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

To-Night’s Weather—CLOUDY, COLDER. fac a WALL STREET FyENING A STREE.| “ EDITION \abeie { Circulation Books Open to AL ] EDITION Copyright, 1921, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World), Rntered as We Matter Ss NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17) VOL. LXI. NO. 21,666—DAILY. 1921, Secon Post Office, New York, N. ¥. ESCAPE WITH MILLION IN MAIL HOLD- ~ MILLION IN MAIL IS STOLEN BY ARMED BANDITS IN AUTO AT POST OF Police Assert Loss in Currency Alone May Be Between $300,- 000 and $400,000. SIX BAGS REGISTERED. Mail Clerk Held Up While Eleven Sacks Are Trans- ferred to Stolen Car. TOLEDO, O, Feb. 17.—BHleven sacks of mail, believed to contain be- tween $300,000 and $1,000,000, were taken from three postal employees here at 2 A. M. to-day by five auto- @robile bandits at the Toledo Post Office. Postmaster George Lathrop refused to place a definite estimate of the toss but said it would be around $1,- 000,000. Six of the sacks contained registered mail, dnd it will take sev~ eral days to determine the amount ‘The police assert thit several of the wegistered sacks contained Federal Reserve Bank notes and the currency may amount to between $300,000 and $400,000, | The stolen pouches had arrived from Cleveland, Buffalo and other eastern points, and also from Cincinnati. They! are said to have been consigned to Toledo bamks. | A mail laden truck had just driven wp to the pont office and two clerks had stepped out to assist in transfer- ring the sacks when an automobile dashed Into the driveway, Four men Teaped out, covered the driver of the mail truck and the two clerks with guns, and forced them to lie down on the driveway. Two of the bandits transferred the mail sacks to their ewn automobile. ‘The driver of the bandit car re- mained in his seat, keeping the engine running. When the last sack had been tossed into the robbers’ automobile one of the bandits yelled “Let's go!" They leaped into the car and it drove away at high speed. The driveway in which the robbery ocurred was well lighted and inside fhe Post Office fifteen employees, un- aware of the robbery were at work. They did not know that the mail had been stolen until the clerks who had been held up came in and gave the alarm, A stolen auto used by the bandits ‘was found by the police. In it was an extra set of license tags believed te have been stolen from another ear. The machine was stolen from a Toledo garage yesterday by four men who held up and tied the garage man. ‘Tha police have arrested three sus- pect# in a house near the outspirts of the city, Federal, county and city Police are working on the case. Joseph Hughes, Paul Weinrich and ‘W. H. Milroy, who were in charge of the truck when the bandits inter- eepted it at the post office platform, bave boen closely questioned. Hughes and Weinrich say they were covered ‘with weapons as they were about to take the pouches into the post office, nd forced to lie down on the floor. *LIAR’ FREELY USED; CONGRESS IN UPROAR Member From Texas Howiled Down tby Both ‘Sides of the House. WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. the wildest uproars seen in the of Representatives in years occurred to-day with a Senatorial attack on Representative Blanton ty sentative Sumnners, both Texas Lemp- . crats One of House FICE IN TOLEDO N.Y. Girl‘ Busts’ 50 Hearts, an Eye And Poker Game MISS TERESA RABASA. Telephone Operator Visits Spain and Teaches “Carmen” a Few Favorite Tricks. How she left “fifty busted hearts in Europe," put a poker game “on the bum,” went to a bull fight to see King Alfonso and “put one on the eye” of a Spaniard who “got fresh” in a box next to hers—all this and a lot more was told to-day by a seventeen-year-old New York tele- phone operator who proved to be the most interesting passenger aboard the Antonio Lopez of the Royal Span- ish Line, which arrived from Barce- Joua and Cadiz, en route to Vera Cruz, Mexico. *Her name is Teresa Rabasa, and though born in Spain, was brought here when three weeks old and has No. 432 West 37th iths ago she went to visit | ¢ and Spain with her aunt, who lives in Barcelona. Before that, for a year or two, she was an operator in the Chelsea Telephone Ex- change, to which she expects to re- turn. “T'd heard a lot about the women of Paris,” said Miss Rabasa, “but 1 (Continued on Second Page.) WHOLESALE PRICES SHOW BIG DECLINE Average January Over 6 Cent.—House Furnishings Lead the Drop, in Per v material food fuel in the devline cent, building farm products per cent metals and ohe por ent, materials nt ny When Mr. Blanton sought to rep the members, Democrats and Repub ficans alike, howled him down and woveral times the le wae paswod, cent. “Delow thowe of Janu ¥, 1920, cloths and clothing per cent, and Carm produc! fa more than 44 per cant, WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 Level of wholesale prices declined an average of 6 1-3 per cent. during January, the! Labor Department announced to-day making a decline o€ 35 per cent. since) he peak of high prices in May The bureau's a ge is bi J on prices of WOMAN HELPS MAN HOLDUP ANOTHER WOMAN I BTH ST He Fells Victim With Fist While His Female Assist- ant Looks On. IS LEFT UNCONSCIOUS. Watchman Finds Her in Door- way—Wounds Dressed Be- fore Police Arrive, A private watchman passing No. 117 West 86th Street shortly after midnight saw a woman unconscious in the vestibule, She was identified as Miss Mary J, Sheehan, forty-six, who lives in the house and has a rear room on the ground floor. When revived by a doctor Itving ext door, she said about midnight she went to a drug store at 86th Street and Columbus Avenue, bought a few articles, and had a $20 bill changed. On her way home through 86th Street she noticed a man and woman following her. he became suspicious because of the number of hold-ups and burgtaries in the neigh- borhood and quickened her pace and so did the couple As she walked up the steps of her home she found the man right beside her and the woman waiting on the sidewalk. He grabbed her handbag containing $30 and geome trinkets. She tried to hoki to it and he struck her in the back with his fist, knock- ing her down and rendering her un- consctous. In tearing the chain from her hand all her fingers were cut. By the time the police had heard of the case and called an ambulance, she had had her injuries dressed. The police report stated she “refused medical aid,” without explaining why, which made her indignant. She explained it was only because she did not need it by the time the ambu- lance arrived, The robbery of Miss Sheehan brought out a burglary at the home of her friend, a Mrs. Heller, at No. 116 West 87th Street, a few days ago. Mrs. Heller is private secretary of a downtown business man. When she returned from business Monday she found her door jimmied, her tele- phone wires out and her apartment looted of $750 worth of jewelry. © Acting as though under the influ- ence of liquor or a narcotic, the po- lice believe, a strange negro entered the cigar store of Louis Douglass at No. 1121-2 De Kalb Avenue, Brook- lyn, this morning, struck Douglass over the head with the front door padlock, which was lying on the counter, stated him in the hand with a penknife and ran out with two boxes of cigars. eS INDICTMENT FOR FIRE CLERK Accused of Aiding Able-Bodied Firemen to ‘Retire on a Pension. ‘The Whitman Grand Jury Inte thts afternoon handed up to Judge Crain an indiotment charging John Kelly, hetely assigned a a clark In the Pension Bu reau of the, Fire Department, with bribery and receiving untuwful fees, | It is charged that firemen in good health by the payment of unlawful fees te Welly , ve to get themselves | retired on pensions. | esident Wilson In Last Photo P, PRESIDENT @ oni ‘The farewell picture of President at the regular Cabinet meeting in Washington ‘fuesday, VOLS ON AT MEE TING OF CASI DERWIOR UNpEAWS OD, as He Looked Taken of Cabinet aT Wiieon and his Cabinet was taken In the above picture with the President are Secretary of the Treasury Houston and Attorney General Palmer. WILSON WILL VETO TARIFF AS PASSED —e— Vote Shows Friends of the Measure Not Strong Enough to Muster Two-Thirds. (Special From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.-The Ford- ney “emergency” tariff bill, passed by the Senate last night, is certain of a Presidential veto. There is not suf- trick bill On final pass- ficient support for the to Pass it over the veto. age the vote was 43 to 30, with twen- ty-three Senators not voting, On this basis it would lack five votes of the necessary two-thirds to override the veto, Nine Democrats succumbed to the lure of protection for some article pro- duced in their States and voted with | the Republican majority. These were Senators Ashurst, Arizona; Hender- son, Nevada; Jones, New Mexico; Kendrick, Wyoming; Myers, Mon- tana; Pittman, Nevada; Sheppard, ‘Texas, and the two Senators from the| Louisiana sugar belt, Gay and Rans- | dell. On the other hand, four Republicans left their party associates on the final (Continued on Eleventh Page.) ding, John Amory learned th younger sister, loved him. DESERTED By his Bride-to-be on the eve of their wed- read the sequel to this astounding situation, in ‘A Gamble in Beauty’ By Nancibelle Hale. tall Beginning Monday, Feb. 21, in The Evening World vat Varia, her Don't fail to } 4 ed a \:oome. | jcern operates @ chain of retail stores BY THE SENATE 5TH AVENUE CROWDS SEE SPECTACULAR TWO-ALARM FIRE Traffic Tied Up an Hour Shortly After Noon by Blaze in 21st Street Loft. All traffic in Fifth Avenue between 18th” Street 22d Street Suspended from 1 o'clock to 2 o'clock this afternoon by a glut of fire ap- Paratus and the assemi/ing of an im- and was mense crowd attructed by a fire in the loft bullding at the southeast corner of the avenue and 2ist Street Two alarms brought Chief Kenlon, water towers, hook and ladder trucks, numerous engines and all the active firemen in mid-Manhattan. The fire started in the office of the Symonds Dry Goods Company on the fifth floor, Joseph Symonds, head of the concern, and tia son, Israel, afte> vainly trying to mhdue the blaze with fire extinguishers, were forced to flee for their lives as the flames swept through the office and sules- Most of the tenants were at The others were removed without danger by way of the two elevators. When Deputy Chief the fire was threatening to through the building The amounts to about $25,000. The Symonds say they were look Juneh King arrived spread dam ing out the window of thoir office and their first warning of the fire wus a feeling of warmth on their backs, They turned to find a collec of tapestries wall, suspended ablaze, from hooks on the The con ip the Rocky Mountalg States, RUSSIAN SOVIET TO GO TO THEATRE ORDERS EVERYBODY | SPLENDID Penalty Is Fine in Food Ration —All Must See New Com- munist Plays. PETROGRAD, Web, 17, QMPULSORY playgoing is (@ the latest order of the day here. The Soviet Government has de- creed taut a fine, payable in food tations, 1s to be imposed on all persons who, after official invita- tion, fail to go to the theatre to seo a series of Communist plays now being produced SCORES IN BLAZE SAVED AS TENANT RUNS ELEVATOR Janitor Missing While Smoke Drives Out 28 Families on West Side. | Women an@ children of twenty+ eight families in the Albambra, a | seven-story apartment house, Noa3i and 218 West 2ist Street, were driven from thelr rooms at 10 o'clock to-day by dense smoke which swept up through the building from a fire in the boller room. The blaze was threatening the upper floors when the firemen arrived, but quick work con- fined it to the basement, When smoke began to sift into the apartments the frightened women and children flocked to the elevator, The fanitress and her husband, who were charged with operation of the cle- vator, were absent and had not re- turned an hour after the fire was extinguished. Shrieking and stumbling the ten- ants made thelr way down the stairs. ‘Dhe only man in the house was Wil- bur T. Beane, awakened from sleep In one of the apartments. He ran down to the main floor, took charge of the elevators and removed all who remained in the upper floors at that time. ‘Pwo children suffering from scarlet fever were taken out of a flat on the third floor, |KNEW HIM BY WAY HE LIKED HIS EGGS Waiter Wanted Moses Sachs as Counsel, but Lawyer Disclaimed the Acquaintance. When Jacob Fische a watter with a long criminal record, was arraigned be- fore Judge Mulgueen in General Ses- sions to-day on the charge of rathery he sald he was inmocent “It's @ serious charge.” Judge Maul- queen remarked, “an¢ I shall assign lawyers Fabricant and Collins to de- . looking about, mw Lawyer Moses Sachs. “I will tuke Mr. Saohs; I know him well,” he sald Mr. Sache diwlaimed any acquaint- ance with the prisoner “You know me well," said the prisoner “You like your exg# fried one alde only.” Nevertheless, Judge Mulqueen ex cused Mr. Sachs und insisted that Fischer be represented by Mfessra, | Fabricant and Collins Clasat ified A doerilsera Important! Gaaettied atvertising copy ter ‘The Sunday World World office or Before Friday Preceding Publication ‘Tee On Classified Advertisoments for Wook Daye Reowived DAILY AFTER 8 A. M. For publication the following day. EARLY COPY care Uy, Preterunee, Whee Admartiong PHYSIQUE AN AID. TO CARUSO IN LIFE BATTL SUPREME TEST IS ON ‘Affecting Scene as He Greets Schoolboy Son—His Little Glo ia Also Brings Cheer—Science Done All Possible to Save Teng A marked change for the better in Enrico Carufo's conditio noticed late this afternoon, according to one of the physicians att him. He said: “Mr. Caruso’s mind Is clearer, lower and his spirits better this afternoon when. I came from the bed--4 It was then a little after 8 o'clock, 4 At noon the following bulletin was issued: Mr. (; ruso ts still severely (1 There is no material change im ~ wide, his conditi..) for the better or the (Sigued) | RDMANY, MURRAY, EVANS, LAMBERT, STELLA, - enn = That Oxygen io being almost oom GOVERNOR MILLER WILL NOT ABOLISH BOXING BOARD Is Satisfied With Way Present Commission Is Handling the Sport. ALBANY, Feb, 17.—Gov. Miller has no Intention of abolishing the present State Boxing Commission, it was said here to-day. The Governor, it was stated, hay be- come satisfied with the commission's work in regulating the sport. There had been a proponal put forward to re- organize the commission and the Rac- ing Commission under a gingle headed department, which also would assume control over professional baseball. The tax on boxing shows has netted the State more than $120,000 In taxes, MARGARET WILSON ASSAILS SENATE Declares It Is Trying to Suppress Right of Free Speech by Women. WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Mii Margaret Wilson, daughter of the President, to-day assailed the United States Senate before the National Woman's Party Convention on a charge of trying to suppress free speech, “In it the business of Congress to supervise the activities or speech of those they represent?” she asked, “It was even suggested the other day on the floor of the Senate that we should not be allowed to talk politics in our centres, Isn't that amazing? Sup- pose we should initiate a nation-wide referendum to make new rules for Senate discussions? What an out¢ry there would be. It would not be a lawful proceed ing, I know, and therefore impossible, but would {t be more logical and rea- sonable for us to make rules limiting the discussions of those who are ac- countable to us than that they should make rules for our meetings?” > LOWDEN REFUSES TO TAKE ANY OFFICE Makes the Announcement Augustine—Hughs Dodges a Question. Harding at St AUGUSTINE, Fla, Feb. 11.— Former unk ©. Lowden of Iilinols has de ly declined to be and will not be appointed to any post tn the initial makeup of the at admini- to this effect President-elect Announcement to-day by stration Harding After repeated urging Mr. Lowden In- sisted that, because of personal affairs, would rather remain out of public weryice: THE WORLD. ‘I'm sorry,” Mr. Harding sald as he|gmile from her father, wes inde the announceasat. a; i hix pulse stromtger, his tempernts worse, tinuously employed. to beep the spake alight, was betokened by the fact that” {six filled tank# were laken, to apartment thig forenoon to replace the twelve empty enes which were taken away after being exhausted during the night. The qhyaicians are | practically agreed that medical sciende and their ski in ft have done ail that can be done for the patiewt. Wihpt romaing now is for Caruso's will, which hae Wroved so indomitable in win the struggle againat weakness. He has many timbs asqured those about Tim with all th of voice he coulq summon determined to liv termination will, a@ come to-day, Throughout his throughout bis life, ways manifested an: u fulness and this, added to mgnly robust physique, much to keep him alive twenty-four hours, One thing which it is believed wilt do much to invigorate him, was ‘the arrival to-day of his son, Barieg who came from Culver Military AG&ie edy, Indiana, in response to « distance telephone call, ‘The sevem= teen-year-old youth arrived at the Pennsylvania Station at 9.30 o'clodk and was met there by Bruno Zirate, his father's secretary, When the Bey airived at the Hotel Vanderbilt ted were coursing down bis cheeks, was taken at once ty Ls Lather’s Bede aide. When young Caruso, who the uniform of his military reached the door of his father’s room he brushed aside the tears and with a8 much of a emile as he could muster, entered the sick chamber Caruso was conscious at the time ané his eyes brightened as he debeld hie” son, The youth went quickly to the bedside and touched his fathers hand as it lay on the coveriet, |! Caruso turned his eyes upon: tile son's face and murmured, in @ whisper, “Ab, Mimi, Mimi; amie fglio!” ("My son!” The youth bent down close to Rte father's lips and epoke to him ap4 & moment later was led from the? rooin by one of the physicians, Seve eral times later he was permitted to see his father for brief momentae Sig. Rolando Ricct, the Italian Age 7 hassador, was this afternoon admit. | 4 ted to Caruso's room. He brought officially the greetings and test wishes of the King of Italy and te Ministers to the stricken singer, Das ing the brief space in which { Ricol stood at Caruso's bedside, the sick man spoke to him of Genog, where they had met. His volee Was © no more than a whisper. Many times during the hours when Caruso's life was ering, his baby daughter, Glorlay eighteen months old, Pi brought to him by Mrs. Guruse, it is said has never failed te |