The evening world. Newspaper, April 23, 1921, Page 1

ore orcas RAT NEW OFFER BY GERMANY THROUGH U. S:: BERLIN CABINET LIKEL To- Night's Weather—CLEARING. ‘THE: yen WALL ST. TABLES. [ATEST EXTRA VOL. LXI. NO. 21,722—DAILY. Copyright, 1921, Co (The DELANEY WILL NOT GIVE UP TO MILLERS TRANSIT BOARD: HOLDS ON TO OFFICIAL DATA > Will Not Yield Papers Until) Courts Decide on Legality of New Appointments. 6 HOME BREW, KICKLESS, BLOWS UP IN COURT HYLAN'S ORDER OBEYED Was Displaying It as — { Stuff When— 4sovernor’s Action i Super- Bang! seding City Control Held by | b®ay ESWORTS. atin Apri tt Mayor Unconstitutional. W Coppersmith in court on a charge of manufacturing Tie ty's tg hi M home w, B, FB. Enders picked Transit hich was ine] UP a bottle as he questioned a wit i . , | Ress. Sr eraten MOREE, Senet! “Would you call this"— O'Brien a ' according | the attorney toa nt made to-day by Dep- He was interrupted by « loud wy cs ion Commis- report. Flying glass from the sooner Daniel J. Ryan, speaking for| bottle cut an artery in his wrist ? chief, John H. Delaney, who was | and broke a lens of his glasses. ‘The defense had entered the wat of the city trial with the contention that the Mr. Ryan said: “Commissioner De-! beverage did not contain enough “kick” to come within the State bone-dry law Janey will comply with the suggestions 4 Corporation Counsel O'Brien's letter ad all contracts and other legal and sion of the 'ran- 10 MORE VICTIMS wit ve, SUFFERING FROM ssioner Delaney un | N. J. POISON GAS cia) data in po! Construction ot retained py ¢ Commission be tit ele lica sit) questions involyed shat! be by the courts,” t is valedictory day for the old| Man Who Sounded Alarm in Bound Public Service Co ion and in the 4 : i Sasiis nese See Waaate Brook Dies From Leaking hearing room of its headquar- ters at No. 49 Lutayette Sireet the | Puinies. furewell exercises were conducted.| ron victima of the leak of phoagen Cuairman Alfred M, Barrett officiated, fe ie cUtnaay {| #48 from the big tank of Hemingw snd with him in words of thanks and! 6 6, near Bound Brook, N. Js yes mila lea nication that the| Efi Pullman, died late yesterda The others are expected to recover, though it is suid they will be in dan- |ger of tubercular developments for o!d Commission would go out of ex- istence on Monday Another Jay in the fact that the s of the de partment have to the| #¢veral months. Biate to| Besides Pullman those who suffered Worl |from the gas are Dr. J. T. Leahy, The letter which Mr. O'Brien wrote| Plant physician; Dr, Benjamin Bor- Mr. Delaney in opening the war|fW his assistant; Harold Saunders, the Miller Transit Commission| former chief chemist at the Heming- in part |way plant; Michael Pascall, driver “As you know a bill has passed the | {°F Saunders; Peter Wirdel and John ‘Legislature and received the aunction | Heseny, who were working at the big of the Governor purporting to ap-|‘@"* with Fullman when the point a Transit Commission with ju: | 8 discovered; Charles Jansen: Cit risdiction over the matters and things |/’#trolman Charles Bohler, who came oncerning which you have acted in|‘? the assistance of plant physicians; the past. This Transit Commission | Peter Koecblin and award Novak. apparently, made your offictal|!! except three are employees of the puccessor and ‘undoubtedly upon the |Sierwin-Williams Paint Company, appointment of the commission by the | ¥Dch purchased all the property of been certified mmisi oe on Civil 26, Monday to on (Governor, demand will be made upon RvoEner & Co, except the gas ks, papers, records, | “0% on 262) eee yeas, rere Dr, Leahy to-day attributed the @oouments, muniments of title and other property of the City of New {York or relating to the traction com- death of Pullman and the injury of several others to an open door of the emergency room where he and Dr. Borrow were working on the vic- tims, Jensen, who had been out for Wirdel, entered the em- ergency roo mand forgot to close the door, according to Dr, Leahy. Though the emergency room is 300 | feet from the tank, a sudden shift of wind filled it with the poisonous fumes and six men were o Continued on | looking Advertising Copy Earlier Than Usual ercome, They were loaded in an automobile |and taken to places of safety On Account of the Fullman, who had been resuse . . tated after his first heavy doxe of gas at the tank, was one of those Daylight Saving | |/cr sii ish wes se oF en |He died later at the Somerset Hos- which goes into effect pital . Fullman had turned in the first call To-Morrow Morning |) tor medical aid ana the first warn- ng, Dr. Leahy said. As ™ escaped from the gas area Classified called e telefkone operator and told er to not Dr. Leahy, though at Advertising Copy Seveoult Bandiy thin a aay tale for the WARD LINER IN DISTRESS. freight teamer Fa by wire Must Be In a ans The World Office To-D; Hie One Hour Earlier re Than Last Saturday nad bolle, troubl istance front. Ke nam, which le The New Orleans Marci, put In et Bermuds for yepaire. The Press Publishing New York World). i “3B. ON TO-MORROM aenipaeas So Turn Your Clocks Ahead an Hour To-Night, and Don’t | Miss Train. ‘COURTS ON NEW TIME. Railroads on Old Standard, | but Commuters’ Trans Will Run on Revised Rule. | To-night 1s the night to tum the Those who do before going to bed will clock one hour ahead jit wake up |to-morrow morning in accordance with the daylight saving system which has | deen adopted by Now York City and | many New York and towns, as well as in the commuting other elties |distance towns of New Jersey and Connecticut. Chicago, Milwaukee, Louisville, Pitts- burgh and other Western cities bave already turned their clocks ahead. And bills are pending in Congress to make daylight saving uniform in the Middle and Eastern States. The official hour for the beginning jot daylight saving here ts 2 A. M. |to-morrow, when the municipal clocks will be turned. Privi clocks will be turned ahead at various bedtimes. Railroad clocks will continue 9 show stundard Eastern time, but |train schedules for commu.ers will be arranged in conformity with 4 ‘Neht savi | Following fs « list of the New York cities that’ have adopted daylight sav- ing: New York, Buffalo, Amsterdam, Albany, Watervliet, N'vgara Fall, Syracuse, Oswego, Newburgh, | Rochelle, White Plains, Poughkeep- sie, Yonkers, Mount Vernon, Gien Cove, Kingston, Glens Falle, Glover-- ville, Hue 1, Troy, Cohoes, Sch — >= tady, Rensselaer, Peekskill, Port J bany, has given notice that all courts and public offices in cities where daylight saving has been adopted will conform to the new schedules, JE ee BELGIAN PAPERS STOLEN ON STEAMER Addressed to Ambassador at Wash- ington—Disappear From Ship's Strong Box. BALTIMORE, Md, April ing the disappearance of three pack- ets of correspondence directed to the Belgian Ambassador at Washington, which officers of the steamship Ner- vier reported stolen from ite strong box. The papers are believed to have been stolen by German agents. Announcement of the merger of the Merchants National Bank of Balti- more and the National Bank of Com- AYLIGHT SAVING STEVENS TOLD WIE vis, Cortland, Lackawanna, ~oches- ter, © vga Springs, Mech: ‘>avill:, Vatortown, Geneva, Tonawanda | North ‘Tonawanda, Green Island, | Plattsburg, South Nyack and Mtlea, Attorney General Newton, at Al- 23.—| | Secret Service agents are investigat- YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, TO COLLAPSE 19 To-Morrow’s Weather—FAIR, 21. ‘Circulation Books Open to AL ] - PRICE THREE CENTS Entered as Second-Olasn Matter Pest Office, New York, N. ¥. THERE WAS NO WILL, SHE ANNOUNCES _— “Want Everything to Go to ; Family—to You,” Recluse Is | Reported as Saying. 'SEARCH SHIFTS TO N. J. | His New York Office and Hall Room in Hoboken Searched From Top to Bottom. | | C. Amory Stevens, Honaire cluse of Broad Street, death March m re since whose 20 there has been a thorough search for a told his wife a year mM Hospital, an intimate friend of the family, that possible will, when he was in Trinity according to he had made no will. “[ want everything to go to my mily," Mr. Stevens is quoted as saying. “All my personal property, in fact everything I have, goes to you. You will have to look out for lawyers and doctors and never put anything In their power.” | | Mr, Stevens, according to this friend, practiced this and never made Jan entire confidant of any one mem- ber of the legal profession. He em-| ployed five lawyers so none of ther! would know al! his business affairs. | He was a man who was slow to! take any action that might prove ‘final, the friend continued, and al-| ways delayed the performance of im- | | portant business, He expected to live | until he was ninety-five and planned | jonce to retire before then and travel | around the world with his daughter These thoughts, the friend ‘ent on, and the fact that prior to his deach he was engaged on an invention which he expected to revolutionize | mining and for which he refused an offer of $60,000, it Is believed, caused | him to delay making a will, if he ever | intended making one. His eccentricity, it was said, fol- lowed two operations he underwent |twelve years ago. He became ner- vous, sometimes irritable and at) times easily alarmed about his| |health, Lawyers then advised Mre. Stevens to ask her husband to make a will, but she refused because she feared the suggestion would have} harmful effects. Mr, Stevens's estate, this friend, was in such a condition that his family hurdly it} necessary for him to make a wil.| Although Its value has been variously estimated from $1,000,000 to $15,001 000, it is composed largely of unde | oped and unproductive mines and real lestate and little valuable personal | |property on which « legatee could realize anything immediately Mrs. Stevens remained in | according to considered retire- ment to-day at her home, No. 8765 Hay 27th Street, Bensonhurst. Search for the will shifted to New Jersey, owing to the declaration of Mr, Ste vens’ physician that the millionaire told him he had made one, The dingy office at No, 39 Broad Street, where Mr. Stevens w a, has been turned upside down. A room he rented it at $12 a week a year ago, merce, with combined resources of ae ony se is ers more than $52,000,000, was made ye bd Ase a ee terday. Thomas Hildt of New York, **atehed * ae ; formerly of this city, was elected William R. Pagan, of No. 1 West s0th Street, the father of Richard Fu President — gan, the Dartmouth student who $5,000 SUIT OVER A BEAN. (Continued on Second Page.) | Plaiotiffs Lost One Action—Fatled = — to Prove Who Owned 1 NICARAGUA QUITS HAMILTON, Ont, April 23.—Owner snip of a bean of the ordinary garden| LEAGUE OF NATIONS) variety to-day furnished the basis of ~ ~ ‘. 1 $5,000 law suit in the Assizes Court | Soulh American Government Find | Expense of Representation The suit wae br t by William and " i} Isabella McDougal! Too Heavy for compensation for Injuries suffered} MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April 23 by Mrs, Gilbert wh ne slipped aragua given up {ts membership bea ront of defendant's, in the League of Nations, thin step be a ve le murke nearly @ ing due tot expense attaching to th: ar ag holding of @ place tn that organization The p ’ “ Owe Announcement that the Government court because of lack of evi was considering withdrawal was maJe BicDoupa owned the beam syne Ume ago, ELOPING DAUGHTER OF RECLUSE WHOSE | WILL IS MISSING » RICHARD FAGA HAS AS WIVES IN ONE FLATIN BROOKLYN TWO WOMEN ee BANKERS FAVORED. CERMIAN NOTE SENT TO U. S ncn og. MTH NEW NOEMAITY OFFER vowwae «wn ws ULTIMATUM ON GOLD FAILS Hoped Compromise Might | Be Effected. | Norep treaty Berlin Does Not Comply With Al- lies’ Demand, but Offers to Pro- hibit Export of the Metal Before Oct. 1—Latest Proposals Submit- | ALLIES IG |Endeavored to Fix Indemnity Without United States Be- | ing Represented. By David Lawrence. ted to Party Leaders. | (Special Correspondent of The Eve- \ ning World.) WASHINGTON, April right, ).—Germany's effort the United States to say what amount LONDON, April 23.—Germany has sent to Washington a reply io the American note rejecting the role of arbitrator of the reparation question between Germany and the Allies, says a)Central News despatch trom Berlin, The terms of the note were not divulged up to the time it was despitched at noon to-day, and its contents will not be made known until jater in the day. s Leading politicians are declared to have been angry because mem- bers of the Cabinet did not consult them before the original communica- tion was sent to the American capital. | Accor.'ing to one report from Berlin, the new proposals include an in- \crease ‘n the cash payments offered, a better plan for reconstruction in | France and some form of international credit. iy ane % (Copy- io get would be fair and just as a var in demnity was not altogether of Ger- man origin, for there is good reason to believe that in countries other than | France the has the would be able to find a compromise banking community hoped American Government between the extreme views of Fvhnce jand Germany. But President Harding and Secre- tary Hughes turned down the Ger- PARIS, April 23 (Associated Preas). man request for arbitration for an! —Consideration of the German Goy- —~<~— entirely different set of reasons. It GERMAN CABINET ernment’s note to the United States is true that the American attitu was completed at a meeting of the One Belgian, One French, | toward reparations iy that the amount |» German Cabinet last night, saya @ y 4 4 aT first fixed was too inuch of a burden message received here from Berlin. They Talk by Knocking |" Gestroyed the Incentive. of the| Party leaders later met with Kon- Wood—Ruys Is Arrested. Germans to work hurd enough vo pay | Stantine Fehrenbach, the Chancellor, = their bills, Yet back of any prop male | to hear a report from Dr. Walter Antoine Ruyts, a Belgian, ns deen {ton which Introduces American argu- | N T | guia abibents en eee dace 1 “ i \ three. |MENt or suggestion is the greater BRAG SIE ROIDIORT OR Lhe) Ore wo: wives, one. ¥ 4 ©: a8 ee ae the Indaiaaity paea | — Germany instead of either agreeing : | ne United States had agreed to | eee ler caunlng te teator (se eens Frenen, according 10 officials of the jarbimiraie, the American Govern-| Foreign Minister Simons At-| gic ur the stearate re Brooklyn society for the prevention [ment might Mave been placed im a] 1 yp aay Sal teat tho eeeene Aw of cruelty to children, at No. 105 | Position of being molly required to acked Because Leaders sey Ne Be ads be Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn, The Seige oe Penh aae tna Were Not Consulted. | demanded, has offered to agree not to Belgian wife talks only Flemish, It|debts to the United States, ‘This, = = | export or permit the exportation of was said, and the other only French, | American public opinion has evi- BERLIN, April 23—A Cabinet) old from Germuny before Oct, 2 and they communicate with each |dently looked upon us a makeshift of crisis appears imminent here as a re-| Next other by a system of knooks on wood, | doubtful value because when the first | sult of the discontent aroused by the|, Germany's note in reply to the Ruyts, who is forty-five years old, | suggestion about it was made, Wush-! Government's failure to consult the Reparations Commission, delivered to '9 an ornamental tronworker at im|ington showed a marked coolness | jteichstag before aking President | ‘2° Gomi lesion: to-day, i) which yeas establishment at Long Island City.|toward that idea as well as any| Harding to mediate between Ger-| oer 's tendered. anys her proffered He was held in $1,009 bait in the Fifth |other which would tend to depreci-|many and the Allies. ‘The position of | eT ment Would adequately protect Avenue Court, Brooklyn, to-day, on|ate the value of America’s foreign| pr, Waiter Simons, Forcign Minister, | {0° Allies. who bad demanded . the 4 charge of bigamy, on short affida- | loans. lis ; "/ERDACRE TGR Ne: U0 SepOHI Salem % particularly imperiled. : ‘i vita sworn out by Brooklyn police |CABINET FOR REJECTING ANY) ‘Thu Cabinet Ministers, despite ait-| S7aPh of Article 248 of the ‘Freaty of detectives CANCELLATION FLAN, | screncea cf ‘opininh: reached’ an ine| Vecmeriee, Woaune: she SRigeee On complaints made by neighbors,| ‘The Harding Adminivtration officially | qerstanding shortly before midnight,| CO", Of Seid: Pecomes inoperative the Brooklyn Goclety for the Proven-| terms these loans wa “a most valued| which was presented to the party| ety | Bs . tion of Cruelty io Children sent asset,” and at a recent Cvbinet Meet-| leaders for approval ree note wns signed by Dr. vou neo McKiernan, an agent of the so-|ing, the decision was unanimous for| while the details of the agreement | O°rZe™ for the War, Burdens Com- ciety, to investigate, He was accom. | rejecting any schemes of cancellation | clonely guarded, It was [earned eee et ate ant eouta panied by Mrs, Paula -Golnick, thelr|elthor in whole or in part. | authoritatively that the proposals] (NU¥a! Of 1h Wank's eld woe Investigator, it wan said at the of-| Of course, the entire question of! will be presented to the United States | 2° SHERRER EC SA REREH faster a fiers of the society to-day elgn indebtedness has always had a| for transmission to the Allies, in con-| ("20s and furthermore that the gold Ruyts was living in Antwerk in|direct bearing on what amounts of|formity with Secretary Hughe RErve WAR OOO) BIR, Meera 1916, according to the story told by|money the Allies could collect trom! offer. Sontrol of te) Alnlstry Of SipRmeae McKiernan, with his wife, Charlotte,| Germany, but every effort to transfer| ‘That Germany will make better | [US Was Private Labels forty-five years old, and two daugh-|British or Krench obligations to the |offers in her new proposals was re-| \ The trenater, “he india: Son taaees ters, one now thirteen and the other| backs of the Germans who are already | garded as baving been clearly demon. | YCUld pet serve as a Buarantee for Aftern years old, The Germans or-|overioaded with debt han been offi-| atrated in Foreign Minister Simons's FORRFAUOHS.(PRYMIRAIR: 888g dered Ruyts to work for them and he] ciully squelolied whether presented to hi befbne thie telshiatag Voalers | eee et eee cer eek nee fied to Paris, where he met Mme.|the United es formal! nfor- | day, in which he declared the Precialon: ihn exChARSE® STOW Re aRE Marie Plerre-Labar, ah mally through diplomat | ment must “go to the extreme ! a niece? ad widow of forty-eight. ‘The pair | channel | whut the German people can furnish | "7S Webnen’ng O° lserma together in Paris until January, 1920, ‘The decision of the Harding ad-, ee ay of a ratlone ” ees a a il pei Le oT when they came to America, accord After approval by the party leaders | pave ty Mister dememdedan § «ie, ing to the story told b: Brooklyn (Continued on Si hye: Deen golnk (On for sone MARES ond Page.) the counter proposals were to be read] hetween th societs | ——— lis tha Wteledatag andsltswanexpantad|igew ema acaietioctt wane ame oe STILL BLOWS UP, |they would te made public by 8 e'clock| qught to be dune to collect repatar WALDORF RE-SIGNS | 39 FAMILIES ROUTED ''!s #!terncen tions from Germany will be éont OSCAR AT $50,000! = Discussing the American note, Jo-| tinued here lave to-day by Prime Min= , | Janitor After Explosion Admits, Po. | 248" von Hernatorff, former German | ister Lloyd George and Premise Ambassador to the United Briand, ‘The two statesmen wilt Ten-Year Contract, Totalli lice Say, He Had Home declared that “the situation is| meet at the villa of Sir Philip Sas- (000, Makes Tschirk Brew Plant rreatly linproved,” pointing out that} soon, where they have held confer- President Harding had refused | ences in the past Paid Maitre d’Hotel, SS te tae eng rm arbitrate the question of repara-| ‘The French plan ie, broadly, a Roy Carruthers, Manager: Director ne ms ory pene house rear ons he had offered t »pportunity | project for administration and taxing of the Waldorf-Astoria ior | erraels ci anhiothemanomteninte aus mediation for the benefit of the Allies the Ruhr nounced yesterday that he had signed | oy) yy y nnd moat af the|.,“the situation sol oa! basin and some parts of the a contract with Oscar for a period 1 hae Gaeteb gen Shen brea nce ong economi lines, Wentphallan Industria district of ten years at a fee sald to involve a ¢ many, wes red to bt the remnants of vail in certain American and Ger general plan to be f wed, but 1s Oscar Tschirky joined the Wat- : yea mitelee Meee tiation will | Was Suid they wished to have a com- dorf on its opening night, March 9, : Age the German proposals | plete understanding of what was to 1893. The story of how he rose to BEOr remen. Roche In that event, he} pe done early in May, if in the inter~ me and wealth through the tips of Of Street Rtutigg. arrested would hardly dare) vat the German Government does nor Wall Street men ts too well known gull he wa ng blew up Inerican suggestion | Submit acceptable proposals, for repeating. Gre did Litie damuge, A bow German proposal is expected os 4 1 | 4 7 puss eS \,