The evening world. Newspaper, February 18, 1921, Page 1

WALL STREET EDITION NEW babes FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1921. Post Offic, fontered as beeond-Class Matter s ey New York, N. ¥. CARUSO NOW ON ROAD TO RECOVERY FORS200,000 10 KEEP OUT TYPHUS |. Enlarged, Treasury Official Declares. ‘Or. Copeland's Men Seize Italian Ship at Pier—Force Cabin Examination. WAGHINGTON, Feb. 18 —Congress will be asked to appropriate $200,000 tmmediately to combat the entrance it was an- of typhus into the count nounced to-day by Assistant Secre- tary La Porte of the Treasury ‘The money will be used largely, Mr. ‘La Porte said, to enlarge the Quare pntine station at New York so in- coming passengers may be examined more thoroughly and rapidly. He added the station, pow owned by New) York State, soon would be transferred 19 the Govergment. fie «Reports to’the Public Health sere Nice, both from abroad and from this country, Mr. La Porte said, indicate e typhus situation is well in hand and danger of a spread of the discase in this country had been checked, ‘Por the first ‘time since severe pre- cautionary measures against the ad- snisgion of typhus sutfere suspects wore inaugurated the Board of Hedlti took possession of a ship at her pier this afternoon and compelled the first and second cabin passengers to gv through a physical examination. Not ‘n the memory of the oldest customs officers has anything Mke this been done before. The ship is the Gugitelmo George Peirce of Rne peirce Linc, from Na- ples, with ten first eabin, 261 second cabin and 967 stecraze passengers. She wae carefully examined at Qua ‘ ny the State authorities, who ts clean bill of health in 9 cabin passengers were concerned About half an hour after the had tied up at the foot of West Street and most of the cabin sengers were on the pier sorting out their baggage for examination Dr, A Blauvelt of Health Commissioner Copeland's staff, with eight men and Your women inspectors, appeared and virtually 1ook charge of the ship and the pier. All passengers were dered back aboard. ‘The unexpected arrival of Dr. Blau- velt and bis examiners caused the greatest confusion. A thousand or more friends of the arriving passen- gers who had gathered belnd the barriers on the pier became vie- lently excited because rumor# many had died or were dying on ship, And the passengers, nearly all of whom were American citizens of Italian birth, protested to the limit vocally and sometimes physically To add to the confusion 200 pis- (Continued on M’GANNON NOT GUILTY. ed qar as th a] sth or- the cond Page.) Jadge Acquitted of Charge He Killed Garage Man. CLEVELAND, Judge Will- jam H. tice of Cieveland's Court, was cleared of the charge of Killing Harold (. Kagy, garage proprietor, May, when a jury composed of nine men and three women brought in a verdict of not guilty shortly before noon to-day, The jury was out twenty-one hours amd took ols ' standing elght to four fo aca sixth nine to three fo juittal, seventh eleven to one for acquittal With tears in his eyes MeGannon | thanked the jurors for their verdict und announced he would resume nis plac: on the bench from which ho absented himself shortly after he was indicted. ‘This was McGannon's second trial, the first ended in 6 disagreement Kagy was shot and fatally wounded shortly efter midnight on May 7 on @ otzect COrne om, Pe CONGRESS ASKED — Quarantine Station Mere {o Be) NO PEAR OF EPIDEMIC. | ital, tne | PARTAKES Bulletin issued A After Consulta-| tion of Five Physicians Is Very Optimistic. | GREETS BABY GLORIA. | When Told of Lovely Day He Says He Would Like to Be in Italy. Mr, Caruso has had a good night and is distinctly improved The rumors of an this morning. operation done or to be done are information. based upon fal (Signed) Erdmann, Stella, Evans, Lam- | bert, Murray. Bnrico Caruso, who Las been near death in his suite at the Vanderbilt Hotel, was declured to be conva- lescent this afternoon by his Secre- tary, Bruno Zirato. “We ure breathing easier,” suid Mr, Zirato. “Mr. Caruso is ‘com- valescent for the first time and at luncheon to-day he had solid food, taking particular relish in a small breast of chicken “We believe the smile of his boy, coming at the psychological moment, has inspired him with a’ now will to live.” The bulletin above was issued noon to-day by the physicians tending Enrico Caruso. It was nounced that there would not be other consultation among them day, but that Drs. Myrnmy and Evans would remain in close attendance upon the patient’. Dr, Francis J. Mu the singer's bedside this morning, said World representative: “{ am more encouraged to-day than at any time @ince Mr. Caruso’s recent Things look hopeful now. at at- an- an- to- lett o'clock ening ray, who at 9.20 an Ey to relapse. His chances of tirly good. For ss much clearer than it warding off anc other | ne thing, ; hus relapse a | his mind bee ‘The hopetulness has leon the Carus. housebold Caruso, tor the first time since her husband collapsed, retired 10 ind Bruno Zirato, his secretary, | the apartment in the Hotel Vande: bilt for a few hours’ sleep. ‘The physicians who have been constantly in attendance upon Caru were emphatic to-day in denying that their distinguished patient wasted to a shadow during his illness, as some unofficial statements had indicated, They said that he had lost weight, certainty, and now weighed between nd 180 pounds as against a | weight of about 230, ‘Temporarily, at least, the constant oxygen, which did so much to keep Caruso alive on Tuesday night, has been suspended. It was stated that none had been used yesterday, though a tank of the gas is always kept at the bedside for use in emer- gency. . Tomeyn Benjamin, Mrs. Caruso’s prother, who hud remained all night in the apartment, came out at 10 o'clock this morning and said to an Evening World reporter: saruso awakened at 7 o'clock this morning. lle turned to my sister, Who was at his bedside, and said to ‘How loné ago was I operated His voice very weak, of course, but every word was distinct, use of (Continued on Bighteenth Page.) CARUSO IS CONVALESCENT, HIS SECRETARY ANNOUNCES; OF SOLID FOOD HYLAN TAKES UP EVENING WORLD'S ELECTRICITY PLAN ! _— H Urges That City Avail Itself of | Surplus ans From | ed to the to-day, In @ letter Board of Estimate Mayor Hylan| recommends that the city, instead of paying $500,000 more a yeur for the} Nghting of streets, purks and public} Quildings, establish its own lighting system. The Mayor: indorses the Plan suggested to him by The Eve- ning World for the use by the city! of surplus electric power genorated in the Interborough power houses, in which the city is financinily inter- ested through the terms of the dual subway contract. “Any arrangement with the Inter- borough Rapid Transit Company for @lectrical energy could also provide for the useof their sub-stations, where required, avoiding the necessity of thelr being constructed on the part of the city,” says the Mayor, “I am informed,” the Mayor sald, “that the duct and subsidiary econ- nections for lights from the condults containing the electrical conductors to lamp posts, while bullt at the ox- pense of the tenant companies, own- ership is retained by the subway com- pany (ineaning the Empira City Sub- way Company, a coduit system), and I believe the city could reasonubly demand the use of the subsidiary connections without expense. Mayor does not spe- known that lighting plans nt Although the cifically say so, it is his munteipal city ful im. their jcatio api pert Ss ott ext power to private cc Where city cou! electr ‘om the Interborough, Mayor points out, it could install own generating plants, Continuing, the Mayor says: Should the city decide to install its own system of distribution, it has ready at hand ample spacc’in. the conduit duct system which, under the contracts with the Consolidated Telc- graph & Electrical Subway Com- pany, Limited, !t can use of charge in the Boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, In the Boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond and parts of the Bronvy, the overhead sy tem can be used, nat only a few the not obta free miles of ducts would have to be built in Brookiyn The Mayor's suggestions were re- ferred ye Comptroller, Commis- sioner Water Supply, Gas and Bloctricity and the Corporation Coun- sel to report back within a reason- | able time. to ot > Arrested as He Leaven Prison. BAVENWORTH, Kan., Feb. 18,—A Karlschmidt, sentunced to serve four years in the Federal prison here in con- ion with a German plot to blow up ecting Detroit Canada during the world war, Was"are rested at tho. prison uto to-day upon | his release und will ‘bo held for mo | portation him. heart-aches, in \ WAS. SHE RIGHT? When Nina Grey deserted her prospective husband, Varia, her sister, offered to marry Soon they were man and wife. miss the absorbing story of Varia’s joys and ‘A Gamble in Beauty’ . By Nancibelle Hale. Beginning Monday, Feb. 21, in The port au Don't 4 pevecrwe KlueD AS RESULT OF MIX | IN AUTO NUMBERS Stolen Ford 1d Machine Not. That! in Trade for a Winton st by Davis. SLAYER» MADE ERROR. Gave Wrong Number and Be-; lieved the Police Officers Were Not Acting’ Honestly. In investigating the circumstances that led to the killing of Acting De- toctive Sengt. Bridgetts by Charles T. Davis, manufacturer af surgical sup- plies, at his factory office, No, 217 Dut- field Street, Brookiya, yesterduy, As- s@wtant District Attorney Caldwell of Brooklyn establighed to his own sat- isfaction the belief that because of a fit of carelessness Davis hed reason to think thé defective was imposing upon him, possibly for purposes of extortion. Bridgette with Detective MeGioin and George W. Horan, an automobile insurance adjuster, went to the office ot Davis to get an erplanntion re- garding an apparent traud by Davis against Horan's ¢ompany. Davis had collected $1,000 insurance from the company for a car stolen from him on Dec. 16, 1919, The police in the re- cent general inspection of automobiles found that a car registered under the engine number of the atolen car was In the possession of George Gols 0° No, 1988 Benedict Avenue, manager of the General Sales Agency of the Vinton Automobile Company, and that Gels had taken tt Nov, 26, 1920, with a Dodge oar and %,600 from Davis in cash for ® new Winton. Bridgetts was sent to Davis last Tuasday to ask for an explanation of a his having accepted insurance fo w he later cold. Davie was and turned him away. dee urned yesterday W! owner ctive and Horan apd th fata! q | tolluwed Geis told Mr. Caldwell th: Davis traded in a Ford last Noverm- the engine number we ber he gave 3,611,008, which he took from a regise tration card which was obviously thi of the Ford stolen a year before. The car was taken over by Gels and reg~ istered in the name of his wife under the engine number which Davis had mistakenly furnished. Now, Geis told inspection shows Mr, Campbell, an the actual number on the engine of Mrs, Ge car to be 8,607,098 Mr. Caldweli commented that he has learned similar mistakes in giving the numbers of old cars for those of new cars aro constantly made by owners at the office of the Secretary of State, This explained, Mr. Caldwell said, why Bridgetts and Horan believed they were dealing with a cheat when they went to tho office of Davis and why Davis believed they were trying to extort money from him or black- ma Mr. Geis went with the purpose of ying Davis as the traded in the supposedly stolen car. After his explanation to Mr. Cald- woll, it waa apparently not reg arded as necessary to have him see Davis, for he did not go to the Raymond reet Jail. Davie, advised by his Former County Judge Her- withheld his own version of his reason for attacking Bridgetts. Davie wae arraigned in Adan set Court, Brooklyn, by Detective (Continued on Tenth Page.) _ EXTRA SESSION ON APRIL 4. Date Reported Definitely Fixed by Mr, Harding. WASHINGTON, Feb. 18,—April 4 na ¢ ely decided on by President elect Harding aa the date for the extra nim to Brooklyn to-day possibly tdenti- man who had counsel, bert Nash, St a Con This was made Known in p letter recei here to-day from Senator Wateon, tan: fy im Florida fo ra . BRONX PRESIDENT BRUCKNER, WHO HAS SLEEFING SICKNESS | | HENRY washed tad BRONX PRESIDENT BRUCKNER VICTIM Quits City Hall Meeting and Will Go to Sanitarium— Ill Six Weeks, Henry Bruckner. dent Broux Borough, compelled leave the Board of Estimate meeting to-day because of an attuck of sleep- ing sickness. ‘or the past six weeks T havo © Pres ot was to sleeping on an average of six heur day.” eadd President Bru \ner hn Evening World er and oow Lean scarcely head, I asked to be excused and nM mmediately starl for Prov dencs, where } expe be treated Jin a eanitarium."* Preside ekner’s voice Was and busky, and his eyes, norma bright and flashing, were half closed and sleepy looking: “I fall asleep if 1 sit quietly for length of time and when I go to bed any OF SLEEP SICKNESS | RAIDING DUBLIN Invade North Side, Barricade Streets and Set Up Guns— Seeking Sinn Feiners. | SEARCH FOR AR District About Two Square Miles Cut Off—Distress in Cork Causes Exodus. DUBLIN, Feb, 18 bunt wae in full swing In Dubin to- jday. A whole section of the city, jtne north side, | } A creat man- on wae cut off by more than 1,000 troops, who rushed into It armored cars, equipped with ma- shine guns, Throughout the early morning hours the neighborhood re- sounded with the rour of motors, the thump of gun-butts against barred doorg and shouts of command, Distriets around Mouot Joy Square | and the approaches to that nection of the olty were barricaded and macline Sun posts were established. A close search for arms was instituted. und the extent of the preparations made for the raid indicated there was no expectation on the part of the au- thorities of finishing {t quickly, The military isolated about two square miles of the city for un ex- haustive house to house sexrch, Popa- lar rumor attributed the uperation to earch for Prank ng, Who e9- | caped recently trom the Kilmuinham jail, but lt probably was only a rope- litlon of a similar ruld which lasted thirty-six hours some weoks avo dur- = which the Church Stroet district was invested in for arms and ammunitions, & search Descending upon the district in motor lorries, the soldiers leaped from their cars, unrolled spools of urbed wire and, v ructed en. if at ull rie archlish: Jon the cars te thr ti Soin nd | Sion We beoans brougit on residents of the ter Aa result of Sinn Fein t district was cut off trom munication, There was exodus from the area, where inte suffering Was reported to foud sup- ed trom Loppin of I find tt almost impoaxible to get up| pie see again,” he declared. “Just now my An officiat report to-du tola f strongest desire is to get to somelan. itt {four Bind: 4 Ge 5a be , k our Sinn Poin sentries quiet place and close my eyes und) a: Kilbrittain, A military patrol wa sleep. sald to have surprised the pickets, ‘Another syimpton i menta) dull-|roowing which there was un |ness. I cannot concvntrate on business | change of Kho matters which cost me little mental] yQEPAsyT, Feb, 18—A lurke body effort before I was afflicted. Perhaps | o¢ sinn Fe attacked a party of the’ most disagreeable offect nl shipyard petulant Ail double vision I have of this Oy last winnie. Be oes ay nce How are you going to vote on the} d, continuing tor an hour, but tax exemption ordinance.” was asked. |tnere were no casualties, although “I suppose I shall vote for it.” he} trearms were freely used. Police replied with appurent 1) Thole: Of | cy ciatiitary are : interest. Ordinarily, Mr. Bruckner uilitary: “ermared: cary finally would have gone into de and ex-|4 reed the combats plained his vote. > As Mr. Bruckner left City Ha f Ae eee ee ey, theta | WOMEN VOTE DOWN he had hoped he cou buh th meeting, but found jt would be iu DISARMAMENT posal ble, BATTLE ¢ TMich., Fey. 18.20. | Proposition Throw Full Party Hef that many, 1 not all the cases re Support for Plan Overwhelm- cently diagnosed as sleeping sickness Tats ANH throughout the country may have be ingly Defeated. | betulinun poisoning was expreased to-] WASHINGTON, F 1 day by Dr. J. H. Kellogg of this olty. | rey ite the ONG! : te Las Dr, Kellogg atated ho initiated r¢ ¥ Soe os bere earch based on this theory rhortly af id H full support to the three deaths’ occurred war dixarmament was éver- ter Rapids from botulir spinach. Grand defeated at the organiz f the Reso ral up th lution the ruture. the recent victim», added. | Presidemt of Liberia Coming Were, Bay 8 PAIS, Mob. 18.—President King of Mamas Case Shae rom Baek. | che Liber public, who 1s now STEUBENVILLE, 0. Feb. 14, Paria: sill anil, fo York y feng armed bendit held up the Miners and! poutos: ae" oes, from Mechanics’ Bank at Smithfield, ©. }handie State, i an effort to complete ig oS this afternoon, and escaped | nagotiutiona for American tinanglat ald yhweem wanes. and $4,000. for Liberls. ence a se AB iL = INARMORED CARS — THOUSAND TROOPS AUNT FLINGS TWO BABIES THIRD FLOOR WINDOW, THEN JUMPS 10 SIDEWALK Seven Months’ Infant Will Die, Boy Two and One-Half Years Old and Girl May Recover—Police Prevent Mother Leaping After Children.’ FROM | | Celia Pargman, twenty years old, au immigrant from Russia six months ago who was admitted although clearly not of normal mentality, thréw her nephews, Harry Pargman, seven | and one-half years old, from a third months old, and Abe Pargman, two story windbw of tue apartment bouse \at 180th Street and Mobegan Avenue, the Broua, today, aud then jumped to the sidewalk. \ ham Hospital. The children are the: COLDEST WAVE OF WINTER DUE HERE NEXT WEEK Will Carry Freeving ‘Tempera- ures to Gulf Coast, Says | Special Forecast. WASHINGTON, Feb, 18, HE coldest weather of the winter may be expected over mueb of the country east of the Rocky Mountainy during the | next week, according to 4 special bulletin forwoast issued to-day by the Weather Bureau The cold wave will oxtend south- | ward over the Guif and South Atlantic States and carry freezing temperatures to Une coast the first | part of the weok, the bulletin sald LA GUARDIA BLOCKS EXEMPTION VOTE, Ordinanee to Relieve Housing Goes Over to Next Wark on His Amendment Motion. Aldermanic President La Guardt the Board of Es- vote on the tx aimed to re- Lined up to-day blocked, timate, immediate exemption ordinance lieve the housing situation. » move made by La Guariia ordinance would have been passed ive his afternoon: or Hylan, who signed the ondi- }nance this morning after tt had pas the Board of Aldermen, 40 to 2 Tuesday, succeeded in having t meusure added to to-day's calendar of the Estimate Board, La Guardia insisted the two amendments intro- duced at the meeting of the Aldermen be also placed upon the calendar and considered Manhattan Boroug President Curran told Mayor Hylan the amendments would render the tax exemption ordinance unconstitutional and therefore objected to thelr sonaidevation to-day \ X. Gullivan, Commissioner of Works of Queens, said he would like to examine the amend- memy, and Mayor Hylan postponed action gor a week. Twelve votes would have been necessary to pass the measure to-day, But nine, a ma- jpority vote, it a week from to- — Pagilixe® Diew Stokmews, SOR, Ont, Feb, 18—Arthur former heavyweight champion of Canada, and famous as the man who accktently killed Luther Me- Carthy in the ring at Calgary seven years /ago, died this morning at his home in Ford City, Ont, aéter four weeks’ i!Ineas from sleeping sickness. |4be was born in Ontario in 1883, votns are all y. Noted of Sleeping WINE Poilsy, The infant was fatally injured, but the elder child may recover. Pargman's chances for recovery are about even, She is 4 pi soner in Forde —_—— 9 there were itty with La Guardia are savings bank pnts with whom he recently rred privately. Had it not been! required to pass | a, cr Celie, re algo, or More mothers yo-carts and tn airing thelr pabics Mobegan ‘Avenuc, b¥tweén 186th etd 70th Streets, whon the demented git threw the babies und juniped into their midyt. But for quick, intelligent etion on the partof two policemen the mother of the children might have Jumped ufter them and the girl. | Celia, was brought to th! country [by her brother, Meyer, and lived with him, his wife and the two children on thé third floor of the apartment jhouse, In the Mat above lives Pare man's mother, and in the flat aboye that his brether and family, The! mother, the brother, the brothers ® wife and three children are all ip bed, suffering, it is sald, from infiee { enza bi Mrs, Meyer Pargman went tpstaime {ew minutes before 10 o'clock te ufier the invalids, leaving her charge of Celta, who hi hem beto Sho y fond o then nen ia the below j were wheeling thaly bu sl chat< {ting tn nshine when « bundie or led o the aiden Kk. The cuppings totled away, disclosing the crumpted form of a bub: Shrieking, the women looked aloft to see a girl sitting on a window sil. of the third floor with another baby in her army. She threw the baby out and It landed on the edge of the sidewalk. She watohed the little ony ag it turned over and over and ag it struok she pushed herself away from | window and dropped, failing en ewalk close to the building, in all directions apd screaming, t women attracted the | ttention of Corporal Hunt and Patrol- man Acriola of the mont Avenue Police Station, who were close by, Au they arrived they saw a woman clam ber out on the fire escape of the fourth floor and look down to the street, It ne mother of the children, and ecognized them and her sis. wis she had ter-in- “That woman looks s going to jump," suld Acriola, Hunt ram intuy the house and wp the stairs to the fourth floor, Acrtolia, standing on the sidewalk, shouted € the woman above to remain and alto movoned with his arms, His voice and actions caused her to hesitate until Hunt, entering the apartment, rushed to the window, grabbed her and pulled her back, Mra. Pargman waa too hysterical to give any information and her rela: , as though she tives were too {i} to talk. The Jus to the relatioasing of the d€- | mented to the ohildrea were |gachered by the police from neigh bors. hours before the Ormedy. } baby carriages on the sunny side Of 7 Moyer Parsmau, a Matrmeks had left for hia vlece ef erupte; a