The evening world. Newspaper, April 17, 1920, Page 1

= OUTLAWS VOTE ON ENDIN PUBLIC FORMS OWN “ONE BIG UNION Che Circulation Books Open to All.’ NEW YORK, TO-NIGHT’S WEATHER—Cool, Get the Country. |Back on Peace Basis EEE VOL. LX. NO. 21,410—DAILY. probably rain. Copyright, 11 Co. BAKER 10 DEMAND INQUIRY INTO MADDEN’ § CHARGES OF ARMY SURPLUS SALES GRAFT “Army Clique,” It Is Alleged, Worked With Outsiders and Reaped Big Profits. NO NAMES ARE GIVEN. But Illinois Congressman De- clares He ‘Can Prove It” If Called Upon. By Martin Green. IGTON, April 17—A flood gossip concerning the alleged unfair methods used in Hisposing of surplus army supplies, /whigh has been flowing ‘hrough po- efition! and business circles in Wash- Yington and New York for many fnonths and beg been gathering {jin force lately, was brought to. view by the ecousation of Represent- ative Martin Madden-of MDinois that ‘ukPmy officers intrusted with the sale of military supplies have, by working in combination with nocomplices on | the outside, so manipulated sales as to enable favored persons or firms to accumulate millions of dollars in unfair profits. It was announced to-day that the Secretary of War and the officers in charge of sales of sur- plus material will demand that Mr. Madden step from behind the shield of general acousations and make his accusations specific, if he has any evidence to back them up. In justice to the army it is time that this subject was thor- oughly ventilated. To the extent that he has made such ventila- tion possible Mr. Madden has per- formed a public service. Rumors of the nastiest kind re- fating to alleged favoritism have been widely circulated in the Capital. Many of them were started by buy- ers from New York and other cities who alleged they were unable to ob- tain goods in honest competition. "These rumors have been particularly virulent with reference to khaki cloth, of which the Government pos- sesped millions of yards at the close of the war. CONGRESS HAS POWER TO TRACE ALL SALES. making accusations agree to in connec- tion with charges. It is in the power of Congress to get at the facts by tracing the records of sales of surplus materials. Mr. Madden is leader of the House Republican steering committee, but from the unfeigned manifestations of surprise with which his charge was received on the Republican side it would appear he did not act as a Representative of the majority in putting forth a matter of party policy. He said he made the charge (Continued on Second Page.) aS SSS Classified Advertisers CLOSING TIME 5.30 P. M. SHARP SATURDAY FOR The SUNDAY WORLD’S Classified Advertisements CH OFFICES CLosE Bushes Ov cLOCK positive: ns Classitiog Advertise. monte wilt ‘be recel ived Yor The funday World after 6.30 P. M, ng Cony ‘The Sunday wg t) ne shoul Se'ln The World othies JEFORE FRIDAY PRECEDING PUBLICATION IF A GOUGE LEASE 1920, Press (The New York World). by The MURDER CHARGES AGAINST PREMIER BY IRISH JURY PRES a Accuse Lloyd George in Death of Lord Mayor MacCurtin « of Cork. POLICEMAN “EXECUTED” Bound and Blindfolded Before (5 FORCED ON YOU, HERE'S WHAT 10 00 Municipal wae: Point Gut Proper Course for Tenants Hit by Profiteering. Instances of flagrant disregard of the new rent laws in great niimbers have come to the attention of The Evening World. Owners of the more expensive ‘tment houses, as well ae thove /¢ e cheaper grades, con- tina to. nd Yeases of thelr ten- jnts with increases of rentals ranging from 25 to 100 per cént. Owners of the more expensive houses Seem to have the idea that the new rent laws were “made for the ‘protec- tion of the poor” and some of them |tramkly say so. An especially flagrant case of prof- iteering was called to the attention of Municipal Justice Frederick Spicgel- berg, who played an important part in framing the new laws. In it a landlord seeks to increase a tenant's rental from $1,400 to $2,100 a year, “These rent laws are going to be en- | forced in each and every case and the quicker the profiteering landlords find this out the better off they will be,” said Justice Splegelberg to-day. “The laws were made to do justice to every- body. In the case you have called to my attention the landlord should be made to prove by a statement of his income from that apartment house and @ bill of his expenses that he is Justi- fied in charging such an increase. The law presumes it to be oppressive and unjust and if the landlord wishes it to stand he’s got to prove that its a fair rise, “This law is based upon common sense and the Municipal Justices are going to see that it is adhered to. No matter how exclusive the apartment house is, it comes under this law. “When @ landlord charges more than 25 per cent. he must come into court with his books and give con- vincing proof that he is right, or the increase will not be allowed to stand. “The tenant in this matter you have brought to my fit, If he does not sign he can wait until the landlord brings ‘holdover’ proceedings to get him out, and then force him (the landlord) to bring his books into court. Or he can sign and, when the new lease becomes effective, litigate the j of the rent charged. In either case the land- lord will have to prove he is fair.” Justice John R. Davies of the Seventh Municipal Court said to-day that where a tenant receives notive cf an increase in rent of more than 25 per cent. over the rental of Oct. 1 of last year and a demand from his landlord that he sign a new lease, he should notify the landlord that he will continue to occupy ¢he apartment, but will not sign a le until the court has determined what a reason- able rent will be. Attorney James D. O'Sullivan, rep- resenting the Mayors Committee, agreed with Justice Dayis that this is the proper course for @ tenant te toliow, Justice Friedlander was asked for an opinion on the case put up to Jus tice Spiegelberg. He said: “There are two things, either of (Continued on Second Page.) Being Put to Death by Sinn Fein, CORK, Ireland, April 17.—Charges of wilful murder against Premier Lloyd George were brought in the verdict of the jury in the inquest into the death of Mayor MacCurtain of this city, assassinated last month, which was rendered to-day. DUBLIN, April 17.—Police here to- day believed the Sinn Fein terrorist band had aided another “execution” to tts already formidable tist. ‘The body of Patrick Foley, member of the Royal Irish Constabulary was found last night in a lonely felt near Tralee. Foley had been shot twenty- six times. He was Diindfdided and his hands tied behind his back Foley joined the constabulary last January. He was a war veteran and was in a German prison camp for several months, Seven more of the Mount Joy hunger strikers were released last night. One of the wounded in the clash between soldiers and civilians at Milltown Malbay was an American soldier on leave. He gave his name 4s Michael O’Brten. Sergt. Finnerty, shot during the recent demonstration at Balbriggan, died last night. Advices from Cork said fifty armed men held up a train at a junction near that city and took mail bags with letters to police officials. BHLFAST, Ireland, April 17.—What 1s believed to be the first political assassination on the Ulster ‘border occurred late last evening when ‘Thomas Mulholland of Dundalk, 45 miles northwest af Dublin, was shot dead. A man named McKeever, livii near the scene of the shooting, sai he heard three shots and found Mul- holland writhing on the ground. McKeever declared he saw two po- fieemen rearby and called to them, but they proceeded toward the bar- racks. ENRIGHT TRANSFERS FOE OF POLICE BILL Sergeant William O. Jones, Who Fought Albany ‘Measure, Sent to Brooklyn Precinct. Police Sergeant William O. Jones, for- merly of the West 152d Street Station, who lives at No, 2185 Amsterdam Ave- nue, Manhattan, has been sent to the Butler Street Station, Brooklyn, by or- der of Commissioner Pnright. Jones ap- peared in Albany in opposition to the pending police bills, favored by the Commissioner, The department sees another reprisal in the order of the Commissioner ‘Wednesday, directing the resumption of the regular chart. This keeps Sergeants In reserve in stations for two eight-hour shifts instead of putting them on duty for only one eight-hour tour, SATUR DAY, APRIL 17, 1 “Circulation Books Open to All.” 920. Fest" Once ‘ew Ser Nee OVERALLS MOVE SPREADS: CITIES AND COLLEGES JOIN; BROADWAY FALLS INTO LINE Clinton High School Adopt the Simple Garb, MASS MEETING TO-DAY. Many New York Women willl? Don Calico—Smith College Girls Unite in Crusade. While deep thinkers to-day ex- pressed the fear that Broadway might make a joke of the thing the over- alls movement spread over a large Part of the rest of the United States Uke a blue streak. Columbia Uni- versity editors and students of De ‘Witt Clinton High have fallen into line, Girls will wear khaki. Manhattan read that the cult had ‘been taken up in Now York by the “Cheese Cit” and shied at the name like @ two-year-old colt at an October clothestine. The Cheese Club is made up in large pant of past masters in| The populace suspected them of kidding. Clubmen protest (publicity. their earnestness. They talk of a mon- ster parade for next week. Cities, towns and villages Jumped into the big blue line, however, car- ing little whether New York falls in line or not. A Liberal, Mo. pastor, ‘will wear one of the $¢—formerly $2/¢ —suits to-morrow morning as he ex- ‘pounds the Gospel. The congrega- tion, too, will be overalied. The only fly in the ointment—or pin in the overalis—is that the cele- brated Wine uniform formerly sacred to working rairoaders and euch like is, like every other commodity, scarce and high. Denim mills ere sold up for months to come, one authority declares, some of them al] the way through Septer..cr. The cloth is said to be practically undbtainadle except at high prices and in limited quantities. A rush of 50,000 to join the move- ment, it is said, would clean up all the overalls—remove the visible sup- ply—on Manhattan Island. Stanley Sweet of Sweet, Orr & Co. one of the biggest overalls houses in the country, declared that factories in the overalls line are running over- time. Mr. Sweet was not sure whether manufacturers are piensed or otherwise with the “movement.” “A standard quality garment,” Mr. Sweet said, “retails for from $3 to $3.25, and the retailer adds from 25 per cent, to 50 per cent. according to conditions. Even 80. a suit of overalis can be bought for from $4 to $6—a good deal less than the pres- ent price of a sult of clothes.” George J. Mucy, member of the Junior Prom Committee at Colum- bia, said that blue denim will be worn by the men at the Junior Prom thie year, and all during Prom Week, from April 26 to 30. SMITH COLLEGE GIRLS TO FORM CLUB. in the Smith College Sec ond Page. Workers (Continued MRS. SHEPARD QUITS THE Y. W. C. A. Resigns Because of “Course of Ac- tion” Taken Friday at Conven- tion in Cleveland, O, CLEVELAND, April 17.—Mrs, Finlay Shepard, formerly Miss Helen Gould, to-day announced her resignation from the National Board of the Y. W. C. A. because of the “course of action” Friday of the convention here, eerie Represe: Hicks Weds, WASHINGTON, April 11.—Represen- tative Hicks, New York, and Miss Marie TENANTS ORGANIZE IN EAST NEW YORK ‘Mass Meeting Decides to Fight Landlord; Organization Has More Than 15,000 Members, At @ mass meeting in Workman's Cirouit Auditorium at No, 105 That- ford Street, Brooklyn, a permanent organization among the the Brownsville and East New York sections of Brooklyn was formed to fight profiteering landlords and gpec- ulators, The organization will have a per- manent office at No. 188 Stone Ave- tenants of USED FOR EVENING AND SOCIAL WEAR | 7 | FOS TSL HOG IS 6-6. CROWDS ENROLL MEN EXPECTED TO CALL OFF RAIL STRIKE BEFORE, NIGHT; SERVICE NEARING NORMAL Hoboken Meeting, Taking Secret IN “ONE BIG UNION’ TO DEFEND PULBIC Ei it Applications Flow in Chamber of Commerce so Rapidly They Cannot Be Classified. OFFER TRUCKS, BOATS ‘City Will Be Ready to Cope with Attack on Its Food or Transport Facilities. The “One Big Union" idea of the New York State Chamber of Com- Merce to protect the public against future strikes and tieups of the part has taken deep root among the people and volunteers are responding in person, by telephone and telegraph. At the offices of the Chamber of Commerce, No. 65 Liberty Street, the clerks have been busy as bees all day OBD2LO959099G 0000808 o> Oxford Type Now in Style for Formal Occasions in Place of Full Dress. The Oxford type of overall is designed for evening and social ‘wear among members of overall clube fighting the high cost of clothing. Although the overall movement is only a few days old it 4 no longer considered proper to wear the ordinary work over- alls at formal affairs, DUCKING IN CANAL FOR ALL REFUSING TO WEAR OVERALLS Penalty Adopted by Club to Cut Clothing Cost in Pennsyl- vania Town, SHARON, Pa., April 17, N Overalls Club: formed at Wheatland, Pa, near gha- ron, and one of the first to be organized in Western Pennsyl- vania, has gone so far in its zeal to protest the high cost of clothing as to impose a penalty upom mem- bers for failure to don denims, Any member who fails to wear overalls at all times will be ducked in the Erie Canal by his fellows, according to a club agreement. ‘’he club is composed of business and professional men. > NEARLY Lost COOK IN FIRE. Famtly Flees to Street; Their Mést Valued Possession Found in Yard. Nellie Duffy, cook in the home of Henry B. Goodenow, No. 98 Riverside Drive, ran upstairs this morning and told the family the house was burning. ‘The family and the rest of the servants went out to the street, but Nellie was missing. ‘The rumor spread that she had been guught in the house and might be burned. Somebody sent for an lance. When the fire hag becn put out Neblie wns found in the back yard un- ‘hurt. The damage to the house was about $500. —_- Lora Jellicoe Governor General of New Zealand. LONDON, April 17.—Lord Jellicoe hae te eaid to have been appointed Governor Generel of inn aj Mom Zaplend, receiving names of volunteers and classifying them in their various lines of work. Owners of motor boats and motor trucks are among tho most enthusi- astio of the volunteers. They are of- feriag thelr full equipment and their full services for any emergency in thé ¢uture. They are registering thier names, addresses and telephone num- ‘bers go that they may tbe reached on the quickest possible way. “Enrolments for the Citizens’ Pro- tective Association aro coming in iti @ most satisfactory manner,” said Secretary Charles P. Gwynne of the Chamber of Commerce. “It 1s ap- Parent that the movement will be a very great success and that the in- terests of the travelling public will be safe-guarded in any future emer- gency, “The public: caught napping in the strike seems now to have been ended, but the manner in which men trom all walks of life responded to the necessities of the situation showed the determination of the public not to give in to irresponsible men who tried to turn order into ‘chaos, “Although the present strike is dwindling to its final conclusion, the lesson which it has taught us will not be forgotten. The splendid ex- ample of the volunteers showed what could have been done had they been organized. The idea of the “one big anion,” or whatever we whall con- clude to call it, is preparedness against any similar emergency in the future. “We intend to be in a position to take care of ourselves if another strike should occur, or any movement designed to tie up the harbor or shut off food supplies or passenger trans- portation. “As soon as voluteers are enrolled they will be classified as to how thelr services may be utilized. The most eatisfuctory feature of the re- sponse to the general call has been the number of motor boat owners who have presented themacives and thetr outfits 'to be called upon at a moment's notice. “Names have been coming in #0 fast that we have not yet been able to segregate the votunters and class- ify them properly, but that work is going forward rapidly and we prob- ably shall catch up with it before the day is over, In case of another emergency we shall have men and fpoats and trucks ready to wend wher- ever they may be needed Bee BarPessies ITHACA INVITES PRESIDENT. Home of Fou ot Cornell Unt- versity Offered to Him, ITHACA, N, Y., April 17,—Invitation has been sent to President Wilson to spend the coming summer here, using the beautiful home of the founder of Cornet! University for the vacation “White House.” ‘The invitation ts signed toy Mayor Stewart, Albert W. Smith, acting presi- dent of Cornell; Louis 'P. Smith, Pi dent of the Chamber of Commerce, and George A. 8. Tarbell, President of the Delta Phi Association, present owners ak Be Comme) hameaiend, ’ 10 PAGES. eLES MITE TO-MORROW'S WEATHER—Cool, PRICE TWO CENTS. Ballot, Cheers Others Who Vote. to Return — Strike Crumbling—Full Traffic Monday. Insurgent menvbers of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen of the New York and New Jersey district took a secret ballot to-day at the City Hall, Hoboken, on a resolution to end the ~ “outlaw strike” and return to work pending a settlement of wage oe tions by the Federal Adjustment Board. The temper of the meeting was shown by applause and cheers that greeted an announcement that brotherhood men on strike in the Hornell district of the Erie Railroad -had voted to obey instructions from the brotherhood chiefs and return to work immediately. The vote at oe boken will-not be counted until late this afternoon. ee ELEVATOR STRIKE. BEATEN BY PUBLIC: SERVIGE NORMAL More Volunteers at ‘Work, and Many Operators Seek Jobs Back. Reports from office building manag- ers from the Battery to 424 Street and beyond indicyted this afternoon that the strike of passenger elevator oper- ators has failed. In some spots it has succeeded through the capitulation of individual building owners to the demands of the union, but the strikers could not make the public walk because tthe public was able and willing to run elevators for its own use. Most of the buildings reported ap- proximately normal service, and pre- dicted that the strike would be for- gotten by Monday. Many of the strik- ers have returned to their jobs. Others have sought to return and learned that there were no jobs for them. Profes- sional strikebreakers have not been used, but permanent new help has been hired. ‘The elevators were run to-day in some cases by operators who had re- fused to strike, in others by men who had struck and then returned to thetr jobs, in many others by women, by building employes drafted from other departments, and wherever necessary by tenants who volunteered. The Equitable Building, which the @trikers chimed yesterday to have “tied up completely,” was running its normal service, fifty-three cars, with ‘ten more ready for emergency use. &. T. Coley, the manager, denied that many of the old operators had quit. “When a man comes to work hero,” he said, “the company immediately gives him a free life insurance policy of $600. When he has been here four and a half years the free policy ts in- creased to $1,000. In addition the om- ployeo has the privilege of buying many necessaries in a company store at about cost, and this privilege ts a very considerable addition to the buy- ing power of each man's wages, The company also makes wage allowances for the sick, and tt gives a picnic to the employees every year, Last year the attendance was 2,400." Estimates of the number on strike varied from the 17,000 reported by President Thomas J. MoGill of the operators’ union to the 1,000 re wwihed by Babe eqmcllalen, b Here Was ¢ ‘The meeting of traigmes aod switchmen at Grand View Mali, Jer-) sey City, was awaiting the the vote with the that the action of the Hoboken - ing would be followed imine when announced. Taken together with the nouncement of an agreemént reaehed, ¥, Aiate Mediutor Tracy at Phila~ delphia with officials of the Penn- sylvania, Reading and B. and O. sya- tems unu representatives of strik- ers under which all brotherhood men were to retum to work without. Prejudice and the understanding that the railroads would accept the same terms here, there was @ pre- vuiling belief among workers and cailrond officials that the strike would he ended by nightfall. SHEA INSISTS IN SECRET BAL- LOT BY MEN. The Hoboken meetine was ad- dreaved by ‘Timothy Shea, vice preai- dent of the Brotherhood of Firemen and Enginemen, who urged the secret ballot as the only fair way of getting at the real feeling of men. The announcement of the vote fhe Hornell meeting at which a similar meeting of local chairmen in the New Jersey Erte district at Hancock Hall this afternoon. He alee suid hie advices from the Penneyt- vania brotherhood were than on the whole system men were returning to work at the rate of moe than one « minute, Seventy-five men supplied by the Queens Chamber of Commerce broke the embargo on Long Island freight to-day and incidentally started the return of the vanguard of the road's strikers, who had been holding out more stubbornly than those of any other railroad except the Bria The 7% men went first to the Hoboken yards at Jammica and made up a train of forty cars of seed potateen from Maine and fertilizer billed te the potato belt of Suffolk and eastern Nassau Counties where planting ts from ten days to two weeks overdue, STRIKERS RUSH TO GET BACK ON PAYROLL. They then moved back towards the Long Island City yards, Word of what they were doing reached strike headquarters and fifty of the 200 mem, who quit a week ago reported on the payroll and joined the velun- teers. Hundreds of cars ef “broken freight consigned in lese than carlead jots to different Girms were takem tq the platforms and taken eway i trucks furnished jointly oy theCham der of Commerce and the railroad’ General Freight Agent Donald W. Wilson hoped by night to have room: in the yards tor 2,000 cars of Westerm eee 1 aa dean