The evening world. Newspaper, May 11, 1922, Page 6

OP RARE NCL. |. NRE RNR 6 LRT.CHARGED LABOR AT $4.50, PND S360 A DAY alert Transit Commission Hearing Brings Out Exaggerated Costs in Its Valuations. Car and Dummies Cut to a tattoo Pens the Bandit Queen, Tough Tony, Hair Trigger Louis and their ohauffeur, Simple Sam, were caught ed-handed yesterday afternoon when they attempted a terrible hold-up over in Tenafly, N. J. Their higo powered automobile was shot from under them and all were spilled out and disarmed. It was a demonstration of the sub: machine (sub for small) gun invented by Gen, John 'T, Thompson, U. 8. A., retired, who was director of arsenals for the army during the war. They cal) it an anti-bandit gun because its prin- cipal use Is to eliminate .bandits; a hold-up was staged with moving a tomobiles, at the Sportmen's Service Station. The bullets were dispensed with when Bess and her gang were rounded up. Later real bullets were used, witli dummies tn the car, and they were ened in a twinkling. The Made to look as if it had smallpox, and finally flames, ‘The gun was pli o hose, with bullets travelling at the velocity of 900 feet @ second. They cut the tires into ribbons and popped the gasoline tank. Those present were convinced that the moral effect of its known possen- sion by the police will be a powerfu’ deterrent to bandit activiti eunnot be acquired by criminal sale to individuals being banned. The greatest asset of the gun Is its close fire, with little scattering of shot, making innocent bystanders comparatively safe. At thirty yards JURY UNCERTAIN ON REBUILT HEAD Rockland County Body Not Convinced Slain Girl Was Lillian White. NEW CITY, N. ¥., May 11.—The Rockland County Grand Jury faced a stone wall in the,Lillian White case when it adjourned last night. Con- vinoed as many of the jurors are that the skeleton of young woman murdered by the mountain caveman ie that of the feeble-minded Brooklyn girl, tliey hesitated to accept the iden- ¥ shot cart attached Subway contractors now enraged fm rapid transit construction. were @alled to the witness stand at the Transit Commission to-day by Clar- @nce J. Shearn, special counsel to the @ommission, to give testimony as to Prevailing jabor costs in order to show that the valuation made by the Inter- Borough Rapid Transit Company for Ybor and materials were grossly ex- @ggerated in its attempt to sustain its @laims of $400,000,000. Patrick McGovern and Michael L.|* Quinn, two of the foremost contrac- tors, testified that in March, 1923, they paid from $3.20 a day to $3.61 @ay for common labor. The testi- Mony of the Interborough's expert, William §. Gorsuch, was that the fraction company estimated labor * @osts as of March, 1922, at $4.50 @ay. Mr, Gorsuch was confronted With the Interborough Company's Own figures of labor costs taken from the company's books, which showed fhe I. R. T. was paying but $3.60 a day for common labor, Mr. Gorstich @enied all knowledge of that fact and aid he never consulted the books. = Judge Shearn showed up other @iscrepancica in prices of materials. He forced an admission from the wit- tess that his computations for steel Were based on a long ton of ges instead of the standard 1,000 pou! You should not have @ade your computations that way, Mould you?” asked Judge Shearn. whe eliepearimeiod POLICE STRANDED = IN JAMAICA BAY bandit is ursts at to a sing! zine, wit one polic Murphy with Seri of the de and Was! McLeer Capt. W. Launch Started Out for = Body of Man Found Yesterday. = Patrolmen Dines and McKillop of ®he Marine Division started out last Wight to recover a body in Beach } ‘@hannel, Jamaica Bay, which fisher- Men had found and tied to a stake Whey left Broad Channel at 7 P. M. At 10 o'clock they had not re- turned and other launches started out. ’ An all-night search was maintained, At 10.30 o'clock this morning the Jaunch with its upants Was discov- red high and dry on a bar. Efforts to get to it failed because of shallow Water, At noon the rescuing launches Managed to get a rowboat to the Jaunch with sandwiches. The police have an airplane for such emergencies, but it was not falled into play. The body is believed to be that of Pearsall Creighton of No. 175 Sheridan Avenue, Brooklyn, or Walter Drews of Springfield, L. I.. Who with August Hill were lost while duck hunting last November, Their oat was found later and on March 8 the body of Hill was found, ! tification based upon the reconstruc- — tion of a skull, so they put off an expression of judgment until to-mor- row, when they will hear more wit- nesses. However, it was learned, acceptance by the Grand Jury of the tion made by Lilllan White and brother will lead to t the one man whose name has been linked with that of Lillian since the discovery of her remains on Cheese- cock Mountain a month ago. Bec GREY MELLON WOULD SHIFT DRY ENFORCEMENT UNIT WASHINGTON, May 41.—President Harding will have to decide whether the prohibition enforcement unit is to remain @ branch of the Treasury or be shifted t othe Department of Justice in the Governmen treorganization plan, Secretary Mellon said to-day he would suggest that the prohibition enforce- ment belongs in the Department of Jus- tice, The Secret Service is to remain in the Treasury Department, it has been decided defnitely, xfe . \ y V q y \ y V Y y Y : ! i FSD LED DMI — > Creasoe of Avt in Dress Semi-Annual ments-of every-type and size of figure. Prices as * Low as 50 PARK AVENUE AND FIFTY-SEVENTH STREET New Machine Gun for Police Can Throw 1,060 Shots a Minute Hold-Up as Test on Jersey Road. fired by a man sitting on the ground burrowed a hole in a mound of earth only eight inches in diameter. criminals in flight. The gun weighs only 0% pounds and can be fired from the shoulder or like a cross between a Flobert rifle and a Ford jack and will fire ball cartridges, shots per minute can be timed down fire to lx ordinary bandits, has been adopted. by the police of Boston, San Francisco and Detroit Deputy Chief Inspector Thomas M. one he had ever seen. was machine gun officer of the 27th Division; Ci Island, were also present, _THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1922, 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF CHARITIES AID State Association Begins Two-Day Celebration at Biltmore Session. Members of the State Charities Aid Association and many members of the committee whieh unofficially works with {t in every part of the State, met to-day at the Biltmore, in the first of a two-day session, observing tho organization's fiftieth anniversary. Miss Loulsa Lee Schuyler, a grand- daughter of Alexander Hamilton, organized the association and w now one of its Vice Fresidents, unable to attend because of illn Homer Folks, retary, presided over the first session, which was given over to the discussion of Ite 1o0cround maga. |Prosrammes for child car LOCAL. Ida Tarbell will talk to-night at the Bureau of Personal Administration on Women In Industry." The firat class of nurses from the new oad Street Hospital School was graduated at tho Ritz-Carlton last Pieces in Fake of 100 steel jacket bullets xelo Preti, fifty-five, No. 18 Mott was killed last night when he nty feet from a scaffold at the enth floor of No. 100 Broadway to ‘oof of No. 7 Pine Street. Pressmen working within a radius of miles of New York City d organization of the In- room Conference. The American Federation of Mu- sicians has refused to reinstate Local No. 910 of the Musical Mutual Protec- jive Union, expelled last July. The bed of the Wanaque River in Jersey was raised more than 100 speakers were Dr. Hastings H. glacial deposits, excavations for Director of the Child Helping Depa reveal, ment of the Russell Sage Founda- hen Luna Park opens Saturday tion; Mrs. “it will link up with the nation wide Revere Re radio chain with a receiving station Miss Ida Curry “lon the land battleship Recruit, Catherine Brettie, Irving T. ¢ Holmes will address the Pi th and Mrs. Edith J. Mitchell, Party ee eat G4th Bira ridges can be used to “wing” to a motorcycle, It looks sluks or even shot if u And be merely ‘winged.’’ the rate of from 800 to 1,000 le shot h quick replacement, makes eman thus armed equal in The gun of the Pollee Department ‘gt, C. H. Wash, pistol expert epartment, witnessed the test, h called the gun the greatest Col. Edward of the National Guard, who e Hall, No. treet, to-night. The will of Asa W. Young, White ‘Jains coal and feed merchant, Mle erday, disposes of an estate of more $100,000, Harlem Hebrew Day and Night Nursery, No. 88 West 115th Street, is holding a bagaat to ald children in its care. PR WASHINGTON, Harding to-day nominated Gov A. Cooper of South Carolina to fll vacancy on the Federal Farm Le Board created by the resignation of A bury FF. t. J. P. Cromwell and G, White, from Governor's Lever of South Carolina BONWIT TELLER & CO. The Specially Shop of Originalions FIFTH AVENUE AT 38™ STREET. Continued—and Continuing to Present Extraordinary. Values MAY SALE F UNDERGARMENTS At One Half Less Than Last Year’s Prices SILK CREPE UNDERTHINGS CREPE DE CHINE NIGHT GOWNS— Formerly 7.95 5.95 Exceptional quality in tailored or lace trimmed models. 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Diotson, Treasurer of the Midvale Steel Company, who is in St. i Hospital, was reported to-day considerably improved, and no opera- iil be necessary. . Maud Field of Philadelphia was 04 yesterday by the customs bureau as forfeiture of wearing ap- pare! she brought into this port last Sunday without declaring it. More than 1,500 men are attending the mission being hela in St, Michact's Catholic Church, Flushing, this wee! DOMESTIC John H. Patterson, founder of the National Register Company, who died Sunday aboard the train near Atlantic City, was burled In his family plot tn Woodland Cemetery at Dayton in the presence of relatives an@ close friends. Dr. EB. J. Foster Eddy of Waterbury, Vt. adopted son of Me or Eddy, founder of the Christian sciei Chureh, was interrogated at Boston garding attempts by himself and Geot Glover of Lead, 8, D., to have Eddy declared of unsound mind. Petitions from 2,689 citizens of sourl asking for modification pf tle stead Law to permit the manu{actui and sale of light wines and beer Department of presented to the House by Represntat Kahn, Republican (Cal.). p FOREIGN. Bnsign Oltwig von Hirschfeld, who in! 1920 was sentenced to eighteen montha’ imprisonment at Berlin for attempting to assassinate former Minister of Fins ance Braberger, was officially declared insane, Henry W. Savage, American theatels| eal producer, fs in Berlin. He will aleo go to Paris and then will return to London, whero he has already made a short visit. twenty-five, ver Mrs. John Rainey MeGiniey, 1 Park Avenue, to Pierpont le of Boston. are of between the » found GB. Altman & Cn. Important for to-morrow (Friday) UA Special Offering of —. 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