The evening world. Newspaper, August 26, 1922, Page 1

o Posen. emo NLT I SLAYS MOVIE ACTOR ON WIFE’S CHARGES Copyright “VoL. ‘LX. NO. . 2, 187—DATLY, (New York World) Publishing Company, 1922. by Press — ah ad YORK, “SATURDAY, avaysT 26, 1922. Entered as Post Office, To-Morrow’s Weather—FAIR AND COOLER. Second-Class Matter New York, N.Y. feet THREE CENTS hiardine Gives Ultimatum to Anthracite Coal Men COAL MINES 10 BE SEED IF SETTLEMENT [5 NOT MADE i VIR OF HARDING ea the B raider. MAY 7 ue OVER MINES. PROCESS Ni GRAND JURY, SAYS HYLAN ——— Senate Committee Bloc tion on Harding’s Measure Mayor in Saratoga Phones Reply to Prosecutor’s Let- ter in Market Charges. (United mine ‘strike WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 Press).—The anthracite must be settled or the will take steps to seize the pits Monday This is the Presidential ultimatum, | trict Senator Watson, Indiana Republican, | ing declared to-day after a fong confer- | for ence with Mr. Harding at the White Government and opdrate Mayor Hylan to-day charged Dis- with corrupt- d Jury ‘and said: “T delief that the Grand Attorney Ruston “the political am firm in the processes of the purposes House. Jury of Kings County will not per- WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—Action] mit you to use them (records) as an on the Administration bill designed to] instrument for political propaganda in prevent extension of the profiteerin in coal, through powers of the Inter- and the distribu- to-day in your interests or in the interests. of: {ood _profiteers." This was the Mayor's repty-to the suggestion of the Kings County Dis- trict Attorney that he seize the books State Commerce Commission Federal fuel blockwd creation of a tion agency, was athe Senate Interstate Co 1eree Ce - <a Hen Bat ree CoOM-1 and records of the Department of Mar. mittee, and the whole subsect we ' hole “subject went) cers in Manhattan, Tronx, Queens and over to-day. o Richmond, have his own Commissioner Chairman Cummins of the commit- of Accounts investigate the numerous tee, who introduced the measure, de graft cha in this department, and clined to discuss the situation in the instruct the Corporation Counsel to re committee, but Senator Pomerene,|cover from various 0 ap- Democrat, Ohio, declared several mem. | pointed pushcart market supervisors thonsands of dollars collected by them bers were insistent on hawns hea y . ¥ : and whieh they failed to turn into the ings and that he was confident both | city treasury in the past year or more. Mine owners and workers would be} The Brooklyn District Attorney wrote given an opportunity to express their|the letter after the Grand Jury work- ing with him had investigated charges Views on the proposal before there was | 1" BES of alleged graft in some of the Brook nal action lyn pusheart markets The Administratiog was preparias| This investigation showed that at to bring the anthracite coal ana rail] least one supervisor could not account for $600 and that anothér had $800 strike 1 jo! oa art ae ko altuations to an arly GUUnIAB-| oN icged to) “incidental for, which fon to-day with Federal operation of] there were no vouchers, O'Malley, the anthracite m 1d some of the] himself, dmitted to an Evening Yailroads unde consideration, should World reporter that the $50 a week Gigi: uacnits supervisors and the $35 a weeks assist- i ants for a year or more had public weltare. not turned in a cent to him despite Another Wite House conference to| the fact that in many instances there ohsiden sila “eoucns were likelihoods of large surpluses, He ned that when there were to-day, while Congressional leaders at s “more laborera were put to the same time hasten enactment of pending legisla- tion designed to curb profiteering in coal prices and providing for a tact finding inquiry into the entire coal Industry, Senator W ™. Adams, necessary to protect the was in prospect were prepared to The Mayor admits that the pushear' market system may have “unwise methods,’ thereby practically verify. ing the stand taken by the District Attorney, and he adds that in “good time these markets will be put on a nanent basis and such un- methods as may have crept in son of Indiana and John Chairman of the Repub- | f ican National Committee, went into | Wise Sate With President Harding at | Will be rectified as a result of the co- the White House on the rail situation | opertion of the Commissioner of Ac- counts with the Markets Department and the Law Department. The rest of the letter contains the this morning Mr. Watson dhe ed to convey e c t the developments at the ee citica inotherhood ‘donference “in {same stereotyped phrases used by New York as reluted to him by|Mayor Hylan in all his replies to ° ‘resident of the Northern | criticisms. eneny zee , " A postscript tothe letter says the “foregoing was dictated by the Farther developments in both the} ro Kore ae phone and is ales bove ccord: e it - = - Saratoga. @ World Ads. Tell |Poor Box ROBBERIES “ oF) LAID TO BOY OF 15 Where to Find — Priest Will Appear Complainant Apartments Awainnt Accused. Williams Ah s, fifteen, of No. 814 sage = Prospect ‘Avenue, Ridgewood, Queens, Ww tule ae list of Maid si gpartments |was arrested iy the police of the Glen- is not as large as in the d efore dale Station, Queens, this morning on the was, still there are a number to be had at reasonable rentals. Ten-|aneged that in the last three weeks he ants have now more opportunit has robbed poor boxes of several Catho- ion an apartment than at any he lic churches in Queens and Brooklyn of time since 1918, Read the Real Es-]small sums of money . tate and Apartment To Let ads, in Among the churches robbed were the pext Sunday's World. St. Leonard's Roman Catholic Church, ge of juvenile delinquency, It is World “Real Estate" and| St, Alovslus's: and) St. Brigid's, in 28,490 rece aeate pnd Brooklyn, and St. Pancras, In Glen. The latter church was robbed on More Than Gorrespond-|Thursday of four dollars. The Ree ing Month Last Year Sie ock of St, Pancras's Church will appear as complainant against the boy ———>.__ —_ FOR THE PLACE TO BPEND YOUR VACATION The World’ inet EY panes Ne World's unimer” Resort At all World Offices, or by mall 16007 7,380 SUNDAY WORLD REAL ESTATE SECTION IS READ IN 600,000 HOMES trouble for his duties as « on Boston two sania their and TWO ACCUSE COP 15 of Crew of 1,108 on Battleship France Missing OF TICKET HOLD-UP AND FIRING AT CAR Autoist Pleads Refusal to Buy Again for Police Games Led to Arrest. ON BOSTON POST ROAD Another Who Saw Dispute Says He Was Chased and Bullet Hit Machine. Policeman John Farrell of the City Island Precinct piled up a lot of himself in the course of motoreycle Post Road citizens he arraigned in Police Court to-day intentions. Romano, who shop at No, 124 White lives at No. 2458 Ci Avenue, the Bronx, threater patrolman night if Morri- last out carry expressed Arthur has a Street mbrelling d to pre- One, print BROADWAY CROWD SEES DRY AGENTS RAID RESTAURANT fer charges of oppression against . 7 Farrell/ and the other, Sherman Bil- lingsley, a millionaire Bronx con-]$1,000 Rum Said to Have tractor, who live: t 2636 Uni > . s Versity Avenue, thregtened to have Been Found in Blue Ribbon the cop artested on aleharge: of fe- loRious assault. Seth were repre- sented by Frank Houlihan, a in West 44th Street. Bronx the Tawar While hundreds of persons looked Farrell first arraigned Romano on|on, Prohibition agents raided a charge of driving on the wrong side] pine Ribbon Restaurant at No. of the road Through Houlihan, Ro- mano denied the charge West 41th Street at noon to-da: 145 and conficated about $1,000 worth of beer, Mr. Romano,"’ said Houlihan, “was driving on the right side of the| Wines and whiskey which were found road when Farrell stopped him and/in the cellar, behind the bar and on two tickets to the Romano pointed asked him to buy police games, Mr. the second floor, Summonses were left for Jos: eph and to five tickets stuck in the windshield ' ener of his car and said he didn’t think] Beck and Henry Fisher, owners, he ought to be asked to buy more.|George Harrison, manager. They will would find it cheaper] and ‘arrell said he before to buy tickets than go to court, handed him a summons. Billingsley was then arraigned on « charge of speeding arraigned »mmissioner The obtained ents had a search wat - after they alleged they had United States Hitchcock on Monday nt, “Mr. Billingsley was driving to tie] been served drinks there a few days city from a restaurant up the road,’ | ago, Mr. Houlihan said. ‘His wife was in intersection of City Island Road und the Post Road he saw a policeman in controversy with a4 man in a car. That man was Mr. Romano. “Mr. Billingsley had short way from City Island Road when he heard a report like a tire blowout jon and felt something thud against the] two back of his car. He stopped, and the me up on & motorcycle ar. At the Ane case formerly the Pre West 39th Street, this morning by was visited gone only a the tables before patrons. hours they reported policeman pee fund accused him of driving at forty-| Vhiskey. two miles an hour and took him to| James Broderick, the n, There an-| William Cook and the City Island Stat -Catalan, at No. they found a pint of gin and a pint of The Metamora Cabaret, which was 110 early ten Federal agents who made a search for liquor and at- tempted to get possession of glasses After had manager, William Barnes, other policeman discovered a bullet}the managers, and John Gilmartin, a hole in the back of Mr. Billingsley's| Waiter, were summoned before United ae es Commissioner Hitchcock “Policeman Farrell admitted firing a, d Schumacher, of No. 408 West shot in the air. That shot hit the[19th Street, was charged by Federal car, and if it had been two inches/agents with maintaining a bar dis- higher it probably would have struck |suised as a broker's office, at No. Mr. Billingsley or his wife. Thames Street, to-day. He was ur “I ask for an adjournment until}rested, as were John MeNiff, of No. Monday in order that we may pro-|239 Norman Avenue, Brooklyn, and ceed against this policeman for feloni-|James Meigs, of No. 207 Norman ous assault," Avenue, Brooklyn, who the agents Magist jarl Smith adjourned |said were caught in the act of de both cases untiy Monday livering whiskey to the place. ‘Thir AUTO TAX < OFFICIAL Prohibition agents teen bottles und a, jug of liquor were allege IS SUED FOR $10,000 humacher conducted « beak eosy” under the guise of “| rokerage office at No, 25 Thame Miss Ber Employee, pines a iiies acher, arrested Says McNeil Slandered Her, } Warrant, charging him) with havin ’ liquor fh his possession, will appe Minnie Berger, through Grace|before Federal Commissioner Hitch Humiston, ittorney, began suit]©°ck Monday, Charged with tran: McNeill, an executive of the Motor! nue, Brooklyn, will be given a hearing Vehicle Burewu of the State Tax Com: Jat the same time mission at No Wost 65th Street, —»—__ DR. STEPHEN SMITH iployed ad was Miss Be: in a con| slandered by het sn, © Was € lential capacity uperior, Who alle information wa: sking out” from! Famous Physician Was Only the bureau Months Short of Century. ELMIRA, Aug. 2 Dr. 5 — > ARREST GERMAN IN PLOT TO MURDER POINCARE Smith, clans, die ninety-nine ye State's moat famou: this morning at 4 o'cl DIES AT AGE OF 99 Five the home of his daughter, Mrs Walter Sent to France hy Herlin Seeret| (, Mason, in Montour Falls, near be Soctety, Is Charge, . Smith would have been 1 ar PARIS, Aug. 26.—Fs-Lieut. Gunther t February. He held many | o is alleged to] Portant offices during his act by a Bertin] Hee as a phystolan. He was « 4 founders of the American Publ secret organization for the purpose of | Awsoatation E assaspinating Prev Poincare, has Death waa due to general det been arrested, {t was anounced to-day. eldental to old age. As She Capsizes and Goes Down Near St. Nazaire THE FRANCE... a Total Loss Feared After Ves- sel Strikes Rock in Quib- eron Bay. PARIS, Aug. —Fifteen members of the crew of the French dreadnought France are miss- ing and it is feared the will be a total loss, it was learned this af- The France striking a rock in Quiberon Bay, the coast of France near Brest. The France ran ashore on entering Quiberon Bay after a night practice, the Navy Department announced to- diy. She struck a snag and was borne by the current toward the Teignouse rocks, where she anchored as he was unable to manoeuvre owing to the accident. According to the latest news, the dreadnought capsized and is sinking, A deep rupture was made when the vessel struck. The lights were im- mediately extinguished by the crash and her condition prevented pumping The dr 26 (Associated Press). vessel after off ternoon. capsized adnought filled up with water by 4 ck this morning and is now lying on her side in Quiberon Bay. The French dreadnought France was completed in November, 1912, and has a normal ‘displacement ot 120 tons. She is 544 feet in length, with a beam of 881-2 feet, and car- ries a crew of 1,108 men Quiberon Bay, which is sheltered from the sea by the curving peninsula on which the town of Quiberon is sitpated, is 40 miles northwest of St Nazaire, an important American port of debarkation during the World War The bay is noted as being the site of the defeat in 1759 of the French fleet by Admiral Hawke. ia ies WOMAN FOUND AFLAME SAVED BY FIREMAN Clothing Set Ablaze by Stove Explosion. A lighted oll Her on stove which dropped from @ table and exploded set fing to the clothing of Mrs, Catherine Burlings in her home at No. 1569 Atlantic Ave nue, Brooklyn, to-day. screaming into a hallway Fireman Edward Schw passing the house, ran in and wrapped his coat around Mrs, Burlings. smother ing the fire. Then he carried her to the street, placed her in an nutomobils and hurried her to St where her condition is » woman ran who was | (jaa ES | YOU’LL HAVE TO LAUGH — WITH MAY CHRISTIE (FAMOUS ENGLISH AUTHORESS) When She Tells You About New York's CONEY ISLAND PRIZE FIGH' BATHING BEAL BS BASEBALL GAMES PROHIBITION EATING HABITS Her Intensely Humorous Articles Begin in THE EVENING WORLD NEXT MONDAY a | COLLINS WILL LIE NEAR PARNELL IN FAMED GLASNEVIN Meantime Irregulars Mine a Lorry Filled With N tional Troops. DUBLIN, Ang. 26 (Associated Press).--Sorrowing throngs continue to-day to pass the bier of Michael Col lins, the slain chief of the new Free te Agmy, lying in state in the hi toric City Hall, heavily draped in mourning Meanwhile plans are going Torward for the state military funeral and burial of the martyred head of the Provisional Goyernment, which will take place Monday in the Glasnevin Cemetery, the final resting place of Arthur Griffith, Parnell and conspicuous Trish lead These solemn preparations recall a conversation of Collins with the writer only a fortnight azo, after Col lins had helped bear the body of Grif Dub: Reverently, Col fith down the lin Pro-Cathedral, sles of the MOVIE DIRECTOR SLAYS ACTOR ON WIFE'S CHARGE SHE HAD BEEN ATTACKED + George F, Kline Admits He Shot John Bergen in His Edgewater, N. J.. Home After Tale His Wife Told— Mystery in Note in Dying Man’s Hand—Offered to Fight Duel. week of because of the his ieorge F, Kline, a moying plcture director for the Fox Film Corporation, who has been active in the community Ufe of Edgewater, N. J., for the last sat down with her yesterday and insisted that she tell what After a worrying moodiness of wire, seven years, was troubling her Mrs, Kline, a woman of sweetness and charm, who had won the re- spect and affection of the village since she was married to the director in Brooklyn, told him her conscience was troubling her because of some- taing which happened at Saranac Lake in Kline's absence, It had to do with John Bergen, a moyle actor. —_——$ A fey hours later Bergen was found LIGHTNING STRIKES |," sree nar ste kine nome BROOKLYN CHURCH Father McGuirk of the Chur SETTING IT AFIRE of the Holy Rosary, summoned to the the Inst Steeple of Epiphany, Near found Bedford Avenue, Struck by Bolt. It of dightning of the Roman Catholic Church street breast. h police station to administer sacraments of the church, among papers which had slipped from his pocket while the police were trying to establish his identity a bit of paper struck the}on which was written in a distinctly feminine seript: South Ninth} ¢ Epiphany in orge Kline killed me."* Street near Bedford Avenue, Br The paper was bloodstained. but lyn, this morning. whether it had been written before The lightning connected with an] Bergen was shot or after he fell to electric wire, extinguishing qll of the] the street was not established. electric lights in the church, and re-| A few minutes later Bergen died sulting In a fire behind the altar. in th hair in which the police had One of the half dozen worshippers} propped him while waiting for an in the church ran next door to the] ambulance. He had not spoken after rectory and se the acai es he was found. adwa uity, who ned in a out, with a damage of about $50 thy and detectives at once hur- ae ried to the Kline home, From. the AUTO WHEEL RUINS picture direetor and two ot his wife they heard an WINDOW OF PASTRY lins spoke of the man by whose side he had fought for Irish freedom, and reverently he walked slowly through. the streets of the capitul to his un known destiny. In the same building where Griffith lay in state, Collins in now stretched cold but serone in death. "His work was finish say the resigned and faithful, who accepted his destiny without question, Men and women alike, as they paused to view the feu of their beloved leader, would fall to their knees in sobs, ‘The four officers stand ing as guard of honor, upon observing these scenes of grief, would suinctimes sway slightly and then stiffen as their lips moved in prayer Collins, like — former resident velt, Was a man of dynamic He lived the strenuos life amid few ornaments. In his office at the Government Building i bronze plaque of Roosevelt, th ‘ er ican friends, on which the folluwini quotation is engraved wish to preach not the doctrin of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life of to: nd ¢ Tort and of labor, and strive to preach the highest form of suceess that comes (Continued on Second Page.) FLIES STALL FAST FRENCH EXPRESS Countless Millions of In sects Crushed on Prac! PARIS, Aug. that there are no flic I ¥ railroads has gone | So many of them gat day on the tracks in t! district that a fast ox train was stalled crossing a | the River Saone, The engine, must have crushed c travel! apid i? lions of these tiny 4 death until they for . like slippery jelly, s the wheels to revolve’ « gt without being able to pull tho train. story of husband's stub- born refusal to believe his wife had Flies Of When Big Car] sronged him, as she satd, by her own ault, his awakening and his melo- Skids, Avoiding Cripple. Jaranatic imp 1. by a pistol duel in an upper room Ise to settle with Berg Chauncey Scott, who has a garage sna 8 @ Barage yor the house without witnesses while at No, 30 West 144th Street, waslthe family awaited the result in th driving a Stutz touring car up Broad-| parlor below, The story ended with way at noon to-day when at 136) | Kline's assertion that before the duct could be fought made a Street a one-legued man started : ‘ : arted | treacherous effort to kill Kline on the across the street. Scott slowed down | stairway and in shot. and t ar skidde The left hind whe: ACTOR TOOK ADVANTAGE OF HIS WIFE, SLAYER SAYS. lipped from tic a ae rotted tugonally " aeross e brothers of Mrs, Kline, who SONBY:: TOMBE ee gh the Thad been summoned to the house for sonbaly = crossed the sidewalk} a family council after Mrs. Kline's and entered with a grihd slam the big | contession, corroborated Kline's story plate glass show window of the Fair-lto the extent to which they had wit banks & Brooks bakery at No. 8471 nesued what had just preceded tha ‘The show window was full of cus-T shooting, ‘Mrs, Kline was in a daze tard and lenfon meringue pies and] of shame, horror und remorse. and chream putts and chocolate eclairs} was not ablo to make any coherent ind other impressionable pastry apd | statement the loss was practeally total, What} ny noon to-day the authorities of the wheel didn’t ruin the children of th county began to doubt the exact the neighborhood quickly assimilated. J accuracy A hislodsamiatlo Garek —— tv Police Chief O'Brien: and Mr FIASCHETTI ON VACATION ] secartny both said they could not TO GET NEW “HARNESS” | he!) ies ing it had a enario at mosphere Detective Hasn't Worn af Chief O'Brien said it was not*von mark made to him by Uniform in Fourteen Years, rday afternoon when they of yesterday's shake-up in nt T ohana tmieton ¢ reet and Kline said to Yepurtment, several changes him R my mada’ to-day “Chief, if 1 am murdered to-night, Heat, Joseph Quinn, who has been! want you tu know that Jack Bergen of staff to Inspector Coughlin in a he Detective Bure nt back to his} “il 1 duties in charge of the desk of the Phe chief suid he was used to dark Capt. The Pay in charge of | and mysterious remarks by the direct ctives at the Old glip Station and oy thoug more of it. vaciney thus ex ae was filled by] tandau, the tax iriver who took ‘ ring Liew Vit kw “Funston | 434 to Kdgewater, told the police Wn in rank {that he heard the sound of the shot in ; ty in uniform, |the Kline house as he was turnin ‘ it AHEM ree lane fter seeing Bergen go up t y He has not] the st we form in { en years a Arter a brief talk with Mrs. Kline eded a littl et an Up-to- land her brothers In the Kline home date "ha . Mr. MeCarthy took the three in an An advisory storm warning RUCK OBI DE, ations thix morning of a disturb. | of the Heace Ellis at Edgewater, Kline sarap t iibboan Bea. Tt wan | Wa mitted to the County Jail at distance south-s € Ja-|Hackensack. In several statements, fea, probably r ng northwest, the} whic made with apparently deter- announcement said. mined coolness, to the Prosecutor, ’ « ; | ! | '