The evening world. Newspaper, November 20, 1922, Page 1

: THE WORLD a Both Houses Postpone All Business Out of Re- spect to Dead. WETS FILE BONUS BILL. Propose Vetoed Measure, With Tax on Beer and Wines to Provide Funds. Con- y for the . called WASHINGTON, Noy. gress convened at noon to-d special session of two week by President Harding for tion of the Administration Ship Sub- sidy Bill, upon which he is expected to address a joint session to-morrow. In both Senate and House the gavel Weginning the new session dropped a few minutes after 12 o'clock, considera- the usual formalitics which attend the turning over of a new page in Con- greasional history: both Sides was so arranged’as to per- mit adjournment after these ceré¥ monies until to-morrow, as a mark of respect for the snator Watson of Georgia and the late Representative Nolan of Califor In conferences between Senate and House leaders and White House of- ficials it wes arrangd definitely for President Harding tu take his mes- sage to the son, appearing before a joint session in the hail of the house at 12.30 P. M. The Senate was in session only th teen minutes, adjourning withou w. capitol to-morrow in per- ing an opportunity to Mrs. Felton of Georgia or any other new Senator to take the oath of office. Mrs. Felton waited an hour and a half in the Ser Chamber to lear whether Senate leaders would permit her to take her seat as the first wot Senator in view of the recent election of Walter I*, George as her success After much seratching of heads over the problem Sena managers agreed to let the decision go over until to-mororw From a place in the rear of seats on the Democratic side of Chamber the eighty-seven-year-old “grand old woman of Georgia’’ peeved out through her spectacles upon th opening formalities of the special session, and then, without a mention of her name having gone into the Senate record, saw an adjournment taken until to-morrow as a mark of respect for the late Senator Watson, the the to whose pla she had been ap- pointed by Gov. Hardwick. The wets lost no time in launch- of a for ing their fight for enactment soldier's bonus bill, to be paid dy a tax on legalized beer. The fir: MN introduced in the House was by Representative John Phillip Hill, Maryland, Republican, proposing re- enactment of the adjusted compensa- tion measure killed by Presidential eto last summer. 20 cent per gallon PENNSYLVANIA R. R. WINS REVIEW IN LABOR CASE Supreme Court Will Take Uy Bo. Right to Vick Work- ers’ Agent WASHINGTON, Nov. 20,—The Su- preme Court to-day granted the ap- plication of the Pennsylvania Rail- Road Company for a review on writ of certiorari of n case against the United States Railroad Labor Board, brought to test the authority of t board to designate those who should sapreent railroad employes in confer ences with representatives of the rail- road company for the settlement of Jabor disputes, TO-NIGHT’'S WEATHER—Cloudy; Cooler. FINAL EDITION STATE 1 CONGRESS WEES. OURS IN FEW MINUTES: NO ACTION REGARDING MRS. FELTON and then in both Chambers there followed DORT TOURING CAR GIVEN Che “ Circulation Books Open to All,’ by Press Copyright (New York World) Publishing Company, 1 alee EW YORK N , MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1922. TAX ON U.S.SUPREME COURT|BUS PLAN CHANGE HOLDS STATES MAY} BEFORE CROMPTON TAX LIBERTY BONDS} ASKED $10,000 408 Transit Board Counsel Ad- mits Offer of Tammany Member Was Later. Decision in Oklahoma Case Affects Millions Held by National Banks. NOT EXEMPT LOCALLY. WOMAN APPOINTED TO SENATE SNAPPED ee INSPECTING CAPITOL BOARD GETS SETBACK. Witness Fails to Throw Light on Why Specifications Were Altered. Ruiing of Highest State Ju- diciary, Upholding Tax, Is Affirmed. WASHINGTON, Nov. 20—States] It have the right to tax, for State pur- poses Liberty Bonds exempted from taxation by the Federal Government, the Supreme Court held to-day. The decision affects millions in Liberty Bonds held by National Banks over the country. ‘The court denied the contention of the People’s National Bank of King- fisher, Okla., that Liberty Bonds in which the bank's capital was invested were not taxable by the State. The Oklahoma Supreme Court decided against the bank. irae ae, CONSTANTINE CAFES FAIL WITH LIABILITY OF MORE THAN $500,000 Consol ition: at Broadway and Sth Avenue Restaurants Claimed to Be Meg was acknowledged to-day by Clarence J, Shearn, special counsel to the Transit Commission, that the changes {n specifications for trackless trolley cars for Staten Island were made months before William R. Crompton attempted to get himself engaged as a salesman for the Atlas Truck Corporation. ‘This acknowl- edgement was made during the ex- amination of Allan R. Cosgrove, Vice President and General Manager of the corporation. Cosgrove fixed the time of meeting Crompton as May 11, 1922, while the contract for trackless trolley cars em- bodying changes in specifications was made more thin twé-months before. After Cosgrove fixed th@ date to- day, Judge Shearn remarked that, in all fairness to Mr. Crompton, it now does not appear that the spectfica- tions were changed because ‘Cromp- ton was not retained as New York salesman at $10,000 the Atlas Company The impression that Crompton had knowledge of the changes came from his efforts to be retained as salesman, During his negotiations, Crompton showed Cosgrove a picture of himself marching at the head of the Tammany Society's Liberty Day Parade between Mayor Hylan ad Charles F. Murphy. Crompton told Cosgrove, the latter individually, is said to owe about) tostitied to-« that he pointed to the $100,000 and be actually worth about! photograph as an indication of “haw $5,000, and the Parisian Catering) y stand politically in New York.” Com is estimated to owe $800,009) Cosgrove absolved Crompton from any Petitions in invol were filed against orge Constan- tine, Inc., with two restaurants at Nos, 2233 and 2602 Broadway, against George Constantine, as an individual, operating a restaurant at No. 564 Fifth Avenue, and the Parisian Ca- tering Company, formed last August to take over all three places, Liabilities of George Constantine, Inc., are estimated to be $125,000 with assets of $25,000; George Constantine, tary bankruptcy year salary by and be worth about $100,000. The vel responsibility in changing the specifi. titioning creditors are Morrie B.| Cations, Deutsch, Katheryn A. Roth and Gene} qne atias concern had been a auc- ‘rancis, with claims against the three} cosseyi bidder on the original contract concerns totalling $45,000. ee Ran: Laleye AGT ane At the, offices of November and] Change was, made could not ‘be Jaffe and Marcus Helfand it was said| Soenereg after the change. how, the petitioners contended that the] Over the contract was awarded te the rongolidation of the three establish-| Trocitecs wrroliey Corporation of New ments into the Parisian Catering! yoni, Company was without consideration 3 on ithe The disproportionatey _, 22 Commission got nowhere tn it attempt tr get any further “‘light’’ on the subject from Allan R, Cosgrove In February, 1922, the Board of Purchase sent the Atlas Truck Cor- Poration unother set of specifications for a second lot of fifteen trolley buses for additional service on Staten Island. The second set of specifica- tlona, Mr. Coogreve said, were slightly different from the first of plans for seven buses, overhead expense of the Fifth Avenue restaurant is blamed for the failure. DRY AGENTS MAY SEARCH FOR HOOCH WITHOUT A WARRANT, IT IS HELD United States Supreme Court Re- fuses to Review Decision of Lower Courts Two women will be centres of inter- est in Washington when Congress meets to-day in special session. One is Mrs, W. H. Felton of Geor- gia, who was appointed to take the In February, 1922, there was a con- place of the late Senator Watson, By] WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—-A SU-} ecco at the Board of Purchase on unanimous consent she may be al-| preme Court review was denied to-day) the specifications for the second lowed to vit for a few minutes as the|in a case brought by Don J, Casey,| trackless trolleys. At the conference st woman eve erve sil erom Arkansas, to have determined] Were representatives of several motor Ryat) Woman (evento; acre es Valet train truck manufacturers, the Brill Manu States Senator. whether evidence of violation of the The second is Mrs, Winifred Mason | uslonat Pron OF TAs SESS Oe (Continued on Second Page.) i ° Winitred Mason | search by. Prohibiti ers - Huck of Iilinols, elected Congress-| + 4 search warrant, can be used in} ——— ae man-at-large in place of her father, courts h W 1d’ Ad the courts the late William E. Mason, She will] The United States District Court ie orla s S. t the Bight cuit Court of Ap be the first mother to occupy a seat}and the Eighth Clreul urt (ew : I in. te House peals held that Prohibition officers, ontinue to Increase | ae like revenue officers, could search _— MARY MACSWINEY WEAK IN HUNGER STRIKE : winouasvarant_ {n Spaceand Numbers ELECTED CONSTABLE atk SMG ean CAG World advertising for week ending November 18 as compared wit BY ONE MAJORITY, HIS Corresponding week of last year. 8 Also Continues to Refuse § | 59,360 gain in agate lines. sal Opiate Brteon’ Satie: TOTAL VOTE BEING ONE | $2360 gain in, agate lines. | DUBLIN, Nov. 20.—Mary MaeSwiney 1,987 “Help Female” Ads. Guin. Some One Wrote Name on Ballot was re 1,050 “To Let" Ads. Gain. ted ker to-day a9 she con- e Bet No Candi- re toe” C2 hinued bar Hunker welts Un Mtountos || Meno eeetocee 481 “Business Opportunities” Gain. n nD t dates, It Won Office a P I Prison in prot against her arrest as y 417 “Real Estate’ Ads, Gain, a rebel. . MANSFIELD, MO., Nov. 45 “Boarders Wanted” Ads. Gain. 21 as elected Con- “Es “d Sail Her sister Annie, who last Friday Tom Inman was elected Con 18 “Educational” Ads. Gain. be na mpathetic hunger strike out stable by a majority of one vo 35 32 f Sepa ie World side the walls, also continued to refuse Some one wrote Inman's name ’ D ads. last week. food, She remained at the prison gates] on a ballot and, as no party had a with a number of women sympathizers,| candidate, he was elected, 13,273 Chinese Pirates Hold Sui An day afternoon, More than next highest newspaper. LIBERTY BONDS IS HELD Masked Klansmen Halt Sermon To Give Minister Gold Pieces Women in Peekskill Church Shriek, but Preacher Praises Klan and It Lauds Him. While the Rey. G. C. Winters, ne pastor of the First Baptist Church at Peekskill, was in the midst of his sermon last evening, four white-robed figures in the regalia of the Ku Klux Klan marched up the al and handed the preacher a package. The congregation was startled by@—————————————________ the sudden apparition of the ghost-| opened the package and found that it like figures, and some of the women! contained five $20 gold pieces, and he shricked, while men started back.}{old his congregation he would read Without even looking at the package, |them the letter next Sunday, It con- the mintster said that, while he did} tained an appreciation of his work at not know what the package contained, | Peekskill and told him he might do he agreed with the principles of the] « the money; Ku Klux Klan, ir ‘ The Klansmen then|occording to Mrs. Winters to-day, stalked out. Dr. Winters came to Peekskill oni After the sermon, Dr. Winters] recently, : GG BUGLANEERS LOUISIANA ABLE BOOK ON BRITISH | TO COPE WITH KLAN, SHP AND SE H} HARDING TOL Gov. Parker Asks Help in Certain Interstate Ku Klux Activiti Thirteen Hours; Driven Off in Battle. nbvexos Noy. 20 (Associated Pres)=-Sivty-five Chinese — buc- caneers. who might have stepped from some ancient log of the Spanish Main, travelled as passengers aboard the British steamer Sul An when she left Macao for Hongkong yester- WASHINGTON, State authorities of Louisiana appear at this time to be fully capable of handling any situation within their Jurisdicton growng out of actvities of secret organzations or other agen- cies, It was declared in a statement issued at the White to-day after a conference on the subject be- tween President i Daughert Seizing the ship a few miles out, the pirates held her for thirteen hours, and the crew and passengers made Hongkong to-day, with their captors driven away in sampans only after a flerce battle in which two were killed House Harding, Attorney Parker of neral and several wounded, including the| Louisiana and Attorney General Coco Captain of the Sul An, a Frenchlor that state. priest and another European pas-[ 1) Site senger. of the suffleiency of the ‘The steamer was carrying a large|State authority, the White Houne number of European and Chinese statement said “there is nothing at assengers. ‘Tho pirates, heavily trmed. were disguised as first or Paeind the Federal Government second class passengers, 0 ept give assurance to the When the Europeans showed re- © authorities that wherever Fed- sistance, the pirates threatened tol eral interests are Involved the Federal beach and burn the vessel. In the] authorities are ready to extend full fighting that followed two Indian} co-operation,” watchmen were killed and two others] Before going to the «White House of the crew were wounded. The Cap-] Gov. Parker and the Attorney Gen- tain’s wound is serious. ral had a long conference with Wil The invaders then got the upper] liam J. Burns, Chief of the Bureau of hand and locked up passengers ad] Investigation of the Department. of rew. The pirates passed Hongkonk | Justice. It was understood that they went out to sea, and began to steain| jaid before Mr. Burns information in the direction of Swatow. concerning the reported influence ex ally, thirteen hours late » shot and wounded the pirate chief. The chief's wife then directed that the excursion be abandoned Midway between Hongkong and Swa erted by the Klan among county and other officers in their State. in investigating the disappearance (Continued on Second Page.) | Circulation Books Open to AL | Katered as Second-Class Matter Post Office, New York, N, EATHER—Fair; Cooler. NAL MT EDITION ftir TO-MORROW'S | THE % a, | PRICE THREE CENTS j VALID GRAND JURY IN SESSION ON TALL-MILLS MURDER; COURT HOUSE IS GUARDED Clarence Schneider, Who, With Pearl Behmer, Discovered Tragedy, and Reporter Are First Witnesses—Pig Woman’s Story Is State’s High Card—Rector’s Widow May Insist on Being Heard. (Special From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) SOMERVILLE, N. Nov. 20.—The Grand Jury of Somerset County began hearing to-day the results of thé nine weeks’ investigation by County Prosecutor Azariah Beekman and Special Deputy Attorney Gen- eral Wilbur A. Mott into the Hall-Mills murder, ‘Three of its'*members are women, The court house is of Crecian architecture, a white temple sur- mounted by a bronze figure of Justice, blindfolded. ‘® Clarence Schneider, who is under indictment for perjury in charging his companion, Clifford Hayes, with the mourder and with impairing the morals of Pear] Behmer, with whom he dis- covered the bodies of Mr. Hall and Mre, Mills Sept. 16, was the first wit- ness. He was on the stand for three guarters of an hour and tdentified | many of.the maps and photographs and other exhibits, “He was followed by A, J, Speer now a teacher In the manual train- ing schools of Newark but a reporter for the Brunswick Home News at the time of the murder. The name ©: D. J. Wray, city editor of the Home News was called, but he did not answer, and Dr, E. L. Loblein, the veterinary, who was called from Easton Road by Policemen Garrigan and Curran to identify the body of the minister, was taken before the Grand Jury aa the third winess, Then the policemen were called. It was planned to-day to adjourn : the Grand Jury from Wednesday until Monday to give its members time to straighten up their house- holds and farm business after their three-days absence. County Detective Totten exhibited to the jurors the clothing of Mr. Hall and Mrs. Mills and the pistol rvells which were found bout the bodies. A‘ quarter to one o'clock the Grand Jury adjourned for luncheon, it may be a week before they de- termine whether or not to rely upon the strange story of Mrs. Jane Gib- ALLAN A. RYAN FREED OF BANKRUPTCY IN $18,000,000 FAILURE Now Free to Start ness Again With « Clean Allan A, Ryan, who failed Jast July with liabilities of $18,090,000 after his sensational speculation in stock of the Stutz Motor Car Company of America, was discharged from bankruptey to- day by Judge A. N. Hand in the Fed- eral Court. Ryan da now free to start in business again with a clean slate. In August an auction sale of the assets brought only $8,600,000. This included the sale of Stutz stock at $20 a share, In September a new com- pany was formed under the name of the Allan A, Ryan Company, Inc, Robert C. Rand, of Guthrie, Jerome, Rand & Kresel, attorneys for Ryan, stated that ten days ago he notified all creditors of Ryan that he would apply to-day for a discharge from bankruptey and that as none of the creditors appeared to object Judge Hand granted the petition. ———— MRS, PHILLIPS! SENTENCE DE- LAYED FOR APPBAL, 3 ANGELES, Nov. 20.—Defense At- Rert Herrington to-day secured a until Thursday of the sentence of Clara Phillips, convisted of the murder of Alberta Meadows, Judge Houser granted the delay to permit a plea for a| #0, the woman. farmer who has told ae tral of seeing Mrs. Frances Stevens Hall =a anu a man “companion secretively en- tering the Phillips farm before the sREEK © 1G GREE OAMERET RESIS murder, of seeing Mrs. Hall again a ATHENS, Noy. 20.—The Greek Cab- Inct, Which has been in. office under| £e¥ moments later on the knoll under Acting Premier Croktdas, resigned to-|the crabapple tree when the shote day. re fired which killed her husband tow the outlaws escaped in sampans. The Sui-An reached Hongkong at noon to-day. The Sui-An is listed as a ship of 1,265 tons, owned by the Hongkong, Canton & Macao Steamship Company, Limited, Macao is across the mouth of the Canton River from Hongkong and about fifty miles distant > TO PUSH DAUGHERTY IMPEACHMENT CASE Chairman Volstead Says Hearings w Be Started Soon, id Copyright, 1 by’ Pre: LONDON, VI, Sultan of Turkey. sew Yor! Publish pany Noy. left Constanti WASHINGTON, Nov. 20,—Hearing# on the impeachment charges sgainst|/nople broke, wifeless and almost General Daugherty will o2]alone, it !s reported here. ‘as soon as possible, probably! He fled from his palace in such a end of this week," Chairman|hurry he had no time to make any Volstead, Minnesota, of the House JU-larrangements for the harem he de- tery: Coma) aid to-day upon his) ted, Furthermore he took only im to Washington. Volstead'’s announcement came on tle] such loose change as the two servants heels of @ Joint statement by Rerre-lwno accompanled him could pick up sentatives Kelley, Minnesota and Woodruff, Michigan, Republicans, do-|!n the palace, according to the Weekly luring their Intention of pushing tho] Despatch, mpeachment proceedings to a alan and docnenaie that tt The Sultan's private income In em- diciary Committee either proceed at]timated at about $9,000,000 a year, once to Hear evidence or “state op but unless he or his private host that It refuses to let the country know private" hoate, |the British, can recover some of it, Daugherty has conducted the cost of keeping him in the style >_— to which he has been accustomed w win when Gert canst, > which h been accustomed will Arcade: a sD dos Bulldloge t3-63' devolve upon this Government. Such Park How, N. ¥. City. Relephone. Beek {iu ‘Chosk room ter bawgees and pareelg an expense would be at least $500 a 1 loney orders and Advt. open day and night, travellers’ checks for sale. it is thought, [week Sultan Left Wives Stranded When He Fled Constantinople Quit in Such Haste He Had No Time to Provide Funds From His $9,000,000 Income, venting World),@ tO. wtekammea| SULTAN REACHES MALTA; and Mrs. Eleanor Mills and of re- turning again three hours later to see Mrs. Hall mourning over the body of her husband, Under the direction of Sergt. Lamh, Btate troopers formed a cordon about the Court House to keep all out- siders at a distance to enforce the privacy of the Grand Jury delibera- tions. The Grand Jury ts assembled tn the meetng room of the Board of Chosen Freeholders. About the walls hung much magnified photographi blue prints and maps to illustrate the stories told by the witnesses, On the GIVEN QUARTERS IN FORT | Prosecutor's table was spread out the clothing worn by the minister and Travelling Incom Se iat |e on A trooper cut some branches from Honors Were Omitted, the shrubbery in the Court Hous MALTA, Nov. y use park 20 (Associated Presa). land with them marked off a dead line —The British dreadnought Malaya, with beyond which the curious must not Sultan Mohammed Vi, on board, | pass in their efforts to peer into the suvad hare rotating. windows of the Grand Jury room, ‘As the Sultan 1s travelling tncognito| 4 up of women who thought that salutes were not fired, It te expected |the Grand Jury met in public Ike « that Gov. Plumer will extend an oficial {court angrily disputed the right of the welcome constabulary to prevent them from Mohammed, who te accompanied bylentering the building and stalked his ten-year-old son and three offic away haughtily. All they got to see will way 8 Fort prepared was Pearl Behmer, in charge of a his reception: habited sister from the House of the D MOHAMMEDAN CALiPH,| 7) (DO Court Mouse 7 CO YTANTINOPLE, Nov. 20,—Abdull aoe thous, ot whe ee in the Medjld Effendi, Turk!'h Crown Prince, |COUt House. or who said they had, has been elected C were permitted to go up the steps to "of the Moham- medan Church by the Angora Aasem-|the second floor. From the balcony bly, following departure of the Sultan}of the rotunda overlooking the fan- Mohamet XV, who sougnt safety on|lght over the jury room, a view could Christian sotl. be had of the proceedings. About a AWAY FREE SPECIAL PRIZE FOR THIS WEEK “WHAT DID YOU SEE TO-DAY?”