The evening world. Newspaper, December 26, 1922, Page 1

ees eee ela STREET CLOSING} TABLES | | VOL. L3 LXIII. NO. 22, 239—DAILY. eereneha To-Night’s Weather—RAIN. a, [« Cirealation Books Open to All,” | Coprright, (New ork World) buna Company. Wed. rene RONG READY MOVING ON BORAH'S ECONOMIC PLAN Believes Time Is Not Yet Ripe to Call Nations to Parley. PRINCIPLE ALL RIGHT. , Political Differences in Eu- fope Must First Be Settled, Is Capital View. By David Lawrence. (Bpecial Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, ight).—Opposition to Senator Bora’ Proposal for an international econom| conference is not aimed at the princl ple of a conference to restore economic normalcy Europe and the world generally, but at measure. Administration Senators who are Uning up against the Borah resolu- tion, which would authorize the President to summon un {nternational economic conference, have been ad- “Wised privately that the Executive Branch of tho Government already has been dis: ‘eject wit other powers Senate at Dec 6 (Copy- timeliness of ussing .d tha this time mig strued as committing the United \ States Government to a course of [Dection which might otherwise be f/ free to avoid Curiously enough, Mr. Borah's pro- posal and the circumstances whicit surround It are almost Identical with the situation which existed before Mr. Harding called the Conference on } cific Problems anid Reduction of Arma- ment. The President was in nego- tiation with other Governments when Mr, Borah’s resolution was projected, and it looked to the outside world as &; the Idaho Senator hud driven the resident into the course le finally took. The record at the Department of State wil show that the subject Was bein: discussed in diplomatic channels long before it was mentioned in the Senate. Mr. Harding is not averse to the fdea* of an international economic conference. He would gladly have America participate in one, but he hasn't made up his mind that it would be a good thing for America or the world for him to take the initiative. Upon the countey calling any international conference rests the responsibility for the program When the Armament Conference met in Washington, Scerctary Hughes laid before the assembled nations at (Continued on Second Page.) os BECKER SENTENCED TO DIE FEB. 5, BUT HIS APPEAL IS A STAY Pit Slayer Stoical He Hears Doom—Later Shakes Naud of Deputy Sheriff, ‘abraham Becker, who was found guilty in the Bronx County Supreme Court last week of the murder of his wife, Jennie, was sentenced to-day by Judge Gibbs to die in the electric chair in Sing Sing Prison during the week beginning Feb. 5, Counsel for Becker gave notice of an appeal, which will {nsure Becker a few months of life beyond the time set by the court. Becker, undergoing ordeal of sentence was calm nd cy of deameanor as he was throughout his trial, As he as being led from the courtroom he nodded to a coup Aetectives and shook with of the deputy sheriffs who guarded him in the court room while the trial was on Assistant District Attorney Cohn said the prosecution will ask the Court of Appeals to expedite hearing es the eppeal. Reuben Norkin, Becker's alleged accomplice in the murder of Mre. Becker, will be placed on trial for eon San. Becker errived at Sing Sing prison tn time for lunch without incid yecord taken, he wes bathed @ uniform. He will be pl tary confinement in Becker answered question, parently awed, voice. ES SanaEeeantnneeeael Racing Entries on jeath house. na low, ap- Two. Chinese Helress Vanished on Eve of Wedding te Teach Old Folks Independence of American Girl ets Bride-to-Be Resented Having to Travel Here to Fiance, Instead of His Going to Her. The true story of the flight of pretty nineteen-year-old Mildred Wen from her father's home in Washington on the eve of ber marriage to George Num Lee, the scion of one of the most prominent Chinese familles in this couutry, and her mysterious return, was told in Chinatown to-day. Natural] it did not come from the ¢ it Ups of one of the, so to say, orthodox Chinamen, because they have little enough to say about uu- affair: trem one who ki a te It ca ow IS AVERTED: SPENS RESIGNS HIS OFFICE Aid of Federal Fuel Succeeds Him; Only Small Bureau Will Be Maintained. atr Ww Miss Wen WAS to show the e belleved in the American way of doing ce of things, as opposed to Chinese method. She iid it first when she bobbed her hair, She's @ high schoo! You might call her a flapper if you meant-only something nice; She is independent, after the manner of American girls, and she didn't believe it W. the duty of the bride to go to her pspective husband and be mar- ried, What she believed was that the! ‘WASHINGTON, Dee. 24 (United propsetive husband, George Lee,| Press).—Wit® sil danger of a serivus should go to her and marry her in her} fuel shortage -erted, Federal Fuel own city, Washington. “Don't get any Idea that she was protesting against the age old Chinese custom of marriage arranged without © consent of the bride and groom, because Miss Wen and George Leo had been engaged for a year. Thero was no arrangement of the wedding. They fell In love with € dec to be married, and Amertean enoug! could have t Distributor Spens to-day announced that hé would relinquish his office Fri- day. Spens as'od President Bard- ing's permission {o resign a month ago, but. the President urged him to ftay in office until the fuel crisis wus over, Spens will Wadi assistant. Agency who t The Federal will continue = as Distributing function for Students’ Association in Washington and again at the Chinese Legation. It]the balance of the winter, but on u was love at first sight, American|much smaller s ‘f fashion. A report of the fuel situation ts And George Lee was surely de- nted to learn that she had returned her father's home. He went to being prepared Spens. It for the President by will contain a number of lig to Washington to-day on the first train|Tecommendations for householders on he could get, and now there's going|the conservation of fuel, and the to be a big wedding. Really, it's one}Manner fn which substitutes f of the most important. social events |@Bthracite may be used in Chinese society in this country. It may be that the wedding will occur here to-morrow, but I rather think It will be later in the week, I know this, that thousands of dollars have been spent in presents of jewelry for the bride and for entertainments for them, banquets and that sort of thing.” Henry Chu, a In so fur us the source of supply is concerned, New York is in u good position in the coal situation, uccord- ing to a report given out by Fuel Administrator William H. Woodin to- day. This report shows thut in Octo. ber anu November of this year 988,000 tons of coal were mimed in th? Pennsylvania anthracite ficlds as against 11,156,000 tons in the corre- Columbia graduate, brother-in-law of George Lee, said} sponding months of 1921. The in- George and Miss Wen might be mar-[creqse this yeur amounted to 1,8g2.- Y in a hotel in Washington. Heloo9 tons, but it bud little effect in added that Miss Wen, when she dis-l aking up for the shartage occa- appeared, went to the home of @ 8un-|ajoned by the strike. day school teacher near her owp home} 4 jotter to Mr. Woodin from 8. end vemveied ii hiding thers D. Warriner, President of the Lehigh “It Is the plan of George and his} Coal and Navigation Company, states bride,” he added, “to come to this city }that there is no truth in reports that and attend New York University to- gether, as she wants to continue her miners are not permitted to work in the mokin fields and that produc- education in the American way. tion in other districts is Mmited To Chinatown for the wedding fes-I Despite a drought, which makes min. tivities have come prominent mem-Jing of coal dificult, Mr. Warriner bers of the Ong Leong Tong, oflstated the mines are offering the which Lee Quon, father of the. pros-| miners full time and maintaining pective bridegroom, !s national Pres- steady output. Figures st hand indl- ident. Also he is proprietor of stores| cate that the production for December and restaurants in this city, Phila-l wit run about even with that of No. delph Baltimore, Washington, | vember, that 66 per cent. of the sup. Chicago and Detroit Miss Wen's| (iy mined is of domestic sizes of coal father 18 4 member of the Inner eee eis no Hag anortays of cars. council of the Ong Leongs and u 2 RAIN STORM O} ON WAY ‘FROM SOUTHWEST Doe Here Within 36 Hours With Falling Temperature, WASHINGTON, De fall generally over the the Mirslssipp! with rich ton. Young George years in New specializing tation, He Stree Ss The Most Help Wanted’ Ads for Employees and He aio patarn a Best tor Employers the boreauatatens restaurant owner of Washing- Lee, already two York University, is in trade and transpor- lives at No. 82 Mott n thir the bureau states ‘The temperature in the Middle and South Atlantic Stat and Eastern Tennessee will be higher to-night, while Number of Help Wanted Advts. |!t will fall in nearly all the rest of E territory November, 1922 | sae) Aare beerterye ft THE WORLD. 73,100 advts, BOY KILERD COASTING: The Times..... 11,361 idvts.| Injuries ived while coatsing on The American.. 7,816 advts,| tans Dyekman's ear Peakakitt The Herald 3,999 sdvts the death tat The Tribune 290 advis. F 5 faite " - aE. 1 F His se THE WORLD'S Lead. 61,739 4 stru : == ee = at ——-——_ — ic en SCHEDULE TO AUGUSTA, THE WORLD FIRST = | °Wstte Sem Yoru Lio Pete egg Se AS USUAL. [ Bost. aie [ig STORM BATTERS LINERS, SMASHING THEIR LIFE BOATS Report of Three Ships in Distress Appealing for Aid Discredited. MANY VESSELS LATE. Crew Rescued From Death on Sinking Schooner Brought Here. Nea steamship 1 due to heavy ere was a cable tre m tain of the lumbia beng forced Queenstow n to get ot] reported he liad on to go into different vessels asking p, but could get no rep! rs of a ‘This information ¥ Naval Communications, the Indepen- dent Wireless Corporation, the Radio Corporation of America and Murcon! Wireless, which are in constant touch of tho Atluntie, d! messages or relay and hud heard of no uppeals n the lust week. The captain masted istance. discredited by ect and crew five days ag The Menominee ehooner 1,000 mi can coast. The little boat was bob- bing around in the gale, her sails in shreds and her rudder post shattered picked off th Both her life bouts hud been ushed Capt. E. ©, Fudge, skipper and owner ad bi teen days. had be was waterlogged w h ner Savole, w been in communication with office ut Le Havre or oMfices since leaving Le Havre mentioned nothing of sup disaster. Neither hus Niugura of the sume line coming from Borded Both vessels report heuvy ciusing u delay in arrival They were due yeste The Cunard liner to arrive late The America Wednesday, exp Friday. The United A Mount Carro be a day or two p hus’ ts home New York the is not late United States liner Pre due to-day. White Star line } ports of extraordinary its vesse Queenstow ENGAGEMENT TO SON OF AJTHOR-PUBLISHER 1S ANNOUNCED TO-DAY Bs: MISS M. THERESE PERKINS. Miss M. Therese Perktus, Stadent of Vassar, to be Bride of Palmer Cosslett Patnam. 1 Mrs. Henry G, Perkin: to-day at their home at Brookline, Mass., anounced the en- Gagement of their daughter, Miss M. Therese Perkins to Palmer Cou: Putnam, s Majer George Haven Putnam, p rand author, of this city. Miss Perkins now a sentor at r. Mr. Putnam, who Is a nephew of Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Con- Gress since 1899, Is a student of the Muscuchusetté Institute of Technology in @ pott graduate course in prépara- tion of a thesis recording his explora. tions of t! volcanoes of South Amer- i mber of the M lune 1 of is Number b. He recs Iu NOON-HOUR THRONGS SEE STUBBORN FIRE ON BROADWAY NEAR 17TH Blaze rego Two Alarms Sounded for Typiate and Clerks ¥ Favorite Dining Pla A stubh moky fire in the base building at 1th ment summoned apparatus and nse to two alarms kep firemen bus the more than firemen th Id and ¥ bish and a oid, owned ny, which floor. Ths upper hou collar z to the ed with and Accordi was § packing; cases shall quantity by tne Globe Ivory occupies the first floors are untenanted Next door to No fountain which is n place of hundreds und clerks of t smoke f incheon bi Comp a soda lunch- SUNN FEIN CLUBS URGE PEACE WITH FREE STATE Pass Resoluti gress to DUBLIN, Calling for Cou- Arrange It, —An & of Sinn Fein clubs he (Continued on Se To Wreck | Santa Fe Limited Defies Shots of Pa Driv Flags Train. JOILET, Ill wreck and hold trated throug coul chutes a few feet Sokolowsk ing on the shouted and started toward the f up 4 from w j noticed two men westward The men abandoned their opened fire, Sokolowsk! kept on end they disappeared When found that fourts he arri ren d from sounded plowsk! dashed back lantern." Stumbling over Jistance for a tes he’ had be | Coal Tender Foils Attempt Them Away and Then and thea fi en removed nidits fron ran waving 0 feet up th the lante engineer saw the d the brakes. He br stop | tward track and his train fifty the apot where the spik appl heavy feet fr jad been draw: THE Arcade, WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU Bi ILLED FOR TEARING HOOD FROM KLAN intl Circulation Books Open 19 a be wot te 2», EIGHT ARE KLLED BY XMAS LIQUOR: TWO ARE WOMEN One Victim Falls in Front of Family After Yuletide Celebration. YOUTH, 14, IN STUPOR. Twelve Others at Bellevue Suffering From Effects of Bad Booze. Elght persons are dead to-da: of them women, from wood alcoh: “bad booze,"”’ and hospitals of the olty, are treating ecores of others believed to be suffering from al ip, Bellevue Hospit twelve such cases. , One, Thomas McNamara, of No. 48 Moylan Place, drank wood alcohol. The others succumbed to only slightly less deadly varteties of booties liquor. MoNamara's casa came to the at- tention of the authorities when he fll down a flight cf stairs at his noms. Medica] Examiuer Gonzales found him uninjured, but in such condition that ‘he Ordered hint sent to Knfckerbocker Hospital, where he died shortly after. Examination owed unmistakable ligne of wood alcoho! poison Minnie Schreiber, fifty, was found unconscious last night In ab eaway two or hol polson- } alone having forty-one, near her home at No, 107 West 109tt Street. She died one hour after t taken to Knickerbocker Ho When Frank Held reached his liome, No. 49 West 98th Street. early yesterday morning a Christmas tree and packages of presonts were awa't- ing him, Before he could join tn the celebration he gasped and fell to the floor dead, The Medical Examiner has investigation the ‘ase of EI West of No. 447 West 35th Street, whe was found dead yesterduy at No. 52° West 39th Street with evidence of alcoholic poisoning under izubeth The death of Charles Bennett of No, 93 Third Aven at a furnished room house at No. 109 Third Avenue yesterday was ulso reported to the Medical Examiner as p. alcoholism. The other victims were John Gi non, thirty-eight, of No, East Street, found dead last night on the sidewalk at No, 261 Wast 27th Street; Joseph Page, forty-five, No. 12 Little Went 12th Street, who died in front of bubly dus to that address, and John J. Burns, forty-five, found dead In bed in a lodging house at No. 9 Mulberry Street. Suffering trom w! as alcoholic stupor, fourteen ye West 60th Street, levus Hospital jast was found at 59t Avenke by Patrol. of the Arsenal a 70 comman deered a passing taxicab and took him t. Flower Hospital, f a ¥ e Dr. Kays took him to Be bulanice, Th y ported to hi t. At Bel! patients suxcr oning were admi cases wore raport 1 was diagnosed ion ¥ improved during $ ONE, IN BOSTON. Dec. HOOCH KI BOSTON, and more than hospitals he drinking Mauor sold cu the mas holiday. William Brady in an ur his home fr hospit LANDLORD FINED $ 100 f FOR COLD BUILDI Tenant Demande PF He Bought Hin Edward Hoitz, s10 ¥ Street, owner of the factor No. 434 East 165th Street. 1 in which 125 person fined $100 tb-day Geehan in Morrisa to provide heat O'Mara of a Holts d to reimbur: , ed im court that he w To-Morrow's Weather—RAIN. WALL STREET CLOSING EDITION TABLES PRICE THREE CENTS” to All.”” | ntl Ctane Matter New York, N.Y, ‘TORE HOOD FROM KLANSMAN CRIED OUT HIS NAME, THEN WATT DANIELS WAS SAN /. Second Arrest Reported in K. K. K..Killing of Two—Relative of First Prisoner Said to Have Recognized Him by Voice, Saw Face When Hood Was Lifted to Take Drink. Be TROP, L Dec. 26.—The investigation of the murder of Watt Daniels and Thomas Richards by a band robed in Ku Klux regalla bas sone so far that, with T, J. Burnett under arrest and the names of others, said to number twenty, {n the hands of the agents of the Department of Justice, detectives working under the direction of Gov. John Parker with the protection of militia, have beem able to reconstruct the events of the night of the murder. Goy. Parker at Baton Rouge to-day declined to discuss a report that another man besides Burnett {s now in custody and has turned State's evidence. IRISH EX-CONSUL WHO GOT DEATH THREAT, ANSHES “Consulate” Is Closed—Mc- Grath Was Warned to Leave Country Before To-Day. Watt Daniels. his~father, J. L. Daniels, Richards and W. C. Andrews were kidnapped By a band of fifty men in white robes’ the. night of Aug. 24. ‘They had been charged with no crime but had been persistent and open in denunciation o1 the activities of the Klan {n taterfering with and Influen- clng the coming election. They had defied the Klan to silence them. ‘The four men, according to the Fed- eral Investigators, were taken to a secluded spot on a ridge in the Southeast corner of Morehouse Parish. There, while J. L. Daniels and An- drews were tied up and flogged and tortured Watt Daniels and Richards MEG aE were held a short distance away as Tho office of the “Irish Consulate,*| “Witnesses of the punishment’? of the from which Daniel J, McGrath al-} other two. Young Daniels broke from the men of the Dail Eireann who were holding him and tried to rectod the affair: In this city before he received a letter} each his father. He was overpowered threatening death unless he left theland ta. 1 to a spot where he could before Dec. was closed longer hear his father's cries. rhe young man wrested himself loose aguin and tore the musk from one of the men who was trying to restrain Lim and shouted out the rame of the man whose fuce he saw. Another of the guards promptly shot Daniels down. There was an excited council as to what should be done with Richards who had heard the name called out by Danlels, jers in Irish affairs in the city claimed they did not know where Mr. McGrath They said they did not know where he lived, Employees of the building in which the rooms are situated suld they had not been told the offico would be closed and de- was, clured they knew nothing about Mr.] ‘There ix evidence that among tite Grath ‘or tile affairs r moru irresponsible members the dan- J. McGrath received the letter,|&*", that Richards could not be terror- ized into keeping secret the name of “Military Authority, Irish]ine man whose face was seen by Army," on Deo, 14, In it prevatied, and he was also would be shot on sight fter being tortured, The body after the morning of Dec, 26 becaus: ® was fright mangl the » 1 him responsible for| and the bodies of the two were taken to Lake Four the execution of Rory O'Connor and he, weighted with heavy three other h Republican leaders|iron wheels found on. the shore near in November. the fer and sunk At that time Mr, Definite information {ts believed to he was have been gained from Berry Whets irs 6 phew of Burnett, who was on of Joseph Connelly a few veriff, Whetstone, who é, but insisted he had re id where the mur-+ that slight the ted called fron nor Was execu H apelied to carry © v of puntshment.” He n the circle of white t le ank the have 6 of the recogn! band as nsul | ste t the office hours b y raised their M. 30 A. M. to 6 P. At] hoods to drink no one had appeared at the of-| Whetstone is being kept in seclu- although on Dec, 14 McGrath|§ er heavy guard to protect t least fi is doing cler m the vengeance of Klan. k in r S mysterious as those in- als , Consulate he crime ¢ ved to-day 4 at M not]t blame th su ted e ft gnlz ( ¢ a v Fe gators extensive evidenc citizens of Mer Rouge and vic! maintained silence and carried guns to back up that silence. Scores of Upper Louisianans, clan- nish farmers and townsfolk, visited T. FIRES NEGRO WAITER > WHO DROPPED BOTTLE}: Chet Won't Toter on Frem| WASHINGTON, Des. Capitol (United —As part 0 aign to ria] F. Burr in jail on a charge of the United States Cap 3uilding murder {n connection with the ki!l- bootleggers and liquor sellers, th and were open (11 their sympathy thoritiss to-day narged the vuran t en 28 beor he boot} t es on ine the ryigk ul easily to ex evenife identity A Well dresxed mployed stranger Who called at the Jail to ose urnett yesterday snd thon venta ® should bo ao pr anes