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The evening world., 1922-05-23
MGR. N. J. PHELAN
! SHOT BY ACCIDENT
EXAMINING PISTOL
Surgeons Wait to Operate on
Aged Prelate, in Critical
Condition.
BULLET PIERCES CHEST
Priest Manages to Summon
Aid, but Loses Consider
able Blood.
BULLET PIERCES CHEST

Mgr. Michael ]. Phelan of st.
Cecilias Church, Lexington Avenue
and 106th Street, was reported in a
critical condition in st. Vincent's Hos
was accidentally shot through the
right hand and left breast while ex-
amining an old revolver. n
Surgeons are waiting TO operate for
the removal of the bullet until he has
recovered from the shock Of the acct
dent. News of Mgr. Phelan's wound
travelled fast and numbers of his
friends hurried to the hospital and the
telephone was kept busy with anxious
inquiries as TO his condition. Prayers
arc being offered for his speedy re-
covery.
Mgr. Phelan is eighty, but he was
able TO reach an adjoining room of
the rectory study at No. 125 East
1O5th Street. where the accident oc-
| Cured. His cries for help brought
Father John Carney and Mrs. Mary
Flynn, rectory cook. They found him
sitting Imply in an armchair, bleed
| ing profusely.
While Patrolman Seifert summoned
| DR.. Hart and an ambulance from
| Harlem Hospital, DIR. Thomas ".
Stack, the priests personal physician,
came hurrying from his home at No.
169 East 111th Street.
The condition of Mgr. Phelan was
considered so serious that both doc
tors decided to remove him to st.
| Vincent's Hospital for the purpose Of
making an X-ray examination. With
the two physicians, the policeman
and Father Carney. the ambulance
made record time in reaching the
hospital.
| Monsignor Phelan, it is believed,
was cleaning the revolver, which Is
old and rusty, and there still remains
two chambers loaded, as they have
been for years. The weapon had
rested on top of the safe in the Mon
signor's room, on the second floor Of
the rectory facing East 105th Street,
and in the safe are the Sunday col
lections Of the church
DR.. Stack said that the condition OF
the priest was serious, first, on &C
count of his age, and, secondly, be-
cause the bullet is of soft lead and
has been corroded by its long ten
antcy in the revolver chamber.
The physician said that when the
bullet struck the little finger of the
pastors right hand it carried away
the bone. undoubtedly saving the
priest from instant death. The mis-.
sile entered the left breast directly
beneath the apex of the heart.
Mgr. Phelan was born in Dub.
lin, ireland, but spent most of his
boyhood in this country. He was or
dained a priest in Troy in 1870 ant
was made monsignor three year,
ago. He has been located at ST
Cecilia's Church for thirty-six years
He was to have left for a trip to the
country In a few days.
Among his visitors at the hosplta
to-day were State Senator S. A.
Cotillo, Alderman Edward Kelly anc
Nicholas j. Hayes, Commissioner o.
Water Supply, Gas and Electricity.
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NEVER RUNS AWAY,
SAYS LADY ASTOR,
AS HEARST ARRIVES

William Randolph Hearst pre-
ceded Lady Astor up the Aqui-
tania's gangplank to-day by only
moment.
when I'm running for office.
| don't run away" Lady Astor
remarked, greetin ga group Of re-
porters on the deck
When some one asked her II
her remark was "AprOpos Of one
Of her fellow passengers" she
winked and said, I'm just say
ing that's the English method" "
"Are you going to try to put
Hearst right with a little conver-
sation during the voyage ." she
was asked.
Certainly not, replied the
nrst woman N. p.
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GENERAL WOOD,
ON YACHT, CAUGHT
IN BIG TyPHOON
Wife and Daughter With
Govemor-Thought to
Have Sought Refuge.

MANILA, p. l., May % (Associated
Press). - Wireless queries to the
yacht Apo, on which Governor Gen
eral Leonard Wood and his wife and
daughter sailed Saturday for Mindoro,
have not been answered and the ty-
phoon which ragged yesterday is be-
iieved responsible for the delay In
their return.
The Apo is believed to have sought
refuge in some port of Mindoro. Gen.
Wood planned a brief visit OF inspec-
ton on the island. No serious dam
age from the typhoon has been re-
ported.
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800 S|NN FE|NERS
ARRESTED IN RAIDS
IN NORTH IRELAND
Ulster Reprisal for Twaddell
Staying Covers Many
Organizations.
CAPAL HEALEY IN NET.
Girl Guides and Boy Scouts
= Among Those Subject
to Arrest.

LONDON, May 2S (Associated
Press).-At to-day's meeting OF the
Parliament of Northern Ireland Sir
James Craig. the Premier, announced
that the Irish Republican Army had
been proclaimed an illegal assembly
The Parliament later adjourned as
Q mark OF respect to W. J. Twaddell
tts murdered member.
The situation In Ireland was dis
eussed at meeting of the Cabinet
this morning presided over by Prime
Minister Lloyd George.
BELFAST. May 33 (Associated
PYess). 1t was oficially stated at
o'clock this afternoon that 900 Sim
Fsiners had been taken prisoner by
the Ulster authorities and that they
would be interned.
No military participated in the raid.
which was carried out entirely bV
special constables. 1t is understood
the prisoners will be interned in d
special camp.
II was officially announced early
this afternoon that the arrests re-
ported so far were as follows: County
Tyrone, 6S; County Fermanagh, S0j
County Armagh, 26: Belfast, 30;
Antrim, 2; Down. 10; Londonderry,
"a: a total of ZOE. Later in the after
noon, however. 1t was officially stated
that the total had then reached 800.
Ulster will make no concession to
South ireland on the boundary ques
ton, Sir James Craig, the Premier,
declared in the Parliament session
here this afternoon.
"What we have we hold" de-
clared the Premier in answering an
inquiry with reference to the boun-
dairy commission question.
The immediate consequence of the
agreement reached by the two fac
tions in Southern Ireland was that
there would be no boundary commits
sion appointed in any circumstances
said Sir James. He made this asser-
tion. he said, without equivacatior
or reservation" adding that the time
had past for mutual accommodation
The Collins De Valera agreement hac
changed the whole situation.
Although he was prepared TO treat
with the Southern representatives
within the limits OF the British EN-
Bire, he was not prepared to treat
he said, with a composite govern
ment, half of which was practically
Republican in sentiment and The
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DEMPSEY CAN'T .
FIGHT IN JERSEY
Barred From Meeting Wills
or Willard, Says Boxing
Commission Head.

Neither the Dempsey Wills nor the
proposed Dempsey Willard fight will
be permitted in New Jersey, it was
learned to-day from Louis ]. Mas
sano, Chairman of the Boxing Com
mission of New Jersey.
The commission looks upon both
fights as pure commercial PROPOSE
tions, with no element of sport. II
was said that the Dempsey Willard
fight was positively out of the ques-
ton and that the linked" fight also
would he barred, because there was nc
great demand for it.
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DOCTORS APPEAL
FOR SEALED WHISKY
BY Overwhelming VoteThey
Ask Government to
Distribute 1t.

ST. LOUIS, May 23 ASSOCIATED
Press). - The resolutions presented
yesterday to the house Of delegates
of the American Medical Association
appealing to Congress for relief from
the present unsatisfactory
conditions" as to the distribution OF
whiskey was adopted by an over
whelmine vote to-day.
The resolution asks governmental
distribution of whiskey for medical
purposes only in sealed packages OF
eight. sixteen and thirty-two ounces.
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The information sought 10 a. TO the
truth OF tho story that "Chariey
Ross" and Jack" companions OF
Peters, had become acquainted with
young Ward at the race tracks. rep
resenting themselves as connected
with the Quincy stables. Of which J.
y. johnson is the owner and James
Fitzsimmons the trainer.
Elwood NJ. Rabenold Of Rabenold
& Scribner, Wards counsel. to-day
professed to be ignorant of the reasons
why the county authorities were maxi
ing Inquiries Of race track followers.
He said. however. Ward and Peters
had been together at a race track. but
Mr.. Ward is not habituai racegoer."
The Investigators have been told
that the men professed to know OF a
race track transaction in which Ward
had a part and which It would injurs
his reputation to have generally pub
lished. They expected to and that
there had not been such q transaction
at all. but that Ward had been en-
trapped into a situation with which It
would be very hard for him to dis
prove connection.
The first thing the investigators
learned was that Charley Ross"
Jack" and Peters were not known
by name to MIR. Johnson. Mr.. Fttz-
simmons or any other employees Of
the stable. and that no one OF their
description had been about the stable
recently. Nor had any intimatlon OF
unfair dealing to the disadvantage OF
the owner or his friends been sus-
pected. The matter. 1t was stated.
had nothing to do with the litigation
over Man o. Wars brother. Play
fellow, sold by Mr.. johnson to Harry
+. Sinclair for 100000.
When the Majestic started ON her
trip from Cherbourg TO New York.
the authorities have been informed.
George $. Ward, who had been spsnd-
ing several weeks abroad. received a
wireless message from his son Walter,
here, asking that his father make
available here $50, 900. explaining that
II was a payment to blackmailsrs. and
haste was urgent.
FATHER WOULD NOT PAY
eLAckMAIL.
Young Ward had an immediate re-
ply by wireless in which the father
said in effect: "will not pay one cent
for blackmailers, but will spend
500, 900 to put them in jail"
Walter Ward, according to the In
vestigators, communicated with
Charley Ross and Jack" and ar
ranged a meeting at which he showed
them a copy OF the message from
George S. Ward as evidence OF his ef-
| fort to meet their demands.
A day or two later Ward is said
TO have received letter, all In type
writing. mailed from the Madison
Square district in this city, signed
with the initials &C. r." and saying
"If you do not meet us with SIS 900
you will not meet the Majestic"
Ward in his voluntary confession
Of shooting Peters when the three
threatened him with revolvers on the
lonely road said he emptied his re-
volvsr after the red automobile In
Wlioh "Ross" and Jack made sheis
The evening world., 1922-05-23
WIFE BARES LIFE
TO SAVE HUSBAND
Detail by Detail She Re-
veals Love for Other
Man on Stand.

DALLAS, Tex, May 2S.-Mrs.
Dave e. Soderman barred her life
story here to-day to save her hus-
band from conviction of murder of
Jay Clay Powers.
As the husband sat tensely in his
chair, Mrs. Soderman, detail by de-
tail, told the story of her marriage
with Soderman, how she had loved
him until Powers came into her life,
how the good looking university man
won her love and how, after a di-
vorce, a telegram told of her former
husbands illness and she rushed to
him and remarked him.
The evening world., 1922-05-23
HANDS OFF, HARDING
WARNS OF RUSSIA
Wants Senate to Defeat
Borah Resolution Pro-
posing Recognition.

WASHINGTON, May 2S,--The Ad-
ministration desires the Senate TO
keep its hands Off the question of
Russian recognition, according to in
timations conveyed TO Senators to- day
For this reason Senator Borah's
resolution putting the Senate on rec
ord as favoring recognition viii either
be rejected or blocked, Republican
leaders indicated.
Borah Is disposed to night for a
showdown and probably will discuss
II Tomorrow In q Senate speech.
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FALLS TO HIS DEATH
FROM FLOOR ON THE
MUNICIPAL BLDG.
Unknown Strikes Another
Man in His Descent to the
Sidewalk.

An unidentified man fell on the
sidewalg on the Park Row side of the
Municipal Building near the main
entrance at o'clock this afternoon.
II was not known from what noor
of the building he fell.
The man fell upon Samuel D,
Jones of No. AS West 14sth Street.
Mr.. Jones was not serioutsy hurt Z.
The other man was instantly killed.
The evening world., 1922-05-23
EX-JURIST MUST SERVE
PERJURY SENTENCE
Supreme Court Sustains First Ohio
Woman Judge's Rulings.

COLUMBUS. o.. May 23,-William IL.
McGannon. former Chief Justice of the
Cleveland Municipal Courts. must serve
a sentence OF one to ten years in the
Ohio penitentiary for perjury. the
state Supreme Court ruled to-dav in
refusing to review his case.
Acquitted on second degree murder
charge in connection with the killing OF
Harold Kagy, McGannon was indicted
on a perjury count in connection with
testimony given at the murder rial and
was convicted. lie was sentenced by
Judge Florence Allen. the first woman
juriBt IN Ohio.
The evening world., 1922-05-23
OFFICIALS SEARCH RACETRACK
IN EFFORT TO RUN DOWNC[UE
IN WARD bLACKMA|[ PLOT
District Attorney and Sheriff Work
on Theory That Son Of Millionaire
Was Lured Into Deal - Father
Declined to Pay Blackmail but
Would Spend 100000 to Send
Plotters to Jail.

Jamaica track and all places this city where followers
of horse racing congga visited to-day by agents of District
Attorney Weeks Whester County and Sheriff Werner seeking
regarding the backma plot which, according Walter
ard Police Commissioner Of New Rochelle and Of George
ward millionaire Head of the Ward Baking Company led up to
the killing of Clarence Kensco reservoir Tuesday
morning last.
The evening world., 1922-05-23
KING ALExANDERsS WEDDING
POSTPONED.

BELGRADE. May % (Associated
Press).-The marriage OF King AleIan-
der OF Jugo- -Slavia to Princess Marie OF
Roumania, which was set for Juno ,,
has been postponed until June 8. it was
announced to-day,
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New-York tribune., 1922-10-04
themselves to promise that they can

themselves to promise that they can
not carry out"
Mr.. Lamont urged scrutinization Of
the debts to determine what, if any.
Of these debts are uncollectible and
$50 should be written off in order to
quit fooling ourselves" to decide what
others are good in part, but collectible
only over much lower period than
the allotted twenty-five years; to figure
whether the payments Of these debts, in
variably involving a great increase in
our import trade and heavy decrease
IN our export trade, is going to prove
an asset or liability for American busi-
ness, and, finally, to discover how
much of these debts are really owed
About one-half of the total indebt-
edness was contracted between April d,
1917, and the date a year later, when
the American army for the first time
got its soldiers into the trenches in
any considerable numbers" said Mr..
Lamont. "Can it not. with much rea-
son. be argued that whereas during this
period of one year we were wholly
unable to furnish soldiers to fight our
battles for us-at least we were able
to furnish some arms and munitions :?
We did furnish these, but not as a
free contribution to the war, for dur
ing that period the Allies were pur-
chasing these commodities In America
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city, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. fore.
most suffrage leader in the cour.ry.
VIII receive with Miss Mary Garrett
Hay at the Women's City Club. In the
evening they will have a "hen party
no men allowed"-at the theaters. -Four
houses have already been sold out and
the fifth had only few seats in the
balcony last night. Most popular OF
all the entertainments planned by the
hospitality committee is the West
oine trip on Friday, for which nearly
1900 persons have registered. The
Washington Irving is already booked 10
capacity. Another boat has been char
tered and the committee was hunting
up a third last night.
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UP and down the corridors looking for
extra chairs. Four-year-old Ellen
hernice Ellenbogen, the youngest guest
and mascot of the convention, owed
her glimpse of the fashion parade to
the Kindness of Gatekeeper Kline, who
rescued her from behind portly Mon
tana matron and held her on his
shoulder But Ellen didn't sec any
thing she liked better than her own
new red coat
Ellen. by the way, was obliged yes
terday to share her title Of masco
with lean and hungry black cat who
made his appearance on the ballroom
floor of the Hotel Commodore yester-
day morning, yowling to be adopted.
Shool Go way. We don't need a
mascot. The convention is a great
success without you," said Guy Emer-
son, chairman of the committee on con.
vention information.
The cat next rubbed against Trubee
Dawson.
Go way. I don't like cats" said he.
Miss Reid Befriends Puss
But Miss Jean Arnot Reid. vice-chair-
man OF the women's executive commit
| tee, declared the cat was thin and
hungry, and she would bring IT some
1000. Besides, you never could tell
when mascot would come in handy.
New York women who are actually
engaged In the banking business held
a private luncheon at the Hotel Plaza
In honor Of the visiting women bank
executives, of whom there are now
twelve, the latest arrival being Miss
Lillian Mitchell, assistant cashier of
the American National Bank of Wash
ington. About forty were present, and
all we're called upon for speeches. but
what they said about the joys and re-
sponsibilities of women in banks was
not revealed.
To-day the women will be enter
tanned at the five women's clubs of the
New-York tribune., 1922-10-04

Jected yesterday in favor Of those they
were at the moment wearing. Only
the gold and silver brocade opera
gowns won gasping admiration. and
there were cries Of delight over the
chinchilla and sable cloaks. But then
as one breezy Westerner said:
"Gold dresses are nothing In my
life. never have anything I can't
wear in the car"
Brevity of Skirts a Relief
All seemed vastly relieved that skirts
for street and sport wear were not
going to be so terribly long after all,
six or eight inches from the ground
being. the length Of the most exclusive
models.
The entire first floor Of the Plaza
Hotel was crowded, balconies and pri-
vate parlors being opened up for the
women. while frenzied walters rushed
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lamont Holds
Time Has Come
To Help Europe
Broader Policy Needed. Not
Only to Adjust World
Conditions but TO Make
Sure Our Own Prosperity
Discusses Shaving Debt
Commission Created by
Congress Is Said to Lack
Leeway for Negotiation

settlement of inter-Allied indebted
r....6 involving acceptance by the
r,;,.d States Of its international re-
..o,sihilities arising out of the war
"A departure from it's attitude Of
.,.o,,e.s toward European financial
.,a economic affairs, is the major re-
.usrment, not only for satisfactory
aa,n.tment Of the worlds position, but
for stabilizing the new prosperity to
rh,eh America Is winning its way,
T,orss ". Lamont, of j. ?. Morgan
Go. told the delegates to the annual
sasyention of the American Bankers
Is.oeiation yesterday at the Hotel
% aTlo mot forget that, as these ma
New-York tribune., 1922-10-04

aons of Europe face grea, danrsr.
aa'nerlea, too, is facing a crisis nj.
shoagh OF different ORDER Mr. In.
ahoht declared, in summing I'M the
han.er1ean bankers responsibility. awe
nave gained great power. With the
Eomef m. goes weighty responsibility.
- ms.s .s we W discharged it? For the period
th 1he orig War, my answer is yes,
49, saouhsahul .h Old yes. For the period
search mis- heart and answer yes2
we nave, it is true, offered critic;sn
70 the nations of Europe. We have
shouted advice across to them. But
we nave been timid and fearful ~
petty entanglements. Now we have.
~ would seem, come TO the parting of
tne ways, Shall we meet the respon-
sioaiisy that has come with our power
or shall we fail? Shall you and |
give our mind. our understanding and
our sympathy to these problems. or
shall we stand aside and add to onr
national stock Of gold? Shall we urge
upon our national government active
cooperation in the counsels of the
notner country and of the Old World :
Or shall We keep silent?"
Reparations Held Also Vital
Mr.. Lamont ranked the adiustu.r+
OF German reparations in its bear,ns
upon the settlement Of Europe as sec.
onuary to the general problem of inter.
Allied debts on the ground that nuhI;c
opinion on the other side has now "a
vanced to state where, when tha
reparations question comes up AGAIN
next November, it ought not to be i'm
possible to settle.
p-.t, liver year ago" he said, "the
9H orltlsh realized that the Germans
s9uio' s.1 or would, never pay anything
IKE ,l tne reparatons total fixed In the
government became similarly con-
vlnced, and now in France, there ba.
come to be the same recognition of the
TACT that Germany cannot paw the huge
totals set forth. The French govern
ment, however, has not unnaturallv
taken the position that it could make
no official acknowledgment of such a
general fact until such time as Dos
siole settlement was offered. The
French thesis is that if Germany can
not pay what she has promised to pay,
let her come forward and state lust
why she cannot, and what and when
she can pay"
Mr.. Lamont brought sympathe etically
to the attention Of the meeting the
question which the French have nut to
us: "1s 1t fair for us, inasmuch as
we seem to be urging France to for
give part of the German debt in order
to effect economic adjustments in Eu-
rope, to do little forgiving our
selvesT Citing the nations debtor to
TO the United States in amounts aggre-
eating S10,160,154,198, he criticized the
powers OF the commission named by
the President under act of Congress to
negotiate with foreign countries the
method of handling this indebtedness
as SO limited as to leave little room for
negotiation.
Europe Left No steerage Way
"Under that bill about all that the
European nations can do" Mr.. Lamont
went on, "is to sign on tho dotted
ine' or else on the ground that they
know that they will not be able to live
up to the specified obligation and,
therefore, feel it impossible to commit
New-York tribune., 1922-10-04
Hard to Tell Bankers Vices
From Models of Fashion Sho,u
Guests as smartly Cowned as the
Manikins at the Plaza Brevity of Sport
Skirts Pleases Them; Gold Frocks Win Casps

A fashion show was staged for the
benefit of 1900 visiting bankers wives
at the Plaza Hotel yesterday, but it
was hard to tell the models from the
guests. When it was over the COM
mittee members gasped and declared
that carrying Goals to Newcastle was
an essential industry compared with
showing fashions to bankers wives.
From the slim brunette in the Rus
sian embroidered cloak dress, who wore
q Florida badge, to the queen of Main
Street society, who wore plain black
canton crepe, the bankers wives were
a credit to their modistes. Some of
them confessedly had paid visit to
Fifth Avenue before the convention
opened. They looked upon the fashion
models as upon gowns they had re-
New-York tribune., 1922-10-04

task Of greater magnitude and import
awaits the United States than to assist
in the solution OF China's difficulties.
He urged against despair because the
progress Of Mexico to ordered condi-
tions was slow, expressing the belief
that the present administration was
making an earnest effort to change the
workings Of the 1917 constitution, so
as to give the country a sound basis to
work upon and it's foreign investors
adequate security.
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counted productivity, increasing trade
and thrift as the invisible forces oper-
.ating to save Europe, picturng the
loss of man power as the most vital
handicap to full recovery
AS bearing upon the spirit required
in treating with Europe, Mr.. Lamont
digressed from his main topic to dis
cuss the Far Eastern and Mexican
situations. He praised the Pacific
four-power treaty as of supreme i'm
portance to the Far East, declaring no