The evening world. Newspaper, July 20, 1922, Page 13

DENOUNCES LEAGUE Secretary Says Certain Na- tions Are Committed By It to Super-Authority, WASHINGTON Teague of authority,” July 20. The Nations is a “supor- committed to the afain- mont of the special aims of ¢ wn nations, Secretary of State Hughes implics in # w letter to Hamilton Holt, President of the Woodrow Wil- son Democracy In this further statement of Position as regards the League, Mr. Hughes discusses the famous atate- ment of thirty-one eminent Republi- cans, of whom he was one. He declares that when the Harding Administration came into power {t was ovident resubmission of the Ver- sallles with reservations Treat would only revive the old contro- versy “The separate tresty was the old practicable way dealing with the qnestion,”’ he insists. ‘The Admin- istration was compelled to deal with the situation as it found it on coming into power."’ The Secretary points to his ch repudiation uf the Lungue in his gage to Congr in April, 19: statement of the Auininistratio! Utude. “We can have no pa goes on, “in 4 commit of force In unknown 8 * Mr. Hughes I to an agency contingencies, We can recognize no super-authority. ‘Manifestly the highest purpose of the League of Nations was defeated in linking It with tho treuty of peace and making it tho enforcing agency of the victors of the war, Inter- national association for permanent peace must be conceived solely as an instrumentality of justice, unasso- cated with the passions of yesterday and not so constituted as to attempt the dual functions of a political in- strument of the conquerors.” Mr. Hughes precedes t station of the League, ho by declaring that the “statement of the thirty-one expressed sincerely the point of view [ entertained {n com- mon with the others at the time the @ *tatemont was signed.” SLANE OL LOSERS SEE HAND OF LEACH STILL IN CONTROL Independent Stockholders Plan Fight for New Pro- tective Cominittee. Some of the stockholders of the Island Oil and Transport Corporation, placed tn receivership last March, are not convinced that their Interests ara being fully protected either by ths rs- celyers or the Stockholders’ Protective Committee. Within the last few days an inde. pendent committee of stockholders, headed by John Tutulea, No. 101 West 42d Streot, has been formed. Circulal have been sent to the 12,000 stock- holders asking that they attend a meeting at the offices of McDonnell & Lebett, lawyers, No. 233 Broadway, next Monday, or send power of at- torney. In addition to Mr. Tutul vers cf this, committee are Wetnberger, Peter Gortz, and Walter §. Timais. & Lebett and C. ©. Daniels, No. 20 Broad Street. brother of Josephus. Daniels, are counsel. Mr, Daniels said yesterday after the Monday meeting there sould be two possi courses of action: one to seek a change of receivers; the other to try to take the company out of receiver- ship. Many stockholders feel, Mr. said, that the Protective Committee is composed mainly of lawyers ar stock brokers, rather than repraseata- tives of investors in Island O1', and hat some of the committee members mem- Carl J. S. Junjulas MeDonnell Daniels are “dummies for A.B. Leach, one of the original promoters of sland OM. He doubted that Leael ceased to be one of the “heads” corporation. ‘The receivers are 4. Snowden Mar. shall, No. 61 Broadway, and arthur J Stevens, who is President of Island Ol. Charles T. Brown, who “pro moted" Island Oll with Leach and Richmond P. Levering, {s Chairman of the Protective Committee. Howard Wilson amd C. Douglas Green, members of the Protective Committee, replied to critics to-day by saying that more than half the stockholders had deposited their stock with the committee and that this was proof of confidence, They denied that Leach had anything to do with t! committee. The fact that the celvers operated the Island Ol) prop- erty at a profit of $97,000 in April and May was proof, they said, that tho company was not being mismanaged Another independent committee, known as the Foley committee, was formed about a month ago, The World Capt. Jam Brown, No. 283 Broadway, is counsel. This com mittes belfeves the company should not be ia the hande of roceivors Island Ot] was placed in the hands of receivers through a “friendly sult iB equity,’ brought by one of the ‘eompany's subsidiaries. The debt in- Foley. ‘ant INLETTER TO HOLT} ons ramon neste ‘down, I THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JULY 20 1922. Surrenders to March of Business And Seeks New F; Field For Service Centre, While Rival Se Blossoms With A One of the few vestiges remaint: “Section Has Become Factory ttlement of Dutch Kills partment Houses. ng of what was once one of the most fashionable residential sections of suburban Long Island is about to be demolished. Fifty years ago the wal terfront at Astoria and the Boulevard were lined with imposing residences that were set in the midst of exten- sive and well kept grounds Some of those residences houses, some as boarding houses A few untenanted and in v two are still kept up by some who once lived there, are Practically everywhere in ly settlements America are marked by old churches. Nearly all the early settlers of this country were stror people, and one of the fi constructed in a new 5 a church or meeting had its early churches. The ¢ are gone, but until recently two later yet old-churehes, Less than a month ago old St as's Protestant Episcopal n the Ravenswocd section burned ty years ago it was the echureh of many of the fashi residents of Astoria, For me ten years it had been stand in the midst of factories, warelio and tenements. Now the Astoria Presbyterian Church, built at ¥ lin Btreet and the Bou y religions t buildings lement was Astoria srliest of che Thom- “hurch hous very heart of the residentiat n 1846, is about to be demolished. In the early forties a number of Presbyterian peopte were living {n Astoria, making a part of the congre- gations of several other churches uf different lenominations, A move- ment was started among them ard they formed a chureh of thelr own faith and in 1846 the church sdifice at Frankiin Street and the Boulevard was erected. It is a wooden struc- ture, even now a building of imposing appearon As the character of the section changed. as the Sanfords, Bab- bits, F ys, Rapaljes and Van Alsts sold thelr honies and moved away and nese homesteads became factories and warehouses and their spacious lawns and lens, storevards, tho entire atmosphere of the asretion change a residential to a bust- ness Justrint tion and the ehure! ibership began to decre yearly In c ntrast to this the Dutch Kills are being used t and rious sta t survivor of the old established familles day as factories and ware- ave been entirely demolished. of degeneration and one or soe section of Astoria, lari farm land, began to develop into a residential section, In more recent years it has suddenly developed into a section given over almost en trely to the better type of apartment house. Apartment after apartm: has been built in that section durin the past few years, and this kind ¢ building Is to-day going on in a even larger fashion than ever before As a result of these conditions the congregation of the Astoria Presby- terlan Church, about two years ax begun to consider the advisability of ac ge of location for their church building. The Rey. David Wills, pastor of the church, saw that the new section with its hundreds of new families corting every year offered a big fleld for service. David Deans, of the oldest and mort enthu tie members of the congres off the church a large piece of property owned by him on Fourth Avenne, near Jamaica Avenue, and contributed a generous sum to a fund for a new building The fund was rapidly and substan- tlally increased hy generous contribu- tt and the result is that to-day on the plot given by Mr. Deans an imposing edifice of marble and stone ts nearing completion. It should be ready for occupancy early in October. When the old church building on Franklin and the ground around it will 8 To whom and for what r pose is not yet known, but It is nit will not be for church pur nd it is certain that the old irch structure, which for ne rty years has been used as a house of worship, will be torn down and some building for secular use will be erected in its pince, formerly fon, it is World News in Brief ———$—$ $$$. LOCAL. Hardware jobbers throushout the ing woman who fe on country have united in opposing the ack as a train wag appron proposed rates cn cutlery In the Ford-| ing, nay- wrtft il, according to} 5, th lery Committee to William L. carrier at Kant, O.. fe stitute letter ‘olsm in res- uso Walter Paap of Chicago, the Coast Artillery Corps ‘The will of 3 Moy, anttanet ee S, near Pensacola, Flu, who died in her ol Davia Onley, | i a URGING wu Oak who died in hor home West . Street, May 24, disposes of an es! was @ breech to be thrown more ‘than $350,000, half of ¥ 0 to charitable or religious In Association ended A monkey that escaped from a enr-{{t# a ay mesting. et Bel nival show in onville, Yi, Has Jon of ali oM- catised worry among farmers who for |Cers and the s of Chicago as the a week have been chaeing 3 conventi tree to tree In an att him and earn the c: $25. Inadore Mendelson, Fast 115 rnival award uf eo fourteen. Street. was drowned yest day in the Hudson River off 116th Street when seized cramps while swimming with sev His body was not d Officials of Poughkeepsie have voted to lease for fifty years, at a rental of $10 year, the tower of the new Strand Theatre, where a town clock will be in- stalled. manship of the Publicity Committee for other boyy FOREIGN. which has been presented in the hi nate provides thet all editorial articles appearing in any pub- Veation must ve sikned hy the person who assumes responsibility for them. The Ontario Government {n Canada haa decided to age the develop- ment of the extensive iron ore deposits in the northern districts of the Province and has called 4 conference of experts and others interested in this industry, A despatch to the London Times from Oppeln, Commis- A bill the endowment drive of the Lincoin Me- | #/9n American represen- mortal University at Cumberland Gap, | tative with mixed commission: in Tenn Oppeln, has resigned. DOMESTIC The Austrian Parliament has adopted . the Government's bill for a forced in- John ©, Finerty, twenty-year-« terior loan, designed to yield a revenue rine, was drowned at the navy of 400,000,000,000 crowns. Washington, It was thought o board accidentally while on Firat Assistant Tost Bartlett wrote a letter o: neral | re m_ trom | 8% mpt to capture > is again meeting interest pay- ments on the $7,500,000 loan advanced by Canada in the form of eredits in 1919. Interest lapsed after Govern- Jnental changes took place in Gr volved was only $61,000, Total bilities are said to be about $5,000,000, Assets exceed this by a substantial amount. The company owns valuable property in this country and in Mexico. = a ANATOLE FRANCE URGES EUROPEANISM French Author’ ays Patriots Die Not for Country\ but for the Industrialists, (Copyright (New York Proms Publishing PARIS, July 20 die for their indust Men think tioy ountry; they die for the alists,"’ is Anatole France's bitter conclusion to a jetter written to Marcel Cachin, Communist Deputy and editor of L'Hum M. France's letter duce a book oy High Chimneys,’ in) which sponsibility tor the war fronmasters, industrialists anciers. France write “The World War was essentially the work of men of money. [t was the industrial magnates of all the ‘uro- pean states who desired war, rendered Yy. made it and prolonged put their fortunes in ir, made huge profits and threw then- selves into it with such ardor th they ruined Europe, ruined themselves and dislocated the world." The famous author agrees 1M Corday that the present tierce spir't ot hate of one people for anot fanned by the newspapers demna this hatred as sheer {oll declares: "Our salvation Europeans serves to intro- Michel Corday, “The the re aid 10 the and fin Nes in being guod Otherwise all is ruin and FIND BROTHER HANGING DEAD ON CLOTHESLINE Family in Queens Can Anal Reason for Act. John Zywan, TO REIMBURSE HOLDERS | No twenty-eight, No, 152 Clinton Avenue, Maspeth, Queens, was found by; two brothers, Stan- islaus and Peter, hang y the neck to a clothes line stretched from the stairway banister to f x > on the first Moor at i address late last night, the police say Dr. Lesser was summoned from the Wyckolf Heigt said Zywan bad been dead for some IN LIBERTY BOND LOSSES ' time. The man's brothers could ad- vance no reason for his act. Hospital, but he Senate Pansen Bill to Pay in Bank Failures, WASHINGTON, bill to relieve erty loans tl Cla, 20.—A House vs to Lib- rough banke whieh have terday by the nee after vem = led was passed ye being passed 1 ber The claims involve which the Comptrc pay, the against nasetrs of the def the amount of the | tions which wer the IT ot $254,090, le authorized to o have liens t banks for idual subsertp- through failures Governme lost NO TAX ON TOURISTS TRAVELLING IN ITALY The Mali York # to-duy that be has heen a : re ' panera on of a Govern 13) of \merienn tour Winue th ‘ tax | on for vigners, nor ty th erngient’s Inter At present any,” sayin the Consul General. )* HUCHES ONCE MORE |Old Astoria Presbyterian Church BOVS, 13. CONFESS FOUR ROBBERIES IN JERSEY IN TWO DAYS Three Youngsters Who Stole $3,000 Were Careful to Wipe Off Fingerprints. Three boys, each thirteen years old, who robbed four homes in two days, obtained money and property worth $9,000 and carefully obilterated their fingerprints, were sentenced yeater- day to the New Jersey State Schoo! for Boys at Jancsburg when they pleaded guilty before County Judge Zabriskie at Hackensack. ‘The boys, all of Emerson, N. near Westwood, are Patsy P. Turtello, Philip Drago and James Zanbrino. At the time of their arrest they were out on probation for having robbed a ga- tage In Westwood. Patsy has been urrested five times, Philip four times and James three times. The home of George Jacobdeen, Westwood, N. J., was robbed between 9.30 and 11 o'clock Saturday night while the family was away. Jewelry, money and firearms, valued at $1,500, were obtained, Hight policemen, with Chief of Po- Nee Bird, worked until sunrise Sun day, The three boys were suspected, traced to Newark and arrested there Monday morning. They were taken to Westwood and questioned by Mayor Irving T. Brick- ell, an attorney with offices in this city. All confessed, and later ad- mitted that Sunday, while on thelr way to Newark, they robbed the homes of Alfred W. Miller and Fred- erick Kratsste of River Edge and John White of Oradell. Police investigating the River Bdge robbery had been unable to find fin- xerprints. The boys laughed and said: “Oh, we were careful to wipe those things awa They explained that in robbing a house two would hide and one would go to the rear and knock, 1 answered the boy would ask for a ink of water. ald open the door with a Otherwise the boys ton key. Virtually all the property stolen the four robberies was recovered, as the boys told the poltce where it had bean pawned or hidden, They took firearms from every house and also obtalned furs, Liberty bonds, jewelry, and an !nsurance policy, a GOLD DISCOVERED IN ILLINOIS TOWN Nuggets Are Found Worth $5 to $10 in Sinking Oil Well. CANTON, UL, July 20.—Hundrede of coal miners In the Bryant region, ten miles south of here, were greatly excited to-day ov the discovery oi what appeared to be a vein of gold on a farm where oil is being drillnd for. In removing debris, several nug- gets, sald to be worth from $5 to $10 each, were taken out from a depth ot 500 feet. ‘The ofl prospectors announced ti would begin !mmediately the sink!r of another test hole in a quest for the SAY YOUTHS STOLE HINGES OF HOTEL Are Charged With ‘Theft of the New Allerton’s Ilardware. Leonard Roland, Rast 65d Street, and James Smith, eighteen, No. 150 Kast 50th Street, were arraigned in the Yorkville Court to-day charged with grand larceny. The youths, according to Detectives Reilly and Quigley of the Narcotic Squad, caught coming out of the newly constructed Allerton Hotel, No, 490 Lexington early this eighteen, No, 286 were Avenue, morning with boxes and bags con taining 1,000 pairs of hinges and fit. t $2,450. in the teen locks, valued There were three party, the detectives say, but the scramble that ensued, one got away, leaving an automobile across the street. The hinges are worth $2 a pair and the locks $80 each. the automobile. The police also Roiand, the police learned, was employed as a steam- fitter in the building. > SAVED FROM FIRE; EXCITEMENT KILLS Aged Woman Dies of Heart Din- ¢ When Danger ts Over. Mrs. Hannah Kopeikin, an et«Mty- year-old widow, after belng carried from the fourth floor during a fire at No. 19% Osborne St Rrownarill.. at 4A. M to-day, died from heart direase, The blaze in the five-story building was discovered by Charles Rosenblum in his room on the fourth floor While Policeman tabach of the Brownesvilly Station Was helping. the men, women and children of the twenty For Other Gimbel News See Page 14 GIMBEL BROTHERS BROADWAY at 33rd ST. Dr, Scholl's Feot-Easer eases the feet, body and nerves. May be worn in any shoe. Foot Comfort for Everybody Thousanis of people who have lone suffered with aching feet, corns caflouses and bunions due in man cases to wrongly fitting shoes to constant walking or ste hard, unyielding surfaces benefited through the use of Dr Scholls Foot Comfort Appliances If you are bothered with foot |] troubles come to our store and let our foot comfort demon- strator show you the Dr. oll way to foot comfort. This foot comfort service is free. GIMBELS—Second Floor FOR OTHER GIMBEL Shoe-service. Bus' beauty. 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IN APARTMENT CAFE Tho tin a short time The men were Harry Alston thirty- and Mre « being helped up ateire again by her aon when she col- five, kitchenman, and Phinaes Has- lapead. \ doctor from St. Mary's Hos-| ‘Two men, one with a carving knife, | kins, pantryman, Alston lives in the pital sald she had died from heart fail- West 118th Street house and Haskins ure due to the excitement the other with an ice pick, fought a poeta haa duel this morning in the restaurant] @t No. 2420 Seventh Avenue. DANISH DOWAGER QUEEN 1 in the apartment house at No, 415] It was said the men quarrelied . hout 7 o'clock this morning, Each SOPENHAGEN, July 20 (A -] Weat 118th 8 . aH i COPENHAGEN, July 20 (Assoet at 118th Street, in which a num-| Coient up m weapon. ‘The fight be ated Press). —The Dowager Queen] ber of Columbia University students in tho gan kitchen and wae earried Louise of Dunmark ir seriously ill |live. When the police arrived, both|to the dining room. Twe customers with pneumonia, King Christian has| were lying on the floor exhausted.| there could not separate the men, in consequence been called back from | They wero takeg to Knickerbocker] "0 could Supt. Thomas Meaders. Alston was stabbed about the face, his nose being almost severed. Has 1 _be_ar- kins was atabhed in the chest, Jutland All court functions have bn cancelled Hospital suffering with many wounds, but none fatal. They will be ar- Entire 2‘ Floor 15 W. 34° , (BETWEEN FIFTH AVE. AND BROADWAY, OPP. WALDORF HOTEL.) [IN NEWARK; 807-813 BROAD ST. (Between Market Street and Branford PI) | “SENIOR” Open Daily Till 6 P.M. Saturdays Till 9 P. M. Here is your chance fora very big saving! At this late date only a house with an enormous daily turn-over such as we enjoy could possibly entertain a proposition like this 1100 Suits 1,2 puctase and sale— extraordinary! These suits are the product of one of Rochesters leading mak- ers, who made the mistake of holding out too long. 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