The evening world. Newspaper, April 2, 1921, Page 1

Copyright, 1921, by The Press a Pubiishing Co. (The New York World), Entered as Second-Clacs Matter Post Office, a PRICE THREE CENTS New York, N. ¥. PROFESSOR KILLS ‘DEAN IN —. OLLEGE SYRACUSE COLLEGE DEAN IS SLAIN BY PROFESSOR WH THEN KILLS HINSELF — Dr. J; to Death by Prof. Beckwith. SHOOT ING Hol INS Imes Herman Wharton Shot CHOOL. Professor Had Bed Dismis —Was to Leave at End of Term. SYRACUSE, April Herman Wharton, Dean o College of Business Administration, Syracuse! University, was shot and killed by Holmes Beckwith, professor of finan- cial and in: ‘ance subjects in th college, this morning, Beckwith then turned the gun on leimself and committed suicide. of the School of Administration, tn puilets passed through Carello’s left The shooting occurred in the office | gon Street, PANICIN BROOKLYN AS SHOTS FIRED IN CROWD WOUND BOY ‘OBSTACLES IN WAY KU KLUX KLAN BRANDS NEGRO WITH ACID AND LASHES HIM AS A “WARNING” IN DALLAS rounp eck SEMINARY: PRIEST SAVES SACRAMENT, ROPE PUT AROUND NECK ‘Fifty , Four = diy Marck Out | of $50,000 Blaze at Hempstead, L. I. “OF UTILIZING THE. _ STILLMAN LETTERS ciate Must Prove That They Were} Actually Written in Hand- writing of the Guide. | ARE SEALED.! Symbols “K, K. K.”” Burned on Victim’s Forehead After “Trial. PAPERS of) Congratulations on Result Alimony Hearing Pour in S, Texas, April 2.—Firte rly to-day seized Alox n to Banker’s Wife. masked men ea Johnson, negro, alleged to have been GUNMEN ATTACK MANUFACTURER: HE ~—QUIFOOTS THEM {Beat Him on “on the F Head With) Their Pistols, but He Holds CUSTOMS ZONE IN GERMANY FIXED BY ALLIES 10 FORCE PAYMENT UPON INDEMNITY on to Cash. ROBBERS GET AWAY. | |Mr. Blei, the Victim, Says Two f Them Live Near His Factory in Java St. | Lawyers studying Justice | found in a white woman's room at — Philip Blei of the Alliance Fireproof Morschauser's opinion in the Still-| hotel, and carried him out of the; The main building of the Sacred | Sash & Door Company, No 245 Javn man divorce, case said to-day they | city. Heart Seminary at Hempstead, U1 | Street, in the Greenpoint part of ssin’s Bullet Intended for|were particularly interested by his| After horsewhipping and branding! which included the chapel, ¢ | Brooklyn, drew $1,500 for his payroll | Man Strikes Lad Cross- observation that there were “other| into his forehead the symbols of and the living quarters of the Sis-| to-day from the Greenpoint Savings Man §$ =p TOSS | . | ine Street than by affidavit of Mr.|the Ku Klux Klan “as a warning to| ters of St. Joseph who conduct the| Bank at Calyer Street and Manhattan Street. sti e ing Stillman to get Into the case the let-|other negroes” they brought him) school, was destroyed by fire this| Avenue, and started with it for his Twa @ RewdtecGoninii a neler eee penta | 80 | back and relboead ii morning. The loss was about $50,000. | factory, five blocks away, He carried na dense crowd at Columbia ant |), qa s “ << K” werel . 5 a alia called confession and the alleged) The symbols “K. K. K." were) me ney, Robert Boyle forced his| the money in a japanned iron box. Sackett Streets, Brooklyn, at 1 o'clock | messages between her and Beauvais, | Painted on the negro's forehead with faip (ialahaoellwibs iheaiaSE| ‘Laavl Gan Geant tiMROe | way into the cha 0 r Manha ve this afternoon, a man drew « revolver | the French Canadian co-respondent. | acid after he was lashed with a|“@¥ [nto The chapel with the al UPAVADE /CPOWGEA PADRAAR AVES | and fired three shots at Paul Carello,| The only “other ways" attorneys |blacksnake. Upon being released | Fireman Robert Brower, and with an) nue at Java Street, a block from his| thirty-five years old, of No. 193 Hud- professed to be able to see that|hear the hotel in which his alleged|axe broke open the tabernacle. He| factory, Mr. Biei had gone about a i ‘ ae nt is affected the “Beauvais letters" /offense was committed, he was or-| rescued the Blessed Sacrament. hundred yards when a black touring Manhattan. ne Of the | bromised these formidabie obstacles: |dered to tell other employees what Fifty-four small boya were | Car bounced from the street across | (1) Proof that the letters are in the |had happened to him. the sidewalk in front of him and} the College of Agriculture Bullding, the ney half million dolar structure | donat.d to the University by Mrs. Russell Sago in memory of her father, Joseph Slocum, and named | for him. | Prof. Beckwith had been unpopu- Yar with the students and petitions | house in Columb: t and disap- peared. The boy and Carello were taken to Holy Family Hospital, e it was found that the wound f the boy will probably prove faatl He was identified as Carlo Carbono of No. 77 Sackett Stree had been circulated among the stu-| dent body asking his removal. In o statement issued soon after the shooting, Chancellor Day de- clared that it was his belief that! Dean Wharton died trying to pr vent Prof, Beckwith from commit-| ting su cide | “This was indicated in a note left} for Dean Wharton by Prof. Beck- with,” said the Chancellor, “in which he intimated that he was going to kill hmself and referred to alleged unjust treatment of himself based on the fact that he the dismissal to end of the year. Dean Wharton’ was broken. He from it when limself, the taki ect chair, e ently at had been dismissed, the a stout one, ped Beckwith tried to kill gun was turfed on him and the dean was shot through the Yad. Beckwith was shot in the chest. He also stabbed himself to snake death certain Dr. Holmes ‘Beckwith was First sieutenant, Field Artillery, in the World War. He joined the Syracuse | niversity faculty last September. tle was head of the Department of} ) nance and Insurance He form {aught at Colorado College, Colorado Sprin Col; rinnell Colle i orthwestern Univ ity at Pyvans-) on, Ul, He was an Lal. D. by 2 Unive of California and Ph dy Columb He wie a bank ex- wner in Cal omnia Dean Wharton was « graduate of racuse University and had been a struetor th for the last few waving been 1, in which the Knglish depart + yollege wsiness admin- trations and was appointed by ¢ Chancellor to carry out the plan. ile organized the college and last made Dean, In the two the coll vas grown rapidly p enrollment of 900. yaevin, = NO SECURITY FOR LOANS. Jersey Boys and Girie Can to Kaine Stock, i TON, At vu A y nounced ao plant phoney without security to buy | vestock money, in sum $100, is to be loaned from the thuysen fund started for that Tnited, States Senator Fre and others The children w he t + sm Gea tbereee. * [Auanines erie oF Ute oridenen. uP}c Borrow Acrlou » borrow and 7a ¥e but 1 arm. bdomen Another pierced the who wus third did boy The of a twelve-year-old crossing the street no damage A panic followed the shooting and many children and women were knocked down and trampled on. The $ ran into a man who Patrolman Jobn the sw them running but the chase Lyons, who heard the man fired away and pursued him, 80 thick that the Carello pro- feeses to be unable to tel) body should shoot at him. Eyewit- nesse say that the man with the tol took deliberate aim at Carello ve fore firing the first shot, MOBILE JUDGE FINES GIANT COACH * Dolan Punished for Fight "ut ng Giant-Aithletics’ shots, who crowd w proved fruitless. why any- Game. Sieclal to The Brening Workd.) MABILE, Ala., April 2.—Cozy Dolan was fned $25 by Recorder Edington in the Ree 8 Court here this morning wart in the fight with Umpire auzon during the game. b ants and Athletics yesterd Lauzon, who was the complainant against the Giant coach, was turned loose though Dolan had made a com- against Sim, Lauzon admitted Court that he had struck Dolan first and St was testified to that Lau- zon had pulled an open ki during the fight. Despite this, howe Dolan was fined and the case Inat dismissed. cage against Kelly was dropped. Billy Patt sorts secured from San exchang | Gross, the Gi mornhy DRY ENFORCEMENT | marched out of the building in order and without injury, at the direction of Sister St. Hilliary, Mother Super- jor. The boys had met in the class- rooms at 9 o'clock for the short Saturday session, and prayers were Fred D. Ball and Paul Jones, two newspapermen, were “kidnapped by the masked men, blindfolded, taken along with the crowd fn automo les and commanded to act as press agents for the affair. Ball and Jones each received a mys- handwriting of Beauvais and not, a6 Beauvais has stated, In the writing of a blackmailing enemy known to him; 2) ‘proof that they were not only addressed to Mrs. Stillman, but that she received them and knew of their contents, Mrs. Stillman has denied under} terious telephone call to come to a|reat room on the ground floor, It oath any knowledge of the letters | department store corner for an “im-| was belleved a kerosene stove had and lawyers say that as far as she| portant story." The man who did the | overturned. is concerned Mrs, Stillman is as im- | telephoning was so insistent that he} Sister St. Hilliary notified the Sis- mune to them as though they hda/ finally convinced both it was not an|ters In charge of the boys, and the been deliberately written to her by | April fool joke. They received no in-| classes were dismised. The pup!ts | 4 man she did not know for the pur- pose of making trouble between her and her husband. While attorneys for James A. Still- timation as to what thi be, they de on the corner an story” would | but after appearing ere met and taken into| blindfolded were led out of the building to their wn dormitory, about 200 yard away. Before the arrival of the Hempstead firemen the Rey, Joseph Smith and ed, automobil nan were preparing papers to-day) After riding several miles, the re-|Father Boyle fought the flames, but for an appeal from Justice Morschau-| porters said, the blindfolds were] unsuccessfully ser’s alimony decigion, teleziams and| snatched from their eyes. A negro| The building was a two-story! letters of congratulation were arriv-| surrounded by masked, well drosed| frame structure and burned rapidly ng at Lakewood for Mrs. Stillman. | men, stood beneath a tree, a rope|Part of it was 100 years old, and the 6 banker's wife sald to be| around his neck. main building formerly was known elated over the court's opinion, prac-| 4 trial” was then conducted after|as the Hewlett Homestead. It was tically every point in whick was con-| tne manner described in stories of the|located at Fulton and High Streets, strued as being in her favor. Hempstead. firemen were unable to followers of the fiery cross in post- Civil War times, Dyring this “trial Johnson was allegéi to have con- fessed. De Lancey Nicoll said Mr. Stillman would appeal on the grounds that the $7,500 monthly alimony, the $35,000 for counsel fees and the $12,500 for expenses are excessive; and that the court erred in not admitting the let- ters as evidence, check the flames jand the sacrament was all that was saved. ee eS \GIRLS DRAG HUGGER BLACK HAND BOMB | oFF SUBWAY TRAIN DRIVES OUT SCORES | mame on The vext step in the litigation will | Dechire He Asked Them Why be to settle the question of alimony |-.,. Foy ; Ope ZS raised by Mr. Stillman's appeal, Mra} hirty Families in Clticago) They Didn’t Take Local When Italian Section Driven to Streets —Tenement House Wrecked, | Stillman's lawyers will on Monday ask the Court to sign the alimony or- They Obdjected to Attentions, der. Mr, Stillman has been paying Anna Seanion and Lillian Diamond, 2 CHICAGO, April 2—Thirty families | pretty ste phers, lving at No 528 (Continued on Fourth Page.) were driven to the streets :n their| West 193d Street, to-day dragged Sal- SSS SS night clothes early to-day when &/ vitor Matbonade from a, southbound | FREIGHT RATES TO Black Hand bomb rocked the north |aunway express train onto the Grand} side Italian section. The blast demol- | central platform and ished the front of a four-story brick | despite his resistance, to \building and four families, Including | cer Stout. turned him Special OM EUROPE JUMP 400% OFFICER ARRESTED | Taken in ‘Custody ‘Following an | Investigation Inio His | Account 8. 1 w The Wor | SYRACUSE, April i nent Ofmice Northern New| York, is under art laione, NY. Yi | leused " bal No € are t a m1 t 1 omcval, being said when the fire started in a / over} stopped a few feet from the building jline. Three men jumped from the} ar. They wore their coat-collars) turned up and their caps pulled down low over their faces, Each had a re- | volver in his hand. Mr. Blej turned to run toward 4) hattan Avenue, shouting when they told him to put up his hands, | The men leaped upon him, strik-| ing him savagelye on the head with the butts of their weapons. Mr. Blei outran them and as he turned into the door of his factory {with his money box safely tucked under hig arm, the men ran back jand climbed into their car, backing it into the street and was going away | jthrough Franklid street towards | Williamsburg. According to the few | |who had a glimpse of the car it | carried np license plates. | Mr. Blei's office assistants called the police who tovk him to the Green- | point avenue station where he was| lattended for several severe cuts on| his head by an ambulance surgeon from Greenpoint Hospital. He said he recognized two of the | |men as residents in the neighborhood | of the factory, | —— LOTS oO HOOCH FOR CHICAGO SICK| 1,600,000 Gallons of Wine and Whiskey a Year—Bottle of | Beer Each Meal. CHICAGO, April 1,800,000 gallons of wine and whiskey 2.—Approximately must satisfy the medicinal requirements {of 3,000,000 Chicagoans each year, ac- cording to the order that went out to- Increases Announced Afler Tariff eighteen children, rushed to the| “He has been annoy us ali we ee ea was ~, stree > sot on the train at 12th Street," said!day from the office of Ralph Stone, War Is Called Off—Tonnage | streeta after being blown out of bed. | Zot on the | 1 ae nein eee $6 He Allocated ° enement: “onscs adjoining she] ee ee sainintage | eee commmianinos® ct te (Gene fo Be Allocated. wrecked building were damaged and| 1 the Yorkyine Court Uney tolt Sink, | tral Department, after his return from Increases in freight rates on mer-| the inhabitants fled, |tried to hug them, and when they|® comference at Washington. ‘This chandise consigned to several ports! Rosario Campinelll, owner of the /remonstrated with him had sworn at|amount waa deducted from the allow- on the Atlantic seaboard of Europe! iyiding, was handed a Biaak Hand |them and suid jf they didn't like what|ance to each druggist. It amounts to were made effective to- by trans-| threat recently demanding $1,500. Re-|he was doing they should have got on| some 35,000 pints a day, in addition to a Atlantic shipping companies after aN) seat the note said, would mean a| a jocal, [bottle of beer with each meal that may cement had been reached to dis-lhomb, Campinelll turned the letter) "Finally," concluded Mins Scanlon, | be allowed by prescription ontinue a rate war inaugurated sev-| over to the polie ‘we couldn't stand i any longer, #0) gh of the 4,000 druggists In Chicago | eral months ago, The increases in — I gratibed him by th t collar and | may pian 100 gallons of whinkay ome 08 0) 20 c 0 W. | Miss Diamond helped me drag tim off.) and 0 galons of wine every ree ner i" sme from 200 (0 400 BROADWAY DRY, BUT He tried to resist, but we were tooj months, The Commissioner of Internal per cen “ ml, " avenue. hie nnounced that thls quan- rT * much for him. Rev has an a n Dhe dnarens suthorizea at _a| EAST SIDE A “FLOOD Matbonado got three months in the| tity could be Increased If druggists meeting of representatives of various larkhoua 1 stow they ity: needed nore ansatlntic lines here yesterday at} AntiSaloon League Survey Shows —_ quor to supply the demand, | the office of the United States Ship- - me —ap erase the of nited States Ship- |" Oo1. 53 per Cent. of White | CHICAGO COAL MEN INDICTED | 3, 4 miy 23 Per |ping Board, will apply to goods J i | | BIGGER! MAIL TO GERMANY. shipped to French Atlantic ports and | Vv Places Open. Conspiracy Charged Antnat cose] ports in Belgium, Holland and Ger-]| ‘The survey being made by Robert B Ansociations and Detectives. |New Pom fexulationa Inc many. Tonnage will be divited among | Corradini, Secretary for Itallan Work of) @TCAGO, April 2.—Indictmenta| Wetmht to 22 nd the various lines oH Re neon Hee te hehe charging conspiracy, boycotting Poste y Patten announced to-day ‘The schedule, announced to-day, eee i eSMARAt ER (ano we that ue Nacklisting were rales [ that, the postal « raises the rate on asrionitural { ak Tetall Cowl De tesla fam baie teats a oadway only 23 per cent, of the 1] Ped tne Retail Coal Momhants’ Asso. | ny having agn plan d ns are still doing business, Of 179) TN TUN private detectives, | maximum weight Hmit of parcel | visions, 20 cents per hundved t places form holding re vt a i eve en n cargo. $4 per ton to|iicanses, ine © of thet The preseniment charged conspiracy | packages between the United States and $14 nts per barrel to $2.75, | hotels, only 41 apparently unchanged |to commit acta tnjurious to public trade! Germany was Increased from cleven to v) an J otheg| under Pronthition. nd to regulate and fix prices so an to| twenty-two pounds yeaterda Rates to Hamburg, Bremen and other | 9%; rir, ond: and ‘Thitd aaa a r) 8 were increased 10 per places were appare vate competition by Independent! Gift packages are free of custome d | Gent ever the other porta, ently pul dolug bualoasn 400m) dealers = 4 eo ujbven pounds only. { s = as er Mes a \-—_+_~_-___________—_» \m ‘Many Conferences in Washington and Great Activity in Diplomatic Circles Taken to Mean That Other Important Action Is Impending. PARIS, April 2.—The Council of Ambassadors to-day approved the line recommended by the Allied High Commission in the Rhineland for the collection of German customs duties, as provided for in the penalties decided upon by the Allies in the London reparation conference. The Commission now has full authority to enforce the penalties established by the conference, The greatest gratification is expressed here over the reception which Rene Viviani, former French Premier, in America on a special mission for the French Government, has received in United States. Several despatches from M. Viviani have réached Paris, but it was in+ dicated to-day that it will be left to Secretary of State Hughes to give out whatever he considers proper concerning the conversations the special envoy has with American Government officials. * COBLUNZ, April 2—Freneh eus- toms officials to the number of 950 HERRICK SELECTED | and fifty Belgians arrived in Coblenz AS ENVOY TO FRANCE) to-cay ana immediately departed for | the Hinits of the zones of occupation. They will be ready to begin enforee- of the Allied customs penalty rmany as soon as the Allied Commission in the Mhineland Formal ancy s to His Accepta- bility to Be Made at Once, ’ Hl It Is Intimated. | receives official notice that the Coun- WASHINGTON, April 2 (United | oi) of Ambussaders jn Paris has ap- Press).—Announcement of the ap-| proved the system for collection of pointment of Myron T. Herrick a8 | the duties. Ambassador to France will be made| British, French and Belxian repre- as soon as formal inquiry as to Nis) sentatives will handle the American acceptability to and an answer re cated at the Whi can be sent Paris | zon: ved, it was indi- | Ite House to-day. it !8 announced. The actual work will be done by German fune- | Uonaries under the supervision of of- i ficial’ of the Alli HUTCHISON. LEADS | WASHINGTON, April 2.—Interest IN GOLF TOURNEY |!” the Administration's attitude te. | ward the general subject of a pence ; ,, |Settlement, revived by the visit here Is One Up. on Fotheringham 1M | of former Premier Viviani of Franeo, Play For Open | Was further intensified to-day by a Championship. | se ‘ries of conferences which had every PINTRIURAT, N. C., April 2.—Jock |°UtW4rd appearance of embracing # Hutchison led ‘the Meld by one shot in| SMeral discussion to prepare Admin- North and South open gold cham-| stration officials for a decision on pionship at the end of the third round | Such Subjects as a separate peace to-day. George Fotheringham wa sin | resolution and an amended League of second position, | Nations, although all of those who Hutchison and Fotheringham ted the | took part in the conferences leld at the end of the second round Foi- | reticent, we | day and were paired to-ay. grie| Oko catie carried @ large gallery and Hutehison ne of the firat callers at the White | shot a 71, the ar for the course, and | House to-day was Col. George Har- | Fothesingham shot a 72. Fotheringham | “®Y Of New York, selected for Am- credited himself with a penalty shot at|%#ssador to Great Britain. After a the twelfh hame when he drove into ci alf hour with the President, Col. | woods. Harvey conferred with Secretary a Hughes at the State Department EX-KAISERIN RALLIES, | Senator’ Knox of "Pennsylvania, author of the separate peace, resolu- Former Fimprees Will Succumb to| tion vetoed by President Wilson, also Next Attack, Bellet. was on President Harding’s list of DOO! Holland, April 2 (Aasociated| callers to-day, as was Stephane Preas).—-Former Empress Augusta Vic-|Lauzanne, a French journalist. M. whose worse toria of Germany, condition took a turn for yesterday, waa reported to be In no particular dan- Lauzanne’s opinions on Buropean af- fairs were quoted frequently in this Presidential cam- the country during the ker this morning, Should another sim s ilar attack occur, however, it is feared | PST His visit to the White House bee dbuthi will resale At the request of the French Ambas- “The patient may linger for weeks, ! Sador, Jules J. Jusserand, and Was auld a person closely associated with| vllicially explained as a formal catl the household of the former Emperor] to pay his respects to the President, rd Empress, “but it is very doubtful] still another on the White House if her weakened system would be able | « ment list was Myron T. Her- to sustain another attack, The former f Ohio, reported to have been Empress takes but very little food” ed for Amb wader to France, > ch information as President irding has gatnere regarding the CITY CAN RUN BRIDGE CARS.) ' rf mission and opt ns of My . a Viviani bas come to him indirectly Wins Flake to Operate Across the! nus gar, thy former French Premier Willlameburch Span, having been only a few minutes with The city has the right to oy the President when he formally pre- trolley ears r the Williamsburgh| sented 4 message of greeting severe 1 be 0. He w the President's Tustice Kelby in tne Brooklyn) suest, however, at a White House purt decided to-day And) Ginger Wednesday night, at whiel power: 1. cedar ation of such| My. Herrick will also be present, ara resting with the Commissioner of i sisait Plant and Structures | Navel Officer Breaks Chinaman's ee Neck. . Special to The Rrening Workd,) to the Brooklyn City| NEW LONDON, Conn., April 2.1L. Ge or havi over| Holder, Chief Petty Officer at the sub pk of mpany| marine base here, to-day attacked in B Charlie Lem, a Chinese laundryman, 9 1 its In-| Who, Holder said, insulted Ms. Holder and knocked him to the sidewalk, Lem’ + neck was reported broken, Holder was arreated. 1 the the bridge, but pa wes stopped ye | tes eer et