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FICTION: © © © © FASHIONS SPECIAL SECTIONS EVENING WORLD TO-DAY LLL ALLL LLL LLL ALLL LLL LLL ‘@lovio, FINAL 0, EXTRA ‘ I “Cireulation j Books = to All. dg NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, The oe Books Open to All.” | to All VOL. LXIL. NO. Vou. LXI NO. 22,000—DAILY. = —— Entered naw Second-Chnne Matter Post anand New York, N. ¥. Copyright (New York World) by Press Publishing Company, 1922. 1922. YOUNG DODGE IN JAIL WORKS ga moms FER GIN HALT _ avs UTER; URS 1 BOAT ON BURNING SH 104 PASSENGERS LOCKED Has No Kick on the Prison Grub. Firemen and Coal Passers Driven Back to Fight Flames, Which Cap- tain Overcomes by Trick of Twist- ing on Course Learned in War. SBE, nase THEN STRANGLED IN ASSEMBLY AFTER CETTING SENATE 0. K OF BROOKLYN MAN) IN THEATRE CRASH FOR SIX YEARS ON SEDITION CHARGE Owner, Contractor, Sub-Con- tractor and Inspector of Brook- lyn Structure Held. “BEING RICH IS TOUGH” “If 1 Had Been an Ordinary Fellow,” He Says, ‘These Things Wouldn’t Happen.” WIRE SENT DAUGHERTY.|7 DIED IN THE COLLAPSE. Names of Two Victims Select- Miami Was Seized In ’Frisco | ed on Which to Hang Legal and Returned to Him. Cause for Trials. Fia., Is Made Futile by MacWhin- ney’s Hostility and Indiffer- ence in Lower House. Seven More Housing Commit- tee Measures, Making Nine Owner Claims the Cargo at {Special to The Evening World.) DETROIT, March 18.—His hands covered with blisters, his back aching, John Duval Dodge, the much indulged MIAMI, March 18.—Customs} Indictments for manslaughter in the For sixteen hours on March 2, in the North Sea, the 104 passengers } in All, Passed and Sent to = officials to-day seized 505 of | first and second degrees were pre-|son of the late John E. Dodge, mil- c 4 analy * ae eee a cag jin and ilgquors aboara the Patetsia, | sented to (County Judue ‘Martin’ (aliinonlio Detroit jmotor seadutaecuren, on the United States liner Potomac, which arrived at Hoboken to-day ‘ as oess) ¢ on-Co-operation Leader Of}, patatiat yacht tied up here. The} Brooklyn to-day against the following | who died in New York two i i i crew 1922 Closes. India Will Not Be Put at [racnt is owned by" James, Shewan, persons, charged with responsibility performed to-day what ts lkely to bo Freee, Breas Oe ee the hardest day's work he will ever do for the deaths of seven persons and fought a fire in a hatechway amidships on the port side of the vessel and When the officers boarded the yacht sepa camesen eaten: pe emmmmaiiateatans ; iy : in all his life. Incidentally, he did r : Three of the “Pro ramme” afar ela Edwin Shewan, brother of the] the injury of seventeen in the collapse |i. work in the prison here where, in members of the engine room staff with drawn revolvers stood guard over gre = owner, rushed to a telegraph ofice|of the American Theatre building: | stripes, he is serving a five-day sen- he existe he fi be ee f the Si Failed in Senate, and Five ‘ AHMEDABAD, Hritish India, Jand wired Attorney General Daush-| Samuel Moskowitz, one of the|tence for speeding whieh was) tm- the exits from the fireraom to prevent a stampede o! panish and i . a 1G | March 18 (Associated Press).—Mo- | €'ty to order the release of the cargo. owners and supervising builder of the} Posed on him last Thursday. Filipino firémen and coal passers, Others Buried by Speaker) .cngss x. Gangni, the Indian none} ,T%® Hawor was estimated by of-| 1 "00% Young Dodge, assigned to the task asic Sieg x ds All Powerful Toad cials to be worth $60,000. i of loading and carrying coal from the During one period of four hours in theyourse of the fire, the Machold’s A Powerful | co oper fonist trader, who wns or gowan cleity ive ‘invor ie the| Joseph Gaydica, contractor for tt/hris0n ‘pile to the furnace stokers, so * a Binal Ai Rules Committee rested Fecently on charges of sedi-|same selzed at San francisco a year| steel work which collapsed, who fur-}maimed his hands at the task during ‘ of the ship were stopped and she?rulled the waves without steerage™ ommittee. tion, was sentenced to-day to six |ago by Prohibition officials, but which| nished the unauthorized plans for its|the forenoon that he: was 4 miegeg rAgime M % - years’ imprisonment without hara|Wa# returned to him as itquor pur-| cvection, be a little less strenuous avhen work By Joseph 9. Jordan. sie f it hard | chased before the Federal Prohibition eer 1. Kavanaugh, sub-con-| “#8 knocked off for the noonday meal By frequently sending stewards to amendment became effective. Lae . : “se, [of meat, pie, bread, and coffee. th gers with reasuring mes- (Staff Correepandent ! The Evening \ The arrest and sentence of Gandhi, | ‘The Patrica was bullt thirteen years| tractor for erecting the steei work,|~ While he 1a at the coal-carrying Job Arm Rifle artrid e Picked U age seg William eas kept . x a x whose power und personal mag-|ago ata cost of $300,000 but local] who put the defective pillar in place. | his attorneys are seeking in every way D 3 f ¥ % ALBANY. March 18.—The Lock | ticm have rained for him the title |yachtsmen say it would cost $500,000] James M. to bring about his release befor his ae bly ceba. Some Of ae wood Housing Committve went down fighting to the last the gQyost of its bills, that which would cre fate a State Trade Commission. Thr bill was passed in the Senate shortly before 5 o'clock last night and then minute on killed in Rules Committee of the As sombly, Senator Lockwood worked like a hired man, worked in the & 2, ‘worked in the Assembly, pleaded wit) the Rules Committee, of which Vice ppbairman Thomas A. MeWhinney vf ‘the Housing Committee Is a member and who was against tho bill. The Senator went again to Gov. Miller and convinced him that it A K008 measure. The Governor went over the bill :nd wrote in amend: nts with his own hand. And after all, the Rules Committee turned the measure down. Members declared the Gover- nor himself had expressed the senti ment tit the “rade Commission would take the lace of the Lock wood Committee, which has been given -aother year's lease of life When this was brought to Lock- wood’s attention he again went to the Governor and declared his witingness im the event of t° passage of the biN to discontinue the work of the Leckwood Committee within a month, But the Rules Committee put the under the steam roller and flat tened it out for the session. Speaker Machold said, after ne had declared the Rules Committee had met for the last time for the session, he had not Heard from the Governor on the matter. Majority Leader Lusk made a fine wa (Continued on Second Pag Good Results From The World’s Real Estate Ads. ooo SCULTHORP REALTY CO., ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, N, J. New York World, New York. March 3, 1922, Gentlemen: It might be of fnterest to you to know the good results we recelved from our Real Estate Ad in The New. York Sunday World recently. We have sold a number of lots through our ad. One lle who came to Atlantic Fiigniands'on a Sf M train when the ground was covered with anow, bought two. lots The client re: furned to te Highlands a week later to ove what he had bought under snow He war so well pleased with hie bargain tat he bought two more lots. ‘We take thie means of congratu- ting The World for good resulte ite, Flea! Ratare Advertivemente, ‘ou RP REALTY COMPANY, Per Gtaniey F. Soulthorp. Mahatma," or wonder wor or, were preceded by a long series of obedience activities, which hive sroused worldwide notice. For some years he has been considered most influential public man in tn Gandhi published his scheme for hon-co-operation in September, 1920. In his programme were included resignation of posts by honorary mag- pupils from tate schools and col- boycott of the courts, lawyers absten- 8, withdrawal Government or leges, giving up their practice, and of tion from all other co-operation with the British Government in India. ‘Work hard and tire not," He exhorted all maintain peace. viously, Gandhi, writing were ists speed like the Punjab express." ie MAYOR SMILES AS BOOM IS CRIED WITH COW-BELLS Nominated in Load Volce President and Governor, Armed with a cow-bell and a rau- a man in the middle of a to-day nominated Mayor Hylan for Governor and Presi- couus voice, City Hall crowd dent. The nominations were made while the Mayor, Mrs. Hylan, and their daughter, Mrs. John F. Sinnott, were signing petitions for soldiers’ bonuse Kiernan, the SI Foreign Wars, “This cow-bell will make you Presi- dent of the United States," yelled the man in the crowd after Mayor Hylan had waved a friendly hand in reply to the nomination “OWE NO ‘TAXES, HERE’S MY BIT” TO SUPPORT U. Sending Check, Tacoma John Doe Informs Revenue Collector— Thinks It’s Due. TACOMA, March 18. A resident here, who must go down to fame under the name of John Doe, regull because of Government ations, sent Burns Poe, Col- of Internal Revenue, a check for $6.06. “I do not owe an income tax, but I do believe every man in the land should help support the Government, 80 here's my bit,"” he wrote, lector were ndhi's last words to his followers. who loved India to A few days pre- when arrest was imminent, in the newspaper ew India, of Bombay, said that if he arrested the people should re- main unmoved and fulfill the whole programme of the non-co-operation- “with clockwork regularity and for 8 on the steps of City Hall. The petitions were presented by James F. Department Commander of e of New York, Veterans of Ss to-day to reproduce her. The unload- ing of the cargo, which was stored in a warehouse to be held pending action by the courts, consumed the greater part of the forenoon. The seizure was the largest ever made in this section of Florida and with the confiscation of three car loads of liquor on the tracks of the Florida East Coast Railway here, at Fort Pierce and in cksonville Thursday night and Friday brings the seizures of liquor in the State to cases in the last three days. The Patricia wa bition Agents in early in December s seized by Prohi- Montercy, Cal. and the wine and liquors aboard taken into custody. A warrant was issued for Mr. Shewan. He made the defense that the yacht was of British registry and was bought by him with the wines and liquors on board and were kept sealed while in American ports, But the agents charged that the contra- band beverag had been ‘‘stolen"’ from a Monterey warehouse. Gavin McNab's firm undertook the defense of Mr. Shevan. On Dee, 30 Attorney General Daugherty ordered the yucht released from its $100,000 bail, ordered the owner discharged from his $1,000 bail and the liquors restored. He said the raiding agents had committed a more serious crime than that they charged against Mr. Shewan Mr. She n is the head of James E. Shewan & Sons, Inc., shipbuilders, of South Brooklyn. At the office to- day it was said that no information regarding the matter of the seizure was available in the absence of the younger mambers of of the firm. LAST OF SOLDIER DEAD ARRIVE H HERE MARCH 30 Army and Navy Will Unite Honors to Fallen Heroes, WASHINGTON, March 18, . cial honors wil) mark the arrival in New York March 30 of the transport Cambrai, carrying the last of the bodies of American 5¢ rs killed in France to be returned for burial at home. Major (en, Bu com manding the second corps area, will be in charge of the ceremonies, Garrisons in New York and vicinity will participate. The Navy Depart- ment has been invited to take part, There are approximately — 1,200 bodies on the Cambrai, bringing the number of bor brought home for burial up to 45 American dead who lie in the fields of honor in France number Of the num ber 5,718 have buried in na- tional cemeteries > — GENPRAL STRIKE or pock WORKERS IV NAPLES, NAPL » Mareh 18.—-A_ twenty-four hour general strike has been pro claimed on all the docka in Italy an a protest against the delay in setting the sriggances of the Naples dock workers, Finlay, inspector of the Department of Buildings, who passed the work. Sylvester Rosenthal, named by Magistrate McAdoo in his preliminary investigation as open to the same charges as the others, was exoner- ated by the Grand Jury, which found that, althouch he was financially in- terested with Moskowitz, there was no evidence that he knew anything of the evasion and disregard of the building law Kavanaugh's name was mentioned in the McAdoo decision, but was not referred to us one of those who ought to be held responsible. For the purpose of framing the indictments the Grand Jury, by diree- tion of District Atturney Ruston, took the deaths of Isaac Bastion of No 3 Sutter Avenue and Philip Stein of No. Howard Avenue, both workmen, as typical and found on¢ indictment on the two counts against each of the men held for each of the two deaths. The four fore Judge Martin. S' men were arraigned be- shen Baldwin represented Inspector Finlay, Lewis X. L. Lavin appeared for Moskowitz, former Assistant District Attorney Conway appeared for Gaydica, All four pleaded not guilty. Dis- trict Attorney Ruston asked $10,000 bail. Counsel for Finlay and Kava- naugh ‘pleaded for a smaller amount and the requirement was reduced to $5,000 in their ul FIRE IN LOFT °T BUILDING PUT OUT BY SPRINKLER Vlamen in Crowded Structure Quickly Extingalohed. A slight fire in the rear of the third floor of the building, No. 30 West 2ith Street, at 12.30 to-day, was ex tinguished by the sprinkler system before the arrival of the department The floor was occupied by Morris & Bendien, dealers in pictures The building, a 12-story loft struc ture, was filled with workers, most of them women and girls any came down the stairs and elevators. The however, remained being assured there great majority where they were, was no danger oe VISCOUNT PEEL CHOSEN SECRETARY FOR INDIA Former Head of War and Air Min- istry Succeeds Montaga. LONDON, March 18 (Associated Press).—Viscount Peel, former Under Secretary of the War and Alr Ministry and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancas ter in the preaent Ministry, has beer Appointed Secratary of State for India succeeding Edwin 8, Montagu, who re- signed last week. pil 1982 World Almanac, the ready reterence giands: by mall, book, 35 cents Wak Wika ce tect tae Coy term expires on Monday morning. But he apparently pays little attention to thelr efforts, doing his allotted work with a will. When some of his fel- low prisoners told him he could get out of labor by refusing to do it and being sent to the dungeon for refrac- tory inmates, he replied, Not for me —f'm going to work.” A writ-of habeas corpus under which he had been released tempor- arily from the House of Correction had ‘been dismissed and it was then the Supreme Court was unsuccess- fully invoked to keep the youthful speeder from jail. His young wife was his constant companion and adviser in this battle, and at times was in tears over his failures. His final comment of the day came as he was returned to the House of Correction, redressed in prison uniform and told he would have to go to work to-day. He spent the night on a bunk in the corridor of the prison and was up at work early. He said he didn’t ob- ject to being detailed to the coul-con- veying task, as it kept him outdoors the greater part of the day. Prison fare is not at all distasteful to him, he says, and this morning he had sausage, brown gravy, bread and coffee. The bread, he declared, was better than he got outside the prison. Dodge's five-day term will end Monday forenoon and on the foilow- ng morning he is to appear in Kala- mazoo to answer charges arising from an automobile accident which oc curred there last Sunday He thinks being rich {s as “tough” an assignment as a young man can (Ci ontaied on Second Page.) ON KISS RUMOR BRIDAL COUPLES SWAMP BUREAU Seventy-One Pairs Wed in City Chapel of 131 Seeking Licenses A record for marriage Saturday half holiday was broken this morning in the city chapel, in the Municipal Building. Betwoen the hours of 9 and 12 oclock, 131 licenses were issued, which is not a record. Seventy-one couples were married by City Clerk Michael J. Cruise and his assist~ the ant John J. McCormick. To the latter went the bulk of the work, Cruise offciating for only seven ples Ordinarily only about 80 per cent. of the persons taking out licenses are married in the Mu nictpal Building, Cruise attributed the increase to @ false rumor that was spread last week that he would kiss the brides hereafter on Saturday morning. In Road by Scho: Iboy Maims Six Gathered About Desk While] {o"metly “sed by the Government as He Tries to Pry Cap Loose When It Explodes. PPRTH AMBOY, N. J., March 18 —The public school authorities and the police are investigating to-day the circumstances under which Rob- ert Kovacs, thirteen yours old, of Fords, came into possession of a rifle cartridge, by the explosion of which yesterday he was maimed for life and Ove other children of the Fords’ public school tously ine jured. The Kovacs boy said he found the cartridge In the road near a building \ storage place for ammunition. Just how many more cartridges may be scattered around the highway with possibilities of similar mishaps is a matter of general concern, } Robert Kovaes took the cartridge from his pocket at his desk and with other children crowding around him, began picking at the end of it with a pen. As he was trying to pry out thé eap it exploded. The young- ster's left thumb, index and second finger were torn so they had to be amputated at the City Hospital. Others injured we Bessie Wil- son, of Fords, head bruised, Mary ick, of Fords, bruised and cut on ley guerite Quish, arms bruised, Kensbey, of Keashey, and Louis Tofrovich, of legs cut and bruised. PANIC ON PIER AS WILD STEER INVADES THRONG|: Baltic Passengers Terrorized as Traffic Policeman Kills Mad- dened Animal With Shot. Terrorized by the charm: on to Pier 59, North River, to-day of a wild steer, one of several that had escaped from abbatoirs farther up the river front, more than two hun dred steerage passengers embarking on the Baltic of the Whit Lin fled for shelter behind boxes und bales of goods on of the pler. Traffic policemen of the pler and pi to the pler, but it re Mounted Policeman Joseph Curty of Traffic A to despatch the int animal after it had re the first shot that he fir Carty was on uty ridin of the Chelsea Pier front, w! steer came running through the heavy traffle on West Street. 7 m saw the wide opening ot + ' t and dashed in, closely Carty, urging his hors deavor to head off the st Hundreds of embarking + scattered with thelr the dock employees, the ground de wings the steer into one of the of the shed and fired « snot that brought the animal down and uppar ently killed it. But the big white- faced steer was only tsunned and within a few minutes rose to its feet tnd started on another dash down the pier toward the river Men, women and children screamed and ran and Carty dashed down the his horse at full speed. In a nt he was alongside the animal second shot brought an end to its wild dash, SHOOTS. JEWELER DURING HOLD. UP Capture Young Miner Who tempted to Rob Store in 24th Street. Ate James, Harrison, thirty-four years old, who says he is @ miner, was locked up in the West goth Street tion this afternoon charged with attempting to hold up the jewelry of Charles Jansen, at 24th Strei and Bighth Avenue. ‘The prisoner is alleged to have fired which struck Jansen in the He taken to Bellevue shoulder Hospital wa sepeeeats MAYOR ASSURES PRINCE HE’S STRONG FOR EGYPT M Hylan is for home rule for Egypt. He said so to-day in an in terview at City Hall with Prince Mo- ned All Ibrahim, nephew of the Khedive Don't you think,’ the Mayor ¢ manded, “that Exsypt is quite capable f rning vaelf?” nd question sid the Prince nthe Mayor sald the Trish had t reedom, added that th “power of Great Britain ts wantin, and concluded by saying he belleved in home rule “for Ireland, for your countryjand for New York City." women and children became « ;cited, but at no 9 nernrding to the oM- cers and the passengers, was there anything <pproaching a panie on board. The Potomac left Bremen on the afternoon of March 2. At midnight Chief Engineer Edward M. Garland, who had just gone to bed after 48 hours of continuous service in the en- gine room, was notified that there waa a hot fire in No. 4 hateh, which ad- Joins the fire room, Mr. Garland notified Capt. Mac- Leod, who turned out all the officers and crew with orders to attach hose and start the pumps, While this was being done, twenty-eight firemen and coal passers swarmed on deck and made a rush for the life boats, With revolvers levelled and occa- sionally firing a shot in the air, offi cers charged the firemen and coal passers, driving them down to their post of duy. The fire room was doubly hot because of the blaze in the adjoining hatch, but the workmen were kept on the job. At 1 o'clock in’ the morning the fire had gained such headway that the heat could be felt on the deck. The ship was enveloped in a cloud of pan- gent smoke from blazing life pre- servers and mattresses stored in the cargo space at the bottom of the hateh Stewards under orders to allow no Passenger to leave the cabins were on watch in cach companionway, There were ninety-one first class and twen- ty-three third class passengers, At 4 o'clock Capt. McLeod slowed down to half speed and at 4.50 o'clock he stopped the engines. Seamen were sent over the side in bos'n's chairs, carrying sledge hammers with which they smashed In the ports leading to the blazing shaft. The fire had grown too hot to be fought from the deck and lines of hose were run over the side to the suspended seamen, who in sorted the nozzles in the port holes. Capt. MacLeod fed live steam tnto the hatch but with no apparent ef fect, At 8.42 o'clock in the morning, the smoke was ho dense in and about the vessel that he started ahead at full speed. A short distance away, a ship was noticed standing by ready fo give assistance. If the fire got beyond control, Capt, MacLeod had decided to head for short and beach his vessel Hour after hour, the pumps forced water into the hold, but the flames and smoke appeared to be little abated. At 8.10 o'clock in the after- noon, Capt. MacLeod decided upon « manouevre which he had practiced many times dodging submarines dur- ing tho war With the engines going at full speed, he put the rudder suddenly had ape The ship hecled over, ‘Ther: was eight feet of water In the hold, As tho vestel shifted the water rolled heavily from side to side and it wae found that by this method the dames could Le drowned, The fire was under