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

y | ly ARM . To-Night’s Weather—FAIR. OTO 3” WILY WALL STREET FEATURE Tils Eormiot Che. { “Circulation Books Open to All.!* ] f “Circulation Books'Open to All.” | ‘To-Morrow’s Weather—PROBABLY SHOWERS. The Prews Publishing Copyright, 19 Co. (TF w York Worl NEW YORK, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1921.) ASHINGTON EAS RATE CUT RETURN Offered to Lower Price 10 4 Cents a Thousand; Reduc- * tion of 15 Cents Ordered. Hhuch Gas Furnished to the » Government at Lower Rate. Otherwise Figure Would Hav: Been Lower. | Jard Oil by Fixing Prices n Make Any Gas Rate Sorfiscatory—Old System ised Here Chsolete. (S.eelal to The Brening World.) WASHINGTON, D. C. Aug. 5.— le price of gas has been reduced ere for the second time, this year. n order of the Public Utilities Com- fon of the District of Columbia, hy all three membe' per thousand cubic feet be- figgine with the meter Speaing. period Sind: : The new scale, ~hion ts graded, is a= follows: Tess than 50,000 cubic feet a month, 60,000.200,000 enbie feet a month, £00,005500 (00 oxic fret & month. 69,000.800,000 cubic fect _ month a The two outstanding features of this second reducuon are: The two companies involved (the Washington Gas Light Com- pany and the Georgetown Gas Light Company) declared their readiness to reduce rates 10 cents a thousand of their own accord, the price returning 8 per cent. en the “fair value” of the prop- | erties, The commissiof® would | allow only a 7 per cent return and ordered the 15-cent cut. In addition to this the order ecifically points out that were ,it not for the fact that an act of Congress compels the companies to furnish gas to the Federal and District of Columbia Governments at a low rate, the prices ordered by the commission would have been lower. The ordinary con- sumer was compelled to carry the loss incurred by the company through serving the Nation. An additional feature of the com- Wmission’s order is that unless other- wise specifically ordered the new jrates will apply until the meter- reading period beginning March 18, 1922 when “the rate shall be restored ‘automatically to a uniform rate of 95 cents per thousand cubic feet.” "This is the pre-war rate, * {t is pointed out in the order that the new rates are based upon state- ments showing cost of furnishing gas for We next year “with costs of fuel and oil adjusted to present prices.” The order then sums up: . “The commission believes that un- der conditions as they exist at this Ime, it will be fair and reasonable to adjust the rates for gas so as to pring to the ce ipanies a return of approximate! per cent. This can be accomplished by a maximum rate of $1.10 per thousand cubic feet, * + * After a careful consideration of the evidence in this case, the com- mission is of the opinion that the reduction * * * is just and rea- sonable and should be made.” WHAT WILL N. Y. DO? WASHINGTON ACTION MAY BE EMULATED Adoption of B. T. U. System 4 Would Loosen Standard Oil Grip on Gas Situation. News of the reduction to $1.10 a thousand of the maximum price of gas !n Washington was received here with enthusiasm by the consumérs’ organizations and the Corporation Counsel's office, which together (Continu qa jeventh Page.) {STILL PERCENT ‘wo Companies in Capital Had, . lops off} — LXII. NO. 21,810—DAILY. RUM SHIP SEIZURE | | jam Katered Post Offiee, Second-Clane Matter York, N. ¥. PRICE THREE CENTS LUSTROUS FUND rortusessitver RUM SHIP SEIZURE GROWS RADIANT! LIMIT IS UPHELD Gift Shining. Twelve Miles Legal for Viola- To the Editor of The Evening World: We deeply appreciate your humble tion of the Custom Laws, efforts in behalf of Senator Lusk’s Says Goff. Silver Polish Fund, and I as Treas- urer have been requested by the President to send a contrivation, [| therefore inclosing 2 cents jn United States currency to help the good work on. r < ee We wish fu success in your un lar > a taking CHARLES sani, |NO PERMIT TO UNLOAD. Hylan Non-Partisan League, 418) =e St Nicholas Avenue, Aug. 4, 1921. Previously acknowledged 01 Corona ...... ar. . Hylan Non-Partisan League, by Charles Smith, Treasurer. .02 Libel Action Now Planned to Obtain Forfeiture of Vessel | and Cargo. 02 WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—Libel proceedings in New York to obtain forfeiture of the British, schooner Marshall, seized as a liquor Total — 13,041 FAMILIES | Goff said, to take such action as the ase warrants, which he said prob- ably would consist of forfeiture ac- Title Guarantee and Trust Co. Announces After Confer- ence With Bankers. Henry L, smuggler, are contemplated the at tion against both the“ vessel and its cargo, and an effort to impose penal- ues provided by law xpen the ship's officers, Reporis on the case indicated that customs laws had been violated by the Marshall, although she more than three miles at sea whef seized, Col. Goff said. The statutes provide for the seizure and forfeiture a sels and their cargoes for unioaling without a permit within four leagues —about twelve miles—off the cost, and also provide against transfers of cargo contrary to the law within the eame statutory limits, he added, Mr. Hayward, Col. Goff stated, had no connection with the seizure of the yessel nor had he madg state- ments attributed to bim of any in- tention to seize foreign vesy sls at sex for alleged Hyuor smugging, The District Attorney confery d by tele- phone with the acting/.sead of the department to-day, maj .ng it unnec- essary for Mr. Haywy «1 to come to Washington. Col. Goff said the Marshall was reported to have landed liquors in New Jersey, Georgia, Rockaway, Montauk Point, Atlantic City ana in the eastern district of New York, but not in the southern district of New York, which is under Mr. Hayward's jurisdiction, At the time of her seizure off Atlantic City it was re- ported, he said, that she had aboard 1,500 cases of whiskey; had landed 00 cases and had been engaged in smuggling for six months, « Bankers have pledged a special fund of $2,900,000 to carry through housing projects under way and held up lack of immediate funds, it was announced to-day by the Title Guarantee and Trust Company, fol- lowing a meeting at the invitation of the title company. Builders in Kings and Queens Counties have made urgent appeals to the company to relieve their needs. According to Borough President Cur- ran, plans have been filed for the housing of 13,541 families in Brook- lyn and Queens since Jan, 1 anu many of these projects were brought to a sudden stop or lack of money. The title company asked for special consideration for these housing vefi- tures, and representatives of the New York Life Insurance Company, Bow- ery Savings Bank, ’Bank for Sav- gs, Home Life Insurance Company, United States Trust Company, Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company, Bi. yn Trust Company, Brooklyn Savings Bank, Bankers’ Trust €om- pany and Central Union Trust Com- pany met to find a remedy. The various institutions met the emergency by pledging from $100,000 to $500,000 each, President C. H. Ke sey of the title company announced, assuring support to existing ventures and giving contidence to contractors and home builders that housing con- struction will find support among the lending institutions. ae KU KLUX for Hayward Did Not Advise Selsure of the Marshal United States District Attorney Hayward, who is in Atlantic City, made the following statement to his otfice over the telephone to-day: “TL haven't heard from Washing- ; ton and have not been called to Washington. I never made any statement as to the past, present or future policy of the Government to seize ships of any nationality at- tempting smuggling outside the three-mile Hmit. : “I did not adviee the seizure of DISBANDED IN NORTH CAROLINA. Klan a “Failure and « Fr Declares Ita State Head. DURHAM, N. C., Aug 5.—The or- ganization of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina was ordered disbanded to-day by its head, Grand Dragon Bruce Craven, (Continued on Second Page.) i Graves aatied Ss dtgtoment in Tries ———————— nothing more “tan “an arganisacion || WIELDED PICK MYSELF,” ation {4 der false os, tiation fees under false | pretenses.| SAYS MAYOR TO CALLERS. mate on, in his opinion a “failure a Pogp aa: ‘ace and a a. “Perhaps layers Me col simn. Sommunicated his action to] Were Perfect,” He Comm |. Simmons perial wizard of the Ku ADVERTISEMENTS Klux Klar “I used to work with a pick and shovel myself and I developed my mus- cles by doing so," sald Mayor Hylan, to-day, during a talk in City Hall to them "Just to meet the Mayor.” “Il come from the laboring class, went on the Mayor. "Some new papers have subjected me to the vilest eritieism. Perhaps I deserve it, but I can assure you that I have tried to do Sunday World Classified Section Should be in The World Office To-Day fy very vest for the city regardless of political or rellgious procityities, Per- haps all past Mayors were perfect. ‘The Mayor then complimented the Street Cleaning Department on its co- operation wit the Fire Department fm rranging strgct showers for children, vbout a hundred sectional chiefs from | the Strect Cleaning Department. Their ca) 1 was informal, Street Cleaning for the Commissioner Leo having — cacorted \DRIVERLESS AUTO RUNS, by a radio in a car 100 feet bebind i \First Car of Its Kind Operated To-Day Safely in Streets of Dayton, O. DAYTON, O., Aug. 6. Dayton traffic policemen rubbed their eyes to-day when a miniature automobile sailed past all semaphores, There wasn't a soul in it. It was a driverless radio automobile from McCook Field, controlled The auto itself contained no wireless and is said to be the first of ~ its kind publicly exhibited by the Radio Air Service. Swift Flames Cut Off Escape Above Second Floor in Big Tenement — Wires Imperil Lives of Rescuers. | Firemen, High On Ladder, Swing Frantic Tenants to Safety—One Family Is Al- most Wiped Out by Blaze. “your childven ih ae family per+ ished and six members ‘of asother family are in Lincoln Hospital as a; result of a fire at No. 109 St Ann's} day. drew Taylor is head of the other. T&ylor and one of his children, Herbert, five, are near death, and another of the victims, Rose Fitz- patrick, thirteen, who was so badly jump, is also expected to die. men made many spectacular rescues several ready to plunge to the street to wait for the ladders. THE DEAD. WILLIAM, five years old, HARRY, eight. | CORSINE, EDNA, ten. CORSINE, VICTORIA, fourteen, FATALLY BURNED. TAYLOR, ANDREW, forty-three. TAYLOR, HERBERT ive. FITZPATRICK, ROSF, thirteen SERIOUSLY BURNED. TAYLOR, MRS. CATHDRINE, thir- ty-eight. TAYLOR, WARREN, one year old. TAYLOR, \ HARLBS, thirteen. TAYLOR, ANDREW, jr., seventeen. The fire gained such rapid headway that its glare was observed five blocks away by Walter O'Neill, a taxi chauf- feur of No. 301 West 125th Street, who hurried to 133d Street and St. Ann's Aventle and pulled the fire alarm box there. O'Neill blew his exhaust whistle, attracting the attention of Policemen Darcy and Oates. O'Neill attempted to enter the hall- way, but got no further than tho first floor when the dense smoke drove him to the sidewalk. The fire was in full sway on the stairs and hallway between the set- CORSINE, CORSINE, (Continued on Ninth Page.) ee PRESIDENT GIVES DAY TO THE SICK SOLDIERS. Goes on Errand ef Mercy to Taber- cular Heepital at Gerham, N, H, LANCASTER, N. H., Aug. 5.—Preat- dent Harding Interrupted bis vacation at the top of Mount Prospect to-day to 60 On an errand of mercy to the Army Tubercular Hospital, at Gorham, twenty-five miles away. Bince he enterod the Presidency Mr, Harding many times ‘as expressed par- jticular interest in the welfare of hos- pitalized goldiers asd on several ooca- sions he has visited army hospitals to |look over conditions ani show person- ally hls concern over the care of the lil and disabled, It is understood he |pianned to-day's trip before he left Washington for New Hampshire. The | visit was expected to occupy most of| the day | a THE, WORLD | Arcade, -Pulttaer (Wo Ps N.Y. City, Zit, Money orden and | eae. Adee, FOUR CHILDREN ARE KILLED, — THREE DYING, IN BRONX FIRE; THRILLING RESCUES MADE NEW CARUSO WILL FOUNDINFLORENGE=.= = NDE 10 DAYS A Terms, of This Document Not “Yet Known to Family or Executor. NAPLES, Aug. there only ten days ago. Caruso instructed him, the lawyer burned she begged firemen to let her said, not to reveal the will until Fire-| three days after death. ‘The will previously accepted ‘as the and, aided by spectators, persuaded jast was drawn at Sorrento shortly after Caruso returned from America. Another was known to be in existence \in New York. Relatives believed there was a pos- others would be found, as Caruso was said to have | drafted a new one on the eve of avery sibility that still long journey. destroyed the previous one. | ‘The terms of the Florence will were not divulged. The Sorrento will left the estate tn charge of his wife, |New York will waa said to have pro- {vided for even distribution of the Usually, they said, he 5.—Another new Avenue, the Bronx, at 3 A. M. to-/ Caruso will was discovered to-day. The family nearly wiped out The existence of the last instrument is that of Julio Corsine, while An-| was revealed when the late singers ‘iawyer at Florence wired the execr utor!that Caruso drew his last will estate among six relatives. NAPLES, Aug. 5 by the authorities here. some ago, valued at 1,000,000 francs, Said to (Associated Press)—Measures to protect all the baggage and property owned by the late Enrico Caruso have been taken There was uneasiness over a string of pearls that the dead tenor bought in Paris ten years occupation in some quarters. Mrs, Caruso has received more than two thousand telegrams of oondo- In various parts of the world who are eorrowing lence from individuals (Continued on Second Page.) a RANSOM OF $50,000 DEMANDED FOR PRIEST, ™*"** “i Siren Paster Vanishes After Going t. Hear Death-Bed Conte: FRANCISCO, Aug. 5. fom of $50,000 wan to-day asked for] wee, Ke! the return of the Rev. Father Patrick | F. Hesly of Colma, in a jetter to Arch bishop Edward J. Hanna, according to SAN the police. The Rev. Hesly, who had only been | by the Town Hoard of Hempstead, L. 1, in charge of the Colma parish for two for he weeks, disappeared Tuesday after fea The nollie bel ben being held | June 22 last, be divided $900 and 100, e police believe be ix being held in| ~ etween the wile the country somewhere betwen Colma | 8?" betweon’ the wife of the and Salada Beach. | murderer, Mrs. Lawrence Kubal, and cAeS es |her sister's husband, Maryan Galas- 12,000 Miners Begin “Outlaw” | zewski Strike, | Lawrence Kubal is now tn the death PITTSON, Pao. Aug 5.—-Kight col-| house at Sing Sing, condemned to be Heries of the Lehuch Valley Company eiectrocuted in the week of Aug. 14. In n the Wilkes Barre and Pittson dis-. a jetter recently to Village Clerk Par- trict are idle to-day because ofan ure| ons. of Hempstead, he lucisted that his authorized strike of eleven thousand! wife be given the reward. Kubi demanding $7 4 diy hi She. af ‘ fessed, first to his w $ aft am -treamurer of Pisa Teall the strike is uns| sulting her sister's tusband. informed ‘Supposedly Kone to hear a doath-| murderer of Mrs, Minnie S. Bartlett, on confession. The be} ter companions, with the chaffeur, ‘Dhe loca-) tion also of a ring set with a valu- |able diamond was the subject of pre- ‘A ran- FLEEING NTUBETO| DODGE CAB FARE Runs Down Tracks in Brook-| lyn When Driver Insisted on Payment. | TRAIN TAKES OFF HAT. Stumbles in the Darkness in Sight of Early Morn- ing Throngs. Death on the third rat] of the BR. T. subway ended a night of cabitret parties and joy riding, according to the two girls who accompanied Kath- erine Hogan, of West Philadelphia, through the White Light district of Manhattan and then on the way to Miss Hogan, who lived in’a fur- nished room at No. 135 Clinton Ave- nue, Brooklyn, had jumped to the subway tracks with Maude Steven- son, one of her companions, in an effort to evade paying her taxi bill, She stumbled over something in the @urk ayd her face struck on the tl rail. Death was instantaneous, According to Miss Stevenson, who lives at No, 681 Classon Avenue Brooklyn, she with the dead woman and May Kenny, No. 25 Rush Street, Brooklyn, went to several New York dancing and eating places last night. At 6 o'clock this morning they hailed Michael Freeman, owner and driver of a taxi of No, 10 West 64th Street, at Columbus Avenue and 59th Street. | Although Miss Stevenson and Miss _ Kenney insisted they were on a joy| ride with the chauffeur as the result! of a firtation on the part of the dead woman, Freeman declared to the po- lice he had picked up the three as fares and driven them to Pacific Street and Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn. When Freeman then demanded $2.70 fare, he said, Mias Hogar sald, “Lot's not argue here. I live near here, Lot's xo there.” The three girls—all between the ages of twenty-two and twenty- seven—darted down the B. RT. Stairs past the ticket chopper and to \the platform. Miss Hogan and Miss Stevenson leaped to the tracks, but Miss Kenny was restrained by Po- liceman Reany of the Bergen Street Station, Several subway employees followed the two young women to- ward De Kalb Avenue and arrived there just in time to save them from an approaching train. As it was, Miss Stevenson's hat was brushed off by the first car, While the trackwalkers were help- ing the women to the station Miss | Hogan fell and was electrocuted. were taken to the Bergen Street Po- lice Station and from there to the office of District “ Attorney Lewi where they were questioned. It was decided no crime had been committed and they went away. At no time were they under arrest, Many workers were in the subway at the time, 15 | A. M. Traffic was not delayed. | Im the dead girl's handbag was found $15.25 In cash. “Well, joy rides end this way,” re- GETS $900 FOR SENDING | HER HUSBAND TO DEATH. K 5 Mra. Bartlett. District Attornef Weeks has recom- | mended that the reward of $1,000 offered the arrest and conviction of the tne Nassau County authorities, BEYOND 3-MILE LIMIT HELD LEGAL NINE AUTO BANDITS HOLD UP GUIDED BY RADIO CONTROL SD RAIL KILLS GIRL PAYMASTER AND ARMED GUARD ESCAPE WITH $25,000 IN CASH Robbery Takes Place at Noon at Cliffside,on the Palisades—Money Car Disabled by Robber—Then All Drive Offin Waiting Machine. The weekly payroll of the Barrett Manufactufing Company at Cliffside, N. J., amounting, according to police reports, to $25,000 was stolen by armed bandits at noon’to-day in Laird Avenue, Cliffside, not far from the Barretit plant. The bandits held up an automobile carrying the paymaster, Joun Pawlson, Frank Meyers, and armed guard, and a chauffeur. _ There were nine men in the robber band and all of them were armed, They escaped in a touring car, the licnse number of which, according to Pawlson, was 13078 N. J. or 31078 N. J. The first is the number of « Meense owned in Newark and the other was issued to a man in Jersey City, In the opinion of the police the car was stolen for the robbery and wili be found abandoned. OO OOF SOThe =om-up occurred in Laind VAROTTA BOY'S” > |s="=Ss=" sree the Palisades toward the Barreti Plant, which manufactures Tarvia, road pavement, and employs severs thousand men. Pawlson, following & custom of long standing, had driven to West Hoboken, where hi drew the money for"the payroll fror the Hudson Trust Company. At a point in the road w are ashes on both sides red. One fired a shot that passed through tie windshield of the car, which was mov ing slowly. ‘The chauffeur put the brakes and the car stopped FROM J08 10 J08 wae Trial of Accused Kidnappers and Slayers of Lad to Be Rushed in Special Term. nine men suddenly appe of therm The five men in the Tombs indicted Meyers was covered before he of Nttle Giuseppe for the murder o PPP la chance to draw his revolver. Th Varotta, who was kidnapped and/ieader of the gang, apparently fc whose body was found about June} miliar with the personnel of thy 1st in the Hudson River near Pier-|patty in the car, ordered Meyer mont Will be placed on trial on Tues-| searched, and his weapon was taken from him. At the same time another a special term of the Gay next 8 bandit reached into the car and Court of General Segsions, The de-] WN renee : Soe ta hana cu inlaaciemedle be valise containing the forminatio : money, whioh he carried to the tour ately was due to the persecution of the father of the boy. Ever since the indictment of the five men as often as the elder Varotta has obtained work as an automobile mechanic, some mysterious influence has been at work and he has been discharged. The reason given being that the employer did not wish to run the risk of having his garage hlown up. V arotta ts the main wit- ness against the men now in the Tombs. ing car by the roadside half a away, Five of the bandits kept volvers pointed at the in the car, another raised the hood of the engine, cut the wiring And smashed the spark clubs. Then the eight ran to the touring car and joined the man who had taken the money. Thi car went away at top speed, The robbery several persons porch of a hotet Detective Sergt. Michael Fiaschot ye leepnoned in charge of the Italian squad, hell] oa rtone in Edgewater a conference with District Attorney |e peneral Swann today, with the result that Me|y oy nainta in East and Noon 4 Swann talked with Judge Talley, W00| 60 sna to New York heats is on his vacation. Judge Tatey The scene of the robbery is agreed to come back and open a sp. their re men the the Palisade Police Head ind within an 1obeen x» was witnes. standing on on arm hh ey the river from its Tomb, It cial term of the court to try the case.|/heljeved that the bandits deserted Varotta feels that the plotters have | their autamobile somewhere in Hud some means of tracing him from /0!) | son County and came to this city by to job and that he must leave city in order to make a living for h family if this persecution k ae thin /agternoun. ncaa The police and District Attorney dé /money was sent over from the not care to lose their main witness 10 Joes of the Barrett concern at the case 17 Battery Place, Manhattan ‘The men under indictment ar: Jo! Milchionne, Roberto Raffaele, Anton!» different routes. The robbery did not interfere with the payment of the main No Bandits Rob Express Car; 50,000 Marino, Sunto Cassmano and James Reported Rugelere. GREENVILLE, tl, Aug FY a ——_—— then nd dotiars was bel) | heen obtained by two bandit sanded a Baltimore and Ohio pa GIVE GREAT BRITAIN TO jxer train at Beecher City lost night IN FURTHER ON SHIPPING. |i", up the express messenger oud Carrying |oePed at Altamont with all (ie ctallation Threat, |*xPFess parkas : Aug, 5. — Further} ee concesstona were expected to-day from Five Arrested a Great Britain in an effort to setile Hold-Up of Manha ont with the United States over) CLEVELAND, a division of the cotton carrying trade | suspected of betn: from Alexandria, Kgypt held up the Manhattan Limited at Ga! The British, yesterday, indicated jitgin, Pa. last Friday and escapes thelr willingness to divide that bust- | after tirewing off several bags of 1 wih he Unites Were arrested early to States Bhipnin| ost Office Inspector W. M etaliat a squad of 20 policemar ex when who surrounded a houge where the men received, had been locati * 4 ED BANDITS HOLD UP PAYMASTER; GET $25,000 pecnctninisaiasia>