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The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1921-11-04
S2,0OO,0OOLOSS
IN SPECTACULAR
WATERFRONT FIRE
-Four Piers, Twenty Lighters
and Many Freight Cars
Burn at Weehawken.
THOUSANDS SEE BLAZE.
Large Cargoes of Flour and
Other Goods Destroyed
at Erie Terminal.

Erie Railroad officials announced
to-day that the loss by the fire winch
destroyed four Erie piers twenty
lighters, twenty loaded freight cars
and other property in Weeha ,yken
last night Will amount to about
$1,000, 900.
This was the third serious fire loss
the Erie has sustained in TIT, Jersey
City territory within three months
The fire which destroyed the round
houses in the Hackensack Meadows
cost 100000, and loss OF $1,000 900
was charged to the destruction by
hre of pier at the foot Of 18th
Street.
Inc Weehawken fire was the mCst
spectacular and destructive water
front conf1a grafton New York has
witnessed since the Hoboken piers
were destroyed in 1900.
The flames mounted hundreds OF
feet high and could be seen for many
miles, drawing thousands to the
scene in automobiles, boats and afoot
So many thousands lined the cliffs
that police reserves OF several ada
cent towns had to drive them back
to prevent their falling or being
pushed over the Palisades.
On the New York side countless
thousands watched the sweep of the
blaze from piers, skyscrapers, apart
ment buildings and Riverside Park
and Drive. All the fire fighting craft
In the harbor and apparatus from Ho-
boken, Union Hill, Jersey City, West
the battle. Parts OF New York City
were almost as light as day and
embers were carried as far as Times
Square on a high wind.
The Erie piers. A, b, c and D, were
near Baldwin Avenue. The fire is
believed to have started shortly be-
fore midnight from an overheated
watchman's shanty on Pier D, which
was loaded with grain 1t spread
quickly to B and D, loaded with mer-
chandise. and then TO A, filled with
Oil, kerosene. naphtha and such in
flammable materials.
The Pennsylvania, Lehlgh, Lacka-
wanna and Jersey Central railroads
sent twenty four thgs to aid New
York fireboats in the fight from the
water side.
Twenty-four loaded lighters caught
fire and burning their moorinEs
drfted out into the Hudson. All
were caught except one and towed
back. For time this runaway.
blazing fercely, drifted about as a
menace to navigation until the Police
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SHOTS ARE FIRED
ASPOL|CE BATTLE
MILK STRIKERS
MAGISTRATE SWeetSer Cheered as
He Sends Nine to Jail
for Rioting.

Three big trucks were sent out
from the De kalb Avenue depot Of
the Borden milk depot in De kaib
Avenue, Brooklyn, at two o'clock to-
day to hucltster milk until their sup
~ gave out. Policeman Frank
Conklin. Harold kerns and another
rode on the wagons as guards.
Going through Sumner Avenue in
close formation, the caravan came
TO a pile of brick in front of an un-
finished building at kosciuscko
Street. Twenty strikers, lying in
wait behind the brick. started bonn
bardment of bricks on the trucks.
The drivers dropped to the shell
tered side OF the trucks. The police
men drew their revolvers and threat
ened to shooit if the brick throwing
did not stop.
Go on and shoot" shouted a voice
from behind the brick breastworlS
you can't hit anything"
The street rang with the crash Of
breaking milk bottles as the bricks
reached their targets. The sidewalks
were soon cleared for a block in
either direction except behind the
brick pile.
The policemen fired three shots
over the heads OF the attacking party
Jeers replied to the shots and more
bricks.
Householders telephoned to Police
Headquarters and Captain Sullivan
and five uniformed reserves arrived
in an automobile, They charged the
brick pile and took fifteen prisoners.
Conklin and Kerns picked out Will
liams Jones of No. 1920 George Street.
Ridgewood. and John Eichler of No.
154 South Third Street, Williams
burgh, as ringleaders. Magistrate
McClosky held them without bail for
felonious assault
DR.. Schiss from Beth Moses Hos
pital attended the two policemen who
were badly cut and Lruised by bricks
and also patched up several of tho
strikers who had been struck with
clubs and revolver butts.
The remaining thirteen prisoners
were held for examination by the
police to learn il there were any
mo. ringleaders IN he crowd,
City Magistrates to-day took up
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BRANDS
WATSON CHARGES
MOST OUTRAGEOUS
General Says No More Untrue
or Unfounded Accusation
Could Be Made.
SENATE ORDERS PROBE.
Special Committee to Make
Sweeping Inquiry Into
Army HangingS.

NASHVILLE. Nov. At is the
most outrageous and untrue accusa @
ton that possibly could be made and
is without foundation" said Gen
John ]. Pershng here to- day, refer
ring to charges made oy Senator
Watson of Georgia that members of
the American Expedtionary Force
were hanged in France without
court martial.
WASHINGTON, Nov. "A new
resolution ordering a special commit
tee to investigate charges OF Senator
Watson. Democrat. Georgia. regard
ing treatment OF privates in the
American Expeditionary Forces was
adopted unanimously to-day by the
Senate after two hours wrangle
Senator Watson told the Senate that
his charge that twenty one American
soldiers had been hanged like dogs"
in France without trial had been
based on thp statement of a soldier
who said he had seen the gallows and
had been told by the scaffold guard
that this number of men had been
hanged.
Senator Edge opened to-day's dis
.
we're criticism of the Georgia Senator
for attempting TO place in The Con-
gressional Record Il paot ot1glaph Cc
g'lllows said to n I'VE been used by tie
army in Francs
mo one claimed that men were
not tried and executed" said Mr..
Edge THE picture OF gallows used
for punishment Of brute is no justi-
ficatlon OF the charges of the Senator
from Georgia. The American people
want to know the facts, TO have the
Senator's charges proven or disproven
by uncontrovcrted evidence"
Replying to the New Jersey SEN
ator, Senator Watson referred to the
picture showing the hanging of the
negro for an attack on little French
girl and demanded:
Since when has it become legal TO
disgrace the uniform OF the American
Army by hanging it at the end OF
halter?"
The Georgia Senator called atten-
ton to the phrase in the casualty lists
issued during the war, Dead from
ether causes" and asked what were
those causes. We are just now be-
ginning to find out" he declared
Taking up the case OF the soldier
Frye, who was killed by Il sentry. the
speaker declared that he had con-
stituent in Georgia who saw the COM
CContinued on SacODd Page
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1921-11-04
ENST|LL DIGGING
IN SAND TO SAVE
VICTIM OF CAvE-|N
Workers With Ropes Around
Waists Seek to Save Graham
Far Underground.

Six men we're still trying to-day to
dig out William Graham OF Buffalo,
who went down into tho water shed
excavation at Wanaque. n. j., We'd
nesday afternoon when the earth
around steel pile III which no was
working caved in. Early yesterday
the digging was stopped and a sheet
iron shaft was built, The digging then
began again at O'Clock yesterday
afternoon.
Only two men eau SO down the
shaft at a time rhey go down with
ropes around their Vslsts. Graham.
who Is twenty years old. was
working on ffty-tive foot depth
trench when the cavc-ln occurred.
Major James K. Horton originated
the sheet steel pilins method OF do
ing such work, and with 1t raised the
wreck of the Maine from the bottom
OF Havana Harbor. 1t IL very haz-
ardous. Major Horton is directing
the rescue work at Wanaque.
Graham walked to the edge of the
excavation, twenty feet wide, whicn
had reached a depth of fifty-five feet,
Just as a sand slip snatched away the
edges. His hand was caught by an
other workman, but he dropped. A
rope thrown to him was torn from
his hands when another heavier mass
OF sand buried him.
Hope for finding Graham alive rests
Largely on the fall with him of tim
bers which may have foormed a roof
for a subterranean shelter Com
pressed air is being forced into metal
pipes driven through the sand near
what Is his prison or tomb. His bat
tie Is being fought by the only men
and possibly the only apparatus per-
fectly equipped to do all for his rescus
that expert workmanship and perfect
tools may accomplish.
II can't believe Bill is dead" said
his buddy" John Mu.cahy. We
we're born on the Same block In New
York and have been together and In
the same trade all our lives. Bill cas-
q wite-she's a mighty fine woman
too--in Buffalo. and two kids. II will
break her heart IL Bill is dead Wen
get him out though. dead or alive"
Laurent G. Tonnelle, Chairman OF
the New Jersey Water supply Com
mission, remained at the scene OF the
rescue work from o'clock Tuesday
evening, all day yesterday and was
still there last evening. None OF the
men or foremen has left the place for
more than a hurried meal since Ora.
ham disappeared in the sand.
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SIS, ZOO PAYROLL
IN SATCHEL SNATCHED
FROM BROOKLYN BOY

Morris Sabel. nineteen, ran into the
office of his father. senior member -
the clothing firm of Sabel Il Schaps
No SO Meserole Street, Brooklyn, this
afternoon and said that three men
mad robbed him OF the week say
roll, Sc, OOO in front OF the factory.
He was returning from the bank
with the money in n satchel WHEN, he
said, three men stepped up to him as
he was about to enter the establish
ment and one OF them cried: Give
me that PACKAGE"
Sabel said they did not display any
firearms, but he handed the Jox to
them and they jumped into an auto
mobile.
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MRS. OBENCHAIN,
i'll, GOES BEFORE
GRAND JURY

LOS ANGELES, Nov Mrs Mad
alynne Obenchain, Indicted with Ar
thur C. Burch Cor the alleged murder
OF j. Belton KENNEDY, went before
the Los Angeles County Grand jury
to-day.
She was i'll n Jail when she re-
ceievd the summons from the DIS
trict Attorney. but declaring that
this was the opportunity she had been
waiting for to win her liberty, dis
regarded the advice Of The matron
and others who knew Of her illness
and asked to he taken before the
jury.
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MRS. WILKINSON
PAYSAS5F|NEF0R
BEATING HUSBAND
Declares He Had Chorus Girl
With Him During Attack
in Broadway.
SAYS HE PUNCHED HER.
Wife Who Figures in S5oO,oOO
Alienation Suit Asserts She
Got Black Eve.

Mrs. Elsie f. wilkinson, wife os
William j. Wilkinson. whom she at
tackled last Monday night on Broad
way between 45th and Actin Street ,
after her husband had beaten Will
lam +, Schlemmer millionaire hard
ware manufacturer and brought suit
against him for 100000 for alleged
alienation of affections, was fined 30
in the West Side Court to-day by
Magistrate Corrigan for disorderlY
conduct. Mr.. wilkinson, who was ar
rested with his wife by Traffic Pa
trolman LEM of the West Attn Street
STA ton on the same charge was dis
missed.
Mrs. Wilkinson, who. 1t was alleged.
had resented her husbands attack on
Mr.. Schlemmer. did not mention the
'atters name in court.
She followed to the stand Patrol
rested the pair aftr Mrs. Wilkinson
had climbed for a second time on the
running board of Mr.. Wilkinson's au-
tomobile and renewed striking at him.
"She said, This man is my hus-
band and he has given me a black
eye" Lenz testified.
Did she have a black eye?" Masis-
trate Corrigan asked. mo. sir" re-
piled the policeman. II told he" she
couldn't fight 1t out there. and when
she got back on the running board |
arrested both of them"
WAS the man striking herr asked
the Magistrate. mo, sir: he was
just sitting there"
to break in on the policeman's testi-
mony. but was told TO keep silent un-
til she took the stand. She appeared
eager to talk. Mr. Wilkinson, who it
was said had received several
scratches on his face during his wife's
attack. paced the floor and said no
thing. He smiled sardonically while
his wife was testifying. She is
blond and plump and wore a blue
dress without coat and a black hat.
my husband hasn't been giving
me any money" she said as she be-
gan her testimony. II was on Sixth
Avenue last Monday night when
saw my husband coming out OF the
St. James Hotel with a girl, appa-
rcntly a chorus girl, about sixteen
years old, and step into his automo-
bile. l followed them to Broadway,
wanting to speak to him about money
because every time l go to his office
he won't see me.
Il climbed on the running board of
the car and he punched me in the
breast, pushing me off. | climbed
back again and began striking at
him because he had hurt me. There
were scars there the next morning.
The girl who was with him got out
and ran. The policeman came up
then"
Mrs. wilkinson paid her fine.
Mr.. Wilkinson. who is head of the
color print Arm of Geese, Wilkinson
g. Co, Is now living at No. l9 West
55th Street and his wife is living a
half block away at the st. Regis.
The Schlemmer home Is at Great
Neck and Mr., Schlemmer. besides be
ing the defendant in the 100000 suit
brought by Mr.. wilkinson, is also the
defendant in a suit for separation
brought by his wife. who has named
Mrs wilkinson.
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81
ASSASSIN FATALLY STABS !.
HARA, LIBERAL PREMIER AND.
LLOYD GEORGE Of JAPAN |
Death Quickly Follows Assault =
Event Deplored Because ofLeaders
Anti-Military Views and Fear of
His Successor Being a Less Broad
minded Statesman. III

TOXIC, Nov ASSOCIATED PreSs).-Premier fatal,
stabbed in the breast to-day the railroad station Toxic
rDcspatches Department
the Premier the
'v'tofs
WASHINGTON Nov. (AsSated Press Official advce
Toxic announcing that Premier Ha had been stabbed fatally
cevd the State Department to-day after the press deSpac
brought the the United apan
Embassy officials and members tn japanese delegation TO the Al
Far East Conference received the first from the Associates
Press and greatly depressed.
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The message to the State Depart ,
ment. which was filed at p. VI.
Toxic time. gave no details othei
than the Premier had been stabbed
An hour later another mesa &c. flee
by the American Embassy at Toxic
at 10 +. NJ, was received at the Stai :
Department, announcing the death pl
the Premier. 4.
Secretary Hughes was attendius
the Friday Cablnat meeting when tai
despatch arrived. and on leaving d.
White House was told OF the assak
sination by newspaper correspond
ents He said he was greatly shockSS
by the news "
Before the departure OF the Japa o.
ese delegation from Toxic. threaten.
Ing letters had been received by va d,
Gus members of the> Ca binet aas
Prince Tokugawa himself, Just BIT
fore embarking on the steamer ~,
the United States, received tah
tastically worded document threater;
Ing him with assassination unless ht
achieved results at Washington b,
benefit TO his country and warn d !
him also that he must not be tof
foreign" in his attitude while In Eli
United States NJ
Mr.. Hara was rapidly attaining "a
predominant position in the political
life OF Japan, SO much SO that he wAs
often rafarraI q 20 no 4
OF the empire. He had achieved amons
other things kind u' working col
operation between the military ana
civic elements of the Government, and
had Induced the military leaders
who had been accused Of ende1l ~
ing to direct too much the policies oi
the country, to work more in harmoIlS
with the civic departments. E
The assassination may have an IN, /.
portant effect upon the Conferences OF
Armament Limitation so far as Japan
IS concerned because II is the custom
Of the Japanese to consult freely
among themselves upon all importan at
state affairs, and the conference dele
CATION would undoubtedly havs
cabled freely to Premier Hara for hfs
advice as the various important sub.
jects to deliberate came up. Il
Baron Takahashi. the Minister of
Finance, is third in rank in the Jap
anese Cabinet and 1t was deemed
likely among japanese here that hs
would be designated as the temporary
head OF the Cabinet.
Some members OF the delegation
were inclined to attribute the crime u
Japanese "ronin," or strong armed
men," a band Of so-called patriots
who some years ago were responsible
for the assassination OF Mr.. Abe. ths
chief OF the Far Eastern section oi
the Foreign Once, for his alleged
lack OF hrmness In dealing with the
Chinese situation.
WASHINGTON. Nov. (Unites
Press) That there will be some con-
fusion in carrying out Japan's polf
cles in the ,conferSAce as the resuS
OF the assaJtnation OF Premier Hars
.ssa,,a.t.,ss .A.fI4. .
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"I'M PROUD OF YOU"
SAID PRESIDENT

WASHINGTON. Nov. 4-Sergt.
Samuel Wodfill to-day told President
Harding how he killed nineteen Ger
mans in little more than an hour
in the Argonne offensive. Tie
sergeant was introduced to President
Harding by Senator Ernst, Ken
lucky.
I'm proud OF you" President
Harding told Woodfll, whereupon
Woodhll blushed and stammered his
thanks.
Later the Sergeant was taken to
the Capitol, where many Congress
men shook hands with him and Of
fered their congratulations for his
feat. The man who was cited for ex-
traordinary heroism by Gen. Pershing
lost his courage and choked, flushed
and became utterly speechless.
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S8, 400 A YEAR ALlMONY
ADVISED BY REFEREE
studies HOsenwasser's income and
Makes His RecOmm e m dalton.

Recommendation that Phillip Rosen-
wasser. shlrtwalst Manufacturer. living
at No. l5) Bay 25th Street. Brooklyn
bs compelled to pay his wife Eliza
beth. So. 400 a year alimony for the cup
port OF herself and three daughters,
was made by I. Maurice Wormser, Spe-
ciaI Referee. in a report filed day
with Justice Benedict.
The report states that expert sc-
countants found that Mr.. Rosenwas-
sers net income last year was s2l.S7s.
Mira. Rosenwasser filed suit for sepa-
ration about five months ago. charging
cruel and inhuman treatment. The de-
cree has not been signed az yet,
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1921-11-04
HUNT GIRL WITNESS
IN ARBUCKLE CASE
Alice Blake Vanishes After ViSi
or Her Mother.

Alice Blake Vanishes AFTER visit
or Her Mother.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 4.-The Calf
fornia police through District Attorney
Matthew Brady OF San Francisco, to-
day were requested to find Alice Blake.
one OF the main witnesses for the State
in the manslaughter charge against
Roscoe C. c'Fatty') Arbuckle, due TO
be brought to trial here on Nov. "A.
Miss Blake disappeared from a place
near Caliotoga, where she was staying
with Mrs. Johnny Duffy. mother OF
George Duffy, a Deputy District Attor-
ney. Her disappearance followed a
visit from her mother and a lawyer
whose name District Attorney Brady did
not obtain. They left in an automobile,
the mother saying she was going to take
her daughter home. The mothers home
In Oakland was uatenanted to-day.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1921-11-04
$1O,OOO,OOO ASKED
FOR ENFORCEMENT
OF PROHIBITION
Demand Is an Increase Of
81, 100000 Over Appropriation
for This Year.
WASHINGTON, Nov.

Congress- viii be asked for Wv
600, 900 for the enforcement OF Pro-
hlbition during the next fiscal
year, an increase OF $500. 900 over
the appropriation for the current
year.
Prohibition c IN m SIS, ,oner
Haynes. In making this announce
ment to-day. said the lncrease
would be sought to enable a more
complete and efficient enforce
msnt OF the Prohibition laws
though enlarged forces and fscili-
tity.
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\. Y. Orchestra Leader Falls Dead.

HOUSTON. Tex. Nov. i-Giovsnni
Leotti, OF New York. orchestra con.
ductor OF the DeFro Grand Opera Com
pany. dropped dead in his dressing
room here just after the curtain had
descended on the first act of the opera
La Forza del Destlno" He recently
underwent a TRANSMISSION OF blood 10 his
wife, who died.
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AK Mems oyereoat or suit, sII.f

s26 Mems Oyercoat or suit, sII.O6.
The HUB CLOTHING Corner. B's.y. cor. bar
clay ST. OPP. Woolworh BldS VIII sell to-day
suits and overcoA,s In the seasons newest shAdes Of
blues browns herrQgbonss and heather miEtures.
single and double brsAsed. all siIes: sold elsewhere
a ss5. OpT specill Riieea toT odsJ and Saturday.
2iIH5 snh Sl7 rs. $Deu Ss'urday night tin 10,
HUB IlOtAlsTs. BroAdsay. cor Barclay t.-Adyl
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REDUCTION IN MILK PRICE
PROMISED UNDER OPEN SHOP;
RUSH FOR STRIKERS PLACES
Distributors Report Big In
crease in House Routes
Re-EStabliShed.
SOME ASK JOBS BACK.
,, 800 Men Have Been Hired in
BrOoklyn-More Violence
Reported,

Fifty house-to house milk routes
were re-esta blished in Brooklyn to-
day by Borden's. according to Il state.
ment issued by Patrick ID. Fox. Presi .
dent. Tweuty-e ght of these routes
have The same drivers they mad be-
fore the strike, he said. and twenty
two are in charge OF new men
our normal payroll" AIR. FOX con-
tinued. has 1900 names. We have
now employed as permanent members
60 our force $500 men who are being
trained in their duties. We have APP
pications from enough more TO COM
pete the force but | am holding so
places for former employees who have
written to me saying they want to
come back. and only quit work be
cause through fear OF injury, or be-
cause they had been persuaded to
make promises from which they
would be released when the open
'Gaop was established. They are good
len and we want them back"
Borden's also announced the starting
Of forty routes in Plainheld. \. j.. Tar
lytown, n. Y. and Bridgeport. Conn,
1t was promised that more house to-
house deliveries would he resumed
from ,ay to day hereafter.
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Detroit Randit. Get Thoa.And..

DETROIT, Nov. six armed bandits
held up drivers OF the Gordon Pagel
Baking Company to-day and escaped
with several thousand dollsrx.
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THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU.
Arcade, Pulitzer lWoTld) Building. 5S-eS Paxt
Row, n 7. citJ. Telephone beekman 1000.
CAsci room for baggage and parcels Qpoa day snd
night Money oFdep saa uassliszS eAseks f9
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1921-11-04
100 WHOLESALE WAGONS PA
TROL BROOKLYN STREETS.

Charles Neidner OF the Empire State
Company, in Brooklyn, said that his
men had 200 wholesale wagons pa
trolling the streets selling to any re-
tail store that wanted milk, irrespec-
we OF its affiliations with other com
pnn!es to be resumed after the strike.
1--WE a~e sufficiently reorganized in
our retail department" he said, for
ME to promise that to- morrow morn
ing we will start house to- house de-
liveries and by Sunday morning we
will have re-establshed so per cent
OF our routes"
I, EIkin Nathans, for the New
York Milk Conference Board,
promised the reduction OF cent
quart in tho price of all grades
Of milk under the open shop de-
livery system. The granting OF
tho demand for SIS a week in
crease and two weeks vacation,
he said, would have put the price
In at least half a cent quart.
In explanation, Mr.. Nathans said
that the closed shop union rules IN
creased costs by limiting the amount
of deliveries each man was allowed
10 make arbitrarily. though on some
routes ono man could deliver twice
as much as on another. Five in
spectors' were required for territory
which the company could cover to its
own satisfaction with three. Branch
stores were required to close at ex.
actly o'clock every evening except
saturday, no matter how many GUS
toners were waiting, Under the new
scale overtime charges had been mul-
tipl!ed until the company must have
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WASHINGTON. Nov, (United
Press) That there will be some oon
fusion in carrying out Japan's pelfss
cles in the ,confersAce as the resuS,
OF the assaStnation OF Premier HarH
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