The evening world. Newspaper, August 5, 1919, Page 1

4 NSS FREE LAOS IV OVI PRICE TWO CENTS. U. S. PLANS TO RAILWAY WAGE DEMANDS TAKEN UP IN THE SENAT ESR ESL |“ Cirenlation Books Open to All.’ Copyright, Ce. 1019) by The (The New ore "Worla). ‘ress Publishing NEW YORK, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 191% “Circulation Books Open to All.’ 20 PAGES TROL ALL FOO MUNICIPAL MOTOR BUS LINES TO RELIEVE TRANSIT JAMS APPROVED ON FYLAN'S PLEA pomle sbh Board of Estimate Orders Sur- vey of Routes to Compete With Private Services. RAP AT 2c. TRANSFERS. Mayor Expects City to Profit by Operation of Its Own Transportation System. The City of New York, through its Board of Estimate, to-day decided to attempt to relieve the transit xitua- tion in all the five boroughs by run- ning municlpatly contMed afotor buses. in competition with the pres. ent operating companies. Plans for the laying out of routes were ordered by @ unanimous vote of the Board. Mayor Hylan ts the father of the etty controlled motor bus route. His scheme is the most radical ever at- tempted in this country for the care of the high-fare-poor-service transit evil. Before the Mayor's resolution was adopted *President Moran of the Board of Aldermen, in heartily en- dorsing it, said: “It is about time the City of New York took some drastic action which will prevent a lot of private com- panies from continuing outrageous monopolies of our streets, Mayor Hylan deserves the thanks of the people for his stand to-day.” TEXT OF RESOLUTION SUBMIT- TED BY MAYOR. The Mayor's resolution, which is a direct blow at Public Service Com- missioner Nixon and his two-cent transfer order, is as follows: Resolved, by the Board of Hs- timate and Apportionment, that the Commisisoner of Plants and Structures be and is hereby di- rected to proceed to make a com- prebensive study of the existing transit facilities in all boroughs, and to submit to this board a report thervon, with recommend- ations ‘for the establishment of motor bus lines of transportation throughout the five boroughs, to be owned and operated by the city, in order to meet the needs of the people. Such report to indicate the routes of such lines, the esti- mated cost of equipment and of annual operation, with estimated revenue, us well as a request for the authorization (on a “revenue producer" basis) which would be required to effect the establish- ment of such routes; and be it further Resolved, that the Corporation Counsel be @rected to assist the Commissioner in the matter, In transmitting the resolution to the Board of Estimate the Mayor wrote: “The question of providing ade- quate transit facilities for the people is becoming more acute ag the time passes, “The traction interests have been permitted to charge the people for transfers, and aro proposing to in- crease fares, I intend to fight to the tast ditch any attempt to increase (Continued on Second Page.) Se ee View the Clty from the WORLD RESTAURANT, ‘Tronday, | Aug. 8 Wehth Treat, 1940, ouring eo vordas, Ream ed of epring laine, | TUMBLES WITH WIFE FROM ROOF ONTO GLASS Newly Wed Couple Fall Through Skylight of Warehouse and Are Injured. NEWARK, N, J., Aug. 5.—Sitting on the roof of the apartment building at No. 15 Maple Place, where they lived, Mr. and Mra, Clifford Potts, recently mar- ried and each nineteen years old, jumped three feet down to the roof of the ware- house of the J. J. Hockenjox Company, dealers in glass, to get 4 book which Potta had drepped. Potts was lifting his wife back when [WO lost His balance and, with her tr hte arms, fell through @ skylight. They truck on pieces of up-ended wire glass 14 feet below and both were seriously cut on the neck and body, —_— HE BLAMES SHELL SHOCK FOR HIS CHANGE OF HEART Miss Loraine Cites 152 Love Letters in $250,000 Breach of Promise Suit, A breach of promise sult for $250,- 000, brought by Miss Jeanne Loraine, 'No, 116 West 724 Street, against Ber- nard Goldamith, No. 117 Fifth Avenue, was revealed to-day by tho filing of the summons and complaint. The papers were served on Goldsmith yesterda: Love letters, 162 of them, alleged to have been written by Goldsmith while he was a soldier in France, are promised as @ part of the evidence. Miss Loraine is the girl whose premises were entered in November by three detectives who, she said, took $192 from her. Goldsmith, who lives at the Belle- claire Hotel, is a son of Sol Goldsmith, ot Case & Co, dealers in laces and Mnens, Mies Loraine’s lawyer says Gold- smith tried to explain his change of heart as an effect of shell fire. Goldsmith has been out of the army only about one month, He served for twenty-six months, mostly in France. When Goldsmith's father was told of the suit he exclaimed: “Why this fs m joke. My boy can't be sued for $250,000, He hasn't got his civilian clothes all.paid for yet.” “Sure, I wrote letters to her,” said the defendant. “All the soldiers wrote to somebody at home. There was never anything serious between us.” paced HARD PLAY KILLS BOY. Collapses After Ran A 4 House and Dies at Friend's Home. John Manmion, thirteen, of No, 580 Academy Street, while playing this af- ternoon in the home of his chum, Willie Byers, No, 25 Post Avenue, Washington Heights, complained of feeling ill after a hard run around the house and col- lapsed, By the time Dr. Worth, who lives on the first floor, got upstairs John was dead. The doctor sald that death was duo to heart failure caused by too violent exercise, (Special Dimat to The Evening World,) WINSTED, Conn, Aug. Aviater Hugh Rockwell, of Plainville, is sufter- landing in @ colony of bees Before he could extricate plane yesterday io! was attacked by hundreds of bees and jstung in the face, neck, ears and parts of the body _ Waxtrr! Grape Juice Factory Burns MIRA, N.Y. destroyed the Millen grape juice factory early to-day with @ loss of $246,000, ing to-day 0 the result of his mono-| himself from the Wrecked machine he! MILLIONAIRE AIDS JUSTICE BY BARING HIS PAST AS THIEF Ex-Convict Men Accused in Fraud’ Case. _IN_ SIN SING Tax |SERVED SING. Adolph Pricken Says He Acted As Decoy For U. S. To Show He Had Reformed. How an ex-convict who has risen to wealth in the six years since he came out of Sing Sing, sourht to re- deem himself by acting as a decoy for the Government, was told to-day before Judge Foster in the Federal Court by Adolph Prigken, | Pricken appeared as a witness against Morris Rachmil, Abraham Lincoln Samuelson and Bernard Jofee of the Sterling Accounting _and Audit Company, charged with con- spiracy to defraud the Government by falsifying the income tax return of the Coastwise Warehouses, Inc., of which Pricken is Vice President. Morris Rosenblum, an Internal Rev- enue Inspector, accused with them, has pleaded guilty. “How long since you came out of state's prison?” was the question with which Francis J, Fallon, attorney for the defense, surprised Pricken and the members of the jury when he began his cross-examination, The witness quickly regained his poise, “I came out of Sing Sing in 1913,” he answered, ‘Then, in answer to questions, he told the story of his mistakes and the penalties he has paid. He said he first was sent to prison in Penn- sylvania, for forgery amounting to $33,000, and served from 1905 until 19 He resolved to reform, he sald, but in 1911, while working for Park and Tilford, stole merchandise worth $30,000. For this he was sentenced Testifies Against | —_—-— Cummins Predicts Move for Nationalization of All Basic Industries, CONSIDERED ERED IN SENATE. Sub-Committee to Decide Whether Congress Should Investigate Wages. WASHINGTON, Aug, 5.—Or ganized labor was before the nation to-day with a demand that private capital be retired from rallroad op- eration and that there be substituted ® tri-partite control of the raflroad Properties by the public, the opera- ting management and the employees. Demands of 450,000 railway olerks, freight handlers, express and station employees that their wages be in- creased unless something ts done materially to reduce the cost of liv- ing, were to be considered during the day at a conference between Director Genera] Hines and J. J. Forrester, Grand President of the Brotherhood of these employees, Similar demands from the Brother- hood of Locomotive Engineers and the Brotherhood_of Railway Train- men now are before the Director General, 500,000 SHOPMEN VOTING ON STRIKE QUESTION. Meantime the 500,000 shopmen over the country are formally voting on whether a strike shall be called be increased 25 per cent. Pending the outcome of this strike vote the thousands of shopmen now out on-an unauthorized strike were expected by union offi- to Sing Sing by Judge. Mulqueen and was released in 1913, “I made up my mind never to do anything wrong again,” Pricken de- clared. “When it was suggested to me that I could save a lot of money by having my income tax schedules fixed up, I said I would think it over. I told the Government about it.” Pricken said he was born in Ger- many and had taken out his first papers to become naturalized, This Placed him in the class of alien ene- mies when America went to war, He was investigated by the Department of Justice, he declared, and was not interfered with, A personal tax return showing $100,000 filed here by Pricken was identified by him and he declared it to be false, “{ had to be consistent while 1 was going along with the income tax case, and I paid Rachmil $500 for fix- ing up this return,” he said, “1 wanted to show I had reformed and was honest, This was my chance |to show I would not do anything to | break the laws any more.” Mr, Fallon drew from the witness 4n admission that he had adopted a subterfuge to take title to 85 per cent. of the stock of the warehouse company, when as an enemy alien he wag forbidden to acquire property. The profits of the business amounted |to about $150,000 a year, putting Pricken in the millionaire class, After Judge Foster declared recess Assistant District Attorney Benja- min P, DeWitt said Pricken had de- termined to “face the music” and submit to having his past dragged out, after being hounded by black- mailers for years, He gave the Goy- ernment aid in discovering muni- th ‘Uni Intended to be uscd against the Slates, Mr, DeWitt said, cials to return to work. Whether Congress should under- take an investigation of the railroad employees’ wage demands was con- sidered by the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, The whole question finally was referred to a sub-committee consisting of Chalr- man Cumming and Senators LaFol- lette, Wisconsin, Republicans, and Wolcott, Democrat, Delaware ‘The sub-committee is expected to report within a day or two, Chair- man Cummins and Senator Pomerene, Democrat, of Ohio, said the com- mittee virtually was unanimous in the opinion that the President and the Railroad Administration wore clothed with all necessary authority to act in the present situation, LABOR’S DEMANDS MOST FAR- REACHING YET MADE. ‘The demand of labor for tri-partite control of the railroads, presented in a statement signed by the engineers, firemen, conductors and the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, was recog- nized in Washington as the most far reaching proposal yet placed be- fore the nation durin, its. recon- struction period, Officials refused to predict its outcome, It will be forthally laid before the House Interstate Commerce Commit- tee to-morrow by W. 8, Stone, Grand Chief of the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Engineers; Frank Morrison, Sec- retawf of the American Federation of Labor, and Glenn E. Plumb, General Counsel for the Organized Railway Employees of America, The proposal, in the words of its (Continued on Second Page,) ~—— TAKH BELL-ANS BEFORS MMALS and see fine Wood Digestion makes Bou (eel— Adve J 900,000 TAKING STRIKE VOTE WHILE RAIL WORKERS PRESS DEMANDS TO OUST CAPITAL STRIKING SHOPMEN DEFY UNION HEADS AND REFUSE VOTE Chicggo Leader Says Men Will Deal Only With Government. Claims 300,000 Are Out. CHICAGD, Aug. 5—John D, Saun- ders, Secretary of the Chicago Dis- trict Council of the Federated Rail- way Shopmen's Union, this nopping that hig organization had refused to take the strike vote or- dered by the Grand Lodge officers. “We will pay no attention to orders issued by the Grand Lodge,” sald Saunders. “No strike vote will be taken and we will not return to work until our demand for increased wages has been granted. will refuse to negotiate for a settle- ment through the Grand Lodge, If the Government wants to talk busl- ness with us it will have to come to us direct, as we will not be bound by any agreement made by the Grand Lodge officials.” Officials declared that tho effect of the shopmen's strike is being felt by every railway in the West and Gouth, ‘They say that all the roads in-the districts affected are greatly crippled and are refusing to accept perishable freight, Reports received at union head- quarters id that many locomotive engineers had refused to take out trains because of the bad condition of the rolling stock, They predict- ed that in a few more days traffic on many of the roads will be tled up. Secretary Saunders received word that the 10,000 shopmen on the Nor- folk & ‘Western Railroad in Virginia would walk out to-morrow, This road is represented in the Grand Lodge by 8. B, Lauderman, Chairman of the Executive Committee on Wages, ac- cording to local leaders. Secretary Saunders said that the strike was spreading daily qt noon he estimated that nearly 300,000 shopmen were out, KILLED BY TROLLEY TRYING ‘TO SAVE HER PET 006 paid Furthermore we South Orange School Teacher | GARRISON BACK, DENIES DEMANDS OF B. RT. MEN Receiver Flatly Refuses to Rec- ognize the Union After Meeting Officials. UNABLE TO, RAISE PAY. Finances Won’t Permit Shorter Houts—Company Prepares for a Strike. Lindley M. Garrison, receiver of the B. R. T,, after a conference with his operating chiefs on his return to the city ftom the White. Mountains to- day promptly sent an answer to the Amalgamated Association of Btroet Railway Employees which is demand- img that the Brooklyn Rattway System establish an eight-hour day, reinstate employees discharged for union activities, increase wages and recognize the union, ‘The reply was a flat refusal to rec- ognize the union, a denial that any employees have been discharged for activities in behalf of the union and an assertion that in its present state of finances the B. R. T. is unable either to increase wages or shorten working day to eight hours. Mr. Garrison and the operating heads of the B. R. T. expect a strike Will be called to-morrow morning and are preparing for it. Preparations for dealing with the emergency we: made to-day, The B. R. T. will al tempt to run cars and trains irre- spective of the action of the union masa meeting to be held to-night, Receiver Garrison's reply to the demands of the employees is ad- dressed to Edward Smith, Chairman of the committees which delivered the ultimatum to the B. R. T. officials, In his communication Mr, Garrison states that he is informed that the recognition of the union was the principal demand and that the meet- ing which ratified the demands was attended by less than 1,000 of the 13,000 employees of the B. R, T. sys- tem, Mr, Garrison gtates flatly that while he will confer with the em- ployees he will not deal with an out- side organization—namely the Amal- gamated Association, ‘Your frank statement,” he wrote, “that the recognition of the union is your principal demand rids the situa- tion of any confusion and as that is the main issue it is not useful to take up in detail the other matter: ferred to in your communicatioi The receiver stated that no em- ployees have been discharged for union activities. “I cannot concede,” he adds “that I must not discharge men who com- mit offenses if they happen also to be members of the union.” Mr. Garrison said decreased labor hours was merely another form of increased wages. He declared that recent increases ha dbeen made in all departments and that the em- re- Struck by Car Dies on the = | Way to Hospital. Miss Edith J, Johnson, thirty-four, a! ‘school teacher, No. 163 Vose Avenue,! South Orange, Is dead to-day because | she tried to save her pet spaniel dog from death under a trolley car, She was struck by the car and died on the way to a hospital, Miss Johnson was @ native of Nor. walk, Conn., and was graduated from Smith College in 1906, She taught in Jand was School the Columbia High School, South Orange, Supervisor of Essex County until a year ago when she took & position at Washington, D. ©. Patrick Reilly, the motorman of the was paroled this morning on ebayge of manslaughter, car, a ployees of the B. T. are now the highest paid street railway workers in Greater New York. The cost of living, he said, has not increased since the raises were put into effect and there is therefore no legitimate basis for renewed demands along that line. He further asserted that the public realizes the company Is doing the best it can and will resent the dis- comfort and losses arising from a strike, In conclusion he declared: ‘If your organization proposes to force the issue of union recognition | we can do nothing more than can- | didly state our position and trust that good sense and judgment will avert the general loss and trouble herwise wil lensue." World reporters found t day that elderly or veteran employees of the B, RT. are generally against 4 strike, but the young men are| elmost universally in favor of it, PRICE TWO CENTS. CABINET URGES LEGISLATION TO REDUCE PRICES OF FOOD; ‘Programme to Cut Living Cost Goes to President — Wheat May. Be Reduced to Consumer—Spirited Debates in Senate and House. WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—“Certain definite suggestions” for ducing living costs have been prepared for submission to President Wilsote, late to-day, Attorney General Palmer announced this afternoon, Mr, Palmer's announcement came at the conclusion of a thre and a half conference of eleven Cabinet members and Governm officials at his office. ‘These officials heard the recominiendations Federal Trade Commissioner Colver, Assistant Secretary of the Leffingwell and Railroad Director Hines, Who have been investigating: food prices. ¢ 24 CARS OF FOOD IN FIRST ORDER HERE FROM ARMY Markets, Armories, Schools and Department Stores to Be Distributing Points. Mr, O'Malley will represent Mayor Hylan to-morrow at the meeting of Mayors summoned by Gov. Smith in Albany. Employers and labor unions ha offered to handle and distribute food for thelr employees and members. One of these is the Black and White Tax! Company. Another is Franklin Union No, 23, No, 3 West 13th Street. | nead of the United States Grain Cora: Edward J. O'Malley, Deputy Com- | poration, was taken to mean that tea —— misstoner of Markets, announced | duction in wheat prices had to-day that he would use the public; discussed. Gov. Harding of the markets, armories and schools &8/| eral Reserve Board, who was not distributing points for the sale of| the first meeting last week, also food to be purchased from the sur-| tended to-day, x plus stock of the War Department.| Administration officials feel that — Such department stores as have of-/ one way to decrease the cost of tvs fered space to the city for this pur-| ing Is to increase production, anid, | pose will be utilized and the/ President Wilson is understood to ben municipality is ready to receive) lieve that strikes now or threats similar offers from other business | strikes will interfere materially wi houses. any solution of the problem sought = A collector and assistants will be | Government agencies, appointed for each store and the} Conferences with Republican and) various community councils are each | Democratic Senators on the League: to namo a member to help in auper-jof Nationg had definitely been abaa= Vising the work. Mr. O'Malley has |doned by the President until the | fixed the following as his first order | problems of the bigh cost of living “The suggestions involve some logiaiation,” said Mr, Palmer, include all thowe made at the meet- ing last week when economic dis~ cussion began and some other sug-. gestions made to-day.” ‘Suggestions mado at the last meet~ ing include, i¢ has been underatood, reduction in the price of wheat, re~ duction of paper currency, dealers in necessities and revival part of the Food Administration max chinery. Mr, Palmer would give no 1 of what the new suggestions are. to assumed that they have. to with prosecution of food rite because of the presence at the ing of C, W. Ames, special t. ant to yolhtion ‘and, aeetdietonial trust legislation and admini of the food and fuel act, SOME PLAN TO CURB PacKune, THOUGHT LIKELY. Ames is believed to have laid bee — fore the meeting some suggestions as — a result of his study of the report of — the “big five" packers made by the Federal Trade Commission. ‘The presence of Julius H, Barnes, for food: are solved, Secretary Tumulty n= Three cariouds of hum; two car- nounced, The President, Mr, Tumulty loads of bacon; two carloads of | sald, is going “to give bis whole time Py canned tomatoes; two carloads of beans and tomato sauce; two car- loads of baked beans; two carloads of wax beane; two carloads of string beans; one carload of lima beans; one carioad of canned pumpkin; two carloads of canned peas; two car- loads of canned corn; one-half sar- load of hominy; one-half carload of dry beans, and one-half carload of to the question of the bigh cost of | Wh:ther the President will go bee fore Congress to recommend steps de= signed to relieve the situation will pend, Mr. Tumulty said, om the of the report to bo r ade by Mr. mer. While the Cabinet officials were conference, the Federal Trade G mission began a study of all 4 Jaws against profiteering, Some u clals regarded it as probable that Come gress would be | -ked to enact lation dealing directly with all of profiteering, The Attorney G has sald that existing laws are ta adequate. - The object or the pply will be rapidly replen- ished as It is distributed. Elaborate arrangemen: made in the Bronx for the public sales expected ww bexin Monday. Borough President Bruckner will open forty public and ten parochial wthools, “the “Eighth. Coast Defense Armory at Kingsbridge Road and Jerome Avenue, and the Seoond Field Artillery Armory at 166th Street and Franklin Avenue 4s distributing points. have been