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whe You LX. NO. 21, 21,977—DAILY. c at PE omy) pe, The Prove ls Eablshing sed 4 o ork Wi jorta. NEW YorK, WEDNESDAY, ee chee 10, Ki rohnberg Ts Arrested for Alleged Cheating in "Poker Game REPUBLICAN LEGISLATORS, BAKER HOLDS ~IN-GENERAL PLAN TO KEEP |" ARMY PIERS COUNTRY ON A WAR BAO “Possible Werte Is Ex- cuse for Policy That Means Billions in Taxes. NEW, YORK IS AFFECTED. @€ Nation Keeps Piers City Carrot Collect Taxes or Rentals. iy By Martin Green. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, March 10.—Just at pe téme when Congress is drawing leas to the neceasity for drastic ac- tion in respect of reduction of Gov- ernment expenditures, Secretary of Wer Baker has elected to furnish Oongrees and the country with an il- tustration of the tendency in the Gov- ernment, which threatens to bring, the country to another bond issuc “tnd Increase of taxes. That tendency ia to keep the country on a war ba- ia. The war tossed into the contro! of the various Government de- partmentsthe War Department in particular—vast plants of dif- ferent sorts which were essential te the conduct of the war. Now that the war is over these plants ere of no use to the Government and should be salvaged, But the War Department and the other departments want to keep them, and that is the chief reason why the demands for appropriations for next year are so high and the outlook for the taxpayer is so gloomy. At the outbreak of the war it be- eame necessary for the War Depart- ment to take over and assume contro! of various piers and docks on the At- lantic seaboard, among them piers at Hoboken and South Brooklyn, Con- gress appropriated $150,000,000 for the purpose of constructing seven army terminals. One of them is the South Brooklyn terminal. The cost was greatly in excess of the original appropriation and the War Depart- ment’ now has tied up in pier proper- ties on the Atlantic seaboard hun- dreds af millions of dollars, which) carry a large and constantly growing everbead expense. For the purpose of adapting the Hoboken piers to the| uses of the army transport service large sums of money were spent and| the same is true of other plants! which were seized or purchased by the Government to aid ments. READINESS FOR REMOTE “EM- ERGENCY” COSTLY TO NATION. n troop move- new | ATTACKS VERY OF U. §. AGENT IN TAX BRIBE CASE Gropper Admits Working for Both Hylan and Mitchel in Campaign. The scoend day of the trial of Jay A. Wober, secretary of the Pictorial Review Company, before Judge Cush- man and a jury in the United States District Court on an indictment charging an attempt to bribe an agent of the Internal Revenue Depart- ment in connection with the income | tax assessment of his company, wes turned by John B. Stanchfield into | an investigation of the life, charaater and antecedents of Nathaniel W. Gropmer, the revenue agent in ques- tion. In his direct testimony yesterday | Gropper, who no longer is in the em- | | ploy of the Government, told of his Of a $25,000 bribe and the alleged pay- ment of $500 at the Hotel McAlpin, which Weber wus arrested by who had been placed there purpose In reply to Mr. Stanchfield to-day Gropper admitted that in the last Mayoralty campaign he was a mem- |ber of the Andrew Jackson Club of Brooklyn, which worked for the elec- tion of John F. Hylan, and also of the Mitchel Clu of No. 3785 Broad- |way, Manhattan, which favored the Jelection of John Purroy Mitchel Gropper admitted that the Mitchel Club paid him $40 for “canvassing” the district. He did not Xmow the Munhattan address he guve the Mit- |chet Club was a nt lot, he said, | but admitted it was ke."” | Mr, Stanchfield then went into the |work of the witness on the Income | afte | officers the me ‘Vax returns of the Chevrolet Motor Company with two establishments in Manhattan and one in Tarrytown. He inquired if Gropper did not re- auest the use of a company id automo- not exactly.” ‘the company nnd you accepted per. an Companion you . and Gropper "Wolke" sald Stancht gave you one to use Vem.” seid "And with a wor lran over a woman in Central Park) {with vhat mf ( “Yea the answer. Stanchfield explained his line mination by declaring that the jt the case is one of | veracity between Weber and the prin- \cipal witness f 'D'ANNUNZIO ISSUES | THREAT TO ITALY The American expeditionary forces are home to the last man. The War Department has no more for a) Sigantic and expensive minals for the accommodation of de- (Continued 0 on Sec ys nd T BY STOCK DECISION Part of This Loss Will Be Made Up y Tax on Sale of Shares Later WASHINGTON, to the Government M eh 10. ne lows esult, of thi supreme Court's decision declaring stock lividends not taxable as income will be early half a billion doll accqrding to Commissioner of Internal Revenue Roper. Some of this loss, Commissione suid, will be offset by the tax on sto sales. Mr. Roper emphasized that esti- mates are not official and that lass might be found to be ¢ larger, Maren 14, via W. 20d St. ‘7.47, Will Take Fiume Children to Venice and Fire on Any One Who Obstructs H FIUME, March 10.—Gabriele d’An- Y the Insurgent leader, last night issued the following statement Lb read In the newspapers the in- edible picce of news that the com- mand of the royal troops in Julian Ve- netia prohibits the passage of the poor Hldren of Flume into the kingdom of Italy, whfle more than 7,000 Viennese children to-day housed with derness under Italian roofs, “{ will not tolerate th am preps te rough too sides on 0, at Ve infamy. 1 t edged tool for Fur ships ady t me reprisal nd it ch re mishing shall land them a on. whosoever dare in undertaking this Yps, now comm 0 ob Minato ai onthe Near. Lite tleymons leeks Citek moien for bagmgs and parcels open, a das! oni night, {Money orders aint ave THE, WORLD TRAY yey ten- to | { | | | | | } | | | | |“READERS” KRORNBERG HELD N FRAUD CHARGE IN POKER GAMES) {Court Issues Warrant Charg- ing “Deceit” in High Stake Poker Games. ON CARDS. Players Tell of Losing Large Sums to Rich Waist Man on Strange Pots. A warrant for the arrest of Louis Krohnberg, President of the Bijou Walst Company, and other firms dealing in ladies’ wear, wns issued by Justice Kernochan of Special Ses- berg with a misdemeanor in that he | obtained money by fraud and deceit in a game of chance. Justice Kernochan’s action followed taking testimony regarding the big money games of a number of Broad- way stud-poker playera in which it has been charged that over $400,000 changed hands in six months ending last Christmas, ‘On Notifieation'te his counsel, Max Steuer, from Assistant District Attor- ney MoGrath, Krohnbeng surrendered at the Criminal Courts Building and was held in $1,000 bail for an exam- ination before Justice Kernochan next Saturday morning The complaint against Krohnberg | was made to the District Attorney by | meetings with Weber, the discussion | Jacob M. Silverman of No. 1311 Presi- dent Street, Brooklyn, and an in- timate friend of Mayor Hylan, who swore he had known Kroanberg twelve years, and in the course of the testimony which he guve before Justice Kernochan, with twelve other witnesses, described poker games at Krohnberg’s home in Riverside Drive, at the home of Joseph M. Schenck, movie magnate, at No. 270 Park Ave- berg’s home cards of a fleur des lys pattern were furnished; the cards in other ‘houses which differed from those furnished in those houses, were also of that pattern, he said. Silverman then described an inci- dent in a game at Krohnberg’s hom: Dee. 16 last. All but Krohnberg and one Lewis had dropped out of a pot in which many hundred doliars was staked. Lewis had four candy bef: nim, an ace, jack and nine exposed ore (Continued on Second Page.) CHILD IN COURT BEGS JUDGE NOT TO PART PARENTS | “We Want Our Old Home,” His Mother S. Separation Boy eK HEN Justice Benedict in the Brooklyn Supreme Court signified his inten- tion this morning separation to Mrs. li. awiie Fidelle of No. 61) Fourth Aveuue, Brook- lyn, Rafelle jr. eleven years old, who stood in the back of the court with his five brothers and jumped upon a bench and “We don’t want Judge! We want papa live toget fight We want home The mothe the ant to keep t ild qu Fidelle sued her husband of gvanting sters, shout a mamma bur Judge ai ground of cruel and inhumas treatment and was allowed $35 a week in alimony, . Racing Entries on Page 2 ‘ ‘ A tions this afternoon, charging Krobn-|! “Ctreulation Booka $ Open to Al’ of 9 : a Post Office, New York, Batered as Second-Class Matter, 24 PAGES. 8 PRICE TWO CENTS. N Sts LAW HITS RENT GOUGERS: OTHERS 10 i PASSED SUUN SOON r SHOPPING RUSH . AS RAILING BREAKS, ing All Points. ns ! | i TO BOTH To-Day’s Bill Forces 30-Day Notice to All Month-by- Month Tenants. FAIR SIDE. wi | Crowds Struggli Set Into j teesetal From_a Staff Correspondent Crow ds truggling to Get Int | The Evening World.) Rummage Sale Make Bal- | March ~ ustrade Collapse. c ALBANY. of against rent pr io—fthe Lockwood's first bills Senator C. fiteering was passed ‘Ten women were hurt, two of tiem 1 Avenue the and now oes in nate to-day when the No. 523 Madison seriously, brown stone ably ‘This bill makes lustrade at it compulsory on all broke under the pressure of a crowa! landlords to give thirty days’ notict é b ne Of Oru gathered to attend the rumage sale o all monthly tenants. conduc siting Nurses’ As | Heretofore the law applied only to ducted by the Visittux Nurses’ As sociation this morning, and precipi- uses and the time of no- tice was first raised from five te: twenty ‘The new law applies t all tenants holding under month-to- month agreements, whether they be| The InJured are Mis Bessie houscholders, office or store tenants. | twenty-two, No. 724 ‘The bil was one of those framed Road, Brooklyn, inthe report of the committee ap- brain, and Miss pointed te housing and twenty-eight, Bufora fee conditions in the State and will L. L, both legs and left arm f be followed by others embracing the Mis# Murray tenement tated the si rugkling women int area way of No 1 o the| Murray, | of of the Harmon, amaica, jetured, in Bellevue Hospital. concussion Annie to investig entire renting situation Mrs. Willlam Zinke, forty-three, of Out of ‘all the Dills against rent No. 828 West 47th Street; Miss May| profiteering introduced in both Murray, No, 724 Cort ou Road; Mrs, | branches of the Legislature it 4s Collins, No. 520 West 160th Street, | promistd there be one law and May Bollin, forty-two, of No. 148} enacted within two weeks which will West 92d Stroet, all suffered from | fully cover the situation in New York shook. and prevent the big jumps in rents All were treated by Dr. Fred Hol-| landlords hate predicted on fi lister of No, 521 Madison Avenue, | oP aay ind Drs, Armstrong, Olsen, Lincoln The bill which has met with most and Price of Bollevue, Flower and! favor thus far is that of Senator C. New York Hospitals, C. Lockwood of Brooklyn, which has The crowd began gathering shortly |bcen advanced in the Senate to final after 9 o'clock for the sale, which was reading. Senator Lockwood was scheduled to begin at 10.30, and at 10 Chairman of the committee which in- o'clock Capt, Duggan of the East 51st nue; at the Hotel McAlpin and at| vestigated rent conditions in New Street Station received a call for po- Dessauer’s Waycrest Manor Inn at] york City last summer, and conse-‘licemen to assist in controlling t Arverne lquently understands the situation crowd. Two ofc were und | Cards for the games, he said, were len But his bill touches only one arrived just as the doors were opened. provided by the host or by the ho-| phase of the situation, that of pre-|in spite of their efforts, the onl tel. On many occasions, afier the | y wholesale disp on, jammed the brownstone stoop leadin games, discarded cards were found of! ‘phe hich Is pre dis Mot to the door in fra 4 te different pattern from those so fur-| going to be a landlord sandbageing inside t. dt was then that the nished. Chips were of denominations | pill by any means. It is going to be {railing broke Of $5, $25, $100 and $500. At Krotin- 1a measure just to tenant and land-| jather Patrick J. Barry of St. Ga slicra alike, The landlord will be al-|yrigi' liowed a fair rental based upon the | fesessed valuation of his property. Jattended the women | improven nts and upkeep; but he pliceman William Van Gostein of isn't going to be permitted to tUrt line east bist Street Station, who was tenants out because they refuse tolstanding on the upper step striving | pay an exorbitant increase, made for |14 hold haok ccwa wh on than that the landlord has |saiting ¢ell, was tumbled into Catholic Chureh, at and 1 Avenue, who was present, h Stree’ the no ri the area tne power to make it. Jana sustained bruises outs on the ‘The aponsors for the bill clam that |e.46 and hands, He remained on duty when enacted it will be court proof. |untii the last of the injured had been It is probable that there will be #/tatcn ‘care of, then reported sick public hearing on the bill before it is aes started on its way to enactment. It \U. S. ARMY TO HAVE Jmay have the opposition of realty ne and property owners of New Bot AS ee will: hava te alow itia 289,000 SOLDIERS smmittee where any Weakness exists | c he members of both Houses | jim it. are aroused to the Additi an Officers’ 17,820 Is Provided for in Bill assed by H In yn, Cory serious condition n Thirteenth ) (Continued ¢ [INSPECTORS CALLED #01 ncn tis | IN VICE INQUIRY |orvsa case by ee acs iH vote of 7 25 refused | i |Army Reorg Bill. so rand Jury Will ) Stay in Ses- |the' maximy ut Grand Jury 7 and 14.200 officer n All-Summer f igh — Investigation MAIL CARRIER DIES seme a pe . IN BURNING PLANE jrand J while has beon WLKHART, Ind,, Ma \ morrow and for certain city records, — uur, World’ Mullding adm. Cortleyou |? BITTER ENDERS BLOCK MOVES 10 AGREE ON TREATY. Final Debate on Article Ten Opens With Little Hope of Compromise. MEETING Democrats Divided on Mean- ing of Wilson Lefter to Senator Hitchcock, WASHINGTON, March 10.—With compromise efforts in chaos, the Sen- FAILS, ite to-day began debate on reserva- tions to ‘Article X of the League of Nu ions, D pite the most vigorous efforts of Republican and Democratic comp:o- veekers last night and to-day, Republican “bitter endors," by playing off certain groups against other groups, kept Senators from uniting on any of the many proposed misg the | compromises About twenty Democratic Senators tended a meeting called to-day by Owen, ‘Thote pfegent said action wag taken, but them predicted afterwards Senator no concrete some of | that more than a’scote of Democrats would vote for ratification with the {modified Republican reservations. The Democrats were divided over the exact punport of President Wil- son's recent letter, while among the Republicans several Senators of the mild reservation group complicated the tions of their own to Article X Senator McCormack of Illinois, a bitter-ender, started to-day's debate with n's letter to Senator Hitchcock. — DIES ALONE AT 80 AMID OLD RELICS ‘Ousset ercied to Live, Though “Her Twin Brother Died AND MRS. LOUIS SET of N y bust 3 are proud of yew aur. Fae is Jeunne amd when she and he twin Lents, were und died a Jeanne did tea hy it ns of milk » M te basket in de baby sleeps warm and A evue Hospital the d uid nurses believe the baby will live, situation by cireuiating reserva- | a discussion of President Wil- | | | IN FEAR OF ANDERSON LASH, ‘DROP DRY REFERENDUM PLAN Speaker Sweet Leads Successful Fight to Keep Voters of State From Passing on Volstead Law or Beer and Light Wines Bill Titi. Year., By Joseph S. Jordan. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) ALBANY, March 10.—No referendum on the Volstead law or the question of beer or light wines will be sent from this session of the Legis- lature to be voted on by the people at the coming election. The Republicans, who have fought shy of Prohibition right along, came to a showdown at a conference of the Senators this morning, and when Majority Leader Walters found that sentiment was so strong it opposition he threw up his hands, (Se $25 HAM 100 HIGH, JURY DECIDES, EVEN FOR MILLIONAIRE Mainzer Wins in Suit, Though Dealer Tells of Loving Care in Cooking. ‘Speaker Sweet, on the Assembly aide, as strenuously opposed any Measure of the kind and was out- spoken on the subject, “The place for such legislation is in Washington and not here," said he. “Congress can determine what is an aleohol|.) beverage and the State will be obfige! to accept the mandate of the Federa! body. There is no reason for havin.; any referendum on the question, either. It would be useless. If thera is a sentiment against the one-halé of 1 per cent. law, fet the sentiment be made manifest in Washington, where results can be obtained.” The threat to embarass Speaker Sweet by calling him as a witness ia | the investigation into the activities of Wiliam H. Anderson and the After being out fifteen minutes to- day the Jury in the Big Ham ae 1 | | \ |tor this preparation.” | the suit of Reuben's Pure Food Shop, Premed eee. ear ore { . r. It was learn | Charles W. Green Had Land Grant |ine to collect from millionaire | 16. day that the Gpeaker had not per- } Made in 1803, Crumbling | Honorary Deputy Fire Chief Robert mitted Anderson to enter his offica ; Stocks and $5 Bill, [H. Mainzer, the $11 he held out be- | for the past bed years, following a i | 25 . diragreement between them durin; Charles ireen died yester cause he thought $25 too much, to is | _ctarien WW. creen die yesterday. at| ota Ho § i ‘ g iat debate at Oswego at that time. é nee [edresa bse for a baked Virginia ham—inare! Assemblyman Cuvilller to-day e Hrooklyn, He had lived there In aoli-|!"to the Firth District Municipal | amended his beer bill by reducing the ‘st eleven y surrounded by his, Court before Justice William Young, | amount of alcohol permissable in the 4 and old papers, crumbling stock! with a verdict for the defendant. |beer from 6 to 4 per cent. i certificates, an indenture showing a dnd! Mainger wan right, the Jury decided,|. Th® original plan of the majority | grant to Caleb Green in 1803 and some | ang need not pay. |leaders was to jam through the dry 4 |personal documents, such as the certifi- ‘The jury went out at 12.15 with! Cforcement law as drawn and - | cate of the marriage of Charles en the walevna alae Aina ec: dered’ by the AntieSaloon League. j Jand Anna Ruggles in 1873. ‘There were | Mouths m That plan went to smash when th: " 50,000 shares of oll stock—and a five-| proprietor of the food shop at No. 2120) oooh pevoited and ord ed i dollar bill | Broadway, had told why, in his opin« fav He » ordered an tn- It was sak! that in all the years he| ion, the famous ham was cheap at $25. Gua melita Prive ty ie, ite methods lived there had received just two! “In the first place,” sald Reuben, | pret svenety ined visits, each time a woman and a child.’ «Mp, Mainzer says the ham weighed | nee then the sentiment im favor ! He died alon th the flve-dollar Dill! petween 113-4 and 13 pounds, ‘That; °f Saerting the State's rights under t In his hand, H ty was found by the | the “concurrent legislation” clause of } y may have been its weight when it; fanitor the Eighteenth Amendment and pass- | was placed before his New Year's; ooo iineral wi _ gucsts, gentlemen, but when I bought | -™® ne and beer law has { LITTLEST BABY t, it weighed 20 pounds and one|*t0W™ and several bille along this, eee | line have been introduced, The most 1 WEIGHS HALF POUND ("nr uw state I could have sola | DODUAr figure is “8.50 per cent.", and AND IS THRIVING that ham at 90 cents a pound; it cost | Ua this is Included In the bill of Sen~ } ator Walters, Democratic leader, and in that of Col. Gillett, Republican, of Columbia County in the Assembly, Col. Gillett has been pledged the |Support of thirty-five former service men in the Legislature, and thirty of these are Republicans. Col. Gillett is not inclined to eom- Promise, He ts likely to put a crimp j nto the new plan of the organization leaders, who fear to assume the re- me 67 cents. “Experts agre a bam like this—it came from § field, Virginia—will cent, and 60 per cent nd what de consist of? Ordin that in prep: lose between 40 in weight. preparation 1 would not} I began by soaking this ham in water for two days and two nights. “L removed i my rily like to say, but from the water after ' sponsibility of indorsing beer al forty-eight hours and, carefully re-! win. and hope to avold Prohibition moving most of the fat, spent an as a direct party issue in the State nd a half sticking cloves in it | campaign. n I smothered It in two pounds | @iLL ETT WOULD FORCE LINES UP ON QUESTION, Col, Gillett said to-day: “If my bill is not reported out of | Next into a pan with halt . gallon of molasses and was placed t wen n the en te bake from one to a! t i pdlwesateghry committee I shall force every member hours, T forgot to say that it had | to gtand up and be counted on It by or iy bebo ' in ere | motion to discharge the com- rom first to last with . th the moat cxqulaite care, gentlemen, | mttee, In case the bill is killed tay af ls @ small amount to obe the responsibility will rest with the Republicans. I do not believe the Republican party will care to go to Among the witnesses called Mainzer was a rival delicatesse | | who testified that hams lose only the polls next fall without > Dassing per cent. of their weight in prepara- | Svme legislation of this kind.’ tion, She thought $2 was enough to] Any compromise that may charge for the work brought about in regard to dry luw { enforcement will not affect the As- freshness of i ited Pi Olive Of1 w wuaramtesd-—adey "?"** sembly investigation of Wiliam H, s i shikai condi