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VM VOL. LX. No. 21, ‘391—DAILY. Copyright, 1920, by (the New York World). [« Circulation Books Open | to All” | The Press Publishing NEW “YORK, Bildahotabels 1! 9 2 0. Entered as Recond-Clar MARCH 26, Post Office, New York, EDITION LDL S Vie BN WS 36 PAGES. 8 PRICE TWO C SMITH ASKS ST TO RELP END RENT GOUGING; ' PLEDGES AID 10 THE LIMIT ———_. Reconstruction © Commission Report Sent to Legislature With Demand for Action. WILL SIGN NEW LAWS Large Credits for Building and Exemption of Bonds From Taxation Urged. By Joseph S. Jordan. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) ALBANY, March 26.—Gov. Smith n his messages to both branches of the Legislature to-day gives assur- ance of the belief that he will sign the anti-rent profilcering bills which will be mpoeded to him next week. His most striking lino in this respect is: “fam ready to go with you as far as the Constitution of the Siate per- mits.” The message was on the housing) situation and was ‘accompanied by the} report of the Reconstruction Cominis- sion on Housing Conditions. The re-| port says that the real present need | of apartments in the city of New York is approximately 40,000. ‘The report makes four recommenda- tions, the first of which is preliminary to the others, which require a consti- tutional amendment It provides for local boards to study and aid in the solution of the immediate housing! problem. This is to be followed by an amendment to the Constitution per- mitting the extension of State credit on a lange scale and at low rate to home building, the exemption of State lamd bank bonds from taxation, and an act permitting cities to acquire, hold or lease vacant lands and if necessary carry on housing. Here are the recommendations in tull of the committee: “4, That a law be enacted provid- ing for the appointment of local hous- ing beards in communities having a population over 10,000, the members of such boards preferably to serve without pay, and for the appointment of a central State housing agency fo: co-ordinating local effort.” The function of the central and local boards shal) be: “(A) Aiding each locality in meeting the immediate pressing need for sufficient homes. (B) Collection and distribu- tion of information relating to housing and community planning. “(C) To assist in the prepara- tion of housing laws, zoning or- dinances, State-wide regulatory or restrictive housing and build- img codes, fc. “(D) Study of the means of lowering the cost of housing @hrough better planning and con- font ¢Continped on Thirteenth Page.) eats can still try cranberries, Thar cont jemi ast voor ear Adve, a CLASSI FIED ADVERTISERS IMPORTANT Alt HOMES NEW RENT BILLS. GUARD TENANTS FROM VENGEANCE Lewmiker Expiai: Explains Just How | (Ba CABINET, HEADED BY BAUER, HAS RESIGNED, Majority Socialists Advise the’ Formation of New Ministry Under Mueller. Peigelet IS HOLDING OUT. | |New Counter - Revolutionary, Actitvity Among Troops at the Doeberitz Camp. BERLIN, March | advised President Ebert to order Her- Measure, Sure to Pass, Clips | mann Mueller, who was Minister of Landlords’ Claws. | (Special From a Staff Gitraimsnasra | of The Evening World.) ALBANY, March 26.—Here are a| suggestions for the tenant to! paste in his hat: Don’t be frightened into signing a lease to take effect either on May 1 or October 1, You can’t be put out for refus- ing to sign a lease which demands an increase of rent which is un- just or unreasonable. Don't be frightened if the land- lord tells you he has rented your apartment. He has to get you out before he can get the new ten- ant in, The best the landlord can do i to get you out in six months after your present lease expires. And he may not be able to do it then. It may take him a year and it may take him a longer time. And in the mean time, if the courts decide that he has charged an excessive rent, the tenant then has the privilege of signing a lease at the rates specified by the courts. BILLS SCHEDULED TO GO THROUGH MONDAY. The foregoing is laid down by ono of the conferees on tho anti-rent profiteering bills as the gospel for the tenant. And the tenant need have no fear that the bills will not de passed, They are to be taken up in both Houses on Monday and made a special order so that they may be in Gov. Gmith’s hands in time for them to become the law of the State before the first of April, by the Goy- ernor’s signature, Two changes have been made by the Committee on Cities. One changes the time mit of ejectment from nine months to six months; the other includes not only the cities of New York, Buffalo and: Rochester, to which the proposed legislation ap- plies, but all of Westchester County. Chairman Judgon of the Taxation Committee of the Assembly has de- clared that he will not report the bill exempting mortgages up to $40,000 for the purpose of erecting new build- ings out of his committee. He de- clares it would be an injustice to the money from the incomo tax, but a (Continued on Tenth Page.) erate MAGISTRATE SHOT TO DEATH IN DUBLIN Alan Bell, W Who Held Inquiry Into Sinn Fein Bank Dealings, Is Murdered. LONDON, March 26.—Alan Bell, resi- | 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 Sunday advertising has to be omitted. Late adver- tising is now omitted for lack of time to set it. THE WOKLD dent magistrate who presided over the » with Irish ba was shot dead ~ this morning outside the Masonic elub |i Dublin, according to a despateh: from) TO TAX STOCK DIVIDENDS. |that city to the Cent | - In the House of tons, Mr. Bonar | Amendment to Conetita Ins Pro Law, the Government lead n- | posed by Senato nounced that magistrate Beil w ken| WASHINGTON, Mare Senator put of an automobile by four armed men on of Minnesota to-day introduced and shot to death, resolution providing for an amend- > ment to tyo Constitutién making stock WORLD RESTAURANT. | Special for to-day, 20," 1920—Brotieg | gonna mackersl, ‘maitre hotel, “80s, ; tried “purk Sate Gases Wes nadine. nquiry into the dealings of the Sinn | With the W Foreign Affairs, to form a new Cabinet. % Opposition was developed to the at- titude of Vice Premier Schiffer to- ward the Kapp Government. Opposi- tion was also shown to Herr Gessler, slated for the Ministry of Defense. BERLIN, March %.—Wesel, the besieged fortress northwest of the Ruhr coal basin, was still holding out to-day against the revohutionary workmen, according to the Freiheit. ‘The situation in the Ruhr industrial region gradually is clearing, the newspaper says. Doeberitz, the troop camp outside | Berlin, has become the centre of counter-revolutionary activity under the slogan, “Fight Bolshevism,” ac- cording to the Vorwaerts. The move- ment is gaining adherents daily among the students, the newspaper says. ‘The apparent immunity from prose- ecution of Gen. Ludendorff on the ground, as the semi-official news agency alleges, that “he was not im- mediately implicated in the Kapp usurpation,” is causing much adverse comment. WESEL, Rhenish Prussia, March 25 (Associated Press).—Fifteen shells fell in the civilian part of Wesei ‘Thursday, considerably damaging a number of dwellings in the business quarters and resulting in the killing of a nurse and two children. TA despatch to the United Press from Essen yesterday morn- tng said the Red leaders there claimed that Wesel had been taken from the Ebert troops.) AMSTERDAM, March 26 (Asso- ciated Press).—Government forces at Wesel are strongly entrenched north of the Lippe River, and are, being constantly reinforced by farmers and pourgeoise from towns nearby, the fromtier correspondent of the Tele- graaf says. ‘The Red Army's trenches are but little more than haif a mile distant from those occupied by the defenders of Wesel, and are mai 6,000 men. The Red ¢ increasing, it is said. Many veterans, wearing iron crosses, are seen among the Government d by about ces also are | troops. Reserves on their way to the State to eliminate this amount of|front lines ‘Thursday afternoon passed through the streets singing. ROTT ted Press says the Munster C ing to the correspondent Another report from Munster | women acting as Red Cross Nur ers lave participated y: the fighting, dividends taxable ‘The Supreme Court of the United States recently held that taxation on much di unconstitutional, BORAH GALLS USE OF MONEY are at, BY WOOD NATIONAL DISGRACE; SAYS IT WILL ELECT WILSON (Senator Declares War Profi-| —s teers Seek to Control Both fe NO SLEEP OR FOOD | %—The Cabinet} | of Gustay Bauer, formed yesterday, | resigned to-day. Majority Socialists | Political Conventions. INVES" TIGAT! ION WANTED Asserts Candidates in Both| Parties Have Huge Cam- Paign ‘ Slush Barrels. (Special from » Staff Correspondent he Evening World.) mL aGror March 26.—Sena- tor Borah of Idaho to-day urged a Congressional investigation _ into charges that huge sums of money are being expended to secure the nomina- tion of Gen. Leonard Wood for the Presidency. Reading from the New York World expose of the facts conected with the | underwriting of Wood's campaign by a number of sinister interests, Borah| characterized the expenditure of such large sums of money as a national disgrace, “Gen, Woods’ managers say that Mr. Lowden's managers are spending more than they are. That is the de- fense that they make to these charges | of enormous expenditures. There are| some indications that this statement | is true, but the money has been spent under a better system than the Wood management, Think of this shame- logs state of affairs! Two months be- men are charged with spending hun- dreds of thousands of dollars and their answer is that other men are spending more, | “| think within ten days yeu will | find that the expenditures of these two candidates are being equalled by two candidates on the other side of |!'®% worked all of to-day without solv- DAM, March 2%—Associa- object of the attack by revolutionary working men on | Wesel was to gain control of the rail- | way into Holland in order to get food, respondent of | Nieuw Rottedramsche Courant. The working men occupied Wulfen, Haltern, Olfer and Borken, to the east and northeast of Wesel, accord- * 1}. dear in Brooklyn if the demands of the fence. The war profiteers havo| ine the apparently combined their power for | dou le murder early last evening of the purpose of controlling the two | Dr national conventions and thus insur- ing their control of the Presidency.’ DEMANDS NAMES OF DEMO. | was stabbed been choked out of the Senator Thomas interrupted to ask | man. the Idaho Senator to name the Dem-| The bodies were not cold when they He was sup- | were discovered in a dingy ported by Senator Ashhurst in this|!m a three-story frame lodging house 496 Lorimer Street, CRATS WHO SPEND. ocrat. candidates. suggestion, When Senator Borah | 4t seemed rehictant to disclose the Dem- | t! doctor had been snmmonred a few ocratic candidates he bad in mind, ! '!/nutes before. Efforts of the Police Department are "I would like to hear those m°n|levoted toward eith named. Up to this time I have ta en | Known as “Jack” Fa no interest in the Presidential c.m-|fying the dead man as the one paign, but if I am advised who nese | Went dy that name Ashhurst said: Democratic candidates are that are | No. prevent them from getting some dele- gates.” | Borah declared that a “saturnalia (Continued on Second Page.) — _ | All Business Over $40 and Hour and Half for Lunch. The prire of a haircut and shave, now costing 7 cents, will probably leap to wie Tarbers are met by ners Association, John Tartamella, or dent Journe:. of the mands had been presented A scale of $35 a week ; 50 per all money over $40 taken in du | week by each barber, a week day of | A. M. to7 P. M, Saturday, 8 A. M, to 9 P. M, Sunday § A. M. to 1 P. A day off @ week; an bour and a half fo wunch, “IN MYSTERY OF DOCTOR'S MURDER | “BRAS CAMPtal fore the national convention mccts| Police Seek ‘J. Falcone’ Whose Name Was Found on Coat in Room. Brooklyn det evnal direction of Capt surrounding physician of No jan unidentified Italian, The physician finding a man Josep Faleone, Third treet, Brooklyn, spending huge sums I may be ae to| ken to the Sixteenth Branch pe Headquarters to-de ned, bul Was not held wh as found that witnesses who saw the man believed to be the said positively that this Falc |not the one H. BROOKLYN HAIRCUT | avenue, ruizavetn, MAY COST A DOLLAR #1 tnt ne nat a | tective Bhizabet | told the police to- at which |! was found in the A Men Want $35 a Week, Half of | | double murder bela on|! the tailor | the tailor’s kal said, had The police lieve that Dr. Cam | in order to prevent hii murder of the the ter Bar-| heir not for the doctor, | rived (Continued on Page _ “RESCUED, TELLS OF 3 HOURS TERROR | Millionaire's Son Son Locke in| Hotel Bathroo | Threatened. With Death. Paul Little Escaped in Captor’s Absence and Called Home | on Phone. ! LEXINGTON, Ky., March 26.—Paal | Little, twelve-year-old son of E. Ry jLittle, a Lexington millionaire, was jthe centre of an admiring group of boy friends as he told to-day the |story of his kidnapping. The fears of |his thirty-six hours as a prisoner of! two men in a bathroom of the Phoenix Hotel here were forgotten, The boy was basking in the glory of having played the leading role of the drama. \He tdla how a man had offered htm \« dollar to deliver a package for him. “After the man took me to the post- ‘oMce, he told me to go to the Phoenix Hotel with him," he said. “He said the man who was going to give me |the package to deliver was there. “But there wasn't any one with a jPackage there, so he says, ‘Let's £0 | Upstairs.” So we began walking up,| |but when we were stories up I | thought there was something funny | doing and I got scared and started to go back. No, you don’t," the man says. ‘You come with me.’ Then he put his hand over my mouth+and pushed me up to his room and locked the door. “L says to him, ‘Please don’t kill me,’ and he says, ‘I will kill you if you don't shut up. I didn’t say any- thing more. Then he pushed me into the bathroom and locked me up. He stayed in the room and I heard Ja-knock and he said: ‘Hello, Jack, ives, under the pef=| Well, I got him. John Cough- The other fellow didn't say any- thing. Then I didn't hear any more jand I knocked at the door and hol- |tereg as loud as I could, The man opened he door and said: ‘If you |don’t keap still ' kill vou." He had ar in his hand, “I kept still after that. The man| brought me an apple for supper. Then locked the bathroom door again. I couldn't eat the apple. You cant cat if you're scared. Didn't care for nothing but getting out “I beard him walking up and down all the time. I turned the knob and he heard me and opened the door, He says: ‘Come out,’ and I says, ‘Are you going to kill me now? and be says, ‘Sit down,’ and I did. “Then he asked me a lot about ray father. » He wanted to know how much money father bad. I didn't know nothing, so I made up all the answ » was going to tel WANN GETS AFTER HENRY: Inspector Said to Have Contradicte tion regarding the alleged partnership between vice and those jto suppress vice in New York was to-day furnished and promised © public through several channels, IN STANDARD OIL |=" i Escape in Auto After Robbing |‘»reatening to put -Henry in jail # The cashier of the Standard Oil] attract police attention; (4) pumping station at No, 610 West 46th | poasted of having Judge Street returned from a bank shortly “muzzled good and tight,” and of) before noon to-day with $3,500 in a! pian to bring Inspector Costigan grip. Part of this he put in the safe! the District Attorney's office, which he locked. Keeping $900 in smaller bills out, he| said; (e) Smith declared he set to work making up the day’s pay- | not interfere with Christians roll. other employees, While he was working three young | told Henry that Frederick Whitin men, their caps pulled far down over | the Committee of Fourteen their cyes, walked into ther station. | SFfter and was a partner of a & Two of them produced revolvers and | Deputy Police Commissioner, ordering the company’s employees to “throw up your hands," backed them | “ve D” and a Tammany official ail into @ corner. \¢ ‘Tho thieves took the $900 on the| #24 asserted the Partridge Chub: desk, but made no attempt to open the safe. With the money in hand they re- treated to the door, where an auto- | mobile was waiting, its engine run- ning. Into this they jumped and dis- | appeared, going west Asked what the robbers said when they entered, the place, ono of the employees said: “We are kind of hazy on that, but those guns—they were impressive. | ‘They did the real talking. ALBANY TRIPS NOT | tcius nigher than Col OPPOSED BY HYLAN |] er Taira Deputy Mayor Hylan declared at todays meeting of the Board of Estimate that if he gave $20,0 uld jet me go. ployee going to Albany to work for| Present administration closely zane Ki BELL-ANS AFTER MEALS 104 609 Open Saturday night ti) 10, HUB CLOTHIAAA, spoken to Henry or knowing GOOD DIGESTION makes you toal— Adm, Brvedwey, comer Hamlay Sune —Adity ~ MORE INDICTMENTS COM IN POLICE VICE SCAN Own Affidavits Before Grand Ju —Action Against “Two ‘Officis Through: charges and countercnarges of city-paid officials, %, J, Polico Inspector Domi * Henry, in charge of the supported by affidavits; (a) Dennis Quinn, a brother. houses with’ a guarantee “in his vest pocket.” (>) 8. Klausner of the Bronx. untarily told Henry that Smith revenge for the refusal of the bling concession; (¢) Smith im son asked the inspector to be siderate” to Josephine Boyle, a taurant keeper, whose doing Cashier in West 46th Street Station. he could be made to do as With him in the place were four | business” in Henry's meant “run out the Jews.” (8 pad and another, and named “D ead as “collectors” fpr these | Reansy Rosenfeld gambling he | had the approval of former n sioner Arthur Woods; (g) Smith }he could “handle Costigun for where another man would cost Henry in his comment on the |@avits said he found the Fourth | spection District Jan, 23, 1918, ove with street women, their parasit and gamblers. (Henry relieved Joi Daly, now Chief Inspector and bd ‘immediate superior.) 2, Assistant — District James E. Smith promised te dict Henry and two other police now awaiting trial, Smith attribut | Henry's actions to tho recent ‘ery that Smith was getting info on tivis & former al of has no objection to any cl em- | He sald my father owed him $20,000 | jegisiation bettering his or her condi-| duiinted with its inner workings, ai for a horse, ‘ | tic |MAY ASK INDICTMENT | “Ile talked about an hour The announcedent was mado during | HENRY FOR PERJURY. ays: 'N in go to a discuasion of a communication from} District 4 2 Jwlrict Attorney Swan ltouk a pillow from the bed a ough President Curren, of Manhad-| Os it is roported, nh for or the t on the bathroom foor. . requesting the I Board tol aictment ex pushed me in asain and abi which would s ty em-| cause of Henry's fur e said he was going rees the rignt to appear in : t ¥ Jup H rs he wad In on ot i in xtraordinary Grand Jury last vrtngr " e around and I better! there was also a communication trom| that he knew nothing to the detri if t al b = Comm ner Enright denying a state-| of Smith, though the affidavits 1 couldn't sleep though, You can't! ment py one of th f the! 1 are dated previous to uae sleep of eat anything when you're! noard of Katimate and tlonment, mony that red. I heard him come back] that the rigut of petition had been An investigation has saree ‘}that night and go to bed. taken fr t | 4. determine whether the F] “The next morning he opened the| men, th : H apr | pathroo door and gay » pity : rand a ition of Smiths may, T axked fim: en brother ¥, Quinn, Bein int action: rn ed in 4 i * saith ety Lh MEN'S SUIT OR TOPCOAT, y | Sterling wi e | the tren ¢ ¢ Mayor Hylan. and Police “Then when he left the room and [| to-day and Saturday 900 aun’s aud Young men's | Naatintigd ound the bathroom) door ops +{ Speing Suits and Topeoate in blues, Drowns, greens, | BS t . |found the bathroom door open, I Ju fancy matures; angle oF double thasted | G Dennis Quinn, Smith's broti rushed to the phone and called the) figm-titing military syle, slash or paich pockets * in-law, a clerk tm the Fin house.” | voy latest models, all size Our special price for if! asl ba pec MegeeP yas 0498, Cneen oh tobe, Department, denied ha @ight end declared he was