The evening world. Newspaper, February 10, 1920, Page 1

TO-NIGHT'S WEATHER—Probably rain. { Circulation Books Open to All.” | VOL. LX. NO. 21,352—DAILY. ~ RAILROAD HEADS ACT TO PREVENT STRIKE Conrae se y The Pi (The "New York World). ‘ree Publishing NEW YORK, TUESDAY, Circulation Books Open to All.’’ SY STE BR WANS FEBRUARY 10, 1920. Entered Second-Class Matter Post Office, ‘New York, N. ¥. 24 PAGES. GET THE COUNTRY BACK ON PEACE BASIS WAR SPIRIT STILL RULES IN DEMAND FOR BILLIONS Bureau Chiefs Saas Propacit to| ' Fight for Estimates Regard- less of Taxes and Deficit. {A FEW CUTS ARE MADE. ’ — ‘Survey of Shipping Board Re- ! sults in Immediate Saving , of $1,000,000. By Martin Green. RBpecial Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—The im- ‘Perative nevessity for Congress to fake up without delay the work of |@emobilizing the deficit and saving {fhe country from probably $4,000,000- "goo of extra taxation next year is \@mphastted by the attitude of the de- |wartmental end bureau chiefs as re- ected by several whom I interviewed jto-day. | ‘impregnated by the war spirit | and determined to keep the coun- '~ try on a war basis they are pre- , Bared to fight for their estimates on the ground that the welfare of the country requires the expend tures they have recommended. “The war isn't over by a long shot,” \@aid one, whose views will be pre-| @ented at length later, when he gets, \{nto shape for publication figures he) voluntecred to furnish. “Under pres- @ure of necessity we have built up a Machine which we will have to sup- ‘port and the people will realize this; \fn the long run. To scrap what we fave built up would be a crime. ' “Ot course I admit that there is a jfot of extravagence predicated by ex-| timates in various branches of the Government, but not in ours, We jhave held ourselves down to the low- est imit.” “LET OTHER FELLOW DO THE) CUTTING.” . The gist of the whole situation is ized up in the last paragraph quoted. ‘“The other fellows’ estimates could be ut down without impairing the effi- ciency of his branch of the Govern- “ment, but mine must go as they lay.” That is the position of practically every departmental and bureau head | who has had to do with preparing es- timates for next ycar's appropriations. ‘me danger is that unless Congress takes the bull by the horns and puts| ‘the country on the same standard as ‘the great mass of the people are on— expenditures for nothing but abso-| ‘Nate essentials—the whole programme ‘fe kely to go through and the tax- payers of the United States will col- Ide at the end of the fiscal year 1920- 19f1 with an overwhelming treasury ' deficit. Long practice has qualified the ex-| perts who make up the departmental and bureau estimates to put forth ‘grguments in defense of their figures that appear to be unanswerable. Cop- grees has the means of getting at the ‘facts. The trouble is that committee inquiries generally become proceed- ings devotéd to listening to explana- @ione and excuses. Once in a while \@ Government official will admit that | "me can get along with less expendi- mre for a certain purpose. The esti- mate is cut. In nine cases out of ten fis particular estimate has been in-| fiated by an official who knows he ‘won't get what he asks for, but hopes to get more than he actually needs after the cut is made, POLITICS AND PART IT WILL ! PLAY iN “ECONOMY.” With a Presidential campaign approaching, politics is more of a motive power in urging Legis- lators to preach and practise economy than the welfare of the taxpayers, There are a few members in both Houses of Congress who foresee the @tsastrous effect of dumping © certain @eficit of $2,000,000,000 and an ex- WPontioved oo Fourth Page.) ' RAILWAY OFFICIALS BELIEVE WALK-OUT WILL BE AVERTED jeosicipicin White House Regards Situa- tion as Serious, but Moves for Compromise. CROWN PRINCE ASKS WILSON T0 MAKE HIM VICTIM Wants Allies to Put, Him on Trial in Place of 900 Demanded. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10,—Fredeniok Wiliam Hohenzollern, former Crown Prince of Germany, has sent the fal- lowing message to President Wilson: “To the President of the United States of North Amertca: Mr. Witeon, Washington: “Mr. President: The demand for the delivery of Germans of every ‘walk of fife has again con- fronted my country, sorely, tried. by four years of war and one year of severe interna! struggles with a crisis that is without a Precedent in the history of the ‘world as affecting the Ife of a People. That a Government can be found in Genmany which would carry out the demanded surrender is out of the question. ‘The consequences to Hurope of an enforcement of the demand by violence are incalculable. Hatred and revenge would be made eternal. “As the former successor to the throne of my fatherland, I am willing at this fateful hour to stand up for my compatriots. If | the Allied an@ associated govern- ments want a victim, let them take me instead of the 900 Ger mans who have committed no of- fense other than that of serving their country in the war.” “WILHELM. ‘Wieringen Island, Feb. 9, 1920." Similar cablegrams are understood to have ‘been forwarded to the Kings of England, Belgium and Italy, the Emperor of Japan and the President of France. | BAVARIANS DEFY THE ALLIED POWERS Crowd Sings “Deutschland Uber Alles,” and Cry “Down With France.” MUNICH, Monday, Feb. 9.—After a meeting of Bavarian Democrats held to-day to protest against the extradi- tion demands of the Entente several thousand persons formed a procession to the hotel where a portion of the | Entente Commission is temporarily re- | siding. | The crowd sang “Deutschland Uber Alles,” cried “Down with France!” and fea | gave vocal expression to its | feelings, RING LOST. BY GIRL | CHOKES RAT THAT WORE IT FOR YEAR |Slipped Over Rodent’s Neck and Slowly Strangled Animal as It ADG| KNISLEY, fourteen spring while feeding pigs. Yes- | Grew, AIRMONT, W, Va. M years old, of Basnettaville, near here, lost a ring last her father found a dead with rat the ring around its neck. The rat had died of stranguia- | tion, the ring’ evidently having slipped over its head while the animal was small and having slowly choked TAKE BELL-ANS AFTER MEALS and geo! tow ine GOOD DIGESTION ane i f F WILL ANSWER TO-DAY. Director General Hines May Refuse Full Demands and Urge Federal Investigation. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—White House and Railroad Administration officials regard “as most serious” the rajiroad situation pregipitated by the order for a strike Feb. 17, issued by officers of the Brotherhood of Main- tenance of Way Employees. Secretary Tumulty will see Presi- dent Wilson to-day to lay the matter before him, emphasizing the possibil- ity that this strike may be the open- ing wedge for a general strike of all railroad employees should the wage demands be refused by Director Gen- eral Hines at his conference with | union officials now in progress. Mr. Hines is understood to have conferred with Secretary Tumulty for More than three hours last night, out- lining the sttuation for presentation to the President. Leaders of 2,000,000 closely organ- ized union railroad workers are to confer with Mr. Hines here to-day to/| receive a direct answer to their de- mands for immediate wage increases totaling $2,000,000,000 a year. Hines has promised to ¢ive them his answer in writing, leaders said. “Lt it isn't what we want we'll strike,” gaid President W. G. Lee of the Brotherhood of Railroad Train- men. “The time for dickering ir past.” Hines will tell the delegation the full increase is impossible at this time, it was plainly indicated, al- though the rail director has made no statement of his decision. It is well understood, however, that he plans to admit that the rail workers are en- ‘titled to some increases. !e is ex- pected to propose some form of in- vestigation and settlement through an independent agency, probably a commission to be named hy President Wilson. Hines believes the President will be able to put the proposition in such a way that the railroad men will be forced to approve a settlument by peaceful means, or be condemned from the start by: public opinion. eeeeeibereres KANSAS THREATENS TO JAIL AIL STRIKERS Goy. Allen Declares He Will Prose- cute Railway Men if They Go Out. TOPEKA, Kan, Fob. 10.—Mainte- mance of way workers and shopmen on Kansas railroads who strike in ac- eordance with union orders will be prosecuted, Gov. Henry J. Allen an- nounced to-day, ‘The Kansas Industrial Court law, which provides two years’ imprison- ment and fines up to $5,000 for union officers and men who strike in vio- Jation of the statute, will be in- voked in case the threatened strike develops, Allen said oe WALKS 6 MILES INP PAJAMAS. Pneumonia Patient Pt Ca t After cape From Hospital. HACK OK, N. J. Feb, George Dert, nineteen years old caped from the Hackensack Hospita in his pajamas this morning and walked #ix miles across country in his bare fect to ‘his home in Bergenfle Dent had been Hackensack Jal! Jan investigation This morning it was |monia and he was | pital, He will b | hospita 10. commi st Satur into his ments and he t move brought — (Rasing Entries an Page 2) s THAW TO ADD 1 3000 MEN IN RIDING STREETS OF SNOW Worst of Storm Has Passed, Says Weather Bureau, as Rain Is Predicted. MERCHANTS ARE 'PINED. Warning Issued to Keep Gut- ters Clear—Surface Cars Still Tied Up. which would Confident that the snow started falling early to-day soon change to rain under the influ- ence of a wind, the Weather Bureau held out the hope to-day to storm-tired New York, that the worst was over. Clearing of the snow-clogged streets will be greatly aided by the thaw. By noon part of the prediction was proved true. The snow stopped and a drizzle began, melting the snow, and turning the ce of the streets and southwest - afternoon the sun shone. The Weath- er Bureau said there was etrong probability of @ cold spell following the rain. | Although emergency . gangs striving to clear their tracks and chan- nel rails, but little progress was made in getting the trolley lines to normal. Officials are enforcing the reg- ulations providing that hou: owners keep clear the sidewalks in front of their property. In the West Side Police Court this morning more than one hundred were fined $1 and warned. In the Washington Heights Court thir- ty-eight merchants were fined s for failure to remove snow from in front of their places of busi- ness. Seven business men on Park Row and adjacent streets were fined for the same offense, In upper Manhattan streets be- tween Broadway and Riverside Drive are congested with snow. Lit- flo progress has been made in clear- ing the gutters. Arnold , MacStay, Street-Cleaning Commissioner, said be had 13,000 men clearing the streets. Another steam shovel of the same type used yester- day is to be tried out this afternoon. Mr. acStay said that finishing touches were being put on the oil burning device which the department is constructing along lines of ma chines used in Canada to clear railway tracks. He hoped to make a test of the apparatus to-day. ‘The Commissioner declared that he is not going to “waste time and spend a million dollars of the city’s money” clearing streets where there and trolley tracks “to benefit any rail- way company.” MACSTAY WANTS 30,000 MEN TO CLEAR STREETS. Commissioner MacStay said that he, needed 30,000 men to handle the situ- ation, The City Street Cleaning Depart- ment is receiving all kinds of sugges | tions for problem solving the snow remova All sorts pf* devices are ; (Continued on Second Page.) | ———_—. |ACQUITTAL ENDS FIRST CASE UNDER DRY AMENDMENT. | | > | Brooklyn Man Set Free by Com- missioner McGoldrick, Holding “Evidence Insufficient.” | restau nd summer loush Avenue and | Uni i ae Comm ui This was the first hearing in Brook: deg atee is ~ 4 sidewalks into slush. Later in the and lregulars of the Street Cleaning De- | partment have been working hard and the surface car companies have been THREAT OF PRISON GIVES A NEW TURN TO ‘STUD’ SCANDAL Law Providing Jail Tegm for | Cheating Before Court at Hearing on $410,000 Game. The Broadway stud poker nament,” in which it is alleged that marked cards were that Louis Krohnberg, dress manufacturere of No. 303 Fifth Ave- nue, won $350,000 $410,000, assumed more serious as- pects this afternoon when Assistant District Attorney Thomas A. Mc- Grath, in charge of the case, pointed out @ section of the Penal Code which provides for one year's im- prisonment, $500 fine or both. ‘The hearing before Justice Fred- eric Kernochan to determine whether summonses and warrants shall be issued was scheduled to be continued at 4 o'clock, Miss Anna Fabre, a nurse employed joy Dr. Leo Erlich, a chiropodist at the Hotel MaAlpin, was expected to be the star witness. Her curiosity, it ds said, led her to open a package lett by Krohnberg with Dr. Erlich, It was testified at the previous hear- ing, it is understood, that she found decks of cards in the package. She will tell this afternoon just what kind of cards they were. ‘Witnesses summoned to the hear- ing include J. M. Silverman, dress manufacturer, Waldorf Building; Hyman Karp, auctioneer, No. 782 West End Avenue; S. Lewis, of Lewis & Rose, hat manufacturers, No. 73 Broadway; Charies Piller, Piller Bros. & Co., dress manufac- turers, No. {6 West 32d Street, and Henry Gilberfield, jeweler, No. 1395 Broadway. Al these are alleged to have been players in the stud poker games. In addition there were Jo- sephus Schenck, motion picture pro- ‘tour- used and a wealthy between and ducer and J. H. Mack, No. Broad- way, Both of the latter are in Palm Beach, Fla ‘The section of the penal code point- ed out by Mr. McGrath is No. 988 entitled “Cheating at Gambling.” It follows: “A person who by any fraud or false pretense whatsoever, while playing at any game, or while having @ share in any wager played for, or while betting on the sifes or hands of such as play, wins or acquires to himself, or to any other, a sum of money, or any other valuable thing, t9 guilty of a misdemeanor.” ‘The penalty is appended Silverman is reported to have tes- tified that at one of the games played it _Krohnberg's house, No, 789 West Away from the game Nixon apor Nixon hor New Sor Civ, ed the appoinument of Law as Rapid Transit Commissions a End Avenue, Krobnberg told his wite » have his car ready at 7 A. M.; that e wanted to take a buyer to the sospital. The game broke up between 6 and 6 and Silverman, according to he testimony, announced he was going to take @ pack of cards along with him. Krohnberg thereupon hanged his mind about going to the hospital, Silverman is a tol have testified, and said he would a ompany Silverman to the Turkish| bath at the Hotel Pennsylvania, sil-| verman told of their trip to the bath and said another pack o ards wa substituted for the one he had car BRITISH KING ASKS REGULATION OF LIQUOR TRAFFIC Refers to Its “Injurious Ef- fects,” in His Speech From Throne. ABOUT Expects New Home Rule Bill Will Settle Affairs in Irefand. LONDON, Feb. 10 (Associnted Press).—London to-day witnessed, for the first time since 1914, the ancient TALKS IRISH. ceremony of a state opening of Parliament, with all its traditional | pageantry. King George in his speech from the throne counselled patience in the passage of far-reaching reforms, which, he said, were necessary to meet abnormal conditions, “I believe the country and Empire is making rapid strides toward eta- bility and prosperity,” said the King. “The price of foodstuffs and other necessary commodities is causing anxiety to all the peoples of the world, but 1 am glad prices in these islands are appiteciably lower than elwewhere, His Majesty mado this referende to the regulation of liquor traffic: “Experiences during the war showed the clearly injurious ef- fects upon the national efficiency of the excessive consumption of strong drink, and the ameliors tion, in both health and efficienoy, which followed appropriate meas- ures of regulation and control. A bill accordingly will be pre- sented to you providing for the development of a suitable sy: tem for the me regu tion of the and supply of al- coholic liquor.” “The condition of Ireland causes me grave concern, but a bill will be immediately laid before you to give effect to proposals for a better gov- ernment of that country, which was outlined at the end of the last ses- sion of Parliament. A bill to make further provision for education In Ireland will also be submitted. Atb- sence of facilities for education for a considerable part of the child popu- lation of certain districts makes the question one of urgency, but care will be taken to make the measure com- patible with the Home Rule bill,” Among the bills which the King said would be introduced were meas- ures for the after-war organization of the army and the navy, for the creation of an adequate supply of cheap electric and water power, and a bill dealing with the reform of the House of Commons. His Majesty said he intended short- ly to ratify peace with Bulgaria and Austria, The negotiations for peace with Turkey, he added, were “being pressed forward with’ all possible speed.” He hoped for a speedy set- tlement of the Adriatic question, Bofore the debate on the King’s speech began, Premier Lioyd George announced that be would at an early late ask leave to introduce a_ bill to amend the provisions for the Gov- ernment of Ireland.” The Premier's announcement of the probable early ppearance of the home rule measure ted with cheers. NEW JERSEY 29TH STATE TO RATIFY WOMAN SUFFRAGE Al- Assembly ready Passes Resolution, Adopted by Senate, by Vote of 134 to 24, NTON, N. J., Feb, 10, Voman Suffrage Amend- ent was ratified by the State of New Jersey early this morning, when the Assembly by a vote of $4 to 24 passed the Senate ratification measure, rhis same measure was passed hy the Senate last Monday night by a vote of 18 to 2. New Jersey is the twenty-ninth State to ratify the Federal euenunent nounced to-day. Unfilled tonnage on | Dec. 31, 1919, was and on Nov, 30, 1919, it was The aggregate to the steet | orporation for the December-January period showed a gain o 11 tons. This is the first time singe th i aation of United States Steel that un- FIREMEN RESCUE PATIENTS FROM BURNING SANITARIUM Several Carried Down Ladders, Oth ersSaved by Wheel Chair Brigade, as Smoke and Flames Pour Through West End Ave. Building. Max Blumentberg, who tends the furnace in Dr. Arthur Richard Stern’s five-story private sanitarium at West End Avenue and 77th Street, found the cellar ablaze just after 7 o'clock this morning. He knew there were thirty-six surgical patients, most of them con- fined to beds, in the rooms above, and that theres were forty-eight nurses, Thinking that he could put the alarm. DRY FOR 200 YEARS PROVINCETOWN NOW VOTES FOR WHISKEY After the Whole Nation Goes on the Wagon, Ancient Massachu- setts Town Votes Wet. PROVINCETOWN, Mass., Feb, 10. PP cnae tart © ‘told- timers” gasped to-day with surprise. For the first time in 200 years Provincetown voted for lHcense at the annual town meeting held yesterday. The vote was 206 to 162, Some of the old-timers de- olared the younger voters cast a “Yes” vote just for a joke, while others asserted that the vote is a révuke to National Prohibition. ‘Tyringham in the western part of the State also went license for the first time and Stockbridge, seat of the fushionable summer colony in the Berkwhires, which has been a steady advocate of no Ncense, voted license, 112 to 7! 200 ARMED IRISHMEN | TAKE POLICE STATION Fire Shots, Capture Five Police- men and Seize Arms and Am- munition in Raid. CORK, Ireland, Fob. 10.—After an at- tack jasting some time, with an ex- change of rifle shots, two hundred armed men fast might captured the Castle Martyr police station. They temporarily made prisoner the five pollcemen who defended the station. The raiders seized arms aod ammuni- tion and decamped. caeecinenieltiienesicteees NO SCHOOL ON FRIDAY. Blocked Str: Blame; Thursday = Holiday. AU public echools of New York, both day and evening, will be closed Wednesday night until Monday morning, Supt. Httinger announced to-day, Thursday is Linooln’s Birthday, and it was decided inadvisable to reopen Friday for a single day in view of the condition of ‘the streets, the prevalence of illness and the cost of opening the buildings —_— PARIS DANCES IN COLD. PARIS, Feb. Cabinet with President Poincare to-day, a decree was signed placing restrictions upon certain uses of electric power and cutting off the supply of coal to dancing 10.—At a meeting of the places, Steel's Unfilled tonnage of the United states Steel Corporation totaled 9,285,441 on Jan, 31, an Increase of 1,020,078 over that of the previous month, filled tonnage has reached such pro- we out the fire himself and thus avoid exciting the patients, he went to work, and did not.immediately give In this way some minutes were lost. ‘? The fire gained on him, spread to a shaft leading to the roof, and then the alarm was turned in. Mins Celeste Manton, Superintendent of Nurses, had emelied amoke and hur- ried to the basement, She said the best to prevent excitement. Before the fire apparatus arrived Honorary Depnty Chief Robert! H. Mainzer, who lives across the street at No. 378 West End Avenue, ri) over and entered the building. Nurses by this time were leaning out of windows looking for the fire fighters. Mainzer found @ woman on crutches and a boy who had undergone an operation yes- terday. He carried them to his home and ordered that others taken from the hospital should be brought there, Hook and Ladder Company No. 25 ‘was the first to arrive. There are good fire-escapes on the West End Avenue side, but none on 77th Street. There were patients and nurees waiting for help at the 77th Street windows. Ladders were run up to the roof and firemen brought down four patients. Police and private citizens helped four more out by way of the street extts, 3 Meanwhile the nurses had organ- ized a wheel chair transportation service to remove the rest of the Patients to the north end of the bulld- ing, which was not In danger and which did not contain smoke. The building is a combination of three linked together by cutting doors through. The wheel chair brigade wot the rest of the patients to safety through these doors. A fow nurses and patients had been observed at top floor windows on the Tith Street side, where their resoue by ladder would have been diffieult, So the members of Hook and Ladder Company No. 34, which had followed No. 25, were sent into the building. They got everybody away trom the windows and finished the job of transporting patients over to the |nurses’ home. The fire did not rise above the ground floor, and the damage will not be, more than $5,000, it was estimated. The sanitarium is one of the most ex- clusive in the city and has a long waiting Hat, FRANCE TO RETURN AMERICAN DEAD Will Soon Appoint Commission to Arrange for Exhumation of Soldiers WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, — French representatives on the proposed jotnt | commission to arrange for the exhuma- tion and return to the United States of American dead buried in the army sone | in France will be appointed immediately, the State Department hag been advised by Ambassador Wallace, wi Sperial tur } i | q| '