The evening world. Newspaper, June 16, 1922, Page 1

i Nl ca es a la ose —_ I EEE yee To-Night’s Weather—PROBABLY SHOWERS. NING | STREET | | i fal CLOSIN fet TABLES. Che OL. LXII. NO. 22,077—DAILY. Camron Yorker) ka Pree FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1922. Entered as Second-Class Matter Post Office, New York, N. Y. BDCIALISM BOGY ROBBED ORKMEN'S COMPENSATION MASURANCE FUND OF MILLIONS SUBSIDY BILL GOES TO ROUSE WITHOUT DRY RESTRICTIONS Marine Committee Turns Down Amendment Barring Ships That Sell Liquor. WASHINGTON, June 16.—Without a record vote the House Merchant ce Mirae reais s een Marine Committee rejected to-day the inedrerdis } { Bankhead Amendment to the Ship before the Léckwood Housing Atte by, Jonn Mf, O'Hanlon, {SUPsidy Bill providing that no Govern- Bit sete Lectsaune (oa. aoa should Petia ships on of the State Federation of | ch Nauor was sold. ‘The Edmonds proposal, which would ust-“Untermyer, counsel for tia} °ztend theyVolatend La wetiythe-aenty ntive investigaiors, Announcea | DE all ships of ay registry touch- ¢ he intends to make another at-|'28 American ports on which liquor pt at the next session of the|%*llins was permitted, was not acted lative to have a law passed giv-|'POR and the committee ordered the the State a monoply of work- |!!! reported by a straight party vote ‘ss compensation insurance, The committee adopted an amend- What proportion of the workmen's ment requiring two-thirds of crews in pperisation business ts done by tho | ck and engine departments of pa fe fund in New York State?” str. |Se2Ser ships should be Americans, but thout thi itizens! i Raper eked Mr. O'Hanlon, witho © citizenship requirement for steerage crews on passenger yer- “The entire amount of insurance]. , f 0 q a : 8 over $40,000,000 a reete replie Rejection of. the Bankhead amenit- witness. “The State Fund gets ment was expected to put the fight than $4,000,000. In other words, | over the question of Prohibition st gate about 9 per around | sea squarely before the House a a rule wa “So nearly 90 per cent, of this State kmen's insurance goes to private Mmpanies?’’ asked Mr, Untermyer. ‘Phat is a fact,” replied the wit- Federation of Labor ader Says Private Firms Secured the Cream. ‘SS STATE MONOPOLY Untermyer Says It Would Save Employers $24,- 000,000 a Year, conjuring up the bogey, of ism against the State fund fea- of the workmen's compensation in this State, private in- noe companies have succeeded in ting approximately $36,000,000 SaB aioe unless allowed which would per- mit a yote on only cominittee amend- ments. In that event, Representative Bankhead announced he would force it to an issue on a motion to recom- mit, the bill with iustructions to insert the amendment designed to close all bars on American ships sharing in the Government subsidy Meanwhile, in the executive branch, although officials were understood to be still discussing the question to-day, there had been no developments b yond the indication at the Treasury Department that Attorney General Daugherty might be asked soon for 4 ruling on the legality of Nquor selling on American ships. In this connec- tion Mr. Daugherty id that if such fa request was made it would be acted te S08 fe ee “Why does the State fund get so Je of the business and the private mpanies the vast bulk of it?’ asked . Untermyer We believe,’ replied the witness, on MPitnat tt arises from the fact that the * Manusity insurance companies, from oi the beginning, set up the ery of So- tle Maipliam against the State fund pro- 1, and many employers of labor eve that they are fighting Soclal-]oD a8 speedily as possible b by not insuring in the State in Nobody ts looking fe ance fund.’ ruling from the Attorne; [UMr. Untermyer ‘announced that he eepa® in favor of State monopoly of| ping Board that selling liquor on the gifortamen's compensation insurance; | high sea# was legal, Secretary Mellon y js indisposed te initiate action, but if form of insurance would mean Commissioner Haynes requests a rul- 04 nas fee: saving of $24,000,000 to the] ie" trom the Department of Justice fs wyers of workmen throughout the | the Secretary will send it along. The te. Treasury Department describes the ir, Untermyer even went further. | question as “academic” and involving no “moral issue.” an adverse General. In view of the opinion rendered by Gen- eral Counsel Schlesinger of the Ship- = ula declared that the passage of work- cai aeeeesecere fon) MMpr's compensation —_texisiation | WALL STREET BOMB ie oughout the tion would mean SUSPECT IS HELD mncial benefits far beyond realiza- Rouglily estimating what such r Sen ee fision would’ mean, if uationay (>t?) al of New York Detec- he said the employers of the tive Keeps Lindenfeld ntry would save in the neighhor- in Warsaw Jail. 10,000,000, = 7 > Ir. Untermyer indicated that there|_ WARSAW. June 16 (Associated pas Press)—Detective Sergt. Clinton Wood of New York, who is satd to have been = lient to the Bepartment of Justice so ntinued on Fourteenth Page.) a er that he might bring back to the United States Wolfe Lindenfeld, alias REAL ESTATE William Linde, in connection with the ADVERTISEMENTS || ws ses: exztosion ot seoremper 1920, has arrived here, for The Wood came to Warsaw just as local police were on the point of accepting bail of $00,090 marks for the release of Lindenfeld. Bail now has been re- fused. up 4 ugh | Must Be in aguinst Lin- Joxed crim . re yo Insivre Proper Classification den 7 ABLE TO AM RADO|WARD PLEADS NOT GUILTY |WESTPONT CADET |SPREAD OF $2,000,000 FIRE DESTROYING 150 BUILDINGS DUETO LACK OF WATER SUPPL T0 SPE PONT NARCON DECLARE Only Station Desired Can Re- ceive Message, Says i] Inventor. TO MURDER CHARGE AND |S. | KZEDAS RAN DENED IMMEDE TRL. =. WOMAN WHO TRIED TO KILL SELF WHEN SENT TO PRISON Seven Passengers Reported Injured in Grade Crossing Crash at Allaire. GIRL LEAPS; ESCAPES Court Sharply Rebukes Coun- sel and Says Slayer Must Await Turn. NO WORD OF MARS YET But It Is Possible to Flash Around World—Here to Experiment. SE Acre Time of Accident—Victim’s Home in Kansas City. Time Whole Story Was Threshed Out, Defendant’s Attorney Announces, VAROTTA MURDER elem Condemned Man Goes Over History of the Killing of the Italian Boy. Sener Sentenced to die In connection with the kidnapping and slaying of Gul- seppe Varotta of No. 364 Kast’ 13th Street last year, Roberto Raffaelo, twenty-five, tf the death house, since last August, was brought down from RMNle hed Re. follon Sing Sing Prison today at his own an jyonlalye. oe jcors tratn, | ednost to textify against his alloged after jumping the track and dragging | “complic: buked the defense for assuming that two coaches filled with’ passengers] Before Julgé Talley and a jury, in the convenience or comfort of Walter 4 over the tles for thirty yards, turned |(he*Court of General Sessions, yours Ward would be served in preference over. The engineer and fireman! ieeacio protested that he nover had to that of other men awaiting trial. jumped and escaped injury. Seven Sk Varela ae ed Hi He showed increasing impatience with passengers in the coaches were hurt.|*eem the Varotta boy dead or alive, the attitude of the Ward lawyers, and Oné, D, J. McHenry, a Government} that he had been brought, into the aueligwaraedabane nicl to prevoks Inspector, is in Spring Lake Hospital] ¥@ns after the kidnapping and that tim into saying things about them suffering from internal injuries which} his only service was (lat Of go- which were better unsaid, but never- will probably result fatally. between, He was sent to the Varotta ai in un endeavor to collec ; ‘phe defendant, it you please,” been stopping for several days at the)" ten now under trial on the charge said Mr. Campbell, answering the re- home of W. H. Smethhurst, a friend cusies Je the age decree ee ‘ ° of harge stated by District Attorney te vee Again foF the West on his|Atonio Marino and John Melohione. (Special to The Evening World.) ALLAIRE, N. J., June 16.—Jerome Stewart of Kansas City, a cadet at the West Point Military Academy, was instantly killed at a grade crossing here to-day while trying to save an automobile, the engine of which had stalled on a track in front of a Penn- sylvania express train which was ap- Proaching at the rate of 60 miles an hour,...Miss Jeannette Smethurst of Farmingdale, who was driying the car When it stalled, jumped and es. caped Injury. Stewart could have saved himaelf had he followed her ex- Although he has had no communica- tion from Mars and has not attempted to communicate with that planet, Signor William Marconi, perfector of the wireless telegraph and telephone, announced on his arrival in New York to-day on board his steam yacht and floating laboratory, the Blettra, that he had perfected a system by which radio messages can be projected in any desired direction. Under methods of operation in yogue here, radio mes- sages can be broadcast only—scattered in all directions. Signor Marconi has sent radfo mes- sages 100 miles sraig(t which ‘were not heard exces‘ at the receiver, aimed at. In time, he said, apparatus will be perfected which, in his opin- ion, will project radio messages with the accuracy that marks the trans- mission of telephone or telegraph mes- sages over wires. The idea that messages may be re- ceived from Mars ts not fantastic, Signor Marconi insisted, He 1s con- vinced, he said, that a wave length of 150.000 metres recorded by his in- uments on Elettra, while cruis- 1e Mediterranean last winter, When Walter S. Ward was arraign- ed for pleading before Justice Mor- chauser in the Supreme Court at White Plains at one o'clock to-day his counsel, Allen R. Campbell, made a complete change of his attitude to- ward the investigation of the killin, of Clarence Peters. Ward felt, his lawyer said, that the time had come when the case should have a complete hearing and aeked for an immediate trial. J.Justice Morschauser severely re- down along came from Mars or Venus, or was] Weeks, ‘‘pleads not guilty and asks & [06@0006600066000000000008 a According to Raffaelo the first three projected by at netic disturbance} speedy trial. There are circum-| MPS. BERTHA W, VARDMAN. way to Kansas City, Miss Smeth-| 2 eg ee the: (elders on the sun ; stances—into which it ts not neces- | ~~ hurst volunteered to drive him over ID] “wt wag sitting in Union Square The Elettra droppet anchor off] sary for me to go. but with which her father’s ser . Park one night late in April,” Raf. West S6th Street at noon. Signor Mar-| Your Honor is familiar’’——— The express from Philadelphia} jauig, phen Hugelerl bat coni recefved reporters and introduc “The plea ie not guilty,” sald Jus ' hound for Long Branch wan half a de wie and eet (ita) cone assist aston M mile away when the car stalled on the them to his tice Morschauer to the clerk, sharply versation, I had been in the service eu, an eminent Belgian engineer, “Of course, counse y y railroad track. Miss Smethhurat ca: is restaurant for $5 a week tafuel Liuro “The defendant is held without road calling to Stewart “Ruggierl told me there was an The chief object of the visit off pais’ said Mr. Campbell. “If inno. Instead of jumping, Stewart moved] easier and better way. He belonged Signor Marconi--his eighty-fifth tolcent he should not be required to re over to the driver's seat and began 'ol¢q an organization, he said, ‘which America--is to attend the meeting Of} main in jail until the fall term ¢ tinker with the levers and try to start! jad kidnapped a boy and was holding the American Institute of Radio En-] court. His health is not of the best the engine. The engineer of the ap-|nim for $2,500. 1 could join them, gineers and the Ame Institute of | There is a poor colored man in tie proaching train, who had applied the] They needed some one like me to act Electrical Engineers in this etty next} jai! waiting to be tried said the 1irbrakes, sounded his whistle, and] a— messenger to assure the parents Tuesday. He will address the meet- | justice, ling asked for a spends —--— Stewart at last tried to escape. that the little fellow was well cared ing and deseribe at length recent ex- [triad The District ney has He got out of the car, but stum-|for and would not be harmed If they pe iments he tas Sonducted ents agreed. He shall he tried frst, Woy |Given 114-3 Years in Auburt;| nied against @ tle and fell. The loco-| would come across with the money. ra, Tater, he will visit Sclenee-] sould this man be favored? fT am 1 . . ae A motive threw the automobile against] Raffaelo told of going immediately . Newark and other radio centres! not going to de it. If you would pro) Husband and Chase Given with Ruggier! to 18th Street and First lim and knocked him twenty feet will br art at least one ad-|duce those two men you are talking Ter es r the right of way. He died a few| Avenue and meeting Cusamano and from Newark about we could go with some reason erms 4-8 Years. TRU a one °W I Marino, On the way, he sald, Rug- merica,” he said, “leads thelthere are relatives of the defendant —— Hy Be a omopiie| gier! pointed out the Varotta hous world in radio development, T have] wito delay and interfere with the in- | When Justice Loufs Martin in the wines wresene Eee ot eh) bite “'Fitteen. minutes before midnight Bean ace Hed RE Ue vane of enter | vestigatic by remaining away.’ criminal Term of Supreme Court tm-|iocomotive and derailed the front} that pint. Rata Comat. pen He cour braadeaMing: slational whiGh Hr he agree to DEINE them Voxed a sentence of not less than o eke. The driving wheels fallowel] bie Arst call. | Varotta was not at I picked up on my receiver on the f them?! : asked Just and one-half years, nor more than d then all: the: wheels and the “bi ia apa aE t ° NM asked Justice a nachine lurched along drunkenly.;money. She gave him a letter to Elettra a schauser three years in Auburn Prison on Mrs./jjehind it the coaches bumped over] bring back to tho men ‘During the cruise from Southamp-]+ “[ meant only the relatives,” Bertha W. Variman to-day, for|ine ties shedding shattered glass from | “Around the corner In Birst Ave- ton by way of the Azores, nich took] Mr, Campbell, "we do not know Joriminaliy receiving stolen property.,broken windows, The passengers were | ue Marino was waiting for me with twenty days, I experimented mostly | where the other two men are ciecwoman fainted buffeted about and nearly all of them|‘‘usumano,” he continued. They read with machines for the development of] Attorney John F. Brennan. inter sustained waingr: belinda the letter, spoke of the $50,000 Va- high spedd in wireless transmission, | yened to aid Mr, Campbell Recovering quickly, Mrs. Vardman alate ro’ was said to have collected as We have developed a sending speed There is no evidence against this|cried: ‘I will never live to begin the result of an automobile accident While in New MRS. MALLORY LOSES of 200 words « minute that sentence."* Seizing a hat pin ind decided to take the $500 Mrs. Va- York I «m going to conduct some} (Continued on Twenty-fifth Page.) }in. woman attempted to stab herself, IN NET SEMI-FINALS] '0''o must bave mentioned in the let- experiments on the Hlettra to deter- —<$<_—» A ed fu bree i eae pee PY Es” ier and ‘get the rest later on.’ mine how many words a minute wel POLTICEMAN’S BODY ‘ ite Hi phn Meade, . . . “E went back to tell Mrs, Varotta Sie to receive t attendant, and two women pro-| 4 Defeated on Brit-] they would take the $500, She did will be ale t American ereatec nm ri 'y “Wireless telegraphy to-day isf JS FOUND IN WATER }2aton oficers ish C ars not have it, Her husband had not mere economical than the cable. It eee Prior to her sentence, Justice Mar- ish Courts 6-1, 2— 6, come home. iy is possible to send 9 Wireless message . pa hi a ‘gant i ”. Chane ya “TL returned to the gang. They sin the world. With the develop-| Disappeared While Guard- nt Arthur F. Chase to Sing 6—8. ad me trailed. The man I passed oa ment of wireless will come rapidity ing North River Pier Sing Pvison for pot lesa than four nor! yonpoN, June 16 (Associated) the way out of the tenement house, of transmission that would appear to Dirt phi more than elght years, and imposed] * ' Me ut_| they said, was Varotta, When I went be incredible to-day." uring Strike. sentence on the woman's hus-| Press).—% Molla Hjurstedt Mal-) ioe to the tenement Varotta fell on band, John W fi was Vardman a guard at lory, the American lawn tennis woman champion, was defeated in the his knees, kissed my hand and begged for news of his boy. I assured him the child was well, He promised to The body of Policeman Edward he Chase Moraghan of the Charles Street Sta nui Bank and Vardman a former GIRL AND TWO MEN : : semi-finals of the Kent Tennis Cham SLAIN TOGETHER] tion was brought up from the bottom |. vyee. Both pleaded guilty to OF the Heat Tenn have the money the next night at 10 Andes of the North River off the foot of farm! larceny in the first de;-ree, in| plonship in the women's singles at} lve. 5 F eters atractine at diveratert ce theft of $500,000 bonds from the] Beckenham this afternoon Uy Miss! In the course of the next day Rue- 5 of ) ailw ‘ ; k n th ’ Found Dead on Railway) iociy \acrapoan hed bea statenen {Chane | lust April. An envelope] McKane, the British star. Miss Mc-lgieri, he testified, talked the matter Tracks Apparently Beaten Jat a pier to protect workmen for , per was substituted dur a |\Kane wen by the score of 6-3, 2--¢. lover ‘with hie friend Melchiope and A sand and gravel compan thet yent of the half million dollars] 6 brought the latter that night to his +g ubs. Bh pany aga , h : f to De ath With Clu which a strike had been declared, sel securities consigned to a t ———_—<o— meeting with the others in Cooper MIDDLETON, ‘Tenn, June 16—Al was missed at 4 o'clock yeaterda Ungland bank ELDER WARD ENTRAINS Jsquare. Melchione was taken into triple murder mystery confronted police] morning. A search was made an ( niessed that he made the TO GO TO PITTSBURGH] th sank. he sald, and selected for here to-day with the diseovery of the] the polieemangs cap was found float-|* and planned the robber 222 SS the last cali on Varotta, bodies of a girl and iwo young men|ing In the fifteen feet from the| ™ srdMan's assistance. The eaves “Wile hey all were arrested in the neigh aide by side near the Souther Railway | bulkhead ‘ anis has reaslved Sés@io0e Seerey borhood. e ; worth oO” the securities, $30,000 worth —_ tracks, eleven miles ‘ of here. ap No explanation of his drowning ha ¥ fe . WILLIAMSPORT, Pa Sune ’ in the vicinity and there were a num Q Ward, was indicted yesterday by the Woolworth ' Bld will clube > . ay : : hineg | Der of other policemen and watchmen ; Westchester (N.Y. Toupee and aauurday "$s “Men sand The body of the s Cee ee a tat ir wheat ee HE WORLD TRAVEL BOREAL killing of Clarence Pet Withama urmer Buite: in an that of Velma Parker, eighteen, of [08 © Cuuinel nor muy ace, Puller (World) Butiding, 83-63] por! lo-day on a tral o a - Chattanooga quatre “Ww any one ' y. % 7 Reexrr Lock Haven for ‘t'yror and Pitts Twa’ mend call o 1 them going toward the sand 4 ; ee A oh piice Wereaaands Kis wghun Wass posted neh ‘ Will abun gh Basei EDITION To-Morrow's Weather—PROBABLY SHOWERS, Ww. STREE ecm 2 yenty Acres of Hotels, Stores FROM DEATH HOUSE E and Deling a — stroyed, Mayor Visits Scene of Devas- tation—Lays Low Water Pressure to Private Com- panies —Citizens Demand- ed Fire Boat. An expert estimate made to-day of the damage wrought by the conflag- ration which swept Arverne last night reduced the property damage from the Original figures to a total which is not Ikely to excced $2,000,000. The tire completely destroyed nearly twenty acres of buildings, most of them homes of perishable frame con- struction, @ total of about 160 hotels, stores and dwellings. ‘Hundreds of persons have been made homeless, though quick relief measyres found most of them roofs for the remainder of the night. The extent of the fire was from Beach 58th to Beach 62d Street, from the water front to the Long Island Railroad tracks. This stretch of land to-day looked like a war devastated area in Belgium or Northern France. Police Captain Kruscher of the Rockaway Reach station completed @ surgey of the devastated territory this afternoon and estimated the total loss at $2,000,000. ‘The buildings destroy- ed included 10 large hotels and board ing houses, 88 cottages and residences, between 50 and 60 bungalows, the Coast Guard Station, the Israel Or- phan Asylum, the Ideal Laundry, the Baths and the Franklin Jerome Satlding, This survey was supported by David Eisenberg, an insurance and real ea- tate broker in the Rockaways. Ho said the hotels and boarding houses destroyed were:, Nautilus, 60 rooms; Elizabeth, 60 rooms; Grand View, 20 rooms; Robert Burns, 15 rooms; Vie- toria, 46 rooms; Plaza, 39 roomay Alexander, 48 rooms; Beach Apart- ments, 60 roorss; Posner Cottages, 50 rooms, and the Alexandria, 25 rooms, Lack of water pressure in the mains is to-day held to be accountable for the rapid and, for long, ungovernable spread of the fire. There was a brisk northeast wind blowing when the flames broke out, and in a little while it shifted, carrying the blaze in other directions and making the firemen's task almost superhuman Soon after the fire was seen to be in the nature of a conflagration, po- lice were stationed all over the area threatened, to be on the outlook for thieves who might take advantage of Several men money, clothing the excitement to rob. were arrested with and other articles which indicated they had been stolen. Two business places in Arverne were broken into during the fire. Mayor Hylan, accompanied by Com- missioner of Accounts Hirshfield and Comnusstoner Whalen of the Depart ment of Plant and Structures paid a brief visit this forenoon to the s of the fire, When the visit b known to the business men of Ar- verne they jastened to find the Mayo und his party, but they had gone to New York, When the Mayor turned to City Hall he “According to information [ re ceived, the Pire Department was greatly handicapped in fighting ihe fire because of bad water pressure. Private compahtes supply water to that @ section, | am going to order Commissioner of Water Supply to hurry plans (or extending the city wat tem throughout the length and breadth of (ie Reckawaye. yA PRICE THREE CENTS ee me eee