The evening world. Newspaper, October 24, 1922, Page 1

Peular of the firm of Schieffelin & Co. TooNight’s Weather—FAIR, NING NAL | en EDITION Che ve (*Ctronlation Books ike Open to All.” | “Nal (LXIIl. NO, 22, Ie OAILY. Copyright (New York World) by Press rublishing Company, 1988, F HALL TRAGEDY NEW YORK, ‘TUESDAY, OOTOBER 24, eal 1922, LU. S. Ship B HVLAN INGREASES SL MORE THAN THREE MI NOT ORDERED Economy Plaint Collapses After Perusal of Estimates for 1923. RAIS.E i S $5,838,853 Figures Are $173,000,000 Higher Than Last Budget of Mitchel. Payrells of Muyor Hylan’ thirteen favorite commissioners, according to the 1923 proposed budget, will be 95,838,853.85 higher next year than they ave at present. The commis- stoners are those whcse salaries were Paised in recent sessions fiom $7,500 a year to $19,000. T ‘ayor hemself uggested this raise behind closed doors, with an armed policeman on guard, after he had publicly an- pounced to first-grade firemen and Police that he couldn't raise them a few hundred a year because he wanted to economize in tho interest of the taxpayers. The proposed bi Righer than the Mayor iMtchel. Mayor Hyan repeatedly has claimed that practically all payroll and salary fmcreases are made by Republican Jegistation at Albany. Of the $5,8%8,- 53.85 payroll increases about $2,390,- M81.39 {8 for raises in the Police and Wire Departments, much of which ts mandatory. But the remaining $3,448,- 062.46'cannot be classed as mandatory. Jt represents for the most part new Hobs and swollen payrolls everywhere. is $173,000,000 budget under (Continued on Eleventh Page.) — NOTHER ATTACK, IS HYLAN’S ONLY BUDGET COMMENT vites Reporters In to Hear It; Then Invites Them Out As Board Meets. Mayor Hylan made no defense to- y of the new jobs in the budget, beyond the usual Hylan attacks, Here his procedure to-day: He sent Re janitor of City Hall to Room 9, pecupied by reporters, to inform them hat oa Borrd of Estimate meeting vas about to begin and that they were Invited. A number of previous ses- ions had been star chamber affairs hind closed doors with an armed poh <n guard, When the reporters reached the eting room Mayor Hylan attacked PSchieffelin & Co., the head of which ts President of the Citizens’ Union. Late yesterday the Citizens’ Union ve out a statement showing that jong new jobs created in the 1923 judget wos a $9,000 a year berth of ‘Assistant Mayor." He held a pamphlet in his hand as e spoke. ‘This will be of interest githe newspapers."’ The Mayor then eceeded to attack a liquor price cir- chieffelin & Co. are druggists After he had finished his attack he Ma.’or told the reporters that “we jl] now go into executive session.” at meant that reporters were barred. The writers at first didn't inderstand. But the Mayor, speaking Uttle louder, made {t quite clear to hem. One of the reporters asked the layor \f the pamphlet he read from ttacking Schieffelin was dated. The layor replied he on it, but sald “I'm going to notify the Police De- partment of advertisements of wines nd liquors by the Schieffelin firm." didn’t see any date FROM ALBANY EBERT TO REMAN GERMAN PRESENT THRE YEARS MORE Reparations Commission Go- ing to Berlin to Study Na- tion’s Finances. BERLIN, Oct —The Reichstag by 76 to-day decided to prolong of Friedrich Ebert in the Presidency until June 20, (Associated a yote of Press) 14 to the term German 1825, PARIS, Oct. 24 (Associated Press).— The entire Reparations Commission, including Poland W. Boyden, the Anwrican unofficial representative with the Commisgton, and Col. James A. Logan jr. ,acting in a similar ca- pacity with the Guarantees Commis- sion, will leave for Berlin Sunday eve- ning to confer with Chancellor Wirth and other German Cabinet members on the financial crisis in Germany and the threatened total ocllapse of the mark a U2S. CUTTER MOJAVE OUT OF FUEL, ADRIFT 850 MILES AT SEA Assistant Secretary of Com- merce Huston Aboard; Tug Sent to Relief. N FRANCISCO, Oct. 24.—Aid has been despatched to-day to the United States revenue cutter Mojave, with Assistant Secretary of Com- merce Huston aboard, which {8 out of fuel and adrift 850 miles west of Honolulu. The Mojave was en route from Ma- nila to San Francisco by way of Guam, First word of the ship's plight was received in a radio message picked up here. WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—The Coast Guard cutter Mojave, reported in trouble from depletion of her fuel supply west of Honolulu, still is able to proceed “‘slowly'’ under her own power, according to a wireless mes- sage timed late yesterday and re- ceived here to-day. A tug has gone from Honolulu to aid the yessel. SMOKE CONSUMERS FOIL DRY RAIDERS No Thin Blue Shafts to At- tract ‘““Revenooers.” CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Oct. 24 (Copyright), — The moon- shiners of the Tennessee moun- tains are enlisting science in thelr fignt to circumvent the dry offi- cials. The latest move is smoke con- fumers on the stills. ‘White Mule’ makers have been forced to this by the dry officials who have been locating the tilicit fac- toric, from aeroplanes, Small, suspicious columns of smoke, mounting far into the heavens from the banks of streams, moun- tain wells and clumps of trees, in the past, have furnished the evi- dence on which raids were made. Se ine Exciting Night.'— Everybody Apollo Theat ARIES {CLINE TESTIFIES LLIONS: HE SHOT BERGEN H| INSELFDEFENSE|o, tar » Invited Actor to sor to Duel After Confession by Wife of ' — Attack. GIRL GAVE WARNING. Accused and Wife Weep at Recital of Events Before ‘ Slaying. (Special From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) HACKENSACK, N. J., Oct. 24.— George Cline took the witness stand to-day und told his of the shooting of Jack Bergen, motion pic- ture for whose death Cline, Charles Scullion, his brother-in-law and Miss Alice Thornton are on trial version actor, arged with murder. ine, a stocky, blond young man, on the stand at 12.30 o'clock. His voice was husky when he told how two and a half years ago he first employed Bergen as an extra movie actor at Fort Lee, and how he had favored him since in employment He testified he advanced expenses to He testified that he had remarked to Migs Thornton at a dance to which he and Mrs. Cline had invited her and Charles Scullion that he ‘didn’t like the idea of her going ont with Charles Scullion since she was Jack Bergen's sweetheart,"* “I told her I resented it because Jack Bergen was a friend of mine," he continued. ‘‘Then s. wid to me: ‘I would not be too sure about your friend, Jack Be reer went his wife, but she e “Yqu know Jack Bergen is your best friend."" Then he learned on two other talks with Miss Thornton of the kissing and he requested Mrs. Cline to ask her and Bergen to be at his house on the night of Aug. 25. “Befgen arrived a little after Miss Thornton. I asked for an explana- tion of the kissing party. Miss Thornton told what she knew. My wife said she did not go out for twenty minutes with Jack “I then spoke about my suspicions and my wife said: “ ‘Now, George, I'm going to tell you the truth—about how Jack took advantage of me in the hotel at Sar- anac Lake. Cline here began sobbing softly. His wife sitting beside her children sobbed also. The courtroom became very quiet, “I said, ‘That's a fine way for you (Continued on Eleventh Page.) WANTS KISS CLINICS TO TEACH GIRLS SOUL OSCULATION Divorce Courts Full Because Young Wives Don’t Salute Hubby Right. CHICAGO, Oct. 24. Establishment of kiss clinics for merriageable girls, to solve Amer- ica’s divorce problem, was urged to-day by Irene Bordon!, who declares that marriage in this country has become a farce through failure of young wives to kiss properly, “They kiss with their lips—not with their soul," she declared. “A woman's whole heart should be put Into every kiss she givea her husband. A kissable woman will keep any normal man an- chored at home. To teach girls the value kiss before they are ma Miss Bordon! suggested the op- eration of scientific kiss clinics in conjunction with all Divorce Courts. Acquittal of Peggy Beal For Slaying “Sheik Lover” Invokes New Unwritten Law ramatic Story of Wrecked Romance— Dead “Sheik” Boasted of Breaking Fifty Hearts Before She Met Him. KANSAS CITY, Oct. 24.—"“Sheli unwritten law to-day as provocation love” was recognized along with the for murder. The unique plea was given cognizance for the first time in legal history when a jury in Judge Ralph S. Lathsaw’s court acquitted last night for the murder of Frank who, she said, boasted he had broken Leaping to her feet as the verdict #— was read late last night, Mra. Beal thanked the jury and asserted, ‘Now, I am golng to stay right here in Kan- sas City and make good. I'm going to send for my little boye in Terre Haute and make a good home for them.” The court ordeal was comparatively brief, There were few witnesses and the testimony was adduced speedily. She took the witness stand, pallid and nervous, and the story of the shoot- ing was drawn from her by the at- torneys. From the first meeting In Dayton, O., Mrs, Beal, a young divorcee, re- lated In chronological order incidents of their association which terminated in her fatally shooting Anderson end reriously wounding herself in a room which they oceupted In @ local hotel, June 3. He lured her there, she sald, with a promise of marriage. She had been reading a passage in a romantic novel in which a woman killed her lover. She shot Anderso: as he lay upon the bed and turned the revolver upon herself, sending a bul- let Into her breast. “T met Anderson in a restaurant in Dayton, ©.,"" she testified. “He asked me to marry him before he left Day- ton and I told him I would give him my answer in June.” Twice she visited him in Kansas City. They moved to the hotel where the tragedy occurred. She asked him to marry her, she sald. “I was nearly stunned when he told me he could find ©o grounds for divorce,” she sald. “IT asked him what I was going to do," she told the court, “‘and he said, “Do as you please!’ She asked him why he had sought her love and he answered, she declared, “because I am a devil.’’ She said that she could not recall shooting him, but remembered shoot- ing herself. Acquittal came after one of the shortest trials on record. The jury reached an agreement on {ts fourth ballot, just twelve hours after the trial of the girl was called. ns “ENFORCE LAWS, PROTECT WOMEN,” SAYS PREACHER Statutes Enough, He De Not Made biffect! CHICAGO, Oct. 24.—"Enforcement of the law would protect women like Mrs, Peggy Beal, who was acquitted of slay- ing Anderson,"" Rev. John H, Willlam- son, well known Chicago clergyman and recently chief ‘‘Iaw enforcer’ of the Chicago Police Department, declared to- day. “We have enough laws, What we need to do ts enforce them and prevent puch sordid tales,’ —— JUSTICE DAY RES’CNS FROM SUPREME COURT To Devote His Time to Clatma Arbitration. WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—Justice Day of the Supreme Court to-day presented his resignation to President Harding, to become effective Nov. 14. He resigns so that he may devote all his time to his new work as ar- bitrator of American and German claims growing out of the war. Day has been a Supreme Justice since March 2, 1903, when he was appointed by President Roosevelt. He was third ranking member of the Court in length of service. He ts a native of Ohto, being born at Ravenna, April 17, 1849, the son of Judge Luther Day of the Ohio Supreme Court. German diminutive Marie L. (“Peggy”) Beal W. Anderson, “professional sheik,” the hearts of fifty other women. WOMAN ACQUITTED QUICKLY OF KILLING LOVE PIRATE MRS. MARIEL. BEAL: COLUMBIA BEAT N.Y. UNIVERSITY 6-2, ISNEW RULING ——_—, Referee Changes Mind on De- cision at Saturday’s Foot, ball Game. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 24.—Will- fam N. Morice, referee of the Colum- bia-New York University football contest played at South Field, New York, last Saturday, to-day an- nounced that he had changed his rul- ing on a play which gave the gaime to New York University by a score of 7 to 6, and that the score should be 6 to 2 in favor of Columbia. Th play occurred in the first period. With the ball on Columbia's 20-yard line @ Columbla player kicked, and when the kick was blocked the ball fell behind the Columbia goal posts and went into the stands. A New York University player fell on the ball and the referee at the time allowed a touchdown, (For other details Se 8. Sporting Page) LAUREL Rl RESULTS. CLEAR AND FAST. FIRST RACE—Five and a half fur. longs. Noon Glide (Barnes), and $4.90, first. Pennon (Marinel!!) pecond, Roste H. (McLane), $5.00, third. Off at 1.43. Time, 1,09 2-5. Non- starters: Susiana, Billy Gibson, Gold Mount. $23.00, $8.40 $3.90 and $3.10, To-Morrow's Weather—FAIR AND WARMER. INAL Barred From Leaving Britain Without Brandy U.S. SHPCOULONT MIAN SEEN SHOOTING HALL AND MRS. MILLS BY WOMAN, NOW WARNED 10 BE SILENT Jane Gibson, Farmer, Hunting Corn Thieves on Phillips Farm, Is Declared to Have Seen Two SAIL FROM BRITAIN WITHOUT BRANDY demise England Wouldn’t Let Ship Sail Without Supply for Steerage. TRIED TO OBEY LAW. President Adams, U. S. Liner, Reaches Port With First Dry Law Problem. A new and complicated seamanship knot was presented to the Prohibition authorities for untanglement to-day when the Shipping Doard steamship President Adams, operated by the United States Lines, came Into port with five gallons of brandy aboard. The knot has two turns to it. The first one is that it fs now against the law for any vessel to come to an American port with Mquor aboard. The second one {ts that no vessel with British subjects in the steerage can clear from London without taking aboard a gallon of brandy for each one hundred of such passengers. It is for use in Silness only, of course, but the law Is fron-clad. In fact, when Capt, Jonas Pendlebury of the President Adamp sought to get away from Til- bury docks without the brandy he was refused clearance papers. When the verse! was about to sal from London, Oct. 14, as the first American vessel off for this country under the new Prohibition ruling as to transatlantic craft, Skipper Pendle- bury was notified to set ashore al! the Haquor his vessel carried, And, while John Steiner, the ship's bartender, wept, the contraband was carried down the gangplank. Four nours were required to put the liquor over- side, because it comprised 4,368 bottles of wines and liquors, 400 bottles of Scotch whiskey, att bottles of ale and six barreis u Lying beside the Pr ident Adams at Tilbury Docks was the Union Castle liner Teuton, ready to sail for Cape Town. The moment the de- barking of the liquor was understood the Teuton’s band was piped on deck and for four distressful hours played dirges and funeral marches. On the President Adams a young miss !n the first cabin contributed a black silk petticoat to the mourners aboard that vessel and the door of the barroom was appropriately draped in black. When Capt. Pendlebury encoun- tered the officials of the British Board of Trade and learned about the brandy retirement he had no recourse but to take aboard the five gallons, because he had a large number of steerage passengers on his list During the voyage to this port John Steiner sald he sold nearly fy hundred bottles of ginger ale. “But it was taken to the staterooms and drunk there,” he added, “which may mean something or may not, just as you look at it.” None of the passengers aboard knew of the existence of the five gallons of brandy, which Skipper Pendlebury kept not only under lock and key but also sealed. The Sunday World First in Number of Ads. The number of separate ads, printed by the New York newspapers last Sunday was: THE WORLD ... The Tribun THE WORLD'S plurality 1,041 ads. aannonnnatnanean camcacmen THE SUNDAY WORLD printed 1,538 more ads, than correspond- ing Sunday of last year, Couples Quarreling and Heard Shots and Man’s Name Used in Protest by Woman. Mule Eye-Witness Rode Stopped to Look as Voices Drew Aitention to Dispute Under Crabapple Tree—New Prosecutor and His Investigator Arrive and Take Charge. (Bpecial From a Staff Corres pondent of The Evening World.) NEW BRUNSWICK,N. J., Oct. 24—Mrs. Jane Gibson, a widow farmer who with her ninetedh- year-old son works a farm at the eastern end of De Russey Laf® at the opposite end from Easton Avenue—so that one going to¢her farm from Easton Avenue must pass the Phillips Farm, where the bodies of the Rev. Mr. Hall and Mrs. Mills were found Sept. 16—has made a statement in the Pprase- cutor's office which is of vital importance to the investigation. There is reason to helleve that Mrs, Gibson has heen told that if she Miseusses what 6 saw and heard with Y one except the officials in charge of the case sho will be arrested, taken from her farm and locked up as a material witness, Spectal Deputy Attorney General Mott and his investigator, © ‘ounty Detective James Mason of Newark, arrived at Somerville at noon and began a consultation with ame Beekman, ONLY SEVEN DRYS OF 8G INN. Y. RAGE FOR CONGRESS Wets to Predominate No Matter Which Party Wins, Association Says. ALBANY, Oct, 24.—-New York's next Congressional representation 1s bound to be overwhelmingly wet, no matter which political party elects a majority, according to a report of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment Out of the elghty-atx candidates for membership {n the House of Repre- sentatives, all of whom havo been in- terviewed or approached In some way by the organization as to their lean- ings on the question of modification or repeal of the Volstead law, only seven have stated their position as dry, and nine others have refused to state their position. All the others have come out avow- edly wet, the association claims. The association to-day completed plans for a campaign to atep into the distrieta where a wet candidate is op- posed by a dry candidate, and throw their support to the wet. This sup- port will consist of speakers and prop- aganda. Within a day or two the first drive will be opened {n Schenectady, ac- cording to Col. R. H. Gillett, General Counsel for the organization in this State, and steps will be taken to help along the campaign of George H Derry, a Democrat, who is opposed by Dr. Frank Crowther, the incumbent Politics In Albany was enlivened a bit to-day by reports that William Barnes, Republican boss, ts planning to announce his retirement at a din ner to be given here within a few weeks, Barnes, however, has not ac- tively participated in local politics for the last @ve years, Prosecutor Stricker received a re- auest from Mr. Mott to go to Som- erville at noon. The Special Deput Attorney General's talk with him fol- lowed that with Mr, Beekman. Thoy did not talk with him together, Mr, Mott sald that after a day or two in Somerville he thought he would move his headquarters to New Brunswick be nearer the spot where the crime was committed anc more convenient to the witnesses. Mrs. Gibson, forty-five years o & woman of pleasant manners an? cultivated speech, 1s an outdoor woman who has developed her pny sique by driving a tractor, plounghing behind a span of horses and shocking corn rather than with a tennis racket and golf clubs, She is among the number of persons who sat in the Prosecutor's office a week ago yester- day when Mrs, Frances Stevens Hall was required to remove her hat and put on the long gray cloak found tr her home, It will be remembered that other: in the room were Mr. Soper, who saw two men and a woman driving tn ¢ car Into De Russey Lane at about 10.30 o'clock the night Mr. Hall and Mrs. Mills were last seen, and Watch man Willams, who saw a woman in 4 long cloak, unaccompanied, enter- ing the Hall home at 2 o'clock the next morning, HOW WOMAN HAPPENED UPON DOUBLE TRAGEDY, These persons sat quiet while Mrs Hall was confronted by Mrs. Zulles, wife of a farmer who keeps a cow and ekes out a precarious ving on the Phillips farm and who sald she saw a strange woman making a sur vey of the farm Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Zulles left the prosecutor's room shaking her head, tndicating she did not recognize Mrs. Hall. The presence of the other three witnesses did not become known until long afterward—that of Mrs. Gibson not until to-day. Tt became known to-day only bee cause of the questions which have been put to her neighbors by deteo- tives seeking corroboration of the story. Mrs, Gibson herself refused ta deny or affirm the current version of her statement; County Detectives an- ewered Inquiry regarding the Gibsor narrative by angry comments that to | A FORD A DAY GIVEN AWAY The Evening World Daily Prize Until Nov. 1st For “What Did You See To-Day ?” See Page 22