The evening world. Newspaper, January 27, 1922, Page 1

N ¥ 4 WORLD) EDITION IN ITS HISTORY FACED BY U. S. | Circulation Books Open to All.’ | THUGS KILL CASHIER, FLEE WITH BANK’S VOL. LXII. NO. 21,957—DAILY. (Xow Copyright bad Publishing fort) by Press Bomar, 10a, NE W YORK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1 Post Office, ntered aa Second= To-Morrow’s Weather—SNOW; WARMER. Kt-Claxn Mutter New York, N. ¥. $95,000 _—— MIRE INBROOKLYN TENEMENT KILLS WOMAN AND A BABY; 2 OVERCOME; 10 RESCUED Saige Eight Children and Their Par- ents Carried Down Ladders by Firemen. STAIRWAYS CUT OFF. Victims, Smothered by Gas and Smoke, Are Found Dead ~ In Their Beds. Mrs, Emma Arundel! and an orphe baby, George Obermeyer, q @ half old, were smothered to dr year by gas and smoke this morning on | the fourth floor of the house at No. 63 Reid Avenue, Brook- lyn, in a fire which, though it burned for only an hour, required all the skill of the firemen to rescue other occu- pants of that floor. They rescued ten by carrying them down scaling lad- @ers to the floor below, whence they Were passed from firemen to fireman apartment down a tall scaling * es Hy wt. e, Twomembe: of the Arundsi family wot down the fire escape in the rear, but were so affected by smoke ant Bas that they had to be treated by 4n ambulance surgeon. The fire, which blazed through the feof within a short time after it wus discovered, set afoot several rumors, one of them that twenty-tive firemen had been overcome. This, reaching Folice Headquarters, caused a call for three pulmotors from the Brooklyn Union Gas Company and ambulances * from Beth Moses and Bushwick Hos pitals. But none of the firemen fight ing the blaze was in any way injured or affected. Although the cause of the fire has Not been determined, it js known to have started on the fourth floor and was discovered by Patrolman John Dunn of the Relph Avenue Station. His alarm brought acting Chief Kane with the fire apparetas and the first thing the firemen c.i was to raise 85-foot extension ivucer to the third floor. Then Firemon Haig, Cart- wright, Frank and Edward Alwell and sealing ladders. There, of an apartment, they Arundel! and the bab: on the floor found Mrs, dead, sam floor they found the Semuel and Mar: amily of Selleppt and their eijtht children, the latter ranging from twenty to four years. Smoke filled the entire top floor of the house, and as the flames had now cut off the stairway the firemen brought the emtize Seileppi family out by the win- do. carrying them down on the sem. ® ladders to extension lad- der on the floor below. The Seleppi ehildren were: Benjamin, Angelina, Adolph, Rose, Minnie, John Victor and Paul. None of these was much affected by smoke or gas. Tho two tenants: of apartment who were slightly overcome and who managed to get to safety down the. rear fire escape svon after the blaze started were, Alfred Ober- meyer and Mrs. M. Randall, daughte of Mrs, Arundell, Dr. Weitzman, of Betn Moses Hospital, ed them, but it was not necessary to take them to the hospital There were s!x families living in the house on the three upper floors. ‘The street floor was occupied by the stationery store of Max Meyers, who with his wife Rose lived in rooms !n the rear, and the barber shop of @harles Dileo. The latter lived with his wife and their three children on the second floor. Their next door neighbors were Abraham Nebolsky, his wife and two children, On tho third floor were Mr. and Mrs, Samuel t Ancho: The Mrs, Margar her two children, street and strect with Thi the third floor fled from the burning y way of the fire escapes. ge cdused by the fire was estimated at $5,000. ‘The Reid Avenue trolicy line was tied up half an hour. pale Ed widow, and (Ri " Page 19.) Vernoery went up to the fourth on In an adjoining apartment on the! the Arundel! | Goldberg and their three children and e living on the Second floors got to the| ing Entries and Selections on | FLORENCE BURNS TRIES TO SHOOT DETECTIVE IN RAID, | >—- | But He Uses Stout Woman as, | Shield and Arrests Ali Apartment. ' A heavily-built woman is all that ‘saved Detective Drake of Inspector Coleman's staff from being/shot to death by Florence Burns, whose crim record began with a charge of when Walter Brooks was Inal homicide murdered in 1902 Drake had sent bi pariner, Sheri- dan, to of a policeman w’ter a ra . ina fle, ‘ iM Styeet, when atiss Burns drew a} mevelver from a bag, ordered three | other women to get dressed and ‘beat it” and sald to Drake: “One false move and there'll be one less cop.” When another wo her name as Jane Doe, No. Sist Street, said: “My God! kill him, he's a cop and we'll get into | HVLAN WANTS CITY ROB BANK, KILL CASHIER, — THUGS ROB BORDEN TORS, MARCH ON ALBANY IN ANGER Startles Board of Estimate With Plan for Action on Bus Lines. BELABORS THE Says People Should Pour Out s on Armistice Day and Make Demands. PRESS. Mayor Hylan startled the members of the Board of Estimate and a large audience in the Council Chamber in City Hall to-day when he said he wished the people of this city would rise as they did on Armistice Day and mareh to Albany demand their rights. The Mayor's declaration was mode while the board was considering a report of Plant and Structures Com- mission.r Whalen on the city’s $25,- 000,000 bus. plan. "“L wish the people of this city,” the Mayor eried, “would get out of their to homes and offices they did on Armistice Day a tew years agv “fC wish they would organ march on Albany. but with in ~ minds “ “Ut they. wodie “ab | Batsplay- ing dome rea! anger. we would get through the necessary legislation. “If Guggenheim, Untermyer & Marshall had not enjoined us, we would now be having healthy, swell sentilated and decent bus operation in this city, ‘The controlled press, 01 people call it, Kept press,’ makes a lot ncige whenever a lus collision ov accident occurs, but an awful scrape,'’ Miss Burns replied do not headline a street car “Go on get dressed, I've got him | sccident. covered “If you are alive ten years from The first woman who attempted to} now you won't sce a single elevated puss the door at which Drake stood | structure in this ef with his arms outstretched was stout.| The Board instructed Corporation Taking advantage of this screen, | Counsel O'Brien to introduce in Al- Drake grabbed his gun, covered Mi Burns and advanced behind the oth woman toward the centre of the room? “Come on, you coward, from behind that woman,"' Miss Burns taunted 1 . “Get her out of the way ant it will be you or me.’* But Drake pushed the other woman, Clara Brodin, thirty-six, No. 267 E Sth Street, against Miss Burns, for ing her into a chair, and then easily took her gun away. | At this point Sheridan and four policemen entered. A fourth woman, Hattle Martin, thirty-five, No. 124 West 65th Street,( was also arrested, as was Frank Fontana, a bootblack, who lives in the apartment. In Yorkville Court to-day, Miss Burns said tried to escape be- cause she knew her record was against her. Magistrate Silberman held her in $5,000 bail on a charge of felonious assault, and $1,000 bail for violating the Sullivan act, : she and the other ‘women will be arraigned on another charge in the Women's Court. Fontanna was held in $500 bail charged with vagrancy. He and Miss Burns will be examined Monday. Miss Burns was discharged before the Brooks case went to the jury in 902, In 1910 she was sentenced by Judge Crain to from seven to four- teen years in Auburn for extortion, She gave her name as Florence Wild. rich, In 1918, as Florence Wallace, ne was held on a serious charge, but there 18 no disposition of the case on | the police records. The same is true of her arrest as Florence Fonday for intoxication in 1919, See epeneen BROKEN NECK HEALING, | HIS CAST IS TAKEN OFF she | Fellow students, alumni of Syracuse and neighbors from Hartford gathered around the plaster paris cast removed from the neck and head of Harry Her- | bert to-day and cheered it and sang to [it Just as if it had been the football in ja last-second winning touchdown. The mold which had rested twelve weeks on the shoulders of the Syracuse quar- terback whose neck was broken in the Colgate game on Nov. 12 was removed it the Mount Sinal Hospital to-day by ) Dr. Charles A. Dlzbers. When the surgeon saw that a super- | fivial exw tion indicated a perfect healing 0! fracture he said it was |the most remarkable improvement bh. had ever known. Herbert will be X- rayed later to-day to determine accu- rately the condition of the bones. In the meantime Herbert will puff away at a brand new meerschaum supplied with a humidor of tobacco presented by fel- low patients. a bany next Monday a bill authorizing bus operation by the city and an ap- propriation of $25,000,000 for its in- stallation. ULSTER ACCEPTS NEW GOVERNMENT IN SOUTH IRELAND. Sir James Craig Declares the North Has Recognized the Collins Regime, BELVAST, Jan. 27.—Ulster has recognized the Southern Provisional Government, which will become the Irish Free State, Sir James Craig, Northern Premier, speech here to-day. declared in a Michael Collins, as head ot the South Irish Govern- ment, has similarly recognized the Ulster Government, he said. This was what the agreement reached by the two Premiers at Lon- don amounted to, Craig declared “It was reciprocal recognition,” he said. nee see FORESWEAR ALLEGIANCE TO IRISH FREE STATE Naturalization Oath Changed for ‘Two Chicago Applicants, CHICAGO, Jan. —The naturaliza- vathy changed to-day when | Walsh and John Ferguson ap- j before Judge Kavanagh for final paper: They toreswore King of Great Britain and Ireland, allegiance to “George the Ini tate." PRAVEL BUREAU, orld) Bullding, 53-63 ‘Pare 4000 and ebecks tor Sunday World Classified Section Should be in The World Office To-Day BATTLE WITH 100 POLICE TUGS "RPE" WL -SHP HEADING 1 RAY. NOSE / Sioux” Runs Away and Small Battery Craft Flee, Turn and Round Her Up. hugs Escape From Besieged | House in Pittsburgh While ‘Crowd Watches Fight. |LOOT TOTALS $95,000. | Assistant Cashier Shot and} | Clerks Locked in Vault by | Daring Band. | | — | PITTSBURGH, Jan, 27 /a hundred police in a score of auto- | mobiles are in pursuit this afternoon More than of five thugs who in the morning | mia Uebel lat ts te aaa oat The steering cear of the steamship Or oe Bae iil a4 Sioux, of the New York and Porto the cael hes ae ‘ bi |Rico Line, failed ter this afternoon 5,000 eht a mattle with $95,000, tee tan ania ke tood |i She was passing the Battery on * sctives ahd then stood Parauinenoececny « . a ‘ be Jher way to Buttermilk Channel and a strong force n | ofr & Strong force, tint ‘had’ them) pier in South) Brooklyn and, for surrounded in a house in this city |," time she was a runaway. Once until they escaped again. |she tuenecd almost about and drove Soon after noon the police reported |at guod speed directly for the Bat- that two men and a woman found|tery wall. near the house had been taken and| Tied up along the wall were more were being detained for examination, [than a dozen tugs, and their skippers |. Tho thugs entered ‘he bank forty-/saw that if the Siovx didn't check five minutes after it was opened for | ber speed or alter her direction she business. They immediately opened would ¢rash in among them. 86, fire in Jesse es fashion, shooting while they -were casting off and and mortally wounding Moss when he | scuttling away to safety like a brood reached for his revolver. Five othe>! or ftrighténed chicks. they set up a bank employees were rounded up and | joyd tebeaming with their whistles driveisinto the vault, whicly brove’t a crowd 1G Bute} ‘Then they hastily caught up cone, tery, on counters and tables, ran to ‘Phe commander vl the Sioux bad waiting automobile and fled in} his engines going full speed astern | tho direction of the north side. by this time, but it was clear hiswes- ; Within an hour after the robbery | sel was unmanageable. As soon as a party of city detegtives on their! the tugs were clear of themselves ‘way to the bank met an automobile! und the path of the vessel, they filled with men on the north side. «tarted for her. Seven ran alongside The order to stop was answered by and lines were thrown aboard them « fustlade of shots, and the from the Sioux and then all hands going. | started puiling back The detectives lost « little time inj It was when the Sioux was only |tarning, but soon overtook the rob-/about fifty feet from the wall thac ‘bers, who abandoned their car and) the tugs made fast and she was scattered. | within ten feet of the wall when thi While some of the ofcer= followed stupped her. After that, they turned | ‘the fleeing — robb who were | about and escorted her to her answering their firing shot for t, | South Bre n berth others took charge of the car and) The Sioux had “heen unloading found what they belfeved to be all of Yonkers and came down ; the loot stolen from the bank | on on a swift ebb tide which Meantime, the thu had ait | more speed than ther eud- j through the buildings facing ‘1 |denly disabled steering gear and en- j street, ant out of the back doors int>| cines could manage. ; byways and alleys, They were | 2 closely foiluwed by the police, now | “ 5 inforced by all the available reserve Si Gi T jon the north side ani motorey. |WCA=GOING LAXL | men from the downtown 4. that they took refuge in a house on Pennsylvania Avenue. Sails Again With | Stationng thomselves at advan WwW. tH 1 tageously located windows. they omana ecm opened fire on the police, who pre- pared to rush the building " :. . . A great crowd, attracted by the| Whatever Miss Muir Directs, firing, gathered in the vicinity and 4 : ae atANed ten eat the Alfonso X11. Does— After an exchange of shots between Ne wG i ~ H the fugitives in the house and po Going to Spain. licemen in the street, firing from the ” house slackened and finally ceased vhe Alfonso XII, of the Royal The suspicion grew that tie robbers | spanish Mail Line, under the indirect had escaped and made their way yy; command of Miss Isabella Muir, who has been using it as a sea-going taxt- through the yards of the Penns vania Railroad nearby, \ cordon of police was thrown around the entire} cab, sailed for Spain to-day from section by George McCundie Di-| Pier No. 8, East River, where Miss rector of Public Safety, with | Muir “told the chauffeur to wait" who had been ordered trom their | “t Jroadway, arise ner She is the daughter of P. G. Mutr, rie ent an English shipbuilder, who 1s now building cruisers for the Spanish tip that the robbers had | Navy und four " : Brighton road in anothe: vy und four big vessels for the line which Is supposed account for ‘The automobile used in he Jact that his spirited daughter was taken to Central Police Stut seems able to do what she pleases where it was found that tle rear |with the ship = | been riddled with bullet It con- | whe young woman boarded at Ha- | moed fro olsale pene vy ste | vana and the plan was to go ut once N. B. inson, teller ¢ _. | to Spain, but suddenly she remem- | announced that a partia bered something and went to Capt. | | vealed the theft of #50 Liberty | ramon Alvarez. | Bonds, a registry list ou) in| "““stop at New York, please,” shel cash, directed Detectives announce t ig T Capt k v nd y } cense plates on the ci the fe the Wisslane Gosh where bel sense pls away to the wireless room, where he my es et ean sev communicated with the New York of- m a North Side | ™:\ fice, asking whether he should do as —+— | Muir said or keep on running AUTOMOBILE CLERK [22 tiih se ueiel ro was tala. of | ROBBED OF $180,000 |a:aitional reason tor going so—!f any | Leese idditional reason had been necessary it was pointed out that there were Two Men Holt Up | M issengers waiting wre for a Company Offices |) Mt 4 So Misa M lisembirsed three and Get 2B und has niles of HATTIESBL RG, M at she had seen practically The Girault Motor Con) Was to see—excepting Pro- city was robbed of $1* and commercial paper « two men who held up | = ry, Pigeons, Rabbi Pels—Madt Five men, drivers, were awuiting their pay slips when two men wear- ling caps entered. Oné was rather | tall and slim and the other not short, CFFICE AS PAY Dt GROUP LOOKS ON Flee in| Unnumbered - Taxi With $4,500—Ex-Em- ployee Sought. TOOK FOOLHARDY RISK. ‘Make Clean Getaway Before Men in Street Learn of Crime. With five men waiting to draw their pay and two clerks standing by, two men held up John Evans, pay- master of tho Borden Milk Company station at 138d Street, between Alex- ander and Willis A at 11.30 o'clock to-day, They obtained $4,500 and backing out of the place with a warning escaped in a taxicab bore no number, One of the two believed to have been an ex-employe of the place. The milk station offee is up one floor over the company’s stable. It is reached hy stairs which aro en- tered through a door of the street so that any one can go to the office withont going into the stable, To-day was pay c4y and us men} came In from their routes they turned in the cash they had collected along with thelr sijox and drew the mone: coming to tiem. This made it cer-| tain the oMed would at all timos have some one in tt besides the three em- that | BILLION DOLLAR DEFICI ~ 1O/BE RAISED BY TAKES IF NEW BONUS BILL PASSES Only Presidential Veto Can Save Extra Impost of $850,000,000 a Year if Measure Goes Through, as Congress Seems Determined. Government Will Have Deficit for | 1922 and ’23 of $300,000,000 Any- _ how, and Relief From Taxation ee Impossible, Mellon Sees. By David Lawrence, (Spedial Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (Copyright, 1922).—The Government of the United States faces the biggest detici bills soon to be passed by Congress are to become law. The determination of Congressional leaders to pass the bonus is ex- pressed in the face of White House and Treasury Department opposition, so that only a Presidential veto can save the situation. : But the painful facts which now are coming out in connection with ployees. Under the Borden system of paying, | the employee goes to a window and recelves a slip that calls for his money. He signs this and passes It over to the | Paymaster, who hands out the en velops bearing the employee's nam with the amount called for along with | any deductions that are to be made, but shorter than the other man appeared to be Italians, The pair pulled a couple of re- | volvers and the tall man covering; the five men at the window said: “Hands up! Line up all you," and with a nod of his head at the two clerks behind the counter added, “Get around here, you two birds,’* and the two clerks came around and lined up with the five drivers. There were two young women stenographers, Miss Caroline Brown of No, 444 Hast 71st Street, and Miss Evelyn Dorf of No. 1225 Boston Road in the office. Miss Brown gavo a startled scream One of the men said: “Be still, lady, we won't hurt you— just keep quiet," and Mixs Brown Promptly fainted. “The short man had been busy at the same time. He hud shoved a re volver into the face of Hvans, the Paymaster, ordered him to put up his hands and told him to be quick about it. Evans did as he was told and the short man knowing exactly what he wanted, picked out the envelopes con- taining the cash for the employees The pair then backed out. There were several drivers on the sidewalk when they came down stairs and Jumped into the cab, the engine of| which was running. They were sev-| eral blocks away before the alarm| Both was given. The cab turned into Wil-| lis Avenue and js believed to have taken the Willis Avenue Bridge to Harlem. MRS. ROSIER HELD BY CORONER’S JURY Bail Denied to W Slaying Hu Stenogra PHILADELPHIA, Jun. ¢ Catherine Rosier, charged with sla ing her husband, Oscur Rosier, head of an advertising agency, and his| stenographer, Mildred (ieraldine Reckitt, was held without bail by u Coroner's Jury to-day to await the action of the Grand Jury Clad in deep mournin: ait her three-months-old baby, Hiehard | to her breast. she followed the te }mony with an occasional show emotion | Witnesses testitie! Mrs. Rosier ad mitted the shooting, running along the second floor of the office building screaming, I had to do tt.| according to a report to t! re Garden, day and evening, —Advt. “TL did it I'm jealous.’ the honus agitation ix that the Government will have, a deficit for 1922 and 1928 of approximately $300,000,000 whether there is a bonus or not. All the hueand cry about economy bas only been- of avail in prevent- ing the deficit from becoming larger, but the truth is the Congressmen vp will have to choose between the pumber of votes expected to be gained by passing a bonus bill and the number of votes certain to be Jost through the protests of the large army of tax payers, whose burdens will prove to be as irksome as in the years im- ely following cue war. The relief from taxation, which it had been confidently hoped might come in the next two years, is vanishing inty the air. . Treasury officials make no effort to conceal the truth much, as the members of Congress responsible for, the pre for re-election next fal) med sent fiseal situation mayLe inclined to gloss it over, So long as there wer bto be no added taxes and it was still possible to pare down expenditures, the Treasury held out hope that the budgets for 1922 and 1923 might be balanced and the deficits wiped out, but, with a big bonus bill staring the ‘Treasury in the face, Secretary Mellon has come out with a statement of the situation which is causing the more thoughtful members of Congress much un- easiness. HEAVY SHRINKAGE IN RECEIPTS, For a while—and when President Harding recently submitted the budget to Congress—there was uncertainty whether the deficits would really materialize. Mr. Harding excused the estimated deficit by saying that “such a discrepancy unavoldable when. authorizations of expenditure are being enacted during the process of budget closing, but ways are Provided for relatively easy adjustment without added taxation.” Now Seeretary Mellon discloses the fact that the budget estimates for the year 1922 are “snhstantially correct,” and, while he knows Congress can avoid the deficit if it wishes, he flatly declares $800,000,000 must be cut out of the Intended expenditures in order to balance the budget. On top of that Mr. Mellon confirms what has heen rumored for some time, that a heavy shrinkage in tax receipts is imminent and that the estimated deficit may grow still larger when the tax returns are all in. He holds the busi: ness depression as partly responsible and insists that ander the ciream- stances new or extraordinary expenditures are not being thought of for a minute, The $300,000,000 deficit is made up in this way: Tho ‘budget defeit for 1922 amounts to $24,000,000 and for 1923 over $167,900,U00, and these figures make no allowance for the $50,000,000 requested by the Shipping Board to meet claims, $7,000,000 relief to Russia, $5,000,900 to be paid as the first instalment to Colombia for the Roosevelt policy in Panama in 1901, and a possible $50,000,000 tor additional pay 1» Gevernment em: ployees—-a total of $112,000,000, chiefly for 19 Or an exact total of £303,000,000. The best estimates available to t approximately Treasury of tie ecet of the bonus three and one-third billion dollars, of which “at least 1,000,000 would fall in the tirst two years of Its operaticn with varying payment of more than $ amounts in the intervening year and an ultimate $2,114,000,000 in the twentieth year $850,000,000 BY DIRECT TAXATION. The Secretary of the Treasury has virtually confirmed the tact that no money can be expected immediately cither on interest or principal irom the Allies and he insists that if any does come from abroad it st zo hy law to pay the existing Liberty bondholders. So the $850,000,000 for the next t years would have to be raised by direct taxation or the Gov- ernment would face a deflett of more than one billion dollars a year for the next two years. The Treasury thinks business has heen taxed too much for its own rd and that a sales tax imposed as an addition to extsting taxes would jonly be passed on to the consumer and increase the cost of ltving. The na Nad “i ++ gee eee ce dae in its history.if the soldier bonus ‘