The evening world. Newspaper, March 29, 1921, Page 1

To-Night's Weather—FAIR. WALL STREET - DITION VoL. LXI. NO. 21, ,700-—DATLY. Copyright, 1921, by The Prom (ublishing Ce. (The New York Waorkt). < 2a IweR — {15 RIOTERS IN ESSEN KILLED BY POL! _NEW yoRK, TUESDAY, MAO 29, 1921. Fest Ofhies, Entered as Second-Class Matter gases t Ada Vaditnws ee s New York, Nf. = inti jee PRICE THREE CENTS seal Warehouse Wrecked and 100 Families Are Homeless in iit Italy.” kAID TO A ‘GAS LEAK. Other Theories Are the Blast] Was Due to Political Feud or to Fireworks. CHICAGO, March 2 (United 'Press).—Ten were killed and fifty ir red to-day when an lostor ked “Little Italy” in heart 4 Chicago's tenement district Investigation leads authovitios to Delteve the blast occurred paper warehouse of Joseph Weil ‘Company. Damage will run close to 4 miMlon dollars, police estimate, Thid tneludes the loss of buildings and jomes in the vicinity, One hundred in the & fumilies were made homeless. The ‘warehouse way wrecked. Harry Weill, son of the owner o1 the paper house, and Il. Schaffer, wart owner of the Finger Schaffer Cotapany, the scene of the explosion, wero taken to Police Headquarters Yor questioning, The cause of the blast is undeter- mined. Three theories bave been ad- Sanced: labor feud, political feud, or leaky gas main. fow of the bodies have been Wan, political feue ne ny have injured we the The ged hospitals near Homes were rushed to umpre the of thrown cpe The three who were were badly 1 that identifi- it im- re scene 10 osion. the care of the injured ,the explosion from the It is expect be dificult, cthms of led angled. will ruins ailon noi ; The ex ion Was heard for mil around. Heavy plate gliss windows were smashed within a radius of one snile. here was almost a panic in a de- partment store two block away when tie plate glass windows were shat- tered by the explosion. Italian women, fearing that some of their relatives had been killed or Anjured, battled with the police to pond Page.) ‘COPS SEEK “OWNER” OF GRAND CENTRAL Sold Information Booth in Waiting Room for $1,200 to Be Used as Fruit Stand, ‘The main information booth in the entre of the waiting room at Grand Central Terminal is still being used as pm information booth to-day, despite Phe fact the privilege of using it for a fruit stand was purchased yesterday tor $1,200 by Gregory Pantazy, a clgar- ette manufacturer of No, 434 Bast 70th treet, from a gith stranger who said ye owned the terminal building, Pantazy said he was introduced to the stranger by Christian Nicholas, 31, pf No. §45-Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, After thinking over his $1,200 invest- font, Pants talked with Detectives ove and Fitzpatrick, chen gent a dend to a poolroom which he said Bicholas frequented. The friend passed fhe word around he “had another fucker with $2,000," and made an ap- ointment to have Him at 6th Avenue! and th str ‘Tiere the etectives arrested Nicholas. Magistrate McQuade in West Side) y Court, hel. Nichola in $2,000 ball for xamtnation Thursday, The police are} joking for the “owner" of the Grand * Pentral ‘Terminal. : papa Tt KILLED, FIFTY INJURED, PROPERTY LOSS $1,000, 00 NV EYPLOSION IN CHICAGO BRINDELL LOSES; Justice Bijur eis Applica- etion for Certificate of Reasonable Doubt. Supreme Court Justice of from five to ten years in Sing Sing for using his authority as Presi- dent of the Building Trades Counctt | for extortion for a certificate of rea- sonable doubt. Martin W. Littleton asked for the certificate on the ground that Jus- tice John V. McAvoy, before whont |Wrindell was tried and sentenced, erred in permitting Samuel Unter- myer, special prosecutor, to furnish evidence as to ten transactions uther | than the one for which Brindell was lon trial for the purpose of showing |the “plan and scheme” of Brindell's | operations. | Justice Bijur also ruled that the error in the indictment by which it was charged that Brindell obtained |money from a corporation rather than from the owner of the cormora- and building was not ma- rial. ‘The denial of the certificate ends the stay of sentence.which has pre- | vented the transfer of Brindell from |the Tombs to bogin his sentence at |Sing Sihg. It ends his efforts to be released on bail pending his appeal tion the from the conviction. Mr, Littleton said to-day he was prepared to press the appeal vigorously. ——_—_—~ |BIG COPPER MINES | FORCED TO CLOSE | | Depression Hits Anaconda, Utah, Chino and Ray Consolidated Companies. Virtualtty all the large copper mining companics in the country announced to-day thitt on account of the lack of demand for the metal and the low prices prevailing they are forced com- pletely to suspend operations, Among the companies making this announce- ment were the Anaconda, the Utah, the Chino, the Ray Consolidated and Ne- vada Consolidated, It was explained by the managements of these companies copper cannot now ‘de sold at the cost of production. oe COURT REFUSES | TO DISBAND UNION Justice Bijur Denes $500,000 Suit Against Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Supreme Court Justice Bijur this afternoon dismissed the action brought against the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America by J. Friedman and Company, Ine. The Friedman concern sought an | injunction against picketing, dissolu- tion of the union and damages of | $500,000, The temporary imjunction recently granted to restrain picketing was dismissed, Tho decision was tased on the arguments of Samuel Geabury, coun- sel for the Amalgamated, who held the complaint did not allege a suf- Ucieht Ciuse of action, { ~ APPEARS IN CASE HUST NOW BEGIN <<sis TERMIIN SING SING > Nathan | trical Mijur to-day denied the application formation to the lawyers of Mrs. J. of Robert P. Brindell, under sentence) A- Stillman in aiding her defense | THIRD WOMAN NOW OF JA STILLMAN Of Good Social Standing and Prominent in Circles in Which Banker Moved. CAST ASIDE, IT IS SAID. Guardian for Baby Guy Dis- ee Excerpts From Al- mony in Suit. of a third woman who may be brought into Mrs. James 1A. Stillman's defense against the divores charges made by the Pres!- |dent of the National City Bank wa intimated to-day Thie was in addition to the state ment that a young woman of (he- experience, has given in ‘against the divorce charges started | by the President of the National City ; Bank and who is reported ready tu Sacrifice the secrets of her own past partly in sympathy with Mrs. stil tun and partly in revenge for h own displacement in Mr, Stillman’s | affections by her former friend and | protege, Florence Leeds. | The third woman is described as a} member of a family prominent in the | circies in which the Stillmans moved | and of breeding, education and asso- clations entirely different trom those of Mra. Leeds and her former asso- clates of the “Wall Street dancing class,” which went out of existence when Mr, Stillman withdrew from it And devoted himself exclusively to the attractions of Mrs. Leeds, The friendship of the banker with this third woman caused some coimn- ment among thelr mutual frionds She 1s alleged to have been aban- dened, according to the intimations recelved from those among whoni de- tectives have been asking questions for the last day or two, before ie “Dancing Class" was organized, J. F. Brennan of counsel for Mrs Stillman is pressing his own inquiry as to the appearance of what pur- ported to be a transcript-of the testi- mony of the hearing before Referee Gieason, contending that whether or not the report was accurate—and he says it was far from accurate—con- tempt of court was committed. Per- sons present at the hearings say the so-called transcript looks to them |hhke the reconstruction of long-hand notes jotted down surreptitiously by fa person interested only in one side of the case. John E. Mack, guardian for little Guy Stillman, who waa present at the hearing, said: “In my opinion the alleged testi- mony was constructed from reported interviews with the witnesses in Canada. Any one who ever heard the testimony or read the stenogra- phers’ minutes would know it was not taken fror: those minutes.” Contrary to general expectation, Justice Morschauser made it known to-day that he would not order the letters and affidavits filed with Mrs. | Stillman’s alimony motion and her husband's answer to be made public when he renders his decision this week. “I will not give out any part or all of the testimony myself," sald Mr. D. J. Gleason, the referee, before whom the hearing was held, “but I do not object to any of the lawyers in- volved giving the whole thing out.” No lawyer would do 80 when asked to, Referee Gleason sald in regard to |holding public hearings of the caso |that he was not opposed % open sessions, but that {t is a matter for counsel on both sides to decide, He said if one side asked for open hear-| ings and the other side opposed, he| | would take the matter under advise- ment. He admitted it had been the court practice to determine legitimacy hearings at open hearings, but de- clined to commit himself on this angie fo the came, ‘FAMOUS NATURALIST WHO DIED ON None ON WAY TOH “Well, Burroughs used to wonder what it was like be- yond and I suppose he whit be- gin philosophizing again as soon as he gets his bearings, There will be birds where John Burroughs is—birds and great trocs."—Henry Ford's tribute to-day. JOHN BURROUGHS, BAPTISTS TO OUST RENT PROFITEERS FROM CHURCHES Ministers’ Say Uaeecanted Ad- vance Is Un-Christian “Phariseeism.” PSBURGH, March 2%. OLUTION, under which rent profiteers" would be ousted from the churches, adopted by the Pittsturgh Bap- Ust Ministers’ Association, was made public here to-day. Un- Warranted rent advances con- stitute an un-Christian har is according to the resolu- tion, which urged all Pittsburgh ministers to “combat gouging landlords, to take a prominent part in community protests against these wrongs, and to use the influence of their ministerial associations to prevent new bur- dens of greedy extortion being imposed upon the general public.” Officials of the Baptist organ- ination said that they would urge the Pittsburgh Union Min- isterial Association to adopt a similar resolution. SS Ea JUDGE LANDIS BARS DESERTING PITCHER Reinstatement Denied Kinney Who Went to Independent Team While Owing Athletics $800. CHICAGO, March Judge Commissoner of Baseball, Landis, to-day denied “BHIGAGO EXPLOSION KILLS 0. WOUNDS 50 JORN BURROUGHS EXPIRES ON TRAIN ON WAY TO HOME Noted Naturalist. H Had to Be’ Carried to Car at Pasadena Where He Had Wintered. Owing to His Remarkable Vi- tality He Was Known as the Youngest of Old Men. Joun Burroughs, the eminent natur- t, died at 2 ofolock this morning on the New York and New England Expreas, of the New York Central tailroad, at Kingsville, O. which ts etween Ashtabula and Amboy, He was on bis way to hils home, West ark, near Poughkeepsie, after spend- ing the winter at Pasadena, Calif, News of his death came firat to! this city in a telegram from Buffalo sent by Mr. Burroughs's private seo- retary, Dr, Clara Barrus, to Dr, Wal- ter Gray Crump. It that Mr. Burroughs had died on the train. But yesterday afternoon an- telegram was sent Dr. Crump stating that Mr, Burroughs was critically i and requesting that Dr, Crump arrange to meet bim at Poughkeepsie to-day, When Mr. Burroughs left Pasadena ast Friday he was so ill that he to be carried aboard the train. He was accompanied on the journey east- —|ward by his granddaughter and Di Barrus. lt was his frequently ex- pressed hope to get home in time to jeolobrate his eighty-fourth birthday surrounded by his friends at West | Park. | John Burroughs’ |he lived for years, was at Roxbury, on the opposite side of the Hudson from Poughkeepsie. At the cast end of the farm there is a large rock deeply embedded in a sloping pasture and sheltered by an ironwood tree. A short distance away is an ever- flowing spring, the spot being one lang endeared to the naturalist. To Dr. Barrus, his secretary, Mr. Burroughs once said: “Here I used to come when I was a boy to rest from work and play at sundown and listen to the vesper sparow sing. Here I hope to rest when my work and play are over— when the sun goes down—here by my boyhood rock.” Dr. Crump sald later to-day that Burroughs's body would be brought on to Poughkeepsie immediately. Thomas A. Edison, one of Bur- rovghs'’s oldest friends and his com- panion on many camping trips to the mountain regions of the country, was much shocked to lear of the nat- uralist’s death “T am very sorry (Continued « on | Nineteenth Page.) ITALY IS READY | FOR NEW LEAGUE, | AMBASSADOR SAYS “Will Co-operate With Presi- dent Harding,” Signor Ricci other to farm home, @#here to hear of the the application for statement filed Is Quoted as Saying. by Walter W. Kinney, a pitcher with ROME, March 29. the Philadelphia Americans, who was MBASSADOR ROLANDI charged with violating his contract last May to play with an independent team Connie Mack, Manager of the FMil- adelphia club, sought to induce Kinney to return, but he failed to do so after having promised to join the team at RICCI is quoted to-day by the Tribune's Washington franklin, Pa, . woney deserted the Philadelphia] Correspondent as saying Italy will ch when the Franklin team offered] support an association of nations him $500 increase in mulary, From| proposed by President Harding, the evidence introduced, it was brought] “We are ready to recetve and out thet the Philadelphin club had ad-| support any now proposal ingur- vanced him $1,000 preliminary to the] nj peace and economic develop. start of the 1920 season: that he had! ment,” he ls reported to have pewn granted a 6 per cent. increase in| Yai | salary and that he left the club with- fees Weare cestic alicia gout Bean ceria ee We Will, co-onORANG Fully’ with | nas never attempted to repay. President Harding. Italy sbao- jutely is for peace and anything insuring !t, Our words and the President's can be made, ‘We murse no grudge against any, Reople,” merely stated | had | AM. TEL & TEL. C0. JUMPS DIVIDEND Advance of ‘amet Point Is Ex- pected to Maintain the Stock at a [Premium. President of Holding Com- pany Explains Why Cost Is Boosted to Customers. ‘The directors of the American Tele- phone and Telegraph Company, which is the holding company for practically all the operating telet in the ment to-day which may exp the New York ‘Telephone Company jFecently obtained a 28 por cent. ad- | vance in rates. The announce: is that the dividend rate of the Aimer- nme companies country, made an announce- in why 15 RIOTERS KILLED, 40 HURT | Plant at Leuna After Sharp Fight, Taking 1,000 Prisoners, Rifles, Ma- chine Guns and Much Ammunition. iN, Germany, March 29 (Associated Press).—Fifteen rioters “were killed and forty others wounded in a clash with the Security Police bere. ‘The attempt to bring on a general strike in this region has so far fatied, An “exceptional status” has been proclaimed for Dortmund, Bochum, Gelsenkirchen and other points in Rhenish Prussia. The “exceptional status” referred to presumably {s simflar to or {den- lical with the “non-military state of siege” which has been put into foree Communist disorders, ment by the German authorities in parts of Central Germany affected by the Except the minor outbreak in the Amovitan |tcan Telephone and Telegraph Com- bridgehead region Monday, the disorders in Essen afe the first in) the ‘pany has been increased from $ per Rhine area since the outbreak of the Communist rising in Prussian Saxony, ‘cent. to 9 per cent. As soon ws the announcement was | made on the ticker shortly before nooa | the stock Jumped to $108 3-8 a share. It closed last night at $100 a share “There has been no time within the last ten years,” said President H. Bu Thayer in making the announcement of the riise in the dividend rate, “when the company's earnings have not been | sumMicient to pay a higher rate of divi- dend.”" This statement is interesting taken lin connection with advertisements |publishea by the New York ‘Tele phone Company during its camp: n American Telephone and Telegraph The New York Telephone Com- pany has persistently maintained that at the old rates it could not earn enough money to make its stock an attractive Investment. One of the grounds upon which it applied to the Public Service Commission for an in- crease in rates was that it is deeply indebted to the American and Telegraph Company, Corporation Counsel O,Brien in op~ pealtion to the demand for increwe4 rates maintained that the New York Telephone Company and the Ameri- can Telephone puny are essentially one corporation; that the earnings were sufficient & the stock was steadily gaining in BANDITS ROB BANK, Five Armed and Masked Men Hold Telephone | and Telegraph Com- | ESCAPE WITH $20,000) HARDING CABINET ~ DISCUSSES HELP FOR RAILROADS President Believes Matter Should Be Taken Up by Con- for higher rates. The New Yor << in Special Sessi Telephone Company is the area gress in Special Session. compnnent corporation in the group — financially managed by the Ameri.) WASHINGTON, March 29—Gov- can Telephone and Telegraph Com- ernment ald in Febabilitation of the pany. It i# tho greatest and most railroads was discuswed at the Cab- prosperous telephone company in the inet meéeting to-@ay, Very deep can~ world. From the earnings of the|cern was expressed over the altua- New York Telephone Company the tion and belief was general in the meeting that the Government should Company obtains a considerable part do something to aid the ronda, of the money which Ht pays in divi It was announced that President dends on its stock Harding will shortly call into con- ference the inman of the Inter- state Commerce Commission and the head of the Railroad Labor Board to discuss this situation. No specific plan was decided upon, it was said. It wos intimated that announce- ment of policy in this regard may be made at the office of the Secretary of Commerce yery shortly, The President is understood to hold that the railroad situation is of such a serious nature that it must be taken after the con- [up by Congress soon | vening special session on April 11 The railroad problem has two phases, the President is said to be- |iteve. First the railroads are operat- have laid up & surplus against al-| ing under a deficit of $700,000,000, and \eged conditions which the New York | scoond, the rates are too high. company advanced as causes for eight rates were said to have raising rates. |been particularly under consideration President Thayer i! that the| by the Cabinet, although the fu, dividend rate has beer raised in| ten was made that present passenger order to create a mark:: for the) rates might be 6o high as,to restrict stock. But cxamination of the annual) travel and actually curtail railroad report of the American Telephone & | earnings Telegraph Company for the fiseal year! The President and bia advisers in ended Dec, 31 lust discloses the fact|approaching the railroad problem that as an 8 per cent. dividend payer | took into account its possible relation legislation and conditions fact that under the to tariff arising from the | presont tariff schedules raliroad rates make delivery of American agricul- tural products in some of the home commercuv! centres more expensive than costs of their importation from abros <a | lsat Lares Sheep and Gent for Bronx Up Institution at St | too Krom hien, Paul Sorcial to The Brenig Wort. mie MONTREAL, March 29—A Rocky ST. PAUL, Minn, March 29.—/e|Mountain goat and a herd of wild City Bank of St. Paul was held up|#heer, lureed from their mountain and rubhed by five armed men to- |naunts with alk. are on Unelr way day. They escaped in a touring car.| tnd” keoper in. charge Brongn, word ‘The tandits got $20,000, acco! from. the mountains that’ Canada to Ca@hior C. iv. Kalseheucr, who Was |saved Amorica’s “atarving ile. by beaten on the head with revolvers taking them from Yellowstaone Na- itonal Park to the Banff Park across the international border, BERLIN, Mareh 2%. (Associa! Press).—An important gain was made to-day by the Government forcrs it Central Germany when Government troops and Security Police surrounded the nitrogen plant at Leuna, which has been a Communist for the past five days, and forced the insurgents to surrender, ‘The insurgents, against whom the attack was opened at an early hour tnis morning, at first offered stub- born resistance, but their escape wax cut off on all sides and they were {obliged to capitulate. The troops took 1,000 prisoners and seized large chine guns and ammunition, BERLIN, March 29.—In antictpa- tion of disturbances growing out of a threatened general strike, this olty haa all the appearances of an anned camp to-day. Wilhelmstrasse hag been occupied by troops and all ave~ nues leading to the Government lidings are blocked by barbed wire utanglements, Word from outlying districta ielis or widespread trouble with whiea the authorities are coping with greit difficulty, In the central and wea’ ern industrial districts a number of towns are still in possession of the Communists, and in a number of places bridges have been blown up und property destroyed. The tear of a general strike de the one depressing feature of the sirua- tion, and even :hose in a position t> know the true state of affairs hoa) tate to predict the final outo~me. The most sensational of the latest events is an attempt to destroy the great clectricity works at Spandau, near Berlin. During the night Com~ munists heavily armed entered the works, overpowered the night shit, holding them helpless at a revolver’s point, and scattered bombs and infer- nal machines with time fuses about the building amid the machinery. Fortunately one of the watchers, evading the terrorists, gave a tef@- phone alarm, so that armed police ar- rived in time to prevent explosions, posi tel ees GIRL YANKS FLIRT OFF SUBWAY TRAIN Masher Sentenced to Workhouse After Miss Perley Hands Him Ovet to Police. . Miss Helen Perley, No. 461 Hast 1834 Street, a pretty young seamstress, was on her way down town in a Lexington Avenue subway train this morning when she was annoyed by a persistent man standing pext to her, Unable to change her position in the crowded car, she endured the man’s behavior unti) the train reached 4X1 Streot, where #he got out and yanked Ue mas after her, ‘There was commotion on the. platform and an Interboro policeman arrested the man Miss Perley had dragged from the train, He was found guilty in the Yorkville Court, and sentenged t twenty days in the wo! ‘He ho was Wi Avenue, © atrongond supplies of rifiss, mu- z it STE SET FOR Ta p iit nat i as