The evening world. Newspaper, December 31, 1921, Page 1

Bi FIRE ROUTS 40 FAMILIES, WRE 35 on LLL Per Copy (1922 World Almanac NOW ON SALE By Mail 50c., Postage Prepaid ALLELE Stands ALLLLIULILLLLLLALALLAL EAU VOL. LXII. NO. {aac oma Copyright (New Vo Che | Circulation Books Open to Al re NEW YORK, ‘SATURDAY, ‘DECEMBER 31, Pablishing Company, 1921. ork World) by Press Entered as Pont Office, 1921, Second-Cluss Matter » New York, M, Be ‘MAIL ROBBERY _ Abe Attell’s Ex-Wife and tye) Accused of Selling One of Cancelled Bonds, CONSPIRACY RACY CHARGED | dome One in Postoffice or 4. Treasury Suspected in July 18 Theft. The robbery from the mails of $447,000 in United States cancelled | wecurities July 18 made known to-day by the arrest of Ethel Bruce, divorced wife of Abe Attell, | tormer prizefighter, at her apartment, | No: 185 West 72d Street, “Bhe was charged before States Commissioner Hitchcock with | altering a cancelled $500 Liberty bond | last was United | ‘by removin£ the cancellation mark and disposing of it. | ) Detective Sergts, James Riley and ffornelius Brown of Police Head- Ajuarters aw} Post Office Inspector /Murphy, wt» arrested Miss Bruce, rtment Harry Cohen, lesman of No, 39 nd Samuel Gold, $$ Cannon Street. arrested and charged to commit the crime Miss Beuce was arrested. United tates Attorne twenty-s Mark's F twenty-six, ‘They were also with conspiracy for which ssistant Joyce told Commissioner Hitcheock he did not think it necessary to mai the bond Miss Bruce as high us Bail was then fixed a men and $5,000 for M for the men, $7,500 for ul (A Bruce, who at once asked if she might make a statement, She was told t anything she said would be lable, as eviden used, against her. ave "It is only this,” she said, “theae Woys ought not to be asked for more bi than they can furnish, 1 can asibure you they kne wnothing what- e¥er of my purchase of this bond or oPits sale. T are altogether in- nibcent. ‘Comm that the me ponement until they were unable to get bail and de- sired an carlier hearing, granted at once at thelr request. Post Office Inspectors 1 out of town to-day with the expectation king further arrests Hitcheock replied asked for a post- 14 but that, if ner haa Jan, The police records show Gold has served three montis in the peniten- tiary for attempted theft; is on bu:l at Roebling, N, J. on a charge of carrying a revo! and has a case pending mst him in Youngs- town, 0 Cohen is known adquarters Harris and| s on bail on a has under the names C Charles Myers. He charge of carrying served three months for the cocaine, debler of No. 717 Seventh Avenue, and asked him to dispose of it. Orgel (ook the bond to the Pacific Bank, at nd Page.) (Continued on Ss The Evening World Will Not Be Published Monday January 2 ARREST OF THREE REVEALS jJan. 7 to “love up, drink up, pacit up, it would be | |dumped abo: ALL LONG ISLAND ELECTRIC TRAINS TIED UP } OF $1,477,000 BE GOOD OR MOVE, - MAYOR OLES SAYS. TOUNDERWORLD | Oles, Who iT; rakes Office To-| Night at Youngstown, O., Announces Vice Crusade. YOUNGSTOV O. Dee. 31-- eorge L. Oles, eccentric Mayor-elect, | | Who takes office at midnigit to-night, | \issued an open letter to the under-| wonld to-day, warned wrongdoers that they will have untit| in which he and move or behave.” To-mor1ow, Oles stated, he will ad-| dress the city policemen and “give! that it will be well to be careful and them hell.” Last night City he proposed which he held a} banquet for the at which Council, a campaign of includes © and Fir economy, proposals D for reducing the Pol partments. The letter to the Tam going to g' of this city one drink up, behave. 1 week's gr underworld says: the under@orid notice to love and move you this because I feel down in my heart t would be a shame to pull you all in and take the last dollar from you in fines and fill our jails to overflowing. Therefore, going to give you this notice. “L want to state he 7th day of January, » lid is going on. It makes no dif- who yo: you have, how well you know me, or what you think you can do. There | will be no excuse accepted or leniency jextended to any one. week's up. pack up or am going to give ce, re, how “This includes all parasites that live on the proceeds of the under- world. In fact, this include: one that is not a law. Pass this word iding © to your friends, |there will be no excuses taken, under |, “number of the special sleuths will explanation given ‘0 the} waik many of the women grew hys- any consideration.” fice: wenominanien itiprmome paesengers was that the tie-up ap-|terieal or fainted. In addition to the special squaa, beared to be general and there was) The fi as one of the most inys- WHISKEY POOL FORMED | onc. ecoment agents will roam all over, tle known about it |tevious i the history of the depart. | UNDER SHERIFF’S NOSE ji). city to-night, ar fin here |€7cey was observed insofar as tebing | ment, Mrs, Gena McKelvey, wife of | ce | and looking things {the impatient travellers when they | Dr. D, J, McKelvey of the Manhattan Twe Get Souned but Feds AN) Ghiog Fortman, of the field _| might expect to reach their destina-| lfospital, was dusting the window Perfectly Legal. will be on duty as general command- | ‘‘one. | will {a the living room of the third | Two oldtime New Year ¢ were| ing officer at headquarters as long axs| Thousands of those stalled fluor front apartment when an up pulled off to-d ne presenc> of| there is anything doing. But he said| Jamaica made a rush for the elev Jholstered arm chair directly in back Sheriff Werner in the jail yard of White} that be does not anticipate many|#nd surface cars to complete their}of her suddenly burst into flame. Plains anda whiskey pool was formed| arrests because the widespread pub- | Journey's to New York, In Brooklyn,|‘There was no explosion vr other junder his very nose—and the town licity given to the intent of the off-| after a wait of mord than an hour, the | W ning sound, no one had sat in the | posed bd Sherif dry its Westchester to of as name aused $1.00 worth of w 1 taxicab, is under bail in Ph Yaa lake ng gota AG Sh ssl DIE ons tes 90 tae“ eee ee eee ae yegsional thief,” and las served @|inare dragging the town garbage w term in the penitentiary, esides|and followed my a mutt dog. serving a year of an eightee Jand the mutt waded and the sentence in Sing Sing, from which he |mare © the pool. Wi was paroled ‘Sheriff discovered the stra According to the Post Office in-|"ot doen and out a spector, Miss Bruce took the bond re-|, jy" 5. cently to J a delicatessen | CLERK IN POST OFFICE Is SHOT BY ACCIDENT |, mining Re- | volver They | w Street, a c No. 2581 was a this morning. Kings County Samuel No. Osborne Offic tein. rk in the Ay Sub P Adanti nue, Brookly ally s the rigat t! He Hospital. was taken to ¢ His condition nitt, 104 Etna § automa: volver were exan ds: Neit! how rappened —— > —__ | ‘The Gesims of © at Week—Keith ® Palace right here that on} o'clock | much pull | tte Repel Robbers. | and an} ‘WHITE LIGHT CAFES TOBE A BIT DAMP -OVERTHE HOLIDAY Dry Men Admit “Admit. They Mu Have Evidence of Posses- sion to Act. LONG ISLAND TRAINS es, thousands 1 Delayed Between and at Stations at Peak of Holiday Rush, ——— BREAKS DOWN. 'AGENTS GET ORDERS Enforcers Will Don Full Dress | and Escort Women in | Prominent Restaurants. CABLE | Steam, Surface and Elevated Lines Jammed by New Year Travellers. | aa ae Public . It's not going to he so abso- itely dry over New Year Prohibition officials admitted to- School TIED UP ARREST MOTORMAN AS ELECTRIC SERVICE FALS; ~— THREE CAUGHT UNDER VER "GURUS FIRE DRILL SAVES 28 FAMILIES. N TENEMENT BLAZE vol Pupil Quells that they are not disposed to make : All trains in the electrified zone of | sa NR eee qe rests in cases where they see liquor | * ss bes Panic When Tenants Flee cna table and everybody sitting at the {te Long Island Railroad came to| Mivsterious Fite tuble denies ownership or knowledge |# dead stop at 1220 P. M. to-day| ! . of the owner, when a high tension cable at we For three or four In addition to the Lon Island sta- do all your pouring under the table, eon ana tate bene etrected the | the lessons she had learned, and her | The only injunction obtained bY} anches of the Long Island ex- | courage and calm orders quieted an [the Prohibition agents was issued | i incipient panic among the twenty- against Shanley’s restaurant in s2a/ tending to Port Washington, Far vorel Street, near Sixth Avenue—not the] Rockaway, Wiillestene, W eatbury, | ent families in the seven-story ten~ Times Square Shantey’s, Reports| Jamaica, Hempstead and Garden|©™Ment house at No. West) 36th that Injunctions were to be obtained | ait were tied up with trainloads| Street when a fire swept through ong straining the proprietors of scores! or iassengers, some at stations und) °F the partments, restaurants in the White Light! (ou netween stations, Tt wan ead, When Bessie, who lives with her disteict from selling liquor on New) iior. were three trains in the Tong | Parents on the top floor, smelled |Year's Eve are without foundation. | iy. a tunnel between Manhattan, 3MOK® and saw the murky clouds | Chief Enforcement Officer John R.! | coming up the airshatt which passes |\Parsons and-hin: nasistany RQ. [224 Long Soa ae his said to be) HreuR the centre of the building, | Merritt. summoned fifty agents to een Hea caer Lvraeee x she went quietly to the bathroom, soaked some handing one to 1 jother to her fathe: placed the third over and mout “Just bre peirinctore et (Nos 48) Weal 27th) years, continued into the aftern, pe aeth tviana Joatsucted thet to | Sad every hour brought more conge 2 é - | tion at points along the line. Occur nstitute a special squad to 80 OD) ring ws it did at almost the peak « duty at 7 o'clock this evening and re- the rush hour pre-holiday travel, the main until the last greeter of the) tong Island stations in Manhatt ; |New Year has gone home. It ts proh-| (00% ee peth soon) Walk down the that two agents will be placed jammed vy commutes and thousands) Al! she each of the prominent Broudway spending the | Walk staurants and cafes, but their chiet who had intended double holiday out of town. interest wil] be to see that Hquor Is not 8 m were m be calm." tly dressed women, At the Jamaica Station, which is a iransfer point for several divisiohs and th score of doors, as Bessie; was such to-day Hut if a Prohibition agent should | power house in Long Island City went years |see a person pouring liquor from alo. op nusiness, Fertig, thirteen, has participated im bottle he will undoubtedly arrest that |" 00m . 4s uneis [1 drills at Public Schoot No. 28, tn | ‘Traffic was not resumed unti HEtAON bd snes a: cnBTeS Of HoMeee West 40th Street. To-day she had sion, From which it may be inferred |2.30 P. M ‘an opportunity to put into practice washrags jn water and, | ” mother and an- sald, her own nose carrying and | ¢ | dragging children, emerging from the Bessie, forgetting her | you’ through this as you stairs and Don't run or get excited: I be Then, on the stairs, she saw scan-| © All members of the special . ‘ le from steam to squad assigned to the high class where a change is made fr jown safety, halte and in loud but rieityiriven wain, inbound pis-|/ trained tones aave to ler neigh A restaurants were in-| "70" New York and Brebxivn| oe ones Kave to her neigh structed to wear thelr evening clothan| “sere Kor New: Sork An PAU? [bors the same directions to be calm. lit they own same and to rent evening} “et? Marooned and tke platforms) 1) obeyed her instructions and nono | crowded was endangered, But on the side | ctor ytherwise. It is probable tha a nbicnaeeel h ‘ON The only to ir of getting Jamaica | cha material line means elevated as ¢| outgoing | was rushed 8 to enforce the law tend to dry up the will of its celebration, around, MORE DRUNKENNESS IN WILMINGTON, DEL.| that point on. In New York a rusn was mide f ling caught fire the flames her Now, what do you think of that? | that far down the island by thoae who| Mrs. McKelvey attempted eS | hoped conditions would be better from | Up the heavy piece |throw it out the winde Dw. and there was no inflam te of furniture able Her cluth ni in extinguishing ands, chest and legs - | the Long Island Ferry with the hove | WILMIN! Del, Dec. 21.—Wil-| t the steam roads that operate | were badly burned. In the next ington police records show a total of| from that point might be used, In| room her sister, Mrs, Kate Reinecke, j 262 kenness for 19 rder to facilitate the movement of | was in bed recovering from a serious jcom 10 for 1920, Althouga | passengers the passengers on steam | illness | Delaware is commonly described as one} jines that were to have chased at! In response to Mra, McKelvey's f the “dryest” States In the East, more! jomaica were sent into Long fslurd screams, two young men on their way ae of atills were conflacated | ity over the main line. So fa o work sounded the alarm and fo Pete ARIES: OSES known, howe rv, noe vutbound traty, ushed into the apartment As they Pera Weoeral irroniiiiion omeare were operated from there by stean’ |threw open the front windows Mra. not yet completed a definite rep except those rez scheduled to | ose Bernstein, who lives on the same —_— leave and they were comparatively opened the duor to rescue the | MESSENGER OF PEACE om j ; sick woman, creating a draught which Officials of the company said the/ tanned the flames. One of the youn, | SEIZED AS RUM RUNNER ,.,.3;. was the burning out of alinen was overcome, but he and. hi Front] friend left as s transformer and switch at th un af he revived with OR FATAL CRASH ~ ON ELEVATED LINE ee Dead ee 30 Injured ir | Rear- End Collision on Ninth Avenue Li ine. 500 LIVES IN PERIi..) Hylan Lays Wreck to Old) FORTY FAMILIES DRIVEN QUT, CHURCH DESTROYED BY rik; OTH ST.Y.MLCA MENACED Five Alarms Sounded for Blaze Be- lieved to Have Started in Choir— Wooden Cars—Inquiries by Transit Board and I. R. T. Io Albral Avenue, West- a Avenue elevated train, of which he was motorman, ran Into The condition of Antho | ts, of No. 10 Maple chester, who was seriously injuj when a Ninth the rear of the train {t was following downtown at 40th Street last night, that he could not be removed from Bellevue Hospital to Jefferson Market Court for a pre- liminary examination. Me is under a oharge of homictde. One of the 500 passengers was killed in the accident. ‘Thirty were injured. The lives of all were im- perilled, not only by the wrecking of the train but during their precarioys: escape to the street over the live third rail and the slippery structure The dead man was identified at 9 o'clock to-day by Cataldo Mazzolo of No. 637 W 9th Street as his |brother, Luigi. The body was man- | sled and one foot was cut off. Owing to an error in reporting the condi- tion of .Mazzolo's body from the Morgue, the finding of this foot in th wreckage cau considerable tem- porary mystery in accounting fow the severed member Tho Transit Commission to- started an investigation of the wreck. Commissioner Leroy 'T, Hankness went to the wreck with Mayor Hylan, | 4Nd later they conferred with several commission engincers and inspectors fommissioner Harkness refused to |make a statement, but the Mayor ald: BLAMES OLD CARS, DUE TO “MILKING” OF ROAD “This i another result of the policy of taking millions in dividends from this company when money should |have been used for equlpment. The milking of the road in this iashion has caused it to be {run largely on obsolete equipment. “The cars which were smashed are the oldest cf the old cars, They should have been retired long ago and would have been except for the great and mrtustifie? profits which been taken from the road. have modernizing its | Big Apartment House Adjoining Ignited. ‘The Protestant Episcopal Church of Zion and St. Timothy, at No, 332 West 57th Street, running through to West 56th Street, was completely destroyed by a fire to-day which started in the organ loft at the West 56ih Street end. The flames communicated to the Clintonia apartment house, adjoining the church to the west on the 57th Street side, and forty families were driven out, Two apartment houses to the east escaped damage. Silverware, paint- ings and books valued at many thousands of dollars were destroyed in the chureh, ————$_— > Tho West Site ¥. MC. A, Build- |ing is two doors east of the church. LENIN REMAINS Preparations were made to vacate ! AS HEAD OF SOVIET 8 Puiiding before the fire was M4 | under control, ; ; cee fe! Deputy Ciel Martin, responding Ninth All-Russian Congress 1S) 44@ third alarm, sent in a fourth Unanimous in Re-electing and then a fifth, because of the dan- ae iris to the surrounding apartment Executive. houses. ‘The congestion oe e pes RIGA, Letyia, Dec, 91 (Associated | paratus tied up all traffic in Press).—Nikolai Lenin retains his po- ues and the jam ex- sition as executive head of the Rus- | sian Soviet Government, as a result of the unanimous action of the ninth | All-Russian Soviet Congress just be- fore its sessions closed late Wednes lw Bur the started fraga a defec- The interior of varnished wood Dr. thinks the fire Frederick tive the lectrie h wire. chu was of ay night, according to a radio ¢ dd there were many inflammabfe wpatch received here to-day from! Cliristmas decorations, ‘The blage Moscow. spr 8) rapidly that the interir | His retention was brought abont! was a burning mass when the fire- by the unanimous re-election by the | men arrived In response to the first newly-created executive body of the Congress of M. Kalinine as Pres-| The heat of the fire soon burst the ident of the Executive Committee, | large pl lass windows and the which in turn “unanimously reap-|roof on the south end caved in, Fire- pointed Lenin as President of the}men fought the biaze from the roofs Council of People's Commissars, | of the apartment houses to the cast { M urupoff, former Minister of/and west. The tenants in the apart- Food, and M. Rykoff, former head of! ment houses to the east, which de |the Economic Council, were appointed | seven story buildings, were ordemBd Vice Presidents. out by the firemen. hy According to the despatch, lenin} Th lest fire companies respondigy 8 expected to reappoint Minister of (1, the alarm entered the church am War Trotzky and the heads of other hose and axes startet with lines of Soviet commissariats, jteward the aitar and organ lo{!, | which were then ablaze. There we ‘RESIGNS FROM DAIL, |cisiicen men in ine party When they were half way this OPPOSED TO TREATY | iy. iiitorium « back dvatt cause j wn explosion which blew the firemen off their feet and shattered all te , ief Supporters Favor Peace, So Representative From Mon- aghan Quui windows in the rear of the structure, Junder orders of their commanding officer, the firemen fied. They had 'burely reached the sidewalk when tt “Had these cars been made of steel, ; DUNDALK, Ireland, Dec. 31 (As nstead uf wood, no one would have! soctated Press).—John MacIntee, | false ceiling of the church caved im been hurt. ‘The trains seem to have |;eprenentative of © Monaghan| Dr. Bargess estimates that the loss been made up badly, They were s0/in the Dail Fireann, resigned from| Will exceed $300,000. The walls left arranged that the weakest cars, tho|that office te-day standing will have to be razed ; eld wooden ones, woutl have to bear) qnhe reason for his resignation, he | Deputy Chier Martin does not agree the brunt of any shock, and we can was that he is opposed to the| With the theory of Dr. Burges’ that eo the result | angto-Ir Treaty le his chiet|the wwiginated from defeetive In commenting on the Mayor's criti-| supporters are im favor of it wiring in Lhe organ loft, although Dr cls of the Interborough for not} DUBLIN, De« 3) (Associnted | Burgess was in the church when the uaing steel cars engineers of the! prege)—The Leitr:m County Coun: Sre was first seen. According to the | Transit Commission to-day satd they | oi: wag lsted to-day in the column|fremen, tue blaze originated in the | thought the M had been misin- |) similar Irish bodies that have C*llar from defective furnace flues formed, All steel cars, the experts | q.pted resolutions in favor of 1 ii-|%2d burned up through the floor and said, had n approved or! action of the A sh Trealy pread to the oggan loft. The plimy tuthorized for use on elevated stru A strong resolution ia fava ran cost $25,0¢ tures, both becaune of their weigh feaivialen Waa Torwunaed (oldk 1owe ft hu we snd because of thetr re WHICH sum the Standiug Committee of the | 3° Pt undreds uf . Mi. bia sinn Fein Executive Board of South | %9%. While the fire was at its h (Continued an Seco ge) sittin. The North Leitrim Sin birds disappeared, but they tm. ooo Tre cttie een fore ntcd | turaed! when the’ faunas had dag AMERICANS REPORTED collage reectuttas nguished and cle around nn ABDUCTED BY TURKS WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.- ure of out giving thelr names, a Press) the British ,gchooner, Messenger of Street power house, throwing all the!" yy rouce Moonan, the elevator op- Asors of th Peace, with & cargo of liouor off the auxiliary machinery out of commis-jerator, brought many of the tenants | about twenty | North Carolina coast was reported to sion, The power that is supplied for|/down from the upper stories, | en : opie, are di Assistant Secretary of the Treasury New Jersey was not ected = by Armenian newspaper Yarguir o: "iifford to-day by the Coast Guard ———i SEVERE STORM COMING, Constantinople to ha en car Station at Bllzabeth City, N. C. FIRST CARGO OF WHEAT FoR, Pie local Weather Burcaw to-day re-| y. the Turkish Nationa! 9, saya a OCRACOKE C., Dee. 31.—The rasta. LAY ety he following message from|atantinople despatch, & Messenger of Peace has been known wocuingTON. f mtacy| Washington: "Southwest storm warm-| The fate of the deported Americans for months along this part of the const _, \V,\SHINGTON, | Ds eta tng, 30 A.M. Norfolk to Ea adda the newspaper, Is rot kno an “Tir> Mystery Ship.” She came into Cia tint the frat cargo of Korat Vere storm moving rapidly ea ae Ocracoke inlet Inst August, nena ee re Serres TK r lak Wl be atte The WORLD'S WINTER PESORT ANNUAL fer on a shoal ad been ansehen mal eomoue . Merten Steamanis. Travel ‘and’ Teor since until yest when she was “hipping hoard vesse 0 shipment i Werld offices on sequent floated od 249,000 burheia, ‘ Water’ Neasrt Burtav. Mee York Werth, Wee a — - - = —< - ene © ee eae Sener: a bd ulned homes. Zion and St. Timothy's Church was | built twenty-seven years ago and waa considered a fue example of architer- ture. The original Zion Church o ganized tn 180 at %orh LAWYER KILLED IN 12-STORY FALL Benjamin Phillips of No. 1 West} and Seventh av 64th Street Drops From = | aaa Window. | ITALIAN BOURSES | TO SETTLE ON JAN. 4 Benjasnin Phillips, an attorney lv- ing at No. | West 64th reet. oe wok 8 fell or noME, Dec. 31, (Associated Presah 1 foom a window of his apart A: the instarce of the Minisers of nt weift the {ind the Treasury. tae King tos eee ree postponing unlit counrt yard this afternoor i the Decembe: settiomen: which to hawe occurred to-day om ell the He % inacantly killed ee ee ee eee ee ape ome