The evening world. Newspaper, March 25, 1920, Page 1

‘ -\ eo place the p Saad -ESEL TAKEN, GERMAN REDS CLAIM BILL LIMITS RENT BOOSTS TO 25% TO-NIGHT’S Red alal Lamm td esi, Get the Country Back on Peace Basis Che meme Books Open to All.” fees Books Open to All. sa TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Probably Rain. LSS AMEE ERE IN AFIT 9 still LOLS LI Vile VINES oe LX. NO. 21 (290_—DAILY. Coorg Ame Ie, Te The Press ‘The New York World). Publishing NEW YORK, ‘THURSDAY, “MARCH 25, 1920, Post Office, New Entered as Second-Clame Matter 28 PAGES. x Y PRICE TWO CENTS, WILL GURB RENT GOUGERS BY LAW LIKE THAT IN FORCE AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL pone ener One Bill Limits Rent Boosts in Year to 25 Per Cent. WILL RUSH MEASURES.| | | Are Besed on Public Welfare! Power Already Upheld | by Courts. | By Joseph S. Jordan. | (Gpocial Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) ALBANY, March %.—The bills that are to stop rent gouging in New York City were advanced to a third reading in the Senate to-day. It is the plan of Senator J. Henry Walters, the Republican leader, to have them Passed in the upper house Monday night. They have bean amended so as to apply to Westchester County as well as to Now York City. Efforts to extend their effect to up-State cities have proved so far ineffectual ‘The programme is to pass the bills im dott houses next weok. It is doubt- ful though, if the Asesmbly Cities Committee will act on them before next week. Assemblyman Amos sought to in- troduce a resolution declaring “that it ts the sense of the Assembly that all bills apply to the entire State,” but his move was frustrated by an objec- tion by Assemblyman Cuvillier, when unanimous consent was asked. Mr, Amos Inter said he wanted to Asvembly on record in favor of legislation for the entire State in- stead of for New York, Buffalo and Rochester, as had been agreed upon at a conference yesterday of Republi- ean and Democratic snemibers of both hounes A now bill has been added to the batch of anti-rent profiteering meas- | ures of the Housing Committee which’| declares that an emergency exists and that the congested housing conditions have seriously affected and endan- | gered the public welfare, health and | morals. This is the basis of the proposed | legislation for the curbing of the profitecring landlord, and_in it is the hope of making the rent bills court| and Constitution proof. It follows along lines suggested by Martin Green in his article in The Evening World, telling how Congress had curbed the rent gouger in Washingten under “public welfare” powers already upheld by the United States Supreme Court. THREE NEW BILLS ADDED TO THE PROGRAMME. Three bills in all have been added to the group of n one of which amends the Penal Code and ma (Continued on Second Page.) aio | LY THREE MORE DAYS TO 7 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISERS IMPORTANT ‘Advertising copy for The Sun- day World should be in The World office ON OR BEFORE FRIDAY PRECEDINC PUBLICATION. Early copy receives the prefer- ence when Sund advertisin has to be omilte Late adver- tising is now omitted for lack of time to set it. THE WORLD NEWBERRY CASE LOOMS UP AS BiG POLITICAL ISSUE cee Bes | Socialists Already Comparing His Retention of Seat with Expulsion of Berger. By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Even- ing World.) WASHINGTON, March 25 (Copy- right, 1920).—Announcement by Gov. Sleeper of Michigan that he would not ask any office holders to resign who were recently convicted in the Federal Courts for violation of the election laws has revived the in- quiry here, not merely as to what the State ot Michigan would do, but what the United States Senate would say about the retention by Truman H. Newberry of his seat. The question concerns not alone Michigan politics and the reduction of the Republican majority in the United States Senate to one vote—a narrow margin on which to do fhusiness—but it affects the opportunities of the So- cialists and Radicals in the next cam- paign. Already the Socialists are drawing a parallel between the ex- pulsion of Victor Berger from the House of Representatives because he had been convicted in a Federal Court on a charge of violating the Espionage Act, and the case of Tru- man H. Newberry, who thas been con- victed and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. HOUSE REJECTS BERGER EVEN AFTER RE-ELECTION, Both Mr. Berger and Mr. Newberry have appealed their respective cases and each hopes to secure a reversal, even if it is necessary to carry the fight to the Supreme Court of th United States. But in the mean time the House of Rapresentatives not FIND LIQUOR STILL AND MAN'S BODY | IN RUINS OF FIRE Firemen Run on Whiskey Plant —Brother of Building’s Owner Suffocated. TEN FAMILIES ROUTED. Mysterious Blaze in Hallway Believed Work of an Incendiary. | | i} | An alarm turned in by passersby | called firemen to fight a blaze at No. 32 Hamilton Street early to-day. The} ground floor of the building is a garage run by Joseph Guarino, who with his mother owns’ the building. | ‘he second and third floors are oc-| cupied as a cooperage plant. When the firemen put out the fire! and began washing down they found | two copper stills for making whiskey | on the third floor, near where the fire had started. Lying on a pile of rags and rubbish was the body of a man, whom the firefighters believed at first to be asleep. Battalion Chief Jones shook him and found him dead, suffocated | by the smoke. He proved to be John Guarina, brother of the owner of the building. Joseph Guarino was de- tained until the United States author- | ities investigated, but was later re- leased and told to report at the Fed- eral Building next Tuesday, William Coffey, seventeen years old, was aroused this morning by a snap- ping, crackling sound as he slept on the fourth floor of No. 193 Franklin Street. He found the hallway filled with flame and smoke. Calling his mother and four sisters and aiding them to dodge under the blaze, he led them to the stairs. Their cries aroused the ten families that occupied the rest of the building. James King, his wife and four chil- dren climbed down the fire escape on the Franklin Street side. Mrs. Julia Kennedy and the family of Michael Devine on the third floor escaped down the stairs, John Kennedy's family and that of Mr. and Mrs. Mulligan, on the second floor, fled down stairs, while the fam- ilies of Patrick Kennedy, Mrs. Char- lotte Hendricks and Garrett Hen- dricks climbed to the roof for safety. Firemen aided women and children to safe places and then searched the building for others, reported to hav been left behind. All were saved. The homeless women and children, only refused to seat Mr. Berger, but when he was re-elected and the peaple of his district by their votes gave the impression that they did not find him guilty of wrongdoing, the House de- clined even then to accept Mr, Berger into its membership. All the soap box orators are getting ready to point out that @ Socialist can't get a square deal from the Fed- eral Government, and the Newberry case is the very ammunition they say they have needed to drive their point (Continued on Eighteenth Page.) RUSH GASOLINE. INQUIRY Congress Takes Steps to Carb High Pr at Thin Session, YTON, March 25.—An im- mediate investigation of the high prices of gasoline ‘by the Federal Trade Com mission is provided in a resolution fay- orably reported by the House Judiciary tion on the resolution, which was introduced by Representative Dyer, Mis- ouri, is planned in the House in a short time, and the Commission is d to speed up the inquiry go Con- 3 May act at this session Dyer in repotring his resolution sug- ted that steps be taken to encourag prodnetion and development of alcohol 4 motor fuel | — | “ATE BELL-ANS APTER MEALS and sca tww ting GOOD DIGESTION makes you feel. Adne WORLD RFATAURANT, Simeial for to-day, Thumday. Maren" 23, Rotind deol and horemdish sauce, earl eo eed | Wilson's Note On Expelling in their night clothes, were given refuge at the elevated station at the corner. The fire did about $2,500 dam- age. Qccupants of the building declare the blaze was started by a firebug, as there was a similar mysterious fire in @ hallway two weeks ago, An explosion of gas formed by a fire which had been smoldering all night in the establishments of Mmo. Burada and the C. & K. Dress Com- pany on the eighth floor of the build- ing at Nos, 35 to 39 West 36th Street called out the firemen under Ba’ lion Chief “Smokey Joe” Martin shortly after 7 o'clock this morning. The nes did $15,000 damage. SINN FEINERS USE BOMB ON BARRACKS Capture and Burn Police Station After Wounding Three Police- men in Fight CORK, March 25.—Sinn Feiners at- tacked and captured the police at Cortath sixty miles west and|{ north of Co! st night, agcording to | here to-day | policemen were "The we dynamited and burned. _ | rks station wounded. barracks Cablea, WASHINGTON, wetth ment of thy atehed Department _ First pictures taken in America of Carpentier in fighting nesse en aperking page cod to-day at the | questions would be | Chancellery, jtsaued for the arrest of Gen. |Bringing Booze Here in Dolls From Europe Trick of Smugglers ® ® When the steamer Oretio arrived recently at South Boston from Europe, Custom House officials inepect- ed two dolls car- ried by passen- gers. To their surprise they found the dolls each contained a quart of brandy. © @ DOLLS Oonsenvicen FATHER WL PAY $25,000 RANSOM FOR STOLEN CHD Note From ‘has rs Threat- ens to Kill Child Untess Sum Is Forthcoming. LEXINGTON, Ky., March 25.—Al- though E. R. Little, Todington capi- talist, had announced that the ¢e- manded ransom would be paid, Paul Little, his seven-year-old son, was still a captive to-day of the kidnapper who |) red him away late yesterday. It was stated that the kidnapper demanded $25,000 ransom. Little an- nounced all demands would be met| dclaring: “I do not care about the $25,000 if I can get my son back safely.” | ‘The note demanding the ran<)m said the writer was an enemy of the boy's father and “I intend to pull | your heart out of your breast 0 your| money out of your pocket.” Three school companions of the| Little chiid sald they were waiking | with him yesterday afternoon when} approached by a man who asked Pau! | to meet him at the Post Office at 4 30] P. M. to detiver a package for him At 4 P. M, they said, the stranger | again interrupted their play to ask Paw to deliver the package, and Paul | and the man walked toward the Post | Office. That was the last seen of the] child. i} Little announced to-day he would | pay the $25,000 demanded whenever | the kidnappers spocified the place and time of payment. 'o attempta to arrest the kidnapper would be made, he indicated, nd no asked if the boy was returned safely County Detective that Rea “develor announced to-day ing rapidly and we litt ry before No Warrant BERLIN, March The Tage to-day denies, on the authority of the that a warrant has been Luden for Laden ork, a6 Wan resenuy PORTABLE HOUSES TO REDUCE RENTS STOPPED BY UNIONS Efforts in Chicago to Beat Profiteers Halted by Carpenters’ Refusal to Set Them Up. CHICAGO, March 25 HB portable house to cut ele high rents received a jolt to-day when union carpen- ters refused to set up the first of these houses, “The portable house is a project @gainst the interests of our or- unization,” said Willian Brims, Lusiness agent of the carpenters’ union, “The real union-made house i# made by union rpen- ters . hot out of town “The house is un made, every part of it,” declared R. 8. Bassett, project lumberman back of the KISS HER IN EVENING OR IN AFTERNOON IF _YOU’D AVOID GERMS Doctor Warns of Danger Lurking in Lips Before Sun and Air Cleanse Them “ ] F you would be sanitary Kime your girl in the evening or afternoon, Disease germs lurk {n morning kiss c the sun and fr a chance te | aweet, red li | ‘This warning was given this | morning by Dr. Lawison Brown | of Saranac Lake during a talk on tuberculosis at the convention of New York State Metical Society at the Waldorf. “Some months ago we made a kissing test at Saranac to dete | whether tuberculosis could transim by con ips,” said Dr. Brown, ‘We | a pretty young womar | bad case of tuberculosis a | er kiss a sterile We f the morning k 5 fort tt nan race that ¢ | Packers “EATCHEAP MEAT” URGED BY PACKERS TO ADVANCE PRICES cagchies Admit They Hope to Create Demand and Then Raise Costs, GOVERNMENT IS AIDING. ganda Used by Department of Justice in Campaign. ping” (Special from a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World. WASHINGTOD March the “Save Money on Meat" campaign, | recently inaugurated, means a boost | by testimony brought out at hear- mittee. L. D. Weld of the Research Bureau amination Tuesdny that if the cam- paign is a success the cheap cuts will demand increases, and as these make up three-quarters of the animal, this \wihmore than offect any might de- crease in ice of porterhouse and sirloin by;reason of a slackening in the demand for these choice cuts, which are only one-fourth of the whole. ‘That the packers and the DIATE | ment of Justice are “co-operating” in! the campatgn has also a gevsivead: In- vestigation shows that the packers have supplied the Department of Justice with a great deal, if not all, of the propaganda literature on this subject, which is now being sent into all the States. Ben Marsh of the Farmers’ Na- tional Council exhibited one of the Departmeny of Justice documents, such had been sent out to farm mag- azines in the “Save Money on Meat” campaign. “Do you know whether the packers are preparing this material for the Department of Justice?" Marsh asked Weld. “| know we are co-operating with the Department of Justice in this campaign,” replied Weld. “How are you co-operating?” inter- jected Chairman Haugen of the Agri- cultueny Committee. ‘By getting the people to demand the cheaper cuts,” was the reply Mis Jessie Haver, legislative agent of the National Consumers’ League, drew from Weld the admission that if the Department of Justice and the packers succeed in creating an in- creased demand for the cheaper cuts of meat the result will be a net In- crease In all meat coma “If this campaign ts effective tt will not help the man who is already buy. ing the cheaper cuts, but {t will in- crease prices to him, will it not?” ques- tioned Representative Volgt of Wis consin, a member of the committee, “There will be no benefit to the poor,” said Weld. ‘Then the will really raise d Voigt Government's campaign the price of meat?” sontin “Tt will raise the was the reply prices, ‘The witness then explained that if the people abstained from use of the higher priced cuts these would aturally become cheaper, As the ex- pensive cuts are only one-fourth of the animal, however, and it is certain that the cheaper cuts will increase in price to the consumers as the demand nereases, there can be no other result than a net increase in meat costs. ——_ “ SUFFRAGE VOTE TO-MORROW. Delaware Antis Force Insue to De-| Furnishing Propa-| | in the wholesale price is supported of Swift & Co. admitted under ex-| automatically increase tn price as the’ INTHE RUHR —— MORE WORKERS JOIN REDS; 120,000 ARE NOW FIGHTING VALLEY TOWNS Spartacans Secure Five Cannon and 3,000 Rifles by the Capture of Ham- born—Holland Takes Steps to Pre- vent Reds From Crossing Border. } ESSEN, Westphalia, March 25 (United Press).—Leaders of the Government's offer of an armistice, Red armies captured Friedrichsfeld. 15,000 SEND ABROAD FOR ENGLISH SUITS AT COST OF $18 EACH Harvester Company Helps Workers Buy $250)000-Gloth: Made for Forner Soldiers. CHICAGO, March %. beat the high cost of liv- ing, 16,000 employees of the Internauonal Harvester Company are genditig to London for their clothes. Aided by their employers, these employees have bought $260,000 worth of men's clothing made in Engiand. Tho clothing was made for demobilized soldiers and is the surplus stock left after the troops had been supplied. They will cos: about $18 each. — DETECTIVES OPEN WAR ON ENRIGHT IN LEGISLATURE Introduce Bill to Take Bureau Entirely Out of His Control, ALBANY March 25.—A bill was in- troduced to-day by Senator Lockwood at the reqnest of the Police Detec- tives’ Association of New York which would take the Detective Department out of the control of Commissioner Enright, so far as advancement and permanency goes, and puts It in the hands of the Board of Estimate and the Municipal Civil Service Commis- sion. | ‘The proposed n would do away with the Detective Bureau ena| create a detective division which will have @ superintendent, supervisors of detectives and a number of plain de tectives, all under control, 6o far as assure 25.—The | German Red forces here to-day announced the capture of Wesel, which charge in Tho Evening World that | was besieged by the Red army for several days. The Reds refused Re Fighting continued all day yesterday, the Red communique sald. Offer forces lrave reached the River ings on the Kenyon-Anderson Bil Lippe, about twenty miles north of Essen. Communists were in com, before the House Agricultural Com- | plete control of the Red armies, the communique concluded, THE HAGUE, March 35.—Fight- ing in the Ruhr district of Germany, where, it was understood, a had been agreed to, hag been sumed, according to the Tel Spartaciet forces are nearing W' despatch to the Rotterdam Courant Says the Red army's strength is sow 120,000. Some reports from the frontier in- iecate that the workmen are bom~ barding Wesel with farge calitire guns, The sem!-offictal Netherlands Cor respondence Bureau states that the Dutch Minister of War has been in conference with the ormy leaders in regard to the taking of precautions gainst the crossing of the frontier by German revolutionary troops oF fugitives. According to the Handelsbiad, the Red troops in the vicinity of Wesel mhelled Fort Bluecher, whichis ao~ oupied by ‘Belgian troops. The Bel- gians protested against this action. A train with seventy wounded from Wesel is reported to have arrived near the Dutch frontier, Reds have captured the town of Hamborn, between Essen and Wesel, after fighting in which sixty-two were killed and many wounded. Des= patches said the Reds secured five cannon, 3,000 riftes, 30,000 cartridges, 200 horses, 200 lances and one milix tary train, The Reds, according to Dutch milt- ry advices, are commanded by Major Beerfeldt and are well equip- ped with tanks, heavy and light artillery. They have captured the manufacturing town of Booshola. BUDERICH, Rhenish Prussia, March 25 (Associated Press).—Com- plete quiet prevails temporarily at Wesel, the German stronghold be- sieged by revolutionary workers, but peace between the two forces has mot been declared. The correspondent was informed to this effect at 9 o'clock this morning over the telephone by the headquar- ters of Gen. Habitsch, the Commander at Wesel, across the Rhine from this town. It was declared at headquarters there could be no question of a cessa~ tion of hostilities through the sur reader of the Reichswehr forces. —_ BERLIN ANNOUNCES NEW EBERT CABINET rank and salary, of the Civil Servic Commission and the Board of Esti-| mate. So far as Senator Lockwood knows | the City Administration has nothing! to do with the It has the indorsement of the Citizens Defense measure ra ne night and in the 4 late afternoc notalor as berries in to oi feat Amendme DOVER, Del, Maren T vote uh f{rage ratification to: | morrow | Suffrage leaders expressed the fear that if the vote is taken at that me. fe mental Lay Laat hel Committee and the Committee of Fourteen. | ‘The bill provides that the division shall come into betng on Jan, 1, 192 ind that all members shall have bee art ent detective bureau for not | xix month. The super ntendent have been @ liguten lant: of the grade for at least six| months DAY Fe Bauer Retains the Premiership and Only Four New Members Are Named, March ~The new Ger- pnstructed as the ree BERLIN, man Ca | sult of yesterday's negotiations, will be headed by Gustay Bauer, the present Premier, according to the Morning Post to-day. It gives the list o: the remede ministry as follows Premier, Gustay Bauer; Vice Chane cellor and Minister of Juatice, Dr, Schiffer; Foreign Affairs, Dr. Hermann Mueller; Interior, Rerr kK Defense, Herr Gessler; Finance, Capt. Pisher Cuno; Treasury, Herr Bolts; ‘Tra Dr. Bell; Labor, Herr Herr Schtik Silbersehmidt the newspaper says, and a Muenster 2 ee | } | ee