legislative bodies, your Sunday and mine in ag they regard the subways and may |the year future may resemble in most particulars the “fast blue” affair now make provision for the payment (0/1 be round in the eminent domain of Wilbur Glenn Voliva, successor to| any security holders of any eee |John Alexander Dowie. So, to make you acquainted with the programme ba Seay ee en ay sae | possibly in store for you, I went from New York to Chicago and in the pet properties phrase of the small town paper, “Sundayed” yesterday in Zion City, Perpetual franchises ‘under legislative! Ta %, “tow. paved sidewalks, but grants, the city should have the right] TO & ee ee trents, with one oF and building industries, the adminis- tration buildings and Zion Home, in that way received denefit. They call it a city, but it is like to terminate the operation of those| tree nes plocks” containing one which is a combination hotel and In summing Even the name “Sunday” lines because they are obsolete, such ‘ knew of Walsh's expedition and “prick fronts," as the Broadway surface line of Man-|OF Wo “Bric planned successfully to rob the ban- “go far as the surface lines are con- yaa abi i e' B a ticularly those holding | SPrwwling v! e community, com- bo uaiadiegalevaaney ®) rising in all more than 6,000 acres, | ok) with most of| the structuros two-story frames of wood often needing paint. These in- clude the dwelling houses, the baking Of CONFIDENCE MEN dits, ‘They belleve that the second band had an accomplice with Walsh and that Walsh ‘believed his mur- derers to be his friends, and this would explain the ease with which ‘These lines have become ab- solete because they are paralleled un- derneath by the rapid transit lines, which provide local and express ser- for practically the entire length hattan. vice »f the surface lines. apartment house. Voliva and his | he was down by @ revolver held ‘Upon the determination that those} wife live here, A fow of the houses close to bis head. lines no longer serve any useful pur-|and tho printing plant, are of brick.) Dealers Told They Would Get) _ The report of Coroner Hardi New Brunswick, N day on autopsy on the body One of these was the residence of the late Dowie, and is colored like a] string of signal flags, the first three the top story white, the y should be? empowered removal of their tracks pose the © to compel the Out Easy as Profiteers if They Put Up Cash, his (Continued on Ninth Page.) Continued on Ninth Pagh) stories red, - ———_ === |roof green and the shingles of the} | : ~ : ’ - — re ra . ARDING CALLS foof picked out in red and yellow| ‘The Wederal Grand Jury retumed 7 penne Surrogate Cobatan Moved to| scallops. Indictmonts this afternoon against | PCr | ae ont we will insure | Prophesy al Testimony of Wit- aah clalpcie On Ane. vd er ri : ‘ome In with us an¢ i : A ope y ree ON CONGRESS TO As carly as 6 o'clock on the coldest) Gibbs Kaker, a Washington lawycr,| you against prosecution of, !f you| nesses He Calls “Fools or Liars. WORK | Sunsay morning, women in cloaks and S 5 bam a seed HURRY ITS svawie men in overcoats, boys and|2"2 Charles 8. Allen, Secretary of the| have already been indicted we will! gp the present-day value of — o 7 Tocks: | Wholess 1 Trade Assoviation, | 8t you off with a suspended sentence an oath does not improve, girls with mufflers about their neck: mn, ; it Asks Republican Leaders to and “Sunday slicked" hair, open their] No. 90 West Street, charging them one ai Weralehaeeare | Caan a aH he rough sledding front doors and pick their way half a conspiracy to defra A -- he indictment suites that “ for Judges and lawyers in the next Got Appropriation Bills Fe ae cere, Gs tho Hill throuRe RRS with conspiracy to defraud coal deal-| result of the statement of Baker and| generation, and we may have to Out of Way. gray dawn to Shiloh Tabernacle, This ¢re in and around New York by in-] Allen, a meeting of wholesale cual! go back to the old orden! of fire WASHI Feb. 14 is a huge bara. like structure, dingy,| vm them to pay money im-| dealers was held tn the Biltmore Ho-| These witnemes are either fools RESIDEN' PaltDe |antte In color, with neither steepio| UBty from prosecution by the Fed-| tol, and eight dealers mentioned end} or liars,” ING has sont an urgent |nor stained glass windows, nor evea| °"t! Government on charavs of profi-| others unknown to the Grand Jury Surrogate John P, Cohalan, !r- request. to Republican | a porch, with a brown withered, empty| “cr De in coal. Baker and Allen were) put up from $1,000 to $5,000 apiece} ritated by witnemios testifying in leaders {n Congress to clean up | field all about it. Behind are the| [4 in $9,000 bull each by Judge W.| to insure themselves against prose-| the contest of the will of Charles Appropriation Bills by March 4th, | meeting house sheds one sees ali H, 8. Thompson in the United States| cution and also to insure that they| Stenberg, lace manufacturer, who He urges that legiviative decks | through New England, where Dobbin Piety SOUrk ; J | would be able to contirue charging| died at his home No. 1971 fe cleaned for other things in a | used to be stabled during services ee ee tments charge that last | profiteering oricns tor ool, rhe oleh way, Sept. iM, m this ee 4 hen the o itu jun was specified are i tt) comment ne of the attorne special eession. and where the family flivver now finda | ee ee oe nl Clarence We Willem 9s), semen ne asa Harding’s request was in the | 0 asylum. Skascolntine tani ae H. P. Wood, Lloyd G. Me-| !" The case on tn ue of the form of telegrams to Senator To attend this first service in Zion} ™" bade Crum, W. Et Bradford the| modern oath Lodae, and Representative Mon. | City I got up at 5.30, washed with et Hakee und Allen vn ted these | Dixie. Prana. ) and witnesmes (9 the wil, at ed bs . fi se aoe Ziot ape | Cealers an € ssented t they | th hawn re 1 e notary whe seu! dell, Republican leader in the | cold water—for in Zion House there} ys ior with William Mo-|. ‘The {ndectment st Baker | be Hee i we yi ruse, Ae ss ; sad Ailen knew nflo - ‘ z any House (Continued on Thirteenth Page.) | Murtrie Spoor, specia! Assistant At-'fhoo with Mr. Speer aa Pl deciieva’é These leaders at o sent word me: ‘ C0 » any | dons i ie torney ‘ieneral in chargé of other agent of the Government, The| state with oF to ali the committees. Senator THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU, | vestigation ther gl in| case against the pair wos prepared| ture was that McCumber agreed to lay aside | Arade, Paar {World} Building, iS Vase | the Depart ; ‘Dy Acmon W. Riley special agent of“ ms 5 the Emengency Tariff Bill for @ Ta rates tee tat ted | lened in the snd om 1 | Lit Department of J and 0g8 ryod decision th | Bee gee Sr SF TSR [ere 10, ena Bi akan | pie rene OF AESBGR ROE RARE || Sr onsdai Geet . jaaid: “1 have beens wet nurse to) Generad jm beets —_ = - . ‘ s STi ewwente ~ a sd MOVE IN HOUSE FOR IMPEACHMENT OF JUDGE LANDIS pA Ra | Mr. Welty Makes Five Charges That Are Sent to Judiciary Comunittee. INQUIRY MUST BE MADE. If House Concurs Judge Will Be Placed on Trial Before Senate. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Impeach- | ment proceedings against Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Federal Judge at the House Welty, Chicago, were started in to-day by Representative Democrat, of Ohio. Mr. Welty did resolution proposing impeachment, as is the usual procedure in matters. Instead, he arose to “a question of high personal privilese” and announced that he “impeached” the Judge. He mado the following charges: “First: For neglecting bis offi- cial duties for another gainful oc- cupation not connected there.’ with, “Seoond: For using his office as District Judge of the United States to settle disputes which might come into his court as pro- vided iby the laws of the United States. “Third: For lobbying before the Legisiatures of the several States of the Union to procure the pas- sage of State laws to prevent gambling in baseball, instead of discharging his duties as District Judge of the United State “Wourth: For ac sition as chief arbiter of the di associations at per annum while attempting to discharge the duties ax a District Judge of the United States, which tends to nul- lity the effect of the judgment of the Supreme Court of the Dis- trict of Columbia and the base- all gambling indictinents pend- ing in the criminal oourts of Cook County, i. “Fifth: Vor inju:iag the na- tional sport of baseball by per- mitting the use of his office as District Judge of the United States because the impr -ssion will prevail that gambling and other illegal acts in hasotxtl! will not Ibe punished if the open forum as other cases.’ Mr. Wolty’s charges without debate to not introduce # such were referred the Judiciary Continued on Ninth Page.) ORDEAL OF FIRE TO TAKE PLACE OF OATH IN COURT? DAUGHTER FAKES’ YOUNG FAMILY AS HER MOTHER DID Atlanta Woman E Follows. in} Footsteps of Parent Who Adopted T riplets Secretly. ELDER GAVE HER AID. Mother ave Overcame Her When No Children Came to Cheer Her Home. ATLANTA, Feb, 14,—Mrs. Eva May Swain, daughter of Mra, Alice South, admitted to_ representatives of the Georgia Board of Public Wel- fare in Jacksonville to-day that she had followed in the footsteps of her mother tn adopting a number of chil- dren as her own, And that she ob- tained them from some one in At- lanta, according ‘to announcement ! made here by officials of the Georgia | Commission, Her admission, it was | said, followed the statement Satur- day of Mrs, South that the children were obtained from the St. Maternity Hospital, operated by Mrs, MT. Mitchell, where the Atlanta woman herself obtained eleven babies, including two pairs of “twins” and “triplets;” that she aided her daughter in her scheme, and that the Swain was reticent regarding the al- leged adoption of the elilidren, which eral occasions during extended vis to her mother here “E have notified the Home Society of Florida, and have wiven them the naynes of the childr&n, where they were born and who their parents are,” she in quoted as saying. When shown messages concerning her daughter's alleged secret adop- tion of children, Mrs. South said: “Well, it's every bit true, and it's another story of mother love. My daughter grew tred of lavishing her affection on a houre full of poodle dogs, and I helped her secretly to ob- Jtain her babies and give ‘birth’ to them in my house.” Mrs, Swain is the of Mr, and Mrs. South and now is thirty-four years old, just fifteen years yonger than her mother In 1909, she was married to George Pew, 4 machinist, of Kichmond, Va. Mrs. South said: “Their marriage |was an utter failure, and after four lyears they separated. had blessed their home, its only daughter voree, and one year | in 1914, ahe became the wife of Willis H. Swain of Jacksonville. He was un elec- trician for the Construction Engi- neering Company and had u good job, Thelr married life wus happy from the start and their litte home was one of the most delightful spots in the whole world, But yeara passed and no children came, | May was bitterly disappointed Like myself, she had a great de- e for children, but through it ail she loved her husband devotediy— |just as devotedly as I love mine.” two Cbiidren JACKSONVILLE, Feb. Willis H. Swain, husband of daughter of Mrs, FB. A. South, stated to-day that he had always been un- der the impression that the were their own. “Mrs. Swain, diseu the nald hav Jelo ad while | }imy Fa., 14.— }me, it rake befeve that what believing it we Nebraska Ordered tu ttalse taille | ates ck tomdity. by Commerce Commisuloa, Mary's | she is said to have obtalued on sev- | Children’s | No children | “Eva May promptly obtained a di-| and Eva | the | ehildren | LOCAL TRAIN DRIVER SAYS SIGNAL SHOWED CLEARANCE: ~ HELD INLONG ISLAND WRECK a ‘Charged He Ran Past Lights Set Against Him,Causing Smash With an Express, Injuring Scores and Imperilling the Lives of 750 Pas- sengers—3 Investigations Begun. Edward Costello, Long Island Railroad local trala which collided with an express at Crescent Strect and AUantic Aveate, Brooklyn, last night, causing serious injuries to ten persons and hurting more than motorman of the a score others, was to-aimy released on $5,000 bail after ar- | raignment before Magistrate Walsh in the New Jersey Avenue Police Court on a charge of felonious assault. Assistant District Attorney Hurley asked thai bail be fixed at $7,500, | Ball was furnished by George Nammer, Superintendent of the Long Iviaud Railroad Police Department. ‘* Detective Frank Dougherty made harging that Cos- Ee bad run his tratn past a danger Jo short affidavit ‘SOCIALISTIC PLAN INNORTH DAKOTA Signal and thus was responsible for the accident, Custeilu sald to re porters in the courtroom: father was not aware of the fact that nal at the point of the ae the children were not bis own eldent shows clearly at times, Lest Mrs. Mitehell, who at first stated | night when ruin waa at th that the litue ones did not come from | Autumn Avonue stati vhich : her hospital, refused either to af-+ sirlinianobeceidedaades Nyaa. firm or deny the truth of the us- | feet east of the switch where the col sertions of mother and daughter. =e lisium uecurred, ( observed a cleas Mrs, South refused to talk to news- ance signal. papermen, as did Mr. South, Accord-| Abandonment Agreed Upon by |") saw a green tint and also saw ing to advices from Jacksonyille, Mrs.) = Non-Partisan League and — | tit the semaphore at the curve gave clearan ee, do L put on ahead slowly | 5 ftici ower and Pan | State Officials. gotiniore tag eee | :— an hour BISMARCK, N. D. Pe. “ The Soctalistic pullce ger signal | lowed including | {a man in { Mututein the was found to be sign t the dan set and 18 are operated>y wee over the trucks neu the scene of t veldent whole} U. R Savage nerul Superin- tendent of the Long Island Railroad, today issued an vilictal statement about the in which he said that “though investigation is aot complete, testimony of wii. nesses that tw acelden Motorman idtwal of train No. /360%, and through the which was set | Abandonment of the North pro- gramme in Dakota, the* Bank of North of archi, liquidation of Dakota, the public Keystone ownership bas been leaders of Townloy's Non-Partisan League and State of- floiais according to definite reports aching Bismarck from M(nneapolis. The financial interests are prepared | was caused by to help market approximately $2,000,- | Costello, in wha 000 worth of State bonds in order to | ruaning past si straighten out the muddled situation | iain track switen, of the State Onan inst him. ‘These reports conte Three held at Minneapolis Sunday morning | of the wreck are afoot to-day, one by follow definite an-| the district attorney, another b: nouneement O. B, Loftus} police and the third by the railroad Sta bunk examine that itwolt. dinavian Bank, at which Partisin League and have done most of the! } business, will not open its doors this morning. Mr. Loftus said that the bank was being cloned upon his or ders. This institution alone is said agreed to by ceil the the indicate from a Hee inv tons into the causes closely made upon a by h the ubaidiart baniking | © victlins suave ern of No, 3 the Bronx, s' New Rallways Company, wero re- ported be progressing favonibly Van Twistern’s right arm was tory off and an amputation had to be have appriximntely $444,000 be-|tnade fost above his elbow. He ig at longing to the State of North Dakota, | St, Mary's Howpital. It is feared he | evo are some of the things which |My not survive, | league leaders agreed tu at the con-| TRAFFIC NOT CLEARED UP UN- [ference in Minneupolia, woourding to TIL THIS MORNING, eer iauidaucn of the Bank of North| | The wreek cleared up gud | Dakota and its confirmation into a} traffic was resumed at 4.55 o'clovi: land or equal credite bank: Aissolu-|this morning. AN through the nigh tion of the Home Builders’ Associa-| two sh 0. ¢ tion with completion only of the ie Sy apes ea ee # Peres ¢ houses not yet finished; retention of ranes wer |the mill and elevator projects at] at the task of getting the wreoked nd Forks; leishition to Kuaran-|cars out of the way and repairing © Stat ds and to protect public }the switch and the Usird rail, Befors monies slation to prevent the . | transfer of public funda from one de- | *¢FVice Was re-established, passen+ | partment to another gers for Atlantic Avenue hadi to walk ‘The conference at Minneapolis wae| around the wreck and take a shuttle attended by a representative of the| train, JIndustrial Commission of _Ne | Dae “a vi focluded Jone x Berea A completed list of those seriously Commissioner Agriculture and|!njured in addition to Van Twistern, H. A. Paddock, Secretary of| was given out by the police this min iasion P. McAneny, Di-| morning as follows Rosch, Mixs Anna, fifty, No. 78 Sar- atogu Avenue, Brooklyn, shock, At- tended; home of Credity of Bank of Dakota, and A. ©. Townley, Daum Henry, for First nue, tusion Wiiltaun 83 Washington ter for the was went Mrs. Aye and pos Wer Louise, tended conter MIN NDAPOLIS, Partisan League leaders and North | thwh Dukota state officers iid agreed to! Ds amine forty-six, No hattan, eon acture of righ Denial wenty-seven, N rect, Manhattan, internal injuries, Nation D-tavti. | Went hom Useculive Committes, | Duryea, possible Mrs. Dorothy, No. M24 ind NC CN A ALLL, cigat bs i aes om $i a MoeS e.