The evening world. Newspaper, April 5, 1920, Page 3

— Ta IN cuRT | Evictions Halted in 90 Per Cent. of Cases Heard in the Bronx. BOTH SIDES LINE UP. Landlords Plan Fight and Ten- ants Form Permanent Organization, ‘The new anti-rent gouging laws thelr first test In the Second ist¥ict Bronx Municipal Court this Ksposed of Meprininatdly 240 rent aes, the: larger part of which were eitled in favor of the tenant. Th’ every case where the tenant's Jajm bore the appearance of being jut, the court found against the jandiord. Kighty per cent. of the enants were granted until June 1 0 find new quarters, ten per cent. ot funtil July 1, and the majority vt the remaining cases were settled by «adjustments for reasonable rent incrtases, One typical case, that against the family of James Treanor, of No. 501 Hast Wl Street, was settled for the enam, who was allowed until June P w find new rooms despite the plea f the owner that he wished the place “fox my own use” not later than ‘April 15. “The day of summary evictions has gone by,” the Justice told the land- Yor in this case. Justice Ferguson in the Gates Ave- nue: Municipal Court, Brooklyn, to- days disposed of a large number of landlord cases, about 250 having been on} the calendar when court opened, TH case of ninety tenants, ordered ‘yf their fandlord to move from the a 9 at Nos. 928 to 934 Myrtle Ave- nub, Brooklyn, last’ February, and who organized a rent strike, was set for triat next Monday. hile the landlords are getting ac- tie im’ their efforts to have a liberal inferpretation placed upon the new laws, tenants have not ceased their buftle “against the profiteers.: It is ysed in the Bronx to continue the | “Organizations which brought about the relief and have a general committee representing all these as- sopiatione. This would consist of delegates frém thé different political clubs, the Cammunity Councils and the Fair Play Rent Association, It is‘plapned by Senator Peter Abeles to have, a méeting eadh night in some central school house where legal advice could ‘be given tenants and a campaign mapped out for each day’s court pro- cegdings. ecording to the information laid before Justice Robitzek of the Municipal Court landlords plan to tt the application of the law to thé limit. ‘The Justice was informed that should the thirteen-month stay of ‘evictions be upset Bronx landlords will proceed at once to oust 5,000 families. Persuns planning to rent cottages or bungalows at the beaches or else- where within the city limits this summer have been informed by Arthur J. W. Hilly, chairman of the Mayor's Rent Profite@ing Committee, ‘on a “warning” to-day that the new anti-profiteering laws apply to all dwellings. “Landlords who seek to profiteer on people who go to the beaches inside the city limits, will be up against it just as will the landlords who impose oppressive rents on those who remain in town,” Mr. Hilly said, A branch of the committee will be pened in the Fifth District Municipal Court, Broadway and 96th Street, where on Wednesday nights the com- mittee will receive complaints from tenants, Lectures on the operation of the new laws will be given. Municipal court justices will moet at 3 o'clock this afternoon at Madison [Avenue and 57th Street, to discuss application of the new laws. ‘The sixty-seven City Marshals are to meet in the Municipal Building and cohsider the suggestion of Chalrman Hilly for deferring action in some RA eviction cases. Under the law, a Marshal is not obliged to execute a dispossess until all other Marshals have refused. In cases where the Committeo recommends leniency, Chairman Hilly hopes to get the Mar- hals to induce the landlord to show mercy by holding back. Reports that pome Marshals are profiting by en- ouraging swift action and a rush of business also are to be taken up, Senator Abraham Kaplan, of the ousing Committee which drew up he new laws, is to speak at a meeting Di Riverside y leigh High pd 115th chairman of the n Cloa kand Suit Manufac- jation, and a committee enting loft tenants, will ro to Albany this morning to submit rent bill designed to grant relief p business ten t © Prima Donna sa 2.000, 1, Emmy Destinn, prima donna to-dey filed” suit. against Adolph i ior, $13,000 for alleged | breach 6 Th her compli at, Mine Vest ¢ had acon with % Brace n Havana {n ‘January at $2,000 eoncert. \Tortured Girl” Heard by Poe Pictures Show Change Since She Fled SEND QUESTIONS ON NEW RENT LAWS TO EVENING WORLD This Newspaper Will Explain Prob- lems Arising Under New Legis- lation Passed at Albany. F im doubt as to the application of the new Landlord and Ten- amt laws te your lease or to the conditions of your occupancy of your apartment, write to the Rent Editor of The Evening World. Make your communication as brief as possible. Answers will be published The Evening Werld. The full names of ten- ants will not be published if ten- ants object. HARD COAL OWNERS DRAFT WAGE OFFER Miners Declare They Will Refuse | to Consider Increase of Less Than 27 Per Cent. The anthracite operators to-day gan presenting the last of their statis- tical data and arguments combating the miners’ demands for a 60 per cent, wage increase, They, indicated they would present a which 1s reported’ to provide for an in- made to the bituminous miners. An- would refuse to consider any advance less than that granted the soft coal miners, ‘They contended the anthracite diggers showd receive at least 18 7-10 per cent. more than the 27 per cent. award in the bituminous field. It was indicated the demand for a six-hour day and five-day week would not be pressed. Pacem heen es WOULD SCRAP SUBMARINES. But Britain Doubts if all Nations ‘Will Agree. LONDON, March 29.—The British Ad- miratty has never concealed its view that the work of the submarine was 4 horrible form of warfare, and nothing would give it, greater pleasure than if the submarine could be “turned down,” it was declared by Walter Long, first Lord of the Admiralty, in a recent dis- cussion of naval matters in the House of Commons. Long added, however, that whether this ’was practical polities, ‘as the method of defense by submarines was very attractive to small and poor countries which could not keep up cost- ly fleets of battleships or cruisers. ilps tit a PASTOR'S SON A BIGAMIST. Edwin he doubted ‘Three Years. win A, Gunton, thirty, of Forest Park, L, 1, pleaded guilty to-day to an indictment for bigamy in the County Court, Brooklyn, was sentenced by Judge Dike to Sing Sing Prison for three years. Gunton’s attorney made a strong plea for clemency. “I know that this man comes from excellent people,”,said the court, “and that his father was a clergyman who has done splendid work. You make a mistake, however, in raising his army service a8 a reason for clemency. “While he was telling his wife he was looking for work he was taking this young girl, Agnes L. Brennan, to es of amusement. After they were e took her to one of the best hotels fanhattan, borrowed money from her and beat his hotel bill.” ——————— LARKIN HIS OWN COUNSEL. Seeks Change of Venue in Trial on Anarchy Charge. James Larkin, who led the strike of Dublin dock workers several years ago, and has spent most of the intervening years in this country hobnobbing with I |W. W.'s and Communists, announced before Justice Weeks to-day in the |criminal branch of the Supreme Court liar he will.move on Wednesday to trial alleged y ramoved to the court of som is atraid, he » Weeks is prejudiced, Larkin said he would be his own lawyer,” He moved that the special panel of jurors be discharged, pointing out that some of them heard the re= marks of the court recently when Harry ‘initaky was sentenced, At the proper Justice Weeks said, he will cuse’ any talesmen who were present at | the time of Winitsky's sentence, counter-agreement crease based on the 27 per cent. award / other report is that the workers will be | offered an advance of only 14 to 20 per cent. Mine workers’ officials said they Gunton Pleads Guilty and Brothers and Sisters Also Tell Stories—Charges Against Father Go Over. Minnie Gallender, the seventeen: year-old girl who accuses John Gal- lender, known on the variety stage as “Gallando, the clay modeller,” of cruelty, and her brothers and sister, Annie, Albert, Lincoln and William, were before Harry Lewis, District At- torney of Kings County, this morning to tell the story of the alleged in- human treatment of the girl by her father and stepmother. |} Gallender was arraigned before Magistrate Reynolds in the New Jer- sey Avenue Court earlier in the day and was granted a continuance until Monday next, at the request of his attorney, Samuel Leibowitz. When asked by newspaper men |whether he had snoceeded in obtain- ing any corrobation of Minnie’s story | District Attorney Lewis said: “I have not personally looked into | the case yet, but I am convinced that there is something in what the girl says, The scars on her body show that she has suffered cruelty. She \is still nervous, but her mind is clear Application for the writs probably | will pe heard before Justice Manniag in the Brooklyn Supregne Court late this afternoon or to-morrow morning. Leibowitz told the Magistrate that he was on the “trail of some start- ling developments which will end the cage so far as my client is concerned.” Gallender’s attorney announced that he would seek writs of habeus corpus to get possession of the other chil- dren of Gallender, from the Leake & Watts Home in Yonkers, where they had been placed by their father, by agents of the Chil- dren's Society last Friday night. MOB MENACES MAN FREED BY COURT Police Rescue Chain Store Pro- moter, Accused of Taking Life Savings of Investors. When Pietro Maniscalco, twenty- eight years old of No. 195 Montrose Ave- nue, Brooklyn, walked out of the Bridge Plaza Courtroom into the corridor to- day, after being discharged by Magis- trate McCloskey on a charge of grand larceny, he was met by jeers and cries of “crook.” Policemen saved Manis- calco from an attack by angry men and women, who charged he defrauded them out of their earnings. It was alleged that Maniscalco raised several thousand dollars for a, chain of grocery stores he was supposed to be establishing in Brooklyn, Then, a cording to the charges, he gave up the enterprise, but, kept the money. The police arrested four of the crowd and they were arraigned on a charge of disorderty conduct. One of them, Mrs. Anna Litto, of No, 135 Christie Street, Manhattan, said she had re- cently given birth ‘to @ child, and has another sick child, and that Mani calco ha dtaken all'of the family earn- ings, $1,400, Sentence was suspended, ibaa Rh Hs RICKY HARRISON PLEA FAILS. Ricky Harrison, convicted of the kill- ing of a Canadian soldier on the night of Sept. 7, 1918, in the Knickerbocker Waiters’ Club in West 44th Street, and now in the death house at Sing Sing under ordera of execution on Thursday, moved to-day in the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court for a new trial on the ground of “newly discovered evidence.” The motion was made by Joseph Truesdale, an attorney of No. 61 Broad- way, Ju Weeks denied it, saying the evidence was not new. Truesdale left the court house fof the purpose, he said, of making a final plea to Gov, Smith. FUNERAL OF FATH )F FATHER KRIM. Prieeta of the-Bociety of Jesus, con- nected with Eastern universities, col- leges and high schools, attended the funeral {o-day of the Rev. George J. S. J., late President of Brooklyn in St. Ignatius’s Church at Rogers Avenue and Carroll #treet. The qilebrant of th m mass was the Very Rey. Jo Rockwell, Pro vincial of ithe Jesuita in the’ Bast Bishop MeDonnoll gave the absolition e church Was filled and policem: r Capt. Prank Conboy of the At- lantic Avenue Station directed the crowds in nearby streets, ) INDAY, A 1 i FG STRIKERS PE HAREOR TRAFFIC ® Offsets fmaloverial Made by Boatmen Brought From Other Cities, BVENING ¥ CHIEF INTEREST IN PRIMARY CONTESTS Miss Choate and-Julian My- rick Battle Machine For Delegates to Convention. The efforts of the |railroads to keep freight moving be- | tween their terminals and Manhattan 2 and Brooklyn were seriously ham- Pered by the heavy fog which about offset the improvement in the situa- 2 tion made by the employment of tug- boat men from other cities. ‘The strike leaders announced their inteneton to persuade the workers on boats operated independently of the railroads to join them. A meeting with that end in view was held all day at Webster Hall in East Blev- enth Street, There was no indica- | ton that Samuel Gompers and other tnational labor leaders would coun- ‘tenance @ general strike of all labor “to save the elght-hour day,” about which some of the strike leaders have been talking—especially William A. Maher of the Marine Affiliation. Representatives of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks of the Teamsters. Union have arranged to send representatives to the strike meeting. It was reported at the offices Affiliation that clerks No. 8 and INTERPRETERS WORK IN VAIN Man From Naples Can't Talk Even With His Fingers and Will Be Deported. A young man of perhaps twenty-five who carried luggage aboard the steam-|°f the Marine ship Pannonia for tourists at Naples and was in the hold of the ship when she headed for the Statue of Liberty to-day helped Ellis Island interpreters at Lehigh Valley Pier at Pennsylvania Pier No. 4 had al- ready put in demands as to hours and salaries and that some of them had anticipated a strike order by walking and sound. .Her brothers and sister have partly corroborated her state- ments, | who were taken ‘court. to earn their money. ‘The ‘stranger apparently is deaf and dumb, cannot tell his name, cannot read or write, cannot talk the sign ianguage of finger-tips. The first’ interpreter with rapi@ fire Italian He was silent, They quizzed him in Spanish, Portu- | gese and French. Nothing doing. A fresh relay tried straight-out Russian, which Ellis Island considers the most wakening of all languages. The young man didn't as much as frown, Interpreters played upon him with iy Bainter tiauierven tor atey. ine Jugo-Slay, Armenian, Syrian and Tur-| spirit of the eight-hour law and by kish, but the case was hopeless, agreeing not to sell floating equip- | pas ise from Naples had a ‘John|ment go that it will fall into the out. J. J. Mantell, Chairman of the superintendents of floating equip- ment for the railroads, said that at least 80 per cent. of the tugs and lighters were at work and that many more would be working except for the fog. The West Shore had one ferryboat in operation between 42d Street and Weehawken but made no effort to run a boat from Liberty Street. The other railroads kept up to the slightly curtailed schedule which was main- tained Saturday. “The railroads,” said Mr. Mantell, “have knocked out the only excuse tackled him pinned upon. hi amen: ushered down the long, long trult leads | hands Of those not herb adied ing to the the ‘deportes. be The railroads appear to have gained strength steadily during the four days of the strike, and brou: las, in a large quantity of food yeste: The longshoremen employed on the ships of the Rapporel line, operated BROOKLYN HOLD-UP by the Clyde Mallory lines, declared Former Soldier Knocked Dowala’ strike to-day on the six ships of the line now in port, The strike ia and Robbed of Money sympathetle with the strike on the and Papers, coastwise lines, which has been in Four alleged holdup men were cap- peated UP A Nha be tured early to-day after a gang of six had held up and robbed Scherkhan Kahn, of No, 358 Hicks Street, Brook- lyn, of $1650 cash and his army dis- charge papers. The prisoners, all East Indians, were held in $1,000 bail for examination Friday in the Adams Street '4 ARRESTED AFTER Kahn was on his way home when at- tacked and knocked down in St. Felix Street, near Fulton, and his pockets rifled. His cries were heard by Patrolmea Cavanaugh and Basel, who chased the assailants down St. Felix Street and arrested four men, who described them- selves as John Sihal of 254 West 41st Street, Froz! Khen, No. 255 West 3¢th Street, Abdul Guni, No. 238 West 124th Street, and Alle Abdul, No, 355 West 36th Street. Kahn's money and papers were not found lil ei them, U. S. ADMITS W. WAR WIDOW. Mra Lee Children Going to Friends She Hasn't Seen. ‘Mrs. Winifred Lee, a comely young English woman who has been detained at Ellis Island since the arrival of the steamship Adriatic on Maren 12, released with her two children, Mollie, ten, and Maurice, four, to-day and left for the home of friends she has never wae een in Philadelphia, Bonds were signed tn Philadelphia for $500 that the family will not become puritc charges, Archibald Eyrer, who crossed on the Adriatic with Mrs, Lee, appeared at the Immigration Station and offered to mar- ty her and educate the children, but she sald she\“woukl not be bothered about getting married so hastily.” Mrs. Lee corresponded with Mrs. ward Brown of Losantville, Ind., taking a photograph of Mrs. Brown's son's grave in England. Mrs. Brown gave Mra, Lee the name of her cousin Leo Bleakley, No, 8532 Hicks Street, Philadelphia, ‘and to that addreas she is going. afte: Chief interest in to-morrow's Presi- dential Primaries centres in the con- test in the Seventeenth Congressional District where Miss Mabel Choate and Julian 8. Myrick, pledged to the nom- ination of Herbert Hoover, are candi- dates for Delegates to the Republican National Convention. ‘Their oppon- ents, who seek to go to the convention as unpledged are Herbert Parsons, Republican National Committeeman, and Albert C. Berwin. As the Seventesnth Congtessional District takes in Fifth Avenye, Madi- son Avenue and Park Avenne,’ be- tween 14th Street and 96th Street, as well as much of the upper West side, added interest is given to this contest. This “silk stocking district” it 1s said, contains the voting residences of more States. A spirited campaign has been made by the recently formed Hoover Organization against the State ma- chine, confidence of victory. ‘The polls will be open from 8 P. M. to 9 P. M. Delegates will be elected to both the Republican and Demo- cratic National Conventions, and State committemen of both parties will be chosen. The Democratic or- ganization’s slate composed of unin- structed delegates, is unopposed. Supborters of Senator Hiram W. Johnson have named candidates for delegates in each of the eight Brook- lyn districts, five Manhattan districts and four districts up-state. The John- gon slate is headed by William M. Bennett, former State Senator, who seeks to go as delegate-at-large. Mr. Bennett, has centered his campaign against Col, William Boyce Thomp- son, His candidacy, however, has been aided by the fight made by many women's organizations against elec- tion, therefore, might result in the de- feat of either Senator Wadsworth or Col. Thompson. The other two mem- ders of the “Big Four,” United States Senator Calder and Nathan L, Miller, of Syracuse, are’ regarded as being certain of election. delegation. ‘These include Jacob Liv- ingston, Brooklyn Republican leader; Samuel 8S. Koenig, New York Re- publican jeader; Judge Reuben L. prominent and wealthy Republicans than any other district in the United Both sides to-day expressed ‘Haske; & manic Presidéat Fy WH. La Guardia, Charles D. Hilh former National Chairman, and Nicholas Murray But- Jer, himself a candidate for the Presi- jency. Women ‘will; take part wag a New York President! pri for the first time, Miss Choate 4 the only woman aspirant on the Republican side, There are twelve women can- didatés’ for delegates on the Demo- cratic lists who. have no opposition. A bitter fight for State Committee- man ts being waged in the Eleventh Assembly District, where Tammany is seeking to oust James J. Hines as leader, State Senator Abraham Kap- lan is being backed by Tammany. 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