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{ “ Circulation Books Open to All. ] j ba Wl Books Open to Au. | NS WMC ENS IN Wat7 KAR TAL EDITION. | LLL ALAN SSS NICE oe LX. NO. 21, 388 DAILY. Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing Co, (The ‘New York World). NEW YORK, TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1920. Entered as Second-Class Post Office, New York, Matter N.Y. 24 PAGES. _ PRICE TWO CENTS, REDS HOLD ALL WEST GERMAN CENTRES LAWS 10 END RENT GOUGING ARE ASSURED OF PASSAGE AS ALBANY HEARINGS BEGIN idccmilpisasines, Sweet Promises to Back Meas- ures, ve Defection of Vice Chairman. LAGU! ARDI/ A LEADS FIGHT A Predicts Radical Control of Legislature if Bills Are Defeated. By Joseph S. Jordan. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) ALBANY, March was going to be a fight at the hear- ing of the anti-rent-profiteering bills was evident long before the session of the legislative hearing was called by Chairman C. C. Lockwood at 2 erclook’ this afternoon, Assembly- man Thomas A. McWhinney of Nas- gau County had declared earlier in the day ag the leader of himself 23.—That there} SAID 10 CONFESS BROOKLYN ROBBERY. Seven Selzed Atte After Exciting! | Chase in Autos Across | Bridge. | “TELEPHONES HERE. BY MARL Bell Company sah Install ‘one! responsible for a number of holdups Automatic Exchange and Steadily Add More. i eer Two of the men hay been identified | Automatic telephone exchanges will ‘by William T. Blair, a druggist, as be in use in the Pennsylvania ex- members of a quartet which tn- change of the Bell Telephone Com-| tered his place of business at Bedford pany at No. 204-206 West 36th Street, Avenue and Park Place Sunday night, | by April 15. Other now exchange, While the street was thfonged, and| bulidings are being erected in which robbed him of $80 in cash and $700 they will be installed by the latter) worth of jowelry. part of summer or early autumn, — | While the mechanism of the new! ictims of Holdups Identify Some of Men Arrested, | Police Declare. | With the | two women the police of Brooklyn be- arrest of seven men and and robberies in that borough within | the last two weeks. | Six of the men were arrested after se by detectivés in ANG ROUNDED UP CHAMPION CARPENTIER HERE, PROUDER OF WIFE THAN TITLE; AND, VOILA! HE SETS A FASHION THREE-STORY SUDE ‘DOWN CABLE SAVES (Photographed especially for The Evening World on La Savoie bey) | WOMAN FRO FROM FIRE ‘Daring hancies Mii Made of Five Others in Burning East 95th Street House, | CHILDREN CARRIED OUT, | Tenants, Routed From Sleep, | are Taken Down Ladders | by Firenfen. | any | Mrs. Emma Bucher, No, 184 East | ostn Street, thin’ floor rear, was roused by the crackle of flames and ; the shouts of firemen soon after 7 | o'clock this morning. | When she opened the stairway door the flames, which had swept up from the basement, rushed into her room. | A new draft was created when she | left the door open and opened a win- | cows The fire rushed through the | room so. fast that Mrs. Bucher was |burned slightly before she could climb to the window sill, ‘There was no ladder there. The firemen were all at work in the front Part of the building. But there was | @ cable filled with electric wires. It FBERT TROOPS OUTFLANKED NN FIGHTING NEAR WESEL: Reds Claim: Capture of 700.Govern~ ment Troops at Elberfeld—Hos- pitals Crowded With Wounded —Tanks and Machine Guns Used. AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, RHENISH PRUSSIA, March 23.—Another battle is reported to be going on between Spartacans and troops of the regular army at Wesel, twenty-two miles northwest of assen, The regue lars, the report says, appear to have been outflanked by the Spartacans, A detachment of Uhlans was surprised Monday between Dusseldorf and Duisburg, southwest.af Essen. The officers and young the detachment were shot as enemies of the working clas to a wounded Uhlan who was rescued by a Belgian post. BERNE, March 23.—More than 300 persons have been killed in the fighting at Elberfeld, in the Ruhr region near the occupied zone, and in ti:e neighborhood of that city, accordi The Com- munists took about 500 of the Reichsweir prisoner.at Elberfeld, and 200 soldiers of cording g to to-day’s advices, telephone instrument may com-| sensational oh | was fastened to the wall and led down | additional at another point. ' the revolt against the proposed leg- plicated, it will be simple sub- an automobile across Williamsburg CARPENTIER'S COLLAR. to the back yard. Mrs. Bucher caught ® The despatches t out vious Islation. Mr. McWhinney is the Vice | serfbers to work it, On the flat fridge early this morning. The polic. a {the cable and did so quick a slide Chairman of the Housing Committee round base upon which it stands there had learned of the movements of the is @ dial on which are the names of gang through a letter to one of the |Frenchman Brings Mottled tht her hands were badly burned entire |: ‘ports that nearly the entire induse | trial district of Westphalia is in the I |hands of the ¢ 1 | 4 3 jand torn, Otherwise she was not of oth Houses, which has eon! ay the exchanges In the city and the, girls from a former member now said | Collar That Might Stagger | nurt. Communists, although working on the problem for the last; numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 89 and 0.) to be serving @ prison term in the] Dempsey Without a Blow. The building is a three-story room- fighting is continuing in some places, year and a half There is a revolving lever by which! pjaitimore jail. | ’ * | tng house and the fire started in the |Fresh estimates of the Communist How many of the promised 1,800 any one can make any desired con-| otectives trailed the gang over to| | é basement before the tenants were out ers Nicos Sane a tenants, landlords and real estate nection. hase aaal bearicnal) Besser ater | Georges Carpentier, pugilist and o¢ ped, Mrs. Rose De Motto, who : lace them at from 70,000 to owners are on the ground it is im- For instance, sup, .¢ you wished|hattan, last night. At Clinton and | soldier, accompanied by the bride he occupied the front basement with her 100,000. possible to estimate. They h to call The Evening Worll at Beek-|pelancey streets another member of| | married the«lay before he sailed from, three-year-old son, was first to smell | =e {s declared to be threatens coming all inorning on spec man 4000. You would turn the lever | the band was picked up and the gang France, walked down the gangplank| the smoke, She roused Mra. Anna ing Bochum, Dortmund, Dusseldorf, han regular trains, on loc: to the Beckman Exchange and press|then started for Brooklyn, where, as | - ; Taylor, rear basement, and the two sn and Elberfeld, because the express trains. But there were enough it down; then around w the digit}it was afterward learned, ines | se La Savole on her arrival at her) |. past the fire to the street, ped re Nis are refusing to deliver food of them here when the hearing was four, press again and then move it! pjanned to hold up a drug store in | pler this morning aftor an overnight) pyr, 4, |to the Communists, Encounters ale » Assombly atmosphere budding called to order to jam t Chamber and give it tl of summer instead of the epring. to zero and press three times, If the line was not busy your connec- Won would be made and Flatbush. On the way the ridge the the bell! gang, riding in a limousine, became would continue to ring until an an-| aware of the pursuers and put on over | delay at Quarantine. Tex Rickard, | Jack Curley and other persons whose | names appear frequently in the sport- | Aviron and John Del Motto, who occupied the first floor,” got out by way of the front window before the fire apparatus arrived. Assembly orc 70 to 64, to) ready have occurred betweer Pass Betts Measures to nee Pig lifes Prevent Change. sante which out in the country requisitioning Communists supplies. ing columns were privileged to get| In the second floor front apartment siccataeeaneerpegi Notwithstanding the McWhinney | wer was secured, more speed. At the Brooklyn end of |J | insidathe customs lines to meet him.| wag Mre, Alexander Gcolay with her aia Ane hoaptta ast >) perfeka aro full opposition, the measures settled upon) Gradually the new method will ex-| the bridge a traffic policeman warned Outside the lines: was a large and|two little daughters, Cornelia and| ALBANY, Maren 2.—Tho Assembly [Wounded #0 alors ad civilians as by the Conference Committee are tend to all ew of the city, but it/ them to slow down and they obeyed. __Geores RGES OARPENTIER. [enthyslestio gathering of persons who | Constance. Mrs. Scolay opened her|to-day defeated the Betts Dill, de- | n¢ : ny oe he fighting in that a ritte: o statute | was stated at the offices of the Bell| Waiting detectives jumped into the anticipate with joy a day when M,/| | sedans destined to be written into the statute ba cs pa: door, slammed it shut to keep the fire af the ast: Ba wine gle lag é books Stat it is the an-, Telephone Company to-day it would| machine, placed its occupants under Carpentier and Jack Dempsey will| out, then went calmly to the window | “ened t© repenl the Daytight Saving | ; me bersons were killed and seve Be eons Buen’. mme and the|be several years before it would be| arrest and forced the driver to take maul each other with such svlence/ +, wait for help, It came promptly,|'@W: ‘The vote was 70 for and ¢4| T°) ire Nounied in fshting ag rest of the members of the conference | In working order, all to the Clymer Street Station, and force as each can best command. | Capt, Brady of Hook and Ladder No, |aeainst, and 76 votes are a majority. | °'") ningsdort between Spartacans Ria anit orth, The new system will not mean the} Later they were taken to Police |They raised a cheer when the big,|18 ordered up a ladder and Firemen| «the Democrats voted almost ax | Ners. ‘Tanks and machine Senator Lockwood announced at! discharge of any girl operators, be-| Headquarters, where Acting Captain blue-eyed blond Frenchman came| O'Sullivan And Degnan | mounted. cat Keakiiet (He MABE ig Hee | Coe oee no ores . 1 ie soldiers mene . plmaune . Sey « tas gine ey * too! e ed at first, but they ate the start that the reports of any! cause its installation will be 80 grad-|of Detectives John Coughlin, Depu' into their view and Carpentier ac-| ney {took the aienca tRinUNaw Sor And ae: eel ee Lah af ‘i sf differenc ween him and Sp or | ual. Police Commissioner Leach and In- | Knowledged the compliment with &] Another Indder was put up the third] eral of the up-State cities lined up| AY Suneors OLR ae Sweet were He declared that| “We will need girls just as we have|spector Thomas Murphy questioned ’ 1 very French and very gay salute and/ floor front to rescue Mr. and Mrs.|wieh the opposition forces, Spoaker| 2 f ntually put the ‘ ronal!" the past,” sald the head of theliiem, The police say all the men pe ‘Youle Heecsia Mireuten. Rodeckar h the opnd , a | Spartacans to rout a the Speaker had been ec i “, telephone’s publicity department af : a . and Roach brought them down, T. C, Sweet voted for the bil BERLIN, March 23—Heavy fights the measure 1 that not one of “And besides, to spread reports that | confessed to having been implicated Mme. Carpentier, @ blonde of much! ‘ne building was so badly damaged! When the result was announced As-| ing between regular troops and insur them had bee ted without his) we would not need girls any more|in robberies and holdups in Brooklyn, |the same type as her husband, was|that it is no longer habitable. The|semblyman Betts moved that th sg ie top nsure sanction and indorsement would destroy the moraie of those! among the victims who confronted not hard to look at, It was obvious| damage Is estimated at $6,000. vote by which the till was lost belknandau, Strone bande semen Ropresentat!y the real estate | We are training vicars them and identified members of the that her husband approved the gen- —>— poethmpasiaticary ne ne ‘ane See pped men opposed all the proposed bills.) “Of course in several years, I sup-| gang were Dr. Albert Martin, a den-| pracident Removes All Restric-| ema! verdict to this eftect. while a| FUMES OVERCOME 16 | to present state law provides that| yim eof B peek with the exception of that granting | pose we bd ware Gale Wie automatic tist of No, 3311 Glenwood avenue, |swarm of pugilistic cssayists and AT FACTORY BLAZE|'e clocks shall be turned ahead one} tore as # sh: un= xceptign from tho income tax on system, Din veveed fear losing their | Flatbush, robbed last Friday evening} tions So Operators May | mere reporters were struggling to got hour next Sunday morning. A bill trennmade Ae remlaes near mortgages up to $10,000. All were nogitions on account of it.” of a gold watch and $5 in cash, and Increase Prices answers to questions about his plans, serbpee atid similar to the Betts bill is on the| opiimed to ola rons against the restriction on eviction and |" One of the Saul ine Gontronting | Max Frankel, No. 435 Myrtle avenue Chee sie {nions and past performances, big! Potsoned fumes of mystertous| order of final p n the Senate| thete fELAD AEST on ng to t elephone co! e co-ordi- | 7" ‘ a ij py, Sf b nferlority in numbers, A r wanted the policy of ejectment mod- the colenh ape fern yabe be te & Sparas On March 19 two men entered orges looked into his wife's eyas| character put parts of several fire} ang may be reached to-morrow. lee ‘ 7 is sonben a val erated, ; 5 tion——human and automatic, Its plans|}rankel's storé and started to hola] WASHID PON age Beats and laughed, She laughed right mack | conension out otenenteticn serie pene ear cut a nal , cs Rent payers agreed on the journey | are not yet quite complete, an ernment control over the maximum| at pim. ‘o-day during a $50,000 blaze on the | 4 rtille ay Piscolio: La Guardia, President IN Ty (Continued on Second Page.) price of bituminous coal was with-| «ap," ne protested to the interpre-| second floor of the six-story tactory| FRANCE TO GIVE UP | Preparat und violent house. of the Board of Aldermen, should, HEARING NEXT WEEK ea drawn to-day by President Wilson, | tor, “Al these questions, they regard| building at the northwest corner of DEAD U. S. SOLDIERS ae fi en i Government e ase fe em, ported 1 effective April 1, ly la boxe; they are of mere money | Mott and Broome Streets. The nox- fants ops have occupied 2 ldges ‘epen their case for them, support only la be ai adie é ; ‘py former Judge John J. Boyle jr, of| ON ALL BEER BILLS DEMANDS INQUIRY At tho same time the President] ang of contracts. Ask them, I pray,| lous gases had a depressing effect| _ money ee | Havel E near Spandau, if - er | INTO GASOLINE COST wrote the operators and miners, trans-| whether they do not think they should | on the heart, and sixteen firemen are|Commission Works Out Plans for] 1NDON, Man overnment (Continued on Second Page.) | Pending Measures to Be Taken Up mitting the majority repert et the | pie : tn. Ded, al in a Vingant’s Howpltal Bringing Home Bodies of i es : sini > iF Ee | Ti mo ecmeened Coal Wage Scale Commission and in- c don Sixteenth Page.) he two whose condition be- exel, says a R n despatch | At One Time In Albany psoas ale |__(Continued HUNDREDS MORE ARE SLAIN. There, tx No Suvetitute ae | On (uesiay Four Price Increases in Month and | forming them that this report was ane to serious they were ieee to : Heroes, fee one nde 3 m sy : for Imported REED: UTS Meee The es . 4 ie i “the basis upon which wage St. Vincent's are Capt. John Grave,] WASHINGTON, March An > y after the of — = ‘ Huge Profits Under Fire in ween © . |SENATE WILL COUNT | ae i‘ . . the Hissidne, wil wee ALBANY, March 23.—A joint hearing ° schedule agreements between the ‘ngino Co. No, 30, and John Costello|ment under which American dead tr greal CLASSIFIED ]on all beer and light wines bills pending Congress. mine workers and operator shall be NEWBERRY VOTES | or Engine No. 30. France, whether within or bet it is imp > pre jin the Legislature will be held next] WASHTNGTON, March 23.—An In-| made.” The fire was in the cigar and leat ae Beate Tae ese : us t V T Tuesday at 10 A. M., it was announced] vestigation of the high price of gaso-| April 1 is the date on which these tobacco factory of Ponzio Brothers, | United States as soon as when it will be fe Com atiga 4 2 geamts-at-Arms to} The disable eme ddition |have been completed has nists are han AD ER ISERS to-day, line wal demanded in a resolution in-|agreements normally would become|Sends 20 Sergeam bi t | THe Aisabh a fre men, in addition have been compioted has h i a ees | ‘The Walker and Gillet Dilis, which! troduced in the House to-day by Rep-| effective and by removing Govern-| Michigan to Gather Up All Jare: Engine Company No. 85, Capt.Jor the Fr@nch and Ame Essen is now menaced by fam- |have been introduced in both houses,| resentative Dyer, Missourl. The probe| ment control of prices effective that | the Ballots. {John Brennan, Frank Shields, Nicho-|menta. ‘The asre walta the ab. (0 IM |are among those which will be constd-| would be conducted by the Attorney day the President paves the way for| am, {laa O'Brien, Matthew Savine, William prova! of the Sren t The Communist Councils in i ered General and would also go into ol!l|increased coal prices to absorb the| WASHINGTON, = March The| Krigler, Louis Chanton and WORN te chr torence apy it Saxony have begun to divide the tem for The 8 — prices, ) average 27 per cent. increase recom. |senate Sub-Committee Investigating /O"Toale; | Engine Company No Poiealagl i is n inrgacautaten thera in la vaneeee x y sun- ‘ nereases in t price of gasi ended @ majo: yort. ne Ford-Newberry senatorial elec cut urry iawke, FB ed by mbassa a wa PEEL eet ia ear WIFE BEATER BEATEN, Pour, Snareonee) in ip prise oh wads | AG UN eater aes retires vies (teat eat cae ter ok Guiness, Daniel Patt, Jc to-day to Chairman Porter, of in a Berlin despatch to the Ex- day World should be in The ee line have been made during the last! ‘The Executive order removes vir-{ion to-day made plana for recounting | Guiness, Daniel Paff, ohn Hufnagel, to-day to Chairman Vorter, of change ‘eleareah) Gamaane cee i y d huge profits are being | ally jovernment control o: the ballots es Gaffney and Micha ‘osner; | Hou IF " t | 1 legral a © World office Court Has Him Lashed With Same) thirty days and huge profits are being) “ng majority report of the Wage|'"e Pale sing, | Hawine Company No, 80, Patrick|state Department ane ON OR BEFORE FRIDAY Backle He Used. made dy the oil interests, Dyer charged. | geale Commission siid the 27 per cent n ei r b Btawert Hanion, | eigen “This practically ends th tro-| al put 6 Gus AKNON, Ohio, March 23.—George| He plans to ask early action on the ase absorbed the 14 per cent. In- | counsel for Ford, and Stewart Hanley, | eae Wacmitareasa the Uak eeiaale mE PRECEDING PUBLICATION, |p .i:0) probably knows what his wife | resolution. crease allowed when the miners re-| counsel for Newberry, the committe | Anderson Challenges Gillet tol pyrvnee aver, the, return mand an Prem Son 40a Fhe » efer- ore hen h he - — 7” turned to work, and that in dollars it| decided to. se wenty deputy ser Debate. | pabeig Rainy auth eveuya 1 Labor Government Barly copy receives the prefer-! Lett piel Neh a diared peli lay When in donht—see “Wedding Hells.»| Would approximate $200,000,000 a. y geanta-at-arms to Michigan to collect] ALBANY, March 24.—William —11,/ dead.” eald My, Porter. “1 am conti ' excluding the bour ence when Sunday advertising leather belt. On orde Lidge Pardee, | comedy gem, Harms Theatre, Last Werks—auri. | In refusing the domand of the| the ‘al and mail them to Waxh-| Anderson to-day challenged Col, Ran neh Commission ¢ mak & court officer to-day atripped Belley’s m ‘ ok, the te t I be counted ® Ane fommendition without ti | p: advanced by the be omitted, Late adver- Ne jis Bi A miners for a thirty-hour week, the|ington. ‘They wi d dy ten Ms Gillet, Hanselloen Merchant ce recommanget an WLNAUt " has to be om Daok of clothing and applied a ane majority of the commission said that | boards of two members, to be se Tected | 20m Rie trope Ga ttadlay tha inlet Pi Knowle ise Bf Sremala Marans | pend: tint xchange Te’ ; tising is now omitted for lack of same belt with which the wife hed WORLD RESTAURANT. it the work day were shortened by |by counsel for Ford and Newberry, | Assembly from Columbia, to w joint de> | who, “/esraph correspondent at Berlin ce i tit t it | Deen beaten, Sool tor today (Tummias)., March 28. 1920: /one hour it would tbe equivalent to —— ime to se! 5 Gillet said: “Let him come around next ey wn ‘fall when there will be something jo TAKE BELL-ANS AFTER MEALS and was mvs aft pete Naka’ Dying Toata—aan, ile bout”, oP, MoMnethn tw oe GOOD DIGASTION takes you foah~ Adam rcahicl ae dict ate $3 saitional cost of more thas §$100,- ports. “The majority of THE WORLD oo Se L Raving Entries on Page 6 ee et oy a en mamecama