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CHARGES DAUGHERTY ASK Che Circulation Books Open to All.’’ To-Night's THE evtNiNt vo. NAL wert) EDITION _ LXII, NO. 22,054—DAILY. “IF IT HAPPENS IN NEW YORK IT’S IN THE EVENING WORLD” Copyright New York World) by Press Publishin, ED $25,000 FEE OF MORSE Peat Ww xo Company, NE RK, SATURDAY, 1922. : To-Morrow’s Weather—FAIR. 7 Circulation Books Open to All.” PRICE THREE CENTS Katered as Second Post Office, New abe Ruth, Reinstated by ‘Landis, Back in Game To- (tp ven / AMONG UP.) “No, Hell, No,” Wires Organ- ization Head in Tioga County When Asked if Members of the Party De- sire Nomination New York Editor. of Out of 28 Replies Only One Shows Leaning to Hearst, and That Is Not Definite— . Lunn and Al Smith Men- tioned as Favorites Among Others. The Evening World yesterday sent the following despatch to the chair- men of the Democratic county com- mittees of the State: Is there any real Hearst sentiment among the Demo- crats in your county; has any effort been made to organize a boom; would the Demo- crats of your county support Hearst for Governor? These are the replies received up to the hour this edition went to press: CAYUGA. INSISTS CANDIDATE MUST FIRST BE A DEMOCRAT. By Telegraph to the, Haitor of The Evening AUBURN, May 20. There is no Hearst sentiment in Cayuga County; no efforts made to organize it. The candidate Demo- crats will support must first be a Democrat ES J. GESS FINDS E By Telegraph to th ty Tolegrap! 3 ELMIRA, May 20. Some Hearst sentiment here, He carried Elmira in 1906. No Hearst organization, Local Democrats will support regular nominee —CORNE- LIUS ODEA. Editor of The Evening 1d. CLINTON. NO SENTIMENT FOR HFARST [N CLINTON, HH SAYS. By Telegraph to the Editor of Tho Evening World. PLATTSBURG, May 20. There is no Hearst sentiment in Clinton County—JAMES MURRAY, COLUMBIA. DOESN'T THINK DEMOCRATS FA- VORABLE TO HEARST, By Telegraph to the Editor of The Evening GERMANTOWN, May 20. No Hearst sentiment bere; nor or- ganization to further his cause, Don't (Continued on Fifth Page.) A Valuable Sunday World Real Estate Feature ——————————— The Sunday World Real Estate Sec- tion is devoted to real estate and its attendant interests. Houses, Farms, Real Estate Auctions, Building Lots, Factories, etc. are assembled and classified according to geographical units, Apartments, Business Prop- erty, Houses To Let, Summer Resi- dences, Furnished Rooms and Apart- ments, and Boarders Wanted are ar- ranged in either alphabetical or nu- merical order for quick and easy ref- erence. AND + 7 ,833 LAST WEEK, MORE THAN COR 2,474 Week OF Last te WORLD Investors and Homeseekers! READ THE SUNDAY WORLD REAL ESTATE SECTION for the best information FIND NO HEARST SENTIMENT TATE VOTERS, SAY DEMOCRATIC CHAIRIIEN WAS TOLD T0 SLAY BEDE DANIELS, STAR OF MOVIE SCREEN a ee 4 Caprice, Arrested in Her Room, Says “Dope Ring” Gave Him the Order. LOS ANGELES, Sheriffs. that ther dence of Bi r May 20.—Deputy answering a midnight call was a man in the resi- Dapieis, motion picture age: yurdering her, ar- rested Charles Caprice and took him to the psychopathic ward of a local hospital.to determine his mental con- dition, aprice, who surrendered without resistance, said that he came from San Francisco for the “express purpose’ of slaying the motion picture actress under orders of a peddier of narcotics. Caprice said after his arrest that he had been ordered to kill Miss Daniels by a dope “ring"’ which “had some- thing on him." cians and mental experts were ng Caprice to-day tigators attached much Impor- tance to the affair as furnishing indi- cations that an alleged drug ring is determined to prey upon the motion picture colony and remove any one who throws obStagles in its way. Of all the clues in the Willlam Des- mond ‘Taylor murder investigation which were traced by detectives the only ones which would stand the acid tests were those based on a theory that narcotic peddlers were respon- sible JUSTICE HOFFMAN DIES OF APOPLEXY Stricken in Bed While Asleep—Long Friend of Croker, Muniéipal Court Justice Benjamin Hoffman, fifty-eight, of No. 271 Sev- enth Street, died early to-day, of a stroke of apoplexy while in bed at his home.‘ His wife, Rebecca, heard him groan and called to’him, but he died without being able to answer. Justice Hoffman served on the Mu- nicipal Court bench for twenty-five years, and recently has been working hard late at night, in connection with rent cases. He had been warned by his physician, Dr. Henry W, Berg of 19 East 75th Street, to guard his health and not work so late, and hig failure to heod this admonition, more than anything elso, is thought respon- sible for his death, The Justice, a Tammany politician of long standing, was an intimate of the late Richard Croker He was former Tammany Hall leader in the 6th District, and his wife, Mrs. Re- becca F. Hoffman, is now the Tam- many associate leader of the district. Mrs. Hoffman was-a Democratic can- didate to the last National Convention, He {s survived by his wife and three daughters, Belle, wife of Isidor Wels of No, 676 Riverside Drive; Eva, wife of Nathan Re!s; Ruth, wife of N. M. Shack, and one son, Joseph Bertram. The funeral will be held from the Hoffman residence on Monday at 2 P.M. ‘ ae PUT MINIMUM WAGE FOR WOMEN AT $11 TOPEKA, Kan., May 20.—The Kansas Court of Industrial Relations to-day issued Its final minimum wage order, fixing the minimum wage for women in laundries and factories at $11 a week and in mercantile estab- lishments at $10,560, The previous minimum was $10.60 and § PEGE N IRELAND ANNOUNGEDIN DAL USTER AFL Collins and De Valera Con- clude Political Agreement for South Ireland. BABE RUTH AND BOB MEUSEL ARE REINSTATED BY LANDIS, PLAY WiThl YANKS TO-DAY DEMPSEY DENIES HE HAS ARRANGED TO GET MARRIED Judge Gives Immediate An- swer, Li.ing Ban From Suspended Players in Time for Game With St. Louis, Thousands of Delighted Fans Roar Welcome to Bambino at Polo Grounds—‘Tickled,’ THREE CASTLES BURNED. Railroad Destroyed, Stations Burned, Barracks Blown Up Near Belfast. BELFAST, May 20 (Associated > Press).—An Zreement between the He Says. Free State and the Republican fac- “Only One Girl in the World CHICAGO, May 20 (Associated Press),—Babe Ruth and Bob Meusel of the New York Yankees to-day were reinstated by Baseball Commisstoner Landis. ‘ The home run king is eligible to start his drive for 1922 slugging hon- ors in this afternoon's game with the St. Léuis Browns at New Yor.. The telegrams from Ruth and Meusel were received at the Commis- sioner’s office about 8.50 A. M. The Judge was not there, but his secre- tary, Leslie O'Connor, had received his instructions last night and promptly sent telegrams to Ruth and Mousel, reading as follows: “Your reinstatement applications granted, effective immediately.” A third telegram was sent Umpires Cahill and Owens reading: “Ruth and Meusel reinstated, effec- tive immediately. Eligible day's game.” The applications for reinstatement from Ruth and Meusel were identical They read as follows: “I hereby respectfully immediate reinstatement tions of the Dail Eireann, regarding the forthcoming Irish elections and other questions, was reached this af- ternoon, according to advices revived in Belfast late to-day The agreement, the advices state, provides a National Coalition Panel for elections .o the third Dail Birenann, representing both parties in tle Dail in their present strength. It provides that the candidates be nominated through the respective party executives, and that after the election the National Executive shall consist of the President, the Minister of defense and nine other Ministers, five from the majority and four from the minor.ty party. DUBLIN, Mi —A political agreement for peace in Ireland has been signed by Michael Collins, head of the Provisional Free State Gov- ernment, and Eamon De Valera, chief of the Republicans, the Speaker of the Dail announced to-day. When this was made known reports from Belfast said that the situation there was the worst yet experienced with murder and arson rife.. In the Dail Eireann a motion for elections in June, sibject to the agree- ment, was unanimously adopted, the despatches add Despatches from Northern Ireland say that Sinn Fein forces have cap- tured the police barracks at Glenarm, Martinsdown, Carnlough and Cush- indall, all in County Antrim. The garrison at Martinsdown put up a stiff fight, and held off the raiders until its last cartridge was expended, The bank at Glenarm was captured, in addition to the barracks, BELFAST, May 20—Murder gangs went about their grim work in Belfast during the night while the skies were lighted with the glare from seven fires started by arson squads. for Me—My Mother,” He Says. “Me, get married?” “Not at all—at least, not yet." This, from Jack Dempsey to-day, seems to settle the published reports that he is to marry an old Colorado sweetheart and settle down to have twelve kids “The gang got around me when I got off the Aquitania and began shooting questions at me. like htat? 1 had to say something, so to get rid of the subject I sald 1 had a nice girl all of my own out in Colorado, That fixed up the marriage idea. “Between to you and me J have a real girl, and right now she’s away out in Los Angeles. She's waiting for me now and J am hustling out to meet her. “You sald it—my mother! low couldn't have a better one. “The gang don't know it, but 1 am hopping on the 2.40 out of Grand Central this afternoon. “I will be with her for a couple of ks, and then I may have to go through with an old vaudeville con- tract. Don't know just yet.'” VOLCANOES BELCH FIRE IN 32D STREET Electric Drill Strikes Edison Cable and Manholes Pour Chromatic Flames. for to- A fel- apply for to enable me to play in the game here to-day, Saturday, May 20." The application of Piercy of the Boston team, suspended with Ruth and Meusel, was received and he also was reinstated, There was nothing dramatic about the act of reinstatement, Shortly be- fore 9 o'clock a telegraph messenger ambled down the hall to the Judge office, which was locked. “Is this this here guy Landis’ of- fice?” he asked a reporter, after A gang of incendiaries burned | squinting at the lone word ‘Baseball”| Two brilliant fountains of fire en- Shane's Castle, the seat of Lord{on the door. tertained the residents of 32d Street O'Neill, As the fire swept through| “Yes; what do you want?” an-| between First and Second Avenues the ancient building tenants plunged into the smoke and rescued Lord O'Neill, eighty-three, and his aged wife. Three gangsters were killed and several wounded in an attack on the Castle Wellan Barracks in County swered the reporter. “Here's some telegrams from tiem ball players,” said the boy shoving them into the reporter's hands. “Sign here.” ‘The reporter gave the telegrams to to-day. Varl-colored flames sprang from two manholes and rose to the level of second story windows. A gang of laborers for the Consoll- dated Telephone and Electric Subway Mr. O'Connor, who was ready with| Company were at work on a conduit Down, The torch was put to the bar-|the replies when one of them struck an Edison racks, which was destroyed. Several ae cable with an electric drill and caused Loyalists’ houses were burned at} When Babe Ruth rode up in an|@ short circuit. Carnsleugh. automobile to the Eighth Avenue en-] Firemen attacked the flames vainly Altogether five police barracks in| trance of the Polo Grounds at fifteen] With hose, suppressing a volcano from County Antrim were captured, All were subsequently blown up. The railway north of Dunloy was de- stroyed. At Rathkenny, the railroad minutes after noon to-day a mighty cheer rose from the four or five thou- sand who were moving toward the entrances, The police saved him trom one manhole only to have it burst forth from another, All the manholes in the vicinity were opened to prevent explosions, The display lasted until station was burned an affectionate mauling as he made] agents of the Edison Company turned In County Antrim, Galgorm Castle, | for the club house entrance off the current. A section of the cable seat of the Hon. W. R. Young, was] Once inside among the other play-| Ws destroyed and electric service in fired and completely burned, 4 ers, he got his mauling, however. His} the neighborhood was interrupted for Armed raiders entered the Northern | childlike countenance beamed as he} while, Bank and the Post Office at Cusheen- dal, County Antrim. The old Court Castle at Downpat- rick, residence of Baroness Deros, was given to the flames. quivered under slaps and was jerked about by pumphandling shakers of his hand, Facing the clubhouse entrance to the fleld are the bleachers, Word got BURGLARY SIREN TOOT DRAWS CROWD TO BANK Only & Test, bat Policemen Rashed BELFA May 20 (Associatea|to them that Babe Ruth was inside wi Pintols. Press).—Within the last twenty-four ]@"d they rose at every flutter of # ie Orawe 7? hours armed raiders have laid a traji|'wmor and howled ecstatically, When] A test of the new burglary siren of fire from County Antrim, through |¢ actually appeared they went plumb Jat the Globe Exchange Bank, Graham Belfast, to north of County Antrim, sosiias spd like a wave ane ur by Avenue and Broadway, Brooklyn, ci pararc! ne to the swattel anftad aroun 5 attacking police bararcks, ambushing | re re T° ane lower stapde had been |NCAtlY precipitated a panic in that special constables, burning houses of Dies: burning Ailed’ since 1100n neighborhood early to-day. A crowd loyalists, destroying railwya lines and |" py, got his first news of the re-|Sathered when the blast from the cutting wire communications, A wild] cant of the Landis telesrams rein-|Siten shrieked, Detective Decuido week-end of outrages was feared to-| stating himself and Bob Meusel from {and Patrolmen White and Burkhardt, day. Agee : clephone | Who Were nearby, ran to the bank The Ulster Cabinet, which sat tor | ery enkee Headquarters by telenhone | vith drawn. revolvers, forcing thelr several hours to- probably wiil}10 o'clock, He said, “That's fine. I'm] Way through the crowd with diffi- meet again to-morrow, and important | tickled to hear it.’ culty decisions concerning the situation are When the police found that only « expected. ; or ie BRITAIN BEGINS SHIPPING CON] {est had been sounie!, they warned Within the city of Belfast the num- “as ORE, the bank officials that another time ber of murders during the past week | qt avr shiient ands || they should notify the police, for any- was brought to a total of twenty-three | as a result of the atrike there, was soidjone leaving the bank in @ hurry, as @ result of to-day's shootings. yesterday for immediate delivery might have been shot, A { DAUGHERTY LETTER SHOWS $20,000 FEE FROM MORS. 10 HAVE SENTENCE COMMUTED > Communication to Banker Re- fers to Big Fee Due—Con- tract, Accepted by Morse, Also Read in Senate. ATTORNEY GENERAL WHO IS CALLED ON TO RESIGN OFFICE U. S. IN DIRE PERIL; MAY SOON BECOME A GYNECOCRACY Petticoat Rule. Threatened, Says Miss Robertson, Congresswoman. WASHINGTON, May 20. Representative Alice Robert- son, Oklahoma, who has been having a lively clash with the National League of Women Voters, to-day declared the league Senator Caraway Calls upon Cabinet Member to Resign and Challenges Him to Deny Truth of Charges. oe Sts Seco WASHIN' WOMENINPANIG “What about Pegsy Joyce and stutt| Rush Hour Crowds See Suicide s tion, Otto I. Kahn, American bunk- F Wie Sita fairl ca er, said when he arrived here to-]and an alleged contract bearing the women advanced to the edge: of the} aay signature of Felder under date of 110th Street and Lenox Avenue sub-| J. P, Morgan, who arrived on the| August 4, 1911, in which it is stated way platform to board an express} Olympic, refused to discuss is ™IN-| Dougherty wan to receive a retaine! train for downtown at 8.20 this morn- ing they were startled by a shriek as See car hha aie conditional’ pardon or commutation a man leaped in front of the We ‘we : car, ‘The din of the emergency TO ADDAG TRAINS| | sti brakes grinding against the wheels ees Previous charges of Caraway that and realizatton of what had hap-}Morty New Cars Ordered] paugnerty was connected with the Reng drove) the wamen:intoie panic, and Power Will Be Morse pardon were recently denied by | Several were overcome on the plat- Increased, Senator Watson, Indiana, who stated form, but most of them fled up the stairs and out to the street. Motorman Samuel Anderson, No, 707 E. over the suicide, afterward identified as Charles bath at 110th Street and Lenox Ave- nue. ing the platform nervously until he threw himself before the train. the East 123d Street Station, aided by laborers, fifth cars and the lifted, cut in half and badly mutilated, to the platform ten minutes, which read: lin, Charles BE. Cash was found de when informed of sald she was his for was the father but she did not MACK DENIES HE HAS Will Make No Statement Fa oe April 30, 1913. er Beith. New London. Mr. C. W. Morse, See eee ae ae ceaic:| The taatont Wilisis C. ‘Biche, | New York City. ' —Norman ack for F a. C tas ne, My Dear Sir—I enclose you man “Gf the Democratic National |mereted UY the Foreyty Downe tne Committee, authorized to-day a state- ment that he William R. New York, and Alfred E. Senator, kind on Governor of New York and I intend to make any 5 o’Clock To-Day is putting the country into a ITON, May 20-—Attoraay pea tentes General Daugherty should resign from “Gynecocracy," she said. | office and cease to embarrass the Ad- “That's what we'd drift to if we followed the league, Gyneoocracy, #0 the diction- ary says, meang “government by. ‘women, or petticoat rule.” ‘ ministration, Senator Caraway, Ar kansas, declared in the Senate to-day after reading photostatic copies of a letter and a contract which, he said, showed that the Attorney General and. LOAN ¥_.NATIO NS™ ‘Thomas B. Felder of Atlanta, Gu., TO GERMANY LIKELY} were to get $25,000 if they could get | Charles W. Morse, shipbuilder and Otto H. Kahn Says ASMAN LEAST DEATH SUBWAY Lon-] financier, out of the Federal pen'- don—Conference of Bank- | tertiary during the latter part of the ers May Arrange It. Taft Administration. To support his statements, C . LONDON, 20.—An inter- —lIdentified as Charles NON n Inter- | way read to the Senate a photostatic national loan to Germany probably] yo. or a tetter which the Senator will result from the conference of | | =* (Cast E. Cash. said was written by Daugherty to bankers to consider such a proposl-| store under date of April 90, 1918 of $5,000 and in event of Morse’s un- peer a LONG ISLAND ROAD the Attorhey General had told him he had no connection with the case. “The Attorney General knew his statement to Senator Watson was un- true," said Caraway, ‘The Attorney General did represent Morse.”* * Facsimiles of the alleged letters ant contract, as read by Caraway, were printed in a Washington newspaper to-day, Just before reading them Caraway said have now in my Hand’ a photo- static copy of the contract between Harry Daugherty and C. W. Morse in which for $26,000 contingent he would get him out of the penitentiary. “T shall read it for the benefit of the Senator from Indiana (Mr, Wat- son), who purposely absents himself from the’ floor when he knows this question is to be discussed. “The first Is a letter written by Daugherty to Morse after he was par- doned, It 4s as follows: Columbus, 0. The Long Island Railroad after eon- sultation with the Transit Commis- sion has announced that it will add sixteen trains to its summer schedule, effective a week from next Tuesday. Three of these trains will run from Far Rockaway during the morning rush hours; two on the same line in the evening rush hours and two from Jamaica during the morning rush hours. Between times four additional trains will be put on the Far Rock- away branch, three on the Rockaway Beach line, one on the Long Beach branch and two on the Port Washing- ton branch. The company has ordered forty new cars for the sburban service on elec- tric Hines and ten cars for use on steam lines east of Jamaica. The power equipment has been increased and will be still further increased be- fore next summer. Four cars of the train, driven by 181st Street, the Bronx, passed E, Cash, living in a Turkish The man had been observed pac- Policemen Wilkins and McGrath, of uncoupled the fourth and man's body was Traffic was tied up In the dead man's pocket was a note otify Mrs. MecLaugh- 620 West 149th Str that No. Mrs. McLaughlin was greatly upset h's suicide. She vr wife and he of her two children, re to talk further. —_ setulae NEW YORK TUGBOAT SEIZED IN DRY RAID of Vessel ‘ Aboard COME OUT FOR HEARST | Owner When Craft Is Held at herewith copy of the letter setting forth the contract you made on Aug. 4, 1911, with Mr. Felder for his services and mine, You will observe that 1 was corerct in the statement that there was a bal- ance due of $25,000 when you were commuted. I also hand you a copy of a paper you handed me in No. 15 Moore Street, was seized yes- terday at New London, Conn,, with its owner, George Forsyth, on board, it was announced to-day at the Barge Office, the Battery. The tugboat is of 250 tons end said to be implicated in the alleged bootlegging activities of the sloop Grace and Edna, selzed off New Jersey several days ago with whiskey valued at $150,000 on board, had not come out for Hearst for Governor of Smith for “T haye made no statement of any candidates for Senator and do not ot.’* ta The Hahn, of the “Prohibition] the prison some time after that i Navy,"’ with Capt. George Tawes in] time and 1 have to-day asked } oe lf THE command, followed the Bickle up the] i yn e rid . CLOSING TIME Sound yesterday on a tip. Officiais| Mrs. Daugherty to send to you b: FOR here were unable to say whether| express the papers which I got liquor was found on the Bickle when} from Harry and others from time SUNDAY WORLD she was seized, She will be brought] to time, which you spoke to me i | SSIFIE Ss. to New York to-night, about. CLASSIFIED AD Mr. Forsyth, It was said, left New As I advised you, I have tele j POSITIVELY No ADVERTISEMENTS | York in command of the tugboat sev-| graphed Mr. Felder dnd writren Reser ; him to meet me there with yow next Monday or Tuesday. I will advise you as soon as I have a B Wisse eral days before she is alleged to have taken liquor from the sloop Grace and Edna off the Jersey Coast. ! ACCEPTED AFTER 5 P. FOK TO-MORKOW'S SUNDAY WOKLD. BRANCH OFFICES CLOSE EARLIER.