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The evening world., 1922-02-20
HARDING ANSWERS
SENATE ON TREATY
Cannot Furnish Information Be-
cause Complete Records Were
Not Kept.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2O.-President
Harding, replying to-day to the Senate
on the Hitchcock resolution asking
for information relative to the nego-
tiation of the Four-Power Pacific
Treaty, stated it was impossible to
furnish the required information be-
cause most of the negotiations were
conducted without keeping record.
The President said II would not be
compatible with public interests TO
disclose the confidential negotiations
of the treaty nogotiators, but he de-
Clarcd that there were no concealed
undertakings and no secret exchanges
Of notes"
Almost coincident with the arrival
of the Presidents letter at the Senate
the Foreign Relations Committee OF
that body by a vote Of ten to one
ordered favorably reported the treaty
between the United States and Japan
regarding the Island of Yap. Several
Republican and Democratic Senators
reserved the right to discuss it on
the floor. The single negative vote
was cast by Senator Pittman. Demo
crat, Of Nevada.
The evening world., 1922-02-20
SHOT HER BROTHER
TO SAVE FATHER
He WASATTACK|NG
Girl Admits 1t - Wounded
Man Objected to Her
Visiting Friend.
THOUGHT HIM TOOOLD.
Girls First Love Affair Leads
TO Tragedy-Fired
Five Shots.

The first serious love affair of pretty
Carolina Russo, eighteen, has landed
her in Jail on a charge OF having
shot her brother, Alphonso, three
years her senior. This charge may be
changed to homicide. The row that led
to the shooting was family one, due
to the fact that her suitor, who was
nearly twice heHsIEAswas declared too
old for her. The brother. with bull
let in his lung, is near death in the
Kiugs Isptsty. D sapital and Carolina
EisrnvId NVItt66t i Bsiif n IA ymond stfeet
Jail.
Frank Russo the father, is cob
bier with a shop and living quarters
at the rear at No. 552 East New York
Avenue, Brooklyn. The daughter is a
forewoman in a shirt factory, indicat-
ing some degree OF executive ability
and willingness to think for herself.
The son is a jewelry salesman.
Two weeks ago a man named Pete
Oast name not divulged by the family
who say they do not know it) met
Carolina. In a week he had proposed
He called last night and was to get
his answer from the father. In the
meanwhile Alphonso had decided, bie
brother like, that the caller was toe
old. Pete admitted to thirty.
Before he left the Russo home last
night Pete wanted to know where he
stood. The father told him "yes'
and "no." Pete left still uncertain as
to whether he was acceptable as q
son-in-law.
When he had gone it was nearly
A. NJ. Alphonso came from his room
and upbraided the father for not being
firm and telling Pete he was too old
Carolina paced her bedroom awaiting
the fathers decision. From words
according to accounts gathered by De-
tectives Fitzgerald and Mccarthy
father and son came to blows and the
father, Who is forty-five years old
was getting the worst of 1t.
His cries were answered by Caro-
lima. who ran from her room, dashed
into her brothers., seized his revolver
and, entering the shop, blazed away
She admits the shooting and says she
did it to scare her brother, not to hurt
him. Alphonso ran back through the
house. Five shots were fired, two oi
which hit him in the back.
The stories of the mother, father
and a younger sister bear out the
statements of the beating Of the Ole
man. Carolina was taken to the bed
side Of her brother in the hospital
Conscious and in imminent danger OF
death. the police say he looked W
and said:
Eyes. she shot me.
81 did," said the girl. 81 an
sorry"
Following the shooting it is said she
tried to kill herself and was disarmet
! by her father,
The evening world., 1922-02-20
SIXTEEN OVERCOME
INF|RE IN 3O-STORY
WALL ST. BUILDING
Firemen and WatChmanknOCk.
ed Out by Gas and Smoke,
Rescued by Comrades.

Fifteen firemen, a wa Gilman, and a
dog mascot were knocked out by
monoXide gas and smoke during a fire
on the fifteenth floor of the thirty
story building, No. 81 Wall Street.
near Broad, at 4.30 A. NJ. to-day.
The three who were taken to the
Broad Street Hospital are:
KAY, GEORGE, sixty-six No. 339
73d Street Brooklyn. watchman OF the
building. Overcome by smoke and gas,
Condition serious.
kOHOUT, CHARLES, fireman,
Truck No. -. Overcome by smoke
and gas.
LAGAMAziNE. LOUIS, h.cman,
Truck No, Is. Broken knee, suffer
ing from smoke and gas.
The other firemcn were attended by
doctors and went back to quarters.
Kay discovered the fire in store
room Sled with intammabIc ma
tcrials. He sent in u special building
alarm and with other watchmen and
u score of cleaners fought the blaze
with the house hose lines until En-
gine No. 4, under Lieut.. Philip Zim-
mer with six men. and Truck No. Is,
under Lieut.. Rowe with seven men,
came.
They carried lines of hose up in the
elevators, and owing to the modern
construction of the building had lit
tie difficulty in confining the flames tc
the one room. The lack of ventilation
and melted gas connections were sale
by ambulance surgeons to have caused
the deadly gas that bowlGd over the
men until every member of the engine
and truck companies we're inCapn"l-
tated.
They were assisted to the street b,
comrades in, other companies, 1t was
discovered that Rex, Engine CompaIJ
No. As mascot, which had gone W
with the men, was missing lie wa
found overcome by gas and carried t
the street but soon revived.
The damage from the fire was trif
ling. The building houses some o
the biggest financial Arms in the dis
| trict.
The evening world., 1922-02-20
BOMB WRECKS ;
HOUSES; |MPER|LS
FIFTEEN CHILDREN
Highland Park, n. j., Explo-
sion Follows Warning by
Tenant, Who IS Arrested.

The lives of twenty one persons,
fifteen OF them young children, were
imperilled by an explosion which to-
tally demolished one and partially
wFe,rs Il tKG ageilingE es ~. RInhtne.l
Park, a suburb of New Brunswick,
N. j., at dawn to-day. Ralph Woe
nough. who lived in one of the
houses, is under arrest on suspicion,
as he appears to have had advance
knowledge of the explosion. which oc-
CURED in the house he occupied. The
effects of the explosion indicate Tat
a powerful bomb was set Off.
The three houses stood in a group.
Woenough, whose wife is in a hos
pital. occupied the second floor of the
middle house. According to the police
he rushed from his home shortly be-
fore the explosion, pounded on the
doors of the houses on each side of
his own and advised the tenants to
get out, as he thought his house was
on fire. When the explosion occurred
he was block away turning in a
fire alarm.
Max Josephslty, his wife and two
children and Joseph Loiacano. his
wife and seven children occupied the
house to the right of the one where
the explosion occurred. A wall was
blown in and the occupants were COW
cred with debris, but all escaped with
scratches. In the other house lived
Joseph Longato, his wife and six
children. Every door in this building
was blown off its hinges, but the oc-
cupants escaped injury.
Mrs. Mary Josephsky was standing
at the top OF the stairs, holding her
one.year.od baby. Her husband hao
reached the bottom with their
three year old boy when the ex-
| plosion occurred. The stairway was
blown out and Mrs. Josephsky was
hurled to the first floor with the baby
in her arms, beside the wall which
was blown in. The refuse fell around
her, but she and the baby were taken
out uninjured
Loiacunu with his wife and seven
children occupied the lower floor
of this house, They were sleep
ing in two rooms next to the middle
house, The wall was blown in, the
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The evening world., 1922-02-20
MIS5 k1ATHILDE
Ms COR MICK ~ TWO
Wedding Planned for Sum-
mer, but Couple Must Live
in America.

CHICAGO, Feb. 20. - The baby
granddt lighter of John D. Rookie feller
has won the right to marry the man
she loves. Swiss riding master, three
and half times her cGe.
Mathilde Mccormick, sixteen, per-
suaded her father, Harold F. McCor-
mick, multi millionaire head of the
International Harvester Company,
that her happiness depended on mar
riage to Max Oser, Zurich, Switzer-
land, who is fifty-seven years old.
Mccormick then mad the announce
ment of the engagement.
Only one string Is attached to the
consent-Max Oser must como 10
America to live, friends Of the family
stated. This provision. it was said,
was a concession to the worlds richest
man, Rockefeller, who has prided
himself publicly that seeking
men of Europe never married into his
family.
Mrs Edith Rockefeller Mccormick,
who recently divorced Mathilde's
father, did not take part IN the family
council, it was believed. She re-
NAMED in her Lake Shore home
where she has been living apart from
her husband since she returned from
d seven year sojourn in Switzerlanl
l. &. IA 4 nftf
and fell in love with Oser, who used
to rent horses to the McCormicks.
From Emil l.. Burgy, cousin of Oser
who Is an interior decorator here
comes the story OF the man who is
about to marry into American
wealthiest family.
Burgy stated that Oser is nifty
seven. not forty-seven, as has beer
reported.
Burgy said the father OF his cousin
Max was a German nobleman named
| Count Won der Muehl. and that Oser'i
right name was Max Won der Muehl
MAX took the name OF his step
| father, who cleaned up sl,500.O0O II
the cotton business in America aftel
TIE Civil War" said Burgy. MAJ
| isn't penniless. He has an income o.
at least SO 900 year"
BurEy said his family was once so
| Cillly prominent
"Our plight now" he stated. "ha'
come because my predecessors marrlct
| beneath their social standing. NJ!
| grandfather. Z. cuirassier with Ma
poleon, and his father were socially
ostracised for marrying women be
meath them; and look at me now
an interior decorator. ] am glad Ma
had the good fortune 70 become On
( ragod to Miss Mccormick though"
BurEv eald the family fortunes be-
a.p TO slip when his sranifa'her war
Continued on E.Ehth PaRsl
The evening world., 1922-02-20
Driver for Messenger Was
Hired for the Occasion, but
Has a Prison Record--Bank
Man Claims He Didn't
\ Know 1t.
Greenwich Bank Men Armed
but Were Paralyzed by AT
tack-Driver Held as Wit
nesS-Thugs Ignore SIS, 900
in Coin.

Armed thugs held up a covered
motor truck used by the Greenwich
Bank at 10th Street and Seventh
Avenue at IL o'clock to-day, snatched
a leather pouch containing $4,000
in $50. 800 and $1,000 bills from one
Of two messengers OF the bank,
seated with the driver. and escaped.
The thieves made no attempt TO
touch between $4,000 and $4,000
IN nickels and dimes in small bags
in the body OF the truck.
1t has long been the custom Of
william A. Russell of Montclair, n
j., and Clarence Brown of No. Is
Fast l30th Street. veteran and
trusted messengers, to convey every
Monday morning from the branch
bank at 35th Street and Sixth Avenue
accumuations OF small coins to the
Federal Reserve Bank and sums Of
money in bills to the branch OF the
bank at No. l35 William Street. For
several months they have been using
a motor truck furnished by e. s.
Banta. who has a garage at No. ssh
Greenwich Avenue.
Banta's chauffeur was Michael
Mario, who, II developed after the
robbery, has been arrested four tfnss
for larceny in the past eleven years
and has served a term in Elmtra.
Mario was aware of the nature or
the trips OF the motor truck, but
stoutly maintains that he had no
hand IN the robbery. He concealed
his criminal record when he obtained
employment with Banta.
Charles L. Whyard, vice president
o. the 2Sth street branch of the
Greenwich Bank, superintended the
start OF Russell and Brown from the
bank to-day Into the body OF the
truck were piled more than 100 small
stout canvas bags containing nickels
and dimes. The bills were in a
locked leather pouch or bag which
Russell carried.
Both messengers were armed ara
sat on the seat with Mario, the
chauffeur. Russell placed the bag
containing the bills between his legs
and covered it with his overcoat.
The truck proceeded down Seventh
Avenue to the 23d Street branch OF
! the bank. where an additional load OF
nickels and dimes was taken on.
I Brown conducted this loading, Rus
sell remaining ON the seat with the
Ihag Of moneyq clutched between his
| knees.
! As the truck approached 18th
! street. man with a drawn revolver
Ileaped on the running board and
commanded Mario to stop the car and
throw up his hands. Mario obeyed
the order The thief then grabbed
the bag from between RusseIl's legs
land ran with II to the side of a Pack
lard touring car whicht was moving
slowly down the avenue behind the
truck with one OF the side doors wide
open In the car were three men in-
lcluding thf driver.
AS thsSthief with the bag Isaeed
The evening world., 1922-02-20
$465,68O, 154 RECOMMENDED
AS VALUE OF TRANSIT LINES;
REDUCTION OF $3OO,OOO,OOO
Report to Commission SlaSheS
Figures Carried on Books
of Companies.
CUT is 40 PER CENT
Capitalization Is S1,ooo,ooo,.
600, but Exclusion Brings 1t
to S765,OOo,oOo.

The report to the Transit Commits
eIon of it's Bureau of Valuation. made
nt tho hearing to-day by John H.
Madden, Valuation Engineer, and
Fred w. Lindars, Chief Accountant,
recommends the total figure OF
k4S5, $50, ,154 as the net valuation to be
placed on tho properties Of the forty
transit coupal'T npnaad for '1lu-
aion in the co1hmission9 plan Of re-
Organization.
Tho present capitalization of those
Aransit companies, including stocks
and bonds of every description now
outstanding, is approximately $1,000
900, 900. From this total. however, the
eommission's Bureau of Valuation ex-
eluded various company holdings.
bringing the par value of the actual
securities held by the public down TO
S765, 900, 900. The companies own
valuation Of the properties, as carried
IN their books and irrespective Of Sc
eurity issues, aggregate $791, 100000.
The report of the Bureau of Valua-
kion recommends, therefore, reduc-
SSon of $500, 900. 900, or about 40 per
cent. of tho present net capitaliza-
tion and OF 1926, 1000, 900 below COM
pany book values.
The recommendation of the Bureau
of Valuation is that valuations be
based upon original cost, from which
is to be deducted tho amount OF ex-
penditure necessary to put each
property in first class operating con-
dition.
When the hearing was taken up
William A. De Ford, representing the
Transit Bureau of the Corporation
Counsels $ Office, announced that he
appeared for the city, making the
usual statement that ne did so with
out prejudice to the rights of the
city.
He was told that he was welcome.
Mr.. De Ford, it is understood, sue
Ceeds Senator Hiram Johnson as The
representative of the city.
Following is a summary of the rec
bmmended valuations, by railroad
systems, compared with capitaliza
tion (stocks and bonds held by in
vestors) and amounts at which the
properties are valued on the company
books;
Il. Il. r. systcm-surface lines, in
Guiding the Brooklyn City Company
S6Y.Jll.,oy: elevated and subway
lines, $50, ,O96, 9lS a total Of $15l,6O
SIT.
The capital stock and bonds out
standing of the Is. r. T. is $2S2, ,17S,
continued on Fifth Page)
The evening world., 1922-02-20
DRIVER ARRESTED
AND GR|LLED IN
TAYLOR MURDER
Stacy, in Whose Room Were
Found Odd Bullets, Under
Detention.

Los ANGELES FEB. 20 rhe
taxicab driver sought IN connection
with the William D. Taylor murder
mystery was found to-oay. He was
Immediately taken before District At
torney Woolwine.
The man gave the name Of STACY.
He is said to have been an acquaint-
ance of Taylor. He has been missing
since the afternoon preceding the
Staying Police claim to have found
bullets OF a pattern obsolete for the
past fifteen years, and which matched
exactly the slug that killed Taylor
H. StaCy's room.
Woolwine and Captain of Iolic"
Adams grilled the man behind locked
doors.
The evening world., 1922-02-20
BOILER BLAST ROCKS HOTEL,
TIES UP TRAFFIC AND STARTS
RUMOR OF GREAT DISASTER

Residents of the hotel clogged the
telephone with alarmed inquiries, but
were calmed by employees sent from
room to room.
The police reported that the ex.
plosion was due to overcrowding OF
the fireboX with rubbish in addition
to the ordinary fuel. which caused an
abnormal steam pressure.
Traft1c on Madison Avenue was
suspended for half an hour by the
congestion Of fre apparatus in front
Of the building.
From thirty to forty persons tele.
phoned to Fire and Police Headqarters
that n great disaster" had occurred.
The evening world., 1922-02-20

Al "a few minutes before noon to-
day, the boiler in the engine room of
the apartment hotel at No. 80 East
55th Street, blew up with an ex-
pIosion which smashed all the base
tnent windows of the house, sent the
glass crashing into the street, rocked
the building and scared residents OF
Ahe neighborhood in a radius Of five
blocks.
John Sullivan, the cuRineer, and his
Lassistant, Carl Hanson, were slightly
burned about the hands and face by
no blast from the bun EtinE tirshox,
The evening world., 1922-02-20
SAFEST CITY,
AT MIDNIGHT
AS WELL AS NOON" "
What Commissioner Enright Told
the New York GrocerS Abou,
Their Protection.

This is the proudcst, richest
city in the world. For the FIRST
time since man has kept a record
OF things there is a city that fol
lows the Divine plan--New York.
New York is the cleanest and
safest city that ever stood beneath
the sun,
Inspect the city by day or
night and you will he as safe on
any street at midnight as at noon
because New York has n soul and
is protected by God Almighty and
the police Police Commissioner
Enright in n speech to the New
York Wholesale Grocers' Associs-
tioA.
The evening world., 1922-02-20
AUTO THUGS GET $4,000
FROM BANK MESSENGER IN
CROWDED 7TH AVE. TRAFFIC
DRY LAW MISTAKE,
AMEND 1T, SAYS
BISHOP GAILOR
Opposed to Putting So Drastic a
Law in Constitution,
He Says.
CHICAGO. Feb. 2O.'

Bishop Thomas +. Gailor. Pres
idont OF the National Council Of
the Episcopal Church. said ID an
address hero last night that he
believed "the Eighteenth Amend.
mcnt was mistake" He also
said he believed in the modiflca-
ton Of the VolsteaG law.
II am In favor Of morality. he
said, ''and I personally observe
the Volstead law, but i am op-
posed to putting sUmrtuary laws
of so drastic a character in the
Constitution. II pdrtabes Of the
old philosophy that matter is in
herently evil. 1 am not speaking
in the interests of the under
world, but in the interests of In
telligent, outstanding men,"
The evening world., 1922-02-20
FAVORS EXTENDING
IMMIGRANT LAW
House Passes Resolution on ; Per
Cent. Restriction, Fixing Limit
June 80, 1923.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2O.-The
House to-day passed and sent to the
Senate resolution extending until
June 80, 1923, the 3 per cent re-
strictive immigration Law.
The rules were suspended to permit
action at this time.
The vote was $50 10 SO.
The evening world., 1922-02-20
GIRLS FIRST BALLOT
CAST EARLY AND OFTEN

BUFFALO, Feb 2J-Miss Jss."
Przctcra is alleged 20 have cy'cb.a 81
her first year a. voted by casting "a
lots under assumed names at seNcrol
polling places.
An inricment against her was re-
turned last November. but the police
were unable to serve the warrant until
to-day. Miss Prizetera said she had
been in New York
The evening world., 1922-02-20
MORE TRANSIT LAWS
FORECAST BY MILLER
Commission Has Further LegiSIR-
tlOn In View, lie Snys'

ALBANY. Feb 2O.-Furthcr transit
legislation was forecast by Gov. Miller
upon his return from New York to-day
Asked to comment on the assertion OF
William A. Deford that II the traction
companies refuse to come IN under the
unified plan 5-ccnts fare would he
impossible. the Governor replied:
THE Transit Commission has beer
looking into this matter and ! expect
to hear from them very shortly or it
learn that their recommendations nave
been made to the legislature
The the commission has further leg
islatlon in vicw?' he WIS asked
II think they have" he replied
The evening world., 1922-02-20
A SAMPLE OF OUR WINTER
WEATHER.

sARANAC LAKE, Feb, 2O.-There
was a thunder storm here early to-day
with vivid lightning and q doWnpour Of
rain lasting an hour. Two days ego
tSe mercury registered I2 degrees below
$40,
The evening world., 1922-02-20
THE WORLD rRAvTL BrRFNl,

Arcade, Pulitzer wor.lD HINdrg -- 10 Pn'
hnW. - } CIV III phone G...n.. ir''
Check room Tor baggage and psrNg.s nrr tl'
nighi' Money orders snd usyg.,,p yEsrI Noi
The evening world., 1922-02-20

Continued on Eighth Pase)
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-31
THIRD OPPONENT
ADDED TO JAUNT
OF ILLNI SOUTH

xErbana. Ill. Jan. 31-Coach
Harry Gill of the University OF Hi
nois has accepted a third date on
his southern track trip, the last one
being with the University of Arkan-
sas track team April 20. This will
neeessitate a change in the date of
the University of Texas meet from
April 10 to the 18th
The 20 Illini track men will leave
Champaign April IS, meeting Rice
Institute in the first dual contest.
Rice has strong aggregation with
Lindsey, the star dash man and
hurdler. The Illinois jauRt is the
first spring training trip ever taken
by western team and the second
in America, Harvard's tour through
Virginia after the Penn relays last
season being the first
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-31
COPHERS LAND
Prize COACH
IN SPAULDINC
Minnesota Institution Pins Hopes of
Grid Revival in New
Leader.
By BILLY EVANS.

University of Minnesota hopes to
regain lost football prestige.
AS step in that direction Bill
Spaulding has been selected as
head coach to succeed DR.. Will
Jams.
Who is Bill SpauIding? Until the
wires carried the story that he was
Minnesota's new coach little was
known of him as a national foot
ball figure.
DR.. Williams for % years has
been football coach at University
of Minnesota. Bill Spaulding, who
succeeds him, for Is years has
coached Western Normal school,
Kalamazoo, Mich.
Spaalding first played football on
the high school team at Black River
Falls, Wis. From there he went
to Lawrence University where he
played for two years.
After two years at Lawrence he
gave up his college career and
went to Chicago, where he secured
a position with one of the big pack
ing concerns.
Coach Cayou of Wabash, who had
seen Spauldlng play at Lawrence,
finally prevailed upon him to finish
his college course. He entered Wa
bash college. He graduated from
that institution in 1907.
r. Was Star at Wabash.
Spaulding played halfback and
was one of the best men in the west
in his day. The year he captained
the Wabash Giants as they were
known, his team inside of three
weeks beat Notre Dame to 0. Pur-
due 10 to 0, played Illinois a score
less tie and lost to Chicago 5 to O.
With only limited enrolment at
western State Normal school.
Spaulding has been turning out re-
teams year after wear.
His teams have walloped Michi-
IAN, Notre Dame, Michigan Aggies