The evening world. Newspaper, October 27, 1922, Page 1

rd OTT HAS PROOF MRS. GIBSON TOLD TRUTH To-Night's Weather—CLOUDY; WARMER. -WALL STREET “a Di bl ahi — She Circulation Books Open to All. ve Copyright (New ¥ Pubitshing ork World) by | Press Company 1922. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8h 1922, Powe Seber Retiring. Prohibition Chief Refuses-to Testify or to Waive Immunity ‘ACES ‘COURT MONDAY. pubpoena for Records of His Business Ignored—Admit- ted Borrowing $100,000. The September Federal Grand Jury hich has been for the last six weeks tigatins reports of graft in the Ohibition enforcement department ere presented a written communica- fon this afternoon to Judge Foster in lhe United States District Court and ediately afterwards Major Cla sistant United States Attorney ob Wned from Judge Foster an order re- fring Ralph A. Day, retired Prohi- ition. Director, to appear Monday orning at 10 o'clock and show cause hy ‘be shou)d not be adjudged in ontempt. This brought out the wews that Director Day was called before the Jury this morning and asked luce. the books of the R. A. jompany,.of which he is jead.} He refused to deliver the books r¢fused to waive immuni K¢ thereupon dismissed him Mr. ‘Duy ts in the underwear manu- At the time it was wn Washington that bh as tb retire Nov. 1 the stateme as made that he had borrowed 3100 00 of $150,000 during his term fice,, which sum or yut into his busin: Mr. fitted borrowing money and s jad répald it. mprécedented and created no end ment around the Federal Build- . The jury requested permission to ome imio court When the jurors were seated W, D. fore man, Tretiholf, the hande fudge Foster a nvelope, with th! “Your Honor, this communication presented at this time in advance indictMents that might be found wause two of the persons met ioned in the communication are still in the service of the Treusu ment and th lov. 1 ig expected. It might defeat h® contemplated purpose if the de- fvery‘of this communication ts de- yed."* AccOrding to Major Clarke, Dire er Day was first called before the prand Jury on Wednesday. He re- lused to waive tmmunity. Then® a lubpoena ducas tecum requiring the reduction of the hooks was issued "s counsel advised him to refuse © surrender the books on the ground that the subpoena was tco sweeping pther subpoena was jssued and th Pooks Were stil! withheld. Then Mr ay finajiy refused to waive punity and testify before the Gr ary. Mr. Clarke also said that James F. rshing, who was for a time Mr y's chief assistant and who has es'gned, also refused to waive im- unity before the Grand Jufy é —_——.__. RESIDENT PURCHASES $1,125. CERTIFICATES AT BARGAIN PRICES WASHINGTON, Oct 27.— President Harding after to-day's Cabinet mecting went to the steps of the executive offices and there purchased from Secretary Mellon $1,125 in treasury savings certifi- ates, tending to the Secretary his , check for $924.50 The present buying price of the gertificates The President purchased one 25, one $100 and one $1,000 cer- tificate. comment: BAY. CALLED IN DRY INQUIR REFUSES TO SHOW BOOKS 10 JURY; CITED FOR CONTEMPT INEW PEACE PARLEY The action of the Grand Jury was|fore'er IN WASHINGTON IS PROPOSED BY GARY How and When t to Meet Legal Obligations Should Be Settled, He Says. Sibert H. United Gary, © rman of the States Steel Gorporation, speaking at the semi-annual meeting of the American Iron and Steel In- stitute to-day, advocated a in- ternational peace conference to be held at Washington, declared against the cancellation of European war debts nd spoke in favor of full publicity n industrial disputes. Speaking of his proposal for a new conference, “It there 1s such a conference, pi ucipated In by open-minded, (anosed representatives from the dif- ferent nations, the result should ke of ncalcuiable good to all concerned. They would not discuss how to over- come the established law of -supnly sad demand. how to avoid or repudi- ote existing legal obligations, nut rather how and when to fulfl them b irreparable infury to any one sacrifice of princiv! On the war dents he said “Americans generally w with Gov action elieved from citizens an nation bs sing the former Likewise would oppose anv enfore arity. Certa’ would he abhorrent to the b men and women of both of the coufiden: t up to th ad opportunity vavyin the judgfent of many of the forelkm nations can and are will- ing to pay their debts. some sooner than others and most of them sooner than is now generally admitted. We know something of thelr capacity to work and earn and save and thrive: of thelr success in business and thelr mode of living. “We should be cheerfully willing to exténd payment at asonably low rates of interest. We should Le glad to make new loans w confident they will be paid, end thus assist in restoration and rehab Every man or nation | ure up to obligations must w ve; must be prudent and jomical.”* re are no obstacles to c prosperity In the ness in the United Stat asserted, exce from Interference with course of supply and de ing on the recent coal ahd he said th red with would now be enjoying euce greater than vere befo; LAUREL RI RESU LTS. CLEAR AND “FAST, FIRST RACE—Six furlo arlet Bugler (Marinell: $4.20 and $8.80, fi Pettifogger (Kel (Callahan), Time—1.15 AL Y. DYING SOLDIER ——s CLOSING OF MEXICAN AMERICAN SHIPS GIVES FAREWELL | ALWAYS TERRITORY | DINNER TO BUDDIES|OF U.S. HAND RULES a Everywhere Subject to Our Laws, Judge Holds Deciding Liquor Law Question. DOUBTS LOSS TO LINES, Gassed Veteran. Stricken With Tubertulosis Urges Them to Make Merry. BIDS GOODBY TO ALL. Boats Which Clear From Bel- gian Ports Excepted From les and Make All the Noise u Want,” He Tells : Thein. Dry Restrictions. With the belief that he had not Judge Learned Hand in the U, & many days more on earth, Pe District Court to-day ruled in a sup- the cases of ntile Marine an Lines that they may p subject to the police’’ regula- tions of the Eighteenth Amendment After holding that the Eighteent» Amendment should apply to ail terri tory subject to United States juris . dydge Hand termed the Highteenth Amendment a police regu- lation, “It would be a curious thing,” the decision went, “if a country profess- ing under its fundamental law to for- bid the use of intoxicants were to atlow them without stint upon ships that sailed under its flag. The only distinction pressed is the disastrous consequences to an American mer- chant marine, if of all ships ours alone are within this ban “In the first place, thé diserimina- tion applies only to passenger ves- sels, which are a small part of any vhole argu- The Fighteentt t involved the destruction at a v of property values far greater than that of the decision in Mer Amer plementar-: the Evans, thirty, of No. 248 Main Street, EashQrange, last night played host at his own farewell dinner Rising from the sick bed to which he has been confined the past four months with tuberculosis, resulting om being gassed when he was over- seas in the World War, he rode in a taxi to the Wash!ngton Soc'ety Club House and, propped among pillows, presided over the affair. It was at- tended by twenty-five friends. “Sing all you want, boys, make all the noise you want, fight if you want but please do not wreck the place," he told them, “I won't be with you much longer I have arranged this little dinner to show my regard for you, my boyhood com fons and many friends of lite, Fellows, 1 e only a few thoughts to give you. One is the feel- ing of a fellow on his back when a friend visits him. “J have been that way. Tt is surely a wonderful thing. I know that t church bel! down the street will soon toll for me. I have always cherished the association of my fr wanted in this way to attest my gard for them.” Evans’ ¥ brgke at this point and his friends ly by while he ure and International United American ships, wl be, and the ever die covered |b com ps call aisiowig t= Ned on} wnole passenger fleet. ‘The motives r sing Evans was one of the first New|WHch directed it disregarded ordinary arees toeniealenist id the way | commercial interests; sr Sarsex “men tqieniat curing ‘Ibased ypon the belief that the use of id one of the last to return His , loohol was one of the great evils of parents are dead and he is financially 3 J . B s modern life, against whose utter ex- well off. Tt became known !ast night 2 S OSIRE Gt De teaacce tirpatic > present rights ol prop- n ymou ‘lerty might stand By. I conclude, therefore, that a ship American registry at sea or within reign port is within the scope of sented their amendinent and of Sec and Shp: ane bills must be dismissed dito pay! The: decision, how granted ua Stuy ist prosecution of United States ships under Belgian registry since the Belgiar CONSULATE DOESN'T —_['3'2 ratio of wi AFFECT GOV'T DEBTS : Setien Will Embarrass Only Con- cerns Enmaged in Trade With That Country. The Mexic: order to- Consul Gene erspend) tween the busine: would law requires a ce r all passengers papers ars jetus Keating, counsel for the In- ternational Mercantile Marine Com pany, American Line, said that if the ruling of Judge Hand was sustained by the Sugreme Court it would mean the deathknell of American shipping so far as passenger traffic was con- cerned, He declares that the decisiop \d be appeal hig company pectic Sat CR a BABY BORN IN JiTNEY WILL BE CALLED HENRY ot the Street two countries houses were receive @ circula ing them of the ressot " i he Sew lanadiee ar ae atiod task Within Ford Taxt ted by attaches of the office, to be a Driver by the Obregon administration chmen in the 5 American Trading Compdny. F office of J. P. Morgan & Co, the opinion was advanced that the f the Mexican Government in consulate in New Yori ve any effect on ful! greenent for protest over the at 27.—George r of this city, Walter, eigh Pacific A’ usty w n the Me re: Railroad debt ' was stated that Mex Co: ne way concerned in the| Real Estate 1 cause considerable Advertisements |emvs: agsment to those engaged for The ade with that count but it not cely ‘to have any oa. con-!l] Sunday World ae Se Must Be in med The World Office To-Day fh ty Before 6 P. M. aon Cher Tal lnaure proper clawificasion \ A FORD A DAY GIVEN AWAY Another Episcopal Rector Shof Dead by Woman of Flock; Sayer Then Ends Own Life Wife of Former Judge, Who Had Been Conducting Chautauqua Circuit in East, Kills Widely Known “Bishop of All Outdoors”—Motive Unknown. HAVRE, Mont., Oct. 27—The Rev. Leonard Jacob Christler, rector of St. Mark's Church of the Incarnation, at Havre, widely known in the West as “the bishop of all outdoors,” was shot and instantly killed in his home tn Havre at 1 o'clock this morning. by Mrs. Margaret Carleton, wife of for mer Judge Frank Carleton of the District Court of Hill County, now resid ing in California, who then committed suicide. Rector Christler was a Milk River Valley missionary et Sa Mrs. Carleton had returned to Havre Care long been friends, recently from a summer spent as superintendent of .an Mastern Chau-]Mo word of explanation as to he The two families had] Feasong for the shooting. tauqua clroult. FRIEND OF HUSBANC HELD IN MYSTERY SLAYING OF WOMAN Authorities Believe Mrs. Burns Was Beaten, Choked and Burned Alive. JANKER ADMITS HE SPANKED WIFE ON TRIP ABROAD Year and a Half on Cos- metics Alone. An admission that he wife was made by Frederi ford, formerly Vice Second National Bank of St. Pauli, Minn., in papers on which the Ap- péllate Division of the Supreme ¢ to-day reversed a granting $750 for wife, Mrs. Adele Bloss cea ts suing him for a separa Relating the incident whl 5 occurted at the Santa Lucia Hot Naples, Italy, on Oct. 8, 1921, M Montford stated: ‘‘My wife one eve because I ce child, who was naughty best children will be oc and attempted to assault me ereupon spanked my wife nm jumping around and etriking me she lost her down on the Boor that I struck her, knock is a blamed, unvarnished lic, and she knows It.” Mr. Montford also alleged that ty Naples he had found clothed, in wl CLEVELAND, Oct. 27.—Cleveland notice Inte to-day again brought in 1 second man for investigation tn the heory that he may know detalis of hé slaying of Mrs. Hazel Burns, yenty-nine, whose mutilated body yody wés found buried in a élallow ave near Painesville late Wednes- which they say may settle veyond question the identity of her layer. The man, the police say, who has been a long time friend of Burns and his wife, maintains he has told the police all he knows of Burns's mov ments at the time of Mrs. Burns's jeath. The police say they want to iuestion- his regarding his abouts Tuesday night and Wednesday. Mrs. Burns was declared to have led of strangulation and suffocation. | a¢ and the authorities sald they believed she had been buried alive in the marsh. She had not been shot, but was beaten over the head with the butt of a revolver. The photograph of Mrs. Burns looked down upon Henry Burne to- day tn his cell at the Lake County Jail in Painesville. Charged with her murder, Burns ted for more than thirty-six panked h D, Mont Special Term or counsel fees to hi ning became enraged rected my the where- | a4 early Fonzo and clung to } hours the efforts of authorities fol weaned premence wring from his information o! Mrs. Monttord, formerly. of ‘New crime. For two ‘nights he has bec g piauaie cf Mies EW" erilled. Sleep has been denied him. tated in her papers. that hs rs ry . = ks When the questioners grow Wears | eae ee nen eel ecu ie: they hold before Burns's eyes the photograph of the body of his mur- dered wife. “Look at it,” they demand. longer live with him on the other hand, al! harmony between sibl the. dete how she wag beaten before she white the Suter fe m creoniee tai, aks 6 has vu r ideas of pre Meier et ye * ie er ated soma time ago s r om O-in @ year-and u half on ec question; “Did you do metics alone. areas MME. FORNIA, OPERA STAR Time after tlmo, Bi trembling, has replied do it. T swear I didn't do it." Burns went through another ordes to-day. He was formally arraig! before a woman Justice of the P Singer Left This City Cnet Spring Mrs. Joseph jo asked After Onern Burns {if he de: a plea Mme. Rita rn r “T have nothing to s replied. | tne atetrope die He. waived preliminary to-day In a and was bound over to t! without bail. AWARD OF FISHERMEN’S. TITLE 1S DELAYED She was apparent! cable stated her hush« al art desler of this hy days ago to return i Fornia ; Her real name was Ritw New voted to refer to the Inte! Fall Overconts & Xnits. $14.9" mittee prote: nst B CLOTH AY, Chr Bluenose of , the appare: Baill wa ner of the series after yesterd: tory. : H. R, Silver, of the Tru: and tees of the Cup, said the trophy wou not be handed over until the certificats of award had been aligned by the Inte:- national Committee. 4 ri, “Circulation Books Open to All.’’ President of the REPORTED DEAD IN PARIS Sid) Levy sat down In the next seat ne SOLDIERS AND POLICE The Evening World Daily Prize Until Nov. 1st For “What Did You See To-Day?’ Fo:Merrew’s Waather—FAIR, Weather—FAIR, STREET | CLOS| TABLES. | as KecondyClaxe Matter ice, New ‘York, NW, 8 ‘PRICE THREE CENTS | PROHIBITION CHIEF DAY CITED FOR CONTEMPT IN DRY INQUIRY CASE NO LONGER MYSTERY,” HALL PROSECUTOR ASSERTS: QUESTIONS FAMILY'S ALIBIS “Don’t Distress Yourself About Justice That Is Due to Mr. Stevens—or to Mrs. Hall Either, for That Matter,” Mott Replies to Pleas That He Officially Dispel Doubt in Public Mind. 'Prosecutor Orders Seizure of Auto Slayer Used and Search for Car Parked Near It at Phil- lips Farm and for Machine Lamps of Which Lighted Scene of Tragedy for Eye-Witness. (Special From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) NEW BRUNSW ick. J., Oct. 26.—Deputy Attorney General Mott after hearing from her own lips to-day the story of Mrs. Jane Gibson said his faith in her truthfulness had been confirmed. [le added that he had been able to corroborate her statement in part if Asserts She Spent $3,500 in|not as a whole and had not been able to find that any part of it wos untrue. “Do not speak of this case as a mystery any more,” Mr. Mott toid the reporters of fifty newspapers to-day. It is complex, but it 1s no longer a mystery. I could go to the Grand Jury with it to-day, “I have not done so because it is my judgment to withhold the case from the Grand Jury until we have not only enouga evidence to indict but to convict; the persons concerned and the nature of the crime a not of the usual sort; therefore, the case requires unusyal procedure.” THEATRENASHER | HEQDESTOSLAND which was patked in De Russey Lan Mrs. near that from which “the woman !n the gray cloak” and her man con Panlon started up the hill to, the ¢ apple treé. He did nor have full cor fidence yet, he said, that the numb: were correctly dascribed. Mr. Mott said positively that be a! not intend to question Mrs, Hall any of her relatives. In spite of statements Timothy N. Pfetffer that {t established Mrs, Hall was home tn bed when the murders w: committed end her brother, Arcested ,and taken to the West) Stevens, was forty miles aw s0th Street tion from the Sevoy| Lavalette, Mr. Mott volunteered Theatre, in West 84th SMreet, by Mrs:| “Those things have yet tc be esi Sylvian Friedlander of No. 125 West] tshea to my satisfaction,” 16th Street, a man who sald he was}. é Solomon Levy. twenty-two years old,| “But don’t you think that tr f No. 736 Home Strest, the Bronx.| have evidence to prove that Hen \ tailor, was sent to the workhouse! Stevens has a sound alibi! you oug ta say 60, In justice to Mr. Stevens Friedlander Acts After Girl Employees Had Complained. made & ‘or thirty days In the Night Court Jast night by Magistrate Thomas Mc andvevte a reporter asked Mr. Mott Mrs, Friedlander told Magistrate] PROSECUTO® VOICES DOUBT OF McAndrews that che regretted having HALL ALIBIS. to court In such a casa but} «pons, tit her duty to do so because] Don’t you distress yourself,”” sa Mr. Mott, leaning forward and ep ing impressively, “about the justics that ia due to Henry Stevens—or Mrv Hall either, for that matte: Asked if he intended an arrest Mr. Mott said: ‘Iam leaving for Newark at o'clock. When ap arrest is made shall endeavor to be on the ground When Mrs. Gibson left the ¢ House, her only statement wae to « she took pleasure in denying, at t request of Prosecutor Stricker she had ever been turned away f the stories she had heard from a re of young women {n her employ as to “deplorable conditions” existing inmotion pleture houses about the While she was tn the theatre, she she declared, annoyed her. she said, giving a compelling Levy to r at with her to the lobby, Mrs. she told the m a Patrol of the West a wullty Mrs. | his office when she went to the Cor desired that a : Gh edly hown in the | House to tel! her etory with the o! of freeing Cilfford Hayes. Detective before she cou weht to t rong office in the Court House a: was turned away by some one who hud nothing to do with the Prose cutor's office Mr. Mott has ordered the seizure uf on automobile Uke that described in the statement of Mrs. Gibson in her < sig ptton of the ki GUARD EBERT AND WIRTH Authorities Learn That Attacks Were Planned To-day. diera and de- y ed police werr strasse when {t was on President e See Page 31 + 4 » fr