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The evening world., 1921-11-03
W|FE'S TEARS SET
HERFREE IN COURT
AND WIN HUSBAND
Woman Who Fled With An
other Man Forgiven After
Dramatic Plea.

Mrs. Helen J. Townsend's tears so
moved the Jersey city jury which had
found her guilty, the Judge WHO was
about to pass sentence upon her and
the husband whom she had deserted
for another man, that legal punish
ment was thrown aside, the husbands
heart softened and e general recon-
citation effected Jurors and specta-
telical plea of the convicted woman.
Only last March Ellsworth Town
sind had married the twenty-three-
year-old pretty defendant. He was
a crew dispatcher for the New York
Central They lived happily in Corn
ing until July. Then Townsend was
away and his BRIDE attended a carni-
val. There she met Harry Kearns, a
Michigan Snowman. He courted her
and proposed. Without telling hiri
she was married, Mrs. Townsend ac.
&C pIe1 anu IuSS tlOpeU 10 w dTTel,
Pa, where they were married on July
20.
Townsend, after months of search
ing traced the couple to No. 300 Grove
Street, Jersey City. The wife and
Kearns were arrested. During tho
trial to-day before Special Sessions
Judge Mccarthy the Snowman said he
had no idea the girl he married had
another husband Mrs. Townsend ad-
mitted this and Kearns was fc md not
guilty while the woman was convicted.
Before Judge Mccarthy had an op-
portunity to pass sentence Mrs.
Townsend fell to her knees and asked
mercy. She clasped her husband 8
legs and begged him to take her
back. For a time he was unmoved.
Finally, he bent over. lifted his wife
to her feet and kissed her. The court
paroled her in the custody Of her
husband.
The evening world., 1921-11-03
ALDERMEN SEAT
SOCIALISTS AF TER
TW0-YEARF|GHT
Lee and Cassidy Cheered by
Gallery on Taking Their
Places.

Algernou Lee, Socialist, was seated
this afternoon as Alderman from tho
Eighth District and Edward r, Cas-
sidy. Socialist, was seated as Alder
man from the 2Oth District at u SPECIAL
meeting Of the Board of Aldermen.
Moritz Graubard, Democrat, who has
been representing the sth Distpct
since Jan. /. 1920, was unseated. as
was Timothy j. sullivan. who has
represented the Goth District.
The gallery Of the, Aldermanic
Chamber was jammed with Socialists
of both sexes, who cheered Lee and
Cassidy and every reference to them
and their long delayed victory and
Missed the Democratic majority and
individual Democratic Aldermen
whenever the opportunity presented
itself. \ resolution offered by the
Tammany- controlled Committee on
Privileges and Elections recommend
ing tho seating OF Lee and Cassidy
was unanimously adopted.
Alderman Beckerman. Socialist
member OF tho committee submitted
a minority report criticising tho ma
ioIity report. which avoided all men
tion OF fraudulent practices by which
Lee and Cassidy were counted out at
the polls.
The proceedings were enliVened by
an exchange OF compliments between
Aldermen Bruce Falconer, Republican
leader, and william 4. Collins, Demo-
cratic leader. Talconer called Collins
crooked politician" and q 'dema-
gogue," and Collins called F'aiconer
political and roll igious bigot" and
yellow" The Socialist audience
cheered both these orator..
Nr. Sullv1n IN farewell speech .
the board offered - donate the salary
ne has dram while sitting aS IN Al
derman TO any charity the Socialists
might name II ths incoming Socialist
Alderman would make donation OF
tbe salary nc is 10 get for the time he
0yos frozen out. The offer was not
accepted
The evening world., 1921-11-03
RISKS OWN LIFE
AND BABES TO AID
HUSBAND IN FIRE
Rescued by Firenen, One Car
rying Crippled Man Down
Aerial Ladder.

Fourteen persons including womem
children and a man with a broken le.
were trapped by fire early this mora
inA in. the tive-story apartment hou.c
at No. 269 Els: 134th Street ThrN
were all rescued ny Gremen and police
men.
The man with the broken les was
John KERN, who was in bed. His wife
was beside him with their two-year.
old baby. She could have reached the
street with the infant before the blaze
had filled the stairshaft, but refused
to leave her husband even when he
ordered her to. She actually tried to
carry both her husband and the baby
TO safety.
Failing in that, She screamed for
help. one Of her neie hbors, john Vim
cent, helped get Karin out of bed, JUS
then window wsss smashed and Fire
man james Wood of Hook and Ladder
No. II entered from an aerial Iaddc,
and carried KERN down. Others car
ried down the wife and baby.
Five hundred persons in adjoining
houses were aroused by the police
and went to the street until danger
of II spread of the flames was over.
Policeman Alexander Stumpf Of the
Alexander Avenue Station, on strike
duty in nearby railroad yard. saw
flames going through the roof of the
building. The fire had started in the
basement and shot up the stair shaft,
filling the top-noor halls with flames
and smoke.
When fremen arrived they found
upper-noor windows filled with men.
women and children trapped in their
apartments. They had opened their
doors to find flames shooting across
the corridors that led to the fire.
escapes.
The others rescued were MIR. and
Mrs. Fred Gugc:ty and their eleven
year-old son from the top floor.
walter Johnson. his wife and three
children from the fourth floor.
Thomas Tracy, his wife and seven
teen-year-old son from the third floor.
Firemen carried them all down ex-
tension ladders, responding to the first
alarm. Battalion Chief Polling, think
ing many more might be IN the burn
ing house, sent a second alarm.
The fire did little damage except in
the Railways, and all the families were
able to return to their apartments
after it was over. The loss was es-
timated at $4,000, The origin was
not learned.
The evening world., 1921-11-03
DAN R. HANNA DIES
Of HEART TROUBLE
At CROT0N ESTATE
Married -Four Times, but Only
Physician Is With Him
at the End.

Dan h. Hanna. millionaire capital
list of Cleveland, O., and this city.
died at o'clock this morning OF
heart trouble at his country home,
The Croft, in Mount Nebo Road,
Croton-o the-H Hudson. His physi-
clan, DR., Jerome Wagner of No. 162
West saith Street. who had been in
attendance on him for three days,
was with him when he died.
While Mr. Hanna had been in fall
ing health for some time, his condi-
tion was not considered cause for
alarm. Neither his wife nor any
member OF his immediate family was
at The Croft at the time OF his death.
His sister. Mrs. Medill Mccormick.
wife Of the senior United States Sem
ator from Illinois, was at the Hitz-
Carlton last night. She went to the
Hanna home when notified OF the
death OF her brother.
Funeral services will be held and
Mr.. Hanna will be buried in Clcve-
land
Mr.. Hanna was a son OF the late
Senator Marcus A. Hanna OF Ohio.
He was born in Cleveland on Dec. %
1856, on tho death OF his father he
became the owner OF the bulk OF and
tho manager OF all the extensive
Hanna business interests, which In
cluded lake shipping Industries, manu-
featuring and ore holdings and two
Cleveland newspapers, the Leader and
the News.
Under the management OF Dan
The evening world., 1921-11-03
DOLLAR WHEAT BACK,
LOWEST SINCE 1915

CHICAGO, Nov. 3.--What long ago
used to be considered normalcy was
reached tot day on the Chicago Board
OF Trade-wheat at 81 a bushel The
December delivery fell to that price,
the lowest since 1918.
The absence Of demand rather than
any unusual selling pressure charac-
terized TO- o-days market The dollar
a-bushel price led TO comparisons
with more than douple that figure re-
allied during the great war and also
was a reminder that the market for
May delivery was down to s4l-2
cents bunhel In 1914 and 70 SO IL
cents IN 1911,
The market failed TO rally ana De-
cember wheat closed at % cents
The evening world., 1921-11-03
BY Darid Laurence.
-upyIi1 ~. r. Il. rN tRe rrsss rn9llShlus Co.
THE " " Gork Evening World.


WASHINGTON. NOV 8 - Cana
hss diNals been 4 problem common
10 The sin great powers-dreat Brit
aln, United States, Germany. Japan,
Russia and France.
Time and again efforts have been
made TO float siX-power loans or
Eve power loans among banking
groups OF all the major countries in
an effort to help put China on her
feet. Little by little the nations of
the wCrld have been encroaching on
her domain. Her undeveloped re-
sources have been tempting to the
alert business men Of other coun-
tries.
Concessions have been obtained in
nil sorts of ways from the helpless
Chinese Government, which, in re-
cent generations, has really had no
strong central government but has
moved along with curious indiffer-
Nence as local governments and pro-
iYincial authorities have sprung w
within the immense empire.
/ The possession of railways means a
great deal to the nation which owns
and operates them in China. 1t in
sures access to the mines of the in
terror for the bringing out of valu-
able freights. British, American and
German capital have been content to
develop railway enterprises without
assuming TO obtain political control
Scr their respective governments of
g territory in China. The much
i4ilied Of province of Shantung, with
its immense territory, was never
ceded to Japan at the Paris Peace
Conference. but the port which is
practically the door to Shantuns
province was given Japan, as well as
jurisdiction over the railway to the
interior, including a thirty mile strip
on p--h side of the railway. It Is
true the Germans had that very right
and Japan was asking only for that
which Germany had forfeited through
her defeat in the war. Japan was
asking for those rights as her reward
Continued on Ninth Page)
The evening world., 1921-11-03
BRITISH RELEASE
ALL S|NNF NFE|NERS
AT BALLyK|NLAR
lnterned Irish in Northern
Camp Given Freedom
Internationally.
CRAIG TO HELP PEACE.
Ulster Premier Accepts Call
to London to Consider
Settlement.
CRAIG TO HELP PEACE.

BELFAST, Nov 3 (Associatec
Press).-The Sim Feiners who have
been under internment in the Bally-
I5inlar Camp have been uncondition
ally released
(The Ballykinlar nternment
Camp is on Dundrum Bay. County
Down. occupying the site original
ly used as training camp for
Ulster troops in the war, about
thirty miles from Belfast. 1t was
established in Nov, 1920. and by
spring well on toward 1000 men
had been interned there. the num-
ber given early in May, when the
camp was described as "hlled, .
boing 1,721. No recent figures are
available to show whether this
number had possibly been in
creased, or diminished.
Complaints were made early in
the history of the camp of the
treatment OF the prisoners con-
fined there. When newspaper
correspondents visited III" camp
in May, they described il rs To-
Gated in n dreary spot. but re
ported difficulty in obtaining
statements from interned men re-
garding conditions thcrc.)
LONDON. Nov. 3 ASSOCIATED
James Craig, the Ulster
Premier. has accepted the Govern
ment's invitation. despatched ycster-
day. to come to London and consult
as to listers attitude toward the
proposals regarding the Ulster boun-
dairy and other questions involved il
the Irish settlement plan.
Sir James, 1t Is stated, is coming tc
to discuss specific plans, sub
mitted to the Government by the Sinr
Feln. OF such a character that the
thinks them feasible Il
Ulster agrees to them. These plan.
do not, however. embody any agree.
ment definitely reached between The
Government and the Sim Feln.
The Ulster Premier has sail
throughout that he would not inter.
vene until such an agreement was
reached, but has now consented u
discuss the provisional proposals,
The Ulster question has been dis
cussed between the Cabinet and the
Sim Fein representatives along thu
line of two different plans.
The question Is not merely one o
the counties of Tyrone and Ferma
nagh. but OF other separable Nation,
alist districts now under the Northern
in which a plebiscite /!
being urged. not by counties but b!
districts. The result. according 4
estimates of authorities on the sit
would probably be to give
Southern Ireland the city of London.
derry, South Down, South Armagh
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The evening world., 1921-11-03
OFFERS $1,000 BILL
TO PAY A So FINE
Druggist stumps Court hut Finally
Digs Up a Twenty.

Give me change of thShs1nd, "
said Abraham Cohen, twenty-five a
druggist, Of No 1924 Seabury Place.
the Bronx, submitting a bill OF that
to Clerk HiIson in Traf-
nc SQUIRT to-day when ordered % pay
a me of 80 or serve two days in Jail
for parking his car an hour ana i've
minutes in front Of no, l35 William
Street.
"FTavr you got anything smullcr?"
asked the clerk. Nothing smaller"
said the druggist.
Sorry, youll nave to wait couple
Of days until get enough ont o' lhls
gang here TO give you change
Cohen sat down. Then, going
through his pockets hr ran across
an insignificant twenty" all cUm-
pied up but d litcsayer.
That's more like it," said Hu.ou.
giving back the thousand and change
Of the twenty
The evening world., 1921-11-03
BIG SHIP ON FIRE;
NO SIGN OF CREW
Reported Burning Fiercely 400
Miles Off Halifax-Identity
Not Yet Learned.

HALIFAX. Nov. "A large vessel,
not yet identified. Is on fire 400 miles
southeast OF Halifax, according TO a
wireless message received to-day by
the Canadian Naval Department.
The message which Is from the
British oil TINKER Snsoieine. on route
from Port Eads to Havre, follows;
~, y. Saxoleino, latitude 4e.Ss
north, longitude bs,a5 west, eneircled
vessel on fire, Burning fieroely, No
sign of crew Apparently a large YES =
sol
The evening world., 1921-11-03
S2,0OO,OOO MAIL ROBBERY
AIDED BY POSTAL EMPLOYEE;
TEN BANDITS ARE SHADOWED
Names and Whereabouts Of
Thieves Known; Arrests EX,
pected in 4S Hours.
WATCHING FOR LOOT.
Authorities Know Brokerage.
House Through Which Bonds
Were to BE Sold.

The names and Whereabouts Cf the
men who robbed the mail track in
Broadway of ITS S2OOO,OOO contents oG
registered packages, including bonds
money and jewelry. are now definitely
known by inspectors of the Post Oaicc
in this city.
This information came to The Eve
ming World this afternoon rroun a
source of unquestionable authority.
There were ten men in the gang
which planned the robbery, and not
less than three of them were in thn
green motor car which ran the truck
into Leonard Street. where it was
rifed.
All of these men are now being
shadowed, and it is expected that
there will be arrests within forty
eight hours.
A chauffeur still employed as mail
truck driver by the city Post Office
is known TO have been the one to give
which was robbed. its contents and
the pouches which contained the
most valuable things. This man. un..
der the closest espionage, will be
among the first arrested.
It has also been learned that the
robbery of a mail truck containing
rich registered mail was planned to
he carried out in Park Avenue two
months ago. At the last moment the
plan miscarried. After that it was
decided by the gang to hold up Il
truck on its way up Broadway at
night
The Post Office Inspectors have also
located the brokerage house through
which it was planned to negotiate the
large number of bonds and other Sc
curities taken in the Broadway hold
up. This establishment Is under close
watch for the first move of the rob-
bers.
Col. W. e Cochran, head OF the
post Office inspectors here. announced
to-day that two witnesses have
been :oUrd.
These witnesses, whose names are
not to be given out at present, say
they were walking through Leonard
Street when they saw the bags of
mail being taken from the truck and
transferred to the other machine. 1t
was all done in such a matter Of tact
way that their curiosity was not
aroused. They supposed that the
maj tuck had broken down md
that transfer was being made by
post otIice authorities.
They said the driver OF the mail
truck, Frank Havranek, was standing
quietly by looking on. No guns were
seen by these witnesses
Two men who were arrested yester-
day on Hudson Boulevard. Jersey City,
and held in $4,000 bail were confronted
by Havranek, but he said he never had
seen them before. They gave the
names OF Michael Arbes, No S.
Adams street, and Frank Calabrese,
No. 62S Monroe street, both of Hobo
ken
The evening world., 1921-11-03
PULITZER RACE
BEGUN AT OMAHA
Bert AcoSta First 10 Leave
Ground in t5O-Mile Air
Contest.

OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 3.-Bert Acosta
in a 400-horse power Ansaldo plane
took the air at 2.35 = NJ. to-day in the
start of the 150-mi.e Pulitzer Cup
air race. He was followed five min
utes later by Lloyd Bertaud in a
400-horse power Cuctiss machine.
The other four planes followed at
regular intervals
Those in the race besides Acosta
and Bertaud We're Lieut.. Col. f. II.
Hartney, Capt, J. A McCready Clar-
ence Coombs and James Curran
The evening world., 1921-11-03
NEW YORK WOMAN
LEFT OVER 100000
PUBLIC REQUESTS

SPRINGFIELD. Mass, Nov. s.
The will OF Ellen NJ. D. Hazlcton OF
New York CITY, filed to-day, disposes
Of more than 100000 in public be
quests.
Included are $4,000 10 MI Holyok'
College; $4,000 10 the Scuu,l Board
uf Chillicothc, Mo, 100000 to the
school Board of Ottawa, Kan, amt
10000 10 the Hudson q. " CITY
hospital.
The evening world., 1921-11-03
MADEIRA AWAITS
CHARLES AND ZITA
Arrangements Completed 10 Re-
ceive Exiled Rulers
on leland
on Island.

LISBON, Nov. 8 tAssocinted PressJ.
Arrangement have been completed
to receive former Emperor Charles
and former Empress zita OF Austria
Hungary as eXiios Oh the Island Of
Madeira, according to telegram
received here to-day from Funohai,
the chief city of the island
The evening world., 1921-11-03
MILK FIRMS HIRING MEN
TO TAKE STRIKERS PLACES:
INCREASE IN C|TY'S SUPPLY
Delivery Force on Strike
Proof" Basis - Threats Against
Gro%-rs and Coal Dealers Selling
to Pasteurizing Plants - Union
Centres Fight on Open Shop.

The milk distributors facing complete reorganization de
shop
furnishing
o a
the
crea
The evening world., 1921-11-03
MAY BE ENVOY
FROM u. S. TO BERLIN

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3--The name OF
A.auson B. HouEhton Of Corning. y. Y.
a memner OF the House from the S7,h
New York District. was understood to
oc hrst In the mind OF President Hard
,ug "a Ambassador 10 Germany after a
conference to-day between tho Presi-
dent and Charles u. Hii!es, Republican
National Commit teemsn for Now York.
The evening world., 1921-11-03
THREATS AGAINST ,GROcERS
AND SMALL SToREkEEPERs.

Violence was extended to-day TO
threats against grocers and other
small shopkeepers handling milk and
TO threats against coal dealers who
supplied wholesalers with coal for
pasteurization.
Milk distribution by the consume.s
themselves became simplified after two
days of experience. The weather is
now so cool that milk keeps we'll over
night, and, realizing this housewives
sent yesterday afternoon to the depots
for to-day's breakfast milk. There
we're no such crowds In iine at the
depots and SUB depots as have been
seen on previous mornings. Congo
ton was also lessened by tho increAa
Ing experience Of the emergency sa!es-
mcH IN handlIn. milk and customer >.
Tho Borden and Sheffield companies.
which bring together moro milk 10
tho city than all the others com
bned, reported that they had abnui
throe-quartcrs Of their normal supply
The evening world., 1921-11-03

VOTE FOR JOSEPH s. MULoUEEs for JUDGE
OF GENERAL SESSIONS Nominated BY DEMO
CRATIC ASD REPUBLICAN PARTIEs.-Adv.
The evening world., 1921-11-03

The milk deliyerymen's union at A
meeting at Madison Square Gard,
last night followed their leaders by a
unanimous repudiadon of their 20
l vote Of Monday night to refuse ar.
bitration, and, aw!ftly changing front,
demanded arbitration as n union, there
by voting to continue the strike, hat
t. continue 1t as a strike against the
open shop.
Officials of the milk distributing
companies reported that their adver-
tisements for men to make I'D a new
organization were meeting with a re-
sponse which was in itself an assur-
ance that they will attain their object.
Charles Neidner, General Manager
or the Empire state Dairy Company
OF Brooklyn. said. I'VE have had EN-.
ployment agencies hiring for us men
who were on our delivery wagons be-
tora the war. We were not able to
take them back when they came OUT
OF the army. The union would not
let us. But they can come back now
and bring their friends, clean cut
American born boys
This means that we will have
force which is not following the
union system of making rules say
ing Just how little work a man shall
do, 1t means that we can afford to
pay these new men just as much as
we have paid to the men on strike
and from them get so much more
work that we can reduce the price OF
milk. Where formerly we had three.
route inspectors. the union has
forced us to have five. They have
not done their work as well as the
three formerly did 1.-THE five were
using their time to find excuses for
doing still less work.
Already we have our wholesale
routes organized so that our big
trucks are Offering milk to every store
they pass. irrespectively as to whether
they are our customers. II they art
customers of other companies they
are welcome to go back to their old
arrangements after the strike. This
is a strike for the right OF the COM
pany to give service. With the appli-
cations Tor employment coming from
the men who are applying to our en-
ployment agencies now, it il fight
yyg have already won"
The evening world., 1921-11-03

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The McCarthy weekly news., 1921-04-02
Just Received
 From New York NEW NOVELS Published this Spring

" 6 SECONDS OF DARKNESS by Octavius Roy Cohen THE HOUSE. IN ltLAEh I( IL SI' ty May Wells THE WISDOM OF TEE CHINESE' Ly B1 BloNn MALCOLM SAGE, DEFECTIVE" by hel belt Jenkins " CONVICT B. l4' by R. k. Weeke>
 THE BROWN MOTH" by Oscar Graeve
 " THE OWL TAXI by Hubert Footner
The Topeka state journal., 1921-02-25
ASK FOR RECALL
Anti-N. p. l.. Forces of North
Dakota Start Petitions.
Demand for Custer of Officials
Follows Probe.

Fargo, Feb. 25.-Anti-nonpartis
of North Dakota will order a recall
election, aimed at several state Off
GERS, they announced thru the head
quarters today. The time of the cleo
ton and the officers against whom it
will be directed were not announced.
The decision follows a meeting of 1.-The
Committee of Twenty-one," an anti
nonpartisan organization.
A petition signed by approximately
one-thfrd of the voters of the state is
necessary for the recall. This petition
must be presented to the secretary of
state, who checks it to see that the
necessary number of voters have
signed it, and it then goes to the gov
ernor, who calls the election. There
will also be an attempt at initiation of
several new laws, according to the
committee. The statement says:
Because of the serious condition
existing thruout the state, and reve-
lations brought out by the investiga-
ton committee of the house, numerous
demands from all parts of the state