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

ee ‘GROCERY PRICES CUT BY RETAILERS. AS INQUIRY BECINS, Day Wants to Know How Much Cost of Navy Food ‘Is Below Store Quotations. ALL “STATIONS REOPEN Staten Island Sets Record In Disposing of Stock—Total Sales Wednesday $20,000. Investigation of retail grocery prices was started to-day by Markets Commissioner Day to determine how much under prevailing rates the thirteen navy food stations under his supervision are selling to housewives. Prices on certain items have Ween slashed by retailers near the food stations, but so far, Dr. Day say: has been able to meet every effort at competition. The reports of his in .veatigators, Day said, wil! show finitely the amount can undersell wholesale dealers All the stations reopéned to-day af ter having the holiday pa stock, and the Commissioner sald that for the first time since the sale opened, the stations have been able to offer a practically complete stock Of total sales $20,000 the day pefore Thanksgiving, Staten Island wales at $3,407, set a record for the borough, his, Dr. Day said, he at- tributes to keeping the Richmond by which he wo re station open until 9. M. In the other | ___ food stations he has not been able | 40 make satisfactory arrangements for might sales. boroughs w Manhattan, $6. Brooklyn, $5 Bronx, $2,010; Queens, $2,385. In the City Hall next Wednesday evening there will be a public meeting to deal with the problem of high es prices. An effort will be made educate the public to an understan¢ ing of the desirability rea put into storage in April, as compared “fresh laid” in the winter, “Fresh | aid” now are selling for about $1 4 dozen, Dr, Day said, against less than two-thirds of that price for April stor age eggs, which are in most cases of equal value. At the eume pi. ning there will be to formulate su tion to remedy the milk sitnation, ‘ased on the results of the recent -in- vestigation. An effort will be made “to establish a differential between the costly wagon delivery ant the “cash and carry” trade in neighbor- hood stores, United States District Attorney Ross of Brooklyn, who is engaged in rounding up and prosecuting sugar Profiteers, asks the public to) inform him of the names and addrostes of * dealers who have been overcharging for sugar or have discriminated against persons seeking, to, buy the commodity in order that prosecutions may result ACCUSED OF MUTILATING. COLUMBIA LIBRARY VERSE Former Student, Now School Lee- turer, Reported to Ha Confessed. Wsmont Rusehke, twenty, of No. Sterling Place, Brooklyn, was arraign- ed to-day before Judge ac. Crain and held in $1,000 bail for trial on charges of mutilating records in the Columbia University library It is charged that K who wax ® student of Columbia February afterward a member of School at Vo, removed numerous page portant volumes in the Columbia ti brary containing ce Thursday eve- a pitlic meeting tions for legisli- e poems of t historical ya He is said to seed afte sting for he publ of Co: umbia ve Ruschke is now connected with the igh gehools of the city a® a nleht lég- irer and is employed Wy the Co¥iio- politan Rook Corporation by day a4 ation of an autho! iblielty manager. He¥ “Was formerly mage ny. M. CG. A. work aoe Sears : COAL SEIZED FOR HOM Sex CHisens’ Committee Barer Plamen te 100 Nebrasitn LINCOLN, Neb. Nov a Citigens' Coi Neb, to commander | efi that were “with ay Israel Cohen, ngs County Hospital for day after his daughter, Mrs }ledigian, No. 99 Marcy Avenue, Brook had caused his erra tin the Vridge Plaza Court he sald her her had hallucinations one of whieh that he "must kill the whole nily and destroy the furniture.” oe awa Changed, Fish and Game which ineludes wilt hold its gisiative umber _Want Game J WH paseod by the Logis- lytare last year were proposed by this orgal Dre. THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, Interested Spectators at Meadowbrook Fox Hunt Held Thanksgiving Day at Syosset, L. I. we IGHT WITH FIRE “FROM RAFT UNDER WARD LINE PIER | Blaze That Theater Threatened Heavy | Loss Gives Firemen Stub- "| | [ae * re aire born Battle. “é 3 go". Firemen were cailed early to-day t fight a stubborn blaze that endan 8" wo! of merchandise on the ward i: i aye - mc AFTER TEN DAYS’ QUEST at the foot of Maiden Lan: aie There is a two-story building, 50 Mrs, Cherille, Who Left Child With by 50 feet, near the land end of the Another b pler. The lower floor is a boiler room Red i with concrete flooring, and the UPPER, ay te pet ir offices. The pier has a“double floor V oo ay, i four inch planks, with a four inch Won gm ci an space, then more four-inch timbers. , Sa Ree Nw The: blaze started in the four-inch pn ee Sey Pee space under the boiler roor Pie iia nc a et agere ng ‘The firemen found they would have vist. After seevral hour ‘ to fight the flames from under the mother failed to tres pier. Dhe only way they could get took the child to the st 12ird $ under was with a raft, A ladder Station, Mrs. Cherilly re-appeared that was raised from the raft to one of evening. On vg to the station she the crossbeams of fhe 5 and Dep. learned that the baby had been turned over to the w York Foundling uty Chief Henry Helm, Engine Com- Asylum, and was herself placed under pany No. 4, stood on the ladder with arrest for abandonment, but was re a hose and played water while fire- |"" iy : my ene men cut through the flooring fromj "since that. time, Mra. Chorilly ) above vainly tried to get her child. Yesterday Later Fireman Charles Kohout, !oy appeuring on the charge of abandor Hook and Ladde No. 15, one of the me Magistrate Ma department's champion) swimmers, |Harlem Court, she was discharged. O v unteered for the perilous work, fleer Kellecher of the Children's Soelet ‘The firemen found the blaze was so took her to the he of tt extensive they would have to cut jorsanization, No. 207 Avent through a fot of the ‘flooring, [Where a note to the ty Asylum jwas given her, Att uy, Baby MOTHER, DAUGHTER, BUANED teeters DIE 20 MINUTES APART | WILL DIRECTS DESTRUCTION OF ALL PERSONAL PAPERS James W. Osborn, Ex.-Asst. Di Mrs. Hyland, 67, and Mrs, McGrath, 43, Fatally Injured in Brooklyn Home. A trict Attorney Leaves All Hi Mrs, Anna Hyland, sixty-seven, and Bane Wid her daughter, Mrs, Mary McGrath, roperty to ve forty-three, died this morning at Holy| 4 wit dated Ju PRE |Family Hospital within twenty minutes} yy games W, Oxbo \ Jor one another from burmm received at | pistrict. Attorney, Ww ‘their home, No, 409 Smith Street, Brook « It x Jiyn, last _nisnt DE destroy Mrs, McGrath was severely burned on the body and face in an attempt to save her mother, whose clothes caught fire at the kitchen range. Both were taken to the hospital last night # : apeveay its Jamong my 1 that . | t CURRAN IN MORAN’S SEAT, |ore not ne: Ne purpose New Borough President Attends same and the contents ther con Est ¢ Board Meeting. fidential."* Henry 'H. Curran, Manhattan Borough | MT Oshorne was found dead in bed President elect, appeared at to-day’s [St sur mnt a meeting of the Board of Estimate and Will lenyeu “all: property 0. ia watched the proceedings from the audi widow Mra. Leila Gray Van Wok Os ‘torlum, = W seen by Mayor Hylan | Orne a he was Invited to take a seat within th * horseshoe with other mem! 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