The evening world. Newspaper, April 22, 1920, Page 1

{Circulation Books Open to An” | VS LOI UT: EME SVN ANS VOL. LX. NO. 21,414—DAILY. bahia rsd Fy! by ‘The New York ‘The Frees Fs Esbtehing NEW ALL JENKS nIGH FARE BILLS DEFEATED, IN SPITE OF OPEN WORK OF AS “Cost-Plus” System Fails, 77 to 66, When Traction Fili- buster Ends, NIXON BACKED BILLS. Introducer of ‘Measures Admits They Were Written by Elec- tric Railways Ass¢ Association, By Joseph S. Jordan. (Special Staff Correspondent of ua Evening World. 2.—The | ALBANY, N. Y. April 22. Jenks bills, three in number, de- signed to permit increased trolley fares, failed of passage in the As- sembly to-day. The vote on euch bill was the same, 66 for and 77 against. ALBANY, Angi 2.— The Jenks | higher fare measures Were beaten to- day in the Assemply after another pro- | tracted debate. Filibustering was car- ried on as long as possible in the ef- | fort to secure enoush votes to put the “obnoxious measures over. All tricks known to the lobby were practiced on thg) Assembly—threats, promise of patronage, personal friendship, the “folks back home” and every other endeavor conceiv- able in the way of putting some- thing over was worked, Edward J. Maher, president of the Third Ave- nue line of New York and Leslie Sutherland, the Yonkers magnate, were on the ground early buttonhol- ing every member who was against the bills. When it looked as if they were blocked and that there was no chances for the measures, the forts of the lobby were redoubled, Members were asked out in the cor- ridors to listen to supposedly con+ vincing arguments, but the argu- ments fell on many deaf ears. Finally speaker Sweet announced that the vote would be taken on the first of the measures, which was the “service at cost” bill. The bill was beaten by 77 votes to 66 in their favor, Before the vote was taken and while members talked against time in the chamber the real workers for the bills were at work outside of the Assembly making last desperate at- tempts at rallying the votes. Assembiyman Geonge N. Jesse, Re- publican, of New York, who was ris- cussing the bills when adjournment was suddenly taken last night, to-day characterized the logislation as “out- rageous” and suid that he wanted the public to know that he ‘tprotested against this steal.” Edward B. Jenks of Broome, who introduced the bills, said that the ob- jection came from the “Hylan- Hearst outfit which was trying to wuild.up a political machine in New York City and gain control of the traction companies, Sol Ullman interrupted Jenks, peating his protest against lobbying in the interest of the dills, “Paid ‘agents of the railroads are dragging members into the lobbi: trying to convince them to vote for thes¢ bills. I protest against members being in- fluenced in this way. 1 insist that every member be brought into the house to escape this lobbying.” The bills, Jenks then said. re- prepared by the New York Electric) sioner with a parcel Railways Association, “There is a condition that needs a remedy,” ho asserted. “Company after company has gone into the hands of a receiver. (Continued on Second Page.) mins TAKE BELL-ANS APTEB MEALS and ecg tow Gas GO00 DILKIT HON mani em bh daly SNevennp een nme wen vrcen “VN were | we » | wan | SEMBLY LOBBY TOBACCO, INCOMES, WILL PAY BONUS cae Consumer Will Be Taxed for | the $1,500,000,000 Required Ex-Service Men. | WASHINGTON, April 22.—A tax on |all Stock Exchange transactions equal to the brokers’ commission hag ‘been agreed on tentatively by Repub- lican members of the House Ways and Means Committee as one way to raise money for the soldier bonus | legislation. | ‘Three other levies for raising the | money similarly have been adopted |by the Republicans. These are a 1 per cent. levy on the final eales to consumers, a new levy on incomes, prpbally on those in excess of $5,000, Nd an increase of approximately 15 |per cent. on éxisting taxes on to- ibaceo und cigars. | ‘These four fonms of taxes would re- main in effect two yeays, and the Republicans estimate that. they would net about $1,500,000,000 for soldier re- lief. They will be inconporated in the legislation to be presented in the House for adoption May 3. Committeemen said the.final agree- ment on all details of the Rellaf Bill, including the methods af taxation, were apen to revision, ibut they pre- dicted that the four-fold plan of tax- ation would not be changed. Treasury experts estimate that $40,000,000 a year will be raised by the sqles tax? $20,000,000 from the Stock Exchange deals, $100,000,000 froin a 2 per cent. tax on the part of incomes exceeding $5,000, and $50,000,- 000 by the 15 per cent. increase on to- bacco taxes. Gaminttsserpen declared that re- Sardless of the form, the taxation ultimately would be borne by the con- sumer, ‘The exact levy on incomes has not been fixed, but members of the com- fixed at 2 per cent. on the amount of all incomes over $5,000. Repulican leaders announced to- day that the party caucus set for to- night had been postponed untit April 30 because the @oklier relief measures were not in the shape desired for con- ference prseni tion. The “insurgents” announced that their stand against certain provisions of the Dill, and especially the tax fea- ture, was unaltered DE ts WANTS BRONX PARK NAMED FOR HYLAN Aldermanic Friends of Mayor Puz- zled as to What Action to Take on Resolution, Mayor Hylan's well wtshers among Tammany Aldermen are puzzled as to what action to take on @ resolution pre- sented at Tuesday's meeting of the | Board at the request of Park Commis- | sioner Joseph P, Hennessy of the Bronx | for a park to be cafled Hylan Park The resolution provides that the-plot, consisting of three and one-half j pounded by the Southern Boulevard, 175th Street and Crotona Park, tinctive name other than 1 acres, no d a si of Crotona Park, be known snd | designated ns Hylan Dark gopt the resolution."" sid a tristia Tot he May developed improved land who do to do with will make request to christ | the waste Hylan Park Not Im | ALBANY r ed cody gation of 1 ‘Aint, Ua, New York Stock Bx. “SALES AND STOCKS. mittee ‘believe now the levy will be! “stots smaY ~ AFTERASLUME LIBERTIES DROP Heavy Selling of Government | Bonds by Striking Workmen | Given as One Cause. ‘RECOVERS $2. STEEL Leaders After Touching New Low Level Rise 3 to 14 Points Over Yesterday. \ A sharp yore toward recovery made itself felt on the Stock Ex- | change at noon to-day with gradual rise occurring in most of the issues, except Liberty Bonds, from then on. Call money at 7 per cent, was a help- ful factor. On the rally, to which the shorts made involuntary contributions, actual gains of three to fourteen points over yesterday's final prices were made by General Motors, Bald- win Locomotive, U. 8. Rubber and minor steels, U. 8. Steel, which had been forced down to 961-2 went back to 985-8, It closed yesterday at 98.3.4... An- nouncement from the Bethlehem Steel Company of earnings for the first quarter at a rate of $30 a share annually for common stock, helped this and other issues. Replogie Stesi was the feature of the closing thatt hour of the market, advancing close to 80, of nearly 20 over the low of Wednesday. Vana- dium was influenced by the adwance in Replogle and sales were made as high as 83, Chief sufferers among the Liberty Bonds were first 4s at 85.00, off 2.00, and first 41-48 at 85,00, off 2.40, Other Government securities showed an jip- ward trend, one of them, the second 41-48, going back to %.00 after a drop in tihe forenoon to 84.90, The sale of stocks up to 2 o'clock approximated 1,540,000 shares, This week's break in the market is ascribed by Wall Street bankers and brokers to a reported “bear” drive which sent literature broadcast to the effect that a great panic was to hit Wall Street this week. Asa result, it is said, many orders were given to sell and the “bulls” were routed—for the time at least. Advices received by local banks confirmed recent reports of en- forced selling of Liberty bonds at industrial qentres where labor troubles have been especially prevalent. In tthe last week the downward trend of Government bonds has been steady, even before the sensational dectine of yesterday. Basing figures on the closing quotations of Thurs- day a week ago to-day, and the 2 o'clock quotations of this forenoon, declines in first 4s and first 41-48 are 5.56 amd 5.60, respectively. First 4s which this afternoon went down to 8 were then at 90.56; and first 4 1-48, to-day at 85 also, were then at 90.60. Second 4 1-48, to-day at 85, were then at 87.44, a decline of 2.44. Fourth 4 1-43, to-day at 84,90, were then at 87.65, a decline ot 2.65. The Victory notes were not so sert- ously affected. The 33-4s were to- day at 96.08 as against 96.60 a week ago, a decline of 48, The 43-48 were to-day at 96.14 as against 96.54 a week ago, or a decline of .40. SHORTS CAN SETTLE DIRECT, RYAN SAYS Sends Offer to Committee to Ac- cept Payment in the Stutz Motor Controversy. Allan A Ryan, © rman of the ard of Directors of the Stutz Motor mpany, to-day addressed a letter to the committee representing the “shorts on Stutz stock offering to muke u di rect settlement | It had been proposed that a board of arbitration handle the situation, but Ryan declared he was willing to deal directly «with the The com- mittee planned to up the pro- short posal with the brokers holding out Roe U.S. TROOPS SENT (TO CRUSH LW. W. REVOLT IN BUTTE Montana Governor Calls on Lieut. Gen. ‘Hunter Ligget for Aid, I. W. W. GUARD SLAIN. Fourteen Men Wounded Radicals’ Efforts to ‘Keep Men From Working. in SPOKANE, Wash., April 22.—A de- tachment of the 2ist Infantry, regular army, left Fort George Wright to-day for Butte, Mont,, to which point they were ordered as a result of strike dis- turbances, Announcement that he had com- plied with the request of Gov, Stew- art of Montana that troops be sent! to Butte as the result of mine strike disturbances there, was made here to-day by Lieut. Gen, Hunter Ligget, commanding the Western Department of the army, BUTTE, Mont., Apri 22.—Hugh B. Haran, a guard in front of the Daily Bulletin, said to be the organ of the Metal Mine Workers’ Union No. 800, I. W. W., was shot and killed to-day by Joseph Papst, another guard. Papst, who was arrested, said the| shooting was accidental, . Followers of Lenine, who have ‘been practically in possession of Butte for three days, have clashed with the authorities, and as a result fourteen I. W. W. strike pickets and one policeman are in hoypitals with gunshot wounds, Seven of the men shot in yester- day's riots were in a serious condi- tion and may die, physicians said. The clash took place on the Ana- conda road, where I. W. W. pickets were stopping all men who tried to go to the Neversweat mine, Many of the loyal men, who had refused to strike at the behest of an “outlaw” union called the Metal Mine Workers’ Union, had been badly beaten. Sheriff O'Rourke, who for three days had interfered little with the radicals, had gone to the mine with some deputies and, finding much fighting going on, ordered the pickets away. A shot was fired from a nearby building, and @t once shooting started all about, with the result that the I. W. W. got much the worst of it. Without presenting any demands to the mining companies the L. W. W. orgunization met Sunday night and declared the strike. ‘It said the walkout was Intended to get an in- crease of wages from $5.50 a day to $7, for a six-hour day, for the re- lease of all prisoners in the country arrested under thg laws punishing sedition, and for the abolition of the “rustling card” employment system at the mines, The Metal Miners’ Union is com- posed to a very large extent of for- eigners, principally Finlanders. ‘Those who are not of foreign birth are Communists and reds. The great majority of the Butte miners, of whom there are 12,000, are in upposi- tion to the I W. organization. _ STARTS NEW FIGHT ON VAN PROFITEERS Resolutions by Protective Associa- tion Urge Prompt Action by Al- dermen to Keep Down Prices. The Real Estate Owners’ Association, Protectiv« of which City Magistr Joseph S. Schwab is President, made public to-day @ resolution recent! adopted calling upon the Board of Al dermen to check annuatly I “the tremendous tol “ied by the moving van pro! iteers’ upon all those in the city wh: ure compelled to move during th months of May, and October The resolution urges prompt actior by the Board, as the “promt nee reg on," & a wating pool « cartmen be adopted un- YORK, "THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 19 Post Office, New York, Batervst ge Segond-Clam Matter N.Y. GREATER Ni FSH GES STOLE WHEN POLICE DO WAS TAKEN AWAY Police Seek Missing Servant, Former Convict, in $25,000 | Jewel Theft. DISAPPEARED SAME DAY Canine Guardian Believed to} Have Prevented Earlier Robbery of Home. Hamilton Fish, former Congress- man and Assistant Secretary of the ‘Treasury, in an Evening World all he knows—excepting one fact— about the theft of Mrs. Mish's jewe! for which the entire Police Depart- ment has been ordered to searoh. What Mr. Fish did not tell was the name of the servant in the Fish home at No. 810 Fifth Avenue, known to be an ex-convict, who disappeared when the jewels did and for whom the police are, searching. | A German police dog by the name of “Lachs” figures in 'the-stery, ‘and the servants fully believe that the dog had balked the plans of the thiet for months. When the robbery tid |take place, some time between 10.30 lo'clock in the morning and 2.30 in| the afternoon last Saturday, “Luchs” | was absent. For months before, Mr. Fish and the servants, the ex- convict*had been trying systemati- cally to make friends with “Luchs,* interview with an reporter to-day told according to but did not seem to have gained his complete confidence. “The servant. who has disap- peared,” said Mr. Fish, “came to us from the Geneva Employment Agency at No. 39 Sixth Avenue. He had excetient references, which were in- vestigated and approved ty Mrs. Fish's secretary, Harry Comer, His duties took him to alleparts of the house. He attended the furnace, washed the windows, cleaned the eidewalks—general work." (The servant say he also volun- teered to take “Luchs" out for his SOCIETY WOMAN WHOSE JEWELS ARE HUNTED BY POLICE Sey vee ie Photo Copyright by A! JURY GETS PORTER CASE AFTER NEW ATTACK BY SMITH Prosecutor Calls Ex-Deputy a Scoundrel as 1 Closes, japant,, The case of Lieut. Col, Augustus Drum Porter, formerly Third Deputy Police Commissioner, on trial for daily atrings, and they believe that this was a part of his plan for the robbery—to make sure that the dog would not interfere when the time came,) FAMILY TAKES DOG OUT OF TOWN WITH THEM. “Saturday morning,” Mr, Fish con- tinued, “Mrs. Fish and I went to our summer home at Garrison, N. Y., mak- ing the trip by motor and taking ‘Luehs! with us ye returned to New York at about 11 o'clock that night, and Mrs. Wish discovered the loss of the Jgwels when she went to her bedroom. Incidentally the first reports of the value are great- ly exaggerated. I should say that $ 000 would cover the loss, which was insured. “We notified the police and began an inquiry among the servants, learn ing that the man who has disappeared was last seen in the house at about 2.30 o'clock in the afternoon. He took a bag with him and must have gone out by the front door on Fitth Avenue, (Continued on T wenty- first Page.) ieicealica ) RESTAURANT. fog today. Tunwdey, Apel ge. 0 of Pork amt apole mance.” 60 vam, doer sebted Mth floor World Building, —adet Classified ndvertiatne Sunday Word mould be ta The World office On or Be forg Friday | | Preceding Publication } Barly copy recetves the pruference when Sunday advertising haa to be emitied, Late advertieing is now emitted’ for lack of time to eat fr. THE WORLD neglect of duty, this afternoon, went to the jury Assistant District At- torney Smith finished his summing up at 240 o'clock and immediately afterward Judge Malone began his charge to the jurymen. He spoke for about an hour. Smith said Porter was “an unspeak- able scoundrel engaged in spreading the bacteria of immopality through the homes of New York." Porter's home the night of Nov Smith declared attempt to prove he was 12 was “a pit- lable structure which fell of its own weakness,” At the outset of to-day's proceed- ings Littleton renewed his motion for dismissal of the case. He contended that no crime had been committed; that even if it were, true that the policemen cuught Porter in a raided apartment with a woman and that a crime had been committed, the po- licemen were accomplices and not ac- coplable witness and that the de- fendant’s innocence hud been estab- lished beyond a reasonable doubt. Jugge Malone denied the motion on the ground t the jury ought to be allowed to express an opinion as to the facts, in view of the direct con tradictions in the evidence. SMITH WITHDRAWS CHARGES AGAINST POLICEMEN, Assistant District: Attorney kK, Se partly removed the Jame point tu the evidence of a anplices by ob. taining the consent of the court to withdraw the second count of the in dietrnent in which the Grand Jury hamed Polic nen Wheelwright and Sorger as jointly criminal with Por ter in allowing the woman, said by thom to have been caught with him lin the raid, to go free Littleton’s sumining up was an (Continued on Second Page.) PRICE TWO CENTS | THREE CEN ELSEWHERE STRKERS REFUSE 10 RETURN. this afternoon that “the men have McHugh’s Report, Talks’ of Call- ~ | ing Out “Affiliated” Workers— © Lines Reject Men Coming Back ‘ Except as New Employees. ? Edward McHugh, leader of the outlaw railroad strikers, announced decided to remain out if necessary until the Railroad Labor Board hands down a decision,” ’ From three to five thousand of Hall, Jersey City, to hear McHuga’ the strikers gathered at Grand View, ’s report on his trip to Wasttington, where he tried in vain to win a projnise that the demands of the-st would have early consideration. by the new board. Reporters ‘Harred from the meeting, but afterward obtained a statement from | Hugh. NEWARK FRAMES RULES FOR AVIATORS WHO FLY OVER CITY Must Not Go Lower Than 4,000 Feet Nor Drop Anything Ex- cept Printed Matter. HE Newark City Commision to-day passed an ordinance making the following rules for aviators who fly over the city: | Must not fly lower than 4,000 feet except In starting and land- ing. Must not fly over central por- tion of city, Must not throw anything from airplane excepting printed matter (for which the filer must get a permit, pay a $25 fee and file a $1,000 bond.) Night fliers must have lights fore and aift and myust edrry land- ing flares. All fliers must carry maps and compass. Exhibition flights are prohibited except by special permit. ‘The fine for the first violation ts $100, additional violations $200 each, sii penalised SENTENCE WOMAN TO DIE. Inhuman Mother Ordered Hanged in Quebeo Oct. 1, QUEBEC, April 22.—Mrs. Marie Gax- non to-day faced the gallows following | her conviction on charges af slowly tor- turing ber stepdaughter, Aurore, to death. Justice Pelletier wept aa he pronounced sentence, The woman wept bitterly. The date of execution was set for Oct. 1. Witnesses testified the girl was forced to drink lye water and that the soles of her fe& were slashed with a | knife, | FREE CAILLAUX OF TREASON. Eliminates Possi- malty. Senate Acti bility PATUS, April 2 p charges of high treason and intelligence with the enemy | against former Premier Josoph CaiNaux were climinated by the high court of | the Senate to-day by a vote of 218 to 2. ‘This eliminated the possibility af the death penalty being inflicted. SIGNAL TO MARS FAILS. | Wire: _ Expe However, Say They WIM Tey A GAMER RANCH, Cedar Creek, Neb, Apr arly to-day to faited and Harvey who made the they would try nounced unt _ Note of Spring Thme Frank Haverty of the Travel Bu- reau in the Pulitzer Building rotunda reports that the first Panama bat of the season passed through the World rotunda on a man’s head at 9.30 o'clook this morning. ‘ P F é — “1 explained to the strikers,” sald, “that It would probably thirty days before the board hear the demands.of, the brothes- hoods. I told them that the raiiromds' had asked for a delay of three months, I tolds them I‘had tried th vain have the ultimatum of the railroads, demanding that the men return by noon last Sunday, extended. Then € asked them sf they wanted to walt: or to go buck to work. They votnd not to ao tuck.” In addition, some of the strikers | sald, it was pinnned to cull out othe, [ers “affiliated” with them in the rads jroad service, Just how an umrevos= nized group of deserters from ‘the of ficial ‘brotherhoods could have “affiti<” ations” in the service wan not = plained. ERIE REFUSES TO TAKE MEN AS _ GROUP. A delegation of striking firemen and enginemen, headed by Joseph J, Reilly, went to the Erie terminal in Jersey City early this morning and offered tp g0 to work In a body, The offer wan declined and the men were told that they would have to sign as individuals or not at all 4 The Erie reported continued im- provement in its freight situation to- day and said its commater service was 75 per cent. of normal, the bes record since the strike started. _ At the New Haven's Harlem River yards a full quota of men were at work handling freight and it was sald that 20 per cent. of them were new. It was also announced that no appli’ cation by a striker to return to work had been rejected. A similar situa~ tion was reported at the Mott Haven yards of the New York Central. The West Shore reported that ite freight service was improving at a rate which would bring it to normal in two or three days. New men are ~ being hired steadily, New forces are also being recruited by the Jersey Central, which reported passenger ser- vice normal but admitted that the. freight situation is still crippled east of Elizabeth. The Pennsylvania and* Lackawanna reported passenger ser~ vice normal and freight service sme proving. ‘The Lackawanna reported passenger — service as normal and said that in the freight situation only 275 switchmen and yardmen were still out. ‘These. were employed in the Jersey Ciiy yards, In the Hudson Tubes a partial ser vice was resumed at 7 o'clock thi? morning. ‘Trains were run from down» town New York to Hoboken of u thres- minute headway and to Grove Streoy Jersey City, on an eight-minute head way. At 11 o'clock service was ox- tended to Summit Avenue, Jersey City,” on the Newark line, It was said-that Yi few strikers had returned te work, that most of the operating fotpe. i composed of new men. « , ialand Rapid Transit ‘The first train to be rum a South Shore division off wea ee eee nee Ree ae ima: ere