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

“IF IT HAPPENS IN NEW YORK IT’S IN THE EVENING WORLD’’ POLICE PUT STORM DEATH LIST AT 7 walle To- Night's Weather--FAl R THE NI = Vou. ‘LXE. me) _22,073—DAILY. CLOSING TABLES. — Che | “Circulation Books Open to All.’ Mas aS jew York World) ing Company, I by Press . Elder Ward Evading SHERIFF NOW BELIEVES G.. WARD SEEKS T0 EVADE GRAND JURY APPEARANCE MORGANS STAND Clue to Blackmail Plot Seen in Mysterious Letter Written Grand Jury eaves In- cluding Race Track Tout Who Had Letter. Washington Believes, With Him, Reparations Must Bheriff Werner of Westchester > > County is convinced that it is Be Settled First. going to be much harder than he an- <a By David Lawrence. tletpated to serve a subpoena on George S. Ward to appear before the (Special Gores pondent of The Eve- Grand Jury to testify rpgarding his ning World.) knowledge of what led up to the kill- WASHINGTON, June 12 (Copy ing of Clarence Peters. -When the} ?igbt).—Although J. P. Morgan at- subpoena was made out last Wedues-| tended the bankers’ conference at day the Sheriff was told that the mit- | Paris purely as a private citizen and Honaire baker and‘his son Ralph were | Possessed of no official connection at a convention in Pennsylvania.| Wit! the United States Government Ralph Ward was subpoenaed at his] te statement he issued in France home last Friday, but the men sent| **t{ing forth the reasons why a loa to find the father have been unable| ‘® Germany was at present imp to learn that he has returned to this teable, was) reoeived: Heres with: the State tullest satisfaction Mr. that the rations problem must first be set tled and that there must be ny among the Allies on this quest Morgan's insistence “T begin to think, mitted to-day to come to White Plains and testify. The Ward te believed the Sheriff ad- , ‘that he does not want testimony of George fig reflection of the views held jn officia! nntiai tg test tne state- | ouarters here ment of Walter Ward that a quarrel] ne effort of certain semi-official with blackmailers caused the revolver| newspapers in France to blame. the fight in which Peters was killed, The| United States for the failure of the Ward attorneys showed the Sherif} bankers’ conference on the ground j that German reparations cannot be and Dist Attorney, when Walter] reduced because America will not 1 Ward surrendered himself, a copy of |duce the Allied war debt, was met to- hn radio message from George 8,{94¥ by Informal statements on the part of high officials here to the effect Ward, fyom the steamship Majestic, |inat German reparations and the Al- to his son, In which he told theliied debt payments to America were younger man he would pay no money to blackmailers but fortune to put them in jail, The Westchester authorities will try to-day to determine the importance of a letter signed by Walter 5. Ward dated the day Peters was killed and addressed to Arthur J. Blute, No. 3 Ray Street, Jamaica, L. 1. ‘The communication was found on Elwood Heffner, under arrest in New Rochelle on a forgery charge. He 1s said to be a race track ‘‘tout.'’ The writer, apparently in replying to a question, said among other things: “Am not interested in any further in- formation of that kind. My letter ud- dressed to H. B. Byrnes, Genera! De- livery, Louisville, was returned to me Is that the best address you have for him?” When inquiries were made at No. 3 Ray Street , it was found to two separate and distinct things. This was the position of the Wilson Admin- istration, whénever the subject was broached abroad, and officials to-day emphasized that the Harding Admin- istration felt the same way about it The French stood so positively against reducing German reparation payments that the effort of the in ternational bankers to arrange for u loan to Germany, wherewith to pay her debt, gradually was doomed France, however, is unwilling again to be placed in the position of blocking world reconstruction and the French press is therefore trying to shift the burden to America, This kind of tac- tics hardly increases the affection of one country for the other and admit- tedly makes a settlement in the future (Continued on Thirteenth Page.) TWO EARTH SHOCKS would spend a 5. be the hoi ffner, whose par-| IN SOUTH RECORDED ents said Blute did not live thére fanless and was not welcome there WASHINGTON, rvs , Blute has a room with William anne 1A Hayy earthquake shock was recorded at the Georgetown University seismologt- cal observatory last midnight and a less severe tremor, probably more dis- Knapp, a jockey, on Queens Avenue near the Hempstead Turnpike, Their landiady said they had left the house before she was up to-day and she be- Hteved they had gone to the Belmont} tant, was recorded about 6 o'clock race track, as was their custom. this morning. Westchester officials believe the The first quake began at 11.54 o'clock last night and continued unti! the scene of bE] 4 o'clock this morning, with the letter relates to racing tips because Churehill Downs, racing events, Is near Louisville. And] createst intensity about five 7, 4 s' 8 ve minutes it may involve tha blackmail Ward] arter midnight. The centre of the (Continued on nteenth Page.) disturbance was estimated at 2,100 miles from Washington in a southerly directi VOLGA FAMINE MEhe se0004 quake lasted about half IS S CONQUERED aa) Banks —— Oe: The seismograph at Fordham Uni- Relief Administration Head Says No More Will Die of Hunger. LONDON, June 12.—Moscow advices quote Col. Haskell, head of the Ameri- can Relief Administration in Russia, as eclaring the famine in the Volga region s conquered and that no more will die of hunger. versity recorded an earthquake shock at 11.54 o'clock Jast night untit 1,08 A. M The instrument indicated the dis- turbance was most violent in its last stages and was about 2,850 miles to the Southwest, somewhere in Mexivo or in the Gulf, There was juat after continuing a second alight 7 o'clock ARBUCKLE, BROKE, TO APPEAL TO HAYS Heavily in Debt, Film Comedian Sces Only Chance in Reinstatement. LOS ANGELES, June 12.—‘'Fatty"’ Arbuckle, broke, wants to come back Bs from the trial for manslaughter, fortune, films following he 000 rred his has lost his house and automobile and is heavily in debt “Fatty,” backed by friends, 1 an appeal to Will Hays for reins ment k {7° MONEY DROPS |LITTLE GIRL SEES ca i0 2 3.4 PER CENT Some Suriitee Off 10 Points and Entire List Shows Decline {-2 Call money dropped to 2% per cent. to- for the first time since Octo- ber, 1917, and the stock market, in- stead of being checked in its down- ward movement, continued to fall from the earlier prices of the day. Within an hour of the closing of the Stock Exchange ecurities had declined as much as 19%% points from some the opening Practically throughout the list the decltn veraged 2% points, The sales of shares at 2 o'clock had to- tal 1,200,000. The declines in some of the most important issues were Steel, off 11-8 at 993-4; American Sumatra Tobacco, 21-2 at 38; American To- bacco, 2 at 1888-4; Atlantic Gulf, 27-8 at 371-2; Barnsdall A., 6 at 36; California Petroleum, 4 at 59 7-8; Crucible Steel, 33-8 at 701-8; Amer- {ean Bosch Magneto at 41; American Wo Lacomotive States Steel, 31-8 at Kelly- ringfleld, 2 at 47; May Department Stores, 41-4 at 111; Mexican Petro leum, 41-8 at 1441-4; General phalt, 2 at 591-2; General pfd., 101-2 at 93; Nu ling & Stamping American Petroleum, 3 1 Duteh, 2 at 609-4; and Transport, 31-8 standard Oll of N. J Tobaceo Products U Industrial Alco! Wabash Railroad gua IDA KRAMER RS SLAYER GETS LIFE SENTENCE CAMDEN 12.—George Ehwer Monroe, (1 (eon-year-old youth who recen vfessed to killing seven-year-old Ida sr of Wood- bury, was sentencer to life im- prisonment in the tentiary at Trenton Grand om Sheriff Werner Belioves ‘19 [ 22. Wreck of Clason Point Ferris Wheel In Which 7 Were Killed and 35 Injured STOCKS STILL FALL} DAD'S JEWEL SHOP THUGS HOLD UP HER ———— Armed Men, Wearing Silk Shirts, Get $10,200 Loot in First Avenue Robbery. yas behind th Israe) Auster, forty counter of his jewelry store at No 1449 First Avenue at 10 o'clock thi morning with his three-year-olll daughter Sarah, and his clerk ant nephew, Joe Steinberg, twenty, when a spruce looking#young man of twenty five, wearing a blue serge suit, a wl silk shirt and a new straw hat, tered and asked to be shown a cheap watch, Auster had placed a tray of wa ehes on the counter and taken one of them in his hands when three other young all with man came in, all in blue, white silk shirts, all with ne hats. One of the newcomers, with the supposed ‘‘customer'’ between him and the door, pointed a revolver across the counter and, pointing first at Aus ter and again at Steinberg, ordered the jewellers to precede him into th: back room. Another carried little Sarah along. “If one of you so much as opens riot pe (Continued on Seventeenth Page) wee eee ey ( THE | \EVERLASTING! WHISPER | | JACKSON GREGORY \ ] A Thrilling Story of | (Western Mountains and}: Lost Mines \| tin THE EVENING WORLD! = TO-DAY \\: ee | three sweeping investigation is under < |Big Ferris Wheel Torn Apart By Storm, Hurled Into Sound; Seven Victims Dead, 35 Injured Thousand in Panic Clason Point Park Battle fo Reach Exits. One arrest has been made and a way to-day to determine responsibility for the collapse of the 100- foot wheel at Clason Point Park, Point, an some mortally, In last night's Bronx, killing injuring more thé d Clason rris persons storm. Clason Point Park is a privately ‘ owned amusement enterprise tant District Attorney Quigley, co operating with Bronx Superintendent of Buildings Patrick Revill conducting the invest Mr. passengers storm been issued for a rigid ex Reville said. th wheel should hay out when approaching. the he An operator dered hi saw order amination all slides, wheels and other amusement devices in parks Bronx. the h motion in The wind appeared to lift the upper half of the wheel and toss it with Its merrymakers into Long Island Sound The collapse of the lower half tol- lowed, burying those in it under tho wreckage. Policemen, firemen and volunteers worked halt an hour before the victims were removed o nscious, There were man passengers in the cars of the including in some families, THE DEAD. instances, whe whole about eighty DANATRO, LOUIS, twenty-four, N@ 624 Edith Street, Bronx. FREDA, MRS. PASQUALE, thirty- eight, No. 249 East 147th Street. LAWYER, AMELIA, nine, No. PE FF Ha West 111th Street. LLEBRINI, LASALP, dress unknown REDA, PASQUALE, (Continued on Second AHDING BACK FROM ORUISE ON WASHINGTON, June | arding returned to the VW ortly before M. te Sunday cruise dow forty Ma er The Pi d by Mrs. Harding s Attorney Genera retary Mellon and Senato a Newberry 1HE WORLD ulltner le H | 47, 844 HALF BREAD COST GOES TO LAY LOAF ON FAMILY TABLE Farmer Gets 29.6 Cents for Wheat in $1 Worth of Bread. ‘ON, June 12 \ loaf of bread, the Joint Com mission on Agricultural Inquiry said in a preliminary report pub- lished to-day, offers a striking ex- ample of farmer's costs and profits before it reaches table what happens to the product in the way of the family About 50 cents out of ch dollar the consumer pays for bread, the report says, is ab- sorbed in cost of distribution. he farmer gets only 29.6 cents for the wheat needed to produce it The average cost of getting the wheat ready for baking is 8.4 cents, The average cost of manufac- turing It into bread is 10.16 cents. “A considerable factor in t baker's cost of distribution, which erages 15.76 cents, Is the serv- element, ys the report. ‘Our inquiry does not Indicate the baker has cxacted an undue ofit.”* The World’s Remarkable Gain In Advertising Month May, 1922: 700, 100 kines Sissies Advertising 116,480 More Than Last Year 70,000 rirvnrinre 152,092 saertisements, 17,306 More Than Last Year More Than Any Other Newspaper Help To More “Business Opportunities More “Real Fatate” Ade 418 More “Summer Resorts” THE SUNDAY WORLD CIRCULATES IN OVER 600,000 HOMES Circulation Books Open to All.” Kntered as Second-Clas Matter Pout Offles, To-Morrow’s Weather—Fair; Rising Temperature. New York, N. ¥. q/POLICE PLACE DEATH LIST IN STORM AT 79, WITH BODIES OF 47 RECOVERED NEW STORM SWEEPS UP-STATE; WIRES AL ALL DOWN Extends to to the New Eng- land States—N. Y.—Mon- treal Service Interrupted. Reports were received here this af- Biggest Mortality Was at City | Island, Where 16 Drowned and 46 Rowboats Are Un- accounted For, Seven Killed W hen Ferris Wheel at Clason Point Col- lapses—Property Damage Incalculable. 3 ternoon of a new storm sweeping Up- per New York State, Telegraph lines were cut by the gale between Troy — and Syragfine The official police estimate of the ‘The a number of victims of the storm that of the new gale extended eastwar@ from the vicinity of Schenec- tady, to the New England States. Wire conimunication between New York and/Mont by the ® swept this city and vidifity yesterday evening is seventy-five. If ts known that forty-seven were drowned of otherwise killed, ( The estimate seventy-five is based upon the nui ber of jnquiries that have been made about missing persons at Bronx and Westchester Pollve Stations. ‘Thousands visited the Fordham Morgue to-day and looked at the pod- ies there, It would appear thar mort 1 Wes interrupted > DEATH TOLL IS 47, ALL BUT TWO IN AND NEAR THE CITY of the visitors were looking for mixs- Clty Island .. 16 Clason Point 7 [ing relatives. rom the number of Paterson, N. J | 3 |vowboats, canoes and motor boats New Rochelle “g [that have been washed ashore along BiSint Vernuh. .... |g | the Sound benches between the Har Red Lion Inn, Boston Post Rd. 2 lem River and Greenwich, Conn., the Teavehinon€ soso secee 1 [estimate of seventy-five victims in this Newark _ 1 | Vicinity seems to be low. « Betheneack: Nd ua The greatest loas of life hy drown- Piping Rock, L. 1 _ 1 [ing was at City Island, where the In L. 1. Sound, off Bronx, } |storm came with terrific fury and 180th Street and Harlem River 1 hundreds were caught far trom shore 134th Street and Hurlem River, 1 in canoes and rowboata. One boat- LEM ea deed Molla gic) [mouse at City Island reported to-day Leonia, N. J A that forty-six rowboats rented Yes Ossining, N. Y eet 1 |terday before the storm are missing Greenwich, Conn ci At New Rochelle James Stroker fost Cortland, N. ¥ 1 |his life while trying to rescue five Smyr N, ¥ Italians from a capsized rowboat Stroker and Charles McGrath of ae Larchmont \ :¢ on shore and saw the 25 CATTLE UNINJURED rowboat capsize. They went out in AFTER 80 FT. AIR TRIP a launch and saved three of the five a men Two of the Italians were ALBA ¥., June 12.—One of drowned and one of them drag: the freaks of the storm was the lifting Stroker down with him. of a stock barn with 25 head of stock in it, at Athens, carrying it eighty feet and dropping it without a single animal being injured, JEWELL DENIES RAIL UNIONS PLAN MOVE 10 CANADA No Talk of Evading Effect of Coronado Decision, The body of a young man wear’ a blue sweater, white trousers white shoes came ashore at Larclimont Yacht Club shortly betore noon, There were no identifying marks on the clothing Harry Klein of No. 1619 Washing- ton Avenue, the Bronx, reported to the City Island police to-day that Sadie Dexler, 19 years old, a stenog- rapher, of No, 496 East 174th Street, was drowned in the storm. Acoord- ing to Klein, he and Miss Dexler were in canoes a short distance off when the storm broke. The canoes were capsized. He made an effort to save the young woman, but she was swept from his reach, Among those reported missing were shore He Says. Miss Rita Anderson of No. 108 Cenire —__— Street, City Island, an eighteen-year- CINCINNATI, Ohio., June 12 (As-]old stenographer, and B. A. Me- sociated Press).—B. M. Jewell, heal] Laughlin, a young man who had of the Railway Employes Depart-| taken her out for a row on the Sound ment of the American Federation of from Lane’s Beach. They returned Labor, denied emphatically to-day]home late last night, explaining that” that the railway shop craft's union|their boat had been swamped by the have under consideration a plan to] waves kicked up by the storm, When move their headquarters from Chi-|they righted it, the oars were gone cago to Canada to escape any sults} it took them three hours, paddling brought against them under the ¢ with their hands te reach Nevin's onado decision recently handed down] Dock on the Bronx «iiore by the Untted States Supreme Court.| Moe Buskin, twenty-three, No. 390. "We have ne such move under con sideration and I have heard no talk among our leaders of doing such a Miller Avenue, Brooklyn, a salesman, te believed to have been drowned. His thing.” Mr, Jewell said friend, Ren Selvin, No. 1880 484 Street, We ave not running away from| Brooklyn, reported to the polies of the any fight. We are not seeking «| City Ieland Station this morning figh'. but tf forced inte one wili tattle ‘There were four af us in a vance to the lant diten he said, ‘and the stom came upom a ’ F “ —————