The evening world. Newspaper, August 11, 1922, Page 1

Prplosion Cripples NGM ET EEE AT IED To-Night’s Weather—CLOUDY. RAILROADS TRYING TO REACH THREE SHOT DOW OMPROMISE WITH HARDING IN EAST SIE GA Proposal to Let Board Decide Seniority of New Men, hut Not Strikers. LONG DEBATE AHEAD. but \Vesterners Easté Conciliatory, -fs Oppose Any Yiclding. ‘oad plan for a settlement e rai strike was sought with mueh determi- mation to-day 4 hours of meetin 1 exec utives in the Gr mina In outline, the terms of this com mon ground would be that, as the Railroad T1001 dohas alveady rua t t have now jost cannot 1 rly board As ion of establivhing of th old men who remained at work and of the new men employed, the railroud excoutivess would favor luvimge the board settle their status all time precedent was believed many hours of de bate foced the railway executives, the indications being that the mort ression would be unproductive of dc cision and that a might not be taken until i © afterr Thomas De Witt Cr Chairman delivered in which he went over the latest plan of Pre Harding, which suggested perm the strikers to return to thelr p! leaving the jority question to the Labor Boa The meeting vided into two groups, the manage wh oare stan dpatters, conciliatory executives *t n roads which have suffered most through the srrike Refore the regular meeting # secret meeting of the Western executives was called by Howard Elliott, Chairman ot the Northern Pacific Railroad. ‘These officials are in fivor of a settlement of the strike ‘‘with hono: in other words, by conciliatory means. The Western group believes the sit- uation is most serious, with a national calamity menacing. They feel there must be concilictory action, allowing the Labor Board to settle sefiority matters and throwing all responsi- y on the Government. stern group contends that if men can walk out and, as one of the managers expressed it, “throw a monkey wrench in the works," and then come back with impur ext stomach they'll go out on the slightest pi after that, ‘even he added ay’s mecting,”’ said one rail- road president, ‘marks another epoch in railroad history. Its importance is second only to our meeting in 1916 with President Wilson. I trust our decision of the day will be beneficial to the railroads, to our employee the Nation. We have a vital b labor problem to solve, and we must solve it with justice to all."* Haley Fiske, President of the Matro- paliven Life Insurance Company, for uw sic and The World’s ‘Business Opportunities’ Far in the Lead —_—_—_— The World’s Business Opportunities are highly regarded by busincss men for their ability to effect sales. Their number and growth is the evidence of their sterling worth “Business Opportunities” Last Week: THE WORLD, 2,129 The Times. 620 The American 213 The Herald. 134 The Tribune. 10 4 WORLD over combined 1,152 “Week ‘be World. Copyright, (New York W Publishing McCormick Weds Mme. Walska In Paris; on Secret Honeymoon; Malones Their Only Attendants MRS. HAROLD M'CORMICK. Despite His Repeated Denials, Harvester Head and Singer Are Married in City Hall— Both Recently Divorced. PARIS, Aug. 11.—Harold mick, American multi-million married to-day to Ganna Walska, I ish opera singer. Dudiey Field Malone and the witnesses to the c “Saute HAROLD F MSCORMICK wu peawous & unpeawoes ERMANS ORDERED his! wite were premony, which took place in the City Hall of Sixteenth Arrondissement The Malones then motored out of Paris with the bride and the bride- groom. The destination of the honey- moon party was kept secret The Malones alighted from the McCormick motor car on the out skirts of Paris and Mr. and Mrs McCormick rolled toward the prov- inces on their wedding trip. A wedding the Ritz away, Undesirables “Retortion” luncheon before the as given at party motored Five Hundred Expelled as Both McCormick and Ganda Walska by French have recently been divorced, Me- A eo Cormick was divorced by his. wife, Edith Rockefeller McCormick in Chi- RGA (Associated cago on the grounds of desertion, He Comm ieneral of did not contest the action. uine has announeed that in Ganna Walska recently obtained a of French “retortion’? (Continued on Fourth Page.) eneuree Ameine Seok nee sade: Seer ae served with ext tices and BELGIAN WINNER must cross th tier before Satur. day evening IN BALLOON RACE —_ CATCHES 21-POUND LOBSTER, Pen Saas ; NEW LONDON dies Demuyter Cove _ 1,800 ane walthe ‘Rathbun’ ofthe “Namie Kilos for Bennett Cup. poner boat Alden prouwlit In a lekaten BRUSSELS, Aug. 11 (Associated | Husnt, oh, Watch J veny-one pounds Press).—M. Demuyter, pilot of thelr is the b br ele balloon In the James Gordon| {nto local m 1 1 421 Bennett Cup Race, has been declared verre winner. says a despatch from Geneva THE WOKLD EKAVEL BOREAL the starting point, to-day Arenges sulttanr He was credited with having covered {4000 Cheele voor: 1 a distance of 1,300 kilometres, spen cay nnd Ul fravellers’ checks for salo.—Advty NEW YorK, FRIDAY, WEES Tl, One Victin..<Dies—Another Is Little Girl Struck by Bul- let—Followed Shooting of Nine Tuesday in Same Neighborhood. , ~ i Man Aticked Tries to Re- turn Fire After Being Hit—- Gunman Menaces Crowd and Shoots Three ‘Times Into It One man is dead in St Mark’s He ul and another man and a lit- le girl ave in a serious condition in Bellevue Hospital as the result of an ittempted assassination at Twelfth Strect and Second Avenue shortly noon to-day, which police de- we is an aftermath of t1 an ging War whieh started at Second Avenue and Fifth Street on Tues afternoon, in which nine persons were shot, and one of them dying. ‘The dead man was shot down in a his on-day crowd, while large assailant stood diagonally across the trect. The other two victins were bystander Panic followed the shooting Umberto Valente, thirty year of No, 406 East Ninth Stre Gead man Valenti died shortly before 1 o'clock in St. Mark's Hospital. Detect Casseti and Murphy at his | but Valenti died without reg ing consciousness. The two victims taken to Bellevue Hospital are Agnes Egglinger, eleven, of No East 12th Street, shot near the heart, condition serious; and Jo- seph Schepis, forty-two, No. 104 Sen- eca Avenue, Brooklyn, gunshot wound in neck, seriousness of injury not yet determined. were Valente was walking on Second Avenue svuuth of Street on the west side of the avenue when the shooting occurred. Another Italian, much younger, stood at the corner of 12th Street und Second Avenue, diag- onally acros street, and, drawing u revolver, took careful aim, totally ignoring the crowds that were pass- ing within arm's reach, The gunman fired three shots, the third striking Valenti.in the left up per abdomen. Valente ran into the street in the direction of his assailant Just then a taxicab came along and its chauffeur. Samuel Zuckerberg, of No, 261 Stanton Street, thought Val- ente a prospective passenger. He stopped and opened the dorr of the cab. Just as Valente started to ste the cab, fell to the street reaching into his hip pocket, he wit! drew a fully-loaded revolver and started to return the fire, but fou himself too weak to lift his revolver hand. The assailant then turned toward the crowd and shouted that if any une interfered with his escape he would shoot them. To emphasize this he fired three more shots into crowd, Two of the bullets took eff into (Continued on Second Page.) _—- ALLOT §2,355,000 5,604,250 Total Amount for Country. ‘ON, WASHID Aug. 11 (Ass6 ated Press),-Final allotment of 604,250 of the funds appropriat Congress for river and harbor im provement work during the fiscal » by the Chief of the arm was announced to-day | partment. Congress ap 5,000, of 7,000,000 which ay proximately served for ture, has been + emergency expe The allotments include New Y¢ Harbor, including” East River ar channels, $300,000; inland watery $40,000; Delaware River, Trentor $3,125000; Baltimore Hart an annels $00,000; inland wa ware River 2,500,000, to Chesapeake is FOR N. Y. HARBOR orld. Is To:Morrow’s Wi [ “Cire ulation Books Open to All.” | Offive, Entered as Second-Class Matter "ost New ¥ Yi HEAT HALTS SEARCH FOR POSSIBLE DEAD INPUZZLING BLAST (= Rigid tivoaaea ia by Police Is Launched as Bomb Is Suspected. Capt. Sexton of the Beach Street Station said this mornir that not until the firemen had made a complete search of the ruins would the police make a positive statement that no one had been killed in the mysterious ex plosion which wrecked the five-story loft building at Nos. 426.428 Washing ton Street, corner of Vestry 7.20 o'clock last evening. He that as yet the cause of the ex was unknown, Several person also plosion were injured in the demolition of the build ing and nine horses in stable were killed Whatever it was that building, its force to bring the structure dc of bricks and beams, as if it had br dropped the height. Fire followed the there frequent plosions during the that accumulated from broken Oil that had been in the caused an adjoining exploded in sufficient n in a pile the was en from a site great detonation on and were night supply pipes. build incessant outt e mystery was dcey to-day when records partment showed there was not i the building which required a ¢ bustible permit. Pe the Bureau of Fire ig vid the only permit required \ March, 1918, for barrels oll, n barrels ¢ n barrels of wh A year later Capt ngine Company Street, in whose ten Thomas O'T No n Prank district the tuild tate for the Sunday World Must be in | Advertisements | The World Office To-Day Beforet ?. M. Lo insure proper classification EW YO RS PHIL eee) Big Atlantic Liner and Ms 4p Showing Her Position SRK FRESWET IN BAT 10 CLEAR OUT REBEL FORGES City Cut Off Except by Sea and Reports 6n Fighting Are Conflicting. DUB Press). exes WIN, Aug. 11 Yommunication pt by sea, Is still imposs the exact results of the fighting tween the Irregular the sional Government forces are known here. It { that the Nationals have that they have not er There also is diver extent of the fighting. wounded (Associated Cork, ible, and with be and Provi variously state: and entered tered the city. to the of the steam- brought here ship say the Irregulars were strongly and that the on a posted at Passage West Nationals had to t their way through under intense 4 number being wounded and one killed. They reported that the Government troops who landed at Union Hall also are fighting their way through the hos- tile districts, The crew of anot vessel arrive Ing from Cork said t Admiralty (Continued on ‘Thirteenth Page) —~- GASOLINE CONTROL BY U. S. IN PROSPECT Committee Hears ~~ Com- panies Cut Production WASHINGTON, A dove mental control of a large portion © the Nation's oit supply is a p i Senator Smith, South Carol mem- ber of the Yenate com: estl: gating the gasoline indust tor day New Information wh! ached committee Is under to dia vse that certain r are lls n land rom the Cc down produc to cut prices, WESTERN UNION ASKS PERMISSION TO USE MIAMI LINE Sealed Ut Cc eae Would Lc zed Only for European Business. (Associated Pres New mb Carlton, President of he Western Union Telegraph Company announced to-day he had wired Presi dent Ha ‘ding for permission to use, 11 the emergency caused by selzure of cables by Irish Irregulars, the cable landed by the Western Union at Mi ami from the Barbados and sealed by the Government Mr. C permission cable business only, I ariton Kave rance that, if the Miami tor European were nted, would be used could be tra the Telegraph Com- ny of ample facilities forwarding them to London = SHELTER ISLAND HOTEL ON FIRE axmitted to Pernambuco, where Western pa London has for Blaze in Old Prospect House With 800 Guests GREENPORT, L, 1, Aug. 11—The Hote Shelter owattiout, on ly Prospect {s on fire and will apparently an entire loss. There are 200 and guorts at the hotel at present, Island, known as the between 800 mainly from New York and Hrooklyn, ‘The fire started in the top of the four story frame building, shortly before TEST EXTRA nm Miami messages ther—CLOUDY. _PRICE THREE CENTS driatic at Sea; Two Dead NIN CROWD LINER ADRIATIC DISABLED AT SEA NG WARFARE BY EXPLOSION WITH 905 ON BOARD [Wo of Crew Kilied, Three Seriously Injuréd and One Missing When Blast Rocks New York Bound Ship 1,200 Miles Out. Liner Not Structurally Dam- aged, Captain Reports, and ls Coming to Port Under Own Power at Full Speed, Is Latest Word. Wireless White route York that from Adriatic to messages the en New received this morning state Star finer from Liverpool a fireman and a coal trimmer killed, a trimmeis_ seriously were fireman and three coal injured and a third fireman is believed to have lost his life in an explosion in hold No. 4 coal 3, used forthe storage No. structural damage to the vessel, was done according to the reports, and she is coming this way at full speed. A me received from the Adri- itic by the New York office of the White ir Line ut noon’ stated tha sor of Am Il reach here about afternoon. ‘The according to was nothing ship wa miles e Light and w o'clock ounded were doing well, and there further to report The Adriatic eight hours by the explosion, the time just keeping up Way and the rest of the time running She did not resume 10 o'clock. She has 450 secon class and Sunday the message, about the explosion was delayed about part of steerage ut about 12 knots. full speed until 02 first class, 258 third class pussengers. A study of the wireless messages sent out by Communder H. I’, David indicates that the explosion must have aused a terrific concussion and ocea- ioned considerable uneasiness. Spon- tuneous combustion or gas formution n soft Welsh coal is belleved at the local White Star offices to have been he The first message was received at the Charlestown, Mass., Navy Yard at It announced stated, “Am en- May need wuse. 2 o'clock this morning. the explosion and Jeavoring to locate trouble. ussistance.’” The message stated that the ex- plosion “bad."* After a couple of A message that the crew was “having some success with osion,"" which indicated that a had followed the blast. Not un- til 8 o'clock did word come that the danger was past and no assistance was required The first was hours came ex fire message received at the office of the line in New York ar- rived at 9 o'clock, It probably had been delayed and read ae follow: “Explosion in No, 3 hold where coar is stored. Reduced speed to twelve knots an hour, No structural dam- Shortly after this mesage had been received the second wireless flashed in, It read: “Occurred latitude 42.24, longitude 52.01 west. Proceeding full speed. One fireman, one trimmer killed; one fireman missing. One electrician, one fireman and three trimmers seriously burt.” Because of the coal strike and at the request of the United States Gov- ernment, British ships are taking om sufficient coal at English ports to supply the furnaces for the round trip. The Adrtatte burns 600 tons of coal a day between New York and Liverpool and has that extra load stored tn her reserve bunkers, It ts assumed by officials of the iine here that the explosion was in @ part of this reserve loal, Ex-Gov, Martin B Glynn and his | ee me ee ee on ee