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

BRI} TAIN STOPS RECALL 0 To-Night’s Weather—increasing Cloudiness. “10 TO 3” DAILY WALL STREET FEATIJRE THIS Epition a ‘Cirenlation Books Open to All.” To-Morrow’s Weather—Probably Rains Warmer, : ‘VOL. | Ol. LXII. NO. 21,996—DAILY. York World) by Press Company, 1921, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1921, id paterea ne Becond-Ciass Mattey Post Office, New York, N. ¥. CAR LINES DROPPED IN NEW PLAN ~ /10 STREET 10 SURFACE LINES DROP UNDER NEW TRAFFIC PLAN ~~ ; Lexington, Second, Seventh; and Ninth Avenue Lines . Would Be Abandoned to Ve- hicular Traffic Under Project. Single Management Instead of Independent Operation of 9 Companies Included in En-! gineer’s Proposal. | SEA TRAVELLERS Captain of S. S. Stavangerfjord Says He Never Had Such a Fearful Trip. | Promotion of Lines Between) Boroughs and Establishment of Bus Lines as Feeders Also Are Advocated. | jand sens that tried the hearts of her The f surface sit following piano! of the pasengers almost out of their | wits, the Norwegian-American Lino steamship Stavangerfjord reached Manhattan wat revision in sited to the Transit unofficlally sul Commission to-duy by Its consulting | ° Se BaF an engineer, Dauicl lL. Turner, le pier 7 e ‘oot of 30th Street, rooklyn, to-day. Removal of surface cars in Second, Lexington, Seventh and Ninth and] She bore evidence of the storms she had weathered in carried-away ventilators and salt crust that streaked both of her high funnels to their very top. Below decks there were many sailors and firemen with bandaged cuts and bruises, the re- Columbus Avenues and utilization of Second and Ninth Avenues exclusive- ly for heavy trucking. Removal of all surface car tracks on the west side below 1th Street ang west of Broadway except for two ews i 14th Street and SUlt of the banging about they got wighth Strects. ‘These remarks would |” the ship's tremendous piungings, Capt. K. 8. Irgens, tho vessel's ski per, said that jm al! his twenty-five do away with 100 miles of track. eduction of existing lines from ne five to twenty-five and con- 3f@re of following the. sea he had sotidation of the twenty-five lines "ever had such a time of It es cn this under one operating management, veyage. The wind blew a hurricane. | movement of ™ore than a hundred miles an hour, / Police prohibition of : the waves came aboard even on the) all yehicles except street cars on cur | tracks during morning and evening >Midge, and spray flew above the! crow's nest. rush hours. c ig nest ; i Specding up of strect car movement | Seon after the Stavangertjord left | to ten miles an hour and a car every Bergen on Dec. 8 two days after sail- | tventy neconda inthe rush hours, — {128 from Christiania, she ran into a ! storm. came so wild that a ma- of trotiey car trailers Verne use i 235 «pas re) " Trolley car service between In- °°" > oe Danengers’ ‘were a afraid to go on deck, and clung, terior points in the Boroughs of, fright to their cabins. A rumor Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. = got about among them that Capt. A single fare with transfers. Irgens would have to put in at an Bus lines as feeders in territory) English port, but he thought the abandoned by surface cars. | {storm would subside and jlald a The removal of the car tracks from | C Hite, Loxinaton Avenue, | course for this country, Becon ; | But the storm increased when he Seventh Avenue below Central Park | at into thw Abantio’ and ihe wit Sand Ninth and Columbus Avenues, ™ 8 . D 5 | was so buffeted about that she could open Lexington Avenue to fast | veo ee make only 120 miles some days. 10 « traffic to be routed from andj Meg selnrierye and seventh} 48 {he hurricane persisted and Avenue to fast moving trame pane Coe Irgens realized that something nd going into Varick Btreet| ust be done to prevent o panic 6 b ind would devote | Mong his passengers, be called upon some of the courageous ones to start from nd Central Second and Ninth and Columbus Avenues Into thoroughfares for heavy |@ concert, singing, games, anyth trucking. {that would distract the minds of the There 248 miles of single street] frightened ones, He besougbt them car track on the streets of Manhat-) to gat in the lounge and cheer n, of which are in use. Mr.| themselves up tf possible. tner would cut the operating track-| In this, he said, he was bravely At this time nine/atded by Miss Charlctte Dessner, of companies operate surface | Lynbrook, L. I, a singer, and Yaschu 1 Manhattan over their own Schwarzmann, a Roumanian Mr, Tur would wipe out this| who led the music and tempted » ownership and operation. |number of the less timid from the erating companies run|cabin hiding places, He also paid a irty-five different Ines.| high tribute to the bright courage of | nel operation plan only| Miss Jennie Osmo, a seventeen-yeur- ‘old girl of Boston, who was forever fluttering gatly about the snip setting an exampie to her fellow voyagers, ige to 148 miles, separate ‘cellist, a i'nder tho s! (wenty-five lines would be operated, | On thirty of the most important lines i Five days over due, through storms | ‘steamer Javary, | officers and men and frightened most | STORM-TERRORIZED - | proof. alcohol. } seized the | booze. ALCOHOL VALUED. AT $1,000,000 SEIZED ON SHIP Total of 27,500 Gallons in! Drums Supposed to Con- tain Glycerine. CAPTAIN UNDER ARREST. Inspectors Got a Whiff of “Oil” Syphons Were Draw- ing Into Drums, A seizure claimed by the customs men to about a million dollars’ of proof cohol was made to-day the tramp tier up at Pier No. 22, East River, on Saturday on her way from Baltimore for Con- atantlnople. The Javary is an olf burner and| was to have taken on a cargo of flour. Being an of] burner, the ci toms inspector standing by thought nothing strange siphon drawing oll into big drums, until one curious Inspector got too near the hose and @ deep breath drew in the arcma of alcohol. Investiga- Uon showed that thirty-elght drums had been emptied, reverse suction having been applied to \the siphon. Gaugers were put on the Javary and it is claimed that the drums sup | posed to be loaded with glycerine | each contained 110 gallons of 190| The customs mer drums, captain and the In all there were 27,500 gallons Involve worth al on which ship. ‘of alcohol in the drums, which ¢x- perts say could have been reduced In | strength until there was the founda- tion cf more than 100,000 gallons of Evidently it was intendea for plum! puddings, eggnogg, Tom and Jerrys and other Christmas cheer, but in one fell swoop a million dollars of Joy has been snatched from the yule- tide. Capt. Danie] Doherty, the owner! of record of the Javary, was ar- raigned before United States Com- missioner Hitchcock. He waived ex- amination and was held for the Fed- era] Grand Jury in $10,000 bail, hav-| ing been arraigned by Major John H. | Clark, First Assistant District At-| torney. More Christmas cheer. The “H" in Major Clark's name stands! for Holly. Second Officer F. W. Assing and Third Officer Roy Griffin were held} as material witnesses, The seizure was made by Deputy Surveyor of the Port William , Sanders, Acting Deputy Surveyor J, H. McGill and F. Barbour and M. J Inspectors R. Sweeney RUM SMUGGLERS, DODGING BULLETS, ~ LEAP OVERBOARD | Customs Guards Arrest Only Man Who Didn't Jump From Two Motor Launches, Bullets from the pistols of four customs guards drove the crews of) two motor boats to jump overboard She was never ill a moment, he said, and did much to hearten every o1 Dr. T. H. Choresen, the ship's doc- (Continued on Second Page.) shia tales S. I. R. T. ANNOUNCES ‘UT IME WAGES | to". declared that he had had the CUTS IN 50 5 | baasias yoyage of his Ife, becxuse Send Committee of} there were fow among the crew who Gatemen W laid not require his ministrati Protest to Directors, a H. FE, Voorhees, Vice President andj one time or another, The men in the coneral Manager of the Staten Island | fireroom, he said, were shaken vut Rapid Transit Railroad Company, to-| {ike pills in a bottle and received in day seryed notice on the gatemen Te-| numerable hurts, aiving $91.40 a month that they would! "1, orger to make this port the Stav- he cut to $75 some time in January and these receiving $64 would be reduced | angertjord had to put in at St. Johns for coal. . $50, The men now receiving $64 were, ut from $81 on July 1 last, SP ~ Mr. Voorhees announs vd Oat there] BANDITS IN TROLLEY would be a meeting of rail ce | SOS ee ie apenyia, omen Nos 408 HOLD-UP GET $8,180 Broudw n Jan. 17, and invited tho} - sn te aend a committee to the meeting.| Rob Messenger for a St. Louis nen deck’ -day that the cuts ‘Trast.Company and Escape. ave unfair and that they will send a} $7, LOUIS, Dec. 20.—Thros b: committee empowered to refuge it on! heid up Edward Edwards, mosse account of the high co: of living and) for the Choteau Trust Company, on that they will appeal to the Labor] Murket Street car to-day, and escaped wit a satchel cont, company's funds, ng $8,180 of the soatd. The men work elght hours a day ‘apd seven days & week, presently eight bags were lowered ‘into two motor poats, The bags, taken from the vessel's deck, con- tained boxes of Iano: was arrested. off the Bush piers In South Brooklyn early to-day. The one man remain- in the sight of a) Cartridge Exploded and Set Fire to Her Clothing-—Suf- fered Burns, ATLANTA, Dec. 20.—If they had used a goat everything would have been all right. But, as it was, @ “slapperitis" was used in the initia- tton cerentonial of the Modern Order |of Praetorians, and now Mrs, Mexia -| Osborne, a pretty young matron, 1s suing the lodge for damages of $20,000. The damages, Mrs. Osborne ave: Ss el were received when an ag order struck her with the ‘slapper- itis” as she was bending over to kiss an altar in tHe lodge rooms. It is claimed that the slapstick was loaded with a blank cartridge and that she was struck with the wrong side of the stick, the flash from the pow- der setting fire to her garments and causing serious burns and internal injuries, ——_—_—- RICHARD CROKER REPORTED BETTER to Sit Up To-Day—Ill From a Chill Contracted on Trip to Ireland. DUBLIN 20 Press).—Richard Croker, the former Tammany chieftain, who has been {ll at his home, Glencairn € was reported to y as showing Able Dec. (Associated qui tle, continued tmprovement. He hag been suffering from a cht, |contracted while returning to Ire- \land from the United States, wh | has confined him to his bed. To-day, | t was given out, he was sitting up in his room. ing in charge of the two boats proved to be a fireman of the Italian steam- ship Regina D'Italia which tied up at | Pier No, 4 there yesterday afternoon. Hidden in the shadows of the watertr Just as the motor boats were about to put off with their loads a Sergeant of the guards called on them to halt | and fired when his command was 1g- nored, His flre was returned from the boats, and then the three other guards opened up and a lively fusil- lade followed, Under this heavy fre | the men in the boats began to jump | overboard. The ono man remaining of the pier the guards saw ; men moving on the vessel's deck and | BOY OF FIVE SHOOTS 2-YEAR-OLD SISTER Fires Shot Gun at Child and Kills Her—Case Held to Be | Accident. UGUS, Mass, Dee. Escher looeryao! aged two, was killed yester- laay by her five-year-old brocner, | Walter, the police learned to-day. The | boy told them how he had fired his father's shotgun at his sister in a childish prank, The medical ex- amined found that death was acci- dental. —————E—EEE AUTOMOBE THIPF GETS FIVE YEARS, He had one bag left, the seven others having been thrown into the water, He said the ninety-two bot- tles in the bag were bis own, He de- ribed himself as Raffaello Granar- do, forty-three, fireman, Frank Halligan. who has been in the ‘combs a year and confessed to stealing 0 in two by Judg Mulqueen in the Court of General Bas- sions to from five to len years in 5 Sing, ‘This wan for conviction of steal: ing @ car valued at $1,700. “‘Slapperitis’’ Used in Initiation Was Loaded With Cartridge; Woman Sues Lodge for $20,000, TRAIN HITS AUTO AT CROSSING; 1 DEAD Two Others Hurt, One of Whom Will Probably Die—Inter- section Was Unguarded. One man was killed, another is be- lreyed to be dying, a third seriously injured by collision of a locomotive and an automobile this morning on an|say a small car had been running unguarded grac Railroad at ona, N. J. "The dead man is John Robinson of Orange. William Savage, also of Or- inge, is expected to die. And Fred L, Goechel, No. 213 Snyder Avenue, Or- r of the crossing of the Eri ‘airview Avenue, Ver- ange, owner and driv auto- mobile, may recove: The three men are sic to he tried to cross in front of the lecon tive, which was driven by Henry ‘The automobile aud parts of It The in- Bryant of Caldwell, was smashed to bits dragged four hundred f jured were taken Hospital, Montelatr, ‘There are 1,800 patients at the Over- brook Hosp! to and there are many boys! at the Newark City Home, a reformatory which is also near the c:ossing. Be-| cause of the proximity of these tw institutions the 3 been much agitation about th or safety gates. - = SENTENCED TO SPEND ALL XMAS DAYS ALONE} Murderer Must f: nemest for Yuletides, CLEVELAND, Bee. * 20. Lorteiner's Christmas days are over, The Court Mountainside BOMB EXPLOSION | H | the neighborhood were quieted. ‘Grand Street. SHAKES UP POE AT HEADQUARTERS Hundreds in Grand Street Tenements Rush Out as Blast Rocks Homes. MEN IN AUTO SOUGHT. BRITISH TROOPS 10 HOLD POSTS IN IRELAND UNTIL PEACE TREATY IS RATIFIED Transport Is Is Recalled | to England Seen There Just Before Con-| cussion—Meant as Blackmail Warning One Theory. Police Headquarters was shaken at| 3 A. M, to-day by the explosion of a| bomb a block away in front of No. 195 Officials on duty rushed all available detectives and! uniformed men in the direction of the terrific detonation, The Telegraph Bureau made ready to call ambulances from the nearest | hospitals, but in a few minutes it was, known no one had been hurt. The po- lice found 200 tenants of a six-story | | building nearby in the street in thelr | ‘nightclothes, with a crowd that was being augmented from ali directions. It was with difficulty residents of The bomb demolished the front of the Cafe Ferrara, on the ground floor ot No. 195, is a three-story Bijliding with the bakery on the nec- ond floor and the home of the man- ager, Henry Scoppa, on the top floor. |Scoppa, his wife and five children were jarred from their beds but not which | for the Insane nearby, lack of, flagman Go Into Selitery decreed when it sentenced tim to life imprisonment for the mur- der of Pat-olman Ga+-ney @ year ago he mus ts of his life in solitary confinement Up at six o'clock In the mornin won't see a soul all day. All he o is think past and Inen in the a de bout his And rime ‘the lucky guy," anita « nd every Christmas the rest 0 bout hiv paat and avout Hiei that state the death house spending thelr last Christmas Day on earth call Juggs structed to cony narnia eer ct fetes | hurt. . ‘The bomb, believed to have been of the gaspipe type, blew in the front | windows, destroying $1,000 worth of big, fancy Christmas cakes, and frag- ments went through a door and broke a mirror and window tr the rear, but |nothing on either side of the/room was injured, One fragment of the missile was hurled upward through a second story window of No. 194, a loft build- ing across the strect. Other windows were broken by the concussion. A passing motorman sald there was a long tongue of flame when the bomb went off. Neither he nor Policemen Roach and O'Connor of the Elizabeth Street Station saw any one In the vicinity, though they were only a short distance away. The policemen jaround the neighborhood in a sus- picious way after the cafe closed at 1.80, It is believed the occupants were waiting for an opportunity to nt the bomb with a time fuse. The cafe Is owned by Anthony Fer- rara, Inc., and has one of the biggest pastry businesses in the country Ferrara is well known and wealthy. Formerly one of "B.g Tim” Sullivan's captains, he is now Democratic leader of his district. He lives at the Hotel Brevoort, where he told detectives he | had not received any threatening let ters, He said he could not guess the reason for the bomb, unless it was the work of business rivals. His business {s particularly large during the holidays, when he makes ship- ments even to Europe. Though the bomb was so powerful not a fragment of It could be found. The police believe from the time se- lected to set it off it was intended mainly as a blackmailers’ “ a PRESIDENT TOO BUSY TO TRAVEL AND SPEAK |For the Next Three Months He Wil Remain at the Capttal, WASHINGTON, Dec, 20,—President Harding 1s disposed to remain closely in Washington fot the next three months and {s cancelling all tentative engage- ments which be has had for speeches or trips to various parts of the country, ‘The President hax written a letter to Senator Simmons of North Carolina ex- arning, and Army Trains Are Cancelled Day Withdrawal Was to Begin— De Valera Consents to Plebiscite. QUEENSTOWN,’ Dec. 20 (Associated Press)—Removal of te British troops from Ireland, which was to have been begun to~ijay, has been suspended and they will not be withdrawn unless the treaty is rati- fied, it was stated here. A transport which was to have taken on board troops to-day has been recalled to England, and the special trains to convey troops from’ various places in southern Ireland, which had been arranged for, have been can- celled for the present. DUBLIN, Dec. 20 (Associated Press).—Deputy John Milroy, speaking in the Dail Eireann this afternoon in support of the treaty with England, demanded and received from Eamon De Valera and other op- ponents of the treaty their promise to submit the question of ratification to a vote of the Irish people. HARDING HAS OWN VIEWS REGARDING 4 POWER TREATY President Said to Believe It Does Not Apply to Islands of Japan Proper. Just before adjournment for tuneh- @on an angry exchange occurred be- tween Eamon De Valera and Arthur GriMth over the question of the Dail holding @ brief session at the after- noon meetings to hear a statement by the Minister of Defense. Grimth asked if the people were to be “fooled by more private proceed- It was unworthy of Mr. Griffith to suggest that the Dail desires privacy, ithe Republican President responded. Mr. De Valera said something else had been brought back from Down- \ing Street besides the treaty. Mr. Griffith demanded to know the meaning of this, amid loud cries af, “withdraw,” addressed to De Valera. Charles Burgess, the Minister"of De_ WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (Assoct-|fense, explained that anybody “xmow- ated Press).—President Harding, it 16 the business end of gun” must was sald to-day at the White House, |Mn0W the necessity for secrecy | im ;Milltary matters, He desiredto reply does not regard the four-power pact-| privately to charges that had been fic treaty as covering the principal made Saturday night. islands of the Japanese Empire.” When it became clear that the This view, which ts contrarty to statement of the Minister of Defense that voiced repeatedly by official! would deal only with military affairs, spokesmen of the American delega-|Mr, GriMth withdrew his objections tion, was described at the White /to » secret session and barmony was House as the President's personal | restored. opinion not based on consultation! phe with other members of his Admint-| not fae sua "the Dail teen caene tration, deliberatio: 2 Mr. Harding was sald to believe ieiieuiaiely, Mie VeKee vee that the treaty no more applies (0! hig remark, made in the morning the islands constituting Japan proper! session, that the delegation had than It does to the mainland of the prought back something besides the United States. In his view, it was| treaty trom Downing Street. He said said, the agreement only covers) he now felt this remark might be anise inland pussession in the Pacific, while | understood, and he apologized to Mr. the main Japanese group occupies ‘ Griffith for having made it, Mr the position of a party to the treaty|Gritith accepted the apology. rather than a possession, = Stati mann ae cee COLD WAVE DUE ot the os HERE FOR XMAS was devoted to discussion of the po- sition and resources of the Irish Re- publican Army in the event the treaty was rejected, it was understood. Abnormally Cold Weather Will| Five more members of the Dail, in- ; cluding the first woman to be heard Arrive Thursda Weather B |—Mrs, Kate O'Callaghan, widow af reau Forecasts. the assassinated Lord Mayor of Lfime WASHINGTON, Dec. ‘.—Christ-|erick—presented their views on the mas throughout the eastern half of the country will be preceded by ab- normally cold weather, the Weather Bureau declared to-day in its fore- cast. Decidedly colder weather was fore- east for to-morrow in the Eastern Central States, including Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, and the statement was m by the Bureau that much lower temperatures would be experienced along the Atlantic Coast by Thursday. Temperatures below zero were re- treaty at the morning session. Two of them spoke in favor of the agree~ ment and three against It. Mr. De Valera, addressing the Dall t the outset, held there could be no question of ratification of the treaty vy the Dail, which, he declared, could not ratify the agreement in the seaae of making it @ legal instrument, All -Le Dail could do was to approve lor disapprove, he asserted. The Republican President said ‘he would move later “that inasmuch as the articles of agreement for the treaty between Great Britain and | plaining his inability to attend the cele- bration of the 150th anniversary of St John's Masonic Lodge at New Ber latter part of Ja) jan uary Secretary Chri similar invitations, e in| North | more has also been in-|the the same answer to and Montana and over much of the iliac ported this morging as far east as Duluth, Minn, and as far south estern’ Nebraska. It was than 20 degrees below zero in north portions of North Dakota land, signed in London, do not ree oncile Irish national aspirations @m@ the association of Ireland with the community of nations known as the Canadian Northwest.