The evening world. Newspaper, June 28, 1922, Page 1

1 Sogo Ve-Night’s Weather—Unsettled; Pro! — VOL. ‘Exm, NO. 22,087—DATLY. eee wer “IF IT HAPPENS IN NEW YORK IT’S IN THE EVENING WORLD” Che Copyright (New York World) by Press Publishing Company, 15m. IRISH REBELS DRIVEN FROM FOUR COURTS _NEW YORK, "WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1 922. To-Morrow's Weather—Unsettled; WALL STREE » | EDITION cee THREE CENTS Probable Rain. IN FIERCE FIGHT; 15 DEAD, MANY WOUNDED FREE STATE TROOPS DRIVE REBELS FROM STRONGHOLDS WITH BOMBS AND Blé GUNS Insurgents Make Strong Defense, but Take Refuge in Cellar and in Law Courts Building—Death List Put at 15, Many Wounded. VIGOROUS DEMAND DRAFTED 10 BREAK MEXICO’S SILENCE Hughes to Take More Drastic Action Unless Reply to Notes Is Recorded. CENSORSHIP IS SEEN. Embassy Announces Army Is Moving Quickly to Free Prisoners. WASHINGTON, June 28.—Another and more vigorous note to the Mex!- can Government of the bandit activi- ties against Americans near Tampico probably will be despatched late to- day unless an answer to earlier notes is received, it was intimated o* the State Department to-day. Just befors noon Secretary of State Hughes announced no further word had come from American Consul Shaw at Tampico regarding’ the capture of the Cortez Oi] Company camp and forty employees near Tampico. George F, Summerlin, Charge d'Affaires at Mexico City, has not been heard from. Mr. Hughes believes it significant that not even news despatches on the Cortez incident and A. Bruce Bie- Oyo: kidnapping have appeared since nday. A strict censorship is in effect, Washington officials believe, and ap- parently it has been extended to in- clude both Summerlin and Shaw. Shaw, they said, is energetic, and un doubtedly would have furnished the State Department with further infor- ation by this time if he was not un- der restraint. Mexican military forces are taking prompt action to free A. Bruce Bie- laski and the forty American em- ployees held for ransom by bandits near Tampico, an official statement of the Mexican Government issued to-day by Manuel Tellez, charge of the Mexican Embassy, declares. The statement also asserts the Mexican Government ‘has reason to believe’ the kidnappings “are the work of plotters, aimed at obstructing the negotiations now under way for the settlement of ths Mexican exter- nal debt." In view of the fact that the outrage occurred Sunday morning and Shaw's telegram is dated June 26, it is be- leved that the Mexican censor delayed its transmission, The 48-hour period thin which Gorozabe demanded pay- t of ransom had expired before Shaw's despatch reached the State Department, a circumstance which caused great concern. Consul Shaw's despatch follows: “Cortez Oil Company's Aguada amp in the hands of rebel Gen, Goro- abe with 240 well armed men. He demands 15,000 pesos within forty- ight hours from yesterday morning, olding’ $250,000 worth of destructible perty and lives of forty American \citimens as security. There are no Mexican forces in the vicinity. The company asks protection of its em- ployees and property, Appropriate authorities informed, Embassy in- formed." pe, B. R. T. WAGE SCALES CONTINUED FOR YEAR Brooklyn City Railroad Co. Makes st r Announcement, Announcement was made this after- noon at the offices of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co. that the present wage seale for employees of the system would be continued for another year, expiring on Aug. 3, 1928 The Brooklyn City Railroad Co., through Vice-President H. Hobart Por- ter, announced that similar action had been taken by his company. The decision to continue the wage cale was based on recommendations ‘of the committee of employees follow ing @ thorough investigation into the cost of living. LENGLEN WINS MATCH ON WIMBLEDON COURTS Mrs, Elliss in Sets, 6—0, 6—0. WIMBLEDON, England, June 28.— Suzanne Lenglen won her first tennis match at Wimbledon to-day, defeating Mrs. Elliss, 6—0, 6—0 A. B. Gravem of San Francisco, a Rhodes scholar and Captain of the Oxford University team, defeated A, G Watson in four sets, and will meet Gerald Patterson, Australian champion, in the next roov :d. Drugnon eliminated Alonso in sets. ALERT POLICEMEN CATCH THREE THUGS IN ACT OF HOLD-UP —— One “Didn’t Like Looks,” So He Trailed Them to Their “Job.” Defeats Straight four The intelligence, instinct and alert- ness of two New York policomen led early this morning to the interruption of a daring robbery and the arrest of three armed men in Lanza's restau- rant at No. 168 First Avenue. Patrolman Hanchan of the Fifth Street Station was first to suspect the men who were later arrested. When he saw them near the -estaurant there was no evidence on which he could take official action, but he “didn't like their looks’? and he de- termined to keep track of them. They moved along in a natural manner at his approach and Hanchan followed until he passed a brother po- iceman of the same station, Patrol- man Hackman. “Better keep an eye on those guys,” said Hanchan, Presently the suspected trio sepa- rated, one stepping into a doorway commanding A view of the restaurant, the other two disappearing into a hall- way leading to a side door of the res- taurant. The two policemen crept along, dashed into the doorway where the first man was lurking and ar- rested him. Then, taking him along, they fol- lowed the trail of the other two through the hallway. In the darkness of the passage the prisoner, they charge, made a motion toward his hip pocket. He was swiftly ‘‘frisked” and relieved of a dirk with a six-inch blade. In the restaurant, the police say, they found the other two with drawn revolvers holding at bay the waiters, the proprietor, Michael Lenza, and a crowd of twenty Masons at the tables. ‘There was ulso a woman at one of the tables, The proprietor was counting out ten §5 bills to one of the armed men, One of them dropped his re- volver at sight of the policemen. The other's gun was knocked from his hand, The man with the dirk gave the name of James Pompalone, twenty- five, No. 420 East 11th Street, The other two said they were John Sal- vaggi, thirty-six, No. 194 First Ave- nue, and Tony Romano, thirty, No. 486 Hast 13th Street. All three are locked up on charges of attempted robbery and violation of the Sullivan law. The specific complaint ts by Frank Gurollo, a waiter. He said he was first to meet the gunmen at their en- trance and that they demanded $50 of him. “T'm not the boss,” he told them, “Get him,'"’ he was ordered. He told Lanza, who, to prevent shooting, got the money from the cash register and was paying it over, The party at the tables had been ordered to keep their hands in sight or they would be ‘‘filled full of lead,’* They were not told to hold their hands above their heads—probably because they could be seen from the street. The police believe that the plan was to rob first the proprietor and then go through the others one by one. i THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU. Pulitzer (World) Bullding, 53-03 ow, N, ¥, City. Telephone Beek 4000. Check room for bai epen Gay and night. M travellers’ checks for sale.—Air, CUSTOMERS LOSS IN FULLER FAILURE SET AT $4,000,000 Only Small Assets Seen— May Pay Five Cents on Dollar. PETE”. BLAMED. Firm Said to Have Lost Speculation — Banton Scores Exchange. in Returns from various cities receive} to-day indicate that the Mabilities of the defunct brokerage firm of E. M. Fuller & Co. will reach a much larger total than estimuted Immediately after the failure was announced yesterday. Im Chicago labilities of the branch office are placed at approsimat #4,260,000, Liabilities of the main fice here are ©tlimatet at’ reego than #',580,000. Tie Orm had offer officer in Philadelphia, Cleveland. Boaton, iittsburgh and Uniontown, Pa. {t 1» now believed that the Mabilities of “ese branches will easily aggregate 509,000, making the total debts of ie firm more than $4,000,000. It also begins to appear that against these Iabilities there will be found only comparatively small assets with which to pay customers of the defunct firm. As matters now shape up cred- itors may not receive as much as 5 cents on the dollar. Heavy speculation in “Mexican Pete” on the short side through other brokerage houses than his own, is said to-day by President William 8. Silkworth, of the Consolidated Mx- change to have been one of the proo- able causes of the failure. The ex- planation of the suspension of the firm given by Mr. Fuller, that it was due to “propaganda against members of the Consolidated,” was promptly repu'l - ated by Silkw > The firm is in the hands of a re- ceiver, former Judge Samuel Stras- bourger, and all of its books and pa- pers removed from the offices at No. 50 Broad Street Monday evening, are in his hands, District Attorney Banton said to- day that an evident attempt had been made to prevent him from examining the books of the Fuller firm, basing his view upon the published state- ment that the books ‘were surren- dered to the receiver under a stipula- tion that they were not to be the basis of court proceedings against the firm other than those normal to liquida- tion.”* “The various through their office Mr. Banton said, “have been pro- claiming im season and out that they are anxious to assist the prosecuting officers in punishing brokers who are guilty of violating the law. Tnese men know that in order to prosecure successfully a broker accused of buck: cling, trading against his customers” ciders, or of iarceny growing out ot misuse of customers’ collateral, the stock exchanges,” and governors, * Continued on Eighteenth Page.) MRS. GEO. GOULD JR. IS OPERATED ON Rushed to Hospital Suffer- ing From Appendicitis— Condition Favorable. Mrs. George Gould jr. of No. 955 Park Avenue is in Roosevelt Hospital recovering from a successful opera- tion for appendicitis, It was learned fo-day. She was taken to the hos- pital last night at 11 o'clock and was operated on thirty minutes later, Dr, Jeorge E. Brewer of No, 19 East 65th Street, who performed the opera- tion, announced that it was success- ful. Although Dr, Brewer refused to dis- cuss the case it was said Mrs, Gould had been suffering from an acute at~ tack of the malady as was indicated by the hour of arrival at the hospital and the fact that the operation was performed within such a short time after her arrival there. Dr Brewer visited the hospital again at 9.30 this morning and It was learned was pleased with the patient Spndition THE FOUR COURTS OF Capital Shocked by Disclosure Of Hundreds of Dummy Jobs Held By Dependents of Congressmen “Clean’’ Members Amazed and Angered. by The Evening World’s Expose, but Others Fear Only Effect on Constituents. pondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, June 28.—Washington was shocked by The Bvening World's revelations of the extent of nepotism and payroll padding as it The disclosure of several Aundred relatives and dummies on the Congressional payrolls, as shown in The Evening World's (From a Staff Corr exists on Capitol Hill. list, taken from Government records, they had measured the extent of avarice and greed in high places. The copies of the papers containin the expose were bought up by hun- dreds soon after they reached Wash- ington yesterday and the rtling dis- closures were the subject of comment around the Capitol during the after- noon, Interest In the one-man fill- buster in the House was temporarily displaced by the discussion in con- gressional cloak rooms of The Even- ing World article. Some members, in private talks with their colleagues, justified such mis- appropriation of public funds on the ground that the cost of campaigning has increased and they ure hard pressed financially. Congress is complacent in its tn- iquity and its hide is tough. Its members think only in terms of what effect such revelations will have on thelr constituents. Those who have expressed themselves in cloak room and ante chamber talk over the situa- tion are apprehensive of the effect on their constituents of the publication of such information of their tmplica- tion in the raiding of the Treasury. When the question of continuing the so-called war bonus of $240 for each Federal employe for another year was up a few days ago it was freely predicted by those familiar with conditions in Congress that the movement to abolish this bonus was doomed in advance. This predictivn was based on knowledge of the large number of members who receive di- rectly or indirectly this bonus them- selves. Opponents of ihe bonus were only able to muster thirty-two votes It was not solicitude 1or the Govern- ‘ment clerks that put it over. How questionable practices tncrease until they cross the border line of honesty is shown in at least two in- Continued on Eighteenth Page.) — 20 KIA) ED In G AN RAILROAD ACCIDENT. BERLIN, June 28.—It has been defn. itely established that twenty-nine sons were killed in the railway acc) th of Berlin yesterday, About sixty ® seriously injured and en ral others were slightly hurt, is was @ surprise to many who thought Melons Painted A Ripe Red Cost Him a $25 Fine Peddler Admits Art Work, But Denies Using Red Ink. Isaac Meyers's artistic inspiration to improve upon nature cost him $26 this before Magistrate Rytten. berg In Yorkville Court. He was found guilty of a violation of the Sanitary Code, In that he painted a sample watermelon a ripe red to lure purchas. ers for the 150 melons in his cart. In court to-day Meyers's lawyer, former Assistant District Attorney O'Shaughnessy, almitted that Mey- ers's business instinct led him to paint the watermelon red, but said the painting had been done, not with ink, but with raspberry juice, eae Positions by The Thousand for World Readers The value of a newspaper is in pro- portion to the public service it renders to the community. The number of potitions that The World offers the pecple of New York is strikingly shown by the following figure “HELP WANTED” ADS, Week Ending June 24th THE WORLD. 16,674 Ads. The co » 2,911 Ads The American. + 1401 Ads. The He ald 5 $25 Ads. ‘The Tribune..... 56 Ads WORLD Over All, 10,481 Ads. Of, 9 Wy the Help Weated’’ Ada. In New York newspapers are Oriated io The World. 75% DUBLIN The Four Courts Building is the third of the Irish capital's imposing Public edifices to be marred by fac- tional strife during recent years. Some blocks away stand the ruins of the General Post Office, which was gutted by fire and scarred by gunfire in quelling the Easter week rebellion in 1915. On the same bank of the Liffey as the Four Courts, but more than a mile distant, is the burned-out hulk of the custom house. oe laa GOOD CARD PLAYING LOREE’S COMMENT ON VOTE TO STRIKE “our-Day Idlen Fine Way to Learn “What Other Fellow Has.” “Good ecard playing.” was the somment of L, F. Lutes, Presi- dent of the Delaware & Hudson Company and chairman of the Eastern Presidents’ Conference, which embraces about forty roads east of the Missis of the Ohio Rivers. “Labor doesn't work Saturday afternoon,"’ explained Mr. Loree to-day. “Sunday is not a work ing day, Monday precedes the Fourth of July, and the holiday is not a working day either. Looks to meas though the leaders, in calling a strike for Saturday, if thelr demands are not met, are figuring it won't cost theen much to He idle four days that they would pretty much lie Idle any- way. It would be a fine way to find out ‘what the otler fellow has got,’ and to determine what measures the strike pro- voke."" “The men know they off, They look around they are getting more than men in other lines of work. You can't make me believe t doing this of their own Union leaders were trying to save their jobs at the expense of the men, according to sentiment in other administrative quarters less conservative than Mr. Loree. and north ppl might ie eral and see The strike vote was conducted on it was an ‘open ballot'’ sald, and those voting orders of the leader marked men. Count of lots was also questioned Signs of disintegration in the union were also reported as having been ob- served by traffle officials.’ basis Fowler Hall Evacuated After It Is Set on Fire by Shells — Rebels Fortify Hotel When Driven Out— British Troops Not in Action. DUBLIN, June 28 (Associated Press).—An attack begun at dawn to-day by Free State troops on the Irish Republican Army irregulars barricaded in the Four Courts at Dublin was still in progress late this afternoon, Under a heavy fire from rifles and machine guns and of high ex- plosive shells from small calibred artillery the irregular troops under Commandant Rory O'Connor were reported to have been driven to the rear part of the Four Courts Building, and the belief that they could not hold out much longer was expressed in official quarters. ———— ne HARDING CALLS CONFERENCE ON COAL WALKOUT Miners and Operators Sum- moned in Effort to Iron Out Differences, WASHINGTON, June 28,—Presl. dent Harding to-day called a con- ference of coal miners and operators in the central competitive field which he hopes will bring about the ter- mination of the nationwide coal strike. the President's Announcement of determination lo call lie conference was made by Secretary of Labor Da- vis after meeting the President and John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers to-day ‘The conference will be held here at 10 o'clock Saturday morning, Davis stated. Government seizure and operation of the coal mines for at least a year Ix provided in a resolution introduced in the House to-day by Representative Burke, Pennsylvania, a union labor leader. The resolution authorizes and directs the President to take over and operate the mines for a year or as long thereafter as he sees fit The resolution also directs the President to enter into negotiations with a miners’ committee and arrange a mutual and satisfactory wage scale for the period of Government «pera tlon The coal mined by the Government would be sold at actual cost of pro- duction, plus a “reasonable return the mine owners."" 105 MARCHING | MINERS ARRESTED ELKINS, W. VA., June 28&—One hundred and five striking miners and arrested at when they their sympathizers were Thomas, W. Va., to-day 1 fo prevent working miners from ne pits B. Clouse and ten deputies and took the pris Jal train to Parsons, they will be given. a arrests on A spec WwW. Va hearing where Hall in Parnell Square, held by the insurgents, also was be- sieged and after fire had broken out there shortly after noon the irregu- jars evacuated it and moved to a hotel in the vicinity where they be- gan throwing up defenses, Unofficial estimates were that fif- teen men had been killed and num- bers of combatants wounded up to early afternoon, and it was rumored that Commandant, O'Connor of the Irregulars was among the wounded. The Free Staters apparently were trying to spare the historic Four Courts Building as much as possible because it is the repository of valu- able records and documents which cannot be duplicated. Its magnifi- cent dome, up to mid-afternoon, had been little injured, the damage being confined to the windows and walls, which shells had plerced in numerous places. Elaborate precautions were taken by the Free State troops to prevent reinforcements from reaching O'Con- nor’s men, all train service into Dub- lin having been temporarily sus- pended No information had been recetved this afternoon regarding the situation at the Kilmainham Prison, also held by Irregulars. Kilmainham is a sub urb, quite distant from the scene of the fighting. The British Navy has several de stroyers and light cruisers in Southern Irish waters, but so far as could be ascertained no British forces of any Fowler description are concerned in the fighting The fire in Fowler's Hall was ex tinguished late this afternoon. The artillery fire upon the Four Courts was sparing in quantity, from the desire to save the ancient build- ing as far as possible, and during the hour from noon to 1 o'clock not « shot was fired from the 18-pounders, from which the high explosive shells were being sent into the structure. No British troops have taken part n the fighting. Business proceeded almost as usual in Dublin while the fighting was go- ing on. The citizens congregated crowds along the quays and on the bridge over the Liffey to watch the progress of the fighting, but there was little to see. The tramways along the quays and on the heights on the op- posite side of the river from the Four Courts suspended service, but every - where else traffic was proceeding. Even the shops in close proximity to the Four Courts were o| the Four Court# their ammunition. The were Irregulars of husbanding Continyed oa Eight