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mate THE cINN aiding TABLES. OEE RTE ET Tee 3th ‘IF IT HAPPENS IN NEW YORK IT’S IN THE EVENING WORLD” J. S. MOVES QUICKLY TO RESCUE BIELASKI ——FoNIGHT® WEATI -NIGHT’S WEATHER—FAIR. IN Che “ Circulation Books [Circulation Books Open to All.” | to All” Copyright (New York World) by Press Publlal 1982, ing Company, iroulation’ Books [“Cirentation Books Open to All.’ | n to a NP 1992, JUNE 26, VOL. LXII. NO. 22,085—DAILY. ‘NEW YORK, MONDAY, TO- -MORROW’ ry WEATHER—CLOUDY; ‘UNSETTLED. EDI ieee rowds Line Brealey Box Office to Purchase Cheaper Seats. Advance Sale Passes $100,000 Mark. onard Rules 2 to 1 Favorite —30,000 Fans Expected to Witness Championship Match. Bemny Leonard and Jack Britton weighed jin at Madison Square den late this afternoon for their eduled fifteen-found bout for the Iterweight championship of the Jd to be fought at the New York lodrame this evening. The light- Weight chainvion wogtea 13977 While Britton tipped the beam at 461-4. Both men had posted $2,500 prfeits to scale 1417 pounds. The etting was 2 to 1 on Leonard. The contest this evening has created great an interest as the Dempsey- Brennan bout fought at Madison Kquare last year. The advance sale ‘ tickets has already passed the $100,000 mark and matchmaker Flour- ney of the Girden is confident of a sell out This will mean a gate of more than $160,000, and an ttendance of over 30,000. As early as 2 o'clock this afternoon hundreds of fight fans were in line op 225th Street and Broadway to buy e two dollar seats. The sale of these Mets will open at 6 o'clock this evening Commissioner Walter Hooke of the State Athletic Board weighed in the men. Practically every fight manager nd opugilist in New York City rowded into the room at the Garden 0 witness this preliminary, All in- Nerest did not cicrle on Benny Leon- lerd, however. His kid brother, Joe starts in his first bout this evening land he was passed on by the sharps / Joe meets n Mareo in the first ABpretiminary of four rounds. He ie eighed 130 while his opponent topped him by three and a half pounds The contestants in the semi-final contest of twelve rounds also were eighed in. Ealdie Fitzsimmons and Sam Mossberg were also weighed in They scaled 1871-2 and 1391-2, re- spectively. Jack Stark, who meets John Coney lin a six-rounder, weighed 125%. His opponent scaled 127. Neither Leonard nor Britton would jue any statement as to how they felt on the outcome of the bout. Both said, however, they were in the best of shape and would have no excuse o offer if defeated. Benny seemed Imore interested in the advance sale d was happy when informed of the probable sell out. a OLLAND FEARS KAISER’S ESCAPE Dutch Home Office, How- ever, Says It Is Impos- sible. LONDON, June 26.—Apprehension xists in Holland lest former Kaiser ‘illiam attempt to slip away from Poorn and re-enter Germany, in the event of a royalist rising following he assassination of Foreign Minister Rathenau, according to a Hague cor espondent. The writer, however, quotes J. B. n, Secretary of the Dutch Home Dffice, as saying that such apprehen- on is groundless. “We have no evidence that the aiser bas any such intention,” he , “and the surveillance ma ined around him is so close that it ould be impossible for him to get way, even if he wished,’’ 4 FONARD WEIGHS AND JACK BRITTON AT 146% FOR TITLE BOUT TO-NIGHT INAT 1382 NEW YORK WOMEN NAMED FOR PARIS ATHLETIC MEET Feminine Leaders in Several Events Chosen From All Sections of U.S. cn. NEW HAVEN, June 26.—The American team of women athletes to Participate in the first interfational 4 iC mect cer Women in the Persh- ing Stadium, in Paris, on Aug: 20 was announced to-day. Selection of its members was made after the Eastern try-out meet at Oakesmere School, Mamaroneck, N. Y., and upon receipt by the officers of the WNational Woman's Track Athletic Association of the results of all track meets held in the country for the purpose. The contestants and alternates selected follow. Captain—Miss Florida Batson, N York City, Rosemary Hall Alumnae, holder of the American record in the high and low hurdios. Field Manager—Miss Maude Rosen- baum, New York City and Paris, Oakesmere School Alumnae, holder of the American record in the basket. uoll throw and the 1,000-metre run. Miss Anne Harwick, Florida State College, in the javelin throw and shot put. Miss Lucy Fletcher, Greensboro (Florida) High School, in the stand- ing broad jump. Miss Nancy Voorhees, New York City, Ethel Walker School, holder of the American record in the running high jump. Miss Elizabet) Voorhees, New York City, Rosmary Hall Alumnae, in the running high jump. Miss Elizabeth Stine, Leonia High Schill, New Jersey, holder of the American record in the hop, skip and jump. in the running broad, hop and sprints. Miss Kathryn Agar, Chicago, Oakesmere alumnae, holder of the American record in the two-handed Javelin throw, in the the javelin and baseball throws. Miss Camelia Sable, New Jersey State Normal School, Newark, in the hurdles. Miss Frances Mead, Tarrytown, N. Y., Rosemary alumnae, in the Jumps. Miss Janet Snow, Rye, N. Y., Oakesmere Alumnae, member of the American Record Relay Teams in the relay. Miss Maybelle Gilliland, High School, New Jersey, in sprints and relay. Miss Lucille Godbold, Rock, Hill, S. C., Winthrop College, holder’ of the American record in the eight-pound shot put, in the shot put, basketball throw and hop step. Miss Esther Green, Gatun, Canal Zone, 30 Ometre run and relay Miss Helen Kreps, Ohio State Uni- versity, in the sprints. The association has raised $7,900 of the $9,000 required for the trip of the team, and the Secretary Treas- urer, Miss Suzanna Brecker, coach of the Leonia (New Jersey) High School team, is striving to complete the fund Dr. Harry Eaton Stewart, President of the National Women's Track Ath- Leonia the letic Association, will accompany the team as coach and physiclan, Miss Brecker will be the assistant couch. GIVES oo FORMER WIFE. Supreme Court Justice Bijur to-day directed Judgment of $2,100 in favor of Mrs. Frances Rita Burnett against her former husband, Abraham Gitler, of No 426 Central Park West. She brought sult on the ground that her Reno de- ree of divorce granted in 1918 provided that Gitler support his thirteen-year- eid som Robert. T FOR PIGK NAVY GREW |Two Revolvers Deepen Mystery TOWIN RACE TO-DAY AT POUGHKEEPSIE =a Crack Annapolis Eight Has Been Beaten Only Once in Three Years. CORNELL RATED HIGH. Columbia Has Slight Chance to Capture Honors in Famous Regatta. By William Abbott. POUGHKDPBEPSIE, N. Y., June 26. —Six elght-oar crews, fit and ready, will race three miles on the Hudson this afternoon in the twenty-fifth in- tnccollegiate regatta. The outcome of the great classic will determine the rowing championship of the United States. Consensus of opinion here favors the Navy, the same stalwart combing ion thut nade a rinaway oF} last year’s race on the Hudson. Cornell is ranked second, with the giant Washington crew from the far ‘West and Pennsylvania striving for third place. Columbia and Syracuse are curtly dismissed with having only a slight look-in. Weather conditions point to a su- perb setting for a red-hot struggle. A light breeze from the northwest is expected to die down slowly so that at starting time the regatta course, ending one mile below the towering suspension bridge, will not be any rougher than the lake in Central Park. various crew quarters were early on the job to-day, alive with last-minute preparations. All the coaches reported thelr men in tip- top condition and ready to row the race of their young lives. Final practice was held last eve- ning. At one time three contestants passed each other while slowly pad- dling to get all muscles completely smoothed out. Columbia was the last to launch {ts shell. The thrushes from the high land shore were already singing their evening song when Coach Jim Rice finally gave the word for the impatiet Blue and White oars- men to take their final workout for the supreme contest of the season. The (Continued on Seventeenth Page.) presale sor eeaeascs PRINCE OF MONACO IS DEAD IN PARIS Owner of Monte Carlo Was Noted Deep Sea Ex- plorer. PARIS, June 26 (Associated Press) Charles of 0, died here 0k. —Prince Albert Honore the Principality of Mo this afternoon at 5 o'¢ Prince Albert ruler of the smallest principality in the world, within whose eight square miles is the faumous international gaming town of Monte Carlo, was well known In the United States as a sportsman and scientist. One of his old friends was the late Col. W. F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody, on whose ranch in Wyo- ming he went hunting years ago The Prince made three visits to this country, In April, 1921, he received Alexander Agassiz gold medal from the National Academy of Science and a similar medal from the National Geographical Society for his re- searches in oceanography Prince Albert was. born Nov, 13 1848, and*succeeded his father, Prince Charless III, in 1889. He was twice of Monaco, married, to Lady Mary Douglas Ham- ton of England in 1869, and to the Dowager Duchess de Richelieu in 1889. A son by his first wife, Prince Louis, who was a soldier in the French army, {8 expected to succeed him. HEASHORE SERVICE commencing Jane gfehedule will be in effect RAL All-rail and Phone Rector 9300, aaye, ave, Bandy Hook Rou! Rector 6617, night. * cent of rty Given by Reine Davies MRS. OSCAR A. HIRSCH AND HOUSE WHERE SHOOTING OCCURRED Both Have One Bullet Fired, Although Only One Shot Was Heard by Guests— Wife Out on $25,000 Bail. Two automatic pistols, either one of which might have figured in the still mysterious shooting of Osear A. Hirsh, former theatrical promoter, now head of an electrical company, were to-day brought into the case. The first was found in the grass near the scene of the shooting, which was a lawn party given by Miss Reine Davies, motion picture actress, at her home at Freeport, L. I, on Saturday night. It callbre, six-shot Pistol and was picked up by Chief of Police John N. port, lain in the grass for hours. One cartridge was missing and an other was jammed in the chamber. Tho second pI is a Hartmann of Free There was evidence that it had several tol was to-day lusued over to the authorities by County Motorcycle Policeman Comstock. He said he got it from a colored maid employed by the Hirshs after a talk with her yesterday morning. This weapon was in a holster in a woman's handbag. It is of six-shot pistol, ridge missing. WIFE RELEASED IN BAIL OF $25,000, Hirsh was in the Nassau Hospital at Mineola and it is apparent that he will reco from the bullet wound, Mrs. Hirsh, who, according to Chief Hartmann, has to-day a much discolored left eye, was arrested for the shooting and at first neld without bail, Later, however, she was re- leased in $25,000 bond when it was learned that her husband's injuries were not believed to be mortal. The charge against her is assault with in- tent to kill Mr. Hirsh's condition was so im proved at noon to-day that he left the hospital and went to his home. As soon as he ed there, # -25 calibre, also a and the is one cart ements were made by both him and Mr Hirsh through her attorney, Geors M. Levy. Both suid that the shootir was an accident. When Mr. Hirs! was asked if he was making this statement for the purpose of shield ing his wife, he said “No; the shooting was an accident (Continued on Sixth Page.) Hirsh by Wile UNDER “L” TRAIN AT TOATH STREET om sseiiweces Crowds See Wm. Finkenstadt Dragged Fifty Feet After Jump, LRT. TURNS DOW UNIFIED TRANSIT PLANNED BY BOARD Says Commission’s Valuation of Properties Would Be Confiscation, TRAFFIC S TIED UP. Firemen and Wrecking Crew Called to Extricate Body From Wheels. William F. Finkenstadt of No. 849 Amsterdam Avenue leaped this morning in front of « train as it was half way in the elevated station at 104th Street and Columbus Avenue on its way downtown, and was in- stantly killed. The man's body was dragged fifty feet to the lower end of the station before Motorman Edward Clayton could stop the train, and it was found to be jammed beneath the rear trucks of the first car, A call was sent to Fire Truck No. 22 and the firemen, and a squad of track workmen were twenty minutes freeing the body and clearing the tracks, Power, on the south bound Hne was shut off for half an hour. There were many persons on the south platform at the time, because it was 7.45 o'clock, the beginning of the morning downtown rush. Many of the women screamed and there was great confusion on the platform for a time. Several persons who were Hanting sone the middle*of the sta- set by its won as the ‘train drew in were post. |, , i tive that the man had deliberately | encer™ ® fair ang reaponwole and Teaped’ in frontier it, represents what it would cost to re- A tailor’s tag, sewed to the inside] Place the properties of the company pocket of the dead man's coat, read] at present prices. It in claimed by the “Jacobs and Pell, Tailors,’ and], written on the lower part of the tae {CO™Pany that the valuation of $174,- in ink was “W, S. Finkenstadt,"’ ‘The | 000.000 set by the Transit Commis- tailors furnished the police with the | 8!On engineers is “not a valuation but address, No, 849 Amsterdam Avenue,|® Parcel tabulation of the original as that of the purchaser of the suit, | Cost Patrolman Crist called at the Am.| ‘The I. R. T. refuses to consider a sterdam Avenue address, where he in-] Valuation based upon the probabte terviewed both Mrs, Julia Finken-| Valuation of the property to-day as ea- stadt, widow of the dead man, and MARCH ON JAIL 10 Thomas Hoffman, of that address. The Interborough Rapid Transit Company formally transmitted to the ‘Transit Commission to-day, in the form of a brief prepared by J. C. Edwards, special counsel, to enter into the proposed unification of transit lines as outlined by the commission. The ground of refusal is that the valuations of the proper- ties of the I. R. 'T. set by the experts of the commission are so inadequate amount to confiscation were they enforced or were the corporation to agree to them. The I, R. T, maintains that valuation of $399,000,000, as to its REINE DAVIES sists upon a valuation based upon what it would cost to replace every item of the properties at current prices, which are away above pricos of material and labor at the time the subways were built and equipped. The Interborough breif points out that the Transit Commission Valua- tion Bureau's estimate fails to take into account many important items, timated from the original cost, but in- Hoffman later identified the body ut the station house. Mrs, Finkenstadt xaid that her hus- band had been employed as a book keeper in a commission house near nsevoort Market and on account of being in poor health of late hud been despondent. ee GOV. SMALL’S WIFE such as promotion, preliminary legal All Fairmo Police expense, financing, debt discount, All Fairmount Police and) “Dies OF APOPLEXY| wicking capital ent ‘other ‘moons County Deputies Mobilized Sees Itema, which it contends should be in- cluded. The Interborcugh Rapid Transit cstimate gives the value of the phys- Stricken at Celebration of His Acquittal, Death Had to Halt Mob. FAIRMONT, W. Va., June 26.--The Been Expected. oes Fifa ie eaoerselnes “ $331,- entire Fairmont police force and all of mi oe Fer erD rt Sis SCO yan : KANKAKEE, Ill., June 26.—Mrs,] of the original cost, including work the Marion County Deputy Sheriffs] Len small, wife of Goy. Small cf] ing capital, which It places at $214, were mobilized at 11,80 o'clock here 5 942,064. The present value of the [liinois, died about 9 o'clock this this morning to stop a reported march ieane! 16 Setlinnted Ay” 98%;258, 600. 10, morning She was stricken with apoplexy Sat the company's calculation. noes t the The brief f striking miners and sympathizer valuation bureau's from Monongha, a mining town ten] urday night during the excitement of | estimate of $174,221,056 is more than to the south the celebration by friends and fellow] $40,000,000 less than the original ex- ‘he authorities said they had been] townsmen of the Governor as sult Me nattures mee un oe supervision jn fof his acquittal that afternoon after]of the commission's predecessors informed an attempt was to be made | hia trial at Waltharae. 0 Complaining also that the Valuation inp counts dail These then were sn | With her at the time of her death de al fp vestcnialyioe as $11,000,000 of cxted last Friday ‘after a march) of | Wre te (Governor and ‘thoir thres| OHese9 Ceprecistian of which: it had ' k children, Leaie and Budd Smull and} ° evidence, the brief continue trikers through the city Mrs, A. E. Ingteah. ven the total original cost, as a So SS 2d isis of exchange, would not make BRITAIN IS WILLING |papy BADLY BITTEN |" comvany whose, boceuse the’ pur chasing power of that many dollars TO ADMIT GERMANY Membership in League, Says Premier, Rests Largely With Former Foe. now is so much less than when the original expenditure were made.’’ The brief, which makes a printed IN HER CRIB BY RAT Cries Awaken Father Who Finds Her Suffering Many Wounds. n Fifth Page.) ptt te FORDNEY TO QUIT SEAT (Continued World’s Greatest Detective "Bureeg' Begins in To-Day’s Evening World its refusal LONDON, June (Associated Prost) Asked by Lord Robert Cecil] Cries of Helen Bernstein, one year] HE HAS HELD 24 YEARS House of Commons this after- | old, of No. 820 Sixth Avenue, from her noon whether he could state the Gov- |e" early this morning awakened her] Ways and Means Chatrman to W's attitude toward the ad-|D@fente. Her father, Isidore Bernstein, Betire Atier Thle Congress: found her covered with blood from wounds on face, legs, arms and body He called Patrolman Turtle, who WASHINGTON, June 26.—Repre- sentative Joe W. Fordney of the Eighth Michigan District and Chair- mission of Germany to membership League of Nations, Prime Min- yd George sald summoned ‘an ambulance from Roose- ‘This is not a question which con-{velt Hospital, Dr. Douglas sald the| man of the House Ways and Means cat Britain alone, it primarily] child had undoubtedly been bitten by «| Committee, announced to-day he many herself. So far as| ‘ge Fat. would retire from Congress at the His Majesty's ned Government 1s con- we would support a proposa: t Germany to the League, end of the present seasion Ho han boon a member of the House for nparly \wenty-four years The father said he himself was bitten on the ear while asleop recentl: he in the hospital in a senous con LPS TO DEATH | MEXICO ORDERS OUT TROOPS 1 FREE BIELASKI, HELD BY BAND FOR $5,000 RANSOM ernie IE Hughes Directs Embassy. tc Act at Once to Release For mer Secret Service Chief Who in War Ran Dowr Alien Enemies. American and Attorney He’. Up With Their Wives on Auto Trip and Kidnapped, but Bandits Let Two Women Go. WASHINGTON¢ June 26 (United Press).—Secrtarf# of State Hughes has wired George T. Summerlin, American Charge d’Affaires at Mox- ico City, to, take immediate steps te procure the release of A; Bruéo Bielaski, former Chief of the Depait- ment of Justice Investigation Serv- fee, held for $5,000 rarisom Mexican bandit Official advices of Bielaski’s capture were received by the State Depart- ment to-day from Consul General Dawes at, Mexico City. According to the department's advices, the former Government Secret Service Chief was captured near Cuernavaca and held for ransom, The parties with him were robbed but not held. The Amer- ican Embassy is working on the case MEXICO CITY, June 26 (Associ- ated HKress).—A. Bruce Bielaski, head of the Bureau of Investigation of the American Department of Justice in the war, is being held for ransom by seven bandits who held up hi automobile seven mtles west of Cuer navaca in the State of Morelos yes- terday. The foreign correspondents were approaahed to-day “by friends of the Bielaski family," who later proved to be United States secret agents, with the request that the story of the kidnapping be not published until such time as certain possible complt- cations in connection, with the affulr might be arranged. Up to @ late hour last night, Georgy T. Summerlin, the American Charge d‘Affaires, had not returned from a pleasure trip to Cuernavaca, in tho State of Morelos, but Lanier Winslow, the first secretary, was making prep- arations to proceed to the San Gabriei Hacienda early to-day to direct such investigations as the United States Embassy will make. with his wife and Mr, Manuel Bareena of Mexi the way to view Axico r the town, The motorisix Hacienda de San the bandits suddenly appeared and stopped them at point of guns. The women were re- eased, but, after robbing them, |, bandits took Mr. Bielaski and Ni arcena with them Mrs, Blelaski has merely stated that the hold-\\p occurred yester- day, and she pleaded phyeical ex- haustion ag an excuse from making a lengthy statement. She declined to name the sum of the ransom de- manded or to give out any other in- formation, merely stating that all matters were in the hands of the United States Embassy, One rumor circulated here to-day was to the effect that Mr. Bielaski was an ordinary prisoner of the civil authorities in ome obscure village in Morelos, Another was that he was being held at the instigation ef his Mr. Bielaski, und Mrs cala, ruins ni were nearing Gabriel when was on the (Continued on Fitth Page.)