The evening world. Newspaper, March 11, 1920, Page 1

“ Esperanza With 151 Aboard Ashore On Mexican Coast BILL LIMITS RENT RAISES ¢ Daal LT SRE Pe ee sane vices TO-NIGHT’S WEATHER—Rain and Warmer. Cet the Country Back on Peace Basi Che | “ Cirenlation Books Open to All.’ ] BILL STOPS GOUGIN —— y The Press Publishing World). NEW YORK, THURSDAY, “MARCH ll, GILLETT DEFIES WONT DROP VETERANS anal Force G. O. P. Leaders to Give Up Plan for Dry Referendum, ASK LIBERAL — Anderson Anti-S Siicon League | Enforcement Bill Is Dead. By vain S. Jordan. « (Special Staff Correspondent of Tre | Evening World.) ALBANY, March 11.—-The ghost =| John Barleycorn is the that the Republican leaders in the Legislature. encountered, One minute they think they have the and the next there is a liveliest have ever spectre laid, rattling of dry bones and the leaders are face to face again with the “bogey’’ man. Yesterday they a referendum, a 3.50 per cent, beer bill and a measure for 10 per cent. wine. Speaker Sweet of the Assembly told the faithful in Senate and As- gembly that it couldn't be done, that the State could not set itself up in opposition to the Kederal Govern- ment. To-day the friends of wine and beer recovered from the Sweet shock and were more insistent than ever that New York should determine for itself what will constitute an “intoxicant” within its Nearly every Democrat in both Houses 1s in favor of some kind of a determination as to svhat the people of the State shall be ullowed to drink. Col. Ransome H the 3.50 per cent. wine bill in the borders. jott, the father of and 10 per cent. Assembly, is a Re- _-publican and has pledged to his cause thirty-five members of both Houses, all veterans of the war, and thirty of them Republicans. The Colonel, far from backing down, was stron than ever for his contention this morning, and declared the matter will be fought out on the floor of both Senate and Assembly, This attitude of the Colonel is very disturbing to the majority leaders in both Houses, who are again facing a serious split. THREATS FAIL TO SCARE VET- ERANS OF WAR Definite threats have been conveyed to Col. Gillett to abandon his post- tion or suffer the consequences, the consequences being the smothering of the pension bill, which he ts endeav- oring to have enacted into a law for 49 the benefit of crippled soldiers. But the Colonel didy't go to war for nothing. He refuses to be scared, On next Monday there will be a confer- ence here of the veterans of the war now in the Legislature, and it is ex- pected something will drop which will make a noise like an explosion, The veterans are expected to agrea (Continued on = FINDS IT IS HARD TO GET DRUNK ON 3 PER CENT. BEER ighth Page.) Volunteer Undergoes Number of | Tests With the English Variety. LONDON, March 11 quor Control Board in an effort to obtain physiological data on the effects of overindulgence in stim- ulants, has had carried out at Kings College 4 number of tests on a man who volunteered to get drunk on different beve It found that ifficult for him to don the present ish beer of 8 per cent gravity. Racing, Entries en Page 2 Was very intoxicate one | dismissed the idea of | BUSSES, BEER FIGHT: RALLY 10 HiLP a ADVOCATED .sSTRPPNG CAST ~ TO DEFEND ALLIES ade ee Iranite Refused to Disintegrate Fleet, Considering Future U. S. Position. WASHINGTON, March 11.—Her- bert Hoover, former Food -Adminis- trator, will be asked ‘to testify for Rear Admiral Sims before the Senate ‘al Affairs Committee investigat- the Dantels-Sims controversy. ing Sims to-day requested the committee to call Hoover.and Chairman Hale stated he would do so Sims wants Hoofer to corroborate his testimony regarding the desperate situation of the Allies when America entered the war. He said Hoover gave him “the first realization of the possible dofeat of the Allies" during a@ conference in London shortly after he arrived. Sims disclosed to-day that in June, , he urged Daniels ‘completely to strip the American coast of “sea- going protection” and transfef the ali-fighting ships to British waters. Daniels refused, In a cable to Daniels, Sims said: “1 fully realize the short-sighted- ness of public opinion and its effect on the distribution of our forces, but the fact remains that we could well afford to strip our coast of seagoing protection and concentrate it all in the critical area on this side of the ocean,” Sims went on to say the anti-sub- marine war would be won if the enemy could be forced or led into “diverting part of his submarine ef- fort to the United States coast or to any other area dtstant from the criti- area surrounding the of France and the United Kingdom. Other official cables read showed that Sims opposed the project for building a mine barrage in the North Sea, which the Navy Department later carried out over the opposition of British naval experts, Sims said it would not be practical, Sims also disclosed that at the time the United States entered the war the Allies hoped Norway would join them cal coast | | | |\VOTE OVERWHELMING. | voted overwhelmingly | concede “DIRECT ACTION" PLAN KILLED BY BRITISH WORKERS Will Work Ceiy by by Constitu- | tional Means for*Nation- alization of Mines. Refuse to Sanction Strike, Fol- lowing Incendiary Speech | That Roused Nation. LONDON, March 11.—The Special ‘Trade Union Congress in session here, to-day against the strike policy and in favor of con- | tinued efforts, by constitutional means, to effect the nationalization of mines, ‘The vote on the resolutions, regis- tered by the delegates as proxies, was as follows: Against direct action, 3,870,000; for direct action 1,050,000. For polltical action, 3,732,000; against political action, 1,015,000. The Trade Union Congress, repre- senting more than five and one-half million workers, met at the Central Hall, Westminster, to decide whether “direct action,” in the form of a gen- eral strike, should be attempted in an effort to compel the Government to own and operaté British coal mines. The Congress meeting followed the vote of British miners, announced yesterday, in which the miners de- cided by a considerable majority to enforce their nationalization demand. It is believed, however, that final action will depend upon the recom- mendations made at to-day’s session of the al congres Observers deel; counsel will gene lare prevail, J. H, Thomas, to-day’s sane railwaymen’s leader, presided “at to-day’s meeting, sup- ported by the Parliamentary Com- mittee, “Direct action” advocates early announced intention of demanding immediate vote their “strike to enforce the national- ization” plan, ‘The Congress was convened as re- sult of the Government's refusal to nationalization, When the} Congress met at Glasgow last fall there was no doubt as to the strength of s there had been a considerable change in the trend of labor opinion since that time. For one thing a violent speech in the House of Commons last month by W. Lunn, Yorkshire miners’ mem- ber, put the miners in what they| said was a false vosition. Lunn de- clared if labor coulc their an on not convert a majority of the Nation to nationaliza- tion, the miners would attain their Prime Minister Lloyd not slow to seize this end by force. George was | fire. ntiment in favor of striking, but | | GRANTED TO MINERS 1920. Vost Office, New York, rHLY ‘1E Entered an Second-Class Matte TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—F NANT: ain and Warmer. 28 : a —— PRICE rae CENTS. —=5 BOY'S WIT SAVES 2,000 CHILDREN IN SCHOOL FIRE His Quiet Word to Principal Empties Burning Building in Minute and a Half. POLICE QUIET WOMEN, Flames Cause $15,000 Loss—; Brooklyn Pupils Cheer | Shut-Down of Classes. | Irving Surgen of Avenue, Jand the star pupil |Public School No. and Sumner Avenues. 834 De Kalb| Brooklyn, ten is old | of fayette Ars y in Grade t Ls TA This morning | shortly after 10 o'clock he was going | from the washroom back to his class | when he saw smoke curling out of the restroom for men teachers on the sec- ond floor, Coolly and quietly Irving surveyed the situation, then ran silently to the door of the principal's room. Isadore Springer is the principal, and to him Irving told the story of the smoke and his fear that too much noise would “scare them kids.” Mr. Springer turned in the school alarm, and 2,000 teachers and pupils, leaving their overcoats and hats be- hind them, filed out of the building. The last of them had lined up on the sidewalk in just one and one-half minutes after frving had reported the Battalion Chief Kane responded to the first alarm, to find that the flames were bursting through the roof. He promptly turned in another alarm, The roar of the flames and the clash and clatter of apparatusespread the news of the fire through the neighborhood, and anxious mothers began rushing toward the burning school house, Capt. Sullivan of the Gates Avenue and Capt. Kuff of the Vernon Avenue Stations rushed po- erves to the ground and these eeded in quieting the frightened women. Just back of Public School No. and facing Kosciusko Street is Public School No, 79, When the alarm turned in the 2,000 children there » were marched to safety, but as the firemen got control of the bla these last were returned to their cla on rooms. The fire did an estimated $15,000 damage, much of 4t to the cloaks and hats of the children and teachers, It will be weeks before work can be resumed in D When the children heard this they cheered the flames, some 0, 2%. caaiemaneee 25% RAISE IN PAY La earented opening. He characterized such tac- (Continued on Second Page.) ties as “the absolute negation of democratic and constitutional govern-| Men Already Have Gotten 14 Per NON-RESIDENT TAX ment,” saying the country never] Cent, of It, So Only 11 Per Cent. BILL IS PASSED] “ts =m boing held up by a Increase Is Allowed. section of the community. The Gov- ‘ i | ernment, he said avould “fight such] WASHINGTON, March 11 26 pe ‘i HPS ; cent. wage increase for bituminous coa Measure, Now in Governor's Hands, maphods ta ae a ' : miners ority ni ‘ & Moderate Laborities recognized im- | = yr rt of the com n appointed b: Fixes Exemptions to Comply | mediately that a coal strike along] ‘’2o7t,of the commission appointed by With Court Decision. the lines indicated by Lunn would | strike |. ALBANY, N. Y., March 11.—The be extremely unpopular, and might! No change in working hours or con-| sembly to-day passed «leripple the entire trade union move-|ditions was recommended | amendment to the State j me nt John P, White, representing — the] Law, providing that the same exemp-| ‘This was the view of the Parlia~!minera, held out for a higher waxe in-| ions froi Jon to non-res as{Mentary Committee which put a} ey t was said, and will submit a tions from taxation to non-residents as|MODLATY 1 Or ee en apreeatin ; nd w al are granted residents of the 8 direct action” and advocating con- F | The bill now to the Governor. | stitutional methods. Increase proposed will ab-| With approval of this bill, the Stat Robert Smillie, President of sorb 14 per cent, granted when the! Income Tax Law will conform to th ' ution of Great Bri miners ret ast November, | recent ruling of the United States Su- 4 pula wae Dalley t the act ase is 11 per cent, | linsaine cle d the position of the] over presen itmees say r Smith acted in| ver Present | | The islature to-day passed the with’ Wraaie majority recommendations were bill of Senator James E. Towner to pro- | Miners’ Fed. | tted to-day to 1 lent » | vide r exemption under the State In-/eration ress the |» Ave et t pu alto | come Tax Law of the pay received by | failure of rations Inaaor ey, nae ee soldiers, sailors and marines while in| With the ( miners] vance “int aon to cover the | service durin the world war It now | UrBed hid goes to the ¢ vernor, ! — 136 MINERS 5 ENTRAPPED. the siate|2*CENT RAISE IN GASOLINE. 1 The wholesale price ga yy | Pine Cntehen Shaft in those items of salary ntat Sy RRR RPE ANE s| MEXICO M pete: derived in New York § jeduet | ¥as anno} dat the city o f the y 1 1.—One hun. th of peronal exemption to |Standard Ol Company, No. 56 Broad Jaréa ana ix miners have not which a resident is entitled, {way, to-day he increase went into)}been accounted for in the El Bordo| a — =o ‘ stiees yesterday: i Ca mine at Pachuca, a mining city nea | cre is no substitute for imported Pompoau & result garage men have raised|Mexico City in the State of Hida), Olive Claas the price to thirty-two vente a gallom. ‘where tire broke out this morning.” IRVING SURGEN, BOY HERO AT aha IN SCHOOLR 0o SOARING COSTS OF SCHOOLS BRING ‘EDUCATION UH Contractor Begs Release From $794,000 Work in Newtown. The prices of material and the cost of labor are skyrocketing to such an alarming extent that it is predicted within six months or a year the number of School children without rccommodations will bring vbout the most setious crisis of its kind in the city's history. Tt Decame known to-day in City Hall that Dennis KE, Connors, who bid $794,000 for the ¢ nstruction of the Newtown High School in Queens has written to the Board of Bstimate begging to be relieved of his coi tract. He says he will be financially ruimed if he is compelled to go on with the work, He has a $15,000 certified check on deposit as @ guarantee This may be held by the city, but it will be of little comfort to the cholars in Queens who are waiting or a high #hool, Connors's action t is believed, will be »wed by vther contractors Estimate ing the (Newtown High Schc first p red by the Board of tion experts in 1914, It was th ut $331,205. When the board wi eady to advertise department ex perts decided the cost would be at least $600,000, Iut the contractor were not so conservative, It was finally ecided that $781,000 would be finally decided that $781,000 would ‘be the lowest cost possible, ‘Then the cost was raised to $ which was the bid of Mr, Connors, the lowest of several, Very few schools can f © $15,000,000 a t Ihoard of Estimate fo n o (Continued on Second Tage.) SPAIN WILL FIX ALL HOME RENTALS BY NATIONAL LAWS) Minister of Ju Mur Will S¢ I od in the ( MADRID, M 10. PGISLATION thy s nearly ready for intro duction in the Cortes, according to an announcement made to-ddy by the Minister of Justice, @ cost of construct ESPERANZA ASHORE ~ ON MEXIGAN COAST. ENGINES NSABLED oe Ward Liner, With 151 Aboard, Runs Aground While En | Route to New York. |\TYEE BEING TOWED IN. | After Radio Said Crew Was Starving. | The Ward liner Psperanza, from V ‘a Cruz and ‘Tampico by way York, of, ng hore on Madagas- | forty miles off Progresto, | fo « Wireless received this | morning at the Naval Communica. |Ator’s bills was put through the Senate yesterday and’ was started of its age to-day by Assemblyman Thomas A. McWhinney. . This act shuts off the possibility of a landlord farowing a tenant inte the street because he may not like him, or because he wents to put some- boxy else in his house, office or store who will pay more rent. ——$$—$$—_________—_-» PLANS BUNGALOWS No, 44 Whiteb Naval Station at were reported room flooded. ix commanded by 1 has a crew of 106, There are forty-five passengers on board, The cargo consists of 760 tons of lead and 600 tons of miscel- laneous shipping. | tions office, relayed from Lr pa. The abled and thie he Espe Capt. IR the engin t ik Curtis ‘The steamer Ardal and the | freighter Panuco, it was said at the Ward Line offices, were speeding to and the Bald Hill and Amsteldijk r reef. sc | "The Hsperanza is a twin serew steol | of 4,702 tons. She was built in phia in 1901 and Is 481 feet ind 16.9 feet deep, with a beam | Word was received by the Naval |Communicatiens — Offic that the \eteamship Fort Markham — from » Cuba, for Boston with 7,500 4 of sugar had gone to the rescue of the dis Board steam- ship Delaws The reporting abled Shippins 1 was towing her inside kwater asked for help last night eB Tyee that her boilers were out of order, W off her course and had no food aboard, She was then ninety miles east of Five Fathom Lightship oft Mw York. The Steamship North- a few miles away, started and the Revenne Cutter sent from Néw York. The ted both had The Tyee is oper- Mallory York ern Pacific, for Seneca wi Fort M gone on their way ated by the Clyde and and was comin to New Payal, The a fos }14, 1918, when un unidentified thirty-five-foot just A Star liner her ham re line from Esperanza was in a collision in off the coast of New Jersey Feb, she was sidewiped by vessel, which in her port side, tore hole above the water line. the due here White to-mor atch from atic, radio dest Adr row morning, said the steamship had picked up the crew af the schooner Maid of La Havre, at sea, about miles east of Now York and would ing the men to port, ‘The schooner eg between St. Johns, Newfound yand I 1, Brazil, No details of were given in the radio bringing 1,106 pas: |CITIZENSHIP EASY FOR READER OF | EVENING WORLD "+t on | ) When Mor | Fay f RAIS FINN, No. 172 Br 1 Street, Brooklyn, was ‘i od ome eure ad Lazan ‘yin th Nis naturaliza | tion, 1 al qu and an | rs | \ 4 @ Yes, but w \. The F i \ uid | thes - NS APLER MEALS and seo DIGBSTION makes you (ooh Adew bound hipping Board Vessel Rescued | lis going right ahead shoving along his measures, all Sireet,! way to pas C | |m us Real Bstate B city Chamberlain CHICAGO 10 BUILD PORTABLE HOUSES ON MONTHLY TO PER GENT. IN ONE YEAR |Bill Is Now Being Framed in Albany to Give Some Kind of Relief to Holders of Leases on Apartments —Other Bills to Be Passed Soon. (Special From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) -BANY, March 11.—While Speaker Sweet is talking about the sso, Mexico, and Havana for) gencral biil which is to be introduced for the purpose of ameliorating the jcondition of the tenant and to check rent profiteering, Senator Lock wood ON 7,000. ACRES OF CITY-OWNED LAND Asks Mayor io Use Jamaica Bay Ground for Rent Victims. ITY Chamberlain Berolzheimer has proposed to Mayor Hylan that as a measure of relief for rent-profiteer victims the city erect bungalows on the 7,000 acres of city owned land in the neigh- borhood of Jamaica Bay. The bungalows would located on 25x100 foot plota and would be wased to the families who eannot afford to pay increases in rents The City Chamberlain says the Mayor is favorably impressed with the plan and will likely issue a stat mt to that effect to-mor- row, Mr. Berolzhelmer was ask it believed the Jamaica Bay site would be suitable for winter occupancy and he replied that bungalows could be heated as easily as other dwellings. be TO REDUCE RENTS xpense of About $1,000 a House Will Beat Profi- teering Landlords, CHICAGO, ul ent was made to-day by Adolph F. Pre: t of the ¢ d, that plans Mareh -Announ ramer, ago are be- TENANTS 10 The first of the Sen, In the old days the law gave the landlord’ five days to dispossess such a tenant and there was no recourse. At the special session of the Legisla« ture in June, 1919, the Joint Commit- tee on Houd#ing, of which Senator Lockwood 1s Chairman, was appoint~ ed and held conferences with Gov, Smith's Reconstruction Commission and the chairman of Mayor Hylan's Committee on Rent Profiteering in New York City. The time for dispossessing a tem+ ant was extended from five to twenty days. ‘The courts found that this applied only to tenants of a tenement, 80 the 1aw which is now racing to- ward the statute books makes It ap- ply to all monthly tenants, whether they occupy stores, houses or offices, and extends the time to thirty days, AUTHORITY TO EVICT PUT IN’ HANDS OF COURTS Other bills which have been intro- duced, or which will be introduced, take the ousting of a tenant out of the hands of the landlord and put it up to the judge to grant a stay of proceedings, and to extend the stay from time to time so long as the tenant shall put up @ deposit for his original rent. The Ottinger law, which says that a monthly lease shall be void unless it is in writing, is repealed. When a landlord says that a tenant is undesirable, he must prove his contention in court, Here is the greatest blow yet dealt to the land- lord: The landlord cannot add to the rent of his tenant more than a 10 per cent. increase in the year. If this 10 per cent., or more, ha: already been tacked on this year, no more can be added after the passage of the measure. The threats of the profiteering land- lords that there is going to be a big jump on May 1 or in October go for naught. There will not be if the bill becomes The landlord who has not already taxed his tenant 10 per cent. or more during the present year is the glite exception, and with this bill writter nto the statutes there will be no more increases this year. SITUATION AS TO LEGISLATION EXPLAINED BY LOCKWOOD, Senator Lockwood, on behalf of | hg prepared for the building of sev- | |eral thousand portable houses, to bi city’s outskirts | ne Increased cost of flats and} ipartments, the rents of which have | been jumped from 60 to 150 per cent ind the scareity are responsible for the portable houses, | Portable houses are available for from 5 said Kramer er will come to about located beyond the} cost $250, The entire n three years, to the r the plum w t ) includes nstat ation of a bath tub, lavatory, wast |bow! and a kitehe Light fx- tures wil cost $76." - >_ \ ep himself and Assemblyman MeWhin- ney, to-day gave the following statement regarding legislation under way or proposed | yn behalf {the tenant, which at the same time st of the landlord: slation conserves the inte “At the of ot the 1920 session the committee recomm d the fol- lowing leg! nh, which is pendings A bill amendin, pter 649, of the laws ’ ! providing that © city of New York, iding leases, must exe be to quite unti uired five dayg notice, and the courts held that (le 1919 law only applied to those egy’ siding in tenement houses. ‘Thity daw will the thirty days’ : :