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To ahd ¥ CSE en mmrernperys — OOKLYN WOMAN KILLED BY B To-Night'’s Weather—PROBAB Bi EDITION +P ORAIN, ae, Circulation Books [*Cirentation Books Open to AM.” | to All.”’ YOU Lxt LXI. “NO, 21,690—DAILY. Copyright, Co. ‘The Nev AOBIy by The Free vubtlshing York World) Post Offlee, Entered as Secund-Class Matter New York, N. ¥. 28 MILLER TRANSIT MEASURE WILL BE PUT T IN ASSEMBLY e—___. Expected to Get at Least 90 Votes — Goes Through Senate by 33 to 18. HARD FIGHT IN VAIN. All Amendments Suggested in Either House Are Promptly Rejected. By Joseph S. Jordan. (Staff Correspondent of The ning World.) ALBANY, March 17.—When the Miller Transit Bill came up in the Assembly to-day for final passage announcement was made by Majority Leader Simon L. Adler that the vote probably would he taken next Tues- day because of the absence of many members. It is practically certain that it will get at least 90 votes and | may be sent to the Governor tue same day. Here are the names of five le- publican Senators of Greater Now York who voted for the bill which takes from the city all power over its transit facilities, its $300,000,000 invested in the subways and forces the city to accept all the decropit railroads at whatever valuaticn the! Rapid Transit Commission chvoses @ put upon them: SCHUYLER M. MEYER, law- yer, No. 20 Exchange Place, New York City. MAXWELL'S. HARRIS, law- yer, No. 1179 5ist Street, Brook- lyn. ° WILLIAM T. SIMPSON, law- yer, No. 523 Sixth Street, Brook- Eve- bn. GEORGE M. REICHMANN, manufacturer, No. 250 Eldert treet, Brooklyn. C. ERNEST SMITH, lawyer, No. 45 Brownell Street, Staple- | ton, 8. I. These men stood for everything in the bill as it came out of the office ot| Gov. Miller. They voted against an} amendment which would have strick-| en out the clause providing for a tem-| porary increase in fare. Sixteen amendments in all were introduced, baving for their purpose the ameliora- tion of conditions in New York when the bill becomes a law. But the Mil- ler forces would have none of the changes. ‘The five Republican Senators of Geeater New York who voted with the (Continued on Ninth Page.) LIFTS LIQUOR BAN FOR DRUG STORES Kramer Also Announces Wholesal- ers Must Be Out of Business by May 15. - WASHINGTON, March 17,—The ban prohibiting withdrawals of whis- ke: from bonded warchouses in so far | as it affects rei! druggists will be rder ommissi lifted April 1, under to-day by Prohib Kramer, Modification of th stopping withdrawals an sued on ¢ er was not tended to wholesale liquor dea Coincidentally, Mr. Kram nounced that wholvsale vu: go out of business about 3 Said also that provided for th tfons based on Attorney Gon ral mers ¢ w f salers to be effective about th to. t will therefore b: necessa ‘eld Mr, Kramer, "fo wholesa liquor dealers who Naw thelr possession to govern themseiy in the light of this contemplated « tion and legally dispose of their stocks between tlh time and May 1s. i) ledy afte 0 FINAL VOTE NEXT TUESDAY GOV. MILLERFAVORS . AN INVESTIGATION HERE ‘IF NEEDED" l¢ \‘ Would fe Foolish. Foolish Otherwise, | He Declares—Thinks Pub- | licity but Remedy for Ills. ALBANY, March 17.-Gov. Miller said to-day he would favor a legis-| lative investigation of affairs in| New York City, such as former Gov. Whitman is reported as wanting, tf sufficient grounds for it were dis- closed, “1 read statement,” Goy. have Gov, Whitman's Miller said. “I no- {ce he says it is difficult to get evi- and that some of or subpoena dence the cases have has bod been outlawed. the course he power to any- Asked if he thought a Grand Jury had greater power than a legislative committee he replied that he thought & committee's powers unlimited.” The Governor said he believed that are “rather a legislative committve could pun- ish any one for contempt who re- fused to obey a subpoena, even though the Legislature might not be | in session. “I certainly should not oppose a legislative investigution if there is reasonable ground to think that one is needed. By ‘needed’ I mean that if there is a situation it ought to be dis , becuse the greatest rem- all is publicity, I think an investigation without reasonable ground, however, would be foolish," the Governor concluded CRIME NOW TO “FIX” BALL GAME INN. Y, Miller Signs Bill Providing $10,000 Fine and Five Years’ Im- prisonment. ALBANY, March 17.—Gov. Miller to-day signed the bill of Senator Kavanaugh making it aw felony to offer or accépt u bribe to “throw” a professional ball game. The bill was introduced at the so- licitation of John J. ers, manager Jof the Chicago Cubs, and was in- dorsed by Judge K. M. Landis, na- tlona} arbitrator of orgunized base- | ball, The bill provides that any Joffering or acceptin ) of any | kind to “throw” a game, may be pun 4 fine of $10,000, five Classified Advertisers Important! Classified advertiatn; Sue Bunday World whould ‘be te Pre World office On or Before Friday Preceding Publication Olaseitted Advertisements for Week ays Reoeive DAILY AFTER 8 A.M. For publication the following day EARLY COPY Aecalvor the Preterence When Adverti Was to Be Omitted THE WORLD, “anne REFUSE GAG THRUST IN HER THROAT “aterm BY 4 ROBBERS KL WOMAN Will Not Permit Anything tol Happen to Disturb Rela- tions With England. S. RAISES NO ISSUE Indicates in Boston Parade Controversy He Won’t De- part From Wilson Policy. By David Lawrence. Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, March 17 (Copy- right, 1921).—President Harding had his first taste of the has Irish prob- lem and has met the by to permit States Government to be drawn into issue squarely declining the United any action that might be construed as a recognition of thé Irish Mr. couched in terms sv dispie that he did not in person, but directed his secretary to sign the reply. The message, which was sent by John I Harr President of the Massachusetts ¢ ell of the American A ation for the Recognition of the Irish Kepubl read as follows President Hardi n. Ruckman tat Republic. Harding received a teleg m “ising and So caustic answer it etn, State Admiral ments to-day, nit to "G and Dunn, in press # say that to per mareh in tions, espeelally one unt another nation, would rious ‘breach international Byacuation Day, March local demonstration of loyalty and patriot that no devotee of Toryism. matter how exalted po stop. Are officials satellites of troops demonstra- pndly to be r a se- amity, 7, is a sm, no his ition, can these Ameri cans oF foreign gov ernment “Ruckman officials of and Dunn asked the the Evacuation Day parade if the American Asoci tion for Recognition of the 1 Republic intends in the parade. When told ‘Yes,’ they warned the parading with in United Status unit reservists a- sh to participate they were against them of men wheth- Are 1m, er in service or autocrats or 1 rey? y NiLy authority can revoke this decree. It is for Washington to say whether they are supreme. “As Americans we demand tion in the name of 125,000 o! State, now and the revocation of orde from Ruckman und Dunn.” TEXT OF MESSAGE GIVEN OUT AT WHITE HOUSE, a izens of our The White House gave out the tex of the foregoing message and al this reply by Seeretary Christian “Your telegram las been called to the attentior the President and he directs me t in rer that army and navy « (Continued on Twenty-first Page.) > BIG FIGHT NOT FOR N, Y, Ndvine the Gov. Miller “Weal on Den Meeting Care pentier t BANY hit t J 1 pis . in this $ w t . t will be 4 4 " - avler Clatias Capture of Kronstadt Senate Cn ANY state Ink aving the ine calendars 1 1 in green $2,000 IN JEWELS STOLEN HARRY 5. BLACK | FEDERAL PRISONER; HIS CAR IS SEIZED. nee 58 Cases of Whiskey Found Mrs. Henrietta De Deffelicio, Mother of Nine, Meets Death in Brooklyn Home. GAGGE a 2D WOMAN She Managed to Drag He to Window and Give the Alarm—Men Eseape. STLLMAN KKOWN “AS LEEDS, WITNESS ~ SAYS IN AFFIANI Mrs. Florence H. Leeds, as She ; Was Known, Lived on 86th St., Where Child Was Born. NAMED AT ST. IGNATIUS. Banker Declared to Have Been a Frequent Visitor at the louse Under an Alias. ‘The publication to-day, of the con- [tents of an affidavit secured by at- | torneys for Mrs. Ante Urquhart Potter Stillman from a former maid, BANDITS BIND SIX IN SHOP NEAR FIFTH AVE. AND FLEE WITH $100,000 IN JEWELS Armed Robbers in Fochi Office in East 48th Street Believed to Be Same Band. That Killed Jeweller Andrews—Girl Tells of Hold Up. Jewelry worth more than $100, ‘ 000 was taken by the four robbers who yesterday evening held up the Fochi Manufacturing Company, Inc., on the eighth floor of No. 17 East 4 8th Street, it was announced to-day by N. Petroni, the firm’s foreman, who was one of the six persons bound Detectives working om the case are convinced that the robbers are the same men who on Dec. 16 killed Bd- win W. Andrews in his jewelry eatab- Ushment at No. 642 Fifth Avenue and exeaped with $50,000 loot, Potront sad that one of yesterday® bandits, who covered afl in the place with two re- volvers, had mufflers on his pistols, such 4 were used by the Andrews layers. Petron declared ne wag fa- miliar with the dialect of the robbers and he is sure they are all Sicilians. * In addition to cleaning out the firm's safe, which had been left open, the robbers went through thelr vie+ Um's pockets, taking jewelry and cash. One of them started to anateh 4 gold watch which Miss Bertha Ber- shab, @ young stenographer in the office, was wearing on a ribbon, but another bandit stopped him, saying: Leave “Aw, she's only 4 poor girl, her alone.” Miss Bershab still hax her watch, "The police declare the robbers ate members of a well organized. gang who make a specialty of holding up Jewelry establishments and-plan thetr coups carefully in advance, In this rubbery thelr loot consisted of loose and mounted diumands, platinum wutches and other platinum jewelry im which the Orm specialized, Pe+ troni declured that when a thorough checking ‘up has been made the plun~ der may run far above the $100,000 estimate, GIRL GIVES DETAILED 8TORY OF THE HOLD-UP, ‘rhe first detulled story of the hold~ up was obtained fo-day from the stenographer, Miss ershab, who lives at No, 148 Prospect Avenue, the Bronx. “Two well-dressed men, who ap- peared to be ltullans, entered the pluce about 6.30 o'clock,” she said “In the office were the head of the Mr. Petroni, the firm, Caesar Foch; foreman; A. 8. Bowers, a salesman; «4 Mr. Pelleoni, a friend of Mr. Fochi who had come to tell him goodby be~ Four men broke into the apartnrent . is named the woman dguinst whom : oy} 00 the “Bayside” in Which He of Mry, Henrietta Deffelicio, No, 198 : Mrs, sStillman'a counter charges! 1 41 focasid by the bandit Columbia Street, Brooklyn, this atter-| Was Travelling in Florida. |ayainst mo action of President |i M7Own into a side room by s. Se Se aa ees noon, killed her with a gag thrust too a nant James A, Stillman of the National deeply into her. throat, and robbed | MIAMI, Pla, March 1%—-Harry §. City Bank ure based. She is called} VANDERBILT ART er of $2,500 in money and jewels.| Black, Chairman of the Board of the “Mrs, Florence H. Leeds” in the af- WORKS WERE SOLD ey also bound and gagged Mrs,|George A, Fuller Construction Com- fdavit and it is stated that she lived:| = — Kosa Manditto, who lives in the same |pany,pnd multi-millionaire, ts a Fed- 5 , | \ r me : Sa in an apartment in Bast BABBLY- | Doctors © Conrplaint Results in apartment, Wut she not seriously | eral prisoner charged with the un-/ sixth street and aut Stony Brook, Holding df Pickard ale Said | a) ard—S: i injured lawful possession of liquor, | Long Inland... child was porh. to eae Unauthort ‘The two women were wione in the] Mr. BI@Bk's private car, “Bayside, jher in the fust Highty-sixt Street + partinent when the bandits ar ived, [On Which he came to Florida, 1s in the nouse, Supt, 17, 1948. AccoPding to}, DF. Preston P. Satterthwaite of Nu. ¥ some time after they had gone | Custody of the’ United States on the! sophia wurthom, thd fortner maid of [803 Fifth Avenue appeared as a com- that’ Mrs, Manditto managed to limp. alsjon at ine Haat Ot So gk 8 “Mrs, Leeds,” who swore to the af-|plainant before Magistrate Schwab to the window in spite of her bound | ocnarins tv start. proceedings for; Mdavit, she tus identiNed a photos| to-day In West Side Sours iat Ie Her hands, toa, were bound. tity onfiscation and under the | graph of “Mr, Leeds as James A,| Richard Pickurd jt of No.4 West 67th but teas her head nape lifted the sash ater nee i} sinitian _ aveusing bim of selling chjecte ind leaned out until her strange ap- 5 Teac i a ‘ Keane) ust BHI AG siete, is According Be United States fm. ne statement of Mrs Bartkutt la] yf art belonging fo Mrs. W. KK. Vane oaira Bias he attention of) forcement officials a raid on the car supported | . si fle D. She was observed at the same | ered” fifty-three cases of whiskey | jay Ward Levds waa born to “Frank. | ¥° 60 Fitth Aerie when these ob- time thy bor husband, Louis, who was/ valued at $8,000 in the cur and of yn parol Leeds” and “Florence Hele |!°ct were Aut for F ‘ n bis way home. } ot information they went to a Lincoln Leeds’ at No. 64 fast) Of Satterthwaite mda he ba The husband and the pe non to! bay front tract of land owned by Mr. s6ch Street Sept. 17, 191%. ‘The report | DUNE w mumber of pletures from gether ran wp the four flights of Rluek and there took possession of by Dr. Jans Ogilvie of | thy Vanderbilt home through Plek- stairs and into the apartment. By this five more cases of fine liquor. No: Weat t42d Strec ard os the authorized agent. tle lime Mrs. Manditto had worked ber-;) Et hy alleged that Mr. ilvek om | TGGiFy) At the artment house | beinted out four large silver din- tained the liquor in? Bimini and in nquiry a 3 a aie ate (Eloy WAHoMTBOL self partly free of the kag. Th WAS sanded to take it to his home in New| brought the statement that “Mra, | delobra a evident that she was in less trouble K. I teeds und ter Child moved our of Web, 1 and Pickard offered han Mrs, Deffetic Wirst attention ————_ : uly, 1 : 1 to him for $3,000, Dr, Satterm. thon’ Mra, Detteli Ke theveffiewcon Marys: ck, | the apartinent in July, 1919; the baby See na Gee Like MERGES Cheratone was) giveto tho inteny ‘ had been christened at the Churen | 64! wi us 7 fo. 111 Broadway, lis staff sald they | Aha: Hnwienes “east (COL Her arms were tied behind ber and of St. ignatius Loyola at sith Street k on the i r DHEA Logolliar Thore.wna| Nas) NORTE MOUS 28: HIB A TER at ee |pany for the amount and ordered HEE RCREV NING LORSUNE Miami, but that they knew he was in and Park Ayenue. A womun whose} ae NASA Leere Ltn a towel bound about her face with 4 ; home was In the Bronx and/who was| the ene m that resort with his car, jh | Nis eat Read! areedon at 4 rope, hut the cause of death S| Wit nis Chicago wssociates who| known to the neighbors ax u “siater| On Nis re Sate alli found 19 be a handkerchief s\uf ed | came to Now York a4 ploncers in the! of Mrs. Leeds" Wax with her inuch| fe" days ko Dr. Sattorthwalte sald fur back in ber throat erection of big buildings hy whole-| before and after the birth of the} he found the big allver pleces had uot Captain of Detectives John Me- | qaie, Mr, Black has been known for! baby and frequently went riding with heen doliverod, He learned from Mera. Closkey went to the apartment with | many years for tis @aborate hospl-| her in the limousines that were | Vandartatt that she had never offered 4 squad of his men, ‘They obtained | jatity in this city and in Saratoya| ways at the young mother'n xervice,| them for sale or consented to thelr such descriptions as they 1orthe /and at the metropoliuan tracks, Ue! The supposed married sister has und shatithey were still io: her four bandits and petul of | life of which he followed closely denied flatly wittin a week that she | vosesion, A Warrint wis sworn out TIRE DERE they got! Among the curly monuments to the eyep had a eister named y Florence. | for Plekard, and he wer held tn $2,000 4 ood start ir ny ation enterprising and innovating spirit of) er father, « contractor in a small! bull for exaninutt Mrs, Defte ) Wain | other ofl the group are the Flatiron Guilding! way in the building trades, who lives nine children, none of whom was at] at 234 Street and Broadway and the|in an unpretentious tenement on the| SEIZED IN $183,000 Home, Hippodrome, At hearings of the Lock-| upper west side, has also dented that wood Committee on Housing viee| there i wlorence wining tis) ROBBERY OF BANK presidents of the company told of $14,- | daughters. | —_———-— struction to-day in this elty and near-| vicinity have been amazed by these ly as great projects under way in! denials of the supposed fether and $65, 000 Taken at Hotel nther cities | married siwter, a» well ay by the in-| Ansonia. Mr. Black's apartment at No. 667) formation that t maiden “FOR teh GAMES Madison Avenue hus been in the care f a housekeeper since his departure for the ith, and no information was obtainable there as to the pro- | visioning of his private car for the | Southern trip | ——— State Asks o or Discharge;| TO REVIEW THE DEBS CASE. WASHINGTON, March Harding haa asked A | Daughert President al to Get Evidene Indictments. 17 HWICAGO. M 17—The Stat f the uso White Sox basebalt| * ged throw.| ng of W is excettl ow . t appear | but “Mr. Wilson’ « J = (4 to} hoon’ tak 1 we State ' * 5 ‘ were had vide whic 4 und given namely 5 prosecution a chance of con- Claude’ Wiliams Joe Jackson, Oscar Immediately after the actlon had (Continued on Second Page.) name of| “Mrs. Leeds’ is ofvially on the records us those ‘per- sons tell of a very beautiful daughter! od Lincoln (Continued on SCHOOLBOY HANGS Twenty-third > SELF WHEN SCOLDED Yonkers Lad, Upbraided by Mother, Found Dead by B \ Way Mrs nolp t pop 1 a « Learning b ha the nienge BON, elve for Wilham, the body after ap hour'’s| Bernstein, No, 39 Ludlow in frome Detective Harry Street, wus arrested to-day ot the Hotel Ansonia by fore going on a business trip; a ftth man whom I do ndt remember, aad myself, Sergt. James J an and Detective The men asked to see some soarf- George MoCartney of the Bomb! pint. They did not seo anything they Squad. T 2 say securities | liked and suggested that Mr, Foohi worth $65,000 found on him,|make them up something like the whieh were positively identified as] pin he was wearing, While they were part of the $143,000 loot of the hold-| talking two other men, also well ip of the People’s Hank at Wyomis-|dressed and Italian in appearance, ng, Pa Feb. 4, when the bank | Walked in afticta ocked in the vault “One of the newcomers drew two Sole \ No. 245 Crimmins| revolvers and covered everybody In the Bronx, who was with|the room. I think the other men taken into cus- | also bad revolvers, but I am not sure, While the man with two revolvers n was identified by Miss] Kept everybody in submission, the chanahan of Reading, Pa, as| others Produced several lengths of eri i stout cord and bound the men's aan who boarded with her and | 1° yay ugoreaekr PRInea: SaSly Aa) FRUarY: "They did not treat me roughly, ci but they ted me to a chair, Them serder Ch Agatant Police |ihey bundled the men and myself La ty Dea the women's room and went at ~ tor the killing | THEY filled what’ looked to me like 4 4) on notion of | Pillow cases with jewelry, Two men } Fallon, counsel for the po-| departed with the loot and the two At the tral Late this afternoon, |other men left later after warning Nott allowed the counts for mas-|us all to make no outer: siuughter tn the first and second degree While Miss Bershab did not men« 40 wtand. ton it in ber interview, other victima 4,