The evening world. Newspaper, February 18, 1920, Page 1

1 T wok. LX. NO. 21, 359_DAILY. Copyright, 1920, by The Press Poblishiog Co,” (The ‘New York World). NEW YORK, "WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Much Colder. pee TN aS. 1920. “Entered ae Secend-Claes Matter Pou "Oiler, “Sew ork, N. ¥. 20 PAGES. PRICE TWO C > ALLIES PUT FIUME TANGLE UP TO WILSON SENATE CURB ON SHP SAE F OF TAXPAYER 6.01 PML SEND ~ WOMAN DELEGATE WITH “BIG FOUR” Root Declines to Go to Na-! HALTS RELIE Manufactured Clamor Threat- ens to Add Billions to Nation’s Burden. * BASED ON IGNORANCE. | Naval Experts Valued wi Seized Fleet, 107 Vessels, at $37,000,000. By Martin Green. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) | WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—Crying “economy” in public but figuring in! private on the best way to “pass the buck,” the United ates Senate has, in response to manufadtured clamor, based upon appalling ignerance of} the issues involved, temporarily halt- ed the initial steps toward saving the Government hundreds of millions atl dollars by stopping the sale of ships held by the Shipping Board. The Evening World has shown how a considerable slice of the tm-| pending treasury deficit of billions of dollars can be saved to the tax- payers if Congress will sell all the Shipping Board ships, sell all the Shipping Board shipyards and turn) the American Merchant Marine over) take a chance ing to on money. offered to bid-| been the mplishment | former German ship ders last month, would hi opening wedge to the acc the taxpayers of the country that is ‘open at this time. The je has been halted and if interests which are bent upon | putting the United States Govern- ment into the passenger and freight steamship business have their way—and only Congress can prevent if—the people of the United States may as well pre- pare themselves to saddle from $3,000,000,000 to $4,000,000,000 of extra taxation in the fiscal year 1921-1922, because the Shipping Board, as a going concern, i going to eat up enough to coun- teract any amount Congress may cut out of the appropriations for next year, no matter how exten- sive the cuts may be. FAILURE PREDICTED FCR GOov- ERNMENT MERCHANT MARINE. The Evening World takes the stand | that in the interest of the taxpaye the ships should be sotd and that the | plan of operation of a merchant} marine by the Government should be | pandoned because ontrovertible | figures and indisputable facts show | that the venture will be a colossal failure from the start. No one dis-J putes that the Shipping Board ex- | perts and the advocates of Govern- | ment operation have gone on record | as placing the um cost of the | project in the shape of subsidy alone at $20,000,000 a y« his does not (Continued on BIG DROPS SEEN IN FOOD PRICES HERE IN SUMMER) ixteenth Page.) Experts in “Washin | Bumper Crops and Lie | port Market ‘for Goods, WASHING N, Feb 5. p in te ove ADeon duction ayerage for the’ ten y just ed, They beliey period it will be unusually hi naturally pla creased ac ages, Production still is near the poak t ulation. ef situation will sion for Ameri about r stim by w preign exchange decrease competi- an produce. ™ | choice of tional Convention and. Mrs. Knapp Is Picked. ai from a Stat Hreuing World.) ALBANY, vo 'one Reput June. to Miss Mary Garrett Hay’s oppos! tion to Senator James W. Wadsworth jr, and is another nail in the political coffin of William H, Anderson, who has been hammering at the ambitions of the senior Senator. ‘The shift of the old guard was due to private shipowners, who are Will-/to the withdrawal to-day of Elihu making Root from the delegation. It had been |decided not to have a woman dele- he sale at auction of the thirty|gate on account of Mes, Hay's op- ‘position to Mr, Wadsworth, Stl looking for a man to fill th vacancy caused by Mr. go this year, t out worth were on the ticket. Just for a moment Charles 8. man loomed up. Varick Boswell, jieutenants, w to Miss Hay, but the forces regarded that as too much . Whii a victory for his opponent and it was jdecided to turn down Miss Hay abso- lutely, Mrs. Kiapp was not so much the leaders as that she the herself made good im the fight. Whii (Continued on Second Page.) REJECT ALL BIDS FOR GERMAN SHIPS State of Pennsylvania Is Urged, to Buy Hog Island Yard from’ the Government? WASHINGTON, Feb. former German ships offered for sa! by mended to Committee Payne of the Senate to-day . by the board, who asked thority to renew negotiations for sa | of the vessels for operation under th | American flag. _ convert them from to passe not be t from. the Asked ership of the I ternational, Mer vntiic Marine, Pa \declared Investi Con had shown company to be 1 per cent. American Correspondent of The Feb. 18.—A woman will { the Big Four to sit in the an convention at Chicago in |'w, According to present arrange- poe Mrs. Florence E. C. Knapp of Syracuse will be selected at the Car- negie Hall convention Friday to be yotedsfor at the April primaries. This is the answer to the up-@tate leaders Root’s an- of the greutest measure of benefit to | nounc< ment that he would not go to New York City of the reckoning be- nators Calder and Wads- Then Miss Helen one of Miss Hay’: as mentioned as a sop Wadsworth 18.—Rejec- tion of all bids received for the thirty the Shipping Board was recom- ‘ommerce Chairman NEW RAILROAD BILL HALTS WAGE RAISE FOR SIX MONTHS Congressional Conference Re- port, Likely to Pass, Also Holds Freight Rates Unchanged. PROFITS GUARANTEED. Measure Differs Vitally From Plan Proposed by“President to Halt Strike. | WASHINGTON, established by the ministration during Feb, 18,—Wasges Railroad Ad- the war would continue in effect until September 1, under the railroad re-organization bill, the conference report on which presented to-day in the House and Senate. Under the awage provision, the re- dratging of which created more sur- prise than any other change made 1. compromising tthe Esch bill and the Curfimins bill, pay of railroad work- ers would be, stabilized at present j.|levels for six months after the roads are returned to private con- trol. The dill also seeks to stabilize rates for the same time, providing that prior to Sept. 1 no rates may be reduced unless approval of the In- terstate Coinmerce (Goraraiet on be obtained. The restriction on wage increases was looked ‘upon with especial inter- est in view of the recent demands of railroad workers foran axivance in pay. President Wilson told the leaders their demands would be con- he | sidered by a commission to be creat- ed by Jan, if such a provision was inched in the railroad bill, or to be appointed on his own Initiative if no legal provision were made In the belief that a wage commiis- sion would be empowered to take up it- | their demands the union heads called a conference to be held here Monday to 's| discuss the policy of dealing with such a commission. To ascertain if the failroad executives would turn over the wage controversy to such a commission Director General Hines requested a committee of railroad of- ficials to confer with him here to- morrow. Chairman Esch announced the re- port would be taken up in the House Saturday, and Chairman ‘Cummins expects to call it up in the Senate later. Despite the expected opposi- tion to the new wage section Repub- lican leaders expressed belief that the bill would be sent to the President with little change. ‘The outstanding points of the meas- of le ure are: | Compulsory submission of jabor dis- putes to a permanent federal board appointed by the President and com- posed of nine members equally di- vided between the employees, employ- ers and the public. Adjustment of rates by the Inter- 6 Commerce Commission, so as to yieid to carriers a return of 51-2 per cent, upon the aggregate value of their property, with another half of one*per cent. for Improvement, le he 'A special session of the Pennsyi-| Distribution of half af the net ay pera rd co p excess | vania Legislature should be cailed to| Tailway oP erating inc see a wu \oonsider the advisabjity of the State| ° this 6 per cent. equally between buying the Hog Island shipyard the carriers’, reserve fund and the Philadelphia from the United States | Federal railroad contingent fund, ad Shipping Board, Ropresentative Ea-| ™n's stered for the assistance o munde to-day deciared in a letter to| Weaker Toads Sproul. | Government guarantee to railroads san thi faa? | agwinst a deficit during the first six ae oon rmmnitten Fa, 2 months after the roads are turned Wied that the board had old 188) Hack fi : ships for operation under the Ameri-| Appropriation of $500,000,000 to ibe ean flag, and that eight former | Weed Se Teo Be eunts f German veasels were included. Tne) Yuima growing out of Feder price received wa 4.047. tre f Chairman Payne said if the Con. The Ht they muah Masig) prov inion to continue present wages to railroac xreas denlred to change this polley to! wor ix months after March public ownership the, passenge Lr yrothérhood representa ould not be sold and Congress should tive oti als in lirect the board to spend $75,000,000 10) Washin gorous op- post in | Lieutenant Governor Pray | Senate. ALBANY, N. ¥ Walker appeared Chaplain a to-day the Lieut 1, opening prayer, BLAST PIERCES SUBWAY WALL: ROCK INJURES Pere ety Explosion Occurs in Excav: tion for Cunard Building | on Lower Broadway. WINDOWS ARE BROKE Fire Inspectore Calls Inquiry After Seizing Dynamite and Revoking Permit. Six passengers were injured, ‘two | of thém seriously, a blast in the excavation for the new Cunard building at No. 27 Broadway | hurled a large rock through the wall of the B. R. T. subway on Church | Street, and into the first car of a northbound train which was pass- ing at the time near the Rector Street station. It was sald that twenty panes of glass were blown from the car. ‘The train left its terminal at White- hal Street at 11.18 o'clock, and the blast occurred just ‘before it reached the Rector Street station. ‘Two of the injured passengers were taken to the Broad Street Hospital. They were Irving Steinburg, of No. 188] astern Parkway, Brooklyn, Miss Sophie Walleh, of No. 146% Eighteenth Street, Brooklyn: Both were cut by glass. ‘Four other passengers were treated by Dr. Hammett and sent home.) this morning when They were: Bernard Dempsey, No. 523 Saratoga Avenue; B. BE. ‘Men- Wal- dez, No. 39 West 89th Street ter N. Beckwith, No, 334 West 68th Street, and Honry Koch, ‘No, 218 Lenox Avenue. ‘The blast was Hughes, of No. Street. ‘The train had slowed down at the ‘time of the explosion, This lessened the confusion, although the break- ing of the window panes caused sev- women to faint. erin superintendant of Con- struction John Craft, but one-third of a etick af dynamite was used in the blast. A hole three feet by four feet wag torn in the subway wail. Michael White, the motorman, not knowing the extent of the damage, figured that it was best to make a station platform, and he increased speed and ran into Rector Street, Tho foundation for the Cunard ‘Building was being excavated by the Foundation Company, No. 283 Broad- Inspector Owen Hagan of the ifire Department reached the scene shortly after the explosion, He announced that he had revoked the blasting per- mit of the company, seized the supply of dynamite on hand and ordered offl- ciala of the company to appear at the Fire Department headquarters this efuarnaon paid an investigation, STRIKE OF F PHONE | GIRLS REPORTED set off by John West Fifteenth Cortlandt Exchange Tied Up Till ‘Workers Are Won Back by Company’s Promises. | | From fitty to seventy-five of the more | Jexperienced telephone operatora at | Gortlandt Exchang were reported to have | \struck this morning, tying vu a ex change for some time, until won them sideration of th } Itw | the at the strike started afte asked for an increase had een offered $1 rls, who of $3 a | \ ame Ev World, with considerable | | aimeutt one connection | ty department » declared He said ith the the no this t for ‘© minu | mal delay Within ¢ World's WAS a. strike 4 GINBRT.CAR DVAMONDS FOUND IN TOOTH PASTE OF SHIP PASSENGER Joseph Newman Taken Custom House With $14,000 to $22,000 Gems. Joseph Newman, Europe with sixty trunks, was pacing up and down the Norwegian-American Line pier at the foot of 30th Street, Brooklyn, early this morning waiting for the customs people to release his baggare. He took a worn box from his pocket, glanced at it, dropped it on the pier and stepped on it, Then he walked away. It happened that in addition to the regular @ustoms officials present there was John W. Roberts, inspector, in plain clothes. He had been watch- ing Newman, because Newman, in the days before the United States entered the war, had been convicted of smuggling rubber into Germany. Roberts walked over to the crushed box, kicked it into a shadow, picked it up. Removing the pasteboard he found a twisted tube that still con- tained some tooth paste. Roberts tore away the soft metal, spread out the paste and found a platinum din- ner ring set with two diamonds, each about two carats. ‘Then he invited Newman to go back on, board the ship with him—it was the Stavangerfjord—to be searched. In his watch pocket was found . ring set with a 7 3-4 carat diamond, “I bopght States”, he said. clare it “['ve lost my pencil,” said Roberts. “Lend me one of your fountain pens I've got to write a list.” Newman demurred. His pens were dry, or they were broken, Roberts in- sisted, shook one of the pens and heard it rattle. It contained seven diamonds, about 1 1-2 carats each. Another pen had some ink in it, But pasteboard that in the United “I don't have to de- beyond the ink, wrapped in cotton, was found a little cluster of four diamonds of the sume size, The third pen yielded nothing, not e ‘The diamonds are of the finest blue-white quality and worth a total of from $14,000 to $22,000, Mr, Newman was instructed to dp- pear this before Thoma: EF. Rush, surveyor of the port, at the Custom House, He went to afternoon rope about seven months ago for G, B, Richard & Com- pany, No, 29 Broadway, importers and exporters, At their office It w sald that if he had bre diamonds he had done count, not theirs ———- WOMEN VOTERS FOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS wht back any so on his ac Go on Record as Reservations Opposing as Offered in the Senate. All Feb, 14,—1 nv rue o gfeedbeic ter det Stone Nations w nowas udey Blackwe dhesion of the U League that “we ed a resolut 0. military a THB, wont ROTKAYEL BUREAU, Wor pinias eek an 4008 ay anid "checas “tor to} returning from | OBEY “DRY” BOSS; CAN'T “SEE HIM” ry HEAD OF TICKET passe oe bee Spurning of Anderson for Goy- ernor by G. O. P. Law- makers Is Mystery. NOT AN "AYE" Sigr Saloon Dictator, but Assem- blymen Still Submit. | (Special from a Staff Barveasendent| of The Evening World.) ALBANY, Feb. 18.—Further can- | vassing to-day of the Republican members of the Assembly failed to reveal a single vote lurking anywhere for William If. Anderson as the can- didate'of the Republican Party for Governor. It has been made quite plain that no one in the Assembly, from the Speaker of the House to the Sergeant at Arms, wants the head of the Anti-Saloon League as Governor of New York. This makes the potency of the Anderson whip among the Republican members of the Assembly more mys- terious than ever. Up to now the Prohibition boss signified by word and action what he wanted the Re- publican Party to do, and it was done. ‘Individually, however, the men who have followed his lead and obeyed his slightest behest show they love him as much as gid the slaves of the South their Simon Legrees. A lot of them cal! him worse than that. tion on Monday night it looked as if the party members were breaking away from the boss. The resolution wanted the State Board of Health to be the umpire as to what constitutes intoxicating Hquors. ‘The resolution was finally referred to the Judiciary Committee on a vote of 46 to 40, which showdd considerable falling off in the Anderson influengg, though the boss himself was present in the House during the debata if But there is one thing certain. The majority of the Assembly has dis- claimed the Prohibition boss and their Votes on future quastions over which Anderson presides will be interesting to @y the least. Seventy-six of the 110 Republican members were in- terviewed. Of the others more than & score were exoused or prevented from reaching the Capitol by the storm. In the canvass the State was thoroughly represented, and there is no doubt as to how the Republican Party as represented in the lower house stands on Boss Andersan for They don't stand for him. —_ U. S. TO PROSECUTE DRAFT DESERTERS There ‘Are 173,911 So the Rolls. of the Department. GTON, 1.—A of wilful drafted deserters is to be rted Governor, Listed on War WASHIN Feb. round at once, the Department nounced to-day, There listed as draft deserters, | Lists of the draft deserters will be pubished, either in whole or locally in sections for the information of the partment of Justice and police SEVEN U.S. SAILORS are ‘a DIE IN ACCIDENTS} ment was advi Two other “p \ nthe ' Hovey | England TAKE BELL-ANS AFTER MEALS and oe tow Ane GOOD DIGESTION makee you (eel Adm HEARD. | of Revolt Against Anti-| PRESIDENT RECEIVES REPLY OF THE PREMIERS ON Fl 'Does Not Make It Public, but London. ~ Reports Say They Will Carry ~ On a resolution bearing on Pronibt-| Five Are Drowned in Cuban Waters and Two Others in | British Port. | WASHINGTON, 1 18.—Five en listed men were drowned in the sink-| ing of a naval water barge yesterday | | off the Cuban Coast, the Navy Depart-| | President Ww Out Wilson’s Plan if He Wilk Indicate How It Can Be Done. LONDON, Feb. 18.—The reply of the Supreme Allied Council to It is understood the commut Adriatic question. matum to Jugo-Slavia in Januar dent, it is asserted, is told the dec Mr, Wilson adhered in his note, will indicate the way tais may be done. ——————— > S700 IN POCKETS, | HISFAMILY HAST | SLEEP ARMORY Father of Five Five Children seat House of Commons toalay whether! « Them Absolute Bar to Renting a a Home. | Sidney Fichtman, forty years old, formerly of No, 546 West 166th | Street, but now of the ladies’ wait- | of Armory, has no home, although he ing room the Regiment | 22d has sufficient money to pay for one. His only obstacle to getting a rtane| té live are his five little children, on ount he was asked to move s apartment. He™ y notice, which expired on whose ac from was given a fifty- Sunday. Several Says before this he made a desperate attempt to secure rooms for his wife and children, but the moment he said. “Myself, wife and five children” the deal was off and he was sent again on his discouraging search. On Sunday he gave it up as hope- less and .applied to the Salvation Army, although he had in his pocket more than $700 in Liberty Bonds. They were compelled to refuse him because their children's department is closed. _He applied to the police of the West t Station and they referred him to the Children's Society, a charitable organization, but he could not bear separation from his children (the society would only take them). He had read jn the papers of peo sleeping in thé armories, so he nmins of ed to So early on applied to Gol, Thomas © the 22d ment, his family living there Monday morning they were brought there and still quite cozy with | clanking radiators, ts and the nice meals their Drought in to them. “{t seems it is a crime t said Fichtman. —_ who cons comfortable ¢ father h dre THREE GUESTS DIE IN HOTEL BLAZE Seventy-eight Ot Thinly Clad Are ‘Driven to Street by Fire Providence. PROVID! 8. NCE, R. E, F destroyed the Lorraine Hot jay | Samuel Warwick Harris wa > dadiy | naw dow he di Two bod rT ° | Lewis K 4 ik F ‘were dri clad. The lose is estimated at %, ’ . n’s note relative to the Adriatic settlement has’ been fors w varded to Washington by the American Embassy. i ation objects to a reopening of the It is said to declare that circumstances existing when Premiers Lloyd George, Nitti and C | ply of the | ceived lemenceau framed the virtual ulii- could not be ignored, but the Presi- ms reached last December, to which I be carried out if Mr. Wilson will While reports emanating from to the effect that the council modified, aBd softened the tone of the 'firct draft of this reply to Mr. Wilson are denied, It is said the message handed, to Ambassador John ‘W. Davis is mot identical with the one agreed upon by, Premiers Lioyd George and Millerand at their first meeting subsequent to the arrival of the American Presi- it's memorandum. Sir Edward Carson usked in the harsh and uncompromising reply | had originally been drafted to Presi- demt Wilson and whether it had sub4 quently been changed as the result }of representations by Viscount Grey; Lord Robert Ceci! and Austen Croan berlain, Chancetlor of the eer Andrew Bonar Law roplied thi | there was not the shadow of ica tion for such a suggestion “Indeed,” Mr. Bonar Law said, “s think it hardly necessary to suy Ghat} there was not a single representative! of any of the Allied Powers at aha} recognize) importance of « gacd | Conference who,docs not the supreme understanding wiih the Government and people of the United States.” Confirmation was given of the statement made in Washingtow that President Wilson's memorandum tn- formed the Allies that if they pro- ceeded with their Adriatie plaus without the consent of the United State! President Wilson might teet constrained to withdraw the Treaty of Versailles (rom the Senate and also refrain from giving efect to the agreement entered into betwe: France and the United States. oneeniaiante REPLY ON FIUME IN WASHINGTON; NOT MADE PUBLIC State Department Says Not Even a Summary Will Be Given Out at This Time, SHINGTON, Fed. 18.—The Allied Supreme Counell at President w. re. London to Wilson’s pote re- the State Depart ment and was at once decoded, It was announced officially that the on the Adria’ situation was to-day at reply would not be made public at s time, and it was indicated that aot even a summary of it would b given out. Publication of the repl as ‘been left by the Council to Pres- ident Wilson, according to London despatches, but the Gouneil expected: to give the preas a summary of its’ contents F It was reported that President ~ Wilson's hint that the treaty might be withdrawn from the Senate if the Allies persist in their course was met with a declaration that the Allies do not want the United States to stand aloof, or to recall the American ships and men in the Adriatic patrol. The President, it is believed, wi), answer the Allied note ty e@utiim: 4 , { f ae ra