The evening world. Newspaper, January 19, 1922, Page 1

. ce! u VOL. EDITION LXII. NO. 21,950—DAILY. To-Night’s Weather—CLOUDY; COLDER, ee R ACTS TO END BONDING C i eee ae al all Fry pO leaner’ rr IMINALS Che “Circulation Books Open to All.’ } To-Morrow's Weather—FAIR; COLDER. Circulation Books Open to All. ing Copyright (New Yerk World) hy Press ‘Pablishii Company, 1022. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1922, Entered as Second-Class Matter Post Office, New York, N. Ye PRICE THREE CENTS SET FIRE TO BED TO HIDE KILLING OF WOMAN ——— Pay-As-You-Go Policy Dis- carded and Departments Spend Lavishly. NOW ASK _ $60,896,004. | This in Excess of Unparalleled| Budget—Ignore Bank- | ruptcy Peril. | a | Because of a war-time let-down of the barriers of the pay-as-you-go po- Icy inaugurated py the Mitchel Ad- ministration, the Hylan Administra- =-tion is permitted this year to palm | off on posterity $15,000,000 in Gov- ernmental costs in excess of the 1922 budget of $350,516,524.59, The pay-as-you-go policy was es- tablished by the Mitchel Administra- | CITY PILING UP VAST DEBT THAT MUST BE HANDED DOWN UNPAID 10 FUTURE REGIMES GOVERNOR FAVORS EXTENSION OF RENT INTL 192 LAS Also Supports Proposal to Extend Tax Exemption on Home Building. (From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) ALBANY, Jan, 19.—The Emergency Rent Laws will be extended and the time in which the construction of new dwellings may be begun. will algo be exténd d for another year tion at the suggestion of Dig finen- ander’ tie IuwWexempting new con- clefts’ wio predicted that unless New York City ceased unloading ite debts on future generations through cor- porate stock—the official title of the City’s long term bonds—the City would be plunged into bankruptcy. ‘The pay-as-you-go policy followed. This prohibited the old-time method of making extensive and lavish non- revenue producing improvements thereby getting great credit at the time, but leaving to the future a big debt plus heavy interest and amorti- zation charges, About ‘two years ago the Legisla- ture permitted the city to exempt it- self from the pay-as-you-go policy to the extent of $16,000,000 worth of corporate a year. At the time it was freely admitted the money was needed for vital improvements, including schools, This year, the last in which the $15,000,000 exemption is per- mitted, every city department is in a mad stampede for a Hon's share of the money which must be made good by some budget makers many years hence. Up to date the total of their re- quests is $60,896,004.38, The Presi- dent of the Borough of Manhattan wants $7,225,500, the Brooklyn Bor- ough President $9,107,640, the Bronx Borough President $3,394,250, the Queens President $3,375,524 and Rich- mond $2,119,700. Other conspicuous requests are as follows: Public Welfare, $7,055,679.6: Bellevue and Allied Hospitals, 35,7: 000; Street Cleaning, $4,951,000; Cor- reotion, $2,297,500 and Plant and Structure, $5,201,945. A little over three million dollars is asked for parks in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Bronx, $1,610,900 for the Fire Depart- ment and $1,500,000 for fire preven- tion education. (Continued on Second Page.) =e GERMANY GETS BACK EMBASSY BUILDING Washington Property Seized in War Is Returned to Representative To-Day. (Speoial to The Brening World ) WASHINGTON, Jan. 19,—Thomas W. Miller, Alien Property Custodian, formally released the German Embas- sy on 8 Btreet*in Washington to-day and it was turned over to the German Charge d’Affaires, who at the same ame was handed the deed restoring the property. This piece of land was the one bought by the German Gov- @rament before the war for the pur- pose of erecting a new Embassy, which plans were stopped by the wa: ‘The Alien Property Custodian was also in conference to-day on restora- tion matters with the counsellor of the struction from local taxation, Gov, Miller to-day expressed his approval of the plan of the Lock- wood housing committee, and while he did not put himself on record for any time limit of the Anti-Gouging Rent Laws, he let it be understood that he will be largely guided-in the matter by the report of the Lock- wood committee, “It has been proposed," said the Governor, “that the law exempting new dwelling construction from local taxation be so extended so that new building operations commenced be- tween April 1, 1922, and April 1, 1923, he included, and this seems to me to be reasonable. “The law now gives localities the nuthority to exempt from tax for ten years new dwellings which are be- gun before the first of April, this year. The proposal is to extend the right of exemption to buildings be- sun in the next year but to make that exemption for nine years in- stead of ten, so that all the exemp- tions may expire together. “T believe this to be reasonable and have so indicated to those who have sought my advice on the subject.”’ te ALBANY ADJOURNMENT IS SET FOR MARCH 23 Senate Will Am d@ Resolution and Honse Will Concur, AUBANY, Jan, 19.—The Legislature will adjourn not Jeter than March 23, according to present plans of the leaders, ‘The adjournment resolution will be in- troduced in the Assembly within a short time and will set March 15 as the date, The Senate is ewpected to amend this to read March 23, and it will be re- adopted in the Lower House, WANTS WARSHIP RUSHED TO MAKE FLOOR REPAIRS U. S. Minister Says Member of Liberia Cabinet Fell into the Cellar. WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. “Please rush o warship with lumber and carpenters,"’ was the message received at the State De- partment to-day from Joseph L, Johnson, American Minister at Monrovia, Liberia The despatch explained that when several members of the Li- berian Cabinet were meeting at the American Legation recently. the Minister for Foreign Affairs shifted his chair to an undiscov- ered weak spot in the floor and was precipitated into the cellar when the floor gave way beneath him. The Department advised Minis- ter Johnson to have the necessary Hungarian Legation. ys a fF 18 repairs made by native workmen. ONE MOVELEFTULS. TO BALK POLY OFM, PONCARE Appointment of An American to Reparations Commission Now Suggested. | WOULD CHANGE POWER France Then Could Not Con- trol Action on Payments or Dominate Decisions. By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 right, 1922).—The United States Gov- left which ke it necessary to attend the which (Copy- ernment has one move | may m: Genoa conference and may make the new Poincare ministry in France see that ultimately it cannot pursue a single-handed policy in han- dling German reparations. NOBBE, PARDONED ASSICK, SEENON STREET MONDAY =sneliheenle Neighbors Surprised to Learn Tile Trust Head Was Vic- tim of Tuberculosis. MISS ELSIE HILL WEDS PROF. LEVITT; KEEPS MAIDEN NAME AT LONG ISLAND HOME. | Hayward’s Assistant Seeks Precedent to Warrant Further Medical Examination. Although Frank H. Nobbe, one of the four convicted heads of the Tile Trust, was pardoned by President Harding on the strength of affidavits Stating that Nobbe was seriously Ill of pulmonary tuberculosis, and though Mrs. Nobbe said to-day that her husband had been confined to his home in St. Albans, Ly I., since his return from Atlantic City following Daketa. his release from Essex County (N. J.)| WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—Miss El- Jail, neighbors of the Nobbes de- gig Hill, Chairman of the Executive Suffrage Picketer Remains in Wash- ington, Husband in North | This move is the appointment by President Harding, subfect to the cos- firmation of the Senace, of an Ar fean representative on the Repara- tions Commission. The prediction was made in official quarters to-day that the step was in- evitable as a consequence of the new declaration by Premier Poincare that France will not go to the Genoa con- ference unless It is agreed beforehand that German reparations will not be discussed, Coming on top of the state- ment by Poincare that he thinks the Allied Supreme Council no longer nec- and that he would insist upon ul return to the provisions of villes Treaty, the belief pre- yails that the French Premier will re, invest the Reparations Commission with the moral influence and impor- tance which it lost when the Supreme Council took the matter of reparations] out of the hands of the commission, a move which many French and British critics have ever since characterized as ‘illegal’ in the sense that it vio- lated the Versailles Treaty. Tho truth is the Supreme Council was waiting for America to ratify the Versailles Treaty not wanting to see the Reparations Commission have too much power. On the other hand, the United States now has ratified its own treaty with Germany, which embrgces the economic and reparation clauses of the Versailles Treaty and entitles ‘America to a seat on the Reparations Commission. The Senate adopted a reservation requiring the President to (Continued on Tenth Page.) “ARRESTED” PAL AS BURGLAR, 22 'on.s32% 52m." FLASHING POLICEMAN’S BADGE! One of two young men arrested on / suspicion in the Parkville section of Brooklyn to-day had in his pocket two loaded revolvers, a badge of the police reserves and a palr of hand- cuffs in addition to t Air's tools and a bunch of skeleton keys The police reserve badge and the handcuffs interested Detectives Steel and McGlone, who made the arrests, particularl William | Street, Man Harry Ber- |ger of No. Avenue had | confessed to the commission of more | than twenty daylight robberies in | Flatbush and other outlying sections of Brooklyn “Well,” said ogel, ‘'supposin' while we're in somebody comes in, see? I got the badge on clared to-day that they had seen the fata ' pardoned man on the street last Mon- Committee’ of th®dational Woman's day. He then geomed in his usual P@fty, and g prominent picketer, was condition, they added. The news of married in Chicago Dec. 24 to Albert his tubercular condition, they stated, | Levitt, professor of law at the Uni- was news indeed to them. versity of North Dakota, with only As Col. Hayward, United States relatives of the couple knowing any- Attorney, is in Washington for a con- thing about It. ference with Attorney General Daug- Miss Hill will mot change her herty, Assistant United States Attor- Christian or maiden name. Prof. Le- ney Podell was unable to confer with Vitt is in North Dakota, where his him about the Nobbe case. But he duties will hold him until June. Miss said that his office was seeking for a| Hill, by virtue of her o‘fico and the precedent to warrant a further ex-| C#mpaign for equal rights for women, amination of Nobbe now that he is no|!8 Kept here. She and her husband longer in custody’, will spend the summer in Redding, “If we find such a precedent,” he ane ane added, “we will have that examina- isa LU), whois aigraduato-of Vass SETSFRET BED TOBURN UP WOMAN BELIEVED SLAN Tenants, Smelling Smoke, Form Bucket Brigade and Save Homes. HER DEATH A MYSTERY. \Flask of Alleged Liquor Indi- | . cates Drinking Preceded | Tragedy. | Tenants at No. 222 Hast 70th Street | were aroused early to-day by a quar- jrel in the apartment of a couple known as “Afr. ‘A few minutes later the woman's | volce was stilled; they head a man’s footsteps rapidly leaving by way of the front door, smelt smoke and then ran into the apartment, There they found “Mrs, O'Brien,” a comely woman, lying dead on the bed, flames licking at the mattress from a pile of papers which had been ignited underneath, The tenants, captained by Edward Berishein, their landlord, formed a bucket brigade and jhaa nearly put out the flames when Policeman Nietzel of the East 67th Street. Station and Dr. Weinstein of Reception Hospital arrived, They helped finish the job. Dr. Weinstein sald the woman was dead before she was placed on her pyre. His hasty examination re- vealed no bruises or indications. of rough play. But the smoke and fire, he said, had not deen intense enough to cause death, although the fire had burned through the floor. According to the police the dead and Mrs. O*Brien.” tion to check up the reports of the ar,‘1s a daughter of the late Eben-|Woman’s name ix Agnes Fury. She Physicians who examined him. lezer J. Hill of Norwalk, Conn, for|Wa# forty-one years old and had been \twenty-one years a prominent mem-|!!ving Im the house since Jan, 7, An NY. BAR AGTS TO PREVENT ~- PROFESSIONAL BONDSMIEN TURNING CRIMINALS LOOSE Committee Prepares Bill Forcing Security Concerns to. Take Out State License and Giving Courts Right to Investigate and Reject. Recommendation for reform of the bail bond business to include licensing of bondsmen by the State Superintendent of Insurance instead | of by Mayors of cities of the first class was made public to-day by the Committee on Law Reform of the Association of the Bar of the City o! New York. ? Eéward J. McGuire, No. 51 Chambers Street, Chairman of the com mittee, announced that the ill as drafted follows in part the ineasure now being sponsored by Senator Salvatore Cotillo at Albany, It differs | however, in the license feature and in minor details. POLICE IN BATTLE WITH RUNNERS OF RUM IN UPPER BAY Many Shots Fired and Three The committee's measure, acecord- ing to Association by-laws, awaits ap- proval of a committee on™amend- ment of the law, of which Lo Marshal ts chairman, although it has been indersed by the Association as a whole, This approval is expected according to Mr. MoGuire, after which the bill will be submitted tc the Legislature, probably by Senator Cotilto himself. It is generally believed that Sena tor Cotillo will accept the Bar Asso- ciation proposal as amendatory to ‘his own measure, His original bill, whict failed of passag@ last year, war Men Captured; Liquor and drafted largely on recommendation of the present MoGuire Committee, Boats Seized. it was said, and this same bill is the measure on which he seeks action al ‘A sea-battle between the police | the present session. . One of Two Captured With Elaborate Kit After| Score of Brooklyn Robberies Tells Plans to Trick Householders. | have no regrets about having recom- mended a commutation of Nobbe's sentence, I believe it was a huma act. X-rays taken of his lungs seemed to bear out the physician's diagnosis, The release of Nobbe by Pxecut! order on Jan. 7 was revealed by a dent yesterday, though here was de- nial that anything had been done to keep it secret. | Before the notification came to him | of Nobbe's tubercular condition, Col. | Hayward vigorously opposed the re- | quests of any of the defendants in the tile Inquiry for executive clem- ency, particularly those of Nobbe and | Petrix, | Mr. Podell, who as special prosecu- | tor, conducted the tile cases for the) Government, said: “You can have no conception of the| (Continued on Second Page.) seen this guy break into t and come in to pinch him, I put the handcuffs on Ha. pullint a gun on him and I tll the party In the house to come to the sta tion house in an hour, see? ‘Thien me an’ Harry goes away and whom we get out of sight I take the } offa him an’ we fade away, Spiegel and sald 1 been operating ubout three 1 They committed their burglarit the late afternoon, Their pl to ring the bell of a detach in @ good neighborhood und if was no response break in ani! They stole $1,500 worth of le and jewelry from the home of \! ini Ginsberg, No, 607 Willoug? Ave nue, Brooklyn, on Jan, 5 sel said he got married a week und gave the proceeds of this robbery ? Then | Berger to and flash it and say I'm « cop and I his bride, ber of the House of Representatives, |!nsurance policy in the name of She was jailed as a White House] Hearlthy was the only other identi- boat John F. Hylan and three high- powered motor bonts was waged for The McGuire committee's sugg: tion reads as follows: “Bection 1—The code of erimiou! picketer in President Wilson's term, SAW EXECUTION AT CHATEAU-THIERRY Ex-Soldier Says Boy of Twenty Was Shot by Firing Squad During Battle. WASHINGTON, Jan 19.—The shooting of a soldier by a firing squad in France was deseribed to the Wa son inquiry to-day by George W. Yar- brough of Roanoke, Ala. “During heavy shell fire near Cha- teau-Thierry,” said Yarbrough, “I was going up the road with other men when we saw a soldier, his hands tied behind him, being marched toward the woods, The sight was so unusual it distracted our attention from the shelling. There was officer, I an squad, and when they started to shoot the soldier, a white boy about twenty years old, he asked that he blindfolded." He was positive the e: in July, 1918. He understood the offi cer in charge of the firin be not ecution was squad was with an infantry regiment of the Third Division. James M ott of Newark, N. J., told of seeing two men shoved under a faucet, fully clothed, and forced to stay there twenty min- utes. One died a few days later, but he did not know the caus pie GOV. MILLER’S PARDON fication, The police questioned Dan- fel Hearlihy, No. 46 East 98th Street, who said the dead woman had visited him last evening, but had left about 9 o'clock, In the kitchen a found containing a mixture of al- leged whiskey. which, Policeman Nietzel sald, smelt like a mixture of ether and carbolic acid. Empty whiskey glasses lay on the table. An hour later the man known as “Mr. O'Brien” appeared, He said his real name was Andrew H. Davis, No. 2409 Second Avenue, that he had a wife and family and, according to the police, had been Intimate with the dead woman for He denied any knowledge as to the cause pint flask was twelve years Fury betwee when she came 9 o'clock and midnight, in with 4 man whose identity they are trying to learn, She has been separated from her hus- band for 16 years and had two chil dren, The police learned also that sho was subjected to heart attacks and that recenty she had been drinking heavy! a Sunday World RECORD IS LOW ONE} Interference by Exeo- tive with Sentences for Years ALBANY, 19,—(ov, Miller fssued but two pardons. repr twelve commutations ntonee, + sald In a report to the Senate to-day, with prison gen Jan. thr and in years, v Smith's record for 1920, his ast in office, showed 22 pardons, 15 commutations, 84 respites and 241 reatorationa to cittsenship. Miller has aleo restored © nur er of convicted persons to oftizenship The exact number ts mot given in his report, Gov Classified Advertisements Should Be in The World Office On or Before Friday Order Sunday World Classified Advertising To-Day. The World of her death, saying he had been working all night as a foreman in the Interborough subways, This alibi was subsequently confirmed by the police. Davis and Hearlihy, after telling thei? stories to District Attorney Banton, were discharged. The po- lice are now trying to trace Mrs. | half an hour in the Upper Bay last jMight and resulted in the capture of three men, 113 bottles of Imported Nquors and two fully loaded re- volvers, Many shots were fired be- tween the policemen and the twelve men in the unlighted, muffled “blockade runners.” The battle was carried on land! when the Hylan ran the boats down | to the 39th Street piers in South | Brooklyn, “Shoot to kill!'’ Inspector | James W. Hallock told his men as they leaped to the bulkheads, and for another twenty minutes shots by the dozen rang out. Members of Harbor Squad A literally took thelr lives into Hoge aha ee eed their hands when Policeman Louis | py | Jaegs and John Beyer went to oppos alt be net iia sosened in the site ends of the pler and closed in on | UIA! Of ae hvelatee each other emptying thetr revolvers + ne) SOMES OF Maalalenteys tot fal he OI, ete Ratenta: heer | other ouilio officer, concernea in ier Thetr strategy reaulted in the cap- | ™Atter may examine under oath any ture of the only prisoners taken, Jo-|PFPO#ed bondsman or depositor of |neph Chevero, No. 14 Van Brunt | #&Urity for bail, or the officer of any | Street, a longshoreman, and Stephen | Pane tities 40. ana a Cherllo, No. 84 Degraw Street, both | D4!! bond or to make such deposit, as of Brooklyn, camo out from behind | '? the {ndemaity, if any, deposited or bags and surrendeved. At the same | °therwise provided directly or indi- timo Jacge saw a figure dart through | "ety against loss by reason of said the fog and jump Into an automobile, | deposit or ball bond fee charged for Leaping to the running board with |‘ Kiving of said bond, and in its » drawn revolver, Jaogg compelicd the | ‘eretion of his discretion may re- man to stop. In burlap bags were | {us to accept such bond or deposit found 118 bottles of cognac, brandies ‘f *8t!sfied that tlon of such and other imported Nquors, The third has been feloniously obtained procedure is hereby amended “by in serting therein a new section to fu. low Section 554-A to be Section 654-1; té read as follows: “Section 654-B, Professional Bonds men: 1. “Any person or corporation jr any court having criminal jurisdictio: or in any criminal action or proceed ing who shall for another deposit money or property as bail, or execut: as surety and bail bond, who, within w period of one moath prior theret: shall have made such a deposit «i given such bail in more than tw: cases not arising out of the sam: any por prisoner said he was Dominick dant, or that the provis |Suarato, No. 3919 Fourth Avenue, | '°9S Of this section have been in any Brooklyn, The automobile, bearing | 48° Violated, or that the person or 1921 license No. 200,445, was not his, , 2¢t8ons indemnifying said corporn- The three motor boats and row|tONU or personal bondsman shall boat, the automobile, the quo: ana| ve Within a period of one month three prisoners were taken to Head- | Prior thereto given indemnification quarters, | or security for like purpose in more rato, when arraigned in the| than two cases not arising out of the Fifth Avenue Pollce Court, Brooklyn, | §4me transaction and who ts mot duly waived examination and was held in| licensed under the provisions of this $1,000 for the Grand Jury | act lehar with ating the Mullau-; "No. 3. No por r oc bi Gage Prohibition Act. Th shal! engage in he business of giving others were held in $500 bat! eac bonds in criminal cases without being Special Sessions charged with opera July licensed as hereinafter provided ting a motor boat without a loense, | Cul 7 aia his The Hylan had gone down the Bay | |to Investigate rumors of drug snug very corporation engaging in Gling. The men on board noticed tho! such business tn a city of the first motor boats leaving the Presidente . io Wilson, and gave chase when It was| clans shall proouve ® Nena iat atgn discovered no lights were showing and|°f !t8 employees and officers acting tho engines were muffled, for it and shall file with the District a