The evening world. Newspaper, April 2, 1920, Page 3

“SMITH TO CARRY GRAFT INQUIRY BEYOND POLE Other City Offical Officials Involved by Evidence, Prosecutor / Declares. ALMIRALL JURY HALTS. No Report Made, Member Hints the Henry Charges Failed. Assistant District Attorney James E. Smith is so confident of being ex- onerated by the Extraordinary Grand Jury he to-day resumed the examina- tion of witnesses he will send before the regular Grand Jury in the police graft inquiry. Whether he will go bo- fore the jury as prosecutor at once he tias not said. The Almirall Grand Jury has ad- Journed subject to call, while Col. William Rand and Nathan Smyth, ‘ts counsel, examine the testimony and documents submitted in the Smith in- vostigation. It is understood the jury ia through with the Smith chfrges and when it reconvenes next week it is expected to report to Justice Weeks. No official intimation has come as to its conclusions, but one member when asked if anything important had developed in the last charge made against Smith, ia the “white slave case,’ said: “Far from it: it made us sick.” Another juror was more out- spoken in saying nothing tangible had been found against the prosecutor. When Mr. Smith was asked if he was going ahead with his charges against police officials he replied: “Don't say ‘against police officials.’ “It will be against other officials .as well as police officials.” It is possible that between now and the next Almirall jury session some one connected with the city administration may file additional charges, after the fashion of the last few days. In this event the jury will consider them and delay its report until they have been sifted. Practically all of yesterday's ses- sion was devoted to an inquiry into the allegations made against Mr. but One| Smith Wednesday evening in an affi- @avit signed by John G. Purdie and Enright. jutied to prosecute Alfred Lindsay, than a year a Mr. Emith “testified + that, he gathered the Lindsay and brought about his in- dictment, the prosecution was in the hands of Assistant District Attorney Samuel Markewich. He knew, he sald, the bail or Lindsay had ‘been cancelled because Mrs, Beatr. E. Weille, the complaining witness, had disappeared and there was no chance of getting a conviction. While Mr. Smith was before the jury he produced records to show the raids made over Inspector Henry's head, to which the Inspector ob- jected when he testified Wednesda: were ordered by the Federal authori- ties. PORT COLLECTIONS HERE SET RECORD Revenue in March Was $22,281,878 Which for Most Part Was on Luxuries. All records of customs collections in the port of New York were shattered in March, according to Byron R .New- ton, Collector, who to-day made pub- {ic figures which showed that $22,281,- 878.68 were collected on goods, mostly fuxuries, coming into this country, “In 1910 we found all records were broken at that time," said Mr. New- ton, “when this office collected 988,921.78, but the latcst figures, when we consider the vast amount of goods that come into this country on the free list, means that the New York port had more imuporta of all kinds than ever before. In 1910 there were approxi- mately 4,000 employees in the customs Now there are less than (Mr, Newton declared this port col- jects more money than any two other ports of the world. A check kept by the local offices on the amount of precious stones in the world also shows, said Collector t the Unit States ha than two-third Of the precious stones of both hemis « QUIJA’S TIP JAILED MISSING HUSBAND, WIFE TELLS POLICE. ming story to & Ora ice, Mrs, Margaret El 0 Bro IRRCTED by a ouija’s board, to ac her p © of Ne Avenue, Manhattan, went to Naw Jersey City Wednesday and immediately located her huhband, who had deserted er six months ago. As a result of the ouija boart’s activity and accuracy, Samuel Elmore, twenty-one years old, is y Jail, pending York, on a charge of desertion Mrs, Elmore said that she con- sulted the board on Tuesday night, not haying any idea as to where her husband was, It spelled out “Elmore, No. 54 Oakwood Ave- mue, Orange,” Mrs. Elmore elared, where she found next day, ~ aim th evidence against | We! | GERALDINE F. ADEE TO BE MAY BRIDE OF FRANCIS BRADLEY mips, ONE SSS LANs ere Ceremony to Be in Tuxedo Park With Special Trains for New York Guests, A charming May bride will be Miss Geraldine Fitzgerald Adee, only daugh- to Mr. Francis B. Bradley, son of Mr. Charles Bradley of the Way- and Mrs. side, Convent, N. J., on May 29. Thi wedding will take place in St. Mary’ Church, Tuxedo Park, and guests from New York will go by special train, Thi reception. will be held at Almost Brook, Mrs. Adee’s villa. Miss Adee is granddaughter of the late Gen. Loui: Fitzgerald. TEN-CENT FARES TO CONEY UPHELD Appellate Division Rules ‘Work |! Not Complete on Culver and West End Lines. The right of the B. I T. to charg ten-cent to Coney Island wa: upheld to-day by the Appellate Term of the Brooklyn Supreme Court, which affirmed the decision of Justice Will. jam D, Niper of the Fifth District Court, in the suit brought by Juliu: Merksamer of No. 4105 Twelfth Ave: nee, Borough Park. In the opinion, which was prepare: by Justice Kelby and concurred in by Justices Clark@and Manning, the Coui: made public by Mr. Hirshfleld after} ayas that the contract which the olty he had received it from Commissioner | signed with the raliroad company on Purdie alleged Mr. Smith] March 19, 1913, provided th: Public Service Commission shbuld com: indicted @n a white slave charge more | plete construction on the Culver an: West End lines the company should hav. though | the right to charge the same fares they re then recetving. The court finds thit the Culver Ine still is to ‘be built t Sheepshead Bay Road, and that thous! construction on thi been stopped at Avenue Y the compan has built'a link which the court says { to be regarded as part of the old lin Which existed at the time of signing th contract, The B. R. T. recently announced that as soon as construction now undef wa: is completed it purposed to install th five cent fare on Culver and West End lines to Coney Island. SHIPPING BOARD VESSEL ON FIRE until the West End line has CONGRESS TOPROBE CHARGE OF SUGAR PRICE JUGGLING Conaingiama Facts Presented by The Eve- ning World to Be Taken Up in Committee. (Special to The Drening World.) WASHINGTON, April 2.—As the Tesult of facts presented by The Eve- ning World showing that sugar re- finers are in many instances juggling their output so as to allow speculators to reap big profits in the eugar mar- ket by control of the retail situation, Senator Capper of Kansas has insti- gated an inquiry itno the matter by the Senate Agricultural Committee. Attorney General Palmer George A. Zabriskie, Equalization Board, have been sum- moned to appear before a sub-com- mittee Monday, of which Senator Me- Nary Is Chairman, to bare the facts speculators, ing shipped into this country through ter of Mrs. Ernest R. Adee and the late | ¢Tl allowed for the Louisiana prod- Ernest R. Adee, who will be married the sugar men ‘to reap enormous| per pound which thé Attorney Gen- profits at public expense. The facts presented-to the Senate by The Evening World indicate that lange quantities of Cuban sugar are being brought into New York ana handled by the refineries there. An advance price of 2 3 a 8 2 or per pound is put on the raw eugar, but no orders to the general trade are filled. Hence, no benefit accrues to the consumers from the presence speculators and sold at whatever high’ prices they see fit to demand. In addition, the charge is made that beet sugar is being sold in Oregon at 22 cents a pound. No efforts are being made, it is declared, to prevent this high price, or prosecute any of, those receiving it for profiteering. Members of the sub-committee said to-day that according to thgir yudg- men all the laws needed ar® now on the statute books to prevent hoarding and profiteering in sugar. The pre- vailing high prices are ascribed to the failure of the legal authorities to bring effective prosecutions. ‘These members contend that if the Attorney General holds that existing laws are hot sufficient he should make in diate recommendations which will re- esive the prompt consideration of Congress. A disposition was manifested by members of te McNary sub-commit- tee to sharply interrogate the Attor- hey Genera] on the subject of high prices for sugar and seek to ascertain what further steps are essentiul to afford a reasonable supply of that commodity at fair prices. Thomas F. Clarke Dies tn Ceylon. Thomas F. Clarke, who gave up his Vice Presidency of the Western Union Telegraph Company in 1914, after a fif- teen-ye@r tenure and a record of forty ,| years service with the company, diet Y Jon the night of Feb. 7 in Colombo, Cey- }| ton, according to information just re- i here. He and his wife had been ‘elling together in the Orient, ant he was apparently in good health when ue retired, MRS. THORNE LOSES Is 8 t 8 ni e > nh re 6 e SUIT FOR $200,000 Immediate Help Asked by the ——- Eastern King, in Cuban Dr. Milliken Convinces Jury He Service. Did Not Have Her Imprisoned ‘Teh Naval Communications Office at 44 Broadway received a message through Key West, relayed from Sagu la Grande, Cuba, to-day, from the Ship- ping Board Steamship Eastern King in service for the Munson Line betwee sistance. Shipping Board 6. 8. Medford standing by.” ‘The coast guard cutter Tuscaror: was at once dispatched from Key Wes ‘The Hadtern King is commanded b; Lak Capt, Lewis E. Burns and has a crew of 3 4 4,100 tons of general 38; she carri merchandi: command of C MAY PROSECUTE The Lake Medford Is {i pt, Owens, FIVE SOCIALISTS Attorney General Newton Likely t Present Assembly Evidence Before Grand Jury. ALBANY, N. Y., April 2—Pos bility of criminal charge being ni. against the five Socialists, who were expelled from the New York Assem bly yesterday, developed to-day Attorney fer with ieneral Newton will con- an¢ prominent Ve attorneys lers next week r, stimony the In | legislative ANOTHER COURT WITH MORE CASES OF INTOXICATION | | New York and Nuevitas, Cuba, saying. ‘On fire and in need of immediate as- in Bellevue A sealed verdict In favor of the de- fendant was opened to-day in Justice Lydon's part of the Supreme Court in the $200.000 damage case brought by Mrs. Mary Case Thorne aguinst Dr. Seth M. Milliken, Mrs. Thorne asserted Dr. Milliken had her confined in the psychopathic ward of Bellevue Hospital Notice of appeal was given after Justice Lydon had denied a motion of Mrs. Thorne's attorney to set aside the dict as contrary to the weight of ev a, q n a ry t. y dence, Mi] Mrs. Thorne is the wife of Joe! Wolf Thorne, one of the we. men of the cit }left her in De later d to have 1916, and to have ion of their you ued for separation paid $750 a month atimony Dr. Milliken asserted Mrs, Thorne wen. to Bellevue of her ow will and that he did not even uccompany her there, mber, ecured posse horne free is) 5 Sate Million Dollar WhinkeyDeal. CINGNINA April An lar whisk 1 here to-day when a purchased fr was a and show how far the consumers are | higher éthics in the street. being taxed to pile up profits for the! render of the Stock Exchange has uct. A determined effort is to be} tive brokers fear that the situation | made to break up practices in the], tixely to arouse another strong sugar industry which are allowing | pupiic demand for public supervision lon | was made public, cize the Board of Governors for tar. ‘CORNER’ ADMITTED ‘BY THE EXCHANGE ~_INBAN ON STUTZ =: Coneptatee Rate | Now Talked of in Ryan Case—Public Supervision Hinted At. Possibility of compromise between the Stock Exchange and the Allen A. Ryan interests was discussed to-day by the few brokers who visited their offices. Unless the three-day holiday | brings forth a settlement, it was gen- erally agreed that the situation next Monday would be the most embarass- | ‘and|!ng which the Stock Exchange has| given in the annual report. for of the Sugar] ever faced. The Stock Exchange in late years has boasted that the old methods of cut-throat finance had given way to ‘very de- been insistent that under the new « Another report which is to be In-| conditions a “corner” is impossible. igated 1s that Cuban sugar is be-| By its action in suspending trading in Stutz Motor, the Board of Gov- Louisiana so as to bring the 17 cents} ernors publicly admitted that this| stock had been cornered. bel of the Exchange. ‘The action of Allan A. Ryan in hay- ing the Board of Directors of ie Stutz Motor Car of America deol: an 80,000-share stock dividend ay a meeting yesterday was regarded as cents strengthening hig position in the ac- tion he has taken in defying the Stock Exchange. The immediate effect of the action, it was pointed out, was to of the sugar or the reasonable price. | make more uncomfortable the position The entire product 1s turned over tO! of those who are short of this stock. NUMBER OF S6&TUTZ STOCK SHARES NOW DOUBLED. The new stock dividend, together with the stock dividend of 20,000 shares previously declared and pay- able to stockholders of recom Monday, doubles the number of shares of Stutz. Unless a settlement is made within a year, those who are short of the stocl will be required to deliver two shares for each one they are now short With the )lqgt official quotation on Stutz at $391 a share, the strength of Mr, Ryan's position is apparent, es- pecially when consideration is given | to the undisputed reports that he has | certificates or contracts for more than The total 100,000 shares of stock which have been issued by the company. No one could be found to-day who would venture an opinion as to the Status of Stutz Motor stock Monday. ! With the stooly dividend of one share | for each five due to stockholders of | that date, it held by many that the shorts woukt be immediately liable for the value of this stock div- idend. ‘This would mean that they would have to godnto the market and | purchase an extra share for cach five | shares they are short, or pay over in| cash the market of the sh: With trading in the stock suspended | on the Exchange, on the curb and in} the Consolidated Exchange, there wa ne question 4s to where this re of st might be Ee rea « how the market value a share could be determined. Possibility of numerous lawsuits t value sh of enforce contracts to deliver Stutz] stock appears imminent unless 4} compromise is reached, The suspen- | sion of dealings In the stock operates | to create a moratorium on these par- ticular contructs as far as the Stock sxchange is concerned, but tt does | not alter the legal character of the contracts, which can be enforced the courts if a purchaser wants to go over the head of the Stock Ex- | change governors. SOME SAY ACTION SHOULD HAVE BEEN EARLIER. rally ed Board of Governe dealings in the stock, 4 Sentiment action of uspendin though there were many who de- clared that t ction should have been ta n sooner, Those who criti- iness point out that on Feb, 10, when the annual report of the company the “book value” of | stock as indicated by the com- surplus Dee. 31, 1919, was but which was high, considering that the net earnings for the year were less than $1,000,000. In’the first flve days of the month | wert less than 2,000 § at} Adams Street, Brooklyn, Had 50| Prisoners in March; 20 in February, PETE prohivition, the mun- ver of cases of intoxication in the Adams Street Court, Brooklyn, showed an increase in Mareh over Feruary, tn VM" ruary there were twenty-six cases and last month fifty cases, ‘The (Magistrates were interest- ed in knowing wrere ers got the Nquor they said, In mos “from friends.” Take nobody's word for tone. The phonograph that sounds best to you is the phonograph for you. Let your own ear be the judge and you too will choose the CRESCENT. Sold through authorized dealere only. Crescent Talking Machine Co,, Inc,, Batabilahed 1913 New York “ena nvextne WORLD, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1920. the stock traded in, yet the security advanced from $113 to $125. In the! next ten Leda on daily trading rang- ge between 1,300 and 3,000 shares, the stock scored an advance to $153. The critics argue that this should a shown any one but the merest jocent that there was not tle “free pr ‘unrestricted market” in the stock whieh the Stock Exchange guaran- March 17 on, the stock's rise | wie id espa, every day furnisn- ing evidence which many say war- ranted investigation. With a daily turnover of between 4,000 and 5,000 shares the stock advanced better than |8N everage of ten paints a day to 228, On March 24, a week before the Board of Go Stutz) Motor gold at $250. ‘There Was only one day during the month when the stock showed a decline, This was on March 27, when, with dealings of but 600 shares, the price dropped from $330 @ share to $318. ‘The next day, how- ever, it made this up by going to $337, to be followed on the 30th by a clos: ing quotation of $370, and on the next day by closing at $3%i, when further trading was suspended. ‘The total assets of the company, as 919, were $7,404,361, which inciuded $2,141 803 for “trademark, goodwill and pat- terns, The surplus was given as % 772,968. 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