The evening world. Newspaper, May 12, 1922, Page 1

To- “Night's soca ak “eLouby. NING (NING WORLD CLOSING TABLES. Che | “Ctrenlation Books Open to All.” <= “VoL. " LXIL. No. 92,047—DAILY. Copyright (New York World) by Press Publishing — ny, 1022, NEW YORK, _FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1922. Dempsey - Sarenticr feturn, Bout Is ‘Signed Up ENGLAND PROPOSES TRUCE IN EUROPE UNTIL RUSSIAN SITUATION 1 Lloyd George Wants Front- iers to Remain Unchanged Pending Negotiations. FRANCE ANTAGONISTIC Paris Announces She Will Not Join Commission With Soviet Delegates. GENOA, May 12 (Associated Press). —Great Britain has proposed a truce in Eastern Europe on the basis of the de facto frontiers, pending the con- clusions of a mixed commission of inquiry to be appointed to study Rus- sian finances, it was announced this affternoon. Acceptince of the.truce must pre- eede Great Britain's acceptance of the Hoviet proposal for a mixed commis- it was "pointed out. it was an- would sion, however, On the other hand, nounced that France agree to a project for a mixed com- mission, A statement of the British view on the Russian reply, issued at 1 o'clock this afternoon, terms the document “very stupid’ from the viewpoint of Russian interests, but says Great Britain is ‘not prepared to adopt the view that Europe is to be denied peace or the Russian people further consid- eration in their misery simply because of a stupid argument. “As far as Russia is concerned," continued the statement, “help will undoubtedly be delayed and,rendered more difficult; but that is an affair of Government. We are never the Russian quite prepared to go into the sugges- tion that the questions of credits, debts and private property be referred to a mixed commission which will study them in detail and eventually report, although this means that Russia will have to wait some time longer for credits. “Regarding the other aspect’ of the Russian document, namely, the peace ‘of Europe, this affords a satisfactory basis for further negotiations. To break on this document would mean that the states bordering on Russia might be exposed to the dangers of war and peace be fundamentally dis- turbed."” ‘A spokesman for the Itallan dele- gation said Italy was favorable to the appointment of the commission, but gonsidered it would be useless to name such a commission unless the Rus- sians were represented on it, Mean- while, according to the Italian view- point, the conference should continue its discussion on elause IT. of the Allied memorandum (regarding the Russign claims for damages) and also en the non-aggression pact. The British announced that they agreed with the Italians in favor of the appointment of a commission, but would not consent to such an arrange- ment unless a general non-aggression (Continued on Fourth Page.) —————E THE WORLD TRAVEL aad Arcade, aek wuldiog. 58-43 REAL ESTATE ADVERTISEMENTS for the Sunday World Must be in The World Office To-Day Before 6 P, M. Te Insure Proper THRESHED OUT GASOLINE BOOSTED AC. DESPITE BIG RESERVE SUPPLY Nearly 900,000,000 Gals, Stock as Against 660,000,000 in ’21—Congress May Act. WASHINGTON, May 12.—Recent increases in gasoline prices are being Investigated by the Department of Justice, it was learned to-day. Attorney General Daugherty has promised to’ ‘give immediate atten- Ulgn" to the increases, amounting to 4 cents per gallon during the last six weeks, in the face of the @reatest gasoline reserve in the history of the United States, Several Congressmen are expected to aid in the investigation, They are in receipt of complaints from con- stituents against the increases, and a resolution may be introduced for a Congressional investigation. Inquiry at the Bureau of Mines shows that the reserve is mounting close to the 900,000,000-gallon mark. The reserve on Feb. 28 stood at 807,379,261, compared with 680,549,351 on the same date last year. Figures for March to be issued to-morrow will show @ reserve close to 900,000,000 gallons. Practically every oil producer in the country has raised prices, reports here stated. Large and small oll companies seem to be acting in concert. A truce has been declared, and the price-cutting wars have been suspended for the time being. Four increases of 1 cent each were made effective in all parts of the country during the last six weeks. Prices of gasoline for export also have gone up. The Department of Justice 1s de- termined to discover whether a ‘gen- tlemen’s agreement” is in operation in the oll industry. One official at the Department of the Interior expressed the belief that the oll producers are anticipating a shortage this fall. The use of in- creasing numbers of motor vehicles is responsible, he said. The National Automobile Chamber of Commerce to-day estimated that nearly 12,000,000 motor vehicles 6f all descriptions will be in use this sum- mer and fall, Last year 10,465,115 automobiles, motor trucks and motor cycles were in use, compared with 9,211,295 in 1920, DIAMOND DEALER FRAMED BG BOND THEFT, CHARGE Pinkertons Declare Mrs. Var- deman Has Confessed Plot Was Hatched on Stairway Is ‘HIRSCH (BAIL IS $30,000. Broadway Jeweler Denies Connection With Chase Bank Robbery. SAVANNAH, May 12.—-The $500,- 000 robbery of the Chase National Bank of New York was ‘framed’ by a New York diamond dealer, woman arrested Nere with John Vardeman in with the theft charges in a confession. Pink- erton detectives made this statement to-day. Detuils of the plot were worked out in a conference between the alleged thieves and the diamond merchant on the stairway leading to the latter's office, she 1s alleged to have said. Henry Hirsch, u diamond dealer of No, 1540 Broadway, was arraigned in Centre Street Police Court befor Magistrate Corrigan to-day, charged by Detective Fay with acting in con- cert with Arthur Chase, John W. Vardeman and Vardeman's wife, known on the stage as Fern Hollis,.in the theft of $500;000 worth of bonds from the Chase National Bank on April 17, David C, Myers, counsel for Hirsch, asked that the ball fixed at $80,000 in Night Court last night be reduced. “Mr. Hirsch,’ he said, ‘is a repu- table business man, He was not im- plicated in the robbery although he did agree to sell Liberty bonds for a woman he had known for a dozen years as a singer and actress. He had bought and sold jewelry for her. She did not tell him the bonds were to be stolen or. had been stolen, but she did tell him that she had been robbed of them by hold-up men. He never saw nor handled the bonds."’ Magistrate Corrigan refused to re- duce bail, A bond for $30,000 fur- nished by a surety company was re- newed and Hirsch was released. He will ‘be arraigned for examination next Frida B. W. MORSE, Il INDICTED, SURRENDERS IN BOSTON se the connection — Benjamin w. Morse, who, with his father, Charles W, BOSTON, May 12. Morse, his two brothers and twenty others, were indicted by the Federal Court in New York on charges of using the mails to defraud investors in steam- ship company stocks, surrendered here to-day on a fugitive warrant, He pleaded not gullty before a United States Commissioner nad .gave $25,000 bonds for a hearing May 22 on the question of extradition, Rat in Window Blocks Rush Crowd At 5th Avenue and 42d Street Throngs Hurrying to Work Pack Street to Watch Rodent’s Death—Police Called. A rat as big as a good sized rabbit at Fifth Avenue and 42d Street at 8 o'clock this morning held up traffic, increased congestion and made a lot of men and women late at their offices. The rat was discovered be- tween the show window and the steel, overnight, burglar proof screen of the jewelry shop of Ernest H. Ash, No. 8 Bast 42d Street, How the rat got into the narrow space and who first discovered him are among the mysteries of the morning, He squeaked at a girl with bobbed hair who was among the first to get out of the subway, and the gir! screamed and didn't appear to know what to do about her short skirts, Then the crowd gathered as the subway and trains continued to pour out their human freight into and up from the Grand Central terminal, A husky looking man in tweeds with a pipe and a walking stick made his way through the crowd to the window. “My word!" he exclaimed, and he stabbed the rat with the stick, The rat squeaked and women screamed, and the man continued to jab, never once missing his mark or hitting the glass. Each jab was accompanied by feminine outbursts. Crosstown cars were halted, taxt- cabs blocked the thoroughfares and up and downtown buses of Fifth Ave- nue lost all track of the police sig- nals. Cops came rushing from all di- rections, scattering the crowds and finally making an open roadway td the Jeweller's shop. The rat was dead, Five minutes later new crowds were filling up the rush hour all unknowing of the tragedy which had been enacted in the heart of tho city, Peggy Joyer Arrives From Paris; Advises Girls to Marry Young, Go to Country and Raise Kiddies ~ To-Morrow's Weather—PARTLY ‘CLOUDY. s THE yen PRICE THREE CENTS NS. STLLMANS DEATH PENALTY IS SOUGHT FOR INDICTED LABOR HEADS IN CHICAGO BUILDING WAR ‘CONFESSION RULED QUT AT HEARING Note to Daughter, Enclosed to Father, Admitted by Referee. HANDWRITING nh Says She and Husband Had Frequent Quarrels Over Money Matters. (Special from Staff Correspondedt of The ning Worl POUGHKEESPIE, May 12.—The so-called ‘hysterical’ or ‘confession’ letter, Mrs. husband, alleg: Anne 1 to have been written t Urquhart Stillman to her James A, Stillman, and to have contained an admission of friend- ship with Fred Beauvais, the Indian Buide, was to-day ruled from the rec- ord of the Stillman divorce hearings by Re! It had already been held by Justice ee Gleason. Morschauser that communications be- tween husband and wife were privi- PEGGY HOPKINS Joyce ——~ Tells “True Story” of Young HEARST SAYS HYLAN leged, Referee Gleason, however, ad- mitted another letter which was in- Gloxed to her daughter, Anne, in an envelope sent to Mr, Stillman in April, 1918. In this letter appeared the sentence: | “T would have been better off if I had taken Fred Beauyais's advice.”” ‘Toward the close of Mrs. Stillman's cross examination to-day, Col. Rand ot counsel to Mr. Stillman, got her to write @ number of sentences from communications she ts alle; to have sent Beauvais. Among them were “Ired K. Beauvais: We leave Three Rivers on the 4 o'clock train, It puz- zles me," and the word ‘Kathfothio, id to be an dear flower." When M Stillman had asked before whether the original communications were in her hand- writing, she replied, “They look like Indian word meaning been my hand, but they're not my senti- ments,"* John B, Mack, guardian of Baby ok, Guy, Stillman, asked Mrs, Stillman a number of questions in re-direct ex- Chilian’s Suicide, Denoune- amination, He brought out that she was suffering from a nervous disorder, ing Tales Printed. the treatment for which was plenty of s S exercise In the open ulr. In 1918 and in 1919 she and Mr. Stillman had dis- The legend that Peggy Joyce Hop lussed a trip to Labrador to shoot kins travels about with a million dol bear, Mrs, Stillman desiring to kill lars’ worth of jewelry in a handbag { one and obtain » pelt for her break ‘ast 4 10 trip was never was verified to-day so far as th seers: Five ENO RD Wana eeee handbag was concerned, She had It It’ was shown from Mrs. Sillman’s tightly clasped as she came down the testimony that she and her husband * e ent quarrels over money gangplank of the Mauretania and had frequent au 5) These concerned householk there were two private detectives! Publisher Does 1 Not Say Defi- posters Shes converned homens there to meet her and protect what nitely Whether He Will |ehitaren, she said. Often, she added, ever it'contained, There was also her : attorney, J. H. Gilbert, Be Candidate. © (Continued on Fourth Page.) Never for an instant did she loosen ay 5 i eee =i C TAG lay 12 (Copyrigh 922 her hold upon the handbag, and when} ns Hee May 12 (Copyright, 1822.1 BE GGY JOYCE FILMS a ni 1 »| bY nited Pr ) William Randolph. the customs inspectors came up t es i aan nesters) sein ue | enatile aaizierview vnver tonal | TOSBE BARRED BY brought over from Prais a consulta-| United Press here, declared his idea THEATRE OWNERS tion was held, It lasted almost an]of a man for the Democrats to nomi- — hour and {t ended by the sealing Of! nate as Governor of New York 4s WASHINGTON, May 12.— the trunks and their despatch | Mayor Hylan » Be Pe; Joyce will not be per- Appraisers’ Stores. The publisher, hurrying home from many coy 7 ae ‘As for the bag and Peggy Joyce] mentioned im connention with the| mitted to exploi sensationa: Hopkins, she got Into an automobile] nomination was hurry home from love affairs in the movies If the with it, Mr. Gilbert, two detectives} California to see v 1 of the] motion picture theatre owners of and a representative of the Custom} «shooting is about," and said he| America ean prevent it House and all drove down to the big] would not answer definitely questions The convention of exhibitors bullding at Bowling Green for an ¢x-| regarding whether he would be a can-] here, lute y 149 pted a amination of the jewelry by Spr lidate, résolution barring feagy in this Agent John Roberts. The examination I want to have a talk with Mr.| country, They pl TN iencaleee will reveal just how near $1,000.00] Conners," Mr. Hearst stated not to show her pictures worth the young woman had in the} William J. (Fingy) « f Buf- Mba weecution wat bag. It was sald she had left par'|fulo urged hs nominat “It hag been currently reported of her jewelry in Paris, “Mr. Conners is one of the best] im the newspupers and otherwise Peggy came back to this country|men in the world and one of the most] that motion pictures ure to be with an admission as terse as it wus] luyal of friends," Mr. Hearst said produced featuring Pesgy Joyce, expressive. “In fact he is so loyal and big] and the motion ture theatre “I've been through hell!"’ hearted that I am afraid sees] owners of America, having al- said it as if she meant every wor'!/overything witha little prejudice in] ways been opposed to the explol- and wished it clearly understood |favor of his friends tation on our scrvens of all such Then she followed it with a y of “Hylan is a splendid man—a true objectionable lines of conduct, re- advice to young women, which Democrat In the broad sen the] solve that we protest against the “I advise every girl to get married | word. His policy. is 1 and his} exhibition of all such pictures tn early, live in the country and pularity is proved, 1 no earr the interest of u clean and whole- kiddies," i, faithful, pu Nelal and a] some entertainment, and that we Probably stie caught something wpable oMeclal. Hoe is the antithesis, hereby declare to the American an expression of surprise in th ‘ diametrtcal opposite of Guy. Miller] publle that we will not permit the —- = presentation of such pictures in (Continued on Fifth Page ) | (Continued on Fourth Page.) our theatres.” ‘ DEMPSEY SIGNS U FOR ANOTHER BOUT WITH CARPENTIER To Meet in Second Encounter Some Time Before June, 1923. 1 London, May 13. M m.pictures taken of the sensational fight last (might. be- tween Georges Carpenti¢t andired Lewts show plainly that Tewis” was knocked out with @ punch delivered while the referee was holding his arm. * The pictures show Carpentier several times in the act of butting Lewis with his head while in the clinches, The final blow that ended the fight—a right to the jaw—was de- livered when the referee had one hand on the biceps of the English- man and with the other hand was pushing Carpentier back out of the clinch. Both fighters were just get- ting free as the blow went over and Lewis seemed to have his hands down in the breakaway. LONDON, May 12,—Jack Demp- sey, world’s champion heavyweight, and Georges Carpentier, heavyweight champion of Europe, signed articles this afternoon to fight in Europe be- fore June, 1928, according to an an- nouncement made by Jack Kearns, Dempsey's manager. An English syndicate has offered £100,000 for the fight. Another offer, made by Douglas Stuart, a noted bookmaker, stipulated £175,000 for a fight in London, accord- Ing to Kearns's announcement. PARIS, May 12 (Associated Press). —Georges Carpentier's quick knock- out administered last night to Ted ("Kid") Lewis in London was re- celved to-day as a matter of course by the French press, which has been convinced all along that the French- man's victory was a foregone con- clusion. The fight was commented upon freely along the boulevards, moment- arily sharing with the Genoa Confer- ence prominence as a topic for dis- cussion, Some regret was expressed that the finishing blow came while Lewis was off his guard, causing un- favorable comment in England, But all the newspapers point out that Lewis, by taking the initiative in making it a rough-house fight, got a taste of his own medicine, ‘The majority of the papers scrupu- lously refrain from mentioning Car- pentier for a possible return match with Jack Demps: ATLANTIC FLYERS RESCUED FROM SEA PERNAMBUCO, Brazil, May 12 (As- sociated Press).—The Portuguese trans- atlantic aviators, Ca, Coutinho and Sacadura, fell into the sea between St, Paul's Rocks and Fernando Noronha, but are safe aboard the British steam- ship Paris City, says a wireless mensage from the Portuguese cruiser Republica. The flyers, who had not been heard from since they left the taland of Fer- nando Noronha, at 8.50 o'clock yester- day morning, were picked up by the Paris City at 2.46 o'clock yesterday af- ternoon. A message from the Republica’s com- mander said he was hastening to meet the Paris City, and intended to transfer the aviators to his vessel. $25, Men's The HUB C reine tee Binrclay Bt. Copp. Woolw day and Baturday O 8 ay, $14.00 & $17.05, grt tid ios Clothiers, relay #t.—Advt. urday ni Broadway, cor, State’s Attorney Says He Has Sufficient Evidence to Hang —Several Other Indict- ments Expected. Grand Jury Witnesses, Includ- ing Twenty Policemen, Are Closely’ Guarded to Prevent Violence. CHIGAGO, May 12.—Declaring that the State has sufficient evidence to hang “Big Tim" Murphy, Fred Mader and Cornelius (Con) Shea. labor ‘eaders, who with five others were indicted on charges ot havilig een implicated in the deata of two cer fm the bombing of pbuild- "as Attorney Goorge F. Gor- labor leaders, including some women, were arrested as the result of the killings and but few of them have “If the same law used in the Hay- market anarchist case is followed,, I am convinced we have enough evi- dence to demand the death penalty,” said Gorman. “We are prepared to deliver a smashing biow against gang terrorism.” The eight under indictment sare charged specifically with the killing of Terrance Lyons, Acting Police Lieu! nt. The slaying of Lyons followed the murder of Thomas Clark, patrolman on guard at a butiding which previously had been bombed, police say, by labor men because it was being erected under the Landis award, a wage decision handed down M. Landis, former Federal which was intended to settle labor. Efforts of attorneys for the labor leaders to obtain the release of Mur- phy, Shea, Mader and the others failed when Judge Kickham Scanlon declared that a state of war existed between labor and police. Witnesses before the Grand Jury last night included twenty policemen in addition ‘to civilians, all guarded carefully because police feared they might come to harm if labor organl- zations learned who had testified. Documents seized at labor headquar- ters during raids made following the murders also were introduced. Besides Murphy, Mader and Shee, the indicted men are Isadore Braver- man, head of the Fixture Hangers’ Union; Daniel McCarthy, business agent of the Plumbers’ Union; Jerry Horan, saloon keeper; Thomas Hogan, former police officer, and Robert Mo- Cloud, clerk in the Building Trades Council. While these activities were under way in the Criminal Court Bullding, Chief Fitzmorris revealed the outlines of a gigantic conspiracy engineered by “Big Tim” Murphy to make him- self head of the Chicago Building Trades Council and become the domi- nant figure in Chicago's labor world. Murphy ts also said to have been plotting the sinister removal from the labor world of Mike Boyle, busi. ness agent of the Electrical Workers’ Union, No, 184, one of the stanchest supporters of the Landis award and the one stumbling block to Murphy's ascendancy to the buélding trades throne, CROKER LEGACIES STATED AS $50,000 DUBLIN, May 18 (Associated Press),—The members of the late Richard Croker's family who reside in New York have complained becaune the former Tammany Hall leader's will has not yet been filed for probate, it was learned to-day. Postponement, it was explained, has been due to the i} ness of his widow, All that is known here is that the will was made in 1919 and that It die poses of £10,000 (normally about $50,- 000) in legacies.