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ULLETS NEW
RAPPED BY BLAZE IN HOME bums ms
WOMEN AND CHILDREN ARE B5 m
nnnnnrn mm nni inr Annuo v .
UKuntu muruubt hkivioi
fhree Men, Also in Night-1
clothes, Jump From Win-1
dow to Root ot l-AU'u-ion;
Fifteen Feet Below .
iremen Larry I nirct r-amii; i
of Seven and a Dog D- wn
Ladders Blaze Had ' "u: '
Off Stairway.
ged Man Dies in Blaze a- He
TriiK tn f.rnne W'av On'
Annili.'i- fVi-nmnl nf Fr.-imL i
Dwelling Rescued.
rarfaS Vtrt rcsVucTf early this mom
S in two urooKiyn uiw.
Tle one who tiled was David lc-
rath, slxt-two jenrs old. llv.nrr on
e second 'floor oC the frame lu-uso
No. G21 Metropolitan Avcnu". An
d man who lived on the giound floor
'leaped. McGrath, apparently over-
!ne by smoko as he tried to grope
way out. wus found spruwIUi',- cn
e
floor in his night clothe, -lie
is u foreman for Austin Nichols &
, grocers. The fire started from
overheated stove in tho kitchen.
In clearing up the wreckage in tho
rned room firemen found part of a
kail shelf against the wall over thi
n
eve. Only enough of the shell re
ined to support a small statuette
fiWthe Virgin Mary, which was en-
ely uninjured by the flames arm
rely smudged with smoke. The re-
inder of the shelf had been iiurncu
ay and pictures on the same wall
ncd.
fourteen persons were tescued by
Icemen and firemen during a fire
tho three-story former roadhouso
. 3347 Pulton Street, In the Cypress
Us section of Brooklyn, at 1 A. SI.
V. one-Btory extension made from
old roadhouso piazza Into stores
rounded tho building. Tho flro
rted In a shoe store and had cut
escape b the stairs before Po-
man Mathias Klnnavy, a rooklo of
Ciosson Avenue Station, who was
his way to his home, No. 327 Eu-
l Avenue, discovered It. Members
the throe families living, over the
res were In window blowing police
istles, but were ordered not to
P.
iClnnavy was joined by Policeman
than Greenhouse, of tho 'Miller
nuo Station, and they tried un-
cessfully to get up tho stairs
push the smoke. The men, women
1 children had bcef driven from
front to tho back windows when
policemen returned to the street.
Innavy and Greenhouse ran to the
smashed a rence and climbed to
extension, over which the terror
cken tenanta of tho top floor were
lilng. They were Mrs. Esther
der. forty-one, a teacher In Public
(Continued on Second Page.)
RDING SIGNS
MARKETING BILL
mers' Co-operative and Exemp
tion Measure Becomes a
Law To-Day.
ASHINGTON, Feb. IS. Tho
per-Vo!stead Co-operative Market-
Dill, which legalizes co-operatlvo
c'talltns of farmers n il producers
marketing lUirposes mil exempts
n from the Sherm.n nti-Trust
was slgnod .to-day by President
iiln. . .
ONE.
DAILY. CwrfftWSS SSfVmS VM" NEW
j ruuoL Hmvioi
BOOTLEGGER I
OR
BONUS?
FAVOR TAXING
uimrn fimn nrrnn I
T!IMLU HMU ULLhU
! TO PAy JHE BONUS
Majority of Veterans Believe
Modification of Prohibition
Will Solve Puzzle.
(From a Staff Correspondent of The
Evening World.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. Impetus
has been given to the light wines and
beer movement in Congress and. out
because of the situation created by
the fruitless search for new sources
of revenue to supply money for the
soldier bonus.
Editor Houston, of Stars and
Stripes, ono of the best known organs
of the ex-service men, said to-day
that while there is division among
tlio men on the subject, the same as
among any other class of citizens, he
believes a majority favor legalizing
and taxing light wines and beer for
bonus revenue purposes.
"I think a majority of tho ex-ser
vice men favor light wines and beer,"
said Houston. "If you tie the bonus
with this piogramme, I believe a
great majority of the ox-servico men
would favor this modification of the
Pinhlbitlon Idiw."
The Maryland Representative
urging his scheme on the Ways and
Means Commltteo, and it is possible
that after the sales tax proposal has
been fought out and finally disposed
of tho commltteo may turn to the
wines and beer proposal as an alter
native. Hepicscntatlvo John Philip Hill of
tho Haltlmore District, who is an ex
sorvlce man, has introduced a bill to
have each Congressional district called
a "Local Option District," and the
peoplo of the country vote whether
they want 1 ler cent, beer and 4 per
cent, wines. Tho measure provides
that thoso districts that vote for light
(Continued on Second Pago.)
MAN IS SHOVED OFF
SUBWAY PLATFORM
IN FRONT OF TRAIN
Thomas Mrlnhardt, fifty-eight years
old, of No. 903 East 15Gth Street, the
lironx, was pushed by a crowd off the
northbound platform of the 14th
Street Station of the east sldo subway
a' 1 o'clock this afternoon. Ho fell
In front of an approaching train,
which threw him from the track.
Suffering from a fracture of tho right
Icf; and internal injuries, he was
tuken to Bellevue Hospital.
The accident created a panic in the
station, which was jammed with
workers from the factories around
Union Square bound for their homes
in Harlem and the Bronx. Although
tho platforms In this station aro pro
tected hy railings, there aro open
tipnees giving access to the car doors.
Melnhardt was standing on the edge
r the platform at ono of these pone
spares, when tho crowd behind surged
foiward as the train rolled Into tho
tfctloa.
rClfcuafioii Boots Open to AIL"
"Frozen Credits" Thawing Out Judge Announces He Has Sent
and Export Trade Is , in Resignation in FJYect
Beginning Again. j on March 1.
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FARM PRODUCTS HELPED DUTIES NOW TQO HEAVY
Figures of Comptroller and ,;ol fn0ugh Hours in the
War Finance Director Con-"! Day," He Says, to Accom
firm the President's Views, i piish All He Has to Do.
By David Lawrence.
(Special Correspondent of The Eve
ning World.)
WASHINGTON. Feb. 18 (Copy
right.. 1922). Business Is better. Pres
ident Harding sas so and offers fig
ures and statistics to eonllrm his opti
mistic view. Heretofore his expres
sions about the business situation
have been general In character and
tinned with a vague houpfuUuvrMh'H
the depression rhust sooner" or later
come to an end. Now, however, with
a smile of happiness on his face, the
President takes occasion to analyze
the latest data received hv the Comp
troller of the Currency.
The President explained that his
purpose was neither political nor par
titan. Mr. Harding Is no more anx
ious to claim credit for the better
turn In business affairs than was his
Administration ready to take responsi
bility for the economic depression
which becamo acute in the first six
months of his term of office.
Tho day is passing when politicians
are claiming that they are able by
governmental effort to bring prosper
ity when at the same time it has been
demonstrated that tne policy of a
government docs not always bear a
relationship to economic factors of
world-wldo extent, i nls doesn't pro
vent tho partisans from making all
sorts of claims, bat the shreivd
leaders no longer try to take tho
credit for an upward turn in business
conditions.
President Harding, however, has an
other object In making it plain to the
American people that the data In pos
session of the Government showed a
marked Improvement In the credit sit
uation. He wants to offset the appre
hensions of the pessimist who can
create a psychological situation that
will hurt business. There are still
many business men In America re
fraining from doing certain things that
would benefit themselves and the
country, but who hesitate on account
of "tho business outlook." For this
reason the Government doesn't mind
interpreting the outlook.
Tho Comptroller of the Currency,
whoso duty It Is to issue regular calls
for statements from tho national
banks of the country, has had nothing
to boast about for many months. The
Improvement has been gntdual and
steady, but it never could lie culled
pronounced. When he found at last
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SUDAN WIFE COSTS
8 SPEARHEADS NOW;
FOUR BEFORE WAR
Or- Profiteers Will Take Seven
Cows as Doubled Price for
Dusky Bride.
LONDON, Feb. IS.
Lord Dewar, speaking at a
meeting of the Leyslan Mission
here, said profiteering had spread
everywhere slnco the war, even
Into the Sudan, where It had ex
tended to the price of wives.
"In the Sudan before the war,"
he said, "a wife could be got for
four spearheads. Now the price
has !oub!"d : one has to puj eight
spearheads. In tho cattle country
It used to b four cows; now the
price lseven cows."
YORK, SATURDAY,
CLUE
E
TO DEVOTE
WHOLE
TIE TO
CHICAGO. Feb. 18 (Associated,
I 'less). Federal Judge Kern-saw M.
l-nndis announced to-day that he had
resigned from the bench and would
devote his entire time to his posi
tion of baseball commissioner
Tho resignation Is effective March
1. Aniymnecment of It was made
formally by the Judgo as ho took his
place In coi'.it.
- , "Thor'are Hot enough Uours In the
day for all of my activities, said the
Judge, "Therefore, 1 have forwarded
my resignation ns Federal Judge to
Washington, effective March 1."
He said he had mailed hlsi resigna
tion to-day, addressing it to President
Harding. i
The Judge then called tho first caso i
on his docket and refused to discuss
tho matter until court recess.
The sou of a prominent Indiana
family, Judgo Landls was on the
Federal bench for nearly seventeen
years. He assumed tho offlco on
March 28, 1905. Ho first attracted
attention when ho fined the Stundard
OH Company $29,000,000. Tho flno,
the largest ever ir.jpot.ed by any
court of Justice, was later remitted by
the Supreme Court.
Judgo Saudis was appointed Ilaso
ball Commissioner over a year ago at
a salary of J42.E00. A great deal of
ciiticlsm was heard when he remained
on the bench and albo administered
his baseball duties. It camo to a
climax with an .effort to censure him
In Congress.
Although he had intended to leave
thi. bench eventually, he refused to
quit under lire and remained long
after ho had planned to resign.
His most noted baseball decision
was in the case of Uabc Ituth, king
of homo run hitters, who had violated
a rulo by participating in a barn
storming tour after ho had taken part
In a World's Series. Tho Judgo fined
Ituth his sharo of the World's Scries
moro than 13,000 and buspended
him for moro than a month of the
coming playing season.
Baseball circles In New York were
generally pleased with tho resignation
of Judge Landls.
"Every ono connected with the
game should be congratulated that
Judge lindls has decided to confine
his futuie to iKmeball," sold John A.
Heydler, President of the National
League.
"Judge Landls already has done a
lot of big t,hings for baseball and he
should be able to do even moro when
he has no other Interests to demand
his time."
The same sentiments were expressed
at the offices of the threo Metropolitan
Major League clubs.
RUSH AIRPLANE
TO SAVE A BANK
Carries All Money Needed to Pa
Depositors in El Dorado,
Ark., Institution.
EL DORADO, Ark., Feb. 18. An
airplane laden with sufficient money
to pay all depositors of tho Guaranty
Bank and Trust Company of El Do
lado, Is expected to nrrhe hern to-day
from Shreveport. La.
The plane was despatched following
n run on tho bank due to a flne re
port that It was Insolvent.
LANDISQU1TSB
NCH
BASEBALL
FEBRUARY 18,
IN MOVIE
JURIST WHO QUITS
BENCH TO BE REAL
CZAR OF BASEBALL
LANDIS.
LIMERICK BRIGADE
T
FREE STATE
Refuses to Recognize Present
Army Officers, Declaring
for a Republic.
tilMKIUCK, Ireland, Feb. 18 (Asso
elated Press). A proclamation wr.s
Issued to-day on behalf of the mld
l.lmcrlck brigade of tho Irish Itepub
llcan Army, refusing to recognize the
present heads of the Army oi- the
Provisional Government, and pledmng
allegiance to tho eoclstlng Republic.
LONDON, Feb. '18 (Associated
Press). Tho Joint Lhilson Commis
sion may begin to function over tho
week-end. It Is unofficially stated, thus
giving a fair prospect for prevention
of the dreaded clash between tho ilval
foices lined up along the Southern
t'lster border.
Peaco seems for tho moment to
have ugaln descended over Northern
Ireland, tho releaso of tho remaining
kidnapped Unionists, announced yes
let-day, tending to easo the tension,
Nevertheless, both sides still hold
pilsnneri, and It Is understood tho
South Is determined not to releaso the
special eonstaoles captured at Clones
until the Monnghan football players
are freed liy tho Ulster authorities,
the South contending that If tho latter
are guilty because they carried arms
the I'lones raptlvcs aro equally
guilty.
Moieuvei, there Is the Question of
the four Sinn Felncrs held at nath
frl.tnd, eharged with "tumultuous
UHwmbly." this growing out nf dis
orders In (onnection with a Itepubll
can funeral two wcelfs ago; and also
that of the arrest of tho three Irish
Itipul'lii.'ii Army otticers at Ncwry.
Notlrwlthstandlng tho repeated North
in a--hnrtmns that the footballers
will be held unless they apply for
Uul. them Is a rumor that they may
be liberated as nn "act of grace"
wi'bln a few hours.
RICKARD WON'T RUN.
ST. LOUIS COLISEUM
President Hates Denies nirmer
( i mien Promoter Ha- St
liuis Lease.
ST I.OT IS. Feb. IS. T. I' Hate ,
1'rosni'iit of the Colleum Company,
this afternoon denied "Tex" Hickit 1
nr nny mr !- had leased the f'o,'
. mii" y"r f 'wenly.flve year."
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REVOLTS
AGAINS
IRISH
T WORLD'S WINTER RESORT ANNUAL lor
1922, containing Itadlng Fortign and Amarlean
Hi-.crli. Slaamtnl; Trlval and Tourt, tt at
HUWoflU oillo or tr mall en roiuMt. AUttu
wTW Biiort Bureau, Now Yor World, Niw Yort.
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i "Circulation Books Open
1922.
Kntrrril n Hrrcml-Clnis .MntUr
l'o Office, St York, . .
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FOR SWITZERLAND
Family Conters on Betrothal
of Heiress, 16, to
Horseman, 48.
QUARRKl. LOOKED FOR.
Father Resigned, but Sister and
Mother May Prove Hostile
to Marriage.
CHICAGO, Feb. 18. Miss Mathldc
McCormlck, sixteen-year-old grand
daughter of John D. Rockefeller, to
day arranged passage for Europe In
May, tending to confirm reports she
will marry Max Oser, Zurich .riding
master, threo times her ago. ''
Tho girl will bo accompanied on the
return trip by Miss Julia Mangold,
who was Oser's liookkcopor and who
came to this country with Miss Mc
Cormlck last fall.
Miss Mathlldo played Indoor golf at
tho old Cyrus McCormlck homo on
Chicago's Gold Coast to-day, while
awaiting tho arrival of her father,
Harold F. McCormlck, President of
the International Harvester Com
pany, and her sister, Muriel, fiom
New York. Ihe expected them yes
Urtlay and was disappointed when
Mio hoard they had postponed leav
ing New York a day. They will ar
rlvo to-night.
Mnthilde's chief concern, urcordlng
to closo friends, was not what her
grandfather, tho world's richest man,
or hor mother might nay.
"I wondor whUt Muriel will say?"
was tho only qucstlbn In her mind,
according to these associates.
Thero didn't seem to bo much doubt
in Mathllde's mind what Muriel would
say. Slio was pretty certain that her
older sister would say plenty. Muriel
Issued a statement n New York deny
ing tlio reported engagement and say
ing It wius ridiculous.
CHICAGO, Feb. 18 (Associated
Press). No statement regarding pub
lished reportB that sho Is cngagtd to
rnnrry Max Osor, Zurich, Switzerland,
riding master, was forthcoming to-day
from Miss Mathlldo McCormlck, sl-tein-year-old
daughter of Harold F.
McCormlck. und granddaughter of
John I. Rockefeller. Miss McCormlck
was -said to be nwalting tho arrival
to-day from Now York of her father
before, having anything to say.
"Theie Is no statenjent," Miss Lois
Gladys Phllbrlck. , Mr. McCormluli's
secretary said. "Miss Mathlldi- has
nothing to say until her father arrives.
But she hopes that Miss .Muriel won't
come homo with her father--slie says
Miss Muriel will raise Old Ned."
Miss Phllbrlck yesterday said that
Miss Mathlldo and Miss Julia .Man
gold, who formerly was Oner's book
keeper and who camo to America with
Miss McCormlck, plan to return to
Swltzuilaud early tn tho sirring. "1
think they hav'o arranged for passage
In May, although It may be earlier
or later," sho said.
Mr. McCormack and his daughter
Muriel aro on their way to Chicago
to-ilny. Tlio ncccpted report among
their friends hero Is that Miss Ma
thlldo will settle her course largely by ,
the advlco of her grandfatlu r. John,
II. Rot-kef eller, of whom she. Is very
fond and who has been verj Indul
gent with her. '
Tho friendship between Oser and -Miss
McCormlck, nccordlng to closi
friends of tho family, began when she
was a child of eight, In Switznil.ind
under treatment for throat and lung
Jrouhlo. Sho becamo very friendly
with Miss Julia Mangold, an employee
of Oser, and brought her tn this coun
try as a companion. Oser In described
as well read and regarded highly In
Zurich as a man of considerable
wealth and unquestioned Integrity.
VATS rill.MAIlY VKIinirT FINAL.
ALBANY. Fob. U. A bll' i.Kned to
.,.,.11 I.,, t'vroon qefcaiea ror a nom-
I r ntl.j i for public officii In r pr in.r
i- i ct.uii content from accept r i .
nhtion for the dame office li ml-p.-'l
I I nt nomination petition wau - itiodiK-oit
yemcrday by Assemblyman Palmer, Re
publican, of New York.
M'COl
ENGAGES PASSAGE
To-Morrow'.
EXTRA
to All."
MURDER
SLUGS LI THE ODD ONE
THAT KILLED TAYLOR FOUND
IN IAXI DRIVER'S ROOM
IK'S BODY LOST.
Mrs. .Siegrist 'Had Been Buried
During the Epidemic With
70 Others. K
Justice Tlerncy In the Bronx Sil-
pi-rrtio Court opened to-day. a. sealed
verdict reached by a Jury last night
awarding to Charles Hlegrlst ot No.
182" Amsterdam Avenue $2,500 dam
ages agulnst the trustees of St. Ray
mond's Cemetery In tlnf Bronx for
losing the body of Kiegrist's wife. Tho
court look under advisement a motion
by counsel for the tiustceif to sot the
verdict aside,
Mrs. Hlegrist died on Oct. 18, 1918,
in tho hcicht of the Influenza eftl-
dcinlc. Owing to a shortage of labor
1111(1 n Itendlnrr Mtrllci, nf ft-ii v-eillirirerM.
her body was placed In u receiving
vuult in the cemetery with soventy
nino others.
Dr. Arthur .1. O'l.eary. Health
Commissioner of the Bronx, Issued an
order requiring tho cemetery authori
ties to bury these bodies within
twenty-four hours. A steam shovel
was procured and trendies were dug
and the coffins were deposited therein.
In tlin hurry and confusion records
were lost and nothing could hn found
to show where Mrs Hlegrlst was
burled. On the demand of tho hus
band twenty-live coffins were ex
humed and opened. No ono knows
where her body lies.
Tlio damage suit was tried before
Justice Tlerney on Thursday anil yes
terday. Tho court Instructed the Jury
that a husband has a right to know
where tho body of his wife is burled.
VILLA OFFERS SWORD
TO CRUSH REBELLION
Wnii I (I Take Flrlil icnlnt Knrmtr
A 1,1 Wli.i Ilrnrrlnl Illni.
MKXICO CITY, Felr. 18 (Associated
I'n-.h).- I-'ranclm-o Villa, former bundlt
chief, has risked official permission to
lend his mm iiKnlnst Gen. Itoxnllo
Hernandez, who was reported several
days riKo ns in rebellion In the State of
Chllmahiitt.
In 1011. Hernandez Mas Villa's trusted
alii", but he went over to Carranza
when Villa and tho latter split. Tho
former bandit !"der now sees nn op
portunity to pay or! the old score, and
Ills emissary Is said to have arrived In
the capital yesterday to obtain tho "as
signment" for Ids chief.
GIRL OF 13 IS
GIVEN LICENSE TO
BE A PREACHER
Ha Already Filled Vacancies in
I'ulpit Wants to. Be
a Missionary.
TULSA. Okla", Feb. IS.
thirteen-year-old- girl won
.niiong seven persons granted a
license to preach by the North
eastern Oklahoma Conference of
tho Mothoiltst Kplscopal clinch
here yesterday. She Is Miss Fay
Kmery, of Miami, Okla., who be
gan preaching last summer lu tho
mining district near her home.
Sho is tn the seventh grnda
at school and says her ambition Is
to become a ferelgn missionary.
Soon she was urged to address
ir-KUlarly the inmates nf the old
ladles' an i men's homes. Later
.-.ho filled vacancies at richer.
Okla., and then preached at
Baxter t'prigs.
GETS MO AWARD
AGAIKST CEMETERY
Wealher UNSETTLED.
PRICE THREE CENTS
Police Hunt Chauffeur Who
Knew W. D. Taylor and Had
Taken Him Many Times in
Auto to Los Angeles Houses.
Man Disappeared From Usual
Haunts at Hollywood on
Feb. 2 Warrant For Arrest
to Be Asked For To-day.
Terms Offered to Valet Sands
on Old Charge If He Will
Appear and Tell What He
, Knows of Late Employer.
IX)S ANGKLES, Fob. 18. Police
to-day sought n tnxlcub driver, mles
Ing since Felt. 2, whom they now be
lieve to have been n hired assassin
In the William Desmond Taylor
mystery.
Tho tunn knew Taylor, Edward V.
Sands and others mentioned In con
nection with the1 case, having been
employed numerous times by each of
them.
Police found several bullets, the
exact duplicates of tho odd .SS-cullbrc
slug that killed Taylor, In tho driver's
room. Ho is said to havo removed an
old fashioned revolver which had lain
for months on his bureau on the after
noon preceding the tragedy. A war
rant will probably lie issued to-day,
the police said.
A letter purporting to be from the
missing valet, Sands, who says ho is
In I.os Angeles, was received to-day
by tho police. In It the writer says he
knows who murdeied Taylor, and Is
icady to surrender and "untangle
this murder mystery" If guaranteed
his ficedom on establishing his own
Innocence.
District Attorney Woolwlne, In Is
suing an open reply ugrcelng to the
terms, explained hu called a con
ference of tho Investigators und H
was unanimously decided It would be
best to answer tho letter on the
chancu that It wus genuine, und mluht
result In solving tho mystery.
That tho "Sands" letter may U
genulno In believed by Hart Tlffanj ,
Taylor's former chauffeur. Ho came
oluntfirlly to the District Attorney's
otflco to say hu saw a man ho Is cci
tain was Sands In Los Angeles two
days Ireforo tho murder.
A votbatlm copy of tho letter pui -porting
to have been written b
Sands, w'as mado public by Mr. Wool
wlne, as follows:
"Dear Sir: This letter will probably
surprise you when you read it- "l am
taking this liberty to wrlto you to
make matters inuro easy for you. In.
tho first place, I am Mr. Sands, al
though a friend of mine Is writing
this letter under my dictation.
"Mr. Woolwlne, k)U need not lool
nil over tho world fur me, for I am
living right hero In Los Angeles and
am reading the papers every day con
cerning tho Taylor murder. I will be
frank witti you. Mr. Woolwlne: 1
haven't had any peace of mind Blnce
the murder, and I havo come to the
conclusion that the quicker this thing
Is settled tho better off wo will all be.
"Now, Mr. Woolwlne. In tho first
place, I did not murder Taylor, but I
know who did it But what assurance
havo I from you to know that you will
accept my stoty N " '
"Therefore 1 i.. rantee from
you that if I uijself Ir.tu
inur hands and :i 1 utuM.ia ray fa-,
nocenco of tho crlioa you -..ill id
mo free. .
"If tg xHl this, Mr. Woolwlne,.
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