The evening world. Newspaper, August 8, 1921, Page 1

. To-Night’s Weather—FAIR. DAILY WALL STREET FEATIJRE THIS EDiTioN “you. LXIL NO. “al, 812—DAILY. Copyrign inate Co. (The » Cp [*Cireatation Book: rs vert to All’ hy The Press w York W NEW YORK, MONDAY, “AvGUST. 8, ~P ALASKA STRIKES } REEF AND BOILERS | EXPLODE; 48 DEAD poet Seventeen Bodies , Including Three —Thirty-One Missing. Tales of Heroi Jersey Woman—all ! Board Calm—Captain W. Down Witih Ship Recovered, Women and a Child—106 Survivors!! on ent Steamer Anyox Rushed to Res- Heavy cue at Full Speed Through | Fog — Searched! 40TH HOME RUN FOR BABE RUTH } Puts Ball Into Right Field Stands in t - Game With Whiie S Saker Does Likewise. POLO GROUNDS, Aug. 8.—-Babe FAth hit his fortieth home run of the jreason, to-day, off Pitcher Wieneke in |the third inning of the first game of jthe double header, Peck was on first Ie the time. Th lit the fiacade of the right field stand’s roof Frank Baker tollowed a moment ter and drove anothér homer into © same stand. Wieneke, who had allowed one other run in the first in nin then replaced by Hodge. m Told by New)! |He retired the Yankees without fur- ver scoriny 18- Year-old Boy, Sick and Shabby, Slept in Halls HER TOY GUN ROUTS A MAN WHO SHOT HUSBAND; “I KNEW HE WAS A COWARD,” SHE SAYS Mrs. Golden Men Quarrelling Adjoining Room. in PISTOL POINTED AT HER. She Runs and Gets Harmle: Weapon and Armed Man Takes to Heels. Mrs. Mollie Iden, whose toy pistol frightened from her home, No 911 Southern Bowlevard, a man who had threatened ler with a and afterwafd shot her Husband. Samuel, in the arm, said to-day that “hed the Two} | After Months of Hardship and Hard | when she appeared on the scene with | Around Dangerous Reef. Luck, Smith Finds a Kind her “weapon” and ordered the man EUREKA, Cal. A « Judge and Warden. to drop his: revolver,’ ‘she did’ not SUREKA, Cal, Aug ‘The fi count on her own courage bot his Steamer Alaska, which struck un the; T#ymond Smith, eighteen years so or 14 Tocks at Blunt's Reef Saturday night, | ld, undefsized, pale faced, and |, oo aia that any man } with a probable death list of forty-|8habbily dressed, was dragged out ‘ ean ake . eight, was split in two by the ex-/f a hallway at Lewis and Gates os UM AL oh Seis ie Plosion of the boilers when the boat | Avenues, Brooklyn, to-day and sot nee of anamhied pene Wee p! atarted 0 sink, survivors enid here| ChATEed with vagrancy by Police.) Neve Any Rorve if be felt himaclt to-day, and oa s man Thomas Mullaney in Gates, Ave- ™Aatched. So when 1 pointed the toy eile ures ne nee and members | nue Court. [pistol at him and ordered him to - hue ce UBER Sn RG RL into the sea) Smith said his family used to live) drap his gun, he turned and tan x the explosion at No. 163 Jay Street, Brooklyn. His tike a deer. The steamer Anyox to-day brought | father, who had been a bill poster,) As her husband is in Lincoln Hos- . 106 survivors of the wreck to Bureka,|died in 191 His mother died in pital with the bullet still in his arm, Seventeen dead were also brought | October. 1919. Mrs. Golien appeared to-day in Mor- here, including three women and a| “I sold the furniture and all of my means Court o press aes of chiX’ There are thirty-one others | thes except what 1 could wear to| ‘elonious assault against their assal : Diesin helioved dead, ‘Twelve of | PAYLLF her funeral,” said the youth, ant, Samuel Rosansky. She explained | Hieidead neve bee: . fother didn’t have any money, and| tat two months go her liusband had \ PARA Nese been identified no insurance, When the funeral sold to Rodansky cigar stand at Ao ee * may be jver, 1 went out looking for work, but| No. 97 West 37th Street, Apparently! changed, for Nets of passengers and |; walked the streets for a week, and/ the business there had not been as cee Ren SUDAN rece pee nobody would employ me. 1 caught| coed as Rodansky had hoped and last! he full story of the sinking of the | Alaska. did not become known until | to-day when it was brough. out that the Alaska, proceeding toward San Franc in a dense struck a sulmerged ledge of the reef. This “shock was almost instantly followed by another as the vessel struck an ee OUl-Cropping of the reef above water. Wa, the Alaskw wtrick the reef shortly @iter 9 o'clock, Immediately wireless distress signals were flashed. Five Miles away the steamer Anyox of Vanoouver, B. C. picked them up and, disregarding fog and danger of | Biriking the same rocks as the Ajuska, put on full speed to the Fescue. At 9.30 o'clock the Anyox ceived the Al 's final messa are sinking by the head.” ore the Anyox could reach Btricken Als In the fog, the filled The 4 water s said, and @ lifeboat @he Alaska filled with The thrown oil, Surv had them over wrecked the Alaska amidships, } The Anyox cruised about in the , aos (Continued on Second Page.) THOMAS JOHNSON, ma —< Brooklyn—Was on Vaca- tion with Wife. employer, dated Portland, Aug, i which n their be by the explosion of the boilers, which the ska the latter had sunk. Anyox came upon with survivors from boat was partial and oily scum, been fog MISSING IN WRECK, A DRUGGIST HERE ad Store at No. 772 Halsey Street, Thomas Johnston mentioned as Jost. on the steamer Alaska, owned a drug store at No, 772 Halsey Street, Brooklyn, for the last three years. On July 25 he left with his wife, Minnie, on a tour of the country, expec to return on Sept. 15, The store was left in charge of W. S. Dauscher, who received a post ecard from his a Johnston said he ex- pected to leave for Los Angeles on Aue. 6 and that he was ha ang a fine trip. Johnston was fitty years old and born in Scotland. He had no children, He was a Mason, and formerly owned stores at Kings Highway and East 14th ~ @treet, Brooklyn, and at Free- [ port, Lb » ‘ | convalescent Richard | pneumonia sleeping in a park in the) night he called on Golden: rain and I was taken to Kings| Mrs. Golden, who is about to be-| | County Hospital, and fram there to aj come a mother, was in an adjoining home in Westahester. “| was there about a year and a half and then they.decided I was well enough. I came back to Brooklyn and started in Sometimes I got work washing dish at a time. Once found me they chipped in me $5, I've been sleeping land and Fort Greene Park it rained in hallways.” again. when some and gave in High- and when Magistrate Dale decided to send Smith to the Up and In Club, No. 1 Middagh Street, Brooklyn, Warden Wright of Raymond Street 1il, who was in court, said he was convinced that Smith was “up against it,” and gave the probation officer $5 for the doy. bead GOV. SMALL RETURNS TO ILLINOIS CAPITAL. | | Warrant for His Arrest on Charee | of Embezalement Awaits F LD, Ul, Aug. 8.—Gov. mail, accompanied by his son, “ and several members of his party, arrived in Springfield late last hight, coming from Kankakee by auto- bile. The unexpected return of the State Fexecutive to the capital, where sheriff Mester has warrants for his arrest, on charges of embezzlement of State funds while he was State Treasurer, renewed speculation as to the next move in the case. Sheriff Mester has indicated that he does not intend to rush service of the warrants on the Governor, but would follow the instructions of Judge and permit the bonds at his convenience ——=—_ GLOWING SKY STRANGER SEEN BY LICK OBSERVERS. Brighter Than Venus,and Thought Comet or New Star. CAMBRIDGE, Ma: like object, brighter than Venus (which s the brightest star or planet), and believed to be the nucleus of a comot, was seen with the naked eye, Just be- fore sunset, Observatory in Caltfornia yesterday ‘A telegram received at the Harvard Observatory to-day from Lick Observa- tory sald “Star-like object brighter than Venus, three degrees east, one degree south of sun, seen seven minutes before and at sunset by naked eye. Five observers, set behind low cloud. Unquestionably celestial object. certainty Chances favor nucleus of bricht comet; fess probable, nova (new star)." for a few days} cops | room while the two men talked and she heatd Rodansky “See this? you'll have me arrested for carrying it, so I'm going to use it!” he peeped into the room and saw todansky with a revolver in his hand, which he immediately pointed at her | She darted back into the room and { Smith| the Executive to arrange| Aug. 8.—A star- | by live persons at the Lick! brighter) < got from a bureau drawer a toy pisiol in which her husband was once in- terested in selling, and re-entered the sitting room just as Rodansky fired at her hushand. Then she pointed the “weapon” at Rodansky and chased him from the partment. She said she was too surprised at his flight to pur- sue him. Rosansky, whose address is 26 Monroe Street, was held in $5,000 bail for examination by Magistrate Marsh | in the Morrisnn Court Sih A TO TEST CONSTITUTIONALITY |. OF JERSEY DRY STATUTE. ‘The writ calls for the review of th complaint under which Frederick Wal sher, a saloonkeeper at No South Orange Avenue, Newark, was arrested on June 24 charged with selling Hquor. ‘The review is asked on the ground that law deprives alleged viclators of trial by jury, while attaching as a pos- sible penalty a penitentiary sentence ee, DR. STONE’S BODY FOUND. ity Chief's Corpse Recovered tn Canadian W CALGARY, Alberta, Aug. §.—The body of the late Dr. W. E. Stone, President Purdue Univer Purdue University, has been recov- ered and is being brou; to I ff, i 44 announced in a@ message received here to-day. | Dr. Stone lost his life in an attempt j to climb Mount Eanon on July 15, and | nis wife, who was found alive after ly ing for eight days on a mountain ledge ¢ also on her way to Banft Details regarding the discovery of Dr body were not contained in the message puR WORLD TRAY BUREAU, greet Pulitwer (World) By 4, 85-63 ¥. City. ‘Tele oe: man 40 Groce room for baggage & sels open day and it, anew ordem and (raveliers’ for ad jto a is concerned, he said, they make Caxe Carried to State Sapreme| short shift of such applications and Court for Firat Time. lhave advised tenants to compel the| | A writ of certiorari iasued to-day by|lindlords to take such cases to court Chief Justice William Gummere of the! for adjudication. Under decisions al New Jersey Supreme Court will bring | "UY See he said, landlords have invariably failed in such actions before the court for the first time the ny failed in auch action: ne where the tenants showed that pre- constitutionality of the Van Name Pro ceding the demand raises in rent were | hibition Law veked | Ip ison inmates are in hospital cots and) LANDLORDS MAKE EFFORT 10 EVICT 30,000 TENANTS Send Out Notices That They Want Apartments for Per- sonal Occupancy. coording Junius to the to Pendleton M Profiteering, Ww Committee on Rent Ison, chief counsel yor's to- day that about 30,000 tenants have received notices to vacate Mr. their Wilson landlords apartments that on Oct. 1 most of the are basing their demands the th: their house for possession ground they want the apartments for or that the co-operative who want These representations Mr. Wilson as tricks and devices in possession, and he predicted that the landlords would not be s 1 diate} n sold} of own nm has be anization possession use tenants characterized far as the Mayor's Committe oe RIOTING IN AUBURN PRISON OVER GAME OF BASEBALL Six Inmates in Hospital and so! Others in Isolation Cells. | SYRAC Aug. §.—Six Auburn thirty others are in isolation cella as a result of a battle between negroes and whites in the exercise yard Sunday afternoon. M-teeling over a ball game the dav before culminated in am attack on the negroes, it {s stated There were 1,000 prisoners in. the exercise yard when the trouble started. Members of the Mutual Welfare League ball team and sym- pathizers picked up ball olubs and sticks and started at a group of ne- ors, Standing at one side. ‘The ne eroes, on Saturday, rooted against the Mutual Welfare baseball team playing an outside aggregution The negroes tried to repel the at- tack with bricks, heaped there on ac- count of construction work, Prison | guards repressed the disorder, using | heavy clubs. |a blackjack in his hand. 1921, Fost Office, To-Morrow’s Weather—FAIR. PRICE THREE CENTS CARE ILE er ELS 0 KILLED MAN WITH Culkin, is Found Beside Body of Man He Says Had Made Insulting Remarks to His Wife. “Rookie, Disappears While Another. P. | trolman is Away Making Re- port—Weapon is Found at His Mother’s Home. Atter Six Hours’ Grilling He} Admits Having Hit Victim, and is Held Without Bail on Homicide Charge. Daniel ¥. 1 of the} oiman, Cull Coney Isiand Precinct, was suspended duty to- ested from ay, ona charge of homicide and held without | bail in Peter Flatbush Court. No Brooklyn, was found dead last night in front’ of No. 619 Baltic Street by John O'Connell of No. 509 Baltic Street. O'Connell reported the death to Patrolman Brophy of the Bergen Street Station. When Brophy arrived he found Culkin standing by, holding Brophy says Culkin showed him his shield and said he was a policeman and that he had taken the blackjack from the man who was dead, Culkin at the time was off duty and in civilian clothes. Brophy says he asked Culkin to stand by and went away to send in @ call for an ambulance. When be returned, Culkin and the black- tack were gone. Brophy reported the © to Captain Kauff, who ordered the arrest of Culkin. He was found at his home and it took six hours grilling to make him discuss the case. Capt. Kauff aaked nim why he did not take charge of tbe case when he found it, To this Culkin made no reply. From him the police learned hat the blackjack he said he had found or had taken away from the ul man was at his mother’s home, 478 Baltic Street. A detective it to the house found it The on jt was broken, Culkin nally admitted to them, the police say, that Behan had been “making remarks about his wife.” Upon his admissions and the story Behan of 488 Warren Street, No st | told by witnesses who were found it was decided make the charge against Culkin, O'Connell said be had seen Culkin «trike a man. Mary of No, 539 Baltte Street and Tausano of No. 517 Baltic also questioned by the police, and Thomas Haslan of No. 130 Wyckoff Street was held as a material witness. The ambulance surgeon reported Behan had been killed by a blow over the left eye with some blunt instrument, probably a blackjack. When Culkin was arraigned in the Flatbush Avenue Court before Magis- to Stone Walter Street were |trate O'Neil the complaint was made by Detective Bernard Grottano of the Bergen Street Station, who had been active in getting the witnesses and the blackjack Culkin, when asked if he had any- thing to say, said he would make no statement until he had consulted an attorney, and requested an adjourn- ment, which was granted. Culkin has been a policeman since January last. | Previous to his appointment he was a driver. He is twenty-nine years old spine nn EXCESS IMMIGRANTS HERE TO BE ADMITTED ON BOND. She publicity MEYER PROBE COMMITTEE BLACKIACK BLOWS senator was Betevea in Inquiry —‘“‘Hay Fever” Would Be Active, Given as Reason for Absence. agent of the Meyer committee to investigate the af- fairs of the City of New York announced this afternoon that Senator Clayton piolie bh Cortland President pro tem of the Upper House, committ no furtl R. Lusk earings opening d, by ee, part in the ope morrow in the City Hall. n of Cortland will No explanation was given for the decis sessions of the not sit with the committee in the The Senator from reason of the fact that he is the majority leader in and is an ey-officio member of the on of Senator Lusk to take Meyer Committee, Wh ihe committee was first organized it was a matter of common knowl- etge in quite and York It wa New unoff} lly reported at the slative circles in Albany that Senator Lusk intended to be ve factor In the investigation of the affairs of the City of headquarters of the Meyer com. viittee that Senator Lusk is at his home in Cortland nursing an attack of hay fever. BISHOP MDONNEL DIES IN HOSPITAL; HAD SUFFEREDLONG Seized on Visit to the South) Did Last Bishop ¢ head of 1 of Brookly day at the Jo His Gra health sin was seized St visiting at the winter home of Martin | Metzner at Rockled Wy death was due to arterio selerosia ph, January, He Not Recover. Sharles Edward e man Catholic n, died at convent of the at Brentwood, I ce had ce last with been January in and nephritis The Bishop had been taken to the MeDonnell dioces 1 hospital iast month from th House, No. 267 Clermont Avenu cause of a relapse which w steady gai afternoon which he of his hou: deathbed n in. strength he sank into did not recov sehold 11:40 o'clock to- Sisters of declining when serious attack while | he See be- overtook t was for a time thought to bea Yesterday coma from Members the Bishop McDonnell was consecrated tishop of ceeding the late was born i was eduea ers and t Xavier Col lege at st in Cardinal Corrigan The consecration Brooklyn April 2%. Ba n this city Feb. ted by the he Jesuits Hegh and at Rom of the and of Bis He was ord 1878 and was secre MeCloskey op Loughlin 1, 1854, ant stian Broth 1892, suc- He Francis American ined a y to Archbishop Me Donnell was one of the greatest cere monies ev Cathed were Archbishop of Montreal, delphia MeNeirny Syracuse of dence, Among Mayor G missioner (Con Archibishop Ogdensburg MeM. of Newark, the guests ant et held in St on Fifth Avenue Corrigan Edwand and PJ ot Ryan Albany of Buffalo, Harkins of and O'Farrell of of ex-Mayor Grac John D. hone roy. nued on Second ————————_—_—_ U. S. AND BRITAIN TIED IN FIFTH YACHT RACE. Charles Ryan of Phila- Bishops O'Hara of Se Ludden G Patrick's Prvsent whose secretary he had been up to that time; Fabre nton, of priels Provi- or ahon of Hartford, Wireger ‘Trenton were tom- Crimmins, Page) Will Be Charged to the Year's in International Contest. ‘Totals, Comm: mer Rules, | COWES, Isle of Wight, A 8 WASHINGTON, Aug. §.--lmmigrants| (Associated Press).—The fifth in excess of July and Aagust quotas,! national yadht race between Pritish now held at vartous ports, wiil he ad-|and Amertean boats of the six-motre mitted under personal bond and charged |c.ass to-day ended In a the, scortne to the year's totals, Commissioner |«ighteen pointa. General Husband of the Immigration! The Britten team previously had won Bureau announced to-day. |tnree races the Americans one. It ‘The order was tasued after a con-|ia now ¢ that Amarivn's chance ference with ship line representatives, |of winning the cup ta hopeless, 4 ‘ ' > BROOKLYN PRELATE WHO DIED TO-DAY /AFTER LONG ILLNESS i ini em On mimSonete en * meson @mavzena cricaco ~ WANT BROWN EYES CHANGED TO BLUE? IT CAN BE DONE Famous Viennese Optician An- ounces Success of Trans- planting Operation, VIENNA, Aus. 8 People who tire of brown eyes con have the removed and try the blue variety for a while, ac cording to Dr. Koppanyis, a fa mous optician Pr Koppanyis informed a con vention of optiaians that he bed been successful in transplanting the eyes of animals and that the operation left the sught unim paired, —— FIREMEN’S BALL TEAM OFF TO PLAY CHICAGO. W. W. Cohen, Banker mp, Has Charge of Party. The New York Fire Department base- Wl teain, accompanied by a d tion of fire fans, left to-day for ¢ » to play the firefighting nine of thas city a «, starting Wedn eres of three ga day, for the benefit of the Chica Pire ments Mutual Aid Bund Honorary Dewuty Chief WoW + banker who Seads the New ¥ nent’ committer on athle had cha f the purty > - Preaidents Yacht Off Cape Hen- open, WASHINGTON, Aug. &—At 3 o'c\pek thia morning th yacht Mastlower ning hero with President HMordir snd his party from thetr vacation tn New Hampshire, was reported event miles southenst of Cape Henlopen, Dela ware Bay ~ POLICEMAN IS HELD FOR BEATING MAN 10 DEATH TKEOWN AND 23 MORE IRISH ML. P’S -FREEDBY ENGLAND | De Valera’s Cabinet Sends Im- portant Message to Lloyd ; George in Paris; Contents Not Being Divulged. | Release of Prisoners Believed to Be Part of Prime Minister's Plan to Help Bring Ac ance of Peace Terms. | Sinn Fein Was Determined That McKeown Should Be Released If Truce Was to Continue. DUBLIN Aug, vit sur members of the Sinn Fein Parha- ment were given their freedom to- day. They were released following ‘President’ De Valeca’s call to pass on the British peace proposals. an intern- Ten were released from ment camp at Curragh, fourteen from the Ballyminlar camp LONDON, Aug. & Dublin te has been instructed to release John J McKeown, Dail Eireann member whose detention threatened to cause a break in peace negoUations, it was stated authoritatively this afterno ‘The impression was given that M Keown, convicted on murder charge, was detained without in structions from the Britis Govern ment and will be freed with oth members of the Lrish Varliamen McKeown, a blacksmith by trade, is representative in the Irish Repub: liean Parliament for Longford an West Meath. His espe ive 8 rounded him w wha omanee which has appealed to the ima tion of th nd, unde appellation chivalrous bl gmith of Beallinal MeKeown been extolled in one of those ballad dear to the Irish in times of polities exeitement, This ballad uchieved immense popularity and has helpe ty establish McKeown on the pedest of fame PARIS, Aug. 8 A mes frow the Irieh Repul n Cabinet, broug! by courier a Paris, 4 delivered Lioyd George, the British Prime Min ister, here to-day. Up to the ear afternoon no reply had been sent > SIMS SENDS THANKS TO ULSTER MEN Writes That Practically All Repu able American Papers Indorse His Stand. BELFAST, Aug, & A letter from Rear Admiral William 8. Si knowledging re: of congratula tions from the Helfast comrad of the great war on his recent speech be- fore the English Speaking Uuion in London, in which he criticised activi. ties of Sinn Fein sympathizers in the Inited States, was made public here to-day. The letter, dated July 11 reads as follows ‘IT can assure you it is a matter of great gratification to me to find that the loyal men of Ulster hold the same English interest you all the repu United States opinions as I do as to the speaking peoples to know that practically table newspapers in the It may are now in thorough aj condemnation of the activities of Sinn fein sympathizers in the United st s has been brought about by a by remarkable expression cau ple f letters of opinion in the form of nd telegrams to the Ame showers jall concorned. It would almost seem jas though the incident were about to . scoped into an issue. At all will apparently have a con sack effect in the fut It is that it will exercise a very Wnfuence upon the rela- our two countries,"