The evening world. Newspaper, May 28, 1919, Page 10

im His Cen. ‘Melvin Day, twenty-two, of No. £16 180th Street, committed suicid ‘Tome early to-day by hanging him- seit with @ rope made from a sheet. charges that he had stolen nume ince his conviction, 4 ‘ “HIMSELF IN TOMBS. ° a Prisoner Fastened Noose of Sheets y oked the suspension of sentence and ordered him confined in Sing Sing from five to was to have been taken to prison to- ——- WASHINGTON, health reports in Petrograd the death rate in that city now exceeds one thousand daily, according to Swed ish press reports received to-day at the State Department. Further reductions in the food rations even for workers 28.—OMelal ’ Day was convicted in General Ses- ‘ow that "gions last fall of the theft of a $5,000 @utomobiie, The jury recommended a oe, His parents, who live in New Brunswick, N, J., mort- 4 th jome to Lo restitution, as suspended. Beni Bay was rearrested on to secure one at a bargain price. 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More than $400,000 must be raised | before midnight to-morrow if the Greater City of New ‘York is to reach its quota of $1,600,000 in the Salva- tion Army drive for $13,000,000 for its Home Service Fund. ‘The workers for the cause, both in the army and out of it, are still in the fight and full of pep and optimistic as to the outcome. Checks continued to come into headquarters this morning but they were mainly of smali denomination. The appeal to the wealthy, save here unanswered. Various stunts and the lasaies with their little boxes in the streets and other public places are constant reminders that the cam- paign is still on» During the noon hour “Daredevil” Johnny Reynolds was seen climbing the Congolidated Gas Building at 15th Street and Third Avenue for the benefit of the Fund. The building is twenty-two etories and Johnny ‘performed his usual Yeats whilé going up its face. The Bowman chain of hotels in Pershing Square will aid in making a whirlwind finish of the campaign to- 7 Don’t Spoil Your Hair By Washing It When you wash you hair, be careful what you use. Most soaps and pre- pared shampoos contain too much alkali, which is very injurious, as it dries the scalp and makes the hair brittle. The best thing to use is Mulsified cocoanut oil shampoo, for this is pure and entirely greaseless, It's very chjap and beats anything else all to pieces. You can get this at any drug store, and a few ounces will last the whole family for months. Simply moisten the hair with water and rub it in, about a teaspoonful is all that is required, It makes an abundance of rich, creamy lather, cleanses thoroughly, and rinses out easily, The hair dries quickly and evenly, and is soft, fresh looking, bright, fluffy, wavy and easy to handle. Besides, it loosens and takes out every particle of dust, dirt and dandruff,— Adv’ Pongee silk commends itself for cool i " ness of weight cad feeds texture aun ih itself to the niceties of-fine tailoring, and has the added advantage of cleaning, perfectly. For travel, motoring, town wear or for the country club, no wiser or more satisfactory selec- tion can be j Sizes 14 to 20 years. STRAIGHTLINE SUITS PANEL VESTED SUITS BELTED SUITS 29.50 to 69.50 SEMI-FITTED SUITS Franklin Simon a Co, Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Sts. PONGEE SILK SUITS FOR MISSES MEET EVERY SUMMERTIDE NEED TF the Summertide wardrobe is to be complete, tailormade of po: SALVATION DRIVE and there, has thus far remained | ter and Frederick Lewisohn, $1,000; sightseeing yachta Tourist, Observa- Morrow night, by which time John Meck, Bowman, managing director of the ¢ in, expects to hand over $19,- 000 «Mr. Bowman announced this morning that the first $1,000 taken In to-morrow at the Biltmore, Commo- dore, Ma ttan and Belmont hotels will be turned over to the Llome Serv- loe Fand. F Furthermore Mr, Bowman is going to enable the guests of the hotels to contribute by adding to thelr break- fast, lunch or dinner checks the amount they wish to subscribe and adding the amount to their bill which All amounts collected in this manner, however, will be turned immediately into the Salvation Army. Brig.-Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Chairman of the New York Commit- tee, said every worker and every com- mittee was doing the utmost to pre- vent the city from failing to do its part in the campaign. These figures show the totals to date: Manhattan has reported $345,000; Brooklyn turned in $110,000 of its $200,000 allotment; the Bronx $50,000, whioh {s $12,000 above its quota; Queens $40,000 and Richmond $17,000. The Trades Committec has deposited $133,000; the Theatrical and Motion Picture Committee $200,000; the Hotel Committee has nearly $40,000; the New York Stock Exchange contribu- tion will be $25,000. Charles H. Sab‘n, ; Treasurer of the fund, reports a total; of $14,000 in checks for Monday. Contributions were received yester- day from Ralph Pulitzer, $1,000; Was- Edgar 1. Marston, $600; Plaza Oporac- ing Company, $500; Goldman, Sacks & &Co., $500; F. W. Andrews, $500. The United States Marine Corps Band from the Philadelphia Navy Yard headed a parade of Marines, Salvation Army lassies and volunteer workers up Fifth Ave, at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon and took possession o: the Public Library steps. The parade | started from Marine Corps Recruit- ing headquarters in East 23d Street, under the command of Lieut. Harry W.. Miller. Capt. J. P, Roberts, owner of the tion and Halcyon, has announced that the proceeds of the trips made to- morrow will be given to the fund, The McIntyre sisters, Gladys and) Irene, will be the principal speakers at a meeting to-night under the lead- ership of Dr. Maurice J. McCarthy, Chairman of the Washington Heights Committee, at St. Nicholas Avenue and 11st Street. Behind in Texas. DALLAS, Texas, May 28—Helated re- turns to-day from Saturday's constitu- tional amendmeyt election following canvass of the vate by the various coun- ties swept away a silght majority for wotnan suffrage and showed a majority of 6,640 against the measure. Tho fig- ures from 14 out of 248° organized counties give: For suffrage, $9,715; ainat %.3%5; for prohibition, 96,425; jainst, 4, to Portugal to R LISBON, May 2% —The Government to-day called back to Portugal Viscount Dalte, Minister at Washington. He a Nag My should, include a satisfying, of sffkae Rbelee 0 sii abst aia probably will be succeeded by Jaime Cortazeo, the write: they may pay at the end of their stay. ; | this most MISSES’ SUIT SHOP-Second Floor BOF) —— ary RLD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1919, vie FAVORS U.S. AID STUDENTS AT YALE AS SOLUTION OF AND SERVICE MEN HOUSING PROBLEM HELD BLAMELESS Elkus Suggests Federal Land University Officer Attributes Bank for Loans to Builders —Profiteering a Disease. After telling the Joint Legislative Committee that the population of New York has increased 100,000 in the past year, in which time there has been no building, and that basements }and even cellars have been pressed into use by families who couldn't find shelter elsewhere, Abram 1. Elkus, Chairman of Gov. Smith's Re- construction Commission, to-day ex- Trouble to Men and Boys Stirred by “Red” Oratory. NEW HAVEN, Conn. May 2%8.— Such evidence as was obtainable to- day by the authorities as to the cause of last night's riot in the city] streets led Mayor David EB. Fitz- gerald this afternoon to issue a state- | ment, in effect, exonerating. from blame former service men and Yale students. He attributed the trouble to an “unorganized crowd” which be- pressed the opinion that an ideal so- came reckless in its indifference to lution, of the lack of apartments Problem might be found in the estab- lishment of a Federal land bank. public peace and welfare, The Mayor said he regarded the trouble as of a very serious character, and Mr. Elkus incidentally made public appealed to all citizens to preserve the first real authoritative estimate of What it would cost the United} States in loans to bring the country ‘back to the normal housing conditions which existed before the war, “I believe that a Federal land bank would be the way to meet the serious situation which confronts the coun- try to-day,” said Mr, Elkus. Asked how much money would be necesgary to put the machinery of a land bank into motion, he replied, that it would cost from $500,000,000 to | $1,000,000,000,. The land bank Mr.; Elkus has in mind would lend money | to builders in the same manner that the Government lends money to Western farmers on mortgages. As to how the present system of financing housing for the poor could be reorganized or developed so that it would ‘be possible to build livable | homes or apartments for unskilled | labor, he asserted it was almost im- possible now to finance housing for the unskilled worker. “Practically no new houses have | been built for them in many years,” he said. “Here in New York City many live in ill ventilated old law tenements. Governments of every other civilized country except Amer- | ica have given constructive aid in housing. Mr, Elkus said a census taken by 500 volunteers for the Reconstruction Commission showed 1,700 houses consisting of 34,000 apartments, ac- commodating between 175,000 and | 200,000 people. “It always seemed to me that rent profiteering was a symptom of a} disease,” gaid Mr. Elkus, “I believe the disease is the scarcity of houses, and you cannot build by amending the law. I do not know whether it would be much better for the tenant if you increased the number of days’ | notice a landlord was to give before the end of a month in order to ter- minate the month, It probably would be a convenience to the tenant, but it would not stop the landlord from increasing the rent or telling the tenant to move. It might keep the tenant in a month longer.” As to financial conditions which contribute toward higher rents, he said: “The trouble with the lending market—I am talking about first mortgage thoney now—is that it has had to compete with the financing of the nation, the state and the city and compete under great disadvantages. Money borrowed by the nation and by the state and the city and particularly | by the two latter are not subject to the same income taxation as the mortgages on real estate, and that has caused some money lenders not only to refuse to lend new money on bond mortgages, but to call in old loans where they can get it. “One great financier who has al- ways invested a great deal of money in bond mortgages said to me: ‘I have calculated the return on my in- vestment in bonded mortgages at 1.7 per cent after paying the state income | tax and other taxes, I can take the game money and invest it in New York City bonds, which are gilt edged, at 97 or thereabouts. They yield 4 1-4 per cent and are not subject to taxa- | tion of any kind, order. A statement from the officer in} command of the military hospital; ‘pase at Allington said that the mill- tary police were not used. What) happened was that when word came} of the conflict an officer came into the city and began rounding up pa- tients and either warned them to keep free of the crowds or sent them back to the hospital in motor vehicles which had ‘been sent over for that purpe There are several hundred men at the hospital who have free- dom of the city evenings, Secretary Stokes of Yale University in a statement said that the trouble was not due to members of the 1024 Regiment nor to students, but ‘to an irresponsible group of young men and boys stimulated by a few Bol- shevik orators and stirred by all sorts of false and exaggerated rumors.” “This irresponsible group met near the Bennett Fountain at a time most unfortunately announced in advance by some New Haven papers,” he said. “its leaders were looking for trouble.” Secretary Stokes added that the university had most cordially wel- comed home the soldiers. Many Yale men were in the 102d. The student council had shown its high respect for the regiment. Dean Jones was in- quiring into reports of jesting banter between a fow students and the marching soldiers on Saturday, and nothing would have happened last night had jt not been for the crowd which threatened the campus. “The gates were closed,” he said, “and the students acted admirably and none took the initiative in the trouble. They had @ right to protect their property. : Secretary Stokes declared that he heard fiery orators trying to incite the crowd to trouble and asserted that what was needed now was the keeping of cool heads on both sides. In court two students changed with having revolvers and another charged with breach of the peace, had their hearings continued until June 3. One man charged with breach of the peace got’ 15 days in jail and another for wniury to private property was fined $50... The students with revolvers were taken by officers who went to a dormitory after two youths on the street had been shot, it being claiin.d that bullets came from the direction of the dormitory windows. The ms sent to jail threw stones at Byers Hall windows, Fo Bealded Cleni ‘= Boller. Four men were painfully scalded about the arms and chest this morn- ing while cleaning one of the boilers of the steamer Arenia at Pier 4, Erie Basin. They are Salvatore Deno, No. 235 Mulberry Street; Phillip Derona, No. 36 Cherry Street; Frank Rimi, No. 156 Cherry Street, and Charles Tringdale, No. 92 Baxt Street. chia. Theodore Schuniski, ten years old, of No. 81 Balmer Avenue, Port Richmond, 8. 1., while crossing Herbertson Avenue on the way to school to-day was struck and instantly killed by an automobile owned and driven by.Frank Yniskers of No. 128 Mountainview Avenue, New Brighton, according to the police. Knis- kers was held. FURTHER SURVEY BY POLICE ON RENT PROFITEERING Divergence Shown Between Reports and Complaint$ Made Directly | to Committee. Further investigation of rent profiteering cases is to be made by the police at the request of the Mayor's Committee on Rent Profit- cering. A comparison of the police figures on the recent survey and the complaints made directly to the committee show a wide divergence. The Police Department explained this with the statement that the sur- vey was begun primarily to list va- cant apartments and the profiteering figures were gathered only in flag- rant cases. The committee will with- hold its announcement until cases turned over to the police have been investigated, Commissioner of Accounts Hirsh- field decided to-day to take drastic action against Morris Insel, owner of houses at Nos, 1201 Simpson Street and 927 Home Street, Bronx, — Insel admitted he bought the property a month ago as a speculation, «Two transfers were made the. same day, the second buyer, who sold to Insel, taking a $4,000 mortgage for his profit, —Insel’s cash investment 1s $10,000, Tis increased rental will add $2,000 » year to his revenue. The Com- missioner will ask a rigid enforee- ment of the Tenement House Laws, The Commissioner will hold a hear- ing for tenants at 8 o'clock to-night at Broadway and 158th Street, Fenelng Champ: to Meet Louis Senac, male fencing champion, will meet Miss Edith Hudson, female champion, at the Hotel Astor this eve- ning under the auspices of the New York War Camp Community Service, in a contest for the entertainment of the faaais at the Wel Home dinner of Draft Board Pine Taffeta Dress, | Specially Priced from a baby carriage at 12ist Street and Third Avenue while the mother was in Mrs. Kostinen persists that the baby found wrapped in a sheet in the Hunter's Point station of the Queens- borough Subway is not her child be- by the War Department cause it weighed » pound less then her KIDNAPPED BABY'S MOTHER s2zr°sSce". 2's LOSING HOPE AS CLUES FAIL". |station in |found by the police de to-day in the| vy them, ks’ old baby of > Street taken last Friday} qWASHINGTON, May 28. for transportation for nv immediate families on duty in France originate wih the fi by the command’ B. ¥, under a ruling ED | CEO 1 S.-C 51 SS OI ‘O”LIVER-AOLSON: She Store oS Service’ BROADWAY ar 79Tn. 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