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fans Ne ——_— = 0, VOL. LX. NO. 21,407—DAILY. ~ RYAN NOW WANTS STUTZ [TO PUNISH FOOD DEALERS. STOCKS REMOVED FROM USNG STRIKE AS EXCUSE. TO BOOST RETA. PRICES, 20,000 Dividend Shares, PUBLIC SALE AT $700. Day on Broker’s Resigna- tion From ’Change. fasued to-morrow as dividends. ef the Board of Governors since Beart for the stoclercn ere a failure gF on the additional 20,000 shares. FS ES and rendered them wholly unmarket- ‘wrote to the Board of Governors. empowered to place any such ban on ion involved, we nevertheless await- that you would speedily restore our stock to its just privileges. But in- esmueh as this has not been done, this injustice to our stockholders. “While we shall @haracterize your motive and pur- poses in this treatment of our securi- ties, it is clear beyond a doubt that your action was not designed to bene- tit our stockholders, and did not in tact work to their advantage.” A new high price for Stutz stock was made to-day when six and two- tenths shares were sold at public auc- tion by A. H. Muller & Son at $700 share. The stock sold exclusive of ditional stock, which would make the price of shares with dividend rihts $840, Following this sale, 130 shares with the dividend on sold at $700. ‘Three remaining lots brought $700, five and twelve shares éx-dividend going at this price and two sha es with dividend on. Thamas M. Day, an attorney of No. 233 Broadway, the purchaser, said he bought the stock for himeser. A meeting of the Governing Com- mittee of the Exchange will be held (Continued on Second Page.) ———— YAKE BELL-ANS AFTER MEALS and se. bow five GOOD DIGESTION mates rou toel.— Adve. Classified Advertisers Important! Sere ae RE On or Be fore Friday | Preceding Pudlication Board of Governors Acts To- Wellowing the resignation of Allan A. Ryan from the New York Stock ‘Miwhange, the Stutz Motor Car Com- any, contrufied try Ryan, to-day re- quettad the Board of Governors of the Exchange to remove Stutz stock from the fist at once. The company eis withdrew tts application for the Rating of 30,000 now shares to be (empended on the Mxchange by order ‘April Price of clothing. An overall club of 1, when the Board announced there (eas notonger a free and unrestricted COLUMBIA, 8. C., Apriljadmaitvery: “You have in effect tied up this large amount of valuable securities able for our stockholders,” Mr. Ryan “While we believe that you are not our shares as your order of suspen- | e4 your further action in the hope! wo are unwilling to suffer any longer not, attempt to the dividend rights of 20 per cent. ad- | EXCHANGE LIST AT ONCE (Also 'Withdraws Application for WOMEN IN APRONS |JOIN OVERALL-MEN; FIGHT HIGH PRICES Students at Yale and in South Pledged to Wear Old . Clothes. ROANOKE, Va., April 14.—Three overall and one apron otub were organized here at four different mass meetings of citizens. A total mem- bership of 1,400 was enrolled. GREENVILLE, 8. C., April 14— Many Greenville business and pro~ "Trading {n Gtutz stock has deen fessional men to-day appeared in | overalls on a protest against the hish 200 members was organized at Hick- ens, @ small town near here. member of the student ‘body’at the ‘Phe letter to the Board of Gov- University of South Carolina has enors ig siened by Allan A. Ryan @Mairman of the Board of Direc- Ot the Stutz Company. The let- recites the history of the sus- of trading in Stutz stock and ‘of the board to take ac- the company’s request to agreed to wear oVeralls until “such time as the prices of clothing reach a reasonable figure.” The Glee Club will discard the conventional cvening dress in favor of denim on its con- | cert tour. ATLANTA, Ga., April 14—Chair- man John A, Manget of the Georgia Fair Price Commission, to-day called on citizens of Atlanta to organize | an overah club as a protest against clothing prices. | SPOKANE, Wash., April 14.—Fire Chief A. L, Weeks and many city firemen reported for duty to-day in khaki suits, Chief Weeks sald here- | after regulation blue uniforms, which cost $72, would be required only on | formal occasions. 'W HAVEN, Conn., April 14.— An “old clothes club” in the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University materialized to-day. Students are asked to wear old clothes “in order to bring down the present high cost of clothing,” and those arraying them- | selves in new suits will be regarded as “guilty of a serioug breach of so- cial etiquette.” The Yalo News makes this fashion note of “correct attire: Sweater, coat and trousers of a different material, army shoes or bedroom slippers and | last year's hat, No embargo on clean linen.” RICHMOND, Va, April 14.—*"Over- |all and Old Clothes” clubs were organ- ized here, and within an hour 1,500 prominent Richmond men applied for membership, Among those who have made appli- cation for membership are @ bank President, several, high raflroad ofi- cials and also offetuls of @ large in- surance company here. WINSTON -SALBM, N. C., April 14. —More than 3,000 men made applica- tion for membership in the “Overall Club" being formed here to co-operate in the movement to help reduce the cost of clothing. LYNCHBURG, Va. April 14.—An “Overall Club” was organized here to- day among the clerks of the Chesa- peake and Ohio Railroad. ae WILL RUSH JENKS FARE BILL, Measure Likely to Pasn the Assem- sap tbc 14.—The majority ALBANY, April leaders of the Hoyse have deoreed that the notorious Jenks traction bills shall be railroaded through the Assembly. A caucus of Republican Assenfblymen has been called for late this afternton to de- termine upon what legislation shall go through and what shall be put into the political morgue, Immediately after the cauens the Ju- diclary Committee will meet and will report the Jenks bills out with the reo- ommendation that they pass and will be rushed ehrough the aasembix jmeats and, if necessary, the sale of NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1920. Department of Justice’ and Mayor Hylan Are to Curb Profiteering in City. ARMY GOODS OFFERED. Large Supply of Canned Food: Available—Cattle Here From West. The police and fire departments, at the direction of Mayor Hylan, are about to make a survey of the food situation in New York to find out how large the present supply is and to fearn whether extortionate prices are being charged and by whom. The Mayor requests that individu- als who have knowledge of profiteer- img communicate with the Police or Fire Department. In his letter to the Commissioners of the two de- partments the Mayor says: “Persons who use the railroad atrike ag an excuse for charging exorbitant prices for the necessities of life should be brought to the bar of justice as speedily as possible, Jail {s almost too good for thé profiteer who deliberately Seizes upon 4 tieup of railroads as an excuse for robbing the public. “I am reliably informed that ff milk and perishable foodstuffs in reason- able quantities arrive here daily there is enough non-perishable food on hand to last for some time.” INVESTIGATE SUPPLY PRICES OF FOOD. He then outlings the task that the two departments are to undertake. While they are getting an invento: of the amount of food in warehouses and elsewhere they are to make in- quiries about prices as well. Additional relief is promised through action taken by United States District Attorney Leroy W. Ross in Brooklyn. An investigation made under his direction convitwed him that the city’s supply of meat would not last mre than a week under normal consumption. He therefore called a meeting in his office, where arrangements were made for the immediate sale of 6,000,000 pounds of army frozen AND a similar amount of army canned meat. Frozen meat, whose price hitherto bas been 148 cents a pound, will be sold to wholesalers at 10.5 cents. ‘They have agreed to supply retailers at cost plus handling expenses, and It ts promised that the retailers will be prevented from taking more than a reasonable profit. The frozen meats will be handled at butcher shops and the canned meats, if necessary, at grocery stores. Gov. Smith also took up the food @tuatiqn with the army authorities and received assurances that the War Department will help by selling army meats to any community buying as- (Continued on Eighth Page.) WOMEN WEARING LOW-NECK GOWNS BARRED IN CHURCH Arizona Pastor Who Protests Against Present-Day Tenden- cies Orders Them Away. PHOENIX, Ariz., April 14. LL entrances to St. Mary's Catholic Church to-day bore notices saying: “En- trance imto this church is for- bidden women wearing low necked dreases,”’ ‘The name of Rey. P. Novatua, rector, was subscribed. Members of the congregation said Futher Novetus tested EDWARDS ORDERS. PROSECUTIONS OF AL PROFTEERS Declares Social Unrest Is Caused by Belief That People Are Being Exploited. ‘TRENTON, N, J., April 14.—Gov. Tdwards to-day requested prosecu- tors of the twenty-one counties of the State to conduct Grand Jury investi- gations of cases of alleged food, clothing «fa rent.profiteering. Prices of necessities haye risen so high, he declared, as to become a T™menace to sucial peace, as many people of Mimited means “are ap- proaghing a condition of pocial un- rést under the belief that they are being exploited.” “If extortion is responsible for tis discontent,” the Governor said, “it can be ended by an independent and vigor- ous enforcement of the criminal law. No pew legislation is needed, existing statutes being sufficient to reach ex- tortionists. “You should speedily see that the guilty are punished as a means of pro- moting respect for law on which the security of the State depends.” NYACK ORGANIZES TO FIGHT STRIKES Permanent Body Formed as Result of Railroad Tie-Up—Guard for Volunteer Trainmen. Citizens of Nyack last night at a mass meeting effected a permanent organiza- tion opposed to organized labor, Two hundred volunteer firemen, 175 volun- teer conductors and 125 volunteer brake- men were enrolled and will meet this evening to elect officers and pledge themselves to keep in readiness to yol- unteer thelr services in case of any fu- ture railroad strike. Sheriff Merritt, warned of threats against the volunteers, this morning swore in thirty-five deputies for guard duty on the three trains sent out by the town, Mayor David J, McKenna of Engle- wood, N. J., last mght called a meet- ing of 1,000 citizens, at which steps were taken to run three passenger traing into New York in connection with the trains from Nyack. At the meeting 450 volunteers signed up keep in readiness to volunteer to break up this or any future railroad strike. Mayor McKenna paid this action was not “in any sense taking sides in the railroad controversy, but merely defensive action by citizens threat- ened with shortage of food and fuel and in desperate straits for trans- portation,” i oo WOOLWORTH STRIKE ENDED BY WOMEN Half the Men Return, but Are Told | Their Places Have Been Filled, The strfwe of the elevator operators in the Woolworth Bullding was smashed flat this morning, according to KE, A. Cochran, Superintendent of the bullding, with the assistance of employees of the| building and women elevator operators About 50 per cent. of the strikers re- turned to work this morning, only to be| told there were no jobs vacant, and that the women, who had filled their places while the war was on, had been called back lato service, . |Ten |Students, Legion Members and THOUSANDS OF COMMUTERS - REACH CITY ON 19 TRAINS ~ RUN BY JERSEY VOLUNTEERS » WILSON CALLS LABOR BOARD TO ‘ ACT ON THE STRIKE “Indignation Specials” Brought In on Lackawanna, | Nine on Erie. Newly Appointed Members Sum- moned to Washington After Meeting of the Cabinet. WASHINGTON, April 14.—Follow- ing a discusaion of the railroad strike at a session of the Cabinet lasting an hour and a ‘half to-day, President Wilson telegraphed to members of the newly named Railroad Labor Board asking them to come to Wash- ington and be prepared to function as soon as their nominations had ‘been confirmed by the Senate. The President had beey informed that Senator Cummins, Chairman of |the Henate Interstate Commerce |Cammittee; had prepared a resolu- |tion permitting the Hoard to meet here instead of Chicago, and the President's action was in anticlpa- tion of the adoption of tis resolu- tion, The Senate Committee announced it had ordered the nominations re- ported favorably and the Senate BIG RUSH TO SERVE. Others Besiege Railway Officials. The volunteer railroad movement, not only in the neighborhood of New York, but throughout the Hast, | reaohed new heights to-day when| railroad traffic managers, Mayors of cities and others in official position were swamped with offers of help. With volunteer crews of firemen, conductors and trainmen, no less than nineteen passenger trains arrived in Jersey City and Hoboken from suburbs in Northern New Jersey. ‘The score was: Hrie, 9; Lackawaana, 10. They brought an average of 950 passengers each, or a total of 18/050. ‘The only professionals in the nine-|went into executive session to dis- teen casts were the old engineers |cuss them. who refused to be stampeded into an| Attorney General Pulmer went di- outlaw strike. The same crews prom-|rect from the, White Hause to his tse to take commuters home again] Office and called a conference of his late in the afternoon. assistants who have been keeping ‘An evidence of the spirit bf the vol-|1n close touch with the strike situ- ation TUBE MOTORMEN DESERT STRIKE: Are AT WORK System Now Has Enough Men to Resume Service With- out “Outlaws.” unteer movement is the letter sent today by men of the American Legion in Hudson County, N. J. to the Mayors of Bayonne, Jersey Clty, ‘West Hoboken, Union Hill, Hoboken, North Bergen, Weekhawken and West New York. “Count on the men of the Am- erican Legion in Hudson Count) the letter said in substance, “to @rive motor trucks, horse-drawn vehicles, act as manual laborers or do anything else in the way of moving fuel or foodstyffs for the relief of the people of your com- munity.” ‘The letter was signed by Chairman ‘Tim Crowley of the Hudson County Federation of the Legion, his asso- clate officers and a representative mumber of legionaires, among them Assistant Prosecutor George T. Vick- ers, former Judge John Warren, Dr. Frederick Quigley and Charles Rooney, an attorney. They made it plain that they have no desire to Ninety per cent. of the motormen of the Hudson and Manhattan Tubes who voted last week to support the strike of the trainmen and flagmen : 112] which caused the rond 10 suspend sides in any controversy be- tacen employer and employed, but| service returned to-day and began wish to ‘help the helpless." work on the instruction trains on BANKERS, BROKERS AND VET.| Which now crows are boing trained. N ‘The action of the motonmen, who are ERANS FIRE TRAINS. ‘The volunteer rauiroaders who brought in to-day's “indignation specials” made up a galaxy of stars out of the Who's Who of Northen New Jersey. Mayors were as com- mon among them as profiteering landlords in a borough which need not be named. Bankers, brokers, A. members of the International Broth- erhood of Locomotive Engineers, fol- lowed a secret meeting at No, 148 Lewis Avenue, Jersey City, Monday night, which was addressed by inter- national officers of fhe brotherhood, Notice was circulated among all the other strikers af the Hudson and Manhattan system that Oren Root, BE. F. vets with and without the right to wear decorations—Out none | President of the road ‘had given or- wearing them—college students and |@er# to the company time keepers other good Americans made up the |that all men who had not reported list for duty at half past four o'clock ‘The only criticism division super. |this afternoon should be dropped {ntendents had to make was of the |f7om the rolls and regarded as dis- charged for cause, I. T, Hunt, Prea- ident of the striking trainmen, ask- ing If the report was official, volunteer firemen. “Too enthusiasuc,” said the railroad men, ‘This was because none of the nine- [“Cirentation Books Open to All.” LOS ETT OS ATTACKS ON MAIL TRAINS | MAY CALL OUT U.S. TROOPS N oe ° on Wont came from strike headquar- | (Continued on Second Page.) ters a Hitt r that union officials cal: |had heard from Mr. Root In person that the order was authentic. ‘They WORLD RESTAURANT, were als told that the tubes have Sorned “apare riba and sume operation even though poue of the strikers return, TO-MORROW'S WEATHE3—Fair and warmer: EDITION 22 PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS: Jersey Central Restores Full Com» muter Service—Strikers Eager for Way to Get Back Without Penalties—Long Island Tie Up . Broken. nie Something like a panic staried among the leaders of the “outlaw? railroad strike in Jersey City this aftemoon after thé adjournment ofthe daily stri** meeting at Grand View Hall, , To expressions of uneasiness and doubt expressed in open meeting | was added a general consensus of opinion in groups about, the building that nothing was to be gained by staying away from work # the new | Federal Railroad Labor Board could be persuaded to start immediate hearings and terms could be made to save the leaders from discipline by the International Brotherhoods.+ The general uneasiness was greatly increased by the success of the railroads in’ moving suburban trains with volunteer crews and the Public enthusiasm which greeted this evidence that the worst inconveniences and discomforts of the strike could be broken. The most striking advance » service made was by the Jersey Central, wiich announced that commuting would be restored to normal between 3.30 and 6.30 P, M, ‘® Another element in the ant STRIKE CONDITIONS | | p2i,,\2*,,cutbreak of violenon, a AS REPORTED BY |servis; the more cousertativa ob ane tr LOCAL LINES TO-DAY | inter» baa accepted promises. tei jeaders that nothing aay , ing of violence would be thd, Volunteers Aiding in Suburban| As a result of all these influences Traffic, but Freight Service Feary? di ogenera! | smurrylog of the outlaw strike; Badly Crippled, hurried meeting of the HE ratiroads and ferry | Executive Committee wae called and lines of New York re | 4s hurriedly adjourned, and the mem- ported these conditions | bers went In automobiles to all tie early to-day: peg places of strikers to exhott ern NEW YORK CENTRAL — best nls inte Pop eredietn 3 « Senger service, commutation and | boon made nm OF Mutender had through, practically normal; freight Chairman Fa service carrying foodstuffs only. | Executive Peay Commies Tae PENNSYLVANIA. — Commuta- | called from a two-hour ‘con: , tion service normal, through ser- | with Mayor Hague to attend "tke vice fifty per cent. normal; food- | special meoting and returned at once. ff freight received in quan: | He was trying to devise withthe tities, Mayor o plan for saving the jocal NEW HAVEN—Through trains — union leaders from the wrath of the normal; commutation irregular | brotherhood chiefs and thelr Joyal and crowded but complete. followers, ‘ Mott Haven yard moving all ‘There wae nottit freight; other freight limited to | ofrices of sie yee the phat. perishable produce, affiliation, which started the strike LONG ISLAND.—8team traffic [among railroad tugboat and lighter fifty per cent. restored; electric | and ferry men mo! othe traffic complete and on time. | ago ne eae ERIE—Brought in nine sub- Followin, urban traine with volunte manegora, J. J, Mantels Chaired th crews; through service irregula the Manager's Committ . no freight. afternoon : eh ee LACKAWANNA.—6ixteen sub- “The culaws were rushed off thetr urban trains; ten with volunteer | feet and thrown into a state of de crews; other passenger service |dirium, But they have now reached practically suspended. the etage where they are sick in the JERSEY CENTRAL—All Phil- | head and are rapidly approaching the adelphia trains restored; Newark branch still nded. Commu tation traffic to be handled by regular schedule from 3.30 P. M. to 630 P. M. Perishable freight moved. BALTIMORE & OHIO—Passen- ger service from Penn 8 service partly suspended. WEST SHORE. demand protection for the mails ty United States troops, ‘Train No. 6, the Cleveland Mail, which left Jersey City at 9.45 last night, was held up by a large crowd of strikers at Port Jervis, vice normal, freight service sus- pended, except as to milk and produce. LEHIGH VALLEY. — Passenger service normal, freight service limited to perishable predues, Lido Shoe eee. eee STATEN ISLAND RAPID pulled from io cont amt bret Gn TRANSIT.—One train each way | his front teeth were knocked out, on Tottenville Division only. He was finally rescued and taken Southbound train leaves at 340 | to the hospital at Suequehanna, Pa., P.M. suffering from many cuts and bruises, HUDSON AND MANHATTAN ‘The reports to Erte officials here TUBES.—Still idle while emer- | state that every tram that reaches: gency crews are completing train, | Port Jervis is surrounded by etrikers ing. and the crows attacked. As the FERRIES, — All boats giving | members of the crews are assautted more than normal service. they are told “This ts the test time | you'll pass through here” ‘The Drie reported all through traine _ THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREA'