The evening world. Newspaper, December 29, 1922, Page 1

THE yEnING VOL. LxI, No. 22,242—-DAILY. Mas To-Night’s Weather—FAIR AND COLD. FINAL § WORLD EDITION ight =. — New York World) Publishing Compa Che |“ Cireutation Books | Books Open to AI1?”| to p All id “Circulation Books Open to All.’’ F NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1922. ‘AN $42,000,000 BRIDGE TO BROOKLY To-Morrow’s Weath: Hatered as Second-Class Matter Vast Office, New York, N.Y. ILA MONTAGNE FIRM INDICTED AFTER RAID ON RACQUET INDICT LA MONTAGNE FIRM AND OTHERS IN SALE OF RUM 43 Named by Grand Jury in Bootlegging Scandal After Investigation. EMPLOY wn ACCUSE Enormous Quantities of Liquor Issued on Forged Permits, Is Charge. The ‘Investigation of the United Stakes District Attorney into reports oe @f a bootlegging scandal in the Rac- “* B. La Montagne's Soi @uct and Tennis Club at Park Ave- Bye and 34th Street ended to-day when the Grand Jury presented indict- ments to Judge Knox against Mon- tague La Montagne and his brothers, Rene M., Wiliam A. and Morgan EF. all members of the club—and a Bumber of their own employees in Inc., and ether corporations, club servants, ootleg ‘salesmen, truckinen, garage keepers and professional permit for- @ers. Thirteen persons were indicted ip all. Thero were two indictments. first charged conspir: Voistead act and to defi ernment in taxes. It cl members of the firm of La tagno’s Sons and thelt employes con- aspired with the Green River Distil Company, the Distillin: Company, with their ov corporation, owned by corporation, Copperfield, £o., Of the stock of which wa the brothers. The second indictment co the La Montagne brothers gallons of rye whiskey The y to violate the aud tho varged that the Gov- Mon ing Enrinenee Inc., which, holdin, Inc., a owned by wat ‘old 16, 316 cases of Scotch whiskey, 500 cases of gin and 9,224 gullons of assorted wines and Nquors, much of it directly to mem- hers of the Racquet and Tennis Club. The others indicted were Samuel A Btory, Vice President and General Manager of the Le Montague corpora- (Continued on Second Page.) eg eee MRS, LOFT RESIGNS AS SPECIAL DEPUTY POLICE COMMISSIONER Gives No Reason for Action—Wom- en's Department Grew Under Her Supervision. After twenty months of arduous work in charge of the women's divi- sion of the Police Department, Mrs George W. Loft to-day resigned as special Deputy Police Commissionbr, to take effect Dec. 1. Mrs, Loft would give no reason for her action. Mrs Loft was appointed last May when the women's division of the Po- Yee Department consisted of merely @n office and a hostess's room. Since Mrs. Loft took charge it has grown til it occupies the whole building which formerly was the W 31 Street Police Station, and has, in a ition, 2 large hospital room. oO istmas Eve, at the women's Precinct Mrs. Loft gave a party to $00 children and gave away 500 pairs @f shoes and stockings. Following the party a tea was given the women who assisted the Deputy Commissioner in the distribution of presents and in en- tertaining the children Durfhg the last few weeks Mrs, Loft has conducted a movement to rid the dance halls of objectionable dancing. Police Commissioner Enright said this afternoon that Mrs. Loft had not fesigned to him. “She must have handed her resignation to the Mayor," (opp. Woolworth Bldg ) wit Sell to-day and Ssturday our $25 Men‘ and Foung Men's Winter Overconts'& Suite in the on’s newest hades of blues, browns, her ues and heather mixtures, wingls and 6 models, eH Bold clave ices for to-day AT RACQUET AND TENNIS CLUB — ee REPARATIONS PLAN BLOCKED WITHOUT U.S. IN COMMISSION Harding to Ask Congress to Authorize Naming of Mem- ber for This Country By David Lawrence. Dec. 29 (Copys rig {tlement of the entire repa- rations problem in Europe, even though the powers themselves agree solution, may be technically the United States Sen- ate grants the request made, first by President Wilson and now by I WASHINGTON, on \a blocked unl dent Harding, that consent be given to American membership on the Rep- arations Commission created by the Versailles Treaty. When the Unite ratified the separa with rmany a eservation was aopted requiring the consent of both Houses of Congress before any Amer- lean could be authorized to sit on the Reparations Commission and act under uses of the V sailles Treaty part of Ss pact w Careful exammation of see: tions of the treaty shows that unant- mous decision is required from the Allied and Associated Powers before uny changes can 6 man- ner of payment While it is true that a conference of Prem- fers or an unofficial bankers’ eom- mission may make recommendations, whieh all Allied und Associated Ggvernments might upprove, these steps cannot degally be put into oper- ation except by unanimous consent of the interested powers, and fhe United the States Is one of them. Abstention from voting is resarded as a nega- tive vote. Here is the text of that portion of America’s separate treaty with Germany; which is {dentical with the Versailles treaty, on the subject of voting in the reparations commis- siot As te voting, the Commission will observe the following rules: When a decision of the Commission is taken, the votes of a:l the delegates entitled to vote or in the absence of any of them, of their assistant delegates, shall be reporte Abstention from voting is to be treated as a vote against the pronosal under discussion. “On tho following questions, unan- imity is necessary: (a) Questions In- volving Phe sovereignty of any of the Altted and Associated Powers, or the cancellation of the whole or any part of the debt or obligations of Ger- many; (b) questions of determining ths amount and conditions of bonds or other obligations to be issued by the German Government and of fix- ing the time und manner for « negotiating, or distributing bonds; (c) any postponement, tot or partial, veyond the end of 1930, ot the payment of instalments falling due between May 1, 1921, and the end of 1926 inclusive; (d) any postpone- ment, total or partial, of any instal- ment falling duo after 1926, for a period exceeding three years; (e) (Continued on Fourteenth een First in Results HE Chamber of Commerce of Colorado Springs placed a small advertisement in The World aimed to secure requests for booklets descriptive of the region. The adver- tisement produced sixty replies, against twenty-four the previous year and fifty-eight in 1920. Comme: on thie, the Colorado Springs rette” prints under & display heu “This is a greater number than has ever been received as the direct result of one ad.” MULLANGAGELAW (WJ LEMP, BREWER, [Hoan Administration Already REPEAL IS URED BY GRAND JURIES Kings County ty Body Declares No Good Has Come ot Enforcement. OPPOSE AMENDMENT. Presentments to Judge Man- Flays State Enforce- ment as Faulty. Two Grand Juries, one f™ Frookiyn and one in Manhattan, filed presentments with the judges befoye to-day whom they were sitting, in which they urged the repeal of the State Prohi- bition Law, characterizing it as a nui- sance an¢ unnece y expense to the public. Toth d investigated complaints of Violations of the Jaw and reported that in almost every instance those chart with the viola- d not the men tions were employees were performing. in their opinion whose duties A dee New York State is not responsible for the enforcement of the Fighteenth Amendment,ie.cantained in a sentment handed up © December Grand Jury to County Judge J. @ MacMahon in Prooklyn to-day. It ta signed by F. W. Abbott, foreman, and ry. they ion that pre- by tt John H. Thode, Seer “The large number of unjust com. brought to this Grand Jury, violations of the so-called ge law, have impelled us, and Jury of Kings County and thus as representative of the av- erage citizenship, to make a brief and frank comment upon this subject. “We know of no obligation resting on th te to enforee any Federal law, We know of no obligation rest- ing on the State to enforce the Kigh- teenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. And yet the State wus asked to enforce the Prohibition amendment by the passage of sumptu- and in response p: ed the Jaw ems to be a decided opinion as to the legality in tae pro- vision of the Mullan. law with reference out warrant to search and seizure with- Whatever may be our ideas upon the subject of nee und Vrohibition, we be there can be no doubt but that w tends to debauch and corrupt police oree interferes with the Nfe of moral, citizens, It even goes 5 brand good men felons, thelr own conscience indulge in personal they find no harm, “It has not checked the misuse of individud temp) Neve Mberty and law-abiding far as to because in they desir to habits in which (Continued on Second Page.) COMMITS SUICIDE THIRD IN FAMIL Shoots Himself Twice Through Heart in Office, at Plant. HAD BEEN DESPONDENT. $7,000,000 Brewery, Covering 14 Acres, Sacrificed for $585,000 at Auction, St. 7 Dee Lemp, fifty-four years old, of the William J. Lemp Company, suicide to-day by twice through the heart in the office of the brewery 29.—William J President Brewery committed shooting himself in the southern section It was the third sulelde tn the family of the famous bi . his father and a sister having taken their own fives, The Witlam J. Lemp Brewing Company, just before the advent of Prohibition, was considered one of the largest world angular the « and w Tt Was sold at auction last June to five different interests for a total of 2686, - 000. Lemp had been cowncast since, it was said, as ha had ene: to toyact a much larger price for the Lemp appeared at his ottitan at 9 A. M. to-day as usual, it was stated, and shortly thereafter Henry_ Vohl- kamp, Vice President, arrived and greeted Lemp: act how do you feel to-day?" “Oh, I'm feeling worse," said Lemp replied. of the city, em: brewing compar n the It covered a fourteen-acre tri tract in the southern part of valued at $7, Vohikamp Fotlowing the sale of the majority | Mrs, of the buildings last June, Lemp stated he expected to get 24 or 40 cents on the dollar instead of only eight, adding they told us when pro- hibition came that he could make something out of our plants. But look what came. We obeyed the law, too."* The buildings value at $7,000,000, brought only $585,000. Lemp was married tn 1899 to Miss Lillian Handlan, Mrs, Lemp, because of her fondness fo. « particular color- ing In her apparel, became known as. “The Lavender Lady.’ In 1909 Mrvy. Lemp obtained a divorce after a hot ly contested case, which received wide brewery publicity In May, 1915, Lemp was married to Mrs, Elio Koehler Limberg, a widow. She was prostrated whon in- formed of his death Besides his widow and a son by his first wife, Lemp is survived by three brothe: id Louis, and two Konta of New jus Tabst of Milwau- Edwin, Charles sisters, Mra. Ale York and Mrs. kee. ander The was destroyed by fire early to-day, $70,000, It was outfitted with deer trophies and about $10,000 worth of The Mountainview, fire, whose started in the ¢ joining the club night. The © Chief Lewis W to jump to origin is unknown, -taker's lodge ad- at about mid- former fire Paterson, had and ran ¢ only in his night shirt to the clut own private fire houseyin which it 1 installed a new fire) pumpin engine Weber tried to get the engine out but the chemical tank blew up dea. troying th engine and setting the house on fire, The flames spread to time pm MIC Fire Chief a Hero, but Engine Bursts and Staris a New Fire Weber Planned to Fight Blaze Unaided When Club Be- came Ignited, But Pesky Apparatus Defeated His Plans. N. J., Community Club house with its fire house, The club house was and moose heads valued at about and other sporting war trophies not insured fered the services of his train crew to help to fight the fire. Two fire engines came from Little Practically the entire populatoin gathered to wateh the flames, which lusted for about an hour and a half, until the ciub house was entirely burn the ground. No one was In It and no one was injured Edward W. Setars, Newark busi- ness man, lying Mountainview, « President of th Dt wae un derstood that st day for the immediate rebuild the club houxe ss THU WORLD TRIVED ALE AD Arcade, Puittzer «World) Uuilding 34-63 Park tiow, NY City | Telephune Beekman 400") Chask room for OMgene® and pe.cole spay day and ‘ight. | Money ordece and Wavelirte hecks for ania —A@wt ‘\ Committed to $237,000,000 New Projects Besides Bridge Evening World Published Figures ‘wo Weeks Ago, Indicating Enormous Total in City Contracts. ight ago The Evening World published figures indicating that about $2 000,060 of city contracts were either alrendy au- rized or represented projects to which Mayor Hylan’s Adminiesration was committed or projects which tt contemplated. + This figure as the new bridgs ed by C vast street widening and extens ot did not represent such expenditures mmmissioner Whalen, 0: jects now in their rope on Inception, or new transit contracts in case the Commission Is abolished and predominant power vested in Mayor Board of Estinate, ' The totals of these will be hundreds of millions of dollars more Some projects ntl lan's authorized by Mayor Hylan’s Administration owt Brooklyn-Stuten Island TUnn.. 2.6. ..secesereneeesees $60,000,000 Music Centre (land lone) .. aes ++ 20,000,000 War Memoria), Central Park (already voted) we 600,000 New York County Court House .. 10,000,000 Water Supply Expenditure 17,000,000 Bronx Terminal Market 7,600,000 Sewers, grading and paving contra 19,000,000 Various departmental projects totallin 20,000,000 cases the ultimate expenditures will In many Probably tar exceed he’ figures here given. Sonle projects contemplated are: Now transit linea ....... 000,000 Street wideningy and extensions, prob: : 50,000,000 New East River Bridge . cists sees 11,820,000 In these casos also the original estimates will probably be edied by the Anal expen ttures, JERSEY JUSTICE {WILLIAM 0. JONES, RUSHED AGAINST | BANKER, 1S DEAD NEGRO STRANGLER STRICKEN AT DESK much ex- Brigtam's Slayer In-]Fear dicted and Trial Is Set for Next Thursday. Inform His Who Is Critically Ill. to Wife, The sp with which ‘oSrsey William ©, Jones, View President of justices’ ‘orked in the Brifham the National Park Nank, No, 216 murder case is indicated by the fol Rroadway, died in his office shortly lowing table of events before noon to-day Mr. Jones, who Crime committed, 3 P. MM, Dec. Phad been connected with the institue oT. tion for twen ars, had complained Bod yfound, 9 P. M of feeling M11 for several days While Autopsy, midnight at lis desk to-day he was seen to slip Battles arrested, 1A. M., Dec. 28 forward, Employees of the bank ran Battles confessed, 4 P.M to him and a phy was eailod Case presented to Grand Jury When ho arrived he pronounced Mr SP. M Jones dead Indictment returned, 5.11 P.M. George F. Lawler, a special officer Formal plea of pr r, 11.28, Jat the bank, cal p the Medical Dec. 29 xaminer's office and reported the _ th. Mr. Jones's address © ¢ Solicitude for the ¢ ot the fn Aes serie ; te Choa reetory ia No. ® Sth Stree youth who proved to be her slayer ted | 70°" i treet rooklyn to the murder of Mrs. Ficanor Louise} 700° nee ra. Jones, it was said at the ban Brigham in the cellar of her home at{ 11" aa ‘ bank é 8 sertousty {il and t eo wan that No. 266 Muller Terrace, Orange, N. J., y i an F a the information of his death might be t was learned to-day trom the confes-| Vit oie ae EF Widens Ther Wnt’ she cank sion of William E. Buttlos, ninoteen- |, ; a year-old negro, who, within a tew] PC Prepared for the shock, the effect days, will be on bis way to the death] Wien It wa might Senult chair, pee geaeeie Battles had gone to the Brigham] ,,0" Somes wax a brother \n-law of Sie eee mer Borough Presiden nds of windows, Because the weather was mild on Wednesday | PTooklyn. He was 4 Director of the the fire in the furnace was allowed to| Rinerinan Law Rook Company. the Mt ol . fast River National Bank and the ham asked Buttles to colar | Roneuel Branen of the Inylis trast Company, It was stated he had beon and put some coal she was afrald her in tl three | suffering from ungin etoris _ HINAL EDITION f°) er—F AIR; RISING; TEM — ERATURE fi PRICT taht CENTS. CLUB $42,000,000 BRIDGE TO SPAN EAST RIVER AT STH ST. PLAN SENT TO ESTIMATE BOARD CRAG DEMANDS CT COLLEGE HEAD PAY $000 RENT Comptroller Will Deduct It From $12,500 Salary of President Mezes. Comptroiler Crulg has called upon President Sidney E. Mezes of the Col- lege of the City of New York to re- imburse the city $9,000 for the rent of the house the President occuples at No, 280 Convent Avenue. He has also Instructed the Chief Auditor to see that us long as he occupies the house, which belongs to the city, rent of $6,000 {» figured as part of his sal- ary. Dr, Mezes, since June, 1921, has been drawing $12,500 a year. The City Charter, the Comptrolior points out, fixes the compensation of the President of Clty College at a minimum of $10,000 and a maximum ot $1 Since June 1 of Inst year the compensation of the President hus been the maximum, In addition, he been living rent free in the honse which was purchased by the clty in 1907 at & cost’ of $39,000 “For the use of the © of the City of New York as an addition thetoto.” The the hou Comptroller describes . Which Isa four-story and base: ment dwelling, as a mansion, and says that $6,000 a year ts The Comptroller also has held up bills for repairs, the roof of $140 and unother f Interto: repalrs of $94 Tue contention of at, having 1) a year since, he is advised fair rental the Comptroti r received 4 salary of $12.5 the President of City College cannot occupy the house rent free, as that would bo In excess of the amount allowed by the Charter. In a description of the residence, the Comptroller calls attentidn to two wine cellars. The contents, if any, are not enumerated However, the coul bins contain twenty tons of cod, he points out. The lars billiard room trimmed with quartered oak, a large parlor trimmed. with white mahogany, « foyer and dining room trimnted with quartered oak, a smoking roorf fitted with red mahog contains any panelling, A floor above the par- lor ts finished in white and birdseye maple. The third floor contains five rooms. three of which are for ser vants. Comptroller Craigs’ action \s said to be a counter-attack in a legal battle begun by the college to compel him and other members of the Board of Estimate to appropriate money for use of tt liege, whi denied when the 1923 budget was prepared. Applica tion for a mandamus has been made by the colle wuthorities dren upstairs would get In going down the said in his confession, and clattered heavily chilled. stairs, Battles he stumbled n three o: four steps to the cellar floor, Alarmed at the sound, Mrs, Brigham called from the top of the stairs to know if he was bu He did not reply and she thought on an errand of merey,| Norwegian Soprano and Italian, Opev: When came nin reach he seized her oat, He seid bs strangled her partly with his hands and partly with a jumping rope thut she haa given one of her little girls Christmas, which was hanging tn the CHICAGO, Dec. 29. Miss Holst with nang ns He Challapin, the *Mefintot tment | bass, | nurder of Mrs. | Ser singing wand m. He nined | his pletures tor ntly indi nbrunce of n ¢ Ch in Formicht, who had boen Rixth Page) jo Mie Holat, forbade he She Lands 0 on Jaw of Baritone In Jealous Row Over Chaliapin Stars, Battle in Chicago Over Russian’s Photo. Chicago opera circles gossiped today of the per- sonal encounter between Grace Holst, hefty Norwegian soprano, and Cesare Formichi, teading [tallan baritone, with Feodor Chaliapin as the cause, Will Be Longest Suspension Structure in the World, Whalen Says—Mammoth Roadway Included. Great Plaza Is Planned at Astor Place — Brooklyn Approach at North Third and North Fifth Streets. Commissioner Whalen of the De- partment of Plant and Structures to- day submitted to the Board of Esti- mate bis plan for a new bridge across the East River at a cost of $41,820,000, Commissioner Whate.. 4 plan will be considered at next Wednesday's meet- ing of the Committee of the Whole of the Board of Estimate and may tilen be placed on the alendar for Friday's regular meeting. The Wwéation of the Uridge on the Manhattan side will be at © Ninth Street and # plaza at Astor Place be- tween Elghth and Ninth Streets. On the Brooklyn side the approuch is to be at Bast River between North Third and North Fifth Streets, with « Plaza at Metropolitan Avenue and Havemeyer Street. There is also to be an approach from the bridge to Greenpol- with a plaza at McCarren Park and Manhct- tun Avenue. In hia communication to Mayor Hylan and the, board, Commissioner Whalen advises that the engineers of his department be directed to make studies looking toward the,rebulld'ng of tho Brooklyn Bridge and the drawing of preliminary plans for the aforesaid new bridge. The latte wil primarily . slow the design of the Manhattan Bridge, being & three-span structure and the largest span suspension bridge in the world. The combined roadway width ati) be 118 feet, more than twice the width of that of the Manhattan Bridge. The main span will be 1,900 feet in length. Brooklyn Bridge has a span of 1,595, Manhattan Bridge, 1,470, and Williamsburg Bridge, 1,600 toet, The new bridge ts to have four ve- bicular roadways—an upper central roadway for motor trucks and all horse-drawn vehicles, east bound; lower central roadway, west bound; one upper side roadway for light autos, east bound; one upper side roadway for light autos, west bound, There will be two foot walks, space for two rapid transit tracks, space for trackless trolley cars or autobuses. In connection with the bridge there will be a new boulevard 206 feet wide from First Avenue to Fourth Avenue between Highth and Ninth Streets, Manhattan re Is to be @ new dt- agonal street in Brooklyn from Brooke lyn Plaza to Bushwick Avenue at its Intersection with Scholes Street. ‘This is to be 120 feet tn width. Other changes consist of the extension of Meeker Avenue from present terminal f Manhattan Avenue to the Bridge Ploza at Metropolitan and Union Aves nues, 50 feet in width, Likewise there ts to be an approach to Greenpoint from North bifth Street to Manhattan and Nassau Avenues. The marked Increase In vehjcular trafic over the big bridges which: makes a new structure necessary, was thus explained to-daf by Commis. sioner Whalen: “Over the Willlamsburg Bridge in a 24-hour period in 1912 the number of vehicles traversing the bridge wae 5.924. In 1922 In the same period, 870 vehicles used the bridge. This was an increase of 300 cent, in ten years. “The 24-hour vehicle traffic over the Maahattan Bridge in 1912 was 4,828. In 1922 it was 37,668, an in- crease of 700 per cent.” Th new bridge hee given thi- department much consern,”* per the picture, Hot words followed tn| says Commissioner Whalen, “We ceal+ French nolther can speak thelize that before recommending to rour other's nguage. The battle ended] honorable board a specifie location when M Hol slapped the stant] for a bridge that this @epartment mit Italian and seat him r ing. Friends) be in a position to defend Its recom- Hnally brouglt poace, but Miss Holst] mendations. After the consideration (f ell! hes the pleture all elements that enter Into this sub- » aes i ir h | j ‘| wa ade as he |