The evening world. Newspaper, January 26, 1922, Page 1

To-Night's Weather—FAIR; SLIGHTLY WARMER. EDITION VOL. LXI1 NO. 21,956—DAILY. Copyright ¢ The ew York World Pablishing Company, t . | Cireulation Books Open to Ail.” | Prev NEW YORK, Kitiy Gordon Insists They CONTROL, SAYS ETTINGER DEGRYING USe FOR POLITICS ee Exploited by Machine to Give Lucrative Jobs to the “Faithful. WILL PUT BODDY. rower. ON STAND TO TELL e A HAS ABSOLUTE Election of Mrs. Forsythe alled an “Opening Wedge.” OF POLICE BEATINGS Counsel Pictures Negro as an Epileptic—Members of His “Tammany Hull is endeavoring gain control of all appointments the s pols of the City of New York Family Testify. by selecting its own appointer = ) positions 1 Superintendents Justice Wasservogel in the Supreme of Scliools,"” charsed Count to-day denied a motion by Mor- Drs Swain Ettinger, Supertii- | 44 Koontz, counsel for Luther Boddy, tendent of Schools, to-day to @, TA: | ater af Detectives Miller and Buck- morior OP ithe renting Word: that the charge of murder in the bls Uh election ff. Mrs. G Strachan Kooketoe to tiys pot gf Ace socinte Saperfifendent’ aifa NE we Boddy will be put on i testify about allered police beatings tinger, “is the opening wedge to In eet aaat i ject politics inio the school systein r. Koenig made the motion im- of this city." mediately after court convened when Mys. Movssthe, who organized + Distriet Attorney Ranton announced teachers and took anactive part inthe the State had rested. Mr. Koenig Mayors last ipaien, Was elected insisted that it essential th, yesterday w meeting of the Bowed the State show premeditation in p of Education «vote had been senting a charge of first degree mur- aken to suspend the by-lows in or der, We denicd premeditation had © pit over her election. Comm x AE ee Oe atin, Bonekn ee been shown, but that, instead, Roddy muinst suspending the by-laws, siy- had shown, as several witnesses te. Ht meas ewe one reens seen tied, that he had shot on impu ve blank, Mrs, the will ven Bod statement that he for six years at an annual si or iia plata ean s Ate UU Asa EAL nti 1 pistol in his hand during rit is ly opposed to his walk with the policemen was not Snperintendents being itself, Mr. Koenig contended, ted for uny definite tertus, He siificient to sustain a charge of first Vieves they shonld be selected by the murder when weighed with I of Education and approved by the evidence showing “impulse.” the Superintendent of Schools to till — Herman Hoffman, of counsel tor the office solely on their qualifications Boddy, made the defense's statement for the position, ‘Their tenure of jury after Mr. Koenig had flee, he continued, would depend abs Lately on their ewn ec 1and ability propose to show that this te administer the funetions of Associ- | defendant is not the kind of assassin ate Superintendent ietured by the prosecution,’ he said With the Board of Education's} "We are going to show he is subject polley of suspending its by WS and | to epileptic fi that a brother h electing persons for their political ac-| been in the psychopathic ward tvity rather than their fitness,” con-! Bellevue and that other member iinued Dr. Ettinger, “it ts obvlous| his family have suffered from menti the tremendous political influence | de cements,’* . which Tammany Hall will be able to] Ho declared that most of Boddy’s wield, Two Associate Superintend-| trouble heretofore had been due to ents—William McAndrew and Clar-| thefts and that during his sentence for ence Melleney—will have their terms|one of them in a penal institution he expire in February, Gustave Straub-| had been struck over the head with a enmuller, another Associate, will come| Shovel. After his release, the lawyer continued, Roddy had been ‘hounded’? by the police and “continually picked up for questioning, beaten, kicked d effed."' He declared Boddy had “if the Board of Education should] the “fear of the colored people of his use the tactics when election] Section of the police a time comes up to fill these vacancies," | Of one of the decea concluded Dr. Ettinger, “it is easy tof ‘One of the deceasi picture the influence its appointees} Man declared, “on his perjured testi- will have in appointing teachers and] Mony secured the other positions in the schools,” Malco Wright, There are seven Associate Superjn-| Colored section. tendents and Dr. Ettinger, who is| learned it the Chairman of the board. They control = for reappointment in Shimer and John H will have completed their terms with- in a year, sume Mr. who lived in the The defendant had he was arrested by all appointments In the school sys- (Continued on Second Page.) tem. The expiration of Messrs, Me- —<———__. Andrew's and Melleney’s terms in U.S.TO SUE AIRCRAFT MEN FOR $7,000,000 February, as well as that of Strauben- (Continued on Second Page.) Action to Be Based on Alleged Oo it id ' verpayments Made on Sunday World Wartime Contracts Classified WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—The Government is ready to bring sult against the Dayton-Wright Company and the Wright-Martin Alreraft Cor- Poration to recover a total of more than $7,000,000 in alleged overpay- ments on war contracts, Attorney General Daugherty announced to- day. Government accountants had re- ported, he said, overpayments to the Dayton-Wright Company in the sum of $2,554,883.27, and to the Wright- Martin Aircraft Corporation — of 34,706,055.88. The suits would be civil proceedings only, Mr. Daugherty ‘ sald, and .n dill be brought In Fed eral court) i. Quie and New York Advertisements Should Be in The World Office On or Before Friday Order Sunday World Classified Advertising To-Day. The World first degree be changed, ‘ sydon, “on theetand oh Hoft-| conviction of one} IN BLOCK 10 DRIVE OUT WHITE TENANTS: Witness Testifies Lessee of Buildings Threatened “to Smoke Him Out.” THREAT TC GET SQUAR larlem Man Says Methods to Keep Up Rents Looked Like Blackmail to Him. After returning to the subject o the profiteering landlords of Harlem, | noon took up an inquiry with the ren? estate investments of insurance com- panies and other financial institv- Mr. Untermyer reported on tho project of the erection of a $100,- 000,000 group of apartments by Tao Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in cooperation with the Thompson Sturret Company and organized labo The story yas told of the importa anaes. tenants into quiet st. éhoias Avenue, between 118th and 119th Streets, near fhe chureh and Parochial school of St. Thomas the Apostle. Harry Goodstein, President of the West Harlem Property Owners’ As sociation, told how the Central Sav ings Bank sold the Garden Court row nine ‘houses worth $450,000 for tions. of $60,000 cash and a mortgage to E. W./ Browning in 1919. Mr. Browning rents, the witness said, promptly raised from $40 a + month to $60 and $65 a month. Then leased tle block to Charles Klein, who tried to increase the rents to $100 or more, ‘The tenants refused to pay. The courts sustained the ten- ants. WITNESS. SAYS METHODS LOOKED LIKE BLACKMAIL. “Klein came to me," said Mr. Joodstein nd declared the iease from Browning was costing him $10,000 « year and the rents were only $86,000 a year, and he was to get square ana ruitf the neighbor h unless the praperty holders his lease, It looked like 1 to me, on hought out Iaeckm The wituess told how Klein moves iny douse, ejecting a tenant by pleading ais right as owner, Then out and made a Negro lod he move ing house of the apartment, renting the rooms singly to the ‘lowest type (Continued on Second Page.) Big Girls Shock With Bare Knees In H igh | Schools 1 Call ’Em, at Their Says Mr. Hauber of “Newark School Board, | Ware knees—not knock-knees but } St, “Inmo shock-knees—-have started another row in the Newark Board of Educa- And although Joseph M. jHauber has only five more days to serve on that body he is ‘‘not going to | rest’ until he gets those knees cov- | erea “When T visit the high schools,” he told his colleagues at last night's meeting, “I find girls showing their bare knees. I have complained and nothing has been done about it, On other visits I saw more bare knees. {1 think Dean Poland had better stay home and give her time to correcting the immodest dressing of the high school girls than to go off to attend a national convention of something or other out tn Chicago. “When girls are old enough to go to high school they certainly should cover their knees, If they do not they are immodest." Hauber, who is a Gillen appointee, was not reappointed by the new Mayor, Archibald, The departing member did not find any support from his colleagues, who otherwise unani- mously voted to permit Mrs. Poland to attend the national convention of leans next month tion. going | POPE IS BURIED IN ST. PETE HURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1922, % R’S | “Circulation Books Open to All. Hntered ax Second Post Office, New i Matter oN. Ve PRICE THREE CENTS ‘ll Wed When Broker Denies It a Yurns Her Beautiful Back on} That He Actress Say MOI ‘ VE Pr —Kitty turned her “horrid erated her enga, fina ment followins | She declared neier that Ranlet, after an exchange of tole- | grams last night and a long tak with | her on the telephone, would be glad ito join with her in| making public! | thelr "pertectly lovely engagement, “Ralph spent $35 to talk to me Jong distance last night and I guess ‘he got his money's worth “He scolded me for giving out our en- gagement without notifying him, but | I wanted to give him a thrill “When he wrote me the other day ‘that it annoyed him to hear people y 1 was married my former stage me to deny It publicly, I decided to go him one better—and announce our en- gagement T got my hands leree,”” ‘It is not ried, Last night F engaged to esteem in whi as saying, ‘bul reported engag sulted on Tiss lieve Miss that Gordon's ous."* The qu Public stion committee was the Bronx Ga: noon. confirming his that Mr. Littl mitted to enter This afternoo: iam Schuyler Plant with a to gain entrance: and ask action 1922, contal Reverts, Steamship ail Werld offices Winter Revert Bureau, | “Horrid Rumors’ Denied Betrothal. beautiful rumors” had denied Miss Gtrdon was Ranlet of New Pears to hold me," sume that I might announcement was m: port to the Commissi ———~ IS RALPH RANLET. He Scolded Her lor Telling, but She Wanted to Give Him a Thrill, Ta. n. Gordon, s' to-day gement to f /let, New York broker. She was a bit perturbed over New the Lockwood Committee this after-jyory reports that the Wall Street their cngage- her announcement. to-day she was sure | she ariner, rhaps I should have walted until at divorce udded Kitty, who filed suit in on England a year ago for separation from her present hnshand, the Hon. Heney Beresford. “Hut [ expect my |divoree very soon—and when L get it, Lam going to merry Kalph."* CHATTANOOGA, Tenn Jack Wilson, former Kitty Gordon, was surprised dignant to-day over the report that to marry York. true,’ Wilson Kitty and Ranlet are going to be mar- 1 certainly would have heard of course highly complimented tanlet denied he was Miss Gordon am of by th ich Miss tiordon ap Ranlet it honestly first time I have ever heard of it (the ement) and [should have been con it before the Des Moines Gordon and I hive been frineds for year and I cannot but be- somebody has casual exp friendship for something more BRONX GAS COMPANY DEFIES COMMISSION Refuses to Open Books as Or and Action to Test Fovvers May Result. of the plants to an expert emplo brought to S and Blec Company's hearing before Commis. sioner Charles Van Voorhi mmissioner Van Voorhis mit order directing the company mit A. S. B. Little to examine books and plants for th: (Little's) Willlam L. Ransom, counsel f company, informed the Commi. le would the plant m Mr, Little Jackson we view to ¢ the Commissioner's ord: e Mr. a7 back to Jack power in reawett (United star, to those do reli ulph Ran- Acelared, Wilson, and asked de- Jan, 28 partner of nd ins Raiph said. If is quoted this is the mistak n sert th ervice Commission to compel a gas company to open its book of and I by the n issue in trie Light this aft an o per SCHOOLS UNDER TAMMANY RENTEDTONEGROES KITTY GORDON TO WED NEW YORKER, SHE SAYS HERBERT STUDIES * SPECTACULAR IR PERILS MORSE DRY DOCK AND STEAMER Firemen, Glistering With} Icicles, Fight Flames That Light Up Brooklyn. e Morse Dry Dock and repair Plant, from 64th to S7th Street in First Avenue, Bay Ridge, was men- aced by four-alarm fire that started in the two-story corrugated tron gare age at S5th Street at 6 A. M. day, destroyed several Duild- ings, damaged the largest floating dry dock in the woeld and endangered the steamship S. M, Spaulding in the to- other whieh ts dock, James Case, a chauffeur the iscovered the blaze and sent the first alarm. Within a si the garage was destroyed, and fifty automobile trucks, T jumped to the pipe shop, t shop and the alr-tool shi sively, destroying all the: buildings, The tool shop is on fer in karage, tf time boiler es- two story f the iry dock, near the ship Spaulding, in what is said is the largest floating dry dock In the woeld, © timbers of the top section of the dock ignited, but four water were played on the little damage was done. steam. ship, whose home port is Los An did not cateh fire. streams of n and yery It was one of the mo: spectacular fires Brooklyn has had in a Jong time, and until daylight lit up part of | the harbor and could be all over | Hrooklyn and on parts of Staten Island. Firemen had a difficult time because of the cold, the water freez: | of his arms and hands | exposed he has been visited HONECK BROKEN, POPE BENEDICT XY. BURIED wuosorrawepe, WN ST. PETER'S GRYPT WITH ssc» GREAT POMP AND CEREMONY OnlyHighPrelates, Diplomats, Roman Nobles and Officials and Guards of hey aren Po Vatican Permitted toWitness Last ve Colleve Songs, | ~S Rites After Troops Clear Edifice. HIS CAST A GUEST BOOK Ihuvy Herbert, the quarterback of tho Syracuse University football pleven, whose neck was broken in the Syracuse-Colgate game on Noy. 1 now © patient In the Mount Sinai Hos- pital. The young athlete who picked up with what was regarded at ROME, Jan. 26 (Associated Press).—Pope Benedict XV. was entombed with solemn and impressive ceremony this afternoon. His body, inclosed in three caskets and dressed in the Pontifical robes, lies in a crypt under the great Basilica of St. Peter's, to the right of the entrance. The historic and beautiful ritual was witnessed only by members of | the Sacred College, members of the Pontifical household and the Papal | nobility and diplomatists accredited to the Vatican. | @ ‘The great HUSBANDS EXCEED Peter's bad been closed at noon, o is was the time as @ mortal injury and has spent more than weeks Hospital of the Good Shepherd at Syicuse is the most cheerful seriously ten in the bronze doors of ‘st: t injured man in the big Madivon ting off the stream of humanity which | Avenue institution. .| WIVES, BUT WOMEN tor more thatt*three’ days bgd been Herbert is making a joke of his ing bef the catafafyut where condition, looking on the bright side LEAD IN DiVGRCES erect, “sie vi Nieapcan of life while eneiised in a plaster cast that extends from the top of his head to the middle of his body, His neck, 1 and torso rigid, ho has the use In the weeks | he has latn with nothing but his face by his: schoolmates, men of prominence and members of the faculty at Syracuse, The clerring of St. Peter's for the |burlal service was carried out by | Italian royal troops. At 1.30 o’cloc:x they began making a thorough searc’: of the huge basilica, so that no un authorized persons might remain for the final ceremonies, Census Figures Show More Men Are Being Married Thon a Decade Ago. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. ‘The proportion of married men Six weeks ago the Syracude Uni-| to the total male population of Tawbosea, Kadi cstatee anal uaniet versity Athletic Assoctution called in ee Sena se eae Dr. Charles A. Elaberg, a apectalist| he Country Attesn years of age | iinats numbers were found, many and over increased from 55.8 per cent, to 69.2 per cent, in the ten of the Mount Sinai. He removed the women among them, who had hiddea cast that was then on the wounded : In the hopo of being overlooked unt athlete and put on the one he now} yearn preceding the 1920 census, | 3 O..5cK, the hour for the ceremony‘: wears. It was a bit different, nice] according to statistics made pub- cinch and white, and because of the nead-| 1. +4 day by the Census Bureau eginning. piece that looks like the drapery of These groups being brought out Of the total male population of Arab chief Herbert has become ifkte the onan, aforsevo? #000’ Molalers Known an Tho Sheik. 53,900,431 above the isons ape Pee eeat ee cher iare etre Phe lange expanse of plaster was ansi fics ensi gures the young man to resist. ‘The result} Show" Nest Me 2ht Avoreca | Chind the church and moved slowly i 308 widowed and 2: divorces "I ca a y Herbert hus become ‘ D through the Busilica, with its nu wae ee ore Herat Fate} but not remarried, ‘The divorce ous chapels, gently but ing the crowds ahead There was no disorder, the pe offering no resistance, readily recox- nizing for the most part the duty of complying with the regulations of the church authorities. The ceremony began with the re- moval of the body from the chapel of the Holy Sacrament to the chapel of the choir. It rested upon a bier which was borne upon the shoulders of the red robed ushers whose usual human autograph album. Across his firmly pu: brow, on the top of his head, on his chest and sides of his head friends hav written their and the dates of the culls. ets the auto. total showed an increase of 20 per cent Although the number of mar- ried women was shown to be about 500,000 less than the male total, the number of divorced women exceeded men by approx - imately 40,000, representing close - ly the difference between the number of men and women re- married after divorce. took an Interest tn the side of it is that of t cellor Day, Scattered signatures of cheer the football squad, the law class, pretty nurses. youth, Along- date Chan- bout are the Jers, pals in fellow students in iring freshmen and There are a few post- sae tainpm and hisuor om view tel GURL DUES OF BURNS, functions are “to ‘srny the open special delivery stamp for a quick 6 papal cha hug a apecial delivery stamp for a auick| MOTHER SAVES TWO] sont The funeral cortege was headed by barred | ; ‘ = : alee [the Vatican clergy, bearing toreies vaca TN trees wane | Jersey City Fire Makes 6 Families |ana chanting the anthem “Bxaltabuat ee i - Domino."" On either side of the bier the P in a wlpanw : Me ei ee Homeless and Destroys strode members of the Swiss Guards, face to ine hospital’ where: rpom Ne. Tenement. Valatine Guards and the Papal Gend- 7 aah Drl « 4 . armerle. As the procession moved a Ry Dean mada ready for Alta De Six-year-old Fannie Coppolo, Ne | the choir of the Chapel Julia, in flow= as the allcAmeriean guard the year| 227 Fist Street, Jersey City, waeling robes of purple, sank the psalddec htt alae year ltutally burned there this morning, | ‘'Misercre before and for centre by Walter Camp last year, ix an interne at the hospi-|‘the four-story tenement was de-| PRINCES OF CHURCH FOLLOW tal. Dr, Joe was a when Herbert | stroyed and six families, including ten BODY OF PONTIFF. was just showing through in the! chiaren, are homeless, Noble Guards, in dazzling full dress training squad, but they are friends. | uniforms, formed an escort of honor, ‘The fire started from an overheated Alexander took charge of “the Sheik’ | The Pontift’s bier was covered with until he was safely tucked in the hos-/ stove in the kitchen of the Coppul(] tapestry of red nask upon which pital bed, tpartment on the ond floor and] the body had rested while lying in ere were many callers ut the hos-| xoread so rapidly that nothing cout} state in the Basilica pital last night who belong to the} | sons tomave it, although an en Immediately behind the body came umni of Syracuse Phey did on it = as phan eng the s mosynary, accompanied sing “Here's to beer, cood oll beer, | eompany, No. 4, is housed dir by Saer' Zampini, and following J across the street them was Prince Ruspoli, Grand Mas- (Continued on Kighth Page.) | Mrs. ‘Tony Coppole with three chil-| ter of the Apostolic Household; the dren was in the Kitehen when to} Marquis Sachettl, Major-Forager; the 190 REPORTED SLAIN | the appraisal the sioner | per: | ot be and Wills | mt te the! ying out | Polling son will re o-morrow The WORLD'S WINTER RESORT ANNUAL for fending Travel America tem at Agree 4 New York and our ing almost as soon as it struck any- thing. The firemen themselves bris- tied with icteles, and their clothing became so heay the ice hud to b chopped off in some cases. Five hun- dred employees, who arrived 7 | o'clock, were held at 54th t by the police for half an hour, while the | blaze was extinguished. Deputy Chief Worth of the Division had charge of the boats that responded, a cold the crowd was so la Marine four fi J despite the | reserves were sent from the Fourth Avenue Station, With the halting of the} flames at the dry dock, firemen an-| nounced that the blaze was under control. ‘The estimated damage is $100,000 1922 World 35 cents ver copy Bald. 50 cents. A New’ York City | 1,000 wounded have MtuMtod. She caught up ithe| Merauls Vrancesco and Col, Dirach: | {wo younger ones and ran out with | buhl, commander of the Swiss Guards, IN RIOTS IN CAIRO] them: by this time ano was not per, | Preceding. a. corps of" tho Noble | mitted to tuck, Hut David | Guards the M Prelates was er. | Voriman, a fireman, re ant} Nex came the. Malon’ Preiatea) a Rome Hears Also That 1,000 Per-| (otal tree He put her in| flowing robes of black and purple, sons Were Woursled in New | the tire Chief's automobile and she | then members of the Ancient Order of Jersey City Hospital, | the Sword and Cape in quaint media was taken to the Disorders Th | but she tied immediately after her ar. |] Val costumes with ruffled collars, LONDON, Jan. 26 (United Press). | rival gaiters and buckled slippers; then the Rome despatches te the Evenin —< : | high officers of the armed forces of ‘ar report that fresh disorders in! DISLOCATED VERTEBRA the Vatican in the order of their pre which 390 persons were killed and a cedence. Meanwhile, the members of the Sacred College, Bishops, Archbishops occurred in Cairo, | WHILE COMBING HER HAIR Exypt. Enpilish troops are reported to have| Nurse's Neck Not Brokem as First|and Diplomatists had entered the qnelled the riots. | Report, chapel of the choir, with its high In official quarters here the reports! SYRACUSE, Jan. 26.—Sflss Helen! stalls rising along both sides of the were Alscredited. A despatch from’ Vickery of Schenectady, a nuray at the| altar, As they entered they took up Fiel€ Marshal Allenby, Exyptian xe University Hoapltal, who was | thelr positions according to their rank High Commiasione:, fled yesterday ave heGkan HEE wesc Ace The straina of the ‘Miserere’ were «fternoon, made 1 ntion night by @ sudden Jerk whea heard as the procession approached such trouble. A despatch to Reuter mbing her hair, war found |the chapel, and the Cardinal Arch- under to-day'a date seported onl a » have merely dislocated @ yer>-! priest, Merry Del Vol, and the Car- minor disorders “ dino! engo, Gasparrt, took vey 4 4