The evening world. Newspaper, December 18, 1922, Page 1

SEIZE $200,006 To-Night’s Weather—FAIR; ‘COLDER. VOL. LXIII. HARDING NOT READY TO ANNOUNCE PLAN TO HELP OUT ALLIES Fears He Would “Spill the Beans’ by Premature Policy Announcement. HOUSE Irreconcilables Told No Gov- ernment Loan or Guaran- tee Is Being Considered. WHITE SILENT. By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, Dec Fight).—The United State Ment has not taken half the number of steps in its policy of aiding Europe which the sensational reports of the last few days from various capitals of the world would seem to indicate. And the “irreconcilable”? clement in Congre: is wnnecessarily bestirred; not a thing has Lappened, or ts likely to happen, to trespass on their ideas of avolding political understandings or agreements with Euronean powers The simple truth is that the Euro- pean possibly stimulated by tr- responsible reports from America, is icaps ahead of the game. The of a loan to Germany is the prin- 1S (Copy- Govern- wurce of inisunderstanding. 1d States Government con 8 no loan. Congress need have no concern pro- posal, and J. P. visit to Washington dor that he asked the United Ststes Government to guarantee a loun to be made by private banke The situation is exactly where the international bunkers committes left it many months ago. No loan is pos- sib until reparation {s fixed uy a definite sum and agreement made by Germany to pay the sum fixed. Who would buy i loan among the investors of the world, iC tt was sub toany minute to the whims of a Irench mini Which could order the in- vasion of German territory and the seizure of German resource All that lias happened so far has een a sounding out European governments and the most informal conversations looking towand the ex ereise of American influence, In a proper way, in the reparations dis- pute. All talk ef loans and other forms of A aid fi ature— an fact ‘ nt upon ihe ma 4 ment Letween Germany unce and Gre Britain on repar Till that is settled it ip rece 3 useless to tulk of what, t1 h and British capacity to pay thelr war debts or interest will be, for the whol nomic future of Burope rests on whether Germany ts to be dismembured helped to her fogt so can pay Tr debts, Secretary of State Hughes is out- spoken in his di sure over the chaarcter of the reports which have been published in the lust few days. T effect has been to bewilder the peoples of the world and to arouse fears in Con that the adminis- tration was a to reverse itself completely on its policy of avoiding foreign pe ents, In answe mor of the press for a clear statement of what the American government has in mind, the argument is made by the (Continued on Ninth Page.) Bet) EDITION NO. 22,233—DAILY. , The to All.” | |“ Circulation Books Open dy Copyright (New York Press Ww Publixiung Company, Delaney to Be Assistant Mayor; He Is Close Friend of Murphy; Smith Picked Him for Transit Job ee ee Present Commissioner of Docks Quite Certain to Be Named for New $9,000 Post During Christmas Week. It is now quite certain that John H, Delaney will be appointed a - ant to the Mayor, a new $4,000 a year position, created when the Board of Estimate made up the 1923 city budget. Delaney is now Commissioner of Docks and his salary as such is $7,500 a year. The announcement of his elevation to the new post will be made by the Mayor some time Christmas week Delancy's decision to become Mayor - Hylan's assistant was reached after considerable thought, ,It had been known for some time that Gov.-elect Smith was desirous of appointing Delaney Transit Commissioner or what the eqquaaaivaalqeqnat of that position will he under the new transit legislation. ‘The salary of Transit Commissioner is $15,000 a ye Whether {t will be that high under reorganization with home rule super- vision 1s another uestion, At any rate Mayor Hylan succeeded in pre- vailing upon his present Dock Com- missioner to accept his offer. Delaney entered the city’s service under Hylan by becoming Commis- stoner of Plant and Structures. That was during the Mayor's first term While serving in that capacity ho was appointed Transit Commissioner by Alfred FE. Smith, then serving bl first gubernatorial term. The future assistant to the Mayor is a very close friend of Charles } Murphy and it is understood that the Tammany leader urged him to accept the Mayor's offer. Delaney is a during short, clean shaven, grey-haired man with a calm face and a still calmer lisposition, Those who know him well ficient If Delanye there may be a number of changes in New Y City's government. dey ments may disappear and there may be radical consolidations during the next twelve months in a drive for SSX MBS economy, The first job assigned to JYQHN H, DELANEY the Assistant to the Mayor will be : survey of the Mayor's department =) and a report, thereon with recom mendations. Delaney will be asked to suggest the elimination of what are considered numerous yvermiform appendices in the’shape of bureaus and other smal! er divisions. Likewise a survey will be made of overlapping governmen WALLACE REID STAR OF MOVIES, VERY NEAR DEATH activities such as duplication of in spections by several departments In addition to his survey ef th Mayor's departments Delaney will a the Mayor in the Jegislattye program which the Mayor has already mapped out This calls for new A. and bus lines. Delane: will ., ta: = = sooo his new post on Jan 1, jcondition Not Due to Alco- = F< OS hol or Narcotics, Doctor SHIP SUBSIDY BILL WINS FIRST ROUND IN SENATE BATTLE Declares. ae OS Ad Dec. 18. -Wallace Senator Ransdell Reid. motion picture is on the Ahead of Norris With verge of death and for several days rinancing Me! cultural Financing Measure has not been expected to live, accord WASHINGTON, Dee. 18.—Propon- Jing to Wallace Ki (Dorothy ents of the A istration Shipping su (Hiaki dnkawviaw: togiay Bill won the first victory in the jockey - D opr ail a A ret ain ee ing in the Senate to-day over the |&iven # Fe conBBOataA AEE move of opponents to displace the bill me I SUsercent, exsiiiee sly with the Norris agricultural financing Py Rosa has heen near death for measure. : the past five or six days. His tem- Vhile supporters of the Norris mo-|onrature fins repeatedly reached 108 tion were attempting to get the floor]! nis pulse 130. fia heart action Senator Ransdell of Loisiana, a Dem- Ji repuiay and weak. He has fainted ocratic supporter of the Ship measure . claimed recognition in accordance with (Continued on Ninth Page.) a notice given last week and launched NEW YOR | K, M ONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1922. MOHR ON STAND GLAS ALIBI FOR NT OF MURDER Was at Sister’s House When Message Came of Shoot- ing, He Says. DENY WIDOW’S Jury Must Decide Fate, Judge Rules, Refusing to Dismiss Charges. PLEA. Special From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) MOUNT HOLLY, N. J., Dee. 18.— Harry ©. Mohr was put on the stand to-day in his own behalf in Ms trial for conspiracy to klil John T. Brunen He was the first witness called for the defense after a brief opening by his attorne) Walter Keown, who maintained that not only did Mohr nd Mrs. Brunen have nothing te: do with the murder, but that Charles Bf. Powell, the confessed slayer, «had never committed it. Powell, he sald, was laboring under an hallucination, had gone out of his mind fn the Burlington County Jal, like a a nd later tried to commit suiclde and then made a fession which had no basis in Mohr, than barked on- t. who has grown much pater the case opened a week 150, came into court when to-day under 4 double guard of constables the He went witness stand with eviden coolness and gaye his testimony very cl Mes ina ar, unfaltering volce ald he wus thir one years old and born in New York City living at the He was Brunen home in River- side at the time Brunen was killed, of his nce of He rvla ed the circumstance arrest on April 29 at the resid Camden, and his incar- tion in the Burlington County jail of wife in ce after the so-called confession Vowel Mr. Keown laid greut stress upon the sort of cell into which Mohr had been placed in the jail, Ho asked Mohr to describe its conditions and the witness satd: “The cell had a filthy mattress on the floor and # dirty blanket. 1 was n it forty-three d For ten weeks 1 was denied my constitutlonal right ty an attorney, though T often asked for one." Asked if had seen Charles Powell in jail, the witness sald the day he cameo in he heard hin. carrying on, raving and making silly remarks. He was disturbing every ono in the place, he sald. After he was placed In Detective Parker, he said, brought him a typewritten “confession" signed by Powell. “Mr. Parker let me read the begin ning, but before I finished it he took it from me,’ Mohr declared, “and sald he'd read the rest of it to me. I told chim {t was absurd,"’ Mohr siid he met Powell about years ago, when the latter w: (Continued on Second Page.) into a speech in behalf of the bill COLD WAVE WARNING FOR EASTERN STATES First in Numbers, Because First in Results World advertising for week ending De. cember 16th as compared with corre. sponding week last years 49,560 gain agate lines. A016 zuin “Help Mule 2,324 guin “Llelp Female 955 gain “To Let ads ain “Business Opportunities" BO 5 zai “Educational” ade, guin “Lost and Found” ads, A gain “Automobile” ads. Separate World ads, More than next highest newspaper, 29,995 10,062 Fifty Below Zero White River, WASHING 1, Dec. ture of 60 degrees below River, Ont., was reported Weather Bureau, which tssue: wave warning for New York, F vania and New England State: Effects of the new winter offensive, the bureau said, will be felt throughout the Eastern States to the Bust Gulf States and Upper Ohlo Valley Reported Ont. 18,—Tempera- > at White y to thi a vol nnsyl- at which ha supporters of Miss and Chairman of the be ophie Irene TLER'S NOMINATION ORDEKED| The cv icted by the Har- REPORT! BY COMMITTER, le Home News has been going on for WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. ‘the nomi-}a month and clo: at ‘clock last nation of Plerce Butler of Mtnnesote tof Sati Loeb" bo an Associate Jus of *he Supr Femanhad mike an Court was ordered reported to the Sen- [tect heture on 4.018 late to-day by a unanimous voto of th Pie Judiclary Commitige « i y I 6th By system, 103 W. 434, Tel. Bry, 2506.—adve.y “All the votes are given with @ “Sophie Irene Loeb Boulevard” Wins Vote as Old Speedway Name Evening World Writer’s Supporters in Harlem Home News Contest Cast Heaviest Ballot. The contest to select a popular new name for the made over speed been changed Into an automobile boulevard, was won by t Loeb, staff writer for The Evening W« d of Child Welfare truly good and sincere heart from t city’s people to show our appreciat t Irene Le who has prov ut that she im the hones! nd oof ali creeds and nati logan Ser I (Continued om Second Page.) TO PADLOCK HOTELS SLUNG LIQUOR Drastic Orders Given to Check All Revelries Dur- ing the Holidays. FULL FORCE IN FI New Ruling in Washington Dispenses With Search Warrants. D. WASHINGTON, tion Dee, 18,—Prohibi- headquarters fleld for nation- against holiday revel- ders were issued authorizing Prohibition Directors to lock up hotels occur, enforcement here to-day cleared the wide oper rex. G Prohobition violations by invoking the ‘padlock’ provisions of the Volstead law. Directors were ordered to have a full force of agents prepared for raids in wet centres. All applications By agents for holiday yacations were dented Prohibition officials here praise the lead of Attorney General Daughterty, who recently called to the attention of) his District Attorneys the im tance of the “Padlock” provisions & means of combating illicit auor Official where of declare that all Prohibition agents hav been Informed to their former practice of obtaininx search warrants before raiding a hotel They are now instructed to make a purchase of liquor {f possible on the premises of a hotel or cafe, make an cease fidavit of the purchave and go to the nearest court for an tnjunetion closing the resort pending hearings. If hgarings sustain the Injunction it ts made permanc for one year Prohibition officers y enthusiastic over the new method treating hotels, restaurants, and resorts whieh persist in Ming liquor ilieitly They predict thet Christm: d New Year revelries th year will fall short of the usual hilarity because of the well-founded fear of proprietors and owners of the new tactics of the Pro- hibition unit - —s CROWDS FIGHT IN JAM DUE TO B. R. T. DELAYS Women's Clothes Torn and Vaints at Canal Street. There werd continuous delays of 1 R, T. subway trains coming from Brook- lyn entering tl Strent thls morning. When p: arrived on the narrow made frantle efforts to make up for their lost time. In the resulting jam women's clothes wero torn and there was some fighting. Elizabeth Bando, seventeen, No. 1722 Eighth Street, Coney Teland, was caught In ono of these rushes from a West End train at « Iit- tle after 10 o'clock and fainted Canal station ngera fnally platforms they She was attended by an ambulance surgeon from St. Vincent's Hospital, and when she had recovered went home, ———_~ —- 16 MAIL PLANES HUNT PILOT LOST IN SNOW six|Hemry Doonstra, Salt Lake City Carrier, M jeg Since Friday. SALT LAKE CITY. Dee, 14,—Six alr mail planes « d to-day Pilot Henry = G. Boonstra who left Woodward Field here Friday morning for Rock Springs, Wyo., and who {s be- Heved to have been lost in a snowstorm on the wa: Air mall service between Cheyenne and Salt Lake Clty was suspended and every avallable plane arsigned to the search. ———+- MAN FATALLY SHOT AS TOE HITS TRIGGER Lifts Foot to Strike Match W Haunting. Irving Curtin, nineteen, and married, died yesterday in the White Plaine Hospital from @ gunshot wound gut- fered Saturday whilo hunting near Silver Lake, Curtin lifted his foot to strike a match to light a cigar, ly toe struck the trigger of the shotgun, whieh was resting against hls bo sending the charge Into hin abdomen = > THY WORLD TRAVEL OCR Arcade, Pulltaer (World) Park Bo ¥, City. Janu Chetry roots ‘ boven day and night. Money \avellare’ checks for esis. —Adrt, INKANSAS CITY HITS N.Y. STOCK MARKET Houston, Fible & Co., Who Had Brokerage Connec- tions Here, Close Doors, HIT IN WHEAT MARKET. Oil Deals Also Said to Have Helped Bring About Big Failure. Announcement New Stock before Fible & © have been mombers since 1900 obligations Houston, Fible & Co. been considered probably est commission West of Chicago and anne: of thetr failure ereatod « surprise in Wall Street The firm had wire connections with was made Exchange that Houston, Kansas City, of the Exchange were nnable to meet their by the York short!y noon to-day of who Wad jong the rong, house — brokers nsiderabte 4, | “Cireulation Books Open to All. PRICE THRED CF To-Morrow's Weather—CLOUDY; SNOW. FINAL EDITION “THE Ml WORLD WILL PADLOCK HOTELS SELLING HOLIDAY RUM DRY RAIDERS TOLD |$10,000,000 CRASH/MASKED ROBBERS CARRY OFF $200,000 AT DENVER MINT: FATALLY SHOOT BANK GUARD + Cash Being Transferred to Federal Reserve Bank When Two Autos Appeared Loaded With Armed Men—Lively Rifle Battle Be- fore They Escape With Loot. Second Car of Riflemen Guards Thieves and Aids in Getaway—License Numbers Taken and Net Thrown on All Roads Leading Out of City by Police and Sheriffs. DI ‘VER, Col., Dec. 18.~—Three masked robbers téday shot-and prob- ably futally wounded Charles Linton, a Federal and escaped with about $200,000 in bills which Federal Reserve truck in front of the Denver Mint. Reserve Bank guard, ai being Idaded on to o The funds were being transferred from the Mint to the local Federal Reserve Bank. ‘® The robbers seized the cash an! several local firms, members of the asc ee se sprang into a large automobile. A» knowledge of the extent SAsit cer. sed away (ermed. Gaxacn Soe WIER these ICRI ‘hints (taste ment rirds inside the Mint Building WeVeaiPthe Haanotal: diaUnbt tocded fired from the windows at the rob that Habilities of Io Fible & bers. The entire Denver police fore: Company, are: nol ur to roach quickly was called ynto action in’ an £10,000,000. effort to apprehend the robbers. The failed tirm liad several branch, The robbery occurred at» 10.40 : eat iano | o'clock, a fow minutes after the Gov offices in oll centers of Texas and ernment employees had begun to toatl Oklahoma, and it was believed that ] tha gold. onto the. Federal Hesory losses sustained in operetions in ofls - truck : ‘ While the loading was in progress was the primary cause uf the failure - bhers Fi omobile drew up ‘ont of the although It was stated that the rm{ Robbers Fire Shots in Pur-jan automonite drew up in'tront of the was heavily committed in the Chicago} suit. Through Crowded prank Shortt [etore the grain market, ars : nt employeos knew what The fatlure wan immediately re- Brooklyn Streets. pened the bandits opencd fre from “ ‘ == ee high powered rifles BOGtS nl Lhe. RLOCh ANT eh SNE a ; Linton fell ut the first fusilinde rule of the Stock Exchange members} The daily noonday Brookiyn street! mye Government pidyees returned robbery by armed thugs, aided by an carrying contracts \ failed firm must at once procecd to close them] @utomobile, came Off on schedule time MUL GH Eh e Hoon GE the Mechange to-day, Barnett Telligen, fifty-five, a Te Aaa nai 1 belie | Messenger for the Greenpoint Na- time after the unnouncement of ‘the | “ona! Bank, No. 240 Greenpoint Ave- 5 ‘ nue, was assaulted and robbed of be- failure a total of over 50,000 shares of 1 st can Mar- tween $10,000 and $12,000 in Varet ols ator PRS laa Nolan and | Street, near Broadway, Willlamsburg, pres Phillips Petrole Sinclair au | shortly after 12 o'clock’ by one of four others pers old roe alae 4 iertarmed men. The robbers made their stocks Ciino anid Tork excape in an automobile, firing shots unfavorably affeote A DPSUAtE Cash in the bank ot close of bust One of Telliger’s jobs was to visit a SE oe rear [customers of the bank on Monday $200,000 In addition ay ae “| morning and collect Saturday aft undetermined ame sie noon and evening receipts for deposit hand, part of w } He had becn doing this for years and bank loans, Notice of 1 never was accompanied by a guard posted at the offic It Houst ' telegram from W. It York, suggesting liquida ne 3 A was his custom to drop the ban! 1 deposits into a battered olf bag. tion. Inability to meet a a 1 from] Hound for the bank, Telliger was New York for $800,100 wa. ‘ood passing through Veret Street when to have been the immediate auso Of fan automobile carrying threo mea the fallure and a chauffeur drew up to the cucb Py Henan pine A ¥ A ature | ust in front of him. A tall, pov ns One © Arges! OK fully built young man jumped fre ae bond brok: firm: the)a front seat to a point directly ‘n Southwest, The ¢ i was estab-leront of Telliger and snatched at the in 1887 and had branches in| jag Oklahoma City and Ty The tim} ‘Tellier held on and tried to draw WY tock | his revolver. The thug beat him to f neX-Tthe draw and struck him over the change, the Chicago k Uxchangs : = and the Chicago | dof Trad (Continued on Second Page.) Lackawanna Coal Company Pays Stock Dividend of 40 Per Cent. Has Paid 10 Per Cent. Annually, Extra Dividends of 210 Per Cent., and Stoe! Stockholders Company to-day a of the Delaware, Lackawanna Dividends of 75 Per Cent. and Western Coal esolution that the company pay to share- holders a stock dividend of 40 per cent The company now atock outetanding Ria e from transporting in Interstate com- lend has par value of $4.513 merce coul which it owned. The compan ed in] Dividends at the regular rate of 10 , 1909, for t per annually have been paid 1910, und In addition lealing in « | asp Marans he he commo act, b. ivi Lecember, 192 the fire, but the robbers acted quick ly, sprang to the motor truck, grabbed the bass of gold and escaped. While the robbery was going on, scording-to witnesses, a second anto mobile touring car loaded with masked arme ni stooc bandit car, aid should ani Sheriffs quickly not ffort to ayy The hold fax Avenue men main entrance St building Cheroke: Delaware. Avenue. The a with 1 twenty apparently the bandits n shotguns and feet from t ready to give 1 assist in ifled pre up o« » directly of the bounded reet and It front Btate nearby counti by the pot ond t irred in West Co in front of the Mint, The Mint on the east by on the west by on West Colfax Capitol is. only s were in an two blocks away. At 11.30 A. M. R. J. Grant, Direct tor of the Mint, announced officially that tho bandits had escaped with the entire consignment of $200,000 for the Denver Federal Re ve Bank Director Grant said that the money was in fifty sacks containing $4,000 each, in bills of $5 denomination. see aS MORGAN FIRM INVESTS IN AN AUSTRIAN BANK Days It becar a statement Co.'s that that firm hi Interest In extenslye The bank Bank J. P, Mor, shar sents a doubling the 220,000 Vienna Enstit joden-Kredit new Sharen of Stock In tion. n to-day by Morgan & purchased an an Austrian bank in question is the Viennese Anstaldt Land Mortgag: lefinitely kno’ made at J. P. n & Co, of stock, stock issu capital of t have purchase which repre- created b bank, eae eee GIRL STRUCK. BY TAXI CROSSING FIFTH AVE. Driver Takes Vic skulk Struck by ing Fifth Pteft 50 EB ble fracture was taken | taxi drive The drive Astoria aceident, Avenue at twenty-three 108d Street, sustained a poasi- m to Hospital~ May be Fractur 4 taxicab as she was eross- aad Street, Ida years old, of No. of the skull dey, She Relle Hospital by the xicab, Harty Fifth Avenue, opped his machine a ngth after the oh acrcttlaia! T