The evening world. Newspaper, December 15, 1922, Page 1

A a STREET CLOSING TABLES EDITION .T0 CANCEL INTEREST N ALLIES’ To-Night’s Weathor—FAIR, COLDER. Circulation LXIII. NO, 22,231—DAILY “NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, Crema lta, = irculation Books Open to All. | Pont 1922. Kntered as Second-Class Matter Te-Morrow’s Weather—FAIR. CLOSING DITION ty :i835 E PRICE THREE CFNTS Office, New York, N. ¥. MURDERED IN oe Bodies of Both Victims Bad- ly Burned and Brutally Slashed With Knife. SLAYER FIRES HOUSE. No One Heard Anything to Indicate Struggle Had Taken Place. ‘The police are looking for Dominick Cataldo, a window cleaner in the em- ploy of the B. R. T., whose wife, Anna, thirty-five, and their adopted son, Fred, aged seven, were brutally murdered some time last night In the kitchen of the!r apartment, No. 2814 Stilwell Avenue, Coney Island, und their clothing set afire in an attempr to hide the evidence of the crime. The woman's furebead on the right side had been crusted by a heavy instrument, her eyo blackened, and her throat savagely cut in such a manner as to sever the jugular vein and the carotid artery. The boy's throat was cut so that the larynx was severed. No one has been found who heard any disturbance tn the fiat, and Dr. Ernest M. Vaughn of the District Attorney's office ex- presses the belicf that the murder occurred about the time t mother and son completed thelr evening meal, owing to particles of food being found in the boy's throat, Other tenants of the house retire at 7 and § o'clock, all of them being early risers and living a long wa from their employment, Mrs. Fred~ erick Bartoli, living in the adjoining flat to that where the murders were committed, told stant District Attorney Selvaggi of Brooklyn that whe was awakened about 3 o'clock this morning b; coughing spell prodaced by the smell of smoke. She awakened her husband wha traced the smoke to th of the Cataldo flat. Ue aroused Glovannt Carogano, the landlord, and both ef- fected an entrance through a sido door. They found the room they en- tered stuffy and the windows closed tight. Opening the window they went to tho kitchen and there found the {wo bodies on the floor, with tiny flames shooting from their clothing. An alarm of fire was turned in and the police notified Assistant District Attorney Selvagg! hurried to the house and learned that doo! the woman hid cloped about a year ago with a barber and had gone to lifornia, taking $756 out of the lunk, representing the savin her- self and husband: that had re- turned nd had patched up matters with the husband, after which they vent to live at the Coney Island ad- dress, This was the theory, the Ar stant District Attorney said, told by Nicholas Larufi New Utrecht Avenu the murdered woman The couple hud been married eleven years and having no children of their own, adopted four yeurs ago the little nephew of fellow who shared the fate of his adopted mother. We remained with Dominick when the woman went to California Mr. Selva said that andlord Carogano, who is a baker, told him that a young man had been a visitor at the home in the absence of the (Continued on Second Page.) ———————___—_. THH WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU Arcade, (World) City. Te room for baggage and parcel day and aight. Money orders, wad checks for sale.—Advt. Pulltzer s 4000 fPavellers? Real Estate Advertisements for The Sunday World Must Be in The World Office To-Day Before 6 P. M. Te insure proper classification WOMAN AND ADOPTED SO CONEY ISLAND: MISSING HUSBAND SOUGHT e HIS $3,500 CHECK BAD, EVEN POLICE ADMIRE EXQUISITE “Hall of Harvard” Beards Detective “Line-Up” Cool and Haughty. Before the hardest-bolled audience in the world—the detectives assembled for the “line-up” at Police Headquar- ters—a person calling himself Walter Hall aroused reluctant admiration to- dey. Mr, Hall, leaning on a cane that might have been a Zulu chief's war club, had @ raincoat draped over his slender form and a heavy fur overcoat hung on his arm. In deélfcate accents he asserted that it was ‘‘an outrage to subject any gentleman to such a gro- tesque ordeal.’ Detectives Fitzsimmons and Love said that when they called on Mr. Hall at No, 683 West 177th Street and told him ho was wanted for obtaining a quantity of jewelry from John Pyms of No. 582 Fifth Avenue with a bad check for $3,500 he greeted them haughtily and said, ‘ease to annoy me; I shall merely give you another check," but becamo almost hysterical when they Insisted on taking him to Police Headquarters. Mr. Hall said that he was the editor of several publications devoted to tho sports of the wealthy and had a “little place on Long Island.” He was a Harvard graduate of 1905, he sald, and had amused himself “as an in- structor’’ in Latin at Harvard for sev- eral years after his graduation, Out of cruel curiosity one of the detec- tives communicated with a friend with access to a collection of Harvard catalogues and there was no mention in them of a Walter Hall in the year he mentioned. Mr. Pyms sald that Nov. 13 an ex- quisitely dressed person appeared at the store and demanded speech with the proprietor. ‘*No more salesperson will do,” he told the first clerk who approached him. The dapper callor Introduced himself as John Rufling, personal and private and confidential secretary of Mr, Walter Hall, a ‘very important man.” Mr. Hall, he sald, had lost a cuff link and wanted a new pair at once, In his anriety and eagerness, Mr. Pyms seems to ro- member, the messenger referred to them as a ‘pair of golf links,” but the slip didn't appear important to him at tho time Mr. Pyms sent Mr, Rufling away with a palr of platinum cuff links worth about $100, taking a serib- bled memorandum. Five minutes later appeared Mr, Hall. “What do you mean,” Mr, Pyms sald Mr, Hall exclaimed, “by sending me cheap pinchbeck jewelry like this. (Continued on Second Page-) THREE IRISH GARRISONS TAKEN BY INSURGENTS Thomastown Barracks Burned; Machine Guns Used at Callan. DUBLIN, Dec. 16 (Associated Press) —Tho Free State garrisons {n Callan, Thomastown, and Mullinavat, tn South- ern County Kilkenny, are reported to have been overpowered and captured by Irregulars, The Thomastown barracks were burned. Large bodics of men are suid to have participated tn the attack upon Callan. Machine guns were used tn this fight, but no casualties are re- ported, People arriving in the City of Kil- kenny from various parts of the county report that there was widespread ac- tvity among the Irregulars last night, The roads have been blocked and the present position is uncertain, —_—s FRANCE EXPECTS TO RATICY NAVAL TREATY SOON, PARIS, Dec. 15.—The Washington Naval Limitations Pact will be sub- mitted to the Chamber of Deputies for ratification at the January session, M. Bauibert, Miniaser of Mariny announced. HERE IS WARNED IN| IN ENFORCEMENT TWO FERRY LINES) WAR DEBTS IF NATIONS DISARM LETTER TOQUIT U.S) OFS Mysterious Signer Holds D. J. McGrath Responsible for Rory O’Connor’s Execution. WON’T TELL CONTENTS Free State Former Represen- tative Silent When Asked About Death Threat. (Associated Press.) Daniel J. McGrath, formerly Dail Eireann consul to the United States, to-day was warned to leave this country before the morning of Dec. 26 by a mysterious letter writer who signed himself “Authority. Irish Re- publican Army.”* Mr. McGrath refused to comment on the warning, but admitted that the letter ‘eld him responsible for the executions last Friday of Rory O'Con- nor and three other Irish Republican Army officers. He refused to give out # copy of the letter, and would not state whether {it contained a threat of death {f he did not comply with its demand. The letter was addressed to “Honor- able James McGrath, Irish Consul It was typewritten on a pirin sheet of foolscap, and was rather long. The postmark on the envelope showed It bad been mailed at the 1 Central station at 6 P, M., December 14. There were no marks on it to identity the writer. ‘I am not James McGrath," Mr. McGrath said, “and I am not now the consul. I resigned the office the day Rory O'Connor and tho other Irish Republican officers were executed. I resigned by cable, the restgnation to take effect immediately upon its re- celpt.”” a McGrath would not say to Mr whom he sent his resignation, or why he guve up the office just after the announcement of the executions, His only comment on the letter was to say he had “already taken. steps.” What the steps were he declined to atate. Mr, MeGrath sucecede Connolly as consul on Nov 2 Up to that timo he had been vice consul, Mr. Connolly resigned protest against government me; in Ireland at that tim and Mr Grath, who wa in re of Irish-American Chumbe rade was appointed without going Ireland, Tho chanze In officials fol- lowed tt execution of Erskine Childers in Dublin on ov. 24. The writer of tho letter warning McGrath to Jouve the country ap- parently did not believe in secret diplomacy, for the wing letter was re ved by the A ted Pres shortly after MeGrath received his: “Gentlemen.— This morning we issued our demand to Mr. James rath of tho Irish ¢ te, at No, 119 Nassau Street of this city, to leave this country before the morn- ing of the 26th day of this month, “Holding him morally responsible for the execution of the four Irish Republican Army officers recently done to death by tho agents of th Crown—the so-called Free State Gov- ernment of Ireland. Trusting that w are not inconveniencing you or your staff, we beg to remain “Competent military authority, Republican Arm, “Irish aie R ROWBED OF #10,~ N MEN IN AUTO, Dec. 1 BANK RUNNE 800 BY SEY PHILADELPHIA 5. ven men in an automobile held up Harry McKee, a runner of the First National Bank of Durby, to-day and robbed him of $10,800 he taking payroll money to a soap factory. One of tt robbers fired a revolver and flying glass from the windshield of the car In which McKee was riding cut lls cheek. ‘The seven escaped ~ a SENATE COMMITT roups FARM CREDITS BILL WASHINGTON, 15.—The dill of Senator Norris, Rep un, Nebraska to establish wm $100,( iovernment corporation to finance gale of usricul- tural Jucts was ordered reportod probably to-day, by the Benate Agricul. ture Commitiee, a rinmemmictaune TATE DRY LAW “Out-and-Out Shakedowns,” Says Magistrate in Case Before Him. OFFICER NOT IN COURT Subpoenas Issued to Com- pel Policeman to Be at Hear- ing Adjourned to Dec. 20. Nine-tenths of the arrests made by policemen of this city for violations of the State Prohibition Law are for tie purpose of graft and aro out-and-out shake-downs, Magistrate Joseph 1. Corrigan, sitting in Yorkville Court, charged to-day in a bitter arraign- ment of methods employed by the Police Department in enforcing the Mullan-Gage law. Tho Magistrate made his decluration in the course of the arraignment of two employees of restaurants in whoso establisiments police declared they found liquor. In his forceful arraignment of po- lice methods, Magistrate Corrigan in- timated that the enforcement of the Mullan-Gage Iaw in New York is a farce. He sald methods used by the police are ridiculous, and that more conclusive evidence than had been ad- duced in the cases before him would have to be presented before he would convict. His denunciation was prompted by the arraignment of Edward McGann, forty-two, of No. 153 East 33d Street, a walter in a restaurant at No. 612 Second Avenue, and Louis Iaconett!, employed in @ restaurant at No. 663 First Avenue, both of whos wero searched on evidence by Policeman John J. places athered who Casey, procured search warrants from Su- premo Court Justiea George V. Mullan. When McGann's case called Pol n John Madden of Head- quarters Division appeared against him. He told the court that Police- man Casey obtained the evidence and had procured a search warrant from Justice Mullan, after which McGann’s place was searched and 4 quart bottle of whiekey found. “Well, where ts Officer C a asked Magistrate Corrigan. “He is not in court,” replied M den. ns ow that’s just It," the Magi trate blurted out, his sort of stuff ts ridiculous. I refused to do ar thing in this case until I an Casey comes here and telly his sid of the story. Nine-tenths of these cases are merely for the purpovo « graft und ure out-and-out shal downs," The court went on in th ein t a considerable extent then wanted to know why Ca: "t rest McGann immediately after he served a drink to hin, aa tho office varged, instead of presenting an af fidavit for a search warrant, Madden was unable to answer this. Then Louis Iaconettl was called, and the s: thing occurred again. The Mag ¢ adjourned Leth ca until Dec and lvsued two pub poenas for the appearance uf Cusey on that day. “I don't care how they are served he sald. ‘They may be served ¢ him personally, through his Inspect or through Commissioner Enright, ¢ that matter, for ull I care. But buve him here on Dee. 20." Two other cases, {dentical wit those of McGann and Iaconetti, cain: up at the afternoon session and wi adjourned until the same date. TI were of James O'Brien, a waiter rested at No, 358 Third Avenue, Salvatore ¢ 652 Firs nue, and both w arrested on formation sald to have been uncovered by Policeman Casey, “Has any on asked Assistant Ward Corrigan. FRANCO-CANADIAN TREATY 18 SIGNED IN PARIS, PARIS, Dec. 15 (Associated Press) The Fronco-Canadian commercial Uealy Was sigucd bere to-day, OF UNION COMPANY Atlantic and Hamilton Ave- nue Boats to Be Operated by Municipality. FIVE-CENT FARE FIXED. Refusal of Company to Obey Orders Causes Can- cellation of Permit. Commissioner Grover A. Whalen of the Department of Plant and Struc- tures announced to-day that at mid- night on Saturday the city would take over the Atlantic and Hamilton Av- enue ferries of the Union Ferry Com- pany and operate them as municipal ferry lines, In an announcement by the Commissioner he gives as his reason the fact that the lines three times huve increased fares and raten for traffic and have ignored orders of the city to reduce them. The specific reason ascribed by the Commissioner in a letter sent to the Union Perry Company, under’ dato of Dec. 12, is that the company refused to comply. with orders of the city re- quiring the transfer of the two ferry lines from their present terminal at the foot of Whitehal: Street to the municipal ferry terminal at South Street, .djoining The company would not sell their nine boats to the city at the city price, after an uppraisal had t made, so now Commissioner Whalen announced that the lines will be with other boats, and the employees of the ferry line will be taken Into city employ. The passenger fare will be reduced to 6 cents and yehic rates will be reduced to conform the ard on municipal ferries In letter to the Unton Ferry Company, the Commissioner said: “I beg to acknowledge receipt of advice from you that you decline to to stand h comply with the orders issued by me to you under dato of December 4, 1922, requiring tho transfer of the operation of the Atlantlc Avenue and Hamilton Avenuc ferries from tie present terminal at the foot of White- null Street, Manhattan, to the Munt cipal Ferry ‘Terminal adjotning in th Street. “In view this part, this Departme the operation of t und Hamilton Avenue Ve 12,0L A. M, Sunday, De action t will of on your © over Atlantic Avenue rry Lines at 17, 1922 “Accordingly, the revocable p ied by me to you under date of Mareh 17, 1 , for the occupation by you of the ferry terminal propertie at the foot of Atlant! Avenue, and ut the foot of Tamilton Avenue, Brooklyn, ix hereby reveked and can celled, effective at midnight, Sutur day, Dec. 16, 192 “This Department, therefore, will take passe { these properties at ji2.01 A. M. Sunday, wed -| Cho munteipaliza f was urged by civic ¢ f Jot Brooklyn in April, 1918, and at a bearin before Alfred BE. Smith, then President of the Bourd of Aldermen, jerchunts, manufacturers and re Jents complained of cxvevsive fares ind inferior service Vares were Increusel t aft \thts, and Brooklyn residents and | commerctal 1 munufacturing In- |t ts in Brooklyn and Manhattan, .| a Oxe sive in complained of the (Continued un Second f ) PRESIDENT HARDING | TO BE EDITOR AGAIN— ; JUST FOR ONE NIGHT | As Member of Natt He Will Att pal Drew nual ton and “Talk Sho WASHING , Deo. 15. ident Harding will becom Kuttor Harding again fora brief riod to-night As editor of the Star, of Marion | y the President will a id the nnual election of the National Press Club here, and will cast vot @# @ newspaper man He will mix with the men who write daily of events in the Na ul Capltal, dropr his man | the uf authority to talk for a while DETECTIVE PARKER FEARS SHOOTING AT BRUNEN TRIAL rest step p patie eet Mohr Hurls Epithet at Vic- tim’s Daughter as Prose- cution Nears Close. (Special From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) MT, HOLLY, N. J., Dee! 15.—"If Harry Mohr is convicted and get: gun, there's going to be a shooting in this court room." County Detective Ellis H. Parker said this to wn Eyening World reporter as the Brunen trial wis ud- Journed for an hour’ 4 noon re detnon- The statement followed a stration by Mohr ax he was leaving the court room for the jail, hand cuffed (ou Deputy Sheritt Just as Mohr passed the end of bis counsel's table with Hazel Brunen, murdered showman. face to fa nughter of the She had arlsen from a ch, where she had been eit- ting beside Charles Powell, the con fessed slayer of her father s vhe adjusted a bit of fur about her neck Mohr leaned toward her and flung at her an epithet. The girl recolled at the c ness of it and the Deputy Sheriff instantly | clapped his hand over Mohr mouth and hustled him toward the door lead- Ing to the jail yard Detective Va r 4 that from what he had learned of Mobr, he wa determined that all precautions should b> taken to prevent any demonstra tion on the prisoner's part the close of the ¢ The court room filled with court officers, and ty State Police, their volvers at thelr hips, are always on duty at the door. Detective Varker, who went on the stand at the J of the recess, was (Continued on Second 1 STOLEN CAR HITS GARAGE WALL AND ONEIANIS KILLED in Machine Se Two Others i- ously Injured—-Both Are Put Under Arrest One man was killed 1 two other ie 1 In Greenpoint Hospltul, on m probably will dic , 1 re t of having crashed {nto ¢ wall ¢ n garage at Oak und } Williamst i et 6 o'clock this it 1 bil which had been stolen mt a at Roebling and se Bight Williamsburg, te t T twe a charge of grand lo Little Nght was thrown upon the theft of the machino | of the condition of the two « ng men They were extrieated f over- turned car unconsciou em re vived sufficiently to give their names and that of the dead man The latter was M 1 1. Whalen, y-two, No. 119 Medford Avenu jamsburg, an s companions were Arthur Clor t of . wth 10th St and John nty-the 1 (Continued on 1 Page.) —- £23 Men's Winter Overconts & Suits, $12.73 The HUH ¢ mm Harclay at. (ony Ww to-day and 8 ' a's and Tem porary or Permanent Cancellation Would Depend on Europe’s Making a Real Effort _ to Pay Principal, $10,000,000,000, and First” Evidence Would Be to Cut Armies. roposed Is Reduction of Repara- tions to $500,000,000 a Year, With Total of $12,000,000,000—International Loan to Ger- many to Enable Her Rehabilitation. By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (Copyright).—America may be willing to forego the interest on the war debts of those countries in Europe which are unable to pay for several years to come. ‘The principal will not be cancelled or reduced. This contribution to the stabilization of the world’s economto erisis is under consideration, but it will be done only if European Governments pursue a policy which this Government believes will accomplish the desired readjustinent in urope. The steps in the order in which they should be taken ars these: OO CABNET TACKLES EUROPE TANGLE Imminent Break of ‘England ]*4er #2 ‘nternational loan, such as and France Discussed: wus proposed by the International Bankers’ Committee meeting a year Get German Views. ago, which J. P, Morgan and other inanciers attended. ‘This loan would ON, Dee. 16 (Associ. | Necessarily require the guarantee Press).—The Buporean repara.}% Governments but would need the tlons tangle, which Is threatening a} *®*3t of the Allled Powers to regard brenk between Great Britain end “Birst—All the powers should reach at once a definite agreement as to the amount of reparations Germany should Pay annually. America’s economlo ¢x- perts believe $500,000,000 is the limit of Germany's ability and that ap- proximately twelve billions 1s the total sum thet Germany can and should be made to pay. France should be will- ing to agree to renounce her claim to any sum above that. WASHT ate it as a prior lien on Geruiany’s assete. Third—Such 4 loun would assist ance, is understood to have been'|Germany in the purchase of food- discussed by President Harding and|stuffs and would tend to raise the value of the German mark and thus rman capital to Germany for velopment instead of outside Germany in the investment markets of the world. ‘The United States Gov- ernment wouldn't subscribe to the loan, but the American Investor would have the samo opportunity to buy the reparation bonds at a good rate of interest as he has to buy other forelgn securities. (he value of such a loan, however, would be enhanced through the moral support of Amer~ ica und particularly through such contribution as the United States may mako to tho easing of Europe's bur- dens through the postponement or cuncellation of interest on the Allied war de hin Cabinet to-day at a meeting which ed more than two hours. dd ufterward that there hud been no final decision as to this Government toward diMfcultles, There were that the Admin- indie! in present however, istration was preparing to avail Itvelf of ull possible information on tho sub- nee Ject, with a view to determining whether it could be of service in any practicable way in bringing about an adjustinent Ono of the questions touched on in the Cabinet dine jon was sald to have been the proposal for an interna- tonal loun to permit Germany to sta- bilize reported tn offietal her finances, rdvices to the American Government] jourth—Cancellation of the interest won the verge of a collapse. It was] would never be proposed without leclared, however, that no conercte | something in return, namely, assur- eposal for such a loan had come] ances that Kurope would make a real the attention of the Washington | effort to pay the principal of the tem jovernment billion dollar war debt, and the only The President and bis oficial family | assurance which would be convincing had before them, in addition to in-[here would be a reduction of land formation which has come to the Gov- through official American picture of Germany's 1 troubles given by the jorman Am aed Dr. Otto Wied- feldt, in a long conference earlier tn he doy with Seeretary Hughes caieaeomeenrs HARVEY COMING HOME FOR CONSULTATION rican Embassy Announces -.u- ador Has Been Sent For, NDON, Dee, 15 (Assoclated Press).—George Harvey, the Amert- can Ambassador, has been called heme for consultation, it was stated at the American Embassy this after- rmament. The American Govern ment cannot Ignore the fact that there are from three to four million under arms on the continent of Europe, and that 95 per cent, are troops of the 2 Allied powers. Reduction of lami armament means more money avail- uble for productive purposes and more for the meeting of payments on the principal of the war debt As for cancellation of the principal no doubt exists here that a steady prop: nda has been conducted by Europeans to impress Amertca with the need for remitting the allied war debt, as a means of adjusting the reparation problem. But the matter of reparations and the war debt of the Allies ure to be treated separate- and th American Government rnment noon hopes that Europe by this time is rid ‘The Ambassador will sall on the}of the illusion of cancellation Rerengaria Dec, 23. He will not be] American sentiment, it is pointed accompanied by Mrs. Harvey, whoJout by officials, would not permit it will leave the preceding day for a|and the most that can be foreseen visit to Madetra is a willingness on the part of the people to continue to forego the tn- terest as they have been doing since the armistice, Some of the nations of Europe—one or two of the smaller WASHINGTON, Dec, 15 (Assoct- ated Press).—State Department offi- clals confirmed to-day the London an- Broadway, gorner Barclay sixesty—Auvt, ‘with bin, nouncement that Ambassador Harvey had been called home “for consult: ton,’ but declined to make any ex- nas to the specific questions liughes desired to discuss ones particularly—can in a few years begin paying their interest and prin- ome cannot. rule can be established local situations im eacis 7 SS N oman and Her Adopted Son, Aged 7, Slain and Set on Fire N) EXCONGUL OF DAL[HARGES GRAFT GV TAES OVER. 'U.S. TOREMIT$500,000,000AYEAR edema = \ ¥ \ BE