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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-11-02
I,ron \,,in. coIs nun.

Simpson Dean, 1921. of Atlanta. Ga,
won the golf championship of Prince
ton University here today when he
defeated 5. h. Carruth. 1922. the other
fiinalist. up and > TO go.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-11-02

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The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-08-07
NEW IRISH ACT
PUTS ALL POWER IN
MILITARY COURTS
Synopsis of Main Features of COer-
cion Bill Passed by House
of Commons.
Of Commons.

The Irish Coercion bill, the text Of
which has reached this country, pro-
vides primarily for what amounts TO
martial law in Erin. All p<sons
convicted of crimes in Ireland may,
under its terms. be imprisoned in
any prison in the United kingdom,
and the duties of Crown tribunals in
ireland are transferred to courts
martial, which also take over the re-
sponsibilities and duties OF Coroners
and will have power to decide cases
without jury trial.
The bill also provides that courts
martial shall when trying a person
charged with n crime punishable with
death, include an appointse OF the
Lord Lieutenant OF Ireland
The courts martial constituted by
the law are given the powers Of JUS
tees or any other civil court and
confers the right to summon wit
nesses, authorizes the imposition Of
fines in addition too Their punishments
and provides the manner in which
such fines are TO be enforced
The act also permits the rententiou
Of sums due from local taxation where
! the local authorities have failed to do
their duty.
Shese and all other regulations may
apply to the whole T any part a
Ireland.
The final section Of the act pro
vides that wherever the word crime
is used in the bill, the expression
means ANY treason, felony misde-
meanor or other offense punishable
| by Imprisonment or other greater
punishment, and other offenses
| against the Defense OF the Realm
| Act"
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-08-07
FAR EAST TRAVELLER
SUGGESTS SECRET
OF PONzI PROFITS
Tells How Big Gains Are Made
Through Medium Of Ex-
changing Money.

In commenting on theananc ial acs
tivitics Of Charles Ponzi OF Boston
and his assertions that he has "A mys-
terious secret which enables him 10
divert millions Of dollars from hith-
ei'to undiscovered leaks In the "oper-
ations OF the money trust" Frederick
Birmingham. traveller who has just
returned from the Far East, says that
the conditions Of money exchange in
reputable banks on the other side OF
the Pacific are not much more out OF
hltsr than the widest promises Of
POnA and Ms followers.
In Vladivostok." Mi Birmingham
said to-day at the Hotel Pennsylvania,
ut often costs 500 rublcs 10 get "a / 900
ruble note changed was in Saigon,
French Indo-C China, dining at the Hotel
Continental with n Walt Street stock
Exchange operator when he told me
that that same afternoon to amusc
himself with only $500 capital he had
cleaned up $50 buying and selling for
eign moneys He said II was so easy
that, half seriously, he was thinking OF
selling his seat on the Stock Exchange
and opening a bank in tho Far East.
MY own personal experience Is
convincing to me 1 sold some chem
| ic1ls in Batavia, Java, for 5000. This
was at noon on a saturday. The pur-
chasers said, ne the banks had closed.
It wus too late to pay me In American
dollars, which l wanted but they
would give me the equivalent In
Dutch guilders. which at the bank
rate, 2.56, amounted to n. i,5SS. As
l was leaving that afternoon for sim
gapore l accepted guIlders The gull
dor and Trio American dollar az the
time were steady, the widest fuctua-
ton being less than one-half cent on
the dollar.
Monday morning In Singapore, the
rate being unchanged, tried 10 con =
vert my guilders Into American dol
lars. Al the International Banking
Corporation they refused to make u
direct exchange, but offered me foi
my guilders $l,22s.SO Straits Set
Elements dollars which they said they
would then convert into s54O.67 Amer
lean dollars. This was the best
could do at any bank. In other words
1 stood to lose overnight on 5000 some
S5s33, Or nearly 10 Ter cent. II banks
can get 10 per cent'over night on al
international business tranaacted In
the Ear East, Ponzi Is simply an anla'
teur in a small way! The banks In
the Far East are milking the public
coming and going and have COM
pletely upset legitimate business"
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-08-07
BOY HERO SAVES
LIVES OF EIGHT At
BROOKLYN BLAZE
While Young Fem Worked
Fire Got Big Start for No
One Had Turned in Alarm.

Samuel Fein, sixteen years old. res
cued eight persons from a fire that
destroyed the two family brick house
at No. 576 Cleveland Street, Brook
Ign, shortly after 5 o'clock this mora
ing. Then he discovered that in all
the crowd gathered TO watch the fire
no one had thought to turn in an
alarm. He ran 1--WE blocks to War
wick Street and Belmont Avenue.
turned in an Alarm and then watched
the firemen extinguish the blaze at
ter a two-hour battle.
Samuel's father. Abraham Fein, has
mother and two brothers, Rueben.
seven years old. and Bernard, eight,
lived on the first floor OF the building.
Samuel was awakened early to-day by
the smell of smoke. He felt his way
to his parents rom and awakened
, them. Smoke was pouring thrnugh
the halls, but the boy managed to
lead his parents to safety and re-
turned for his brothers. BY this time
the rooms were afame and the fire
was eating away part of the sleeping
porch occupied by the smaller chill
dren. Samuel, who Is husky for his
age, grabbed one boy on each arm and
half dragged. half carried them
through fire and smoke to the street.
Then he tied handkerchief over his
face and made his way to the second
| floor of the house, occupied by L lbert
Caulo, his wife and children, lose,
seven years old, and Robert, nine. lie
beat on the door, but was unable to
| awaken the family. He returned to
the street and threw a milk bottle
| against the window, which brought no
response. Samuel then went inside
again and broke down the door 10 the
Caulo apartment While Caulo car
ried one of the children Samuel took
the other and led the family to safety.
The house was burned to the ground
and adjoining dwellings, on each side
damaged. The fire WAS so threaten.
ing for a time that police reserves
summoned Il ON the Miller Avenue
| Station called 1000 persons living In
surrounding tenements from then
homes. The total damage was abUu
! $4,000
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-08-07
DOMESTIC COURT
SITE SELECTION
is LAID OVER
Estimate Board DeferS Action After
Evening Worlds Exposure
of Plans.

As q result OF The Evening Worlds
exposure of a plan to commit the city
20 the expenditure OF a large sum Of
money for the purchase OF a site for
a Domestic Relations Court at Lex
ington Avenue and 22d Street, the
Board OF Estimate yesterday after
noon decided to postpone selecting
the site for the present.
When the matter came before the
board, Comptroller Craig said 1t was
proper that It be referred back to
Manhattan Borough President Curran
and that no site be specihedL He said
the Estimate Board should not be
committed to any particular plot OF
ground at this time. inasmuoh as the
money for the building would not be
appropriated until 1921.
II understand said Mayor Hylan.
that some one desires TO sell an
$780, 900 building TO the city in conneo-
ton with this matter"
IL agree with the Comptroller that
the question OF the site OF the pro-
posed Domestic Relations Court
should not be settled at this early
date" said Manhattan Borough Pres
ident Curran.
A vote was then taken and the
board unanimously decided TO commit
itself TO no site.
There IL a likelihood that the home
OF the new Domestic Relations Court
may be on city owned land near the
proposed Court House which is TO be
erected north OF the Municipal Build
ing.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-08-07
POISON PEN NOTES
STIR UP A MYSTERY
IN BRONX VILLAGE
But West Morris Heights
Druggist Defends Honor
of the Boys and Girls.

There's a real scandal in the quaint
old village OF West Morris Heights, In
the Bronx. Things are happening
there and tho sleuths OF the village
are gumshoeing around trying to earn
a $50 reward for the writer of a series
of "pizen pen" missives
The first the town knew Of tho
scandal was yesterday when DR.. J.
sherman, proprietor of tho village
pharmacy and l5oda fountain. pasted
one OF the letters in his window, alonE
with his answer 70 II and offered a
reward OF $50 for proof OF the writer's
identity. It's got the village crazy,
Says the exhibited poison pen
letter: 81 will now send letter to
the head man In Washington II you
don't have loafers in front of your
drug store, Who insult girls when
they pass, especially your chauffeur
Willie. the baker boy. who sits in
Baileys and tells everybody how you
sell $1,000 worth OF booze a day"
Tho disturbing letter is signed n
Friend" and Doc Sherman gave ans
wer 50 that all the villagers might
read: First read the letter and ,theu
the answer, weigh tho matter and
judge for yourself"
Then the doctor branded the writer
coward for failing to sign his name
and denounced the utterances in the
J anonymous missive as lies. The Doc
rises TO the defence OF while" in this
fashion: els II not a bakers profes
/ sion to bake bread, his purpose IL
life to roll dough, his ambition L
make good bread, the stable food o.
! life? And Is not our Secretary d
State a baker and the veterans of th'
world way dough boys? Al homes
hearts will cry three cheers for The
toiler Of the ladle and the stove.'"
Doc Sherman also defends tn
young men OF the neighborhOod ant
defies "A Friend" to produce any o
the girls OF the village the young mel
have insulted. The letter y one of
series which Sherman says have beef
coming in for month.
And so the scandal stirs up tn
village, which skirts the Harlem an
backs up against the cliffs that form
University Heights. Everybody 4
the village Is talking and there
much indignation"
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-08-07
PONzI AGENCY HERE
TO Be ESTABLISHED,
WALL STREET. HEARS
Commonwealth Trading Con-
Germ Negotiating With Bos-
ton Wizard.

Dispatches from Boston have mem
tlopcd the Commonwealth Trading
and Securities Company in conneo-
ton with the name OF Charles Ponzi,
the spectacular financier.
At the office Of the concern,
which was incorporated March I
last under tho laws OF Delaware.
with a nominal capital Of 1926, 200. 900.
IL was learned that the business is
that OF exporting, importing and
dealing In foreign securities.
Those chiefly Interested 10 far are
Robert /. Johns, First Vice President;
Earl Wayne Hopping, Vice President.
and John p. Caswell OF the Bolivian
Wool Company, No. II broadway,
Secretary. A representative OF the
company said he was not at liberty
to disclose the name OF the President.
1t was learned later that the Presl-
dency is being left open.
In the despatch referred 10 the
name OF Joseph IL. Herman Of the
Commonwealth Trading and Securi-
ties Company was Included. At the
offices IL was said Mr.. Herman had
returned from Boston. but was tOV
busy to DO interviewed. ...
The plans are only tentative" said
q spokesman for MIR. Herman.
Tho conference with Ponzi will re 4.
suit either in the establishment OF q
branch OF the Securities Exchange
Company, Ponzrs concern. In this
city, or the turning over OF PonziA
New York business to the Common
wealth Trading and Securities Com
pany. II also was stated that this
company does not contemplate pay
! ing more than per cent. annual
on the capital stock. and It was lntl-
mated that Ponzi now plans to cut
down his dividends. possibly TO s per
/ cent
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-08-07
HOUSING COMMITTEE
HEARING IN INWOOD
Residents TO Present Suggestions for
Amendments to the Rent
avs,

Senator Charles G. Lockwood and the
Joint Housing Committee of the Leg
stature will determine next Monday the
date for a public forum 20 be attended
by the committee and residents of In
wood. who have prepared tentative
amendments to presenHrent laws which
win be discussed The open forum prob
ably will he held Thursday night at
Public school No. So, Academy street
and Vermilyea Avenue. The Inwood
tenants recommendations also are TO be
presented TO Gov. Smith.
Following are some OF the amend
ments suggested:
That the burden OF proof OF che
necessity for rent increase be placed
upon the landlord, regardless OF the
percentage OF increase demanded.
2. That landlords be required at
stated intervals 20 file with their Coun-
ty Clerks sworn statements Of property
income and disbursement for court use
In litiga Ion.
3. That Justices be given greater lee
way In granting stays to tenants, with
power to gran. stays OF several years.
In their discretion, instead Of limit OF
one year.
4 That a fair compensation on the
landlords investment" he fixed at not
10 exceed 10 per cent. OF his equity, and
that he be required to swear. when
seeking a rent increase, that the in
come Is less than 10 per cent on his
cash investment
A committee OF fourteen from In
wood will present to Gov. Smith. by
appointment. next Tuesday AZ Alban :.
petitions FOR an extra session OF the
Legislature bearing over four thousand
signatures. At the same time the set
or tentative amendments prepared by
tho InwOod Tenants Legal Committee
viii be brought to the attention Of the
Governor
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-08-07
MARINES VICTIMS
OF TWO HOLDUPS
Lured Into Doorways, Beaten and
Robbed in the Mulberry
Bend Section.

Charged with beating and robblng a
L. S. marine within two blocks OF Po-
lice Headquarters. Perry D'Alessandro
or No. 1876 Hester Street and Rosario
Darente Of No. Elizabeth Street were
arraigned to-day in the Tombs Police
Court \ second charge OF assault and
robbery was made against Darente.
Donat Crossa OF the United States Ma
rines now a patient in the Marine Hos
pital in Staten Island as Eesult OF his
beating. identified D'Alesssandro and
Darente as the pair who lured him into
doorway OF No. 1876 Grand Street ~on
the night of July 20. beat him into
helplessneSs and robbed him OF $500 in
cash and two diamond rings.
After Crossa had identified the pair
In lineup Of nine men at the Ellz-
abeth street station. Frank Caruso OF
No. 252 Grand Street was called in.
He identified Darente as the man who
assaulted and robbed him OF 500 In the
doorway of No l04s BayaTd Street on
| the night Of Aug. ?. Carusos eyes still
are almost closed as results OF the
| beating, while Crossa is under treat
ment at the hospital because OF his ,ex-
perlence.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-08-07
TYPOS LEAVE FOR ALBANY.

Delegates began leaving New York
yesterday for the international Typo
graphical Unions convention. which
will open at Albany on Monday: 600
delegates are expected.
Marsden q. Scott. defeated candidate
for recollection as international presl-
dent, win preside. John MCFARLAND, his
succe ssor. will take ONCE In November
II n expected the element behind Me-
Parland viii have the odds against them
mains In office.
A method OF representation Is In
vogue that places the large cities. with
their comparatively large membership.
at the mercy OF the small locals which
are easily controlled by the international
nfilcerA.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-08-07
MRS. RELYEA GETS DIVORCE.
witnesses say Artist and yelled
woman went 10 Hotel.

Mrs. Eioise Relyea Of New Rochelle
was granted a decree Of divorce with
80 a week alimony yesterday by SUI
preme Court Justice Seeger in White
Plains from Charles NJ. Relyea, illus
traitor. Of No. 2447 Morris Avenue. the
Bronx. Joseph Klaw, theatrical man
aEer, and son-ln-law OF Mrs. Relyea,
testified a detective called him by tele-
phone July 4 to the Hotel Bristol. New
York, where he went and saw a sigma
ture. &C. NJ. Kelley and wlfeeof Phila-
delphia, room 632." on the register,
which Klaw Identified as In Relyea'
handwriting. John Ranyon. No ~
Broadway. New York, a detective, said
he Swallowed Relyea, beginning In May
on July 4. he said. he saw Relyea, car.
rying a little bag. meet a yelled woman
At the Grand Central Terminal In New
York. He saif they went into room
$50 and locked the door, whereupon he
called up Klaw and asked him to come
to tho hotel
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-08-07
STOLEN SILK WORTH
$25, 900 RECOVERED
Loot Found in Cellar of Building
Soon After Robbery-Man
Found in Closet Arrested.

Detectives to-day recovered $4,000
worth of silks within two hours after
they had discovered that two lofts in the
thirteen story building at No 1926 East
,21st Street had been robbed. A cleaner.
lnteTing the place at 5 o'clock today
Zeard voices upstairs and notified Po-
liceman De Barbieri. who called detec-
tiVes. The place was surrounded and
the policeman, with Detectives Gilman
and Donlan. went through the place.
They found the rear lower entrance
had been Jimmied open. as had the
doors to the lofts on the tenth and
thirteenth floors. Before they arrived
two men had escaped, After two hours
search the detectives dragged from a
closet a man who described himself as
Willie Eastman. a driver. of No. 200
East 116th Street. kopeS indicated that
the loot had been lowered to rear
court.
Half an hour later an, elevator opera
tor of the building at No. 30-S2 East
2ist Street found the silk in the cellar
The rear entrance TO No. 3O-32 had
been jimmied
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-08-07
ADMITS ATTACKS
UPON FOUR WOMEN
Two Other Negroes Serving Long
Prison Sentences for. Three
Of the Assaults.

WASHINGTON. Aug 7.-William
Henry Campbell. a negro under arrest
here charged with the murder of Mrs.
Gertrude Harrison Mann, has confessed.
according to the police. that he was
the man who attacked four women in
cipitating race riots which continued
for several days. or until regular army
forces were called out.
For two of the attacks to which
Campbell has confessed, Louis Randall.
another negro, is serving a forty Ave
year sentence In the Atlanta Penltenti-
airy, his sentence Of death having been
commutd by President Wilson. For u
third OF the assaults, Forest Eagan.
another negro. is serving twenty years
i'm the Maryland State Pentitentiary,
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-08-07
TWO ARE KILLED
BY SPEEDING AUTO;
DRIVER GETS AWAY
His Car Believed to Be DAM
aged-State Troopers Get
on the Hunt.
BYSTANDER is VICTIM.
Orange Man Had Turned Out
to Avoid Collision Near
Bear Mountain Park.

State troops to-day are searching the
woods of the Bear Mountain Park
above Tuxedo, y. Y. for the occupants
Of an automobile which dashed into
another car driven by John ]. Davis,
No. 151 Essex Avenue. Orange, N. j..
last night, killing him instantly and
driving his machine against Frank c..
Biheski, of No. 500 West 4sth Street,
Manhattan, killing him also.
The accident happened shortly be-
fore seven o'clock last night close to
the southern end OF the bridge which
carries the roadway over the West
Shore railroad about four miles from
Tuxedo station.
Davis with three friends. all in the
rear seat of his car, heard the other
car coming and turned out to avoid
at, running close to the fence, against
which Biheski was resting after a
tramp through the woods from his
camp in the park.
The other car, which has not been
identified as yet, was running at fifty
/ miles an hour, and as it reached
Davis car seemed to strike an co.
struction in the road for it swerved,
striking the other machine a CHANGING
blow on the side.
Davis was crushed between the
steering wheel and the front of his
wrSckeG car. lie was dead when
taken out. The force of the blow
drove his machine against the fence
pinning BiheslSi, breaking his back.
He also was dead when aid reached
him.
The car which did the damage did
not stop, but continued across the
bridge and disappeared. The police.
however. believe that il also was
damaged more or less seriously and
could not have gone far. 1t is with
this hope that the State troopers are
searching the park.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-08-07
WOMAN SLEUTH A SPLINTER.
serEt. Goodwin Catches BsEEar
After ThFee-BIOck Run.

Detective Sergeant Isabella Goodwin.
New York Ci.y's only first grade wom-
an sleuth. proved yesterday that she Is
Splinter.
Mrs. Goodwin encountered man
whom she recognized. she said, as an
old begEar In front OF the Hotel 81.
George. Clark and Henry Streets,
Brooklyn. She warned him not to beg.
He replied tina. he did not intend to do
so, as he expected a position W Man
haitian. He gave her the telephone
number of his prospective employer and
requested her 20 call him to verify his
statement When she stepped 20 a tele-
phone booth the man ran.
Detective Goodwin and a patrOman
who Joined in the chase captured him
within three blocks. In Adams Street
Court he said he was Frank Syron OF
No. 355 Pearl Street. Brooklyn. MaEis-
trhts Mcclure committed him to the
workhouse for six monthS
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-08-07
DR.. MUIR DIVORCED
BY THIRD WIFE
Former Ethel Fitch, Daughter Of
Ex-senator, Gets Decree in
Los Angeles.

Los ANGELES, Aug. DIR. Joseph
Muir. once well known along the White
Way. and said to be now living in New
York. has been divorced by Mrs. Ethel
Fitch Muir, who Is the daughter OF
Tom Fitch. a former United States Sem
ator. She and her two children are hv-
ing In retirement here.
DR.. Muir. who offered no defense, is
said-here to have made another fortune
in stocks. Ten years ago he was prom
inent in New York club life and in
diplomatic circles in Washington. AZ
ter a spectacular career on Broadway
twenty-five years ago he became first
secretary OF the American Legation in
Stockholm, Sweden. He reappeared m
New York m 1908 Mrs. Ethel Fitch
Muir was his third wife.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-08-07
REV. DR.. HERRING BROWNS.
Congregational National, Secretary
Was swimming at ChIImark.

VINEYARD HAVEN. Mass. Aug. T.
-Rey. Hubert c. Herring ID. D.. GEN
eral Secretary OF the National Council
OF Congregational Churches, was
drowned while swimming yesterday at
Stonewall Beach at Chllmark. Or. Her
rings home and ONCE are In New York.
lie was born Ia LOwvllle. Wis, In
1859 and ordained to the Presbyterian
ministry In 1887, After hlllny Presby
terian plstOrates at Sioux City. la
Winterset. la, and Chicago, he WAS
pastor for nine years, until 1907, OF the
First Congregational Church OF Omaha
lie then served as General Secretary II
the Congregational Home MlSslonarJ
Society until 1914. when no was chosen
Secretary OF the National Council.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-08-07
MAN HITS BOY WITH ROCK.
Threw 1t ut other Boys Who Were
Teasing Him.

four-pound rock thrown by Frank
Angrisani who shines shoes at No. 1Ol
West 1920 Street. missed the mischiev-
Gus children al whom II was aimed and
struck William Monks, Ave. on the head
last night. Angrisani a sexagenarian,
was held at the West Tooth Street Sta
ton. charged with felonious assault. A
? band OF children had been teasing the
elderly shoe sinner, when William ran
around the corner on his way to his
home, No. SAT Amsterdam Avenue. Two
boys were with hlm-Joseph Conway OF
--saph Ellis of No. $50 Columbus Avenue
Young Conway was hurt slightly An
angry crowd collected in front OF AM
grisani's stand and threatened him with
Violence PatrOlman Burns OF the
..Test Tooth Street Station rescued him
gillian was taken to the Woman s
TInsuital, whore four stitches were taken
-, - scalp.