The evening world. Newspaper, March 19, 1921, Page 1

B To-Night’s Weather—CLOUDY, WARMER. | 4 ROADWAY THRON “a, id 6 GS SEE | | f Circulation Books Open to All. | VOL. LXI. NO. 21,692—DAILY. HUGHES FLORENCE LEEDS AT MIAN WITH HER CHILD: STILLMAN'S YACHT AT ANCHOR NEARBY |No Chocolate _ | Woman Named by Mrs. Still- man Sought to Destroy Traces of Her Past. TAY IS GRANTED.| Report Is Denied That Order Was Made to Halt Examina- tion of the Banker. NO (Spenial to The Mrenting Work!) MIAMI, Fla, March 19.—James M Stillman’s yacht Modesty is lying at anchor in Biscayne Bay. The boat has been here for several months, Mrs. Florence Leeds, with her child, has een living at Cleveland Villa since January. She spends consider- able time at the Beach Club. Stillman ig a member of the club, Efforts by “Mra. Florence Leeds,” named by Mrs. Anne U. Stillman in defending herself aguinst the divorce action of President James A. Stillman of the National City Bank, to destroy afl traces of her past life to keep them from public curiosity in a time of emergency began more than a year ago, it was learned to-day. A former chum of Florence Law'or, which was “the unmarried name” of Mrs. Leeds, in Public School No. 146 when they were both in short skirts, | told to-day of the ciroumstanges | under which she was deprived of the possession of a girlhood diary tept by her friend in their schoo! days. Florence Lawlor had given this girl her diary as a Keepsake. There was| nothing in it, The Evening World's; informant said, “except ice cream} sodas and the weather and how mean this teacher was or how nice that one | was. It was just kid talk.” But a year ago, while the former schoolmate was away from home a fine timousine. drew up at the house. A beautiful young woman and a man came into the home; the young woman gaid she was Mrs. Leeds, who had been Florence Lawlor, and! the man was her husband, Mr. Leeds. She asked for the diary and it was given to her. Her former friend has not heard from her since, Mrs, James S. Lawlor of No. 1766 Amsterdam Avenue, wife of a plumb- ing contractor at No, 835 Amsterdam Avenue, admitted for the first time to-day that her daughter Florence was “Mrs. Leeds the former show girl, whose pictures have been pub- lished in The Evening World. She. would not disouss her daughter's re- cent Nfe in any It was learned at Poughkeepsie to- (Continued on Second Page.) at ASK WOMAN JURY TO TEST THE LAW Woinen's City Club of ¢ Appeals to Chief Justice icago ey of Circuit Court. (Special to ‘The Brening Warid,) CHICAGO, March 19.—Chief Jus- tice Torrisen of the Circuit Court re- ceived from the Women’s City Club to-day a letter asking him to im- panel a jury of women !n order that « test might be made of the ques- tion of the right of women to serve. After reading the letter he took the subject under advisement “{ cannot maké any comment on the subject on such short notice," he, said. The letter, signed by Mra. B. F. Langworthy, Vice President, said, understanding that he was in favor of calling women for jury service, he having so expressed himself, the club | Justice of the Peace William Sinn at yright, 1921, by ‘The Press Publishing CoP H ieee! rhe New York World). NEW w ORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1921. Tater a DEATH LE To-Morrow's Weather—CLOUDY, WARME| EDITION (ia Secund-Clase Matter . Now York, N. ¥. PRICE THREE CEN’ Candy for Year ForThis Bad Boy Court Imposes This Sentence, on Bernard Connolly, Who | Raided Store. Bernard Connolly is only twelve years old, but he must not, dare not, eat chocolate candy for a whole year.) Not a single chocolate cream for his| insistent sweet tooth—not a singlo| chocolate - covered marshmallow in which to sink that tooth with delight- 91 anticipation, Not a single choco- Ye. Covered notugat or caramel to roll tts tusctous sweetness.on-his tongue. Not even a plain chocolate bar for Bernard! He's been a bad boy. He wouldn't go to school. He wanted to be a woolly Westerner. He smoked cigar- ette butts and he had a house in the woods where he went all alone. The other night up in Castle Heights, near White Plains, they found that some one had broken into the New York Central Railroad Em- ployees' Co-operative Store and car- rhed off $13 worth of chocolate candy, cigarettes, crackers, sardines, cdkes With thick icing called “Jumbos" apa a lot of other things to eat. Detectives, regular Nick Carters, found that Bernard hadn't been going to school as he should and then they found cigarette ®ults in Bernard’s own cabin in the woods, Last night they found him there lying on a mat- tress, puffing big clouds at the ceil- ing and regarding a funny paper with tolerance. Bernard admitted it all before White Plains to-day and Justice Sinn imposed the sentence: No chocolate every Sunday. oo “RENT HOG’ SIGNS UPHELD IN CHICAGO ' | Tenants May ‘Class Landlords Thus ! as Part of Free Speech, Court Rules. (Speniad to The Eraning World.) CHICAGO, March 19.244 bill for an injunction to restrain the displaying of placards in windows denouncing land- lonis as “rent hogs and profiteers’ was withdrawn in Superior Court to-day when Judge Foell stated he did not have the power to restrain free speech. Me petition for an tmjunction had been filed by an attorney representing Charles Gobel, No. 6430 University Avenue, who recently raised the rent of tenant: eee AUTO PLUNGES INTO STORE. ‘Man on Broadway §' After Steering Knuckle A small touring car, in attempting to turn from 88th Street south into Broadway to-day, was pocketed by o morthbound street car and @ taxi and forced to turn Into the curb, This broke the steering knuckle and sent the touring car dashing across the side~ walk. It knocked down ‘Thomas Dwyer, a dock watchman, of No. 403 West Stst Street, and rendered him unconscious, The car then plunged into the plato gloss window of a hat store at No, 1389 Broadway, demolished the glass and stuck in the window, It was dragged out with much difficulty, ‘Che car was owned and driven by Louls Heller, of No. 692 Linwood Street, Brooklyn elected the Chief Justice as the per- son to whom they should make their apocal, Dwyer was taken to a hospital, but candy for a year, and Bernard must} go to school every day and td mass/ LIKELY TO HEAD SUPREME COURT Boy in Stillman Whom Bitter Fight Revolves, Case Around LENINE ADVOCATES LAND OWNERSHP FOR THE PEASANT Soviet Congress Indorses Plan —Abandons Communism— To Deal With Capital. PARIS, March 19.—Premier Lenine, addressing the Communist Congress in Moscow, virtually abandoned Com- munism and advocated peasant pro- prietorship in its stead, according to a despatch to the Paris Herald trom Reval to-day, ‘The Bolshevik leader also urged granting of liberal concessions to for- eign capitalists. ‘The congress in- dorsed his stand. The agency of the Russian Union has received advices from -Helsingfors declaring that the uprising agninst the Bolshevik Government has epread throughout Russia. While the ouc- break was said to have been “prema- ture,” it was stated that great num- pers of peasants in the Volga region and the Ukraine had jolned the insur- rection, burning Soviet offices and imprisoning Red officials. Bolshevik garrisons were reported to have | mutinied and handed over their arms. ——_——— UNION MEN APPEAL AGAINST LEADERS Satisfied With Work, Wages and Hours, Ask Court Protection Against Strike Order, (Special to The Prening World. ) SYRACUSE, March 19.—Nineteen union stonecutters, all satisfied with wages, hours and working conditions at the plant of the Onandago Litho- lite Company, applied to Justice Irving R. Davenport in Supreme Court for an injunction to prevent their national organization from i- terfering with them jn their employ- ment and to prevent issuing of strike orders. it was said he was not seriously in- Arthur ©. Dougherty of Indiana- polls, National President, Albert Powell, President of the local and Joseph Wall of New York, a member of the Sixth District Executive Board are named defendants in a tempor- ary restraining order signed by! and dustice Devendet, —_———- i WEALTHY FURRER EAPSUNDER TRAN AT TIMES SQUARE Edward C. Simmons Dying From Injuries Received in In- terborough Subway Station. Edward ©, Simmons, fifty years old, a wealthy furrier at No, 14 Rast 34th Street, and living at No. 155 West 78th Street, was run down by a sub- way train at the Times Square Sta- tion of the Interborough shortly after 9 o'clock this morning and is dying at Bellevue Hospital. The police report says Mr. Simmons had been sitting on a bench on the uptown platform when he arose suddenly ‘and Jumped to the tracks. ‘The train was slowing into the sta- tion, and the motorman saw Mr, sim- mons fall, but was unable to stop in time to avoid hitting him. ‘Three cars passed over the body. Commotion in the crowded station tied up trafic twenty minutes, while Policeman Noack of the West 30th Street Sta- tion and volunteer helpers extricated Mr, Simmons unconscious, Mr. Simmons was attended by Dr. Durfree of New York Hospital and then sent to Bellevue, He has a fractured skull, a compound fracture of the left leg and internal injuries. It was said at the hospital that he could not recover. At the West 78th Street addreas it was said Mr, Simmons, who was sin- gle, had occupied rooms there for nine years, The only relative he Is known to have is a sister, Miss Ger- trude Simmons, in Quincy, Tl, desea Bie Ne Len RISKS LIFE TO SAVE CHILD, Weman Carries Baby From Track as Train Flashes Past. WINSTED, Conn., March 19.—Miss Maud Downing, of Cornwall Bridge, is a heroine in the eyes of the people of that village, having yesterday saved from death at peril of her own life the three-year-old daughter of Robert Horner, who had wand id BROADWAY CROWDS SEE MAN JUMP T0 DEATH FROM HOTEL Watch Frantic Efforts to Dis- lodge His Body From 'Can- opy Over Doorway. HIS NAME IS IN DOUBT. Registered as “James Edwards, Camden, N. J.,” But May Be From Lynn, Mass. Broadway at 38th Street was |blocked for half an hour at 1 o'clock to-day by a jam of thousands of per- sons who stood in fascinated horror while they watched the work of po- licemen and firemen and employees of the Normandie Hotel in dislodging the body of a man who had been killed by a leap from a fourth-story Window to the glass canopy over the door of the hotel, The frame of the canopy had been bent and the glass shattered and the body hang in the ‘hole with the head hanging down, ‘The man registered gt the hotel last night as James Rdwards of Cam- den, N. J. He was assigned to a small room on the ffbnt of the fourth floor, His door was locked when the chambermaids visited it up to 1 o'clock to-day, At that visit he an- swered a knock on the door, but held jt closed, calling over the transom: “Wait just a minute.” The girl waited for two minutes and then, hearing a wild shout within, opened tihe door, The room was empty, but there was uproar below in Broad- way. She went to the window and saw the mangled body of the guest caught In the broken door canopy be- low ber, The man had yelled as he Jeaped from the window and hundreds np and down both sidewalks had look- ed up and seen him come tumbling head foremost and arms outstretched down to his death, Some of the contents of his pock- ets fell to the street. Among them were a number of cards bearing the name of Ralph W. Smith, Lynn, Mass. There was also a bank ,book showing Ralph W. Smith had a de- posit of $6 in the Five Cent Savings Bank of Lynn. In the man’s room was found a letter reading: “Dear Sue; In the event of my death you will find $43 in my pocketbook.” ‘The man came to thp hotei alone and went to his room immediately on registering. He was dressed in rough clothing. When he leaped from the window he wore a blue sweater over his collarless shirt. ale lasso) VOLSTEAD HOOCH MADE HIM WILD MAN Slowiski’s Wife Says He Never Was on a Rampage Until He ‘Drank the Stuff. On the statement of Mrs. Marie Slowiski of No. $20 Fifth Street that her hu#band, William, broke up the household furniture, pulled herself and thelr eleven-year-old daughter out of bed, poured bolling water on them and acted, tn general, like a “wild man” Jast night, Magistrate Simms held Slowiski in $1,500 bail to- day in Besex Market Court. “Why did he act this way? asked the Magistrate. “Ia he often like that?” “Never,” Mra, Slowiski replied, “until he began to drink hooch—this Volstead stufl—Judge. eee —Tagee” TWO MISSING GIRLS FOUND. Misses, 13 15, Straying From Jersey City, Located in Baltimore. ‘The Jersey City police were notified on the track in the path of a passen-! by Baltimore early to-day that Gertrude ger train. Eyewitnesses, with the exception of Miss Downing, stood as it bewil- dered, The child was between the rails when Miss Downing seized her leaped as the train shot by. Neither was burt, oa vem ee en ree Stern, thirteen, No, 623 Ocean Avenue, ‘and Dorothy Ronnell, fifteen, No, 199 Arlington Avenue, Jersey City, bad been found in the railroad station there agd were being sent home. The girls left home Tuesday and, according to the police, Gertrude bad $100, PINNED BY BEAMS, IN AGONY, FIREMAN DIRECTS RESGUERS Discipline He Learned in the ‘War. TO MOVE MEANT DEATH. Searchlights Revealed in Walsh’s Face Suffering He Was Undergoing. Fireman William M. Walsh of No. 46 Trick, who directed his own rescue after he was buried under the wreckage of a collapsed roof in a fire in Brooklyn early to-day, attributes his being alive to the training he re- ceived while in the army. He was a machine gunner in the 77th Division and was gassed while overseas. “The discipline pounded into us dur- ing the war prevented me from losing my head when I was caught,” Walsh said at St. Catherine's Hospital. “I knew that if I moved probably tons of debris would fall and kill ‘me, So I simply lay still and yelled for help and then directed my comrades while they dug mo out.” Searchlights that played on the scene revealed in Walsh's face the suffering he was undergoing, but he calmly gave other firemen instruc- tions as they cautiously removed the beams and fragments that held him down. After an hour's work he was released and taken to the hospital, where it was found he was badly burned on the head and legs, and in- ternally injured. A gtoup of firemen of his company had gone in just as the roof fell, and all except Walsh and John Bendy es- caped. Bendy, stunned, was extri- cated with dimfculty, but In a short time, He was rushed to the hospital suffering from a fractured skull and internal injuries, The fire destroyed the buildings from No. 169 to No. 169 Meserole Street, Brooklyn, sent 600 occupants from nearby tenements into the streets and caused four alarms to be turned in, ‘The blaze began a short time before midnight at Nos, 163-169, a two-story frame structure vccupled by the Wil- lamsburg Cooperage Works and con- taining barrels, boxes and much other inflammable material. It a«pread quickly to No. 161 and destroyed automobiles worth $40,000 in the John Wallack storage plant, To the rear is a six-story tenement, No. 210 Scholes Street, containing twenty-nine families. The occupants fled in night clothes. Opposite the burning structures a row of high tenements wag similarly emptied. While the hundreds scurried through Meserole Street from the blaze, trolley wires of the Bushwick Avenue line, which runs through Mexerole Street, snapped and fell to the street with a pyrotechnic display, endangering firemen and fugitives. Members of the Fire Department, who were at the blaze, said seldom has Walsh's courage been equalled. Besides the constant danger of heavy timbers falling on him, there were the smoke and fire near him. “1 don't think I’m burt much,” he told his comrades once, “but you'd better be careful, There are a lot of heavy timbers just above my head and if they are dislodged I'm done for.” And 60, for an hour, he directed them as they removed the wreckage piece by piece, When he was safe and a physician offered him a drink he replied: “lL never took a drink in my life and this is no time to begin,” aia ts Gaia Sues Doeto: Sewed Up Needle in Dr. Robert Lowell Wood of No, 129 Hancock Street, Brooklyn, was sued to-day for $50,000 by Mrs, Helen Olsen, She alleged he sewed up a needle in her abdomen after an op- eration. Dr, pial Wood made a general Ss He Owes His Life to the| HARDING TO MAKE HUGHES U. 8. CHIEF JUSTICE GO DAYS, WASHINGTON HE Reported Justice White Is to Ret Failing Eyesight—Secretary Fal Said to Be Slated to Head State Department. (Special From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, March 19.—Cabinet shifts, which came with \ity im the Wilson regime, seem likel; | ministration, Information coming fr will Ukely be two changes within the next few months, and possibly wit a few weeks. Secretary of State C! his long cherished ambition gratified of becoming Chief Justice of th rs United States Supreme Court. and Fall will then be shifted to the head of the State Department, SIX SOLDIERS SLAIN IN GREAT AMBUSH IN GOUNTYcOR Attacking Force Said to Have Suffered Heavily—Battle Still in Progress. BELYAST, March 19 (Associated Press)..-A great ambush by Irish Republican forces near Kinsale, County Cork, this morning In which six Crown soldiers were killed and five wounded, is reported. The attackers suffered heavy casualties and the battle still ts in progress, DUBLIN, March 19—Heavy caa- ualties are reported to have resulted from a battle between British forces and Sinn Feinera to-day near Dun- garven, twenty-five miles from Wa- terford. The fight is said to have lasted four hours and a half. A military lorry and an armored automobile were de- stroyed by bombs, ‘A patrol was ambushed by 150 men last night in Castletownroche, County Cork, eight miles northwest of Fer~ moy. A constable was mortally wounded and some of the attacking party also were wounded. ek Bat cel DRY AGENT GOES TO JAIL FOR FAKE RAID Roberts. Given 30 Days After Pro- hibition Chief Asks Magistrate to Set an Example, Witiam Roberts of No. 138 55th Street, Bay Ridge, a Federal Prohibition agent, was sentenced to thirty days in the workhouse by Magistrate Golsniar in bush Court to-day. Roberts, ac- companied by Frank McNulty, a chauf- four of No, 246 56th Street, Brooklyn, broke into the home of Elias Davis, No. 610 Kast Elghth Street, and proceeded to make @ search of the house without a warrant. ‘They were found guilty Thuraday of disorderly conduct, Davis at the trial intimating Roberts: bad tried to "shake him down,” Ray Loftua, Chief Field Supervisor the Prohibition Enforcement Agenta ater New York, sent a letter jstrate Gelemar in court to-day, ot of to in which he said no warrant had been Is-| asked the Magistrate to give 5 "a severe jail sen ‘asa punishment and as a warning to other nce" agents, A fine of $25 was imposed upon MeNuity, who faces chargea of imper- sonating a Federal officer, ly \ continue under the Harding J om inside sources indicates that @ harles E. Hughes will probably | ie 7 Secretary of the Interior Chief Justice White notified dent Harding before ini that, due to physical desired to retire from the soon as he had completed o tion of certain important 61 it Is balieved that the eminent will take this step within sixty Perhaps sooner, When Mr. Hughes's appo! was first broached there was a undercurrent of opposition from ator Penrose and others of they Guard group, but this was quently allayed by a hint thoritative quarters that Seqrete Hughes would be transferred to | Supreme Court before a great while, | His appointment as Secrets State was deeply desired by dent Harding because of the prel {t would bring to his Adminiatral at the outset. Mr. Hughes was an applicant for his present p is understood to have taken it for the purpose of assisting P Harding in, formulating his f policy. Once the course is ¢ according to the report in tration circles, he is to be to the position he has long and which was sald to hit promised him under the Taft WHEN HUGHES'S AM! ERE THWARTED. Barring the Presidency, the of Presiding Judge of the court. has been for years Mr. Hughes great ambition, Soon after appointed by President Taft Associate Justice in 1910 he thet he Saw his supreme goal within Ris | grasp. Within a night it faded out, and the disappointment w as keen as It was when, three after the election in 1916, he that he was not to be President. But the wheel has come again, Soon after the election Harding, Chief Justice White the President-elect that he soon to retire. His failing ¢: was given ay the reason, Fory time cataracts have been his sight. He has been able fo no relief from this growing rn and it has accentuated his wish retire from @ position which he filled with so great honor and r Mr, Justice White is ready to !t is ‘understood, as soon as he disposed of the casea which, |claimed his personal attention, report that he would retire |some surprise here as to why |atep had not been taken 4 Wilson Administration, when #7 dent of his own political faith have named his successor, He |s an old Confederate soldier andj }@ lifelong Democrat from Loutdiang Justice White had been om # |bench nearly seventeen years | President Taft, in December, |nominated him for Chief |The nomination came an @ surprise to the Senate and ad jcountry and more especially tos aloo Hughes, whegs Afr, allt LL A AL ON A A i wt i te ‘es