The evening world. Newspaper, April 7, 1921, Page 1

" ELWELL { To-Night's Weather—PROBABLY SHOWERS. WALL STREET , 7 a LXI. NO. 21, 708—DAILY. EDITION ee f “ Cironlation Books beanie to All.” 2 | W21, by The Press he New York Wor RAILMEN VOTE T0 Jo HARDING WORKING 10 CUT cepa Uses Influence as Executive for Reduction Same Time Wages Are Decreased. CONFERS FOR ADVICE. Anxious for Settlement of Dis- pute on Equaable Basis as Aid to Business. By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, April 7 right, 1921.) —President bas begun to use the influence of the pout, if possible, (Copy- Harding Executive to bring @ reduction of freight wages are cut on the rates at the suggestions on either the railroads or their employees, is mediating in a dispute depends , but nevertheless ho on whose settlement perhaps the revival of business in America more shan any other single factor, Mr. Harding modestly as merely seeking rerers to his efforts informna fon. He 1s conferring daily with the he talbs The tw week por leuders, Next @ith the railroad exccutives, Viewpoint of the shippers of agricul. tural products hus bec ably pre- sented in Cublact meeung by <cere- iury of Agriculture Wadace. Ae a conteq ‘ce Mr. Harding be- fieves a reduction of ireight rates is absolutely essential, But civ inter state C.-ame.ce Cuminission, whose expert judgment in railroad matters is not questioned, iusisis that it would be dangerous ty re. © Treight fates unless the railroads cum cut their “operating expenses,” which incans, of course, Wages, Because I bor ig the largest item in rulroad operation to-day be @ rel- wore not To wages would atively simple task if there interwoven in the question something reduce else my h tore vilal lo he the railroad executives and their men than the revision of the wage scale of tis month or this yoar It is the ticklish problem of railroad standards and methods of adjusting future wuge scales, OF THE PROBLEM President Harding has himself ree: walled national agreement waich cov: ath inued on T Pare) Classi/ sified Advertisers Important! opy id be for Claanitied navortising ; ou in The Sunday World The Workd office On or Before Friday Preceding Publication Classified Advertisomente Days Roces DAILY AFTER 8A. M. Foy publication the following d EARLY COPY Recetver the Pretersnce Whon Advertising Wer te Be Omitted Week the Wn —_- same time us railroad systems of the country, Mr. Harding ia not “officially” interfering ~ er forcing his advice, influence or PRESIDENT REALIZES DELICACY, ognized the delicacy of the probiein by his method of handling ” eaders, ‘The railroads, for instanee, sist that now that the war ia over! each railroad systam should deai with its own men, w the railroad | evhoods wish ty have wll matters wages adjusted by « national ard niin the workers on ail RAILROAD FREIGHT RATES AS PROSPERITY POLICY HARDING TO SEE MORGAN ON RAIL FINANCIAL SIDE Financier in Washington to Con- sult With President on Trans- portation Question, WASHINGTON, April 7.—J. PB. urrived in Washing- discuss the railroad sit- th President Harding, It is said the President will seek Nght on the financial side from Mr. Morgan. Congestion of work before Railroad Labor Board has cr: an urgent necessity for te tablishment of regional boards of adjustinents, Warren Stone, President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers told Prest- dent Harding in a conference to- day. N.Y.C.LOSES FIGHT TC CUT WAGES OF organ has ton to uation the ated es- WALLACE NEVER OFFERED TO MARRY MARS. W. E.D. STOKES APRIL 1, Entered ax Second-Ci Post Office, New 4 Matter WN. ¥. PRICE THREE CEN ead ‘MINERS? STRIKE PREMIER ADMITS FAILURE OF PARLEY AS RAILWAYIIEN DECIDE 10 JON COAL STRIK Oil Haas Cope, S Says| | He Hasn’t Met Her b Years, aad | od i} . . HE “LENT” HER A RING,| Lells House of Commons Situation Is a | Even More Grave Than He Had Tore Her Photograph Before} | She Wed as He Didn’t Want | to Bother With Her. | Edgar T. | ator of California, ot n charged with Mrs, W Wallace, the rtoh wil »per- who, by the testi- mony numerous witnesses, has undue intimacy D. was the to-day when the Stokes al was resumed betore Jus- uch in the Supreme Court. who burried Hastward Francisco a8 soon us his was brought into the case, just adjournient three uedium height, bald. He came atter Mrs, Stokes and her Mrs. Miller, had entered and took a seat several chairs removed from her, but quite clove to Hal Billig, another co-respondent in the case. Mrs, Stokes looked much less wern and Ured than when she was in court |three weeks was in furs, a mg coat which quite enveloped hi and a small close-fitting blue velvet Mr, Stokes arrived in a bla Stokes, from |name before in of partly shortly mother, Ww we midday and into court | | ago. She at. Were Destroying England as an Industrial Nation. LONDON, Apri! 7 (Assuciated Press).- waymen to-day unanimously decided to support the coal miners in their strike. | sult immediately with the transport workers’ organization for the purpose of taking the most effective and immediate steps to assist tht miners, | 'Phe executive body of the miners mot in conference, but adjourned | wntil 10 o'clock to-morrow morning, at which time a conference with the railwaymen has been arranged. The representatives of the railwaymen similarly adjourned until to- morrow, Krank Hodges, Secretary of the miners’ union, declared it ap- |peared unlikely there would be any conference to-night of the “Triple Alliance’—the raflwaymen, the transport workers and the miners. ernment with the view to settling the | A complete breakup of the con ferencu between representatives of i ’ coul strike wus announced in the ? House of Conumuns by Premier Lioy¢ |George this afternoon and Great | Britain this afternoon was trembling The National Union of Rall- The executive body of the railwaymen’s union decided to con- the ininers, the owners amd the Gov u on the edge of an industrial precipice INSKILLED MEN ss instead of his usual red one. | 9" 0" fee lua reenei ree, Hp F Vallace h a - . 7 Ith Mr. Wallace came lus attor-|7i4q George declared, came sila eed A ibaa ed by Mr. Wine, | COmseatenes of the refusal of . . Sait Me discal at | Miners’ Fyderation to allow the sul Board Denies Arbitrary| te stated that tie had lived in| ite ty return to work, untit the| REGUCHO Nea a Argue De- | California and Arizona since early In| niners’ condition of a national wage Korlias ‘ }1918, but was in New York in 1914] stom and a national p od /Must Get Rid of of Indictment (a e pri 1 joe and part of both 1916 und eit |bagd been. accepted: ‘The. Premier Hanging Over Him Before ——— He wont to live at No. 13 East 35! . oat ; see Esato eer rarer rast REN added that since it had been mad ieldine for/Gianta CHICAGO, April 7.—Wages of sana € super 19 weap remaine Sl clear the Miners’ Federation would ig. 418 je mon labor on the railroadg of the/@Uring ane ‘a not consider any settlement except on —— country must not be arbitrarily, @ During 1916 poe anaes ae the concession of their demands in| CHICAGO, April 7—Benny Kauff, slashed, the United Staten Raitroad|2". |" lets my in Soul Street? A-|tull, the Government, relying en tho| outfielder for the New York Giants, st seed es, a Dr. Benson wis there as a 2 is so i Labor Board ruled to-day. Both an assistance of the great mass of the) was placed on the ineligible list by people, must take every meins ip its]. z sides of wage controversy must] Q. Did you have a servant? A. sowhe animist ihe eltiation Raseball Commissioner Judge K. M. come before the Board and nt] Yes, Martha Jones 1 Praive ete raphe ae redoration, | Landis to-day thetr evane onda ruling of | Boara| @ Was any meal ever served from | Meee Goowme dee, ed yan tail) Tholtudee held ebatacaufreauld mnt given before a wage cut can become |"? te House in that building to your |e Hermit the pumpers to return! ball while under indictment in effective, it was dec red. Rpartmenet: A Never iin te | would be to relinguish the weapon York on the charge of having rv. The decision was made on the ap- plication of the New York Centr: which asked permission to cut wages of common labor 17 to 31 per cent, retroactive to April 1, without a hear- ing by the Board. Then, ace to the proposal of the New York Cen- cording Q, Do you know Mra Stokes? A. Yes, I met her in the spring of 1916. Her mother and sister were present Q. When did your acquaintance with her terminate? A. In the spring |of 1909. Since then I havo not seen jher nor spoken to her nor bea in |ner company in any way NEVER WAS IN LOVE WITH MRS. tral, if the Board found the cuts were not justifiable, the difference tn pay STOKES, ON WOUIA The auASh UD, On arosd txsiulnetli Me Smyth ‘Twenty-five other trunk lines, in-]MOomed Bt the witness, “Fave you Erase n in love with Mrs. Stokes?" cluding the chief roads and largest a vyers of labor in the country 2 repliod = a that the New York Central] @ Did you ever ask ber to ould etart the case if suc you? A:T don't think #0, 1, wages on these lines would be] @ What do you mean, “you don’t likew reduced, think so? A, That's my way of an If granted, wages of labor would , . ave heen ent from 45 and 481-2 (Continued on eAsond rags) cents an hour to 33 and 35 cents. con Rourd did uot rule a ext m| WOMAN JUMPS ' wan i ju on ie ue of IN FRONT OF TRAIN on jn the cost of living. tts stated it was atithoriaud under IN THE SUBWAY “ungportation Act, to gut wiyges - only after both sides had had an op- | Taken to Hospital Wih Little portunity Lop thelr cases ata < ; k a Chance for Life—Ring Had | The board Aprtt 18 ne the date | Initials §;" on which the heariag of the applica After wandering about the 149th tion of the New York Centr and the | street uptown subway atat for sther arriers to reduce wager of | titteen minutes to-day a ¥ n about common labor wil be held Jtwenty-fve years old leu to the hours’ oral pres on ¢ cise | Atter abe landed the woman appar as wil ra aM ides | antly 10: nerve 4 tried t however, are allowed to present briefs yut of the tris path, bu and writgen testimony. ‘This must be Inte and the train struct ni fie before the bound by April 40. = iM owas taken to Li BOWIE RESULTS. ru 1 skull an Hae -CIatminy hance to rouy viens (Racing Enwieo on Page 5) Under the najor Ted | with which the miners hoped to bring| © Ja stolen automobile. the Government and the regulations of the to a apeedy acceptance of their terms, | man may play on mine owners rues no a team while under Amidst cheers from the Govern: | indictment for a crime, ment benches the Premier declared] Continuing, Judge Landis's decision that the {asue raised was much wider| Said: “Of course, the mere return of |than that of what wages should be| an indictment does not imply guilt | paid. ‘The Government, he said, had| But indictment does imply, tn ways kept an open mind on the| the judgment of the Grand Jurors question of wages and was prepared | there Is probable cause to believe the accused guilty, An Indictment charg: ing felonious misconduct by a player to use {ts good offices in reaching a solution. He regretted extremely that | | the miners had taken so grave a de- | certainly charges conduct detrimental | cision, involving injury and misery| to the good repute of baseball, ‘The \to their fellow citizens throughout| Mere presence of euch a player in the | the country as well as to themselves, | line-up would be unjust to the othe Tho Prime Minister's speech was| players, #0 to th followed by a general debate in which| basaball p |g. R. Clynes, Chairman of the Parlia-| se8tive of | mentary Libor Purty, and othors| emental morality on ‘ | - those charged with protecting the | (Continued on Second Page) | geod repute of the gume that it us an obvious impoas! Kauff was ini Benny od } 19, 1920, on 4 cha fg | ceny in the first degree in connection “ rf ” } | with th Jispomal of a car aimed by Exceptional Results” |i) sames F rennan ot No. 708 Wes u || End Avenue. SELL 28 HOUSES || ond was held in $1,000 bail, The cass |! was buried im the court calendar and <= | ning was done about it until WILLIAMSON @ KAEPYRIL ) 17 of this year jen the 1) ret WRAL ATR rney requested Judge Mulqueen t GT is area Brooklyn, N.Y, | & the ‘ rete rn fooling Aye A Avan } that just frerdy tebal, | 1 Judge M Vue a for ent clans ol on March 1 une t Dis Ns Yours vere truly 7 tae twee nek ready when it will be reached again. Believed—Warned Miners They, | think it's a regular yearly phenomena | SAY M.D. GAVE 33 PRESCRIPTIONS AS CHRISTMAS GIFTS Dry Agents Declare Dr. Do' ald McCaskey Got Whiskey for Friends. a ONE MAN _HAD COLIC. IIness During Holidays Regu- lar Phenomena Due to Sea- son, Says Physician. | | Dr. Donald MoCaskey, No. 4 Wost | sath Street, appeared to-day ty the | office of Prohibition Di R. O'Connor to show cause why his ector Charles | permit to preseribe liquors as a phy- sician should not be revoked. Judges BE. B. Holmes and H. Shove of Mr. O'Connor's = office resided at the ved this city last June, “trial,” as Dr. Mot At the conclusion, Juds | nounced a verdict would bo returned sons, plaves as soon as the stenographer’ tinishod | re transcribing the testimony, probably | talk with Harris in an effort to lear within two days. Dr. MoCaskey, who was rot nlac |. under outh, startled his augiters by | ig. admitting that list Dé proscriptions, euch calling for a pint of whiskey, to thirty-three employees: ie gave , |i his story or whether it will fall to a Se Ee HARRIS UNSHAKEN of tle Plaza Hotel It was charged by Prohibition inspectors who in- vestigated that these preseriptions c were given as Chrfstmas presents or tips. - Q. (By: Judge Holmes) Is {1 true you guve these prescriptions iristmas gifts? A. wil) neither atten nor deny it, Q. Ian't jt odd that thirty-three le rsons should get sick in the sume plage just a day or two before Christ A. No. Just before Christmas | IMPress N opportune time to be sick, 1 torney- mas? i“ Alienist due to the season. Dr. MeCaskey three Were examinations with hia vou Hie couldn't recall scribed anything to liquor, except said al the He were thirty his patient seule th eyes his} | The Prete | ¥., Arr (ometal BUFFALO, ing a three District at of iad Judy had mM that pre- r them in addition vUNSE) and udviee. ney Guy Re Work " hour examinatior bt |that Roy Harris's confession of par Mc ieves Him Mentally Sound. od Fonow in to-day vores ase Soine of the prescriptions, tie doctor] MPation in the murder of foscph teatifled, bad been left with the poy| B Blwell in New York last June at the cigar stand in the Plaga Hotel) M8 Unshaken. Mr Moore examined! sis | Harris at the request of former Gov Judge Holmes read from a ust of| WhHinan. Dr. James W. Putnam, an Gharsen (prcuusad Gy iksoveteiw | alientst, who listened to the cross. Lockey and H. 8. Wilpers, These in- exumination of the prisoner, said cluded an accusution that Dr. Me | Harris ecomed w be ail right men Cankey had! -iamued. us many. as five| Oe prescriptions, each fora pint of whis | Harris claimed that he was one of hey to one patient withiy ten dave, |tW2 MeN hired to kill Hrwell for $5,000 This Dr, McCauskey admitted. He w eat APRS OY A won nan vale admitted that he had issued two pre- | CMG” Harris in alac known a G. E |B. Leonard and Carlin. Last otght seriptions in day to the same tient. (The law limita presertpuions to he ed a confession at the | Street Station t of his part in one pint in ten days.) Il Gemeente ae abe S armani He named Bill Dunkin, a friend, as 4 the man wh fired th ctoal shot ranging from Riverside Drive to Fifth) which caused Elwe death, He ts and Park Avenues and the Hotel peing held while the New York Po- Netherlands, One liquor preseription,| ties Chief bas becn asked to send a the doctor admitted, was made out for) man here hix own wife | Harris's wife, who was with him Various ailments were mentioned) when he was arrested yestenday af on the stubs in the doctors preserip-|ternoon by Acting C Timothy tion book, but the one that called Murray and Detectives Fred Howell for a quart of whiskey, tWo preserip-jand William J. Miyna, ts being held tions for a pint each on the same. by the police whil y work on the day, Was aseribed to a patient onc She is but twenty years old She married Harris in St. Catharine's, (Continued on Second Page.) Ont, in 116 under the name of G. 1. : a, 2 B. Leonard GERMANY TO OFFER The police have established the fact RECONSTRUCTION to their Action that Harris was in New York City at the tin of the murder His wite left him in Sym >, . rie ay q ouse on July %, 1920, Almost a month Prope: in New No to Send the murder was committed Labor and Material Harris was arrested yesterday on Northern France a charge of forgery, They say that nearly a year and a half ago, while wtherine's he pas ot t eb ko an Leo Wrich horities on both side hich sitice sterday the police a aificinily, tavahy al fay Wham ches: Ore ae Carlin” of London, Ont a bogus at city s of the for that the wking had of “C and that he | (Cuntinued on Second Page) At-! him | heard he | eo Hotel ROY HARRIS IN CONFESSING TO KILLING ELWELL MAKES STATEMENTS THAT CONFLICT ‘Harris Known in Bridgeport Had a Pal Named Dunkin There—Both Had BeenViolatorsof Law—Harris Describes “Mrs. Fairchild’—He Sticks to His Story in Buffalo, Every available detective in the New York Police Department was | put to werk to-day to learn what truth, if any, was in the amazing story told by Roy Harris, twenty-thre ‘ar-old son of respectable Bridgeport, | Conn, parents, of his share in the murder of Joseph Bowne Elwell in | Detective Henry Oswald, who is particularly familiar with the per- and events of the Elwell murder, is on his way to Buffalo to n whether there is anything of truth pieces under well«informed question- At The same time 4 special measen- ser ls bringing te the police here a complete set of the fingerprints, Nertillon measurements and photos, srapbs of Harris, These will be coms fired with the scorey of- finger- oriute taken Ln and about Elwell’ home at the time of the murder and wid be used in learning whethem Narriv bas had criminal associations. According W the story of Harris he jwae uteked up with a friend, “Bint |Dunkin, a few days before the nurs ‘ler, by « ohantfour, a frequented of White light district resorts, known to him only as “Jerry.” This man took Mra, Puirchild,” who pror jied Gin wad hin friend Dunkin $5,0) te murder oll, paying $50 in ad= oo wnt $450 the <lay after the mure v. atier (ha two bad carried out im | detail hor plans, which abe said were Mel ON raparts of splos she had fol- |lowing Kiwell, He said Dunkin actu. Ally kettle Elwell, Nothing tn the records of the Eiwell eas contains any trace of resem= Dhanee tiarris story. Nona of the mass of clues mulled ever by the deicetives Jagt summer concerned a Mos. irehild,” Haris, Dundan or “Jerry,” or any persons to whom their might apply, police records xbow that Dunkin” of Dating, Tex, there to the Cheshire Reformatory for theft in December, iy. ONLY DISCHARGED FROM cus- TODY TO-DAY. bim wu * bo the deseriptions | Bridgeport 4 "William sentenced According to information reesived from Bridgeport by former Gay, Whitinan, who, as Special Assistant | District Attorney investigating afs Hieial wrongdoing, took over the Kiwell case 1 “William Dunkin" discharged from the reformatory at Cheshire ouly to-day. however, was actually em ployed in this city at the time Elwell wis shot co death, Detoctives to-day verified Me story of haying been em- ployed as an elevator man at No. 388 Fifth Avenue at that time. But | though he said he was employed there was Harris, for only a few weeks and left soom after the investigation of the Elwell murder reached its height in late June, the duilding records show tha® was employed April 17 and left |July 17, at @ time when Interest ty murder had so died down that instant District Attorneys were in? two interviews a weet telling of their certainty that the murderer would be under arres® “within twenty-four hours.” Strangely ¢ Mrs. Elwell, whe had been estranged from the whist Jexpert for years, had occupied am co for her decorating and whist ine letruction business at No. 366 Pifth Avenue unt) she sub-let it In 1919 | to a rug merchant and moved out, Harris was knowa in the neighbors | As suing only ough, fis 2 \ oie ial tcc a ete. aba a | ' '