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i ee To-Night’s Weather—FAIR; yey NOT SO COLD. “IF IT HAPPENS IN NEW YORK ==IT's IN = [THE EVENING Che “Circulation Books Open to All.’ THUGS GET $5,000; POLICE NEAR To-Morrow's Weather—CLOUDY; MUCH WARMER. VOL. LXII. NO. 21,975—DAILY. Copyright (New York World) by Press Publishing Company, 1922, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1922. Entered as Second-Class Matter Post Office, —= PRICE THREE CENTS New York, N. ¥s JERSEY T OWNS ROCKED BY DYNAMITE E PLOSION FARMERS BLOC WONT HAVE SALES TAVED FOR BONUS President’s Action Simply Puts} Off Problem Until After Election. CONSUMER WOULD 'PAY. { t Canadian Sales Tax Increases Ten Times by Time It Reaches the Consumer. By David Lawrence. | {Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (Copy- right, 1922).—The soldier bonus with {ts multitude of lives is dead again. Whether it will bob up once more @epends upon the agricultural bloc, but tho agriculturists, who have from the first opposed a sales tax as f@ means of raising revenue, are not likely to accept it as the best way to pay the bonus. Mr. Harding doesn’t believe a sales ta can pas! Jimyass he feuret as axuci’ in’ his letter Mr, Fordney. A canv’'ss of the House a previous occasions indicated that the sales tax didn’t have more than eighty votes, and the strength of the proponents of the scheme is not any greater to-day than it was Few men in Congre Treasury Department give a definito answer meant by a “sales tux.” the various proposals: First, a general tax on manu- facturers and producers collected at the source, but admittedly passed on to the retailer and fin- ally the consumer Second, a tax on retail sales only—also passed on to the con- | sumer. j Third, a turn-over tax on all things, being a tax of a small per 8 or in the could to-day to what is Here are cent. on gross receipts. This also would be pa on to the | consumer to Fourth, a tax on list of commoditic . well defined This would be reflected in the final prices of goods bought by tho consume Many advocates of a sales tax make no bones about whut they mean by a sales tax and they frankly cali it a “consumption tax.” Small chance of the agricultura’ bloc agreeing to a which might, mean more taxes on the produce of the farm and a higher cost to th: farmer on the things he must buy fcr | his farm and family | In @ nutshell, therefore, the Presi. | @ent has proposed a olution which means postponement of the bonus payments. The sales tax cannot father enough votes \» pass Congre: unless ull other taxes are repeal ard the whole revenue bill is re As a substitute for a!) taxes it had | many friends. As oan additiona! means of taxation, especially in the miast of a busines: year fraug with so much ur ainty anyhow, the chances ure Congress will accept President Huriing’s €mula—a_ sales tax will be proposed and shelved and the bonus will be postponed The certainty of a Presidential veto of any bill providing tor direct taxes or a revival of taxes already repented or for a bond issue has changed the whole situation, Cong hasn't wanted (o pass a bonus bill, Polliien! pressure from the soldier vote stirred (Continued on Second Page.) ADVERTISEMENTS for the Sunday World Classified Section Should be in The World Office To-Day night of the murder. * tectives the number of the car. WOMAN WHO FLED IN AUTO NIGHT OF TAYLOR’S MURDER NEW FIGURE IN MYSTERY Raced Up to Garage in Ven-! | tura, Cal, at 3 A. M. for | | = Gasoline and Rushed Away. SEARCH WIRE RECORDS. IN ULSTER RAIDS FREED BY COLLINS Belfast Quiets Down—Union Threatens Traffic TieUp New Clues Involve Actor, Said| to Have Been Jealous of | Attentions to Wife. LOS ANGELES, Feb. mystery woman was brought into the 17.—A new investigation of William Desmond if Riots Continue. Taylor's murder to-day. <A garage| =~ =e man told how a young woman, bare-|_ BELFAST, Feb. 17 (Associated headed and in evening gown, appeared | PT¢ss).—Forty-two Ulster Untonists to be fleeing from Los Angeles the| Kidnapped during the recent raids across the border from the South, have been released, it was announced to-day, Michael Collins, head of che Provisions! Government, telegraphed She stopped at a garago in Ven- tura, Cal., at 8 A. M. and ordered all the gasoline and oll her car would hold, She had driven up at terrific speed, her hair was blown awry, her | noon that he had succeeded in obtain~ face was pale and drawn, and she bit| ing the liberation of this number of nervously at her gloves. Ste gave a| Prisoners. DIN In payment and did ny wait for! Last night was the auictest Bogs) chore ‘The gara,) stag ‘gave do- | 248 experienced sincé fhe outbreak ou = Sunday night of the disorders which have taken a toll of more than thirty lives. The only incident reported was the firing of a shot at a watchman in the Mills Falls district. He escaped injury. District Attorney Woolwine has or- dered a search of the records of all telegraph offices in Los Angeles for messages sent by and received by Taylor shortly before his death. Mr.| The Wea! Set ee inea ia Woolwine recelved a tip that a woman Pye ent iscirast. Telegraph, private detective in Chicago could says: supply evidence that Taylor was slain “If there is no change In the situa- by blackmatlera and had the Chicago tion on or letore Saturday we will : consider the withdrawal of all tram- police investigate, but the woman de- | Qi inn inotor drivers and curters nied knowing anything about the case. | from the streets for thelr protection,"? Other new developments to-dayare) The Executive of the Sinn Fein tn that another woman and another! Belfast, after a mocting last night, actor with still another motive for the Nall aes seelayt ee nel rennin Jmurder of William Desmond Taylor) Huntin, as follow are being studied “On alf of the religious an? po- Accorditig to information in the litical minority in L on FOC ities 109,000 citizen: we protest against hands) of.) the: authoritien, en etter the mislealing and lying statements until recently connected with a film Conttined in the. telegram addr--="4, company here may have been jealous jy Craig (Sir James Craig, Ulster of Taylor, This actor went Bast Premier) to the Premier of England, about five months ago and wae gone| in which he states that the recent nu- for two months. During that time, Merous atrocitics to which our people his wife was seen several times with | have been subjected were the outcome Taylor, ‘The actor has left Los|of the raids in Tyrone and Ferman- Angcles since the killing. hand the affray at the Clones Mack Sennett, who with Mabel Nor-| Station mand was questioned in. connection] “‘We assert that it can easily be with the William Desmond ‘Taylor! Proved our people were being mur- murder c: left to-day for New| derd almost daily for a week before York on a business trip, Thomas 1., either ef tie vecurrences mentioned, Ince accompanied him, Before leav-| Furthermore, we are convinced that ing Los Angeles Sennett issued aj Craig deliberately made this misrep- statement eulogizing resentation for the purpose of excus- o ing or justifying the cruel and cold- blooded murders being inflicted on the minority in this city, on whose be- half we speak.” LONDON, Feb. 17 Press).—The bill establishing 2N. C. U. STUDENTS KILLED BY ENGINE (Associated the Driver of Automobile Also Mezts|trish Free S passed its second reading in the House of Communs Death at RR to-day after the amendment offered Crossing. Charles Craig, leader of the DURHAM, N. C., Feb, 17.—Threc Unionists, for altering the undary Commission provisions. of boys were killed and three others in-!ji¢ Anglo-Ir i had been de- jured when the automobile in whic 1 by to 60 they were riding was ick by <, Beb. 1 elated Breas). tienen aie Pit P| n in trom Dublin BS ERR NEA ORY B here t4-) Jevived here this morning 4 party > day uymed men § d all the copies of the With the exception of the drive Irish Independent and the Freeman‘s the car, who was killed. all were| Journal, both Nationalist newspapers students at the University of North} Unionist iriah Dimes) end. wie Caroltne, h newspa pe not touched a | > , 4,115 N. Y. WAR DEAD KENYON’S SEAT GOES BROUGHT OVERSEAS} TO IOWA CHAIRMAN Chief of Cemeterial Division of! = . * Guard Reports to Kineatd, Charles A. Rawson of Des Moines ALBANY, Feb, 17.—The bodies of Appointed to Senate by 4.115 men who died in service in the Gov. Kendall. World War have been returned to thts State from oversens, according to a re-| DES MOIN Ia, Feb. 17 (Asso- port submitted to-dny to Adjt. Gen. J.} cicteg press).—Ch Awe Leslle Kincaid by First Lieut. Sydney | Slted Pres I A. Raweon of F, Buck, Executive Officer of the Ceme-| Des Moines is the new Senator from terial Division of the New York |Towa. Announcement of the appoint- State soldier dead nrrived from overseas, | MeNt of Mr. Rawson, who is Ch = Jman of the Republican State Central R. W. DANA, 7) TO WED WN. ¥,|Commilter,, to succeed Willlam 8, WOMAN, Ken in the Upper House of the CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 17.—Rich-| ©?! wis made by Gov, Kendall ard Henry Dana, seventy-one sears old, | ‘M9 ; nf whoge first wife was a dauchtur of 1A lel achon aM RY eratood, “wilt Henry W. Longfellow, the poet, has| Se"¥e only until A se filed ‘marriage intentions to wo Jlected at the gene nN James G. Mumford, fifty-one, of vem Mow ng im York City, media Colonial Secretary Churchill this fore- | FIREMEN IN COATS | OF GE FIGHT FIRES ~INZERO WEATHER | |Temperature Begins to Soar | After Reaching 2 Below at 7 in the Morning. COLDEST THIS WINTER. a Two Blazes in Manhattan and One on Staten Island— Traffic Hampered. OFFICIAL TEMPERATURES FROM MIDNIGHT. Hour ‘Temperature Midnight . 1A. M. M. M. « M. . M. . M. o> | ers 2 Below M. . M.. . 1 Above | 7 Above |ployees in the building at the time. | The dead men were DYNAMITE EXPLOSION KILLS TWO AND ROCKS TOtVNS IN JECSEY FOR MANY MILES /Blast in Packing House “ PAULIN | } FD Atlas Powder Company Near Lake Hopatcong. BUILDING IS WRECKED. BY ANOTHER WIFE One Town 22 Miles Away| FOR LURING HUBBY ; Feels the Shock—Cause of — plosion Not Known. Mrs, Mitchell Harris Says Ac- tress Won Actor's Affections —Demands $50,000. * dynamite Two men employed in th packing house of the Atlas Powder Company, near Lake Hopatcong, N. J., were killed to-day in an explo- sion which completely demolished the | building. There were no other em- Miss Pauline in the play, “Annie Christie,” against whom an action has been brought by Vred Alpaugh' Mrs. Ruth Harris for alienation of and Bugene|the affections of Mitchell Harris, an Alpaugh | actor, declined to discuss the case to- hay. of Succasunna, N. J., Lommen of Ledgewood was married The explosion occurred about 11.10|/Both sides submitted papers to Jus- o’dlock this morning, while the two/tice Ford in Supreme Court to-day mon’ were engaged in packing dyna-|When the application was made by { M. M. . enue Be Sowastece NUURP PP hp >rrr> M.. M.. ) pT EY M.. 1B The worst is over. The Weather Bureau announced that the mercury, which lad been 2 below, had risen gradually and would continue to rise. It is usually colder in the street than where the official thermometer is placed, and so unofficial thermometers in Park Row ‘ogistered as low as 4 below zero this morning, and at 10! o'clock the thermometer in fron: of The World Building zero, The bureau predicted that the mer- | cury might rise to 12 this afternoon, | and that to-morrow will be warmer| than to-day. , | The entire East is in the grip of the cold wave, wi regirtered just be > the lowest tem rn- ture known in two years. At Sar: Lake it was 42 below and 45 dexrees below at Rainbow Lake in the Adi- rondacks. Albany and Syracuse 0- n oUt 10 below, Binghamt low nton 6 below, Philadelphia and Vittsburgh basked in the corr- parative comfort of 6 above The St. Lawrence River is frozen |from bank to bank for the first tm in several seasons It was announced at Washingte that the cold wave in most of the wi ritory cast of the Mississippi would be broken to-night This is the fourth half a century that has had zero temperature, The’ Municipal Lodging House East 25th Street had for breakfust to- a 439 ‘men, 22 wom:n and 5 c dren, which was not unusual for time of the year. At the new she of the Salvation Arm: in Wes Street, 600 homeless men were for The number of reduced through ment in snow removal The day's first victim of the cold| was Jacob Silsky, forty-six year time in almost New York City destitute was recent emplc of No. 217 East 82d Street. Hoe slipped while crossing W th Street near Fifth Avenue n run over by an automobd having @ foot broken. e drop in temperature b from late yesterday mite for shipment from the plant. The) MS: Ruth Harris for additional coun- sel fee in her sult for separation wifiding is isolated and none of the These papers*tould got be seen, other buildings of the plant was in-| Miss Lord, who gets a great deul of jured. sympathy as the little daughter of the OMcials of the plant declared that big Swede bargeman in the play, Porth elon sen sok NR, cently hud her salary of $500 a week ney would nev 07 hat wa rae garnishe y a judgment of $5,000 cause of the explosion. The building L ids \ Was a one-story frame structure. obtained against her by Mrs. Nellte Roche, wife of Billy Roche, the prize- The explosion was heard in Newark] gen A teat Eo la: and in other towns from fifteen to fight referee, whose affections the jury decided she had alienated trom twenty miles from the western} srs, Roche, end of the lake where the plant occu-) Not only once did Miss Lord alien- pies several acres int ground, ate the perfectly good affections of Hidings at Newton, twenty-two} mitchell Harris. according to his wi miles away, were shaken by the ex- plosion, away but she took him away « second time. Mrs. Harris say ne and her husband were married in 1910, and in 1918 Miss Lor) began to lure him She says she accused him of misconduct uni he returned to her | According to Mrs. Harris, Miss! See NO LEGISLATION ON GOV. RUSSELL away Lord, leading woman | Mrs. Harris is suing for $50,000, | THUGS GRAB BANK'S $5,000: SHOOT MESSENGER: FLEE IN AUTO NEAR POLICE STATION eo -_—_— Four Men Wait in Machine While Three Leap From Doorway and Grapple With Guards, Leaving One Hurt. ACTRESS ACCUSED OF TAKING ACTOR _AWAY FROM WIFE Capt. Corcoran Hears Report of Pistol, Races to Scene and | Fires on Flying Auto Till His Ammunition Is Exhausted, First Avenue Crowds Driven From Sidewalk as Robbers Swerve and Speed Along It, Unable to Turn in Roadway. iy Armed thugs held up, stot and © | probably fatally wounded Richard Kahrs, & bank messenger, in First Avenue near 61st Street at 10 o'clock to-day, stole a bag containing $5,000 lin bills and escaped in an automo- ______ | bile while a Captain of Police, drawn to the scene by the sound of the i ‘shot that disabled Kahrs, emptied | his revolver at them. The hold-up and escape occurred in the presen~> of scores of persons OF YOUNG WOMAN: and within 100 feet of the 27th Pre- j 7 |cinct Station House, which is undey MARKS ON THROAT the Queensboro Bridge in 60th PAULINE LORD. |——— Street. Seven men participated in the crime. Ssissi pps i } aj | Lord started to charm her lusband a| Kahrs, who is fifty-six years o¥@, Mi Ls ipPl aeeginat mn WU et second time in September, 1920, und Ee of No. 17 West 106th Street is em- Courts Take ‘Care of Girl's alienated his affections to such an ex- Suit tent that he left his wife and ehild| Tracks in the Snow and Auto's) Pore by the Pacific Bank in the . Sutts and consorted openly with Miss Lord. | es at A ‘branch at 57th Street and Madison JAC BEND atte AY 17 Ae Mrs. Harris says she was forced to| Marks Show Two Men Had |avenue. Accompanied by another SSP Pp louse ol tepresenta * | leave the of he sband's par- > e it to be the view of that body that th ence for herself and the ir daugh Fled From Scene. years old, who was unarmed, Kabrs nage Suit broucht by Miss Vrances | June, now ten years old. | camMpe N. J, Feb, 17 phe | left the bank at about 9.30 o'clock Linkhead against Gov. Russell shoubl] In the summer of 1921, she alleges, |) SUNN) oN: du BOD. UT ° | carrying a black bag in which were he ett entirely to the court for ad- aia Lord induced her husband to ae: re si ne Gi - es Yi tne [9 Packages of money, Kahrs bad ; pudicatio entirely from contributing to the| ing the int o wers on the The vote was 75 to 30 und was ac-|support of his wife and daughter. — |throat was found to-day twenty feot|® PeVolver in his overcoat pocket. 5 cepted by leaders as blocking further] Included among her papers are cop-|rrom the driveway that leads from the | After delivering one of the pack- islative uctfon in the matter jes of several letters she says Miss ages at the Economy Laundry, 32d cg as HAD A GUIDE TELLING HOW TO COMMIT THEFT d sent to her huspand Darlene’? begins one of the let- te. “The sea hath its pear The heaven hath its st “Get What You Can Going Out,’ But my heart, my heart, said Eptry in Book, % My heart hath its love : David’ Pasachort, twen Naas aad wa “You know what? 1 don't feel » s sent to the penitentiary to-day for] 800d I'm all busted up 1 : : six inonths to three years, afier| YOU Were here that 1 might sob on viction on a charee of petit: larceny. |Your shoulder., Mother js indifferent rested on Feb, 4 in the Lafayette Street, pawn 1 the police to prove thefts of two reouts against him, In his posses: was a book, Ei Faith doesn't care, father doesn't un- | derstand, and I'm not on ng terms with mother's + decided not to allow you t> t ing spea Hide behind door till freigh car to Boston. Whoever up, then walk up one flight such a@ handsome man ridin Apply for a Job, and if turned down |@lone, The car's out, Write me what you can going out, If you get|dear heart, Thine, PAULIN} job, Watch your opportunity and get} “If I tell you 1 had a grand time you can, when I was away” is written in on- other letter, “Oh Lord! I suppose | 205,000,000 BILL PASSED WITH=| you would plump divure OUT A VOTE You don't deserve u letter, so GTON, rel Without «| send only three kiss 1 the Hpuse to-day passed |4 yard of love j pun nt to the Senate the annual mn- | GOODY, or Department Appropriation Bill,| “Lard knows 1 never d wy any carrying — approxtrr 000,000 of my men Uke t t ously a ult the |dame who knows | P.M. it was 14 above, at mlur to cuinate for th ied 7, at 6 A. M. 4 above, and at 7 A. M.,| Meine (0 & im nue ine [extracts from auotucr 2 below. Sn Miktne oe " | Sept. 16, 1920 Miss Lud ! To-day is the coldest since feo. t.}10 102 to have ‘written —-- | = = “Darling, 1 miss you, oli, 6» much, (Continued on Second Page.) | many LuFT in poctor's cvR, [994 T love you, oh, so much. Dy you . 1] reek. aye ibeate au Giteesn ae think I shall get used to being w — Hee An seh = you? And ‘it you um d 1 OFFERS HOOVER winner Avenue, Brooklyn, left 201 str i i ; | Huinbotdt Street, Brooklyn, where he [did you lobe me? i und | ade a call early to-day, ho rode |!t you my darlene? au it you my p $50,000 A YEAR biodk hatore he Naar a in {and tt you nice? and suke —— his sedan car. Ie n- |¥0 Sake destroy this, Love Secretary Wanted Diree lupyobe on the res 1 ten: | PAULINE," 7 1 bat boy, wh aw take to] Miss Lord sald t la at General of Philadelphia |: Nurse had no statement t Coming Exhibitio POMPEY HEED QUAHE OF Gry, | te Bult, b Beg te dpae-d ‘| Mrs. Nellie Roche. w ail PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1 $ LEVILLE, reise ah coche, wefl known fight refere . tary of Commerce Herbert Hoove . b jul , ae who vbtained ut ae “| verdict has been offered $50,000 4 tor — Edward W. Bok of the ¢ phity cor i THE WORLD THAYFL BURPAC., mittee of the Sexqui-Contenn nik ‘ pond U ae, Panne, (World) | Bulla ‘hd hition to become dircet contein f y m for bagwage aii #8 Oo t xhibition Is aa cestise Kaghn Avenue bridge over the Cooper | |Street and First Avenue, Kahrs and Creek to Fores! pa ANIA ; 1 ' ; ve . gets oul he |11ynos walked south to make the sec- racks of an automobile and the a footprints of two men were discern. | ond delivery of $5,000 to the Gotham ‘ of two men Were discern. | L e080) ef \ble in the hard crusted snow leading |* es uals me BGA ai Be trom tho spot where the bod nig | Bre f . . round) to the arivewee ly Wis | nich is on the west side of the ave- The body was found by a lamp-|BU¢. four doors north of 60th Street, trimmer employed by the Public sec. | three men ran out of a hallway and vice Corporation, ‘The woman waa|Srappled with them. about thirty years old and good look-| One of the men grabbed the bag. Kahrs held tightly to it and drew his ng. ‘The body was dressed in what detectives described as’ a “second |fevolver. Another of the men snatched nourning’ costume. The feet were | the revolver from his hand. The third encased in high tan sh ‘and the|™an stepped behind Kahrs and shot hat the woman wore, of light, {him in the small of the back. The soft material in sport style und giving | Messenger sank to the sidewalk, re- mannish app «, was ‘ound | leasing his hold on the bag, which the nearby. She we het ring |Febber who had first grasped it ap- the initials ** | propriated. © was no e at the curb was a Ford a the police to belluve the|t There were two men on nman was either dead or uncon. |! eat, one of them at the n the snow wheel and two in the tonneau. The ywed several deep |thiec thugs jumped into the car and ody must have the driver started at top speed with » to the cold for many jerk 4 opinion of Coroner Holl. Instead proceeding south, he Camden County, who made a prelim- | @ in irve to the left, Unable try examination to mak turn in the street, he e driveway beyond the Kaghn dro pe the sidewalk on the east- Avenue bridge was deserted last night ern sule of the avenue and headed the und no one has been found who saw car north, driving pedestrians toto r heard an automobile in that. y loorways and the gutter nity. apt Patrick Corec of the ee Queensboro Bridge Squad, bound for MINISTER FOUN thy station house under the bridge, ast in 60th Street whem GUILTY OF MURDER shot, He ran to the ave- hin nue, reaching the corner just as the mobile straightened out for the nvicted in Death of Arkansas night on the opposite sidewalk. rn r ets Life Taking the risk of hitting am ine Woman and G. Life aeBhi is oe who ie al Sentence “i shot, fired five times at the re . le, One of the men halt MOUNT IDA, Ark Feb. 1 Th ing in the tonneau dropped to Rev, Harding Hughes, superannuat.! | floor, but whether was hit by minister, charged with the murder of Coccoran's bullets or ducked Mrs, Anna McKennon Jast May, was |for safety nobody knows, found guilty by « jury early to At 6lst Street, the car, still om the His punt nt fixed at life |widewalk, was headed east, Plunging imprisonmer across a pilt ow in the gutter, \ , aie wee ae a ee ee