The evening world. Newspaper, March 2, 1922, Page 1

Recah eal icaaetaceall ‘A NEW YORK MILLIONAIRE’S HOME ON THE ROOF OF A To-Night’s “IF IT HAPPENS IN NEW YORK == IPs IN — THE EVENING WORLD” VOL. LXII. NO. 21,986—DAILY. TOTTEN SOLDIERS IN LAUNCH ON SOUND ALL NIGH Weather—CLOU DY. Che “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ | “Circulation Books Qpen to All. To-Morrow's Wee ther—CLOUDY, Copyright (New York World) by Press Publishing Company, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1922, HOUSE COMMITTEE ELIMINATES CASH BONUS ABOVE $30 ” New Provision Will Permit Men to Borrow on In- surance Certificates. MELLON FAVORS PLAN. American Legion Leaders Also So: Declared to Accept New u Proposal. le ‘“yASHINGTON, March 2.—Unan- ‘Hous agreement to eliminate the ‘cash feature of the soldiers’ bonts, ‘except in the cases of men whose ac - ) justed service pay would not exceei 4{50, was reported to-day by the ste- «hl sub-committee of Repubdlicau members of the House Ways ant Means Committee to which the whole bonys question was referred to yes. terday. In lieu of cash for other service men, it was agreed to add a new pro- vistop to the Bonus Bill under vn the men vocepting adjusted service certificates could borrow immediately ‘on those certificates from Banks a sum equal to 560 per cent. of the total adjusted service pay, computed at the rate of $1 a day for domestic service ‘amr $1,286 a day for foreign service. Chairman Fordney of the committee this plan was expected to meet ith general approval since it enabled soldiers who may be in need to ob- tain cash immediately after the issu- ance of the certificates, would relieve the Treasury of any large cash pay- ments during the enormous refund- im goperations which must be carried out in the next two years and would blace no additional tax burden upon public. Secretary Melien is inclined to ac- cept this new plan, it was said at the Treasury Departmen The Secretary has not studied tie plem im full as yet, but he is said to “consider it ‘‘the lesser of two evils.’ The new scheme is considered more . acceptable because it places no druin on the Treasury funds. ‘American Legion leaders here are quoted as being satisfied with the in- surance proposal, provided a workable wurance certificate plan, with the piivilege of borrowing money on the rtificate, is substituted. At the same time, House ly that the proposed elimination of th cash bonus means two very im- it things: Prevention of distur! onal finance system in the next 0 years when a stable situation is ded for refunding of maturing vernment securities. . Prevention of any move for pen- leaders (Contimed on Second Page.) Treasure Chest Filled With Good Positions The World's Help Wanted advertisements constitute one vast treasure chest in which are to be found thousands of ‘ good positions. Those who read may work. 11,43: vers. akg “ 9,102 oe More than any other New York newspaper. Best for Employers. ROPE LADDERS Girls Outwit Matr Matron by Tieing Bed Sheets Together and Fleeing. WEAR NIGHT CLOTHING. Warm Wraps Thrown Over Flimsy Apparel—16 Horses Perish in Blaze. POUGHKEEPSIE, March 2.—Two hundred Vassar girls, denied permis- sion to leave their dormitories at 4.30 o'clock this morning when fire was discovered in one of the barns of the college, formed improvised rope lad- ders with bed sheets and climbed from the windows of their rooms in fur coats, sweaters and other wraps has- tily thrown over their night clothing. ‘The spectacle all but diverted the attention of the fire fighters. The barn, which housed sixteen horses, all the work animals owned by the college, was a total loss, the horses perishing. Fifteen hundred bushels of grain were put into the feed bins yesterday and a large quan- tity of hay was transterred to the barn lof. Fhe fre believed to have been due to spontaneous com- bustion in the grain. When the alarm was sounded the girls who attempted to leave the dormitories were ordered back to their rooms by the matron. But there were other methods of exit. First one and then another lowered them- selves from their windo' In a short time 200 of the 1,300 young women students were racing over the haif mile of frozen ground to see the fire. The flames, fed by the great store of hay and the dried timbers of the barn, were a,hundred feet high and lighted up the country for miles around. | When the Poughkeepsie Fire De- partment arrived it was found that the large cistern was frozen solid and could not be used. The only thing the firemen could do was to see that, Fy the flames did not spread to other, buildings The sixteen horses) perished In a nearby barn were some thirty riding horses used by the students. | These never were in danger } pbc Saint DR. HUBERT WORK SUCCEEDS HAYS) | | Postmaster General, will succeed Will |H. Hays as head of the Post Office Department, it was learned definitely to-day at the White House. Dr. Work whose home is Pueblo, Col., will take over the Post Office portfolio day when the resignation of M: becomes effective. He is sixty-six years old. Dr. Work, who lives in Pueblo. be the will second Colorado man to hold ber of the medical profession to hold a Cabinet office The elevation of the Coloradan will leave the position of First and Second Assistant Postmaster filled. FB. H. Shaughnessy, who was Second Assistant Postmaster General 1 lost his life in the Knickerbocker Theatre disaster eee BRUNETTE NOW LEADER AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE eof Longe Standing WELLESLEY, Mass., March 2.—Bru- | neites are in the ascendancy at Welles- ley College. Afier a | standing blonde supremacy, Miss Olive Ladd of Lincoln, Neb. @ young woman with black hair, has been elected mistress of the senior tree-day exercises. choice was by vote of the agnior cl In the selection of alds to the mi the class picked two blondes and two | brunettes, Misses Caroline Ingham of |New York, Dorothy Tower of Chicago. | Elizabeth Woody of Louisville and Har- riet Rathbun of Madison, N. J. A. ress stant, ol by Harding | | to Become Postmaster (ene- ral, Is a Physician. | WASHINGTON, March 2 Dr | Hubert Work, present First Assistant | a place in the CaBinet. Henry M.! ‘Teller was Secretary of the Interior in 1888. Dr. Work is the first mem- | Generals to be | Biendes Ousted’ Stem Supremacy The | aor ere + Matter Post Office, New York, ™, ¥. VASSAR STUDENTS SLIDE DOWN ., TO STEAL T0 FIRE 9,000 COMMUTERS | ATGRAND CENTRAL Transit Board Takes Pictures| to Show Congestion in the Rush Hours. More than 5,000 commuters from) the New York Central Railroad sub- urbs had their moving pictures taken by the Transit Commision in the Grand Central station of the Lexing- ton Avenue subway this morning. ‘The commission believes that as an exhibit of fifteen minutes in the life of a country-dwelling New Yorker the picture will prove valuable in estab- lishing the truth of many of the com- plaints of discomfort, danger and un- healthfulness forced by lack of sub- way accommodations. ‘The camera men Worked under dif- flculiies. Time and again they were nearly swept off their feet and their} cameras toppled in the whirling vor-| texes of humanity and their eddies as the streams of embattled commuters struggled to reach the doors of the trains and get into them, The blazing lights installed for the photography caused passengers to stop in their tracks, and when pas- sengers stand still in the rush hour at the Grand Central the crowd multi- plies from second to second. Many hundreds were trying to cross the platform from local to express trains or vice versa, and many other hun- dreds were intent on watching the movie people or getting into the pic- ture, The police, under Inspector McGrath, were almost powerless to keep order, but they did prevent any serious accidents Some of the pictures were taken on | the Lexington Avenue line, others | ‘around the shuttle trains that go to| Times Square. Many a hat was wrecked, many a dress torn and many a toe trampled. But nobody needed a doctor. Commissioner Roy a Harkness seid that ample police arrangements {ind been made in advance to cone with any disorder, and he insi jtnat there liad been no serious dis- cider. ‘The pictures were taken, he said, to be used as exhibits in con- nection with a move for better sub. | way service PANIC THREATENED | \for assistance. SOLDIERS ON REEF IN LAUNCH ALL Long Island Sound Re- turning From Game. a RISK LIVES FOR AID. Young Women Landed Before Mishap to Launch—Aid Comes at Daybreak. Shipwrecked in New York City, nineteen soldiers from Fort Totten, L. I., and several civilians spent seven T., and several civilians spent all night in a wind and wave and snow swept launch on a reef between David and Twin Islands in the Sound off the Bronx, The launch went aground while en route from Fort Slocum to Fort Totten. Two of the men, at the risk of their lives, made their way to Hunter island in a small boat and telephoned The stranded soidiers and civilians were rescued and taken to Hart's Island on the Corrections Department tug Riker and remained there thawing out until a boat from Fort Totten took them home this afternoon One of the shipwrecked was twelve-year-old Joe Walker of Whitestone, mascot of the Fort Tot-! ten basketball team, who has reached the conclusion that even mascots have their hoodoo days and nights. THIRTY-THREE MEN AND DOZEN WOMEN IN PARTY. Early last evening, before the snowstorm began, a party of thirty- three men and more than a dozen young women left Whitestone for Fort Slocum across the Sound in the 75-foot 1rmy motor launch L-61. The men included Sergeant John Freel, in command of the launch, Private Chris Swadermann, engineer, and First Class Private Felix Schlick, chief telegraph operator at Fort Tot- ten, assistant engineer; the Fort Tot- ten basketball team, soldiers young women friends, and a civilian named Kearns Athletic Club of Whitestone, who te referee the match between the ‘Totten and Fort Slocum teams. soldiers and thelr to remain to dance after as ‘ort "The the basket ball game. The party reached Fort Slocum without mishap at 7.10 P. M. {n the bavketball game Wort Totten was de. | feated, und the soldiers and girls from and} of the Milton Arrow | sweethearts were | LADY RHONDDA FIRST WOMAN TO SIT IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS Daughter of Late Food Con- troller Victor in Long Fight for Recognition. TO BEGIN IMMEDIATELY. New Member of Upper House Is Wife of Sir Humphrey Mackworth. LONDON, March (Associated Press).—The Petition of Lady Rhondda to sit in the House of Lords was granted by the Committee on Privileges of the House of Lords to- day. If she takes the seat awarded hey by Apis ruling she will be the first woman fo sit in the Upper House of the British Parliament, as Lady As- tor was in the Lower Chamber. Lady Rhondda is the daughter the late Viscount Rhondda, Great Britain’s war-time Food Controller, wbo died in 1918 from an iliness brought on by overwork. He left nv male heir, bis only child being the daughter, wife of Sir Humphrey Mackworth, The new member is w peeress in her own right, having been elevated to the title of Viscountess in 1918. To-day's decision, it was presumed, affects all the peeresses in the United Kingdom. There are twenty-three of these. Lord Donoughmore presided over the committee, composed of Lords Lesart, Haldane, Chelmsford, Hylton, ) Wrenbury, Phillimore and Askwith, After Lady Rhondda’s right to nal present title was established her coun romoval act clearly applied to a case like the present, and that the dis- ability existing in the past now being removed Lady Rhondda was entitled (o sit in the House of Lords. After further argument the Attor ney General, on behalf of the Crown said he vaised no objection to the pe tition, Which was therefore granted | Lady Rhondda thus becomes the first woman to sit in the «House © Lords. | Interviewed after the decision, Rhondda expressed her delight the case had gone in her fayor este he a | AUTO PLUNGES AGAINST LOCOMOTIVE; 4 HURT Lady that Croming Grade | Ronelle, N Two men and two wo! Jured in @ grade cross! en were in ecident at is J. An automo that midnight at Roselle bile came around a sharp curve obstructed the driver's view and | plurs gainst # Baltimore 1 Oni relight engine attached to « tran AS SUBWAY TIE-UP | Sa MEM hurl vere One Kuk CLOGS PLATFORMS (Continued on Second Page.) Haston Avenue, New. Bruns XN, 4, fracture of skull; Mrs, Kanf ¥ ene | DIVORCE DECREE tent Uvele URUERERE, GomalbledructiCy Ut East Side expi s Breaks Down at} | FOR MRS. WwW. BARNUM 1B snd Frank Farrara, New We Grand Central—Police wisk, driver, of tis eat bruises, Kau viards | . 5 A nine, All were taken to ll Guards | jObtains Final Order in Paris tor} wiitooeeo en op eee jenn Pee Desertion—She and Husband | = trin an the downtown tracks at tho in New York. | YOUNG HUSBAND \Crand Central Station at S09 to-day! PARIS, March 2.—Rowena Mabe RUNS AWAY WITH caused a blocking of all expresses ani a jamming of the station platforias | Stewart Barnum of New York was j which require? the utmost efforts of ubway guards an! policemen in averting a panic | | ‘Thousands of commuters comin | jin from the Grand ‘Central Terminal | were packed into local downtown ns. In fifteen minutes the dis- abled train was moved by making an adjustment of the multiple control jaud within half an hour afterwaed traffic was merely as jammed ana |wreomfortable and tnheaithful as is asual in the subway at that hour —————- ‘DID NOT STEAL KISS, SAYS JURY OF DENTIST 2 bones Action for $2,000 Damages. | A jury the Bronx County Court before Judge Russell to-day returned a | verdict in fevor of Dr, Louis W. Cohen, a dentist, of No, 862 Jennings Avenue, | who was sued for $2,000 alleged damages by Mra, Molly Russin of No. 1428 Wil kina Avenue Ruasin claimed D: inst her will wi Mrs, Ro in ven kissed | he was in to-day granted a final divorce decree in the French courts (vom her hus- band, Walter Barnum, on grounds of desertion Both Barnums are at present in New York, having secured a prelim inary decree last summer Records in the County Clerk's of fice show that Walter Barnum filed a suit for absolute divorce from Rowena Stewart Barnum on Jan, 5, 1918, and that it was discontinued on the motion of counsel for Mr, Barnum on May 15, 1918. Secrecy surrounded the action then, only a summons being filed. Phoenix Ingraham, No. 120 Broadway, had been named referee to hear the evi dence, Mr. Barnum was President of the Larchmont Gardens Building Com pany, Inc.; Treasurer of the Larch mont Gardens Company and Treas urer of the Pacifle Coast Company Neithery the principals nor their attorneys, Platt & Field 1 Mr. Barnum, and James minsel for Mra, Barnum, would dis MOTHER-IN-LAW | Wite and Father-in-Law Start Divorce Proceedings Aite Elopement MAYSVILLE, Ky., March {wo divorce suits are pending n the Mason County Circuit Court here to-day because Carl Kellum twenty-three years old, and ; mother-in-law, Mrs. Addie lagher, forty-five, off gether, according to the petitions filed by Mrs, Ima Gallagher Kei lum, eighteen, against her hus band, and John Gallagher, fift five, against his wife. Mrs. Kellum says she was ma ried two years ago and was very happy Om her husband's farm miles from here. A short time 480, Bhe alleges, her mother who lived on an adjoining farm an off with Kellum and never re his I to Gallagher's: petition same story, of} sel argued that the sex disqualification | FIRE AT FUNERAL BURNS MOURNERS WATCHING COFFIN —————— Lighted Candle Sets Drapings | About Casket Ablaze— Rescued by Firemen. the coffin in of eight-year-old Draperies around which lay the body MARY PICKFORD ‘ony Zarcarese on the second floor of No, 87 Sackman Street, Brooklyn, were set afire by a falling candle at 8 o'clock this morning, Seated about the body of the boy, who died of influ. enza Tuesday, were his parents, An- tonio and Lucia, and a number of heir friends All of them caught at the burning hangings in an effort to keep the fumes from reaching the casket. The fire was scattered all through the n Policeman Bohn of the Liberty Ay enue Station and firemen of Hook and Ladder No. 107 under Lieut William | Morris helped the mourners out to] le street, ‘The coffin, untouched by he fre, was carried by the firemen » the undertaking shop of Argetta Vartone at Sackman Street and At lantic Avenue Ambulances from §t. Mary's amd hushwick Hospitals took Mr and Mrs. Zarearese, Mrs, Carmela Chilo No. 175 Rockaway Avenue, Ralph Lorizere of No. 87 Heekman Str ind Antonio Rozzlo of No. 2284 At- |lantic Avenue to Kings County Hos ital. AM of them nad béen severe burned about the face, arms aad _ > WINS VERDICT} | \rs. Wilkenning Loses Her Suit | tor $108,000 in the Court A eenled verdict opened at 1030 A M to-day in the Federal Court favor of Mary Pickford in enon trial before J ‘The jury b berating three ho Cora C. Wilkenning for placing Miss 1 \ilon dollar The case hinged on an interview Wilkenning says took place Lov. which Mary denies harwing the ju is decided tn the case that Mack fo in the han by ige a week nded de Mra $198 claimed kiord | terborough is unthinkable, | viee has been eut down HYLAN THREATENS DRASTIC ACTION 10 STOP SUBWAY JAM Tells ‘Hedley Service ‘“Trim- ming” Is Another Form of Trimming Public. Threatening to use the powers vested by law in the Department of Health if his directions are not fol- lowed, Mayor Hylan to-day demanded of President Frank Hedley of the In- terborough that his corporation com- ply with the terms of its contract with the city and increase subway facilities. The conclusion of a letter sent by the Mayor to President Hed- ley reads: “It you persist in profiting by and cipitalizing the dillydallying official action, or rather Inaction, of the State Transit Commission I am constrained to advise you that resort will be had to drastic means to end your policy of art!- ficially creating abominable con- ditions of congestion and to cause the putting to full use all the subway equipment available and possible of operation." The Mayor advises Mr. Hedley that he does not approve of the proposition to “stagger” traffic movements dur- ing the rush hours, which was sug- gested by the Health Commissioner. He declares that the idea that the public should be made to conform its habits, desires and business needs to the operating inefficiencies of the In- | The contiact of the Interborough with the city, the Mayor says, calls for “safe and adequate’’ transporta- tion at a 5-cent fare, The Mayor calls attention to the 187 1-2 per cent. dividends earned and $12,000,000 sur- plus earned by the Interborough in fifteen years. Quoting Mr. Hedley's testimony before the Transit Com- mission that the non-rush hour ser- 3% per cent Mayor says on neith' the we. maintain was maintained five years ago on the then sub way and which at that time was far below what traffic conditions required or what the people had | 1 right to expect. ‘This policy of | deliberately withholding trom use below that of 1916, th “Tt is obvious 1 the east side ling line do» yon eadway which the available Interborough equip- ment In erder to ‘trim’ operation — | ix utterly unwarranted and must | This policy of coldly whittling down train service so as to main tain ‘rush’ hour conditions throughout the entire duy, Includ- ing ‘non-rush’ hour pertods, must stop. This ‘trimming’ of service, to use your own lan- | is another form of trim ming the public, and it not only viol your contract with thy | produces a traffic condi- | h Is @ menace to the life but on wh the health and the morals of the | travelling public and the com- | munity ea | LOSES $25,000 GEMS ON TRAIN OR IN TAXI| of Former Montgomery-| Ward President Oan't | Recall Which, | \GO, March 2.—Mrs, Rober! U tho wife of the former President of Montgomery, Ward & Co., reported to « police the loss of Jewels valued st $25,000 Mrs. Thorne returned to Chicago yes Wite ‘persons in the PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION SAFE RIFLED BY ROBBER: RECORDS BELIEVED STOLEN Police Secretive About Robbery and Await Return of Chair- man From Albany—Tele- phone Call Let News Out. Vault Dented and Scratched, Showing Combination Had Been Attacked —Desk Drawer Also Pried Open. For twenty-four hours Detective Fitzgerald and others of the Old Stip Station have been trying to find out something about the visit of a robber to the’ofice of William A. Prender- gast, Chairman of the Public Service Commission, in the commissions rooms at No, 3@Ohareh Street, be tween Tuesday evening and yesterday morning. If friends of Commisstoner Prendergast had not telephoned from Albany to ask what the police were doing about it, if anything, the mat ter would have been kept longer a seoret by the detectives. Even to-day they were very) mys- tertous. The safe bore dents and scratches, showing the combination had been attacked. The top drawer of. Mr, Prendergast's desk hed been pried open and \the contents disturbed. Mr. Prendergast kept=& copy of the combination numbers If that drawer. Perhaps, said Detec- tive Fitzgerald, the robber knew obtained the combination, opened safe and closed it again, Perbape valuable papers had been taken fram the safe. But this would not be known, jsaid, until Commissioner Prendergagt returned from Albany and told the detectives “whether he has with him certain documents which are ordinag lly kept in the safe, but are not in their places."" "a When asked why this informati could not be gained by telephone tl detective expressed impatience with “outside interference." Meantime, a is understood that fingerprints of ‘intelligence service” ‘or certain large corporations are being |examined ee LIVING COST INQUIRY BY STATE PLANNED Bill Would Create Trade Commie sion With Present Powers ot Lockwood Committee. ALBANY, March 2.—Creation of @ State Trade Commission similar © | the Federal Trade Board, with all the present powers of the Lockwood Housing Committee and additional powers of inquiry over the subjects relating to the costs of living, ie sought to be provided in one of ete bills introduced in the Legt ture to-day by the Lockwood Housing Committee, AGREE TOR REDUCE U. S. ARMY TO 115,000 Sub-Committee Dratts Bill Cutting Enlisted Force From 137,000 Men. WASHINGTON, March 2,—Redue- tion of the size of the regular army to 116,000 enlisted men has been ten« tatively agreed upon by the sub-com~ mittee drafting the Army Appropria- tion Rill, It became known to-day. rday from South Carolina, She was able to remember whether she had ef: the Jewels, which were in her hand! bag, on the train or in a taxicab, The present strength of the army te approximately 137,000 men.