The evening world. Newspaper, April 1, 1920, Page 1

Get the ere Back on Peace Basis na SIGNS 1 ANTI-RENT GOUGING BILL j “Circulation Books Open to All’ | TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Rain, VoL. LX. NO. 21,396—DAILY. NEW “YORK, “THURSDAY, “APRIL i, 1920. as Second-Class Post “Ot Otte, New York, Matter N.Y 28 PAGES. Too, Give Paper Passage of Anti- ‘TENANTS TO STAND-PAT. How ‘New ‘Laws Will Affect Them Is Concisely Explained. | Special from a Staff Correspondent ‘of The Evening World. ALBANY, April 1.—Gov. Smith to- day signe? the anti-rent gouging Wille and hamded tho pen which freed handreds of thousands of ten- tans from the grasping landlords liatsgg “ps teins World in rec- oguition for the good work done ‘wy the paper in aiding the passing of tho bills. ‘The bills were sent to the office of te Gecretary of State where they were filed and became the laws of the State. It was surety April Fool Day for a whole lot of landlords, who had en- deavored in every way to chock the yassage of the measures which will prevent Coa | from any further gous ing of tenants. The hone inl A vothing to fear from the law. Senaf AC. C. Lookwood, Chairman Of Jot they fusing Committers which had worked for nine months on whipping {he measure into shape after an ex | haustive investigation, was happy | aver the result “All the tenants have to do,” he} said, “is to stand pat. Tell them not te sign any leases except under the | new laws’ “The fear of foree and intimidation is now at an end for the tenants The landlords may bluster and threaten, but let the tenants remember that they first have te be put out, and that process may take o "The land- lord can't put any on pre text of renting the pi ome wne else. ‘They may that can't get the new tenant in until they get the old tenamt out. ‘Their binff won't work “| want to thank The Evening World for the great work which has been dene by that paper in helping the committee by its investigation and Help in getting’the situation before the committee, and the good backing it has given to our work by its edi- torial utterances. We have given the pablie the best laws that it seemed to tus possibie in the circumstances.” “Now I can go home to my constitu- with a clear conscience,” de dare’ Senator John J. Dunnigan. “I woulrn't: dare face them without bav- ing those bills ‘the law of the land.” ‘Senator Abe Kaplan was another ‘eppy man. He has been one of the workborses of the Housing Comnit- tee and bas divided his time between ‘working on the bills and spreading their propaganda at mass meetings in ami bout Washington Heights, River- tédo Avenue and West End Avenue. ‘The Gills went through the Assem- ty when they finally reached it with- out the loss of much time, but there ‘wes more deliberation in their final @wposition by the Senate. Senator Abeles wanted 10 per cent. substatuted for the 26 per cent. increase in rents as a imit, in line with his own meas ing which the conference had lard. unconstitutional and impos- sible. So Chairman ( had to explain the i clues, as did Majority Leader J Henry Walters and Senators Dunni q@an and Kaplan. AM the workers on the new lawe @eve a dig sigh of relief when they were ‘a of their hands and on their to the Governor. ere has been some confusion over (Continust: on Tenth Page.) the mises | them, but rent | PRECEDING ‘SMITH SIGNS ALL RENT BILLS: SENDS PEN 10 EVENING WORLD EDR URGING LEGISLATION LEWINSOHN LINKED WITH JACK JOHNSON IN FORFEIT OF BAIL Reason for His Resignation From Mayor Rent Commit- tee Partly Cleared. Tho remmnation af Go! A. Lewinsobn as Special Examiner for the Mayor’s Committee on Rent (Profiteering was (ertly cleared up to-day when it be- came known that before Lewinsoht quit city oMfcials were visited hy a wounty detective from Philadelphia, who informed them that Mr. Lewin- sohn wags the same §ol ‘A. Lewinsohn who disappeared at the time Jack Tohnson forfeited his $26,000 bail ond in Chicako while under convic- tion on a change of violating the White Slave Law Lewinsohn’s disappearance caused 4 sensation in Chicago where he had played a prominent part as a private banker and bail bond agent, He is 4 to be the man who arranged for Jack Johnson's bail and it was hoped ‘that he would be’ able to throw light on the part some officials were be-, lieved to have played in the Johnson case A United States Assistant District Attorney, a Commissioner and other Federal offic is were discloged to have had num transactions with Lewinsohn, when the papens of a pri- bunk he conducted, and which went oul of business suddenly at the time of his disapearanbe, were ex- mined. vate A world-wide search was started for) Lewinsohn and he finally returned to America from abroad and was arrest- ed in New York and was sent back to Chicago. vere he was held under $10,000 bonds, and for a time he was unable to gain his liberty. Finally appeared before the Grand Ju but tittle came of his much-heralded disclosures, In 1917 Lewinsohn announced he had decided 'o.\ake up playwriting and magazine "work, but again dropped out of sight. ‘Later he was reported to be in Philadelphia and in the insurance business there. When he was wppointed as a volun- teer worker for the Mayor's Commit- tee, on the recommendation of: Assis- tant Corporation Counsel Walter Kennedy according to Nathan Hirsch, who then was Chairman, nothing came to light of Lewinsohn’s career. Lewineobn said he resigned because he wanted the Mayor’s Committee to be as little affected as possible by any comment upon him. “Lewinsohn did good work for me," Mr. Hirsch said to-<ky. “Since Jan. 1, I understand he has been drawing $1,200 or $1,400 a year ag Examiner, services he performed without com- pensation before that time.” CLASSIFIED ADVERTISERS IMPORTANT Advertising copy for The Sun-| }day World | World office ON OR REFORI should be in ‘The FRIDAY PUBLICATION Early copy receives the prefer- | ence when Sunday advertising has to be omitted. Late adver- tising is now omittedsfor lack of time to set it, THE WORLD, 4 id INQUIRY AS HOTEL MANAGER IS HEARD Witness, Gelieved to Be “Nn H.” Named in Affidavit, Before Grand Jury. | | SMITH AGAIN ON STAND. Swann Assistant, , Questioned Two Hours, Tells of Raids | in Henry’s District. |Crand Jury investigating the charges and counter charges involving As- sistant District Attorney James B. Smith and officials of the Police De- partment when John W. Heath, As- sistant Manger of the Hoteb Majes- tic, waa called to testify this after- noon. Immediately after hearing Heath the Grand Jury adjourned and,Fore- man Raymond F. Almirall announced that it would probably be a week be- fore it reconvenes, Smith was the chief witness at to- day's hearing, and the act that the jurors kept him on the stand two full hours to-day and half an hour yes- terday, shattered the belief that been ourrent that the investigators were prepared to rush through the hearing and clear Smith of the charges against him immediately. As matters now stand Smith does not know whether he is te be recalled |wafore the jury or has compteted his testimony. After the Assistant District At- tomey had been on the stand for nearly two hours the jury excused him while it listened to another as- sistant in Swann's office, muel Markewitz, Markewitz was the jury room about five Smith was In in minutes and then recalled. the hallways it was whispered that the presence of Markswitz in- dicated that the jurors were investi- gating the charges contained in the affidavit made public last night by Commissioner of Accounts David Hirshfield, accusing Smith of having failed to press the trial of Alfred ¥. Lindsay, charged by John G. Purdie, @ former menxber of the Army In- telligence Gtaff, with violation of the “White Glave” law and impersonat- ing a secret service office. Smith bad asserted that and produced of- fictal records to support him, that Markewitz bad assumed charge of this case, After Markewitz left, Smith went back for about five minutes Then there came a hitch in the pro- ceedings. Members of the jury loafed about in the hallways, and Foreman Almirall waited jutside the door ap- parently for some one. When Heath appeared Almirall greeted him and conducted him into the room. Heath was inside about ten minutes and refused to discuss the nature of his testimony when he loft. Information in the hallways was (Continued on Second Page.) RESIGNING JUDGE ATTACKS DIVORCE AS MARRIAGE ASSET Chicago Jurist Quits Bench Rather Than Listen to More Tales of Mis-Mated Couples. CHICAGO, Apr the yned here to-day soesn't thing any more, he said. A vorce is no longer a stigma on a woman's name. It is an naset that seems to attract more men” Idle women and women seeking ers in asking divorces, Judge declared. David 4 | A hint of mystery was injected into the proceedings of the Extraordinary | excitement were the chief offend- | NYSTERY W GRAFT JUSTICE MI KENNA'S SECRETAR AND NEW YORK STOCK BROKE INDICTED FOR COURT LEAK Former Assistant ian: Kiscehas in Department of Justice Also Accused. | SOUTHERN PACIFIC CASE ‘Grand Jury Charges Four Men Profited by Advance Information on Decision. WASHINGTON, April 1.—tindict- ments against four persons were re- Jumbia Supreme Court Grand Jury United States Supreme Court's deci- sion last November In the Southern Pacific oil lands case | ‘Those indicted are AC bry, former secretary to Associated | Justice McKenna of the Supreme! Court; James Harwood Graves, for- mer Assistant Attorney General in the Department of Justice; Barnett E. Moses, Washington, lawyer, and FE. Millard Mayer jr, a New York stock broker, The indictments charge the men with conspiracy to defraud the United States of its risht of seorecy surrounding opinions of the Supreme Court prior to public announcement of the court's decision. Embry is charged in the Grand Jury report with furnishing a “tip” on the court's decision whereby the other di fendants were able to sell "short" 400 shares of Southern Pacific stock at a profit of $1,412.60. Embry and Graves have since re- signed their official positions. > NAME OF WILSON ON GEORGIA BALLOT President Takes No Step to Pre- vent Its Appearance for the Primary Vote. WASHINGTON, April 1.—Pre Wilson took no steps to prevent his ui Ballot in Georgia, at the White House, A telegram from Atlanta yesterday tn- formed the President a petition to his name on a ballot had been filed. it was sald to-day wish to have it used. It is presumed the President's name will be printed with others on the ballot ATLANTA, GA., April 1.—Prestdent Wilson's name will go on the ballot in, the Georgia primary election as a can- didate for President. ‘The lists closed at noon to-day ar.* the President's name which had been esented in a petition signed by 100 its of Atlanta, had not been with Monih of 1920 185,688 | World ri in March | 15,147 More Than the Same Month | of Last Year. THREE MONIHS’ FIGURES 1] 70,384 185,688 | January hebruary March. Total. . AN EXCESS OF 74,451 Separate World Ads. for the first quarter of 1920. | turned to-day by the District of Co-| investigating an alleged leak in the | four appearing on the Presidential Primary | Ho had until noon to-day to say he did not Biggest Advertising ‘4 H ' ' ' ' ' | BROKER ALLAN RYAN | WHO SAYS HE “WILL |" BUY STUTZ STOCK” | | M’ PHERSON RESIGNS. AS IRISH SECRETARY ndon Papers Announce That He Has Been Succeeded by Sir Hamar’ Greenwood. Chief Secretary for Ireland, has re igned his office and the resignation has deen accepted, it was officially an- nounced thia afternoon. The Globe 8 McPherson will probably be succeeded by Sir Hamar reenwood, Under Secretary for Home Affairs. Other newspapers announce definitely that Sir Hamar has been offered whe Secretaryship. Samii: PICKFORD DIVORCE INQUIRY BY STATE Deputy Attorney General of Nevada Investigates Proceedings in Movie Actress’s Case. RENO, Nev., April 1.—An investiga- tion Into the Mary Pickford divorce case 1s under way by Robert Rich- ards, Deputy Attorney General of Nevada. to-day ‘The action followed a resolution of the Washoe County RBar Association calling upon the Attorney General to Investigate the proceedings at Minden, on March 2, when, after a brief hear- ing, Mary Pickford was granted a divorce from Owen Moore on the grounds of desertion. | According to reports here to-day the resolution was later stricken from the records and a motion to appoint a committee to investigate all “short term” divorces in the State was sub- stituted. Miss Pickford has since married Douglas Fairbanks, a motion picture actor, —_ BILL WOULD MOVE STATE CAPITOL TO TAMMANY SITE | Senator Downing Introduces Meas- ure to Locate It “on 14th Street Near Broalwa ALBANY, Apri. © April t Dowmng of a DIN wen w 7) move the State Capitot fre A bany to New York and lout ' on Mth Street, near Broadway ——<—_—_ KESTAUKANT. Thursday, eee A LONDON, April 1.—lan MacPherson, | EXPULSION BLOW TO AMERICANISM, HUGHES S DECLARES Assembly's Action Against Socialists “Nothing Short of a Calamity,” } He Says. | HARLES EVANS HUGHDS Hl C gave out the following statement regarding the expulsion of the Socialists here to-day: | “Edo not care to speak of the action of the Assembly in a cns- | ual or flippant manner. I regard | it as a serious blow at the wetnd- ards of true Americanisr’ aad | nothing short of a calamfty, | Those who make their pawtwAism | a vehicle for intolerance are vory dangerous friends of our Ussti- tutions. [ expressed my views upon this question at the outeet and 1 have seem no reason to bs change them." S400 STUTZBD —-ASRYANDEFIES Retains Law Firm to Fight Decision of the Board of Governors. | allan Motor Car Company and gf the bro- kerage firm of Allan A. Ryan & Co. lof No. 111 Broadway, to-day openly | defied the order of the Boar! of Gov- ernors of the New York Stock Fx- | change forbidding | members of of the Stutz company The broker inserted an asvertise- what action the Board of Governors would take to make good its order and meet the deflance of Ryan. Tho order forbidding Stock Ex- change members dealing in Stutz stock came as the climax to a situ. ation which started developing sev- eral months ago, whe the Stutz stock was quoted on the rket at approximately 100, Since that time the stock has been increased in price until this morning, when there was @ nominal market with 400 and 430 asked A fow odd lots changed hands on the curb at from 390 to 425 The Board of Directors of the Con- | solidated Stock hange and the Curd Association followed the exam- ple of the Stock Exchange and for- bade trading in the stock. No brok could be found this morning who would admit buying or selling the stock. |} Ryan & = Co. represented by |the law firm of Jerome Rand & Kresel, and are suid be proparing to fight the action of the rors in the courts if Mr. Ryan's frien | when the Morgan esta | Northern Pacific kiting some | ag the board of governors took no such action as they have in this case, |nor did they do when General | Motors stock was boomed by the du Pont inte,ests. are need be. Int years so There ave cur | the Board or Governors may wo Jan investigation by the Legislature | which rmght reyult in an incorpora- hon of the Exehang AUTO BANDITS GET $45,840, Hob switt & to Kansas City, KANSAS CITY, Apri tw J arined men in an automobile helt up messengera of Swift & Company packers, on the 2dd Street viaduct y and escaped with a hand- Ing $45,840 moran for Weed Waal 'Sr bt SNe STOCK EXCHANGE A. Ryan, head of the Stutz the Exchange to trade in the securities ment in the morning papers offering financial district was waiting to see ors that the action of | LOE SMI VE ASSEMBLY VOTES EXPULSION ~ OF ALL SOCIALIST MEMBERS AFTER A 23- Waldman, Claessens and Solomon Ousted By 116 to 28—DeWitt and Orr Lose 104 to 40—Too Late for Special Election. (Special Correspondent ALBANY, April 1,—After a meeting, Jan, 7. * Separate votes were taken on be expelled was Louis Waldman of expulsion to 28 opposed. August custed by a similar vote. + The OUSTED SOCIALISTS PLAN A PROMPT APPEAL TO COURT Will Take Case Up in Court First and Go to Federal Tribunal if Necessary, The five ousted Socialist Assembly- men will appeal immediately to the to buy Stutz stock, At the oMfices of | stute Supreme Court and,’ if neces- Mr. Ttynn it was suid that a state-| sary, will carry thelr case to the ment would be issued luter this after-| Unita states Supreme Court, % noon, making clear the position of the| John Block, associate counsel, gald company and of Mr. Ryan. todas Meinwhile Wall Street and the ‘The Socialists’ attorney said the ap- peal would be based on several legal questions involved, emphasizing that sembly haa no right to censor the political affiliations of its members. He declared the Federal Constitution was violated in that its guarantee of a Republican form of Government to every State was ignored when the five Socialists were suspended and their constituents left without representa- tion. Samuel Orr, one of the expelled So- clalists, said the Assembly sould be given a vote of thanks for promoting the cause of Socialism. “It is not our funeral," he sald. “This ‘ono act of the Assembly will do more to help the cause of Soclalism than ten years’ propaganda and hard work on our part. Instead of a black eye, this pulsion is a bleasing. It ix probable we will start mi evedings in the Supr ing our salaries of $10 a day up to the expelled and the $30 in which is due us.’ _> WILSON TO WIN WAY th Italian Government Said to Have Served Notice on the Insurgent Poet. TRINSTE, April 1 (Associated Press). ~The Italian Government has notified Gabriele \D’Annunzlo that it will have | to accept Presid.nt Wilson's project for | the settlement of the Adriatic question, An envoy from the Government [heen to Fiume. where he made thi Jecision known to D'Annunaio. A meeting was held in Fiume at which all D'Annunaio’s voiunt were i AL thin meeting Aleeste De d of the D’Annunzio Cabi- Inet, declared the proclamation of Flume {as an independent state would be made n case such action waa necessary ect the Italian character of the 9 guaran the princples for which D'Annunsio weot te Puma, and to insure to that City @ posseasion of the port and railways, Sate cose canton cae ee Anno under the State Constitution the As-; | IN FIUME DISPUTE, HOUR SESSION By Joseph S. Jordan. of The Evening World.) . continuous session of twenty-three hours, the Assembly this morning voted to expel the five Socialist mem- bers wno have been under suspension: since the opening day of the 1920 each of the Socialists. The ‘first. to New York. The vote was 116 for Claessens of ‘New York, was next. vote against Charles Solomon of Kings, the third member expelled, was the same. Hopes of Samuel A. De Witt and Samuel Orr, botia of the Bronx, jthat they might escape the fate of their comrades was quickly dispelled. DeWitt was voted out by 104 to 40 and Orr by the same count, ‘salsa anhaenas lg leathers De Witt and Orr got the votes of some Assemblymen who had voted to ursnat Waldman, Claessens and Solo- mon on the ground that the evidence introduced at the hearing before the Judiciary Committee had not incrim- inated them beyond establishing their adherence to the doctrines and plat- forms of the Socialist Party, Major~ ity leader Simon L. Adler shared thie opinion. The voting reveated a shattering of party Hines, The Democrats showed a majority of one vote in favor of expelling Waldman, Glacesens and Solomon. Their vote was 18 for un seating and 17 for reseating them. Twenty-one Democrats voted vo re- seat De Witt and Orr and while 16 voted for their expulsion. Tho Republican vote for unseating Waldman, Claessens and Solomen was 98 to 11. On De Witt and Orr the Republican vote was 89 to 20. Yf the former service men in tho As- |sembly, twenty-one voted for the ex- Pulsion of ali the Sooiatists and seven for reseating, while four voted to exe pel Waldman, Claessens and Solomen and to reseat De Witt and Orr, One of the women members, Mies Mar garet L, Smith of New York, Repub- loan, voted to expel all the Socialists, while the other, Miss Elizabeth Vem R, Gillette of Schenectady, voted te reseat them, |VOTE OF THE ASSEMBLY GIVEN IN DETAIL. Republicans who voted for the ex- pulsion of Waldman, Claessens and | Solomon were: Adler, D. H. Ames, A. L, Ames, Baum, Betts, Blakely, Bloomfield, Bly, Booth, Bourke, Grady, Brundage, Campbell, J. ‘T. Carroll, Caulfield, ; Chamberlain, Cheney, Cole, Cowea, | Crowley, Duvies, F. Dobson, G, A. Dobson, Doherty, Donohue, Downs, Duke, Everett, Fearson, Fenner, Forbell, Fox, Gage, Gardner, Gempler, Gillett, Hager, Halpen, Harrington, Harris, Hausner, Hawkins, Hunter, Hutchinson, Jacobs, Jeffrey, Jenks Jense, Judson, Kenyon, Lattin, Les, Long, Lord, Lown, MacFarland, Mac- | hold, Martin, McGinnies, McWhinyey, | Mead, Miller, Moore, Morrissey, Moss, | Mullen, Norton, Parker, Peck, Pette, ‘Rice, Richford, Ross, Rowe, Seaker, Seelbadh, Slacer, C. C, Smith, Miss M, 1, Sinith, O. J, Smith, Soule, Tallett, , Thayer, ‘Trahan, 8. BR Van Wagenen, Wallace, Walrath, Webb, Wells and | Wheelock. Webb, Wells, Westall, Wheelock, Whitcomb, Williams, Wilson, Wis Zimmerman, Speaker | wall, Witter, Sweet. patie nee ‘Amon, Blodgett, Dein, atacaudry eee eee eee ee ee