The evening world. Newspaper, August 20, 1921, Page 1

To-Night's Weather—Probable thunder showers, WALL ST. TABLES. LATEST EXTRA The ee eek eee el VOL. LXII. NO. 21,823—DAILY. Co. Copyright, 1N21, by The Press Publishing add (The New York World). To- Morro’ f Circulation Books Open to All. | SINN FEIN PLANS GREAT BOYCOTT AGAINST ULSTER — w'a Weather—Fair; cooler, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1 Fantewen! as Second-Clans Matter Vout @t'lce, New York, N. T. 921, GAS BOOSTS LAID ON SQUEEZE DEALS ATH STANDARD OIL , — p—— "C .topus” Absorbed Profits of Companis- It Controlled, While Independents, Buying Oil in Open Market, Were Making Good Money. Queens Borough Company Refused to Make With Oil Trust and Cleared 7 1-2 Per Cent. on Gas $1.15 a Thousand. The Queens Borough Gas and Electric Company makes more than 72 per cent. on a gas rate @f $1.15 a thousand cubic feet. The New York and Queens Gas Company, a Consolidated sub- Sidiary, insists it is losing money hand over fist at $1.25 a thousand, The Bronx Gas and Electric Com- Pany swears it is being driven into benkruptcy as $1.50 a thou- sand. Ott brothers two jast oh Solidated Ga and sisters of the ¢d companies in the Con- tamily are preparing to ell the Public Service Commission the same story in rute increase cases goon to be started. The New ¥ and Qucens Gas Company has sub mitted into evidence o tab) eges it needs more than $2 wand to break even Why does the Queer and Elect Compuny t gland alouve in th i te matory? The answer is OIL, While the Consolidated Gas and “@& its subsidiaries were using gas oil. for which they paid their pre dominating parent concern—the Standard Oi Company—at the rate of 12! cents a gallon, the Queens Borough Company was purchasing this product in. the @pen market at an average of about 7 cents a gallor the peak price of 104598 cents a ga jon, but tie atlenw ing tab ow what the fa ein py , acern, Curiten Macy. pail du he Com sted i) wn have FIGURES TELL THE STORY OF HIGH PRICED GAS January 6 February s 1 March - One 1 April f May é June Tuly Ausu Last year, for the ful: year, the Queens Borough paid only 6.163 eents a gallon Con solidated paid 7.5 cents Here obier Metropolitan + ‘amell of Standur Mr. Macy, when Standard Oi } while the in tht t lesson from the Mory or Ov" again approached by the t year with the 126 (Continued on Second Page) > -- TOOK MAN TO HOSPITAL, WOULDN'T TELL ABOUT HIM Retased to Explain How Fracture ot the Skull Was Cansed. Two men drove to the Harlam Hospi tal in a taxi lact night with Frank 1, forty years old, 343 East 1254 St Larner, of No. skull was fractured, After carrying him ta the accident warl t! vt awa ‘they did not tell how Larner recety tue ingur: ‘The hospital re 1 ta ence to tue police, Cut the hospital Det lives Begley and Cassidy of the Bast 126th Street Station saw Mark Hannan thirty-five years olf, a cteamfitter, of No, 49 East 46th Street, and William Lowry, twenty-five years old, a machinist, of No. 1708 Park Avenue, Nurses tdentified ‘them as having brought in Larner, As they refused to make any explanation they were arrested on a charge of as- sault, The detectives think Larner was hurt in a fight at Second Avenue and 121th Btreet. + | Contract “DEAD SURE THING,” POLIGE SAY, LED 10 $100,000 FORGERY Clerk’s “Get Rich Quick” Idea Said to Have Started From Stock Tip. NO WOMAN IS INVOLVED Ollson Pleads Guilty and Says the Money Will Be Found in Deposit Box. d sure thing” coming in the m of 4 “tip from a stock broker |'s what started Arthur E, Ollson, a | $49-a-week clerk in the employ of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com- | pany, on an alleged “get rich quick” | plan which has landed him in jail on | 4 charge of forgery. The amount is at $100,000, The police declared to-day that Oll- | son, who {s twenty-six years old and two children, had told them a | In which he had expected to | zet so much money from tthis “sure | thing” that he could quickly and eas- ily cover up the extended peculations the Metropolitan's accounts and have enough left over on which to retire When arraigned in the Centre Street Court to-day the prisoner pleaded ty to the specific charge of forg- an $18,000 check payable to C. Jackson and was held in i) for the Grand Jury by trate Corrigan. Ollsen was unable to furnish bail and was sent {to the Tombs | set | has ory fe young man was met in the 1 room by his father, and broke into tears as the parent talked earn- with him pgs actually ever, Olson b ty When the proceed- ol under way, how- aced up and told his court Corrigan | Magistrate at first inten- ied to set bail at $10,000, but counsel the company declared that only 15,009 of the $100,000 involved had been recovered Bail was then set $20,000, Durin ‘gument on the en the declared its company ability to trace the $55,000 still miss- ng. Olson said My is on her way here from the covatry with the keys to my safe Isposit, box, The company already has 1 re to an order giving them full ssion of the contents 4 the box. Then it will be found jr $100,000 is Intact Detective Dumphy of Police Head- quarters «nd Pinkerton Detective | Wagner arrested Ollson yesterday at tamford, Y, just as the clerk about to take a party of fellow vacationists on a tide in the touring ar he had bought before leaving on his vacation w Ollson took the opportunity pre- nied by the detectives to depart juietly, and telling his wife be would ac r he could checis up the numbers on his automobile, @ ff under arrest, That was tho wife beard of him until notified of s detention in Police Headquarters |ner | Ollson, who has been in the Met- | ropolitan's employ for seven years, | insists there is no woman in the case and that there was no ques- tion of the lure of Broadway, The police say they are inclined to be- eve him. Olison im the course of Ja week handled millions of dollans in Jeash and checks a his dexk, it was Jsaud. He lives at No, 241 ‘Bighty- | ninth Street, Brooklyn, | The diserepaney in Olson's ac- counts was not discovered until sev eval da ter the prisoner had left Jon ms vacation. ‘The first intimation | was of only @ minor nature, but oft Gra the commany decided to in Vestigate and soon learned tne ex- ltent “of Otlse dealing. He had taken advantage of the company roy tine whereby different oMocsrs on dif. fevort days ssue warrants for loans requisitioned by client It was in this way that Ollson made out a duplicate warrant in Mr, John- son's name on July 2%, took it to a bank, deposited 1t in Mr. Johnson's name and then drew against tt, re- depositing the checks in ten savings banks us ng different names. Since July 26 Ollsen has repeated the duplicate warrant transaction twioe, it is charged, once with §37,000 and again with $45,000. AND GRABS 2 MEN | PRETTY AND17,0F BEING BURGLAR WHO HAD LOOTED HER HOME benches. LOOTING A HOUSE,... Dukes Causes Arrest nl Bets eh tie erase Way cpa) oPter| ape Policeman Reidy Holds Up Pair Jimmying Doctor's Silver Chest. | | BOTH OUT ON PAROLE.| One Once Shot at ‘“Linkie” Mitchell in Sequel to “Tanner” Smith Murder. ‘Thomas Reidy is a cop of tact, re-| source, judgment and nerve, Single- handed he nabbed two burglars at 3 o'clock this morning while they were jimmying a chest of silver in the dining room of Dr. I. W. Drum- mond’s residence at No. 436 West 22d Street. : A woman told him that burglars had been in her backyard and had gone into that of Dr. Drummond, ad- |foining, ‘The Drummond family is away for the summer. Reidy examined the windows and doors, found an attempt to jimmy them had been unsuccessful, and con- cluded the burglars had gone to the roof. He aroused the tenants of a house several numbers away, got to the roof, removed his brogans and crossed several roofs to that of the doctor, where he found the scuttle open, Gun in band he descended floor by floor, finding on each floor evidences of the burglars’ visit, and then reached the dining room, where be saw the men at work. He fired a shot and turned on the electric light The two men at the silver chest jumped to their feet and threw up their hands. A large revolver and a stiletto lay on the chest Reidy backed his men into the doc- tor’s office, keeping them covered, switched on the light and telephoned to the West 20th Strect station, bring- ing to his aid Sergeant Dwyer and Patrolman Duffy. The tatter found it impossible to get in through any of the doors, so strongly had the house becn sealed, and he had to go over the roof. he policemen had to take their prisoners out of the house by the same route Pr. Drummond was summoned from his Jersey summer home and denied ownership of the weapons found on the silver chest He his commends on oof Reid The burgiars identified a Fdward Shore, elshtecn, No. 12 Tenth Avenue, and John Slattery, eighteen, No. 457 West 17th Street. ‘both out on parole, Shore is a brother of “Rubber” Shore, one of the men accused of the murder of “Tanner” Smith in the latter's club Tooms at Highth Avenue and (6th Street. After the murder “Rub ber’ got married and went to Hoboken for h He r mained und over for several da and the first night ! out of doors was warm in were honey moon his head and huled put » was she Edward Shore, who was arrested this morning, spent several days practising revolver shooting, then went to Hoboken and took five shots at “Linkle” Mitchell, who was sup- posed to be one of the sangsters who evened up the “Tanner” Smith mur- der. He failed to hit “Linkie.” pth comets ICE CREAM AND CHEESE FATAL TO LITTLE BOY. Doctor im Case Belicves the Com- bination Caused Lads Death. Lite ten years old, No 404 Bast Street died at three Mis morning, Dr PT. Le who attended him reports that tt betief tat t combinat Two weeks 9x50, an exoursion Lyle ioe cream and cheese, and beth w iit on the following day. The elder boy recovered but Lyle had been subjected to nausea spefis evar since and on Turs day was sent to bed. When the doctor reached the house at nine o'clock last night, he was delirious and had a very slight pulse. The doctor said that the case was hopeless, An autopsy will be necessary to determine the rea! cause of death. | L - soos boy was poire and tee cream ter returnin and his brot | whose Mrs. Camille Dukes of No. 914 Hast 167th Street caused the young wom- an’s arrest. It was after she found her town apartment had been robbed, CONFESSES, SAY POLICE.) Mrs: Dukes is the wife of Nu 1 A. —= |Dukes, public agcountant, and ts ;spending the summer at Arverne. Prisoner Suspected of Having|‘tuere on the beach she met Mrs. . ye | Ka ‘a ct it Committed a Series of | Kaplan, who was occupying a suite at one of the hotels. They went bath- Similar Deeds. ing together last Wednesday. Com- Fair Stranger She Met on | Arverne Beach. ing from the water, Mrs. Dukes dis- ce that $20 and the key to her tn wpartment had been stolen from whose eyes /her purse in her locker in the bath- Mrs Bthel Kaplan, seventeen hair is bobbed jare blue and who says she is living | house. ; She came to the city on an errand apart from her husband, wes held in} oy thursday and looked in her $2,500 bail for the Grand Jury '0-) apartment. She discovered that dress day by Magistrate Ryttenberg injing ca: had been ransacked ant Morrisania Court. The young Wo-|that a $500 diamond ring and various man, who gave her address as or i of clothing and several fur 5 East 111th Street, was charged with being a burglar. had been taken. She notified the p The police say she confessed to the |lic and detectivs who went’ to Ar- burglary for which she was arrested |verne said that when they arrested last night at Arverne, L, I. The au-| the young woman last night she was thorities tax her with a new and) wearing some of the stolen clothing ingenious method for robbery, !! is|Tuey also found in her possession, by making friendships with women |they said, the stolen vallse. at beaches and after becoming chum-| They said she admitted the my, robbing them. In this manner, |lary and told them she had obtained assert the police, she has committed /a loan of $90 on t > ring, which has robberies _ through acquaintances |been recovered. MOTHER WITH BABY IN ARMS pieces had been stolen. Also a valise GRAPPLES BURGLAR IN HOME casowe se ween) HAS ONLY $10,000 Mrs, Ethel Schachter, No. 64 Rush | Street, Brooklyn, was lying in bed} nursing her baby this morning when | she heard a noise in the dining room, She saw a young man open- | ’ ———— ing the drawers of a buffet. With} the baby in her arm she got up and | Former Fun Maker Voluntarily “what are you | Grand Jury to-day dismissed | directing his attention at any ume te faced him ,asking What a "0 Gay c 2 , sa any we to doing here?” The young man re-| /etitions to Be Adjudged | sixty of the ninety-tnree cases pre- any peculiar cireumatances, called up . ae. jooug ctor 2 ( Bankrupt [vented by District Attorney Marshall [the poliee booth ut Flushing Avenue plied ae Woes a made for the _ | Snyder, in many of whieh seareh wa9}and 47th Street at about 1 o'clock. named a puerta te eee on made without a seareh warrant, In} Shine anawered the signal. vex told ONL See sted to push be Lew M. Fields, aetor and manager, | expanse to questions, officers con: Titm that he and several others had young, man @ [ | fled a petition in voluntary bank- | cerned declared th Hono Informa= | hoon watehing two men who seemed to aside, but she clung to hin tlon of Mayor Hylan's letter ta Com ne rupley tueday in the Pederal Court have on st business hangin, started down the sal RO. ME Ye missioner Er iLexeept throweh the i . aj Tho theatre! man Pit 1 rbout door and windows of Chat screamed, Patrolman Valentine Al-| ties at $82,000 and his assets on open | cone its} hale Cree ackson Avenue and ater of the Clymer Street: Station) yecoun $i0;600:Jnool) Farmaniol} Onavcuse-digninod wan thal. of Drs|eee et heand her and arrested the man hae Geeta hate up| DARKENED AUTO WITH ENGINE near Mrreaton Gate) NO 346 roadway tlorney wa TREO ND) OR IN RUNNING, He gave his name as narre * *. took his tirst aid kit with him when A aged cighteen, No. 186 Monroe The principal creditors are B - Taha in|, Stine said the ga om his er, aged eighteen, No. 156 he went t ney Island tor a switt Ah ja i Street, Manhattan. Mrs, Schachtec| Altman & Co, $5,000; Max Blumen: [waite ordering a incal vo rentay.| ate’ tt that he would iqok the nald a purse containing $4 which was!thal, No. 145 Broadway, $6900; Henry | rant, he said. an offi forcibly ee tin, 7 5 e 4 | Starting home Ives encountered an a buffet drawer was misst THE | Waterson i ened hit’ and arrested him aie ae Jed taking il. A eearch of | nore Babi weet igs he found mail phial of|tttomobile without lights, but with nes % Peueaied the follow Wad 180000: WAND Chepmany| ey which was part of the sup-| ‘Re engine running, pulled up to the his pockets re’ 1p] Philadelphia, $5,000, Marcus Loew}... ‘ curb of Jackson Avenue, a block and] ticles: A gold pracelet, wilh initia plies slways carried in the Kit ace wrist w vol leadore H Weinstein, $3 | RY te ee an |# Ralf away. He hurried back to the Git a ladles Se ian infidel SWIER ee Wolk Waa God ‘ ee vd chin [{hep. from which he had telophoned men's gold watcher, ¢ y | yer, Lew Fields made} in 3 i Jt call Shine again. As he wax watt J, ¥ te", two fountain: pens, jun the eam af Weber and Rields| ea } soit {M8 for an anawer Shine passed in the gold one with initials "FM. I af | oute media tartad ya. i |streot going towards (hatfeld's: peneal with the ttt v1 =i ly t S \ 7 re | Ives and one of the men who had taining $196.19 ‘The pri wiht mtd, eatre and graduuted|omeer who ha nown m fe , a wallet containing iteres < |been with him started home again oner told the police he was minding|to Broadway They took over thr |long time and ordered to unwrap al Se Ug) ny Sn, Om Iw the articles for friend old Koster and Bial Concert Hall and|bundie he carried under bis arm, Helio. ie tnay are not all right.” With. While Cotler was being detainod|for a time made a fortune, The pair| deelined to do e aliaged, and was]... woment three shota from tho the telephone in the station rang|later separated. ‘They came toxether | 4 ed. At tho station no Gharge| ii ecuon of the garage turned the and Detective Knowles, who exain- [at times in revic and at benefits, | Was preferred, bundle a6) ieier carrier back on the run tned the prisoner, waa informed by] It has been whispered along Broad-| taken from h und fo con-) ie found Shine arguing with two a voice at the other end of the wire | way for some while that Field's man two hotles © 86) men who had ‘been passing in an au that the speaker was Dr. Solomon J. |agertal ventures hat not turned out] was dismissed | tomobiie and who wanted to belp bim Levine, No, 461 Bedford Avenue, and] well and that the tact s ad =< to a hospital. Shine insisted he would hat his home had been robbed dur-| him very hard PORTER CAUGHT IN DOOR, [nm go to a hospital until bis pris ing the night. He and his brother] Fields was aleo kiown as a epender THOUSANDS SEE RESCUE. : ae Jacob came to the station, where the]and when he was making big mone (Continumd on Second Page) brother identified one of the watches, | had a reputation for generonit Man's Sereama Attracted Throng} nent aie 4 pen and the pencil as he 9} _— um ; | SOUTHAMPTON GUESTS q ye inate aserat ROBBED AT PISTOL POINT Jacob Levine M ey and Veloa . <r i 4 ou rd & © of . Hife tn a Grent (its, era a whsiano plavine in the A barrel of asphaltum broke in front of the paint 5 ot Meadow Ch Tennis Tournament at Brothers, No. 84 Bowery, and sameone| Southampton, L. 1, were robbed of a thought to throw a match in the leak-| pocketbook, gold watch and jewelry age, producing a hot and lively fire] carly to-day. which threatened to destroy the wooden part of the elevated railway structure between Hester and Bayard Streets. ‘The blaze was put out by the Fire De- partment after an hour's fight, They were gurats of E. ©. Jameson at the Edgar Cottage, and were awakened by three intruders who cevered them with revolvers and after robbing them fed. | ourg: | POLICEMAN SHOT BY SUSPECT HE WAS QUESTIONIN _ HOLD. SUSPECT SHOOTS POLICEMAN ANDGETSANAY Patrolman Shine, Who Was | Questioning Loiterer, Is Suddenly Attacked. | (IS) WOUNDED TWICE. iMan Conversing With Assailant Arrested, but Denies Any Evil Intent. Bane Dd. Policeman ENRIGHT IGNORES | HYLAN SEARCH BAN Tell Dry Grand Jury No Offi- | cial Orders on Raiding Homes | Have Been Issued. had been transferred to Coronu some months ago. so that his duty would be nearer his home at No. 89 Kast Polk Avenue, Corona, where he has 4 wife and four children, ‘The man who shot Shine escaped ar- rest. Shine, desperately wounded, fired 4 shot after him as he ran and held prisoner a socond man, Thomas J. Cra- ven of No, 8 34th Street, Corona, until help came, Craven, insisting that he did not know Shine's assailant except that he had been accosted by few minutes before. is none the less held without bail by Magistrate Doyle in the Flushing Court unt) stories that he had been hanging about th neighborhood with the other man for him a | Police officers appearing in cases of alleged violation of the State Liquor under @pnsideration the Brooklyn Granu J lexed to Law are have declared that no official notice] an hour or more could be investicated has ‘been taken of Mayor Mylan's| John J. Ives, a letter carrier, of No. rent instructions to Police Commis. 179 Jackson Avenue, who, like other bt to discontinue sea responsible persons in th hood, bad been asked by § him in keeping the locality neighbor- hine to help safe by ite dwellings without w When Foot | THROWN OUT AS CARS HIT. THIRD MACHINE KILLS HIM. Automobile That Rans Over Patten Man Tren Nat ston. GAMDEN, Noo, Aug. 20 Thomas a | Polly four, of Moorestown, was Rroaning Road this mom twee fre when hls moter truek ran Into an- other machine. After he was thrown to jthe otreet he was run over by another automobile, Iding heard for door wrds Mother of Mra, Herbert Hoover! The driver of the machine which ran Die ‘over him did not atop after the accident. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal.,|An effort is being made to locate the Aug. 20.—Mra Charles Henry, mother |¢river of this machine. It haa not yet ot Mra. Herbert Hoover, died at the been determined whether Dolly died from Hoover hame here last night, fis fall or from being run over, ” obbed Hair Girl Is Accused of Being a Burglar | ENTERS BY ROOF © ACCUSES BOBBED HAIR GIRL, TO MAKE ULSTER “BARREN AS ROCK OF GIBRALTAR |One of Dail Eireann Labor Department Wants Boy- cott Made Drastic. | WOULD END COMMERCE. i] _ - |“That Will Give North Ireland | the Kind of Partition it Doesn’t Want.” Shine, t BELPAST, Ireland, Aug. 20 (Asso- |tamiltar figure to thousands who | ciated — Press).-Interviews printed obeyed his traffic signals at 84th] here, attributed to Alderman Mae. | Street and Sixth Avenue for etght| Donagh of Dublin of eann |years, was shot twice early to-d Labor Department e the eco j while investigating a man whose ac-|nomic pressure aguinst Ulster, de tions at Juckson Avenue and 40th} signed to bring Northern Ireland SSS — “| Street, corona, had been reported to| peaceably to what the Sinn Fein bim as suspicious. Shine, according | would regard as a more reasonable j |will probably recover from his | shutting off shortly of the movement wounds, though he barely escaped in-|of goods from Welfast into, South- stant death, The young policeman|ern Ireland ¢ “The boycott will grow more rigid every day, and very soon we may ‘ool | forward to the complete stoppage of all goods out of Belfast and‘ Alderman MacDonagh aying, “This will give kind of partition it does not want ne of its more .abid politicians has stated in Speech that Belfast was the Gibraltar of England in Ire- land. So long as this attitude js in- jdulged in it will bg the duty of all decent Irish people to Belfast as barren as the rock of Gibraltar. LONDON, Aug. 20.--OlMcial circles ‘ere are of the opinion that the Inah situation has net been material changed by tho speech of Premier Lloyd George. The continuation of legotiations is: looked for, but just what form this will take remains as mere conjecture There was no evideuce of thusiasm for the Government in any part of the he Members listened to the speech more with res- tion than with gratification The phrase, “explanat tion and elaboration” of make any en- heme on, clucida- details was considered to give tree play to efforts | toward negot ns to arrive at an agreement It was o noted that he Premier refrained from emphasiz- tng, as he done, the G has alwa heretofore ernment support of U!- éter in its irreconcilable attitude. If there was one omission from the speach which it is thought might have appreciably promoted an agreement, {t was his failure to answer the Irish question as to whether he accepted and wis prepared to adopt all the implications in Premier Smuts's let- ter, secing that that letter was put forward officially as the Govern- ment's of what their tion in practice con seheme meant N. Y. MERCHANT IS LOST AT SEA The Olympic, at Cherbourg, Re- ports Disappearance of Julius Smolin. CHERBOUG, Ang = 20.—Julins Smolin, a New York merchant, who was a cabin passenger on the steamer Olympic which sailed from New York Aug. 13, was reported \) the author- ities on the arrival of the vessel here to-day as having disappeared Wednesday afternoon. The vesse! was searched but no trace of him was found Mr, Smolin's son, who was on the same boat, said his father, who was sixty-two years old, suffered freay attacks of neurasthenia the passengers or crew Su 0 overboard Mr. Smolin was in the retail] m@ih nery business at No, % H. 34th Streat, His trip abroad was for his health, He was accompanied by his son, Nat C,. Smolin, and is survived by « widow, eon and daughter. The fam- fly resided at No. 1690 Seventh Avenue, ee et { wee a ee a