The evening world. Newspaper, March 9, 1920, Page 1

Circulation Books Open to All. “Circulation Books Open to All.” ‘VOL. LX. NO. 21,376—DAILY. Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Ce. (The New York World). NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1920. Entered as Second-Clase Matter Post Office, New York, N. ¥. 20 PAGES. S PRICE TWO CENTS. pete ae Quick Saving of $3,925,000,- 000 Possible Through Simple Measures of Economy. | FIRST, SELL WAR CAMPS.| Plan Will Be Strongly Op- posed in Various Sections, but It’s “Only Way.” | | By Martin Green. | “~~. (Bpocial Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) | WASHINGTON, March 9%—-Mem-| bers of Congress in both bianchés | and many economists who are fig- uring on how to reduce Government expenses appear to be unable to get | together on a plan which will result in the reduction of taxation and speedily lead to a reduction in the high cost of living. The high cost of living is to a great extent duc to the extravagant cost of government, eA when the cost of government eemies down the individual will bene- ft in two ways—from a reduction of taxes, whether he is a direct tax- payer or not, and from a reduction “ka thé Gost Of commodities be must purchase for himselfor his family. ‘The golytion of the problem, as The Bening World has pointed out and} will continue to point out, is to place the country once <aore on a peace basis. { There is widespread confusion be- | tween Government expenditures and appropriations. The Secretary of the Treasury, Garter Glass, now United States Senator from Virginia, in out- “)hning to Congress the state of the finances of the Union last December, ~ aA spoke of actual expenditures and es- timated receipts. wi He knew more at the time he made his report about the state of the finances of the Union than any other person connected with the Govern- ment, and Congress, in struggling with the problem before it, is using his figures, The Treasury Department esti- mates a deficit this year of $3,155,- 000,000, The estimated excess of re- veipts over expenditures next year should reduce the deficit, according to the Treasury Department, to $2,009,000,000. The department esti- mate of expenditures next year is, approximately, $4,000,000,000. WAY IS CLEAR TO SAVING OF $3,925,000,000. The prograinme of The Evening World is simple, straightforward and practicable, It is set forth in plain figures in the adjoining columns. The Secretary of the Treasury es- timated the deficit next year of $2,009,000,000 on the basis of expendi- tures and receipts as set forth in his report. Reducing the expenditures by $1,725,000,000 and accumulating— through cash or collateral—$2,200,- 000,000 in salvage, which can be done as the accompanying table shows, would completely demobilize the defl- cit of $2,000,000,000 and permit the re- ., duction of taxation to the extent of approximately $1,000,900,000, A taxation reduction of $1,000,000,- 000 would make possible the imme- date repeal of the excess profits tax. The Evening World’s pro- gramme, involving the return of (Continued on Tw.afth Page.) site. id NON-RESIDENT TAX BILL PASSED NEW ATTACK U.S. ON PEAGE BASIS COULD WIPE OUT THIS YEAR'S DEFIGIT OF $3,195,000,000 Plan of Evening World ASTOR THEATRE R. E. Dowling Also. Purchases ALBANY, N, ¥., March 9.—The Sen- ate tedmy passed the Davenport bill amending the State income tax law in relation to the taxtion of non-residents s0 as to conform with the r United States Supreme Court decision holding the State cannot discriminate between residents and non-residents in exemp- tion privileges. The bill would allow to non-resident taxpayers the same exemptions, In pro- >a portion to the amount of their incomes earned with the State, as are allowed reuidents, For Saving U. S. Billions How the Government Can Help Taxpayers, Shown in Simple Figures. HE programme of The Evening World for putting the country back on a peace basis, reducing Government expenses and thereby lowering the cost of living, is here set forth in con- crete form: | The Government shipping interests can be sold for, ap- proximately REE Eder ReHu ae onent src $1,700,000,000 The war plant, comprising such: elements as cantonments, warehouses, munition plants, surplus supplies, and so on, can be salvaged for (at a low estimate)... ace 500,000,000 The expenditures for the war plant next year can be re- duced, below the estimate of the Secretary of War and the: Geheral: Stal about. << .s ics casesbcessscessatees 1,000,000,000 The appropriation for the Shipping Board can be limited to the extent of........... 500,000,000 The proposed expenditures for public works, which can be out out this yc. \..wout any detriment to the nation or to munities they ure designed to benefit, should be reduced Paes sires CMerecereessevetesenm: “sANOOONOUD The various “uplift” schemes by which it is proposed to graft onto the Government private bureaus and organ- izations can be custo the extent of. deeeeeee 75,000,000 Representing o total salvage of.............. se eeeeeeess $3,925,000,000 Of this $2,260,000,000 is embraced in money to come in from sal- vaging the Shipping Board and war plant, and $1,725,000,000 amounts to reduction in expenditures. Subtracting the saving in expenditures from the estimated expenditures. of "§4,000,000,000 we have estimated actual expenditures of $2,275,000,000. In peace days the expenses of the Government amounted to ap- proximately $1,000,000,000 a year. The Evening World's plan adds to this $275,000,000 for natural increase in expenses and $1,000,000,000 oo ennai GROUND IS SOLD. DANES DELAYED FOR $790,000, PEAE 4 MONTHS Asserts Department Was Un- prepared for War, Despite All Warnings. WASHINGTON, March 9,—Rear Admiral Sims to-day told the Senate Committee investigating the Navy's At Auction Bijou and Mo- rosco for $350,000. The biggest real estate auction ever held in New York began shortly after noon, when the holdings of the Henry Astor for gale before 3,000 men and women to-day conduct of the war that the failure of the Navy Departlnent to act promptly datate were put assembled in the grand ball room of the Hotel Astor. The sale offerings comprised sixty three and four story buildings, thirty- eight tenement houses, thirty-three parcels of land containing private dwellings under lease, three theatres, seven factory butklings and six va- cant lots. With the exception of the on recommendations and to place the country’s entire naval resources at the disposal of the Allies within six months after the United States en- tered the war prolonged the struggle for at least four months. He added that it also unnecessarily jeopardized the outcome. Declaring that 3,000 lives were lost and $100,000,000 spent every day of the war, the Admiral said the conclusions from his statement were obvious. Admiral said his criticisms were directed at the navy's work in 1917 and “had nothing to do with the magnificent way the navy functioned in 1918, after it war.” The navy, he said, was not properly six vacant lots, all the property is located in the heart of the hotel and theatrical Sims Robert EF. Dowling, President of the City Investing Company, bought the ground on which the Astor Theatre distri stands, at Broadway and 45th Street, for $790,000. The building is assessed prepared in April, 1917, an, e ad- an, prey d the ad ministrative machinery was cumber- Mr. Dowling also purchased the|some and inefficient. He denied that his statements constituted Bijou and Morosco Theatre properties | “an at- adjoining the Astor Theatre on 45tn|‘#ck" on any one, and characterized “ridiculous’ statemen he tacking civilian control of the ‘avy Department, which, 8 essential Street. For these he paid $350,000. The assessed valuation is $455,000. he said, Bidding on the Astor Theatre prop- erty began at $500,000, and in ali] “I am at the end of my career and nine bids were made before it was|have nothing to gain and all to knocked down to Mr. Dowling. ‘The | lose," said Admiral Sims bidding for the Bijou and Morosco| He wished to be set right in the Theatres begin at $200,000, There|oyes of the country and to refute were four bids for these. | widespread criticisms that he was The sale was conducted as the re-| “throwing mud at the navy," Admiral suit of court proceed'ngs to par'ition | Sims declared the estate ghteen will share inthe, Declaring that h sed ques- proceeds, Th umount w | tions about the ¢ hey of to Arthur Asior Corey, a nephéw of | solely because he hud feit the late Henry Astor to point out errors in naval adminis _ tration, the Admiral said he had been TAKE BELL-ANS AFTER MEALS and seo tow fine GOOD DIGESTION makes you feel. Aden (Continued on Second Page.) | the ausptc |for rent profiteering in New York| |City, President Edward I. Hannah of Ny got into the} MAYOR DISCUSSES ENT STRIKE PLAN WITH LABOR MEN Date for Mass Meeting to Fight | Profiteers Will Be Set To-Morrow. TENANTS ORGANIZING. League Covering Five Bor-| oughs to Press Fight on Gouging Landlords. The date of a mass meeting under | of organized labor to dis-! cuss a general strike as a remedy the Central Federated Union an- nounced to-day at City Hall, is con- tingent upon a conference President Hannah and Secretary Ernest Bohm will hold with Mayor Hylan to-mor- row. Hannah and Bohm were closeted with the Mayor to-cay for twenty minutes. At the close of tive. confer- ence Mayor Hylan would make no statement beyond the remark that the rent situation was discussed and that he would see the men again to-morrow. “I don't believe much can be ac- complished by the Gannon (Jersey City) plan in New York,” said Presi- | dent Hannah. “The idea of the city erecting apartments is a sound one, but what we need is immediate relief. I have a stack of letters in my of- fice from tenants writing of in- ‘creases and we are béing called on | the telephone all day long listening to the same class of complaints. “In many cases rents are being doubled. Men cannot get more pay without breaking their trade agree- ments. That is why we came to see the Mayor, to find out if something can't be done quickly.” The Tenants’ Rights League of Greater Now York is to be organized to fight profiteering landlords, and if the hopes and expectations of its pro- moters are realized, a large member- ship will be enrolled in short order. This scheme to unite the rent-pay- ers of the five boroughs in a defen- sive alliance originated in the mind of Nomer Gray of 1013 Prospect Place, Brooklyn. Mr. Gray, as a member of the Sons of the Revolution, has al- ways shown great activity in per- petuating the American spirit and ideas. He ts Secretary of the Nationa) Educators’ Society, President of the Association of Men Teachers and Principals of the City of New York and a teacher in the High School of Commerce in West 6th Street. Mr. Gray disclosed the Big Idea in @ speech several nights ago, and @ few lines of it got into the news- papers. So heavy has been his mail since that he was engaged in sending out a ciroular acknowledgment of the let- | ters he had received when an Eve- ning Wor'd reporter cated, “I am aware that there ure so (Continued on Second Page.) |ALDERMEN APPROVE | OF BOXING BOUTS | oo |Board’s Committee on State Legis- lation Acts Favorably McGarry’s Resolution The Committee State Legisiation of the Board of Aldermen to-day favor on on FRITZ ACQUITTED OF COYNE MURDER After Three Hours’ Deliberation Bronx Jury Finds Cabman Not Guilty of Killing Woman. After being out a little more than three hours the jury Supreme Court in the Bronx | this aftefnoon re- turned a verdict of not guilty in the} case of Ernest Fritz, the Tuckahoe | taxicab owner changed with the mur- der of Mrs. Florence Coyne in Bronx Park on March 19, 1919. Fritz's wife and mother, who were | in the court room, collapsed and be- came hysterical when the verdict was | The lasted weeks, the longest murder trial ever held in the Bronx. DETECTIVE FREED | IN ASSAULT CASE announced. trial four Witnesses Unable to Identify Dolan as Man Who Fought in Restaurant. Detective Thomas A. Dolan of the strong arm squad at Police Headquar- ters, arrested late on Saturday night on the charge of assaulting Jack Dol- goff, the young driver of a taxicab, in what was sald to have been a free-for- all fight in a restaurant at 116th Street and Lenog Avenue, was discharged this afternoon by Magistrate Schwab, in the Wasbington Heights Police Court. Only three witnesses showed a wifl- ingness to testify. All, including Dol- xoff, said they could not remember Dolan as among thosa present. The Magistrate questioned them closely, asking if they had been promised any- thing for failing memory or had been approached In the interest of the de- tective. They replied in the negative. COPELAND ON BENCH HEARS RENT CASES; WILL AID TENANTS} Health Commissioner Plans to Halt | Evictions Where Sanitary | Code Is Violated. | EALTH COMMISSIONER COPELAND sat beside Judge Crane on the bench in the Seventh District Municipal Court for half an hour to-day to listen to landlord and tenant cases. He intends to visit other courts for the same purpose. “Many of the cases are based,” he said, “on complaints regarding the sanitary condition of tene- ments. I am going to confer with the legal division of my depart- ment to sce if we cannot get the code amended 80 that marshals shall not evict families for non- payment of rent in premises which are not properly kept by the land- lord.” Dr. Copeland sald New York had 100,000 more families than homes and that in 57,000 houses families are “doubling up"—two families in one apartment. BURGLAR ALARMS FOR CELLARS NOW; TREASURE’S THERE. Installation Business Booming and! Strongboxes Are Resorted to as Added Safeguards. —<—<—= ON CATHOLICS BY ANDERSO ANDERSON MAKES. JQHN D, JR. PAYS ANDERSON FRESH ATTACK ON CATHOLIC CHURCH Denies Certain Statements in Answering the Letter of | Archbishop Hayes. | DRY, LEADER PLAYED. | Prelate Hopes None Will Be Deceived by “Un-American Brewer of Bigotry.” William H, Anderson, State Super- Antl- intendent of the aloon League | of New York, to-day replied to Arch- bishop Hayes who, in answering the attack of Anderson on the Catholic Church, referred to Anderson as “the| sinister figure in American politics, a! sower of strife, who sinks so low as to Play the un-American role of a brew- er of bigotry.” Anderson's state- ment follows: “If, as charged by the Catholic Archbishop of New York, it makes | me @ ‘sinister figure,’ of strife,’ a ‘brewer of bigotry’ to state the truth about the attitude of some leaders of the Catholic Chureh with respect to enforcement of the Pro- ‘hibition Amendment, then by the in- herent force of his own statement, 80 much the worse these leaders. “Not even the Archbishop of New York can obscure an issue by talking about something else, and the denial of something else, while failing to deny the specific thing that I said, constitutes a confession of the truth of my statement. I did not say that | “the Catholic Church is affiliated with any political organization,” nor did I say that “the Church is in con- spiracy to contravene directly or in- directly the law of the land.” There is great distinction between “the Catholic Church” and “some Catho- lics,"" What I did say ts that “most of the officiary of the Roman Catho- lic Church in this State” are “in sympathy with” the Tammany ef- forts to destroy the Prohibition vic- tory, which very different matter. “The conclusive proof of the truth of this statement is found in the fact that on the very day that it was sent a ‘sower is a out, Cardinal Gibbons — publicly, specifically declared for permitting the manufacture of beer and wine. Further, the Archbishop might sim- ply have the to be present at our law and order meet- ing, but when he went out of his way to rebuke the singling out of the Prohibition for enforcement when it had been singled out for vio- lation and nullification and when the Federal Government had singled it out for support he apparently under- estimated the discernment of the public “The Anti-Salc this point in one way | only. If he will declare that he him- self is opposed to and believes that | declined invitation Law refute Archbishop League's can the statement on| way and on (Continued on Second Page.) BURGLAR alarm company at Newark reported to-day that it is bein voded with new business. Most of the new customers want the | | the bulk of Wiring in their | cellars. Among them are many Jealers. with permits to keep | | iquars for medicinal purposes | One aplicant first built a cabinet | around his treasure and then ap. lably reported out the resolution ap | proving of legalized boxing exhibitions | Jin this State. The resolution was in troduced some time ago by Alderman Francis D. McGarry. It does not com [mit the Aldermanic body to any par- ticular boxing bill at Albany, but mere ly seeks to place the stamp of ap-| shall provide fessional bout committee's report, It does not go int details such as the length of bouts or how they shall be governed. It merely sanctions ther Racing Entries on Page 2 | plied for an alarm. Yesterday a Nowark man re quested the discontinuance of hi alarm while painters were at | work. This morning he called the purgiar alarm company on th telophone uy the cella ‘ 1 Jed to do — RESTAURAN |. 86 Tomday. Maron’ 9. 1920— | las), mixot Wiwtadion, S00! Lam. |e Frooon (ried jwtatows diet table d’hote Ghia! toe, Tha “Chor. World “ids, Sadr d KING GEORGE WEARS TROUSERS CREASED | DOWN SIDE OF LEG Fashion Was Set Years Ago by His Father, but Never “Took” Carteret in London, | LONDON, Maron 9 | ING GEORGE'S latest pho tographs show that he hi revived a fashion set long ago by his father, KI ward— | 3 trousers are crea the yides instead of down the centre, — | men will stick to <i a - | Imported Pompeian Olive OU t pure, eatiuel olive oll, addr, years’ Lmprisonment, SALARY OF $19,000 A YEAR; MUST TELL ASSEMBLY WHY Cuvillier Declares the Anti-Saloon League Chief Receives Check for $1,250 a Month From Millionaire —New Wet Bill Backed by War Veterans. ALBANY, N. Y., March 9.—John D. Rockefeller jr. will be called is a witness in the Assembly's investigation of the Anti-Saloon League, Assemblyman Cuvillier said to-day. Cuvillier issued the following statement as ‘nis reason for calling Rockefeller: “It has come to my notice that John D. Rockefeller jr. pays as a salary to William H, Anderson, Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, the sum of $15,000 per year at the rate of $1,250 per month by check through tie Fifth Avenue branch of the Corn Exchange Bank, New York City.” Assemblyman Mau WIFE WON'T LET LEGISLATOR FLY TO SAVE SUFFRAGE Bloch is pi Paring to introduce in the Legislature to-morrow a bill permitting the (_ alcohol. The bill is modeled after that recently adopted by the New Jersey Legislature, Learning that the | legislative leaders is sage of a light wine or beer bill, As- semblyman Ransom H. Gillett, a world war veteran and introducer of Antis Hope to Break West Virginia Deadlock Before Bloch Can Reach Charleston by Special Train. CHARLESTON, W, VA., March 9. attitude of the adverse to pas TATE GEHNATOR A. R. | one of the bills, will attempt to Hine MONTGOMERY, Hares a8 | up the thirty-five ex-service men in an intl Ac a = aurived the Legislature behind this bill in Charleston to-day, anc was A conference of c ¢ of these men I announced by opponents of the : altitt called for this afternoon and Gillett will ask them to endorse his measure. Should the thirty-five service men endorse the bill Gillett feels that it stands a good show of passage in the Assembly, believing the thirty-five Democratic members would vote for it as well as fifteen or twenty Repub- licans from New York City. If Speaker Sweet does not appear voluntarily as a witness in the As- sembly inquiry into the Anti-Saloon League he will be subpoenaed, accord - ing to Assemblyman E, A, Everett Everett, a member of the Judiciary Committee which will conduct the in- vestigation, desires to have the spot- light thrown on a conference between Speaker Sweet and William H. An- derson, Superintendent of the league in New York State, two years age DECLARES ANDERSON SOUGHT TO PREVENT INVESTIGATION, According to Everett, he had in- troduced @ bil! which would have re- quired the Anti-Saloon League to make public statements of the moneys it collected and expended. He charges that Anderson urged Sweet to use his influence to defeat Anthony Suffrage Amendment that he would break the 14 to 14 deadlock in the Senate this after- noon and aid that body to adjourn before Senator Bloch, the Suf- ffragist, who is hastening here from California, would arrive to vote for ratification, Bloch left Chicago by special train at noon to-day in an effort to save the Suffrage Amendment. Bloch took the train instead of a proffered airplane when his wife objected to the danger of the aerial trip. He sald he would reach Charleston in ample time to vote to ratify the Suffrage Amendment. JERSEY OIL PLANT WIPED OUT BY FIRE Co.'s Establishment at Roosevelt Is Destroyed With a Loss of $250,000, ‘The Cartaret O11 Refining Company plant at Roosevelt, N. J., was a total loss by fire to-day, at an estimated dam-|the bill, but this Sweet refused to age of $250,000, The plants of the Mex!-|do, and it passed both houses, but can Petroleum Company and the Con-| was not signed by the Governor. eumers’ Ch Company, adjoining, A mblyman Cuvillier is still re- were in danger. ving letters from clergymen com- The Room it Volunteer Fire Depart mending the action of the Assembly ment wae ded by the 250 employees | Or the Cartaret Compan Jand also has received from the Allied ‘The ‘fire is. believed to have been] Tobacco Leugue of Ohio an offer to caused by a br explosion. furnish evidence concerning the meth- ods of the league ALLEGED THIEF. RUN DOWN Attorney-General Newton is expest- a — ed to confer with the Judiciary Com- Fugitive Accused of Stealing 8450 mitte within the next few days on the evidence and outline the plan of Rings From Jeweller, Flatbush Diamon After an exciting chase procedure for the investigation. Avenue, Brooklyn, this afternoon, PhP)” siinionaire “angels” of the AnticBiac Waldron, a clerk, of No. 645 18th StFeC% 1605 Teague and the leglalative 4 tee Hergen Bernal Station at Flatbush | “Ssves” of Boss Anderson are te be enue and &t. Marks Pla lined up for investigation, | \pne police accuse Waldron of atealing| Cuvillier also announced he tntends $450 of diamond rings from the|to call so far as possible all members Jewelry of Zeitlan Bros, Noe 25l/of the Legislature, past and present, Fistoueh Avenue who pledged support of Prohibition a 7 Ratification and Prohibition Enforee- RETRIAL FOR MRS. STOKES.) ont isilis to Anderson in writing FSG PRGRDS prior to their election, It is assumed T, LOUIS, Mo., March 9.—The United Ji 1+ more than 100 legislators have Stutes Cireult Court of Appeals to-day Stee tthe verdict by which Mrs. Rose {one this during the past five years. 2 wealthy New York So.| “The reason for subpoenaing these cial wa nvicted iu Kans ty in|lawmakers,” explained —Cuvillie: June, 118, of violating the Espionage | "should be perfectly patent to peng ‘Act. and remanded the case for new|gons who have followed the trial Mie, Stokes was sentenced to ten! the five suspended Socialist blymen, One of the reasome of beer containing 31-2 per cent.