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.. aysaaajpassjssaasjasaaaajsjyaiajjajtajysss To-Dsy'. Weather SH0WER8. tjC (XfflcSih, :wm " ,,. - "NXXlrj k-i5i "s , lwfMmSKliSSBSSsSl If: I It VOL. LXI. NO. 21,492 INSAIJAYPOLICE This Belief Supported by Many Clues to Identity Found With Body. POISON TRACE SOUGHT. Analysis of Brain Conducted To-Day Convinced That Victim Was From Detroit. Analysis will bo completed to-day of th brain of the young woman whoso .unclad body was found In a trunk In the general storage warehouse of the American Hallway Express Company, No. 22fc East 44th Street, yesterday. The brain was the only organ left tlhj might v old In determining the cAusa of death. If traces of chloro ' form- are found. It will tend to boar out the thMry that ehe was the vic tim, of a criminal operation. , T&at, the , shipper of the Yny.-rtary tnfflk" m which a woman's nude, mutilated Ibody yma found Intended to claim It In Now York," probably flap disposing of It Becrctly, was Indi cated to-day when Andrew J. Bra nick, exprensman, of No, 212 West 35th Street turned over to the pollco a .letter rfgned by "A. A. Tatum," the murder trunk consignor, dilxcctlng him to iplck up and hold Uio trunk here. The letter, eald Burnlck. was dated Detroit. June 10. and cnoloaed a re ceipt of the American Hallway Ex pires Company, on which ho -was to obtain the trunk at tho company') station, 83d Street and Tenth Avenue. -When ho applied there, however, tho employes had no record of the trunk and referred him to the unclaimed baggage depot. No. 33S East 44th Street, whore tho trunk was opened yesterday, revealing the body. As no such trunk hnd arrived thorn when Brenlctf applied or It he gave up tlio quest. The 4runk 'arrived here June 13 from Detroit, whence It was shipped June 10. The most tho pollco of New York can do Is to aid In establishing the victim's Identity, aa whatever crime 'was committed was In Detroit. Thoy have sent tho Detroit authori ties as much of a description aa they could get of tho body, the woman's finger prims, and a list of tho cloth ing and other articles found In the trunk with the body, Tho Dotrolt police have not made any progiss In tho caso, as far as known. t trunk was addressed to James DouV. Now York' City, Itecords show' be shipper gavo his name and address no A. A. Tleturn (or TllrumJ, No, JOB Harper' Street, Detroit, plaoeB a valuation of , $100 ' on tho "trunk and prepaid tho charges to New Vork, about $4.70. WIFE D.I8APPEARED AND MAN MOVED AWAY. At the Detroit address the pollco learned of a young couple who rentvi an apartment June T under the name of Mr, end Mrs, E. Jyoroy. Boon afterwards tho man left with two (heavy trunks, saying his wlfo had gotta tttQi night before. He raid the two blunicets, two sheets and a table doth missing from tits apartment wero In the laimdry and would be re. turned, The body will be re-cxamtned to day for a long soar on the right side, following word from Detroit that a you na woman who disappeared re oontly had Btiah a mark. The police did not notice It yesterday, Tho following articles of fomalo at tire were found In the trunk! A brown three-quartqr cloak, with iiiiiii'i IvJVj l vuvj r j i j i j i x ivu I jua&u il, . "vrv . ;i SLAYER OF WOMAN IN TRUNK MYSTERY I l "Vircaiation Books Open to AIL" I DAILY. CopjrUlM, 1020, Co. (The 5th Av. Loses $1,000,000 Dog Yard Wendel Lot at 39th Street Will Be Site of Six-Story Building. 1 Tho miiiion-doiiar yard whioii for, years was held vacant at Fifth Ave-, nuo and 39th Street an a playground for a dog-will bo vacant no longer. Tradition has been tossed out of the OTiuuuvvo ui mo mansion 01 oroKen shutters on Fifth Avenue next to tho yard, and a jsoo.ooo loft building, six stories high, win, take the piaco of the pampered pup. I Tho four sisters of the lato John Qottlleb Wendel, who Inherited his vast holdings In Manhattan real estate, have received from ihelr plans for tho building. The dog la dead. The slaters Hisses Ella, Qeorglana and Mary Wendel and Mrs. Ucbccca A. D. Wendel Swope live In the house of tho broken shutters, that. mansion of mystery that e'vorybody remarks as he passes up or ($owq Fifth Avenue, Many years ago ,Trhn Gottllob Wendel declined ft .. ..iai v.,W spot which was, coveted by every pun, intereatcd In Flith Avenue real estate I for $500,000. becaus his sister's net 1 dog couldn't play' In the streets and ' had to have a yard'to run In. Later : caiion oi ino transrer point oe tho bid was $800,000 and Mr. Wendel twecn east and west side lines from declined to be tempted, and even 98th to 69th Street, the elimination $1,000,000 was offered. of tracks connecting the two branches Those who were privileged to know I between 96th and 110th Streets, and anything about the eccentric old man ! operation of tho new lino on the who preferred to ride In a carriage 116 years old behind an antiquated family' friend, a horse of doubtful age, driven by a coachman who was in the employ of the Wcndels many more than a score of years, remember that his properties, valued at $50,000,000, or thereabouts, were never Improved while he lived. BAR HARBOR TRAIN DERAILED IN CONN. Few Passengers Aboard and None Is Hurt, Officials of Road ' Declare. DAYVILUS. Co'nn.. July '. 24. The southbound Bar Harbor exprens; en .route to Now York, was derailed Just south of the railroad station here early to-oay. According to railroad officials, few passengers were on tho train and none was Injured. The train was mode up entirely nf slaepers, The locomotive and buggago car remained on tho ralln, while four of ttw sleepers ran up a siding and became derailed. The main Norwich and Wor cnntor line of tho Najnr Haven rood was complnUily blocked. TRY TO REVIVE LIGHTNING VICTIMS BY BURYING THEM Long Island Parents Cover Dead Children Up to Heads Believing They're' Only Stunned. ' Whn Dr.' Howard W. Neall. Deputy Medical' Examiner of Queens, wont yesterday to view the bodies or Jennie Stahiirskl, nine, and her brother Edward, two, who were kilted by lightning In Hay tilde, ha was astonished to find the little bodies In the rear yard burled up to the heads lu mud and eartlu IlelutlvoH explained that they bo. lleved any onj struck .by lightning, was only pt'unned, and if burled to , tho htad In the ground would bo, rovlvtd when tho electricity n.is drawn out of them by the enrth., It took Dr. Nfnll a cons do ruble' time lu convince them thut tho clillilrt.il were dead, "Well, It's only because wo did not bury thW" Quickly enough," one of the family Insisted. t IIRHTAl'UANT. SpccUl lur toW. ti 4 1 Onrwrt l nL n culnjti'. ix:i mljl fr4!i rm mIu. IlwUj' (timuij. fcOc.j ItMt d'hota dio. os, iiu iwr. nvna ujumm. jlau e !'"OiroaJafoxi1J5foollrs Oven to All." I br The Prrmt I'ubllshlnr New York World). 7 E . Additions Increase Capacity of Transit Lines 40 to 60 . rCr Lm. STATEN ISLAND TUNNEL. , , . , , , experts map uut ocneme ior Board of Estimate Line ...... unaer central rars. An Increase of capacity of from 40 to' 60 per cent. Is provided In ten- tatlve plans for extending the pres ent rapid transit linos. One feature Is an extension giving Washington Heights a 33 per cent. Increase in service. Another is an extenslori of I J'Ms to Staten Island via a tunnel Jurio'e'r tho bay, and an extension to 1 PlnoVilnir. TVl nlnr,. will h lim1- . . . . . . ... t0 the Board 01 EstlmtttB a ' Tho ahlnston Heights Increase of "ori'Ico Is proposed to be through a uby In Eighth Avenue, the re- Lenox Avenue tracks. Tho proposed lino under Eighth Avenue would bo from the southern terminal of that thoroughfare to 69th Street, thenco under Central Park to 110th Street. No decision hns been reached as to the extension of this proposed line below 12th Street. An alternate plan calls for the ex tension of the U. It. T. subway from 57th Street, where It now turns east, due north under Central Park to Eighth' Avenue, to 123d Street, to St. Nicholas Avenue, thenco to 158tr Street. It Is understood tho Wash ington 'Heights Taxpayers' Associa tion will prefer tho latter plan. A city ductal said to-day that tho cost df completing tho pre'sent sub way work would bo about $50,000,000, and that in a snort tlmo the last of tho dual system 'contracts would bo let. lie has been assisting In pre paring tho, new plans, which ho said were based on' a close Btudy by ex perts of areas needing better sen-Ice. "Tho city will build the now lines," ho said, "and they will bo operated by tho rapia transit company which offers tho best torms. An Interborough official said It would take about olght years to make ready tho new lines needed to meqt the .growth In travel, two years to prepare the preliminaries and six to construct tho llqcs. Tho city will havo 1,000,000 more population then, ho estimated. .The city ofllcla! dis puted these figures. Ho declared part of the proposed new lines should be ready for operation In four yearr, and all In six.,, , , LIVE TOjB'e 125? ,WU TING FANG SAYS. HE WILL 1 ' - TOltlO, July 2i. rU TlNd-FANCI, former Chi nese Minister to the United States, returning- to Chlnn after a holiday spent 1 Japan, do. cllned to discuss the Chinese revo lution, but Insisted thut lie would Jlyo longer thim, Count Okumu bo cuuno, while tho former Japanese l'roinlur ato bwf, pork and fish, tho Chlntec Btattsrnun wau a ve-g-et.ulan, Wu Tlng-fung claims ho will live .to bo 125 years old. Count Okumu recently boosted he would PLAN NEW SUBWAY IN EIGHTH AVENUE XTEND OLD LINES cJtUve Wu. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 2'4, 1920. ICE CREAM SODAS SOLD AT PROFIT OF 100 TO 250 P. C. Prices Raised From S to 17 and 28 Cents in Some Places and ' Quality Inferior. TO-DAY , dco cream sodas In New York cost from 17 cents in most places to 22 and 28 cents In the more "ex clusive" shops. Only ono place could bo found that bells at 10 cents. Three years ago, when thcoo codas contained a generous serv ing of Ice cream, they cost 5 cents in a majority of places and 10 cenle in others. Tile kind served to-day contains a dab of ice cream, 'possibly1 'an ounce of milk, an ounco of fruit favoring syrup and a tenth of a cent's worth of caroonated water. AjuI tills la Uio avcrass cost ci the Ingredients: Ice cream $ .0284 Carbonated Water .0015 Flavoring syrup 035 Labor .0035 Cashier 025 Overhead 01 Tot '..$.0809 This means that moat dealers are now malting'' oioro than 100 per cent, profit, whllo many of them aro grabbing oft 2S0 per cent, s Almost Like a Cloudburst, It Sweeps Over City Water in Subway Stations. X thunder storm that almost reached clouaourst proportions swept over the city about 4 A. M. to-day. Lightning struck a three-story house occupied toy James Kllnklo at East ern Boulevard and Layton Avenue, the Bronx, but no one was hurt. Sowers overflowed and flooded cel lars In East Houston Street, In South Street and In a section of West 5Cth Street Tho city baths . on Carmlno Slrcot wero Inundated. The Interborough reported consid erable water In the mbway station at 23d Street and Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, and at Borough Hall, Brooklyn, but not enough to Inter fere with tho operation of trains. Lightning played pranks again with tho wires running Into reporters quarters near Pollco Headquarters, but the reporters nro getting so used to It that tho pyrotechnic display did not cause n slnglo one to "beat It." Tho Marine Department of tho po lice was on the lookout ,for trouble, but no car.es of-boats adrift or sunk wero reported, and tho iNaval Radio Station reported no S. O. H. calls. The storm appeared to have been out on a sort of a Joy ride. The Bronx got Its worst visit between 1 and 2 A. M., but lower Manhattan not until after 4. At times tho rain came In torreits for several minutes and then-quit abruptly followod by. an other deluge. Brooklyn reported that n few streets In Flatbush. Swate, Coney Island and other outlying district ovorllow rd, but no damage of consequence wus done. Iluarmrnta flooded and Trnrks In muliitpil in Jeri-r flly. The Wivy rainstorm In Jersey City nt 6 o'clock this morning choked the suwurs- and flooded basomonts in tho lower pnit of tho city. In I'nvmila Avomio and nt nerccn and Jowett HtreetH tbn Insulation on elec tric wires w wt nflrn by lightning and a polo won I'nrrk'd uwny. The trnckti of ihu Jcrsoy Central and. Lehigh were many Incht'H under walor at Merrltt Stroit, Jerney City, and Avcnuu Ci Uuyottfio. 1 HEAVY RAIN STORM BLOCKS SEWERS FLOODS CELLARS REDS GRANT TRUCE ON POLAND'S PLEA MOSCOW reports: Army Command Ordered to Begin Negotiations at Once, Says Wireless. FIGHTING IN THE SOUTH Bolsheviks Said to 'Have Over whelming Superiority in Numbers. LONDON. July 24. Tho Sovlot Gov ernmei'.t of Russia to-day notified Pol and that tho Sovlot army commnnd hnd been ordorcd to begin immedi ately negotiations for an armlMlco, It Is announced in a wireless doepntch from Moscow to-day. WARSAW, July 23. The Bolshe vik thrust 'has carried them past the Poland boundary llne sot by the Council of AmbassuVoTfl. (Along the railroad in this region the iPolen are reported to too flighting to stem tho momontum of tho southwesterly drlv'o which Is trwlnglng tho Ileds toward 'Poland's capital, but In many p!acca tho tired Poles aro com polled t'o withdraw, without muoli resist ance, In tho fnco of overwhelming numbers of frch Bolshevik trops. Bolshevik reservo divisions as sembled by Gen. Bruasllof weeks prior to tho launching of tho offensive aro dally being thrown in all along tho northern front. They are making headway against the scattered Polish lines in tho open country, whore both sides necessarily havo thin llne. at many places, owing to the length of tho front attacked or defended. It Is not warfare like that 1n France, where virtually every inch was pro tected. Icm!bcrg newspapers ounort that Bolshevik olllcers In tho Lemberg Hospital admit the present Bolshevik offensive 1s a flnal-cffoxt, which will! not contlnuo for moro than a fort- might, as tho (Reds are demoralised and discouraged. One of tho Warsaw newspapers, commenting on tho military situa tion, declares that unless tho Bol shevik advance is checked In the region of Grodno, tho Government should Issue an alarming appeal to tho population. So long as tho chief command remalna quiet. It adds, It would Indlcato the Polos nro pre paring a doclslvo blow at tho ad vancing enemy. ALLIES MAY SEEK U. S. AID FOR POLAND Only iWoral and Financial Help Is Likely Nqw to Be Called For. WASHINGTON. July 24. An In qulry from tho Allied Governments aa ,to whether this country would partlctpato In the protection of Po land from Bolshevik Invasion Is ex pected within tho next few days. It Is not expected that there will be any suggestion that this country send troops, but Grout Britain ivnd Trance, which ore committed to tako an active part, will probably want to know if the effort to stay the Rus sians wlUiln tholr own Iwrdcrs 1 go ing to havo our moral and financial support. Olllcials of the Smto Department carefully explained that the United States ban not y"t been npproarhed by any of the European nation on tho questton of Intervention ngnlnst tho onrushlng Bolshevlkl. Itoncc no dtdulon Is possible yet. The only definite action under con sideration In tho possible extension of American credits for the purchnsr of numlUK American wnr miiteiinlu. There 'are quantities of suoh Huppllen In Europe which couht In turned over j tn rousu auinonujj. , . "Clxctdati6n Books Open Vnlrrril iw (lerond-riaM l'ot Offlee, New PUGILIST KILLED T at jersey club Blow on Temple Causes Death of Frankie Mahone, New ark Featherweight. REFUSED TO GIVE UP. Declined to Allow Seconds to Throw Up Sponge In Con test With Willie Davis. Ftrancls Monahan of Newark, known In the boxing ring as Vrankle Mahone, a featherweight, died early to-day In Alcxlan Brothers' Hospital at Elizabeth. Ho was knocked out last night In a boxing bout by Willie Davis ot Elizabeth, with ft ibtow on the temple. The bout -was hold by the Foresters Boxing Club. .Mahone was being beaten and had been knocked down in tho fifth round. His second wonted to throw In tho sponge, but Mahone rafused to allow It. Tho men wero In a mix-up when Mahono fell after his opponent deliv ered a severe blow. His seconds carried him to his cor ner, but wero unablo to revlvo hirn and he was rushed to tho hospital. An autopsy will be performed to-day. SHOT DOWN BEFORE RESTAURANT CROWD Laundry Manager Dying Three Bullet Wounds From in Mysterious Attack. Benjamin Zwrln, twenty-six, a laun dry malinger, of No. 92 Attorney Ktreet, is dying in Ilcllevue HospltnJ with threa bullets In his abdomen after being shot while In a reitaurant, in Second Ave nue, near Third Street, In view ot a score of patrons. Locked up charged with the shooting Is Jomns Locllentl, twonty-clffht, of No. 27 St. Marks Place, who was caught by Patrolman Charles WJaaman during a qtioso In which several hundred took pirt, Zwrln was about to alt down at a toblo wheif a mtin brUihed by, at the same time firing a revolver from his hip three times. The man then calmly turned around, throw the revolver into a basket and walked uut, closing the door after him. Locllentl was taken back to the restaurant and Zwrln was asked to Identify him, but merely (hrug ged his shoulders. B. R. T. TO OPEN NEW SUBWAY LINES Queen Plaza and Montague Street Tunnel Service Will Start To-Morrbw. 1 The Brooklyn Rapid Tranalt' Com pany will begin running through trains in the COth Sfrcet tunnel to Queans and through tho Montague Street tunnel to Brooklyn at 12.01 o'clock next Sunday morning. Tho now service will add more than seven miles of route to tho B. R, T, service. New subway stations In Brooklyn iiirluila those at Seventh, Atlantic and Do Kalb Avenues and Court Street. The now service will mean a substantial extension of tho flve.rtnt faro to Coney Island, and iW now htoel cars will be added to the B. It. T. service, 500 of which are now read), WOMEN ACCEPT B. R. T. PAY RAISE At least half of the women employees of the Brooklyn Rapid Tranalt ro In favor of accepting thi 10 per cent, flat Inrieasn offeit-d workers of the linen. Two meeting" of tho 11. It. T. Women's Loiinie for Kqunl Opportunity, In which at leant half of the II. It. T. women woikors aro meinbcra. voted to accept the 10 wr ont. and not hold out for th 33 Pr cent, to bu demanded by tin Tho night workers mat during tho day anil Uat night tho day workers held their meeting. , BOXING BO to1 AIL" I PRIOB TWO CENTS in onkvricu jckw yoiik Matter C York. N. Y. STfFFEST BREEZE FOR DECIDING Rffi TOM: BOTH YACHTS SAFE IN GALE Defender's Men Say Only Rank Bad Luck Can Take Cup Away From America Challengers Pay High, Tribute to Yankee Skipper. SANDY HOOK, N. J., July 24.When the Resolute and Shamrock began-making soil, the wind had piped up but of the southwest to Id knots. Crosted waves beat upon the shore.' v It , was just such a day as a real sailorman loves to weigh anchor and head seaward, carrying every sail his ship will bear. ' ............ " t'-Tfr uy hinasay itemeon. . $n (8paell Staff Correspond nt of Ths Eventnn World.) '- HIGHLANDS, N. J July 24, A fifteen krtbt' breeze frorhtbr southwest, which seemed likely to grow heavier, remained after-a. six hour storm of thunder, lightning and rain on the coiirse on which' Reso lute and Shamrock are to race to-day in-the deciding" contest for the Amer ica's Cup. , . ' The overnight storm, which tore the Montauk, Resolute's tender,1 from her moorings, but did not drive her .ashore, was', still muttering and flashing in the southern horizon as- the contending 'yachts1 left their moorings. , ,, .Vi : Neither vacht was damaeed at all. it was reported bv the crews'who. went aboard ihem e.irlv. j -, If the wind holds, as seems likely, there is a .prospect for racing under driving conditions such as are rare in the history of cup faces! ' ! To-day's oourse in a. thirty, irrfla i POLICEMAN KILLED BY AUTO AT CONEY Steller Run Down as He Steps from Taxi After "Lift" on Way to Station. Policeman Ocorge Steller, fifty-two years old, of No.. 2GD Crescent Btroot, Urooktyn, attached to the Coney ,Iland Station, died early to-day In Coney Island Hospital from fractured skull after being struck by an automobile. Bo imd gone off duty at midnight and was on his way to the atatlon to "turn In" when a taxlcab chauffeur iffored him a "lift." In leaving the taxi at Surf Avenue and Weat th Street he atepped In front of an automobile driven by E'Jward Hllenbogen, No. 63S Klly Street, the Bronx. He was hurled sev eral feet and fell on his head. Kor many years Steller was attached to the Headquarters Dlvlaiou In Man hattan. Ho la survived by u. widow and two children. WOMAN HELD ASTHIEF. Reor Sr Crabbed SOU When Ha Went to I'ny Tasl. A woman wio described herself at .Susan Uonft, fifty, of 1N0. 3S Eaat &9th Strt, la locked up in the West 10 Oth Street Station on a charge 9( grand, larceny. A man who gave his name ar Lowell W. Varr of No. Hi East JWi Street, alleges the unman snatched ii'i from htm while he waa paylnr the fare of a uxlcab In which they wero riding Lowells, according to the police, snl-t he and tho woman hod an altercation in tho taxi, and at SUth' Ktreat and Broad. niy thuy got "ouu Tho lois.af mono followed. " ' GUN TO SHOOT 80 MILES. nrlna; Unlit by British to Hurl 8-Incli shell. LONDON. July Sl A gun l Wtlng built at the Vlekera Worka at Sheffield eighty feet long that will hurl an elnht Jneh ahell between aeventy and eighty miles. ' Announcement to this effect has " made by tho Lord Mayor of BBXXIOHT XmtEE CEN18 ELsinniKitE OF SERIES S . , . n beat to tho. ylndward und return, . tho previous taees , .tosoluto ,t haa. proved suprelor to thochalleitgcr!lla thrash Into, tho wind. ) V. ',- The wind was nearly a ulo, ashoic." ' The limbs of .'rccs on tho flo'pos'of tho lUghilands, Uiredhod and J.wlstcI and groaned and there was aj lirlli howling in tho guy cables ot tho ob servation towers. .' Tho heavy sea .bad flattened out the sea oft shore, but tho few soiling yGe- rtls In tho vicinity of Ambroau'lllgot ' wore ceen to ,b well, rqefcd'dowix or using only hcudtull. In the last race skippers' are likely to take chonceo Jlko . baseball ctaffr- , " tain in the lust inning with a roan oji ' third and twd out. Rcsoluto was first to dress for tho--" party. Her mainsail wna up by.-$'.3tf;'. and her hcadsalla In stapii. . -' ' ' Shamrock's main sail was sent, up . ., a quarter of an hour later and a reef, was taken In it by 10 o'clock Itestfr ' lute did not take this preoailtlqn, M' Burton apparently felt It-.wbaldbt' easier to. -undo his reef points out-. waters along the beach. Shamrock moved out .from ,K moorings inder her reefed mafnsaSfjl as though nhoi iikef an. arrow fromfq bow. I'llQt. "Applejack Andy" Apjileg avoided, thu trip down In Ills humpfl backed fishing motor boat Char: and went to Handy Hook by rail f Hea Bright, signalling Klllarnoy. fr. Uio oVs;tern, .union tower there jiend off.-for him m-a laun?h ,i ir Tnomas Mpion nan nau. tU tlo Joke about his invisible slleait tor .which was mado for Henry IFord. "e.il haV.e no need of Wb motor fo-ilay," observed on crew nil he climbed aboard. boat SlrTioms has hlrei dltlonal tender. "And nil tor and hoi KngVlt and Us 4 iv nui sldo1 than to shorten, sailbeforgthf . steady rising which, was .beglnnlnr tend hea-y rollers to the stone' bretUv&r? ' IT- (Continued oa Second Pago.) yenm