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The evening world., 1921-03-26
SAYS LEGION MAN
MUSTN'T BE CHASED
Complainant's Lawyer Hinges His
Case on Service in
Army.

Harry Aekerly, a clerk In the Grand
Central Railroad station At White
Plains, this morning had B L. Bauer,
a large property holder. summoned be-
fore City Judge Holden. AOkerly is a
member Of theflAmeri9an Lesion and
charged Bauer With assault. lie
Claimed Bauer chased him with a small
hatchet and me knocked the hatchet out
Of his hand by striking him with a
Mortimer o'Brian, FORMER City Judke,
and Vice President OF the american
Legion OF White Plains. appeared for
aokeTly. After Judge Holden had dis
charged Bauer on the ground that he
was a taNpaying resident OF White
Plains and could be called any time be-
fore tho Grand Jury ~ necessary, said I.
II want to know II a Dutchman can
chase a member OF tho American Le-
gion along a thoroughfare of White
Plains with hatchet and get away
with II IN a court OF American tUstice." 7"
Il have rendered my decision" said
the court
The evening world., 1921-03-26
STILLMANS TO DROP
DIVORCE SUIT SOON,
IS .RUNIlR TODAY
CContlnned from First Page)

has taken n week OF from active duty
on the bench to consider The with
drawnl Of the motion will withdraw
at the same time the afidavits, con-
tanning on the one hand, letters pass
ing between Mrs. StillmRn and Ferd
Beauvais, the French Canadian
named by her husband, and, on the
other hand, detailed narratives OF the
conduct Of the banker and Mrs. Flor
ence Leeds, the former chorus girl, on
whom and her child he is said to have
spent half a million dollars in four
years.
Such an agreement presumes the
voluntary settlement out Of court OF
large sums OF money by Mr.. Still
man on Ills wife in lieu of the $780,
900 alRnony which she asks the court
to enforce upon her. in consideration
OF such satisfaction as Mr.. Stillman
and Mrs. Leeds may take in the sup
preston OF the evidence regarding
their intimacy.
But nothing in tho divorce compro-
mise disposes OF the charge of illeglt-
imacy made by Mr.. StiIlman against
two and half year-old Guy Stinman,
said by him TO be the son Of Ferd
Beauvais. John E. Mack. appointed
guardian 10 protect the legal rights
of the baby, has said that Mr.. Still
man must either withdraw his charge
against the baby or prove It, and that
De viii not accept a money settlement
on the child while the charge stands.
This means that disclosures of the
charges against Mrs. Stinman must
go on Sefore the referee, even though
the evidence taken before Mr.. Gleason
Se kept secret
Secrecy in regard TO the divorce
action will end. however Cunless
that part Of the case is oompro-
mised), tho moment Justice Nor
schauser hands his alimony decision
and the accompanying afidavits to
the court clerk in white Plains next
Week-perhaps Monday II they
we're handed directly 20 the County
Clerk in Putnam County where all
the other papers in the case have
been nled, they would be secret until
both sides agreed to publish them
But a court clerk may make them
public at the order OF the Justice
and Justice Morschauser has an
nounced he will tolerate no protec-
tive secrecy because OF the wealth
and position of the persons con-
cerned
/ MRS. LEEDS SAID TO HAVE
HIRED LAWYERS. TOO.
Mrs. Leeds, incidentally, is under
stood 70 have retained counsel and
The evening world., 1921-03-26
WAGESIN lOTRADES
ORDERED CUT DOWN
IN ESSEX COUNTY
Building Trade Employers Or
der the Slash in Ten Out of
Thirteen Occupations.

4 reduction in wages, in ten out OF
thirteen trades. averaging from 10 TO
20 per cent, effective May /, was an
nounced in Newark to-day by the
Building Trades Employers Amoci-
alton OF Dssex County. Eight thou
sand men are concerned.
The scale OF reductions is as fol-
lows:
BricklaYeEs. masons and plasterers,
from $40 to ~ a day.
Sheet metal workers, from 80 TO IS.
SteamfitteFs, from $40 TO SO.
Steamfitters' holpers from 81 TO S..
Plumbers, from SO to %S
IronworkerR, from 50 to IS.
Metal fathers, from SO to IS.
Wood fathers, from - to So.
Min workers. from $3.50 to $3.50.
Hod carriers and mason laborers,
from 81 to $3.50 day.
The wages OF carpenters, paintOrs,
decorators and paperhangers remain
unchanged.
AhG 1oa0DAAlhlt ~ "bH AhHgahSgur
adopted the reductions at a meeting
ON Thursday in resolutions which
stated that tho condition of the
building industry at present makes
Cd wage out necessary. ---. --. ...
The policy OF no reductions under
any considerations expressed by one
of the union representatives" Il wns
stated, "is detrimental, and is not
representative of the men working
for us. is against the public inter
est and harmful to tho lndusry."
There has been a considerable re-
duciOn in the cost Of building ma
teriRls. one OF the largest firIns in
the country advises us that it has
made an average reduction OF 80 pei
cent. in the building materials which
they sell. Living costs have alsC
fallen"
The advancing rent problem Is
one that is up to the hnllding indus
try and no reduction u to be hoped
for until the cost of construction OF
buildings comes down and mor1
dwellings are constructed"
The evening world., 1921-03-26

TO be prepared to make certain she
will not be overlooked during the talk
Of settlements and peace overtures.
One rumor is she Is near. or on her
way to New York now.
On Mrs. stillmaR'S side there iS said
to be conFiderables worry over the let
terS SAID to be, clp the hands of her
husbands attorneys.
The letters, said to be from Beau
vais, the guide, employed at the SIN
man place in Quebec, or copies Of
them have been Incorporated with
the affidavits in behalf of Mr.. still
man.
AS against the suggestion that the
letters may be forgeries it is asserted
that with the letters themselves have
been filed the original envelopes in
which the letters were mailed to Mrs.
Stillman. These, it is said, show that
they we're mailed in Canada to a post
office address involving the use OF
an intermediary.
In these letters are references not
Cnly to the boy Guy but to certain
incidents which could be known only
to Mrs. StIllman and the writer.
The letters range through thrn0
years, 1918, 1919 and 1920, before and
after the birth of Guy.
Some Of the letters, it is said, are
in perfect succession. particularly
those which were written just before
Mrs Sullman started for Europe
Taken in conjunction with certain
correspondence between he and her
husband, notably the letter of March
1918, in which she Is said to have
confessed" they formed, in the tudg
mont of Mr.. Stillman's counsel ample
justification for him to enter upon
his present course OF litigation.
The evening world., 1921-03-26
CAT LED THE TRAIL
TO PIANO IN WHICH
HOOCH WAS STORED
The Dry SleuthS Had Already
Found Rum in the Coal Hole
of the Mayaro.

An extra saucer of mix and other
delioacies were on the faro to-day Of
Tiny Tim, ships cat OF the steamer
Mayaro for his work in the role of
hero OF a rum hunting expedition on
the vessel, which arrived at Pier "a,
Brooklyn, yesterday from Trinidad.
Oustoms men boarded the ship, clad
in dungarees. their faces unshaved
and their general appearance that OF
the toughest aggregation CT sea
roughnecks that Never swung q be-
laying pin. They made for the hold
and began shovelllns coal. Presently
they were Joined by q man a good
deal like them in appearance.
I'll help you" he said. Il know
where It Is. Did Tom send your"
=Sure!" replied the rum hunters,
and all resumed digging with a will
In a short time they had uncovered
two cases OF rJm. Then a ships ofl-
Ger arrived and asked II the new
conner was a member Of the customs
force.
why, no." the raiders replied.
Doesn't he belong to the ship2"
He didn't but by tho time the
questioning had rome this far the
stranger had dashed up a ladder and
of the ship. Presumably he is still
running. The inference is that he
was a bootleEger who was sent for
the rum and believed the customs
men were members of his calling
there to help him.
BY this time the customs men were
tired out from their shOvehnG and
went to the deck 70 rest awhile. Tiny
Tim, the ships cat, walked in front
OF them. One Of the men shook a
finger at Tim and said ''woof!" upon
which the terrified cat leaped
through a window.
Presently the weirdest sounds is
sued from the room into which the
cat had leaped II sounded like
somebody WITH delirium tremens
trying to play the piano TO the &C.
compartment of a backyard midnight
feline concert. The explanation ID
that the cat had landed in an open
piano and was frandcally trying &c
claw his way through the strings.
Now, these customs nen arc q
humane lot and they decided TO ex.
uicate Tim So they began TO ex-
plore the interior of the plnno. Th'
first thing they fished ont was +;
bottle of whiskey. This spurTed theii
efforts. by the tims they finished
still to an accompaniment OF outland'
ish music" they had found 80 quarts
of liquor and n large quantity o
aigrette feathers and silk handker
| chiefs.
II has not been learned who pu
the contraband goods either in th'
coal or the piano, but the cat hAi
been suitably rewarded for its par
| in the disclosures.
The evening world., 1921-03-26
MARRIED TO MAN
DYING IN HOSPITAL
John Mccarthy, Bridegroom, Was
Shot When Larry" MSClean
Was Killed.

BOSTON. March 2s.--MiEs Bva
Aaude corthell. nineteen years OF age,
vas married late last night In tho
presence Of City Hospital doctors ana
nurses TO John F. Mccarthy. who ia be-
lieved to be dying from bullet wound
received In q saloon quarrel last Thurs
day. WHOM John B. (''Larry'') Mcclean.
a former major league baseball catcher.
was killed.
When Mccarthy was told that there
was virtually no chance OF his recovery
he urged that tho marriage to Miss
Corthell take place at once. Thsy had
been engaged for several months aAj
filed marriage intentions on Jan. ~.
The evening world., 1921-03-26
HOOVER TACKLES
HOUSING PROBLEM
Expects to Name Architects and
Make Recommendations to
Calder Committee.

WASHINGTON. March 2s.-The
high cost of housing has been
tackled by Herbert Hoover. Secre-
tary of Commerce. He was consid-
erans to-day names of architects and
experts he expected TO name upon a
commission to study housing prob
lens.
The commission will probably
make recommendations for legisla-
tion which Secretary Hoover will
submit to the Calder Senate Com
mittee, which has been wrestling
with the housing situation.
The evening world., 1921-03-26
TROLLEY WIRE HITS
WOMAN IN AUTO
Sister Becomes HysteTical as Re-
suit of Peculiar Accident in
East Orange, N. J.

Mrs. Robert ATrowsmIth, wife OF a
retired publisher of East Orange, n.
j., was badly burned to-day when
broken live trolley wire struck ner
across the forehead as she was riding.
in her automobile at Fleming Avenue
and Mott Street
With Mrs. Arrowsmith were hcr
two sisters, Mrs. F. s. Eolbrook az
No. 60 Haywood Avenue, East Orange,
and Mrs. r. J. Thompson OF the same
address.
Mrs. Holbrook suffered from shock
becoming hysterical She and Mrs
Arrowsmith were given first aid and
went home.
The evening world., 1921-03-26
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Notice to- ,lI' Advertisers

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The evening world., 1921-03-26
HOPES TO END TIE UP.

Gov. Cox to Appoint Committee 20
InVestigRte Labor Trouble.
BOSTON, March es.--GOv Cox let It
be known to-day thaa early next week
he would probably name committees
to tnvestigate the building trades labor
troubles in tliis city and report on what
steps should be taken In tho public
interest. ...
reached the conclusion that there was
something wronL in the building in
dustry which has been tied up several
months by inability OF the Employers
Association and the unions TO agree on
wage price lists.
The evening world., 1921-03-26
HATCHET FACE, HE EATSI
IInw Beef for the Old Turtle 1'onPed
OFF with Leather.

Hatchet Face, the big snapptnE uir-'
tie which slept in the Staten Island
Museum at St. George from Oct. 70
last until the first of this week. brokA
his fast for the first time this yenr
to-day in the presence Of. about 400
OF the museums educational depaYfs
ment offered HatchetF Face a BIT OF
raw beef, gengerly extended with a pair
of tongs while Assistant Keeper I'll a.
Burns held the turtle. .t ...1t
Hatchet Face grabbed the beer,
downed II in a gulp then turned and
for dessert bit u piece out OF ..Barn'a
ShOS
The evening world., 1921-03-26
RAN WAGE AWARD STANDS.

ATLANTA. March 26.--Judge SAM
uel H. sibley in Federal District
Court here to-day denied the peti-
ton OF striking union men OF the
Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic
railway that he reScind his wage
reduction order ana refer the matter
TO the Federal Railroad Labor Board
for action.
The evening world., 1921-03-26
Sitten would Make Philadelphia
Ray Fiat y-CeRt Fare.

PHILADELPHIA. March 2s.-Sevon
rides for IS cents, instead Of four for
a quarter as at present is the PROPOSE
tion submitted by the philadelphia
Rapid Transit Company as the price Of
operating the F'rAnlufOrd II" when
completed. In a letter from President
Thomas f. Mltten to Mayor MoO.e the
transit chief proposes to retain the
present seven-cont basic fare. eliminat-
ing the saving on the strip tickets now
sold at the rate Of six ana a 9unrte-
cents a ride. Mr., Mltten asks a fiat
seven-cent dare.
The evening world., 1921-03-26
END CIGAR LABEL MONOPOLY
Oompanies sued By U. 3. AEres %
DIaaoIation order.

Judge Knox in the United States Dis
trict Court to-day dissolved a oOuI6ina-
ton alleged 70 have mOnopoliEed the
manufacture and shipping OF cigar
labols. hands ana wrappers. The dis
solution was conourred In by counsel
for the following firms. defendants In
an equity suit brought BY the Govern
ment: American Lithographing Com
pany, Haywood. straHer 4 VoiSht
LathographinE C0nADany. Pasabach-
Voice LAthographic Company. Williain
steiner sons a Company. and the
oloehte IAthOgFaphie Company.
Government attorneya Ia a petition
TO the court said for the last three
years these companies had controlled
upWurds OF 40 per cent OF all the cigar
label business In the country.
The evening world., 1921-03-26
500 BOOZE BLANKS
ARE STOLEN HERE
Warning Sent Out From Wash
ington to Look Out for
Altered Numbers.

WASHINGTON, March 2s,--A storm
warning for all Bederal Prohibition
agents was hung out to-day due to
the theft in New York thls week OF
800 blank permltS 70 purchase liquor
from bonded warehouses.
The service was eineularized to look
out for a deiugs OF forged orders and
TO scrltiniEe all permits presented, par
tlculafly for altered serial numbers,
The stolen block was numbered from
1iS.50i TO ii9. 900 and officials expected
they would show Up with numbers
changed.
The evening world., 1921-03-26
HEARS FAINT CRY,
AS TRUCK KILLS BOY
Unknown Lad in Bronx Riding. IFS
Ptisinnobile Meets Mysterious
Death.

Patrick Murphy, Of No. z2s 0sd
street, Brooklyn, driving a hve-tou
auto truck south in Southern Bo1ile-
ward, near 14lst street to-day, heard
a faint cry, and diBmOunted. 3 He
found a wheel Of the truck had passed
over a boy and had wrecked a push
mobile, on which the boy apparently
had been riding. Murphy frurricd the
boy to Lincoln Hospital, where it was
found he had died Of u fractured
skull. ~.f
The boy has not yet been identiaed-' 4
lie was ahout nine years Old wore a
black coat, dark corduroy trousers,
black stock hgs, tan lace shOeB and a
blue shirt. He was light cOmplexioned
and had Hight hair. -...
1t is a mystery how the accident
occurred. Murphy is held on a Uharge
OF homicide. The truck belongs 10
the COastwise Lumber and Supply
Company NO. II Battery Place. t
The evening world., 1921-03-26
Dr. J. A. DsIe. PsAnsylvnnlA HeDubn-
csporial to The DySuanE Word

York. Pa, March 26.-DT. James
A. Dale, seventy died here
to-day. He served as national dele
gate for Mckinley twice. served
two terms n the state Legislature.
ana the late Senator Quay said he
made him more trouble than any
other man in Southern PennsyaVanIa-
He was President or che York County
National Bank.
The evening world., 1921-03-26

whole business from the viewpoint OF
those who favor international CO.
operation instead OF American aloof-
ness is that Mr.. Hughes has brushed
aside the arguments ABOUT foreign
entanglements and diotatiOh 20 0u-
ropean countries as opposed to n
purely continental policy for this
hemisphere and has recognised the
importance OF settling the Russian
problem for tho bSnefit Of world
peace. In the sense that the Harding
Administration has taken It's stand
on the Russian question from a world
viewpoint rather than the fptends OF
international cooperation who favor
either q league or association OF ma
tiona are expressing the opinion that
In the course OF time the principles
OF the Harding and Wilson policies
on that question will also tend to CO.
ineide,
The evening world., 1921-03-26
HUMAN FLIES ESCAPE.
DeHcend wall From Third Story of
ellis Isflthd, USInE Bnre Hands.

Enie Island gllards to-day Sie BOOKING
for twS 'hitH}alh 'huitHnah 'nles." WHO escaped
Thursday ffouE the dgtehHoa 9R66ih by
descending Ii67 qt2e ii Ra6attS y sands three
stories OF md stone VAL 10 vRt sf0und.
They are JoaeplT M6SurnasgFez. a
Pole. and Jacob lRQsfOy, q RVAlnanian.
loosened the bolts OF the window IN the
room during the night and then, after
reaching the ground. got of the island
with lfoE15at n@tfich yVaB found Yas-
tgnday on the Jersey shore.
Augustine ia Bano, sixty-eiE4p. aIs
Italian, who had been b:oodinE since
March 10 because he was being held BY
the health officers. Jumped from tim
balcony OF the Administration Building
Thursday He died OF a fractured skull
The evening world., 1921-03-26
uardinE COnsuIts Gen. c. G. Dawes.

WASHINGTON, March 26-Charles
G. Dawes OF Chicago, who served as
a BriEadler General In the American
ExpedltiOnary Force. was called into
consultation to-day by President
Harding on various questions affecting
veterans OF the World War. II wEs
understood that problems of soldier
compensation and care for the wound
ed were the principal subjects dis
eubsOd.
The evening world., 1921-03-26
Earight Not Waitihs for KILLER to
sign Liquor BILL

Police commissioner Enright to-day
cent invitations 20 the District After
neys Of the five counties OF Greater
New York TO meet him and the Cor
poration Counsel next Monday for q
conference on measures 20 enforce tht
Stata liquoF Bill. which has 9oUt been
passed by the t.egiflature and awaits
the signature OF Gov. Miller.
The evening world., 1921-03-26
DnIKy HorAes ICIn Child On side
walk.

Two-year-old Margaret BregandL Of
No. 2s Maspeth Avenue. Broolclyn. was
killed this morning, when . team Of
horses attached TO q coach drtven by
Carl Rocco, of No. e5 Naspeth Avenue,
SHE'D 20 the sidewalk where the child
was playing at Maspeth and Bush Wfcc
Avenues and struck her,
The evening world., 1921-03-26
Bis Paper Concern to Cut WAGES

Big Paper Concern 10 Cut WAGES.
gFoLY oFIH1, Mass. March 2i.-The
White and Wyokoff offManufacturing Com
pany, one OF the largest papetedie con-
Germs In the Connecticut Valley. to-
day closed Nts plant until April 4 with
the announcement that when operation
was resume Il would be under a wage
revision in keeping with the resent
business cC dition. Several hundred
persons are ffeoted
The evening world., 1921-03-26

forcod tho present revolution were
made oy the Communists here to-
day. The Government countered
with the charge that the Communists
sought to instigate revolution At q
time the authorities we're occupied
with the Poles and the reparations
question. hoping Il would spread
throughout Germany and enable
them 70 overthrow the present ad-
ministratlon. II was predicted that
the uprisings would be crushed by
to-morrow.
Following arc the opposing state
montss
By Dr.. Fritz Sachs
Member oF the Executive Committee
Of the Communist Labor Party.
The Governments action in Central
Germany 10 only an Introductory
measure TO the fnRl plan to crush
the resistance OF the workers, with
the purpose of throwing the entire
burden Of the reparatlons upon them.
The nght was not provoked by the
Communists, nor was It commanded
BY Moscow. IL was caused by the
Government despatehlng strong forces
OF police into the Industrial districts
to break up the Revolutionary Com
uaittees OF action, which the workers
bad elected in place OF the shop stew
ards.
These committees have conducted
the only successful strikes In Ger
many recently-those in Mansfield
and Louna--0nd the bourgeoisie there
fore considers them the backbone Of
the revolutionary movement and dis
reotod an attack against them. This
explains the spontaneous uprising OF
the entire proletariat
The unbrealxablc resistance Of the
Bavarian Government and police 70
disarmament impollod the German
Government 10 create now incldepth,
which arc intended 10 prove to the
F-tente that armament OF those re-
dictionaries Is necessary TO put down
workers uprisings.
The recovery OF ruined and impov-
erished Germany can be accomplished
only by replacing the present diota-
ture OF Sunnos and other war
prontoerS and grafters OF tho ofnc6r
caste with dictature OF the produo-
tive prolotariaL
The evening world., 1921-03-26
UnIdenti1ed Boy Knled ~ Truck.

An unidentified boy. apparently
italian, was killed by an auto truck.
operated by Charles MonIey 0 No.
s22 East 77th Street, at Maiden Lane
and Water Street, to-day. Mouley was
arrested. The boys description:
Eleven years old. 90 pounds. 4 feet ,
inches. and wearing dark clothes,
brown sweater and BLACK shoes and
stockings
The evening world., 1921-03-26
Hunareds RId MsnEeIhers. co

The sRiling OF the NieUw Ans rusm
for rotterdam was delayed half an
hour to-day to pormit hundreds OF uhe
friends Of Willem MengelberE, who has
been conducting the National Symphony
Orchestra, 70 say goodbye 10 him. They
came to the pier In about 500 autOmo-
bilel, swaImed aboard the ship aud
overwhelmed Mr. MenEelberg with tTib-
utes Of hoWers and frlitA
The evening world., 1921-03-26
ON THE HARDING
AND WILSON POLICIES.

The similarity in tho Harding and
Wilson policies on the question OF
recognising a Government In q coun-
try where there has been revolution
lies In the idea that the United States
has a right 70 prescribe the condl-
tions OF internal development AIR.
Wilson tried 20 regulate the political
Affairs OF Mexico while Mr., Harding
is endeaVoring 20 reach the same r9-
tult by a regulatlon OF the economic
aIalrs OF Russia Both Aduiinistra-
tions insiBt that the extension OF rec
oenition carries with It certain re-
auirements that actect the internal
life OF the countIy seeking Onieial
recognition.
The Question OF effectiveness Is StiIi
10 a. detefmined. There are those in
the ohhcial and diplomatic group here
who insist that the Harding policy
can no more succeed than did the
Wilson policy In making another peo-
pie see the error OF their ways and
that interference from the outside
tends rather TO stimulate hationalism
inside the other country and make
external interference a railying ,point
for demagOgie leaders.
But the encouraging side 9 the
The evening world., 1921-03-26

Carl Johapsen. thirty-two. second
mate OF the throe-nhasted schooner Her
bert Rawlings, died to-day In the
staten Island Hospital. Charles Mills.
a sailor, who was held by the staple
ton police on q charge Of felonious
nFERult 10 now held on a murder
charge.
The evening world., 1921-03-26
WAGES CUT BY BUILDERS.

LABOR LeaueFo FFeulct &,OOO wen In
Utica VIII Strike May L.
UTICA, March 26,-The Builders AS
sociation served n0tice to-day on mem
hers od eight unions that wages will be
cut IS per cent. on May /,
labor leaders predicted that 2.O0O
men would strike.