The evening world. Newspaper, December 30, 1922, Page 3

Bis. THE EVENING WORLD. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1922. PLUB BOOZE SALES |Inauguration Ball Gowns of Mrs. Alfred E. Smith KEDT FROM HIM Sp And Two Daughters Are New York City Products, eat Triumphs of the Art of the “Home Town” Modistes Tt # GOWN TOREE oa — > Gi wen av Bee exer i a ° SE District Attorney Says Day’s INAQeUR THROWN ) VER _ Office Had Facts BALL oye es E. AT THE INADGYL- .* Last June. EXECUTIVE Safa ade f : MANSION BALL Le Own FIES OLD JurRy.| 99 Ove” BMABteau ; buked by Judge for Charge of Suppressing Let- _ ter About Dry Chief. (= ~ The utterances of United States Attorney Hafward about. yesterday's indictments in the “Racquet Club bootlegging scandal" interested the Members of the United States Grand Bary which was dismissed with e@bloquy by United States Judge Fos- ter for making public a letter to him Guggesting that the resignation of former Prohibition Director Day be not accepted pending an investigation f his office. They and their friends >» agragd Mr. Hayward had found to justify them for their pub- He complaint that the letter, sent to Secretary of the Treasury Mellon by Judge Foster, had been smothered at Washington until the resignation of Mr. Day had gone through. “In explaining the indictment of the La Montagne brothers, members of a Hiquor importing firm and owners of the Green River and Eminence Dis- tf ies as well as of the Racquet Club, which they are charged as ys- ing as a clearing house for many transactions, Col. Hayward said: “The first knowledge we had of this reat conspiracy ani the wholesal: bootlegging operations under it cam: to Major Clark a few weeks ago from a voluntary witness and we simply followed the trail, even though it led fo select circles and exclusive places “The office of the New York Pro- hibition Director had most of the | facts the Grand Jury and my office have seopked so hard to get as early as last June, but did not see fit to report the facts to me.” Mr. Day was Cirector for one year, beginning at the end of Octdber, 1921. ee , 9 explaining the part played in the ‘ weed 6's 3 q 3 case by the thirteen persons named : 3 3 ‘ in the indictment, Col. Hayward sai “Montague La Montagne was Presi- dent of all the corporations. Rene, fotgan and Willlam were officers, Weekhoiders and active salesmen of liquors, Bamuel A. Stor: t y was Vice Prest- Bent and-General Manager of the cor- prations and of their boot Beerations. James R. Burrows is a Cu toms bonded truckman with a permit from the Prohibition office to carry lquor, which is still in effect. He transported practically all of the liquor Illicitly sold. “James 8. Burrows, father of Jamés R., owns the garage at No. 648 West 4th Street, New York, which was recently raided. He stored the Nquors for which permits had been filed with the La Montagnes and which had not yet been delivered to their friends and customers. “Shuttenberg was a liquor sales- : 1 ‘| 4 man, Rex E, Sheldon, Putrick Mc- ait eo f : , f ees Allister (alias McGee), John George ota ee 3 i and Herbert Horgan were professional th j 4 y d ‘fixers’ and venders of forged permits, “Eddie Harlow was the cigar man at the Racquet and Tennis Club and as one of the agents of the La Mon- tagnes did an extensive bootlegging business with the, members of that club.” The voluntary witness mentioned by the Prosecutor is understood to have been a former employee in one of the La Montagne corporations, who re- i ] \SS CATHERINE SMITH -rHE “TUS S EMILY S i YOONGER DALGHTER ONE OSTHE D. far Ulgial Gc e SEASONS DESOTANTE BCs iw e OER IAN ENE Steere ot SIRMISH GOWN: ‘ THE ELE S BALL Gowy belled early last summer against the C character of the work he was called was upon to do, saying he insum- ciently paid for one who running the risk of criminal prosecution, and a _ at the Governor at the Inauguration|or fur. Her slippers are of the same was dismissed. a = Ball? Nu indeed, the bride and the} material as the gown CLERK TUMBLES FROM ALTMAN By Fay Stevenson. heabhinieaaied wife conaead the atten-! ‘Phe ball frock created for the debu- AL on of both fe e and masculine | tg y simp! ndelled <x STORE WINDOW. All feminine eyes are now turned] YU? nh fominine ena’ mAsouline tan Ry vary anole tose “2 girl Michae) Sullivan, 51 years old, No.| toward Albany. #: igitiie wow aGabarmon a Wiebe doen clans undershot AGS 6B ON 9) a halls vith jade and trimn with silve 3109 Park Avenue, @ clirk in B. Altman! 4s popular as Al Smith has been sir cwilli bethS! wHinparRa ine eo, cee EO SOE SSE & Co.'s sto, jumped or fell from a s C lace. Her slippers are of the same SGow on the 36th Street side of the | With the Indies, we must confess the of Albany folk and of every] fabric as the trock store a little after 9 o'clock this morn-| feminine eyes are not turned in Al's] Woman : New si City a - ing, landing on the sidewalk. He was} giroctic Sat Shf The secret ts ou ne gowns A taken to Bellevue Hospital with a fr AEN: EOS AOVOINE SOF WO wore create & Altenan & Co, ot WEALTHY WOMAN FOUND tured right leg, lacerations of the scalp|®t the groom at a weddin Does} Firth Avenu we have photo- DEAD ON COUCH IN HER and concussion of the brain. any truly feminine woman ever look] graphs and ns which wilt HOME BY A NEIGHBOR nte any A woman inspire her with a new | nd perhaps Mrs, Alired E. Smith's Inaugura- Marady Vivi am tion Ball gown is made of sumptuous + Mad i Ms P A N T ra) M IT M E gold brocaded white satin. The skirt Widow of Late Ow is very plain, while the slightly Houne draped bodic is heavily hand em- M 1 $ broidered in gold thread and pearls : Ne , ‘The decolletage is outlined with twin eno, + ‘ rows pearls and a fewelled orny covered with blanket, on # cot ment with long pearl pendants secures | the parlor of her home 1869 Mor the drapery at the right side, Phe Sea ietrver ee rectangular train is enriched with em- ni Avennay thoE nea Was: declared broldery to correspond with the bodice, | '* day at the Medical Examiner's of from which It issues at the walstllne.|fice to have been due to natural The slippers to be worn with thir | eayses gown are made of gold brocade to] Her daughter Marsh mateh it, with fan ornaments of gold] yannot ary Strest lace said that mother had been ailing To complete thu costume there is af 2! as tye graceful cape of couelicot yelvet of ——— sagen. -} OF HOARDING COAL rare quality lined with cloth of combined with coquelicot rola In. The wide collar is of white fox fur An afternoon gown which Is to be Rane worn at the reception following the di friend Inauguration ceremony Is of soft silk Mo crepe romaine, embroidered in seit. the day be tone silk and beads and richly I n is trimmed with gray fox low yesterday ear at the ball there will be ' 4 When t two n of interest answer ts hin ring gowns to, attract the femin eye. eman and they en They are the elder and debutante 1 ft daughters of the ne erno} Miss and harming undershot wit! trimmed with silver lacu and edgings $3 daintily “A Search for. Santa” Ends To-day DODIN ACENSES And Brings toa Close the Best Kiddie Club Show Ever Given Christmas Week Series of Entertainments Given by Evening CIVIC BODY HEAD World a Revelation in Development of Stage Talent in Children. “A Search for Santa" ess Ta Man Who Demanded Dicta- tor’s Resignation Ordered to Sell Three Tons third and last performance ut the Casino Theatre this morning. From both stdes of the stage the ® sentiment was that It was too bad that the happy little Christmas play- P RENEKIN Wass Lae let couldn't have lasted longer, The kiddie actors are “tickled pink,” and Daniel J. Sweeney, No, 1247 East Tenth Street, Brooklyn, Chairman of the Allied Coal Committee, which demanded the resignations of Civie Fuel Admiutstrator Williant H.] 80 were the kiddie spectators and the Woodin and District Administrator] grown-up kiddies who accompante:l Samuel Drummond, was ordered] them. All agree that “A Seach for Administrator Woodin to > of three tons of coa) in his , in alleged violation of the law. The Civic Coal Committee brought court action t8 enforce the law on the distribution ot coal, with the slogan “Drummond Must Go,” which later was amended tg include State Ad- ministrator Woddin. Mr. Sweeney obtained an order directing the fuel chiefs to show cause w! certain sections of the Emergency Fuel Act should not be enforced, Having protested they were doing th to give everybody enough coal to prevent them from freezing, the Administrators turned th tention to cellars reported as c ing more than one ton. Mr, Sweeney's cellar was visited, and he received a letter from Mr. Woodin as follows: “Pursuant to the laws of New York Sunta has been tho most ambitious presentation yet made for the yulo tide by the Kiddie Klub—and the most perfect, Yesterday showed how true to their art were the Ittle kiddie artists, fo: they braved the snow and the sleet and slush to reach the theatre on time, and when the curtain was ready to wo up there wasn't one missing- not one. As a mutter of fact, an ex tra number was put on—the Jazz dance of tiny Rea Blonde, the four r-old terpsichorean wonder. Crooker and — Klean: Crovker ume ou long way tos George, who plays the violin so sweetly, and Eleanor, who croons the “Suwanee River Moon," as if she had just stepped out of the plantation And there was charming Constance ampbell, who camo all the way Govine State, I hereby notify you that youl rom Great Neck. Constance sings hold a supply of fuel in excess of fing dances and acts the ‘Callfornia your reasonable requirements. You a California Girl," and is just like girl, the finest in all the world—just like New York girls. The Keresey and Umland families are well represented in the show ‘There's David Keresey, who does few stunts by himself and sings “Mother Machree's Lullaby,” and his sister Elvira, who doubles up with Adelaide Umiand in “Mr. Gallaghe and Mr. Shean." Then Charlott Umiand Just too cute for words i “Tennessee."” And the Umland kiddies have a brother and a sister who do turns on the big stage. Some tal- ented family. 5 But D. J. Sullivan of the ally Irene and Mary" company, who plays the organ grinder, the stage doo: man and Santa Claus, says that all the kiddies have in them the making of stars, and wishes that he was a kiddy again. Miss Josie Intropidi, another of the| Parentlal root. Miss Bennett, or “Sully, Irene and Mary" company | Moorehead, Said here Sunday sh who plays with the kiddies and who|}jeved her parents had had the helped them so much at rehearsal had her own kiddie there yesterday, | @#e annulled. are therefore notified to make dispo- sition immediately of such coal, which excess is at least three tons. “In default, fou will be held responsible for having committed a misdemeanor and will be proceeded inst aceaggingly. Gov.-Elect Smith, in Albany, de- clined to-day to say what action he would ke on the resignation of Ad- ministrator Woodin, which carries with it the simultaneo retirement of all members of Mr, Woodin's exec- ive staff and of the entire State or- nization, including the eight direct administrators in the State and their subordinates. BLAZING WOMAN RUNS DOWN STEPS he 43 ean CONSTANCE BENNETT. Bat Richard Bennett’ ain Annal ringe to Coltegian Now. CHICAGO, Dec. nett, daughter actor-playwright, Connie discovers Hirst Mooretead of this city. ‘The star in this real Playlet ‘s seventeen; the man, eighteen, They eloped New York to Greenwich, Conn., 10, Then, realizing: the seriou with her mammy at home, nice, kiddies? head, Chester's father, Tenant Rolls Her in Snow, but She Is Fatally Burned. the clog dance of Howard Maraglino |annulled. impersonation of Frances White,| year clear of all entanglements,” would almost make the real Frances Jealous, only the little big Francos| match grew out of a house part, don't get jealous, Selma Marshak, in her song “I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise,"’ was so wonderful that the whole audience of kiddies wanted to g¢ up the stairway with her. And Ruth and Edith Eicks were a revela- tion in their Buenos Ayres Tango. ‘There isn’t anything more to be said about those Carter Waddell dancers - they're all about as near perfect as can be. And the pretty volee of Au- rusta McCall in ‘Somewhere a Voic> Her clothing ablaze, Mrs. Angelina Cropesi ran to-day from her apart- the third floor of No. 53 Stocktn Street, Williamsburg, to the and the nto the first, tenants in the house vainly trying to extinguish the flames all were badly burned, and one of them, he was twenty-one and Miss Be: twenty-two, —= RADIO CONCERTS ROM BROOKLYN NAVY YAIR The first of a series of radio ment on second floor Navy Yard, station NAH, will be those who sought to aid her RAGS Ad Mcnltases TRUER: written by Cousin Eleanor for The Evening World Kiddie Klub and played by the talented members of tho klub, had its SHE ELOPE AGAIN of Richard Bénnett, she is not yet free of her husband, Chester matrimonial leading of their prank, each returned to the Daughter of Mare Ben- from June sness Mrs. 0 be- mar- “But we did not,’ said her father She's 9 big kiddie, a regular grown- vu up, and playa on the stage with Paul-|to-day. ‘‘We did not because w ine Fredericks. And every night she|lieved one marriage was enough commutes from Philadelphia to be|rather served as an Insurance against are © be- h and Isn't that |®uother. Now Dr, Frederick B. Moore- and I think, ‘t One of the great hits in the show ts|safe to have the elopement marriagé The bill was filed yesterday to the music of Tony on his hurty}and we hope to have it all fixed up gurdy, and Kathryn Hayman, in hor]so the youngsters will start the new ‘The parents of both say the runaway y. To get his license young Moorehead said nnett ne con- certs to be broadeast from the Brooklyn given when Signor ‘Tita Ruffo of the Metropolitan ISMORTALLY SOT pect as One of Men Who ~ Robbed Lunch Wagon. Samuel Marder, twenty-six, of No, 157 Trinity Avenue, Bronx, is dying jn Bellevue Hospital for refusing to take two hold-up men from the scene of their crime ia his taxicab early to- day. He was shot in the right breast, The men engaged Marder’s taxi in Nassau Street, and ordered him to drive to Eleventh Avenue and 18th Street. There they went into a lunch wagon, ate sandwiches and drew re<« volvers. Jack Sparr, No, 818 South Fifth Street, Brooklyn, the proprietor, and three customers were ordered to put up their hands while one of the robbers took $25 from the cash regis- ter. “We'll shoot any one who tries to follow us," they said, as they went back toward the waiting taxicab, Mar- der had become suspicious of them, though he could not see what went on inside the wagon, because of the frosted windows. He said he wanted something to eat and went nside, where he learned of the hold-up. Ke- turning Immediately to the robbers, he told them they couldn't ride any further in his cab, Then you won't carry any one else for a while,” one of the men sald as ho fired a shot Into Marder's breast. Both disappeared. Marder, knowing there was no telephone in the lunch wagon, dragged himself to a nearby garage and had a man tele- phone the West 30th Street Police Station. Detectives Foley, Hooks and Me- Namara, on the way to the scene, saw two men at 18th Street and Tenth Avenue. After getting a description of the robbers the detectives returned and picked up a man describing him- velf as William Irwin, thirty, a la- borer, of No, 458 West 18th Street. When taken before Marder in Lelle- vue, the police say the wounded chauffeur Identified him as one of the men, but could not say whether. he was the one who fired the shot Bless ipsa MRS. F. C. GELSHENEN SEEKS PARIS DIVORCE; CHARGES DESERTION jent's Sou v Abroad, Came to America, ‘ Mrs, Florence Carpenter Gelyhenen, wife of the son of the late President of the Garfleld National Bank of this city, whose former address was No. 950 Park Avenue, instituted divorce proceedings in Paris yesterday, !t was learned to-day in cable despatches. Desertion ts charged. Tho Golshenens, prominent in New York society, were marrted in 1905 despite parental objection, and haves two children, Kathleen and William H. jr. In her papers Mrs. Gelshenun charged her husband recently left their home at No. 6 Rue Vineuse, Paris. It was said here to-day that he is in this country. Mr. Gelshenen's father, who died in 1902, left an estate of about $10,000,- 000, which went to his wife and theif four children. The widow refused to Mrs. Catherine Tiasco, was flun « will sing three num- ee] is Calling’ will tong be remembered {OPC VOMmpany Sil ee twill play, |attend the wedding of her son to Misn aside in the struggles of the blazing| Hy the audiences of the Inst three | ler ine Navy Yard Bae ae iy a] Florence Carpenter because she woman, and her right arm was} days in the Casino. If the dainty]neval officer. ‘The plan is to «ive a| Wanted it solemnized tn St. Patriek’s broken. toe dance of Dorothy Blanchard|concert every month, The wave length | Cathedral, instead of which the mar- At the first floor landing, Joseph |lasn't been mentioned it ought tofis 507 metres ae Gocunred tia Beto pried: Chrene Viteri succeeded in stopping Mrs. Cro-]P 8n4 so ought little | Fred is Le a aa Lustig's Georgette." Margaret Bar- pesi and dragging her into the yard, |rett was very fetching ase. Spanish where he threw her into a snowbank and there smothered the fire with a strip of carpet. After half an hour of effort, ac- cording to the police, an ambulance was obtained to take the woman to Kings County Hospital. It was suld there that she had little chance of recovery, Mrs. Cropesi's clothes were set afir when @ mattress she was making fell against the tube of 4 gas stove and senorita, and Rozalia Sturz as We- tinka, the Russian Dancing Doll, was simply wonderful. Her dancing is contagious, and she sets both those or the stage and in the audience all going with her steps and brings down the curtain in a storm of applause. But little Jane and Marion Coffey, who start and finish the search for Santa and set and keep the whole works going are the merriest, clever- est, mirth-provoking and fun-making little kiddies who ever put forth on a Fiv Girl Who Left Buffalo Youth Waiting at Church, Up for Theft She and Companion Let Off, Three Others Jailed and Fined in Round-Up of Xmas Shoplifters. e young women in search of adornment were arraigned on charges of shoplifting in the Court of Special Sessions to-day, raving been‘arrested in Broadway department stores during the Christmas holidays by detec- ue. easy to get pretty things without pay- ing for them, She was fined $50 and entenced to two days tn the Tombs Mrs, Margucet Mareson, twenty-six, of No, 495 East 85th Street, and Mrs Margaret ‘Tausch, thirty-five, of Nu 9 KE h Street, were fined $26 one day in the Tombs, ‘They at tempted to steal children's ‘stocking valued at $6, Miss May Mangan, Pro bation Officer, told the court that the former was a widow with a boy and that they were in straitened circum stances. She wanted the stockings for the child, she said disconnected It. The escaping gas was |big stage or a little stage, and their janited by a stove and in the result- factin Was a soream. It was surely|tives of the Stores Mutual Protective I nt explosion, she was flung from|e great show—great, great! Two of them were prominent young 1 at and set «fre Well, the Shuberts helped and thety en of Buttato, one of. whom Jett —— ° manngement helped to make the show ina nm of one of the best families neon é sake the SOW Tine wcion of Oo a BRAVE CAR CONDUCTQR i= “ican 1 was owe Manone [of heptane ty wang Mr A a won- ‘ oth were unusually beau STOPS RUNAWAY TEAM, |oortui host, and Mr. ©. Lyons, tr eigen Mont wore given a suspended SAVING PASSENGERS | urer and in charge of the box omce, | ful. and btn were given f Altin nT = —— made things run very smoothly for |Min'the vei vent eleven days in thie ys (0 Horse's Head, Vreventing [Cousin Eleanor Tamte. They wore the Misses Mu he: Craneing Thrangh fear The Messrs. Shubert turned over] 2°. Viton nnd May Wataon, Hoth of ‘Trotey. the Casino to the Kiddie Klub, and] fie iy to having attempted t o Even! yorld paid for the lights, | Pleaded guilty to hav’ The courage of « conductor on «|The Evening Worl ipeae Gotha Mente} teal ailk stockin sthound 14th Street car this mom. |t2e Ushers and stag ; all the [Miss May Sinith, twenty-five, of No help—-in. all about $1,000, It was en. cian ing averted an uccldent that might have lworth it, kiddies, wasn't It—three days [007 Adam Street, Hoboken, ae resulted seriously and perhaps fatally. lor deilghttul entertainment, which was] Sullty to @ like offense, tunililiny Between Seventh and Eighth Avenues lenjoyed by thousands of the members| ® woman friend hac , 1 team of horses running away with alor the Kiddie Klub. pole swinging between them was seen ee “ ” appronching the rear end of the car * SON OF “SMOKY JOE’ - reise ature of passengers on. ihe] IF SCHWAB HAD A SON HIT ON HEAD WITH AXE platform to escape the consequences of ‘ve pole crashing through. ina rear] HE WOULD NOT ATTEND BY BROTHER FIREMAN | collision, the conductor sensed the! COLLEGE, MAGNATE SAYS eer ve dunger in Ne hive an Bs dropped off coe a met A That Saves Him 2 he headatall of the rear horse, stopring | able School Ideal for Instant Death in Smoke-Filled the team, With the team stopped, he ad Friendship, He Decla Ballding J went after the car and resumed his job,| BETHLEHEM, Pa., Dec, 30.—Charles| Fireman Joseph 1. Martin jr. of Passengers who reported the occur address before the] ,, - ae son: of Aesiatant “nce gave the conductor's number as Education Assocta- Truck 0, 6) and an & 4 1685. said the average morale of the] Chief (‘Smoky Joe'’) Martin, ac ~ average American citizen—the working e1 in his) seal at NEWSPAPER CLUB PARTY. Slassrwas higher than that of the ‘so-| vo stitches put vm £ pear higher og Suntry.| Governeur Hospital to-day by Dr at a New Year's Eve entertainment to| “If 1 bad @ son,” he said, “I would| stein be given to-morrow at 4 P. M. at the|see that he would receive the highest ruck wan a loft Newspaper Club. Those who will be|education in the United States, Such aj The truck was called to a heard include Miss Thais Magrane type cannot be galned in untversities| bulldi at No 4° Orchard Street at recitations, s Helen Rich, Mise Rose | and colleges where claas distinction and] ¢ 1, ck. 1 place was filled Mury and the MeCartbhy Sisters of tho| snobbishness are often too prevalent, | °°! i Mu Hox vu Comp y and Miss hough such Institutions may give him] ¥'') amoke and the au Emma Haig, Richard Keene, Arthur | supremacy in technical things. The ideal| not get at the fire, which was under We and Miss Eva Clark of the ‘Our | education, to my mind, comes to the boy the Moor of the fact Dell’ company, ip the great public schools.’ Gerowits & Abr floor, until the place was ventilated Martin and another tireman were sent with axes to.chop a hole through the rear shutteys Martin, in the smoke, received the tirst swing of his comrade’s axe on the crown of his helmet, which was all that saved him from being instantly killed. Hu was picked up unconscious and hurried to the hospital Battalion Chief's automobile, All "Lost aad Fopnd advertised in The to “Lost and Found Bureal World Butiding, will be listed for’ thirt % Y weon at @ny of Thi ‘Lost and Found’ advertisements can be left at any of The World's Advertising Agencies, or can be telephoned directly to The World. 4000 Beekman, New Foor Se Brooklyn Office, 4100 Vapiw Taxi Chauffeur Identifies Sus¢ ——