The evening world. Newspaper, April 16, 1920, Page 1

Get the Country Back on Peace Basis |: VOL. LX. NO. 21,409—DAILY. by, The Preve Psblishing New York World). NEW YORK, FRIDAY, APRIL APRIL 16, 1920, Batered as Becond-Clags Post Oftice, New York, OVERALLS CLUB FOR sEMIE: MOVE FORCES PARADE IN BROADWAY TO-DAY Bankers and Judges Join to » Cut Down Cost of Men’s u Clothing. WOMEN AID IN FIGHT. t University Students, to Don Denim Suits. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 16.— The lowly overall to-day supplanted the “pinchback” in Birmingham. City Commissioners functioned in denim; Judges applied the law in the same uniform and bankers, doctors, lawyers and merchants wore their overalls. The women had quietly “orgemized” at home. Toward noon many ap- Peared in dresses of calico and ging- ham and the variety of colors gave the downtown section the appearance of a carnival. Retail clothiers have advertised “bargain sales” in men’s wear and lower price marks were observed in some of the store’ windows. “I would rather may $6 for overalls than $60 for 4 suit,” said Judge Wil- liam E, Fort of the Circuit Court. “This movement is no joke. It will bring down the cost of clothing.” Senators to Join Clubs. WASHINGTON, April 16.—The ov: all revolt may spread to the 'Senace Senator Capper, Kansas, said the over- all movement was a sign of demov- racy and public health. “It begins to look bad for the pr f'- teers,” said Capper. “It is a sign of public health when the; people take in- to their own hands in this simple but effective way the matter of forcing down the cost of clothing. I predic: they will succeed if they will stick to the movement. “Congress could do worse than start a branch of the clubs. ‘The gouging of the people by the clothing and ot ter profiteers has been absolutely indo- fensible, and I sincerely hope the, over- all revolt is a sueces « Capper said he would become a inember of the club if one were formed in Congress. Senators McNgry, Ove gon; Gronna, North Dakota; Shop pard, Texas; Kenyon, Iowa, and F erene, Ohio, also said they would join an overall club at the Capital. Overalls on Broadway To-Day ‘The Cheese Club prontises to bring the overall strike to New York to- day. As soon as the members can be outfitted with the blue r drab garb they will give a grand rally and parade as an organized demonstration against the high cost of men's clothing. The Cheese dramatic writers, Club is composed of press agents and (Continued on Eighth Page.) Classified Advertisers CLOSING TIME 5.30 P. M. SHARP SATURDAY FOR The SUNDAY WORLD’ Classified Advertisements OFFICES CLOSE BUS he 6 O'CLOCK tively no Clas fied Advertise. il be received for The “worta after 6.90 P.M. ne CORY opy for The Sunday avertts! be in The War'd offic+ " id nga ‘OR BEFORE FRIDAY PRECEDING PUBLICATION Bank | Presidents and Laborers Pledge | CUT N PRES: | THEODORE N. VAIL DIES IN BALTIMORE IN HIS 75TH YEAR Grew Up With Telephone Business and Became Most Noted Head of System. BALTIMORE, April 16.—Theodore N. Vail, president of the Amertean Telegraph and Telephone Company, died suddenly at 5.52 this morning in Johns Hopkins Hospital former of a combination of kidney and heart was with him trouble. Mrs. Vail when he died, | Mr. Vail had been’ at Jekyl Island, off the coast of Georgia, for several ths. On the advice of his physi- days ago. respond to treatinent, but this morn- ing grew suddenly worse. He prob- | ably will be buried Sunday at Persip- pany, N. J. At the time of bis death he was pChairman of the Board of Directors of the American Telegraph and Tele- phone Company. ‘Theodore Newton Vail wag born in Carroll County, O., July 16, 1845, the bon of Davis and Phoebe Vail. His faternal ancestors were English Quakers, some of whom were among the Pilgrims who came early to this country and settled in Massachusetts. As a boy Mr. Vail attended the \Morristown, N. J., common school hind the Morristown Academy. He when studied medicine for a while but ave it up to take up telegraphy. In 1867 he ‘became General Superintend- ‘ent of Mails in Washington. ‘There he met Prof. Alexander Gra- Kelophone. Vail soon after the first general manager of the orig- linal telephone company and even- (ually became the American Telegraph and Tele- ‘foremost man in the world telophone business, Righler, who died in 1904, was Miss Mabel R. never had any children. member of the New York Yacht Club, k Athletle Club, Railr Chub, Lawyers’ Club and the Automobile Club, all of New York City, >_ “BEAUTIFUL DOLL” Too Friendly With French High Commission Attaches, 11 Stasee, Maiden Lane jeweller, to-day appeared before Supreme Court Justice Platzek to press his suit for di vores with two attaches of the French High Rethbonc aah Ame | lan'he came to Johns Hopkins three For a while he seemed to ham Bell, who was working on the became the first President of iphone Conypany. He ranked as the in the In 1869 Mr. Vail married Miss Emma His second wife, to whom he was married in 1907, Anderson. He He was a the Union League, the Arts Club, New LETTERS IN DIVORCE Jeweller Accuses His Wife of Being against Eugenie Stasse, who, he alleges in his comptaint, was too friendly TARE BELL-ANS ADLER MEALS be pad 506, bow foe GOOD DIGSITION mares you WAR-TRAINED GIRLS RUN ELEVATORS AS ~ OPERATORS STRIKE iagorles Wana: Crews Work in Woolworth, Equitable and Other Big Buildings. FEW FORCED TO WALK. Tenants, Stenographers and Clerks, as Volunteers, Balk Plan for Tie-Up. These talented and versatile citi- zens, the Great American Business Man and Woman, who break railroad strikes by running locomotives, are OF PROFITEERING \Charged With Getting Two Prices for Meat of Same Quality. Grocer Says He Paid $25 a Bag | for Sugar and Got Receipt for Smaller Amount. tendent of the Brooklyn branch of Armour & Co., warrant this afternoon by Special also capable of hoisting themselves thirty or forty stories by running an elevator, ‘This fact, plus the service of war- trained women who ran the country while the men were in France, plus the increasing public hostility toward strikes in general, deatt a forceful blow this morning to the strike of elevator operators, which went into effect at 9 o'clock in all parts of the city, It does not mean that the strike has been broken, but ¢he situation is very much less eerious than the strike leaders said it wobid be. They said it would be a “walk up day” for pretty nearly everybody. It isn’t. Almost everybody is riding. In some buildings the strikers won. ‘The managers called them in and granted their wage demands, But in a much larger number of cases the strikers remained out and the ele- vators ran just tho same, One of the places where the strikers won was the Tower Building, where the starter said each operator had been granted an increase effective to- day. Luncheons are also to be served to the operators, they are to have vacations, and are to receive two- thirds pay when sick. HUNDREDS OF WOMEN TAKE PLACES OF THE MEN. There had been warning, and therefore hundreds of women had substituted wartime ‘uniforms for their kitchen aprons and were at at- tention in the cages within a minute or two after the men quit. Where there were no women regu- larly ‘hired for the job, notably in the Equitable Building, the citizen strike- breaker, striking on his own behalf for the right to ride, took things in hand. At noon, in @ general statement on the strike situation, Thomas J. Mc- Gill, President of the operators’ union, suid of the Equitable: “It is tied up completely and the doors are locked.” At the same hour an Evening World reporter was in the Equitable Building. He found that all the en- ;|trances were open and that all the elevators were running. Some of them were operated by ‘business men who have offices on the upper floors. They volunteered to run the cars, working in short shifts. One man would run a car for an hour or so, then go to his office while an- other ran the car. Other business men got their clerks or stenographers to run cars, McGill reported the Metropolitan Life Building also as “tied up,” but the ele- yator starter there said the forty-five (Continued on Second Page.) Commission while they were tn this SerntPe: SAVES SCHOOL CHILDREN. ‘Testimony was that Mrs. Stasae met Pollcem Stops Runaway Horse Capt. Henri Bunnivarde, one of the) Peee™ F teccaligie AUR ant. sreteaine hy Leaping on. Nook, Miss Georgette Funtanales, milliner, of] Patrolman Hdward F. Byrne of the; No. 77 West 47th St Geserted hita| CI¥Mer Street Station, Brooklyn, to- far Lidoweed a patmet: deserted hits) duy captured a runaway horse attached wealthy French family. It wae testinc ; |‘ & hale Siren by eg be Sasanod usban. t hia wife @em, of } rinity Ayes me Bronx. e inat nS tert Whe horse shtened at Lee “Pi mee tee oa MESO) A ven Be ‘and Street aud dashod ioe his muaetlon aa foward ‘thy ot, in front of a and nd again ¢ Monae a we ae | States Department of Justice, alleg- ing @ violation of the Lever Act. Bodan is a member of the so called Flying Squad of Attorney General Palmer’s Department which has been in New York two weeks investigating changes of profiteering. His acting in the Armour ease was by direction of United States ‘Attorney Leroy W. Ross. The warrant was issued by United States Commissioner Edward Hennessy. William Cleary, Brooklyn manager for Swift & Co. Inc., later in the afternoon was served with a sum- mons in a similar complaint and notified to appear before Commis- sioner MeGoldrick. In Cleary's case the complaint was that on April 13 he soli frozen beef hinds to Charles Grismar, of No. # Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, at %1 cents a pound which were identical in quality with some the had sold the same man a few days before at 141-2 cents. Bodan, alleges that on April 13, Mills gold pork loins at thirty-eight cents which were part of a carload from which he made sales on the previous day at thirty-two cents. The retail butcher named in each instance is M. Stoerger, of No, 108 Myrtle Avenue. Stoerger says he ordered loins on April 9, when the price was quoted at 32, There was a delay in delivery, he says, and on April 12 he sent in another order and was informed that the price had gone to 38. Both lots were delivered yesterday, he declares, from the same truck. In the language of Bodan’s affii- davit, Mills “undawfully and know- ingly charged an unfair and un- reasonable price for necessary food.” Mills was directed by telephone to accept service of the warrant and loomplied immediately. He was held in $2,500 for examination on April 30. Agent True D, Taylor of the Fly- ing Squad this afternoon arrested Samuel Gordon, a jobber in groceries at No. 29 Tompkins Avenue, Brook- lyn, on a charge of profiteeting in sugar. ‘The arrest was made on the evidence of Morris and Benjamin ‘Nelson, cousins, who operate a gro cery at No. 789 Third Avenue. Brook- lyn, ‘They testified they had pur- chased ten bags of sugar from Gor- don at $25 per bag, but had signed a dill for the purchase at $16.90 at Gordon's request and “in order to protect him.’ Taylor in his complaint says that Tablishment from Arbuakle Bros., 17 cents per pound ¢ or thereabouts. GREATEST WOOER at 1 ANGELES, Cal., world’s greatest lover’ Mass., to-day OFFICIALS ACCUSED JOBBER ALSO IS HELD.: Harry G. Milis, assistant superin- | was served with 2) Agent Anatol L. Boden of the United | he uccormpanied Morris Nelson to| has the names of many girls on its Gordon's place of business to pur-| emergency list and may have to call chase four bags of sugar, Gordon ome of them. was out, adds the complaint, but the | 8°me o transaction was made with Mrs. The Long Island's big question to- Gordon, at $25.50 per bag. Gordon, |day was what to do about delivering when arrested to-day, said he had purchased all the sugar. in his es- HAD 25 WIVES} i. April 16.-——""The was the name police gave to Charles Newton Harvey SET NEW RECORD BRING IN 38,950 | Students Help Move Staten Island Trains—Commiuters Man 63 or Long Island. The volunteer movement of com- muters’ trains in nearby Jersey ap- peared to have got into its stride this morning when in the rush hours up to 9.30 o'clock the Erie and the Lack- @wanna Railroads brought in f..ty- one trains with approximately 45,950 Passengers, On each train the engineer and the conductors were reguars, but the husky in overalls who shovelled the coal was a young business or pro- fessional man bound for an office in Manhattan. Seventy-five per cent. of the volunteers—they also acted as tra‘nmen or passenger-brakeman— were veterans of the A. Li, F. The Erie broyght in twenty-two Indignation Specials; the Lacka- wanna nineteen, with @ promise of maybe two or three more. Yester- bad each road reported fifteen spe- 3. To-day’s 38,960 pessengers compared with 28,500 yesterday and 18,050 on Wednesday. On Staten Island twenty-five stooky ySung men from Stevens Tech- nical Institute at Hoboken helped to aman three trains which brought hun- dreds of commuters from Tottenville and the way stations to the Munic- Ipal Ferry at St. George, On the Long Island a new develop- ment of the volunteer movement, which did not fail to impress the “vacationists,” was the announce- ment by Trafic Manager Magee at Jamaica, that college men and other volunteers are being taught the block system and how to operate switches. General Supt. Edward 2. Hammer of the Baltimore and Ohio believes the aid of student volunteers has broken the backbone of the strike on Staten Island. He expects to reopen ‘the North Shore line not later than Monday. The biggest volunteer record of the day was reported on the Long Island Railroad, where commuters acted ar firemen on sixty-three trains starved from eastern points to the junction at Jamaica. There were two volunte:r firemen to each of the sixty-three en- gines. MANY GIRLS' NAMES ON LONG ISLAND LIST. Even the young women on Long Island have caught the volunteer spirit and are offering to help their fellow citizens in any way posible. ‘Two of to-day’s volunteers were Miss Daisy Norton and Miss Katherine Lochrey and there was some talk of their donning overalls and helping to man the dummy engines in the yard at Hollis. At a late hour nothing had come of it, The Long Island Railroad to farmers along the eastern end of the Islagd the 40 cars of seed pota- toes it recelved for them last night from the New Haven, Potatoes are the principal product of Long Island | farms und the time for planting is} e first activity in freight yards wa: Long Island ween lo-duy when, (Continued on Second Page.) of Sheloourne, on oe covery of a list of twenty-five young earl dpea GR TRORGOATe we to be prospective wives| @n,™aiui clothing Corner, Broadway, eaves | | for Harvey Waray &8t Oop W ty Balding), wt Police claim they } e show-| geij todsy ant a 2.000 men's and yous ing that bi wer married | :aan's Spring § mow wee, Ura a on, twenty-five times ¥ is in the| seats, arn otal » ' county horpital rec from s. aece| meee (roe a uh [ond attempt at , oy's love & police suid, vover [ume wore. |ment of eastbound trains on the Penn- ARREST OF CHIEFS FOLLOWED BY RUSH, OF MEN 10 WORK In Heart of Strike Movement Roads Are Beginning to Move Freight. CHICAGO, April 16.—Speedy disin- tegration of “outlaw” railroad strikes in the Central and Far West was fore- cast to-day with the serious blow struck by the Government at the in- surgents’ stronghold in Ghicago by the arrest of twenty-five strike lead- era, The arrest of the Chieago:Jeadert, who are at liberty to-day under of $10,000 or arranging for bail, with promises to refrain from participation in strike activities pending hearing of charges of violation of the Lever Hood Control Act, left the local “outlaws” leaderiess, Five other leaders will sur- render to-day. The arrested leaders, including John Grunau, organizer of the Chicago Yardmen's Association, and Hafold EK. Reading, President of the United En- ginemen's Association, denied a strike existed in violation of the Lever Act. They said they simply “resigned” be- cause they could not live on existing wages, Some leaders declared they had “just begun to fight,” but a meeting will bo held to-day to determine the insurgent organizations’ attitude toward the Gav- ernment’s ultimatum that interference with shipments of food and other necessities must stop. In ‘Chicago 850 switchmen have re- turned to work, and a continued im- provement is reported in traffic con- ditions. Steel mills at Gary, Ind. where 10,000 workers havo been ‘die, are preparing to resume operations to- day. BOSTON, April 16.—The arrival of more freight, including coal, created marked improvement to-day. Pro- posed drastic cuts in passenger sched- ules and a genera! industrial shut- down are believed to have been averted. BUFFAIA, N. Y., April 16— Through the efforts of Frank T. Hawley, Commissioner of Concilin- tion of the Department of Labor, it is believed to-day the “outlaw” switch- men's strike here will be broken in @ shott time. More freight was Moved in the yards here in the last thirty-six hours than on any day since the strike began. PITTSBURGH, April 16.—Move- sylvania Railroad at Pitcairn yards is believed by officials to-day to be the “beginning of the end” of the strike here of railroad workers. Passenger service on the Pennsylvania !s normal. The Baltimore und Ohio was operating at 95 per cent. and the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie showed improvement ELMIRA, N. ¥. April 16-—The strike of the Lehigh Valley switch- men at Sayre, Pa,, 4 division terminal ot the road, ended to-day when switching crews returned to work. Whey were reinstated. More men are expected to return during the day Y., April 16.-~All e by the New returned to their work to-day uncond tionally MEXICO ASKS U. S$. TO PASS TROOPS} 32 PAGES. ARMOUR AND SWET REVOLT AMONG “OUTLAWS; TRAINS. ENOUGH FOR Ai VOLUNTEER CREWS le eccasi viele Service 95 Per Cent-of Same Normal, Long Island Nearly Same and One Staten Island Line Open Jersey Central Back Agitators. Refuses’ to Take Within twenty minutes after the convening of the afternoon séssion of the daily meeting of striking trainmen and switchmen at Grand View Hall, Jersey City, this afternoon, there was a noisy demand for a vote on returning to work. The Chairman and his fieutenants ‘prevented the putting of the vote on the ground that the Federal ‘Adjustment Board had not yet registered a promise to give priority to the railroad men's claims. “That's what it is to-day,” shouted men from the floor. “Yesters. day it was ‘Wait until the Senate confirms them,’ What will you walt — us to wait for to-morrow ? NEW.-TYPE BANDIT ~ HAS FAMILY ALONG ON HOLD-UP JOB Baby Squalls While Wife Lifts Victim's Roll: SAN FRANCISCO, Apjil 16. HAMMEN, shipyard PServer, was confronted last night by a man who alighted from an automobile and leveled a revolver at ‘him. Then @ woman stepped out and ex- tracted $175 and a gold watch from his pockets. While the holdup was in prog- reas a baby begun crying in the auto, “I remarked to him, ‘You must have the family along to-night,” aserted Hemmen, “but he got mad, told me to ‘shut up,’ and then drove away. blithe Bare AM BANDITS GET $5,000 NEAR THE POLICE Seize Payroll From Cashier of Printing Company in West 37th Street. As the cashier of the Atlantic Litho- graphing and Printing Company at No. 438, West 87th Street, two doors from the West 37th Street Police station, was entering the bullding to-day with a satchel containing more than $5,000 in ‘one hand and the other clasping @ re- volver in his pocket he was selzed by two men. One of them held his right!arm and wrested the revolver from him. The other wrenched the bag from hia hand. Then both struck him, knocking him sprawling along the hall and ran out to the street, They were not in sight when he got to his feet and went to the door. ‘Tho money was to meet the company’s Weekly payroll. H. M’CORMICK JR. FINED $30. Pleads Gutity Speeding, a» Do ‘Two Other Stadents; Pald $10 Rach. Harold McCormick jr. twenty-one od, aw years Princeton University student and son of the president of U International Harvester Company, was fined $30 in TraMc Court to-day after he pleaded guilty to speeding an automobile in Lafayette Street April 10. Miles H. Vernon, twenty years old, a Princeton student, and Benjamin Tracey Dougert, nineteen years old, a student, lof No, 124 East 56th Street, son of a | Wall Street banker, also pleaded guilty to speeding and were fined $30 each, vs ALBANY, N. ¥,, April 16,—There will }be no legislative Investigation of the Anti-Saloon League or proceeding against William H. Anderson this year, it was decided at the Assembly Judiel; ting of the ttee to-day, WASHINGTON, April 16 —Mexico h asked pr fon from United States te move troups through American territa:y | 40 a8 to attack the Bite of Sonora fram sh aw rue woune, PAVED MURKAD, Nucld) Uauldiing, od 4b Regn hay 4000, aaa Proud Papa Not Disturbed When following closely the indications re ported in ‘The Evening World vee terday afternoon. 4s on transfers to the Boston and Al- Lackawanna suburban service; resumption of switching in the Erie _ freight yards and the restoration of 96 per cent, of Pennsylvania passen- wer traffic to regular time table - schedules, with a partial restoration of freight schedules. Other features were the restoration of full service on the St. George-Tot+ tenville division of the Staten Island” Rapid Transit Company; the resump- tion of switching in the Harlem ter- minal of the New York and New Haven, with a resumption of traffic! on the Harlem Division and the re- sumption of schedule service on the Long Island steam lines to Oyster Bay and Wading River, with a nearly complete service on other lines; the resumption of full service with re+~ turned employees by the Central Rai!~ road of New Jersey and some move- ment of freight, Sct off against these gains for the Progress of public business was the continued suspension of public service’ on the Hudson and Manhattan tube lines, though @ complete eervice of empty trains for instruction purposes: has been running for a week. The: engineers of the Lackawanna were reported wreasy because of criticism against them by strikers for working with non-union volunteers and ob~ tained a conference with President Truesdale on the subject. There were desertions of women clerks and some hetpers in the freight offices of the Weat Shore, | ‘The agitators who have Geen trying to keep the strikers away from thelr | jobs did their best to make capital | by criticising the ultimatum tasuc) | ast night by the Committee of ‘trl ‘road Managers fixing noon Sundo,s a4 the limit within which forme) sn ployees might apply for relautatemio: 5 wisege loss of seniority, great majority of city oe tbe BUhie ey bany; the return early in the day of. ‘74 out of 97 striking traininen of the | the >