The evening world. Newspaper, August 15, 1922, Page 3

RAILROAD TRAFFIC | Women Tenn - EXPERT ENDS LIFE AT THE VANDERBILT George A. Cullen Shoots Him- ,. Self in His Room at ¥ the Hotel. = « GAVE ASSUMED NAME. Organized the Consolidated Ticket Offices When U. S. | Ran Lines During War, associates of George A Cullen, fifty-three years old, who for years was a high official of the Dela~ ware, Lackawanna and Western Rail- road, attribute his suicide in his room * at the Vandettit Hotel to overwork and a nervous breakdown suffered Busines: three weeks ago. In hi offices at the North Amer- jean uit Exchange, No, 90 West Street, where he was Vice President, it was said he had been working night and day for months and fing suf fered a breakdown, He had gone to the Pocono Mountains for a_rest his business associates thought he stil! was there, He w office on Aug. 7, for a brief time and when he left told other officials of the change he planned to return to the mountains. It was on this how- ever, that he registered at the Vander- bit as "H. Reed, Philadelphia.’ and s in his day When his body was found eurly to it was fully dressed on the ved with a revolver nearby. The Medical Examiner said the man had been de ten hours. One bullet fired into 1 abdomen probably caused immediate death, In his pockets were a cartridges. There was will in which he left everything to hi mother, and there were nine sealed addressed und stamped letters, with note requesting the he ment to mail them Vxaminer, after sutistying himself that it was a case of suicide, mailed the letters and took away the will Mr. Cullen was a bachelor and for many years had lived at the Hotel Hidgemere in Bast Orange, N. J., with hig mother. They left the hotel about the same time this month. It is be- lieved from the fact that he had registered at the Vandorbilt under assumed name he had contemplated suicide for several days Mr. Cullen was well known railroad men, who regarded hin traffic expert. twenty ye was with the Awan. ‘The she last few years of his life lad been devoted to increasing fvod production and transportation. ‘The Fruit Exchange was founded by him ten years ago at the instance of President ‘Truesdale of the Lackawanna as a means toward developing and cheapening food pro duction in America When the Government took over the railrouds Cullen temporarily threw himself wholly back into. railroad work, his big job living been the or- ganization of the consolidat bureaus which were a teature eral railroad service. He tlso wa chief of a section of the Unit Food Administration und one of th founders of the County Farm bureou s stem in the United State —— WOMAN ON STREET STRUCK BY BULLET eo Seek 1 Whe Vired mon sho Mar; ndrell of No. 198 Prin the thigh by a stray was walking by the Sullivan Street at 8 urgeon {ror Hospi bree Stree to go home 1 Who fired the shot a GIRL AUTOIST CRASHES INTO BROOKLYN STORE Mins Alice Walsh Arrested on Charge of Reckless Driving. Miss Alice Walsh, twenty-four, of No 48 Prospect T Brooklyn, w ing an automobile at nd Varet Str rol and window Bushwick when sli fn to-day, Jncob T fore at No Rushwiek nue Miss Walsh was arrosted Patrol man Coulter on chars rev firiving and operating without a tive | condition, Port in THE - _EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1922. is Champions in the Making Plentitul About the Forest Hills Courts MARTHA EDITH SIGOURNEY. Rooster With Aid Crows Intruder Into Arms of Cops His Lusty Protest at Entrance of Marauder Arouses ar Poultry Market. parrow must be given full credit for having killed Cock Robin Neighborhood The but an ordinary, garden variety, Ar and roosted in the Hall of Fame by catching Isador Glass ern Parkway, Brooklyn, as Gl plumber of No. 1414 Us ay, was forcing his way into the liv at No. 444 Thr Glass, who s 1 broken up@ over his capture, charged with having jimmied his way into the chicken garage. He was caught only after a long chase during whieh a couple ef shots were fired by Detec- tive Tir sand Policeman Wil- liam 1 of the Brownsville sta- tic The “l Was aroused shortly a k this morning by the ond ane jonged crowing of at rooster ne rhood, thinking the rooster was just trying to do a Big Ben, paid scant attention. It was not until about 0 Léns started of His Harem ard rooster early to-day fluttered up » Nineteen, a so the police © poultry market of Phil Greenbers wd Street, Brownsville cackling an obligato that the folk awoke fully to the situation. Then some one phoned the station house When the police arrive they say they found ss dartin between chicken crate: nd that when th ordered Him to surrender he tried to escape, but stopped when they fired inio the aip enber catching roo converting the tri next him as a pet Glass was charged with burglary Gre owner of saye I animated Sunday, the burglar had intended alarm into but will keep tr ase WOMAN FIGHTS TO-DAY FOR SEAT IN U. S. SENATE Miss Kearney Runs Againsi Democratic War Horses in Mississippi. JACKSON, Miss., Aug. 15.—Inter- est in to-day’s Democratic prim is enhanced by the candidacy of Miss Uelle Kearney of Vlora for the seai tu be yaeated by John Sharp Willidm: in the United States Senate, She is running agaist former Senator James ik. Vardaman of Jackson and former R prosentative Hubert Stephens New Albany, of No walkaway is predicted for any candidate and it is conceded each will poll ak If Miss Kearney. lis 25,000 votes of the expected total of 160,000 to 180,000 a Will be necessary © vote. second pri- She has been sly for mary campaigning vigorou twenty months. Nomination is equivalent to election. Former President Woodrow Wilson in a letter made public recently ex- pressed the hope that Mr. Vardaman would not again be sent to the Senate Mr. Vardaman, owing to his physical hos not taken an activ campaign, but his cause ed by a score or more who have stumped the the has been esp supporters: tate PANTOMIME COMPOSER DRIVEN TO END HIS LIFE BY FINANCIAL WORRY —— Louis Koemmenich, Formerly Oratorio Society Director, Turns on Gas. Driven despondent by financial wor- Louis Koemmenich, and former director of the Society of New York, turned on two burners of at Ni ries, composer Oratorio night last in his home, Street, and was acighbors, Shortly before Mr, Koemmenich had with Mrs, James 1 the apartment st 91st 1 when found by he turned on the gas talking rry, janitress of and seemed been building, to be in good it At first the police of the 100th reet Station could not determine whether the death of the musician was aceidental or a suicide, but the dead man’s daugiiter, trmgrade, to- day stated her father had evidently been driven to tike his own life. by financial worries “My father hud long Leen. worrled over finances suid the young woman, "He turned on the gas while iilone and shortly after my moth had talked to him over the telephone. night to find r door, and My mother returned lw 1 ambulanes she has been in a serious condition since from the shock of finding father dead Koemmenich was born in Germany in 1886 and was appointed eonduete of the Oratorio ety on June 1912, snecee iter Damroseh, who had dire organization fer thirteen year 6 > GIRL SWALLOWS POISON SHE MEANT TO INHALE Drug Reaches Sto Condition Because benzoate haling taken to Fordhum day tn a serlous con- ie young woman had been watng the nielelne for heart trouble. She inhaled t Hx ture some of It ile of 4 hus took t ne Woman ty derdhiam Moogle, Say 2 's. Mallory Overshadows All Potential Rivals Now, May Be She Will Have to Reckon With Some of Them Some Day. . By William Abbott. 112 outcome of the women's national tennis charmpionstip now in pros gress at Forest Hills should not alarm Mrs. Molla Mallory. ‘The defending title holder, anxious to retrieve prestige lost at Wimbledon, slibuld retain the pren trophy, especially since - ile, Lenglen decided to remain home in hes French villa and not stage another American invasion this year. On the way to another championship Mrs. Mallory, of course, will meet some stiff resistance. It should come mostly from the courageous Mrs. Bundy, Who, as May Sutton, first won national honors in 1904; Mrs. Marion Zinder- stein Jessup, a high ranking player, and possibly Mis, Harry Bickle, cham plon of Canad Whilo & down oppositior this week Mrs. Mallory inight do w tot only plays tennis well, but swim ing menace in the form of mumere are young stars who are busily developing} Out in California, where tennis ean their strokes for the rear future, when] UE Played almost the year round, there it is Inevitable that one of their num-[ time on” the out Sia aon ber will he the new queen of American] strokes that. will flash in 4 Renta: ional tournaments, As finished prod- ee ucts of this set are Miss Jesse Grieve Mrs. Mallory, if she has any m Miss Grace Mungan of Los An- givings how long her own reign Ee | eee ee last, could observe with profit the/itrt round of the matlomdl tourney tall, husky figure of Mise Helen Wills} ment. of Califorwia, This sixteen-searolt{ — Bulbs elrendy ts heralded ia wcomine cet cane MRE Mike champion and with good resson vis, Who won a hard-f it mateh is making her second journey But tof with Miss Marion Char New compete in principal tournament. Heryoursh. Miss Davis remade one of ates by coun inneoyed’ care tui any K Brown vational ye Now Miss Wells egnimand Teen. as abe olind “the ourt and in her 4 hots over the n Wide assortment of strokes, ese ott"? a strong net game, that Mrs. M no doubt would like to posse ‘The experts. supercritical as als say Miss Wills lacks sufficient tr niqu Nuturally she dor be the young California girl he enough experience, which is the « As s time id before Mrs. Mal being, safely occuy nacle of American tenn creasing number — of bringing up everywher medium that perfects technique eae nis or any other sport. G ‘ paren, Wills two more years, may | ae: one, and her tennis technique MAN KILLED IN FALL likely to cause eriticism. DOWN SUBWAY STAIRS Miss Teslie Baucroft of 1 Gane ie while a little older than Miss \ Vine a n Indartes at certainly one who must be « 1] anmuaee Ay when future champi ave i Lined tioned. Miss Baneroft, tall fed at 1 A.M ing from the left side, ha lospital, Lon Island City, £ a fra u strong baseline game 1 ied skull recetved Jate lust night ina very few who can beat the | I downstairs at r mr rirl from deep ¢ rt Just ¢ A sbway Station in 1 Is it Bancroft is outelassed by Mr He 1s five feet nine inc lory because they both play at ad blue eyes, wray hale nnd croft would make me There was nothing 4 against th dd ehaint fon indfomting: His’ tawiticn would devote more time to | tack, for which she is well ey | lds MOTHER-IN-LAW ies Maetha tos9"'/ IS WILLED $5,000 vst she suis} BY SON’S WIFE Then there of Short Hills. rather squall ph impart ag shots, Miss Bayard, howevs B not have to depend entire Bequest Couched in En- smash to win points, She ees veloped a well rounded dearing Terms by Mrs. from base line and n Bayard continues to imp have considerable to say how titles are distributed in a yes ; Selfridge. LONDON, Aug. 15.--Mrw 1 P. Selfridge, mother Selfridge, nGE London me M t $5 No one section has a promising feminine tule 090 In the will « phia has Miss Molly Thaye nulie'He her sor game vdiy shows sign f ' Hequest, white Ing to a point where a nation irs in he might be ¢ final rew ‘eu “And Tbe Dbaysi io uo all-round athicie » fy ty Cour ULUe muibersuediuw, SMITH ASOLFING ROOSEVELT MUS WAIT FOR ANSWER Former Governor Not Avail- able to Reply to Note of the Politician. Former Gov, Alfred EB, Smith went ‘fing to-day, it was announced at is office, No. 25 Broadway, and thus 1 nothing definite could be learned as to what reply, If any, the former Governor will make to Franklin’ D. Roosevelt's open letter, in which he implores "AL" to declare himself right now to the effect that if nominated Vie will accept At the former Governor's summer j liome, at Sea Gate, Ld, it was stated at Mr mith was away for the tay, Where he went golfing is equal \) puzaling and until to-morrow, at cast, Mr. Roosevelt, who was the lemocratic candidate for Vice Presi dent in 1920, Will have to wait for an answer While Mr. Smith has not yet re- plied to a somewhat similar letter which was sent him by Justice Samuel Seabury three inonths “ago, it is be- lieved that the’ present letter will not The tgnored, but that it will shortly {bring forth a declaration of Mr Smith's intentions, Mr, Roosevelt un- ler date of Aug. 18 wrote: “Over a month ago I wrote to the conference of Democrats in Syracuse urging that the Democratic Party of State must put its best foot fore- most in the scleg¥on of candidates this year, It a ed to me then that the sentiment of the overwhelm- ng maje iy of Democrats was for your nomMation again for the office of Governor “To-day, a week before the filing of designating petitions for delegates to he State Convention, I am of the sane opinion. 1 have b in’ touch with men and women voters from most every up-State county and there 1s no question that the rank and hile of Democrats want you to run, “Many candidates for office are strong by virtue of promises of what they will some day do. You are stvong by virtue what you have done, People everywhere know that int while you lost a narrow war nin the landslide, you received millic more votes in this State than the Presidenfial ticket, “You represent the hope of what might be called the ‘average citizen.’ “Something must be done and done now. In every county the chief topic of political conversation 1s ‘Will Al Smith accept if he is nominated? Already unauthorized agents are say- ing that you will not pt, and Inany are being deceived and begin- ning to lose Interest as a result. TH would surprise you to know what en- thusiasm would spring up overnight if we knew you would accept the normination “Prankly T don't want to see things bo by default in this most hopeful year, and that is why Tam writing vou before the primary petitions are filed, Tam taking ft upon myself to uppeal to you in the name of count- less citizens of up-State New York— Demoerats, Republi indepen- dents, inen and women—to ask you to say now, not later, that if nomi- ernor you%will accept, that years of public.se nated for ( “Wer rectia vice make it most desirable that’ y thin® now for a while of your ily’s needs—I am in the sume boat inyself—yet this call to further ser- vice must come first. Some day your children will be eyes prouder of you for making this sacrifice than they ave now. “You represent the type of citizen the voters of this State want to vote for for Governor 1 you can be elected. ‘The decision must be made now, as I have tried to point out. That is why, reluctantly to be sure, for | know what unseltistiness it will call for on your part, Lam asking you per- sonally and publicly to accede to the wishes of 60 many of your fellow itizens.” > BROOKLYN DRY MEN RAID OTHER COUNTIES Prohibitic from erved sui . propel L number of well known Queens nee in Federal ¢ of Frank Krug, ner of Roekyille Centre Dollar) MeLaughlin of ¢ Hotel, Mi the Old Homes nd Willan ¢ Inn, Glen Cove 7 MISSES MAURETANIA, COUNTESS TAKES TUG Catches Ocenn 1 at In Midstream intese & A. DD a Miers it nital to Micha € * Shabdley, Mo: W“ ace and t other mombors awty 1 company ite Vandon production W Rutherford ¢ 1 nT Company « ~ YEARS Pon HUISING ae Yorn re aio ‘ TWO BABIES BORN ON STALLED TRAINS Apparently Unharmed Desert Heat. SAN BERNARDINO, Cal, Aug. 15. Two babies born trains at Seligman, among four hundred passengers returned here to-day after four hot days and nights in the desert, No hardships were encountered by the marooned travellers except when the bables were born with- out the proper facilities to care for them. ‘The first arrived Satur- day and the second three hours before the train left Sunday by on stranded Ariz., were STUDENT PROPOSES TO MARRIED CHIEF OF “LOVERS’ UNION” But She Is Mrs. Instead of Miss. A typographical error in the publi eution of the name of Mra, Helen Long Rodgers, ‘Judge’? of the court maintained at Hammonton ee hy the Lovers’ Co-operative Union, organized to make 000 hearts beat as 1,000, resulted in a proposal of elopement to Mrs, Rodgers trom a to-day pub- Pennsylvania college student A Pennsylvania newspaper lished Mrs. Rodgers's photogr with the caption, ‘Miss Hoelen Rodgers The student liked and wrote her a romantic peal to elope with him. ©. C husband of Mrs. letter during his wife's sent the student the following reply “My wife is away on her vacation and left me in charge of her incoming mail, After noting the contents of your letter and seeing her name on the elip ping you sent rendered as ‘Miss’ in stead of ‘Mrs.,’ L understand your mis- take, But don't propose to her; I eight years ago and I've had to sup port her ever since, CHASED TWO MILES, LEAPS FROM PIER Clothing Tle Dropped Be- lieved Stolen—Body Not Recovered. + No.1 suite hor ap Rodgers, Rodgers, opened the vacation, He A man seen leaving L, owith a 1 at the command of Stapleton se which he droy Customs Guard Comery, stationed there, was pursued in a running race for two miles to-day to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Pier No. 6 at St. George, and leaped off the end of the pier Comery, who had given chase, was about 100 feet behind the man when the latter ran out on the pier, pulled off his coat and leaped into the water. Comery could see no tr and notified the St, Ge slice Who searched in a motor boat, but he could not be found. Comery believes he was an experienced swimmer and excaped. He may have bewa ex- hausted from the two-mile run and drowned Tho suitcase contained clothing be lieved to have | stolen from one or the Shipping Hoard vessels tied up at the Stapleton piers, Several thefts of this sort have been reported recently —s AUTOIST STRIPPED TO UNDERCLOTHES Robbers Take Everything, Even Car. While accommodating two stran a vide, James N. Y., a revolver, men who had asked fe W. Abbott of 5 held up at the robbed, stripped of his underwear and left on the road between Rancocas and Beverly, N. J. 11 o'clock last night while the two strangers drove off in his: ce: Half an hour later, Constable Ste- venson of Beverly arrested two men who, he said, were in Abbott's ear and who said they were Frank Plrello and John Williams of Little Silver, N. J gertios, was point of They were lodged in the Mount Holly Jail After the men drove off, Abbott made his way to the farm house of Charles F Shinn seeking clothing and assistatice Shinn got in touch with the police and the speedy the two men followed ——— CAUGHT SHOPLIFTING THREE LIVE CHICKENS One Won 20 Days and Other su ed Sentence, The long standing belief of Dx Henry Mugge that “you never ean was responsible for the arraignment in the Court of Special Seasons to-day of two women of siperlatively respeetatte “PP of shoplitting live chickens, They suid they were Mra Kaufman, forty-seven, N h Street and Mra. Fann forty-five, No. 5 Bast 18th St Muxke says he snw Mra, Kaufman take three ehir from 4 crate in the poultry market of Louis Freund at No 179 Lawia Street, and pass them into the bag under Mrs. Siegel's apron. Mr Kau was sent to the Workhouse for 30 days and Mrs Siegel got a sus pended sen > MAN SWALLOWS POISON; GROANS BRING AID No motive could be learned by police for the attempted ide of John Stuerhoff, forty-four, of No, 1489 East Ninth Street, Brooklyn, who waa taken to Bellevue Hoapttal satly to-day from the Commapolitan Hotel, Chambers Ktreet and Woat roadway, suffering from f inerenry polsoning The lerk was notiMed shortly after intdnight (hat a man Waa groan, «In one of yonia, A search ted i erhot le ta alleged to tiken ¢ Kratns of blob lie of 4 Ho retuaed to glye police, ’ © of the man CLARK CHLOS C0. ARE CHARGED WITH FRAUD CONSPIRACY. Trustee for Chandler Bros. &? Co, Alleges Scheme to Hide Bankruptcy. District Attorney assistant, Ranton, througt) Benjamin Schreiber, took steps to-day to obtain evidence of bucket shop methods alleged to have been practised hy the big Stock Ex change firm of Clark, Childs & Co. No. 165 Broagway, ‘This action was taken when the District Attorney saw in the morning papers civil suit brought by the trustee in bankruptey of the flem of Chandler Bros. & Co. of Philadelpht In the civil suit it is charged that Clark, Childs & Co. conspired, Dec. 1°, 1920 with Chandler Bros. & Co, also members of the Stock Ex- change, to defraud the public and keep +t information that the Chandler n was at that time bankrupt rd P. Barrows, trustee in bank ruptey for Chandler Brothers & Co. which failed in July, 1921, with re: ported nilities of over $3,000,000, makes the charges in a suit filed in the County Clerk's office yesterday against the New York Stock Exchange and the individual members of Clark, Childs & Co. to recover $90,000, the proceeds of the sale of Fred T. Chand- ler jr.'s Stock Exchange seat. According to Mr. Barrows, Clark, Childs & Co, discovered Dec. 10, 1920, there was an error of $1,000,000 in its account with Chandler Brothers & and that its equity in stock held as security for leans to Chandler Bro, & Co. was $1,000,000 lessy than {# usually required in dealin; between two independent brokers, two firms, charges Barrows, Decume co-adventurers in a corrupt plan to obtain trade for Chandler Brothers & Co.’ Clark, Childs & Co, « received the profits, he alleges, except for a limited sum allowed Chandler Brothers & Co. to defray office exe penses and keep going concern. his cocunts of a Then began ystematic bucket~ ing of deals In stoe Barrows charges, managed exclusively by Clark, Childs & Co., and made pos« sible through the creation of an ac- count known as “Account 5027 on the books of Chandler Bros, & Co. a FOUND DEAD IN NEW ROCHELLE VACANT Lor, John Beattie, of No. 68 Woodbury Street, New Roghello, a gardener, forty= was found dead to-day ina vacant lot in New Rochelle. 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