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The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-12-14
MILLIONAIRE CHIEF
TAKES BANDITS IN
HOLD-UP IN HOTEL
Bush of Tuxedo, Armed With
Shotgun, Captures Them
and Stolen Auto.

-Four men, said by the police to he
the automobile bandits who for sew
oral weeks have spread terror along
the roads and smaller places In
Northern New Jersey are held in tho
Jail at Goshen, N. Y. Police chiefs
and detectives from a dozen places
will seok to identify them,
The capture OF the quartette came
late yesterday afternoon following
the robbery and serious injurlng OF
Frank uoross, proprietor Of the Glen
wood Inn at Newburgh, N. Y. The
four, armed with revolvers, stepped
into the inn and encountered Goross,
who was ordered to throw up his
hands, While one OF the robbers kept
him covered the other three rifled the
safe, taking $4,000 and Liberty Bonds
worth $780,
AS the robbers were about to leave
one Of them called attention to a large
diamond worn by Goross. They sought
to take It from him. Goross resisted
and one Of the robbers. using a re-
vOlver with a knife-blade attachment
stabbed him over tho heart Taking
the ring the four went outside and
helped themselves to Goross's touring
car and departed,
GorOss sought TO telephone for the
Newburgh police, but found that the
telephone wires had been cut. He sent
one OF his employees to call for help
A general alarm was sent out and the
police Of surrounding towns went out
on the roads TO watch for tho bandits
Among those who were notified of
the robbery was Gilmore Bush, known
as tho millionaire Chief' OF Tuxedo
Park, N. Y The chief and three OF
his mon, armed with sawed-off shot
guns, jumped into a high speed ma
chine ana set out, The saw fast
travelling car approaching them and
turned their own car The chief, with
a shotgun waved to the approaching
car to halt, but tho driver paid no at
tention, The police fired several shots
and started in pursuit and the robbers
decided 70 give up.
The men were taken to The Tuxedo
Park station, where they gave their
names as Eugene Ryer, nineteen; Jo-
seph DE Prizlo twenty, James Caro-,
Cwenty one and John J. Serr, twenty
one They all stated they lived in
New York City
Tha rolica NJ Ns,,g,,,rtyb g,,,9 ,,.,y,
other automobiles, a Cadillac touring
and Cadillac sedan, abandoned on
the outskirts OF the town. In one OF
these cars jeweIry valued at $4,000
was found. II is believed that the
robbers went 10 Newburgh in these
cars but fearing capture stole Goross'
car TO make quick escape One OF
the cars bore the number 2ll-5O3 ".
j. and the other l76-343 n. D. In as
much as the numbers were hyphenat-
Cd and the New Jersey licenses are
not 10 IL believed that the license
plates were faxed Dy the robbers.
The FOUR men are held on charges
Of highway robbery ana assault The
sheriff at Goshen said he is await
ing the outcome OF GOTOss's INJURIES
lie said the Inn owner was in a ser
lous condition ana charge ~ muI-
der may result
Victims Of automobile bandits dur
ng the last few weeks are being as
sembled by Prosecutor 4. e.. Hart Of
HackCnsack and viii be taken to
Goshen 10 view the four prisoners
Among the victims BIS Cornelius Nc
Nlmee, a butcher of Oakland, y i.
B.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-12-14
POLICEMEN FEAR
TO VOTE AGAINST
HOSPITAL PROJECT
Subiect to Disagreeable Assign
mentS and Rulings" If They
Oppose Plan, They Say

A NUMBER Of policemen
~ have called up The Eve
ming World by telephone
TO. day to explain that they
voted yes" on tho hospital ref
erendum, although they are op-
posed to tho hospital idea. They
stated they were afraid to vote
mo" for the reason that their
vote was known and they feared
they would be subjected to dis
agreeable assignments and "rid-
ings" by their supsriors were they
to indicate their real opinions.
The indications, based on re-
ports from a number Of precincts,
are that tho greater nur7ber will
vote "yes,'
"IF we had been permitted to
cast secret ballots the majority Of
the men by far would vote no on
the hospital proposition" stated
one Of the pstrolHSa n who sought
TO explain why he VOtSd yea"
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-12-14

President Paul Starrett OF the
George A. Fuller Company, the rival
Of the Thompson Starrett Company
for leadership in the American build
Ing business, quoted Eugene z. Grace.
President of the Bethlehem Steel
Company as saying TO him in
the presence OF Charles NJ Schwab
Of that company and Harry 5. Black
Of the Fuller Company: Don't you
imagine for a minute we are aoinu to
let you fellows build up an oraaniza-
ton Of union men who can refuse 70
erect our steel and force union con-
ditions in our shops"
He also quoted Mr. Schwub as sup
plementing this announcement MT.
Schwalb told me, among other thingS"
Mr.. Starrett testified, Il was getting
in bad with the steel manufacturers
because 1t was reported I was tho
leader in support Of union erection
on steel buildings as against the
open shop"
Both Mr.. Horowitz and Mr.. Star
rett, captains in the building industry,
declared that they could put up
buildings more cheaply with union
labor than under the system by which
such work, at the behest OF the steel
mill owners, must be done by the ia
vored erectors OF the Iron League,
using National Steel Erectors Assn
citation open shop labor" Mr.. Hor-
owitz not only made the general
statement that II was not possible TO
erect buildings economically in New
York City with other than union la
bor but said that in one Instance,
the apartment house at No. 400 Park
Avenue. built by his coFcern, the sys-
tenn enforced by the refusal Of the
steel mills to permit builders to erect
their own steel with union labor had
added from s25OOOO to S5OO,OO TO
the cost of the building, which must
be passed along to the tenants.
Both companies have been forced TO
dispose OF their steel erection plants.
Both, in spite OF their millions or re-
sources, have vainly tried to buy steel
10 be erected by themselves. The Iron
League, also known as the 'Structura,
steel Trust" viii not permit union Ia
Dor TO handle steel /, requires the
open shop. The manufacturers viii
not furnish steel except TO members OF
the Iron League.
"What does open shop mean
in praotiee?" Mr.. Untermyor
asked Mr.. Starrett.
III means a scrap" said the
witness bitterly.
Mt Horowtz told of a vain fight
for months TO convince the steel
manufacturers OF the country that
they ought to conhne themselves 10
selling steel 20 builders 70 be pul 90
by the builders as they choose with
or without union labor,
SENATOR LOCKWOOD ILL FROM
INFLUENZA.
The hearing :o-dRy was delayed Tor
half an hour by the hardness OF mem
bers OF the committee, With Chair
man Lockwood seriously IN at home
with Influenza and AssSmblymsa
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-12-14
NO SQUARE DEAL
UNDER ENRIGHT,
SAYS MRS. O'GRADY
Tells of Many Clashes and
Constant Interference by
the Commissioner.
By Marguerite Moosrs Mayshan

BY Marguerite MOOeFs Marshall,
81 never knew before how men can
sell their souls and crawl for their
bread and butter! But I'm a woman
and won't crawl. No man should
have the power to treat a woman as
Commissioner Enright has treated
me. No man should be permitted to
crush a womaR-or a man-who is
doing right
Let the women Of New York, the
mothers, the members Of women's
clubs, ask why the morale of my de-
partment has been broken, why I
have been humiiiated at all times,
why / resigned-when / found that l
no longer would be allowed to give
the women, the young girls, the chill
dren of New York a square deal as
Deputy Commissioner in the police
Department."
Her soft Irish voice trembling vita
emotion, her blue Irish eyes wide with
soorR, indignation, hurt pride, Mrs
Bllen O'Grady, for almost three years
Fifth Deputy POLICE Commissioner
ard the first woman executive In New
York's Police Department, told o-day
In her home at Ne. 247 New York
Avenue, Brooklyn, the detailed story
Of why she had resigned at a min
ute's notice from her 5000 Job In
the department, and made a ringing
appeal to a jury Of her peers-tho
women Of this city-tor understand
las support.
Grey haired, wearing dress Of soft
grey satin and georgette, looking
what she ls-the sweet, attractive,
wise mother OF daughters, Mrs.
O'Grady spoke with fraalzness and
fire. Her three daughters were pres
ent during the iRtsFvisw, and now
AID again she turned to one of them
for corrOboratiQR of some detail,
YOU will understand" she pleaded
over and over that I'm not after q
lot OF notice and publicity for myself.
And I'm honest. III tell you no lies.
l was one Of nine children and they
always said at home that il any one
was liar 1t wasn't Nellie.
But when there are. tyrants abroad
like this 1t should be knownl And
when they know, the citizens of New
York should see to it that no poliu-
clan is put in my placer
For the understanding there has
not yet been printed any more COM
plete and startling illustration Of
! what Ia tba ma ttar ,,Btl, Tho DoIi,a
Department Than the case Of Ellen
O'Grady, the woman who went into
ofhce so bravely and hopefully three
years ago next month, with the one
desire to be city Mother" to help.
after the fashion Of q firm, kind
mother, the women, and especially the
girls and children, OF New York.
After hearing Mrs. O'Grady's tale
Of petty persecution / was nc longer
surprised at the failure of Headquar-
ters TO catch Nicky Arnsten, the
Elwell murderer or the perpetrators
Of the Wall Street bomb outrage.
How could there be time for such
duties when It was necessary to think
daily of many new ways for making
life miserable for the Fifth Deputy
Police Commissioner?
81 wanted TO resign two years ago"
she told me, The trouble really be-
gan then. did not like the way
certain things were managed in the
Police Department / wrote a letter
to the Mayor, l can't go into any more
Aaf ~ k.,F
as l say l wanted to resign then and
CONTINUED on Eighteenth PNgeJ
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DEMPSEY WEIGHS
1881; BRENNAN, 1874
FOR TITLE BOUT
Advance Sale for Heavyweight
Championship Contest Passes
10000 Mark.

Before the largest gathering of
this town since the days OF the Hor-
ton Law, Jack Dempsey. heavy
weight champion OF the world and
Bill Brennan, contender for the title.
weighed In for their bout to be
fought at Madison Square Garden
this evening, The title holder tipped
tho beam at 1888 while Brennan
weighed 1877 pounds.
Tine advance sale passed the $780,
OO0 mark and there was a long line
Of prospective purchasers lined UP
outside the ticket office. The pro-
moters OF tho contest expect the total
sales win reach $4,000 This will
break the record Of Sl5l 900 made at
tho willard Moran fight held in the
Garden, March 25, 1916.
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SENATOR LOCKWOOD Ill FROM
INFLUENZA.

The hearing :o-day was delayed for
half an hour by the hardness OF mem
bers OF the committee. With Char
man Lockwood seriously IN at home
with Influenza and AssSmblymsn
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-12-14
uop prices SIump NgnIn.

CHlCNGO Dec a Hog prices
reached new low level here to-day
when the market declined % 10 So.
cents with prices quoted ~ from $3.50
10 81 10 per hundred pounds, the lowest
In the last four years,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-18
HOME BUILDING.

The home is the worlds greatest
savings bank. All the attributes of in
dustry and thrift have been practiced
in some measure by any man who
owns a plot of ground and has built a
home on 1t.
Homes are real savings banks. sThey
yield the highest interest of any bank
in the world. Aside from being a
paying investment in a financial way,
a home creates greater earning abil-
ity. The home owner is a citizen of
the community. He is interested in
seeing his property value increase.
He is also a better workman.
1t is estimated that one million new
homes are needed in the United States.
But, while all realize to some extent
how urgent is the need for more
homes. still building is delayed in the
hope that soon building materials will
become cheaper and labor conditions
more stable.
Waiting for a reduction in construc-
ton costs is wasting valuable time
Prices of building materials are not
likely to decline until. there is a re
duction IN wage scales. Since the
price OF building materials is made
UP of labor costs plus the cost of raw
materials. and since the production
and transportation of raw materials
are essentially labor items, there can
be no drop in selling prices without
the corresponding drop in production
and transportation costs.
A national conference of persons in
! terested in home Building is in session
in Chicago this week. the purpose OF
which is to urge the use Of concrete
il the construction OF dwellings.
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Ouestions-Answers

Q. How much unmined coal is there in
the United States and Alaska w. ID. b..
A. The combined coal reserve of this
country and Alaska is 4,231. 600, Oc0. 900 tons,
of which ~ DOC, 900 600 tons is anthracite
2.155. 600 100000 tons is bituminous, and
POD, 900 O0O.O00 is subbitumnous and Ignite.
This is about one-half of the total coal
reserve of the whole world.
Q. Is there any town in the United States
which mas no moving picture theatert--
A. Harrison. New Jersey. has none. The
town council PASSED an ordinance placing
000 thus making 1t prohibtive for n movie
theater 10 open there. The mayor of the
town introduced the ordinance, and admit
ted that the purpose was to prevent moving
pictures from being shown there.
O. What animal is the fastest on foot !?
A The National Museum says that for
short distance running the cheeta lis the
fleetest of animals. This animal belongs
to the cat family. and IL long and slender
of body. 1T is found In India and Africa,
and is trainod to run Gown anteiopes.
@ How many Ipopes have there been
A There have been % Popes of Rome
from Peter 20 Benedict XIV, who holds office
Mt the present time.
.. What is the meaning and origin of
the word "vamp?''-F. W. NJ.
A. NamD Is an abbreviation of the word
Vampire which means a person who
ton existing among the Slavic races of the
lower Danube the vampire is a special be-
ing with human body which leaves its
grave during the night and sucks the
warm blood of living men and women
while they sleep. The term has been pop
ularized by Kipling's famous poem, 1.-THE
Vampire
Q. In what year was the first motion
picture shown in the United States III. II.
A. Miss Jerry" the first motion pic
ture. was produced in October. 1894. Alex
ander Black was the author, scenario
writer, director. camera and title
writer Of the picture. At that time only
five stereopticon slides a second could he
shown. but sixteen pictures are now flash
ed on the screen per second.
(Any reader can get the answer To any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information bureau, Frederic !.
Haskin. Director. Washington, d. C. This
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Far seeing financiers and business
men are urging the refunding of the
government bond issues into a long
term bond bearing a high enough rate
of interest to enable it to compete with
other capital issues and to make good
to the people who periodically put
their money into bonds during the
war. These people were urged to
buy bonds with their savings, and to
buy moro than their savings would
warrant, and borrow money of the
banks with the promise of carrying
them at a rate of interest low enough
so that there would be no loss in so
doing. Contrary to these promises. the
rates for carrying such bonds are
above the yield. and the bonds them
selves have sunk, some of them, as
much as ten dollars on the hundred in
market price. The result has been
that persons have been selling their
holdings of such bonds at the rate of
s15.OOO.OOO to $SO.OOO,0O0 a day in
Wall street, to get funds. in some
cases. to invest in what they think
will pay them better, but a large part
of these persons have sold their bonds
and are spending the proceeds in ex-
travagant purchases. thereby helping
to increase the cost of living.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-18
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
BY LEE PAPE.

Last mite ma put the bloc cover on
the dining room table so / could do
my lessins on it, and 1 was in there
doing them and wishing I wasent and
all of suddin the ink bottle went
over by itself on account of my elbo
exsidently hitting 1t, and half the ink
pored out and I quick grabbed up a
long thing hanging over the back of a
chair and mopped up the loose ink
with 1t. nuthing being left on the bloc
cover but a fearse big spot the shape
of stane. me thinking, G. gosh, jim
minny, holey Smoaks.
Witch jest then pop and ma opened
the door to say they was going out to
the movies. ma saying. o, Benny Potts.
look at that cover.
Meaning on account of the ink spot,
and pop sed, Herray. Herray, that ter
handed down to you from the ark is
ruined At last, herray. herray, rejoic
ings and joobilations.
Willyun Potts. think you're simply
awful. that bloc cover was an airioom,
sed ma.
That's putting it mildly. sed pop.
G.. pop. 1 sed. If 1 had of knew you
would be SO glad 1 wouldent of had to
bother to mop up the loose ink.
No, NOT for my sake, the tighter the
better, sed pop, and ma sed. Wat did
you mop it up with?
That thing. I sed, and pop sed, Con-
fownd it to blazes. my muffler.
G, pop. is it? I sed.
Is it, blast it to smithereens, il was
don't know wat it is now. sed pop
And he started to look at it with a
fearse Impression, and ma sed, Rejoic-
ings and oscillations, rejoicings and
joobilations.
1t may seem like a joak to you, but
its not to me. sed pop
Reiofcirgs and ioobffations sed ma
hee hee, rejoicings and joobilations-
Fire and damnation. sed pop. And
he throo it down on the floor and him
and ma went to the movies and kepI
on doing my lessins without eny more
ink spots
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-18
The Woman Who Lovcd-and
Earned 4 Modem sto.y q Home and Business
Blu JANE PHELPS
Blu JANE PHELPS
. Modern Sto.y or

IT dor' he answered decidedly. "a
good home cooked meal is a great at
traction I assure you"
You hate a boarding house so
much why don't you urge Geraldine
here to stay at home and let you earn
the money while she keeps house?"
I could have throttled Roberts aunt
I was so angry with her. 1t was my
money which paid for her board.
money I earned 1 waited anxiously
for Roberts answer.
II shall have to be content with
what my friends can do for me in that
1irection--for a time at least. Gerry
and have talked it over and conclude
ed it is best for us to remain here at
least for time. Later. when my ship
comes in, we will keep house-per-
haps."
If I felt like throttling his aunt
could have Rugged Robert for his re-
ply. He was a good sport after all
even IL he couldn't make very much
money. He had not allowed her to
know anything of our finances. nor
would he let her blame me in any way.
Ships have way of not coming
in she replied. then babe us good
night and left US alone.
DO you really think Mary will do
as she said Pr he asked.
mo! she was just talking. She
wouldn't be such an idiot!''
at is the idiots who don't have
homes of their own--ldlots like me
who can't earn enough to have ONE
he said bitterly.
1 made no answer. l really thought
AS 1 invariably did-that it was be-
cause he was sore over his earning
capacity. not over the lack of a home.
AS he lighted his pipe for his late
smoke he said carelessly. too careless
| ~, l thought afterward;
81 shan't be home to dinner tomor-
row night. Gerry. Marion has some
papers to look over, and 1 promised
to help her"
so you will dine there?s
| Yes"
Again wave of jealousy swept over
me. But I beat it back, and said
plea sanity:
| II know you will have a good din
ner. Remember me TO Marion.
| haven't had time yet to call, sbut 1 will
SOON
tTomorrow-Gerry hears, Jane Car
sons side)
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JUST FOLKS
HOME AND THE OFFICE.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST


Home is the place where the laughter
should ring.
Let the cares of the day be as great as
The night has been fashioned for rest.
So stand at the door when the toiling is
DER
And leave all your burdens behind,
And just be a dad to your girl or your
A dad Of the rOllicking kind.
The office is made for the tasks you must
face.
1t is built for the work you must do:
You may sit there and sigh as your cares
pile up high,
And no one may criticize you;
You may worry and fret as you think Of
your debt.
You may grumble when plans go astray.
But when IL comes night, and you shut
your desk tight.
Don't carry the burdens away.
Keep daytime for toll and the nighttime for
Work I as hard ms you choose in the town.
But when the day ends, and tho darkness
descends.
Just forget that you're wearing a frown-
Go home with a smile! Oh, you'll find it
worth while,
Go home light of heart and Of mind;
Go home and be glad that you're loved as
a dad.
A dad of the fun-IovIng kind.
Copyright 1920 by Edgar A. Guest.
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one or two children. The poor
mothers themselves, by begging her to
help them limit their families so that
the children already born might be
supported in decency. first gave her
the fdea of teaching birth control.
She went abroad and studied it in
England, France, Spain. and Holland,
and came back here to see what she
could do to help her country-women.
Such men as H. G. Wells, Arnold
Bennett, Gilbert Murray and Have
lock Ellis, are backing her. Once
when she was arrested they wrote a
letter to President Wilson which
caused him to have the case against
her dismissed. 1t is hard to imagine
such a delicate and gentle lady as
Mrs. Sanger being arrested.
But all the policemen don't dislike
me-" she said recently, with a quaint
smile. Look at this lovely bronze
vase the chief of police of Tokyo
brought me as a ceremonial gift when
he came to get information for his
country"
The question of birth control is be-
ing discussed more and more freely.
but it is still unsettled. Are the
women who have the right to vote
also going to assume the right to
voluntary motherhood? Are mothers
going to demand proper living condi-
lions and sufficient food for their
children, or else refuse to have the
children? VIII the stork really
strike?