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4 i | eegadine Kansas Statesman’s . Arraign- ment of Corporations Stirs Up Congressmen. PROFITS HIT THE PUBLIC, Disclosures Made by This | Newspaper Are Read Into the Record. (Special From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, April 26.—The long fight of The Evening World against profiteering has now been brought with tremendous force to the atten- tion of Congress. All official Wash- ington is deeply stirred to-day by the amazing presentation of facts and “figures made late Saturday afternoon ‘by Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, showing huge profits made of numer- ous concerns. Ip his arraignment the the names and earnings of many con- cerns .whose extraordinary profits had ‘been disclosed in special articles | published in The Evening World dur- ing the last few months under the _caption: Annan tIS THIS PROFITEERING?, nnn The Evening World receritly pre- sented these facts and figures w the Attorney General of the United States, who has promised that they Shall have consideration at the bands Senator read imto thé Record of the Department of Justice. In his speech Senator Capper com- mented on the “brazen challenge of the Government by the sugar gamb- Jers,” and predicted that “this body and this Government are soon to hear emphatically from the people in re- gard to the profiteering in sugar.” ATTACKS HUGE APPROPRIA- TIONS OF CONGRESS. Genator Lenroot defended Congress from charges of non-action relative *to the cost of living and asserted that the fault is with the Department of Justice, which, he said, to enforce the laws already on the statute books concerning profiteering, Senator Thomas of Colorado sug- gested that the open road tg normal ) times is increased production and in-) qeyy win reside at Larchmont Gar- dividual and governmental economy, He called attention to the fact that Senator Smoot, the Senate's acknow- DRESSED AS A MAN tedged authority on appropriations, pointed oat a year ago that July 1, 1920, would find the Government face to face with a $3,000,000,000 deficit. “But in the face of those condi- ms,”” said Senator Thomas, “we c. been making unnecessary ap- propriations and will continue to do 0.” He backed up this assertion by ntioning a bill enacted during the | , past weok increasing pensions by $ 000,000. (Continued on Fifth Page.) ~~ WILSON GIVES UP RIDE. WASHINGTON, April 26.—President |“? Wilson did not take his usual automo- Bile ride yesterday, but Instead took a “gun bath” on the south portico at tho use, where he could get fresh air and su do a certain amount of work. Dn Grayson said he \esired to com- plete some work and preferred not to take the ride. eee White . Fi ae ' Soldier on Trial for Murder and Model of Barracks ‘SUT owe wore EVENING WORLD ARTICLES IN PROPITEERING CHARGE FOR EVERYBODY. j= TO UYU. SHS Shipping Board Adopts Policy of . Selling on Basis of Valuation, BENSON STATES PLAN. Board Will Go On Leasing Seized German Ships _ Pending Decision. EVENING WORLD STAFF MAN WEDS SOUTHERN GIRL By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning: World.) WASHINGTON, ‘April 26 (Copyright, 1920).—E\verybody will have an equal ¢hance to buy the ships built by the United States, and they will be sold on @ uniform basis of valuation and on such terms as will permit the operators to distribute payments over a period of Only those persons or companies who can satisfy the Ship- ping Board not merely of their ability to pay the Initial cash payment but to meet theft obligations periodically will | be given ships. Furthermore, twelve years. the Shipping Board ts going ahead to lease tho German ships seized in American ports at the COMM rE, outbreak of the war. are belng made irreapective of the | outcome of the injunction suit begun | United States Army by William Randolph Hearst, which | Totten, [ Miss Florence Holt Becomes Bride « To-Night of Roger’ Batchelder, courts confirm the Shipping Board's | | judgment that they may be gold just a w t far - n or ‘i ant, hig lawyer about -$100,000,000.., The plan involves 9 q . Americans have heretofore operated Hijrrato through the Mtate edhali and. VAntaae of the tenant, but a beaks herbal a bh by the: mmere- |ships under European fli. The Sap le Savauae, Rigen WIIG wil 300 Nas foreed the court to postpone aid~ eBid physica or transportation cy ‘orporation, » apard colle : Aer © Hudso er W > tener : wet matty abel bas : Holt of No, 294 West 924 Street, will COMMITTEE MAPPING OUT DE-| guard to American Io! Dicrin [the Artem Pier st Side Duy ing him until the landlord draws up y de financed and oft TAILS OF SALES PLAN. and keep th ‘The foregoing principles of: ship. | Americ Ping were given the’ writer by Ad- miral Benson, Chairman of'the Ship-| ‘There is ever ping Board, and represent the outline shipping pools Jeorge Coo 6 f depressed. Union unit Americ: jtizens to perpetuate Ines " »£ hurge terminals Peht | ,ceorse, Cook: pret wted that his rent}instead 0: of policy thus gar formulated. The American colished during the war EH ae barks. terms nalae Petit ( last your had been raised (Ol terminus would be located between sales programme is not yet worked ‘Transportation associations, fur in- it the waterfronts of Upper Manhat- 10 and then to Justice Shlet A committee of four—/ stance, Eugené Meyer of the War Finance! South 4 ; Corporation, Alexander Legs, Vice | the prosp: anracks at Fort|on March 2y, 1919, little Uketlhood that the taking of tea activities in landiord-and-tenant cases} located east of Hudson Street L, was the most noticeable} Among ot who studied with iy-|timony would begin before to-morrow, were sharply criticised by Justice] 10th and 11th Avenues avoids tho ~ \is now being appealed to a higher decoration of the United States Court] terest the model of the barracks was| King was killed in a dormitory while Sheil, ' necessity of trucking it to the water- court. But the persons who obtain Tom in Brooklyn to-day, whe Margaret King, the Sergeant's men werd asleep In thel “If this dismissal ‘on tectmnteal | front. - tho leases must giaranteo to buy Cenge W. Bary ran var A Se is ad POA bar Mpa the motive tortie ate grounds had fot been asked," the} Jt is estimated by Mr. Craig that in the event that the | 3udge 1 Shes Takeed Witd Whe les eattatian eal ths yi sty de) ge to hiv 009 “court ald. “this case would have|the increase in the taxable yaiues Miss Florence one, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfre be married this evening at the Hote Gotham. The bridegroom will be wr.| Roger Batchelder, twenty-two, of No. 257 West 99d Street. This marriage is the culmination of a romance which began last July when the Holt family and Mr. elder were neighbors on the same The bride formerly lived in Galveston, Texas, while Mr. Batohel- is in Worcester, The bridegroom is a member’ of The Evening World editorial graduated fron Harvadd 1p/1918 and is a member of the Harvard Club out in detail. der’s home President of the International Har-| ¢ the upbullding of Americ Owen Young, Viee | ‘The Shipping, Board of the General Blectri¢ | out of the business of yperatin Company, and Charles B. Warron of vester Company; will be given away by and attended by Miss a sister of the bridegroom. The best man will be Richard W. Clarke. ye Ws linger of St. is failing \Its work to-day is letting out ships | : a} ini enst i the to’ pay the rents listed in her com-| Streets east of Tenth Avenues) at . gad ooo tieat, » Measuré to City. alle soreele a oa h plaint. Justice Shiel ordered the rent#l gpring street, east or west ‘of Huds Detroit, a Republican National Com-! “yfuch confusion has) existed over sachs Lakes, Mt will be a blow to the high to stand at the figures in the com-| 4) to: ang in the blocks bounded mitteeman und a former aide to Gen.| th- disposition of G \ cost of living. plainant’s papers. Mrs. Frark said @ q . inded . terned in Americ ve by thesLegistature in the “phe Harlem River improvement Mistake had been made by her lawyer.|by Laight, Varick, North Moore and Crowder in the establishment of the selecting service system during the Agnes’s Chapel, will perform the ceremony. ‘After the honeymoon the Butchel- dens, Larchmont, SHE IS ARRESTED | Mrs. Boucher, Giving a a New York! Address, Held fer Inquiry as to Why She Donned Male Attire. A woman who says she is Mrs. | Boucher, twenty-one, Ne 39th Street, Manhattan, Is held ut New- Headquarters investigation as to why she wore male attire when arrested Saturday Her blond hair wi wore a drak blue blue overalls, “Now Congress proposes to listen to the demands to vote bonuses to the soldiet amounting in afl prob- cut, short and she | a gray sweater | “1 wi een born a boy,” told the police. “Men can do anything, but women are slaves.”* as taken Into custody on, com: deman¢ onable,” sald the ¢ rt. ¥ war—are mapping out the sales) doris armistice tor Dowling, earryine a pretimt+ | fle from the North River and Bagt]*You cannot correct these papers hero ee on betwetn Hudson seg oy ' ‘forms of an Allied agreement ppropriation of $100,000 toward | RIVer pier and release to coastwis! | utter finding that the tenants are ready erie eee it Sanalcudanee aa 4 They were selésted out of a group | latter vessels were to carry Amer im age 9 | ind Gansatlantic shipp.ng dock spacc ana ih ng to pay tho prices you have i hs + 4 ae ng of a clty : Ad-| And Canadim soldiers homo and UPR OE He: BIS Ne AVENE te that is needed now and will be more| MV block, would accommodate about'19 7 jot dusiness men called here by i | mmenting upon the statements tied ships were to curry food ‘to ' nent Harlem Ship \ La fi , frelght cars at one tinte, Elevatérs | mitral Benson to confer with the Sen-| , y. Those German — passe ‘ovement en | ur@ently needed in the future. When] credited to Arthur W. J, Hilly, of the : a Committees on Com-| vessels wore awarded to the Allies as le Harem River and Bronx | the Harlem River ts available to] Mayors Committee on Rent Profitesr- would hoist the goods to the strest Siscoa! Ae nunt Marine and with| part. payment: for sub: considered by Dock Commis- | barges and other craft drawing 14] (98 Francis J Martin. District At- | levels, or lower them in the event ai) aierce and Mere! : eo destruct since _ the ‘ fvha are and athe Clute torney of the Bronx, said he has been] elevated road is ‘decided upon, the officials of the Shipping Board. arine destruct , in ners oner Murray Hulbe rt and oth city | foet the way will be open to extend-| qnuble to learn of any conspiracy for 3 ‘a! ro pon. ‘The programme was left to such a| Were, oF i 1 1h the omelals as probably the most beneil- | ing our old piers in the North and/a wide spread rent atrike., Miss Alice Comptreller Craig coptends that itis committes al dract benaune -{t wae| comes hey were promptly re-| oy measure the city obtained during | wast Rivers out aw f° into the} Cavanaugh formerly member of the} plan docs not comprehend the éity y urk & I tr : Nig Dill eng neers Ma '# Committee, and now attorney rt ith ft its 4 ' ; he sessic Making the Dowlir il) streams ny eng neers wil'} og with any o: ro RE See realized that the strain on the money| As for the German ships in Ame: ) Making th SOT ee ny eae aoe es tha | for eaveral ThaUsane cmAntn, (heal Ee + ry ‘4 snaps 4 these will remain 1 law opens the way to the estubish is similar to the Staten Island water market would be dangerous if the/icun poris, these Wil tinal ee aces dock ‘facilities to the extent of $100,-] Bronx and ete Bar sald that she| on. idea; He plans to/éroct a Wi ffered for sale in the open| Property .of the ra ee ment of a barge canal terminal 4° | o99 999, has not heard of plans for @ rent 7 % | ships were offe: r per) Congress authorizes their sale on the soo street and the Bast River and} Aj] woe need now is speed in doing} strike duct over Twelfth Avenue trom Tl market without carefully safeguard-| {one terms as craft built by the | ; Ae neta aie wnee State eae . a 1 c s for unlowding art Mauired by the city and the| District Att rney Lewts of Brooklyn | street to 57th Street. Thi i ing the future payments to the Gov-| Himergenoy st Corporation, T the completion of plans for ’ id a0 sald that his office has not bees is viaduct, it, ernment as well as the credit mar-| Shipping Board claims that it has} barges carrying food products\ from ner alet Petey ng the way for the sears ‘ana day indteatton ofan rent is pelliveGe oN relieve tratt a ee “ Congressional authority to ma! t At Lakes at docks in. upper | “7™¥ eet atmike ahaa rondevay ane: tt ae c The fear was expressed gales, but in view of pend'ng | 4 " Queens and 7 - - that would-be purchasers would bor-| tion,’ no effort will he un, thé Bronx, onze Tablet se Seventh's Dead. | ined for &: & Ph Ay aun bethabe 1300 w large sums from the banks to| unless the courts de p we unveiling of a.brange tablet in] samuel Gipa, twenty-elght, and Henry cet, to take ; Rats BE Sam . and 1334 Str to care shirt, open at the | Make the initial payments and ther | ping Board's favor, or Contos ¢ Is a Government appgopria-|nonor of the men who made thy *0-] \iertie, twenty-seven, Bronx, clerks, are leg (ht vp of the |the banks would be intermittently enacts a jo! At reso pn Sy 1 $6,000,000 awai'irg the action i x now bers] rested outside the Polo Grounds while| Figures as to the cost of construy- she | siarméd about deferred payments it| *Posing of the voxels. State and the city made por- |° 7th Resime trying aan ae $1.6 ‘tickets | tion and operation are not given, Due freight rates dropped or international REAL ESTATE MAN by the passage of the Dowling | to A pal game a lece, were | Mr, Craig suy8 the underground trade was disturbed by ractors not . : now foreseen. INITIAL PAYMENT OF TEN PER 4 CENT. TO BE REQUIRED. i ‘ tr a ‘peat’ his way from Jersey Boucher said she was on her , to get work in a tire weeks ago after 4 W “but I got tired of belng’a woman and putting up with all Insults of men, s6 body wearing overalls I did not by EX-BARTENQERS- ’ FROM U. S. GOBBLE UP ALL JOBS IN CUBA, Spanish Aristocrat of the White Apron Finds It So and Lands _ Here as Stowaway. : HAT became of our old a W friend in the white coat + and ditto apron was re- vealed to-day by Elicao Casto, one of five stowaways who ar- rived from Cuba on the United Fruit Liner Pastores with a ship load of American excursionisty, ‘Ll come from Madrid,” Casto “said ut Ellis‘ Island, “and was said to be the best bartender in Spain, Learning of the advent of prohibition to your States I had the happy thought to try Cuba, ‘Alas! “Everywhere in Havana the Proprietors ask: ‘Do you spes English? Do you know the Mar- tini, the Bronx, the Manhatwn? “The Yankee bartender has the call. I tried even the smallest cafés, Everywhere un American in white, One or two of them of- tered to take me on as a cleaner. The best bartender in i decide to come to New Yor! learn the English, : Hliaco probably will be return- ed to Spain. Three of the other stowaways are sailors and the fourti a stone cutter, All are Spaniards, nd find I was a REVIEWS GUARD TROOPS. Gen. Dollard Pins D, S. M. on Mont. for ten years. has been virtually decidea | Frank E. Foster, of Flatbush, Vietim the ‘channel in the Harlem Riv that a 10 per cent. cash payment will of Apoplexy While Inspect- |woon as the city removes the ob- ‘be required and 5 per cent. every six ine House. latruetions to navigation caused by months until the end of the second id lone High Bridge piers and obtains « year, when 30 per cent. will have been | Frank 1. Foster, ed ‘ ¥ Lt, Teight of way acros# Johnyon's Point paid. The remainder wilt be collected pralliecrageei Netane noon tocday in{for a new channel between the Har- on payments of 7 per cent. per year) in, cellar of an apartment house at} tem River and Spuyten Duyvil An interest charge} Howthorne Street und Flatbush Av | The city will soon submit to the of 6 per cent, will be charged on de-| nue, Brooklyn. The ypartment hous | War Department engineers a plan for ferred payments so as to provide an | was about to be Id and F er w" | be removal of the High Bridge piers incentive for earlier payment in the |'ooking at the coal with his associat hich undoubt will be accepted purchasers make | Joseph N. |The next ‘step will be to connect money on their venture. Dire Poatan had been tn tp) real JSnuyten Diyvil with the Harlem gkomery and Olmstead. ud The prices of the ships have not yet | tte busi deen determined, but they will be uni form and will be based upon a cost \ per ton attractive to those who desire \ to engage in the/qteamship business | geacon of the Flatbush Dute! | » Bullard, com- manding the Department of the » New York Provisional In- fantry Regiment in the Sheep Meadow and, after reading the citations, pinned Distinguished Service Medal on Col ernment for Edward Olmptead for ther work as Di und Assistant Chief of they are fully paid for, a measure of 27th Division bush Chamber f Commerce nd The Harlem said Dock ficient to repay the Gov. 1 Ch ut Hannan Lae auth y ) t sufficie! Gov- |formed Chureh. He was also an ve] alex an ual commeree of 15,000,000 : : : : : os eet Scvolleae Ape ohoagr ie re bebe irrigate which is guilty of increasing the as the Government will} “hurch Mich Brid nd the North River. | F eon all ships until! Ne obstructions are removed | s x . £ f , [2eiaa he each am seme High Cost of Living must be exercised over the deepened barges coming down trom | 5 ) 5 sprovisi onal t treatment given the vessels in the way y if some years} __ a ’ —— | profitable, a limit] ~ pl | on the amount that can be taken out of the earnings wil ‘lye placed so the Government can get some additional payments toward it: indebtedness. LTo SECURE AMERICAN OWNER SHIP OF ALL THE SHIPS, No ships are being leased nor wil any be sold to any firms or individual other than those of American citizen B » exceptionally ‘uccompanied oR. commander of the Fourth Avenue and 5 ask Congress to put such a pending shipping act e ° for instance, be permitted te itt into Ame rican shipping concern: of twenty per cont. but | r cent. of the money | PLE atl OM Pire Ow Randalls Inland, Fire in oil sheds on th all's Island wh northern end | to the amo ich caused heuvy N caused American cit and the ownership of seventy-five p ial ra area Ceylon Packed Tea for an hour this morning firemen from Harlem, of Ameritan citizens Congress has already prohibited th | [transfer of Shipping Board vessels to} but that is not enough. are \ ould ope ate ships under | 4 ¢ and devote jihelr own purpous, Just as readily au, 1 ase SERGE Giri ta ARNE pre escaping from 4 kitvven rang repay Im: BRONX AGTATORS ELEVATED ~ FOR RENT STRIKE | ORDERED EVICTED TIN Twenty-four Tenants Said to} / ‘Deface Property Must Move | and Restoration of River-- side Park Provided For. By Wednesday. Justice Shell in the. Bronx today] Comptroller Craig’s plan for provement of freight terminal had 320 rent casos before him, Arthur ; W.' Milly, Obdirman of the Mayor's | portation and water front conditions ue Committeo on Rout Pryfiteering,: sat and the burial of the New York on the bench with the Justice and] tral tracks along Riverside Drive, advised with him. as to the figures at Will soon bé submitted to the’ Board of — uy Which ront was fixed—as it was in, Estimate, Mr. Craig sald to-day tin ©” Most cases at“@bout 25 per cent. over | eas for the relief of traffic conges- tho rentals at this time last year, ftion on West Street and on the water — Justice Sheil issued a write of evic-| fromt, for the abolition of tion offective day after to-morrow| Avenue,” and tho restoration of | against the twenty-four tenarta of| Riverside’ Park aro practically the the apartment at No. 635 East 137th|S!me as those originally entertained Street, who aro the agitators for aj by him. ; general rent strike and according to] The original Craig plan pro investigators from the court have! for @ six-track underground done more than $3,000 damage to the "illroud from 59th Street to a apartments by defaoing ,walle and) "68" Canal Street, with unit lbronking fixturey while refusing to} Melt and transfer bridges pi ; Pay any rent at all ing means of access for the a“ | Willlam D, Clark, protesting against Jereey railroads, The unde | new rate of $70 at No. 1970 Morris] allroad and its terminal faellities ‘Avenue? sald his pent a year ago was|*Te to provide for the business’ 6f $35 and had been raised to $40 and! fallroads handling merchandise traf~ then to $70. Justice Shel! was about | 1°, ortginating on oF consigned to tht to fix the rate at $43.78 when Clark's prebyn of Lapras aw The oi BARR NI ray = Nt RER, Ww lawyer objected that the landlord's agra eh 4 located consid~ par in ag RES fist: ae complaint was incorrectly drawn, erably to the eastward of the water ‘These leases Rn a a ealelg Sue Efforts of lawyers to create busl-| font. Thus the delivery of , mere A. reproduction {n miniature of the| night murder of Sergt. Frank 1. Kink | legal excuses. Counsel said there was Resa for themselves by superfluous] Candise shipments to unit terminiits, re . At Fort Totten, Where Sergeant King Was Slain Uniform __ been settled to the immediate ad-{0f this improvement would ryagh docks and termi long the & NeW set of papers, Most tenants erated to the material advantage; ot ia eu Cicer gyi Would be far better served if they | the clty. ret m z ee J ; would let the courts handle these} Another plan, which is but a modi- he prese method of handling eases without the Intervention of| fication of the origin: | eupotne bro ints v York by lawyers and a lot of the court's time pbb ls is expensiye and wasteful, | Would be saved, too.” to have the rgilroud tradks elevated . ships fa ve han 8 at all time, p nably un- | der penalty of Government contiscation jin the event that the law isn't obeved, evidence that many re being formed by G5th and 67th Streets, east of Lith een formed in many tan, the Bronx and Queens ‘trans- ithe rent for the next year $42, ri y eee St Miates end | portation costs will be substantially ‘Chis was the fiest instance in which Avenue; between 26th and 20th i } Pat the judicial reduction went lower than] Streets, ast of 11th Avenue, and if i "i that they eae cut and the city will be in direet | ty! rent Incrense. neckepaty, datedéed thed ne upbuliding’« Bill for Besninity Cost Cane) tues witn the food pratuets of vie "in another inatanen thf enante ofl Avenue, between 26th and 28th | State and the supplies of th ming woman named Frank at No. 23 ‘ale ‘ sidered: Most Beneficial — {country whieh sends its gr vy entine Avenue sald they were willlug|Streets; between 16th and» 20th self is k ofthe “He erred on the side of making ur} Hudson Streets, probably closing ng hoursof tir Timtroduced by | will take away the barge canal traf c Wi 10 Ne .day. for ashing 2 Helghts |tem should be owned and. control id Merles claimed that they |by the city and the railroads should < to (ispose of tickets pur-|pay for the facilities on the basis. jared for friends who falled to appear, [of tonnage handled, Army engineers will be ready to ssourt DIES IN CELLAR wain tie work of establishing tin the Harlem YI e andar Gab also was Killgd In action: the Flatbush Until rv 158 Hawt River by the removal ‘of Johnson's | Point and the opening of a 14-foot | Oor IDEA on the subject of - prices is, that any institution # Brooklyn for cently he lived Street. He was a director of th hannel, es | eventually pay the High Cost of Living It Down! Franklin Simon a Co, A Store of Individual Shops ; FIFTH AVENUE, 37th and 38th STREETS ae s bout te USE ‘oreigner fs visi sn