The evening world. Newspaper, June 6, 1922, Page 1

\ To- Night's Weather—FAIR. “EvING STREET FANG WORLD , Lillian n Russell Dies at Her Home in P New Cuts, From Seven to Nine Cents an Hour, Ef- fective July 4. ® LABOR MEN _ DISSENT. Three Members Charge Pay Has Been Slashed $1,300,- 000,000 Annually. CHICAGO, June 6 (Associated Press).—Over the strong protest of the three labor representatives on the United States Railroad Labor Board, & new wage cut of 7 cents an hour for railway shop mechanics and 9 cents for freight car men, cutting 400,000 shopmen approximately $60,- 000,000 a year, was ordered »y the board to-day. The new wage reduction brought an estimated added saving of $59,669,- 847 annually to the railroadey follows im the wages of maintenance of way Jaborers last week, The shop crafts decision becomes effective July 1, the same date us last week's order. The minority report of the labor members pointedly stated that the majority decision was made ‘with no consideration of human needs’ and charges that it fails to carry out the function of the board to set a ‘‘just and reasonable’? wage “The lendency of this decision is to vindicate the propaganda of the rail- roads and consequently condemn such statements as the employees have been able to bring to public atten- tion,’ the ority opinion said, It was signed by Albert O. Wharton, W TL. McMenimen and Albert Phillips, the labor representatives, Supervis- ory ‘forces of the railway shops were not decreased. After due considera- tion, the decision said, it was felt that the duties and responsoibilities. of such fortes warranted maintenance ot the pregent rates. The reduction for mechanics aver- aged a little more than § per cent., all machinists, boilermakers, black- smiths, sheet metal workers, elec- trical workers, carmen (except freight carmen), moulders, cupola tenders and coremakers and the regular and helper apprentices receiving a cut of 7 cents an hour. Freight carmen, commonly known as ‘‘car-knockers,"" ‘and the object of some of the heavi- est assaults by the roads in their battle for lower wages, were cut 9 cents. The larger cut was ordered for the *car-knockers" because the board paid it believed that thetr work did ’ (Continued on Fourth Page.) SSS SENATE TO GET BILL ON BONUS THURSDAY Faces Sidetrack Until Tariff Measure Is Out, of \ Way. WASHINGTON, June 6.—Formal KN tation of the Soldiers’ Bonus Bill to the Senate on Thursday is the present plan of Chairman McCumber of the Senate Finance Committee. The bill will be accompanied by the usual printed report, and in addition Senator McCumber expects to address the Senate briefly on the subject The measure will be sent to the Benate calendar to remain untii an agreement is had to call it up. There appears to be little pressure for early consideration of the bill and some Re- publican leaders are of the opinion that it will not be taken up until after the Administration Tariff Bill is out of the way The tariff measure will have to be sidetracked this month for several important appropriation bills and conference reports and there is strong tien on the majority side to pny additional delay in the cemsideva tion of that me ‘ CLOSING TABLES. “VoL. EXEL NO. 22,068 DAILY. ing on the heels of n $60,000,000 cu.)" Copyright Pu RAILROAD BOARD REDUCES WAGES $80,000,000 MORE: SHOP AND CARMEN AFFECTED HELICOPTER TESTS SHOW PROGRESS, SAYS AIR MINISTRY Brennan, Inventor of Torpedo After £50, 000 Prize. LONDON, June 6.—Trials of hell- copter invented by Louts Brennan are most encouraging, although the ma- chine is as yet in an uncompleted state, the Air Ministry said to-day. Brennan, inventor of a torpedo and the gyroscope, is working on his helicopter, under the auspices of the fate ry. A report that Brennan's helicopter had been completed and that it was a success, printed in the Daily Chron- {ole, was formally denied by the Min- istry. Its offer of £50,000 for a suc cessful helicopter still stands Brennan's helicopter, according to London papers, was designed to meet the requirements of the Air Ministry, which called for @ machine that would rise vertically 2.000 feet by its own power, hold its position in a twenty- mile wind, fly horizontally at 2,000 fect at the rate of sixty miles an hour and land with power cut off. This would enable the machine to start from and land upon a roof, as it would require no fleld on which to taxi before taking off. Such a helicopter, and Bren- nan's models indicate that he has the secret, would revolutionize war- fare and commercial flying Brennan to-day told the Evening News that the reports of Success were premature and un- founded. He said tests had not been made, except of the models, and that the big machine has not been out of the shed where it is under construc- tion. Tests, he said, cannot be made before next fall London ———— MAN DROPS DEAD RUNNING FOR TRAIN Commuter Almost Had Caught It When Heart Is Stricken. Edward Childs, forty-one, assistant superintendent of the Ot Elevator plants at Harrison, N. J., dropped dead while running to catch a train for Harrison to-day. He had reached the Nutley, N. J. platform of the Franklin Avenue Sta- tion as the train pulled out and was within ten feet of it when he reeled and fell. A physician said death was due to heart disease. Childs was born in England. He ts survived by his widow and three small children and three brother: PARIS DECREES LARGE HATS FOR WOMEN IN FALL Straight Lines of New Gowns Require Change From Present Models. Paris has decreed large hats for women next fall, Millinery buyers arriving heres to-day reported athat the small shapes so fetching with bobbed hair will be supplanted by large hats, considered necessury by Parisian dictators to conform with the long, straight lines of next fall's dresses. Wood browns, Lanvin greens, and hats in metal cloth are men- tioned a8 part of the styles for (New York World) by Press ‘blishing Company, 1922. GOMPERS ATTACKS SUPREME COURT; ORDER STRIKE VOTE Says There Is a Power Higher Than the Court, Congress and People. REFERRED TO UNIONS. First Ballot of Craft Affected By Ruling is Due June 30, CINCINNATI, June 6.-—-Samuel P. ohmpers, President of the American Federation of Labor, to-day criticized the Supreme Court for its decision thet a union can be held financially respon- sible for losses sustained by employers during a strike. He served notice that there is ‘‘a power over and above the Supreme Court—the Congress and the people," To the Congress and Gompers announced, the Federation will appeal for legislation! to change the decision of the Supreme Court. “The expression of Judge Taft that he regretted=that he could not sus- tain the decision of the lower court was gratuitous, bitter and unforgive- able “This case is the climax of deci- sions of the Supreme Court in the past few months and since the ascen- sion to the Chief Justiceship of Mr. Taft,” Of the decison itself he said: “If such a decision can hold it means that big ‘business finance can impose any decisions on the working nd they dare not resist." ‘INNATI, June 6. (Associated Press). —A strike vote of a proximate- ly 1,200,000 railway owrkers of the United States will be taken by the individual unions affected by Ratlroad Labor Board wage reductions, recent- ly ordered and pending, it was de- cided at a conference of union leaders here to-day. The vote in each organization will the people, be returnable within thirty days after the board announced a wage cut for thgt clas& of employees, the vote of the shop crafts, whose re- duction was ordered by the board to-day, being returnable June 30. — TELEGRAPHERS’ CUT DEFERRED BY BOARD Wire Men Will Not Be Re- duced on July 1. CHICAGO, June 6 (Associated Press).—It was learned to-day that the United States Railroad Labor Board decision ting ftelegra- phers, the next s of employees to be dealt with in a wage ruling, will not be available for some time and undoubtedly will not be Issued in time to become effective July 1, the date the maintenance of way and shop craft decisions to ke effect, DAUGHERTY ANNOUNCES STEEL INVESTIGATION © Rethiehem Lacka- He Saya, 6.—The Bethle- Looking Into wana Merger, WASHINGTON, June hem-Lackawanna stecl merger {a un- der jnvestigation by Department of Justice, it was announcer to-day at the office of Attorney General Daugherty, This 1s in pursuance of @ resolution of the Senate calling on the Justice De~ partment to state what steps are being taken to protect the public interest, Investigation into the merger of the Bethlehem and Lackawanna Steel Com- panies by the Federal Trade Commis- sion, will be welcomed by both com- panics, Kugene R. Grace, President of the Bethlehem Stee! Company, said to- day ASKS FOR $28,122,500 TO REFUND ILLEGAL TAX Conurens Necessary. President that A Velln ant WASHINGTON, June 6.—President Harding asked Congress to-day for a deficiency appropriation of $28,122,- 500 for refunding taxe egally col- lected during the fiseal year ending Juno 80, 1921 . NEW “YORK, K, TUESDAY, JUNS 6, LILLIAN RUSSELL 1 DEAD AFTER RALLY HAD GIVEN HOPE Wife of Alexander P. Moore, Publisher, Miss Russell Was for Years One of the Most Celebrated Actresses on the Stage. Lt). @————— — ———_——_— UNTERMYER SICK, STOKES SUIT HALTS PITTSBURGH, June 6.—Mro. lan Russell Moore, wife of Alex- ander P,. Moore, publisher of tho Pittsburgh Leader, and noted stage beauty for many years, died at her home at 2.20 o'clock this morning after an illness of several days was sixty-one years old. Attorney Gets Postpone- ment and Is Taken to His Home. Sudden illness of Samuel Unter- At the bedside at the end were ber) yer, her trial counsel, to-day caused daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Calbit, Mr.}the postponement of the continued hearing of Mrs. Helen Elwood Stoke's pplication for $75,000 a year alimony om W. E. D, Stokes before Supreme int Justice Edward R. Finch, Mr. Untermyer was in court at 11 o'clock, as was his client, and Mr. Stokes and 1. Gainsburg, his counsel A few minutes later, as the case vas about to be called, Mr, Untermyer was seen to speak in low tones Iaurence A, Steinhardt, who is as- sting him in the case and to Mr. Moore, her niece, Mildred A. Martin. and Dr. C. B. Schieldecker. Following a crisis in Mrs. Moore's condition Saturday night her pb. cians had expressed belief that would rally but late last night it b came evident that she had suffered a relapse. While it was recognized that the oa orth \insburg, Then, with another legal situation was grave, members of ssistant, he left the room, Mr household nevertheless made known ardt told the court Mr. Unter late in the evening that no alarm |!" ee Spach aon Wee late was felt. was put over until to-morrow morn Mrs. Moore had been ili for seve Rr Datena venient to: hia oftico ‘at weeks following an accident on ship-| °° 190 Broadway and waited for his board when she was returning to (hi tomobile to take him to his home country from Europe. It was + | Greystone, near Yonkers lieved that she had passed the cris pel and that she would recover. She wa QUAKE A DAY IN ANTIPODES. conscious until the end. WELLINGTON, N. Z., June 6,—Re- Mrs. Moore later suffered a reli and yesterday afternoon was || ports received here {rom the Taupo that members of the family region in the centre of North Midway summoned, Her physicians, how: Island say earthquake shocks have ‘ been felt there dafly since May 9 ton Bighth My 1922. “IF IT HAPPENS IN NEW. YORK IT’S IN THE EVENING WORLD”’ MRS. WARD REFUSES TO INVOLVE HUSBAND orld. To- Merrewe Weather—FAIR; WALL STREE Post Office, “St HEAD” JMR, WARD, BEFORE JURY. SAYS BOY, DYING OF COPS BULLET Policeman Fires as Women Scream and Young Wife May Be Widow. BUT MARRIED. Youth, Out of Work, Accused of Trying. to Rob Couple. LY 17, Clarence Hornung, No. 75 Hooper Street, Brooklyn, who has a wife and baby at home, although he ts only seventeen, is a prisoner at the Will- jamsburg Hospital, where he {s in a critical condition with a bullet wound through his back The shot was fired early this morn- ing by Patrolman George Patton of the Clymer Street Station at Rodney Street and Lee Avenue, “I heard the sereams of women," Patton said, ‘and this young man was Yunning away. 1 called to him to stop, but he dodged across the street and continued to run I then fired and’he dropped."’ One of the women was Mrs. Ger- trude Ingber, No. 31 Lynch Street The other was her mother-in-law, Mrs. Celia No. 284 Rodney Street. The younger woman said to police: “I was walking along with my mother-in-law when seized from be- two Ingber, hind ‘by a man and thrown to the sidewalk. He may have thought 1 carried money in my stocking. I screamed and so did my mother-in- law, and the man ran. Then I heard some one shout ‘Halt!’ and a moment later T heard the shot.’ The boy, before losing consctous- ness, is reported to have sald to the police: “Tt don't know— —that's all.” At his home father, Anthony Hornung, “It is certain that my boy would mot attempt a robbery. He is not that kind. He was graduated from public school-at 14 and a year ago he marrted a girl he had known at school since he was 11. They live here and have a baby six weeks old Clarence has worked for several banks, always obtaining good letters of recommendation when he quit. For about a month he has been ont of work but has had nothing to worry about.” T just lost my head reporter found his who sald —— THREE ARE KILLED AS TRAIN HITS AUTO Truck With Insane Patients Aboard Struck at Bing- hamton Crossing. BINGHAMTON, N. Y., June 6 Three persons were killed and three injured when Pacific Express train Noj 7 on the Erie Railroad hit a truck at the Binghamton State Hos- pital Water Works crossing here this morning. Two of the dead were inmates of the State Hospital for the Insane Th train is believed the fir engineer of the Entered an Second: New HI EDITION ittsburgh WARMER. EWING ENING WORLD : _PRICE THREE CENTS REFUSES 10 REPLY 10 QUESTIONS ON HUSBAND SNATCHES §2 000 IN SECOND AVENUE, GETS AWAY IN AUTO Robber Believed Hit by Bul- lets From His Victim’s Revolver, A thug who probably has a bullet hole or two in his body this af noon shortly before 1 o'clook robbed Henry Decker, collgctor for the SheMeld Farms Dalfy Company, of $2,000 in 6lst Street, near Second Avenue. Aided by a companion who had an automobile awaiting with en- gine running, he managed to get away Decker had just made a collection from a branch of the dairy company at No. 1161 Second Avenue and placed the money in a brown leather bag, the contents amounting in all to about $2,000, Then he walked to his automobile which he had left in 61st Street, near Second Avenue, and ieaned into it to place the bag on the front seat Ase he bent down a man he can only describe as being of medium height, wearing a raincoat and carry- ing an umbrella, bumped violently into him, The shock of the collision threw Decker across the instrument board of the car and whtle he was thus off his balance the man reached in, srabbed the leather bag and started off. When Decker straightened up and turned he saw the man running to- ward a touring car, evidently waiting, about thirty feet away Instantly Decker drew his repolver and, taking careful aim at the fleeing figure, fired five shots at almost paint blank range Both he and such bystanders as did not take to cover when the bullets began to fly are certain that some of the shots must have taken effect As the running man reached the walting car the driver had to reach back and drag the robber into it Then he put on power and fled. Near Third Avenue a man who heard the shooting and saw Decker pursuing the escaping car stepped into the roadway with arms upraised in an effort to stop it, Bdt, though he stood directly in the path of the machine, the driver made no attempt to swerve aside and if the man had not moved he would have been run down The car then tu Avenue, ran to 6 turned west and traffic One ed north in Third Street and then was lost in the of the shots Decker fired crashed through the window of Henry Myers's pork store at No. 1145 Second Avenue, near 60th Street. There were a number of women in the place and three of them fainted. fatally sealded, and was seriously injured — ARREST SOCIETY WOMAN ON CHARGE SHE HAD RUM Freda A. Mes. Crooks Held in Bail at Sux (Bpecial to The B 1 MALONE, N. Y Mra. Fred [¢ A. Crooks, society woman of New York with a summer home here, was held in $1,000 bail last night wait 1 of the Federai Grand Jury, t mmis sioner B,C Lawre 1 with transporting ‘l Mrs. Crooks ing to her he cers say the liquor in her car Officials had leon informed had: bought the beverage ad th ca was followed when it left Mal Crook's automodilogwas confiscated ar placed In storage. Decker orted the robbery to po lice of the East 67th Street Station. oe HID $4,000 DIAMONDS IN HUBBY’S OLD SHOE Shortly before noon yesterday Mrs Gustave P. Hoffman of No. 14 Kingman Road, South Orange. N. J, hid her valued at $4,000, In one of husband's old shoes in a clothes arly in the afternoon Dr Hoffman carried the ‘diamond’ shoe and its mate to the shop of the Eagle Shoe Repairing Company at No, 1014 South Orange Aven ewark, for repairs After dinni ht Dr. and Mrs Hoffman compared notes Anth: Palomirt, boas of the E Shoe R Tompany, sald ne! no 8 assistants had heard antthing about the diany » South Orange and Newark Police Department are Investigating | xf District Attomey Takes Wife Before Justice Morschauser to Force Her to Tell What She Knows of Crime. Slayer’s Bank Accounts Are to Be Subpoenaed if He Refuses to Testify About Blackmail Conspiracy. Mrs, Béryl Ward refused to an- swer several questions put to her te- day before the Westchester County Grand Jury investigating the kilitng ‘by her husband, Walter 8S. Ward, of Clarence Peters, May 16, District | Attorney Weeks at once went defore Justice Morschauser in his chambers and asked for an order compell ng Mrs. Werd to answer. He was ac- or ied by Allen R. Campbell of Ward's counsel, Those who overheard the discus- sion gathered that Mrs. Ward had re- fused to tell what guests were at her home on Decatur Road, New Rochellé, the evening before the body of Peters was found near Kensico Reservoir. She also balked at stating what time her husband came home that night and what his actions were after he got home, and refused to say whether she recognized the photographs of several persons shown to her. Mr. Weeks, it was understood, won the argument. Justice Morschauser told Mr. Campbell Mrs. Ward was within her rights in refusing to toll anything said or done which was kffown to herself alone, but she must tell of anything she had learned which was common knowledge in the household and which servants might have seen or heard. While Mrs, Ward was on the stand Allen R. Campbell, of counsel for Ward, was obviously nervous. He watched the door of the Grand Jury room. He showed an unwonted curi- osity regarding rumors which drifted through the corridors and seemed as eager for news as the youngest and most worried of the newspaper re- porters Mrs. Ward was preceded on the stand by State Troopers Harry Green and Joseph Collins, who took charge of the body of Peters when it wus found on King Street Road, north of the Kensico Reservoir, and by Dr John Fielding Black, jvho performed the autopsy on the body of Peters for Coroner Fitzgerald When Walter S. Ward is called to the witness stand he will be asked questions regarding the $30,000 he says he paid to certain associ- ates of Peters as blackmail up to the time their demand for $75,- 000 more led to the battle which ended in the death of Peters, It is assumed from the tactics of Ward's legal advisers that under thelr advice he will refuse to give any de- tails of the blackmailing transactions. In that event District Attorney Weeks Is prepared to Issue subpoenas to all the banks and trust companies with which Ward has done business and to Ward himself, requiring the produe~ tion of his checkbooks, deposit slips and personal and business accounts. From these it is believed much can be learned as to expenditures of any such sum as $30,000 during the last few months. If checks were not made out to the blackmatlers the dates of checks on which large sums were drawn as cash will be of pertinent in- terest to the Grand Jury. In spite of a general understanding to the contrary, no subpoena has yet been issued for George 8. Ward, father of Walter Ward, who, acderd- ing to the son, had knowledge of the blackmailing operations and advised J by radio from across the at he would defy the extor- d whea we want him," ts the answer of the District Attorney's offce to inquiries f as to why the head of the Ward B: ery Company is not held by poena within the jurisdiction of y court. ‘The assurance ts giv when the Grand Jury testimony « eP Seusae