The evening world. Newspaper, April 16, 1920, Page 3

SELL SHIP BOARD'S FLEET, KEEP TT UNDER OLD GLORY, ON CONFERENCE URGES BENS Evening World’s Suggestion for the Relief of Taxpay- ers Indorsed. SENATE TOO. K.IT. While Ten Years Are Allowed, Plans Are Under Way for Quick Action. By Martin Green. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening W WASHINGTON, April 16—Agree- ment by the ‘conference called by Chairman Benson of the Shipping Board that the 1,897 ships completed or under construec- tion, owned by the Government should be sold, which agreement will eventu- ally be extended to take in the for- mercantile | (Special Correspondent World. HOUSE TO INQUIRE INTO DEPORTATION OF ENEMY ALIENS Differences Between Justice and Labor Departments Will Be Fully Aired. By David Lawrence. of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, April 16 (Copy- right, 1920).—Conflict between the Department of Labor and the De- mer German passenger and freight | partment of Justice as to the proper ships seized by the United States as war prizes, amounts to full indorse- ment of The Evening Werld’s con- tention that the Shipping Board's properties of all kinds should be sold as soon as possible and the proceeds turned ‘nto the Treasury toward the reduction of taxes. The whole Evening World plan has virtually been adopted so far the Shipping Board and its mercantile advisers are con- cerned. The Senate will indorse the Shipping Board conference recommendations with chang The Evening World hos pointed out that the thing to do with the Shipping Board ships ond yards to turn them t with the least pos. sible delay. As pointed out in those columns three weeks ago, the Senate Sub- Committee, while it is agreed upon the proposal to sell the Shipping Board properties, has not fully grasped the advantage of quick ac- on, The report to be made to the Senate through the full Committee on not advocate vig- Commerce does »rous action. It would provide that OTder in the House course to be pursued in deporting “radicals” and “commanisis” has raised some fundamenral questions which may revive the whole matter of the justice or injustice of whole- sale raids against “Reds” and the ef; forts of the Government to combat radicalism. The movement in Congress to in- quire into the supposed friendliness of Louis F. Post, Assistant Secretary of Labor, to aliens by cancelling war- rants against them issued by the De- partment of Justice is by no means political or partisan, There are Democrats as well as Republicans who are up in arins about it, but it is unlikely that impeachment proceed- ings will be begun. The action of Representative Monde, Republican| floor leader, in asking Representative Hoch, Republican, two withdraw his resolution for impeachment was due to a desire to follow an orderly pro- cédure through the Rules Committee instead of being subjected to the danger of elimination on a point of itself, Lhe process of selling the ships and; THOROUGH INVESTIGATION BY ards and other properties of the| HOUSE COMMITTEE EXPECTED. Shipping Board be extended over a period of ten years. Probably the strongest reason which prompted the sub-committee to this drawn out programme was the conviction of the members, based upon testimony the full committe but im t will be ossible for Amerivang desirous 4¢ enguging Mm the shiptuilding ana all rating business to obtain in less than ten years the capital neces- ry to absorb an industry which $ cost the people of this country nore than $3,000,000,000. ship ¢ When the report is submitted to he Senate it will be fourd that there 8 a more optimistic spirit in that vody concerning the proxpects of en- jisting capital, Several Senators, foreseeing (Continued on Twenty-fourth Page.) HEALY, PAROLED; CALLS ARREST JOKE Restaurant Man Says He Had Per- mits to Use Rum and Sherry, Thomas Healy, restaurant keeper, 18 arraigned to-day before United States Commissioner Hitchcock, charged with maintaining a nuisance as defined by the Volstead act, He was paroled in the custody of his counsel, The indictment, which | charges Healy with having in hig possession intoxicating liquors, was (urned yesterday by the Federal Grand Jur: Peter Gialotti, already under in- dictment charged with maintaining a disorderly house, was also indicted by the Federal Grand Jury. “{ am not worried,” said Mr. Healy to-day. “In fact it is more in the nature of a joke, I have a permit to use rum for rum omelets and a withdrawal permit for sherry. That is used for lobster a la Newburgh, not any of which can be served in my restaurant to-night as the sherry has been seized. One Federal De- partment seems to be working against another,” BOOZE FRO! Teackmen Report Cargo Brought Here and Distributed To-Day. So Seta M_ PHILADELPHIA A large automobile truck from Phila- delphia arrived early to-day and met several smaller motor trucks at West Greenwich Streets, Manhattan, to which a cargo of whiskey was distrib- uted, according to a statement the po- ce of Bridge Plaza Station, Brooklyn, id they had obtained from Harry Perlmutter of No. 1442 Park Avenueu, Manhattan, and Philip Grobin, No, 232 Kast 116th Street, Manhattan, The men were arrested for running | past a stalled trolley and a police in- vestigation revealed some liquor in bar- rels in the truck box, it was said. Out of it impeachment proceedings are not probable, but a thorough in- vestigation by a committee of Con- gress, with an opportunity for Assis- kant Secretary Post to express ‘his viewpoint is contemplated, The are not doubted, but the viewpoint or | attitude toward aliens, which the rather Jiberal minded Department of Labor takes as opposed to the more or less conservative ideas of the De- partment of Justice has developed an interesting controversy. In the opinion of Democrats as well as Republicans something is wrong. A mistake has been made somewhere. For instance, out of 1,448 cases handled by the Department of Labor | 332 have been found to be within the | meaning of the Deportation Laws, Fully 1,053 cases have been can- celled and sixty-three have been de- ferred for further study or considera- tion. The conclusion which has been reached by members of Congress is} that either the Department of Justice thas been overzealous in arresting innocent people and subjecting them and their families to hardships or else the Departinent of Labor has been over friendly to the aliens and con- strued the Jaw in such a way as to nullify its enforcement. ‘The attitude of the Department of (Labor, as expressed by Assistant Sec- retary Post, is described in the case of Thomas Russ, which has just (been |Meciied in the latter's favor, because he was not deemed to have become i member of the Communist Party, al- though he had permitted his name to be signed to an application before he was aware of its purposes. Says Mr. Under the jaw, aliens must be deported if they are members of or affiliated with the Communist Party of America If this clause be construed as meaning that aliens who have once technically become members of the Commun- ist Party must be deported even though they have no guilty know- ledge or that the principle of ‘once a member always @ mem- | ber’ applies, it might be possible to spell out of the circumstances in the case a membership for which deportation would be man- datory. POST'S IDEA OF, THE INTENT OF THE ALIEN LAW. “Having applied for membership before the proscribed organization was born and withdrawn before its constitution was brought even perfunctorily to his attention, ‘this alien would seem to a fair American mind to lack the requirites even of technical mem- bership. If, however, the requisites of technical membership were all present, nevertheless the , Con- gress of the United States Ghould not hastily be presumed to have intended that resident aliens be arrested and deported as members of an unlawful organteation when all the circumstances show the alien htmself to have been tnno- (Continued on Fifteenth Page.) TENANT DUPE - BY FAKE LEAS CHARGE M COURT Bronx Justice Says He Was Deceived—Sei Prosecutor. " Justice Robitzek ‘in the First, Dis- trict Municipal Court in the Bronx to-day settled a number of rent cases on a compromise of 20 to 25 per cent, increase over last year’s rent. The case of Sdlomon Ljpschits against Mrs. John Barrett, who oc- cupies an apartment at No. 914 East 167th Street, was referred to the Dis- trict Attorney. Justice Robitzek de- clared the man who in reality is jan- itor of the apartment posed as the lessee and tried to put Mrs, Barrett out so he could get in a tenant at more money. He was charged with deceiving the court. Justice Robitzek said he would reopen similar cases in which adverse decisions had been given tenants. Ten cases in the Second District were settled on a 20 to 25 per cent. increase over last year’s rent. Justice Prince in the Bighth District Court cleared his calendar of seventy- five cases. In two cases he ordered tenants to either pay their rents or get out. He said it appeared they were taking advantage of trivial advances in rent to force costly repairs. Most of the cases were settled by compro- mise. ‘Ten tenants of a house at No. 210 Fast 112th Street were arraigned on complaint of William Dworzin, agent for the property, who said they re- fused to pay their rent. offered by James D. O'Sullivan of the Mayor's Committee on Rent Profi- teering was that the building needs repairs and that tenants have not been supplied with sufficient hot wa- ter. Their leases expire May 15. The Justice said it appeared that the ten- ants were holding the complaint against the landlord to force him to renew their leases. ‘They were ord- ered to pay the rent by Monday or get out. Joseph ‘one, owner of houses at No. 2282 First Avenue, was the com- inant against tw lve tenants who refused to pay their rent because it had been advanced $6 a month, City Marshal Lazarus told Justice Prince The defense | K. C. CANDY GIRL GOING TO TEXAS TO WED SOLDIER ’ Reception in New York Harbor Leads to Marriage of Texas Sergeant, A romance which began when Miss Mable Lester tossed chocolate bars and cigarettes aboard the transport Leviathan from the deck of a K, of | C. reception boat last summer, will culminate when Miss Lester, whose home is at No, 652 Humboldt Street, Greenpoint section, Brooklyn, arrives in Sherman, Tex. The former “Casey” worker will leave New York Sunday for that city, where she will become the bride of Horton Webb, | formerly a Sergeant in the A. E. F. | and now in the automobile business. To-morrow Miss Lester will give a | luncheon and theatre party to her as- sociates at the K. of C. offices, at No. 105 West 40th Street. Marone had not raised his rents for fourteen years and that he was asking an increase because he was losing money on his properties. Jus- tice Prince advised Marone to prepare an itemized bill of his expenses and he is losing money or not getting a fair return he will give him authority to increase his rents, Abraham Wolf, a tenant of No. 7 East 117th Street, complained that Mra. Bertha Levy raised his rent from $28 to. $34. rent at $29. Mra. Levy refused to take the rent the tenant offered her and left \the court. income and assured him if this shows | Justice Prince fixed the _THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1920.” OVERALLS CLUBS ALREADY FORCE DOWN PRICE BURLINGAME BIL TOIL RENT LAM COMES UP TODAY Measure to Favor Landlords Is Unexpectedly Introduced Into the Senate, By Joseph (Special Staff Cor Vordiin. a ni e ria a N. Y., April 1¢.—The bill Evening ALBANY, introduced by Senator A. W. Bur- ingame of ‘Brooklyn, late yesterday afternoon, under the guise of afford- ing more housing faditities, and which, according to Senator C. C. Lockwood, Chairman of the Housing Committee which put through, two weeks ago, the anti-rent gouging bills, nulifies the new rent laws under which tenants and landlords are tow operating, will come up to- Say oe action in the Senate. © Burlingame bil was thrown into the Senate late in the afternoon ike a bolt from the blue. It might not have been a eurprise to Majority Leader J. Honry Waitets, who was quite willing to let it go through, but it was a new one on Minority Leader James J. Walker, and also to Chair- man Lockwood of the Housing Com- mittee. Both immediately protested against its admission to third read- ; img and being rushed through the Senate. ‘The bill exempts from the rent laws of 1920 houses upon which alterations may be made, and also exempts land- lords from the 25 per cent. increase timit who have not raised their rents for at least two years. On the face of it the bill to the lay- man looks as innocent as a baby's smile. But under its provisions all a landlord would have to do would be to make the slightest alteration in his flat or apartment house and the tenants would be again at his mercy, helpless to benefit by the recently made anti-profiteering laws. Senator Lockwood, after a perusal of the proposed measure, said to- day: “The effect of the Housing Bill introduced yesterday would be to nullify the bills passed several weeks ago, which seem to be giving gon- eral satisfaction. “Under its provision the rent spec- ulators could readily evade the law, It requires four months’ notice of in- crease; if the tenant does not accept in thirty days out he goes at the end of his lease. It takes away the pro- tection of the new laws and leaves tenants at the mercy of the worst type of rent profiteers. re a lease was, or is, for two years or more, the 25 per cent, in- crease law does not apply—in other words an increase in such a case must be paid or the tenant must move.” la morning at whose requ | Ap i ie z i Ebay it a: ae 3 ii at least as much money as the man. who has been fit for all that time? This is what the 2 per cent. increase does for the filin who has not profiteered, while it. permits the man who has made 100 per cent. to rake in 25 per cant. more.” The “ripper” bIM explains the con- duct of the Senator from Brooklyn in ase: ‘nting himself from the Senate on Wetnesday and refraining from vot- ing on The Evening. Workd Milk Bills, That he had the bill up his sleeve and ‘was guaranteed the ald of Majority Leader Walters in railroading it through the Senate is the explanation of his conduct. ‘Senator Burlingame voted to take the bill permitting New York to pur- chase the Strauss pasteurizing plant from the Committee on Agriculture, but he didn’t vote for it until found that his vote was not needed Evidently this was by agreement with the majority leader—to give the Senator from Brooklyn a showing with the folks at home. If his vote had been necded to keep the bill| in the committee, where it would die. in all probability, he would have heen obliged by Walters to vote in the neg- ative. His vote made the twenty- ninth recorded in the affirmative and only twenty-sixth votes were necos- sary to get the measure out of the committee. When it came to voting for final passage of the bill Senator Burlin- game Wns gone. He was the only absenteo from the Senate and al- though the House was working under a close call his presence was not demanded. Owing to the non-action of the Senate leaders, Mr. Burlingame won the support of his party leader on a bill to nullify the anti-rent goug- ing laws, which were passed cape- cially in the interests of the city he represents, by standing in with the leader to ‘kill a Dill the importance of which is greater to New Yori City than to any other city in the State. ooo Enright Promotes Seven Policemen, Police Commissioner Enright today promoted the following: Lieut. 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