The evening world. Newspaper, March 24, 1920, Page 2

: | 1 t Ls ie 4 ro i. iy is 3 ait 1 pa Premier Millerand this morning situation in the Ruhr Valley. ) Gilded to give the permission and that Jeli that remains to be decided is @uarantecs will be asked of . Germany to insure that her army will ‘fetire as soon as order is restored. ‘The French Givernment would have Preferred interallied action in the oc- @upied zone, while the British and the © Ttalians favored granting permission for operations by the German Army. | “Whe French gave way on this point “im view of the acuteness of the fuel situation in France and the depend- ‘ence of this country on supplies of coal from the Rubr district. ———— 48-HOUR TRUCE - WITH THE REDS, RUMOR IN PARIS Radicals Said to Have Threatened to restore orter President Whert may be forced out | of office. His resignation may otcur told him the Bbert Government tn the very near future according to | ample forces ready to deal with current belief unless a compromise | {a effected among the warring ele- Py 96..Tt te understood the Allies have de-, ments. The surrender of the President to the radicais and his consent to ap- point an all-Socialixt Cabinet has eplit the Independents. ‘The bolting faction insist that no government It is reported that Dr. Kapp, who many noted men are being sought as | accomplices, They will be tried for | high treason. Word has been re-| ceived that Gen. Ludendorft has es- caped to Denmark. | Among the leaders who are being! Prosecuted and who are being looked for are von Jagow, Col. Bauer, Major | Pabst, Dr. Shiele and ex-Attorney Brederek, Baron yon Falkenhausen, @ former Assistant Secretary of State, | and Councillor Doye have been added | to the list of those to be prosecuted. | pane <ateee | to Fload the Coal Mines in a Ruhr District. | PARIS, March 2% (United Pross)—A 48-hour armistice between the West German Comunists in the Rubr dis- “trict and the Government forces has ‘een arranged, says a despatch from “Bietefeld, Westphalia. ' Phe armistice was arranged at. a ‘meeting between representatives of Government and the Ruhr Commission, the despatch paid. It was believed the Commun- iste were informed of the Govern- o promise to Berlin radicals that ‘the Government will be reorganized ia purely Gocialist Cabinet. event of further attacks by hr troops the Ruhr radicals d to flood all coal mines, the paid. LONDON, March 24.—The Moscow station to-day sent out a b, dated Berlin, which declares ‘the revolutionists in the Ruhr dis- ‘Prict had attempted to enter into’ne- (gotiations with the Dutch Govern- ‘ment, but were repelled. The Ger- ‘mans desired foodstuffs in exchange for coal. WOMEN REPORTED ‘FIGHTING IN RANKS OF GERMAN REDS Have Seen Military Service Or- i dered to Fight. ‘Feported fighting in the ranks of the ‘Rede in the Ruhr district. At some “points anti-Semitic demonstrations deen made, although many of ‘Communist leaders and officers ry H f Meindorf, who was released prison to take charge of the ist movement in the Ruhr ordered al) workmen who military service to report ing, if they fail to their food rations. @re requisitioning all ut actual seizures must in the presence of officers, looters are severely punished. all the workmen who have arms against the Govern- one imbued with Spartacian accord: to diplomatic mes- to the foreign office to-day, of them, particularly those of , intend to fight until certain istic representatives are in the new cabinet. ‘They conditions prevail also tres, jorkmen are represented as that the Central Government i. workingmen's Vanawiny ~~ Baltic troops be disarm: an the Oinister of Defense Noske be out of the new cabinet. The Essen disturbances, which are appar- ently the most serious in the country, fare described, as purely Bolshevik. : — HALLE DAMAGED IN HARD FIGHTING; COBURG CUT OFF Government Troops Get the Upper Hand—Reinforcements on the Way. GIPSIC, March 24 (Associated (Preas)—Halie, the lange industrial town just to the northwest of this eity, was completely cut off from communication last night. The latest reporta were that the troops had «@ained the waper hand after a con- siderable part of the city had deen feduced to ruins, axon troops, to reinforce the Gov- ernment’s contingents in Halle, are on the way to that town. Fighting was reported going on in ‘Coburg, which also is cul off trom en) and Bavarian are on the way to put down the disorderly elements. At Chemnitz, the workmen who @ucceeded in disarming the troops re- @ained in control and order has been completely restored. As far ag can be learned, the workmen's revolt here in this section is directed inst the military elements and shows no Bolshevik tendency, al- though a soviet has been set up at Palkenstein, near Piauen, MOVE IN BERLIN iy & pent it GERMAN WORKERS DEMANDS ON EBERT Include Reorganization of Govern-| ment and Punishment of . ; Kapp Rebels. ) LONDON, March 4%. despatch from Berlin gives the following as the demands the workers have made on the German Government: “Reorganization of the Government of the empire and Prussia must be undertaken with the co-operation of labor unions, and the deciding influ- ence upon social laws must be given the unions, “Guilty rebels must be disarmed and punished. “All offices of the public adminis- tration must be purged of counter- | revoluttonists. ‘The reform of governmental ministration must be executed as quickly as possible, with the co-oper- | ation of the unions. Social laws must be extended | immediately to secure economic equality for working men. “Nationalization of industry must! be commenced at once. “Better supplies of food must de arranged, and available stocks must be placed at the disposal of tho people. “All military formations which do not remain true to the constitution must be disbanded.” a FORCE HEARING ON | BEER AND WINE Sweet Compelled to Agree but Will Try to Postpone All Liquor Legislation, ALBANY, March 4%. — Following their victory in forcing the adoption of @ resolution haling Supt. Ander- son of the Anti-Saloon League beforo the Assembly Judiciary Committee to: answer for “insults” to legislators, the wets have compelled Speaker Sweet and other dry leaders to-day to grant! @ hearing next Tuesday on all light! wine and beer bilis, George F. Thompson, bone-dry obtain enough signatures to force the Republicans into a caucus on the te sc \ NEW YORK GIRL WINS $25,000 HEART BALM, Gets Verdict Against Cleveland Officer Who Won Her Love on His Way to the Front. CLEVELAND, 0., March ™.—Miss Evelyn Uirich of No. 51 East $24/ Street, New York City, was awarded | $25,000 damages against Harry C. Turnock, former army Captain, for breach of promise here late yestenday, ‘Turngck is a Clevelander. Miss Ulrich testified she met ‘Tur- nock in New York while he was wait- ing embarkation to France, and be- came engaged to him. More than 200 letters written by Turnock were intro- duced as evidence. Her suit was for the amouht granted, —————_—— BUS WRECKED BY TRUCK. Passengers In; Fifteen women and a half dozen men were riding in @ city bus from Concord, S, I, to the St, George Ferry this after noon when @ five-ton truck hit the bus and almost wrecked it, Most of the passengers were cut by broken ginas, put the only person serlously injured waa William Johnson, No, 112 Steuben Stre-t, Concord, who was trying to board the bus while it was in motion, His right Arm .was broken and both legs injured, He was taken to the Staten Island Hos- pital ‘The accident occurred at Bay and Ar- rietta Streets, Tompkinsville, —— May Settle Bitumtno Seale Here. WASHINGTON, March 24.—Sugges- tion that the Joint Seale Committee of Operators and Miners of the Centra! Competitive Bituminous Coal Field meet Monday in New York to draft a new wage agreement was made in a tele. fram sent to-day by John L. Lewis President of the United Mine Workers Coal Waxe TO DRIVE EBERT FROM PRESIDENCY German Cabinet Reported Split Over Efforts to Compromise With Reds, of America, to ‘Thomas T. Brewster Ohairman of the Operators’ ‘Scale Com: consisting of workers only can main-{ tain power in Germany | }led the counter revolution, bas been! arrested and is in jail Gen. von Luettwitg is also behind bars and) jleaders deny any intention to declare leader in the Senate, was unable to @¥¢ Sinn Fein prisoners, under heavy The white portion east of the terri- tory occupied by Allied troops includes Westphalia and Ruhr Vajley, the great mining and manufacturing district of Western Germany, now controlled by the Red forces, Soviets have been re- ported set up in Essen, Duisburg, Dort, Mund, Elberfeld arid other big marhi- facturing centres. Duesseldorf is in control of the Socialists, but the a “8 PER CENT. NET” ON INVESTMENT IS HELD FAIR RENTAL Washington Commission Fixes That Rate and “Gouger” There Is Routed. HE rent gouging problem in Washington, more serious even than New York, has been solved by a law passed under “public interest” power, naming a Rent Commissioner, whose decisions are final unless an appeal is taken to the District Court of Appeals within ten days. After exhaustive study the commission fixed a fair and re: sonable return from rents at from 7 to 8 per cent. net—8 per cent. may be said to be the aver age. This return is not figured upon the market value of the property fixed by the law of supply and demand, but on the money. in- sideration, A majority of W. owners of rental property agree that 8 per cent. net is a fair re- turn, Se 65 CORK PRISONER SENT TO ENGLAND Sinn Feiners Sing Republican Songs | as ‘They Board Sloop at Queenstown, QUHENSTOWN, March” 2 xty= military escort, were brought by motor lorry from the Cork jail to this city this morning, where they were put aboard a British sloop which departed | presumably for Ehglafd. The sloop was | accompanied by two destroyers, The prisoners sang republican songs and returned the farewells af the! watching crowds as the vessels left the hanbor. The Chairman of the District Council has received a typewritten communica- tion warning him that he will be as- sassinated in the event of the shooting | of any Queenstown policemen. posncinlyel MS tsa U. S. TO BUY SUMMER COAL. Wilson Hopes to Keep Miners Work- ing All Year. WASHINGTON, March 24.—President Wilson will sign an executive order di- recting all departments of the Federal Government to purchase and store up 4 three months’ supply of coal during May, June and July, State and county’ Governments and public utilities will be urged to do the same, The result will be, in the apinion of experts of the National Coal Commis- sion, that the mines will be kept busy during the dull season, the rush of work as winter comes on will be eliminated such a saving that vent. wage increase granted the miners by the Commiasion will be ubsorbed and not passed on to the pub- Ne. es MAY RESUBMIT TREATY. Senat PROVIDENCE, R. L, March 24.— Senator Le Baron B. Colt, one of the “mild reservationi. in the Senate, told the Wom Republican Ctub of Khode Island that he believed that the treaty ‘is only temporarily laid aside.” President Wilson, he said, had sev- eral possible courses open to him, now that the treaty has been returned to him, One of them was to resubmit it to the Senate, ad some intimations from ¥ Democratic friends that he added. have certain of he may sei baci ~—_— Yight Merely Beginning, Says One of Ousted Soctaliats, At the Rand School of Social Science In Bast 15th Street The Evening World report that counsel for the Assembly Judiciary Committee had filed a brief mittee. declaring five Socialist Assemblymen ——ie disqualified to hold their seats” was 2 read with interest Visiting Nurse Service Celebrates “It may well be,"’ Assemblyman Louis 20th Year, Waldman, one of the five, declared, that this will be the report of the An entertainment and reception at the Nelghborhood Playhouse, No. 466 Grand Street, last night celebrated the twenty- ith anniversary of the found! the vuiting Sane vice In New Yor City, ands purpes to add impelus to the $1,000,000 campaign now, in Judiciary Committee to the Assembly, in turn, the vote of the Assem- iy.” There certainly will be a minority report. There y be Uiree dissenting have issued ord THE EVENING WORLD, WEDN Map Showing Sc f Civil War |! ” i Rhenish Bection oF Gahitccly| CHAOS IN NAVY of Aldermen, who attended the housing ’ LAD TODANELS ~ BY CIPT ANN Pian of Operations Disap- proved and No New One Was Formulated. | | i WASHINGTON, March 24.—Virtual chaos existed in the Navy Department when the United States entered the war, Capt. Harris Laning, Assistant Chief of the Bureau of Navigation during the war, testified to-day before the Senate Investigating Committee. The navy: not only was not pre- pared, but it did no “carry on” in the early days “as efficiently as it could and should have,” he said. Capt. Laning sald that about the The heavily dotted line shows the ltime the United States declared war The tortibatrencted <orces in front Of tne omice of ‘Chief of Naval Operations forces have been driven back from the|%d prepared a plan outlining the manufacturing centres and are report-!Havy's first efforts, but it was dis- ed to be shut up in the fortress. Their | approved by the department, with the number is estimated at 6,000 while the| result that when a plan of operations Reds have 000 men, Bbert has | was needed the navy was without one. asked permission to send troops, Capt. Laning said no one knew Riateh the territory occupied by the | what to de after this plan was dis- Allies tn order to overcome the Reds, | d and that the “persenal 4nd this permission is likely to be|*PProved a eae eran characteristics of the Secretary of the Navy often made it impossible to get | approval of really important polici PITTSBURGHERS He charged that during the war it ORGANIZE TO FIGHT: |always was difficult and frequently impossible to obtain the department's ALL RENT GOUGERS |approva! to essential plans and poli- or cles, making it necessary for subor- dinate officers to go far beyond their authority to get things accomplished, thus increasing the difficulty of car- rying on the war and decreasing the efectiveness of American participa- tion. Capt. Laning asserted that the vari- ous units of the department could make no co-ordinate effort to carry op the war for lack of a definite general plan; that the fleet was not ready for operations when war began, and that in the years immediately preceding 1917 the department did not take an attitude toward legisla- tion and policies that would have Prepared the fleet. “Whenever a plan or policy was presented to the Secretary he almost invariably delayed action on it,” Capt. Laning declared. “Phe personal in- terest he took in all matters absorbed so much time that he never had much left to give to the more important affairs.” When important policies and plans were submitted to Seoretary Daniels, Laning said, directions would be given to leave the papers for“consideration,” and usually these instructions meant that the matter would not be heand from again until the officer interested looked the papers up and then fre- quently the papers conld not be found. ; “Conditions became so bad,” the witness said, “that officers used every means possible to put their plans through without obtaining the re- quired authority.” Laning offered to furnish the com- mittee the names of other officers who, he said, would corroborate his testimony. “As for material conditions in the fleet when we entered the war,” the captain added, “it was found that it would take over 100 days to get all battleships of even the active fleet materially ready for war, The dread- noughts were not sent to the yards for repairs until several months after the declaration of war.” Before the entry of the United States into the war, efforts were be- ing made to obtain Daniels's approval to contracts for 14-inch shells for the dreadnoughts, Capt. Laning said. These efforts were accelerated, he Members of the County Bar Associa- | *#id, and in a letter of April 12, 1917, tion to-day promised free legal assist-|it Was pointed out that should the ance to all office building tenants who] six dreadnoughts having 14-inch gung ket into trouble with their landlords. expend their shells in a battle there refill their magazines and none for Will Ask Injunction Against Every Landlord Who Makes Exor- i bitant Demands. (Spebial to The Rvening World. PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 24.—An army of house renters, 1,500 strong, met in Labor Temple here and organized the Ailegheny County Renters’ League, paid $1 a head for the privilege and declared there would be no moving day in Pittsburgh on the first day of May: There was little publicity given the meeting, yet house renters flocked the L Temple in such number that ng room was at a premium. Landlords will be fought to the last ditch and any tenant who Is facing eviction because of exorbitant rent de mands will be backed by the entire organization, A blanket Injunction. will be’ asked on all ds who, in the opinion of the league, are exonbitant in their rent demands, ‘It was stated by officials of the organization. The of- ficers of the league are: Charles J. Nib- lock, President; William J. Kelly, Vice President; George B. Carroll, Secretary, and E. E. Padgett, Treasurer, poet Nits, LA GUARDIA URGES 10 P.C. RENT LIMIT Would Hold Income Down to That Figure and Believes Reputable Landlords Would Agree. President La Guardia of the Board hearing in Albany yesterday, declared to-day that the situation in New York City is critical and that immediate and substantial relief is imperative. “A bill that would limit the income to 10 per cent. net would produce good results,” he said, “and I believe that the conservative, decent, reputable landlords would be satisfied with 10 per cent. net. “The landlords who went to Albany came out in the open and made a fair showing of where they stand. They intend to resist any law and resort to the very convenient Phrase ‘supply and demand.’ And in the meantime— this is significant—they are not doing any building. One of their sugges- tions was to bring over more immi- grants to compete with the local labor market. This would give more vic- tims for rent extortion and also in- crease the already congested condi- tion.” ‘Free Ald to Tenants by County Bar Axsociation. Failing in this, =m veal action in every case in which the lawyers believe the tenant|three more dreadnoughts then near- is being imposed upon. ing completion. Later, he said, the ee en shells were ordered GIRL OF 8 IS “HOUSEKEEPER”| Lanning said that just prior to 1917 the Department gave out “such glowing accounts of the Navy and its splendid condition and efficiency that few, if any, outside the Navy realized the true condition,” That the lack of a general plan 2 cost huge sums of money indivat- the Morrisania Police Court against| ed, Lansing said, by a conversation John Storace, twenty-five, of No. 321| with Paymaster General MoGowan, East 150th Street, a collector for the] two. montive after the armistice, when Central Union Gas Company, who was| McGowan ‘ reed “Do you remember the plan you caren bird Snore eet tn the! «ted to’ put through at the outbreak Younger children Ue Sitt and two! oe tne war that provided for handling Mafolda wore a coat too big for her|the Emergency Fumd and which the and her toes peeked out from broken| Secretary wouldn't approve? God shoes. man, if he only had done it, The way ‘Two yeark ago the child's father dis-| things have gone we find after charg- Ace of Dinerderly Conduct. Right-year-old Mafolda Peppa of No. Enat 152d Street testified to-day in appeared. ‘The family consista of the ” Pine tra tant toca mother, \ Concetta, thirty-five, who| {8 off everything i works ‘all day in” a clothing factory, | appropriations we have over expended Annie, nine, who goes to school; Ma-| the Emergency Fund by albout $165,- folda, ‘eight, the “housekeeper”; A! six, and Carmine, two yeara old. Miss Teresa Walsh of the Catholic Big Sis- ters has taken steps toward clothing the little ones and promised to keep in touch with the family hereafter. bert, 000. Laning was cross-examined by Senator Trammell, Florida, who read a letter written by Laning to Rear Admiral Sims in 1918, apparently in answer to criticisms made by the Admiral. “Tam not convinced,” wrote Capt. Laning, “that operations has erred or that my office (navigation) has erred, The problem was not to de- liver a puny and futile blow at the Dante uy dimsion ieblanes t start but to build for the blows that Gee read ee marek ” Mra Gitke| in the end must crush the enemy. nies her husband's charges. Even you yourself questioned the ad- ar vieability of keeping or battleships in commission and suggested putting them out to send the persona over there, To have done that would have Jury to Try Gibbs Diverce suit. The motion of Mrs. Lottie Wager Gibbs for a jury trial in the divorce suit brought by Albert Spencer Gibbs, head of a dental laboratory at No. 387 Kast Fordham Road, the Bronx, wi Sold Home; No Place to Move To. John Nangle, sixty-six, of Ridgewood, N. J. id dead by his wife last pembl iD it. be been disastrous, for these battleships Genily- Sold his Wome and Ean reife | have trained over 100,000 men and katien®, 2 OF. Mey 1, due to cheriage thousands of officers, ; } “ha early as July first last yoar it ESDAY,,;MARCH 24, 1920, became known that no matter how much we curtailed the U boats the war would be lost if we did not get troops to France, How were tho troops to get there unless the navy took them? ‘Those troops of ours are saving the day, and [ believe it would be unfair to put blame on the depart- ment for putting them acfoss instead SOVIETFORCES BEATEN BY POLES Villages Taken and Retaken in Hand to Hand Fighting, War- hi of sending the personnel to chase saw Reports, submarines. “Over there you give us the devil] WARSAW, March 23.—Russian became sve don't do all you want us| Bolshevik forces which have attacked to do. You feet that we are failing ” you. Does it help the morale over| ‘Ne Polish front with great fury in {here or over here tad thaet the vicinity of Bobruisk have been re- At the renuest of Senator Pittman, pul: |, according to an offict: = Democrat, the letter of Gen. Bliss de- a pen nying that he favored brigading of capture of M forces, and « ing ahecd of the Red a jan headquarters have ‘been removed to Human ‘by Premier Mazepa. American troops with those of the Allies was inserted in the record. Sims had said Bliss favored the pian. oration 16,000 ANTI-REDS FROZEN TO DEATH Bolsheviki Announce That Bodies Have Been Found on Russian Steppes. LONDON, March 24.--More than 16,- 000 Anti-Bolshevik soldiers have been found frozen to death on the Steppes, it is announced in a Soviet military communique received to-day from Mos- || orecticall cow by wireless, (The Steppes comprise |] f by excellence, the plains in Southeastern Russia and the Western Asiatic Provinces.) statement reports progress by ed troops against Gen. Denikine'’s along the railway in theKateri- region on the Caucasus front. COLBY TO SIGN NOTE ON EXPELLING TURKS Restatement of U. S. Position to Be First ‘Diplomatic Paper Bearing His Name. WASHINGTON, March 24—The culate, each ins original position of the American Gov- - ernment that the Turks should be ex- 19¢ 49c & 99c pelled from Europe is restated in a note to \the Allied Supreme Council TK which has been prepared at the State re Department and which will be trans- mitted soon. The note will bear the signature of Bainbridge Colby, the new Secretary of State, and will be the first diplo- matic paper to be signed by him, HANDCUFF DIDN'T HOLD HIM, jerks Wrist Out of Steel nd Escapes, Moe Slobodin, harm for the Kiddies. sae Tiaee™ oases “ene ceted. ‘a 8 Et ae ekeltaad ERERY ARSON itliences of ace Ss el PANORAMA FGGS—An_ imported ‘a large sparkling. s at one 59c end seen all sorte of attractive ’ PRICE, EACH one of two prisoners handcuffed to the wrists of Deputy United States Marshal Richard H. Murphy at Centre and Chambers Street to-day jerked his wrist out of the steel and ran into the crowd in City Hall ED OREAMERY CA MELS—These are dain- ty blocks of unexerlied Caramel excellence. xen= Park. Murphy fired in the air and shouted demands that somebody chase erously soa the fugitive. Nobody did, though hun- pleasing dreds milled obtu seeking spectators’ thrills. A traifific polieman ran to Murphy and inquired what he meant by firing a revolver. Slabodin, with Murphy's other pris- oner, William Schneider, were arrested March 16, charged with rifling letter boxes. Munphy was taking them from the Tombs to the o‘fice of United States Commissioner Hltchcock for a hearing. chopped Nuts and richiy Stores: New York, Brooklyn, Newark. ‘Trade Mark. For Tomorrow, Thursday, March 25th EWING CANDY —Tho name te e jh TU a e x. EASTER EXPOSITION | CHOCOLATE COVERED MALLOW E6OS—Bix, Marshmallow _ centres Jack. of onr Unex= tence s TOE a Bo} PER PACKAGE tole. 8 Bk. 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