The evening world. Newspaper, April 20, 1920, Page 3

~., Uketthood that CONGRESS FAILS IN PLEDEES ~ OF ECONOMY AND TAXPAYERS —_—_—— Prospects for Half Billion De- ficit Aside From Bonus Legislation. ° “SAVING” CUT DOWN. ~ House Pruning of Estimates Offset by, Senate and New Demands. By Martin Green. A Special Staff Correspondent of The anal Evening World.) Senator Dial, South © Iepresentative Cutsnaw, ¢ overall pioneers, point a way to our hutional statesmen tu get into touc with the common peuple by what- ever sympathy that may asvociate with attire. Representative Quinn, Mississippi, has been carrying lunch to the House in a tin pail for several weeks now. The example of Representative Quin has not been followed at all, nor Goes there appear to be any great Repreventative Cut- shaw and Senator Dial will become inconspicuous by reason of general adoption of their style cf sartorial decoration. But even a few suits of over- alls in Congress might serve to bring to the understanding of the members of that branch of the Government that a condition ex- ists in this country which has forced people, as an expression of dissatisfaction with prices of commodities and rates of taxa- tion to adopt a style of clothing which seems, to jibe with economy. MANY APPEAR “MORE NATURAL” IN OVERALLS. A more general conversion to the style set by Representative Upshaw and Senator Dial would add greatly 4v the outward appearance of erfi- ciency in Congress because numerous members of both Houses would look mre natural in overafis than in tailor-made suits. But, even though cverallis should be. adopted as the mark of @ statesman’s pride im nis job, the prospects of reduction in taxes and cost of government could not be enhanced, in the light of the last appropriation bill reported in the House of Representatives. ‘This is a deficiency bill carryinz “appropriations of $309,177.i61. It ts supposed to wind up the cost of Fed- eral control of the railroads and make good the deficiencies in certain Gcv- ernment departments for the current year. The amount asked for the purpose of making good the loss on railroad operation was $420,727,341. The Honse Appropriation Committee has cut this sum to $300,000,000. When this bill goes through the Senaze it will, if experience serves as a basis of prophecy, come out considerably swelled, because, in asking for $42 000,000 the railroad administration figured down to what it considered bedrock estimates. However, let It fo as a draft of $200,009,C00 on the ‘Treasury for the time being. PAYING UP DEFICIENCIES FROM. LAST YEAR. For the purpo: of paying debts contracted in excess of the appropriations made for the cur- rent year, the District of Colum- tia, the Employees’ Compensation Commission, the Interstate Com- merce Commiasion, the Library ef Congress, the Treasury De- partment, the Post Office Depart- ment, the Labor Department, the Botanic Garden and the Govern- ment eeipeing, Office asked for $10,559,214, he House Com- mittee cut down the estimates to $9,177,161. The bill granting Increases ot wages and salaries to officers ana men of the army and navy is to be acted upon later. Acticn must be taken in this matter, especially in view of the fact that the Congress is about to pass some sort of a Dill granting bonuses to specified classes of men who served under the colors in the war with Germany. Other ap propriation bills which Lave passed the House but have not gone throngh the Senate are weeks vehind the course of legislation as it ehould have moved, but for the delays cau discussion of the pe: treaty volve with the increased compen- sation ollls a couple of hundred mil- lion dollars. This means that it will cost probably half a billion dollars more for the ordinary costs of government this year than was anticipated. The half a billion will go into the books as a liabil- ity against next year. St will all have to come out of the pockets of the taxpayers eventually, OUTLOOK IS FOR HIGHER TAXES NEXT VEAR. Thus far Congress has shown a saving on paper of about $997,000,000 by cutting appropriations, and the WASHINGTON, April | 20.—The spectacle of members of Congress coming to their labors in the buils of etate. attired in overalls, ought to hold some promise to taxpayers of relief from burdensome cvauitions Legislators legisiating in overails Miuty get down to the level of taxpuy- | eis who can't afford to buy n overalls if the price continues to eo up. his | CAN GET READY 10: PAY MORE Sa GLAND SURGEON HERE FOR WORK Dr. Brinkley Has Many Applica- tions From New Yorkers— Is Seeking Goats. operations here by which the intereti- tial glands of goats age to be trans- ferred to the human body. Dr. John R. Brinkley of the Brinkley-Jones Hospital firet tried, and who in fifty-four oper- ations has not lost a life, te to-day at the Hotel McAlpin. He said three hospitals have offered him operating rooms, many New York- ers, rich and poor, have requested that he, operate on them and distinguished specialists will attend demonstrations of the new cure for certain forms of in- sanity, paresis, Igcomotor ataxia and similar filnesses. Dr. Brinkley is now looking for suit- | able goats for use in the operations. Persons with Toggewberd (or Swiss milk) goats are asked to communicate with him, He will inspect the animals on the farms. Only male goats lees Brinkley denied to-day that the on will make aged men feel like year-old boys. It will, however, general tonic effect on the bod: House figures on cutting out about | $500,000,000 more. Bur this latter | $500,000,000 is offset by the half bil- |lion expenses which have piled up | while the statesmen in charge of tLe | financial policy of the Government Were ovt looking. At this time ‘tt |looks as though the majority will noc |be able to cut the estimotes of ex- penses for 1921 much qiore than | $1,000,000,000 net. Unless something can be done tn the way of realizing on Government property by such means, for instaace, as disposing of the properties of the Shipping Board, taxes next year promise to be higher than this years taxes, even withoug the extra taxcs which will be called for by the pas- sage of soldier bonus legislation. 1n the first nine months of the current tiseal year the Government ran about 240,000,000 behind, and is now pay- ing from 6 per cent. to 6% per cent. fer money borrowed on short tern certificates. With revenue legislation all tied yp tn the demands of practical polit! with increased taxes forcast on ac- count of soldier bonus plans, the out- look ts for another boni issne. It is possible the Republican majority would not be averse to forcing the Domocratic Administration into ask- ing the public to subscribe to an- other bond issue. The blame could be put on the Administration. One may reasonably ask it the Gov- ernment {s not profiteering by the sale of surplus materials teld oy the army and navy. It Is true that this ts a big item of Government {ncome, but when all things connected with it are consid- ered the net result is not calculated to have any effect on the tax rate. SALE OF SURPLUS SUPPLIES HELPS LITTLE. Up to April 2 the gross returns to the Government from sales of surplus army supplies amounted to $306,60 902, {neluding transfers trom the Wai Department to other departmctts {without funds. Cash or other valu- ple considerations received amount- led to $764,506,844, | But the close of the war found the Government tied up in thousands of jcontracts. In many instances it iad | caused the transformation of indns- |trial plants turning out standard and well advertised materials into far- tories engaged in the production of munitions and other war materials. | ‘The close of hostilities left the Gov- ernment obligated to ggt out of these |ecrtracts on a fair basis, fair to the Government and fair to the mann- facturers and contractors. When The | Evening World started to show tax- | Payers how their money .s spent by: {the National Government two and a | half months ago, the War Department ‘estimated it would cost about $700, 1 000,000 to settle suspended contract |. That estimate has been cut down | by actual practice. It {s now figured | that the entire cost of liquidation will |not reach more than $536,()0,000. | About 91 per cent. of the suspended | contracts have been settled up. | As against the $764,000,000 rece!ved for surplus material, the War 1 partment presents a sot off of $536, | 000,000 paid to manufacturers and |contractors in settlement of sus- | pended contracts. The difference in favor of the Government Is a little |over a quarter of a billion dollars. | Even if this be applied to the \m- | Pending Increase in deficit It will not amount to much in the way of taxa- tion reduction prospects, because to the bad. About ali that remains for the taxpayer to do from this time on | 4s watch the progr of the ap- Bropriation ills through the Senate and back to the House, assemble the totals when Con- gress adjourns at the end of May and gét ready to give mure to the Government next year. Pledges and promises have fallen dow! they will be renewed before a journment. The politicians figure that the taxpayers will forget what is being done to-day in Con- gress when the national compaign gets heated up. ——_—___ WOMAN HELD FOR BETTING. Detective, Who “IAstened In” 0; Phone, Accuses Her as Bookmaker. Charged with bookmaking, Mrs, tte, Brooklyn, was held in $500 bail Pecial Sessions by Magistrate Fol- in the Gates Avenue Court, Brook- tosday, | ective Dennis MeClun id he ed-in on her telephone wire for three days and heard bets made to the amount of several thousand dollars He declared she admit him Bh had by aking book fi nm months and was working on a 5 per cent, basis | for a man in Far Rockaway Mrs, Kenney did not take the stand, Plans are nearly complete for the first of Milford, Kan., where this process was than two months old and fenmale goats | under twenty-two months are suitable. Dr. | there will still be half a Lillion or 6o| Kenney, thirty, of No. 87 Buffalo Ave- | nue, run EVEN! ver Reve Pm NQ@ WORLD, tus wena, AP RIL 2 |Mrs. Roderick Tower in Her Weddiny Costume, | Her Mother and Guest Who Attended Marriage ‘The wedding of Miss Iiora Pay of ‘Mr. and Mfs, Hi Tower, a son of Charlemagne Tow dor to Russia and Germany, of Philad e | | | MRS x ORNELIOS VANDERBILY } en BREAK IN STRIKE OF ELEVATOR MEN; MVGILL ON TRIAL | | Students of N. Y. University, 50 Strong, Report for Duty as Lift Operators. Thomas J. McGill, President of the Starters “and Operator: today appeared Pub- lic Works Commissioner Fay to face | Elevator Union, before charges of having obtained sick leave | from his post as elevator starter in| the Municipal Building to engineer the elevator strike. He told reporters the charges were “unfair, unjust and | unreasonable.” He declared had from two reputable physicians prove he was sufferingeiiom a ner- vous breakdown, that the vote to strike was taken against his wish and advice, and that “answering ques- jtions” had been the extent of his strike activities. The ' public, including yewspaper men, was batred from the hearing After its conclusion Borough Presi- dent Curran said nothing could be given out for pubfication until he and Commissioner Fay had gone over the testimony in private. ‘The first definite break in the strike was reported this moming by Dou- gias Grant Scott of the Whitehi!i | Building, No. 17 Battery Place, ar W. T. Ropes, with the firm of Horace S. Fly & Co,, No, 21 Liberty Street Mr, Scott declared that elevator men in the Whitehall, U. 8. Realty, Trin- ity and Flatiron Buildings agreed to return at $28 a week for an eight jhour day, six day week, with no fur- ther stipulations, Mr. Ropes said that MoGill visited yesterday three buildings controlled dy his firm, amd asked if the men would be paid $29 a week. Mr. Ropes insteted that $28 was the limit. He exhibited a note which he said had been left at No, 54 Maiden Lane. It was signed “Thomas J. MoGill, Presi- dent,” and read: “O. K. for elevator service on satisfactory agreement at No. 54 (Maiden Lane.’ Fifty etudents from the New York Untvervity, among them the entire baseball, foobball and basketball teams, reported this morning at the Equitable Building, No. 120 Broad- way, to act as volunteer elevator operators during the strike emer- gency, They were guests of the New York Bankers’ Club at juncheon The entire student body was under the supervision of James W. /-president of the Students’ Organiza- | thon, The men were divided | | three groups, the Captains of which jure Howard @, Cann, baskotball for- | ward, football halfback and Ma [of the field team; Paul B. Moor basketball centre, football end, base- all catcher and half-mile track man, |and John J. Weinheimer, Captain of next year’s football team, halfack on the 1919 eleven and ‘baskqpball | guard, The track team was represented by J. H. Bkqutrol, Fred W. Decie Q. D. Baldwin; among the field t members were G. V. Gilloon, F Weatherdon, G. W, Reese Guiney. | Charles Burn}, captain of the New York tennis team, and Craig Bartlett, he certificates to | um J ‘and | editor of the New Yorker, were also among the volunteers, | weet A Charlies F. Droste, Commission Merchant, Dead, | Funeral services for Charles F. Droste, President af Droste & Snyder, whole sale commission merchants of No, 177 Duane Street, will be held to-morrow! afternoon at the family residence, No %§ South Mountain Avenue, Montels N, J. where Mr. Droste died last n after an il as of & w days. Int ment will be in Mount Hebron Cemetery | | @f Montclair, y Payne Whitney @| MRS RODERICK TOWER LANDLORD FINED $20 FOR CONTEMPT OFFERS APOLOGY Wanted Rent Case Rushed, Valuing Time at $50 a Day —Penalty Remitted. Jacob Greenwald of No. 328 West 181st Street was fined half fof what a da y's time is worth to him, according to his own calculation, by Justice John Davies in the Seventh District Mu- nicipal Court to-day. Greenwald, 9 landlord, demanded an immediate de- cision of his case, although the com plaining tenant had not yet arrived, and declared that his time was ®orth $50 a day. Justice Davies fined him $25 for contempt of court, and told him to sit in the jury box until his case was called, At noon Greenwald apologized to the Justice, who re- mitted his fine. About ‘175 cases were handled by Justice Davies. A number of taem were adjourned and others were de- cided in favor of tenats rank Ganon, a former police ser- nt, of No. 90 Wadeworth Aven and his laidlord, Joseph Eisen, prin ples in another action each compla the other had threatened his life. A city marshal said he could be landlord's story, inasmuch as he been threatened ‘by the former police- man. When he went to aGnon’s apart- ment with an order, he said, the form. er policeman, who is six feet inches tall, threatened him with vio- lence and called the marghal's badge a piece of tin en, the landlord, is much smaller than the tenant, be'ng only five feet one inch in height Justice Robitzek in the Bronx dis posed of a number of cases by author- izing an increase of 25 per cent. above the rentals of last year. Nine hundred cases were on the docket and there such a crowd that the West- chester police station sent reserves to the Couftt House. ounsel for L. Blumenthal, who the property at No, 1135 Inter- | vale Avenue which he has leased to Isaac Keiser at $6,500 per annum, said he found that Keiser ia getting $12,000 gros out of the property from he tenants who are protesting against rent raises. He announced that his cHent woul try to break his lease nd reduce ‘the rent Tenants of Louis Steinbery of No. 1044 Bryant Avenue showed their rents had been raised 60 per cent when he had represented they re yt more than 2% per cent. The land. rd withdrew i Justice Prince in the Eighth Dis. trict Municipal Court disposed of sev- enty-five cases affecting a compro- mise {n most cases. tice Jacob Panken, in the Ninth the c Ju Distriet Munteipal Court, Manhattan, | announced that on April'29, he would hand down a decision dealing with the action of the, new rent laws in re- lation to busineds properties. JEWELS STOLEN ON TRAIN. Woman Reports 81,400 Loss on Way From Chicago to New York. SYRACUSE, April 20—Mra. L, D. Hartford of Chicago was robbed of Jewels valued at $7,400 on a train of the New York Central from Chicago to New York. .She discovered her loss Jordan, seventeen miles west of ‘ were notified by tele- graph and met the train, but found no trace of the missing jewels, 2 two | Whitney, daughter | yesterday afternoon in St. Bartholomew's, The cere- and Roderick | mony was performed by the rector, Dr, Leighton Parks. . former Ambassa-| Mrs, Cornelius Vanderbilt sr. was one of the many eiphia, took place | fashionable guests. MRS HARRY PAYNE. | WHITNEY, her emariona, OVERALLS MAKERS PROMISE THEY'LL NOT RAISEPRES Leading Manufacturers As- | sure Evening World They Are Not Protiteers. In answer to The Evening Worid’s query, leading overalis manufacturers |of the country have announced that they are in the fight to reduce the cost jot clothing and will not advance |80 by increased cost of raw mate-| riais, Tu assure the public that the fight against the clothing profiteer would | Rot result ina boost in overalls pr ing telegram to e:glt of the jeuding overalls manufacturers throughout the country: NEW YORK, Tprii 19 Note that the movement to wear overalls instead of expensive me 4 | clothing ts spreading throughout the country, may we announce tint your company will aasist in lower ing the high cost of living by re- tasning your present pricus? | Answer prepaid. i THE EVENING WORLD. To date the following answers have been received: CINCINNATI, O., April 19. | Evening World, N. Y. -Replying your telegram, price of overalls based on the price of denims, over which we have no contro! However, we will do all in our | power to retain present prices as long as possible. | THE CROWN MANUFACTUR- ING COMPANY OSHKOSH, W Evening World, N, Y.—-We ex- pect to retain present prices on overalls unless there is a decided advance in, material. OSHKOSH OVERALLS | PANY » April 19. COM- CINCINNATI, O., April 19. | Evening World, N. Y.—Will | matntain present prices as loug | material going into manufacture of overgarments does not in- crease. Increase will necessarily be in proportion to increase in cost of material tus. UNION SPBCIAL OVBRALLS | ‘OMPANY. NEW YORK, April 19 Evening World, N. Y.—We wi not advance our prices while our | Present stock of goods on band holds out. If, when this stock is exhausted we are forced to higher prices for raw deni shall, of court the price. % | Overalls Manufacturing Company pay DETROIT, Mich., April 19 Evening World Y.—Phere will be no advance in the pri of Headlight overalls until we are compelled to pay higher prices for wearal!. Under no circumstances | will we use present ertraordinary Nation-wide demand as an excuse for raising our prices LARNED, CARTER & CO NEW YORK, April 19 ening World, N. Y.—As long as materials and labor remain | unchanged, our commensurate | prices will not change, | SWHET, ORR & CO., INC * DETROIT, Apri 20. Evening World, N. Y.--We are not at al! in sympathy with this movernent. We see the dealer ex- | clusively and will not be a party or part to a movement that might bring dire distress to the thou- sands of employees who manu- facture clothing. We firmly be- lieve that it is not the high cost of living but the cost of high liv- dng that is causing all this tem- pest in a tea pot. | HAMILTON CARHART. inns, Had 750 Gal is of Wine; Fined 81 Pach. Foamd quitty by a jury a! Coun, Braoktyn, of wolatiry In the Pats Volotead Act im traneponting 750. gal- lons of wine on Feb. 3, three men wera fined only $1! each by Judge How They are Siivatore Fontana, Joreph Magliocco, pnd his brother, ‘Ambrose Magiiocco, The wine was confi by the Government, ated | Prices on overalls unless forced to ao! ices, | The Kvening World sent the fo:iow- | | with FOOD PRICES FALL CARRANZA TROOPS AS FREIGHT MOVES; BEATEN IN FIGHT SOMEDROP75P. BY SONORA REBELS Big ‘Tumble in Wholesale Mar- ket Affects All Vegetables Except Potatoes and Onions, ‘ength of the effort to foree but offleers of the rae the deterae; for Atty men to * army. " ‘Two Visitors Killed by ‘The bodies of John’ David MacDonald, two | arrived in the United States @ But in Another Skirmish They Wound Obregon’s Chief General. WASHINGTON, April 20.—Gen, Benjamin Hill, teader ‘of Obregon’s rebela, wag wounded ‘in fighting at Contreras, near Mexico City night, the Mexican Embassy an- nounced to-day, Most of Hill's fol-| lowers were killed, the embassy as- . foodstuffs which has been pouring into New York collapse of the “outlaw” railroad strike brought promise to- day of greatly reduced retail pric ‘The wholesale prices already have taken big drops The stream of since the Assorted Hard heart of the extract of fruits has been distilled oned in these clear someness, Raspberry, berry. Orange,” Lime. and fre savory form. last Almost all vegetables were lower in| serted, | Extra Special price this morning at the various] Gen. Fanando Hernandes leading a commission markets, and merchants | “#treng forces’ Is pursuing “Gov Enrique Estrada of Zacatecas who were worried because the low price Of revolted against Carranza, incoming food threatened them with! AGUA PRIPTA, Sonora, Mexico, loss on what they had left of the high | April 20.—Carranzinta troops failed | priced goods received during the) in their first effort to penetrate strike. Sonora through Pulpito Pasa on the! 44c Pound The prices of potatoes and onions | Chihuahua border, With concrete 421 Broadway 4. remained generally high, but other|breastworks and machine — guna || Pad jateaess te foods dropped from 50 to 75 per cent. | clamped to: the sides of the pass, it] 1 The Pennsylvania Railroad to-day | proved a death trap to the Federal | brought in 82 cars loaded with! troops. | spinach, cabbage, lettuce, kale, The Carranaista soldiers in, thin| radishes, apples, oranges, grapefruit, | skirmish lines last night felt out the. celery, &¢, The Brie and the New| York Central also brought in large! quantities of food. Commission merchants say their main source of worry is that with large quantities coming in they, are having difficulty in getting shipments| to retailers outside of the city. “The embargo on freight’ has been lifted,” said one merchant, “but things are so uncertain that the outside mer- | chants are not ordering from us and We are therefore overloaded.” j Here are some of to-day's whole-| sale pri Radishes, $2.50 to $3 a asket; celery, $3.50 to $4.50 a box;| | asparagus, $2 to $10 a box; old pota-| At Spring Brondway McGibbou & Co. 1 AND 3 WEST 37TH ST. ONE DOOR FROM FIFTH AVENUE Spring & Summer Curtains Showing a most interesting line made in our Own Workroom in MARQUISETTE—G RENADINE FILET NET—ETAMINE With Hem and Edge, also with Insertion and Edge. A FULL LINE OF ABOVE GOODS BY THE YARD KNOCK-A-BOUT PILLOWS Covered in Imported Prints—$1.50 to $2.50 ‘CUSHIQNS FOR WILLOW ‘FURNITURE Covered in Imported Prints—- n-fast Materials—Armures—$1.50 up |toes, $15 a barrel; new Bermuda po- | | tatoes, $20 a barre! | Strawberries at Washington mar-| | ket dropped from 60 cents a quart to| | 85 cents and in some instances to 20| | cents. | ‘PRISONER ACCUSED | OF HAVING 4 WIVES Bronx Woman Prosecuior Describes | Babcock as Champion Lover for Speed. Miss Julia Alice Gainey, A) tant District Attorney in the Bronx, who | has been working up the cases! | against Archibatd J. Babcock, twen- | ty-eight, a prisoner in the Bronx | County Jail charged with being a Digamist, dec! little ares he is the “swiftest lover" she ever knew of. Bab- McCutcheon’s cock was arrested in Westchester County yesterday as he was freed after serving a three months’ term in the East View Jail for the larceny of a $150 diamond ring. According to Miss Gainey, Bab- f : . cock began his career as a heart- tele eS Mt Spring Shirts for Men ‘Thduman in Paterson, N. J., on July 5 | 30, 1912. In December, i914, sue | dlvoroed nism, tut riot to that.‘ (Manhattan and McCutcheon’ Makes) vores, Miss Gatnoy says, he ma an actress in Brooklyn, Miss Emma Styles that are New—Quality that is Standard MeLoughiin. ed The next bride, according to Mi ; : Gaineia Inforinailche wa tieaneeie Manhattan Fancy or | Golf Shirts of White Vane of Hoboken whom Babcock a White Madras Negligee | Cheviot or Poplin alleged to have married, April 30, irts—$4. : ao 1916, “and the last, Mise’ Mabel M. Shirts—-$4.00 to 6.50 | $4.50 and 5.50. Greig of 978 Trinity Avenue, the ‘ ; Bronk, married (On SAG Le tain, McCutcheon-label Shirts in a good assort- while Babcock was wearing an army ment of materials---§3.£0 to 6.50. uniform, . ores ; Two Held tn 453,000 Fur Theft i‘ 7 FRenjamin Kearnd, twenty-three, of Fifth Ave., 34th & 33rd Sta, No, 959 Hart 163rd Street and Edwin Foss, twenty-seven, were held in $1 Men's Depeortment 33rd Street Entrance 000 ‘bail for examination’ Thursday by Magistrate (Douras in the Jefferson Market Court this morning, charged the theft of furs valued at $53- from the loft of Edgar Lehrman, No, 45 West 27th Street. Both pd not guilty. Reg. Trade Mark Makes You Call for “‘“More”’— A thick chocolate coating of deliciously creamy smoothness—a center of finely grated, snow-white, milky cocoanut mixed with sugar-cream. A captivat- ing, fascinating confection that makes you call for “More. AUERBACH CHOCOLATE COCOANUT CREAM Dealers: If your jobber cannot supply you write us for name of Auerbach jobber. D. 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