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VOL. LXII. NO. 22,033
POLICE SHOTS HALT RUM RUNNERS IN
HOUSE BONUS PLAN
UTILE CHANGED BY
Smoot Suggestion for Paid
Up Insurance Turned Down
by Veterans.
TILL WORK ON DETAIL.
Finance Committee Proposes
Some Alterations, but
j Nothing Radical.
By David Lawrence.
- "Wpeclal Correspondent of The Eve-
ning World.)
WASHINGTON. April 10 (Copy
Wght). Negotiations between the
American Legion and tho Senate
finance Committee are proceeding
featleiactorlly, but tho reports of in,',
abandonment of tho Houso Go-J to "'m
are untrue. Tho Buggcstto;'Ud dlcd of
dtor, Smoot that a pald.,r jackson was
bollcy bo given as a. Si checks, appa
"'feUturtod- compensation, chotf-Sir:
)jcen declined by tho Legion. It was
Mr. Srooot's own proposal and not
that of tho Flnanco Committee.
"Wo have neither abandonod tho
House bill nor agreed upon any sub
stitute," said Senator McCumbcr,
Chairman of the committee, to this
correspondent to-day.
Inquiry at American Legion head
quarters disclosed the fact that with
tho exception of a few minor details
thero Is virtually no chango In tho
position of that organization, which Is
Insisting that tho Houso bill bo
adopted.
The fundamentals in tho new pro
posal mado by tho Senato Flnanco
Committee In Its Informal talks with
jftho American Legion aro substantially
'VgMese:
First, the Houso bill provided that
payments In ensh bo made In October,
1922, and tho Senato wants to make
it threo months later January, 1923.
There Is no objection from tho Legion.
Second, there has been a sug
gested limit on tho tlmo tho soldier
could make his application for any of
tho flvo ways of receiving a bonus.
The Senato committee proposes to
elimlnato tho tlmo limit, which, of
courso satisfies tho Legion.
Third, tho House bill provided that
If the number of days a man served
entitles htm at the rate of $1 or
$1.25 (depending upon overseas duty)
to a total of $50, he shall receive
cash. The Senate suggested tho total
cash be raised to $100. The Legion
dissents because the outlay under the
House bill would bo about $16,000,000,
while It might cost $100,000,000 under
the Senate plan. The Legion Is anx
ious that the Immediate cash outlay
uhall not embarrass tho Government.
f Fourth, tho Senato committee pro
Vgijioses also that even If tho total due
an ex-servtco man amounts to $10" or
1ms he shall be nrlvllcced to choose
SENATE AND LEGION
I '"Nthe adjusted ccrtlflcato plan. This, of
courso, does not displease the Legiou.
B.
Ft. , aid In tho purchaso of a home
or a- farm as covered In the Houso
bill woulcTqnable n man with $300 duo
him to get that sum advanced toward
Jli mortgage. Tho Senate committee
Jpaggcsts $400 bo tho limit and that
the payments be modo in Instalments
of $200 a year, beginning January,
1023. The Legion feels tho total
amount should be advanced at once.
Sixth, the Senato committee has
proposed that, as an Incentive
toward the taking of the ccrtlflcato
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Mother's Suicide Is Prevented
By Milk From Own Baby's Botlle;
Lacking Clothes. She Drank Acid
Neighbor Called by Husband Removes Nipple
and Pours Antidote Down Young Wife's
Throat Condition Is Critical.
Apparently brooding over her hus
band's Inability to buy her new cloth
ing, Ida Vivian Morelock, nineteen,
drank carbolic acid to-day nnd is In a
critical condition In tho Jersey City
llospltul.
Tho young mother aroso from
breakfast at Their homo, No. 19S Fifth
Strce.t, Jersey City, this morning with
her twenty-two months' old baby,
Doris, und, while Btlll holding the
child, drank tho poison. Her husband
Charles, twenty-three, called In Mrs.
Paulino Wills, a neighbor, who took
tho nlpplo from tho bottle tho baby
Pfervsis Hall
.Upper Bay; Liquors Valued at
$90,000 Seized on Lighter Ideal
Police Launch Almost Cap
sizes When Craft Being
Pursued Makes Quick Turn
Crew Attacks Policemen.
Tho police boat John F. Hylan, on
bootlegging patrol, at just about day
break this morning took note of tho
Ideal, a clumsy looking motor lighter,
coming up tho Narrows, hugging the
Brooklyn Bhoro, far out of the chan
nel. The John F. Hylan signalled to
Launch No. 2, Sergt, Richard Whalen
commanding, to "go get It,"
Tho lighter picked up speed scan
dalously as the launch came In sight
but the polices boat gained rapidly
Sergt. Whalen hailed twlco and then
fired two shots over tho fugitive. Ac
cording to Whalen, the Ideal mado a
quick turn and went by lilm at close
quarters nearly capsizing tho little
pollco craft. Whalen, and Policemen
Dralsel and Rau, his crew, .all
emptied their revolvers. They make
no denial of their willingness to have
hit James Carlton, of No. 672 Fifty
sixth Street, Brooklyn, pilot of the
lighter, tho only man who remained
In sight nftcr Whalcn's first warn
ing shots. The Ideal stopped with
tho least necessary delay.
Whalen and Bralscl climbed aboard
ana wore met by a rush of tho pilot
und the crew of the Ideal. Two ol
them had 13 raise! bending back wa id
ever the side with Intent to drop htm
oerboard when Whalen broke away
Irom men who were holding him and
knocked Bralscl's attackers down with
his club.
Under tarpaulins on the Ideal's
deck were hundreds of tho slx-bottl-burlap
bags now familiar to bootleg,
gcr hunters and apparently used with
a view to swift handling of the con
traband and to convenience In fishing
It out of the water after It has been
thrown overboard to avoid seizure.
The Ideal was escorted out Into the
(Continued on Second Pago.)
'ASSASSINS' PLOT
AGAINST FRENCH
PRESIDENT FAILS
Police of Tunis Unearth Con
spirncy to Kill Millerand on
Visit There.
TUNIS, April 26.
A plot to assassinate President
Millerand of Franco upon his ar
rival hero was unearthed to-day.
Four Communists were arrested.
Tho pollco declare tho capture"!
men belonged to a gang which
was preparing an attack upon the
President of the Republic when
he arrives hero this week on a
visit.
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was nursing nnd poured thu milk
down tho mother's throat as an
antidote.
Mr. Morelock told tho police he and
his wife had never quarrelled during
their three years of married life and
ho could ascribe no motive for her
action. Mrs. Wills said that on their
way home from n motion picture
theatre last night she and Mrs. More
lock were attracted by a hat In a
milliner's window.
".My husband would buy mo that
without any question If I asked him,"
Mrs. Wills remarked at the time, to
which the younger woman replied,
"You're lucky, my husband doesn't
make enough to buy mo clothes."
Rum Runners
EVASIONS AT ONCE
Seven Questions Presented to
Clarify Intentions at Con
ference. GENOA, April 26 (United Press).
Seven categorical questions .Till be
presented to Russia by tho convening
powers of the Jenoa Conference to
day. Prompt answers aro demanded.
Lloyd George, no less than tho
French, Is determined that the Soviet
delegation's evasions and contradic
tions, which have brought tho parley
dangerously near disaster, must cease
Tho questions to be submitted are
designed to clarify previous contra
dictory nnd confusing statements by
Chlcherln and his colleagues. They
wero prepared by Allied experts and
submitted to tho Allied chiefs for ap
proval. They have not yet been made
public but are understood to be:
Is Russia prepared to recog
nize she ts not going to get tho
$2,500,000,000 loan, and to discuss
credits 7
If so, does she Intend to per
mit a modicum of Allied super
vision to guarantee those credits?
. Does Russia now understand
that when tho Allies propose to
"wrlto down" war debts they do
not mean "wlpo out7"
Exactly what Is the Soviets' at
titude toward restoration of
prlvato and foreign property
rights In Russia?
Will Russia reiterate Its Inten
tion to pay her pre-war dobts
without constantly Interposing
fresh conditions?
Can the Soviet delegation agreo
to get down to work with the
Allied experts and lay aside its
public propaganda?
What, exactly, does Russia In
tend to. do about her counter
claims? Has sho dropped them
as sho stated?
Practically tho whole progress of
the- parley depends upon, the Rus
slaps' answers. The unusual dlplo
macy of the Soviet representatives
has baffled tho most astute minds
among tho Kurope.in stntrmnen pres.
ent. The Russians. ttu- say. seem
not to understand thu meaning of
"basis for discussion," a tavorlte
phrase of Allied leaders.
Complaint Is mado that after three
weeks of Genoa the Allies aro no
nearer to knowing Just what Russia's
ALLIES TO DEMAND
RUSSIANS END A
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NEW YORK
CITY INTO ZONES FOR HOLD-UPS
YORK, WED.NESDAY, APRIL 26, 1922,
HUNDREDS DRIVEN
TO ROOFS AND LOST
E
Choking Clouds Rout Out 200
Families . in Spectacular
East Side Blaze.
RESCUED BY RESERVES.
Bewildered Fugitives Led to
Safety Through Pall That
Blocks Traffic.
During a four-alarm flro that did
$100,000 damago In tho Elko Candy
factory at No. 88 Clinton Street, Just
off Delancey Street, early to-day.
scores of residents of nearby building?
who had gone to tho roofs got "lost"
In the smoko and squads of reserves
from tho Clinton Street Station, hall
a block away, were sent up to pilot
them to safety.
It was ono of the smokiest fires
the eost: side has seen. The pall not.
only drove hundreds of tenants to thy
streets and roots In their nlghtf lothes.
but temporarily halted traffic' over th
Williamsburg Bridge, tho Manhattan
approach of which Is near the build
ing that was burned. Laden with
fumes from tho burning sugar, mo
lasses and other factory materials, th
smoko became so dense persons could
not seo through It at a distance of a
few feet. -It enveloped the bridge and
spread as far as Brooklyn.
Many of tho 100 families In the
neighborhood, awakened by smoke fill
ing their apartments, ran direct to the
roofs. They soon lost all Idea cf dtrcc
tlon In the smoke there and begun
calling for help. It was to glv them
sate escort down .neighboring scuttles
that icservos were sent.
There was less danger from a sprcstd
of tho flames than from tho choking
cloud that poured from all floors of the
building and drove practical every
body except firemen from tho Imme
diate neighborhood.
Tho flro had spread throughout th
flvo stories of the factory before It
was discovered at E.30 A. M. Deput
Chief Helm sent a second alarm, and
when Deputy Chief Martin camo he
sent a third and a fourth. Commis
sioner Drennan arrived on the fourth
Tho firemen suffered sovercly dur
ing tho several hours thoy were en
gaged In lighting tho blaze, nnd had
to relieve each other at brief Intervals
They had to do their work malnl
from fire escapes and roofs near th
building.
At times, flames shot almost across
tho street and thirty or forty feci
through tho roof. Part of tho rcai
wall fell while the firemen wero still
at work, but no one was hurt.
The fire prevented cars of the Third
Avenue Railroad Company's system
from running over the Williamsburg
Bridge and persons coming from
Brooklyn or going to that borough
wero delyed by tho trouble. They
were obliged to use the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit cars or elevated lines.
Gallons of water came ou of the
building, carrying along In the flooil
quantities of candy, giving the water
a brownish hue. Children In the
neighborhood dived In tho ' water In
Eearch for tho candies.
TALLEYRANDS DROP
DIVORCE IN PARIS
Counsel of Former Anna Could
Announces Reconciliation
and Trip to Japan.
PARIS, April 26. The Duchess of
Talleyrand, formerly Anna Gould, has
effected a reconciliation with her hus
band, tho Duke, and the couple arc
going on a honeymoon to Japan, Iht
counsel Indicated In court to-day when
their divorce case camo up.
Tho Duchess sued for divorce, alleg
ing desertion. Sho charged the nuke
left the houso one night after midnight
and, although sho headed a scan hing
party and spent tho night looking fur
him, he could not bo found When
tho Duchess returned homr, the Duke
was back In bed.
Neither of the principals wus pres
ent to-day, and counsel asked post
ponement, Indicating there hud been
an uffectlonate reconciliation,
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CLOUDS
IT'S IN THE EVENING WORLD"
6-Cent Verdict tor Alienation
By Jury Including Five Women
Who Protest at Testimony
OTTO
N1R CVA'STEIN
Stein Awarded Damages After
Wife Confessed Intimacies
With Broker Defendant
Her Story Called Sorid,
The Jury before which tho Rult for
$50;000 damages brought by John N.
Stein of Lyndhurst, N. J., against
Edgar H. Kane, a stock broker and
resident of that place, for the aliena
tion of tho affections of Mrs. Eva
St6in, gavo a. verdict this afternoon
against Kano for six cents. Five
women wero on tho jury which heard
the case In tho Bergen County Court
at Hackensack.
The verdict was returned af
ter a few minutes deliberation and
while the principles to tho uction
ivero at luncheon. The women Jur
ors, for whom one of their number
acted as spokesman, said they were
much Impressed with Jury duty, but
had they known the sordid character
of the testimony to be offered they
would have asked to be excused.
During the summing up of the case
to-day Mrs. Stein becamo hysterical
and had to be carried from tho court
room, moaning: "Oh my good name,
my good name; It Is gone."
Mrs. Stein confessed Intimacy with
Kane, which he denied. In his sum
ming up, Addison Ely, nttorney for
Kane, denounced Mrs. Stein us n
poor, deluded criminal woman trying
to get money from his client Kane.
"Fifty thousand dollars Is a lot of
money for a woman like that," said
tho attorney, nnd, turning to the wo
men in the Jury, continued: "How
much would you give tor hor If she
wero put up for sale? Sho was vorth
lesa as a wife. Sho never was u wife
to tho plaintiff. Sho only pretended
to be his wife."
In his appeal to the Jury, John Dcg-
(Continued on Second Page.)
PERSHING AID CALLED
DISLOYAL IN FRANCE
l.teut. C.il. Mnjor l)nulnl mi. .Snyln
Gcrmnna Wonl.l Win.
WASHINGTON, April 26. -Lieut. Col.
Duncan K. Major, former Chief of Staff
of the 26th DIvIhIoii and now acting
aid to den. Pershing, was accused be
fore tho Scnatn Military Aftalrs Com
mittee to-day of having iald I" an of
ficers mesa while the division was over
seas that thu derinans would win thu
war und thut the Americans did not
huvo a chance.
The charge was mado by Major A.
L. Pendleton, now mllltuiy Instructor
at (ieorgla Tech. and formerly Assls
.tant Chief of Staff of tho 26th Division.
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ANP DA06HTER
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TO KILL BOY WITH
Were to Take His $15,000
Pay for Crime and "Seal
His Mouth."
A "double cross," Intended to re
sult In the. murder and robbery of n
nineteen-year-old choir boy who had
turned criminal to get a $1G,000 re
ward for arranging u raid on a liquor
warehouse, was disclosed to-day by
Judgo Tlerney In tho Richmond
County Court.
The Judge revealed the plot in ac
cepting a plea of murder In the sec
ond degree from Joseph Conlgol, In
dicted for first degree murder when
Michael Connor, an aged watchman,
was shot and killed while guarding
liquor held In a Statcn Island ware
house. "Conlgal," Judge Tlerney said to
tho young prisoner before sentencing
him to from twenty years to life In
Sing Sing, "you aro the luckiest man
In tho world to bo able to stand hen-to-day
and plead to murder In the
second degree. On the night of March
1 threo gunmen wero atfer you, and
not atfer Watchman Connor. They
believed you had $15,000 on your
person and If they had seen you they
would havo shot you down like a dog
to get that money."
NewB of the olot whereby New
York gunmen wero tipped off to get
Conlgal after the robbery came from
James Prlmm, thirty-two. No. U9
Powell Street, Brooklyn, who also
pleaded guilty to second degree mur
der to-day and was given a sentence
similar to Conigal's. The latter, It
was I ear nod, was paid tho $15,000 to
arrange tho successful looting of the
warehouse. Then, lit order to make
suro that ther youngster's mouth
would bo snaled forcvei, gunmen wore
hired to get Conlgal after tho liquor
had been seized. Tho unrnon wero
to keep tho $15,000.
Raymond C .Collins, u Dartmouth
College, man, refused the opportunity
to plead to second degree muidcr nnd
Is now In the "death house" uwaltlng
electrocution tho week uf May 22. It
wbh his testimony that showed
Pimm's connection with the gunmen.
Conlgal Ib an altar nnd choir loy in
St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church,
New Brighton, H. I.
GUNMEN P
ANNED
THEM IN RUM RA D
To-Morrow's Weather CLOUDY; COOLER.
Wnml
EDITION
to AIL"
ARMY TRANSPORT CAPTAIN
CONFESSES AMAZING PLOT OF
THUGS IN CITY, ROBBERIES
nun
AND RUINS CHINESE
American Embassy in Capital
Damaged by Worst Shock
in Many Years.
TOKIO. AprllTtf! (Associated Press)
A heavy eartfljhock, centring In
Joklo, occurred ntilO.lB o'clock thl
lornlns. " ' ' ,
Considerable damage was ; done-. to
buildings In tho cityUnd, tlilr vcxV
tents. Yokohama was 'ns sovercly shaken
as Tokio. Tho Chinese quarter In
Yokohama was virtually destroyed
and the water works disrupted.
Tho earthquake was preceded by
an eruption yesterday of Mount
Afma, ninety miles northwest of
Toklo, which' broke out with a loud
report, pouring forth volumes of
ashes, stones and smoko.
No serious damago was caused by
the eruption.
Tho earthquake caused thu death of
a few persons, none of thb victims,
however, being Americans or Kuro
pcans. Thero woro many escapes of
tho narrowest sort from collapsing
chimneys and walls.
Tho American Embassy wan. slightly
damaged and many of tho exhibits at
tho Pcaco Bxhlhltoin wero broken.
Tho shock wan ono of thu most se
vere experienced hero In a long period.
Officials stated It lasted Ilftecn min
utes, tho longest In years.
The seismographs at tho Observa
tory were damaged, making It impos
sible to obtain an accurate record uf
the shocks.
Telephone and telegraph service
business was Interrupted.
MISSING SEAPLANE
FOUND, RADIO SAYS
Santa Maria With Six Aboard at
Wilson Island, Havana Mes
sage Announces.
MIAMI, Fla., April 26. Tho flea
piano Santa MarlaV missing since
early Monday, when It began a, flight
from Key West to Nassau with six
persons aboard, has been found at
Wilson Island according to a wireless
message received to-day from Ha
vana. Aboard the Santa Maria were Pilots
D. J. Richardson. Buffalo: Ed Mil
sick, San Francisco; Mechanic D. W.
Roderick, Dr. Eugeno Iwe, and
Pharmacist Leslie Curry, all of Key
West, and an unidentified woman
passenger.
Tho Santa Maria was preparing for
a flight to New York und had a large
quantity of food supplies and spare
mcchunlcal parts aboard.
Tho radio, which was sent via one
of tho naval planes sent out early
to-day by Commander Albert C,
Read, stated tho passengers on tho
Sunta Mnrla wero taken to Nassau
by a small boat, whllo tho pljot and
tho mechanician remained with thu
plana.
STING BY BEE KILLS
FARMER IN NEW JERSEY
Uncnnarlon In I'rw .Mlnntr mill
Dim Within Hour.
Harry Collerd, a fanner of Monvllle.
N. J., dlcd to-day within an hour after
belnir stung by u bee.
He had gone out in the yard to chop
some wood nml told Ills wiro when ha
returned to thu house Hist ho had been
stung on tho temple. He became un
conrclous In a few minutes nnd wus
dead when physicians arrived.
this uom.i) TitAvr.i. nimr.u.
Arrsdv. Pulltcrr (World! Ilulldlni, S3-K1
I'nrk How. N Y City Telhoni litvkmtn
(IXO Check room for birtet and ari'K
cpn day and nlttu. Monty oidari and
travellers' checks fur sale. Advt.
PART OF YOKOHAMA
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PRICE THREE CENTS
BAY
Convicted of One Crime, He
Lays Bare the Inner Work
ings of the Thieves Who
Parcelled Out Sections of
City to Desperadoes.
Gangs Strictly Restricted to
Territory Allotted to Therh
Threatened With Deatn
Even in the Tombs.
Capt. Herbert J. Slahcry. formerly
master of the Hhlpplng Uoard steam
ship Dcnneton CnsOe, who served
with distinction crossing tho sub-
i
mnrino zono In war tlmo. wou ar-
rnlgnc.'for sentenco tator;tffclic3j
mncn-Mn me criminal uroncn oi iaa
Supreme Court to-day after pleading",
guilty of attempted robbery In 'iha'.
second degree.
Ho was set frco until Juno 21 under
parolo to former Judgo William M. K. ,
Olcott, both on this clmrge and on
another, In Special Sessions, for car
rying a revolver. He was commended
by Justice Finch and Assistant Dis
trict Attorney R. C. Murphy as having
had tho bravery to do more than any
ono man to break tho force of the
recent outbreak of highway robbery
and burglary which has practically
terrorized tho city for many weeks) -
The utmost protection the pollco, tho
District Attorney and Mr. Olcott can '
givo was promised to htm on hU
pledge to continue tho revelations
which, as Justlco Finch sold, "have i
been of enormous public service In a
serious emergency and hnvo already
brought upon him In the Tombs
threats of Imminent death." '
Capt. Slabery was under Indictment
for tho robbery of tho United Cigar .
Storo at 19th Street and First Avenue
March 14, when he entered unaccom- ,
panted, threatened Joseph Mann, the
clerk, with a revolver, and took $15
from the till. Ho was caught by d
policeman aa ho left tho store.
Interrogated next day In the office
of Inspector Coghlan In tho Detective
Bureau, Slabery was stubbornly silent; '
Tho Inspector believed he was -a .
Western criminal newly come to New
York.
Detectlvo Sergt. Roddy, who was in 1
the Military Intelligence of tho Army '
and crossed to France on the Denno-
ton Castle, entered, greeted Capt;
Slabery cordially and all unknowingly
asked If he was making a complaint. '
"Tho man Is a prisoner," Inspector ,
Coghlan said, "Do yon know hlmf'
"Prisoner nothing!" answered
Roddy, Incredulously. "He was a ,
Captain in tho Shipping Board Ser
vice and I know him well. Somebody,
has made an awful mistake." Ho
slapped Slabery on the back.
Tho sea captain, a big follow, thirty
years old, began to cry and in an hout
had told the story of his underworld
experience since December, when th
Denneton Castle was put out of com
mission nnd he was out of work tha
story which Assistant District At- '
torncy Murphy told Justice Finch lr
court to-day. '"i
It began with tho captain's Idling
around liootleg saloons In tho vicinity;
of First Avenue and 51st Street '
where ho had grown up. Ho renewed
acquaintances with many former
companions and especially with mem; '
bers of a family whose members have.
attained a criminal record as long
und black aa nny In the pollco books,.
Ho also took to drinking steadily and
often.
It became known to Slabery gradt-. ,
ally, Mr. Murphy said, that he was In
the Inner cgjncil of the organized
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