The evening world. Newspaper, August 14, 1922, Page 3

SAIN IN Vi INWARFARE [Vew York and Paris Milliners Decree mt Hats tor Women for Fall of 1922 OF RIVAL GANGMEN OVER BOOTLEGGING Gopher aid Tanner Feud See.. in Murder Broadway Cafe, Smith at OWN IS" ARRESTED. Monopoly of Supplying Liquor to Speak-Easies Cause of Outbreak. After almost continuous investiga tion for twenty-four hours at the West 47th Strect Station and Police Headquart of the killing of Frank Wallace in front of La Vie, a bass ment restaurant in Forty-eighth Street, near Broadwa s District Attorney Dineen and the po lice came to the conclusion to-day that Wall: was a casualty in a bootlegging the and the Tanner Smith gangs Under persistent police war between Gophe attack from the early days of the Mitchel Admin {stration the organization of these bands of thugs loosened and appar- ently disintegrated. But the quick and more or less easy profits of the bootlegging business has, according to the police, brought the old 5 spirit to life and has given it new strength The best information of the inves tigators is that the revived Gopher gang, many of whose members have gone to work as longshoremen, feels that it has the right to the monopoly of supplying speak-easy cafes and cabarets with ‘steamship liquor’? smuggled off of liners which dock at North River piers. he Tanner Smith organization has just as good opportunities in its for mer territory along the water front south of 1th Street fq affic in smuggled whiskey as the Gophers have abov The nner Smith's have been supplying the resorts of reenwich Village have been recent thre because agents of each band | ught to interfere with the other's market Wallace has always been an ad herent of the Gophers. With Patrick Mitchell of No. 67 FE Avenue, and another nv name the t divul he spent police have r aturday night from dus ty dawn ¢ k until Sun- t Broadway and the side streets in an aut “looking for a guy," who be ly avoidin ms At 2 o'clock Sunday morning they Appeared at the door of La Vie. Wa lace and the unnamed man were so clear ressively eager for a fight that Thom liman, sidewalk guard of the re told them — they couldn't Phey reached out but he slipped 5 r bolted it. The three 1 1 to their car. Mitchell went back ur with Spellman, who told his he was not drunk as were his friends he could go in Wallace and the other man_ were enraged at this discrimination and walked up and down in front of the place for several minutes, yelling abuse and threats. They drove off and were gone until 4.30 when the me back drunker than ev Meantime, Mitchell had engaged in fisticuffs with a party yung men who had aceon dancer of the to La Vie, after Reisenweber’s clos He was on his way out when Wallace and Mitchell leaped from their ear at enweber ¢ the curb and attacked Speluman, They caught him, but James 1, Redmond, one of the three owners of the resort was at the door and secured it with a chain bolt me of the witnesses assert that Wallace drew a_ revolver nd fired two or three shots. Others say he merely reached for his hip pocket All of them assert that Redmond opened fire at Wallace with a volver poked through the crack of thé biigett e 2 Velvet Will Be the Favorite Fabric, With Coquet- ta Fe thers, w that we that we are just beginning to to have a little bit of honest-to-soo¢ sun D: fee real. Are warm, shiny alon think weather Fashion comes. us te millinery bit of me und s time fall up every for yout our new And when she fills able space with such beautiful hats are pictured herewith, can one blame a girl if she insists upon a velvet hat in summer? American mil- the femi- und they win, don't wearing Paris and our own liners have this fall set out to ple; nine eye they? Large hats are the vogue—large vel vet hats, h the most co- quettish of feathers, Black ind golde re the favored colors, although some milliners a going to great lengths to trim th most wonderful assort- lected colored rib- hats with the ment of-carefully s bons, Some of the new fall b Irly the turbans, are gaufre satin. lis smart and lends itself draping, because of face Colored sports hats of tured for fall shaped bon, eithe with the color of the hat. m: contrasting or atin felt a of is admirably its crinkled sur- re rtien- the very to f Some of these are cone- 1 trimmed with pleated rib- hamonizing amination Meanwhile the case to the Grand Ju that he had a pistol He said he was downst hots and ran up and was ted Redmond has been a times sinee 1910 on charg issault jail, prison Sing on Wednesday next will be Redmond dened fired the shot irs, heard fiv In the presented 1 or ested nine es of picking ind robbery. He has workhouse, penitentiary sentences, being sent to for from two ye and months to four years and six assault ‘ repeatedly was charged with the k nther, cashier of the M tan I Works, on East 88th Street, in January, 1921, when the payroll of the company was taken from Gunther md a guard by taxicab rok » but the witnesses failed to identify him. a - COP SENT TO CATCH BRONX AUTO THIEVES pockets, served und Sing three months in 1914 for W » He rested ing of phat- 1 ist Police Com ner Enright yester door. Wallace turned and stumbled| gay transferred twenty-six additional to the sidewalk where he fell. Mr “ie ; Dincen says he has two - witnesses} Motoreyele policemen to the Bronx in who swear that Redmond opened the | 4% effort to put a stop to the steating door and followed him and. shot of automobiles In that part of the city. him as he lay on the sidewalk, When] They were assigned to the busiest high Wallace was taken to Roosevelt Hos- | way pital, where he died a few min Joueph Achelnlen of No. (807 x after his arrival, there was a bullet| 157th Street, one of the policemen, was in his brain and another in his upper] badly inured, ten minutes after he had jaw. thieves when his motoreycle ekidded. at Redmond was arraigned in the West | Kinushridge Road and Heath Avenue Side Court to-day and held withont| throwing him to the sidewalk, He suf bail on a charge of homicide for ex-! fered abrasions and contusions, PANTOMIME Girls in Jersey City to Compete At Jacks as Boys Did Did in Marbles Free for All Contest to Start Thursday With Over 3,000 Entries. TERM IN ELMIRA Tommy Harrison, Who Killed Betrayer of His Sister, Es capes With Light Sentence. n teen years manslaughter 1 Sessions to- und was sentenced to Elmira Re formatory by J neuso. He Will probably be within a year ‘ Asor Har 1, ind n the first ac matory ! of the District At to. the art jon Bal x Lhy a prot 1 the Youns H ud 1 1 1 Abou ' vung Ton h ” hon nigh h m € ere , He waited there until Jam ney, seventeen years old, apy the way to his home. Tierné and started to walk away, but son caught him CON yu going to marry ter?” asked Harrison No," replied Tierney; “I y marry the'* Tommy Harrison pulled volver and shot Tierney th While a, man ed sponsibility? to protect the 1 virtue of the women of uid Judge Mancuso in img tence to-day, ‘he should not t law into his own hand: cumstances in th leniency a t More than three thousand girls will be entered in a jacks contest in Jersey|contest got the boys to realize that City beginning ‘Thursday. ‘The idea} the good old game of miggles was Ben eancelvediiig vase Linney Moore: (ote amon! after all, and they are Director of Parks, who originated the} } Ge Nee La aera a eae marble contest among schoolboys. for boys. he game is wholesome and It will be an elimination contest, | invigorating and I believe the contest and the winner will be declared Cham-| will rival in interest the one for t pion Jacks Player of the World. She} boys which has made Buster’? Rech will challenge all comers. known all over the country as ‘'Marbl “Girls are forgetting the old-fash-| shooting Champion.’ ioned games,’ sail Commissioner] ‘The contest will last more than two]: Moore see them in the city] weeks, All girls under fifteen are eli playgrounds playing baseball and -|[gible. A committee of city officials ketball just like the boys. The marble’ will act as judges. red and tear-stained and his futh Was moody and thoughtful, and that Rose kept away from him and M crept about the house silent and frightened »mmy set about to cover the cause of this state of fairs and on May 26 he hunt and found his father's revoly 1 it in his pocket and walked ac street to No. 420 West 16th st LONG BEACH CARNIVAL FOR $150,000 HOSPITAL RG.000 In Kaised Wo About $ city hospital is headed Mrs. ‘Th May vill Reyt Finn Mayor % i fer ch , 1 hn booths, ine! on the bourdwalk 16 SHOTS IN CHASE OF RUM SLOOP, AND CAPTURE LAUNCH Summer Colony Aroused by Fight in Night With Booze Runners. MANCHESTER, Mass., Aug. 1 The joop Hawk was captured off the summer colony here to-day, after six teen shots had been fired by Chief of Police William Sullivan and_ officers engaged in hunting rum runners, A unch, with twenty-eight cases of tice liquors, bound from the sloop to the shore was intercepted and seized. Many additignal cases of liquor were thrown overboard from the sloop during the tive-mile pursuit, the off cers said Chief Sullivan arrested Harry Loud n, of Rockland, Me., said to be the kiper of the vessel dur th trip from St. Pierre, where the liquor was taken aboard, 1 five Glouceste men. In court later Loudeen and Wil liam Meuse were held in bonds of $2,000 each for a hearing Monday on charges of illegally selling li and of keeping it) for ale Joseph oC. Mitchell, John Smith, Carl Hardin nd Howard Harding were held) in bonds of $1,000 each Concealed in bushes on the beach between Manchester and Magnolia early this) mornin a vesult of a 1 ived last night, the officers yserved a launch putting off from a sloop that had been anchored out side When the liquor was found on the launch the officers set out a the s » in motorboat It a Jong punctuated by frequent shots revolvers fired by the officers © men seen to be thrown liquor verboard When the sloop was boarded she is practically empty of cargo, but n examination of her + howed he had tiled from St, Pierre with 48 cases of liquor, A check for sev io hundred dollars ened ot a prominent resident of the summer olony on the North Sho was also found on one of the men oo BANKRUPTCY PETITION AGAINST SHIP CO. CS. Matt Steamst sini Due F Purther @fsclosures as to where a of the bankrupt United State Mail Steamship Corporation have gone | were contained in an involuntary pe tion in bankruptey asked today in |r ul rict Court for the Hu Navigation ( ition of " The chief petit 1M. Chadbourne, Harold J vd. ' M u f the t States s \ money loaned, Ott James C. Ewe 1 _ A2.000 STLIS SWEAR TERS Sronny \ f 1 i he plac uot ‘THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1922, DYING ELECTRICIAN BLAMED SELF FOR ADRIATIC BLAST Explosion on Liner Caused by Short Circuit and Coal Gas. Passengers were unanimous to-day in w of officers and ¢ liner Adriatic during that followed the ex re in which five died and praising the the White Star the excitement p ion and ¢ three were injured Friday at 1.30 A M. They also expressed pride in the women and children aboard, most of them Americans Hundreds of triends and relatives who were at the pier when the ship docked shortly after 8 o'clock Inst ht to greet the 1,402 passengers ind members of the crew, saw little evidence of colored foren few the accident. The buff it was blackened for a nd there was a tarpaulin covering over No. 8 hatch, Ambu- lances rushed to St. Vincent's Hos- pital the three injured firemen, There many stories of What happened aboard, all of them replete were with heroism, It may never be known what caused the explosion, wheth spontaneous — combustion deep down in the coal hold, or a short cireuit igniting coal gases, Electrician Ablett was fixing a cable to turn on a three-cluster light for the men to work the coal out, He rushed up after the explosion badly burned and was delirious until he died. He is said to have declared that it Leslic was “all his fault,’ but what hap- pened never will be known, except that a spurting flame leaped fifty feet into th setting fire mast after c material vir the hatches, T! to rope stays about forward blowing off the damage was slight, officially to-day White Star line offictals, after con- ferring with the veteran commander, Hugh R. David, a Welshman, issued statement quoting the commander fe ship. It read in part: t 1.3 A. Mon the 11th an ex- plosion took place in the No, 3 hold, it was reported a reserve bunker, opened from the adjoining bunker hold with the ob- ject of working out the coal. ‘The xplosion sent flames into the No. 3 chway, stripped it of hatch beams nd hatches. Fire hose was rigged and the small flames were extin- guist The ship proceeded at full speed at 3.55 A, M. after a detailed examination of her hull and struc tur Chief Engineer F, W. Ruddle said seven men were at work about th entrance of No. 3 hold. Others w asleep on the upper hatch over No. hold. One of these, Stephen Me Guiness, forty-nine, a fireman of not found supposed he was blown Two of the men in the killed outright. One was forty, of Liver- Liverpool, afterward and it is overboard, hold were A. J. Dilley, fireman, About fifteen passengers were up nd about when the blast occurred. These men and women dashed forward to where the shaft of flame lifted Its terrifying head and kindled the rope rigging of the rn it. The report was likened by all these witnesses to lightning striking a tre Then a se ond of silence, and a roar resembling thunder Instantly Capt “Are the wires almly, buts! ficer. ‘The refere equipment. Rapidly his practised eye scanned the scene and a moment later he rushed a message to the radio room broadcasting notice over the seas that his ship was in danger. Ten answers flashed back through the night. The steamship Reliance reported herself sixty miles away; the miles were stopped, Ifeboats Deckhiands went about omed tasks to allay fears A porter continued his rounds, gath ering shoes to be shined. — TRAIN WRECKS AUTO; DOESN’T ‘HURT DRIVER was David was on deck. Hl right?” he asked of a junior of- ce was to the radio NEW LONDON, Conn. Aug. 14.—Ap- parently unhurt after the automobile he was driving was tc wrecked when struck by @ train itapulted int an fron stanchion, which was also mashed, at the ratiroud station late yesterday, James In of No. Broadway, Flushing, L. 1, was able return to his home unssetsted y le had Just left the wharf after landing from the Fisher's Islund boat the path of the train, He was alone in the ear Yow AeA WaeNeG) DISLOCATES JAW FOR FOURTH TIME May Be Comedy for Some, but It’s Tragedy to Victim. De « thirty-two, employee at 1 i ta t sid t wt ® y wi ed 1 wted 1 that ide the fou t that has pened q ver Miss De Cast Applying at liss De Cast D i van i not but wrote on what ! 1 to her BROUGHT ADRIATIC SAFELY INTO PORT AFTER EXPLOSION COMPLAINT FILED IN DANCER’S SUIT AGAINST WHITNEY Attorneys for Miss Fontaine Formally Ask $1,000,000 as Heart Balm. SWALLOWS POISON __ {WHEN HER MOTHER IS MARRIED AGAIN Dying Woman Fails to Halt ‘Aoneymoon by Her Act. Because her mot planned to cemarry within less than a year after her father’s death, Mrs, Ethel Kep- pler, thirty, of No. 42 Oak Street, Yonk yesterday swallowed six bichloride of m cury tablets and to- day is lying Riverside Hospital with only The mother, Mrs. Mary Gergely, fifty-two, received news of her daughy ter's act at once, but, an hour later, was married to Timothy Buckley & St. Mary's Church of the Immaculate Conception in Yonkers, Father Mullen officiating. Last night she and ner new husband went to Atlantic City on their honeymoon Nothing has been heard from her to- day, although every effort has been made to reach her. Meantime, Mrs. Keppler's husband, John Keppler, and her three little children are con- stantly at her bedside, praying for her recovery, The mercury tablets, each of seven and a half grains, were obtained by Mrs. Keppler from the medicine kit of her mother, who is a midwife and who, despite difference with her daughter regarding her marriage, has been living with Mrs. Keppler The daughter told the police she first heard of her mother's projected wedding on July 4. She attempted to dissuade her, Yesterday she learned the wedding was to take place during the afternoon. About 1.30 P. M. she obtained the poison and took It. Neighbors, attracted by cries of the children, summoned an ambulance in a slight chance of living. BAL. oN SPA, N Aug. 14,]and she was taken to Riverside Hos- ~The complaint ina ction for | Pita 400000 dor Been n action for)" pr, Alexander Fischer sald to-day or Preach of promisé/xhe has a slight chance of recovery. against Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, son fled of her Harry Payne Whitn to-day by attorne: 2van Burrows Fontaine, The briefly a dancer complaint was 8 for charges that Whitney began a courtship with Miss Despite the pleas of her husband and children, she declares she does not want to live with a rift in her fam- ily Sens AUTO DODGES WOMAN, HITS ANOTHER AND MAN Driver Ronse Car Into Brookiyn TraMe Stanchion, In trying to avoid hitting a woman Fontaine on May 19, 1919, which con- tinued until Oct. 28, 1920, when, the plaintiff asserts, he prom marry her three days later b to keep the the promise, alleged courtship were No details of early to-day, Francois De Freystag of No. 81 Irving Place, Manhattan, driv- ing in his automobi the Flatbush riven Avenue Extension and Fulton. Street, The papers were fled following an| Brocklyn, ran into the trolley car : ph aking aa starters’ ‘booths, the police said. ‘Then application made Saturday to Judge! his car hit a traMc stanchion and a man Borst of a Springs for an They are Mra, reste ates eae 415 Beverly Road, rder to attorneys for Whitney tol momas Andrews, No. $14 Myrtle Ave- show cause why they shotild not both of Brooklyn, ‘They were GOWN HellOA. COL RURAL. Caos | Jeken to the Cumberland Street Hos : pt service of th | otal, where they were treated for con- complaint, Decision was dete until Sept. 9 to give the attorneys was held In $1,000 bail opportunity to obtain affidavits from aha ae ge sin Texas, where © formerly resided ta Miss Fon- Se ee MUNICIPAL MOVIES, Affidavits relating to lier effort ty settle the action were filed from JERSEY CITY’S PLAN former Senator igar T. Brackett cy s , formerly connected with the case, and] “Fee Shows t re Charles Firestone of New York, at-| Jersey City's first municipal moving torneys for the plaintiff. picture show will open Wednesday night. The latter asserted that arrange. ry Moore, dir of parks, an- ments for a settlement proc point where Miss Fontaine to sign an affidavit “which she not truthfully make." nator Bri negotiations were under long time with the und the attorneys that the ¢ ept vi! of the dings failed for way eded to a was asked could kett in his affidavit said al}. The pro rstanding by pendant would complaint if the 1 to-day that the {to present a full nine-reel show elty pad ar- of charge at Mary that during August and part of Septe ber additional picture shows will be presented at parks throughout the elty. ramme will contain a six-reel feature drama, an educational film and & two-reel comedy, and Commissioner Moore says {t will rank with pro- grammes given at the average motion pleture theatre, Benson Park and Over 7 billion Chesterfields are smoked every year— 20 million every day It’s the TASTE, neighbor— the TASTE] hesterfield CIGARETTES Lisorrt & Myers Tonacco Ca They" cet ene ee ee wen