The evening world. Newspaper, August 5, 1922, Page 1

FNINGT wort =} XTRA Vou. LXII, No. 29,119—DAILY. Copyright (New ” BENNY LEONARD 10 DEFEND TTLETO-DAY WITH UNHEALED WOUNDS, FORHE NEEDS MONEY @ FRIENDS SEE NEW ROMANCE BROUGHT OUT BY A SUIT Will Fight as Often as Pos- sible Now, He Says, Get Coin, Quit Ring. HAS LOST HIS WEALTH. Been Poor Business Man, He Asserts, and Thinks Too Much Expected of Champions. By Robert Boyd. MICHIGAN, CITY, Ind., Aug 5.— With two deep cuts partly healed over his right eye, the result of his recent fight with Lew Tendler tn Jersey City, Benny Leonard, lght- weight champion of the world, will defend his title here to-day in a ten ound no-decision fight with Ever Hammer, the, rugged Swedish Chicago Ughtweight, at Floyd Fitzsimmons's mammoth arena. “Why are you fighting Hammer In @uch a ocvndition?” was the first mucetion we out at Bro, Oa awe en-, eréd wu Comiritable little vungalow called Tasker Cottage situated on the white sandy beach far from the turmoll of the crowd of this Chicago Mes WILLIAM HITT: pleasure resort washed ty the water] — of Lake Michigan. “That's a story that | dare say has never been printed. It was early in the morning and Benny was a comfortably SUIT FOR DAMAGES THOUGH DWORSED ) gan and reading from Chicago when we entered “I have never spoken to any re porter about what | am about to re veal to you. I have never been in the mood to, but I spent al! last night planning for the future and in the solitude of Northern Indiona 1 can] 4.4, . give you a story with ur unueuai|Accident Happened in May tone La ter illie ; PR EEe NEW VIEW OF FIGHTING ast, A ter Mrs. Billie and GAME. Husbai.2 Had Parted, “You asked me about these two se vere looking wounds, why do t figt WASHINGTON, Aug 6,—Willlam before they ete healed. ‘That's the| 1°, Hitt of Washington and New York, yarn. I'm going to quit the fighting Jand his wife, Mrs, Katherine Elkins game. No, don't la Hitt, daughter of the late Senator Benny's mother, his attractive little} Stephen I kins of West Virginia, sister, his brother Charley and bis]! been named defendants in two manager all sat on the veranda olfjawsuits in the District Supreme Tasker Cottage, apparently oblivious} Court by Roy H. Dale and Miss to what the fighter was talking about| Katherine L. Sangster, to recover for they apparently thought he had a] $30,000 damages for personal injuries. right to take whatever stand he} It is alleged that Hitt und his wife, pleased regarding his future in the} while occupying a high powered ring. roadster ran into a smaller car driven One by one Benny's mother, his}iy Dale, who was accompanied ov sister, his brother Cha and Billy] Miss Sangster, and caused it to over- Gibson left the champion with uS}tumn in a ditch, The accident hap- alone'to discuss his future and his} yened May 30 last near Vienna. V. retirement with only the scft beating | jiitt failed to stop his ew fey Ne of the waves of Lake Michigan] accident, it iw alleged bn ee ot arainst the shores of Indiana tol ouvd and halted te tee bur muffle the soft volee of the light-| tints are Goverment he weight champion i SrEment employes, “Bince I fought Jack Britton and ry meine = Low Tendler the fight game to me has| , a HC EEL Sl eeiithertne EA sumed an entirely different com-| 00 yt cant with Wil- plexion, It's a business. T have al-|iit automobile accue HS ane EGS HEA ie naaipens. aye an automobile ent which oc- ways recognized | h. But 1) curred while they were declared to Aconunued ba. Secons: Page) have been riding together last May, : 18 Caused 4 great amount of specu. lation among their friends in. this t Te a | city. The chief cause for specula- tion is based on the fact that William Num Ter O) as, ALES | | Hitt and Katherine Elkins Hitt F Th W ld’ were divorced = thre han action rom ie OPIA'S Jorousnt by Mrs. tir in paris In bil d Aug 1921 The statement vat A A they were riding together in an au- sutomo 11e S. tomobile lust May has led to wonder whether they have become reconciled WILLIAM PARKD SON In the reported account of the action for damages, Mrs. Katherine Elkins H1itt is spoken of as the wite of Wil. liam FP. Hitt, not the former wi 1796-1708 Broadway Mr Hitt was at one time en; July 26, 1 to married to the Duke of. the The New York V |. New York C1 Abruy 4 cou 2 of the Wing It Gentlemen: eat our Uve ee Car adv for Btute-Hupmobie reburt [ond a distingulshed explorer, This ro cara in your issue of Sunday, July auth, Pmance was 8. \ and charge seme through the Howland Advertising Agency. the Duke i The adv. in your paper of July esd |from Washington seek made good. Received n repites, got Jconsent to his mari ther tm touch with good prosp * and made a 1 : famper of cash sales of Stutz und Hupe id pyal Titian mobiles. re were constant reports Sincerely yours, ; wedding, 1 t hast wiLLIAM PARKINSON MOTOR SALES Duk nl awa ware ©O., INO., H Washburn, Mer. ie 4 sah end Aas: Eh er USED CAR bEPr. kins, on Ovt, 27, 1915, Was married : sss to Mr. Hitt at the Elkins country Phone Circle 8374. West 67th st. - = shesepss a . ; home in Elkins, W, Va, No announc = i m f wedding had been made The Sunday Wor'd and only intimate friends of the fam . ” lly were present. Mr. i the son ‘Automobile Exchange Ad3.] of Robert R. Hitt, who was Congresa- ‘cuiate in 600,000 }lomes = man fron Illinois Publishing Company, 10%2. York World) by Cress Rail Strike Leaders in Conference. With SEIZED LIQUOR DISAPPEARS BY Attorney Writes Enright About 65 Cases Missing From Boat. INQU:RY DEMANDED. Scores of Repérts to Federal Agents That Confiscated Booze Is Gone. What a time threatened to de- velop into the first serious break be. police officials and Federal for tween Ic agents over the loss of Nauor seized from smugglers resulted to-day when United States Attorney Willlam H: wrote a letter to Police Com- Richard #. Enright, in demanded the return by police of Harbor A of sixty-five of booze which mysteriously disap peared from the rum-runner B. N. J., which was captured off Romer Shoal yesterday by the police boat Bluc Boy. ward missioner which he B. N. J. when she was according to reports reaching Federal agents, were at feast 140 of Mauer, but when si urned over to customs men only thirty-five e$ were found. Tie boat hud been taken to Harbor A tee tery, and it was charged t the remaining sixty-five cases prob ably had been unlouded by some oni not authorized to have done so. And in line with the Investigation of Federal cases of d mys ns months. ‘iuor could into this lo vorts have ce nts that thousands of liquor seized from smug: teriously disappeared in manner during the last Just who ts getting { not be learned. Assistants of ney Hayward it was said tha ye in to the scor ers his the United States ud let it be known that it was the tention to sea’ the police boat Blue Boy and th Harbor A Station if the missing sixty- five ¢ were not returned, but it us said to-day that no such proced- would be followed. It was made r that the I ents have 4 on of precipitating a fight wit the police of New York. In his letter to Commissioner Enright Mr. Hay- ward said “Pursuant to conversation had oy the telephone this afternoon between Attor- Hew YORK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, THOUSAND CASES) 1922. ws cas el A | “| RAILSTRIKE HEADS Jewell, join and Noonan Go Over Situation at White House. OTHERS SEEK HEARING. Three Brotherhood Agents to Ask President Harding to Meet Their C) % ief WASHINGTON Aug. id B M the striking ral! William machinists’ union head of the Jewell, President ‘oad shopmen; Johnston the Noonan, resident of and Jame elee workers, President trical with went into conferenc Harding about 11.20 vrelock to-day. After President, talking 45 the Jewell, minutes with Johnston and Noon- an came out of the bers. They declared Mr asked them tu say nothing concerning the conference and they ot ile The the executive cham Harding had maintained Washington representatives of Hig milway brotherhoods to see the T fent at 2 o'clock » with the Bxecu- ntherhood chiefs, tween officials and Southern Railway do with the hope » peace in the postponed to Pour were and ask a conte tive for the three bi ‘The conference | union heads of the called by the railre: of effecting a sep rail strike, has MRS. WARREN RIPPLE. Bertha Honore Becomes Bride in Municipal Chapel. ¢ Monday, The unton representatives apparently wanted to await develop Mystery surrounding the flying trip] 4 o [fnenta: ta. President Harding's con: to this city of Miss Rha. Hon, t ‘ “© with Jewell, Johnston and nineteen years old, niece of the tat aMeel Mrs. Potter Palmer of Chicago, and NY aquest (ae . hearing By the Warren Ripple, forty- five-year-old i esident of thelr side uf the ai Chieago manufacturer. 0 ad cul \ has been under consideration since to-day when it was learned they wer / Thursday by Warren tone, Presi married in the Municipal Chapel > Ae OF ve Bracven) ‘ of Ascghe, July 81. They had been stopp , a... | tive Bagineer ‘ remden the Rite-Catiton and it wae runic feamers Swept Ashore, } of the Brotiiertiond ot iaitroad val hey had been married at that place Warehouses Baa teas, men, and D. obertson, President The bride, as well os being a ni arenouse: Demolished of the Brotherhow of Firemen and of Mrs. Dotter I whose est In Big Blow Su ane oie cane at her death was sated more get a reply for joint ac n from 7 000,000, is also a andi Sheppard, President of the Order of nd a cousin off HONG KONG, Aug. 6 (Associated} Railway Condue nd the ott e, None of her ‘ ) ull reports of the disastrou: | momber of the “Big our, it wa intimate friends was taken jato he High sane Swatow of aenlan to aa Ae the con race confidence when she left Chicag) to " : | through the legislative representa onfidence when she left Chicas les north of here, with estimated | tives of the enginemen, trainnien and this city, and ports of Ler marriage t t rs pen, aie it reaching there to-day came 1 4,000 lives and great property | fremen to them, m \ug. 2, were awaited here|» Mr. Sheppard was telegraphed that a a ‘alk, and Inspecto Investigation to-day revealed ‘1 day because of the serious situation hourly Mt SH Wen to alvise “thal ‘i 1.20 | Miss Honore and her flance ca 1 1 Wabehouses’ were demote | CoveloPins It was ducided to/acek the Aug. 4, 1922, the Police Boat{!he Municipal Marr 1 Bynes Heidetia fratbane oe tstraalyets Riue Boy tatercepted the motorboat | Uureau on July 81 and swore out aay storm and their contents | “If you decide to take similar nc eae Wf iatehor ia rawe There was | conse before Edward W. Hart, one or !ost or ex ively tion, you can wire your legislative on boar! the BN. J. at the time of {the clerks. ‘The bride said her itis were swept as representative direct," the telegram the int) ception by the police boat 100] 48 nineteen and that 5: nd it ir rgoes, it is beheved s ta therintessien laa) War he p Det 30083 Cedar Street, Chica 3 {0 pirates before they can] ‘The telegram to the three legisia the motorboat was turned over to the |e ames of her parents as Mr, and|!* ive representatives was addressed (1 cali Thad on ‘boara| Mrs. Lockwood Honc tha dates H. BE, Wills of the engineers, Art custonis authorities It had on board} Titan name being Houtrice Crosby. { Swatow ls « port of 60,000 to 60,0001 J. Lovell of the firemen and W a eee ee ee ee ei ey host. | Miss Honore added that she was born|!nhabitents at the mouth of the River] Doak of the trainmen, ay follows: account # by the One “ se in Chicago. ul ne the eastern border of the “Referring to our joint telegram AES As Wed (A: BROAGO LOE Shay <BNG loath Hinple. wave ile ane na cores | Pronnse Kwangtung It is the| this date authorizing you to arrange Cases, p- " ee . r the cit f Chaoan q : " > reside: mY r t ve cases | (Ve and his addre as No. 0 Be h jaoan-) conference with the President, w We must have the sixty-five cages | Jve and his address as No.2 ; Te withates: twentvcnve. milew it turned over to us immediately and 1] Voarson Street, Chicago. 1] a Sent (Continue trust you will make a thorough inves pagal is leas ABEL LUD oie tigation and find out where those oan oi a Lane 4 “ih sis cases are. I would be glad to have a id. tht oy th te welts i i cant te Leta eae ay [=i an thelr At ider Soars eet Up in Air en a oat tk, and your oMce a8) rinicipal Chapel immediately after Ae tra toon te ates ta: [Soret epee min | AS Motorless Plane Meet Begins At Harbor A to-day the police Teu- | Cormick, Deputy City Clerk. The wit Meter Nideed ny Joxeph and Alles Lie Ss Of the panty man, whose identity Is not disclosed , A a . . fanea (that The wueien ot (a) lobnne won 2108 Cant Be Done,” Says F rench Farmer Watching It— ne newlyweds were accompani’ warrants | a n| ' i is + ~ 9 = Fy . SA Rerats To fue oe tiquor| ‘thls elty by Samuel Insult Optimism Reigns at International Congress. Baer ibe Sve z 49°F) cago and, according to the hotel clerk seized on the B, N i “tn ne overlat the Ritz, left ‘Tuesday mor nit RMONT FERRAND, France, Aug, & (Associated Press), -Optimism to the customs authorities with the lphey said they were going cith i : captured launch and t not one|atiantic City u ie © future of motorless 1) revails at Camp Moutllard, where th settle had been tiker ut Hate lthey, would notieay which ts under the the First International Experi bor - ress ¢ jotorle wil g One police official declared that SEEK DOcTOR’: S ARREST }Couet ot Motor vir} will begin to-morrow, to continue heretofore seized liquor had been \ ¢ removed from captured rum runners IN MARKET INQUIRY tijders, pilots and offic :———_. = and stored in Harbor A station until vas cit « ' f t rival of customs officials, but] Mermer Deputy Bucher Re 4 - f ae rm ago would have been in the cast of the F lJ, it] te Answer Questions, Is Chars : shied inatic ylum"" sini Mepuly Commissioner of M ue vy field, who praction ted come and the launch and intr btuRade oratewine Iu soba nny leean te rgo linmediately utter eny in the inveeti¢ fe , upon reading of the Wrooht bout was handed over t « artment of Markets b Comm: Vo It sinee the Wri. Ther t short ho Or er Jor Accounts David Hirshfield: is the 5: ed with aR M2 (Continued on Second, Page.) [:taedeg nan eatin ri No man will « i 1 wi Vaxpay An ¢ ‘ener ' fo man ever won't The World would appreciate preme (7 Tia m Dayton, O,, b ftir t ont a letter to this] Lydon, pate Th’ oh ( ¢ What the French peasa oftios, signed “2A Taxpayer,” will come] special Term, Part f, on August 7 vmp watching a Cuendeton Ci mma unicate 4% soon as convenient with tb on Dr Buehler yesterday it woaly aid ty for four minutes, was I at Editor, phone 4900 Beekmar as t ng t ‘ jon Katered as Second-Class M Post Office, BARS ALL PAYMENTS T0 GERMANS | The { “Circulation Books Open to All.’ To-Morrow's Weather—FA\R PRICE THREE CENTS New York, N, President Harding FRANCE ENFORCES PENALTIES FOR GERMAN FAILURE 10 PAY: ALSACE BANK BALANCES HELD PRESIDENT DENIES |" were No Military Action Involved ‘ Germany Tells France Action SHOWEN 10 fH LER . i nwarranted Under ms of Compact and ms : ersailles reaty. Proposals to Rail Executives Same He Thought They Would Accept PARIS, Aug. 5 (Associated Pre at noon to Poine a notified the German Embassy in Paris Premier the first of a series of measures By David Lawrence. ) French interests against a (Special Corraspondent of The Eve in Germany's pre-war debt pay ning World) inents would be put into effect imme- WASHINGTON, Aug 4 diately. ‘Ihe notice followed the re- right). — The biggest of question} ccipt of a note Crom Germany refus marks rests to-day on chapter offing to mgtt the £2,000,000 instalment White House history In connection | of taese”payments to Brgndh citizens with the railroad strike What hap tay Aug. 15. pened at the conference between} ‘The fleet of the French measures be President Harding and ‘1, DeWitt} tonsixts of the immediate suspensie Cuslee, President of the Asso-Por all payments to German Nationals elation of Ratlway Executives, on ov debts contracted with Frenchmen Thursday, July 27? And another]before the war, beth in France and query pertains to what happened be-|\ »- Lorraine: tweon the time Mr. Cu left the] ‘The oflices in Paris und Strasbourg White House and the meeting of the} Which were set up to Mquidate " f railroad executives In New York six [MDI wete ntited ae atten con F days later man claims unul further orders from President’ Harding has felt com-|the Premier pelled to authorize the Washington] No military action ls Involved newspaper cor ndents to Mend]. The lmittal measures aso include ‘hioadeas’ the statument that he dialt e e ieee to Germans for German groperty not alter the proposal he made to Mr.Jquostrated jn France, including es- Cuyler with respeet ty the peturn off t villas, art collections, ete seniority rights to the — railroad Baden-Buden ‘ng tah strikers. This signifieant denial way Be eA caanigt iter otmoe furnishings, stocks, vide because Mr Harding was told etiiln Al@ite’ Lake tn impression has been spread ha ispendod he original offer Aad been modified] it was Jained that these frst wfter Mr. Cuyler left the White House | measures tiken are not penalties, in Such foundation as exists for this imp atric me ction to sresslon may be traced to the diseus-[ safeguard Vreneh interes!s jeojar- ion whieh took plice in New York]aized by the Germans refusing to when the rtifrond executives met eh If these measures fail to bring @ who heard what way said att} satisvactory settlement, further and York meeting have quoted © Seve ures, it was sud, as havi that he read} will be enforced, the nature of which Harding's lefter “with cons] is withtecd © effect of the urprise present acte yticial circles It Cuyler didn't say when that] was 1 that ce would now urprise oceurred, Mr. Harding has] await s nuove Germany. revealed that the which he] if Belgium and Great Britain de- frafted in his own handwriting it ko payments on private shown to Mr, Cuyler on the day hefdibis, this will have no effect upon was at the Wh Houvet Vrench position, 1t was declared . Thursday, July 27. If Mr. Cuyler said] isance will insist upon payment, de he was surprised, le iust have: re-| spite moratorium that the Lon ferred to the effect which the proposal}don Conference may decide to grant to restore seniority rights to thefand if Germany does not meet strikers made upon him) when Mr.[ French demands the measures taken Harding first read the letter to him, | will become progressively more severe He couldn't possibly have referred to The German Charge d' Affaires the inpression which the letter ma br the German answer to the upon him when it was typewritten D'Orsay minutes before merely reprodu what Mr, Harding|!2 o'clock Premicy Pe re pro had shown him before nounced isfactory and gave Mr Harding was confident when that be application of the Mr. Cuylor left here that the propo mene asures should begir als would be accepted and that thefieft tor jus home five minutes after meeting of the railway executives]?! would merely ratify the programm In his reply the Premier notified Mr. Cuyler must have given the Pres-| Germany that her ‘dilatory’ answer ——- to the ultimatum hud been unsads (Continued on Second f ’) factory and that ¢ was taking ‘ ane measurce to protec r interest Z P 1 “te asked the French ASK WRIT TO RESTRAIN ‘ use of the decline in GAS SERVICE CHARGE] ,, rye ite decision until ~ ubject was disct 1 at the com Sult Filed Awninst Jon meeting of the heads of we allied Government An application for an Injunction re The French Pronuer takes the view raining the iiehmond Count jas] that payment pre-war debts Is a from coll ervies | au German bust men, who flea] Are obviously prosperous, and that it 1 - , Istand to- | ¢4 led with the present ny. 1 1 bow the Supreme | *t f mental f R ag the aps t fa cate eer ox of “retortion,” the German Place, New Bright the applicant ! affidavit | * unit corporation | ‘ te agreament of im {ram Chieago | TUNE, the only consequences to ea, | 3 ton of the engagement un r t amr » by Germany is cancellation ala inter t hin rd by the Allies, unde reserved therein that ae he, Richmond would have the effect beway ypu bee Anta Into play Provisions of ¢ F ® ' Versaittae relntiv ta on Feb 4 r . t ym he SS SS a eon