The evening world. Newspaper, April 24, 1920, Page 1

——- starting down town, VOL. LX. NO. 21,416—DAILY. Co. Copyright, 1920, by The Frese Publishing (The New York W NEW “YORK, SATURDAY, | APRIL 24, “Circulation Books Open to All.” Gis) La Ulva away 1920. Entered as Second-Cleas Matter Post Office, New York, N. ¥- —— THOUSANDS IN JAM STREETS OLD CLOTHES AND ALMOST SWAMP ECONOMY PARADE Women in Gingham Join Men in Overalls and Patches + for Demonstration. HIGH SCHOOLS IN LI Great Outpouring at Circle Before March on Eighth Avenue and: Broadway. New York ce.sbrated to-day its en- histment in the country-wide crusade to “Wear old clothes or cheap clothes —overybody's doing it” with a tre- mendous outpouring of eager foes of the high cost of Hving at Columbus Circle. Men and women, boys and girls and agents of dyers, repairers and clean- ers and manufacturers of clothing of cheap materials gathered ‘to the’ call of the Cheese Club, which undertook {o organize Acwonstration, in uch numbers that the police escort under Chief Inspector Daly was over- whelmed and the organizers failed utterly to get the thousands in fine for a mass parade down to Twenty - third Gtreet and back—keeping off Fitth Avenue because of the distaste which the crusade aroused in the merchants along that thoroughfare. At 11 o'clock, when the parade was 10 have started, Broadway and other streets near Columbus Circle were a maelstrom ‘of humanity, from whigh all appearance of pride in high cost had been eliminated. The mem- bers of the Cheese Club, fifty of them, in dluc denim overalls, who had thought it would be an easy matter to form the motley gathering of spon- tancous propagandist for dheaper clothing ang a cut in the price of new wlothing based on a falling off in the demand, were lost in the multitude. ‘Tom Oliphant, the President, sent aides flying through the mass wher- ever they could find an opening. They succeeded in finding thousands who wanted to know what leader to fol- ow, but did not find the leaders to take command. ‘The busy traffic of the auto mart wag completely blocked, laughing and cheering men and women, young and old, surged from one corner to an- other and then blocked the sidewalks to cheer those who had come in organized bodies and knew what to do without being told At about half past eleven Walter J. Kingsley of the Cheese Club ordered the band to see what it could do by The Club mem- Behind them in a denim the fell in behind, ned the club dog, be m (Continued on Second Page.) Classified Advertisers CLOSING TIME 5.30 P. M. SHARP SATURDAY FOR The SUNDAY WORLD’ Classified Advertisements SRANSTR ee sss SL O9R stively no Classified Tavares, Will "be received for. The Sunday ‘World after 6.90 P.M, Seared Se He Wiad ON OR BEFORE FRIDAY PRECEDING PUBLICATION a cement CAPPER CHARGES IN SENATE SPEECH Senator Names Concerns Already Exposed in Eve- ning World Crusade, WASHINGTON, April %4.—“Tho United States has ‘become @ robber’s roost,” Senator Capper, Republican, Kansas, declared in a prepared ad- dress in the Genate to-day, in which he scored profiteering and declared that if the law enforcement officers of the Government could not enforce the’ laws they should resign “and let men who can take their places,” Declaring that the proof of profit- eering was in the margin af profit, the Senator said that in one year alone during the war the gross in- come of American corporations rose from 91-8 ‘billions to 841-2 billions. He read to the Senate a long list of corporations whose profits were Placed at anywhere from 2 to 200 per cent “At this moment the most brazen challenge we have had in this satur- nalla of greed comes from the gam- blers in sugar. A corner has evi- dently been formed right under the eyes of the Department of Justice. The canning season raid is on For years the sugar interests have an- nually and openly and shamelessly robbed “American housewives during the canning season.” After reviewing the activities of flour, sugar and cotton mills, the re- cent Supreme Court decision holding stodk dividends untaxable, and the Department of Justice's campaign urging use of the “cheapef cuts” of meat—which he condemned—Senator Capper presented a list of corpora- tions whose earnings, he said, were proof of profiteering “open, flagrant, scandalous.” The lst with the percentage of earnings as given by Senator Capper included: “Continental Oil, United Fuel Gas, Fuel Supply, 100 per cent 200 per cent; 200 per cent.; Ohio Non-Quit (Continued on Second Page.) BANDIT HITS GIRL ON JAW, CAPTURED Youth Run Down After Seizing Payroll From Cashier in Bronx Office, Marion Lowenthal, nineteen, cashier for the Messenger Company of No. 432 Austin Place, the Bronx, had placed the company’s pay roll money in envelopes to-day when youth stepped in the office. He struck her on the jaw with a club, grabbed the money and ran Miss Lowenthal’s scream attracted Charles Patto, a shipping clerk, who cuptured the intruder at 144th Street and South Boulevard, where he re- sained the pay envelopes and made the boy a prisoner, The ‘oy his name as Paul) Canbo, No, 528 Simpson aAtre Bronx. The money amounted to § > --- ones & RESTAURANT, Vinwo'a, ba ifet Sneak otaiore dour “World biutitog, HUGE PROFITEERING | | JAREINHARDT, Wir PREDERICH TRUCEREINMAROT. Miss wT SR TOCKEY Bride in , $4 Gown at Waldorf Gueratle Welding: Bridegroom and Minister Wear Blue Jeans OVERALLS WEDDING AT THE WALDORF; | BRIDE IN $4 GOWN W. R. Frederick in Biue Jeans Marries Miss Reinhardt Who Wears Chambray. In the spirit of the day was the wedding at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel | of Miss: Gertrude Reinhardt, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs, Joseph Reinhardt of No. 28 Etna Street, Brooklyn, to W- Ramsay Frederick of Pittsburgh, a former soldier in the Air Service at Hempstead, L, I, The minister, the Rey. W. D. Tucker of the Andrews M, E, Chureh, Brooklyn, wore a well- fitting sult of blue jeans. So did the bridegroom and his best man, brother or the bride, J. A. Reinhardt. The bride's costume cost $4 to a cent and was a blue chambray with a plain white collar. Her only attend- ant, Miss Frances Grodsky of Hemp- stead, wore a blue checked gingham dress. Only members of the family of the two were present.’ Some of the younger men wore overalls, ‘The wedding was followed dy a re- ception, at which most of the guests came either in denim, gingham or made-oyer garments, NEW PORTER TRIAL IN MAY. Marrinwe of Littleton's Sister Next k Caunen Delay, The new trial of Augustus Drum | Porter, formerly Third Deputy Police Commissioner, on charges of neglect of duty, is expected to start the first week in May, Assistant District Attorney Smith hoped to start it next week, but learned that next Thursday Martin W, Littleton, counsel for the defense, is to attend the wedding of his sister, Miss Rachel Lit- tleton, to Cornelius Van “If the next trial of Porter resulta in | disagreement,” said Mr, Smith, “he | will be tried again immediately. If he | is convicted or acquitted the trial of | Dominick Henry, the suspended Police Inspector, wilt fol ow." !quits WATER § SUPPLY POST. John, F. Galy Board of Wat | Mayor Hy 1 duties in, President of the Supply, to-day asked relieve him of his of- cause of private business STUTZ “SHORTS” «: ",| Interests. Galvin was appointed by} His sai- Mayor Gaynor nine years ago. ary is $12,000 & your, LAW WOULD SETTLE WITH RYAN AT $900 A SHARE WASHINGTON, tan shoes made the April name CURB | SHOE PROFITEERING Senate Bill Provides That Manu- facturer Stamp Cost to Jobber or Retailer on Sole. 24,—Senator MeNary to-day introduced a bill to curo profiteering, providing that shoe, manu- acturers must stamp ‘on the soles of and address TEACHERS’ SALARY RAISE BILL A LAW: House Follows Senate Lead and Rushes the Measure Through To-Day. |TAX LEVY 1 4-2 Increase Will Be Given 23,845 Persons in New York City. (Bpectal from o Staff Ly spare of The Rrening ALBANY, April 24—The Assembly to-day concurred with the Senate in the passage of the Donohue-Lock- ‘wood Bill, which is intended to give salary increases to the teachers of the State, The bill was passed unen- imously under an emergency messge from the Governor, There was nv de- date. ‘The WN passed the Senate at 2 o'clock this morning. There was only ‘one Gissenting vote that of Senator Adlon Brown, of Madison, who Srowled because he thought that the teachers up-State weren't getting ‘The Lockwood-Donohue measure Provides for a direct tax of one and @ half mills on all property to meet the schedule of increased salaries which it carries, The Senate cham- ‘ber was crowded with teachers from the Greater City and up-State during the vote, They sat on both sides of the rostrum of the President and filled the galleries. ‘The bill provides an increase upon & quota of $600 % teacher. For teach- ers from the kindergarten to the 6-B grade a minimum of $1,600 and maxi- mum of $2,876 is established. Teach- ers from 7-A to 9-B and special teachers are placed at a $1,900 mini- mum and $3,250 maximum; for as- sistants to principals $3,400 mintmum and $3,600 maximum; principals of elementary schools, $3,750 mintmrum and $4.750 maximum; teachers’ clerks, $1,200 frinimunt and $1,800 maximum; assistant teachers of high and train- | to aes Q 2,,| of the manufacturer with the words,| ing schools $1,900 minimum, $3,700 Conference Fixes Price at $30) “imanutacturer received for this pair."| maximum; first assistant teachers, followed by the price for which the] $3,200 minimum, $4,200 maximum; Above the First “Buy in” Offer Made By Broker. saler or retatier, At a conference this morning of @| committee of three representing Stuts “shorts” and Allan A. Ryan, latter's office, agreement reached shortly before the opening of the Curb at $550 a share, had previously by a prison, at the| an was Mr. Ryan | announced he would to-day proceed to “buy in” the shorts This figure is an increase of $30 per share over the offer made by Mr.) Ryan a few days ago. 7 p-day's conference was held after} of th a “last hour” meeting of the Protec-| and Power Compar tive Committee, representing fifty-| morning that the th eight Stock Exchange firms, A mo-| that tion was unanimously pass vesting | ferred until after a con: full authority in a committee of throg | Mayer Hylan, to make any reasonable settlement| P!® with Mr, Ryan, The committee con- sisted of Charles A. Morse, Chairman; Prentiss and Andrew P. ank Zatoli, Mon r ay morning. men demand | shoes were sold to the |STATEN ISLAND. STRIKE DEFERRED Mayor Hylan to Take Part in Con- ference With Trolley Men Monday Morning. president of the employees of the Richmond Light this ned strike on would be de- rence between 4 committee of the em- es and President of the Board of Aldermen La Guardia, set for 11 o'clock Staten Island line Jobber, announced an increase of pay whole- Deductions usually allowed for payment within sixty days are to be taken off the stamped price. Violation of the law is made punishable fine of $1,000 or two years in union clerical, laboratory and library assiat- ants, $1,400 minimum, $2,400 maxi- mum; principals of high and training schools $5,500 minimum, $6,000 maxi- mum; teachers of night schools who night are increased 10 per cent, The dill affects 23,845 New York City teachers, ALGER YACHT GOES ASHORE IN STORM. Twenty Men Are Taken Off by Coast Guard and Cutter Is Sent to Aid Vessel. BHAUFORT, N. C., April 24.—The schooner yacht, Elfay, owned by Russell A. Alger of New York, went aground in 4 storm last night five miles south of Ocracoke Inlet. Twenty men were taken off in @ lifeboat from the const guard station nearby, but the captain, engineer ‘and one seaman remained aboard. John W. from the present rate of 45 cents per] The coast guard cutter Manning was Miller. hour, to 70 cents, with time and n hulf| geyt to-day to the assistance of the Wall Street authorities estimated | for overtime, Zatoli asserts they would the outstanding Stutz stocks from | compromise at 60 cents 3,000 to 10,000 shares, On March 31, when Stutz was ruled off the Ex- change, the quotation was $891, It] has since gone to as high as $700, at which odd lots were bought. On the Cur to-day it dropped to 470 to 490.| had offered at which figures elghty-eight shares| which would were bought. shorts" to $2,000,000 acoording One report is that Mr. ately, gi L. Rand, 5 cents lose upward of to estimates. Ryan himy res, figure average | Taking $250 a at which the an hour. Vice President and Gen- | eral Manager of the company, said he hour increase, aise the pay to 50 cents, | but this had been refused. They had virtually voted to Ko out immedi- he added, but were persuaded to the Mayor an opportunity to inter- ep ax the|in home games, “short" yacht, which is not believed to be in any immediate dang HERE’S AN NEW ONE NEW HAVEN, Con. M. As | protection against loss, the Yale Unt- | versity Athletic Association is Insuring “lites baseball team against wet grounds according to an an |nouncement to-day by General Manager if ote than 64) | Sota lars e the ¢ Woodcor! one-fifth of an inch of Will provit more than $476,000. contracts were made, Uh mittee | Pras between 8 A.M. and LP Me report indicated that he took computed a prot, of $1,659,000 for! on the day of a scheduled game the in- Mr. Ryan. Mr shares from the “shorts’ 391 and less. By agreement reached ho| , will receive $550 for the same stock, | t. @ gain of $159 a share, and more in| some cases at uve Committee for Col John W. ‘conditions was conducive to “better! all around.” ~| Prentis An estimate by the Protective Com- | mutes placed ihe number at 5500 Ityan said that some fof appreciation was due the Pro- its earnest lxfactory adjust- "the cool Judgment of trying| 8 under expres-| | surance ts pald, > W. D, Hines ts Out as Ratt He: WASHINGTON, April 24.—Walk, | Hines, Director General of Ra resigned and his revignation has n accepted by President Wilson, ef- tive May Li, | f-| URGED BY SMITH MILLS. | are paid at the rate of so much a! OF ASSEMBLY Effort to Push ALBANY, April 24.—The for action. The vote was 84 to House and wet supporters declared 2.78°per-cent. bill would pass, — McCue caught the representative of he was persona non grata. sence of Minority Leader Donohue, of the House annoying Mr. Ross.” the committee from consideration PRINCIPAL BILLS ACTED ON AT ALBANY IN CLOSING HOURS Many Important Measures Rushed to Final Stage After Long Delay. ALKER 2.75 per cent. beer Dill, permitting sale in hotels, restaurants and clubs, passed by the Senate. In the Assembly to-day. The ‘Thornp~ son enforcement bill, framed on the lines of the Volstead Act, killed, Lockwood-Donohue bill, provid- ing increased pay for teachers, passed by the Senate. In the As- sembly to-day. Fearon bill, designed to olim!- nate Socialists from the New York State elections, passed by Senate and Assembly, Lockwood bill, continuing the New York Police Reserve, passed by both houses. Smith bill, authorizing a referen- dum on bonuses for soldiers, passed by both houses, Fearon bill, providing for judicial nominating conventions, passed by both houses. Simpson measure, maxing man- datory publication of budget pro- posals before Sept. 20, passed by Assembly over Mayor Hylan's veto. Gov. Smith's welfare bills were defeated. U. S. SCORES FIRST OLYMPIC VICTORY April 24. defeated ANTWERP, Hockey team Switzerland in The the Olympian hockey ut here this afternoon by a score of 29 to 0, The American boys had easy aalling all the way and from American the tournamen day's play they are considered favor {tes for the final contest. -> ' SAKE BELL-ANS AFTER MEALS and seg tow Gs GOGO DIGESTION anne pus ta Aden, s PRICE TWO CENTS | ' ORY AGENT IS ORDERED OUT: BL IS PASSED BY SENA By Joseph S. Jordan, * (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening wertd.) ALBANY, April 24.—The Bldch 3.50 per cent. beer bill was killed in the Assembly to-day by a 77 to 56 vote. It was the first of the beer legistation to be placed before the Lowen measure, whica leaves seventy-seven for the wets. But the wets are yet certain how many of the seventy-seven they have with them. requires seventy-six to discharge the nN team of| IN BEER FI His Bill Through: Walker-Gillett 2.75 Beer ‘Bill’ ct ee ee aor Walker’s 2.75 Measure Wins by: ah to 23, and in Lower House Gillett: Lines Up Forces in Last-Day:. men? the vote indicated the Walker-Cilelt A sensation occurred in the Assembly when Assemblyman Marty. the Anti-Saloon League lobbying on ; the floor of the house. The lobbyist was Robert G. Davey, counsel for the league, who has been at the Capitol since William H. —ae “Mr. Speaker,” cried McCue, who was watching things tn the > “] object to Mr, Davey on the fogs: “There must be no lobbying on the floor,” declared Speaker we whangnig the gavel, and Mr. Davey took the gate. It is now conceded that there are sixty-eight votes against discharging of the Gillett beer and light committee, v The Senate put through James a Walker's 2.75 per cent. beer bill at 4.16 A. M. to-day. It permits the sie of 2.756 beer in restaurants, hotels and clubs. Immediately after this the Sutherland bill providing form 4 per cent. deer and wine not to ceed 12 per cent. alcoholic content was defeated by the same vote—#i to 23, Senator ‘Sutherland gave notice of a move for recnnnteeaae and the bill will come up later the day. Then the Walker bill pry viding for local option on liquor” cities waa passed. Senator George F. ‘Thompson's Ine forcement Bik was not allowed outet committee. It és a replica of the Vol- stead Act. The vote on the Walker “2.75 per cent.” bill was: For—Abdeles, Black, Boylan, ,Bur- ingame, Carroll, Cotillo, Dodge, Dowling, Downing, Dunnigan, Farrell, Kaplan, Karle, Kelly, Lynch, Me- Garry, Mackrell, Miller, Ramspberger, Russell, Sage, Schackno, Sutherland, Twomey, Walker, Walters and Whit- ley—27. Against—Baumes, Brown, Burling, Carson, Davenport, Ferris, Fowler, Gibbs, Hewitt, Kasson, Knight, Law, Lowman, Lusk, Marshall, Mullan, Pitcher, Swift, G. F. Thompson, G. Is Thompson, Towner, Walton, Yelvere ton—23 Senator Thompson made a bitter attack on the beer bill, and although Majority Leader Walters voted for it, he declared he would willingly vote against the distillation of whiskey and all spirite except for medical use. It looks as if Grover Whalen’s bus bill is dead but the dill making hit the purchaq ent for Greater New | York tooks as Tf it has’ a chance of deing passed, i Assemblyman Doherty’s bill, whieh makes permanent the jobs of police inspector, has been reported out by the Rules Committee, This .ds | the bill which Commissioner Enright wanted killed after peace had been patched up between Tammany and Mayor Hylan, ‘The later will probe ably veto it, if it goes through the Senate. The clock in the Assembly wae stopped at 11.66 and in the Senate at 1.46, ‘The long final agasion of we ry ¢ It we hi ff hd a } at