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Pe TRO ee PRR TI ee ee TL wi Moy) EXTRA woe, [*Cirentation Books Open to All.” | Open to ) AIL? | | VOL. LXII. NO. 21, 922—DAILY. Copyright (Ne York World) Publishing Company, 1921. by Press Sank Meaeine | Robbed of | Payroll Before Crowd Has a Time to Act. CHASE BEGINS AT ON¢ ~4ive Armed Men Flee in Auto, | Kept Waiting at Curb With Engine Running. kK On o within sInet police station Brooklyn, four bandits, two of whom | displayed revolvers, held up two mes- | busy public thoroughtare | of pr Greenpoint, | a stone's throw the in Beagers of Bank at 11.39 o'clock armed one of them, grabbed containing $17,076.45 and escaped in an Automobile. The holdup brought out! the Greenpoint to-day. im the fact that the var used by the bandits was stolen in Manhattan Jast |} night. ‘THE Greenpoint National Bank &t Greenpoint and Manhattan‘ Ave- { guds, two blocks the Green- f point ferry house. The police station is across the street from the bank. Hard by is the teeming Greenpoint and Williamsburg water front manu- from n bound to and from the ferry and be- Ween: Williamsburg and Long Island City congest the streets William Mehling, twenty years old. of No. 209 Nassau Avenue, and Henry Leistner, eighteen years old, of No. 248 Kingsland Avenue, left the wee with the bag containing the joney with the purpose of delivering 't at the ractory of the Eberhard Faber Pencil Company at No, 39 reenpoint Avenue, 2 little more than block distant in the direction of the East River. They carried the bag petweén them, Mehling had a loaded revolver in his pocket. As the young men walked westwara in Greenpoint Avenue toward the terry, a Buick touring car, running lose to the curb overtook them and stopped. Four men leaped from the car. Two with ‘drawn revolvers con- fronted Mebling and the others went toward Leistner. “Hand over your gun," commanded yue of the armed robbens. Mehling handed it over, He was promptly knocked down, The other bundits grabbed the bag. A fifth bandit at the wheel of the par started the engine, The quart- stte piled in and the automobile, fathering speed, turned south in Franklin Street, a block from the tiver in the direction of Williams- burg. Mehling speedily regained his feet Accompanied by Leistner, he ran to the police station and reported the sobbery to Lieut. Max Neumeyer. A dozen persons who had witness- | td the hold-up accompanied the mes- sengers. They agreed that the license pumber of the car used by the hold- pp men was 209-848 New York and that It was a Buick model. | ~ ‘Within ten minutes orders to every policeman in New York to look out for the car bearing that license number ere shooting over the police wires. Detective Captain Carey took charge! \ Gt the case and enlisted the aid of | jvery detective in Williamsburg, Hunt- | er’s Point, Greenpoint and Long Isiand ClPhe messengers. after being questioned at the Greenpoint station were sent to Police headquarters in anhattan to look over the Rogues’ allery. They said one of the armed} bandits was short and stocky and| wore @ dark overcoat. The other was | bout five feet nine inches tall, slender and wore a dark brown fedora and a| eenish overcoat. They were about Rrenty-five years old. The car belongs to Julius Lowen- bein, a picture frame manufacturer, t No, 67 East Fifty-ninth St.cet, who lives at No, 869 West 180th Fireet, It was stolen last igs 9 ‘clock from Amsterdam . sit Weat Eiguty-neventh Street. o. fo Vv w w th bi {a bi a 5 el eral days to come. of them. Mantel cently fined United States District Court, be investigated by a New York Coun- ty Grand Jury for the same offenses, | Samuel Lockwood Committee, in making the | U1 Willlam F. of the Plumbers’ Union, on a felony when Chapr tiary term for conspiracy with John $17,676 IN CROWD WITKIN TOO FEET OF POLICE STATION UNION MEN TOTRY ALTERING RULES 10 CONFORM WITH LAW toped Action of of Building Strike. At an executive meeting of the | Lockwood Committee following the Michael P. Col- Gallegher, morning session, M. ay et President; | terers' Local Union No. 60 of Man- attan and the Bronx, promised to make every effort to bring the rales nd by laws of the union within the, aw by Jan. 1 next The union men saw they took due jotice of Samuel Untermyer's contén- tion that it is not legal for a union » fine employers, prevent the re- peated use of a plasterer's model or facturing section. ‘Trolley car lines demand more than union wages on yun in both avenues. Pedestrians penalty of a strike. But they suid gwarm the sidewalks and trucks they wanted a chance to consult their The only union repre- | wh counsel, ntative who did not admit the need or radical changes was John Pear jee President. According to Mr. Untermyer, unions hich reform thetr rules by Jan, 2 ill be immune from prosecution, so far as he is interested. Conferences will be held with rep- esentatives of other trades for sev- Regilar sessions the committee will give way to It 1s the hope of the committee that ne changes in the union rules may make easier the averting of a general uilding strike on January. Members of the Tile, Grate and Association, who were re- or imprisoned in the are to Untermyer, counsel to tho nnouncement to-day asserted that a | State prosecution, following a Federal conviction and punishment, was legal. He sald the proposed action was jus- tifled by the statements of Brooklyn uilders yesterday that tile dealers still maintain uniform prices, which re settled upon at meetings of dealers and manufacturers. ‘The additional criminal term of the upreme Court will also be used, Mr. ntermyer said, to bring to trial Chapman, business agent harge, under which he can be sent to Sing Sing if convicted. The Plumbers’ Union last October, nm finished his peniten- (Continued on Second Page.) Sunday World Classified Advertisements Should Be in The World Office On or Before Friday Order Sunday World Classified Advertising To-Day. The World Plasterers | Will Aid in Averting General . and other officers of Plas- | | the State, ‘CRAIG SAVES CITY MILLIONS “NEW. ‘YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1921, DAIL NO NEARER capeorrnemaeeeae Myr nee! hid Cirenlation Books Moss to All. ii Entered ax Aecond-Clave Matter Post Uttlety New York, N. ¥. To-Morrow's Weather—CLOUDY; WARM PRICE THREE CENTS. DECISION BY ‘WAITING IN SALE OF BONDS COLLINS SAYS, THOUGH HE EXPECTS A VOTE TO-MORROW TILL INTEREST RAVE DROPPED |Bankers Asked 51-2 Per Cent. Only a Few, Months Ago—Issue To-Day Was Floated at 41-2 Per Cent. Tye syndicate headed by J.P. at SPOKESMAN FOR BRITAIN SAYS Syndicate bid tor the total] aegis OunL or None at 108.40 This bid Secretary Hughes to | was the highest of fifty-eight offers coming from financial firms all over Statement on Terms Later * in the Day. mostly for a part of the misread total issue, The stuck issue was oversubscribed spproximately four times, the aggre- gute being $218,909,100 offered. It) wus the first long-term issue the city 3 attempted: to float since July 12, 1917. he proceeds are to go tor improve- ments in New Yofk City’s rapid tran- | sit ‘facilities. ‘ Composing the successful synd{- cate are: J. P. Morgan & Co.; Stato] WASHINGTON, Dec, 15 (United | urities Co.; First National Bank; | Press)—The naval ratio problem in tional City Co.; Guaranty Co.: | settled, according to information from | Saukers Trust Co.! Brown Bros: & | Great Britain's gemi-official spoke: Co: Harris, Forbes & Co. man thie afternoon, An announci The issue is in gold corporate stock | ment thereof will be made later th tor fifty years, maturing in 1971 and | afternoon by Secretary of Sthte bearing 41-2 per cent. interes Hugh: The bonds are exempt from ederal| WASHINGTON, Dee, 1 (Associated taxation. | Press).—Consideration ‘of the naval City officials to-: day praised Comp-| ratio question was understood t troller Craig, saying he had saved the} pave béen completed to-day by the city millions by refusing last spring | “pig Three’ of the Washington Con- to be influenced by Wall Street finan-| ferenc ciers, who, he claims, “importuned! Plans for and almost coerced" him in an at-| Naval Committee of fifteen, tempt to gain his sanction to | senting all five of the naval powers, $100,000,000 $1-2 per cent. long cates ats made after the conclusion of e. The Comptroller stood flim|the session of the Big Three. The for an interest rate of 41-2 per cent, | meeting was expected to result in the - {taking up immediately of the next Figuring straight interest for ‘ftv! sey in the naval negotiations—the years, the difference between 41-2 and) French and Italian naval ratios per cent. is $27,200,000. Alternate proposals as worked out on the compound interest basis, vi. experts, were presented to- | tary Hi . would be many times this figure. bone aren seat, fughes, Mr. Balfour , Although the Comptroller refused! ‘The proposals, submitted us a to say who had attempted to coerce | means of balancing the naval ratio t0 | compensate for the retention of .the | the city, it wan stated that early this | ries ae Sapan, would permit Creat | year strong pressure was brought to/ Britain to build two super-Hoods, bear from Wall Street, The financiers | scrapping four old dreadnoughts and a Mcial put it, | one battle eruiser of the type of the | Involved were, as one oMicial put ity) river and Repulse, or to bulld two “no pikers.’ battleships of the Royal Sovereign ‘The Comptroller said he later had| class, scrapping of four dreadnoughts the pleasure of seeing a break in the Dut no battle cruisers. i The United States nuder the ar- money market when Interest rates) -ingement yetains the battleships dropped from 51-2 to 6 per cent.| Colorado and Washington in place uf When financiers pointed out that this|the Delaware and North Dakota. M i been definitely settled that | rate was propitious for a city bond! also has 1 is sale, the Comptroller told them the the naval agreement will embrace a i status quo understanding as to naval! rate would Hiave to be lower still he-/ pases in the Pacific. The tonnage fore he would Jaunch the s GERMANY, UNABLE TO PAY REPARATIONS DUE ON JAN. 15, ASKS FOR A MORATORIUM, If Allies Do Not Grant Request, the Govern- _ment Announces It Will Have Recourse to Credit Operations. BERLIN, Dec. 16 (Associated Press).—The German Government, tt was announced to ‘ay, has informed the Committee of Guarantees that it Germany to pay Jan, 15 ame a meeting of th new repre- she might be given 4 respite from future payments, provided the Allies were cerity ee ARBUCKLE DEFENSE impossible for the sum due in reparations and that she consequently asks a moratorium. If moratorium is not granted, the German Government, Elim! Them as Evidenc SAN FRANCISCO, Dec, > 1 compelled to have | it: eLMtGh (w ate vvration te, |[PArations for « hot battle over the | to « credit operation @n Eeorurye be 4 funds {uestion of Anger prints in the seo~ ° ire the necessary funds eerste ond trial next January of Roscoe PARIS, Dec. 15.—The note from the| (Fatty) Arbucle for ths alleged man- German Government says that it has|slaughter of Virginia in raising “certain por- of the funds necessary to meet the payments but is unable to| obtain the balance, either through loans, external or interna! or other financial measures. ‘The reparations instalments due on January 16 and February 15, respect- ively, amount to 500,000,000 gold marks each. At the close of recent meetings of the Reparations Commis-| state contended that the prints sion in Berlin it was semi-officially|showed conclusively that Arbuckle intimated that i¢ Germany could find|had used force in keeping Miss @ way of paying these instalments|Rappe within bis room, Lit Gh Ruppe, were being made to-day The defense, court, set two criminologists at work on a study of the prints on the door of the hotel suite, where Miss Rappe was alleged to have been injured. At Arbuckle’s first trial no attack | on the finger prints made by Arbuckle's lawyer's, The under an order of the 4 lhe Irish peace agreement “convinced of Germany's sin- | ' | FIGHTS FINGER PRINTS | i 15.—Pre- | evidence was | he te abs Army Chief Thinks Agreement ' May Be Reached in Secret Session To-Night. @) FOR; AGAINS1. 17 47 Canva: Indicates Treaty | Certain to Be Ratified Ultimately. DUBLIN wee. 15 (Associuted tress) Hope that the Dail Eireann would |be able to reach a vote on ratfic | on of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in a session to-morrow wis ex- ssxed by Michacl Collins, one of the sdvoeates of ratification, as the Dail went into another secret session at ‘6 o'clock this evening. ‘vefore afternoon’s secret session Mr to the Associated Press corre Just he went in for this Collins | sata | Spondent: “We are no nearer to an agreement than when the public session ad. | | journed yesterday. We are moetines, ‘until dinner time, I fervently hope Unut in @ third secret session to-night we May reach an agreement and have u public session Friday to vote dof- initely on ratification or rejection It was declared by supporters of Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith that they and the other signers of now felt majority in ertaip of an ultimate favor of the treaty. ‘They declared no prominent perso in any part of Ireland had yer pro- tested against their action In signing un agreement with the British Cabi- pet. The general impression in Dub!in to-day was that Lord Carson's | speech in the House of Lords list night had helped Collins and Griftity In their fight in the Dail for the treaty's ratification, Tt was pointed out that Lord Carson had pictured the English action toward Ulster in a light that bore out the prediction of Michael Collins on his famous speech at Armagh September, when he said that England would use Ulster as long as it suited her purpose and then throw her over. As to Mr. De Valera’s position with regard to the treaty, it is asserted that when the Government's proposals were submitted to the Dail Cabinet on Sept. certain objections were 3, made which he does not think wi adequately met in the final draft. The « | secret session is occupied with a di cussion of those points, and it was said after last night's adjournment that the members had got no further along in their discussion than they were when the public session was concluded carly in the afternoon The controversy over the proced- ure of the Irish delegates ix re- garded with impatience by tho press and the public, and expressions are heard on every side urging a dec!- sion on the real issue—acceptince or | rejection of the agreement. A large crowd assembled this morning to watch the me of the Dail arrive at the University, where the being held, and the welcoming cheers were again impartially distributed. 'To-day’s newspapers publish a latter purporting to have been written by Mary MacSwiney, sister of the late again abers jonal | (Continued on Second Page.) ee WILSON THANKS A. E, F. MEN FOR 1922 GREET! NG) Me Tells Rainbow Div WASHINGTON, De letter which has come to | former executive's pen ir President Wilson thanks Vice Pri J. B, Milford of the Rainbow Di veterans for a New ¥Y saying: | am proud to regard myself on a comrade of al! the men of the expedi- tionary forces, the greater pleasure to receive from a roup of them such a greeting as Is conveyed to me by your letter of Dec. 1% RF cordial oh wimee for your per- the from the | many months first ident sessions are | It therefore affords me | GIRL FOILS BANDITS “SAVES SSOD OF HER ~ EMPLOYER’ S CASH Refused to “Throw Up ‘Her Hands When Ordered by Man With Revolver. One reason Miss Sophie Gerseh was rot atyaid of the robbers who last | Company, No. 1471 escaping with °$2,100 In cas because they were “so awfully Bronx, was sood looking.” It was throfgh her headwork, the police to-day learned, that $350 was Miss Gersch, while daring the robbers to kill her and refusing to put up her hands, although looking into muzzle of a revolver, was nudg- init © eashbox containing that sum un. a and dee counter standing clone against it so the robbers couldn't see it. pre were four robbers in all. They. overpowered Otto Speck, a wrtclinan, and ong stood guard over him, In tho office were Miss Gerscl; Simon Kashman, proprietor; L. Bor chel. an employee, and three drivers. | One robber wont to Kashman, ane othe, to Miss Gerseh hd the third held up the four employees who had just turned in their day's receipts, The men were helpless, but not Mias Gerseh ‘Tl row up your haada,” vumanded her. the robber “T refuse,” she answered, “If you were a man I'd kill you, said the robber “E wish T were « man," the young woman replied. ,“I'd take that re- volver away from you and havs a little talk with vou Thelr argument continued several |minutes. In the mean time the other | robbers collected the $2,100, but we | unable to Induce Mina Garsch to show men fled in an Miss Gersch, automobile. tryl to they all would have run.” The young woman is and black-eyed. tall, slim Her eyes are pene- DETROIT CAR FIGHT ENDS AFTER 3 YEARS | City and Company Now Using the| | Same Trolley Tracks. | DETROIT. Dec. 15.—The fght | tween the elty and the Detroit United Rullway which pe- | aged violently here for | uiree years, pluily ended to-day | Municipal cars and privately | owned curs appeared to-day on several es i nthe city The cars are alternated on the tines {The agreement expected to be Jinda to route. “Attotere working out an agreement for « | versal transfor all are uni- | a SENATE VOTES HOLIDAY RECESS. WASHINGTON Dec. 16.—The Sen- ate to-day adopted the Curtis resolution \that Congress adjourn for its holiday 77 recess from Deo, 23 to Jan. 8. The resolution now goes to the House where favorable action ie expected. where any more money might be, At} the command of the icader, who seemed to be getting nervous, at tne} | explain that | trating and her companions at work| ith Manufgeturing and nelling byer say she used them with the skill of | CpOtaining moro than the amount | movie actress in expressing what agape ceases | she thought of the hold-up man.) fim BABY CARRIAGE AFIRE, Misa Gersch ig also, other enployeus CHILD DINS OF BURNS. suy, shy and demure, Patricia, cight-nonths-old daughter a eaaneaianate of Mrs, Henry Lelsenring of No. 1115 - Bandits Grab $17, 676 Within: 100 "loa of Police Station , BANDITS IN STOLEN CAR GET MRS. RAZEN HAD PLANNED SUICIDE BEF NOT MURDER ORE DOCTOR SAYS HUSBAND Wife Had Talked of Self-Destruc- tion, but Never Mentioned Taking Life of Doctor, Charges the Ph Motherhood. \ He Says—Slayer ysician Prevented Mrs. Lillian 8, fotmed two operations on her with t » of becoming « mother when she wen { lyn, to-day made the statement that Glickstein’s office for the purpose of presence, ax her idea of visiting puni TWO NUNS SUPPORT MRS. RAGONE’S DEFENSE Testify in Private for Woman on ‘Trial for Life. The trial of Mrs. Jonophine Ragoue 1e murder of Frank Lucalano on 14, 1920, closed this afternoon with | unprecedented procedure in the [way of taking testimony. In ordor to prove that, contrary to testimony of. | ltored yesterday by witnesses ta the! | prosecution, Mrx, Ragone daily took her four-year-old daughter Marie the Day Nursery of the St. Ceetia School conducted by Sisters of Merey Kast 106th Street, two nuns of the) order appeared at the Criminal Courts ilding with the records of the tnsti-| tntion. ‘ The rules of their order forbade the| appearance of the nuns in a court-! }ao to st larly took the little girl to the nursery in October, 1920. Summing up of proosecution and defense was completed late this af- ternoon. The case will go to the jury | to-morrow > —— $10,000 TAX AND FINE ON NEW BUFFALO MAYOR hwab May Stl for BUFFALO, ‘Be Preyecated x. there was no heroism on her part.| gohwab, Mayor elect of Buffalo, will simply explained: pay inté the Treasury Department “Men who doll up like these rob-| hefore he takes office on January 1, bers aren't going to take any, $10,000 in settlement of taxes and chances on getting thelr clothes penalties growing oyt $f alleged mussed up or their batr ruffled,| violations of the Volbtead Act, it ‘That's why I knew they would not| ecame known here to-day. want to fight. If only [ had been| The compromise on tax and penaity able to hit ono in the face I'm sure) #sue# will not affect criminal in- dictments pending against the Mayor- elect. He may still be prosecuted. Schwab was an officiel of the Buffalo Brewing Company which wax charged Washington Street, Hoboken, was so | severely burned to-day when her baby | carriage caught fire that she died in St. Mary's Hospital. ree aesiinteraceae | RACING RESULTS NEW ORLEANS WINNERS. i FIRST RACE—Five and a half fare longa.—Skooter, § to 1 teat; Dolly Varden, 3 Powder Face, third. Tin starters, Lady Acton, Bu! Line. SECOND RACE—One imi neve enty yards.—Oaklawn Belle, and to & first; Scotch Verdict, 5 sec: | Litas L'Enjoleur, third. Tim: Non-starters—Car and Lucy bk HAVANA WINNERS FIRST RACE—Five furlongs cure, 3 to 1 and 6 to 5, Arst: Pictile, even, second; Stonewall, thii Tima, 1.07 8-5. Non-atarter, Forge Ahcad. BECOND RACY - Bix furiongs.—- Chisca, 6 to 1 an to 6 first; Sir) ok, # to 1, geod ‘third, Thine, L648 Fon Marian Holitas ‘and atixe. * (Other As news on Page 10.) Mant- OO | and then there came to her a desire to! Raizen has supplied @ motive for the murder of Dri ight held up the National Wet Wash Glickstein in relating a story to the effect that the physician had per; Wilkins Avenue, | . he result that she was left incapable t to her husband. The busband, Charles S. Raizen, the toymaker of Sterling Place, Brook: he did not believe his wife went ta killing him, but to kill herself in nigh ixbment on him. In the office of bis lawy. 'W. Levy, of No, 60 Wall Street, Mr.- Raiven told his story to a number of reporters this afternoon. w | “She mever talked oof taking the llife of Dr. Glickstein,” he said, she talked of suicide, trom which Ti j tried to dissuade her. It was at At-! |lantic City that she told me of her reluti¢n» with the doctor, and I for- wave her and tried to comfort her! and told her that we would live it it together, i Remeinber, gentlemen, 1 reat loved her from ohldhood when went to school togetcer. We had teen sweethearts through all years, and my lo would through any misfortune, To-day Siw her in the Raymond Street Jal and she looked terrible. I told he to be careful of herself, that [ woul do ail 1 could and would stick by. he! to the very last.” room. Thei testimony was taken in) Here he broke down complétely; | Judge Crain's chambers in the pres-| and it was some minutes before hél enee of counsel and yas later read to} could resume ce the Jury by the court jographer.| He told how he heard the news ob It showed that Mrs. Ragone regu-|her act on Saturday and how! worked until he got in touch with her: Her father broke the news to him overs the telephone while he was in) Jae maica. He cried again’ at the mem ory of that moment. He get in toues with her at the Breslin and told he: that he was coming for her im hk machine and to wait He drove her around the city) for several hours comforting her and as suring her of his help throngh every thing: Then he drove her to thet home of her father, in Avenue W4) Flatbush, and went to the Hotel Bos-> sert, All day Sunday and Monday pa tried to get in touch with Mr, Ley and succeeded in doing so Monda: night. Next day a consultation. wa held with Attorney Benjamin Resse at which he and Mr. Schaffer, hint father-in-law, were present. witht Mrs, Raizen, and of phoning to Dis<7 trict Attorney Lewis that the wit was to be given up to justice. Mrs. Raizen says that twice duting’) her relations with the doctor he com pelled her to undergo operations: Her husband, she sald, is a fine man} und wanted above all things to bel) tho head of a family. After sever! months of married Ife it became, known to him that his wish was im~) possible } According to her religious belief, it! ‘ a disgrace for a woman to be) childless. It wag then, it Is said, that she confessed to her husband het relations with Dr. Glickstein, He forgave her and sympathize ! with her, but his forgiveness only); made her disgrace the harder to bear, destroy herself or the man who ha? ruined her life. The urges in. her] mind finally revolved toward the doctor and his removal became an! obsession with her, until the deed/ finally was accomplished. Mrs. Raizen spent a comparatively” quiet night in the Raymond “Streets) jail in Brooklyn, but was under con-3) stant surveillance, Once she l the police matron and asked her ta talk with hor, but the latter + tod 5 her. and told her that she sleep and rest. Mr. Lewis {