The evening world. Newspaper, December 12, 1921, Page 1

yEniNt ron EXTRA VOL. LXII. NO. 21,919—DAILY. Copyright (New York World) by Press Publishing Company, 1921, NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER “12, Entered ay 1921, Fost Office, New York, N. Second-Clnss Matter — \Dr. Glickstein’s Mother Drops Dead While Viewing Body NEWS OF DR GLICKSTEINS = MURDER KILLS HIS MOTHER Aged Woman Collapses as She Views Body of Son Slain on Saturday. CRIME STILL MYSTERY. Movements of Slain Physician| Troced to Philadelphia and Saratoga Springs. Mrs, Lena Glickstein, mother of Dr Abraham Glickstein, 6.30 o'clock on Saturday night was shot to death by an unidentified fell dead about noon foot of her son's coffin in the house No. who at to-day at the where the murder occurred 535 Bedford Avenue. News of the murder had been kept from the mother, who w at s seventy- four years old and had recently suf- fered a stroko of paral Two of! the dead doctor's daughters, M Florence Willing of No. 26 Bay Second Street, Bath Beach, and Mrs. Meiste r of Edgewater, N. J. brought the| mother from Harlem, arriving at the aeuse soon after 11 o'clock. They had told thelr grandmother that their father had undergone an operation for appendicitis, When the auto neared the house there were in the neighborhood of 1,500 persons gathered on the side- walk and swarming the front steps, and the street was jammed with automobiles. Mrs, Glickstein in- stantly divined the truth and began) to cry. “Oh, my Abic is dead!" she moaned. Her granddaughters got into the house through the basement, entrance up the stairs being impossible because of the crowds. They broke the news to her as gently as possible, and were joined by another daughter of the doctor, Frances, fifteen years old. The trio assisted the stricken woman into the doctor's office, where the casket ay and which also was densely crowd- ed, the atmosphere being heavy with the scent of flowers. ‘Oh, Abie, my boy,” she wailed in Yiddish, “you hould go to my funeral, not me coming to yours. These candles should he for me.” The granddaughters ied her to a seat at the foot of the casket, and| she repeated her cry: “Able, my boy! My boy!” She then clasped her hands and | tumbled th a state of collapse to the floor, Several physicians were in the crowded apartment and the first to reach the prostrate woman was Dr. Samuel Swetnick of No. 286 South Fourth Street, who raised his hand) as he knelt beside her to indicate that he had passed away. “Her heart has failed,” he said. Instantly all was confusion in the home of death and the funeral ar- rangements for the murdered man wore temporarily suspended. Tae doctor's daughters, as well as bis wife, became hysterical, as did other women in the gathering, and it de- yolved on the men to carry the body of the aged mother into an adjoin- ing room and minister to the doubly stricken daughters. ‘There were alsoin the house Eliand Meyer, sons of the dead Mrs, Glick- (Continued on Second Page.) ——>__ MAN’S ARM IS BROKEN IN NEW I. R. T. TURNSTILE Another's Finger Is Cat Off, Both at 66th Street. Interborough officials are trying to find out what, if anything, is the mat- ter with one of the new nickel-in-the slot turnstiles at the 66th Street sta~ ‘ion of the Broadway subway. Two passengers have been hurt there, gonn Harrington, No. 199 17th street, Brooklyn, hrough U nachine yesterday and came out with a broken arm. He was attended by 1 surgeon trom Flower Hospital and sent home. To-day Ralph Peitt, No. venth Avenue, went through same machine, and the hand was cut off. ad a9 News on Page B. passed 1 the finger’ of his le woman, | | The six plants in this city, little | PACKERS DECLARE STRIKE HERE WILL NOT AFFECT PRICES ao | 5,000 Men Out and Plants | Crippled by Walkout To- Day, Say Union Leaders. w York's strike of meat cutters, | drivers, slaughterers and other em- ployees of six large packing plants who walked out to-day in sympathy | | with the strikers in the West will not inerease the price of beef in this city, it was announced by the Institute of «-morican Meat Packers, No. 17 Bast | 42d Strect, which ‘are all subsidiaries of the “Big Five,” kill little of the beef consumed in New York except that consumed by the kosher trade, it was explained, and the effects of the strike, the statement continued, are not expect- | ed to be serious locally, { Union estimates of the number of the strikers are 5,000, but employers stated this afternoon that only about 3,000 men are employed in the six plants and that only 2,500 of them walked out. Other plants at which the men went on strike are: United Dressed Beef | Company, 44th Street and First Ave- nue; New York Butchers Dressed Meat Company, 40th Street and 11th Avenue: Stern & Co., 40th Street and North River, J. J. Harrington & Co., 48d Street and First Avenue, and} Nagle & Co., Jersey City, The unions refer to these concerns as the “Local Big Five." W. A. Lynde, gencral manager of |the Wilson & Coe. station here, ad- initted that all Lhe 600 packers, driv- crs, chauffeurs and butchers employ: |by his company aro out and thirty- |fve wagons tied up. He declared there had been no previous warning, and was at a loss to explain the strike uxcept as a sympathetic walkout with the Chicago unions, First Avenue from 420 to 46th Streets, the packing | house district, was lined with trucks | this morning. At union headquarters it was said the strike was called in obedience to orders from the international office in Chicago as a protest against the| alleged tactics used there to force tho | men into the company's unions, They based their charges of sympathetic action by the packers on the failure of a conference here Saturday night. ‘The men declared thelr contract had expired several months ago and rep- resentatives of the unions and the butchers had been conferring to draw up a new working agreement, The untons yesterday voted on the strike. The men, all members of the Amal- gamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workinen’s Union of North America, declared they were making from $20 to $30 a week and recently received a 10 per cent. cut in wages, So far there ‘ias been no trouble Firms not so far affected by tho strike declare that even should it ex- tend to them there ts sufficient meat in stock here to last a week without any shortage in the retail trade being felt. Shortly after 500 employees of the Nagle Packing Co. walked out in Jersey City, it was reported that employees of the Swift, Armour, and Cudahy plants would go out this fternooh, Chief of Police Battersby sent 200 policement to the Nagle plant ‘3 8 caution against possible trouble. ucks were loaded ith | meat at he N ¢ plant when the |men walked out and the drivers re-| fused to move them. At the Swift & Co. plant in Harrison, N. J. 250 men | ated Press).—The text of a treaty be- | the t reached with Japan, Great | Britain, under the Treaty of Ver- suilles, was given the mandate for JAPAN TO RULE YAP, BUT OTHER POWERS GET EQUAL RIGHTS \lso Gets Mandate to Oth Islands Above Equator by New U. S. Treaty. BRITISH PACT SOUGH7. Japan Also Gives Up Her Post Offices in China, to Date From Jan, 1, 1923. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (Associ- tween the United States and Japan covering an agreement as to the status of the Island of Yap was made public Inte to-aay at the state Department. The treaty prohibits fortification of and of Yap and gives Japan the right to maintain order. The treaty, it was said in official American quarters, leaves suzerainty, or control, over the Island of Yap to Japan, observing the inandate received under the Treaty of Versuilles, Japan, | it was said, also was given control over the other mandated islands north of the equator. Negotiations with Greac follow for Britain are 4 similar agreement as former German islands in the Pacific south of the Equator and it wan sald she United States would proceed to dea! with Great Britain with respect to these. Under the treaty, it was said that the United States would stand on an equal footing with all of the five principal powers as to the privileges accorded on the Island of Yap and the other islands mandated to Japan. This nation, it was said, would have the same right as Great Britain and other nations, including Japan, as to the use of the islands, with the ex- ception that Japan would have the chnical suzerainty, Japan through her Arms Confer- ence delegation announced to the powers represented in the Far East- ern Committee of the Washington conference to-day her willingness to withdraw Jupanese postoffices from China Jan. 1, 1923. The Japanese delegation coupled the announce- ment with a request that more Jap- anese be employed in the Chines? post office. a ee ALICE BRADY INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT Was Not “Ba y Hart, bat One of Her Company W ALBANY, Dec. 12.—Alice Brady, ac- tress, was slightly injured in an auto- mobile accident early to-day at East Greenbush, but announced she would be able to fill an engagement ‘nere this afternoon, Leo Mielviner jr. of New York, known on the stage as Leo MoKenzle, and Adelaide Sullivan, members of Miss Brady's company, were with Miss Brady. McKenzle suffered injuries which prevented him from keeping his She engagement hi Miss Sullivan was uninjured, The car was overturned when the chauffeur, in attempting to avoid a collision, swerved to the side of the road, a BORAH DENOUNCES PACIFIC TREATY AS MILITARY ALLIANCE WASHINGTON, Dec, 12.—The pro- posed “Quadrupie Pacific Union" was denounced as & “military alliance” by Senator Borah of Idaho in the Senate to-day in a speech in which he se- verely eriticised the Arms Conference for failure to take steps to eliminate submarines and poison gas from war- —— M. VIVIANT TO SAIL WEDNESDAY! WASHINGTON. Dec, 12 (Assoctated Press).—Rene Vivian!, former Premier walked out at noon ‘The statement of the packers said that the walkou, was u great sur- prise to them be agreement with the men which had five months to rum. use they had an tp of France and head of his delegatioin at the Armament Conference since the de- parture of Premier Briand. made plans ay to wall for home inesday on eamahip Paris, together with Mme. other members of i v EXPLOSION IN CHEMICAL PLANT AT GARFIELD, N. J., BURNS 37; SEVEN N NOT EXPECTED TO LIVE sian (one arrest Arrest Since Nov. ! Blast in Funk Owens Owned by Allan) A. Ryan Caused by Acid Explosion. Thirty men were seriously and seven are believed to have been mortally injured when an explosion wrecked the Heyden Cheniical Works at Garfield, N. The men who are thought to be dying are in the Passaic Hospital. The building, was soon in flames, and resisted the efforts of the Garfield and Passaic departments to save it, of & group of several that were taken over by the Government. They for- merly belonged to a German concern and were sold by Allan A. Ryan. An explosion of salicylic acid is said to have caused the explosion. The camage is estimated at a half million dollars. GATE ON TRAIN MOWS DOWN TEN INLENOX SUBWAY Odd Mishap on Moving Car) » late this afternoon a four-story brick, It is ne the Government to Caused Injuries and Excitement. The folding iron guard fence be tween the first and second cars of a train entering the downtown side of | the Lenox Avenue subway station at | 116th Street worked loose to- swung wide over the platform. The gate caught and mowed down| eight or ten persons before the| screams of those who were hit and | the shouts of others warned the mo-| torman and he put on the emergency brake. Station guards and ticket choppers and passengers untangled the fright- ened heap of persons who had been} swept up by the gate. | Those who were attended ambulance surgeons were Kasriel, twenty-six, No, 62 West 118th Street, left Jeg bruised; Norma. A Turner, twenty-three, No. $51 West 114th Street, face cut; Bertha Prince, twenty-three, No. 118 West 115th] Street, left leg bruised; Louts Stern, fifty-six, No, 293 East 115th Stree! hurt internally; Bess!e Brickman, twenty-two, No. 8 West 115th Street, right hand cut and bruised; and Rob- ert Perlman, forty-three, No. 950 Clin- ton Street, the Bronx, hurt internally All except Perlman were able to go home afte: their hurts were dressed Verlman was taken to the hospital, | FOREIGN TRADE OFF $6,000,000,000| by the} Fannie WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Pxports during November were the lowest (or any month this year, wiile imports} were higher than at any time during the past six months, according t ports issued to-day by the Cc Department, Exports totalled $295,500,000, as| compared with §$848,600,000 in October) and $676,500,000 in November, 1920, while imports aggregated $211,300, as compared with $188,000.000 in Qc tober and $221,000,000 In November a year ago. During the éleven months endea with November exports aggregated $4,11,000,000, as against $7,508,000,000 during the corresponding months of| 1920 and Imports totalled §2,272,- 000,000, against $5,019,000,000 during the game months last year, ‘| who is charged with WOMEN IN THRONG. woe AT MURDER TRIAL OF GUSSIE HUMANN Crowds So Big Police Forced to Drive Score Out of Court. Ar, There was snch a crowd in th | upper corridor of the Queens County, Court House in Long Island City this morning, eager to attend the openins session of the trial of Gussie Humann, the murder jarbe, that it was ne ary for one downstairs, in the crowd a large number of women, many wel ) dressed and the kind invariably foun at sensational tri and I know Um ng to be acquitted of |her former sweetheart, Harry Dewey por Ice and court officers to drive every | were HELD AS BROADWAY MAIL BANDIT ON TIP OF EXSWEETHEART | Identified by Driver of Postal Truck. WOMAN HELPS POLICE, Gifts to Her Leads to Capture. Accused of implication in the $1,500,000 mail truck robbery in '2| Leonard Street, near Broadway, at 110.80 o'clock on the night of Oct. 24, ank Calabrese, thirty-two of No. Monroe Street, Hoboken, was ar- raigned before United States Com- missioner John Wahl Queen In Jer- City | $50,000 ball to await examination. | The proceedings revealed that Cala- sey this afternoon and held in brese has been a prisoner since Nov 1, when he was arrested In Jersey City Daniel Casey and Detecitves Cusack of the p ey ordered the arrest, be- cause thought Calabrese looked like -one of the four bandits as de- |scribed by Frank Havernack, driver by Capt. Sadlak force, and ice he 1 of the mail truck empty seat remained in Judge Humphrey's court room when | 4 teW days after the arrest Hover. the examination of t nack was taken to Jersey City by gun, On one of the Post Office Inspectors, He was unable just back of the rail Inclosing the |‘ identify Calabrese by appearance, tables for counsel and newspaper | but said he recognized his voice as men, sat the family of the young de-|'hat of the man who jumped on the fendant. inning board of the truck in Broad- Members of the Garbo family were | way, just north of Chambers Strect, in the District Attorney's office, | put the muzzle of a pistol against his While sic was in tho fail awating| body and commanded him fo turn summons to the court, Gussie Hu- | west into Leonard Street, where .th mann talked for a few minutes to |truck was looted of four bags of reg- | Newspaper men. “Lam glad | istered mail. my lonesuine experience in jail is at| While the Mentification was not sat- an end, lad Tam going to trial, be- |4#factory, Calabrese was held because cause I’. eagér for vindication as |! Was Wanted in Hergen County on a charge of burglary, About a week the District Attorney sems to be for| go, Calabrese wis ordered to put on my conviction, 1 shall go on the|» pair of thick cyeglasses and tak stand and tell the truth of course, | yis place in line with nine other men n Jersey City Police Headquarters, I'm not worried, not @ it nervous.” | Havernack was brought irto the District. Attorney Dana Wallace} room and unhesitatingly nicked Cala- enid that he was sure ne would be] brese out of the line. On that tden- able to find twelve men in the county} fleation, a formyl charge war made, (Continued on Second Page.) | (Continued on Second Page) VIOLENT JUMP 1} N EXCHANGE GREAT STIMULUS TO TRADE; POUND STERLING NOW $4.23 1-2, Franc Up 55 Points Si ince Saturday and Mark | Doubles in Month—Rise Due to Four-Power Treaty and De Quite recently Fren francs were| bt Refund Plan. Of huge importance to every Ine of our foreign trade greatly and prove | | business .n this country, according to|'® be of tremendous benefit to busi- ness generally, Disvegarding (he leading Wall Street bank wa 8 fe fluctuations in the price of commod! sensational rise this morning in 4ll| ties, jt means, for instance, that Eng the principal foreign exchange mar-| lish merchants can now buy Ameri ket can goods at approximately 92 per leent. less cost than when the pound Before noon the English pound ster en ie ster ves at its low ouark, Germas ling was quoted at $4.23 1 @iP Ol) manuiacturers and rigichants cua we than 10 cents over the close Of! buy American raw it « andl ay and a rise of more than | manufactures at about Walt the cost $1.02 over the low record quotation | entaiied @ month or so ago established last yea The violent rise in all the exchange markets is due to the “Four Power quoted at less than 7 cents per franc.| Treaty” on Pacific affairs agreed upon | This morning they were traded 10 | petween the United States, England at 884 cents ner franc, u rise of 55! Japan and France; to the action of the paints ove one of last week Eenate Finance Committee on Satu: German marks baye neatly doutled|day in agreeing to the House bil in yalue tn the last mont Te-day! which proposes the refunding of for- they were quoted at 61 one-hun-feign war debta to tho United States dredins of a cent, compared with alin the form of certificates which wil recent low of one-hundreaths of/ run until 1947 and whieh wili ocar 5 |a cent | por Tho rise In these exchanges, acoord- | ing to bankers, 1s bound to-stimuiate RR ect aa eS cent, Interest, and also to the favorable developments af the Arms Conferences, Letter Telling of New Girl and| P | Belfast Meeting That Becomes | Stormy Over England’s Attitude. Premier Declares to Ideals, but U EXMAYOR OF CORK SHOT BY STRANGER, WHO 1S ARRESTED Assailant’s Name Kept Secrest; Disturbances Renewed in Belfast. CORK, Dec, 12 (Asfoclated Pre —Petrick Meade, former Mayor Cork, was shot end wounded by unidentified assailant while he vpening his place of business morning, ‘The man who fired at him was arrested, but his name had not been made public this afternoon, A compositor by the name of Wil- llamas, employed by the Cork Constl- tution, was fired at and wounded by an unidentified man aa he was return- which broke cut here in some Isolated scctions Saturday night were renewed st night Several shooting affrays | weurred, In which two men, were | wounded. One man was arrested, charged with having fired at a soldier, DUBLIN, Dec, 12.—One of the most powerful influences oppos- ing the treaty is the Radical ‘Transport Union, Leaders of this union charge the Irish Government leaders merely used the people of Ireland as tools, and then sold thera out by signing the treaty. ‘The union professes to be ready to fight any- | body and everybody before accepting lthe set Jement, Wait until Weanoytay, uf the union chiefs suid; “if the treaty is vatifed you will see a show staged,” IL was intimated the transport workers would start thelr own revor lution, The Irish Republican Aimy so fears the transport workers that re- cently all rifles were ordered brought in for inspection and those of the one |transport men were not returned to them When one of the union chiefs was asked about this he 1 mind, we have eee 4 DEAD, 1 DYING FROM LANDSLIDE ABERDEEN, Wash., Lee. 1.—Two nen, a woman and a baby are dead, ind two men are injured, one per- haps fatally, 48 « result of two slides | n the Clemons Logging Company's Railroad, about sixteen miles south- at of Abe last nigist —_- \ HIGHER DETROIT FARES UPHELD BY HIGH COURT | sere mucanes | WASHINGTON bee, 1 8 preme Court De- United ? sa ralse subu fixed In contracts, in ¢ t brought | against the company ‘y tnd seven | other townships and age of Birm- ingham, of an was this | ing home from work carly to-day. 11s assailant has not been arrested. BELFAST, Dec. 12,—Disturbances | **'Jege passed @ resolution instructing CRAIG HOLDS LLOYD GEORGE BROKE PLEDGES 10 ULSTER: CALLS SITUATION SERIOUS North Will Cling tges Moderation in BELFAST, Dec. 12 (Associated Press).—Sir James Craig, the Ulster Premier, presided over a meeting of the Union:st Party here 'to-day, In- forming his supporters of his recent conversation with Prime Minister Lloyd George In London. It 1s unofficially reported the pro- ccedings grew stormy when Sir James informed the meeting that Mr. Lloyd | George hag maintained an unylelding attitude toward Ulster. 1t was intimated that, except for a | tew trifling changes, the British Pre- mier had declined to make any con- cessions, his attitude being: “There is the treaty, and it stands. In a statement on the general oat+ look, Sir James described the s‘cua- tion as grave, but recommended an attitude of courage and optim! sm, He id Ulster was determined not to swerve one Inch from the path she had worked out und noc to alter her ideals, He accused Mr. Lloyd George of a bfeach of his pledge to Ulster. No decision was reached at to-day’s meeting as to whether Ulster will jelect to retain its representation at Westminster or enter the Dublin Parliament. In political circles here, however, it is regarded as a certainty that Ulster will continue to associate jherself with the British Parliament. Some Ulster leaders asserted to-day that such action would not be on ac- count of “any love of England, but for Ulster's own reasons.” ULSTER AGENTS IN CONFERENCE WITH SINN FEIN De Valera Said to Be Planning to, Accept Treaty, But After Brief Fight. DUBLIN, Dec, 12. tween | A conference be- representatives of Northern and Southern Ireland is under way here to-day. Two important Uletermen, for Premier Sir James Cra! were closeted with Arthur Griffith and other Sinn Fein leaders who favor ratification of the peace treaty. The subjects under discussion were re- garded ar of the utmost Importance Secing that the overwhelming trend of public opinion in Ireland favors ratification, De Valera is said to be planning to recede from his attitude vt hostility toward the |treaty, after making a perfunetory fight against It, | ‘This change in his attitude may come during the session of the Dat) en Wednesday, when it is considering ratification, or it may come immedt- ately after the vote of approval. Be then could announce that he would not oppose the majority will of | Ireland. | aaa TRINITY COLLEGE BOARD ON RECORD FOR RATIFICATION acting ) Dire, Urge in Dall 4 British nent to Approve Treaty. DUBLIN, Dev, 12 (Aveosiated Press).—Trinity College put iteelf on record to-day in favor of ratification ef the peace treaty between Great Britain and Ire’and. The board of directors of the col- MHC a