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Site lei. atiialla TLE f Circulation Books Open to All | es To-Morrow'a Weather—PARTLY CLOUDY. HEMING eee LIN: Bi EDITION Mu Copyrtight (New York World) by Publishiig Company, 1988. — Press NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER oie: 1922. + Bost Ot PRICE THREE CENTS OF DAUGHERTY AND} New York Rail Stri Rail Strikers Urge Quick Action in Appeal to Senator Borah. LLABOR CALLS FOR FUND ay’s Pay From Each of the 00,000 Union Workers Is Sought by Leaders. RAIL PEACE SOUGHT IN NEW CONFERENCE Strike. Leaders Reported in Baltimore for Parley. CHICAGO, Sept. 6. Seven representatives of the 1 etriking Federated Shop Crafts were declared by John Scott, Secretary of the Railway Em- ployees’ Department of the Amor- Ican Federation of Labor, to be in Baltimore to-day for a confer- ence with railroad executives on &@ proposition to end the strike. Mr. Scott intimated a proposal ‘on which it was hoped the strike @ould be halted had been pi pared, but he could not outline it. Should the meeting. produce a favorable result, Mr. Scott said, the Policy Committee of ninety union representatives would meet In Chicago. Immediate impeachment of Attor- yy General Harry M. Daugherty and Meral Judge James H. Wilkerson of thicago is demanded in a telegram dressed to United States Senator jorah, Chairman of the Senate Com- on Labor, to-day by John J. wd, Chairman of the General Strike Committee of the railroad jhopmen. The telegram was sent on the nds that the injunction granted Fudge Wilkerson at the request of Attorney General “has not only elated freedom of specch, assem- lage and the press, but has made he Department of Justice and the federal Courts accessories to the rime of union smashing which a mall group of railroad executiv re seeking to perpetrate at the ex- nse of the Nation.” The telegram follows: “On behalf of 25,000 railroad shop- non strike inthe New York metro- olitan district, we urge upon you he immediate necessity for the im- achment of Attorney General larry M. Daugtierty and Federal judge Wilkerson. ‘The injunction ajnst the striking railroad shopmen quested by the Attorney General and issued by Judge Wilkerson constitutes violation by high Government of- ials of the Constitutional guarantees f American freedom and of specifi Federal statutes without precedent in history of the } ‘Soft words of int tion spoken In ‘high official quarters’ after the is- ance of the injunctton cannot miti- ate the plain language and intent of he document, Nor can they wipe out Ihe astounding admission by the At- ‘rney General, reported in the press he day the order was issued, that he (Continued on Nineteenth Page.) The World’s Ads. bntinue to Increase Space and Numbers sib iof August, 1922, a1 compared with August of last year: R040 More Agate Lines. 14 J 822 More “Ielp—Male” Ads, +f 267 More “To Let” Ads, 1 ]] $024 Mare “Help—Female” Ads. ¢ |)\:862 More ‘Business Opportunities. * | {868 More “teal Hstute” Ads. | [ 807 More “Summer Resorts.” 300 More “Boarders Wante \ i 62 More “Automobile—Mi 433,270 « 2,69 Separate\World Ads Last Month. More Than Any Other New York Newspaper, —— JUDGE WILKERSON). sun caress cane SK IMPEACHMENT | Spurned by Young Housekeeper, ha Nova Scotia Guide Pours on n Her and Burns Her to Death Telling How Jealousy Drove Him to Act. BADLY BURNED HIMSELF Wanted to Marry Girl, but She Loved Hired Man and Repulsed Him. HALIFAX, N. 8., Sept. 6.—Con- fession that he burned alive pretty nineteen-year-old Flora Gray, after she had repulsed his advances in her bedroom in the dead of night, was made to-day by Omar P. Roberts, sixty-eight, prominent guide and pro- prietor of a hunting lodge. Roberts was carried Into court, ‘his feet having been badly burned by the flames which destroyed Miss Gray. Preliminary hearing of what is de- clared the most flendish crime of Nova Scotian history was held behind locked doors, because of the revolting details of the attack and murder. A plea of guilty, without counsel, and a complete confession was offered by Roberts, according to the authori- ties. The guide, who had testimonials from New York and leading clergymen and sportsmen throughout the United States certifying’to his good character and the comfort of his lodge and camps, declared he committed the murder on the night of Aug. 28. He told his story to a jailer in his cell. Flora Gray, he said, was house- keeper at his lodge, Riverside House, at North Kemptville, Pretty, Jess than a third his age, she attracted him overpoweringly. He proposed marriage but she scoffed at the idea. “She loved the hired man, Ran- som Randoll,” Roberts told the jailer. ‘I had a good home to give her, but I didn’t blame her so much." According to his confession, the old guide went to Flora’s bedroom late at night. He declared his ‘“in- tentions were evil."" They failed. “I did what I did then because of jealousy,” Roberts said. He told of wrapping the girl in her bed-cloth- ing, so sho was powerless to move, and of pouring gasoline over her. He said he then set fire to the girl with a match, and, after a minute or two, fled. He drove to a neighboring house and gave the alarm of fire. Ransom Randoll, the hired mgn, rushed to the scene. He and Avery Gray, a rela- tive of the victim, went to Flora's room, beating their way in through flames. In a corner, under a mat- tress, lay her charred body. One report was that she was still alive, although burned from head to foot, arfd that she was able to whisper the name of her assailant, Roberts, in another part of his con- fession, said Flora struggled as he potfred gasoline over her and that he spilled some on his own feet, The flames that enveloped the girl leaped to his moccasins and leggings as he fled. SAY HE KIDNAPPED YOUNG BRIDE AND 13-YEAR-OLD SISTER Detroit Insurance Man De- nies Charge After Arrest ‘in Florida. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 6.— H. C. Graham of Detroit, an insur- ance adjuster, is being held here by county authorities following his ar- rest on a warrant charging the kid- napping of Mrs, J, Garnett Starr, nineteen, formerly Miss Annie Camille Lamar, and her fifteen-year-old sis- iss Valeria Lamar of Macon, Ga. The two women, members of one of Georgia's most prominent families, disappeared from their home in Macon last Tuesday night or early Wednes day morning, Graham denies the charges mitted to Sheriff Merritt he two women, ta their null" tchctule Mi, He ad- knew the but disclaimed knowledge ange londs THREE FAKE COPS BIND 2 WATCHMEN; GET $50,000 BOOZE Tie Their Victims to Chairs in Warehouse and‘Clear Out the Scotch. ‘Three men who pretended to be po- licemen and thus gained admittance to the Republic Storage Warehouse at No, S41 West 34th Street, last night, are now part of the story of the robbery of several truckloads of scotch whiskey from the warehouse cellar. The value of the whiskey stolen was stated by the superinten- dent of the warehouse to be perhaps $50,000, The story concerning the policemen is that they appeared, at the 85th Street door of the ware- house with a man wha was, appar- ently, in custody. Tey summoned the two watchmen on duty Jn the building, Joseph Vaseibe af No. 40 Leroy Street and Etwanl Krnger of No, 287 West 21st Street, and asked them to identity the “prisoner.”” As soon as the watchmen appeared, so the story now runs, hte “fake’’ Jo- licemen overpowered them and bound thm to chairs. Thn all the locks of the storeeroom doors were broken and the places searched. Still bound to the chairs, the wa on were taken to cellar in the elevator and there the storeroom lock was forced. While this was going on one of the party, evi dently an electrician, disconnected the burglar alarm. The first the police knew of the robbery was when Patrolman Walter Foure of the West 30th Street station came upon the warehouse on his rounds at 6 o'clock this morning and found the big side doors open, When he investigated, Vaselbo and Kruger came forward saying they had been bound and gagged by thieves and’ had fust succeeded in releasing them- selves, The watchmen said that they had been disarmed by the intruders sand that motor cars were waiting beside the warehouse to take away the whis- key as fast as the robbers could carry it from the cellar, Vaselbo and Kruger were taken to the station house and questioned sep- “fake” arately, This resulted, the police said, in two differing stories of the robbery, there being not less than twelve important points on which the narratives did not agree The part of the story on which (Continuéd on Second Page,) ~ Tipe OF SAVING |Curtiss Flies 4 ENTOMBED MINERS AE LESS BCH as Break Through 3 Rock but ’ 1 the Connecting Drift Cave Caved. NO FOOD IN TEN DAYS. It Had Been en Hoped to Reach Men Sometime During the Night. { JACKSON, Cal., Sept. 6.—Jackson, vibrant with hope this morning, has lapsed into the depths of despair, Jackson built on the chanee that the old connecting drift between the Ken- nedy and Argonaut mines, /when reached, would be open. To-night wag helieved the prisoned time when the 46 im miners in the Argonaut might be liberated, But the drift, broken into during the night, was found to be caved. If this same condition prevails the entire length of the 358 foot drift, it will take a week, by conservative estimate, to clean it out, and after that, the 78-foot raise to be cut through new tock cannot be finished in less than twenty-four hours, it is conceded. Everything was held in readiness for the final stage of rescue of the forty- six entombed miners, who have been ten days underground. Red Cross nurses from San Fran- cisco are on the scene, a hospital has been set up at the shaft mouth, am- bulances are ready to rush survivors to Sacramento as soon as possible. The last blows of the pick that will let rescuers through to the living tomb where the forty-six men were believed to have set off signal blasts again last night were expected to be struck late to-day. Doctors who are to oare for the trapped miners if the latter still live are already at the mine, giving rise to reports that the final attack on the last slate wall has begun. Mine officials still retained silence on the subject of the signals—but all of Jackson believes the word of miners of the rescue group that the blasts heard below were set off by the entombed men. Although the victims have been without food, save what [ttle lunch they had with them, for fen days, it is thought likely that water has trickled down to the leyel on which they are trapped, and that air has seeped through cracks in the levels, VIRGIN petal es Ei ISLANDS COUNCHL, neE- PORTED 'TO BP OUSTED. SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Sept. 6,—It is reported here that Gov. Kittelle, of the Virgin Islands, has removed all the members of the Colonial Council at St. Thomas, Starving Rats From Bronx Zoo Attack Women and Children Driven From Park by Lack of Food They Snap at Lunch Parties. Vicious, starving rats believed to Zoological Gardens in the Bronx by party of women and children at 182d women or children were bitten, alt snapped their teeth into the clothing have been driven out of the New York lack of food there, to-day attacked a Street and Daly Avenue. None of the houga fn several instances the rats of persons carrying food. The ground adjoins the Zoological@———__ Gardens and is separated by a fence. stocking. Women came to her aid and, It 1s the custom in the fine weather] their screams attracted the attention for mothers to take their children and baby carriages to this parking space and bring along a“ight lunch, spend- ing most of the day in the open About noon to-day there were a dozen baby carriages containing in- fants, perhaps a dozen or more child~ ren and fifteen women on the strip of ground, There was a scream from the children and horrified mothers saw seven big rats teari “t a carton that had contained crack The rats then jumped upon dren and tried to get the food n them, Linor Miller, four years old, pieked up a stick and struck repeatedly at a rat that Jumped at her hund as she held food aloft ‘The rat finally selsed her by the of laborers working on Daly Avenue. The men, under Atbert Seisan of No 2188 Daly Avenue, came to the rescue. Four of the rats fled but three held their ground and put up a fight until they were killed by the men with crowbars. Hysterical women and children abandoned the Picnic spot and went home. Less than an hour before the Zoo was startled by roars from the lion house, They were clearly heard in the West Farms Court. Albert Lands the keeper charge of the ran in to find Leo and Louise din the corner of the ca roaring in fright. In the cage were two rats inspecting a bon that had been cleaned, ‘The rats remained until Landsman got an iron bur and Sboved it at them, In Glider, Craft Until ° Glenn H. Curtis mdde a 40-second flight in a flying boat glider to-day over the waters of Manhasset Bay, at Port Washington, L, I. that this is the first flight of its kind in aviation history, Curtis went up at 1220 P. M., taking the air after three unsuccessful attempts. The machine was towed at thirty-five miles an hour by @.speed- boat, the three first attempts falling because the line parted. Each time the sailplane was towed a quarter of a mile. On the fourth attemipt the line held, and after a run of about a quarter of a mile the ma- ching arose to a height of twelve feet above the water, The line was cast off and the glider remained clear of the water for forty seconds. ‘The flight was made under particu- larly adverse conditions, for there was not a breath of air stirring. ‘The tests were witnessed by per- sons in about twenty motor boats and 200 persons were on shore. Except for its blunt nose the ma- chine is an exact capy, on # small scale, of the NC flying boat built by the Cucilas Aeroplane and Motor Corporatian foc thm navy, which made the first transatlantic flight, accord- tng to William J, Gilmore, chief en- gineer of the Curtiss organtaation. Mr. Gilmore helped design the glider, which has a wing spread of 28 feet, s 24 feet long and weighs 140 pounds. Mr. Curtiss weighs 155 pounds, and he brought the weight up to 295 pounds. ‘The hull is entirely made of a very ight metal, duraluminum, and the cockpit is so small that Curtiss could barely get into it. The wings: are 54 inches wide and the distance between the upper and lower planes is 60 inc! ‘The lifting area {s 280 square feet. ‘The sailplane is 7 feet. tall. Just before he left shore to make his first trial, Mr. Curtiss said: “This is the first step in sea soar- ing. The problem here is different than that met by the German flyers, who recently remained aloft so long. Theirs was the problem of maintain- ing balance on vertical air currents, “Here we will have no such cur- rents, for the currents will move parallel with the water, We must pattern after the albatross, which takes off from a wave and soars Im- mediately. To keep soaring we must h knowledge of the variations of the air currents over the water. “The German gliders have the ad- vantage of starting from a height and being held aloft by the vertical cur- rents. Here ‘we are without this ad- vantage, but I “believe that the sail- plane can be developed to a stage where, with a small motor of 5 or § horsepower, we can remain in the ur very well, DIDN’T PAY FARE, ASKS GOD’S MERCY Retribution Overtakes Two and Jersey Lines Gain $1.20. A man tri Syracuse enclosed a saying he had ‘cheated the Service out of street car * and desired to set his ac counts right before he died. “I beliove God will forgive me for my missgiving,"” he wrote. The Publle Service Railway to-day announced in that its “conscience had been Increased $1.20, unknown persons who \d they had failed to pay street ar fares and deslyed to make titution, One of the letters from &@ man in South Orange, contained twenty cents in stamps, n payment “for money I owe t bic Service since the ttme conductor passed me on a car ut collecting my fare."* fund," two FIRST AT BOSTON— Giants— 10000 @ Boston— 100004 0 Seconds Taking the Air om Bay at Port Washington ventor Rises From Water in Motorless Plane » for First Time in History—Speedboat Towed It Ascended. i It is claimed LAFOLLETTE WINS WITH HIS ENTIRE TICKET OVER DRYS pe Ae Anti-Saloon Candidates Are Decisively Defeated in Wisconsin. POLIGE CHARGED BY PEDDLER WITH GRAFT AT MARKETS Names Brooklyn Paper Bag Manufacturer as the Alleged Go-Between. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Sept. 6 (As- sociated Press).—Indications are that Senator Robert M, La Follette has been rwhelmingly renominated in the pi ry election over W. A. Can- field o1 ukesha, The vote reported from 1,415, precincts ont of 2,623 showed 188,096 for La Follette and 76,506 for Canfield, It appears the peoplé of his State indorsed the tssues upon which La Follette sought renomination. These were opposition to the Esch-Cummins Act, Newberryism, the Four-Power Treaty and the policies of President Harding. Mr. Canfield was the candidate of the Citizens’ Republican Conference, which had the backing of Irvine L Lenroot, Wisconsin's junior Senator. He was supported also by the Anti- Saloon League, which asserted the fight in Wisconsin this year was “the most important wet and dry election in the United States.”’ Returns from 816 precincts show the entire La Follette ticket decisively overeame its opponents by large ma- Jorities, with the exception of Solomon Levitan, who was leading in a close race for State Treasurer against Henry Johnson, incumbent for six successive torms, The Anti-Saloon League indorsed all the candidates opposed to La Follette. Gov, John J. Blaine led the State ticket, his victory being decisive over Attorney General William J. Morgan. A close battle developed in the Lith District, where Congressman A. P. Nelson, Anti-Saloon League leader in Congress, is running behind H. H. Peavey, a ‘'wet.'' OSHKOSH, Wis., Sept. rH make the fight of«my life to beat Senator La Foillette—and I think I shall win,” said Mra, Jesse Jack Hooper,’ probable Democratic niminee. Pusheart peddlers in Brooklyn are assessed 15 cents week by ‘the police as well as by supervisors of markets and if they don’t pay It the} are thrown out and prevented fom making @ livelilioud, it was chateed to-day before Commisstoner David Hirshfield by Isidor Moskowits, of No. 96 Humboldt Street, a former push-| cart peddler in the market at Selgel Street and Manhattan Avecaie, Brooklyn. Moskowitz named Nathan Finkel- stein, a manufacturer of paper bags of No. 87 North Moore Street, Brook- lyn, as the go-between. He said Fin- klestein sells his bags to nearly every pushcart peddler in Brooklyn and collects between $5 and $6 each from them for this, Moskowitz also charged that Finkel- stein assesses every pushcart peddier a dollar or two every once in a while and from $20 to $25 each from new peddlers, or those who are willing to. pay for new locations. The 16 cents i week {s called dues for the Peddlers’ League, of which Finkelstein is Prest- dent, although he never has been a peddler, Moskowitz said. The witness charged that the police of the Stagg Street Station, Brooklyn, had thrown him out of the market. He said the Captain at that station had prevented him from doing business there, after he had conducted @ stand in the matket for twenty years. Mos- kowitz also was thrown out of the Peddlers’ League because he refused to continue to pay dues. Moskowitz declared all the collec- tions by Finkelstein now are being made on the statement that the ped- ders are suing the city to obtain an injunction to prevent supervisors from further eollections. But he addedthat the only difference under those con- ditions would be that Finkelstein and the poliee would get it instead of the supervisors, THROWN OUT, HE SAYS, FOR NOT COMING ACROSS. A meeting was held'in the hall of the Free Burial Soctety, at No. 99 Varet Street, Brooklyn, according to Moskowitz, at which the Stags Street Police Captain told them not to pay money to the market supervisors, adding that he would be out in his overalls on the following day to pro- VARDAMAN IS 10,876 BEHIND IN ML SSP Pr. JACKSON, Miss., Sent, 6,— counties of the eighty-two In the B unreported, Hubert D. Stephens, mer Congressman from the 24 Mi. sippt District, Is leading former Sena- tor James K. Vardaman In t cond Democratic primary for nomination to the United States Senate by approxi- mately 10,876 votes. ie for- GOODNOW I5 NO! ATED IN NEW them. But what happened, HAMPSHIRE, Moskowitz said, was that several] MANCHESTER, N. H., Sept. 6.— pedd were thrown out of the mar-]| Winsor H, Goodnow of Keene was nom- ket because they refused “to come} !nated for Governor by the Republicans yesterday, defeating State Senator Arthur G. Whittemore by approximately 10,000. Mayor Fred. H, Brown of Somersworth is leading John C, Hutch- across’? to Finkelstein. Moskowitz declared that Finkelstein enjoys an income of about $150,000 from his bag business and that he] ins of North Stratford by 1,200 for the never has made an accounting of the | Democratic nomination for Governor. thousands upon thousands of dollars en ee he collects from peddlers and which THE WORLD TRAVEL BURFAD. Arcade, Pulitser (World) Building, 63-08 Park Row, N. Y. City. Telephone Beekman he says are used for ‘oxy Commissioner Hirshfeld unnounced | 4999, Check room for baggage and parcels after the hearing that he will send @] @pen day end night. Money cidere and copy of the testimony to District traveller’ chosks for sals.--Aévt. torney John BE, Ri of B ee and request that official to pre to the same Grand J (Continued on Second Page.) Real Estate Ads. — FOR THE— Sunday World MUST be in GAME The World Office FRIDAY Before 6 P, M. Te Insure Proper Classification } POISON BOOZE KILLS FIVE MENAND TWO WOMEN, BLINDS ANOTHER BROOKLYN WOMAN Three Arrests Made After Man, Blinded, Leads Police to Body of Woman Killed by Alcohol. U. S. Joins Investigators, Who Learn of Two Men Peddling Liquid Claimed to Be Grain Alcohol. ‘With a list of seven deaths since Sunday in Brooklyn due to wood al- cohol and denatured alcohol disguised as whiskey and gin, the further Prevalence of the poison lquor was indicated to-day when Mrs. Sigurd Johnson was stricken blind in her home at No, 98 Dyckman Street. She was talten to Kings County Hospital where Michael Keegan, the seventh to dle of hooch poisoning, died early to-day. Mrs. Johnson told the police she was taken ill after drinking supposed whiskey, which she said she bought in @ store on Conover Street in the neighborhood where the imitation li- quor which caused the deaths of the other seven victims was sold. District Attorney Ruston and Capt. O'Connor of the Hamilton Avenue Station were devoting all their ef- forts to-day to finding the source of supply of the deadly stuff, Mrs. Ermalinda Vatala, who has a grocery at No. 149 Conover Street, her clerk, Michael Caziero, and Ciro’ Laura, a garage keeper at No, 118 Sullivan Street, are under arrest, charged with selling the mixture. But the police have been unable to find the wholesaler who supplied it to them and fear that more deaths will be recorded unless the source of sup- ply {s found and other consignments of It traced. Besides Keenan, the dead are: Mra. Theresa Martin, with whom Keenan boarded at No. 135 Dyckman Street; William Strelits of No. 187 Conover Street; Edward Burke of No, 143 Pioneer Street; Mrs, Annie Morris of No, 187 Conover Street; John Kehoe of No, 156 Conover Street and Peter McDermotf, forty-one years, dt No. 70 Summit Street who died last night at his home. District Attorney Ruston said that the best information he could get from Mrs. Vatala was that she had bought seven cans of what she be- Heved was grain alcohol from two men who called at her place four days ago, She did not know their names or their addresses and had never seen them before, she sald. “There 1s no knowing how much cf this poison has been sold to speak- easies, and how many more deaths it will cause," Mr, Ruston said, “until we track these men down and get them behind prison bars. The only safe rule is not to drink the stuff which is being sold by bootleggers, “Last January I gave a warning on the subject when I published the results of the analysis of 1,000 spect- mons of ‘whiskey’ bought in thts borough. Only ten of the specimens were real whiske United States Attorney Greene no- officials that his » and that of Prohibition Enfore- Agent Lord would co-operate with the county officlals in thelr ef- fort to find the so of supply of the peddlers of denatured alcohol for The L t om jed the county ment nree trict Attorney with a squud of detectives made a search of a number of groceries and soda water stands In Conover Street last night but were not successful in finding more of the poison liquor ‘The grocery raid was brought about Kesnpan, whe boarded with Mrs. a eee me ene Se