The evening world. Newspaper, January 30, 1922, Page 1

ENTE EP RTE LR Ee . . _ She “ Cironlation Books Open to All,’ Comritnshing Geoeaee 08k NEW YORK, MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1922. Second-Class Matter ‘New York, N. ¥. » WOMAN THUG BEATS AND ROBS WIDOW © | WOMAN ROBBER KNOCKS OUT |?**sre%"yicttme'Ccuond's Crowh of Shovo-taden Roor MOVIES GREATEST TRAGEDY WIDOW ALONE INHER STORE: LEAVES CAPITAL STUNNED; GETS $240 FROM STOCKING DEATH LIST MOUNTS 10109 gp Blonde Posing as Customer 10 IN CREW ADRIFT Hundreds of Homes Grief Stricken Draws Gun but Resorts be Ly ini £O M | y Loss or injury oO ne or More ON DISABLED ShlP —— Members or Friends—Little Hope Held Out for Life of Shaugh j AS STORM RAGES \ aaa Vessel Left Helpless as Towing Entered Post 01 } KNEW VICTIM’S HABITS. ‘Aged Shopkeeper Discovered Unconscious and [Revived by Passerby. (From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Jan, 30.—The Knickerbocker Theatre disaster was the greatest in the history of the motion picture industry, the body of the ' A biond woman sat ee es Cables Part After Rescue 109th victim having been fecovered this morning. The collapse occurred yaa step a oe ar oa a Me: Efforts. at a time when traffic of ‘all descriptions was paralyzed by the record. . at @ered two chickens. When the el- breaking blizzard which had gripped ‘the natiouay capital for nearly thirty. a “ woman knew it. derly proprietor turned around to prgpare them, she felt something préssing between her shoulder blades. Looking around, she found her blond customer was flourishing a revolver. Get into the back room,” Mrs. Bell was ordered, in Yiddish. “If you cry or make a noise you'll be dead."* Fearing an alarm, the highway ‘woman knocked down her victim, who struck her head and became uncon-, scious. An hour later, when she was revived by a strange man, $240 had isappeared from her stocking. Mrs. Bell is a widow sixty years old. At 6.30 this morning, the woman, who had been noticed about the neighbor- the| NORFOLK, Va, Jan. 30,—Seventy men on board the navy tanker Ara~- theusa are in peril to-day, their ship, off the Carolina coast in a northwest gale, with the vessel absolutely help-~ | tess. Four men on the barge S. R. Mo- Donald and four others on the barge Catonsville aleo are in peril. All three of these ships are drifting at sea, ac- cording to radio advicés received bere, |. The Aratheuse, which broke down last Monday off Cape Fear, was picked up Saturday during a terrific gale, when the coast guard cutter Pamlico, | alded by a sixty-mile gale, managed to shoot a line across the helpless vessel, with ber tat! shaft broken, being adrift traffic largely curtailed. “The.gai time from the standpoint of: of people trudged through snow and FOUR INQUIRIES ~—- STARTED, SENATE hours, with streét cat transpertatioh conipletely stopped and automobile ~ phe could not have,come.at aiworse.. ing succor for the injured and dying... Washington was still stunned this morning from the magnitude of the tragedy which threw its shitlow over every phase of life. As thousands ice to their work the Saturday night horror was the one topic of conversation. Street cars are running on part time only and are totally inadequate to carry the traffic offered since the snowbanks have reduced motor traffic. The tragedy touched hundreds of Washington homes. Those who did not have relatives in the catastrophe hood the last few days, entered A second line was sent to the vessel | had friends among the casualties. store and asked for a chicken. She om ee re Pamacren: e tee WSEARCHING-THEarR ake When Government departments a the Aratheusa in town opened at 9 0’ was told it was too early. Returning] 5°00 and ¥. faw! started (G0 pened at 9 o'clock this morning and at 8.30, she held up the proprietress. Mrs. Bell always pays her bills on Monday and apparently the blonde When the chicken was ordered Mrs. Bell got a $8 de- posit, which was removed with the rest of the money from the pocket in her apron. The little butcher shop ts in the pasement of the building. On the op- posite side of the partition is a gro- Posite sido of the partition te a gro-|Piye? ‘irginia-Carolina coast is UGK OPERATION H Ay F Great Disaster at Knickerbock-| ELEVEN HUSBANDS | wasttwaron, san. 30,—tnvesti-|sermens” ana inven” Within a tee _Welss. She heard the moans of her|Belng searched for the power bout ote er Theatre Causes People | AND WIVES DIED IN {cation of the Knickerbocker Theatro| #dnires, Of {he Mueatre tes : elderly neighbor, who had been in ee Seve 7 my aS? | foals ai ti ittee i thee eon business only a few months, shortly | Ported ax missing from Teautort, N- a —— of District to Protest CRASH TOGETHER [eee eye acmvtution introducea| T2r’,, 0% the scene throughout the afier the man who was passing Mad) i. were aboard. oe renor Suffering With Appen-| Brooklyn — District Attorney | ——_—_— : Locos ty. Ganstoe Canned ot Eakean' Ohana et ee ae revived the victim. bd ~ =. , ¥ Pp J a 5 - B — ecaze ~ - | By David Lawrence. Caught in Collapse of Theatre i e .| The work of the Red Cross nurses, nthe, ansnull, and hold-up became} ‘The ‘Tuckahoe, with the barge| dicitis, Heeds Pleas of |Comments on Collapse of; y ght in Collapse of wybo la & member of the’ Senate: Ties) = 27) ecm bad aboa aervics Oven +d | a married daughter, of No. 216 Seventh Foreenst« Sny the coast, but the fury of the gale was too much for them, and the tow- ing cables parted. The Pamlico was compelled to Aratheusa because her supply sweeper Sandpiper was sent to assist the two cutters, and she is trying to Pick up the Aratheusa. Trenton in ballast from Providence to but Holds Bootlegs: abandon all attempts to rescue the of drinking water gave out. The mine Wife and Physicians. | MURATORE RUSHED URGES IMMEDIATE. TOSANITARIUM FOR) INSPECTION OF ALL inhaling a quantity of !and thorough examination of all such (Special Correspondent of The Eve- PUT BLAME ON CONGRESS — FOR CAPITAL’S NEGLECT Roof as They Watched NAY BEGIN NE Grand Jury, Police, Coroner and District Commission to Act on Theatre Disaster. trict of Columbia Committee. Under clerks failed to show up there was uncertainty whether they had been caught In the disaster. The work of taking out bodies was completed this morning, when the 109th victim was removed to a tem- porary morgue nearby to be identi- fied. There is not the destitution arising from the tragedy that usually, accompanies such horrors, as @ ma~- jority of the victims were well-to-do seas and were used to the hardships Philadelphia, broke away from the American Theatre in His Plea. ning World.) Shell + Side. the rules the resolution was referred sisi re Street, came to the store to help her|tug Gettysburg during the storm yes- Be | WASHINGTON, Jun. 20 (Copy- Screen Side by Side. Ro the A Udita dena Gociteul Cwm (ioe! Seon pl ieerages = mother and found the strange man |¢e tf Atlantic City. Th A ee Fs a tee Cart o) the ‘Audits ‘and ‘Control Commistan, Vaiae Coreem chem: -sroves H : terday off Atlantic City. The where- | ‘ right, This is a city of dread WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. sweaters for the hundreds of soldie: picking her up. ‘There are four other| toute of the other barge js unknown.| His objections overcome at last by| An Immediate, thoroug! inspection ea ae Supporting the resolution, Senator] *weaters for, peered 8 8, Sree ae Taek iter te often hanes the ploon of his wife and his family /of all the amusement pluces in New| ful Mourning, It reaches into every iv aide) and why Frelinghuysen of New Jersey aaid tne|™srines, sailors Sie, consis ee 4 “ ar. sinhies m5 Yetta, thirteen, and! eTORMTOSSED physician, Tacien Muratore, leading | York City was urged to-day by Dis-|!2me, from the White House to the} Sette alle ly Ate vielen root of | ¥estixation should be “ta widespread | cold until exhausted. Some of the eo < SHIPS, OVERDUE tenor of the Chteago Opera Company, | trict Attorney Ruston of Brooklyn, in| T™ellings of the lowly, Every one Is! Cie" Knickerbocker Theatre |e Of the entire District Govern: |marines who were engaged in hauling and said to be the highest paid male | comme: ¢ he collapse of the | Stef stricken. OMicialx and the peo-} crashec Goon the The: ment,"" adding that he knew from} out the slabs of broken concrete and HYLAN TO GO SOUTH REACHING PORT singer in the world, was this morn- eh aria Laat are: pe a ple generally tackled their work to stb T down upon them. “They | vergonal knowledge that many butld-| steel by hand were on the job from 5 TO-MORROW FOR REST ing removed to the Audnbon Sani-) ington Saturday. night. and of the {day with heavy hearts Mr. and Mrs. Chaunce nga in Washington were “fire traps." Gaturday night until Sunday evening : tarium, No. 8 St, Nicholas Place, to | : Poy tees 1 aine 4 which might at any ‘(me cost, 900! before being relieved. One marine p —_— American Theatre, in the process} Investigations galore will foll Brainerd, Mr. and Mrs. Alfre } is ; af.) be operated on at once for ap-\\™me ; ns galore will follow.) 1a ner ore ee of lives. collapsed from the strain last night . 4 Up “Mareh on Albany” Be-|Comanche am Apache First to] Penaiciti« f construction in Brooklyn, several ine disaster at the Knickerbock®! | PCr aa) sat RS Bien RCS It was stated that the Audits Com-|and had to receive medical attention. cnune of Previous Arrangementn. Arrive—State Rooms and Din- In the private ambulance whieh | Works afk? boven, ae tng, DUt Out of the emotional expressions Mae Roy tahner, Mr, and [tittee planned to act to-day on the} ‘The real cause of the cave-in of | Mayor Hylan will leave for Palm ing Saloon Flooded." took him from his home at the Ritz-| 4 merican Paid alee arte 4 © | of a city of nearly a half million per-! fre’ Rasselt Maine, Mr. and Mra, {Capper resolution, which declared} the roof may never be known. En- each to-morrow. night at/€30’ o'clock, ing Saloon Flo . Carlton were Mrs. Muratore, other-| "ayreamrneatre caved in. sons there crystallizes one view, one] py, O'Donnell, Mr. and Mra, | “the explanation that snow, altnouass wineers state that the eighteen accompanied by Mra. Hylan, Plant and| Stories of wild seas, crippled steer. | ¥i8¢ Lins Cavallert, the opers singer, shown,"? Mr, Ruston suid, “in our in CBSURRE lee [may be the lesson of| Charles Cowles Tucker, Mr. and hors Lah peed ea pebothise tothe A.J Ci snow and the roof j Structures Commissioner Grover A.|ing apparatus and flooded state-| aNd Dr. 0 Jr. it Locke or No. S87) vestigation of the American Theatre| gorm of government of the District of} Mf Jacob Urdong, Mr. and Mrs. | appears to be unsatisfactory,” and rene Dave ave ween Sena Whalen and Mrs, Whalen, The Mayor] rooms were told to-day with the] ine operation. The room engaged at | euanee “steel_plans passed by the) Columbia, the parsimony of a Con ee biome aptiains Mra’ Jilso referred to many rumors thet! the building would be less than the to remain away about three| arrival of the first of forty storm-|the sanitarium for Mr. Muratore in | Building Departme nt, then dlacaraia 88 which is, after all, the Board) re" yi Walker ane Onn ® “eontractors und builders, determined | vibration caused by movements of jt will be his first vacation in] pound ships from one to four! the same as that occupied by his wire | Neled ee lataiaa ised steel plans | of Aldermen or Common Council of} Mia iat to save money, on the erection of resi-|large numbers of people in the 8 7 t years ago for a similar opera- | 33, Vicon s clty, For Washington residents dences and building structures, have} structure. That’the snow was a fac- Mayor would|days overdue, The Comanche, three ie a | Building Department, whose word Wos| \innot vote. They t ne Mayor of sd in collusion with inspectors of | tor in the colla 1 E y Dr. Lock | canne ot ey havo no Mayor o pilusio pe : aguer in the Board |days late, and the Apache, two days ihe hacen foe an iininadiata oper eee Ser raele not an angincer anil) their town choosing They have no HARDING SUGGESTS lidinge employed by the District of | “The building was Sieeiea' at the stimate to Albany to-morrow. wie, | behind, both Clyde liners from Jack- —— | utterly without prectical experienc’ | voice in what shall be done with the) SOCIAL FUNCTIONS | cotumbia.” tersection of Eighteenth Street anc will against legislation Jas 7 : as a builder, whose demands for safe-| taxes they 4 The investigations elready wartedlcarombe Ficu&’ and waniaimest ee nM ne Port Authority Into ville, were the fir ‘ (Continued on Second Poze.) : ' 2 afe-| taxes they pay | , i pois tH ree he Fe Aer ad ie e at to reach their baci ell ie Arte qinre a wil Asi ow: ‘They have scant means of persuad- ALL BE POSTPONED |... pianned will be conducted by: cular in shape, It was thorough'y vations at Palm Beach made before the |? a NT FFOCA’ {a eee By vn neers *\ing or reaching Congress of 631 - —— Coroner Nevitt, who plans to swear|rmodern and was without pillars or Aibany trip was planned, Francis P,| ‘The Comanche in particular, ac- INFA SUFFOCATED srrorant by officials of the Building |individuals whose main object is to] - fa, AY) » [!9 @ jury to-day. posts of any kind to obstruct the view Bent, Director of the Board of Estimate ; risa BY TALCUM POWDER errant: st that of the | *8tisfy the peoples of other conatitu- ‘So Much Sorrow in Washington, District. Attorney Peyton C. Gor-|it seated 1,500 and only the bliiazard will read a protest from the Mayor at (Continued on Socond Page ) Coupled with the tet that of the |cncies, who after all have their own He Stops McKinley Birthday [40m who sald he will tay before the | prevailing held down the attendance the Albany hearii —sa——_ Baby Upset Whole Rox Into Her| builders’ one had been » movie exhib: | municipal government, thelr own ? Grand Jury the evidence which he] Saturday night. e COLD WAVE A BREWERY ON EVERY Mouth, ie oe his pariney bad adl-aben: | nasic services, Reception. collects, i The theatre is in the fashionabt» ANOTHER COL! A : no technical training | If the people of Washington want . ; , Board of Commissionars of the Dis-|rorthwest section of the city, an P WEST SHIVER CORNER, JUDGE'S WISH ch-|@rehitect or engineer, and very Itttle | netter police protection, f the fire- WASHINGTON: Jan. 20 trict of Columbia, through the Build-}many senators and representatives MAKES Saereereceanl ay nt hie’ home ive Eractical experience in construction | men need more pay, the District Com- In a letter to Milton Alles, |ing Department, which, under the|who Hve in that neighborhood are aida Dale Frees Three for Drunkennes! min Yonkers, of sufte, | Work—there should be an immediate | missioners who are appointed by the President of the Ohio Society, |law, must approve plans of any] patrons of it in the evenings. Lowest Tempe cation ‘catised by ane ; ae | President of the United States must) which had scheduled a reception Reusing ee can be erected. Perrenentelive Sealiwiek of Viowide ture of Winter WII Be Seen, Magistrate Dale suspended sentence | {7 PORT as powde e uiidings now in usc, to be made hy | camp on the doorstep of Congress! in honor of McKinley's birthday Police De ined who was among the injured, and for DENVER, Jan. 30,—Th Inte Pleo Come ended wentence | Mfrs. Hendley as powdcring (he baty [competent engineers with a view of |and plead for attention. The Bureau| to-day, President Harding said: | It was reported to-day that large |mer Representative | Burchfeld of . § day on three men charged with in- ore seized the box of powder ond up- |Preventing a similar and more seriour|of Building Inspection, the Fire, “Phere is so much sorrow in | Pleces of conerete among the debris | Pennsylvania, who with his daughte: grip of another coid toxication and held in’ $1,000 ball |sct the contents into her mouth. She|disaster. Such examination should be| Police and Street Cleaning Depart-| Washington over the theatre dis- | of the theatre contained no steel wire|in-law was killed, are among the vic: The mercury went down t | Stanisiavis Jstrzminaky, a cafe pro-|choked and Mrs. Hendley called Dr. |begun at once, Nothin 1d be left| ments are efficient or inefficient] aster that we would prefer to | oF rod reinforcements. tums identified so fa Lelow zero in parts of Montana and of No, 180 Washington Street, Souls Z Waldron. The little girl grew | undone to make our amusement places | according as Cong: appropriates) have all social functions post- hragpeinangtany..aean sus WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.— The Wyoming, while sub-zero temperatures steadily worse and it was found taat|sate How many theatres are now|funds for their employees and man-| poned. until the city recovers LYBASC! RETRIAL ON FEB. 14. | death toll from the Knickerboo.er peevailed in virtually all of the imoun the Dower had entree er ene |being used throughout the greater| agement from its grief.”’ Justice Van Siclen in the Queens| Theatre dissster was brought to 10! tain districts of Colorado | re eaenn since ne Nieto one See aR : city which may fall at any time when} ‘A reception for Vico President | County Supreme Court fized Feb, 14|to-day with the finding of another cass for the new twenlyfoit | eee aliens axe enaation Gea saling crowded to capacity?” |, Is a Congress of such varted make-| and Mrs. Coolldge was postponed | for the retrial of Joseph Lébasel follow-| body and the geath in a hospital of ermal ws vtah, Northern Arizona, | this polsonous stuff. T would have Mr. Ruston ceci a strong popular up and of much diversifed interests n! und many othor noclal functions | ing the diaggreament of the jury before | Miss Mary A:MForsyth, « resident of see lonadon and. Western, New | brewertes on avery corner. Tam not a acheduted for this week have | whom he gas tried for the murder of! Washington. secinn. oppused to light wincs and beer (Continueg on Susond Page) | (Continued on Second Page.) been abandoned Harry Garbe. Edward H. SJaughnessy of Chicaga, | | |