The evening world. Newspaper, April 7, 1920, Page 1

| P April 1 and returned from the printer » be no hearing. ® nnn . FRENCH ARMY REACHES LAST GOAL IN GERMANY STOCK EXCHANGE TO TAKE DRASTIC STUTZ STEP TO-NIGHT'S WEATHER—Fai “Cet the Country Back on Peace Basis WH ic@tZtczztzl”ct VOL. LX. NO. 21,401—DAILY. ir bak colder. TRACTION FARE SENT IN AT LAST MINUTE 10) AVOID PUBLIC HEARING Are Ghletiy” Introd introduced Into the Assembly on “All Fools’ Day.” ALL WILL BE RUSHED. Would Probably Lead io 10} Cent Fare to Meet Their | Provisions. | By Joseph S. Jordan. | Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) ALBANY, April 7.—The traction interests have slipped into Albany a mess of measures designed to throt- the the traveling street transit public @f New York and shake the nickels ut of their pockets. The bills were} introduced by Assemblyman Jenks on to-day. A few minutes later there ywas not a copy of the bills to be had. | It may have been a strip of grim! mor that brought about their in-| froduction on April Fools’ Day, but | what is more likely is that ther were | ‘ekd back untéi the time {ux the Rules Committee of the Assembly to take eharge of all legislation, which was | on April 6. ‘They were naturally referred to the Yodiciary Committee, from .which they will be surrendered to the Rules Committee, before which there can One bill provides that the trac- tion companies shall be entitled to 10 per cent. returns on their assessed valuation, which latter | shall be determined by the city, _ the traction company and a third party to be selected by the two. Another bill empowers the Public Service Commissioner to fix the fare of which the public will be fleeced. MEASURES BOTH DANGEROUS TO THE PUBLIC. The first measure would be an extremely dangerous one a complacent administration were in power next year, and without doubt would mean that the rate fixed would be a 10 cent fare. The cond one needs no expla- nation with the well known pro- ell 8 of Public Service Com- missioner Nixon for an increased fare. There is a chance that a public fhearing may be forced. The Judi- eiary Committee was given a lease of Wife by the Assembly until April 13 Yor the purpose of bringing before it ‘William H. Anderson, Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, and ar- ranging for the investigation of the Teague. Louis A. Cuvillier, one of the Dem- cratic members of the committee, said to-day that he would demand of Chairinan Martin that a public hear- ssing be ;,.anted by the committee, and that if he were refused he would in- troducg a rsolution fh the Assembly asking That the Judiciary Committee Le compelled to grant the hearing, He hcld this can be done, because the Judieiary Commit has been co's life «Continued on Second Pa —_ TAKY BELL-ANS APTER MEAL and bow fine GOOD DIGESTION ma GRAB BILLS PATROLRWER BLOCKS ATTEMPT TO FREE PRIS PRISONERS Frightens Of Gang Gang Trying to Liberate Man Sentenced for | Robbery With Pistol. Joe Kelly took his revolver from his hip pocket and placed it on the | seat beside him at noon to-day when | he started to drive the Raymond Street jail wagon from the Brooklyn County Court to the jail. | Lockea in the wagon behind him were seven prisoners, chief among them Ibeing Louis Mongo, eighteen years old, No, 66 Crystal Street, who had created an uproar in the court | room a few minutes earlier by cursing Judge Norman 8. Dike and his own Senator Gilchrist. had been sentenced to ten years in| prison for robbery, and Kelly, for twenty-seven years driver of the jail! wagon, expected troutle, He’ was| right When he reached Smith and State| Streets, Kelly saw a dozen men who} moved toward him. He kept an eye on them, drove with his left hand and kept his right within finger reach ot| the revolver. But detectives Dowd, Carney, Cun- nigham and Carroll, who had been watching for an attempted liberation | vt Mongo and other prisoners, rushed up to the wagon and the men fled. Kelly drove on. As he approached the Dime Savings Bank at Fleet Place and De Kalb Avenue two men sud- denly darted from the sidewalk and tried to mount to the driver's seat, ‘They looked into the muzzle of Kelly's pistol and dropped hack. Kelly looked back and saw-six men clustered about the rear of the wagon. He jumped ‘to the street and drove away the six, not venturing to fire because, he said, his horses would have run away, and, be- sides, there would lave been danger because of the crowds in the street. After the demonstration in the court coom Judge Dike ordered that all the spectators in the court room be seafched for weapons, The.only re- volver found was in-the pocket of Thomas Mongo, a brother of the pris- oner, He hada permit and the Court ordered that it be revoked. District Attorney Lewis told the Court he understood the life of Detective Knowles had been threatened as a re- sult of Mongo's arrest. Mongo and three others, John J McDonald, John G. Biggan and Rich counsel, Mongo am O'Brien, pleaded guilty. ‘These four were in the jail wagon, which | = also carried three other prisoners. All seven. would have been freed if the | plans of the gangsters had succeeded LUDENDORFF PLOT EXPOSED IN MUNICH oe or Bis ide | | Preceding Publication He Was to Have Been Made Dic- tator of Bavaria, With Dr Heim as Aid, JERLIN, April 7 (Associated Preas, | at milltary conspiracy, which | arian parallel | avarian Nee paratiste, a sort of civil and econo- mic Distatos, , Bronx to-day. Che | Circulation Books Oven to All. »| NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, “APRIL U, BRONX RENT RATES | FIXED BY JUDGES | UNDER NEW LAWS; Landlords Make Protests in Vain as 400 Cases Are Disposed Of. BLOW TO SPECULATORS. Business Now Taken From | Their Hands by Court—Ten- ants Win in Evictions. The full and drastic effect of the | new rent laws was felt for the first time by tenement speculators in the In the very courts which used to grant eviction orders | practically on demand, hundreds of landlords protested in vain this morn- ing when their business was virtually taken out of their hands, The courts, using their new powers to the limit, not only refused to evict tenants, but actually fixed the rents | which are to be paid for the next year or more, In some cases it means an actual reduction from the present inflated rentals, and since the speculators have paid fantastic prices in the belief that they could get the money back from the tenants, it means a loss to the speculators, ‘There were more than 400 cases on the calendar of Justice Robitzek in | Part II of the Bronx Municipal Court, Second District. Ninety per cent. of them were settled by the flat decision of the court as to how much the tenant shall pay during the next year. In some cases the court fixed the rental up to Oct. 1921, Of the remaining 10 per cent. of the cases about half were adjourned for further investigation, while in the other half the tenants, were given | until June or July to move, Justice Robitzek followed a fixed system in deciding rent disputes and announced that in most cases the rent for the next year would be 20 per cent. more than was paid for the same apartment in March, 1919, ‘This means going back more than a year for a standard, and the court said the purpose was to grant rea- sonable increases over reasonable old rentals—no increases whatever over the present inflated rates, but, on the contrary, reductions from such rates. Four tenants at No. 2343 Beaumont Avenue, and forty at No. 600 Bast 141st Street, said they had paid in- creases during the last year and that another increase had been demanded the first of this month. In the Beaumont Avenue case, after learning that no improvements had been made on the building in the past year, Justice Robitzek granted a 20 per cent, increase over March of a year ago. In the 14lst Street case, because some improvements had been made, he granted 25 per cent. over the rate of a year ago. But while these were nominally in- creases, actually they were reductions from the present rates and the ten- ants were pleased, Mrs. Lily Litzenburg rT, owner of U.S. PROTESTS REVOLUTION. Minister Says ‘There Is Need for One in Guatemala, WASHINGTON, April 7.—Benton McMillan, United States Minister to} Guatemula, has issued a proclamation to the people of that country stating that in view of the spuarent Cf COM"! now see little hope of an amicable| In the event of the court holding See erat dienes ly resident’ cdjustment of the matter, While | the Socialist Party, by virtue of its Sore “nemly believes there la no cauge|R¥AH will not comment further on Platform and constitution, ts inimical for starting revolutionary measure,''| his attiude, It is the opinion of these to the Government, the Secretary of ‘This was the first {ntimation that a! members that in the event that he State will be compelled to withhold vevolutiouary uprising Was threateneg | is Unable to make the Stock Exchange tcognition of the party und refuge | in Guacemala capitulate on his terms he will be to allow the names of any of its mast Sealro is ing Stouts Baie cundidates to appear on the official ae apn tt e can force a settlement of short ballot vayligbt Saving contracts in the outside market or A second bill providea that If the te in the courts i court rules against the party, tdi. as nT vidual members of it shull be inelle- i seaiel ee NYsinindars ible to hold any civil office of the day = Staffel breast mize State or of any municipal corp: tion | | “Cire pulation Books Open to All?” | 1920. ted as Second. New York, TO-MORROW'S W EATHER—Fair; rising temperature, jatter OY a4 PAGES. PRICE TWO = “ STUTZ SELLS AT S701 A SHARE BUA To co IN PUBLIC AUCTION OF STOCK Ryan, Wo oii Cornered Market, Reported to Be Behind the Purchase, EXCHANGE WILL Drastic Step by Board of Gov- enors Is Expected To-Day. Stutz Motor stock, cornered by Man A. Ryan, who until last Thurs- day was President of the company to-day sold at public auction at $701 a share. A block of 200 shares changed hands at this figure, which is $310 above the price quoted on the Stock Exchange just before the Board of Governors suspended trad- ing in the stock last Wednesday af- ternoon. The sale was had at the auction rooms of A. H. Muller & Sons. Tho stock had been advertised this morn- ing and attracted a large crowd. Three bidders ran the price up. It was announced that the gncoanatal | Dkider could take 100%0r 200 of the stock at the high price. The bidding started at $400 @ share. By jumps of $5 and $10 it quickly went to 9600, when one of the bidders dropped out. The other two fought it out up another $100 a share, When his opponent bid $700, Benjamin F. Feiner of Feiner & Maas, attorneys of No, 100 Broadway, bid $701, and the stock was knocked down to htm. He took both of the 100-share blocks offered. Mr. Feiner said he was acting for a client, He refused to make further statements, Wall Street immediately jumped to the conclusion that the purchaser was in reality Mr. Ryan, who had bid in the stock at this sensational price in order to strengthen his hand in his expected legal battle with the shorts. At (Mr. Ryan's office, No, 111 Mroad- way, he refused to see reporters. The reporters put the direct <uestion: “Was Mr. Ryan the purchaser of this stock?” Mr. Ryan's secretary disappeared into the private office where he re- mained several minutes, When he came out h said Mr, Ryan was not in and would probably not be back to-day. The Wall Street attitude was that no person who had been caught short of the stock would pay this enormous price without recourse to the courts, since the Board of Governors has an- nounced it will not force delivery of ACT. | iBABY GIRL BORN TO MRS. W. G. M’ADOO, WILSON’S DAUGHTER pil of Treasury Named for Father's Mother. Mrs. William Gibbs McAdoo, youngest daughter of President Wil- son and wife of the former Secretary of the Treasury, gave birth last night to a daughter in the McAdoo home, No. 863 Park Avenue, The chid was named Mery Faith McAdoo, after tho father's mother. Tho McAdoo's first child, Bien ‘Wil- son McAdoo, was born four years It was reported that mother a baby were “doing well” LAW TO WIPE OUT SOCIALIST PARTY INTRODUCED TO-DAY Bill Provides for Judicial De- termination of Alleged Danger to State. ALBANY, April 7.—Two bills, de- the stock. The Stock Exchange rule|*lsned to carry out the rocommenda- regards a failure to deliver stock on demand as an admission of insol- vency, but this rul; far as Stutz stock Monday, Wall Street is expecting serisational action by the Stock Exchange late to-day following the statement issued last night by Mr. Ryan, in which he outlined his opinion as to how the corner in Stutz stock might be ad- justed. The tone.of the statement, which was nearly everywhere ac: cepted as indicating that Ryan is in- different a8 to what further action Stock Exchange authorities may take, is expected to have decisive results. ‘A special meeting of the Board of Governors of the Exchange has been las concerned last called for this afternoon, and while; the purpose of tho meeting cannot definitely be ascertained it is believed that the Stutz matter will again be taken up. sae SP ok ws iit ag at nae milion! ladeiatdion caaeenel | the Government Influential members of the Exchange Nation. tion of the Assembly Judiciary Com- mittee that the Socialist Party of was set aside 45) ,merica be barred from “participa- tion in politics in New York State,” were introduced in the Legislature to-day. The first measure 1s designed to amend the Public Officers’ Law re- lating to qualifications of persons to hold office and to provide for the exclusion of Socialists frum public office and preventing the exercise of official duties, The other measure js intended to require the Attorney General of the State to begin an action in the Ap- pellate Division, Third Department, for a judicial determination of the question whether the “principles, doctrines, or policies” of the Soctal- ist Party, “if carried into effect, would destroy, subvert, or endanger of the State and ee ee PUBLIC RESORTS \ “Morals Committee” Com- posed of Citizens Seen as Way Out of Police Scandals. ENRIGHT WON'T RESIGN. Says He Will Disappoint Crooks—Straton Before U. S. Grand Jury To-Day. Mayor Hylan and Police Commis- sioner Enright have under serious coa- sideration the appointment of a con- "|mittee on public morals, which will act as an auxiliary of the Police Depart- ment, reporting thercto all cabarota, resorts of a questionable character which Rave thus far escaped the con- sorship of tho police, This conjmittec, the exact ttle of which has not yet béen suggested, will Ikely be composed of many of the ‘the ‘various ohureh denominations and soctal and elvic activities, Hy “attorney James yon being informed of the ‘Mayor's plans, enid: “The District Attorney's office is awakened. The District Attorney’ office will lend all possible peaked to such a body of decent citizens, shall be glad to be the first tw co- operate with them.” Im denial of a report that although he had asked Accounts Commissioner Hirshfield to investigate vice com- plaints made by the Rev. John Roach Straton, he had ignored Comraissioner Enright, Mayor Hylan said he did not ignore the Police Commissioner, but issued the same instructions to him that were sent to Hirshfield and at the same time. ENRIGHT SAYS HE WON'T QuiT TO PLEASE CROOKS. Commissioner Enright ‘sent his sec- retary to City Hall to-day with a typewritten slip for the Mayor to make public for him. It read: “The gamblers, crooks, backers of vice and the whole underworld would like to have me quit. But they will be disappointed, “RICHARD E. ENRIGHT.” Enright’s message followed rumors among politicians which were due to the public addresses of Assistant Dis- trict Attorney James E. Smith, tn which he said the “Mayor was being fooled by subordinates” and a story of an Atlantic City conference early in the week at which the Mayor was gaid to have agreed to sbmebody's advice that It was about time to cast TRAP 13 WOMEN IN GAMBLING RAID. Detectives Say They Arrested Two Men as Bettors’ Hopes Were Dashed by “Slippery Ellum.” A roll of $700 in bills was put before Magistrate Koenig in the West Bide Court to-day as evidence that Louis Graham of No. 163 West 98t! Street and Willlam Sennett, a Ucket speculator of No, 215 Mast 14th Street, had conducted a place where women from New Jersey, Long Island and Westehester County gambled on the races, Detectives Kelly and Stephen of In- spector Daly's staf sald uh visited ing “Slippery more speed They found { en women gathered nround a telephone and tie two men busy with racing slips. ‘The women’s names were taken. Th }lest their husband j ipper, cr) {trom somebody or | The mah were he or huaring Monday, when the detoetives promlsed | to have ‘some of thed@ousewives from th: Joutiging. distr >uld be reached at | abe a jachuse cruaterrios ta day's PLANNED BY HYLAN NEGOTIATING tearful pleas to be allowed to go home| Day, Complete Neutral Zone T0 END GERMAN TROUBLE French, by Seizure of Homburg To. AMERICA, BRITAIN AND mTWY WITH FRANCE Their Advance i —Ebert’s Troo March on Duesseldorf — Strong Protest From Berlin to Paris. WASHINGTON, | April and Italy are now negotiating wilh 7.—The United States, Great Britain France to arrive at a definite in connection with the French advance into Germany, it was said dance halls, gambling clubs and other| the State Leuartment to-day. President Wilson is understood and to be directing the attitude of Colby. AIX LA CHAPELLE, Rhenish FRA) to have the whole matter before him the United States through Secretary Prussia, April: 7—German most prominent men and women of} nent troops are mrarching on Duesseldorf, Occupation of the town is expected lale this evening or to-masrow 7.--The occupation troops, announced ‘to-day, virtuatly paar the pi th to Gen. Degoutte, in charge of the delighted to learn that the moral| ffom the War Office. The entire plan has been carried out without sense of the community has been | significant incident. FRENCH PURSUING SHYLOCK POLICY, CHARGE OF BERLIN Bhegt Government in Proclamation Says It Will Not Let Ger- many Be Shattered, BPRLIN, April 7. PROCLAMATION, ad- dressed by tho German Government to the inhwbit- ants of the towns occupied by the It French, was issued to-day, ‘Leas than 14,000 troops’ hi been collected in the Ruhr dis- trict, or almost the exact number permitted by the agreement with the Entente. France has regard- ed it as reconcilable with the state of peace to occupy flourish- ing German towns aos a reprisal. ‘The world’s peace has never been more monstrously played with than it has been just now by France. “It is that hard-hearted oppon- ent which alone is responsible for making you the victim of this Shytock policy. The Imperial Gov- ernment will do everything it can to shorten your period of suffer- ing, It will not let Germany be shattered in this cunnimgly de- vised fashion.” 12 ROUND BOUTS FOR JERSEY NOW Senate Passes Bill To-Day and It Awaits Only Signature of Goy, Edwar TRENTON, N. J., April 7.—The Sen- ate to-day passed a bill designed to legalize twelve-round boxing bouts tn New Jersey. The bill now goes to Gov- crnor Edwards for his signature, the measure having recently passed the As- ws] in sembly. Boxing bouts in this State at | present are limited to eight rounds. Senator Simpson, of Hudson County, in advocating the measure, sald that boxing as conducted in New | Jersvy, is ood clean sport, and had! proved vei pular, It waa neces- sary, ho eaid, lo extend the number ot rounds, in order that %oxing clabs Jersey miyrht mere neariy j moet the competition of other States. l'Phe vote on the bo 1 too \ -_ - Secretary Wiisun's Mother Dies, WASHINGTON, —Mrs. Aprit allen 1, Wilson, mother of Se ary of Lue| industrial works has up to the prege! bor Wilson, died carly to-day at ber not proved justified.” ek at Allport, Pa, alleged y: ‘© The inhabitants of Frankfort occupation movement, in his orders accepting the occupation with plete outward indifference. The el Presents no Indications that sueh notable event had occurred, from the posters bearing. the Government's proclamation. is going on as usual, the people erally following their customary cupations without paying much tention to the few French unifo! seen in the streets. The number these has apparently been reduced a minimum in order to avoid’ ca’ for irritation. : oesnstierneten GERMANS ASSERT _ FRENCH ADVANCE }) WAS UNJUSTIFI Claim That Operations in the Ri Have Dispersed the Reds and Saved Republic, : BERLIN, April 1—Advances Government troops in the Ruhr trict continues, Detachments of |Reichewehr and shock troops entered the suburbs 6f Essen Tuesday aft noon. Another detachment occupi the Essen Town Hall last evening. Long columns of the Red Army, Pt motor lorries and on foot, through Elberfeld on Tuesday. of them surrendered their arms Blberfeld. Others marched into occupied territory, chiefly to Solingen where they wero disarmed by the British, The German Charge d’Affaires Paris was instructed to-day to to the French Government a note testing against the French occupatl cf Franicfort and other territory the right bank of the Rhine, note, after referring to the contents the French note of April 5, notityi Germany that the occupation been ordered, asserts that the cupation of the towns mentioned the French communteation gcc! before the note was presented to German Government, “We must in the name of justi reason und humanity,” the Geri | mote continues, “make the shai protest against the action of t French Army. “The movement in the Ruhr regio: if it had not been quickly oj would have shaken the republic to its foundations both politically and eco nomically, “Everywhere that the troops arriy; the movement quickly collapsed, | the fears expressed by the Allies ¢ | the very entry of the troops wor make the disturbances worse and \to the destruction of more 4 ee