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¥ oF iT. HAPPENS IN NEW Ltd 3 I T’S. IN THE EVENING WORLD” VOL. LXI. ‘NO. 29,007-—DAILY. Becond-Class Matter Port Office, New ile ™ ¥. ailroad Fre rei ULROND FREIGHT RATES ORDERED CUT 10 PER CENT.;| WOUND ANOTHER, IN’ DUEL ~ FARES ARE NOT AFFECTED! —APTERSST2, O00 PAYROLL JQB{Oserepances in Ward Sh ON WAGE REDUCTION BEFORE RATE CUTS Stabilize Business. ‘Agricultural Schedules Are Executives to Press Claim for Decreases to Railroad Unchanged—Decision Says Labor Board. Cashier of | Gogaeticut Com- pany and Assistant Black- jacked on Street. TWO OTHERS.CAPTURED ee WILL “BROADCAST” HYLAN'S SPEECHES) Grover Whalen Says $50,000 Station Will Be Ready Before Campaign. Believed to Be New York Thieves, Travelling in Stolen Auto. Roads Are Only Entitled to 534%. Profit, WASHINGTON, May 24.—Reduc- tions in frieight rates averaging about 10 per cent, were ordered to-day byj the Interstate Commerce Commission in @ decision resulting from its in- quiry into the general rate structure of the Nation. Yn the Hastern section of the covn- €#F) AW veduction, which will take effect on Jnly 1, will be 14 oer ceat.; im the West 18%) per cent., and in the Southern and Mountain Pacific terri- tories 12 1-2 per cent. Im showing the extent of these re- dyotions in the Western section, for example, it was pointed out that the eommission’s order reduces present rates by amounts that will make them finally 21 1-2 per cent. higher than rates in effect before 1920. In ordering the decreases, which are ©p a horizontal basis, the commission hela that the Nation’s railroads are entitled to earn 5 3-4 per cent. on the value of their property rather than the approximate 6 per cent. under the ‘Transportation Act of 1920. Increases authorized under the act were nearly cut in half in some in- gtances by the commission's order to-day. In’the Hestern district the 40 per cent. indrease of Aug. 26, 1920, was cut to 36 per cent.; in the West- ‘erm district the previous 35 per cent, imerease was cut to 211-2 per cent.; in the Southern and Mountain Pacific (Special to The Evening World.) BRIDGEPORT, Conn., May A hold-up in the heart of Bridgeport, pursuit of the car of the armed thugs by policemen and firemen, a pistol battle at Stratford, a suburb to the eastward of this city, one bandit killed, another wounded, two others captured and $12,000 recovered, forms the out- line of a series of thrilling happenings here this afternoon. One of the pris- oners described himself as Irving Grauet of No, 91 Willett Street, New York. The police uscertained that the dead man was probably Louis tone, known as “‘toney’? among his com- panions, living in New York, address unknown. ‘The men under arrest are Herman Grount, said to be known as Max Freedman, and also said to be the leader of the gang; Max Becker, New York City, who declined to give any address, and Edward Kierout, nine- teen, who said he lived at No, 22 Pike treet, New York. Grount is said to have lived: on Willett treet, New York. ‘The machine used by the men is said to have been stolen here. One of the bandits says it was taken from in front of St. Vincent's Hospital, where it was, parked, about an hour before}in the, hold-up. The registry number. is credited to Frederick Snyder, of Spring Street, but up till early afternoon he had not been found. ‘The hold-up thugs, all young men, came from New oYrk in an unregis- tered and probably stolen touring era. They plann@i to get hold of the pay- roll of the Connecticutt Company the corporation which operates the street arilways in this section of the State, ‘Apparently they knew that the money (From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, May %4. — The committee of railway . executives, headed by Daniel Willard, will confer with the members of the Interstate Commerce Commisston to-morrow on the general rate decision made public to-day. Until this further conference is had, It was indicated at the offices of the railwa$ executives here to-day, na formal announcement will be made as to the attitude of the carriers, It is known, however, that the roads are protesting against the 10 per cent. horizontal reduction in rates which the decision makes and against the substi- tution of 5% per cent. for 6 per cent., as a fair return from the properties. The railway executives, it is learned, are standing pat on their original Proposition that wages of labor must first be reduced in order to make the freight rate cuts practicable, Applications of the carriers have been on file with the Railroad Labor Board since last November for per- mission to put railroad wages back to practically the same level that ob- tained when Federal control was terminated, “Dhe railroads decreased mainten- ance of -way, work $150,000,000 last districts the previous rate increase of | year and, by decreasing the amount. 26 per cent, was cut to 121-2 perfor maintenance work done on cars cent.; interterritorial increases, aver-/ang locomotives, saved an additional » Were cut to} $100,000,000," saia a railway official to-day who has been identified with the rate controversy “It 1s mot true that the carriers Mayor Hylan to-day disclosed the real reason for the proposed $50,000 wireless broadcasting station on f' roof of the Municipal Building it is to be used to broadcast the Mayor's speeches and to tell the people wisi wonderful things the Administration is doing for them, If the newspapers refuse tc ate the Mayor's u speeches about the ‘subsidized press," the “interests” and the like of that, or if the Citizens’ Union dares to criticise the Mayor's policies, Grover A. Whalen, who will have complete charge of the munici- pal wireless, will turn on the electric juice and shoot contradictions Into every household possessing a recely- ing set. Not only wil! it bo possible to “cover’ the city with Hylan's mes- sages on city affairs, but it will be possible to send the Hylan propa- ganda to every part of the State, be- cause, as Commissioner Whalen ex- plained to-day, the station will have a radius of from 1,200 to 1,500 miles good weather, For instance, tf Mayor Hylan wants to say something nice about William Randolph Hearst, it will not be difficult for him to " it with radio," and din it into the e: of every up-to-date farmé# or up-State resident owning a radio set. ‘To-day the Committee of the Whole informally, appropriated the $50,000 for the &tation, both Comptroller Craig and Manhattan Borough Presi- dent Miller refusing to vote. Formal action will be taken at Friday's regu- reiter- jon charges on passen- (travel and Pullman charges were left| unaffected -by the decision. POLICE KILL ONE HOLDUP. SLAYER OF PETERS MUST CONFESS : TAXPAYERS’ RADIO Complicated in or near Mr. Ward's home and the body removed to where it was found.” the automobile being hit.” taken Peters’e gun with them,” SAYS DAUGHERTY [BRITISH AIRMEN HAS DETECTIVES | OFF ON FLIGHT Caraway Asserts’ He Has Evi- ENTIRE STORY OF BLACKMAIL PLOT” screpancies in Ward Shooting | Officials Deny That ny That Story of Million- T ackmail Mystery| @ite’s Son Has Been Accepted as hat Blackm y y Satisfactory—Young Woman Now Disclosures in the Killing of Peters cae een omuliney Mentioned in Mystery—Mrs. Ward an unsel for Slayer’s Explanation. : Some of the statements by a. in Piste with the killing Stands by Him. . hag or a fot mentioned by the officials who investigated the i t and the cbmment of Allan R. Campboll, Ward's attorney, are: Both District Attorney Weeks of Westchester County and Coroner At least tem persons asieep within 200 yards of where Ward Fitzgerald declated to-day that they had not accepted Walter S. | says ‘= pistol baoste! ey place a not hear a sound. Ward's sorte as to the time and place or method of the killing | “That 6a Mattel ef Argument” of Clarence Peters a week ago yesterday. | euch anee cause we blindly accepted the story his lawyers brought us. But the “Whe said he emptied his automatic? We stand on our only only evidence we had against him was that furnished by himself: We did not then havé:the results of the investigation which have since thrown doubt on sonie parts of the ab otc ‘Phere was bacon ement issued M: y neon.” When Mr. Campbell was shown thie, statement specifically mentioned that Ward twice returned danger of his escaping from the jurisdiction if he we had seen to that; and an at! oe five and that therefore he must have fired at least two shots, the resulted in his arrest, immediately: lawyer replied: “Ge find the other shell.” bility for saying, that we prea his story::| The tread of only one automobile was found near the body, Though the dlackmailers were supposed to have been in a car also. Sinker, We regarded it, and still regard'it, as calling for 3 rigid aad painstaking investigation.” “Well, what of that? That isa matter oF argument ten). « Phére wos.no ign iof a struggle, is the vicinity, Bhd ODudwnt © marks were thoge of the victim, dug down under Kis feet, as if he jell in his tracks. “That would seem to disprove the theory that Peters was shot SPEED COP NABS GOV. MILLER AND OTHERS IN TRAP ‘Two Other State Executiyes Halted for Fast Driving in Chicago. CHICAGO, May 24. Governors of three States and other prominent men were caught by a motorcycle, policeman while speeding in an automobile from the Exmoor Golf Club to a down- town hotel last might. W. Wighall, chauffeur em- ployed by Alexander Revell, was driving a car containing Mr, away-or Mr. Weeks said be was atding bot Sheriff Werner and the Coroner | their study of the case. He. that the reason for deferring the in~ quest on the body of Peters wae not alone the desire to ‘have “Charlie Ross" dnd ‘Jack’? hamed by Ward a3 Participants with Potets in a black- mail plot. He said that the delay wea partly. due to gathering material would bring out at the Inqudst whole truth regarding the Telling of Peters and the blackmail Disk siren pe Ls its cause by Ward. Both the District Attorney aint the Coroner said the lawyers for Ward had not been over frank with regarding the blackmail plot. ‘There © had been Intimations from the law. It was pointed out to Mr. Campbell that the body might have been thrown from the car without the occupant stepping off the running board. There was no, broken glass, such as would have fallen from an automobile. window; shattered by a bullet, as Ward says his was broken by a shot from'Petera’s revower, * “Our statement does not say anything about broken glass or No pistol was found, and no one has accounted for the one Ward said Peters used in attacking him. “That. doesn’t prove anything. His accomplices may have yers, Mr. Weeks said, pdinting,_ Revell and the latter's guest, Gov, J; A. 0, -Preu \0t: Minne- a race track scandal ae the busi foe sota, but was allowed to proceed j|the blackmail. after a summons had been served. | WHOLE BLACKMAIL PLOT To BE ‘ Raaice ety She Oe Pere ae BROUGHT OUT. 46 miles an hour, Pl ‘Another car, also delayed, con- The Coroner said that it wae bis! tained Gov, Nathan L. Miller of New York, Gov, Henry, Allen of Kansag and others who had been intention to have"the whole story of . | the blackmail plot Drought out at the. Start Eastward, Through In- i; 4 inquest as an essential want to. take all of the expense re-|for the payroll, comparatively unpro-} lar meeting, unless an injunction re-] dence Attorney General dia, China, Japan, Then to playing colt bl rade Asc 0n part of the Calculations as to the general per-| auction out of railroad labor. It has|tected, has been carried from the com- straining the board from appropriat- United States. $e ae supposed attack eantage of reduction effected by the}ieen found that the chief cost mate-|Pany's offices: across the street to the} ing the money is obtained. Is Utilizing Secret Service. ENRIGHT TO SEEK on Ward by Peters and his asso- commission's decision were confusing: |riais and railroad~supplies is other|cat barns at stated times. In explaining the possible uses of nanan ‘ The statement by Commissioner Pot-liahor. ‘The proposed ty per cent| Shortly after noon Sidney Tibbals, tne station Plant’ and Structures carom. May 2%4—-Attor-| CROZDON, England, May 24. TIPS IN | EUROPE Gheciir-arues Galas ae ter that they averaged generally 10} reauction in wages of miners would] sssistant cashier, and William Dunn, | Commissioner Whalen, who will have) WASHINGTON, May © Major: W. T. Blake, British airman, rea init to bee eae Ga — per cent. was accepted, however, 28] mean @ saving Of,80 to 75 conts per|® clerk, started across the street | complete change, sald: ney General Deutherty was chart eee een ait arounal Will Study raffle See Othesk had become of eorrect by the commission's personnel} ton on railroad and it would} carrying a box containing the money.) phe station will.be available forlpy Senator Caraway, Democrat, spite e pistol with which Ward eaid and rate experts generally represent a paving of coul to the| AB’ automobile containing four men. use by all city departments, It will], axing tosday in. the} ® WOrld. He tett Croydon Airdrome Police Problems Dur- Peters had threatened him and of ‘Though the decision, as an instahor.| yous of $75,000,000 to $10,000,000] which had been moving slowly. | prove invaluable to the Police Depart-| ATKANSAS. | speal : at 9.08 P, M. actually removed 11 per annually.” stopped in front of them. Ment in sending out police alarms Senate, with having assigned Secret ing Vacation. Major Blake was accompanied by ritory, the 14 per al ' ¥ it - Police | Ce were ejected from Ward's aitomatia aan eetealculated on the basis| ,1t.WA8 Pointed out that in view of] “Two of the men in the car, carrying} and in the event the fire alarm tele-| Service operatives to shadow ™mOm=} c.ot Socian MacMillan anf Lieut! Pang ago oc lA = pistol in hie battle with the black. eta om in” to20, | the 26 per cent. decline in traffic last] blackjncks, leaped out and tackled|graph system should breal down. | pers of Congress. oui Nteseate pitete. | Baright will spend his vacation, be-|Mmallers, But Mr, Weeks and he ya the ta : Kity ore increased 40] Yea" the roads had found it impos-|Tibbals and Dunn. Tibbals fell un-| Ultimately all fire houses and police! “ane arkansas Senator declared Mr.| “Ot en tee: a ginning early in June, in Burope, he] Coroner said the Sheriff had mob thst Mma, Shey. we: sible up to this time to make rate re.}consclous. Dunn also fell, but had|stations will be equipped with re- ‘ ‘The airmen took off in a De Ha- per cent. and the result of the mathe- matical calculation gives approxi- mately 10 per cent. of existing rates reduction ordered in today’s ductions, The representatives of the carriers] were somgwhat surprised at the an- nouncement of the Interstate Com- merce Commission decision to-d full possession of his senses. The thugs grabbed the box, tossed it into thé car and climbed in after it. The car started eastward Dunn jumped up and fired five ceiving stations, which will work in conjunction with and be a part of the city’s complete system The station can and will be put to other uses than those I have men- ‘The | reductions will save the Daugherty charge recently made by H. L. Scaife, discharged Department of Justice em- ploye, the said at Police Headquarters’ to-day Accompanied by Special Deputy Police Commissioner Harriss, he will visit London, Paris and other British and continental cities, primarily to study had denied communicated any euch tnformation ~~ . to them. Stories to the ¢ffect bullets have been found «im trunks of trees or telephone near where the body of Peters never viland “9” and headed directly for Paris, where a brief stop will be fhade. They will then jeave for Lyons to spend the night. The flyers are ex- hat that Secret Service men, in- alte items of traffic regulation. Commis-| found, are untrue, the officials shippers ca ects, {cluding a Negro coachman, had been , systen ‘At the conferen “| shots at the vanishing car. One of|tioned. It will broadcast conce pected in Rome to-morrow sioner Enright also will study meth-|‘rhe only holes investigators pe oe Pape ber gi Me vitamin Gis mancutines ees rie rilc|the bandits returned the fire. The} Which will be heanl not only by assigned to follow members of they ene ene ortion offods at Scotland Yard, the London| ting sear the tplace tectag = 4 need. Other rate cuts ordered dur-| Commerce Gommiasion the former] {usiliade was their undoing Who have recelving sets, but aiso louse. ‘The Senator added the state-| soe gels Major Blake, “will | Detective Bureau, and at the detective! tioge made by the steel spam of - A block further on they id where we w ent that he knew of a witness who ureau of the Paris police. le ex~ fag the last eighteen months will push] ascretained that the commission had passed 4 {People in public parks, whe il) ment thai i hy ‘ ‘ b ¢ the Paris police. Hy set up radiophone receiving stations rand have giant amplifiers.” Whalen wald he expected the station to be ready this summer—in time for the political campaign. EC TONS OF ROCKS bd total above $300,000,000. Agriquitural products will not be affected, The reduction of 16 1-2 per ent. made in the Western hay and (Continued on Bighth Page.) ————— MRS. DE VALERA PRESENTS LEADER formulated a programme of rate re ductions, but a second conference w. arranged for and it was a surprise| that the decision to-day was made| public in advances of a further dis- cussion, Sentiment among business men is so strong for the necessity of men ate al the EF {Continued on Eighth Page.) would Another statement made by Senator Caraway was that th eral and Felder, the New York attor- linemen's climbers or were nota overgrown with bark. ea Some of the apparent between Ward's story and. & facts had proved uninyportant, Fite. > gerald said ‘or instance, he said, the pubiisied \, statement that the bullet which testify that “Secret Service are trailing mombers of the Sen- s ‘well as spying on members of Louse.” pects to gather new and forcible argu- ments for enlarging the traffic regula- tion division of the New York police force. be vie Paris, Rome, Athcus, Crote, Alezandria, Bagdad, Bazra, Carachi, Delbi and then to Calcutta. “I shall use the Do Haviland with &@ 280-horse-power Siddcly Puma en- gine, but at Caloutta | shall change to the seaplane, which will take a 360-horse-power Wasle Kolls Royce RUSSIA AND ITALY Attorney Gen- ney, “suggested”? that Charles W.| motor, SIGN TRADE’ TREATY Peters had mot» passed: th: ‘ee rate reductions that it 1s not Sikely WITH TWIN BOYS ENTOMB FOUR IN [hjorso hada kidney disease when they] ™Sarrom Gatcutin any plan in vo fly outer clothing, but only pe hia. = REAL ESTATE i uae at tee takin Cotta 7 QUARRY BLAST |“°"2,(ndeavoring to secure i ten. | 2. Rangoon, then un, vin] GENOA, May 24 (Associated Press) | snirt, wad incorrect, ‘There was m® © aihitnde ef toe, Labaratete, Comment DUBLIN, May 24 (Associated mutation from the Atlanta Peniten-| gaigon and Hongkong; (vn Japan| —The commercial treaty between] bullethole in the wuistooat of Peters, Commission, which has the formal Scale Maman Ds — Saw s kong? S50 Sapas ADVERTISEMENTS Support of ‘the President. Eee eee Mr. Carawayie. statements in. the] (2 SevaeaNiaee, and roms the #64] soviet Russia and Italy waa signed | 224 |t showed powder ‘burns, wn Laborers Killed at Nyack by Te Insure Proper Classification soon after the agreement reached be~ upon them, Two of the bodie twoen the two Irish political factions, ee eS Bette os recovered. (Continued on Eighth Page.) publican 1 to. Vancou: vay of the Aleuti : bg Hole in th it, Ir appeara now that the ‘best thefof the Republican party | \ conten Ghieemttle tenes eadcoes on’ Chat eee ey ° @ Aleutian) in the Royal Palace at '4.50 this| was no No Betirredevid be etip for the carriers can expect from the situation} day gave birth to twin boys.) Mrs Premature Dynamit« Morse caso and war fraud prosecu- in Vancouver, | a*terneon. atrugeie 04 deseribal be athens is levogage with which to force fayor.| Charles Burgess, wife of the former Explosion. tions, were made in commenting on a will orane 46 ee Wroiiie OF SLAIN: MAN was junday or able action by the Railroad Labor| Minister of Defense in Mr. De Va-] 4.) tatement issued by the Attorney! st John's, Newfoundland, ina three-| CH*: WOOn's YACHT REPowTED| BLE Board on the question of wage reduc.|lera’s Cabinet and a prominent oppo-[ | Four laborers were Milled at West} Ceneral last night declaring that N18] seater Dre Meiland, stopping at Win lari cust INANE: ¥ Must be in tions for vertain classes of raltroad| nent of the Anglo-Irish treaty, gave] Nyack to-day when they were hired] connections with the Morae caso were| mpeg Ghieese mud New York MANILA, May 24 (Associated Press)! here was also an PERNT SS 4 Sacuioaeas birth to @ daughter. under an ayalzache of étonc at the} shown by letters of former President) Change from the Do Haviland to al 7,l“onnrd Wood. Govermor General of) ine froud im of the ground about tH] Friday “aba Both fathers were profusely con-] Pelmont-Gurnee quarry. Taft und Attorney General Wicker-| aying hoa will be made at St. John's] (te Pnlipplnes, a sate after being mise-1icay of (ier trom blood. ‘The 6P.M Tae say eRAvEL READ. gratulated by their political adherents} “A premature blast of dynamite un-|%08n- - The ptatement also wy nested) and the last leg of the journey willl following a typhoon, according to word|topsy showed that Petera had bled Before 6 P. M. Bast iow, ts A ee on e-ea}on thin happy coincidence coming #0] loogened hundreds Of tome of rocket that the Attorney General's Wr ne uttempted, ‘The hop-olf will bo for] recelved’ here wurly to-day. nearly three quarts inwardly, Am The yacht was reported to have teken refuge at au island near Mindora. Greenland, thence to Irvla and vo to London. d, Scotland, the abseace of the marks of the treads of mofe than one