The evening world. Newspaper, March 17, 1920, Page 1

Get the fair Back on Peace Basis EDS FIGHTING IN 24 GERMAN CITIES; Say ATS ATED ait NORE ___[*Cirentation Books Open to ami.” <4 (VENUES VOL. LX. NO. 21,383—DAILY. —_m7rgut 4020, 07 10s Pree Posang NEW YORK, W ED. NESDAY, MAR cH 1 7, 1920, Breer ee mt 8 Ps AGES. LAW WOULD LET TENANTS REFUSE 10 PAY RENT It RAISES EXCEED 20. P. C. — Senator Explains Provisions of New Bills Putting Limit On Increases, ASSEMBLY GETS BILLS. Ways Are Cleared for Speedy Action to Curb Profiteer- ing Landlords, Ment From s Salt . Evening World.) ALBANY, March 17.—Right of way; was granted to-doy in both Houses of the Legislature to the bills co. img the housing situation as outlined yesterday in The Evening World, and! fer which The Fvening World has) been working unceasingly for many months. After a conference of two | days among the leaders of the Senate | and Assembly it was decided to put through most of the bills framed by | the Joint Committee on Housing, of | which Senator Lockwood is Chatr- | The measures decided upon will be | advanced to third reading, by special | rule and referred to the Committee | on Affairs of Cities of the Senate and | Assembly, and a joint hearing held en next Tuesday at 2 o'clock. One change was made in favor of the landlord. Originally one of the Lockwood bills read that if a raise in rent of 10 per cent. was made during the year, the tenant could not be dis- Possessed in the event of his refusal te pay a demand for an additional yatse. The bill, as agreed upon by the Conference Committee permits an in- Crease during the year of 20 per cent. ‘The Conference Committee, con- sisting of Senators Lockwood, Brown, Carson and Mullan, Republicans, and Senators Dunnigan, Boylan, Twomey and Lynch, Democrats, met with Ma- jority Leader Walters, Minority Teader Walter, Attorney General Newton, Frederick Splegelberg, Chairman Rent Legislation Commit- tee, New York City Municipal Court Tastices, Robert C. Cummin, Chair man of the Legislative Bill Drafting Commission, and Elmer G. Sammi Nethantel L. Goldstein and Frank!yo M&M Silverstein of counsel to the Lock- weed committee and considered all pending rent legislation. GAN'T (RAISE RENT MORE THAN 20 PER CENT. IN YEAR. “Under the bills of the Housing OCummittee,” said Senator J. Dunni- gan, “it will be impossible for a land- lord go raise the rent of any prem- twee on which a nincrease of 20 or more per cent. has already been made dent of The dering the year. This means that if & man were compelled to pay an in- crenee a year ago amounting to 20 per cent, he will not Ibe compelled to pay eny further increase on May 1. “The same applies to leaves tuking fect on Oct.1. Ifa man is thr med with dispossess proceedings for fatiare to Tay a demanded increase tm opposition to the provisions of the measure, the courts are compelled to grent.a stay Pending trial. The siay may be for an indefinite pesiod and may fbe extended from time and in the meantime the tenant need to time, « CITY EMPLOYEES GET HALF HOLIDAY TO SEE PARADE Mayor Signs First Resolution of Kind Passed in Honor of St. Patricks Day. AYOR HAYLAN to-day M signed a resolution intro- duced by President F. H. La Guardia in the Board of Alder- men yesterday and immediately passed, giving all city employees who wished a half holiday, with Pay, to witness the St. Patrick's Day parade. According to the oldest mem- bers of the board this is the first time such a resolution has been passed: Good Friday will also be a holi- Say for city employees. = ae 5 ’ ‘Erin’s Day Four Argue Over Prospects of Rain, Forget it in Court and Rush for Parade. “There never was a Patrick's Day before, bad cess to this man Anderson and his pro-high-bition,” Jim Deering and his pal, Frank Bowden, were say- ing to one another this morning, “when it was so hard to find some one who would tread on the tail of your coat.” Deering and Bowden had almost given up hope of finding a fight when they climbed the stairway of the cic- vated railway to the station at Cha tham Square. The ticket seller at Chatham Square is Jim Dougherty. The ticket taker is Pat McInerney. So the four of them got to talking. “We'll have a fine day for the parade,” said Deering. “We will, then,” said Bowden, “We will not,” says Dougherty. “Tt'll rain,” says the ticket taker. “It always rains on Patrick's Day,” says the ticket agent. “I never knew It to fail,” says McInerney. Deering coniin't believe his Bowden was shocked. “Well,” says each of them to the Third Avenue man nearest ‘him, “you're @ hell of an Grishman!” ‘The policeman who was caMed after MoInerney fell was Gilligan Gilligan took Deering and Bowden before Magistrate Corrigan in the Centre Street Police Court. Assistant District Attorney MoGuire was the prosecutor. Tom Sullivan, Esq., appeared for the defense. “Are you burt?” says the Magis- trate. ears. pay no rent, The bills of the Hous- ing Committee must onsidered ag 4 whole and none | fod ah a dividual measure. If there hole in one bill for t of the other bills will “Suppose that (Continued on Elghth Page.) eaten } @ man has a wdy “Is it me? says Molnerney, “the divvle a bit! But he made me mad.” “well id the Magistrate, “these boys say they’re surry it happened, and it won't happen and maybe hereafter you'd all better think be- fore you start anything, and I don’t believe it will rain ch—and if we don't get a move on we'll mies the So the ants and the de fendants w Way together, with the best of good feeling all around - ' ia U.S. INCOME TAX CANNOT BE CUT FOR TWO YEARS Houston Also Asserts Excess Profits Levy Must Remain in Force. RECOMMENDS CHANGES Wants Treasury Department Given Right to Refund All Overcharges. WASHINGTON, March 17.—Fed- eral income taves cannot be reduced until after 1922, Secretary of the Treasury Houston informed the House Ways and Means committee to-day. He declared, however, that a re- vision of several of the present Fed- eral tavyes should be made and rev- enues adjusted to make up for the losé the Government will sustain as a result of the Supreme Court decision that dividends paid in stock are non- taxable. Excess profits taxes also cannot be reduced until 1922, the Secretary wrote the committee To make up for the loss in revenue caused by the Supreme Court decis- ion, Houston recommended a tax on the undistributed profits of all cor- porations after Jan. 1, 1921. Houston proposed that the present excess profits, which graduated from 2 to 40 per cent., be changed and a flat tax on profits in excess of the distributed earnings substituted. He suggested that the rate of this flat tax be 25 per cont. for 1921, 20 per cent. for 1922 and 15 per cent. for 1923, and stated it would raise virtually as much as the present excess profits taxes, It would be impracticaible to make this new tax retroactive, Hous- ton said, ‘The greatest need, Houston said, is a simplification of the income and profits taxes. Reduction in the income and profits taxes for the calendar year 1922 to be paid in 1828 must be “very modest,” Houston said. The excess profits taxes should be simplified and then repealed as soon ag Government financial conditions warrant, Houston declared Other recommendations were: Sim- plication of Liberty Bond exemp- tions, authority for the Treasury De- partment to make lmmediate settle- ment of claims made for overpaid taxes, and five-year limitation for the time in bringing claims for refunding of taxes. Houston made no recomendation as to the modification of surtaxes, stat- ing, however, that these levies offend “greatly.” “We attempt to levy surtaxes rising _ ntinued on & are cond Page.) U. S. STEAMER AGROUND. ‘The Western Ally Stranded Near Cape Henry, Message States, ‘The Shipping Board steamer Western Ally, 18 aground near Cape Henry, ac- cording to messages recetved to-day by the Naval Communication Service. Another Shipping Board vessel, the Waubesa, the advices add, tas arrived at Bermuda with boilers leaking. She is from Brest via the Azores for Nor. folk The American steamer Kerkenna, from this port March 12, for Bordeaux, to-day, on account df engine reassen and eleven men k Sydnives, which about f day on from — Valenc rew was pleked 1 Hes northeast ‘TAKE BELL-ANS AFTER MEALS and 0g oe Ane GOOD DIGESTION mabes yes (enh Ade | dress *lof New York, sane: ee = OVIET REPORTED IN BERLIN; — KAPP SAYS HE WILL RESIGN © Bones eg ere err e VALERA REVIEWS ST PATRICK'S DAY | PARADE OF 25,000 March Up Fifth Avenue, With Boys of Old 69th, Greatest City Has Seen. FREEDOM IS DEMANDED. Chaplain Duffy, at Cathedral Mass, Says U. S. Should Support “Republic.” Reviewed by Eamon De Valera, President of the unrecognized Irish Republic, 25,000 children of the Gael celebrated St. Patrick's Day by a pro- cession through Fifth Avenue which onlookers said was the handsomest and most impressive demonstration in the long history of New York ob- servances of Ireland's festival. Hayes, Mayor Hylan and the Rey. Francis P. Duffy, who earlier in the day preached a sermon in the Cathe- dra] in which he not only pleaded for .but demanded that Ireland be per- mitted to take her place among the nations. Led by @ police escort the parade moved northward from 43d Street and Fifth Avenue soon after 2.30 o'clock. First in line came the 69th Regiment, followed by overseas veterans of the 165th Infantry of the Rainbow Divi- sion, Supreme Court Justice Daniel F, Cohalan came next, as Grand Mar- shal, and after him the New York Catholic Protectory Band and the military cadets of that institution. The route was through Fifth Avenue to 120th Street, around Mount Morris Park to 1th Street, back to Fifth Avenue, thence to 126th Street and easterly to Second Avenue. Every county in Ireland was repre- sented, most of them by separate bat- talions, The Friends of Irish Free- dom were present in battalions and 200 turbanned Friends of Freedom for India attracted attention all along the line. Gaelic costumes furnished color, Whenever a halt came the Juntor Choral Soolety of Archbishop Plunkett Branch sang Irish songs, ‘The parade was teh second feature of the day's ceebration, the first be- ing tgp pontifical mass celebrated in St. Patrick's Cathedral by Archbish- op Hayes in the presence of four thousand worshippers. The Rt. Rev George Waring of Governor's Island and the Rt. Rev. William F. Foey of Chicago, military —vicars-general, acted @8 deacons of honor. Mon- signor Lavelle, rector of the Cathe- dral, was assistant priest. ‘The ser- mon of the Rew Francis P. Dufty held the closest attention of the big congregation. Chaplain Duffy in his sermon spoke of the generous interest the United States has always shown in nations struggling for their freedom. Bwery effort to liberate them, he declared, was in accord with the principles laid down in the fumous Fourteen Points of President Wilson. “Thse principles, attered in such (Continued on Second Page.) SENATE HONORS ST. PATRICK Prints Calender im Green Ink and Then Adjourns. ALBANY, March 17.—For the arst time in jts history, the New York State Senate to-day formally recognized st |Patrick’s Day. ‘he calender of bills, nstead of appearing in its cus of Black type, was p bright green tik. Senator Bernard Downing, Democrat introduced a resolution, which was adopted, that the Senate ad- Journ out of respect “for the day in| which we rejoice here and the promise ot @ better day acnom the sen.” nary ted in GERMANREDS IN WIDE EFFORT TOFORM SOVIET Demand an Alliance with Le- nine — Workers Control Chemnitz and Essen, LONDON, March 17.—Independent Socialists and Comnrunists in Ger- many have commenced a violent agt- tation In favor of a Soviet Republic and ap alliance with Soviet Russia, according to a Berlin despatch to the Exch Telegraph Company. @witzertand, March 1%.—A deepatch from Chemnitz, the indus- trial centre tn Saxony with a popu- lation of more than 200,000, snye a repubNe of workingmen’s councils has been proclaimed there. A “commit- ee of action” hag been formed, com- prising ten Communists, six In- dependent Socialists, four majority Socialists and one Democrat. All the bourgeois papers in the city have been suppressed, the despatch adds, COPENHAGEN, March 17.—A tele- 1m from Essen says that at the first sitting of tho Revolutionary Workers’ Council held on Monday afternoon, a committees of thirty- Ubree took over the conduct of affairs, “Efforts are being made,” adds the despatch, “to secure common action of all three Socialist parties for the lower Rhine district and Westphalia on the basis of a proletarian dicta- torship."” MUNICH, March 17.—-A new min- istry has been formed in Bavaria headed by Dr. Von Kahr, who takes the portfolio of Foreign Affairs In ad- dition to the Premiership. Heinrich Ernst Mueller, of Mein- ingen, @ Democrat, who previously had been reported as the man who would form the ministry has been made Minister of Justice. Herr Kofier becomes Minister of Finance, ‘The ministry is a coalition of the Democrats and the popular parties. Previous to tts formation Dr. Von KAPP GIVES UP AFTER ULTIMATUM FROM THE RADICALS Soviet Said.to Have Been Pro- claimed by Communists at the German Capital. BERLIN, Merch 17.—It is officially announced that Chancellor Kapp at 1 o'clock this afternoon decided to re- sign. LONDON, March 17-—-A news agency diapatch via Copenhagen says the Independent Socialists and Com- ; muniate in Berlin have proclaimed a republic and delivered an ultimatum to Dr. Kapp. Kapp replied by estab- ashing martial law, the dispatch sald. (This dispatch was probably sent from Berlin before Kapp an- nounced ‘his intention to resign.] A second dispatch quoted the Frank- further Zeitung as saying that after the Independent Socialists and Com- munists had delivered their ultima- tum Kapp and Von Luettwits an- nounced their readiness to retire and to hand over authority to Vice Chan- cellor Von Huiner. A dispateh filed In Berlin yesterday and received here this afternoon etated that Dr. Wolfgang informed correspondents negotiations with the Ebert Cabinet had been abandoned “because all power must be concen- trated against the Communists.” Kapp, according to the dispatch, sald the counter-revolutionary government expected @ radical revolt and warned the correspondents to stay off the streets, Gen, Groener, Prussian Minister of War, 1s said to have telegraphed Gen. yon Hindenburg that the Kapp Gov- ernment is {mpossible, He is also said to have communicated with President bere at Stuttgart, Gen. Merker, Dr. Karl Wilhelm Heine of the Prussian Ministry and others ar- Kabr hed been named Minister Presi- dent by the Diet, ; WOULD PAY BONUS FROM WAR PROFITS Congressman Rainey Wants Men Who Made Millions to Share With Service Men. ‘WASHINGTON, Masch 17.—Repre- sentative Henry T. Rainey, Illinois, one of the strongest advocates of the plan to pay @ bonus to ex-service men, to- day claimed 23,000 millionaires were created during the war. Thousands of large fortunes were made despite high war taxes, he said. “It 1s fitting that the Government should take part in the buge war profits and give them to the men who made large financial sacrifices and of- fered their lives that the war might be won,” said Rainey. Rainey is working out @ plan whereby the tax would be levied on the differ- ence between the wealth of the profiteera before and after the war, with a Mberal tax exempt allowance for reasonable war profit Representative Kitchin, North Caro- |una, ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee, also approves the gen- gral plan suggested by Rainey. A reso- lution providing for confiscation of |cosa war profits and payment of the to the service men is now before the committee, having been tntroduced re- joently by Representative Little of an sas. It also enjoins corporations from | aiatributing these excess profita in any bag, rived at Stuttgart from Berlin late on Tuesday, according to a Stuttgart de- patch to the Exchange Telegraph Com- pany. Mombers of the Ebert Cabinet conferred for a long time, and decided not to enter into negotiations with the delegation. Gustav Noske, Minister of Defense tn the Bhert Government, is confident of his ability to restore normal condi- tions within a comparatively brief time, according to an Exchange Tele- graph despatch quoting an interview with him at Stuttgart. “Large contingents of imperial de- fense troops are at our disposal,” Noske ts quoted as declaring. “I am confident we will succeed in restoring order in Germany within six or eight days.” News agency dispatches from Ber- lin said the Imperial Ministry of Fi- nance remained foyal to the Ebert government and had refused to obey Kapp’s instruction to pay 10,000,000 marks for current expenditures, in- cluding pay for troops. Maximilian Harden, editor of the Zukuntt, is reported to have been ar- rested. Observers he: Kapp sympathize 70 of the 400 odd members of the National Assembly, which was to convene at 4 P. M. to-day in Stutt- eart. pointed out that the a WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU, Are te teeta Bwlding, dots vere | aes oxen, ings phen Veeeegermmetetemneniand \Fighting Bitends to the American Zone, 59 Being Reported Killed and 100 Wounded at Treves — Outbreaks Are German Cities. Reported in 24 PARIS, March 17.—Latest reports from Germany indicate that fighting between the troops and followers of the Ebert Government is still more widely extended to-day. It is estimated that 1,000 persons ‘nave been killed. At least that number are reported wounded. The news that came through during the night from Berlin and other German points, telling ofyclashes has given the impression here that there is more to be feared from a revival of the Spartacan movée, ment than from the activities of the Kapp According to the latest despatches the mi yermment in Berlin: military moverneat® thas. sulted in bloodshed in 24 German towns. The Spartacans to have been responsible for the outbreak at Dresden, Revidet: figures. on the casualties there estimate the dead at 100 and the wounded at 300, SENATE VOTES DOWN IRISH RESERVATION. Chokes Off Patgjck’s Day Debate and Kills Owen Proposal, by 54 Votes to 21. WASHINGTON, March 17.—Hasten- ing to clear the way for final action on the peace treaty, the Senate to-day choked off a St. Patrick's Day debate on the Irish question ®y tabling, 54 to 21, a proposal to declare by reservation that Great Britain should proclaim Ire- land free, ‘The proposed reservation, which was offered by Senator “Owen, Oklahoma, also stated that the United States un- derstood that the British protectorate over Egypt would be ended. There were further provisions of the same import regarding Korea, the Philippines, Porto Rico and Hawali. A resolution declaring peace between the United States, Germany and Au- atria, with the provision that a govern- ment body be appointed to assist in the fesumption of normal trade. relations One of the latest outtireaks wag af ‘Treves, southwent of Coblenz, in the Amoricep tone of occupation. Dem patches gay 59 persons were killed and more than 100 wounded. A portion of the city of Kicl wae bombarded and 400*persons were kill- ed by the cruiser Exckerfoerde, a= cording to reports via Copenhagen. ‘The cruiser is said to have directed its fire especially against the quarters of the workmen wito are opposed to the Kapp adherents. One report says that the Communists seized the arses nal, making six officers prisoner, ami that a number of soldiers were killed, The arsenal was retaken by the Navel Brigade after severe fighting, during which 200 persons were killed.” Are mored cars were used. Hamburg and its western suburty Altona, are now definitéy in the hands of the followers of the Ebert Government. Gen, von Wangenhetm, | who was defeated and captured in tween the countries, wus introduced { Altona, has joined the troops loyal to in the House to-da, Britten, Illinois, THREAD GOES UP 400 PER CENT. jtscen Retailers Blame Price | Price Rise on Manu- facturers, Who in Turn Blame Labor. Housewives who formerly bought 100 yards of cotton thread for five cents arc now compelled to pay ten cents for fifty yards, which is made to look like 100 yards by being wound on a larger spool At the offices of the Manufacturers’ Thread Mill, No. 35 West 18th Street. {t was sald this morning that the in- creased price is due to increased labor costs and the scarcity of material, par- tleularly cotton, at the office of the Lib- erty ‘Trimming Company No. 1 Union Square, it was said that the increased cot was largely due to the fact that manufacturers are holding back their supply in order to forve prices up, ‘This firm 1s now paying $17.50 for twelve ounces of fairly 008 fk thread which recently gold for A pound of aiik thread now costs is whereas it form- erly cont $11. Good ordinary cotton thread sells for $2.60 a pound as against & normal price of $1.20, and merceri cotton sells for $4.50 as against $1.75, —>—_ Let Camera Men Pieture President WASHINGTON, March 11.—Photogra- phers were permitted to take thelr first Pictures of President Wilson to-day since control only about | September, af ers ee hae bis retum from bis Western trip last Under House t ture ope ct instructions the » police moving pi tors and photorraphers to set | nes, and as th the from allowed White t men Jchanged their posi ditional, pleturse 30 as to get ad- he Preside nt ride to-day by Graynon, y Be, a ac: seine hats y By Representative | the bert regime. Ten persons were killed 1) 49 ef counter last evening in the Darmbeak quarter of Hamburg between Spare nd troops. The total casualties at Hamburg are now placed at 4 dead and 200 wounded. At Spandau sixty-nine persona, nearly all workmen, were reported killed, and the fighting 1s continuing, Trucks are constantly passing through the streets loaded with anmed soldiers, who point their guns in the direction of the sidewalks. A despatch from Oldenburg says that at Wilhelmshaven all the officers of the garrison whose attitude was “dou btful"—about 400—were arrested at noon on ‘Tuesday. Other casualties are reported @@ follows: Berlin and suburbs, 75 killed, large number wounded. Essen, 30 killed, 80 wounded. Hagen, 23 killed, many wounded, Frankfort, 20 killed, 200 wounded, Duisberg, 14 killed, 80 wounded. Leipsic, 9 killed. Hanover, “some” killed. Schwerin, “bloody fighting.” Fighting is reported at Breslag, Hamburg, Weimar and Gorllta. Machine-gun firing was heard in Berlin between 11 and 12 o'clock Inet night, says @ message from the Gere man capital. During ‘the day a deta fers passed through the str headed by ‘Heil Dir Im Siegerk men immediately obarge a skirmish ensuyd, in | number of mean ers wounded A despaich from Mayence gage which @ and othe were killed “ ‘Dunidan, “Macabal Hook and the Ailes ame ify 9 ~ ee a Se