The evening world. Newspaper, April 13, 1922, Page 1

To-Night’s Weather—SHOWERS. “IF IT HAPPENS IN NEW YORK EVENING WO ” [Circulation Books Open 0 All.” EDITION Ya) |“Cirenlation Books Open to All Copyright (New York World) Press Publishing Company, 1 NEW YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, Matter PRICE THREE CENTS AMISHED RUSSIANS SLAY AMERICAN RELIEF DRIVERS AND SEIZE HORSES AS FOOD IMAYOR NOT PEEVED ceo ss) AT VETOOF SALARY Iiministration Heats of Two RAISE BY MILLER Employees Killed in Last Week in Ufa, Bashkeer and Tchyliabuisk Districts. Garis, apr 1 Press..—A number of @rivers of relief wagons in Russia have been killed in the streets by who seized MILERSIGNS BL TO.CUR THEATRE TKETEQUENG Premium to “Scalpers’” Lim- ited to 50 Cents Under New Law. LAUDED ee le Wh Word Reaches Paris of At- tacks in Streets by the Starving Populace as Wa- LEGISLATION Evening World Praised. by Managers For Fostering the Bill, (Special to The Evening World.) ALBANY, April 13,—Declaring that is almed at an undoubted abuse, Miller has signed the Walton Bloch bill, sponsored by The Evening rid, which would protect s from the rapacity of ticket spe culators by limiting the profit on any ticket sold outside the box office of a place of public entertainment to 50 cents. The Governor vetoed a bill having the same object last year, but this bill is bulwarked by a licensing provision which puts ticket spec tors directly under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of State and in his memorandum, on the measure the ES es Bears No Ill-Will—Is Glad Governor Sees Light as to Home Rule. L it Gov. theatre- (Associated American Although Gov. Miller's salary increase from $15,000 to $25,- 000 a year means a financial nearly $40,000 to Mayor Hylan during his four-year term, the Mayor in a statement issued to-day says he bears the Governor no “‘ill-will."* He then proceeds to criticise the Governor for what he characterizes 43 his inconsis- veto of his loss of the famished populace, the horses for food, according to re- American ports received’ to-day by relief organizations in Paris from the Ufa, Bashkeer and Tohylabuisk famine districts. ee tency. 40) Moyors \fatement fol-| (u¥érnor sta}a® tla, in his\pinion ws arivers tor the- Aierican "ES 11, Sf: this feature is valid and will stand Mef Administration were killed this bear no ill-will toward the Gov-] the test of the courts, ‘week, the reports said ernor for vetoing the bill increasing] The Evening World, through eae the salaries of the Mayor, Comptroller] Sophie Irene Loeb, has been fighting JUROR IS INDICTED and Aldermanic President the theatre ticket speculation nui- “The Governor, howev knows|sance for years, through the Board AS BRIBE SOLICITOR [nat section 56 of the Charter does|of Aldermen and the Legislature. ‘The Tey not permit the members of the »res-| speculators, with one notable excep- id to Have Made Offer tO} sent poard of Estimate to increase tion, have fought the interests of the Counsel to Vote in lavor their own current salaries (which|public at every step. Before the bill, of His Client charter provision is sound in prin-|which has just become a law, was An indictment charging solicitation | ciple) and consequently any increase] framed legal authorities were con- of a bribe was to-day presented by |!" Salary to any member of the pres-| sulted, and it is believed that objec- i A ent Board must be by legislative tions on the-ground of unconstitu- Reepaupreme, Court Grand JUri/ (st Aibeny., He knows thin dics| tonality hays been overcome: mepast Thomas ¥. Stuart. of No. 47717 tates the Mayor - Comptroller! At the public hearing on the. bill ‘West 112d Street. Justice Finch set only one voice was raised against it— day as the date for his pleading | “Ty Dil! from all the bills’ which I) that of Louis Marshall, the attorney 7 vetoed, which latter were ones where who was under retainer by the ticket Speculators whose immense profits would be materially reduced by regu- lation, In behalf of the bill appeared Miss Loeb, Augustus Thomas, dean of American playwrights; John Golden, the New York manager: Senator Wal- to the charge Stuart, ‘work, was a juror tween the H. W. Bridges Importing Co., of No, 8 Wall Street and the Bt. Lawrence Condensed Milk Co. It | the Board of Estimate either had or of an advertising man out could have increased salaries. “Tam glad to see that the Governor is beginning to realize that there is something in the principle of home rule. He may some day realize his in an action $s charged that on March 31 last he] error in not applying it to the vastly] ton, and Assemblyman Maurice Bloch. offered to Samuel D. Jones, counsel] more important transit and Port Au-]| Joseph Auerbach, one of the leaders to the milk concern, to vote in favor| thority matters and his error in not} the New York bar, who was of aid of that company, adding that he had| turning a deaf ear to the interests|'® Mis# Loeb; Senator Walton and Assemblyman Bloch brief setting forth so submitted a precautions that Yheard a juror in the case was getting something and he wanted to get that induced him to violate home rule his|on those subjects ff , ; sov-| liad been taken to protect the legal share It ts to be regretted that the Gov-|)! 4 Mr. Jones reporied the conversation | ernor did not apply this same princi-|T#hts of the speculators. | John Mo- fo Justice Hur who interrogated] ple of home rule to other important aetaee jae Of Mobos § nse fe Intter deniec arg s which take the local au-|#SReY, one of the largest in Nei Btuart. Th tter denied the charge, | bills whi take from th lo al au ork: sino poke in favor ofthe pill though he admitted speaking to the|thorities the right to locally govern, p » i awyer about the duration of the trial. | resulting in an eventual cost to the}, led up with The Evening World lawyer el taxpayers of the city of millions of{2¢ Tepresented by Mr. ‘Thomas and He also admitted that he was out of siedy ayers ms of! vir. Golden in support of the bill at Iwork, He tas been in the Tombs} dollarn, ae, the public hearing were the Society #ince March a hie faded dich fra a pgs of American Dramatists, the Actors’ - = APP IN ‘4 a. ple to the! Equity Association, the Actors’ Fi- "FOREIGN TRADE Bronx Parkway Commission Bill, delity Association and the Producing which I understand he approved] sranagers' Reaclaten of Amerie a SHOWS INCREASE| within the mut tow days, and which)” he advocates of the bill stressed compels the taxpayers of New York] 4, at iiiaee Bile —_——— City to furnish thousands of dollars} ineutoton ny He. tate tata a WASHINGTON, April 13.—Increase| to maintain a separate police force] \" Mi a) jon, aie Se He pul ue §& the value of America’s foreign | fr that commission in Westchester] “Mech It is unable to fulfl if the © value of Americ rele | County and enables it at a cost of} Patronage is limited to those able to NFAde was reported to-day by thel minions of dollars to beautify. the| PAY the exorbitant prices demanded Department of Commerce, with thé| Harlem Branch of the New York|>Y men who make a living in specu- manouncement that March exports} Central Railroad Company. This} lation in eee yg 4) commission to date has cost New| Every place of public entertainment BaEregnted $332,000,000, the highest | vo city taxpayers over $10,000,000. [18 covered by the provisions of the . ee October, 1921 Imports total “There were many bills sent down | Walton-Bloch Bill, The price must be : 8,000,000, the greatest since De-|rrom Atbany to embarrass me for poli- | plainly printed on every ticket offered ember, 1920 . tical reasons. The Republican Legis- | for sale. The trade balance of $74,000,000 in |jature passed this Mayoralty Salary] Every person or corporation en- Favor of the United States shown by | pill twice, and did so once even after] gaged in the vending tickets to the figures, is the greatest since no-!the Meyer committee's political inves- = Yember 1921, when the total was $83,-}tigation, and I am glad I gave them (Continued on Second Page.) <l 000,000. The trade balance in Feb- ee an opportunity to show their sincerity yWary was $35,000,000 and in March 1921, $135,000,000, BOY SENTENCED TO ATTEND SCHOOL Stigma of Jail Kept From Youth (Continued on Second Page.) Under New Law. , months old, of No. Broome Street, was to-day by Magistrate Brough in the Municipal ‘Term Court to the Parental School until he is seven- teen. Sica was charged with failure to attend part time continuation school. ‘This is one of the first sentences of this nature under the new law, which provides for sending truants to the Parental School instead of to the Tombs sentenced Baseball Results Racing Results NIGHT Box Scores Entries and Charts IN THE PICTORIAL prison, Magistrate Brough said this boy would get at least forty deys of “ Hy a The Green Paper continuous schooling and manual train - ing and come out without the stigma of having been in jail. RUSSIANS Sir Ross Smith, Most Noted Flyer, Killed in Air Crash While Testing ~Plane for Globe Circling Flight His Brother Escaped by Being Too Late for Test---Lieut. Bennett Also Killed as Plane Goes Into Nose Spin. April 13. Ross: famous Btitish aviator, who was about to start on « flight around the world has been killed, it was of- LONDON, Smith, Sir FAMOUS AVIATOR, WHO WON £10,000 ficially announced here to-day. By AIR PRIZE, KILLED many he was ranked as the world’s se _= Breatest flyer, The accident occurred at Brooklands flying fleld Lieut. Bennott, was to accompany an engineer who sir I 1 and his brother also was ki Sir Ross was flying or the first time the plane which had been built for his round the world flight, Tt had been flown successfully but halt an hour before by a pilot of the Vickers Company, and Smith for a was turned over to trial } The accident occurred ‘nen mind utes after the Might began Keith Smith had intended to make the trial flight also, but arrived too late, He was among the crowd that witnessed the tragedy The machine had climbed grace- fully more than 3,000 feet when sud denly her nose dipped and she went into a spin. The spectators thought at first that the alrmen wére attempt- ing stunt" to test the machine's wings, but soon saw that was out of control. It started downwald in a # which became faster and faster the machine hit the earth with such a terrific impact that the plane splintered. Sit Ross was killed in stantly and Lieut tew minutes A witness who stood with Sit watchifig the*flight said “When the airplane started to s it swung vertical to the one wing tilted sharply Then it twisted about into a spin and came down at a tevifflc sir $0 a the plane Bennett died in a ~- 3 CHILDREN BITTEN, SCORES SCARED BY earth, with upwards spiral lost control. “At the end, when the crash came the engine was thrown yards the spot on the track where the of speed. Sir Keith was tly worried, “The spinning became more pro nounced, and we knaw Ross had eee from plane Policeman Captures Animal struck. The stays and struts of the r 'B: inati children’s plane were torn and shattered. tor Examination—Children’s Sir Ross, with his brother, s Wounds Cauterized Keith Smith, were the first aviators =: tga i successfully to complete a p to Australia from the British Isles, a] Scores of children playing at noon feat yop which aed were knighted to-day in 100th Street, between Park Sir Ross Smith and his brother had planned to start from Croydon on |"! Madison. Avenues, were fright April 25 on their world-girdiing flight, |¢"ed 4nd three of them bitten by a The death of Sir Ross recalls the |hiack dog that ran among them, snap tragic end of ‘sir oka Alcock, who. ting and snariing after a successful flight across the} anicee w yeh occuaneal Atlantic, was killed while flying in| | Agree Liten: were -Baip ‘Prasoe ion Labitaky, six, No. 73 East 100th Capt. Sir Ross Smith sprang | Street, and Julius and Herman Safrin, prominence in the world of aviation|.ix and eight years, No. 71 East 100th in 1919 by his Australian flight treet. ‘Their wounds were cauterized (Continued on Fifth Page.) s gas Sharfin of No. 1449 Madison [eed ie everal of othe larger boys in the RICH DIE FASTER fe IRGRE enh cannes es THANVANYEGEASS,.| tetas hain of Ow Fan Oty ACTUARY ASSERTS |: «nation = FIND BABY DEAD, MOTHER DYING Overweight, Indigestion, Tigh Lacing and Smoking Get Them Quicker ae Mrs. Maud M. Fancher. twent Overweight, improper dix yeava- G4; wife of Hannon tion, rich food, tight lacing ar sidhatl san beiaener wan. found tn excessive smoking result’ in 1 dying condition in her hed to-day larger number of deaths amonk |). 9 boarder in thelr home at No. the wealthy classes than other 10 Broad Street, ace NN: ist said Frederick L. Hoffman, thi ih beside the bed, her son, Cecil, Vice President and Actuary of vears old, was dead, ‘The woman the Prudential Insurance Com id given the baby part of a bottle of pany, speaking at a meeting « ol and had then emptied the bottle the Public Health Institute hc erself to-day on cancer control Sle was taken to the City Hospital The death rate from cancer it was sald she will dic Newark, he said, increased fr Peep $14,000 BONDS STOLEN FROM, SECRET DRAWER NEW LONDON, Conn., April 13.— rs who found a safety box hidden 88.2 per 100,000 of population 1920 to 96.1 per 100,000 last year The rate for the State in 1 s 87 per 100,000, as compared with | 92.4 for New York He urged diligent observance « n & secret drawer of a bureau In the skin diseases and abraisions + artment of John Murphy last night prevent cancer Infections from |tsok fourteen Registered Government developing to a stage where death | fons, the police reported to-day. The ig almost inevitable, banda have @ face value of $1,000 each, GIRL, 17, LAPS {st FROM WINDOW TO oie ESCAPE. ATTAK Three Youths Arrested When Jeannette Anderson — Is Found Seriously Injured. N FAMILES IN PERL, G HURT, IN BOMB EXPLOSIONS. IWAN EAST SIDE TENEMENT. CANCELLED, HE SECURES NEW ONE ANOTHER GIRL PRESEN “Save My Friend,” Cries Vic- tim td Policeman—One Prisoner Under Parole. plosion—2 Men Seen Run- ning From Place Arrested. Police Believe Blasts Mark Renewal of Black ‘Hand Ac- Jeannette Anderson, seventeen, a Part) . dancing instructress, who said she tivities—Neighborhood Ter- lived at No. 127 West 86th Street, rorized Three Years Ago. was found lying In the yard in] Cossack General In Custody —_— East 115th Street early to-day and i Six persons were injured by tho explosion of two bombs on the fourth Jor of the tenement at No. of Sheriff Briefly, While Change Is Made. told Patrolman Joseph Rosenstock of the Bast 104th Street Station she had jumped from an upper window of the at building to save herself from attack} Gien. Gregory Semenoff was’ suc-] 2ldridge Street early to-day. The by three men rendered to Major Percival Nagle, | interior of the building was wreckad. She was taken by Dr. Gillman to]ignerit of New York County, at,2 ‘The stairway leading from the fiftl: to the fourth floor was left hang- ing in the air and the landing at thy head of the stairs coming from tire third floor was blown away, The police and firemen pronounced t: ch worst wreck of its kind many of them ever had seen. In the minds of the police the ex vlosion marks the renewal of Black Harlem Hospital, suffering from a possible fracture of the skull and cuts and contusions aboyt the head and body. Her condition was said to be serious. Abraham Schor, twenty, who said he lived at No. 2268 Second Avenue, it admitted he had a furnished m in Bast 115th Street, and William Rodgers, twenty-three, No, 2587 Seventh Avenue, and George Randall, twenty-two, No, 618 St. were arrested by o'clock this afternoon by his bonds- men, the Fidelity and Casualty Com- pany of Maryland, which had bailed him in 825,000 after he had been arrested in civil proceedings. Deputy Bheriff J. P. Murphy, in whose custody the Russian was put, said the Maryland company had with- drawn a4 bondsmen after an appraisal had been made of the jewels! offered as collateral, which the General sald were worth $65,000. A friend of the Nicholas Avenue Rosenstock and arraigned in Harlem| General said, however, that the insur- | Hand activities and they have no Court, charged with attempted crim-}ance company had declined’ to act] doubt that it will be followed by el assent, after an examination into the nature} others in the same neighborhood The frantic barking of a dog and ajof the case in which the Russian was} which three years ago was terrorize woman's scream attracted Rosenstock | arrested i to where the girl was lying, She was| ‘The Detroit Pidolity and Security| ®Y black handers, who follower) bleeding freely and evidently was} Company of Michigan had a repre-| threats made to extort money wilh suffering intensely. to say: But she managed} sentative on hand to write a new bond in the same amount and the General explosion after explosion, Although every tenant in the build “If you are a futher, protect me] was in the Sheriff's office but a few and save my girl friend, They are} momenta ing has been questioned all deny re killing her upstairs. They tried to peal; ceiving uny threats, This is not an attack me and I jumped from the ES SEMENOFF | "2822! situation for the potice to en: window."* CHARG counter in a terrorized house follow- Her friend, she said, was Dollie ing the explosion of « bomb. ‘They are confident the bomb was intended for some family or member of a farm BLINDED AMERICAN Chalmers, her roommate and also a dancing instructress. After calling an ambulance the policeman hurried upstairs to the sec- British Captain Says Y. M. C. A. ond floor, where he found Schor, who] Man Lost Eyes and Tongue ee As ths ake Goer a is om parole under 4 suspended sen- for Refusing Gifts. at CRAG F, OETOSES. MESA TEES ‘ tence given last February by Judge Finch after Schor had been convicted of grand larceny. The other men and placed so that in case of fire follow< WASHINGTON, April 13 ing the explosion if the person was -Gouging Dollie Ghali re ne out of the eyes of a Y. My C, A.| not injured in the wreck escape would In Schor's, pocket wan found af Worker and the cutting out of his] be almost impossible with the stair) ticket to a colored ball and, believing] tongue because he would not give| ways cut off. his companions had attended the bail and might return to the apartment from whose window the gil had Semenoff Cossacks candy ettes and cigar- vax charged to troops of Gen. On this floor live three Itatian fame ilies and one couple of Spanish Jews jumped, Rosenstock again visited the] s¢™nor PY Capt: Kdward L. Karl of |The majority of the sixteen familie» place later in the morning and found] fovea) Engineer, testifying before the}! "tbe house are Italians, Those tn: Rodgers and Randall asleep there.| scnatc Labor Committee to-day, jured in the explosion are | j They claimed to have been intoxi- ring before the committee} John Sigents, thirty, lacerations! cated. They admitted recalling hay- seeks deportation of Semenoft| and contusions: Mre. Rosalie Semialt ing been with Schor and two girls.) +om this country, Earl charged the but said tNey knew nothing of what : atore, thirty-two, lacerations, cons? Cossack chief with unwarranted at- tacks on British and American forces, utter insolence to his Allied colleagues and the shooting in cold blood of in- nocent peasants, 1 told of an attack by Semenoff forces on a train containing a small became of the girls. At No. 127 West Sith Street it was said that Miss Anderson did not resid there. tusions, possible internal injuries; her) children, Joseph, seven; James, eight: and Elizabeth, nine, all suffering frou, cuts and bruises and burns, were) taken to Gouverneur Hospital, and a eeeaaaidieeedd 800 KEGS OF POWDER EXPLODE AT ARMY DEPOT] British and American contingent, | Josephine Scorza, thirty, lacerations} Oue Hritisher wus killed and several] attended and cared for by netghbors: for Miles at Charles- Seounaes and an American iost his! policeman Edward Tracy was af but No Lives Are Loat. and Clinton and Stanton Streets w a CHARLESTON, 8. (., April 13. ae MS ED cgi explosions jarred the district just afice midnight. He ran to the house ane JOFFRE WILL UNVEIL GRANT STATUE HERE Right hundred kegs ¢ a building a quarter of a mile southwest powder stored in of the Charleston G Ordnance an hcaliee found it blocked with a mass of debrii Depot, ten miles from Charleston, ex Marshal Joffre of France will unveil} at the second floor, While he wae ploded shortly before moon today vivea|the bust of Gen. U. 8. Grant when that|trying to get through there was i were lost. The cause of the explosion |ceremony takes place in the colonnade|back draught, blatk smoke and dust’ is not known, The shock of the blast of the Hall of Fame of the New York vera) miles distant University on April 27, it was announce) to-day. The unveiling will follow the ceremonies to be conducted in front of Grant's tomb. Marshal Joff U.S. Grant, 3 that drove iim back, He tried it again after hearing cries and moany from apartments abovu He found the stairs had been bloyu away half way above the second floo rom their doorway on the thirt floor will be assis grandson of by Col, n, Grant Sunday World * and son of Gen, Frederick Dent Grant.|Mrs, Seminatore and her childre: Real Estate Also assisting will be another grandson |wore begging for help. ‘Tracy half @ of the famous General, the young Prince | climbed, half crawled to them und ’ Cantacuzene. Simultaneously with thelaided them ‘down. Part of the way Advertisements |/yprsting ere wit be the unveiling s¢|they nad to go on hands and kien, MUST BE IN THE statue, na juestrilan along the supports of the stairs, By the time firemen and police reseryer arrived Tracy was so exhausted hit collapsed in the street, and after being attended by an ambulance surgeon re~ ported sick. Sigents was found in hiw wrecked apartment. The shocks threw sleepers of the! neighborhood from their beds and ~~ HUDSON RIVER FLOOD DOES $100,000 DAMAGE ALBANY, April 13,—The Hudson River was slowly receding to-day after having overflowed its bi The flvod reached Its World Office On or Before Friday To Insure Proper Classification 4 " shattered windows a block away. A Order Sunday World Classi Bi © MONE OF hace Adan ti small blaze started in the wrecked! Advertising To-Day Damage caused by the rising wators|Dullding. The police and firemen! : found scores of persons on the ts eatimated at $100,000 in Albany and { } and fire escapes crying for help and Troy and represented the loss om mer+ The World chants’ stocks that could not be re-!took many of them down fire iadders:; i moved from storage cellars, Soon the streets were blocked by 4) he \ on eo a eee