The evening world. Newspaper, May 5, 1921, Page 1

“VOL. i XI. — U.S. HALTS EFF Se Davis R Meetings With Union Leavers Have Abandone BENSON IN CONFERENCE eports Admiral Called ( bling ni Block to Settlement of Trouble. + Stum- WASHINGTON. Ma @entatives of marine vy to meet to- to continue conference settlement of the troversy which has resulted in crews craft ef some American merchant walking out. Mr. Davis said to-day’s conference would not be held, and he did not know if the meetings would be ro- eumed. Government apr ently had abandoned hepe that the controversy could be settled at time by Federal! mediation “As ta as the union owners are 6 conces- sions. Our men ton for the port eigned to The que the one on far apart, A of the Uni and t! to offer per cent ers so far mination to ance of the 5 Shippir whers refu opt 4 e private sh any To keep in touc on Secretary s he Atlantic, Pa fc and Gulf Joint Coun- cil of the National Marine Engineers’ Benefiolal Association, headed by W & Brown, President of the associa- tion, and T. B. Healy, Chairman of the council. Healy declared that the situation was “very satisfactory” from the standpoint of the men, while Brown said no concessions would be made by the men in the way of ac- cepting wage reductions, “Give us a few more days “and all American shippi tled up. The men are coming off the ships at every port.” Brown also said there would be no move to call a strik ong harbor tugboat men “unless there is an effort to compel the men to move ships whose Crews have refused to Cc cuts.” STRIKE TO FINISH BEGINS HERE; SHIP TIE-UP CONTINUES Two Liners Sail To-Day Under New Agreements—Many Boats Still at Piers, Word reached the offices of the Shipping Board here to-day from Washington that Secretary of Labor Davis and Secretary of Commerce Hoover had called Admiral Benson, Chairman of the Shipping Board, in what may be a final effort to end the ship strike. The United States Mail Lit steamer Potomac, on which the unions mad their bigeest fight to prevent sail delaying her depar- ture since Tuesday, poon for Danzig and Bremen, with a} full crew under the new scale and 4 without any disturbance. _ OMiclals of the American Associa~ { i (Continued on Fourth Page.) NO, 21,732-—-DAILY. 9" copyrixt ORTS 10 END SHIP STRIKE BY MEDIATION; HGHT TO FINISH IS BEGUN ‘BRIDE SAVES GEMS _-APTER HOT CHASE OF TWO ROBBERS {Pursues for Two Blocks and ,| Attacks Bandits Who Seized Her Wedding Jew elry. Tnspired by the fear that she would ‘ose her wedding jewelry which had } been Mra. ide, atched from her by two men, Lena Langetta, a 21-year-old chased the thieves for two b ocks through crowded Harlem streets to-day, grabbed them and wes giving j them a violent assorted beating when |they were arrested Patrolman Joseph Zech of the East One hundred jand Twenty-sixth Strect Station, The men accused by Mrs. Langetta are Alexian McDonald No, 77 by of ast 124th Stre 4 in Harter each to a Jury Langetta was in the rear of rs grocery store at No, 420 120th Street when McDonald Hogan entered. McDonald bbed her handbag, containing two d watches, They were | 1 Police Court In $2,500 await the action of the a diamond necklace and con- other valuable jewelry she had left on the counter. 1en ran through 120th Street easant Avenue and turned south in that thoroughfare with Mrs, Lan- after them. She caught them Stree! dbas was found on McDon- the contents inta‘ ald with RUSE RESULTED IN DEATH OF 8 Irishman’s Body Placed in Road Where Police Ambush Was Planned. DUBLIN, May —The tiling of a sergeant and se constables who were ambushed Wednesday near Rath- more, County Kerry, it was ofMctally stated to-day, was caused by a ruse employed by publican forces who killed a man n ullivan, 80 years old, placed the b the road and then telephoned to pollce to re cover It e police patrol sont to get the body was attacked by the Republicans, the statement sald, The body of Sulllyan bore a label designating him as a spy nd Informer, which the authorities de- clare Was untru Sullivan received @ small war office pension for the loss of a son, killed In t Seeeneceelie=— DE VALERA MEETS Irish Republican Discusses Affairs of the Country With Sir James Craig. BELFAST, May 5.—The Belfast Telegraph says to-day that Sir James Craig, the Ulster Unionist leader, and Eamonn de Valera, the Irish Republl- can Neader, had an interview to-day tn Dublin and discussed Irish affairs. Sir James has called a gpectal meeting of he Ulster Party in Belfast to-m | to discuss the situation, | adds. DUBLIN, May 5. James Craig and Prof, De Valera to. day is regarded here as of great portance, in view of Prof. De Valera's roclamation to the Irish this week, in whioh he nh, oopte cary vision for such change In the adminis- trwtion of affairs as to make for satis- faction | and contentment, Sir James a ew xpress wish’ the republican leader, *. ora arrow the newspaper ‘The meeting “ East 110th Street and John Hogan of | a diamond engagement | ULSTER LEADER| (The New York World). PRISCILLA CRASHES AN FEET INTO PIER: FALSE SIGNAL GIVEN Fall River Liner er Liner Was ing in Answer to My terious Order. CAPTAIN INVESTIGATING | Says He Didn’t Give Signal— Passengers Badly Shaken Up and Breakfasts Ruined. HY o'clock The steamship Priscilla of the F: River Line, arriving at 7.15 Boston and headed for Pier 14, North River, crashed bow on into Pier 17 of the New York Central Rallroad at the foot of Park Place. The roof of the pier was torn away and the force of the Priscillu’s speed cut a wide wedge for # depth of forty feet into the pier structure. George Rowland, who wason the bridge, said he had just siven or- ders for the boat to stop preparatory to ordering the ship to its own pier, Suddenly, he seit, it forged ahead. this morning from passengers aboard, “Something went amiss some- where,” he sald. “I do not know where, I had given no signal from jthe bridge to the engine room to go | Most of the passengers were their berths, but 100 were in the main dining saloon ut breakfast. The force of the ship's tmpact against the pier threw some to the cabin {noors and red dishes of diners i heir laps, Women in their nightclothes crowded to the decks to learn the cnuse of the troubie, but seeing they were near a plier kert in Ive-inch water main on the pier was smashed and a deluge of water covered packing cases stored Jthere. The Priscilla was undamaged except for a hole in the woodwork above the deoks where it struck the pier roof. She was able to reverse into the stream on her own power. Capt. Rowland, who has been with the Fall River Line for thirty years, said be has started an investigation of the mishap. “here are several places on the ship from which orders could have been sent to the engine room, and someone may have done tt for devil- try,” he said. ‘The Fall River Line ts not affected by the marine strike. “Phere was no one on the pler eXorpt Joseph O'Brien, a special policeman employed by the New York Central, He was showered with debris, but was uninjured, The Priscilla expects to leave on schedule at five o’clock on its return trip to Boston. STOPPED HONORS AS THE REAL HERO IS IN AN ASYLUM Just as Officiais Were Body a Military Funeral, Queer Mistake Is Revealed. Give to TER, body wore Mass. May 6. ITH & marked as W that of Carl Wilhelm Lemt of this city, a member of the a0ist Ammunition Train, who was killed in action in France in No mber, 1918, on ite y to Worcester for burial, Lem- has been found in the Hospital for Insane ans for the mil- intended for the deud to-day by the Red Cross and city officia berg, alive, Connecticut at Norwich, < itary fun! soldier we listed inco- that it had @ patient Lemberg who talked pital as herently about his home in Worces: ter. John Lampliner of Green- dale Aveneu, with whom Lemberg lived before he entered the ser- vice, went to Norwich and word was received from him to-day that the patient Is the former Yorcester Man supposed to be dead. . with 600! Nore | | | Seay, pone THURSDAY, MAY 5, 19 21. ont Offer TA 3 Young Stillman Will Stick MMAR CHIEFS By ilother to Bitter End, PLANNED TO INSTAL PLUMBING DEVICE Some of Them “Held Stock, but Pipe Trust and Union Barred It Out. | PLUMBERS IN concen | | | | | Made Common Cause When Suit Was Brought Against Any Member of Body. From the public testimony reganting connection of John A. McCarthy, political friend and partner of Leader | Charies F. Murphy of Tammany Hall and other Tammany insiders, with a plumbing device secking an exclusive the i members of the Lockwood Committee turned this atternoon meeting with the object of sending to jail McCarthy and his associates in the Builders’ Supply Bureau and the Association of Dealers jn Masons’ Building Materials, Mr. McCarthy and other members of the oFganhlxs- tion have pleaded guilty to violating the State ant!-monopoly law. The committee formulated a resolu- tion authorizing its counsel, Samuel Untermyer, in his capacity of Deputy y General in charge of build- ing graft prosecutions, to oppose ip the name of the committee any ef- fort to get lenient sentences for the men awaiting their penalty. These are the cases which were preparcd for court by Deputy Attorney General William A. De Ford between whom and Mr, Untermyer some differences developed regarding them, \ Former Justice John A. counsel for the building sup) called upon Mr, Untermyer before day's session of the Lockwood Com, mittee. They had a long talk; purport was not made known. | It appeared from the testimony at the hearing to-day that a select group, of Tammany brethren had taken a! large interest in the Cody anti-siphon trap for building drainage and that | of six or seven similar devices the! ‘Tammany patent was the only one| to be authorized by the Municipal Bureau of Standards under John P.| Leo, who is now Street Cleaning! Commissioner, The Tammany men's! venture was not profitable in their | own home town, however, because the| manufacturers of cast iron pipe Ga- | terested because the new system saved pipe and reduced the demand for their product), the journeymen plumbers (interested because the new reduced the employment of labor), and the master plumbers (in-| terested because the new system made work for them and less excuse for multiplying profits) band- ed together to blacklist it, Mr, Untermyer read over the names in the stockbook of the Cody Brass Works, owner of the Gico non-siphon- ing drainage trap, ‘The stock book showed twenty-five of fifty shares in the name of George concession in New York City, to a secret its device leas Cody, two shares in the name of James H. shton, eight in the (Continued on Seoond Page.) Sunday World Classified Advertisements Should Be in The World Office On or Before Friday Order Sunday World Classified Advertising To-Day. The World He te Tells Evening World “I Believe iy M Mother Is Ab-| solutely Right and Will Go} on the Witness Stand If She Desires Me to Do So,” He Declares, “The Newspapers Have Given My Mother a Very Square} Deal and We Appreciate the} Way in Which They Have Handled the Case.” James A. Stiltman jr. this noon made unqualified announ of his mother, after- ment intention Mrs, Anne to side with his Urquhart Still- man, end. Young Stillman arrived day at the Bar Association, where the divorce action brought by his father, early to- former President of the National City Bank, is tbetng heard in secret before Referee Daniel J, Gleason, His mother and Fowler McCormick, son of Harold McCormick of Ohtcago, Aocam pried bim in-an automobile. Young Stillman did not enter the Dbullding but drove away as svon as his mother had alighted from the motor car at the West 43d Street en- trance. He returned shortly after noon to awalt the close of the hear- ing. To an Evening World reporter who! saw him at this time, young Stillman was asked if he intended to side with his mother, “I most certainly intend to do so, to the very end," he replied, At this, his friend, McCormick in- terposed with: “You bet he will!” “Then you believe that your mother {x absolutely right?" Mr. Still- man was asked. "I do,” he replied emphatically, d, ax T've just said, I'm going to stand by her. “Will you go on the witness for your mother? “If she wishes me to do so I'll do it, of course.” “Have you seen your father cently?" “No. I have not," “How long haa it been since you saw him “Oh, a long time,” in a lower tone, Young Stiliman suid he was at present living with his mother, but declined to give the address, During thia conversation Mr, Still- man did not leave the car. He was rather bashful in most of his replies, but waa none the less determined as stand a was the answer, |to his course and his allegiance té 8 mother. ‘The newspapers,” he went on, ave given my mother a very square deal and you can believe that we appreciate the way in which the newspaper men have handled this case.” MAIL AVIATOR BURNED TO DEATH Walter Bunting, Whose Home Was Jersey, Killed in Wyoming Wyo., May 6.—Wal+ mail service aviator, when his in New ROCK SPRIN( er M. Bunting a to death to-day was burn airplane overturned and crashed to the ground while he was taking off for a Night to Cheyenne. His wife lives at Carney's Point, N. J Bunting, who was 26 years old, wax severely Intured at Omaha, Neb. last December when his plane fell, His mother lives at Camden, N. J COL. WM. HAYWARD U. S, DIST. ATTORNEY} Harding Ap- Him After a Conference With Hilles. TON, May 5.—Decixion to appoint Col. William Hayward District Attorney for the Southern District of New York was reached to-day at a conference between President Harding and Charles D. Hilles of New York. Decides to point WASHIN and to stand by her to the very] ‘MRS. J. A. STILLMAN IN NEW SPRING HAT A ienars Tae LETTERFROM GUIDE TO MIRS. STILLMAN Missive Is Alleged to Have 3een Couched in Terms of Endearment. One atioged the letter from Ferd Beou Mrs in which vais, Cana » woodsman, te Anno the terms, Urquhart Stillman, writer addressed Ung her th in a lumber her In endearing t though he was mp “her Image was al- ways before him," was to-day ad- mitted temporarily into the record of the divorce action brought against her by James A. Stillman, former President of the Nat Referee Daniel J. Gi a! City Bank eason, who is hearing the case In secret in the il brary of the Bar Association, refused to admit the other stx letters which it 18 claimed Beauvais wrote to Mrs. Stillman and which are in the posses- sion of Mr, Stillman, When the cam was in its early stages before Justice M chauser be uled these letters yut om the ground that the was nothing before him & supporting tered ax Second-Clans Matter AT TRIAL TO-DAY IS PUT ON RECORD New York, N. PRICE ‘THREE CENTS. vided | Terms Settled. | Allied Powers. NEW ULTIMATUM OF ALLIES TAKEN UP BY REICHSTAG Simons Receives Note in Ber- lin and Lays It Before Foreign Committee. BERLIN, May —The Allied rep- of the Reichstag He informed the members of the Al- | voreign Committee led demands and they at once began discussing them BERLIN, May 5 (Associated Press), —The Cabinet of Changellor Fehren- bach, which last night tendered Its resignation to President Hbert, was with the President's request that it remain in office until a new ministry was organized. Informal conferences were in progress to-day among the coalition party Waders, but no tangible results have as yet emerged from these consultations as plian to the makeup of the new govern- ment Whether the present party bloc will be able to send another Cabinet to the Government's bench in fhe Reichstag is the subject of lively con- jecture in Parllamentary circles as ts the question whether such a govern- ment could count upon the benevolent continuing to function to-day in com: | {arutions ultimatum was received here ltosaay: | Foreign Minister von Simons {m-! mediately took the note before the | i aMdavit from Stillman to indicate hah theg been written by th. neutrality of the Majority Soctallats guide z Jwhich is necessary for an effective But the testimony Bernara| Working majority, Kelly, the former superintendent. of] THC Rew cabinct, It ta pointed out, 7 ponin sence’ OF) Will also be confronted with the pros- the Stillman ed was in part an] a dentification of Ieauvais's hand-| Pet of bene called upon to aflx Ger- ‘ eles id-| auny’s signature to the entente pro- writing In the letters and ree tena tually i tocol on reparations, the nature of 7 oan Baars permitted one of) itch had not been fevealed here up bee ; to this morning. The Reichstag waa ‘ i “s cat te! Troquols | not jn session to-day, on account of| ButTulo, testified that Mrs. stillmen| this ting Ascension Day, but Dr eee ene a any euuan of 1917, and! ginens, the Foreign Minister, agreed ft was reported that Beauvais was in! ty discuss the situation with the the elty at the same time However,| peichstag’s committee on foreign re- nothing was brought out to show that! yations. | he was ever at or near the hotel, or! qt uy known that Dr, Simons count- that there wus any telephonic com-|eg himself out when the delay in the munication between him and Mr».| reply to his appeal to President Har- ding indicated @ negative answer, Ha y, Dr.| That Chancellor Fehrenbach and the | Hus { Bur. | rest of the Cabinet would aut late |ally diseppear with Dr, Simons was | ‘ ¢ lad had in Buftato |» foregone conclusion, as the Minis- with Mes nen wt th Dr |iry uid staked ita exiatenge on the Pussel! haa attended the stuimia|tuccess of Its attempt to win. Prest- | aes Mim) dent Hare + mediation and grbi- fumily for several years wee ae During hia direct examination Cabinet's resignation was kelly. who t# now employed in the| formally prenented by Chancellor Grand Caniral Varkilbas Guice it Fehrenbach at & o'clock last night ave iia Oi fOr atter an all-day deliberation with sacar his colleagues on the question of re: (Continued on Secomd Page.) tiring immediately or of awaiting the ei pond decision of the London conference, YUERDAY, May 10 ROOF GARDEN & LEST. ket lORANe, Doncea “nore ttn Hi ec allaati (Racing Entries on Page 21.) ¥ GERMANY GETS ULTIMATUM DEMANDING PAYMENT MAY 12. ALLIES ASK U. 5. INTO COUNCIL Occupation of Ruhr and “Other Mili- tary and Naval Measures” in Final Note Fails to Fulfil Treaty—Financial 3” Pro- if Berlin | | LONDON, May 5 (Associated Press).—The Allied ultimatum issued |! to Germany to-day summons her to reply categorically by May 12 at ithe latest whether she will perform her unfulfilled obligations under the | Vreaty of Versailles, primarily as to the payment of reparations to ti Should Germany fall to comply, the Allies give notice that they will pro- ceed on May 12 with the occupation of the Ruhr Valley, "and to unader- take all other military amd naval measured.” At the same time {t was announced that formal invitation has been cabiut to the Btute Department at Wasbing- ton to send representatives to the Su- preme Allied Council, the Counctl of Ambassadors and the Allied Itep: tions Commission, The terms for G of her debt to jermany's payment the Allies are to be miven her by the Allied Reparations Commission to-night. ALLIES CONTINUE PREPARA- TIONS TO OCCUPY THE RUHR. Meanwhile the Allies, the ult tum states, are to continue with « Recessary preliminaries for the « pation of the Ruhr, The ultimatum was handed t Sthamer, the German Ambassi London, this morniag. The text of the to Germany reads “The Allied Powers, of the fact that desp! c cessive concessions made by Allies since the signature of t ‘Treaty of Versailles, and despi the warnings and sanctions Agreed upon at Spa and Paris, ox weil as of the sanctions announce at London and since applied, ¢ German Government is still in dos fault in fulfillment of the obligu tons incumbent upon It under the terms of the Treaty of Versa’ as regard, “Firat, disarmament; “Second, the payment due Muy Alle ultimatuy Howe: ew 1, 1921, under Article 285 of the Treaty, which the Reparations Commission already has called upon it to make at this date; “Third, the trial of war orimi- nals, as further provided for by the Allied notes of Feb, 13 and May 7, 1920, and, “Fourth, certa ther tmpor- tant respects, notably those whic decide (A) To proceed from to-day with all necessary preliminary measures for the occupation of the Ruhr Valley by Allled troops on the Rhine under the conditions laid down, “(B) In accordance with Article 235 of the Versailles Treaty, to in- vite the Allied Reparations Com- miasion to notity the German Government without delay of the time and methods for the dis? charge by Germany of her debi, and to announce its decision on this point to the German ment by May 6, at the latest, “(c) To suman jovernment eully within pia ing the above uccision its deter. mination (1) to execute without reservation or condition its obli- gations as defined by the Repara- tions Commission; (2) to accept and realize without reservation or condition In regurd to its ob- ligations the guarantees pre- scribed by the Reparations Com- mission; (3) to execute without | | |