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The sun., 1919-05-14
INTERCHURCH PLAN
is UNDER ATTACK
Presbyterian Board Calls
Movement Precipitate.

ST. Lotus, May 13--The lnterchurch
world movement to-day was attacked as
unauthorized, unrepresentatlve, precipi-
tate. underlined and extravagant" by the
Board of Home Missions Of the Presby-
terrain Church. composed OF one repre-
sentative OF each OF the thirty-slx
synods in tho United States. The criti-
cism will be submitted to the General
Assembly Thursday.
The intsrchurch world movement
which is proposal to ally all Protestant
churches OF America into an organiza.
ton for more determined and systema-
TIED church work. does not sufficiently
safeguard the integrity OF the new era
movement of the Presbyterian Church
the board declares and says much of the
organization and machinery OF the for.
mer movement is unnecessary
The Rev. Josiah Crawford of Whining.
ton, Del, said: This Is q supcrmar
movement just what Germany tried e
do--rule the world.
The idea that sixteen men Shall try
to rule the $4,000, 900 Protestants I'm thi.
country is presumptuous."
The sun., 1919-05-14
SAYS WIDOW LOVED
MAN SHE ACCUSES
Mrs. Lane Alleges $4,000
Offer for Divorce.

Mrs Victoria Mckenzie. a widow. 75
years old. the complaining witness
against Richard H. Lane. lawyer, who
is being tried in the criminal branch Of
the Supreme Court before Justice YER
non NJ Davis charged with having OBJ
tanned $500 from her on false repre-
sensations. was accused yesterday by
the defendants wife, Mrs. Ann Lane, Of
having been 80 deeply in love with Lane
in the summer Of 1915 as to have caused
her to live apart from her husband until
February of the following year.
Mrs. Lane. who Is young and attrac-
tive, testifying in behalf Of her husband
asserted that she became estranged
after learning that he had taken a trip
in July, 1915, with Mrs. Mckenzie to
the Luray caverns in Virginia and to
Washington. She said that she became
suspicious and had a separation agree
ment drawn up and signed by herself
and Lane when stories told her by Mrs
Mckenzie caused her to doubt her hus-
band. These stories, she eaid she after
ward learned were false and a reconcll-
iation was effected after she had been
separated from her husband for seven
months. Soon after the separation agree
ment had been signed the aged widow
according to Mrs. Lane, came to her
and offered to give her $4,000 II she
would consent to divorce Lane. Mrs
Lane said she spurned the offer.
Most OF this testimony was broush,
out on cross-examination by A. l. Rorke,
Assistant District Attorney. who is pros
ecuting the case. On direction examina-
ton by Samuel Ecker. attorney for the
defendant. Mrs. Lane told what she
knew o. the business relations her hus-
band had with Mrs. Mckenzie, Asked
by Mr. Ecker whether she had had ever
been aware of any fondness shown by
Mrs. Mckenzie for Lane the witness said
that she had positive knowledge tina,
Mrs. Mckenzie had been SO much in love
with him that she had given him consid.
cradle sums of money.
Mrs. Mckenzie, whose testimony
against the defendant earlier in the tria
had required her presence on the stand
for Ave days. was not in court yester.
day. Lane is\ 80 years old and his wife
is somewhat younger. They have one
child. a boy. and are living in Wesi
l20th street
The sun., 1919-05-14
RAILROAD CLERKS
HOOT STRIKE REPORT
Two Elements Clash at An.
nual Convention in Session
in Cincinnati.

CtEC1NNArI, May 13-Outcroppings
of antagonism between two elements or
the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
were observable in the national conven-
ton session on two occasions here to-
day.
Hoots and cat-ealls greeted an allu-
sion to B. NJ. Jewell, president OF the
Hallway Employees Department of tho
American Federation OF Labor, TO the
strike of the clerks on the Nashville.
Chattanooga & st. Louis last winter
which was declared illegal by the grand
executive board. Jewell in his speech
commended the action of the national
officers.
The second incident was on q partial
report or the credentials committee,
which passed fnvorably on the credentials
OF 1853 delegates and will tomorrow
report on about 600 more. A recon-
mendation of the credentials committee
was that the question OF the seating Of
c. II. Jackson OF a Nashville lodge be re-
ferred to the convention as a whole.
II was Jackson who had charge OF the
n c. and St l.. strike. The national
officers directed that his lodge officers
should expel him. He, however sued
out an injunction in the courts cnjoin-
ing lodge action. This was acceptable
to the lodge that did not want to expel
him, but had 1t refused It stood itself in
danger of being expelled from the
brotherhood The injunction saved the
situation. and q few weeks later the
Nashville lodge chose Jackson as a del
egate to the national convention.
When the question Of seating Jackson
came up to-day, Grand President J. ].
Forester was In the chair. A standing
vote was called for. Forester said he
was unable to decide. A roll call was
demanded. but as only about two -thirds
Of the elected delegates had their Gre
dentials passed upon and were in their
seats. IT was agreed that the roll call
should go over until tomorrow
The sun., 1919-05-14
HARVARD BOLSHEVIST
GETS PRISON TERM
Roxbury Rioter Declares for
Soviet.

BosToN May 13.-After he had told
form OF government. but that he coun-
ternanced the use OF force only in case
II should be necessity" William James
Sidis. twenty-one years old, was sem
fenced in the Roxbury Municipal court
to-day to six months in the House of
Correction for rioting and one year for
assault upon a police officer in the May
Day radical demonstration In the Rox-
bury district.
Sidis was graduated from Harvtrd
University at the age of fifteen and il
a son OF DR.. Dorois Sidis, a psyche
pathologist
Sdis admitted that he carried red
flag while going with the crowd from
one hail to another. He said that there
was no organized parade. Asked to
give a brief description of the Soviet
form OF government he said:
The general principle is that those
who do socially useful work are to con-
troll the government and Industries of the
country"
Justice Albert F. Hayden took a hand
In the questioning and asked Sidis II he
believes in God. Sidis replied that he
did not believe in the kind of a Goo
that is the boss of the Christians"
'Do you believe in what the American
flag stands for?' asked the court
SIdis said he believed in 1t ''in certain
ways" and that he believed in tn,
American forom of Government ITO tn
extent of the Declaration of Independ
ence."
. Sidis appealed and was held in $1,000
bonds.
Eleven others sentenced on the sam,
charges to terms ranging from si'
months to a, year and a half also ap
pealed and were held in $1,000 each.
The few remaining cases in connection
with the disturbance were put over unit
Nav 22.
The sun., 1919-05-14
SLAIN AFTER SHOP QUARREL.
MiddIetoyvn Police Seek Man who
Fled Following stabbing.

MIpDLETowN, Conn, May l3.-Edward
Laborgo. 20. died in the hospital mere
tonight as the result of a knife wound
back Of the ear alleged to have been
il licted by Sebastian Pattavina. Ac-
cording to the police the stabbing was
done as the men were leaving the Will
cox, Crittenden & Co. factory at 6
O'Clock.
The police say that Pattavina had
had quarrel with another worker in the
afternoon, but are uncertain az to the
cause of the attack upon I4aborgo. Pat
tavina escaped during the excitement
following the cutting and has not Vet
been traced He is 20 years old and was
employed In the factory with the slain
man.
The sun., 1919-05-14
'BEAUT OF A CHASE
SAYS DYING THIEF
Young Burglar, Shot While
Fleeing Police, Proud of
Dash He Made.
GIRL THWARTS ROBBERY
Up Stairways, Over Roofs and
Into Streets Lad Led His
PursuerS.

Jimmy Buckley. burglar lay dying in
Bellevue Hospital last night with a
bullet In his shoulder. The priest came
and administered the last rites of the
church and the doctors told him that
his chance to live was slight. Half con-
scious. a smile played on his lips, and
he munblod TO the policeman who stood
guard over him.
Gave EN- a beaut OF a chase-a beaut
of a chase
The boy--he is not yet 17--was shot
yesterday afternoon by Policeman Con-
rad Walters In the basement Of an apart
ment house at 1853 West Eightieth street
| after hunt that led through houses. up
stairs, over roof tops and through Eigh-
tieth street.
Jimmy had packed away $500 worth
OF silverware in a suitcase and tin
box when he was surprised by Miss
Laura Gamble in her apartment on the
first floor of IFS West Seventy-ninth
street late yesterday afternoon. She
noticed that the door to her apartment
had been jlmmied and cautiously enter
ing found the burglar preparing to leave.
At sight OF her he jumped through the
window TO the rear court, hoped over
fence and into the homo of Mrs Selma
Chalbrick on the corner of Amsterdam
avenue. He threatened her to keep her
quiet anu ran up tne stairs TO the roof
OF the apartment house.
Meanwhile Detectives Donahue and
Devaney OF the West Sixty-eighth street
station, who answered Miss Gamble $
alarm, took UP the chase, and with
drawn guns followed Buckley up the
stairs. Near the top flight the burglar
turned and threw the tin box at his
pursuers. Then he ran along the roof,
! darting behind chimneys. and when the
| police reached the top he had dlsap-
| peared. They waited, and in a few min
utes heard the slam of a roof door
| Rushing for II, they found the youth
running down the stairs into the corner
apartment house. He reached the street
before them and ran easterly for a
hundred yards before they caught up
| to him.
In front of 1e5 West Eightieth street
he wheeled again and trpped the de-
| tectives with the valise OF loot he car
rIed. The crowd that Joined In the pur-
| suit cut off his escape up Eightieth street
| and SO he dartcd into an apartment
! house and ran through 10 the rear. out,
! and over the fence into the basement OF
| the janitress, Mrs. George Morris. in the
| apartment house next door. The police
thought he had made for the roof and
took up the hunt In that direction
| John a Deltcn' post once inspector.
! with Policeman Walters. Joined the
chase later and tried the Morris apart
ment. The janitress was out 4 noise
under the bed attracted Walters and he
called upon the burglar to come out.
| There was no answer. He called again.
This time the whole bed was lifted of
the floor and flung upon the policeman
and Leltch. and Buckley ran into the
kitchen. lie flung a soda bottle a,
Walters and Jumped to the window.
! The policeman levelled his revolver
and fired Buckley screamed and fell
| limp over the window gill.
The sun., 1919-05-14

struetlons to appear , before Justice
Swayze at o'clock this morning.
1t was 8 o'clock last night when the
last OF them was released. Justice
SwGyze said there was no truth in the
report that any of them had concealed
weapons No charge of that sort was
made. Many of the men had to borrow
car fare to Newark from their lawyer
The 20, with possibility Of $40, which
had been promised them for their days
work has not yet been paid.
The pen are supposed to have been
employed by the OBrien Detective
Agency OF Newark Lieut.. Strope made
affidavit that a man visited the War
Camp Community Service in Newark on
Saturday and asked the woman In charge
IL she could get fifty men to work in
election districts for one day as special
deputies to watch for repeaters, for
which they were each to get IS and
three meals. Strope was taken to Mr.
O'Brien at SAT Broad street. Newark, he
said
''O'Brien asked me-" said Strope In
his affidavit, ito take charge of the men
! asked IL il was a perfectly legal jot
and he answered that II was When we
reached Turn Hall, Hoboken, this morn
Ing. there was a commotion at the dooI
1t easy. men. All of you are under ar.
rest, but do not worry, as we have the
Judge back of u.s."
Jack Goldberg. 1o4 wavcrley avenue
Newark. made affidavit that he an
swered an advertisement In a Newark
newspaper on Monday and that a mar
named Green told him: You boys are
to be special deputies in an election
district You do not have to fear any
body there. as we have the Judge, who
will back you up in anything you do.
we were told we would get IS Of
maybe $40 for our work.
Judge Doherty said last night tina
his authorization to employ citizens Il
serve warrants on repeater suspects
came from Pierre Garven. the count,
prosecutor. and that was all the Newark
men were employed for.
After things Gained down last nigh
it was announced that Mayor Gr!ffiI
| and his feSow Commissioners had beef
reelected four to one. So after al
somebody did vote and II was counted.
The sun., 1919-05-14
WILL GUST REDS IN CANADA.
west Traced to New York.
SnecfnI Dsspnfrh In T,ur SrS

WINNIPEG Man, May IA cam
paign with the object OF Cleaning up"
all Bolshevist and other radical social
istic newspapers, which returned soldiers
hold 10 be the cause OF industrial unrest
and upheaval. was inaugurated tonight
by the Army and Navy Veterans Asso-
citation.
The Government will be requested to
allow the Northwest Mounted Police to
proceed With the arrest OF responsible
persons and to suppress the publications
. Immediately.
Accord ng to w. A. Shepard. manager
Of the association. the Canadian veterans
are convinced that the nucleus OF Boil
shevism in Canada is in New York city.
We have ii upon indisputable author
ity that the whole movement in Canada
is being engineered from New York. he
declared. Some OF the publications
: which we are determined to get rid OF
are issued from New York"
The sun., 1919-05-14
ADVERTISING CLUB ELECTS.
Lawrensen Is Chosen Head of
Organization.

The annual election of the Advertising
Club, held at ~ East Twenty-fifth street
last night. resulted in the election Of
F. a. Wilson Lawrensen of the Union
Carbide & Carbon Corporation as presi-
dent: s. L. Leith, ce-president Oliver
Il. Merrill. treasurer, and F. Leroy
Blanchard. executive secretary Direc-
tors elected for three years were II. H.
Charles and A. Van Gytenbeek direc-
tor for two years Herbert X. Stroud
Mr.. Lawrensen was formerly asso-
ciated with the British Government Of
fee. coming to New York in 1914. and
was later associated with the advertis-
ing division OF the Hoover Administra-
ton. The dinner preceding the cleo
ton was attended by 800 members.
The sun., 1919-05-14
TAG DAY HoNoRs WAR HORSE.
women's League Sets May 20 ms
Date for Celebration.

A tag day dedicated to the heroic
part of the horse in the war will be held
May 90 by the New York Women's
League for Animals. of which Mrs.
James Speyer Il president. The organi-
zation holds tag days annually to raise
funds for installing summer watering
places for horses about the city. but in
announcing the present event Mrs.
Speyer points out the larger aspect OF
the subject.
I'm this manner we commemorate the
part these noble animals played in Amer
ica's glorious victory abroad" she said.
without their aid. what our boys did
could never have been done. The day
will be celebrated,by every horse lover in
New York"
The sun., 1919-05-14
TOUCH OF SUMMER HERE.
OvercOats In Discard Even for
the Might.

The national sky Interpreters who
published yesterday that last night
would he fair and cool were quite right
about the fairness. but bit off on the
other half of the prophecy. Nobody
regretted that he had not worn his over
coat. The humidity was not high in
the daylight hours. but seemed to be
more normal after the sun had started
shining for other neighborhoods.
The temperature went to 70 in the
late afternoon and John Golden, retired
fire captain of 2+67 Valentine avenue,
The Bronx, was overcome while walking
az 18th street and Webster avenue and
was taken to Fordham Hospital
The sun., 1919-05-14
MOONSHLNERS KILL DEPUTY.
West virginia Officer shot While
Loading Captured stu.

BLUEFIELp,s Va, May l3-Deputy
Sheriff II. NJ. Blankenship of Mcdowell
County, w. Va, was shot and killed at
Jenkin Jones. near here. to-day when
a party OF officers engaged In loading
a captured still on train was attacked
by three alleged moonshiners VIII
Murray, member of the attacking
party and the man who is alleged TO
have shot Blankensh1p, was shot and
seriously wounded by the latter before
he lost consciousness
Alex Billips, said by the authorities
to have been in the attacking party. is
under arrest. Posses are searching for
the third man
The sun., 1919-05-14
MORGAN TO GET HIS YACHT.
Vessel Is Returning After Two
Years. Service in War Zone,

WASHINGTON, May III. p. Morgan
private yacht, the Corsair. which was
lent to the navy for the war period, IL
returning from Europe and will be
turned over TO MT Morgan upon its ar
rival in the United States. the Navy
Department announced to-day
The Corsair has been on duty in the
war zone nearly two years
The sun., 1919-05-14

YOUNGSTOWN. May 13.--Though one
Councilman suggested that a resolution
he passed to change the prevailing styles
in women's skirts, the City Council last
night finally decided to change the height
OF the steps on the city operated street
cars to make travelling easier for wear
ers OF tight skirts.
The sun., 1919-05-14

The campaign boiled over frequently
Last week Judge Doherty cited Mayor
Griffin 20 appear before him and explain
Why pool rooms were not closed. Give
ne the addresses and they will, be"
replied the Mayor. The Judge handed
aim a slip Of paper and the Mayor
acted
At 4:a0 o'clock yesterday morning
Mayor Griffin was awakened by some
body who told him over the telephone
mat an army OF reporters was on Its
way from Newark by the Hudson tube.
The Mayor rushed to the tube station
and 100 men. many in soldiers or sail
Urs clothes, get Off n train. Gathering
policemen as he went he followed them
70 Turnverein Hall. The Mayor. Public
safety Commissioner McFeely and Police
Lieut.. Clark bounded into the hall and
ioid all the strangers they Were under
arrest In a few minutes Verdon, Miller.
Wallace and Judge Doherty appeared.
In vain the Judge explained that he
knew all about the men from Newark.
He said that he had evidence of TAG
Illegal registrations in Hoboken and that
The soldiers and their friends had been
imported to serve warrants which he
would issue for any one caught in the
act
You have pulled al bone" said the
Judge to the Mayor.
4 have not pulled a bone said the
Mayor to the Judge. These men APP
pear 20 me to be lawless characters. and
IN justice to the people of Hoboken
have had them arrested"
Wen go to the court" said the Judge.
50 everybody repaired to the City
Hall and Judge Doherty turned the
ninety prisoners Ito which number
Tie 20 had now shrunkenb loose. The
Mayor ordered policemen. headed by
Lieut.. Clark, to rearrest them, which was
done.
The sun., 1919-05-14

You are under arrest for false i'm
prisonment." said the Judge to the
Mayor, For the present you may have
the freedom of City Hall" BY this time
Judge Doherty and the rest were in the
street outside OF Police Headquarters
which is in the basement OF City Hall.
The Mayor consulted with Corporation
Counsel Fallon and, satisfied he was do
Ing right, had the soldier and sailor
group marched up stairs to the armory,
where the bewildered prisoners were
searched and 'fngerprinted. Three had
r'- offers In the afternoon all were
10 ed in the headquarters pen except
J. II Strope and one or two others.
Suupe said that few days ago he
WAS asked by a stranger who called
At the rooms OF the War Camp Com
lnunity Service, SO Washington street.
NeWdrk, to get some men to help the
nolice in Hoboken on Election day.
Srope agreed to organize party and
ca 50. He said there was no sugges-
ton Of anything unlawful
Mayor Griffin and Lieut.. Clark APP
uhred before Judge Doherty later In
me day, waived examination and were
released in their own custody pendir =
%iand Jury Inquiry. Meanwhile the
Mayor had the Corporation Counsel
b1herty NerdOn. MilleE and Wallace
WIN conspiracy to defeat the election
Jaw by bringing suspicious characters
MO the city. In signing the warrants
Justice Swayze excepted Judge Doherty
rom the list
Nerdon Miller and Wallace pxsente ell
themselves at the County Court House
ana each gave $500 bail. The ninety
me pilgrims from Newark were pa
yea IN the care OF their counsel with in
The sun., 1919-05-14
ARREST ORGY
WITH ELECTION
STIRS HOBOKEN
Mayor. Several Officials, SO
Strangers and Others
in the Tolls.
JrDGE BARELY ESCAPES
Charge of Reporters From
Newark Starts Trouble and
a Deluge of Warrants.
JUDGE BARELY ESCAPES

Only a shortage of cells and the ex-
haustion Of police, sheriffs. deputies.
clerks. Judges, balliffs, turkeys ana
wardens kept the entire population Of
Hoboken from going to bed in Jail last
night. As yesterday was election day
everybody spent 1t in arresting every
body else, so that 1t looked for time as
IL there would not be enough left to
count the returns.
The Mayor, Patrick X. Griffin, was
arrested. So was his chief rival on the
antl-Grifiin Commission ticket. William
p Verdon. the city's Republican leader.
So were Max Miller, State Civil Service
Commk soner and one OF the candidates
with Verdon; Police Lieut.. Joe Clark.
and John Wallace. a publicity man.
Included in the orgy of arrests were
about fifty discharged soldiers and sail
ors in uniform who were of a party of
ninety-nine men accused Of having been
Jumped to Hoboken from Newark at
dawn yesterday, for the alleged purpose
Of spending the day voting as often as
might be necessary. One of these, who
with his comrades was locked UP at
Hoboken police headquarters all day and
then subjected to the hospitality OF the
Hudson county Jail. wears second
lieutenantss bars, a wound stripe on his
sleeve and Croix de Guerre on his
breast lis is Donald Strope of Arling-
ton, n. j., recently OF the 320th Infantry.
Conspiracy Is Charged.
Another is a Canadian soldier with a
wound stripe. a limp and a cane. One
Of the sailors is from the battleship
Minnesota, All Of the ninety-nine mem
half of whom were in the uniform OF
the United States and Canada, were put
in Jail and were blazing mad. They said
they had been rounded up in Newark on
a promise of IS and maybe twice that
for legitimate election day work in Ho-
boken, with three meals thrown in. Each
OF them. along with verdon. Miller and
Wallace, is charged with conspiracy t.
violate the election law. Verdon, Miller
and Wallace gave $500 bail. The ninety
nine from Newark were paroled last
night.
Mayor Griffin was held for the action OF
the Grand Jury and was relieved of the
necessity of giving bail. He is charged
with arresting the ninety and the nine
from Newark without cause. The Mayor
who signed the complaint on the strength
OF which Supreme Court Justice Swayze
issued warrants for Verdon. Miller. Wal
lace and the Newarkers, was also for
arrestng Judge Richard Doherty of the
Court of Common Pleas. who Is a
friend of Verden and a Republican. But
Justice Swayze put his pen and ink
away when this suggestion was made
ard said that enough was enough.
Hoboken is managed by five Commits
soners elected for four years In yes
fridays election three tickets were I'm
the field OneS was for Mayor Griffin
who is a Democrat. and his associate
Commissioners. Another was nominated
by the Citizens and Rentpayers League
with the gold old slogan, Throw the
rascals out" Nerdon headed it. The
Citizens Non-Partisan League also had
ticket, but it was supposed not &c
rnunt