The evening world. Newspaper, April 21, 1922, Page 1

» To-Night’s Weather— ~ cLouby; COLD. “IF IT HAPPENS IN NEW) YORK IT’S “Gircala tion Books Open IN THE EVENIN ’ Transit Commission Replies to Hylan’s Subway Plan G WORLD” 1 to All”? BP toa LXIL. NO. 29,020—DAILY. jew York World) by ress Publishing Company, orld, F al Cirenlation Books Open to All.” | To-Morrow's Weather—FAIR AND WARME: NEW “YORK,! FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 92g, basin! SO-GERMAN REPLIES YIELD T0 ALLIES RUS SENATE, WITH HARDING ALD, PLANS TO PAY SOLDIER BONUS ‘WITH CERTIFICATE ISSUE Pes et MOTHER ENSUE eS" THROU SHANE for First Year Wen Over to the Sales Tax} a Sanat of by England $105,000,000 r’s Outlay. ary With Amount Thus Paid Out a > 9 Throws Herself From Fifth By David Lawrence. Floor of Home in West Special Correspondent of The Eve- ety Third S ning World. Fifty-Third Street. WASHINGTON, April 21 (Copy- ae Brooding over the prospect of her son Thomas, nineteen years old, her oldest surviving child, being sentenced to a term of twenty years, in Sing Sing Prison drove Mrs, Hannah Don- ovan, atty ywars old, Wnsane ‘and she commiited suicide at 6.30 o'clock to- day by jumping to the sidewalk from the roof of the fiv mt in right).—Agreement between Presi Harding and Administration leaders over the financing of the Gov.:nment deficit us well as the handling of the bonus ixsue appears to be in sight. Definite plans are in! the aking which it is hoped will bring Prest- dent Harding and of the House and Senate into accard and al- leaders tory tenen’ low passage of a bonus bill within} which she resided at No. West the next few weeks. 53d Street Mr. Harding has not yet consented} 4. s ee et our prior to her fatal leap to the plan, but has encouraged Sen ma: “Hove am ! ate | « to work it out in detail! Mrs. Donovem, who had been weeping and ¢ further with him about it./all night, tried to cut her throat with First all the plan provides for of the payment of a bonus to ex-service a razor. Her three ehildren took the weapon from her and persuaded her to go to bed. to go to sleep the children, worn out, retired and while they slept the de- mented mother went to the roof and threw herself out into space. Thomas Donovan was one of the young men who held up the auditor of the Capitol Theatre fh his. office, ndjoining the auditorium during the night performance on Dec. 18. The robbery yielded $8,200. A Negro em- ployee of the theatre, who was in the robbery plot, considered himself. cheated in the division of the spoils and gaye information to the police which, resulted in the arrest of young men this year, The President was told by Senator Watson of Indiana that there were enough votes to pass @ bonus bill in the Senate and, in- deed, to pass the House bill if that is the only measure submitted. In the face of a certain Veto of the House bill Senator Watson and his associ- ates are at work on a substitute which may win executive approval. The process is somewhat complex, but unless Secretary Mellon can. find @ serious flay. init. the chances are it will go through. Here ts the situa- tion and the plan: The Senate cannot originate rev- enuc legislation, but it can amend any ant already providing for collection of revenue, So the pending Tariff Act will be used as a device to overcome On her promise to try Constitutional objections. In| the]Donovan, Joseph Buckley, nineteen Tariff Bill will be written a clause| years old, of No. 327 W. 54th empowering the Treasury to issue|Street and others. Donovan and Buckley pleaded guilty to robbery before Judge Talley in the Court of General Sessions a.week ago, They were remanded indefinitely for sentence. The court warned them that he expected them to give information to the District Attorney which would lead to complete exposure of the plot certificates of indebtedness amounting to approximately $105,000,000, which is the sum experts believe the bonus will require the first year, -The au- thority will be given theoretically in anticipation of receipts from tmport duties. In other words, to meet ex- penseu of the Government the “Treas- (Continued on Second Page.) (Continued on Second Page.) Swift Justice and Long Terms Meted Out to Three Youths Who Held Up Brooklyn Hotel Clerk second degree and were remanded un- tll to-day for sentence. They had no previous police record and said they attempted to get the money because they were out of work. Judge Crain in General Sessions sentenced Max Wiener, twenty-three, of No. 2318 Gleason Avenue, Bronx, to the Elmira Reformatory for an in- determinate period. He was convicted of attempted robbery in the first de- gree, but the Jury recommended clem- ency. Wiener and « companion, wearing masks and carrying unloaded revol- verS, entered the mililnery store of Mrs, Ida Kulchman, No. 1211 Broad- way, March 18, and demanded $10,- 000. Patrons screamed and brought the police, who arrested the two. A probation officer told Judge Crain that ‘Wiener was of a good family, had a good job, and had no reason to take part in such crime, Wiener himself said he did it as a lark, THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU. Indicted Twelve Hours After Crime and Sentenced Three Days Later. Three men in their early twenties tasted owift justice when they were sentenced, to-day by County Judge Taylor, in Brooklyn, to from seven and one-half to fifteen years each in Ging Sing for a hold up attempted ‘Tuesday. They are Ralph Bright, No. ‘88 @econd Place; Patrick Burke, No. 65 @eurth Place, and Charles Forbes, No. 62 Columbus Street, Brooklyn. Barly Tuesday morning they held up William Sonurr, clerk at the Com- mercial Hotel, No. 254 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, with a revolver, taking $15 fram him and were mugs while at- tempting to escape. yy were indicted oy the Grand Arendt he ag AC ly Ry ark Row, N.Y. oa Jufy in legs than 12 hours, that after- |400. G..eck gage and parcels open day "and Pavetlers’ heen salen—maave on pleaded guilty to robbery, in canes for baggage and parcels Entered ns Second-Class Matter Fost Office, New York, N. Y. PRICE THREE CENTS, 5/00, O00 1S COST Mary Landon Baker Changes Mind a Her Fiance Arrives in Paris REBELS REPULSED BY IRISH REGULARS IN DUBLIN FIGHTING Elusive Creature bavettionnaeih to 3 Complets “To Buy Automobile.” . Wellington Barracks Besiegers Work Would Amount to ey Mae Routed After Grenades Quite contrary Will she wed, or won't t she? $120,000 Interest Charges. Wound Severs ul. BOARD ANSWERS HYLAN. BATTLE 1 BELFAS PARIS, April 21--Mary © Landon : wa - Baker, four times since arriving here ioe F. Conimis on Will Not Meet}nas changed ner mind as’ to whether Hundreds of Gunmen Take M s Sugg gestion on 1 th and when she will marry Allister Me- Part in Worst Fighting Cormick. ‘This was the answer fur- “Street. Stern Line. Since Rioting Began. April 21 (Associated attack on Wellington nished to-day by Viscount Janze, who spoke for Miss Baker, to questions as to what she had decided. rhe The Transit Commission will not meet Mayor Hylan’s sug DUBLIN, tion of last Press).—The mystery of the Chicagd girl's night, that thé contracts for the com- deepens avery houk. “Alar Barracks, which began at 11.15 o'clock pletion of the 1th Strect-Eastern | reCormick is in Paris to-day, evading last night, continued forty minutes, District subway. line be readvertised after which the besieging forces were feporters and buying an automobile. Miss Baker was said by Viscount Janze to be touring France with his wife and maid. He said he did not know where they were. A maid at the before the Board of Estimate will act At the commigsion’s offices to-day was stated He no advantage ts to b gained by readvertising such contracts beaten off by the garrison of regular Irish Rpublican Army troops. An attempt was made to rush the front gate and two grenades were it inthe pees of Heats: resi for the | janze residence said Viscountess Janze hurled. slightly wounding three of the’ reason that such readvertisement |. at nome. gatrison. Thé guurd replied with a would entall additional interest A trip to the sylvan Normandy re- grenade, and it is believed two of the treat at Neufthatel-en-E prepared |” for Miss Baker's “retreat to restful farm life,” disclosed the fact she had never gone there, The isolated cliu- teau in the hills of Normandy, to which Viscount Janze declared she had gone, was occupied only by 1 stout female caretaker who offered to throw the correspondent out of the charges off the city’s $17,0003000, in- vestment amounting td $120,090, would far exceed what might be save in the difference between the original and readvertised bids. It was further learned that in re- jecting the several contracts for th completion of the 14th Street subway, attackers, were wounded, as they were seen being/assteted away by eomriites, The firing in different parts of the city, while it lasted, was even more intense than that of the previous night, the explosions of bombs causing the greatest alarm Wellington Barracks, which is in a Phis! the Board of Estimate never men- | doo: ‘ ated: Mis . tioned in its communications to the ey Te eies ae Fete 2 pias thickly populated residential section, Transit Commission that the contracts] When this was communicated to was the last barracks here to be were being returned for teadvertiae- Viscount Janze, he surmised that the evacuated by the British, and is now ment in the hope of lower prices. The Jiro: Be et oars, fOr fate responsible for military action In ae eed Fe hoped Shiny mite Dublin, Beggars’ Bush Barracks be- letter from the Board of Estimate to 3 would return from the trip yithin « few days. The Daerocmt an eetas ing the general headquarters of the the Transit Commission, dated Feb. e provisional government's fore last, in which the contracts were re- le turned without action by the board, |rived here from London by air, and The firing about Beggar Bush gave no reason or other expldnation |telephoned to Viscount Janze. bluesy siltealent waa cmpantiva s-| ‘'The delicate question of the wed- ding we did not discuss,” the Viscount said. ‘Mr. McCormick merely con- sulted me about an automobi since I am in the busines WELL DRESSED MAN for the failure of the Board of timate to take favorable action Mayor Hylan’s statement last night that the board rejected the contracts and asked th#t-they be readvertised ig regarded at the Transit Commis- sion as an provoked only at this late day, in view of the pressure now being brought to com- by light, but fusillade of fifty shots was heard near the Four Courts, re- cently seized by the Independent forces under Kory O'Connor. BELFAST, April 21.—Hundreds of gunmen participated in street battles during the worst night of terror Bel- fast has known for months. NAVAL OIL LANDS La Follette Demands Inquiry and Full Information on pel a “show down" by the city au- Fighting last night and early to- thorities in their attitude toward Leasing Rights. day in tho Ballymacararret district more and better rapid transit facill- Casing Rights. was particularly severe. Gangsters ties. = saad came boldly into the streets and were The Evening World yesterday ox- Staff Correspondent of The Eve- | shot by rival bands from roofs. Seyv- clusively reported the list of twenty- ning World.) enteen persons were wounded. one contracts which the Board 0 “wn WASHINGTON, April 21 — The| 4 Panic among civilians in this dis- timate has permitted to “sleep” for openinin trict resulted. Police and military in a year or more. pening gun In the fight to be waged | the Marrowbone District, where fight- The interest. charges piling up in Congress against the Wyoming oli | ing broke out early to-day, used dyna- against the city for failure of the land grab was fired to-day when Sen-| mite to destroy a sniper’s post. Board of Estimate to approve these contracts amounts to $2,000 a day, The readvertisement for new bids for this work would in the judgment of BELFAST, April 21 (Associated Press).—Firing was again in progress in the Short Strand area of Bally- macarrett, the easle:n section of Bel- ator LaFollette offered a resolution di- rectihg the Secretary of the to send to the Senate complete Ninth Avec Line Tied Up for 40 Minutes Before Body Is the ‘commission's engineers save aR = mation concerning al! of! leases with fast, early this morning, Two deaths about $30,000 at best and this is not Extricated. naval oil reseves both in Californin | 1m the hospital just night and the o 0 00! facts, whe “i ci " re: 7 one 0 yesterday's wounded, ralse lay to date has cost the taxpayers A well dressed man of fifty, wearin Old Guard Senators who have been} the Eastertide toll to twelve. about $700,000 in “interest charges all|sold eyeglasses on a black silk ribbon,|coMizant of the plan to ask for a] Three men, discovered looting the due, it is said, to the attitude of the/}killed himself just before noon to-day | Congressional investigation have] Falls district yesterday, were tried Monrd of Matimate 1s wisbhod is itslby leaping in front of a southbound] already served notice on those Sena-] and sentenced by Republican police approval and thus delaying comple-| iii ay s eral tape e ar "* | to be tarred and feathered. The sen- tion of the work Cae enue elevated train at th “ ympathetic with the inquiry that ksi duly caried Onl, and the 104th Street Station. He had been] the resolution will be vigorously aga cuarahed down (he Riese fought. Public Senator walking about the station for half an hour before he leaped. His body was under the rear trucks of the second ear before Motormun James Rogan’ could stop his train. The firemen of Truck No. 22 were ¢ to extricate it. This required twenty five minutes and the southbound loca! service of the line was interrupted fo; about forty minutes, All southbound trac was switched to the express tracks at 116th Street and 66th Street was the first stop. The resolution will go to the Lands and ac- shouting “Looters, beware companied by a joyous, crowd. The Belfast newspapers to-day re- ceived a request from a leading news- paper distributing firm not to send their editions to Dublin or to the firm's railroad bookstalls outside of Ulster until further notice A boycott was formally proclaimed to-day at the City of Londonderry on merchandise from Belfast, Lisburn, Dromore and Bandridge SLIGO, Ireland, April 21 (Associated Press).—Armed men raided the offices ee GOVERNOR DEFIED BY COMPTROLLER ON TRANSIT BIDS Mayor More Cautious, However, and Matter Will Come Up Monday. Miller’s threat Committee, of which Smoot is Chatrman, and he has privately expressed himself as bit- terly opposed to thr The La Follette resolution directs Secretary Fall to send to the Senate the following information investigation “(a) A list of all oll leases madg by the Department of the Interior within Naval Oj. Reserve No. 1 and, sep- arately, Naval Oil Reserve No. 2, both in California, and Nayal Oil Reserve Characterizing Gov as ‘about the limit in this increased (Continued on There were a number of persons on] No. 8, in Wyoming, showing os tolof the Sligo Champion to-day and the platform at the time the suicide|cach the claim upon which the lease] smashed the frames of type for this ESTATE jumped and their screams brought|was based or issued the name of the] week's issue, apparently to prevent REAL Patrolman Brennan of the West 100th |lessee, the date of the lease, the area] publication of the newspaper's report Street Station to the platform on the |of the leased property and the amount] of Sunday's meeting, whon Arthur run of the rent, royalty, bonds and all Grimth, President of the Dail Eireann, ADVERTISEMENTS The dead man wore a suit of dark}other compensation paid and to be] delivered an address in favor of the cloth with a white stripe, a white shirt| paid to the United Stat Dres GtatedEreaty. ‘The raidere tore for the with blue stripes and a light brown| (b) All executive rs and other] yp 10,000 pny Printed copies of the soft hat with the letter ‘'f’’ marked| papers in the files of the Department ce bat cd the linotype Sunday World |/ro‘t.rcn 3. Bree Di cetaod. lle terenan ote |(eeer iahcemees me liner pas. Sie : ——_e—_—_, copies thereof, if the originals are not Must be in BIGHT-INOM sNow IN sYRACUSE.|!n the files, authorizing or regulating SYRACUSE, April 21.—Syracuse ana|9uch leases, including correspondence The World Office To-Day Central New York were turned pack [OF Memoranda embodying or concern, : raslnct ing all agreements, instructions and * Before 6 P. M. frome, the see aed >¥ | requests by the President or the Navy (Continued on Second Page.) To Insure Proper Classification Ai ‘day and. 8 Q inaturday ‘nigh Broudwar, oor. Barua® Ne RUSSIA CONCEDES OLD DEBTS FOR RECOGNITION AND LOAN: GERMAN REPLY ALSO YIELDS + CAUSES NEAR RIOT AT GRAMERCY PARK Equivalent and Conference Finds Answer Satisfactory, Police Swarm to Fashionable Apartments When Fake Robbery Is Staged. Germany in Her Reply Denies Trickéry Charge and Ac- cepts Allied Terms—De- clares Protest Undeserved GENQA, April 21 (Associated Press).Both the Germans and tle Russians submitted their replies t» the Allies’ demands to-day. The’ German reply accepts the Allied proposal that (i German: take no further part™ in the. negu- Jations between the Allies and the Russians, but the reply does noi modify the effectiveness of the Russo-German Treaty. The Russian reply accepts Allied proposals for the payment of Russia's debts to foreigners and the restoration of foreign property na- >» tlonalized by Russia, in case the So- viet Regime is grahted recognition by the Allied Governments as a De Jure State and receives adequate Occupants of one of the most aris- tocratic apartments in the very swell- est sectton of Gramercy Park wer: aroused at 2:30 o'clock by sounds © a. struggle, then a shot and screa| and the crashing of an Lavaior ca wn the ground floor. {It was at the L4-story apartment at No. 1 Lexing- ton Avenue, A few momenis later the telephone bell whirred in the Kast 224 Street police station and when the lieutenant lifted the from the hook here's what he heard: “This is John Lorenze, man 1 Lexingte Send your men quick and an ambu- save frustrated robbery on floor and have been badly beaten by three robbers, Lieut. Defectives Willemese, a Bel- ian who was decoruted by King Al- ert tor taking care of hhn on his Giliman and Lambert the receiver night wateh- Avenue. at lance. 1 a the twelfth financial assistance. The bers on Russian affairs being eliminated, met delegates this afternoon and informed them that their reply was satisfactory as a basis for discussion The Allies counter-claims for damages due tu fhe terventions will disappear from the discussions, REPLIES, BRIDGE CRISIS ANO SAVE CONFERENCE. The effect of the two replies is ip Russian thus bridging over t of ten meni jermany now the Russiag sulb-commission tour over here, had just sat down to their coffee and sandwiches utter their night patrol preparatory to going out again. They left their morning collation untouched and scampered into their fliver, threw the clutch and opened her wide tor Gramercy Park. Recerves fol- lowed in taxisand every police box was flashed with red danger lights from 14th to 28th Street and from Fifth Avenue to the river. Lorenze met the first instement of ctives at the basement door and ed them to the twelfth floor in believe the Ryaaas continue the German and participation, crisis which threatened to disrupt (be 'conference det car the elevator While the Soviet reply apparently } “[ heard a noise,” he said, as the} accepts practically all the Allied lift was ascending,” and took the| mands, the details of working out the | plan and the amounts the Russians may expect in loans to restore thelr country ammittedly present a diMcult problem, without any certainty thet it can be solved thus complete the preliminaries necessary for Rus sian recognition. The Allied proposals on finances to which the Russians replied to-day were textually as follows: % Section 1—The creditor Allied governments represented at Governments represented at regarding the claims advanced by the Soviet Government, Section 2—In view of the seri- ous economic condition of Russia, > however, such creditor Govern-* ments are prepared to write down the war debts owing by Russia toy them by a percentage to be de- termined later. And the countries represented at Genoa would be prepared to consider not only the postponement of payments of in- | terest upon fiannclal claims, but also the remission of some part |? of the crrears of interest or post- poned interest : Section $—It must be definitely elevator up to the twelfth floor, where Mrs. H. N, Slater bas her apartment. There 1 found three men wearing masks trying to jimmy her door. They dropped their tools and grated me, saying: ‘Now you-—you've butted in here and we'll give it to you. I fired a shot with my auto- matic, but they wrested the weapon from me and beat me, then carried me down the elevator. They got my gold watch and $400 {n cash.” Doors popped open and and were (Continued on Second Page.) ——7c+— SHATTUCK THUGS PLEAD GUILTY Diaset and ‘Bognoli Remanied to Tombs Until April 28 For Sentence. Eugene Diaset and Maurice Bagnoli ppeared before Judge Rosalsky in the Court of General Sessions this after- noon and pleady guilty of burglary in the first degree. They are members of th eband that held up the whole bousehold of Al- bert R. Shattuck, at No. 19 Washing~ ton Square, North, on April 2, locked the family and servants in the wne| agreed, however, that there Gan _{ 7 vault, and looted the house. be no allowance made to the 7) | Judge Rosalsky remanded them to] Soviet Government against: First, —— 4 the Tombs unti! April 2% for sentence. either debts and financial obliga~- i 4 tions due to foreign nationals; ov, seound, the right of such nation~ als regarding the returm of thete The minimum sentence under the law is ten years, and the maximum ie life imprisonment,