The evening world. Newspaper, March 24, 1921, Page 1

EDITION R che oak lal {* Ciroul, ion Books Open to All,’ | VOL. LXI. NO. 21,696—DAILY. Copyright, 1921, by The Frees Publishing Co. (The New York Workl). EAD, SCORES SLA | +“ Circulation Books Open to All.” ra fr r To-Morrow's Weather—CLEARING, g NEW YORK, THURSDAY, Entered aa MARCH 24, 1921. | WWRS. STULMAN TO EXPOSE eke LAVISH SUMS EXPENDED ON NEIGHBORS CHEER AT CONVICTION OF ORGANIST'S. SLAYER —= About $500,000 Alleged to Have Been Paid by Banker to Ex-Chorus Girl. DIRECTS Comes From Lakewood to Be in Touch With Lawyers in Defense of Her Case. WIF FIGHT. Mrs. Fifi Potter Stillman, after re- peated conferences with her Tawyers, to-day mapped out a campaign for ah aggressive countering on the un- masked attack in the suit for divorce A. Stillman, President of Bank. In presenting their defense the at- torneys for Mrs, Stillman are pre- pared to submit what they believe are conservative statements of tho sums Mr. Stillman has diverted from. his income for the comfort and Pleasure of Mrs. Leeds. Assuming that the young woman has no ot of funds than Mr. Stillman, they have schedules showing that since the banker met her in 1917 about $500,000 has been spent by and for her. : The one-tenth sharg in tho apart ment at No. 969 Park Avenue, where ‘Mrs, Leeds” has not yet lived, called for an initial ment of $100,000, ‘There are ten co-operative owners who paid this sum, $1,500,000 or $150,000 each on mortgage There are seventeen apartment® | of James the National City source the building other than those of the | 999,900,000 mark Twen- | ten owners which are rented. | leav ng | of i GERMANY WARNED FIVE BILON MUST BE PA BY MAY 1 Allies Announce Additional Penalties Unless Payment Is Made. ‘ PARIS, March 24 (Associated Press). —The German Government was noti- fied by the Allied Reparations Com- mission to-day that the total amount of 20,000,000,000 gold marks (about $5,000,000,000) due under Article 2%5 of the Peace Treaty must be paid by May 1 or additional penalties will be inflicted upon Germany. The commission in its note says there is nothing in the Treaty of Ver- sailles which obliges it to hear the rman Government upon the condi- tions under which the deliveries to make up the twenty-billion-mark pay- ment to the Allies (which Article 235 of the peace treaty stipulated should be paid by Germany by May 1) should be made or appraised The Germans in their note deliv- ered Wednesday asked that a joint commission of experts fix the value the German deliveries on repara- tion account, which, they claimed, ready more than equalled the 20,- total, while the Commission’s figures Reparations ty-iive thousands dollars has been! .iowed a balance of 12,000,000,000 epent in rémodelling and decorating the apartment of “Mrs, Lee ds.” The apartment occupied by her No. 64 Bast 86th Street was decorated and remodelled at wn ex- ponse of $20,000, She has maintamned two automobiles continuously. The CleVeland Villa at Mia at re- has occupied in recent weeks, Was cought by her for $50,000, From May 1, 1920, to Jan. 5, 1921, she occupied a suite of three large rooms on the fifth floor of the Plaza Hotel, The rental of the summer place at Stony Brook, L. 1, is known to have run into the thousands. The law they have positive evidence: made to her by 3 their acquaintance and gifts of won- dorful jewelry, including a collection of unusual pearls, that go far yoward making up the total All possible approaches to a “awet compromise” were destroyed yester- day afternoon, when after the ali- mony and counsel fee questions 2 been submitted to Justice Mor- sohauser at White Pains, Mrs. StiH- man's amended answer was filed charging her husband with maintain- ing in luxury Mrs, Florence eed and her baby, Jay Ward Leeds. The filing of the amended answer (Continued on Twenty-first Page. Classified Advertisers Important! Classified advertising copy fer Sb aes TEE On or Before Friday Preceding Publication laseiNed Advertisements for Week s Days Recewed ie DAILY AFTER 8 A. M. For publication the following day. EARLY COPY ene SSS eos “orem THE WORLD. , which she | | commission marks due, It sllied German rd by Was pointed out in quarters, however, that the experts already had been the commission before it fixed the valuation of the German deliveries credited as payments gzainst the 20,000,000,000 marks. The Allied note adds that the commission waited us long as pos- sible before demanding payment by Germany, thinking the German Gov- ernment would take the necessary ures faithfully to fulfll its ob- under Article 285. The is now persuaded, how- that such is not the ations it ver, case, The commission states that it ¢ says, |manded the payment by March 23 of 1,000,000,000 marks in gold to apply lon the reparations account because of a certainty that Germany pos- \sessed sufficient funds to make im- j7ed ate payment. | ‘The note concludes by saying that }in any event the total amount of the 20,000,000,00 gold mark payment muat ‘be handed over betwapn now and May 1, and that non-payment of th amount will enta penalties. nan Government is copsidered as |defauiting in fulfiliment of its under- takings, the communteation declares and, therefore, the Commission has decided immediately to call the at- |tention to such failure of all the in- terested powers _- AIRPLANE FLIGHT OFF. Dad Weather interferes With Dem=- onstration for Service Fund. The inclemency of the ather lo-day used the army authorities to post pone the fight of aeroplanes which was o have b made this afternoon fron Mitche! Field, to encircle this city sid of the American Legion Hous vice Fund of ivening World ~ Borges Sails for New York. ACAB, March 24.--Dr, T. ¢ i Venezuelan Foreign Minis’ ith @ distinguished delegation led from here yesterday for New ‘ork to attend the unvellin, fogulan ga statue and ded- Knight Is Found Guilty of _ Murder, | PROCTER SUES FOR LOAN TO Al Confributer of $500,000 Now VERDICT IN i5 MINUTES.| Seeks to Recover Amount son Killed March 12 of ‘Loan. Negro Arrested Next Day, }NO COMMENT BY WOOD. Sentenced 11 Days Later. Quick justice was demonstrated to- day when it took a jury Brunswick just fifteen minutes find George Washington Knight, negro, guilty of the brutal! murder March 12 of Mrs, Edith Wilson, Porth Amboy church organist. Knight was immediately sentenced by Supreme Court Justice James J. Bergen to die in the electric chatr in the week of May 2. Word of the conviction of George Washington Knight was flashed to Perth Amboy and caused an im- promptu demonstrattoti: bilists drove about the streets sound- in New to ‘Automo- ing their horns and crowds who saw the news bulletins broke into cheers, Knight was arrested March 13 and confessed. wag rushed to the Grand Jury and his trial began yesterday at New Brunswick, the county seat of Middlesex, N. J. It took four hours And a quarter to get His case a jury. The evidence was all pre- sented yesterday and this morning Justice Bergen charged the jury, which retired at 12.04 and returned with a verdict at 12.19, Mrs, Wilson's body was found in a vacant lot in Perth Amboy near her home on the night of the crime. It was raining and an timbrella had been opened over the body. After Knight's arrest and confession his attorney, I. B. Glueckfield, who was assigned by the court, declared the confession had been ¢xtorted. Knight pleaded he committed the crime while full of bad gin. At the’ trial Knight took the stand and said he remembered grabbing some one or the street, but did not know whether it was a man, woman or child, He forgot all about it until next morning, he said, when he found a woman's wrist watch and two rings in his pocket. Dr. Charles A. Rosewater, specialiat on nervous diseases, testified Knight was an imbecile, but admitted he could distinguish between right and wrong. He described Knight as of a type which alcohol renders “maniacatly fntoxt- cated” and irresponsible. Juatice Ber- gen said the taking of jewelry from the victim indicated Knight had not lost mental control In his charge Justtre Bergen said he did not see how any other verdict than murder tn the first degree would’ be possible. This was predicated on the acousation Knight Intended to attack his victim, although premeditated murder was not alleged. LONDON HAS FIRST DAYLIGHT ’OLDUP Salary Clerk of the Ministry of Pensions Relieved of $10,000 In New York Style. LONDON, March 24—What is be- he lieved to the first big daylight holdup in London occurred at 9.20 o'clock Uiis morning in Regent's Park which at that time of the morning is traversed by hundreds of people going to their offices A salary clerk of the Ministry of nsions, with «a bag containing 000, was just leaving the gates of ‘the park i a motor van when three men with revolvers held up the driv and ordered official and his tant to “clear out if you value | your lives.” The rotybers mounted the van and drove off with the driver creme” Moir | eis at ye wat 1 | Was in. Building When Suit Was Filed—Refused to Re- pay Advance Charged. CHICAGO, 4.—Coi jam Proctor, martager of Gen. Wood's campaign the Republican Presidential nomination and contributor of $500,000 to the campaign expenses, to-day filed suit to recover $110,000 from Major Al- bert A. Sprague of Chicago, Treas- urer of the campaign Mr. Procter, who was head of the Wood Committee, charged that he and Sprague signed a $100,000 prom's- sory note to finance the Wood cam= paign and Sprague failed to pay his half of it when the Merchants’ Loan and Trust Company of Chicago called Mr. Procter sald he amommt, The March wit ajor for Leonard for collection. paid the whole mainder of the money involved in the sult, he added, represented cash he advanced to the committee. General Leonard Wood was in the Federal Building when the petition District Court. The re- was filed in eneral was getting his passport for to the Philippines for Presi- his trip dent Harding “T haven't anything to about the suit,” he said, “I know nothing aout the financial affairs of my campaign.” He Shot the Bandit Twice. Charles McCarthy of No. 174 Sands Street, Brooklyn, was held to-day in $25,000 bail for trial Tuesday, when he pleaded not guilty in the Brooklyn County Court to a charge of attempt- ing to rob the jewellry storee of Irv- ing E. Solowey, No. 124 Sands Street, on Feb. 1 Solowey, after being struck on the head, opened fire on the — two bandits, one of whom escaped. ‘The police say McCarty was shot twice. ee 200,000,000 GALLONS ANNUAL OUTPUT OF HOME BREW BEER Amateur Breweries Reported as Consuming About 5,000,000 Pounds of Hops Yearly. WASHINGTON, March 23. OME BREWERS now are diluting the Volstead law at the rate of 200,000,000 gallons of real beer annually, government reports indicated to- day Amateur brewers are consum- ing annually approximately 5,000,- 000 pounds of hops. Professional breweries, making near bear un- der license of the Volstead law, are using only slightly more than 4,000,000 pounds The hop crop last year totalled nearly 39,000,000 pounds. In addi- tion approximately 3,000,000 pounds were imported. Farmers getting rich in the four principal year are hop producing States, California, Wi shington, Ore k, receiving cents per pound, according the official to the Agricultural De- partment, In pre-war days hops brought about 20 cents. In 1915 they wold for 118 cents & pound. Bi and Now n 881-2 veports IT FLOATS” PROCTER SUES FOR $110,000 HE ADVANCED | FOR GEN. WOOD'S CAMPAIGN & O SEAMEN WANTED IN WALL ST. BLOWUP CASE, SAID CONSUL eee Master of Vessel That Took Mutineers to New Orleans Tells of His Orders. (Special to The Rrening World.) NEW ORLEANS, March 24.—United States Vice Consul ‘Thomas, stationod at Rio de Janeiro, in shipping to New Orleans the fivé suspects now held here, said the quintet were wanted in connection with the Wall Street bom plot, according to Capt J. H. D, Van Weelderen, master, of the steamer Rushville, which brought the five to this port. Capt. Van Woe. deren made his first statement this morning. Apparently he has grown indignant over the conflicting statements uf the Government officials. “When the prisoners were brought aboard my ship by a squad of Bra- | aillan police,” he said, “they were ac- companied by Vice Counsul Thomas, who delivered to me an order from the Consul, instructing me to tuke the men to the first American port I touched. He signed the name of the Consul to the order which he said had been issued upon instructions from the United States Ambassador at Rio. “L asked Mr. Thomas what the prisoners were charged with and he told me of a mutiny aboard the steamship City of Aiton, which they were supposed to have led, but they were really wanted in connection with the Wall Street explosion, which occurred just a short time before the men shipped out of New York. He said it was unusual for an American Anfinssador to interes. himeelf in a simple case of mutiny “Although the men were said by the Brazilian police and the Vice Consul to be criminals of the most desperate type, they did not appear dangerous to me. I was advised to keep them trussed up during the whole time they were aboard, but 1 faved to see the need of that while we were at sea and next morning bad them taken out of irons. “That was not taking any chances with them. ‘They were quartered in the bow of the shtp and were warned to stay there. All my officers and the engineers were armed, and I instruct ed them to shoot to kill if any of the fellows strayed from their reservation [ tok the five men of this order, so (Continued on Second Page.) “THE LOVE PETAL.” It was just a flower, but when it was brought to him he read its message and believed that his betrothed no longer loved him. Don't miss this dramatic situation in the latest novel BY NANCIBELLE HALE, the young authoress whose first story created such a sensation when it appeared recently in The Evening World. The first instalment of “The Love Petal” will begin Monday, March 2 CARDINAL GIBBONS DEAD AT BALTIMORE AFTER HEROIC FIGHT Failed to Respond to Efforts to Prolong His Life and Ex- pired at 11.33 To-Day. IN COMA AS END CAME. A Stanch American, He Was Revered as One of the Nation’s Great Men. BALTIMORE, Md. March %4.~ James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Jof Baltimore and Primate of the American Catholic hierarchy, died at the archlepiscopal residence here to- day after a profonged iliness which mainly affected his heart his eighty-seventh year. ‘The end came peacefully at o'clock. Beside the Cardinal's bed stood every member of his household, and when It was seen that the distinguished pro- late had passed away the priests in the apartment foll to thelr knediaid began to recite aloud the prayers for the dead. Teltgrams were at once sent to Pop Benedict at Rome, Mgr. John Bonzano, Apostolic Delegate at Washiogton, and to every prelate of the American Cath- oli¢ hierarchy, more than a hundre! in number, informing them of the Cur- dinal’s death. The Cardinal had been unconscious and in « dying condition for the last twenty-four hours, A slight hope wa. rained among his friends and assoc! ates last evening when his pulse grew stronger that death might be deferred but this rally was only temporary, and was merely an evidence of the Cardi nal’s remarkable vitality. He perceptibly thi. morning, and it was the nrealized thet he would not live the day out A touching incident in connection with the last hours of the Cardinal was the bestowal of the Pope's bene- diction upon him, which had just been received by cable from Rome. The City Hall bell was tolled In re: spect to the Cardinal's memory whea word of his death was sent to Mayor Broenig. COURT, JURY AND SPECTATORS MUTE IN RESPECT. He waa in 133 was wey For five minutes, as the City Hall bell tolled, Judge Gorter, a jury, lawyers, witnesses and spectators tn Superior Court sat mute out of re- spect to the memory of the prelate “Gentlemen,” said the Judge, “the City Hall bell is now tolling the in- formation of the death of Cardinal Gibbons. Cut of respect to his mom- ory we shall all remain silent for five minutes." Holy Thursday services were in (Continued on Sec ead Page.) INCOME AND PROFIT TAXES FOR YEAR ARE $3,050,000,000 Total Up to Expectations, Says Mellon—650,000,000 Already Deposited. WASHINGTON, March 24 COME and profits tax co ons for the March 15 stallment were estimated by Secretary Metlon to-day to ag- remate $675,000,000, ‘To the close of business March 22, $650,000,000 had actually been deposited from the collections, Mr, Mellon added Mr. Mellon estimated on this basis that total revenue from in come profits taxes for the fiscal year ending’ June 36 would agerogate $3,050,000,000, This amount, he said, was fully up to the Treamry expectations ‘The previous yeur the total was about 44,96 0,000,000. and a4. . . eth Fost Office, New York, N. ¥. D GEN.W Scellanis” Recond-Class Matter ee erenreneneenemeennedglilil COMMUNIST RISING GROWS IN MIDDLE GERMANY: BACKED. BY SOVIET GOLD, BERLIN SAYS { All the Great Industrial Districts Now Menaced, as Armed Bands Raid Banks and Factories—Leip- zig and Dresden Terrorized by Communist Workers, It Is Said. ‘ LONDON, March 24,—The Communist revolt in Germany, financed, it is declared, by Soviet gold, is spreading throughout the industrial districts of Middle Germany, threatening the great ammonia, potash, anthracite and copper works, says a Central News despatch from Berlin to-day. Strong police forces have been despatched to the centres where trouble has grown out of the recent demand of the leaders for a general strike and the arming of the proletariat—Dresden, Elgleben, Freiburg, Leipzig, Halle, Mansfeld and other towns, the message reports. The efforts of the authorities, adds the despatch, have only resulted in the Communists strengthening their position, WERCONTS ASNET ISS SAVE BABY IN FALL OF THREE STORES that at Mansfeld prisons have been opened and their inmates liberated. Four-Year-Old Hospital Pa- tient Squeezed Through Iron Complete anarchy is declared to reign at Hettstedt, where all banks Bars to Window Ledge. have been raided and from which the population is fleeing in a panic, A Copenhagen despatch to the Bx« change Telograph Company quotes Hamburg advices to the Berlingske Tidende to the effect that 1,400 Com« munists yesterday occupied the Blohm and Voss shipyards in Hamburg, where they were surrounded by Se« curity Police. It is said that ree ports from Hamburg at midnight stated that the Communists every= where were calling upon workers to fight behind barricades and the peo« ple were fortifying thelr homes, An account of the troubles ab Hamburg telegraphed by the Berlin correspondent of the Central News: says that more than’ fifty Com4s tmunists and police are reported to have been killed in the fighting last night at Heiligengeist Field, in the ‘The thrilling rescue from death of Joseph Diagner, four years old, No 203. Stockton Str Brovklyn, was revealed to- and the placing of additional iron bars before the win- dows of the wards in the Brooklyn Bye and Far Hospital, No. 4 Living- ston Street, was considered. The new bars are to prevent the posslbil- ity of a recurrence of what might have caused the child's death yester- Altona ection of Hamburg. The ollowing an operation for the re-| message adds that fighting is come mayal of his tonsils and adenoids lit-|tinuing in Hamburg, where the tle Joseph was tucked in a cot on the third floor of the hospital, beside seven other little patients, The nurse, who left the room for three minutes, noticed upon her return that but seven of her patienta were In their beds. Joseph had climbed to one of the windows on the Schermerhornyside of the building, squeeged through the bars and was hanging outside, in im- minent peril of dropping to his death ‘The Nutter of the child's nightie at- tracted the attention of passersby on Sehermerhorn Street, and while some Pollee were defeated at Steinwarder Island, in the free harbor territory, after a flerce battle, BERLIN, March 24.—Great prop. erty damage and the loss of upward of @ score of lives marked Commun» ist disorders in various cities and towns in Prussian Saxony and im Hamburg yesterday. The trouble im Prussian Saxony seemed to centre about the Mansfeld district, and a6 appeared that those leading the movement focused their attention on banks and pubiic buildings, many of these edifices being badly shattered some hastened to notify Superinten- Be Spear ay wreeket by Pat Se dent R. A. Baker of the child's peril, !” stories of violence, robbery’ and | two young men raced to a point be- virtual anarchy continued to arrive neath the swaying figure, stripped inst night from this region. Town joff their overcoats, knottg@ them to-| halls at Plasen and "Rodewisch gether by the sleeves, and stretchd ¥ destroyed and county buildings at Leipsic and Freiburg were damaged, one person being injured at FreIn burg. The County Court butlding fm Dresden was quite badly damaged thm out as a makeshift safety net. A moment later Joseph's grasp on the window ledge relaxed he went hurtling down. But the safety and net proved effective and he droppedl yy an explo rons into it uninjured. Joseph was taken n eee tapruigr ss Hash n iptorit Unig were injured. A similar attempt against the town hall at Auerbach was frustrated by the police captute ing & man carrying @ bag of dymae mite. Pr A party of armed men, riding in » motor lorry, attacked two savi banks in Manafeld yesterday morte ing, and succeeded In securing about 200,000 marks from’ the institution. The savings bank at Helbra was also robbed during the day. Strikers STATE DEPARTMENT HAS BERGDOLL CASE Papers Sent There to Be sidered From an International Viewpoint. WASHINGTON, Maroh 4, — All papers in the War Department relating Con- to the case of Grover Cleveland Berg-|in that town conrpelled the Helbra | doll, escaped American draft oraden Anseiger to suspend publication, now in Germany, were transmitted to < A large crowd surtor I~ the State Department to-day, owe tree lice barracks at Hettstedt and de- manded the surrender of arms sig there, A deputation entered They were sent at the direotion of Secrotary Weeks with a request that they be considered (rom an interna- onal view-patat A pee enna ns oo nen ee eS ee.