The evening world. Newspaper, July 28, 1919, Page 3

Has 40,000 Pounds to Sell at 2 Cents Above Govern- ment’s Low Price. HAS A $100,000 F Is After Ham, Sugar and Other Supplies Which Army Has Left Over, ‘Mayor Charles Pp. Gillen, at Newark, N. J. will place nearly 40,000 pounds of army bacon on sale in that city Wednesday. He has placed his order wit the surplus zone officer in New York, deliveries to be made to-morrow, unless army red tape intervenes and delays matters, and within twenty- four hours afterward the resales to the people of Newark will be begun. Bacon, however, isn't the only item on the army's surplus list which has ‘waught the Newark Executive's eye. Last Wednesday he placed an order for 30,000 pounds of sugar cured ham, at 27 centg 4 pound. Hés offer was the highest received at thé zone sur- plus office, he was advised, but the army officials withheld action on ac- ‘count of the price, Capt. A. A. Stew- art notified Mayor Gillen that he had forwarded the latter's offer to high army officials in Washington, and Was awaiting further instructions, ' Mayor Gillen has announced that if his 27 cent offer is accepted he will at once resell the ham to Newark resi- dents at a two cent. advance—29 cents & pound—which js almost 60 per cent. lower than- the prevailing retail mar- ket price for am in Newark. And besides bacon and ham, Mayor Gillen is making strenuous efforts to jet the army to sell fim large quan- Utles of sugar. It is reported that sugar in great bulk is stored in the army warehouses, but thus far the Newark official bas not been able to place his hands on any. In this connection he has Congressman Daniel F. Minaban working with him. Mayor Gillen has also directed for- mal inquiries to the War Department officers as to prices on the surplus quantities of tea, coffee, variey, rice, flour, oatmeal, canned vegetables, canned tomatoes and pork und beans, And, going outside the food limits, Mr. Gillen has asked the Government about its stores of blankets, ticking, cotton cloth, underwear, sheeting and non-absorbent cotton, GILLEN MAKES PURCHASES A PERSONAL MATTER. In the two weeks he has given at- tention to this proposition of purcbas- ing and resolling extra army supplies, he has become détermined to get all of these articles, or as many as he can, for distribution among Newark’s pop- ulation, He has made two flying trips to Washington during the past week, and his executive clerk, Max L. Steg- man, has been in New York daily, conferring with Capt. Stewart in the zone surplus office, He has also sent City Health Officer Charles V. Cras~ ter, Chief Clerk John C, Vidt of the Newark City Hospital, and Supt Patrick J. White of the Almshouse to inspect the foodstuffs at nearby army warehouses, - The bacon was the first product Mayor Gillen could get definite action ‘on, 80 he ordered the 40,000 pounds last Triday. Of this amount, 30,000 pounds will be in strips, and will cost Mr. Cillen thirty-four cents @ pound. He will sell it at thirty-six cents, ‘The re- gaining 10.000 pounds is canned bacon, Which will cost thirty-six cents and Win be sold to the people at thirty- ight cents, And Mavor Gillen an- fdunced to-day that it he finds his Roumoad charges Will permit, he will (ye rne che prices by one cent @ pound, Bila wa the bacoh at an navauce v' cuy & penny, Mayor Gillen to-day flouted the ex- rossed opinion of Mayor Couzens of etroit, who criticized the quality of the army bacon, Basing his statement on reports from Health Department inepectors whe examined the bacon, Mayor Gillen: pronounced it to be far superior to the ordinary bacon. “I have tWo samples of the bacon in mY oMce,” ho declared, “and any peruon interested may inspect it, It is very nearly of the quality of the bacoa <ured in the South, and but little in- ferior to Irish bacon, And,” the & added, with a bit of pride ‘added brogue, “everybody knows that I bacon is the best in the world are compelled to pay in the neighoo hood of fifty cents a pound in Newari for bacon that 1s not nearly as i this.” ““Newark school houses, fire houses and milk depots will be utilized by the Mayor as distributing points, As the army warehouses where the bacon is stored are located at Port Newark, Governor's Island and the Bush minal, Mr. Gillen does not antici much trouble or delays in the matter of deliveries. This afternoon in his office at the City Hall there will be a conference of representatives of several women's organizations. Mayor Gillen has ta- vited them to aid him in working out in detail a selling organization, and \ that will be done. He also is to con- (Continued on Sixth Page,) nd Found” articte@ World or reported 1 Bureau,” Room AN “Lost advertised 1 to “Lost and Fou 108, World Bullc for thirty days, feeg at any of n be left at any of Tho ‘Yorid’s Advertising Agencies, or van bo telephoned directiy to ‘The World. ©al! 4000 Reekman, New York, oF Brockiyn Office, 4100 Main, VOR FINDS WAY ~ TO BRING HOME ARMY BACON AT CUT PRICE TO CTZENS SISTER OF SMITH tno.| MADE NO THREAT | TO. AVENGE DEAT Denies Statements Attributed to Her After Brother Was Murdered in Club. Denial was made this morning by Mary Markey, the favorite: sfster of murdered Thomas (“Tanner”) Smith, of the statement that she was in the Marginal Club on Saturday night aft- er the murder and that she had sworn to avenge his death, “am a, law-abiding citizen,” she said. “I did not see Tom's body in the club, nor did I make the state- ments attributed to me, I believe in letting the law take its course.” Crowds thronged the house © mourning all day, the home of the man who went bad and then fought back and made good, Living in the neigh- borhood of the “Gophers” and “Hud- on Dusters,” he was often in conflict j With the police. It was a mother’s |love which turned him into the right |path, his mother said this morning, adding that “God never gave @ mother a better boy.” The reform happened six years ago when he went to work with the Me- Cormick Brothers in the stevgdore business. Then he went into the business for himself and amassed wealth. He is said to have bought not less than $50,000 of Iiberty Bonds, ail his purchases having been made from the police. He presented a seven-passenger car to his mother and many diamonds, During the war his payroll ran as high as $75,000 a week. He gave many of bis former companions good jobs, but they had to werk and go “straight.” If they didn’t he. “fired” them, and his friends believe that it was a man whom he had discharged who crept up behind him inthe Mar- ginal Club and shot him while the big storm was raging. ‘The funeral will take place from St. Bernard's Church, which is across the street from where he lived. Surviv ing him are his mother and two other sisters, Ella and Elizabeth, Patrick and James, brothers, the former hav- |ing been his partner. GOING TO BE COOLER TO-NIGHT, IS FORECAST Weather Man Predicts Improvement Before To-Morrow and Pos- sible Thunder Showers, Cooler weather t8>wight and local thunderstorms this afternoon or to- night, Tuesday fair; fresh, weat- erly winds. a Shortly before the mercury in ofMfciat thermometers reached the &9 mark at noon to-day police stations and hospitals began to hear of prostrations, Agnes Coco, twenty-seven, df No. 4004 Third Avenue, dropped to the wement & few doors from that address,fovercome by the heat, and was taken home, John Shay, thirty-five, fell at No. 404 West 56th Street and was removed to his home at No, 401 West 54th Street. Ledia MoGuire, thirty, of No, 108 Am- sterdam Avenue, was treated and taken home. * Within an houg and a half of the re- port of these prostrations a wind that in parts of the city reached almost the proportions of a young gale was blow- \ing, A shower followed and the air | was somewhat coeler. fo-night and the early hours to- morrow will | Weather Man Scarr ‘MAJOR CURRAN BACK | ON MAGISTRATE’S BENCH Officer Who Was Wounded. and somewhat cooler," aid to-day, comed on Taking House’s Place Magistrate Henry H, Curran, who went away to the war two years ago with the rank of Major and served with distinction on the firing line in France, presided in a court to-day for the first time since his discharge from the ser- vice last month, He took the place of Magistrate House of the Traffic Court, who is ill, and found more than 100 cases on his docket, The warrior Magistrate was at the front in France for eighteen months. As a result of wounds and exposure to gas he has been under @ physician's care since his dischafge. He said that presiding in the Traffic Court on the hotest day of the year wasn't so much different from being on the firing line. Many of his friends called to ¢on- gratulate him and he received mes- sagas from fellow Magistrates, former lassociates the Board of Aldermen Jand court attendants. Magistrate Cur- ran is an appointee of. late Mayor ieee cee, “adalat Mas faithful and efficien © bLiichel Gassed at Front Warmly Wel- 4 ® jment Tv | ee ORO HERFORD 1 WOODS OF JE Disappeared From Summer Home of Wealthy Newark Family Saturday Night. Sheriff Edward Orr of Morris County had several posses beating the woods adjacent to Denville, N. J., to-day for Helen McNaulty, a maid employed by H. M. Henry, whose summer home is there. ‘The Sheriff’ men have been hunting for the young woman since noon yesterday. Miss McNaulty, who is twenty-four, came to this country from Ireland four months igo and efitered the em- ploy of the Henrys, who are ‘wealthy Newark residents, Saturday night the Henrys went tc a dance and re- turned late, When they arose Sunday morning there was no breakfast ready. They thought the maid had gone to church, but after the/usual church dismissal hour, when she was sull missing, they went to her room. None of the girl's clothes was miss- ing except her nightgown. The family concluded that she had walked in her sleep and asked the Sheriff to search the surrounding countryside for her, Not a clue has been found and the family think she is Jost in the vast estates for which Morris County is famous. “STRIKE OUT MY ALIASES,” PLEADS DOG WATERBURY Shows Old-Time Effrontery Pleading Not Guilty of Attack on Girl. Jules Waterbury, better known in this city for many years among those who make a living without working as “Doc” Waterbury, was arragined before Judge McIntyre in the Court of General Sessions to-day on a charge of crimi- nally assaulting a young girl. He plead- ed not guilty and was sent back to the Tombs, where he has been confined since his recent return from Seattle, where he was arrested. Bail was fixed ‘at $25,000, Waterbury, with his usual effrontery, asked the Court to amend the indict- ment by striking out various allases at- tributed to him, The motion was promptly denied The crime with which Waterbury was charged was the source of great annoy- ance and humiliation to a widely known cartoonist of the highest respectability. Posing as the cartoonist Waterbury is accused of enticing a young girl to his “studio.” When the girl complained to | the poli she gave the name of her avsailant as that of the cartoonist, and he was visited by detectives, but the girl exonerated him, E EV POSSES HUNT GIRE {CARDINAL MERCIER SLEEP WALKER IN| PLANS LONG STAY SEY} IN UNITED STATE |the regiment | “Million RANSOM PAID TO MEXICANS TO SAVE AMERIGAN BOY 3 1 Carranza Government Feared Ban- | dits Would Kill Son of \ | Thompson, WASHINGTON, July 28,—Acting | upon the advice of the Mexican Govern- | ment, John West Thompson, an Amer- }ican ranchman living near Mexico City jhas paid the 1,500 pesos ransom de manded by bandits for the release of his fourteen-year-old son, the State De- partment was advised to-day. * eat The Mexican authorities, said they | feared the bandits would murder the boy unless they received the money. Secretary Lansing said the Mexican Foreign Office had agreed to refund the amount of the ransom and to take measures for capture and punish: of the |across the Meuse for the First Army, iti ie ARN Pe he ENING WORL dn bona “ wae Bike CL - BRAS am ee —_——_ Will Arrive About Sept. 15 and Make Headquarters in New York. The French liner Lorraine docked this morning from Havre with [24 passengers, among whom were forty- five American army officers and sev- enty-five enlisted men. Among the passengers was Dr. Peter J. Stryka, Secretary to Cardinal Mercier, who comes here to complete arrangements for the Cardinal's visit to America, The famous Belgian will arrive here between September 15 and months, Dr. Stryka announced that the Cardinal, who comes to thank Amer- fea for its ald to Belgium, would make his headquarters with Arch- bishop Hayes of this city, and that he would visit Baltimore, Washing- ton. Chicago and several Pacific Coast cities. Ambassador Bakhmeteff, represent- ing the Kolchak-All-Russian regime, was also on board. He is going tv Wasbington and refused to indicate his mission. Mgr, Bruches, who has been Arch- bishop of Montreal, Canada, for twenty-two years, returned from & visit to Rome and France, Col. Joseph 8. Herron of Cincinnat i, arrived after completing the burial | transfer of bodies and registration of graves of American troops who died in France. Col. Herron reported that he had marked thé graves of 22,000 American soldiers at Romagne, France, and 4,300 at Thiacourt, Less than one- half of one per cent. of the dead were buried without identification. He said the soldiers are united against a re- turn of the bodies to this country. ‘William §. Farmer of Syracuse, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the State of New York, Free and Accepted Masons, and Robert J. Kenworthy, Grand Secretary of the organization, returned from the Peace Jubilee si ion of the Grand Lodge of England in London. Grand Master Farmer declared that the session in London did much to cement English speaking lodges and nations, ‘Three American generals were on the Lorraine. They are: Major Gen. William G. Langfitt and Brig. Gens. Walter D, McCaw and Edgar Russell. Gen, McCaw, chief surgeon of the A. BE announced that no more surgical cases remain abroad, all hav- ing been brought to the United States. The steamship Radnor reached Pier No, 3, Hoboken, this morning with the last troops of the 5th Divi- sion. The transports Montpelier and Chicago also are due to-day, On the Radnor was the Ninth Field Signal Battalion and the Seventh En- gineers of the JMifth Division, ‘With waa the organization's Dollar Bani which was commanded to play President Wil- son and participated in the formal entry of King Albert of Belgium into Brussels. The leader of the band is Lieutenant A. E. Smith of No. 1069 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn. Among the officers of the Seventh o1 were Capt, Roger W. Parkhurst No. 210 St. John’s Place, Brooklyn; Lieut, James Sponza of No. 1110 Col- lege Avenue, Manhattan, and Licut, H. Young of No: 205 South Portland Avenue, Brooklyn. “This regiment put the first bridge enabling the Third Corps to cross, said Capt. Parkhurst. “This was the night of Nov, 4, at Dun-Sur-Meuse, and we suffered many casualties, We then put three others across there and at Bruelles, —_—_——>—_ OTES TO RECESS. HOUSE V Passes Rew Aug. 2 to Sept. 0, WASHINGTON, July 2%—Without a rdcord vote the House to-day adopted a resolution providing for a recess from 2 to Sept. 9 During this time the is expected ‘to be continuousls§ at work on the Peace I. i ba ba = 4 eres 20 and remain here for sevoral ie. # . ay, is) fr Some of the Many New York Socie Clean Sand and Cooling Breezes at Southampton Be > Ae , Pneran Coo 1,000 SAIL FOR FRANCE ~——— ON LINER TOURAINE Baron De Constant Believes U. S. Dead Should Not Be Brought Home Yet. The French liner Touraine safled for Le Havre to~lay with 1,000 passengers, including 600 in the steerage. Baron 4'Estournelles. De Constant, member of the French Senate, was one. He was accompanied by his son, Lieut. Paul, who was a member of the La- fayette Flying Squadron, “Tho Baron has been visiting Washington, Chicago and parts of Canada, fhe sald he was not in favor of undertaking at this time the task of removing the American dead from France. “Your de wrench tat your sons as thelr sons.” He said that if the American dead are to be brought ° are our dead,” he said. more nearly normal conditions. AMERICAN DRUMMERS | Trade Relations Renewed as Per- mission Is Given to Cross Cob- ~ ) lenz Brifigehead. | COBLENZ, Sunday, July 27 (by the | Associated Press).—Army Headquarters yesterday gave permission for five ‘American commercial travellers to pro- ceed through the Cablenz bridgehead on business in the interior of Germany, Opportunity for the reopening of trade relations between the United States and |Germany was thus definitely afforded, allowing American firms to compete with European houses in the German markets. — | THIRD DIVISION STARTS FOR HOME ON AUGUST 5 Big Guns It Used on the Marne Also to Be Brought to America, COBLENZ, Sunday, July 27 (Associ- ated Press).—The 34 Division of the American Army has been ordered home {yom the occupied area of Germany. It will begin entraining for Brest on Aug. 5, The 15-millimetre and 155-millimetre suns of the 3d Division, which were in- astrumental in stopping the Germans on the Marne a year ago, will be shipped on barges down the Rhine to Rotterdam and thence to the United States. ‘The movement of the 3 Division to the port of embarkation is expected to be completed within one week, Departure of the 3d Division will leave approximately 40,000 American troops on the Rhine, FEW U. S. TROOPS TO STAY. PARIS, July 2% (By Associated Press.) All American troops, except a few thousand who would remain on the Rhine, should be able to leave France by Sept, 1, in the event the tentative agreemegt for the sale of American army gupplies in France to the French Government is approved. ‘The agreement, it \s expected, will be put in writing in three or four days, It was said the French Chamber of Depu- ties would approve the proposed coi tract speedily. The price will exceed 300,000,000, ‘The cost of the supplies to be ‘sold was estimated at $1,500,000,00 several months axo. —— ARGENTINE TO BAR BELA, Do n Die- tator ‘BUENOS AYRES, July 82.—Bela Kun, Hungarian Soviet dictator, will not be admifted to Argentina, according to the general impression here to-day. on Bela Kun's reported filght to the Argentine before they were notified of- ficially of his Intentions. om Switzerland aid Bela Kun was prepas geting, but despatches fated’ne is till « factor in affairs, Recent reports GATT LOR OILLINGMAM ers “and fathers regard home it ought to be done after France has had time to restore her affatrs to PROCEED INTO GERMANY Gov- |™ ernment officials declined to comment | caw CURTIS. Curt au, Peeves ty Mew mane BRT SUBSIDIARY BG BOND ISSUE FOUGHT BY CTY Wants to Know Where the Money Is Going—Financing Details Sought. ~ Another controversy was staged to- day between the City of New York and traction companies before the Public Service Commission, Lindley ‘M. Garrison, receiver of the New York Municipal Railway Corporatiun, 4 subsidiary of the B. R. T., appeared before the commission to get its sanc- tion for a $16,000,000 bond issue; The city, in opposing the sanction, de- manded to know whence the mdney was going, bocause it has a vital in- terest In money expended in what are known as preferentials. way systems. Corporation Counsel Burr had a oan. w 6 “a These take} precedence over any payments ac-| hae opened @ milk shop at the Grand tions the cruing to the municipality in its sub-| Central Terminal, where she says| “Kick” in root beer. The SOMEDRNK MILK, BUT OTERS-NELL HARK T THE GOR Woman Autoist Accused of Battling With Policemen After Wreck. “there ain't no sich animal.” _ club recently set the fashion for stitutions of its sort by resplendent soda fountain © ich latter still is in the bar, wh 4 associate é esterday: posite ton. : Gilbert V. Seldes, of Collier's ‘Weekly, and glass of e1 chocolate, no chocolate.” He was then fetch egg and milk without fla Dan walked past the soda without even batting an eyelid, into the bar and in a few or pag ees drink in ulry al oe revealed a itifal sui of the soft drink hasn't gained Possibly Mrs. Jghn A, Drake and| Dr. Michael Lonergan are both right. Says Mrs. Drake: “Milk is taking the place of the highball and the cocktail." Bays Dr, Lonergan: “Prohibition bas not prohibited de- lirtunr tremens.” , Both speak \with authority. Dr. Lonergan is head of the Psycho- pathic Ward at Bellevue Hospital ang Mrs. Drake ts head of the American, Free Milk and Relief for Italy, which |ebe has been astonished by the num- ber of great big thirsty looking men A"KieK” IN ROOT BEER After Standing Ten Days It Be comes 1,36 Per Cent. Ab coholic, He Says, 1 anne a a re adelphia College Pharmacy, ; le to look out home fi he finds; has an L177 per cent “Tt will take to produce representative at the hearing so that | Who take one look at the near-beer| ramiliar@diaziness,” he sald, “ote he could get trom the railway com- pany a sworn statement as to the de- tails of the financing and whether better terms could be obtained in other channels than those of “Wall Street. ‘The city maintained that there was involved in its appearance the most important detail of municipal rafl- road operation. It is known to the city, it was contended, that the $15,- 000,000 bond issue, when completed, is to go to the Brooklyn Rapid ‘ransit Company, together with three more millions of dollars, Corporation Counsel Burr declares the latest court ruling, has juriedic- tion over the B. R. T., although that 1s only a holding company, and that before the $18,000,000 can be floated the sanction of the Commission 1s necessary, Heretofore the B, R. T. has insisted that it was not an oper- ating railroad company, and therefore not subject to the Commission's ruling. So far as the city is concerned, it means that if the Commission as- sumes control of the B. R. T. and like haiding companies, there can be here- after no more watering of stock, The companies will have to obtain per- mission to float bonds and prove that the money is necessary, PACIFIC COAST OIL INVESTIGATION IS ASKED Senator Poindexter Says Inquiry Will Have Direct Bearing on Living Question, WASHINGTON,/ July 28.—Investina- tion of operations of Pacific coast oll companies by the Federal Trade Com- mission is provided in a Senate resolu- tion introduced to-day by Senator Poin- dexter of Washington. The resolution |requests that every phase of the oil business, both producing and market- ing, be gone into with particular ref- erence to fuel oll. Senator Poindexter declared that oll consumers on the coast are required to pay $1.85 a barrel for fuel oll which is sold in New |Orleans at 80 cents, “Inasmuch as ‘the Pacific coast, through its California ofl fields, duces more oll than it consumes, |is no excuse for the coast pric Jeeeding Atlantic or Gulf price! aid. ¢ That the investigation if ordered, will have a direct bearing on the whole \cost of living question was asserted by Senator Poindexter. Senator Phelan of California declared that recently published reports of the Standard Ol! Company showed “exorb!~ tant profits.” the Public Service Commission, under }ealoon and then order milk, | But— | “I have noted some violent cases | of delirium tremens lat@ly," said Dr, | Lonergan, tc :a drink in Canarsie and was hit so hard that he hopped into a taxi and headed straight for Bellevue, It was third rail stuff, The hard drink- ers say they have no difficulty in getting liquor. The only trouble is that what they get is so horribly ba Here are more sidelights on war- time Prohibition; Miss Florence Shortell of No, 250 West 824 Street was arrested on a charge of driving an automobile while intoxicated, It took two policemen to handle her, it {# alleged. It happened early this morning. Miss Shortell, who saye she is hostess at Healy's, was driving along Pelham Parkway when, at Baychester Road, her car hit one that Thomas Cornell of No, 1007 Ogden Avenue was driv- ing. Thomas Meade, Superintendest of Pier A, Dock Department, was thrown from the back seat of Cor- nell’s car and suffered tacerations and possible internal injuries, He was taken to Fordham Hospital, Policeman Joseph Buck told Miss Shortell she was under arrest, but he says he had to call anether cop to convince her of It and carry her to an automobile and thence to the station, She was to be arraigned to-day be- fore Magistrate Nolan in the West Farms Court, . Edward Burns would like to know what they are putting Into the old stuff these days. “In the old days,” he said, “a man could get drunk and be respectable. But now, here I am pinched for steal- ing scissors and things. I'm guilty, all right. I was drunk, but it's a new way of being drunk.” ‘This was in conversation with As- sistant District Attorney Caffrey, A little later Burns pleaded guilty in the Court of Spectal Sessions. “Where did you get the drinks?” asked Justice Herrman, “Ob, anybody can get all he wants in this town if he's got the prio said Burns, “That's a good thing for this court to know—officiully,” said Justice Sal- mon, So they sent him to-the Workhouse for thirty days, He has been living at the Mills Hotel in Bleecker Street, He stole $8 worth of stuff from a de- partment stor’, Dan, veteran bell-boy at ‘On vbjsteion by Senator Thomas of | Vard Club, does mot believe. in en cetorede wction on the resolution was| hibition any more than the man w! defer: Woked at the giratte and “One patient told me he} may provide some exhilaration, “I was surprised recently tb motiee friend coughing a little Pil drinking several glasses of made root beer. I became inte! and began an analysis of some 1 found that the alcoholic i was much greater than I had gage _ na we “I discovertd that after five days the beverage contained per gent. of alcohol; after ten the percentage Jumped to) 1.36, ay or #0 later had climbed te _—Eeee .00 PER DAY’ — sd RENTS” An; High-Class Electric VACUUM For Twe Da; 4 Rental Dept. Phone Bryant 6280 Vacuum Cleaner Specialty Co, 131 West 42d St.