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

SLAYER OF ORGANIST CAUGHT, POLICE 20,000 PRAY AS 6 ARE HANGED | To-Night’s Weather—RAIN. HP INAL cyENINt EDI Lisi WORLD Mal LXI. NO. 21, 687—DAILY. Che be ee Books Open to All.”’ « eure 1o2t (Phe by The Press Publishing ew York World). \_ RAILWAY PRESIDENTS TELL , THE EVENING WORLD Thiel STAND ON WAGES AND RATES: Executives Agree on Necessity for! Cut in Pay and Say : Balance: Sheet Must Forecast Lower Prices for Public All Around. One of the arguments advanced by the supporters of the proposed cut in the wages of rallroad workers is that the decreased labor cost will auto- matically bring about a decrease iy freight rates and passenger fares. Replies to telegrams of inquiry on tiis point sent by The Kvening World to the Presidents of the leading railroads inuicate that the prospect ef railroad rates reduction 1s, to say the least, remote, even though the Gouna) [edn tacsptatae (appearing tahoe cost be substantiafty reduced. ' morrow for argument on a motion to ‘The concensus of railroad exeoutive opinion appears to be that NO oy cause why she should not be redhetion in rates or fares can be expected until the railroads are earning permitted to amend her general de- CASE LIKELY 10 BE Wife’s Counsel Plans to Argue For Permission to Amend Denial of Charges. MAY BREAK Intimated That Steps wifl Be Taken to Question Banker in Open Court SECRECY. No appearances were made b Justice Morschauser sitting to-doy ir | she Supreme Court in White Plains |m the James A, Stillman divorce case and tts related actiona. A represen- tative of Mrs. Stiliman said that her th. and wages, would say we have not ne to be either appro- rates, following reduction tn salaries considered any general reduction of ratcs at th Hieation to-day of 4 plan attributed priate or desirable. especially so louz as vhe aliroads sanaot even cain | to Mrs, #tillman’s <tiorneys io break thelr actual transportation 1nd maintenance oosts and tazes, und pra the gecrecy estore dy PS ee . ve of testimony before a referee a 0 t ail by way of seturms on sheir property investment. 9 n he Aap rs find a means of questioning Mr, Sttll- The workins conditions under national agreements and high wages paid to rafiroad employees ax compared with other Industries are so out of t with present day business that they must first be adjusted. Aft at, tt returns to railroads are anywhere near what was Intended tmey should bo under the Transportation Aot, with respect to earning a .air return on property devoted to public use. ‘Then would be the time to give consid- eration to reduction {n transportation raics, but not before. It must be remembered that rates for transportation have been abnormaily low for years In this country, and to-day they are still jower dan prevuil in any other country in the world. Gallroads must b¢ slowed reasonable earn- ings, not merely to sustain their credit but to give public service and aid industries by giving orders for materials and supplies, Says Rate Reduction Hangs onDollar’s Purchasing Power. W. G. BESLER (President Central Railroad of New Jersey). ay iserau Wil (By Wire to the Editor of The Evening World.) Peete lars Prior to 1914-15 this country had the lowest railroad rates and the |“ So44 Brennan of Yonkers, of fivest railroad service In the world A retarn to normalcy should bring | counsel for Suman, has ob- about at least comparable conditions. |tatned from Supreme Court Justice ‘As the purchasing power of the dollar increases, railroad rates and | Morschauser an order to show cause refircad fares may be reduced comparably without loss or injury to | why Mra Stillman should not receive » either the lroads.or their employees. and to the manifest advantage of permission to amend her answer for | aimony and counse) fees and it the pubile. | ‘ or ‘urnabdle before Justice Mors- Willard Thinks No Immediate Rate Reduction Possible. chauser in White Plains at 11 A, M. DANIEL WILLARD (President Baltimore and Ohio Railroad), to-morrow. (By Wire to the Editor of The Evening World.) When Mrs, Stillman made her orig- : si imal answer to her husband's com- BALTIMORE, March 14,—I do not think that any wage reduction oe . “ plaint it merely contained a denial of which could be Justified at this time because of the decreased cost of liv- ing would be sufficient to enable the railroads, while business remains at man in open court he mystery of the wherenbouts of} Stillman and her youngest son, not been cleared, though Mr ! quy, has the Stillman estate, Malbanne, near | Ploasantvitie, N.Y, an eighth of « miie from the home of John D. Rocke- ‘teller, Quards stationed at the gates | there refuse to peemit xnyone to ehter or to send in any message. While it ts known that Mrs, Still- man’s lawyers have decided to aban- don the dofensive and launch a vigor- ous attack on ber banker husband, ted the nature of (Continued on Twelfth Page.) any general reduction in rates and charges. = = ta re ee Moet uae ae eae || MEDUWEOCURS Fe ear tir upon tha praseat value Gt Hanuess | ON LINKS SHOULD NOT BE TEACHERS js present level, to make While undoubtedly higher nome extent, I ¢ ‘The reasons for the present decline in business go much ¢roper than the mere matter of transportation rates, and are due to causes mot difficult to locate, In short, we are now simply Ip the act of paying our | share of the bill resulting from the combined efforts of all the principal nations in the world through a peried of five or six years to destroy as | Preacher Wouki Bar From Schools Those Who Grow Profane at Golf. wr much property and as many lives as possible. This, of course, does not | BOSTON, Maroh 14 imply that the result accomplished may not have b well worth the | OM00L THACHERS whe price. S bwear when they dive t the rough or jose ” Will Ultimately Mean Lower Freight and Passenger Rates. of golf on an easy putt w E. E. LOOMIS (President Lehigh Valley Railroad) wured by Rev. A % Connid in (By Wire to the Pxitor of The ¢ World. the Park Street Chureb jas Anewering your Inquiry, I believe the presen = toward night * gn equalization of railroad wages with those paid by trive tor ‘Profane man 3 be " the same clase of work ultimately will mean lower ft from our schouls,” he sald, “T rates. The one, however, cannot follow immediately laSuense of ‘teachers whose pr te commerce and industry of this country are t pate re bi ph Lot Ria transportation service, Until railroad operating exper educed tien oad beuncation iain: H sify:ld choose men and women of — a Continued on Second Page.) matrad aspirations. MADE TO-MORROW This intimation ‘tollowed the pub- | | there is reason to believe they are at} *| down in front of the AS 20,000 PRAY BEFORE JAIL; ALL DUBLIN CEASES WORK — ——————— +> | Inipreswve: Scene as Great | Throng Kneels in Sree? Tr a” WAR ON POLAND coves res vans REOPENED BY REDS, ;Lord Mayer Appeals to King) and Prime Minister, but Fails | to Get | Reprieve. —— Maron 1a rey Twenty Divisions, Including |convicted of complicity tn the kitting} Artillery and Aviation '(C Zorps | Reported Advancing. pur “Six of British intelligence offic members of the Crown fofces in Ire-| Jand were Prison, * and} executed in Mountjoy” STOCKIIOLUM Attondaldet's 14—~Te correspondent Mareh this city, this morning. The Riga nial of her husband's changes by add- men were banged in puirs at intor- says to-duy that from eighteen to ds cannot earn a surplus until the volume of ‘ a surplus; that the ra{lroads e ooa eke, elnTan tnorenee Javaot to! be CEE it assertions as to misconduct Vils of an hour. twenty Bolwtevik divisions ure ad- business ts materially increased, an meeps ae Bee Ch uavniin (piaius Twenty thousand people gathered yanctag against Poland in the dis- xpect or some time to come. 4 be s 2 ‘Oi08 outside th ‘son 4d » hours oT " x sa If ived on “outpost duty” by Mr. Stillman’s | le: prison) during o Ure triota of Smolenak, Vitobs} Orsha, Following are the replies receive uttorneys sald he rather thought the that the executions were going on! yohMev and north of those places. 5 pedicle a = velved 2nd al work in the city stopped until ion i i ents. notoriety which the case had received Artilley and naval corps accom ion in Freight Rates Must Await Developm dengite every devion to oxo : Yel ive on Reducti 9 ody AFIS Gaay: despite every device to except It from 11 o'clock. Even the post office Was! puny ihe infantry. SAMUEL REA (Presiient Penney ; court publicity would act to postpone | gioged aid telegraph service was #ua-{ mney, (By Wirg to the Editor of The Evening World.) ‘ all arguments indefinitely until, aso o404 => PHLLADELPHIA! Pa, March 14—Answering your tquiry as (2°46 DOL tne utter is no longer? WHITE SOX TRIAL whether Pennsylvania 1s considering proportionate decraye tn rattrotwd |. nine days! .worler.” | ‘The scene in :ront of the prison was extraordina impressive. The crowd | an assembling at dawn and by 6! gelock the prison yard was packed. | 4 pour later the crowd had filled DATE TO BE SET uses to Postpon | the coadway leading to the privon and | at Request of St jal the abutting streets. An altar had Attorney, | jDeen umprovised near the prison doors) GiyeA GO, Mareh 14.—-Juage W Jand on the wails and trees in the | |prison yard sacred images and ple- tures had been placed. jam Hi, Dever to-duy refused to com- ply with a motion by the State that | Everywhere candics were burned, |the tral of Chicago White Sox pl ot are ives vice es ers and others indicted for the al- ong holding them aloft | 4 throughout the jong vigil, Here and Peta iaebiad of the 1919 World Gere priests or women fed in pray- | Series be postponed for the present. ere ut tymna in which every one|He Ordered another hearing for next Joined earnestly. Hundreds kneeling | T*UMwday, when it le believed a date in the roadway were forced to rise | fr trial will ve set. When an armoured car forced its way | entail ie Nan ieee ae |through the crowd, From aiAllenh lipid oectacne Sites Meats esaclpics ile Gordie fh Ea Gaeaed eo Thursday. and Judge Dever said that ' he would announce his decision later, aude Williams, Buok Weaver, is | o'eloe und On the | prison. roof of the jail, overlooking the on- | trance, a cast Iron sen box had |OS%r Felsch and Swede Riseberg © Nddie Cy been erected overnight from which a|Were !m court. Eddie Cicotte, Bill soldier Kept careful watch on the|Burns, Joseph J, Sullivan, Rachel | Brown, Chick Gandil and Abe Atte! Not since the executions following | Were represented by counsel, Hal the 1916 uprising, with the possthle ex-|Chase was the only defendant not ception of the hanging of Keven Barry | Present or represented by counsel. in Novernber last for 4n attack on 4 military msoort, bas (reland been more profoundly stirred. Although 6 o'clock |$2,000,000 GIVEN had been tixed for the execution of the TO JOHN DODGE Gret pair, it was not until 8.20 that the | crowd knew the fate of the prisoners. | father Who. re Estate of $80,- At that time the following notice was 7 . ry | pone outalae tia ii eaten 000,000 Cut Him Off Wéth $1,500 a Year. “The sentence of the law pased on Thomas Whelan and Patrick Moran.) pyrRoit, Mich, March found guilty of murder, and op Thomas crowd. 4 <_ 14, Settle ment out of court of the contest forti Bryan, Patrick Doyle, Frank F 4 tuted by Juhn Duval Dodge to break th and Bernard Ryan, found guilty of; 441 of his father, Jotn F. Doge, auto | mobile manufacturer, wag announced | } (Continued on Eighth bone tocday, Young Dodge bequeathed an annuity of approximately $1,500, is to reccly STOCKHOLM SAYS “Tene | Ing the Pacitls fleet the big one To-Morrew’s Weather—RAIN. 7 PRICE THREE CENTS | HUGE RED ARMY REPOR TED “IN )VADING POLAND © PLEA IN STLUMAN. SIY JPISH PRICNEDC HAND. LITLETON MAKES THREAT TO QUIT IN ~ THE STOKES CASE | Objects to Admission of Name of Edgar T. Wallace in the Present Suit. CALLS ACTION UNFAIR. | | Justice Finch Supeets | Would Be Better to Thresh Out Entire Matter Now, After a persistent effort to bar out all testimony having any reference to Edgur T. Wallace, who has been men | tioned as a co-respondent tn an added sult for divorce by W. 1 D, Stokes, | he Court ruled to-day that such evi- | dence should the admitted. Mr. Littleton had threatened to with- draw if this ruling would bo rendered, A long legul argument resulted, cul- minating in the calling to the stand of Mrs. Mabe! Mattoo: who In 1914 | Hived at No. 16 Faw first new witness, jan, She teatified that | during hor reetdence at the above, a4 dress Wallace had an apartment on} the floor bolow, The exa mination of Mr¥, Matteos slun might eave gone much further than her identification of a picture of | | Wallace aad not Mr. Littleton, Mrs. | ‘Stokes's ovun the ground that his opponents were attempting to bring irrlevunt testi- mony tito the cuse. ] When he witness left the wtand Mr. | | Tattleton renewed his objection t> the | ineredmetion of Wallace's name or un; testitony in retemwnoe to him tn the present action, Herbe Smnyth of counsel tu Mr. Stokes explained to the Court that at time the complaint was drawn | Walace’s name was not known and} he wae included tn the designation “various men,” with whom Stokes churges tue wife was criminally intimate. | The day ov which Mra Stokes \s| to take ber place in the witness | chatr to relate the details of ber mar ried life with W. I PD. Stokes is not! far distant, as Mr. Stokes's attorneys sald this morning that only seven | witnemes remained to appear aguinat | Mrs. Stokes. | ‘The day's session of the trial be- | fore Justice Finch opened with the wal dramatia personae--M ra, Stokes | In her brown velvet bat sitting be- tween her attorneys at table; Mr the counsel | Stokes at the other end of | (Continued on Second Page) BIGGEST U.S. FLEET | MAY GO TO PACIFIC Experts Working Out Plans to [ Presented to Preskten Harding WASHINGTON, Mare!) can naval experts are cv “4 Ameri ering mak » leav ing only @ few fighting abipe on ti | |INDUSTRY IN STATE SHOWS SMALL GAIN! _ APPEAL TO LEAGUE MADE BY GERMANY | 000,000 of the emtute estimates $50,000,000 | Bmployment in F Per Cent., First Increase Since Last Marc a Vroy Cer ALBANY, Murch 16 du 1 = dition of tactory work for February N ° i the State Industries Commiazion nM tw t The rept shows @ 2 per cent,|cotariat of ¢ Nutriae, prow | au: 18 employment for ‘February as! testing agate enaiiiee we ne ar <0 pared with January. This. was the] forved b: Patents for Germa employment gain reported sinegPben-fulfillment of har repurctions obsi-| eeons |, arisen to object ont | day night, was arrested to-day at K to Perth Amboy and questioned Lawrence A, Long, after which he Brunswick. It was declared by one of the STRIKE PIGKETING IS ALL UNLAWFUL, Van Siclen nounces From Bench in Brooklyn Supreme Court. Pala] Supreme Court Justice Van Sicien | Brooklyn to-day indicated that he may decide there can be no lawtul picketing. In considering the appll- cation of the clothing manufacturing firm of Sehwarts & Jaffee. Incor- porated, for an injumetion to restrain certain officers of the Amalgamated | Clothing Workers of America from | unlawfully interfering with or as | naulting the nop-striking workers of the company, Justice Ven Stolen | sald: “To my mind, there can be no lawful picketing. because i it is lawful it is of no use to the union, The purpose of picketing is inter- forence. It is interference one way or the other, The only reason human beings do it is to try to injure some one.” Meyer Gteinbrink, a» counsel for Sehwarts & Jaffee, asked for the tn- junetion. "We seek to hold the Amalgumased ie & common law conspiracy, The (Continued on Fifteenth Page.’ eee Viret Men Over Peking Wall Dead. (Sewened to ‘The eerie Werth.) JTON, N.Y... Maoh 14,--Harry M. forty eeven, of this city, sald ~t man to scale the great Peking wheo the allied forces t ¢ the Roxer cam- a With ft Company, payticlpated n the wn Another Cent, \ Ot Company of New iced the wholesale py visite tap (S BELIEF OF JUDGE | Justice An- gene MAN CAPTURED AT KEYPORT SAID 10 HAVE CONFESSED KILLING WOMAN ORGANIS po ——____—- Believed to Have Held Up Another Woman Several Hours After’ the Murder at Perth Amboy—Blood Stains Alleged to Have Been Found on His Clothing. | A negro, suspected of having murdered Mrs. Edith Marshall Wilson, the pretty church organist and music teacher, whose body was found/on | vacant lot near ther home at No, 78 Centre Street, Perth Amboy, Satur- eyport, N. J. ‘The prisoner, whose name,was withheld by the police, was taken by Police Chief Punison and Lieut. was sent to the conmly jail at New detectives who attended the examina tion of the prisoner that he confessed to killing Mrs, Wilson, Beyond expressing confkience that |they tuwe the right man, the au- | thorittes declined to give mach in- | formation about the prisoner, ‘Hee jman is said to have bloodstakws ep his cfothing, and this ts betdewn® to have furnished one of the chun Gat led to his arrest. Harvey E. Wiieon, a cherctent Que ker with offices in Fulton Steet, Manhattan, the husband of the einis woman, walked into Perth Amber Police Headquurters at noon tondiag. He proved te the satisfaction of te investigators that he had bean gtmy- jing bridge ut the Harvard Cha in |New York at the timo of the murder | There wna nothing in the investiga |Uom @t any time to connect him with | the orine, but the police sought im |to see if he could give any valuable | information. Mr. Wilson had teen living apart fram his wife, owing te some minor disagreement | The police believe the slayer may be the vame man who robbed another | woman following the murlerous at- | tack on Mrs, Wilson, Miss Feany | Miler, twenty-four years old, whe lives at Princess Bay, Staten Istand, reported to~iay that she was on her way to the Tottenville Ferry at 1220 Saturday nigbt when, at Smith Street and Wailack’s Lane, Perth Amboy, « man leaped at her, ‘The storm was at ts height and Ales Miller etd ebe was not able to se@ ber assailant clearly enough te mrnish a detafied descrip Hon of bim. She saw, however, thut he was about § feet tall and that be wore ue evercomt. He enatched her purse, contadming $12, and fled fumt as Pollceman Patrick Dwyer ap- peared. The policeman chased him, wut he escaped. BANDIT IN FUGHT LEFT HAT BEHIND. Certain lacerations of Mra WY. ton's body showed it apparently was a “ripper” murder, it was declared to-day by County Detective Fer David. “The marks were caused either by & man’s hand or some blunt !nstra- ment,” said David. “There were oo sashes or knife marks.” The death of Mrs, Wilson was caused by her shock and fright while battling with her assailant, it was announced by Dr, John L. Suy- dam, County Physician, who per- formed the antopsy, He declared « hemorrhage of the left lobe of the vrain, which produced bleeding through the cars, was caumed. emotion songojyent upon’ the