The evening world. Newspaper, May 23, 1922, Page 1

“TF "IT HAPPENS Se oo DRO aan emis agree... iy ecenaaa poe Conrstate Geer York World) by Wises ishing Company, 1982, ———— “IN NEW YORK IT’S IN THE EVENING WORLD” ING TIP CLUE IN WARD BLACKMAIL PLO NEW ‘YORK, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 500 SINN FEINERS Man Leaps 25 Stories to Death From Metropolitan Life Tower; -Was Fined in Lockwood od Inquiry ARRESTED IN RAIDS ~ IN NORTH IRELAND Ulster Reprisal fo for Twaddell Slaying Covers Many Organizations. CAPAL HEALEY IN NET. Girl Guides and Boy Scouts Among Those Subject to Arrest. LONDON, May 28 (Associated Press).—At to-day's meeting of the Parliament of Northern Ireland Sir James Craig, the Premier, announced that the Irish Republican Army had been proclaimed an illegal assembly. The Purliament later adjourned as @ mark of respect to W. J. Twaddell, itp murdered member. ‘The situation in Ireland was dis- ramped at a meeting of the Cabinet this morning presided over by Prime “Wilteter Lioyd George. BELFAST, May 23 (Associated Press).—It was officially stated at 4 @’dlock this afternoon that 300 Sinn Feiners had been taken prisoner by the Ulster authorities and that they would be interned. No military participated in the raid, which was carried hy special constables. the prisoners will special camp. out It be entirely is understood interned in a It was officially announced carly this afternoon that the arrests re ported so far were as follows: County Tyrone, 68; County Fermanagh, 50; County Armagh, 26; Belfast, Antrim, 2; Down, 10; Londonderry ‘2; a total of 202. Later in the after noon, however, it was officially stated that the total had then reached 300. Ulster will make no concession to South Ireland on the boundary ques- tion, Sir James Craig, the Premier, declared in the Parliament session here this afternoon “What we have we hold,’ de- elared the Premier in answering an inquiry with reference to the boun- dary commission question The immediate consequence of the agreement reached by the two fac- tions in Southern Ireland was that there would be no boundary commis- sion appointed in any circumstances, said Sir James. He made this asser- tion, he said, “without equivacation or reservation,” adding that the time had past for mutual as ‘The Collins-De Valera ehanged the whole situation Although he was prepared to treat with the Southern representatives within the limig of the British Em- pire, he was not prepared to treat, he said, with a composite govern- ment, half of which was practically Republican in sentiment and the (Continued on Fifth Page. a “TEACHERS YAP TOO MUCH; DON’T LET PUPILS THINK” FALLS TO HS DEATH FROM FLOOR ON THE MUNICIPAL BLOG. Unknown Strikes Another Man in His Descent to the Sidewalk. An unidentified man fell on the sidewalg on the Park Row side of the Municipal Building near the main entrance at 3 o'clock this afternoon. It was mot known from what floor of the building he fell, The man fell upon Samuel D. Jones of No. 415 West 149th Street. Mr. Jones was not serioui#y hurt. The other man was instantly killed. $< DEMPSEY CAN'T FIGHT IN JERSEY Barred Frark Meeting Wills or Willard, Says Boxing Commission Head. Wills nor the rd fight will Neither the Demps proposed Dempsey-Wit be permitted in New Jersey, it was learned to-day from Louis J. Mas- sano, Chairman of the Boxing Com- mission of New Jersey. The looks fights as pure commercial propost- tions, with no element of sport. It was said that the Dempsey-Willard fight’ was positivefy out of the ques- tion and that the “mixed” fight also would be barred, because there wgs no great demand for it WIFE BARES LIFE TO SAVE HUSBAND Detail by Detail She Re- veals Love for Other Man on Stand. DALLAS, Tex., May 23.—Mrs. Dave E. Soderman bared her life story here to-day to save her bus- band from conviction of murder of Jay, Clay Powers. As the husband sat tensely in his chair, Mrs. Soderman, detail by de- tail, told the story of her marriage with Soderman, how she had loved him until Powers came into her life, how the good looking university man won her love and how, after a di- vorce, a telegram told of her former husband's illness and she rushed to him and remarried him. DOCTORS APPEAL commission upon both Boston Professor Declares] FOR SEALED WHISKY There’s Too Much Effort to Make Children Over. BOSTON, May 22.—'The school teachers of to-day do too much yapping,” Prof. Marshall L, Per- ting of Boston University College ef Liberal Arts declared in his lecture on The Arriving Fresh- man” before Massachusetts teachers. “There is too much repetition in the classroom,” he continued. “The teacher is expected to re- peat, and she does, ‘hus the Pupil gets into the habit of not listening, the teacher's made to do all the thinking and the poor freshman arrives powerless to do any thinking for himself. ‘Take the children as they are. Don't try to make them over. I never saw such a fine generation of children to the world. They are simply ‘stunning.’ And you Will have to admit that they are By Overwhelming VoteThey Ask Government to Distribute It. ST. LOUIS, May 723 (Associated Press). — The resolutions presented yesterday to the house of delegates of the American Medical Association appealing to Congress for relief from the “present unsatisfactory conditions’ as to the distribution of whiskey was adopted by an over- whelming vote to-day The resolution asks governmental distribution of whiskey for medical purposes only in sealed packages of eight, sixteen and thirty-two ounces. nceenteneliinpeieioes! ALEXANDER'S WEDDING POSTPONED. BELGRADE, May 23 (Associated Press).—The marriage of King Alexan- der of Jugo-Slavia to Princess Marle of Roumanla, which was set for June J, has been postponed until June §, it was announced to-day. KING Madison Square sard Crowds See Frank J. Party Commit Suicife. MOT!eE Al MYST Tile Man Left Wife and Fam- ily This Morning in Good §$pirits. Frank J. Purry, Secretary of the John H. Parry Co., No. 509 West 54th Street, dealers in tilts, committed sui- cide to-day by jumping from the win- dow of a washroom on the twenty- fifth floor of the Metropolitan Tower to the middie of Hast 24th Street, ubout fifty feet east of Madision Ave- nue. Many loungers in Madison Squure saw the body, twisting and turning, from the time it left the washroom window until it struck the pavement with a shock that smashed tho works of the suicide's watch as thy, miqute- hang, painind ty. 9: ‘5 o'clock.” Parry was twenty-eight yeard old and lived with his young. wife "hi four children, the eldest eight years old, at No. 34 Railroad Avenue, Patchogue, L. I. His father, John H. Parry, President of the Parry Com- pany, also lives at Patchogue. The Parry Company was a member of the Tile, Grate and Mantel Association, convicted last fall of conspiracy to eliminate competition as a result of exposures by the Lockwood Commit- tee. A fine of $500 was inflicted on the Parry concern. Young Parry occasionally visited his brother-in-law, Thomas J. McCabe, who is employed on the fourteenth floor of the Metropolitan Tower. He did not call on Mr. McCabe this morn- ing. No one him enter the twenty-fifth floor washroom, and the location of the point he leaped from was established by the finding in the washroom of a hat marked with Parry's initials. The identity of the suicide was quickly established by papers found In his pockets. A telephone message was sent to John H. Parry, who formally identified the body as that of his son. He sald he had last seen the young man on Sunday, when they went fish- ing together. The son, he said, had no business difficulties and his home life was happy. Parry left his Patchogue home carly this morning and took a train for the city about 8.15 o'clock, ostensibly bent on business. It would appear, from the elapsed time, that he proceeded directly from the railroad station to the Motropaliten Tower: Tower. GENERAL WOOD, ON YACHT, CAUGHT IN BiG TYPHOON Wife and Daughter With Governor—Thought to Have Sought Refuge. saw MANILA, P. I., May 23 (Associated Press). — Wireless queries to the yacht Apo, on which Governor Gen- eral Leonard Wood and his wife and daughter sailed Saturday for Mindoro, have not been answered and the ty- phoon which raged yesterday ts be- lieved responsible for the delay tn their return. The Apo is believed to have sought refuge in some port of Mindoro. Gen. ‘Wood planned a brief visit of inspec- tlon on the island. No serious dam- age from the typhoon has been re- ported. 1922 Post Office, Batered a0 Second-Cla To-Merrow's Weather—FAIR. EDITION (babeiies PRICE ‘THREE CENTS New MLL So et ad SHOT BY ACCIDENT EXAMINING PISTOL Surgeons Wait to Operate on Aged Prelate, in Critical Condition. PIERCE S CHEST BULLET Priest Manages to Summon Aid, but Loses Consider- able Blood. Mgr. Michael Phelan of St. Cecilia's Chureh, Lexington Avenue and 106th Street, was reported in a critical condition in St. Vincent's Hos- pital this afternoon, This morning he was accidentally shot through the right hand and left breast while ex: amining an old revolver. * Surgeons are waiting to operate for the removal of the bullet until he has recovered from the shock of the acej- deat. News of Mgr. Phelan's wound! travelled fast and numbers of, his fries hurried to the hospital and the telephone was kept busy with anxloud inquiries as to his condition. Prayers aro being offered for his speedy re- covery. Mgr. Phelan is eighty, but he was able to reach an adjoining room of study at No. 125 East where the a¢cident oc- curred. His cries for help brought Father John Carney and Mrs. Mary Flynn, rectory cook. ‘They found him sitting limply in an armchair, bleed- ing profusely. While Patrolman Seifert summoned Dr. Hart and an ambulance from Harlem Hospital, Dr. Thomas V. Stack, the priest's personal physician, came hurrying from his home gt No. 169 East 111th Street. The condition of Mgr. Phelan was considered so serious that both do tors decided to remove him to St. Vincent's Hospital for the purpose of the rector: 105th Street, making an X-ray examination. With the two physicians, the policeman and Father Carney, the ambulance made record time in reaching the hospital. Monsignor Phelan, it is belleved, was cleaning the revolver, which !s old and rusty, and there still remains two chambers loaded, as they have been for years. The weapon had rested on top of the safe in the Mon- signor’s room, on the second floor of the rectory facing Hust 105th Street, and in the safe are the Sunday col lections of the church. Dr. Stack said that the condition of the priest was serious, first, on ac- count of his age, and, secondly, | cause the bullet is of soft lead has been corroded by its long antey in the revolver chamber The physician said that when the bullet struck the little finger of the pastor's right hand it carried away the bone, undoubtedly saving the priest from instant death. The mis: sile entered the left breast directly beneath the apex of the heart Mgr. Phelan was born in Dub- lin, Ireland, but spent most of his boyhood in this country. He was or- dained a priest in Troy in 1870 and was made & monsignor three years He has been located at St. Chureh for thirty-six years. Be was to have left for a trip to the country in a few days. Among his visitors at the hospitai to-day were State Senator S. A. Cotillo, Alderman Edward Kelly and Nicholas J. Hayes, Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electri icity. SNE ae Sai EX-JURIST MUST SERVE PERJURY SENTENCE Supreme Court Sustains Firat ohio oman Judge's Rulings. COLUMBUS, 6., May McGannon, former Chief Jus Cleveland Municipal Courts, must rerve & sentence of one to ten years in Ohio penitentiary for perjur State Supreme Court ruled to refusing to review his case Aequitted on 4 second degre charge in connection with the Hurold Kagy. McGannon on # perjury count in cor testimony given «! the murd al and was convicted, He was Judge Florence Allen, the jurist in Ohio, ten ki But Will Support Local Option Lady Astor Bstiig Presented with dolls by. member of delegation of flappers just \@fore she sailed for home on the Aquitania. a Gives Her Opinions on Pro- hibition Here and for Other Si Side. United States and several Canadian Provinces has been a “big contribu- tion to the spiritual regeneration of the sued up her world,” a farewell Lady Astor to-day is- statement summing’ opinions on the dry question on both sides of the ocean. She sailed for home to-day. “Iam going to advocate Prohibi- tion legislation in England,” she con- tinued, tion by direct vote laws.” Lady Astor sald she had heard it said that the rich in America could get drinks while the poor could not, but declared she had not seen such a She said special workers had told her that the Salva- condition herself. tion Army, social societies “but I will support local op- and churches now had a greatly reduced task as a result of the dry laws. “When I balance the result, offset the uplifting of the poor and strug gling and the salvation hibition has brouglit to and children, against the radation of some no doubt the net 1¢ bas been good try of the which many Pro wives alleged deg rich, It for the coun- she continued. IT have “The general sentiment seems to be that it is the rich and not the poor who really get the worst of it."’ Lady Astor declared the only anti- American propaganda she has seen tn over the liquor question Prohibition has shown itself not only a problem of social clean politics as well Lady Astor spoke at a dinner given in her honor last night in the Hotel welfare England was engendered by liquor in- ests which have gone into politics She said but of (Continued on Fifth Page.) case csipemcieee NEVER RUNS AWAY, SAYS LADY ASTOR, AS HEARST ARRIVES William Randolph ceded Lady Astor up tania’s gangplank to-da « moment, “When 1 di remi I'm lon't arked, run away," greetin ga running porters on the deck When her of win i “Are al was "Certainly, not firet womae M, P, \ some remark was fellow-p: said her ked and that's the on during asked. you going Hearst right with one a ne m for ady Hearst the pre- Aqui by only office Astor roup of re 1 just her if “Apropos of one say English method the replied to put a little conver the BODY OF MISSING FOUND IN LAKE Coroner to Determine What Made Bruises Found Upon His Face. TUCKERTON, N. J, May 23.— The body of Henry Scheim, ten years old, was found to-dey in a small lake within the town limits here. He had disappeared on May 8 from the home of his father, John Scheim, a farmer, after a severe rebuke c The face badly and immediate steps to de- termine formally whether the bruises were inflicted before after death, There seemed 1 pox that the child was killed or beaten unconscious and then thrown into the lake Another theory that the into the lake and the br flicted by stones Coroner J. M porters found the | ing. Mayor Wilmer Sy leading the near pressed the belicf be one or more He declared thore was evid foul play. “The body w 1 there was some evidence welghted down,” The boy's father wa field @ short dis the body was found hie but gave no outward evi tion. Mrs. Scheim wept HANDS OFF, HARDING WARNS OF RUSSIA Wants Senats Defeat Borah Resolution Pro- posing Recognition. WASHINGTON, May 28.—The Ad ministration to keep its hands off of Russian recognition timations conveyed to Senators to-day* For this reason Senator Borah's resolution putting the Senate on rec- was bruised, were taken ibility and tw f Tuckerton, the boy, ex- there would to-night nee of that lothed and t had been Mayor. rking in a y. When was notified, of emo- said the we to desires the Senate ding to in- ord as favoring recoention will either be rejected or blocked, Mepublican leaders indicated Borah is disposed to fight for a showdown and probably will discuss {% to-morrow in @ Senate speech, OFFICIALS SEARCH RACETRAGK IN EFFORT TO RUN DOWN GLUE IN WARD BLACKMAIL PLOT District Attorney and Sheriff Work on Theory That Son of Millionaire Was Lured Into Deal — Father Declined to Pay Blackmail but Would Spend $100,000 to Send Plotters to Jail. and all places in this city where followers of horse racing congregate were visited to-day by agents of District Attorney Weeks of Wesfehester County and Sheriff Werner, seeking informationgregarding the blackmail plot which, according to Walter ‘Ward, Police Commissioner of New Rochelle and son of Géorge S:Ward, millionairefiead of the Ward Baking Company, led up to the "killing of Clarence Peters near Kensico reservoir on Tuesday morning last. a THUGS SHOOT MAN AND STEAL $1,879 INBROOKLYN STORE Health Department Inspector Wounded in Crowded Sec- tion of Williamsburgh. The Jamaica race tr: ‘The information sought is as to the truth of tho story that “Charley Ross” and ‘‘Jack,”" companions of Peters, had become acquainted with young Ward at the race tracks, rep- resenting themselves as connected with the Quincy stables, of which J. F. Johnson ts the owner and James Fitzsimmons the trainer. Elwood M. Rabenold of Rabenold & Scribner, Ward's counsel, to-day professed to be ignorant of the reasons why the county authorities were mak- ing inquiries of race track followers. He said, however, ‘‘Ward and Peters had been together at a race track, but Mr. Ward ts not a habitual racegoer."’ The investigators have been told that the men professed to know of a race track transaction in which Ward had a part and which it would injure his reputation to have generally pub- Ushed. They expected to find that there had not been such @ transaction at all, but that Ward had been en- trapped into a situation with which it would be very hard for him to dis- Prove connection. The first thing the investigators learned was that “Charley Ross,” “Jack” and Peters were not known by name to Mr, Johnson, Mr, Fits- simmons or any other employees of the stable, and that no one of their Three armed thugs held up a col- lector for the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company and four other men in one of the company's stores at Quincy Street and Reld Avenue, Brooklyn, at 1.05 o'clock this morning, obtained $1,875 and escaped in an automobile driven by a fourth thug after firing five pistol shots and slightly wounding one of the victims, A week ago to- day a similar raid was made on an Atlantic and Pacific store at No. 163 Eastern Parkway, presumably by the four thugs who accomplished to-day's robbery and the loot amounted to $1,044 description hud been about the stable David J. Hickey is an assistant su-] recently. Nor had any intimation of perintendent of the Atlantic and F'a-| unfair dealing to the disadvantage of eine rn and makes daily collec- |i) e Owner or his friends beet tions from twenty stores, He had sts: 2 hia trtends: mB wus: visited and collected from eighteen} pected. The matter, it was stated, stores to-day and had entered the | had nothing to do with the litigation plac Reid Avenue and Quincy}over Man O' War's brother, Play- Street to gather up his nineteenth | fellow, sold by Mr, Johnson to Harry Sinclair for $100,000. When the Majestic started on her trip from Cherbourg to New York, the authorities have been informed, George S. Ward, who had been spend~ ing several weeks abroad, received a wireless message from his son Walter, here, asking that his father make available here $50,000, explaining that it was a payment to blackmailers, and haste was urgent. FATHER WOULD NOT PAY BLACKMAIL, Young Wardhad an immediate re- in which the father ‘Will not pay ong cent for blackmailers, but will spend $100,000 to put them in jail.’* Walter Ward, according to the In- vestigators, commnicated with arley Ross’ and "Jack" and ar- ranged a meeting at which he showed collection when two roughly dressed | F men, wearing caps pulled down over their eyes, trailed by a nattily dressed man, wearing a new straw hat, fof- lowed him in. The street door of the store was open n the store were Russell Dishroon, the manager, two clerks and a food inspector for the Board of Health. As Hickey penetrated the store the two men in caps, almost walking on his heels, drew automatic pistol “All of you go into the back room,"* ordered one of the thugs. ‘Be quick and quiet.”” The five men hurried into the back room, followed by the two thugs. The straw hatted robber lounged in the doorway with one hand in his coat pocket glancing over a@ display of vegetables piled in the front part of the store, In the rear room one of the thugstihem a « t em a copy of the message from handed his pistol to the other, who] George S. Ward as evidence of his ef- kept the muzzles of both weapons! fort to meet their demands. flickering from one to another of the} A day or two later Ward ts said victims. The free-handed thug knew]to have received a letter, all in type- where Hickey kept the collection} writing, mailed from the Madison money. Without a seconds hesitation] Square district in thia city, signed he reached into the collector's inside} with the initials “C, R."* and saying; vest pocket and pulled out a red wal- Jet containing the loot. He alfpped it “Le you do not meet us with $15,000 you will net meet the, Majestic.” into his inside coat pocket, took his} Ward in his voluntary confession automatic from his companion, and,Jof shooting Peters when three together, they backed to the door threatened him with revolvers on the “Don't five}ionely road said he emptied his re- come out of here for (Continued on Fitth Page) volver after the red automobile tg which “Ross” and ‘‘Jack” made thelp p 7 \