The evening world. Newspaper, March 17, 1920, Page 3

WORDS, NOT OF REPUBLIC “PEACE siemieipatiases Ceailers Voiced Demand in Urging Special Session Six- teen Months Ago. WAS “NECESSITY” THEN, But in Full Control and in Session Nearly Year, Noth- ing Has Been Done. By Martin Green. : “Evens Wena” , WASHINGTON, March 17.—In view of the determination of the Repubil- am majority in Congress to adjourn late tn May without passing legisla- fen leading to a reduction of taxes, it fs interesting to go back a year or More and look over the pledges of the leaders, made following the election of 1 im which control of the Con- gess passed from the Democratic to the Republican Party. During the closing session of the 65th Congress, im the winter and epring of 1918-1919, Republican Senators, assured of con- trol of the 66th Congress by the result of the election, cogducted a filibuster which brought about a condition of umfinished business when the 65th Congress diced. For weeks the Republican leaders clamored for an extra session. Senator Boise Penrose, Representa- ve Gillette of Massachusetts, now opener af the House; Representative Good of Iowa, Chairman of the Ap- propriation Committee; Representa- tive Fordney of Michigan, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, and Reperesentative Mondell of Wyo- ming, majority leader, flooded the country with demands that the Presi- dent call an extra session immediately upon the conclusion of the regular session and enable the Republican Party to save the country. PENROSE LONG ON REPUBLICAN PROMISES. Senator Penrose said it was abso- Yately necessary to get the country back on a peace basis—and that ne- cessity «still exists, as The Evening World has conclusively shown. On April 27, 1919, nearly eleven months ago, Senator Penrose said im an interview in New York: “The American Government has gone wild in a saturnalia of spend- ing money. Unless a rigid policy ef retrenchment and economy is resorted to, all the treasuries in the world will not be able to sup- port the burden.” Genator Penrose on that occasion committed the majority in Congress © the following programme: “Passage of a high protective tariff law. “Industrial preparedness for the commercial conflict ‘certain to follow the signing of the peace treaty.’ “Abandonment of the ‘economically false theories and policies adopted by the Government during the war.’ “Return of railroads and telographs to their owners, “Freeing of business from Govern- ment contro! and supervision. “Investigation of unwise expendi- tures of Governmental bureaus dur- ing the war, “Formulation of ways and means for liquidation of the public debt or at least for lightening the burden of oarrying it. “Adequate military preparedness, “A definite merchant marine policy, “Repeal of the profit tax and re- vision of the income tax.” On May 9, 1919, Senator Penrose (Continued on Thirteenth Page.) ——— ee HARBOR STRIKE MENACE TO PLANS FOR NEW HOUSING Two Million Feet of Building Lum- ber Aboard Ships Held Up in Harbor. HARLES G. KELLY, chair- man of the Board of Gov- emors of the BuiMing Trades Employers’ Association, said day that the coastwise shipping strike was a serious threat to any programme for increased build ng to remedy the housing shortage. ‘Phe ninety-nine ships now held up in the harbor, he said, have aboard more than two million feet of building lumber Tho Clyde-Mallory Line alone ts depended upon for deliveries of @ hundred million feet of lumber @ year and other coastwise lines for millions of feet more, ‘The Association will consider, an eppeal to Mayor Hylan at its meeting this afternoon, he said, to bring about a strike settlement @s essential to going ahead with ha gonsicucticn of new homes, EEDS, RECORD N CONGR TIME ECONOMY" * ON CITY MAKES MOVE IN THREAT 10 TAKE OVERLR. SUBWAY ae te Burr in Letter to Commission- er Delaney Demands Im- provement of Service. The first formal move in the city’s threat to seize the Interborough sub- ways unless the service is improved, was made to-day by Corporation Counsel Burr in a letter to Transit Construction Commissioner Delaney. Attention of the Commissioner was called to that clause of the dual con- tract which guaranteed that the com- pany give “adequate, comfortable and rapid service.” Mr. Burr contends that this clause Was mot been Hved up to. Referring to the city’s remedies, Mr. Burr cites the provision which gives the city the right to seize the subways and operate them after due process of law. In his letter to Commissioner Delaney Mr. Burr says: “I am informed that the Interbor- ough Rapid Transit Company has obtained an extension to March 25, 1920, in which to comply with the terms of this order of the Public Ser- vice Commission. “I call your attention to this situa- tion and request that unless such order of the Public Service Commis- sion is complied with within the time fixed therein and in addition thereto that an adequate, comfortable and rapid system of passenger transporta- tion is furnished and maintained by the lesser company for the con- venience of the travelling public you, 8 Transit Construction Commis- ‘sioner, acting on behalf of the city, upon thirty days’ notice to the lessee of your intention to do 80, serve notice of its default upon the lessee, direct- ing the lessee to cure the said default | within ninety days thereafter, or in the event of its failure so to do such | of the remedies provided in the con- tfact as may be deemed necssary will be invoked against it. I further recommend and advise that on failure of the Interborough, {lessee, to comply with your request to cure such default within the time allowed thereupon notify the Board of Estimate and Apportionment of such fact and arrange for a confer- ence to determine upon the particu- lar remedy prescribed by the contract, it may be deemed necessary and proper to enforce.” The particular clause in the dual subway contract which gives the city the right to seize the eubways for failure to serve the public provides: “It the default be not remedied within such time or within such further time as may be allowed by the Commission or by the Court, the city shall thereafter be at liberty to enter upon and as the agent of the lessee operate the railroad and equip- ment and exi: g railromds and ex- isting equipment at the rate of fare and in the manner provided in the lease for the remainder of the term, or to enter into a contract, subject to the same conditions, with some other person, firm or corporation to operate the railroad and equipment and the existing r equipment as the agent of the lesse for such period of time as the city may elect.” BURR MENTIONED FOR JUDGESHIP Gov. Smith May Appoint Corpora- tion Counsel to Succeed Justice Philbin. It was reported to-day in City Hall that Gov, Smith may appoint William P, Bu Corporation Counsel, successor to the late Supreme Court Justice, Eugene A. Philbin, The legrams and letters from lawyers recommending Mr, Burr's ap- pointment. The Democr: organiza- tion in New York County would welcome the appointment of Mr. Burr because It would automatically place him on the ticket next November r the full term of en years at $17,500 a year. Mr. s present salary is $15,000 a year. ne Corporation Counsel entered the 's employ in 1904 during the Mc- Clelian administration, when be organ- lzed the Division of Franchises in the Law Department. Mr. Burr's ability was recognized the Bighty<ent Gas pugh the offorts of The | Evening World, was attacked by the Gas ‘Trust. The legal fight was carried up to the United States Supreme Court, where every one of Mr. Burr's contentions was sustained, prominent oe Twe More Ships Launched. 1 pitt. LDELPHIA. March foal cargo carrier Cone. (Batts ana. oie ‘rangpont sauLched “at How dakand Lode, |Rate Is Made 60 Cents Per 100 roads and existing | © Governor has recelved| 5) 11.-~T wo] euge or cons At Flower Show Miss. LUCILLE BALOWIN ., Ceeerrece sae won evee 20 PER CENT. RAISE IN PRICE OF ICE Pounds After Coldest Winter on Record. Now it is the price of ice that has gone up. After the severest winter on rec- ord, with accumulations of snow and ice which cost the yer MacStay only knows how many millions to move—and it isn't all moved yet—the following seasonable announcement has been sent to its patrons by at least one of the distributers of the great summer necessity: “Due to the increased cost of labor, feed, materials, &c, on and after Mond: March 15, the price of ice delivered to your residence will be at the rate of 60 cents per 100 pounds until further nctice.” Last year ice cost 50 cents a hundred delivered to the dumb waiter, which! makes the increase exactly 10 cents a hundred, or 20 per cent. One concern was found yesterday a representative of which sald the to ia customers would be the this year as last—40 cents a hundred | to stores and other big consumers, and 60 cents a hundred to the house- | holder. RAH FOR AN’ERSHON! CECELIA’S WITH HIM. She Speaks Right Out on Corner} Until She’s Dragged Off For Twentieth Dry Vacation. ‘Miss Cecelia McDonald, thirty-eight, of No, 442 West End Avenue, was found by Patrolman W. P. O'Brien at 1 o'clock this morning at 66th Street End Avenue making a speech in favor of William H. Anderson for Governor to a large, enthusiastic and rapidly growing audience, O'Brien arrested her on a charge of intoxication. In the West Side Court later it devel- oped that the woman had served 834 days in the workhouse on nineteen con- victions for intoxicatiom in the past five years and that this was the fifth con- secutive St. Patrick's Day which has found her in court. you know what Prohibition "asked Magistrate Gweetser. replied the defendant urse you don't,” replied the “Nobody knows. All it means is ‘ou have to go into the back room | the and West |» Pwere by wornwoee ane NIGHT WATCHMAN SLAIN. BeHeved Killed by Former Sing Sing Inmate—$200 Missing. John Macchaurllo, watchman for two Warehouses at 43d Street and Avenue G, Brooklyn, was found dead there this morning with a bullet in his head, In his right hand were $111 in bills. A wal- let known to have contained $200 more was missing. The police say Maccaurllo once served a Sing Sing term and became friendly there with a prisoner, now at lberty, who 1s suspected of his murder, The for- mer prisoner, it was sald, has been out of work lately and was angry because Macchaurllo had two jobs and would not ive him one of them. The buildings watched by Macchaurllo are 100 feet apart, He got $12 a week for one of his jobs and $14 for the other. He was thrifty and had a saving account | ot $1,000, HELD FOR SHOOTING BOY. Special Policeman Is Accu Felonious Ansault. Special Polloeman William Harron of New Haven Railroad was held in $2,000 bail to-day In Morrigania Court {ollowing the shooting of fiftee:-year-old Alfred Rauhut of No. $01 East 136th Street, in the Oak Point yards, the Bronx, last night, cording to the police, found Rauhut and other boys running from a looted freight train with auto tires and other mer- chandise, Rauhut disregarded an order to halt. Harron fired in the air, Ra but fell, a bullet in his right was taken to Fordham Hospital, condition is He was ed with juvenile delinquency, as Was Philip Holmstrom, another lad who was captured, LSet SAREE TO LAUNCH NEW CUNARDER. | Scythia, With Many I Takes Water Next Tuesday, Word was received from Liverpool yesterday that the new Cunard liner Scythia will be launched from the yard of Vickers, Ltd., at Barrow-in-Fur- | ness, next Tuesday, She 1s 600 feet long with @ beam of 73% feet and a depth of 45 fect. Her gross ton-| ‘where saloon to get a drink instead of ng in the front door, ‘Ten days in the workhouse.” $200,000 “FOR | MRS. oT REID. ate King’s” Wife Gets Inter- lecutory Diverce Dec! interlocutory decree of divorce formally granted to Mrs. Margaret Carrere Reid, wife of Daniel G. Reid, “tin-plate king,” by Supreme Court Justice Finch to-day. The decree fol lows the finding of a Jury two weeks in favor of Mrs. Retd on a counter claim to her husband's divorce suit, which he failed to prosecute, The final decree follows in three months. Edmund L. Mooney, Mrs. Reid's coun- stand, to answer @ fter which the An wi versity Involved m to Be Filed, Jacob Huber was appointed yesterday by Supreme Court Justice Lazansky of Brooklyn as guardian of George Hen- neasy of Central Park, L. 1, In an ac- tien he intends to bring jointly against the city and Columbia University Papers filed stated that Henn “has a good and substantial cause action against the city and Columbia University by reason of the horities tranaferr ‘and med University father without au aT sp = |labels on all bo nage will be 21,000. She will have a speed of 16 knots and accommoda- | tion for passengers. Turbines capable of developing a horse power of about 12,500 will drive her. She will be an oll burning ship. and as fuel will be carried tn her double bottom, she will possess un- usually spacious passenger accornm. dation and cargo holds. Seven decks will be devoted to the use of passen- gers. SUREST SIGN OF SPRING YET Soda Water Makers Strike, and It's a In) lible Prophecy. The soda-water makers went on strike! That's the surest sign yet of |, epring’s approac’ regularly, Just before . the soda-water makers want something or other and strike for {t—and immediately thereafter 4g is upon us, time members Water Workers’ Local No. their Jobs and left forty-five plants flat | because they insist upon having union # they fill of, Mineral 311 blew | NURSES’ FUND NOW $388,700. jeads Yesterday's With $15,000, Announcement was mado last night that $77,700 was r the campaign eived rday in| $1,000,000 for the vico administered by to ra! Henry tre Ta | brought the total to $258,100, ‘The cam {Siar opened Monday and will close farch 2 yesterday were laouls $2,500; 1 N. Seligman, De Bloans’ sient $1,000; anonymous Straus, $1,000: Henry ent Staff, $1,200 Mor- aud Vietor Myro- = tegen = Miss. BETTY JACKSON and MARY 'Y OSGOOD FIELD 4... Harron and other special officers, ac-' provements, THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, MAROH 17,-1920.° Handsome Waitresses on the Job Tearoom To-Day WEBER ADMITS HE GAVE $900 10 REVENUE AGENT Claims It Was a Loan—Says | He Denied Transaction at First to Save Gropper. Jay A. Weber, Secretary of the Pic- torial Review Company, on trial be- fore United States District Judge Cushman charged with bribing rev- inspected the com- Pany books, to-day contradicted Gov-/ ernment witnesses and insisted that | the $700 which he admitted he gave to Nathaniel W. Gropper, one of the revenue agents, was merely a loan. Weber testified the first money he | gave Gropper was on May 29, when| Gropper asked him for a loan of $200, Promising to pay it back in two weeks. Regarding the $500 which Weber gave Gropper just before Weber was arrested in the McAlpin Hotel June 6, Weber swore Gropper had insisted he was in trouble in the Jefferson Market Court, that he had had to pay some doctor's bills, Weber said that when he showed a disposition to let Gropper have the money, the latter said he could send in @ report to Washington which would cost the Pictorial Review Com- pany a lot of money, Ho sald that he told Gropper at the time that the company’s books were all right, but finally agreed to let him have the money. Weber said he took the money from his own salary. At the time of his arrest, Weber said, he thought Gropper had also been arrested, and for that reason denied to Col. Porter that he had given Gropper any money, When Weber's direct examination was finished, cross-examination was begun by Benjamin De Witt, Special Assistant Attorney General, ‘The first witness was Federal Judge Charles ¥. Lynch of Paterson, N. J., who, as United States District Attorney, had ‘investigated William B. Ahnelt, Pres- |ident of the Pictorial Review Com- |pany, accused of pro-Germanism. Judge Lynch testified that he found |Abnelt had been an American citizen for twenty years and that the dis- loyaity oharges wore unfounded, On cross-examination, Mr. De Witt asked: “Did you ascertain that the com- pany carried on its books 400,000) marks In German war bonds and but $100 in Liberty Bonds?" Judge Lynch replied that he had | Rot examined the @ books, _ |M, J. COFFEY’ S HEIR SUES FOR $40,000 aims That Amount As Due the} Estate of Former Democratic Leader in Brooklyn. Joseph F, Coffey, as administrator of jthe estate of his father, Michael J |Coffey, formerly @ Democratic leader in Brooklyn, has started two actions in the Brook, Supreme Court to rec@er Ine |the | 440,000 which he claims ts due ate first suit "Le! erine Kath- Mra No. 515 It is all Coffey entru ued at nearly F rted to ler own uae after his death * second suit is against Andrew ker for $18,383. Both defendants deny charges, ie SHE LEAPS FROM SEA WALL, Ruth Ponton Attempts | Rescued by Tugboat Crew. Satetde—| }, ‘MARTIN VOGEL’S | NIECE MARRIED TO RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT FIVE SAFES RIFLED IN ONE BUILDING | IN CHURCH STREET Escape With $3,000 Loot—\ Police Hide New $75,000 Silk Thefts. Five burglaries at No. 102 Church Street, a few blocks from Branch Post | Office No. 14, in which a safe was blown to pieces last Saturday night, were revealed to-day. Joseph Petty, elevator man, discovered traces early this morning. He went at once to the offices. of Exekiel Brothers, in whose safe had been a $5) Liberty Bond belonging to him. His bond was gone, John De Cook, diamond cutter, on the fourth floor, was robbed of $1,000 in Jewels; $5,000 worth more were in a strong box which the thieves were unable to open. Bight hundred dol-! lars worth of watches were taken | from the eafe of William Romaine, a clookmaker on the fourth floor. The Page-Tredway Company, paper mer- chants, whose safe was opened by the combination, lost $500 in cash and Mi y % Metis he HAthORe Claes COlaply las Madeleine Reese, niece of Assis owt $500 in bonds and $500 In tomas (tant United States Treasurer Martin was stolen from the American Wire| VoFe left the Rita-Cariten yestorday Forma Conibany, [and went to Newark with Basil Soldaten- Following complaints from the! Kov, formerly special envoy from the American Express ‘office at 39d, PFovisional government of Russia, Street and 10th Avenue that $10,000) | They sot » marriage license, and were worth of silks for export had been | Mareied In the license bureau. The bride Guleh Hecke ee loft the wedding dinner and went back “4 PAnys WAS, to the Ritz to inform Mr. and Mra. Vo- Detectives Frank Mundo and gel, then rejoined her husband, and they Thomas J. Foloy of the West 37th will start on their honeymoon to-day. Street Station went to a pawn ghop,| The Vogels and their niece and Mr. kept by a man named Weaver at | Soldatenkov have all lived for some time 85th Street and Ninth Avenue. at the Ritz, The bride is 20 yours old ‘There they waited until yesterday and the bridegroom about twice that. stternoon when & ean, wie Gt | 50 tor some yeary before comne 10 vier ome yeare defor scribed himsolf aa Alfred Gerard, No.| America. His fret wite waa the Prin- 227 West Sth Street, a Cunadian em-| cess Gotonakoff. They were divorced in Bloyed as a driver for the American | this country last November. Express Company, appeared with a | === package which he offered for pawn. ‘The detectives say the package contained $500 worth of silke. They arrested Gerard and 4t his home they say they found a similar pack- age containing silks. ‘The West Side Court to-day held Gerard on a charge of grand larceny in $2,000 bail for examination Friday. Thieves entered the loft of the Mannie Solomon Company, Inc, on the sixth floor at No, 31 East dist Street, in which there is a burglar alarm system, and escaped with $60,- 000 worth of silk. They entered by ladder from an adjoining building through an unprotected window, MRS. BASIL SELDATENKOV. Miss Madeleine Reese Weds Basil Seldatenkov in Newark License Bureau. ST. PATRICK’ S DAY CITIZEN. Son of Erin Becom Court Lauds I Citizens. Arthur John Graham, No, 361 East 159th Street, was admitted to American citizenship to-day by Supreme Court Justice Tierney in the Bronz. Graham used to be Irish and was one time superintendent of the Base Ale Com- American— Pajustice Tierney accepted a shamrock from the new voter and gave him one in return, ‘The Juatice made a speech whowe tenor was that Irishmen had always shown themselves good rg Af the Continental eriee he sald, was Irish, ‘Graham said this was the day in his life. He has lived in rere fea for fv alt HHYLAN NOW PLA sa aoe TO END OSPUTE. WITH BRIGKLAYE ri iStg Calls Conference of Builders” and Unions in His Build- ing Programme. Before announcing the Committee on the Erection of Homea Mayer Hylan will invite to City Hall Friday afternoon leaders in, the trades’ unions and tho »ricklayers unions to tell them that hw tnvesti= gation of building paralysis (@ the city has convinced him that ong @f the major causes is the failure agreement between the trades and the bricklayers: “I am satisiled,” said the Mayer te- day, “that there are seven or eight men in this city who have it witht their power to say the word that will” launch @ building boom which would be the greatest in the histury of he world. . “If these men would give and take if they would put aside uld and get avay from the aa tude they have taken, would be back to work ioe other mechanics in the build: would follow and complete "ihe i that they had begun.” The Mayor said he probably announce the numes of the mittes on the @ection of early next week. That relief in the housing crisis within the powers of the m authorities is the opinion ¢: by Borough President Bruckner the Bronx in an address to 500 bers of the High Bridge © Council. President Bruckner that the application of some business sense, plus the city’s will bring about the desired relieg, Mol NORFOLK, Va, March 17—The Clyde Line steamer Mohawk, which Be- came disabled Sunday off Cape was towed into Hampton Roads day by the coast guard cutter Learn the Facts First Hand You will learn more about the Ostermoor Mattress dur- ing a ten-minute visit than you could learn in any other way. OSTERMOOR ‘Why not come in this week? The Carlisle Textile Company loft at No. 141 Wooster Street was entered by experts who made a careful selec- tion of expensive silks. About $15,000 worth was taken. The police believe the thieves were scired off before they had completed thelr work, forty- jeight bolts of silk worth $200 each | having been found in the lower hall. The police did not report these robberies. Dennis Meehan, No. 60 Park Ave- nue, Brooklyn, was heli in $3,000 bail in the Adams Street Court, Brooklyn, to-day on a charge grand larceny. It is alleged he stole $10,000 worth of shoes from a truck in front of the Hanan and Sons factory on Feb. 24, Meehan is also under bail on a charge of holding up a saloon at Fifth Avenue and 62nd Street three months ago. —_ FATHER KILLS MAN TO SAVE DAUGHTER. Fires, She Says, When Visitor, at Point of Revolver, Demands Jer- sey Girl Come Here With Him. NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., March 17. —Dominick Glangrasso, whose home in romewhere in Manhattan, was shot and killed with a shotgun here this morning in the bakeshop of George Farici, at No, 119 Remsen Avenue. Farle! did the shooting, the police aay Miss Lena Fa- rick, a daughter, told them. Farici dis- appeared and the police have sent out @ gencral alarm for his capture. Six months ago Miss Farici returned \from Manhattan, where she had tived \for years with Giangrasso's family, oe, begged her to stay. When the shop this morning , drew a revolver Miss Fariol said e sareamed and her father ran from jan adjoining room, seized « shotgun .nd ir | ed with him. TELLS OF ARNSTEIN HUNT.’ Fur Storage At Moderate Prices Orders are now being accepted for Alterations and Repairs At Speciat Prices C. G. Gunther’s Sons 391 Fifth Avenue Furriers Exclusively for One Hundred Years Telephone 5860 Murray Hill Says He Never Saw “Nicky” Trip With Deteciives, ya Wetheseiee Eugene F. McGee, law partner of 4 |Wiillam J. Fallon, counsel to “Nicky NOTE TE MANE |Arnatein, aought In connection with th jsreat Liberty Bond robbery conapiracy | spent toxlay telling United States | missioner Gilc nd Sol ” Me era of the Nationa Company what he did not kno t the wheres| YW ot Kk | » Pittsburgh. (FRE. Feb, Mreet | Ruth Ponton, twenty-six, of No. 42 | West 92d Sireet, mpted suicide by |Jumping from the Battery sea wail, dur- ng the downpour of rain lust evening, Two boys fishing driftwood out of the| lalinar Brovkiyn, members hau Lahoy of the her to Belley Lahey her father Bilzabsth Reivb, at the 2d Street ne never had mmunication with Arnstein, thou an known to him as Henry 8 brought and telephoned me what te and whe ky contemplated surrendering enied had gone to Niagara Is Ganada, for any other pirpnge thin seo the Falls When they were all frogen : , had no. Information obtained channels, iM Untons Prepare WASHINGTON, ommittees whieh | ized labor's ep to Enter Mar YE. 33 mies and will be organized over the coun UR are 22, it i Fe nounced to-day at hew re of American Feder- Alon of Labos, ‘NCH REPUBLIC FROPERTY) There is now in New York an ample supply of that famous Mineral Water and it can be readily South William © CELESTINS “CELESTINS through the regular GOURD, Generel Lrstribnter treet, Now York