The evening world. Newspaper, March 8, 1920, Page 1

EDITION “Circnlation Books Open to All.” LIS MITEL PAU NANS co ANE, ee NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 8, (1920. SSP SD PLAN TG BURGAS STOCK DIVIDEND TAK ILLEGAL. aT a om AND LIGHT WINE ISSUE TO.CUTTAYES $1, 700,000,000) NORMA ICH WVESTORS TO SAVE MILLIONS ‘nN MAY SWING THE ELECTION ENDORSED BY SENATOR EDGE 2.8% RARMAYS WUT =, AND GIVE WETS THE VICTOR and Fights Them in Unconstitutional, | Argue Against 18th ePrns ane ee Will Press Bill to Sell sos 900 PUPILS MARCH | pi alla EXCITEMENT I IN MARKET. | THAT OPENS WAY Necker Solid South, With New York, Massa- and Plants at This IS WAKED BY BLOW. BREWERS JOIN, TOO; Sct eset Erroneous Reports Result in| FOR HIGHER RATES, ree chusetts, New Jersey and Ohio Pana | Mother Brings Him to His) Wild Price Fluctuations Assert in New Brief Three- 5 MEANS A GREAT SAVING. FROM SCHOOL FIRE: Senses by Striking Him | On. Exchange. " f Counted on to Give 276 Votes in Fourths of States Did Not ! ‘acemascclfpiccsentns . ERE ee With Pistol, a ldeteans eck Claes Ratify Amendment. Electoral College, Ten More Than Sedieves Evening World’s Sug- | | aya WASHINGTON, March 8.—Stock | Supreme Court Orders Com- p PANEL i OS N ded gestion Will Be Approved =| DANBURY, Conn., March 8.—En- aiiaente may not be taxed as in-| Merce Commission to Value | wasHINGTON, March 8. — The ceeded. by Congress. | —— gaged in an imaginary battle while |°O™ ‘he Supreme Court held to-day Lines at Present Figures. | validity of Constitutional Prohibition , f a z | apparently in a dream, Franklin M, |! “¢claring unconstitutional the pro- | pesheas | was fought out in a legal battle of By David Lawrence. By Martin Green | Teachers’ Brigade Fights Biaze| comp, nineteen, son of Frank s,|V!8I0ns of the 1916 Income Tax Act) WASHINGTON, March #—The|attorneys for the Federal Govern- | (Special Correspondent of The Evening World.) (@Bpecial Staff Correspondent of Ths With Tin Wash Basins | Komp, stiot his father and mother in| ‘Me as income such dividends de- | railroads of the country in the Su-/ ment, the dry States, the wet States, | WASHINGTON, March 8 (Copyrigtt, 1920).—Prohibition ‘has Evening World ) and Bucke | their home last midnight and other- | !47ed by corporations out of earning | preme Coart to-day won their suit to| and the liquor interests in the United | mae its way into the strategy chamber of the political parties, with the ~~ ; ‘WASHINGTON, March 8.—Senator Sickie | wise injured them during the strug) and profits accruing after March 1,|compel the Interstate Commerce | States Supreme Court to-day. A de- Prospect that the Democrats, at least, will consider seriously inserting a’ Waiter Edge of New Jersey ip in} Thompson, a Ut followed. mae _|Commission in fixing the valuation] cision is not expected before April| Soni (nities r b complete sympathy with The Eve- \ ‘The elder Komp is in the hospital he court divided five to four, JUs-| or tha tines to accept ‘the ipceeant| ee tater damp plank in their platform. to | ten in Peublic School No, 10, at! with a bullet wound in the shoulder,| tice Pitney rendering the majority 2 | . ; . ming World's plan to reduce taxes to| ‘ther in rides a ‘ y tne extent of approximately $1,700,-| 117th Street and St. Nicholas Ave-{another in the hip, and lacerations | opinion, Justices Holmes and Day value of right of ways and terminals} The issue to-day centred ou The leaders here are against the saloon, against whiskey, against a fo of scares Shae, nue, was on patro 1 shortly before| Caused by blows and bites, Mrs.| joining in one dissenting opinion and| instead of the original cost whether prohibition is a valid subject | repeal of the Federal Prohibition Amendment, but in favor of a liberal @ year, ani t |Komp, at her home, has two wounds | Justices Clark and Brandeis in an-| The decision ie of far reaching im-| for an amendment to the Constitution | ; . ; {off the high cost of living by sale to/ 1 o'clock this afternoon when sh) upon the head, one apparently caused | oth portance, because the valuation now] and whether the Voiatead law, en- | SEER IaN ON Ties TW as: BSS aii euler ,petwete owners of all the Shipping | discovered a lively blaze in the desk|by a bullet. The son, ieee wich Under the court's ruling, the Fed-| being made by the commission prob-|foreing the amendment, ts constitu. | light wines and beers may be made in the home or bought like any Boamé ships, plants and materials a8 | belonging to Mrs, Field Miller, who is| assault with intent to kill, is held in| eral Government must refund millions | ably will e used ae the basis for| tional. preen® 4 7 1a icle of food, room _as the sales can be negotiated.| in charge of Class 6a, on the thira | $2,000 bail of dollars in taxes collected on stock making rates under the Esch-Cum-| The lineup in the court to-day He of food, provided: the: Leversges do/act' COOK ea R : ng over The Evening} floor of the five floor bultatng. rs The Komp family moved here from | dividends since the 1916 law became}ming Dill. whieh will uarantee the| found Rhode Island vigorousty ‘con- alcohol, on at the saving to| Remembering that seven classes of Brooklyn, N. Y., a few months ago.| effective, Internal Revenue Bureau|reads a return of 5 1-2 per cent. on| testing Constitutional Prohibition, “Congress under the amendment to F A | Mr. Komp is the head of the Lansden | officials said to-day the exact total of their property value. The effect of| while o: re the taxpayer to be accomplished by Pehl deena este Miss /Company, electrical goods manufac- | the refunds could not be estimated at| the decision is to increase the Inter- | Gaverccerme: testyiace preinee! the Constitution can define whet iis sam reméving the merchant marine froM | Thompson rang immediately an auto- | turers. hthis time and that it wowd not be|Stite Commerce Commission's valua-|states represented by Charles E.| toxicating or non-intoxicating by @- Government ownership and operation, | matic fire alarm, and then notified) When the parents retired last night) known until all claims had been filed| {lon of the roads, with the probatle| Hughes and the Anti-Saloon League termining the per cent. of alcohol that q Senator Edge said: the principal, Miss Hester A. Roberts, thelr, son was at Gs table renting 4/and computed. é Ey of higher rates, New Jersey to-day will ask the it is permissible to use. At predent | “08 course, this is an estimate, but! wno sounded the fire drill call, Sunday school paper. Two hours later! the Court upheld Federal Court| The test suit was brought by the | court for permission to bring a sult ies q I think it is as accurate as an esti-| 144 py their teachers the 300|tM@y were awakened by pistol shots | decrees denying the authority of Con-| Kansas City Southern, backed by! similar to that of Rhode Island. 2 ited coe belt of one San | mate can be, in view of the COn-/| voingsters got thelr clothing and|'2 their room and found the boy with | gress to tax stock dividends, and|°ther roads, after its present esti-| As the court met hu Root Democratic leaders think thie is 9b | fused condition of the interests held | Forched out of the building, without |* Tevolver in each ‘hand, firing at) awarded to Myrtle H. Macomber | ™mated valuation of its right of way | obtained permission to file a brief for surd and that tHe country would got by the Government in shipping. It) confusion or panic. ras BN cree ay $1,367 paid under protest on 1,100, 4nd terminals was rejected by the/the United States Brewers’ @ssocia- suffer the evils of wetness which the, may amount to more than $1,700,000- “Wie iney ware going out Mi A s#truggie ensued in lc shares of new stock received in Jan-|Cammission, The road claimed that|tion supporting the contentions of Anti-Saloo: - ‘ 00 and it may amount to less. That family, barefooted and in night! yary 1916, as a stock dividend from! Valuation made on the basis of the | Rhode Island. n League preached so yigor- Roberts organized a fire brigad —~.. is‘a fair figure to use as a basis. I Srlcdi. cexsnnd Vorlth nthe pramtie Gaming [nem eee oe bracers the Standard Oil Company of Call-| present value of this property would| ‘Two cases In addition to the Rhode ously if the percentage were dowbied 7) “Whatever is done in the way of one act to moet! to extinediah into an ae dered iranian |e TN |!mcrease the total valuation from | Island suit were heard to-day. They * or even trebled the present amount. 4 establishing a policy for the mer-|*"' yeah Mees bat cenirrel tne eee dee 7 ; ik “the head |The case was one of a series tn | $5,000,000 to $10,000,000. ‘The road are appeals from Massachusetts and|Debate Limited on All But! But the interesting phase of the { ut marine must be done by th son and struck him upon the head) which J. P. Morgan, Herbert L. Pratt | fought the case on the erounds that| Kentucky Federal courts, which up- ‘ desk and were licking the ceiling of 7 dourth: 6 aan | praia squeition ie the cobianvacinn chau S| the claga room before the volunteer fe er pric venns |and others questioned the validity of | the lower figure will be the basis for|heid prohibition, and which were Two Sections—More Reser- oe eee pike st pty fire fighters got to work, but the blaze | hig eyes and looked in evident amaze- | Meet |rate making, instead of the higher |brought to the Supreme Court by vations Adopted. Gam getter soon was mastered and when the fire-|ment at his surroundings and the Court oficials said the case was on?|one. The commission is now making | George C. Dempsey, a New England 2 = next elections. Could the Democrat, yens hand. He remem-|0f the most important at this term | valuations of ai] roads under the act | liquor dealer, and the Kentucky Dis- carry the country by it? men arrived only a ruined desk, some | revolvers in his ai] reads un the act | hq 4 7 ry by ! , hing that happened, he}a at dete! “Sa sie eee: a Ce WASHINGTON, Mareh &—Preal- rl RV TO SAVE AT LEAST A|charred places on the wall and epme (eee eee ee aera reargic [ana that determination of the aues- | of 1913 tilleries and Warehouse Company, 4 Pres HOW VOTES MIGHT BE AF- ‘ongress before the end of the fi year—June 30, I think I am con- servative in saying that this is the biggest single question of economy | y ore Congress. BILLION 1S OPEN. excited children remained as remind-|with a party of men who had entered | (om involved affects thousands of in —_—— Louisville. dent Wilson will state hia position on | RecrEeD BY A LIBERAL PLAC. “ : di be th ers of the fire. the house, pestis , MARKET IN WILD In his Drief for the brewers, Root/the Lodge reservation to Article X. There is no dispute about the een —_—~-_— ‘The decision of the court was 5 to 4; | made the following contentions: rare i I present to-day a table of States Inseavaliy, foc lewating) | Sexes | (2 wo. Wels ot te Meee ee LEGION OFFICIALS Justices Holmes and Day dissenting) FLURRY ON FALSE | “the so-called Eighteenth amend-|PTO™MY to-day. It was announced | anton several Democrats of prom= War taxes in peace time amount |ment assisted the teachers with hand | eee ee een een gee eras iit seraalien, BAD ARNO AISERE |e on Whig icine ae re Deere ae } | ati orked out ai soenpression. Kaas alla le OO ei SPLIT OVER BONUS jana Brandeis on another. DECISION REPORT jwithin the authority vested in Con-| His attitude on this and other ii ‘ ‘We are confronted with a The: Wire; Mardhal: wilh: Spremsen a Justice Pitney, in his majority opin- —_—— lgress and the Le ink could be carried “with @ steam atures of three-| reservations will be outfined in a | tate cle of candidate on a platform containing dec- he States by Article V. of |tetter to Genator Hitchcock. He ail the Constitution, | larations of a liberal character in the budget of $5,000,000,000 for Gov- | the fire, as no explanation of how : igetieen : : i : if ernment expenditures. Obviously, | the flamos started thas been advanced Member of Executive Committee |'0t 14 # etock dividend “is in ¢s-| Prices Drop, Costing Speculators | fourths of . z4 sense not a dividend, But rather the we cannot raise that sum from acpi 1 kamal . Wants All Proposals Withdrawn | opposite Thousands, and Then Soar | r f inoreai “Article V. of the Constitution of | Dt #ee Senator Simmons, as request- | matter of laws relativg.to intoxicating prepare tee «ROLIGE: MAY CARRY and Other Policy Outlined. ‘No part of the assets of the com-| When Truth Becomes Known. | tne 1 United States does not aucherize ed By Senator Hitcbeock, but write |iiquors. It will be notulpehat in the ; any Js ¢ ted fi the common any amendment ch directly « Senator Simmo . ° are es 0 ep “Right at hand we have the GUNS ARMY STYLE.) wasstnoro, staren —a serious |PNtm ne mala, gisele Mistemutes| 27 Cffoneous report on the Gu-| SRY amendment which dir ty oF ti Senetor Simmons telilng bin the} ret srcup are Atates: ot ig raked obvious initial tax lowering pro- ah mistake was made by the American | is principle tends to impair and destroy | matter is sufficiently covered in his | Sold South with vertain border « except paper certificates that evidence |Preme Court decision in the stock |i. seserved policy or governmental] |) | papiteit Ne thus: jan antecedent increase in the value |dlvidend income tax case to-day re-! powers of the several ne and their | rt ttcheock, Legion in presenting its proposals for soldier relief in the form in which it ject, which is to take the Gov- ‘ernment out of the shipping bu Commissioner Enright Approves Electoral ness. There appears to be no Suggestion Advanced by Magis- | did, the House Ways and Means Com-|f the stockholders’ capita! Interest| sulted in the most exciting price | right to local self government On motion of Senator Lodge, the doubt that we can put $1,000,- i trele MeAdoo. mittee was told today by Col, .|resuiting from an accumulation of lauctuations the Now York Stock Ex-| “It does not appear that two-thirda/ Senate agreed to-day, to Mmit de- * Sohabeat eee i 000,000 at least back into the ibs c Lester Jones, a member of the Legion's | Profits iby the company, but Profits 90) | has wat as Jot the Houses of Congress deemed | bate on all remaining reservations to 14 Souih Carctioe 2 de of the Government by that | grt, Commlosioner Tneiaht to-0ey| executive ‘committee. He eid the |€ar stwerbed to the Gusioem ae to |" 05) Se w @ in years. The | ints so called Eighteenth Amendment | ¢5, ‘ Tojtenas | fn 4 ie ft duty oe approved @ sugestion that New York| executive committee would assemble|render it impracticable to separate |first report was that the Supreme | necessary © ogg Sony (eset those retat- Vicente: aH | ) and i - i; jail] ig] " in| to rth v bs 4 " a tas poly tay Re Sei een, are sa ent this month and that he Proposed to sug-|them for withdrawal and distribution. |Court hed decided that stock divi-| “The so-called Bighteenth Amend- | itver inthe pied ane lo syotlag “From the above group, it is tm J “Thave no criticiam to make of the| voivers outelde thelr coate after the| sane policy” for presentation to Con-| “F¥f ftom weing a realization of/dends were taxable as income. On| ment has not been ratified by three-| "radon the agreament mo senator | “ume the chief support for the Pre- | 4 Gene ‘Comu itee of the Senate, | fashion of the army officar. In answer|STes 0 & “quiet and respectful way." | Profits of the stockholder, It tends|thie news a, wave of selling was| fourths of the several States. : senator) nipition amendment; but as between | sree ‘ ‘ " Col. Jones. suid he believed the|rather to postpone such realization, |started and prices broke sharply. can speak more than owenty min-| of which I am a member, or of the| to Chicf City Magistrate MxAdoo's re-| Legion also should present a well con= The alleged i: Amends | pce oe cine ie "|a wet and dry issue and voting the Senate. The methods of enactiag| cent letter the Commissioner said the|éidered scheme for financing any plan|!M that the fund represented by the! Crucible Steel, which probably was| ment vests concurrent power in the on any single reservation ¢X-| Republican ticket, the negro problem Pry stock he t the bwo named legislation wore adopted long before | Proposal would be given careful con-|!t propued, | oro | Seem ae een transferred from | agacted more than any other stock by | several States for its enforcement is counted upon to keep the South LO ON SS NE a a 0 oe SS en SN A SSE cy eA ri c e 4 a | With nine Democrat " r Taaiie bac: Dut Pdannol gat acouas | Sone posal, the witness said that in making |SU‘PIUS t@ capital, and no longer is |the decision, broke from 196 to 191 In| Which has been disregarded by the Wh nine Democrats voting for it} surely Democratic. ‘The South, more- g In his letter, Magistrate MaAdoo as-|an estimate some months ago he had | available for actual distribution, he passage of the Vols Istead law. | the fottowing reservation on arma a med to the delays attending pro- ; a few minutes. The erroneons re- | | over, has had State laws on the io} lays rted that Patrolman Immen, who was|found that about 350,000 former sold “The essential and controlling fact | ment adopted: dure in the Senate, anf as soon as pwn by burglars, might have been | i¢T3 desired an opportunity to take over jay naaniden he 4 port was flashed uptown and eent out | ea) MNo nian’ foe | fe: Vanitabies ‘ liquor question long before the Fed- ne fearings on this question are| spared tad his revolver been In posi- | {7s fe thet ‘the sipcitiokier tas renalved | over private wires to every rion of * ALBANY SOCIALISTS : mitation of vral amendment was adopted concluded [am going to urge speedy | Yon for quick action si nothing from the company’s assets|the country. It took armaments proposed by the council "| CONVICTION UPHELD (or tne League of Nations under the|_.°% fr Mis Maryiand |. 606 Kentucky, which have shown a ten.’ ete tae tne nae ENDS LIFE WITH POISON, |tor iw separate ise asd boats om {tn oe aitenict ain some! SEVERAL HURT IN WRECK. | be cay eee aa r the report to be corrected ; | As soon as the true import of th PERT ROR Filelo ® shall be held! gency to become Republican, the ine policy of the NOrnMLRY IGUtR | ee gfe ee | | Real 8 Women pelleted (na, hot: aiteionl Anvemimenh bo her with [derision was understood uying be- | Pa on “The Price We Pay”) * mt glib ieagHaceyry tee fie caee sis wrists say the Mquor ation to the merc marine and | is bapn aay hes tcl fo es en a Gs whatever accretions and accumula- (gan and) stocks bounded upward.| Held by’ S ( ie AGA the Usiied etnies | aummnie 1 surety keep them utline the mac ry by whiel that | | 2 J | Within ten minu Crucihle Ste hee 7 ve AtCS | Nemocratice. But to continue with pulicy 18 to be ex outed HLMIRA, N, Y. March %—The|trude Whitman, farty years old, was (Continued on Second Page.) |went from 191 to 205. A few minut ves the right to increase, its table Mt would have the Government | Normera Bsn a the Central Divi- peeps iy Nib Si fib LelseuANaenal - atarat waa qustas at @ $—The Su-|@PmMament without consent of the} Nees aell the ships, all the ships owned cao Macon are poured Wat |S Weel adi street when sta l TOOTHPICK THROUGH A BOY.| stotora, which had broken fro 1 tt never United States is by the Government, cluding Sevefal passengers were injured| the room to make the bed. The body | coe uc Bacilgnad Meuibc Anolon ee port, rushed uz 2 ef with invasion, or engaged like $40,600,000 to complete ships | i ‘ Tra, Craig and Brophy of the tariem |, Austin Brimley, five, of Manchester, | siutoly unable to tah a anda to obstruct | adopted, pra hout debate, |Ahd 101, the grand total _w » next year. The contracts should | BEAT OFF IRISH ATTACK, [21220 Prorat ee dE eae tana, Just when he dot | orders. There wis an enonnous ted Clinton | PY & Vote OF 46 Tt protects tho | vay veicet. 8 Prowdent ak tee be cancelled and the ships turned - lhave baer ant nettes, tit Bese ving hoes. nal, "lis “aeteces oats mand for Cructhie, American W rsh ta of American citizens having |PeCded to eles y over to private owners, who can | One Handred Armed Men Await) at the house for ken from the youngster’s right foot,| Baldwin Locomotive and other stock 8 Nel nterests im alien enomy property, |TEN “staves PLACED IN THE finish them to suit thoir purposes | Harracks tn Limerick. | py |having travelled through the body event ating a 4 | Reservation No the labor seo- 1 ; 4 alert ,. hundred men armed with rifles and high | <s months for the toothpick to travel that bisa ti Sout tatements .or|tg 37 J But even if the four Eastern Staten” fdils Aoee fe Gove | explosives an attack lasting an| WASHINGTON, March &—Presigent|dintance, © °° . muting |(? * were not assured,,the Democratic wet Neh ' b pilhoriteie mia) pallaat ny 4 -with rifes and : lkon ; D: an bar with Mra, | mot ice sacl a | Hol t i 1GEFIELD, ( March Ss—Ay | Out ist of Goubiral ¢ ates from whieh dae withdrew. None of the police was 1. and 4p, _, He nde 6 ated | Ap carriage Bee, room for Fata ‘open. di freab ‘bam ands tinued on Fourth Page) | gured ja ae face was full and be had a w ties "lie se J ie A ers having gone out on strike for an| Massachusetts, Now York, eee dion abe japan Ole Vi wary Ah aoe aeaie Sennen ong, Obl tm: thas ' ¥, 1 - ~ oe - ~ ne i