The evening world. Newspaper, June 13, 1922, Page 1

Bilal a i amily: fy a esi: amanaaaleials Spcniibin ants tiem acecsiamnear dammed mami an in te el “IF IT HAPPENS IN NEW YORK IT’S IN THE EVENING WORLD” WARD’S FATHER WILLNOTRETURN, HESAYS ifecNighvs Weather—PROBABLY SHOWERS. Che SS VOL. “LEXI. “NO. 2,014—DATLY. Copyright (New York Wert)» by Press = ‘Company. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1922. Entered as Second-Clans Matter Pont Office, New York, N. Y. PRICE THREE CENTS inemen, ay Storm Damage, Electrocuted IN HOTEL DRY RAID; MANAGERS FREED Auaccintion 1 Puss Rule That Any Employee SellingLiquor Will Be Fired. @aw ABIDING, THEY SAY (Not Strange, They Say, That Occasionally Help Will Be Tempted and Fall. All that remained late this after- mo fthe visits to three big New rk hotels last night by Federal Pro- \ Ribition agents was that D. N. Horan, @ bellhop of the Hotel McAlpin, had been held by Commissioner Hitchcock fer the United States Garnd Jury, in $1,000 bonds. Assistant United States Attorney Mildeberger refused to entertain the @omplaints of the dry agents again Manager Carney and Assistant Man- ager Simpson of the McAlpin, declar- @@ him by the Prohibition men, the Management of the hotel was in no way involved in the violation of the Yaw. Horan, the only hotel employee locked up—the others received sum- monses—was charged with offering to luce, and producing, intoxicating It was announced authoritatively afternoon for the Hotel Associa- of New York City that from and efter to-day employees who lend themselves in any way to the break - fmg of the anti-liquor law automatic- ally wil Ithrow themselves out of work. After sitting around Federal Build- ante rooms fr two or three hours two of the three parties of hotel men served last night by Federal Prohl- bition Agents were told by the agents “beat it.” The hotel employees thus “vindic- ated” were Assistant Manager Charles Garrity of the Hotel Astor, and An- drew McGoldrick, a bellboy there, and Frank Caldera, a waiter at the Hotel Ansonia. “You're not wanted,” they were told. The trio named, together with one ler two from the Hotel McAlpin, ap- at the Federal Building at 11 o'clock and waited while Prahibition agents went over their cases With As- laistant United States District Attor- ney Mildeberger. Last night's “‘raids’’ on the three hotels and to-day's visits to Milde- bergers’ office were made the occasion for a renewed declaration by the Hotel Association of the determination of its members to obey the dry law. owith the great numbers of em- there is, however," Lawyer a L. Bernays said for the asso- ‘always the possibility of pe one among the thousands suc- bing to temptation, To safeguard integrity of the industry, the Association puts itself on rec- md for its member hotels to drop m their employ any individual who the Prohibition Law."* 8 Bes sae eEUD*” Agents Owens and Voss visited the nt house at No, 318 West 185th yesterday afternoon, they say, in the basement bought drinks Otto m Otto Nagel, the janitor. locked up in the West 124d Street oq Station. Im the retired saloon at No. rman Avenue Agents 144 4 Drescher charge that they bought ONLY BELLHOP HELD] iti that if the facts are as represented | Leaps 24,206 Feet in Parachute For Record, Landing 25 Miles Away Half an Hour After Jumping Acrial Photographer Near Death as Gale Tears Off Oxygen Tank—His Plane Also Breaks Record for Three Passengers. DAYTON, June 13 (Associated Press).—Lashed and whipped about by @ 120-mile-an-hour gale more than four and a half miles above earth und on the verge of suffocation, caused by loss of his oxygen tank, and com- pelled to cling to ropes and straps attached to a parachute for fear that a whirling crosscurrent might weaken and cause them to break, are some of the “mere” details related to-day by Capt. A. W. Stevens, aerial photog- rapher, McCook Field, who yesterday broke the world’s parachute jumping record when he descended 24,206 feet. The fact that it was Capt. Steven's first “drop” tends to make his feat one of the most remarkable tn the his- tory of aviation. He suffered no iil effects from his hazardous trip. The plane in which he ascended, a twin-motored Martin bomber, piloted by Lieut. Leigh Wade, broke the world’s altitude record for this parti ular type of ship carrying three pas- sengers when it ascended 24,206 feet. Sergt. Roy Langham was the third member of the party. Capt. Stevens was reluctant to-day to discuss details of his experience. “For a long tine I have wanted to make a parachute drop. primarily to obtain first-hand information as to the sensations one feels," he saids) “IT am highly gratified to think I was able to bring another record to MeCook Field. “When the plane reached the cetl- ing | made ready to jump. As near as I could judge, we were over Spring- field, Ohio. Bidding my pals goodby, I jumped. “The opening of the parachute caused the oxigen tank to become loose from fastenings on the front of my clothing. Grasping it with both hands, I endeavored to retain it. “The wind, which was travelling at a speed of 120 miles an hour, whipped the parachute around like a jackstraw. 1 was forced to use both hands on the ropes and straps which held me to the chute in an effort to check oscilla- tion, which threatened to weaken the supports. It was then that I lost the tank. I think it fell somewhere near Sprinefield. “It was an experiment I shall never forget. Before settling down to a lower altitude | thought my time had come as I was nearly suffocated due to the rareness of the atmosphere. Dropping out of the gale into calmer atmosphere below I quickly recovered, however. “1 landed at Jamestown, approxt- mately twenty-five miles from where I left the plane. The descent took WIDOW OF BRUNEN IN JAIL AS SLAYER OF CIRCUS OWNER Arrested on Word of Other Prisoners She Plotted Hus- band’s Death. —Wife of Perry H BETRAYS NO SURPRISE Brooklyn. Brought From Philadelphia for “Conference” and Then i ail. WIDOW ARRESTED eee ACCUSED OF DEATH | (Special to The Evening World.) OF CIRCUS OWNER] ™“OUNT HOLLY, N, J., June 13. Mrs. Doris Brunen, widow of “Honest John" Grunen, the circus owner who was shot and killed at his home in Riverside on the night of March 10, is under arrest here in the county jail charged with murder. County De- tective Ellis Parker preferred the charge. He says Mrs. Brunen insti- gated the killing of her husband. Mrs. Rrunen is the third prisoner under arrest accused of the murder of “Honest John.’ The others are Harry Mohr, her brother, and Charles M. Powell, The latter has confessed he killed Brunen and charges that Mohr pramised him $1,000 but paid only $50. ) Powell was arrested early in April and held a prisoner in secret for three weeks, Then Mohr was ar- rested. He attempted to prove ap alibi, For the last month Detective Parker has been holding daily con- ferences with Powell and Mohr in jail, and from this fact it is assumed he obtained some information from them which led to the arrest of the widow. Mrs. Brunen had been living at No. 3029 Bridge Avenue, Philadelphia. Two of Parker's men went to her home yesterday afternoon and per- suaded her to come to Mount Holly for a ‘‘conference."’ When she got to Parker’s offices she was placed under arrest. She did not appear to be sur- prised and went to the county jail gang of three linemen, their missidn being to repair the service wires lead- ing to Rest House, an Inwood Park institution for the care of the sick. The scene of the fatalities is near the River Road, a thoroughfare about 200 feet north of Dyckman Street, running along the Hi A repair wagon di up to’a little path leading through the thivk woods, and (nburgio, in the lead, 1 to the grdund and struck off along « path seventy-five feet east of River Road. Wires were down everywhere. Perry followed Inburgio by fifteen or twenty feet and, coming suddenly into & ing, was horrified to ies of blue flame shoot- and his clothing & mass of apparently, .ran to Inburgio's assis- tance and grabbed hold of him. When the other Hnemen reached the spot Inburgio and the foreman were both on fire. John McGann of No. 311 West 118th Street, and George Freeland of Now 2649 Decatur Avenue, the Bronx, the other men, succeeded In lassoing Inburgio and Perry around the legs and pulling them away from the wire. Then they called Patrolman Burke cf the West 177th Street Police Station and Dr. Cartllo of Columbia Hospital was summoned. Inburgio and Perry were dead. Foreman Perry, who had been em- ployed by the light and power com- pany ten years, leaves a widow and three daughters, Gertrude, sixteen; Frances, fourteen, and Stella, eleven ears old. The eldest is employed In the office of the company’s store- room at No. 520 West 24th Street. Mrs. Perry appeared to have a fore- boding this morning, her daughters said, that the day would prove an evil one. She pleaded with Gertrude not to go to the office, but to remain at SPECIAL SESSION IF HOUSE IGNORES SHIP SUBSIDY NOW Harding Warns Congress to Act on Measure Before Adjournment. without protest in the custody of Miss Anna Voos, Parker's stenographer. Parker has refused to reveal the evidence upon which he arrested Mrs. Brunen, It is known he has never been satisfied with the story she told of the murder. She was the only other occupant of the house at the time of the killing and gave the alarm, after discovering her husband's body, half an hour after neighbors had seen an automobile leaving, pre- home with her. The policeman who called with news of the death of Perry did not have the heart, he said, to convey it. He told his story to one of the neighbors. a BAINBRIDGE COLBYS GUESTS OF WILSONS Former Secretary of State and Wife Lunch With just thirty minutes, “Just before taking off at McCook Field an orderly appeared carrying lunch kit containing sandwiches and coffee in vacuum bottles. We ate the Junch 24,000 feet in the air and we all enjoyed it thoroughly. The tem- perature at the ceiling was zero. Another plane picked Capt. Stevens up at Jamestown and brought him back to McCook Field. Two hours and five minutes was re- quired by Lieut, Wade to pilot the WASHINGTON, June 12 (Assoc!- ated Press).—President Harding han Rotified Chairman Campbell of the Guttman House Rules “ommittee that unless the Ship Subsidy Bill is passed prior to adjournment he would feel oblt- gated to call a special session solely for {ts consideration In his letter the President expressed the hope that the Rules Committee would give privileged status to the Shipping Bill. The President sald: “I understand that in a very short time the Merchant Marine Bill is to be favorably reported to the House. I am writing to express the hope that your Committee on Rules will report whatever provision is necessary for its bomber to her record breaking alti- tude. COURT TURNS DOWN SOLOMON, LETTING CHILD DECIDE FATE Father Denied Custody When Girl Prefers Home She Lived in Since 1913. Supreme Court Justice May itn Brooklyn refused to-day the peti- tion of Solomon Solomon, No, 96 Goerck Street, Manhattan, to re- gain the custody of his thirteen- sumably carrying the murderer. Brunen was a widely known show man and had built up a pretentious circus. For several years he had not lived happily with his wife, although they were associated in the manage- ment of the circu Brunen told hi: friends his wife and his daughter Hazel were causing him a lot of trouble. In July, 1920, Mrs. Bruncn reported that while alone in her home at Riverside two men entered and rob- * Ex-President. (Bpectal to The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, June 13.—Former Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby and Mrs. Colby, who came to Wash- ington to be the luncheon guests of former President Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. Wilson at their & Street residence, returned to New York to- day on the Congressional Limited. Mr. Colby called on a number of his old associates while here and ex- pressed pleasure at the opportunity to chat with the former President. He said his visit to Mr. Wilson had no (Continued on Tenth Page.) Where to Lineman Killed by Live Wire; Foreman Meets Death Trying To Save Inwood Park Workman Were Repairing Damage Done by the Storm Day Would Be an Evil One. Two employees of the United Blectric Light and Power Company sent to Inwood Park at 9 o'clock this morning to repair wreckage by Sunday's storm lost their lives through contact with live wires. Carlo Inburgio, fifty-five, a lineman, of No. Frederick Perry, forty, foreman, of No. 401 West 126th Street. Foreman Perry was in charge of a ing from the bedy of the lineman flame. The foreman, unmindful of himseif ad Foreboding That SIGNORA MOTTI, WHO ATTEMPTED TO LEAP FROM SHIP The men were: 226 Seventh Street, STORM DEATH LIST NOW PUT AT 100, POLICE DECLARE Bodies of Several Victims Be-} lieved Swept Out to Sea by Tides. A case of & Whole faitlly wiped out in Sunday everiing's storm, and only one body—that of the’ father—recov- ered, which came to the attention of the police to-day, convinces them that the lst of victims will number 100 or more. It is believed that a turn of the tide moon after the storm carried many bodies into Long Island Sound, where they were caught by currents and swept far from Pelham Ba where most of the drownings occurred. The body of the man found at Larchmont Yacht Club, clad in yacht- ing attire, Sunday night, was ident!- fled to-day as that of Henry C. Rob- inson, @ civil engineer of No. 53 Argyle Avenue, New Rochelle. The identification was made by Alfred C, Robinson, of the same address, father of the drowned man Henry C. Robinson took his whole family, consisting of his wife, his son, Henry C. jr., six years old, and his daughter, Jean, three and one-half years old, out for a fishing trip Sun- day afternoon, Friends saw them leaving Mamaroneck headed for New Rochelle about half an hour before the storm broke. Undoubtedly Mrs. Robinson ané the children were drowned, but their bodies have not been recovered. The police boat John F. Hylan and several police launches resumed grap- pling for bodies off City Island to- day. The high, wind and rough water made the work difficult and unsatis factory. WATCH FOR BODIES ALONG THE NORTH SHORE. Believing that several may be swept away to the Long {sland shore, the police to-day notified all life-sav- ing stations to he on the watch for them. One body was found late last night at Fox Point, near the bathing pa- villon of the Piping Rock Club off Glen Cove, It was that of Salvatore Diogordo of No. 1957 First Avenue, dentified by an old Government pass. He was one of the five whose rowboat RICH WOMAN TRIES. TOJUMP OFF SHIP ORDERED D DEPORTED Italian Banker's W Wi ife had Re- fused Entrance to U. S. as a “Domestic.” Because she refused to style her- self a ‘domestic,"* Signora Anita Mott! of Milan, Italy, wife of a banker in that city, was ordered deported on the Rellance of the United American Line, on which she arrived last Fri- day as a first cabin passenger. On board the ship which sailed to-day from the foot of West 46th Street where she was taken by immigration officers, she declared that she would jump overboard rather than go with- out her baggage which had not been brought to the ship from Ellts Island. The vessel was to have sailed at 10 o'clock, but the commotion Signora Motti made aboard the ship over th threat to kill herself if her baggage did not arrive in time to gail with her, delayed the Reliance's departure for half an hour. At one time Signora Motti came near making good her threat to leap overboard. It was at 10.20 o'clock that, her seven trunks not yet ar- rived, she suddenly became more hysterical and made a sudden run for GEORGE S. WARD LOCATED IN WILLIAMSPORT, PA: SAYS HE WILL NOT RETURN HERE Father of Confessed Slayer of Clarence Peters Is Attend- ing Session of Court There. Attempt to Tap Telephone Wires of District Attorney at White Plains Believes Successful, WILLIAMSPORT, Pa, June 13— George S. Ward, father of Walter 8. Ward, of New Rochelle, for whom a subpoena has been issued to secure his Presence before the Westchester County Grand Jury, to testity im the jpvestigation of the slaying of Clar- ence Peters by his son, stated to-day that he would not return to New York State at present. ¥ He {WY “thia ofty in a civil suit in the United States Court. Por a week the authorities of West- chester County and officials of the New York Telephine Company have been quietly investigating an effort, made a week ago yesterday, to tap the tel ephone wires into the office of Dis- trict Attorney Weeks. The attempted wire tapping le believed to have some connection with the investigation of the killing of Clarence Peters, May 16, by Walter 8. Ward Nelther District Attorney Weeks nor Sheriff Werner would answer questions regarding ‘the wire-tap ping investigation to-day, though their subordinates have talked free- ly of it among thelr friends in White Plains, The meddling with the wires ts not definitely ascribed to per- sons connected with Walter Ward's defense. It is thought possible that biackmailers, as well organized and as resourceful as those deseribed by Ward as preying on him, may be seeking information for their own protection in trying to find out how much the District Attorney really knows. Mr. Weeks has belleved for some time that if there really was a black- mall plot it originated under the leadership of a criminal of wide expe- rience in such enterprises, who has operated in New York, Philadelphia and Chicago to take enormous to!) from wealthy men of indiscreet habits It would be entirely in keeping with this bend to employ the services of men who have used their technics! skill tn electricity to steal or meddle with race track news and to spy op their victims. Mrs. Emma Huber, the chief tele- phone operator at the Court House switchboard, when she reached her office in Room No. 216, on the second floor, facing the lobby of the butlding, found the lock had been tampered with. A section of wood had been chiselled away from the door jamb and a burgla:’s two-pronged jimmy had been used, leaving heavy dents in Ne LT a ee ee pint of liquor from Frank 8. Wit year-old daughter, whom he calle |°*!¥ and final consideration. sigaificance, political or otherwise, |turned over near New Rochelle.|the port rail of the vessel. Before|the wood. It was evident that some- n. Mr. Wittman was handed a/ Sarah Bolomon, although she was “I cannot convey to you how very Spend the Summer ant wae RNY 8 S208) cal Societal, James Btroyer of New Rochelle was} she could climb it two of the ship's body had been at work in the tangle ‘i christened Jennie Mahoney, eprnestly I feel the necessity of pass- drowned trying to save them officers and one of the line grabbed |of wires back of the switchboard, Frederick A. Muschenhetm, Presi-| ‘We lived in an Irish section of Jing this act. So much is involved and V i EXPLOSION ON TRUCK An unofficial estimate to-day of] ner and drew her away making a rearrangement which might nt of the Hotel Astor Association.| prooklyn and to make things |euch difficult and discouraging sit acation SETS DRIVER ABLAZE | city was sbeut 1,000,000, The dam. | THe 1 Was decided by the line of: /be connected with e tap wire 0 . city w ¢ , A door," So! Si Bystanders Beat Out Fi! 8 (Cont ne on ‘enth Page.) was not compile’ ut ere ection between the raids and the soe on wes peer mg sanction the Merchant Marine Bill Red ponte Sune Revert sien E Vaniiching wee (Continued on Tenth Page.) hab whe have been repeated complaints in the Nee esta ie naseta Gantt name, anyway. ‘There was a {that I should feel myself obligated to] as to where is the best place fo en end | A cask sald to have contained naph DEMPSEY Fl GIRLS Cc CONQUER et eth akeeanes reese ae p get one boy to bring them liquor | Party In September, 1913, and my [call Congress immediately n extraor-| the vacation period. No other New | tha exploded as William Miller of No CANCELS FEAR AND FIGHT FIRE| wars ‘care Pica of ‘Shantt Were nd upon his refusal, in observance} Wife drank a little too much. Some | dinary session to especially consider it York newspaper prints as many Re. 40 East 20th Street, » driver, was un-| THEATRICAL CONTRACT; ——_—_—- say that the wire leading twee bia oe at hotel naa, teed eeeanee | enemy told the Children's Society [if it went over through any neglect or| sort ads. as The World, con-|ioading it from hia truck at No. 23] STARTS TRAINING FOR 2?| Frisht. Overcome SET eee cenie ian Oe ig bellboy, McGoldrick, got them} %4 our daughter was taken from |4elay beyond the present term sequently Warld readers have the Ninth Avenue. The report shook thc : Ont Before Apparatus Arrives. [io jo tapped last week fe liquor, he sald, and was later dis-| Us and placed in St. Agatha's should be more than glad to co- greatest number to select from neighborhood and the shock threw Mii-] LOS ANGELES, June 13 Jack| Fifty girls, momentarily alarm Newspaper reporters telephoning to rged by the hotel Home at Nanuet, N. Y." operate ap Spy Way that t San ie ie) 4 1 35 WORLD “RESORT" lar across the ole fast against the! Kearns, manager of hk Dempsey, | When fire broke out In the shop in whieh} thei orifices the results of thotr datly The dry agents said that after th The petition for the return of pressing the as ue ith aay rent . ADS. LAST YEAR bulla 5 wi ae ee ing Herwosa | Norld's heavyweight champion pugilist, working on the sixth floc visits to Mr Weeks have been con- ied represented themselves to bo Ok- ue oe eis Rope br the Chil- J tion of this bill. [am writing an ex- 29 1 52 More Than Any Co. Nthographers and John has cancelled the latter's contract for 1 Fitth Avenue at noon to-day, | scious that somebody war listening ti oma oil men at the McAlpin, D.| dren's Society, and the girl her- | pression of my earnestness to you at ’ Other Newspaper. | perintendent of the buildin & seven-woek's vaudeville tour, accord- ame their fright and succeeded Infcomplaints to the telephon: company. Horan, a belli boy, suggested] self testified she preferred to re- this time because } understand !t is ¢ and administered first aid af ing to published reports here picid Lie flames before the ap-| resulted in « report that the interfer- Ait they wanted liquor at any time] main at. Agaiha’s and that her | within the province of the Rules Com-| HEALTH—REST—PLEASURE |e truck cauant tra.” Byutanders| trait (or eevarelwoske. i wat tale] yg Ari" conmucted Wi an sletrs fan] the operators at the White Plana Mas ° Q - [mittee to report a provision fs en fo = eblishment o' wanted it then and got it, they} tice May decided aa the child which there may be secured carly, WHERE BEST ENJOYED unaltened, ie ware betore they could uk no Sanam wes wiven (or the) fe Gerald G, Freeman, Tra, Sout and “ne change to keep the wires clear, by od "gs meroene come #pa re Teseca. sacra . — — .. sad hope, tayorable considvration.” Read TheWorld’s‘Resort’ Ads, | pany #xtinguished_the diese, tote ‘wae estimated at $1,000, (Continued on Tenth Pages x : } : ‘