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ry d Rast attempt and having robbed the - ‘| Cirontation Books Open to Alt.” | ff e Circulation Books Open. to All. My Ls Mk dade Weather—CLOUDY. i EDITION KE Copyright, 1021, Co, (The VOL. LXI. NO. 21,675—DAILY. DEAD IN N. Y. CENTRAL WRECK PUT AT 4 by The Press Pol fork World) hing JERSEY JUSTICE! TWELVE MINUTES 10 CONVICT JERSEY BANDITS; SENTENCED 1090 10 79 YEAR JA TERMS Carl and John Krebs Krebs and Mi- ‘MOSCOW REPORTS chael Shannon Plead Guilty | SOVIET OVERTHROW on Five Hold-Up Charges Have ne Rimors That Authorities Been Thrown Out C Through Riga. Rumors that the authorities in Petrograd have | been overthrown are in circulation in Moscow, says a report from the Russian capital received h day. WILLASKULS. COURT «FOR TEST OF CUBAN: CAPTURED SATURDAY Admit Part in Baltusrol Rob-) ,." bery in Which New York Man Was Shot. Car} and John Krebs and Michae! | Shannon, who were captured Satar- day after their attempt to holt =e trolley car at Union,.N. J, were sen® from y seventy-five years each in the Court Elizabet tenced to-day to tt Common Pleas at Judge Carlton B, Pierce, The entire court proceedings covered twelve minutes. who was 8 Deputy Sheriff Cart 1 Grip on tists) Will Other- wise Add $450,000,000 to Nation’s | Sugar Bill. Carl Krebs, the cheek by schminden of the bandits were he trolley ear Union County whet attempting to s Union, by snatching the trolley pole from the wire by rope, was brought Into court on a By R. R. Batson. whair, He 4s under treatment at t e “Cuban Financial Gommis- Hiizageth General Hospital. |slon,” organized by President Menceal When he had been placed in josi- iba under his “war powers,” and tion before the judge and the ocher| Ee : two ranged beside him, rosecutos it te permitted to function Walter Hetfield read to them tie it {9 predicted, something rom, | like $450,000,000 to the sugar bill of the consumers of this countr tions made against*t) easions of having robbed cars previous to mine inforr on their con two troll con- d to keep a grip on the sugar to-day. ‘The sugar world their guests Jeaving a party at the Wal-| has been thrown into a turmoil, pro- ausrol Golf Club a month aso in 4|/ tests are plilng in from all sections procession of five automobiles. In] of the country and increasing pres- ‘the Golf Club robbery Robert 8. Huse|«ure is being brought against the of New York was shot. Col, Paul] State Department at Washington to Pebevoise and ‘Tr. M. Debevoise Of} intervene with the Cuban Govern- ew York were members of the|ment and have the commission dis- banded, It is known that responsible firms planning to test the legality of the commission's acts In Whe Federal Courts unless the powerg of the com- mission are immediately taken away. As set forth in The Evening World on Saturday, the Cuban Commission, ven members, and a : on in New York, con- sting of three members, have been warty. The three pleaded guilty of five charges of highway robbery and atro- cious assault with intent to kill in- cluded in the nine compluints read. ‘The remaining four charges aguinst each were held in abeyance, Judge Pierce then sentenced each man to not less than ten years nor more than fifteen years in Stat prison on each of the five charges. |siven complete control over the an tone | Cuban sugar trade. Every pound of DETROIT WINS FIGHT) guvan sugar must be sold through FOR CITY RAILWAYS commission, which not only names the price at which the sugar ae; 11s gold but which makés a purchaser U. S. Supreme Court Upholds Mur] guarantee that any raw auras ne nicipality’s Right to Issue Bond ae ST, enenaion are aa: ~ and Build ‘Lines | scribed as broader and more arbitrary WASHINGTON, Feb. ‘The De-|than those exercised by the Sugar iroit United Railways, by a deceision | equalization Board which was formed wf the Supreme Court to-da its | bY during the war. It {s freely predicted by competent experts that if the commission is al- jowed to continue to function, refined sugar which at the time of the for- the elty of De constructing a mu- ordered fight to prevent from acquiring o nieypal street var ystem 4 toy the people of the city alan elec} ation of the commission sold at On wat Arti | 6.85 cents a pound will go to around The suit wae one of several inst h43 centa a pound, Every cent mae tuted afte stion in April, 1020, vance in the p of sugar adds in wht \ a majority of VOlEH) 599 609,000 to th bill of this were cy tn favor of a public-owned | country, Since the commission began system, to} guived through the} to function less than a week ago, issuance of $15,000, 09 in civis bonds. | eaned sugar has teen ‘advanced Aes frould be to compel it to sell Ines on| outlook {9 now #o befogged that all two importan strects at an inade- — eeriel aris cans: ist tie citaciGs! countinded Ga ge Fourteen.) wended actioh constituted a bre contract. wi a | $1.20 Gas Injunction Extented to sot 3 | June Law to Return Alien Property " ‘Signed | Unlted States Judge Ward, Hough and Mayer to-day signed an extens {Of an Injunction odtuined Brook- npany t ustodian of proper training ar and whieh bel mien cttf- | toring with} wens of the United Atatesor tie Alllos| a injunetion, who married enemy subjects hefore the | wt have expired to-morrow, declaration of wax. mow remains in force until June 1. 5 aa GREAT BOOZE RAID RESULTS IN TANGLE OVER WARRANTS ' Saloonkeepers, Bartenders and | Hooch Sleuths Jam the Federal Building. | BAIL GIVEN IN ALL CASES. |Failure to Procéd in Legal Fashion Admitted by Gov- ernment Lawyers, i | Contending that three out of four} of the search warrants under which | nearly 200 arrests were made in the sensational Prohibition enforcement atds last Saturday night are worth- less on their face because of errors in Jocations and descriptions, that many persops were arrested against whom there is not: a sor@p of evi- Pe and that the raid was a ares tand play ‘legally acute lawyers representing the men under arrest arranged to-day to \bring the matter of the validity of the warrants into the Federal Cpurts without delay. By agreement, after more copfirsion and complications than the Federal Building has withessed in many years United States Commissioner Hitch- cock received the complaints against the alleged violatoms as fast as they were made out. Bail was fixed at $1,000 In each case of alleged selling und at $500 in each case of alleged possession,» No pleas were taken, All cases were adjourned for two weeks. Before the expiration of that time the lawyers hope to have a ruling on the legality of most of the arrests, Some Government officials agreed with counsel to the alleged violators of the Volstead Act that the provisions of the law which call for arresteby the search warrant method were not car- ried out. The office of Assistant Unit- ed States Attorney H. D. Mildeberger, who makes out the complaints against Volstead Act ylolators, was the centre of secthing excitement ail iy long. Besides the prisoners there were gath- ered numerous lawyers and bondsmen and about 150 Prohibition agents who had gathered the evidence or made the t arrests, Difficulties about identifications arose as soon as Mr. Mildeverger opened his office ers arrested Saturday charges of having sold liquor to agents a week or ten days ago when, as a matter of fact, they were not employed at the places where they were arrested until a few hours be- fore the raid, were cited by lawyers. In one cage.it was shown that arrests were made on a search warrant call- ing for action in premises a mile and a halt aw “In the first place, (Continued on Second Page.) ——— CAN’T INVADE HOMES IN SEEKING LIQUOR S. Supreme Court Rules That Dry Agents Must Have Search Warranis, WASHINGTON, Feb. %8.—Revenue Agents must have search warrants to “invade private homes in bunting for liquor’? the Supreme Court to-day held. ‘The decision, it is believed, wili pre- vent wide. ad prohibition raids, un- less the Federal! Governmeut has in- formation suffictent to obtain a war- rant. ‘The court set a Lawrence Amos Instances of wait- night on said Charles H. side the conviction of of South Carolina for having “inoonahine" whiskey in his pos- wession, Amos's uppet! was bused on the claim that the liquor was tut from his home without a warrant of search and selgure. The court ordered the liquor returned to him. The decision of the court " mel reade, | was un-| > WORLD TRAVEL BU! Puutaer (World) Fa ase | Bodin rt | |: NEW YORK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1921. Ea eae Entered as Second-Class Matter Post Offlee, New Yorks N. ¥- es pen NTS. vad PRICE THREE , + TAX RATES ARE BOOSTED IN EVERY CITY BOROUGH; 29 POINTS IN MANHATTAN Levy Based on Budget of $345,530,039, of Which $206,251,106 Is for Departments. The new tax rate for this city was made,public today in a report which the Finance and Budget Committee of the Board of Aldermen will submit to the full board to-morrow, The jump in the rates in the five boroughs is one of the biggest In the history of the city. In Manhattan there {s an advance of 29 points. In the Bronx there is a jump of 31 points. In Brooklyn the rate ad- vances 26 points, and in Queens 31 points. Richmond has an advance of 30 points. The rates, new and old, which are on the basis of each $100 in real estate valuation, are as follows: 1920 1921 The Bronx 2.58 , 2584 Brooklyn . 20h 2.80 Queens ... 24 235 Richmond 2.53 2.88 ‘The new tax rates are based on a “budget of $345,530,039, which con- sists of $206,251,106 for city departmental eppropriations; $43,115,832.43 for redemption of special revenue bonds and tax rates; $1,680,000 for deficiencies in taxes. The assessed valuations by boroughs are as follows: ie Assessed Valuation of Property Liable Boroughs. Real Estate. Personal Estate, to Taxation. Manhattan ..++++++++,,$5,878,847,633 $152,742,600 $6,031,590,238 The Bronx 852,447,403 899,700 866,347,108 Brooklyn ++ 2,395,486,473 37,741,850 2,433,228,323 Queens . 718,818,139 7,409,350* Richmond .sseeeeseeees 127,385,456 AAO 128,814,189 ‘ Grand Totals $9,972,985,104 NURSE ARRESTED; FUNERAL PLANNED FOR LIVING PATIENT ones Orders to Undertaker and Florist Figure in Syra- cuse Mystery, 222,175 $10,186,207,279 GIRISH PRISONERS EXECUTED IN CORK lines Condemned Face Firing Squads in Batches of Two, Every Fifteen Minutes. CORK, Feb, 28.—Despite tHe appeat for clemency made recently by the Cork Corporation, the six Irishmen in the jail here, whose death waa fixed for to-day on charges of levy- ing war against the Crown forces, were duly executed by*the military this morning. The men were shot in batches of two each at intervals Detective Thomas, J. Lynch of Syracuse left early to-day for that city with Mrs, Alice T. timer, @ handsome trained nurse, about thirty years old, who was arrested when the steamer Arapahoe of the Clyde line, from Florida, docked here last might, While the warrant charges grand|°f fifteen minutes. 5 The men executed were othy larceny, Mrs, Lattimer figures i Fs eee F Mpures ™ 8) wocarthy, Thomas O'Brien, Patrick Syracuse mystery involving an inva-| yanoney, John Lyons, Daniel Cal. lid patient, Mrs, Ruth Crawford, slx-|jaghan and Jolin Allen ty-elght, a widow, The nurse seemed] The first ¢ive were condemned early to have expected her arrest, because|this month for an attack upon the before the.ehip arrived she had re-|CYown forces at Dripsey, County ted aio. of 1 Cork, in January, Allen, whose home se Mpzadiogrem one Wort! was in ‘Tipperary, was sentenced by “Trouble.” According to other passeng court martial for possessing a revol- ver and ammunition. tence which the King’s Bench con- firmed on Web, 24 in deciding that a state of war existed in Ireland, giving the military full power to act without , she kept much to herself on he trip, and while agreeable at table took no part in the conversation. Tt was his sen- She was not al- lowed to talk to reporters on her ar- rival, but Detective Lynch sald she told him the charge had 90 do with money matters between herself and a woman patient, but that she, Mrs. Lattimer, was no? responsible, She; also tokd the detective, he said, that) she thought her father, Dr. William D. Towiley of Syracuse, was trying to make trouble for h She hud expected to be met at the pler here by Brooklyn friends, but 1f interference by the civil courts, The clemency appeal for the men d by the corporation Sat- urday and a copy sent to Gen, Bir Nevil Macready, Commander of the troops in Ireland. In all the Catholic Churches in Cork yesterday prayers were sald for the condemned men. DUBL b, 28.—A British Major, “Black and Tan” ested on charges I a Capain and reveral been a ing Sinn police have of mur BY MILITARY ORDER FRANCES KENNEDY, ACTRESS, WHO WAS INJURED IN WRECK = — AMCES @XENNEDY. THRILLING STORIES, | OF ESCAPE TOLD BY. WRECK SURVIVORS Women Among the Bravest, Help in Rescue and Care of Injured. { {Spevial to The Evening World.) CHICAGO, Feb, 28.—Many thrilling storice of the wreck were told by sur vivors early to-day: Capt. E. C. Fleming of the Third Artillery, who was riding In tite par- lor car of the New York Central train, said: “When the crash came I was hurled head over heels. I was winded for a moment, and when I came to two other men were lying on top of me, Our car was in confusion, I n't describe the utter disorder that the wreck presented. It looked a good deal like a troop train I saw once that had been shelled. “I plunged right into the wreck and carried out six bodies myself, They were oll men and were all dead, Iveotild hear cries under the wreckage, but they were from wound- ed yhat we couldn't reach, The heavy timbers of the car floor and the up- rooted seats had pinned them down. They didn’t have a chance to escape, “Both trains were going at full specd when they crashed, Our en~ gine, two express cars, a baggage car and the smoker assed over the Michigan Central tracks before the ‘ain halted. Only the Pullman and parlor cars didn't reach the wreck. One of the waiters in the dining car was pretty badly hurt when the cook- ing stove charged from one end of the car to the other. “Behind the day coach of the Mich- gan Central train were sleepers. 1 saw a man come from one of these cars, survey the wreckage and pray, on bended knees, that he had been spared. ed one man from the Michigan ul day coach to an ambulance, not knowing whether he was dead or not. He turned his face BLAME FOR FATAL WRECK LAID 10 ENGINEER, SAID TO HAVE IGNORED SIGNAL Block Set for Two Miles Agaisial Michigan Central Train, Declares 4 Towerman—Score Reported In- jured—Thirty of Victims Identified PORTER, Ind., Feb. 28 (Associatéd Press).—The death list in last night's Diamond Crossing wreck remained incomplete this afternoon, with indications that forty-three might be the limit. At noon there were forty bodies in morgues, and wreckers said there were remains resem- bling three more under the New York Central engine. Thirty of the vice The men were said to be accused of anks, old man? He SYRACL The arr murdering two ginn Feiners who had| then. Mrs, Alico T, Lattimer was ordered | been cleared of charges of participat-| “The women on both tralns, those as a result of several statements made | ing in an ambush, | er to the police, and District Attorney| ‘The two Sinn Feiners, Murphy and (Continued on Second Page.) Malpass will serve subpoenues on| Kennedy, according to these reports, Te more than twenty witnesses to-day, | wore taken to Dublin Castie for ¢x-| Rear Sdmival ry t, Mayo calling for their appearance before| amination, found uot guilty and or- Ret |the Grand Jury to-morrow. dred released, Major King, commana-| {748 HINGTON, Pep. ar Admiral ‘The police say ng a detachment of “Black and ‘Tan Beh ie Mrs, Ruth Crawfor and Capt, Hardy, Intelligence offices y eigdt years old, came were sald to haye taken the two . sce the retired . zi ambus backed them up againgt @|cral oant at the reques, of Secre ary (Continued op Filth Page.) wall and ordered them shot. oy ———— tims had been identified. The number of injured is estimated at twenty, The wreck was due to the Canadian and the Interstate Limited on the Mictigan Central and the New York Central lines, re crashing at a crossing. It was a diamond shaped crossing, permitting the New York train, which struck as the other sprawled, derailed, across intersection, to rake two Michigan Central cars hier? 6 cutting bane! at rigit angles Cle eee mann Pr aa t,t omy Central train “DRY” RAIDERS Pippa ents tad BUSY IN NEWARK jrreen thot the bresdth of I legrees, that the breadth of the Volsteact ar Start Out coaches was ombraced tn its These were sheared almost from ed Aftemoon With Forty- Warrants to Serve. |to end. WRallroad oMicials were at & Prohibition raiders got on the job |loss to explain the phenomenon Padre 5) in Newark, N, J., this afternoon un- |decapitation of so many of the wine jtims: Halt the dead apparently were der Agente Harry BE. Sands of Wash- ington and Harry Loftus of Philadel- instantly k: 1, - A statement by Towerman J. © Cook, on duty at the crossing, de laved the block two miles away was hia and went after forty-nine saloon- |#€+ against the Michigan Csetral keepers. For the last two weeks |train while the track was left cleat agents have been gathering evidence | for the New York Central. of alleged violations of the Volsteaa|OMcials at the acena of the wreck” Act and at 1 o'clock the raiding |S#!d Engineer W. &. Long of Jab © squads started out. son, Mich, who escaped unhurt, des The first four places which were visited were Patsy Kline's Cabaret, Daye Mackay’y, McBnroe’s and Walsh's, all well patronized places in clare@ he had received « clear signal, and had checked it with his firemen ~ ante-Prohibition days, but the rmulde yielded nothing. This Engineer Long Was in seeret eom ference with morning, According to raifroad officials, is the first aecident that has Long in his thirty-one years of se with the Michigan Central. They fer to him as a careful railroad mai, with a cleah service record. He hall been in the passenger service Bee yours, PASSENGERS ON NEW YORK CENTRAL TRAIN ESCAPE, railroad officials “ait” . — “HORRORS OF RHINE” MEETING TO GO ON More Than a Thousar! Policemen and Detectives to Guard Dem- onstration To-Night. “The Horrora of the Rhine’ demon-| All except the two baggage and stration scheduled for to-ulght at Madi-/mail cars of the New Yorle Centval son Square Garden has not baen for-ltrain remained upright, althong’ bidden by Mayor Hylan, despite Pro-lhity or the wooden coaches of the teats of World War soldiers and civic and patriotic bodies, but elaborate po- lice arrangements were announced. to- day to cope with any situation which might arise from the gathering. Under Inspector Coleman there will be in and about the gurden & police Michigan Central train were seattered for fifty yords. Passengers im the four coaches of the Michigan.Centraly train behind the death card were hurt except for the shakeup, and a) of the passengers on the New York — captains, 40 sergeants, 500 policemen, 8] Central cscaped, elfmbing down from mounted sergeants and 50 mounted D9-|tnei> ears through the f Meemen Acting Inspector Coughlin. e For no reason that ratlroag ox ficials could assign, almost all of thy |” dead taken to the little morgue Chesterton, across the tracks from Porter, received thelr fatal wounds \/| in the head, Some were decapitated, ~ accounting for the failure to identify nine of the twenty-five which had ©” been taken there up to six crelogy this morning, Pay Records of the Michigan Centray j train disclosed a large number ef ©” railroad employees, travelling ea passes, scheduled to go on the ed train, but they eould not head of the Detective Bureau, will be in charge of 190 plain clothes men: In addition 300 policemen will be on re- servo at the East 36th and East 22d Street stations. Only persons having admission tickets will be permitted to approach the Gur- den, a “non-loitering” zone belng pro- vided from 25th to 2th Streets and Lexington to Fifth Avenues, Qi COLD LANDLORD FINED $75. Maurice Gordon of No. 1777 Madison Avonuo, who sald he was a reporter for 1 Now York newspaper and who owns an elght-family tment house at No,|cated in the Chestertén q 2, Lebanon Terrace, Asto was fined| Efforts of volunteer doctors and — #75 by Magistrate Conway In the Long| nurses of Michigan City and Gery to 1 land City Police Court to-day for fati- to provide heat for his tenants, rush the injured to hospitals to the confusion in the check of #1 The tenants deckared the temperature | road officials upon the list of fo the upartm had not been over 59} tiey but it was belleved the total sinee Jon. 1, that they had to keep their] wouig not exceed thirty-five, gas rnnges ail the time to keep] The speed of the w York Cental © Fob. 13 It was xo cold by . vo the house. Gordon| ‘a! while fatal to passengers os dhe provided nil tas heat ho contd | the two death cars, saved the Saad d that there were no hplaint » |gers fa the rear coaches of both AED. arding tho tomperatures until after key 1, when an valved the rents, from worse than @ severe jolt Bodles gf Engineer Claude .