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f CircnJation Books Open to All.” | Copyriaht, Co, (The New ¥. 1920, by The Press Publishing World). NEW YORK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21 , 1920. Entered Post j “Circulation Books Open to All.” ns Second-Class Matter Office, New York, peek TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Unsettled, warmer. LUN LIBOI 10 PAGES. BRONX POLICEMAN MURDERED BY Semi-Official Bureaus and Agencies Add Millions to Federal Expenses. ATL GRAB FOR “MORE.” Many Are “Fads” Promoted by Paid Workers and Skil- ful Propaganda. By Martin Green. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, Feb, 21,—In con- mection with the estimates for appro- jPriations for the fiscal year besin- ming July 1 next Congress is now “preparing for a massacre of bureaus and commissions of a semi-official “ature which have in the past few Wears, particularly since the outbreak ef the war in Europe, and more par- | | {Martens Admits His Appoint-| ment Was Made Here and Confirmed in Moscow. N.Y. COMMITTEE TOLD LENINE WHOM TOPCK AS ENVOY ting that he had been “a revelution- ist” in every country whbre he lived Russia, Germany and Switzerland —Luawig C. A. K. Martens, Russia Soviet “agent” in the United States, told-a Senate Investigating Commit- toe to-day that he stilt was a revolu- ticularly following our participation in] tienist. jthe war, succeeded in fastening them- selves upon the Government depart. ments and are thriving upon money wopplied by the taxpayers of the United States.’ It is admitted that many of these bureaus and commis- sions were useful while the country was in a state of war, but their days of service are over. Not until within the past month has Congress begun to take notice of these “uplift” and “expert” ap- purtenances to the Government. They have grown in number and size until their costs run into the hundreds of millions of dollars simply because they have been skilfully boosted by their pro- moters and paid officers, sup- plemented by well meaning and important citizens of wealth, while nobody has been looking after the outgo and checking up on their activities. It is a poor “uplift” or “expert” ore ganization which cannot accompany a fequest for a fat appropriation with files of letters from bankers, publi- sts, professors, office-holders, min- ters, philanthropists and other des of folks who are always in- rested in doing something for the ar people as long as it doesn’t cost em anything and the Governinent pays the bills, It happens that the “demand for 9 reduction of expenses is pressing at this time that the sub- committees of the Appropriations Committees in buth Houses, and indi- vidual members who have looked over the estimates, are aroused, BEHIND IN WORK, JUST LIKE “REGULAR” BUREAUS, It is characteristic of these semi- official public branches that they are always behind in their work, and in this way they follow the pernicious example of the regularly ordained Governmental bureaus and depart- ments, The War Department, for in- stance, is a year behind on clerical work, although it maintains a clerk for every enlisted man in the army, ,and the Navy Department's work is not much better off. Many of the semi-official bureaus and commissions have managed to get themselves into the Government ma- ehinery by due process of law. One ‘of these is the Council of National Defense, which was created under the Army Appropriation bill of 1916. The “@ouncil of National Defense in the e: (Continued on Fifth Page.) voubs AL Ie SUNDAY WORLD, CLASSIFIED ADS. SHOULD BE IN THE WORLD OFFICE EARLY TO-DAY | EARLY ADS. GET THE PREFERENCE WHEN| SUNDAY ADS. HAVE TO} BE OMITTED : : ; 3 3 | of any kind witb the Russian Soclal- Wade Ellis, counsel for tie com- mittee, asked Martens If he bad ever Opened “seqret communication” with revolutionary aetivittes here, =~ 0" | “AM my business has been done ig the open,” Martens said, “Don't be’ too sure about that,” the examiner warned tim. ‘We're coming to that later.” Martens said he had no connection ist Federation. “Don't you know that since you re been ‘before this committee a has been sent you by Dr Mislig, Treasurer of that society, saying you had better admit you have been a member of that society would go hard with you?” Mr. asked. Martens denied he had ceived the message, but Santeri Nvorteva, his Secretary, admitted that he had received it, but said he had not given it to Martens. ‘Who nominated you for Ambassa- dor to the United States,” Mr, Ellis asked, Martens said he did not know, that the appointment had come (o him as an entire surprise. “You just got a letter by courier telling you the appvintment was yours, and wondered how it came about?" Mr. Ellis pursued. : “That was it.” “Isn't it @ faot that the whole mat- ter was fixed up by a committee in he messagé New York, of which you were a member, which sent the notice to Russia, where It was acted upon?" Martens said that’ he did not know, but conceded that such a committce had been formed in New York “Don't you know that Gregor; Weinstein was first nominated by this committee?” Mr. Ellis asked, I heard some talk of it,” Martens replied. The hearing Wednesday, will be resumed $40,000 NECKLACE LOST IN BLAZE Firemen Carry Mrs. Norris Seller Ill in Bed, From Burning Home Near Rockville Centre, Fire which started in a hot air flue AR SWOLLEN COST OF UPLIFT FEDERAL cOWTROL IS HEAVY BURDEN FOR PEACE OF RAILWAYS COST U.5.$1,300,000,000) Congress Told $1,250,000,000 Will Ultimately Be Re- paid to Treasury. $636,000,000 IS LOST. Esch - Cummins Compromise Bilf Defended in House by Its Author. | WASHINGTON, Feb, 21,—Railroad Administration estimates place the cost to the Government of Federal control of the railroads at $636,000,000, Chairman Esch of the Interstate Com- merce Committee told the House to- day in opening debate on the con- ference report on the compromise rallroad bill, “This $636,000,000 will have to be charged off as a war loss,” he said. “It is expensive, but it was worth the price. Without the ratiroads, transportation would thaye failed to supply our troops overseas,” Total appropriations of upproxi- mately $1,900,000,000, including thove already made. were the “experien of Federal control,” Mr. Bach said, but-he added that of these amounts approximately $1,250,000,000 were “in- vestments” in the form of improve ments made for the roads and for | which they ultimately will pay. Defending the work of Congress in framing the railroad legislation, Mr. Bech said there had ben “no glack- ing.” Mr. Esch explained that the compromise bill “seeks to perpetuate the operation the Government barge lines” on the Warrior and Afis- sissippi Rivers and Brie Canal, and contains provisions designed to sure the success of “this new ture.” A committee of railway union offi- cials to-day submitted to President Wilson a memorial characterizing tlic lwbor provisions of the Esch-Cum in- ven- to mins compromise bill as “absolutely unworkable.” Although the House met early to ELEVATOR HOLD-UP IN BROADWAY Bandits Compel Operator to Car, Then Rob Passenger at Pistol Point. ‘Two men entered an elevator at 9 o'clock this morning at No. 716 Broad-, way. They waited until the car had risen between the second and third floor, when one of them placed a against the head of the elevator ope: ator and told him to stop the car which he did instantly, “Throw up hands‘or I'l! drop you.” he satd to Max Zukow, a clothing manufacturer with an office in the building. The second robber then removed a $500 stickpin trom Zukow’s necktie. Ignoring the valuables of the others in the car, the holdup men ordered the elevator to the ground floor, and dis- | 4ppeared. Detective John J, Kelly of the Mercer Street Station arrested Michael Ro- mano, twenty, of No. 251 Bilaabeth Street, who was exhibiting a stickpin resembling that lost by Zukow. Ro mano, was urraigned in the Jefferson Market Police Court and held in $1,000 cash bail for the Grand Jury RENT PROFITEERING CURBED IN BILL BEFORE ASSEMBLY Central Federated Union, Witl 325,000 Workers, Is Back of Measure. Edward 1. Hannah, President of the Central Federated Union, which represents a membership of 325,000 organized workers in New York City, to-day made public the details of a bill which the C. F. U, bas had in- troduced in the State Legislature, which he is confident will solve the The up to the courts to fix of landlords’ rent profiteering problem here. bill puts it the “reasonableness” charges. It follows: “No action for the recovery of rent or for the recovery of any part of take up the conference report, pro cedings got off to a slow start Represe.:iative Gard, Democrat, Ohio, demanded a quorum and Represent- ative Mann, Republican, Mlinols, blocked Representative Esch's re- quest to dispense with reading of the long report. Thero were predictions that the final roll call might not be reached before 7 or 8 o'clook to-night patella A Albi DECIDES AGAINST WIDOW. Referee Recommends Change Management of Becker te. Max Goldberg of No, 302 Broadway to-day filed his report as referee with Surrogate Cohalan recommending the removal of Mns. Elizabeth Becker from the management of her husband's According to her son, Louis, of 888 St, Nicholas avenue, the estate originally from In estate, No, vided bets death, Becker money wer HARKNESS SUIT STARTED. | co Goldberg's report says Mrs handled the estate as if the ‘ther of the residence of Norris Seller, a! Mrs, Cowan Files Complaint in Ac-| cotton broker, in Hewlett Bay Park tion Against Second Wife. i district, near Rockville Centre, L. 1, that e late last night, did at least $50,000 oa Ree Ware damage. | Wid Dr. A. 8. Kelly, of this city, owner |* irl eet Riper larder sald se 0 aire sportsman, to-day filed her havi ler, and other valuable jewelry probably been lost, Mrs. Seller who was sick carried out by firemen and « EMRE ali | STRIKES CAUSE GREAT LOSS. 500,000 Working Days (im Pena-| eylvania in 1910, HARKISE regult of 484 fon working sioner of Labo and Ind Clifford 1 Connelley announced to-d j Tho labor disputes w divided into} but four trades—textile indu: metal trades, 78; jand mining 61, bullding r a8 brought S. Harkness and executors nt alleges that € over ‘which the fight is to be waged Is worth “upward of $20,000,000." | ee | VETERAN DIES AT 115. | Was in Crimean War and Later Served in Vatican. vA i ! e mported polan | Guarantee iy uw p Ihave been real property by summary proceed- ings shall be brought against any tenant of a portion of a tenement house as defined in Chapter 61 of the Consolidated Laws of the State of New York unless the rent sued for or for the non-payment of which the summary proceeding is brought, shall be reasonable. “In any such action or proceeding the unreasonableness of the rent shall be a defense, and when pleaded the burden of proof with respect thereto shall be upon the landlord, In any such action or proceeding the reason- ableness of the rent shall be deter- mined as any other question of fact and when so determined no action or proceeding based on non-payment of rent shail be brought by the landlord, his legal representatives or assigns, against the tenant for one year there- after providing the tenant pays the rent so determined to be reasonable. In expiaining the objects sought by the Central Federated Union's bill, | Mr. Hannah said: “In the past rents in New York have been approximately from §3 to $6 4 room @ month. Successive raises made as proper 8 have rent the rent so overed or tenant unless| POLICEMAN KILLE ~» BY YOUNG THIEVES WHO HAD $20 LOOT Cigarette Robbers Fire Four | Bullets Into Body of a i Bronx Patrolman. by the Slayers. | Miss Margaret Ferguson. a nurse at |the Montefiore Home, Bainbridge Ave- nue and Gun Hill Road, was on duty shortly after 1 o'clock this morning | when she saw two men skulking along the retaining wall outside the home Jand dragging a bulky object. She {telephoned to Night Clerk Harry Greenfield, who summoned Policeman John Loughran, on. duty at the booth at Gun Hill Road and Webster Ave- nue, five long blocks away. As he ren up the hill Loughran heard four shots, and on reaching the cross walk, outside the home, found the dead body of his partner, Henry Immen, member of the Bicycle Squad of the Webster Avemue Station, who has been doing regular patrol duty. A few feet away was a tan bob- sled with red runners, aid on it were four burlap bags and one cheesecloth bag of tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, candy, chewing gum and a sack of sugar, the whole of which they prob- ably could not have disposed of for more than $20. It was for this the policeman rave his life. Four empty automatic shells were nearby on the ground, and one on the policeman’s head. The fact that Im- men’s revolver was in its holster showed he was killed without having a chance. One bullet struck him in the abdomen, one under the arm, passing into the chest, and one in the head Dr. John Relgetman, Assistant Medical Examiner in the lronx, suid apparently the wound in the abdomen was made by a larrer calibre bullet than the others, indicating at least two slayers. The wound in the head indicates that Immen was shot once ifter bo had fallen, ‘The theory of two murderers was strengthened by the statement of Miss Ferguson, who looked out on hearing ehots in quick succession? She saw two persons run south in Bain- bridge Avenue, turn weet in 210th Street and disappear in Jerome Ave- nue near an Italian section, The loot had been taken from the shop of Philip Markowitz, at Gun Hill Road and Bainbridge Avenue. A pane of glass had been broken from the back door and the latch raised. ‘The locality is sparsely settled, Near- by is the abandoned Base Hospital No, 1. ‘The police believe that Immen saw the robbers drawing away thetr loot | and that they shot him the moment | they were discovered, and that they probably were youth Moscowitz identified the loot, the sacks in which it was packed and the sled, as his property. Immen was thirty-eight years old, @ big, handsome pbiond, and had beea on the force since 1912, He lived with bis wife and two-year-old son, changed hands so that to-day tenante! arthur, at No. 2249 Webster Avenue. are being compelled to pay from $8 to] Inspector Welsh said he found 25 4 room. England, France and all! tmmen's family in immediate need |Buropean countries have had to pass| He advanced funds to tide Mrs. tm liaws curbing rent raises, A | men over em y and ap jlaw has been passed by the pealed to the F Benevolent of Columbia. And every one agrees| MS#0cls a) great favorita aii that some suck law shoud be 4} the children neighborhood. in New York te When on duty at the police booth at “The C. F. U, bill provides in brief] {he booth was often, suruuated te that no action can be brought for! S, a8 the big policeman rowth of some around ¢ a KING IN OLYMPIC GAMES. flower booth : Alfonso articipate ms Shooter his lable whe at Antwerp. 4 sucd i BRU k New > n TAKE BELL-ANS APTER MEALS and wee‘ jam ato tow foe GOOD DIGEITION mater pou (sal Adm, WElBs %, NURSE GIVES ALARM. Coasting Sled With Plunder From Store Abandoned or boys} 'POLICEMAN IMMEN, WHO WAS KILLED BY YOUNG THIEVES HENRY ‘WHITE COLLAR’ MEN KEEP NECKS OUT OF MATRIMONIAL YOKE Newark City Clerk Notes the Fact That Clerical Workers Aren't Getting Married These Days. LERICAL workers and “white collar” mem in general are not getting married these days, according to City Clee wm: jam J. Egan, in chargewot the Marriage License Bureau here. The proportion is about une out of 100 licenses granted in Newark, Egan said. Opening the record book to the last page, he read off the list of the oecuputions of the last twenty applicants for marri- age licenses, They were Sign painter, furrier, potter, vul canizer, carpenter, shoemaker, la borer, leather finisher, factory hand, ice man, machinst, working man, blacksmith, plumber, chauf- feur, laborer, lawyer, and two iron workers This piece of statistics, an thought, showed the need of the | “middle class” for an increase in income TELEPHONE LABOR TROUBLES SPREAD Installers Demand Raise as Oper- ators Take “Recesses” for Higher Wages. The New York Telephone Company ls threatened with labor trouble not only at the switehboards, but also among the instrument setters and in- stallers, While the operators in little groups. first at one exchange, then at another, have been leaving their boards for half an hour or so at @ time to add em- phasis to thelr wage demands, the com- pany has received a letter from a com- mittee of installers who demand $45 1 woek for a 44-hour week, insteud of the present maximum of $39 fur a 4%- No threats tiave been mado of al ltormal and complete strike, but opera, |tors at vari wes predicted that additional mal recesses” would be taken to-day, and that the frequency of such recesses might Increasn if the company del r to the wage demands | YOUNG BURGLARS NOTICE OF PRESIDENT’S STAND GIVEN LONG New Revelations PARIS, Feb, Britain, last night spoke in London NEW GOVERNMENT; Heads Army And. is Known as “Strong Man of Hungary.” — BASLE, Feb. 3t.—Admirat Nicholas Horthy, Commander in Chief ef the Hungarian Army, is reported to have been named Regent of Hungary by the National Assembly Admiral Horthy hus frequentty been mentioned as the probable Re- gent of Hungary. Count Albert Ap- ponyi, head of the Hungurian Peace Delogution at Paris, king in Budapest on Feb. 8, with regard to the election of a king for Hungary, sald the man ultimately selected should be “a rewlly strong man like it | Horthy.” Admiral Horthy was Commander- in-Chiet of the Austro-Hungarian Navy. He headed the army ongan- ized in opposition to the Communist rule in Hungary and which entered Budapest last year when that city was evacuated by the Roumantans, who had been in oocumtion since the oollapse of the Bela Kun regime, Admiral Horthy is credited with having steadied the political situa- tion in Hungary at various times and is said to be well thought of by the Allied representatives at Budapest > 70% OF ADULTS LACK INTELLIGENCE, Draft Board Figures Show Three- Fourths of Americans Get Little Education, LAND, Feb, 22 per ont. of the adults of the United Stat haven't tho intelligence of the ay ton-year-old student change in the school system is necessary, Dr. P. H, Goddard, ©! tato University, told Seventy a and 4 - > TWO BILLS READY Mayor's Committee on Rent | teering to Consider Measures on Tuesday | tee holdw a hearing next Tuesday in| Albany on the Dimin Anti-Rent-pro; teering Bill. the Mayor's Committec| 6 represente ke M unsel, and J A | pancy deca may be record TO CURB LANDLORDS | hoot i the National Council of State Norm School presidents and principals here to-day Statistics gathered by the draft board, he howed that 70 per cent. left rrade wus { manual training Was the woessary to Juip this number for places in skilled industry. He proposed manual trainin simost exclusively up to the filth grad YOUNG GIRL MURDERED. Body Is Found im Rear of Spring- HORTHY 1S REGENT, | Now field Dairy. SPRINGFIELD, Maas, Feb. ir welve, daugl i of a dairy this t fom home to get a bottle vicinity of the piace w short t wtore, W the family had become worried over the of the girl to return home, The slayer bes nol beep jound, - ‘ ‘ AGO BY ENVOY on Fiume Nego- tiations Made by “Pertinax” in’ Paris, Show That Ambassador Wallace Told Premiers “Wilson Cannot Follow You.” —John W, Davis, American Ambassador to Great of “certain instructions’ he had re- ceived from President Wilson, although the President's note to the Su- preme Allied Council has not as yet arrived at the British capital, says “Pertinax,” political editor of the Echo De Paris, HUNGARY FORMS [This is the second time within @ week that important revelations concerning the attitude of the tion have been made in Paris and not in Washington, each time by “Pertinax” in the Echo de Paris. This writer first told that Wilsen had “threatened” to withdraw from Eureopean affairs if the Adriatic question were settied without consulting him. The statement was at first denied, but later the White House admitted that the President had said he might seriously consider with- drawing the Versailles treaty and special treaty with France. It wi insisted that no threat was act ually made.) “In order to properly follow the course of events,” ‘Pertinax’ writes, “it shduld be suid that the note re- ceived by the Connell from Presiden? Wilson on Feb. 13 was in answer to» atutement sent to the State Depart- ment tn Wastnngton on Jan. 24 byt Bart Curzon, British Secrétary of State for Foreign Affairs, “Hugh C, Wallace, American Am- bassador to France, attended meet- ings of the Supreme Council in this city last month, and, in the name of his Government expressed format reservations In regard to the demand sent to Helgrady on Jan, 2 “On that occasion, speaking as much in regard to Turkey as the Adriatic, he said: “*You are going much too far and much too fast. President Wilson cannot follow you.’ “Karl Curzon then drafted his note, which wus intended to culm Mr. Wil- son's anxiety, assure him that great- est deference would be shown his views, and that Ambassador Wallace would be kept fully informed, Ap- parently, after three weeks of patiens waiting, President Wilson felt thene soft words would not be enough. tv n thus be seen the note of Feb. 13 was not a ‘bolt from the blue” “Knowledge of certain facts may also throw light on Mr. Wilson's probable policy relative to ‘Turkish In October the American formally asked the Peace nference to postpone drafting the Turkivh treaty until spring. Hoe hoped, if the Conference agreed ty demand, to able to Join ta sic, Hapid developments Hastern situation, however, ed compliance with hty by no means follows, therefore, that Mr. Wilson will ratify all that bas been elaborated without him. In ome of the last meetings of the Supreme Council it was decided that defore the treaty was communicated to the Turks jt would be submitted for ap- proval to ‘our Great Assoctate, What will he do? In whatever Way one looks at it, the work dote ia Downing Street seems more or leas threatened, a8 4 word from across the Atlantic may reduce te nothing the important conversations that have been going on, The arrtval of Premier Millerand in London Sunday night will mark a decisive momest.” ‘ON, Fob. 21.—Presi- affairs, resident his in the Near prevent wishes, It ply to the note of 9 the Adriatic be in shape fi day, Was learned partment pollinate SE WORLD RESTAURANT, Seevial for To-Day, Fad, 2h. a Fried Sweet Pi lg Hem & wares a