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ed Soe TO-NIGHT’S WEATHER—F: LIST OF WINNERS OF The Evening World’s Loyalty Letter Prizes —SEE PAGE THREE— rand cold. SEE MORE CLERG “Circulation Books Open to All,’’ tae SMITE — VOL. LX. NO. 21,374—DAILY. Ceperight, 1980, by The (The New Press Publishing York World). NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1920, Eutered as Second-Clase Post Office, New York, Matter N.Y 10 PAGES. NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ, FLOOD DRWES 200 FROM HOMES; FOUR SHIPS ASHORE IN Gil — ‘Overflowing of Raritan River| TENANTS CHARGED Causes Damage Estimated at $1,000,000. IS CRIPPLED. TRAFFIC Cars Hampered in, York in Early Morn- ing—Many Wires Down. Surface rain, el@vated and surface line attic throughout the Metropolitan | District was disorganized this mora: ing, following the heavy rain, snow and blizard of last night. Sections of | the city were flooded and at least ‘four steamships were driven ashore fon the At&tic Coast between Florida and Delaw@re. Wire were down J | i many pa of the East, Pair and ‘old weather is the prediction for to- day and to-morrow. Three nches of snow fell early this morning. Two bundred persons were driven) fram their homes in New Brunswick, | N. Ja by the overflowing of the Rari- tan River. The damage may reach $1,000,000, ‘The river rose almost five feot, flooding the lower business sec- tion of the city. It began recéding thie morning. AH factories were dosed, Boats were used in the streets. The New Brunswick Boat | Club house was washed away and many river craft were swept into Raritan Bay. Dennis Corcoran, seventy years’ old, of No. 63 Congress street, Jersey | City, was ilkled this morning when he walked directly in front of an auto bus driven by Walter Coar, No. 69 ‘Tuere avenue, who was towing an- other car disabled by the storm. Cor- coran is held on a charge of man- siaugiter. William Heldick, employed by the Central Railroad of New Jersey, was | Killed when struck by a train near) the Comp’ aipaw terminal. Hugh Flanonigan was seriously injured A watchman'’s shanty was blown from the drawbridge at South Amboy and the watchman injured. ‘The bigh radio station at Sayville ‘was put out of commission. Opening of the Stock Exchange, Consolidated Exchange and the curb was delayed until 10.30 ‘The steamship Costilla, in from Nassau and anchored off Bedloe's Island, and the steamship Ascutney, fom Genoa, both controlled by the shipping board, were driven together by the bigh wind this morning and collided bow on. The damage done was slight. The ships reported etranded along the coast are the Marsodak ashore at Rehoboth Bay, Del. the Orient, agrowid off Ocean Aiew Beach, near Hampton Roads, the Morristown, five miles north of Fla, and the kock Fernandina, Isiand, aground in a heavy fog off Crowlink. All are Shippinb Board vensels. Several ships escapes trom going ashore off the Long Ial- and Coast. Six vessels were forced to had narrow (Continued on econd Page.) SHOULD BE IN THE WORLD OFFICE EARLY TO-DAY EARLY ADS, GET THE PREFERENCE WHEN SUNDAY ADS. HAVE TO! BE OMITTED : : : 3 : | HALT RENT RAISES GCAMBLED ON CINE, Instructs * '666e Union | Vorkers Here to Refuse to Pay Exorbitant Rates. | Lee Magee, “Black “Blacklisted” by Big Leagues, Starts Suit to | Clear His Name. FOR SUN AND AIR BY ! City RELIEF DEMANDED. WORLD SERIES SCANDAL. JERSEY LANDLORD | Demands $1.50 a Month for Privi- lege of Hanging Wash on Pole He Doesn't Own, T was reported to-day to Direc- tor of Revenue and Finance James F. Gannon jr. of Jersey City, who bas been making the fight for tenants, that Harry Drainow, a landlord of No. 138 Monticello Avenue, is charging his tenants for sun and air. i} Drainow’s tenants at No. 33 Fairview Avenue, Jersey City, ac- cording to Mr. Gannon’s informa- tion, have been notified that they must each pay $1.50 a month for hanging out their washing on a pole in the backyard. Mr. Gan- non, in a letter to Drainow char- acterized him es the “meanest and cheapest landlord” yet. He added that if the landlord con- tinues ‘his petty Jarceny prac- tice, accept my assurance that | your persona! assessment will be what it should be instead of what is.” And the pole doesn’t belong to Drainow, but is the property of the New York Telephone Com- pany, ‘EDWARDS CHARGES | REPUBLICAN ‘PLOT’| | Declares Assembly Clique Blocks | Legislation in Order to | Save Jobs. TRENTON, N. March 6 In- fuential Republican leaders are trying to embarrass the Democratic Adminis- tration in its effort to have legislation enacted, according to a statement is- sued by jov. wards to-day. He said there men desired to prevent him from removing the present State Pub- tic Utilities Commission, but “the scheme was ant that the decent Re- Publicans refused to be a party to {t.”” “Ano vidence of the plan to rob the present Administration of the proper prerogatives is the effort to shift the motor vehicle department une office of Stato Comptroller.’ mO justification for the change except a desire on the part of the Republicans tov preempt a Hob America Imports for January Reached Only $473,904,053. WASHINGTON, March 6.—The De partment of Commerce to-day nounced the total imports and exp for January were $473,904,053 and $ 745,493, respectively. Both totals reprewent’ January, 1919, 2644 and exports $622 For seven months 1920, imports were $. pared with $1,698,201,4 period in 1919. | Exports totaled § 003,732 us compared with $3,797,413,713. —$—$$<—____ GERMANY COUNTERS | WITH LONGER CRIME LIST THAN ALLIES’, increas Will Demand Trial of Officers and |e Men Accused of Mistreating War Prisoners. BERLIN, March 6. ERMANY'S counter lists of war criminals, consisting chiefly of Allied officers and men accused of mistreating German war prisoners, is longer than the lists of accused Teutons submitted by the Allies, the Ber- liner National Zeitung said to- day. The lists have just been com- pleted, the newspaper said, and will be forwarded to the Entente with a demand that the accused former Allied soldiers be brought | to-day {membership of 350,000, | ments which had been entered into in | tor John J, | Speakers Urge Breaking of All Wage Agreements Unless Profiteering Ends. President Edward I. Hannah of the! Central Federated Union announced | that at a stormy meeting} which jasted until early this morn- ing, the union voted to instract its members to refuse to pay rents which they considered exorbitant, Tt was) also decided to demand that the city authorities extend to victims of rent profiteering the same assistance as is given by the officials of Jersey City in defending without cost all persons against whom eviction actions are brought. Speakers who attacked the rent Profiteers urged that unless immedi- ate relief was had the Central Fed- erated Union should vote to instruct its subordinate unions, with a total to break ail existing wage agreements and demand} more pay with which to meet the} continued rising cost of living. There were more than forty speeches and 165 members wanted to talk on the subject. They were prac. tically unanimous in demanding “d rect action” as the only solution of the rent situation. The speakers pointed out that practically al] of the 350,000 organ- ized ‘workers of Greater New York were working under wage agree the belief that the peak of hich prices had been reached, but all told of numerous rent raises within the past month. These rent raises, together with the increasing cost of commod- ities, were operating to make it im- possible for the members to make both ends me The Legislative Committee will work out the details of the campaign and report a plan of action at next Friday’s meeting of the Central Fed- erated Union. The committee also was instructed to arrange for a mass meeting, at which all citizens will be asked to join in a city-wide rent strike which organized labor proposes to stage against the rent profiteers. Hannah said the meeting would be held either in Madison Square Gar- den or in the Central Opera House and would be called for some time within the next two weeks. ‘The Legislative Committee was also instructed to get in touch with Sena- Boylan and Assemblyman Charies D, Donohue, who are handling rent profiteering bills in the Legisla- ture and to urge them to secure speedy action on legislation which will protect tenants from further in- creases in rents —_— THREE ATTEND VANDERBILT. Condi- © No Werry. muel W. Lambert of No, h Street and Dr. Austin Flint 0 East 56th Street were sum- moned to the Vanderbilt home at No. 640 Fifth Avenue yesterday to see Brig. 130 Gen, Cornelius Vandenbiit, who is ill with influenza, Neither Dr, Lambert nor Dr, Flint would discuss the condition of their patient, referring all inquirers to Dr. Samuel A, Brown of No. 155 West 58th Street. Dr. Brown stated poaltively that there was no need whatever to worry abaut him > Nominal Fine Pri 4 for Dr. Helffecien, BERLIN, March 6.—The chief state attorney has proposed a fine of 300 marks for Dr. Karl Helfferich, in the libel sult brought by Mathias Ersberger, suspended Minister of Finance. The to tria —_->>_——_. pny 4 boca AFTER MEALS and GOOD DIGESTION mares you eenisee mina: sum proposed is considered a Since Reds ‘Beat Sox for Title Ugly Rumors ‘Have Been | in Circulation. | By Hugh S. Fullerton. Lee Magee of the Chicago Nationa! | League baseball team has called Or- | ganized Baseball and demanded a show down. | Magee in a telegram to The Even- | ing World claims he has evidence that he has been blacklisted by the | ball clubs of the National and Ameri: | can league without cause, and that! he will force the issue and compe! | organized baseball either to prove MARY PICKFORD | SAYS SHE’LL NEVER | MARRY AGAIN) Tas. Wanted to Be Free, She Declares, Though Husband Was oa a “Charming Mar. LOS. ANGELES, Mareh 6 Mary SMITH WILL ASK NEW INDICTMENTS FOR POLICE GRAFT pase Medea Says There Are 3,500 Disor- derly Flats in City In- stead of 500. HENRY’S MEN SHIFTED. Swann Assistant Declares Re- form Societies Can Give Names of Resorts. Following a sarcastic letter from | Police Commissioner Enright, asking for data in the possession of Assistant District Attorney James E. Stith which would aid the police in sup- pressing disorderly houses and flats, Smith to-day let it be known that the information sought by Enright and for which Mayor Hylan has also asked, would be furnished by the Parkhurst Society, the Rockefeller their charges against him, which he | Pickford will never marry again, but| Foundation and the Committee of 14, claims to haye evidence have been will devote the remainder of her life to made, and insists upon his right to/motion pictures, according to an inter- play in the major leagues. | ‘The action of Magee opens the en- tire fleld of investigation of the scan- dals and whispers of the past fall| and winter and unless the major, jleagues back down under his threat) of legal proceedings may conwpel the | exposure of the secret scandals. | which haye been co-operating with Smith, view she gave here to-day, Thie was} Smith. the first statement had made to the| Tha list of addresses in the posses- jpress since she Branted a divorce] sion from Owen Moore, Tuesday, at afinden, | 0” Of the socities, it was stated, ran Nev. up to 3,500 and was not limited to the "IT sought a divorce because fT wanted |500 Of which Smith's first statement to be free,”” Miss Pickford said. Moore genial—but there are many “Mr. is a charming man and. most tok, Smith announced to-day he would instances | apply to Judge Malone for an increase For the last six months I have been | Where even two genial persons cannot! from $5,000 to $15,000 in the bail of hammering away striving to force the! powers of organized baseball to make a futl and complete investigation of|ford was to be married to Douglas Fuir- |banks soon. the stories that have been circulated. They have promised, that they would go to the bottom of| tne seandals. So far as I can learn only Comiskey, owner of the Cubs,| has made a serious effort to do so. SILENCERS EVIDENTLY PUT ON) EVERYBODY. T have been trying to persuade | some of the players whose names | have been used in connection with | the scandals of last year, the year before and the last world's series to| force the leagues either to clear their names or prefer formal charges. most of these I have secured not even an answer. For weeks it has been evident that the policy of the Big Leagues is to maintain silence. In the face of the report that Lee Magee and two others have been dropped out of organized baseball the owners and officials of the National League have refused to comment or to make any charges against any one. T have been informed that in some cases the club awners have offered players contracts at cut figures in or- der to get them to refuse to sign and then have filed away their refusils, probably for use in case the players should charge that they being ed out of the game. Magee case cafe out of a clear There were charges and rumors | about Magee when he was dropped from the Cincinnati club. ‘The repeated and caused him to have a| hard time with the Brooklyn club, | which sold him to Chicago | MAGEE HAS BEEN OSTRASIZED! THROUGHOUT CIRCUIT. were e were | Whatever‘ the cause of dropping him from the Cinoinnati club the charges were not pressed, and the fact that both Brooklyn and Chicago accepted his services seemed to indi- | cate that he may have been creet, but that they did not consider him guilty During the winter meetings of the! (Continued on Second Page.) indis- | agree, It’ was sald to-day that Mary Pick- Moses L. Malevinsky oq |O'Brien, Malevinsky & Driscoll, No, 1482 pare neuared Miss Pickford's at- did | Broadway, who are torneys in the chink it Likely Masked Girl Sophs Seize, Hast, gaid he Bind Co-Ed IN» YU; Student Kidnapped and Held Prisoner for Eighteen Hours. It became known to-day that girl sophomores in Washington Square College of New York University late Thursday afternoon gagged blindfolded Elsie Kanowitz, a fresb- man, bundled taxicab, drove her to a boarding house and and her into a kept here there in a batinrobe elghteen was released yesterday after her mother, Mrs, I. Kanowitz of No. 754 Weet 180th Street, had appealed in vain to the university authorities to rescue her The rule of freshman “co-ed” con- duct which Miss Kanowits is charged with violating is “Thou shalt not converse with mem- ders of the male sex in the corridors, halls or classrooms.” The captors of Miss Kanowitz stuffed handkerchiefs into her mouth and wound bandages around her eyes. ‘Then she was tied hand and foot and taken away in a taxi After a long journey Miss Kano- witz found herself in a small hall bedroom amid strange surroundings. Her captors, who wore masks, re- moved her blindfold and gug, un- dressed her and clad her in a bath- robe, then hid her clothes. hours a prisoner. She SUNDAY WORLD’S PRICE UNCHANGED neo necessity for increasing its pi jise in price of the Sunday American to 10 cents has re- newsdealers exactly what it:has hitherto been cha |victory for Helfferich. and virtual sub- ese panuation of his charges that ‘Era- berger used his government poste for jate pain. World making no additional profits out of its sale. of not Kitty Daly and Jennie Carello, now in the House of Detention on the ground that certain persons’ would gladly furnish bail in $5,000 to get the women out of the jurisdiction. He also announced he would go before the Grand Jury next Tuesday to ask for new indictments for police extor- tion and bribery, Two transfers out of the Fourth In- spection District lend support to the rumor of a threatened police shakeup. This is Inspector Henry's district, wherb, the Assistant District Attorney charges, graft has been carried on. Lieut. Patrick Guan, known aa “In spector Henry's Lieutenant," was shift- ed on Wednesday to the Sixth Inspec- tion District in Harlem, and on Thurs- day John McLaughlin, reputed to be one of the best detectives on Henry's j stag, was switched to the Kast 22d Street Station. Police Commissioner Enright wrote to the District Attorney in regard to the 500 disorderly fats: “Will you please let me have the location of any of those flats in order that they may be immediately sup- pressed? We will be very glad to co- operate with you in all these matters, and it is safe to assume that your office will see that there ls no lack of publicity.” > SEEK FUND TO END CARS ON BROADWAY Association Decides on $25,000 Campaign to Remove Tracks From Thoroughfare for New System. The Board of Directors of the Broad way Association has decided to raise a fund of $25,000 for a campaign to bring wbout the removal. of the surface car tracks from Broadway and the aubsti- tution of motor buses or some other efficient means of transportation Judge Nash Rockwood has been em- ployed as special counsel potas “HOME RULE BILL DOOMED.” london Dally News Says A ith Will Move Rejection. LONDON, March 6.—Under the head- line “Home Rule Bill Doomed,” the |Datly News parliamentary correspond- tood that HL. * an amendment jent sald to-day he und: |. Asquith would mo rejection of Prime Minister Lioyd Ke's new plan for home rule In Ireland when the bill i# brought up for |second reading March 29. The correspondent said this would be |the opening fight between Asquith, who |has assumed leadership of the Lib- jerals in the House of Commons since his recent election from the Paisley dis- ‘wich, and the Prime Minister, FAVOR OF High Salaries ALB: to set in motion the machinery for , SVEN GALE AND FLOOD CAUSE BIG LOSS AND CRIPPLE TRAFFIC 6 FU, THREATENS BASEBALL PLAVE “DIRECT ACTION” 10 DEMANDS PROOF HE MORE CLERGYMEN DESERT ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE IN > STATE i Will Testify That Main Object of Anderson Body Was to Provide in Future for Pro fessional Prohibition Workers. Y, March 6.—The Assembly Judiciary Committee is ready the investigation of the activities of William H. Anderson, State Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, and promises to have the decks cleared for action as soon as the report on the five Socialists is out of the way. 2 Seven ministers, two of whom are Directors in the League are ready io testify against the former boss of the Republican Party in the State, according to Assemblyman Louis A. Cuvillier, upon whose resolution the investigation was ordered. ‘Some of the ministers have already been in conference with the Judiciary Committee and letters have been re ceived from others the the light of publicity on the inner workings of the League. willingness of the writers to throw OO ‘The date for inquiry into the Anti- DELAWARE TO PASS ON SUFFRAGE SOON Governor Calls Special Session of the Legislature to Meet on March 22, DOVER, Del., March 6.—A special session of the Delaware Legislature was called for March 22 by Governor Townsend to-day to act on the woman suffrage amendment. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE DIRECTORS LOSE Special Master Rules They Have No Power to Interfere in Affairs of Publishing Society. BOSTON, March 6.—The trustees of the Christian Science Publishing Soci- ety to-day won their suit against the Christian Science Board of Directors to restrain the directors from interfering with the society. At the same time, John V. Dittemore won his suit for re- Instatement as a member of the board of directors. John Frederick Dodge, as special master, found that the directors had no legal right to remove Lamont Row- lands from the board of trustees and that the charges against him were not sufficient in law nor made in good faith. ‘The suit involved interpretation of two deeds of trust made by Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the church. TAKE 4 IN BOMBING OF U. S. CONSULATE Switzerland Spreads Net for Sus- picious Characters Following Zurich Explosion. BERNE, Swtizerland, Maroh 6.—Four men have been arrested at the frontier station of Buchs by the police, who tthve #pread a dragnet for suspicious charac- tems since the American Consulate at Zurich was damaged by a bomb en Wednesday night. They were attempt- ing to cross the border into Austria when arrested, and are being returned to Zurioh A Federal commissioner wil be ap- pointed to investigute the attempt to wreck the consulate, as the explosives were carried there in contravention of the law, te Move Its Division Here, Saloon League will be announced early next week. The issuing of sub- poenas will begin Wednesday. or Thursday. Speaker Sweet may pe called. While Sweet has been garded as a “dry,” << ms ten sailed by the league apd has had ex- perience with their campaign methods. Seven members, a ma- jority, of the Assembly Judiciary Committee, are reported in favor ef investigating the entire workings @f the league. Assemblyman Cuvillier declared te day that ministers are | More and more favorable to the im- | vestigation, and as proof of the as- sertion exhibits a large number of letters signed by clergymen com ending him for his action, >, Cuvillier said that the investi- gation would reveal that the league, in addition to its work of coe! legislators and other Government agents, existed largely for the purpose of paying fat salaries to its leaders, continuance of which was promised by Superintendent Anderson. PROMISED LARGE SALARIES To PAID WORKERS, One witness has declared that the leaders of the league had promised that the salaries were to be continued in the carrying out of the work of the Volstead Act and that @ campaign was to be commenced against cigarecte and other smoking. One letter received by Assembly- man Cuvillier was from che Rev. C. T. Obinger, pastor of a church in Dover, Del., who said that the Anti- Saloon League had attempted to drag the churches into politics. He wrote: “I wish to express my approval of your action aguinst the Antle Saloon League and its !nosient agent, Anderson. Some time ago I wrote a letter to Speaker Sweet! protesting against the activities of this man in the State Capitol, 1 am a resident of Angelica, Alle- gheny County, and a taxpayer there. “Its high time some one in the Legislature showed courage te oppose this organization. Bt ts Possessed with the idea that the salvation of the world depends on its being made ‘dry! This ig plain fanaticism.” ta DRY BOSS ASSAILS CATHOLICS AS FOES_ OF LAW AND ORDER, NGTON, March 6.—The Ship. ping Board's division of operations will be moved to New York about April 1, Chairman Payne announced to-day. The board desired to have the division headquarters at the place where its principal bust via eae Ag soe Hien’ and fried Sweet toes, a Tea oer oe bung a Mec; Comed dames > Anderson Appeals to Religious Preje udices in Effort to Block League Inquiry, William H. Anderson, State Super intendent of the Anti-Saloon pp attacks the Catholic Church as @ foe of Prohibition in a letter to the Prot- estant clergy made public to-day ana i Ene ees Fone ae. ae ee abla cia i eewrere. ae re ee pene or nt ee en eee eee deere eee