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B ‘" a @itions “VOL. LX. .NO, 21,418—DAILY, Ks ii Ooprright, 1920, 7 The Preee Publishing atop York We Sarr eater i HUNDREDS SLAIN IN JUGO- { bl ion Books Open to Ail” | NEW YORK, TUESDAY, APRIL 27, ("Is THIS PROFITEERING? | AMERICAN WOOLEN CO. MAKES $19,013,415 PROFIT IN 1919, EQUALS $39.89 PER SHARE " _so Corporation Pays 16 Per Cent. Dividend on Common Stock as Clothing Soars. ' PAID HUGE TAX, TOO. Déspite All’ Increased Costs, Company’s Earnings Are Greatest in lis History. Net profits of the American Wgoten Company for 1919 amounted to $15,- 513,415, less reserves for taxes and contingencies, according to the annual’ report issued to-day. : Payment of dividends of $2,800,000 om preferred stock and $3,200,000 on common and depreciation of §3,733,- G41 left an unexpended balance of profit for the year of $5,779,804. Surplus of 1919 amounted to $12, 029,804, which added to that of 1918 brings the total surplus to $81,754,426. Of the great sum added to surplus this year, $4,779)804 was passed to the surplus this year and an addi-} tional sum of $7,260,000 taken from the corporation's reverve and added # tho surplus, totalling $12,029,804. These earnings by the company show that for the year ending Dec. 81, 1919, the surplus, after all charges ‘al tax of $10,779,804 had equal to a dividend of \ $39.89 a share on the $20,000,000 of eutstanding common stock, against t rnings of $5,572,527, or $13.86, ‘@n the common stock in 1918. Reviewing the activities of the com- pany for 1919, Prsident William W. Wood said in part: “The year 1919 has been a success- ful one considering the very unusual and disturbed conditions, and the re- adjusting of industry to a pre-war or civilian basis. At the first of the year the cancellation of Government contracts, with no civilian orders in @ight, left a great deal of our ma- ebinery idle. “On account of the unsettled con- throughout the country, re Was'no market for goods, but ‘with the opening* of our line in Webruary at attractive prices, the wiate of perplexity and pessimistic Wtitude of customers changed to a eling of confidence and optimism. “One of the features of the year been the great demand for fine and cloth made of fine stock. This unprecedefited demand for fine fools has resulted in tremencious in- ease in prices of fine stock. Since bruary, 1919, prices of these wools hve risen 30 per cent. to 40 percent. nd at the close of the year were still ing. : “The necds of the company for, the pming season have been anticipated securing advance supplies. The of the year leaves your com- ay with unfilled orders of sufficient otume to keep the machinery fully mployed well into the year of 1920, (Continued on nd Page.) Classified Advertisers Important! i Classified advertising copy for THe Sunday World ghould be in The ‘Werld office On or Before Friday | 4 Preceding Publication || receives the praference ay sdvertiaing haw to be Late advertiving ie now Tack eC time to mot it THE WORLD Sentry when Ban ihe for sition—Associates to Confer On Peace Resolution, WASHINGTON, April 27.—Senator Underwood was elected Democratic leader in tho, Senate to-day at a con- ference of Senate Democrats, He was unopposed, Senator Hitch- cock, acting leader eince the death of ator Martin, having withdrawn from the fight. Besides clecting Mr. Underwood, the Democrats discussed briefly solidarity of action generally. The pending peace resolution was considered and the Democrats agreed tentatively to call a conference later in an effort to have the minority present a solid front on the resolution. ‘The peace resolution will be taken up for renewed consideration by the Senate Foreign Rélations ComCommittee.. to- | morrow. Senator Knox has been ar- ‘ranging @ series of amendments which are expected to make the House resolu- tion conform to the views of Republican Senators. The: will be Anished to-day. AMERICANS FLEE FROM MAZATLAN. Battle is Imminent There Between ‘the Rebel and Federal Forces, Washingon Hears. WASHINGTON, April 27.—All Amer- icans who desired to depart left Mazatlan, on the west coast of Mexico, April 23, on the Steamer Senator, which is due at San Pedro, Cal, to- morrow, the State Department was ad- vised to-day. ' A clash between rebel and federal forces for possession of Mazatlan is now thought to be it inent. |PRIMARY BATTLES IN THREE STATES DECIDED TO-DAY Republicans ” Fighting Hard Massachusetts, New Jersey and Ohio. Three States are holding Presi- dential preference primanies to- day: Massa@husetts, Ohio and New Jersey. There are no Demo- cratic contests but Republican candidates are fighting hard in each, Massachusetts: 4 delegates at large, 32 district delegates. No name on ballots. Senatok Lodge heads the Coolidge ticket while ox- Samuel W. MoCall heads the Hoover candidates. A Wood ticket is also in the field, ow Jersey: 4 delegates at large, 28 district delegates. Wood and Johnson only names printed on ballot, other names to be written in. Contest centres between U. 8. Senator Walter BE, Edge and for- mer Gov. E, C, Stokes, Chairman of the Republican State Commit- tee, running as delegates at large, pledged only to choice of Republi- can voters as expressed at the in Gov. primaries, Ohio: Fight between Warren G, Harding, “favorite son," and yen, Wood for the State's 48 delo- gates. Women will not be per- mitted to wote. + In Washington and Idaho con- ventions will name Republican delegates to-day. Senator Poin- dexter will get Washington's fourteen yotes and Idaho's eight will be for Senator Borah, Gen. Wood is a contestant in each State. SB | WORLD RESTAURANT, Special for to-day, Tuesday, April London broil, French fried potatoes, made irenti Country UNDERWOOD CHOSEN | SENATE LEADER! Alabama Democrat Has No ‘Oppo- CHARGES <F SIMS INSULT TO NAVY, Surprised Had ° Insane Patient Made Them. WILL BE DISPROVED. High Officer Says There Was No Delay in Participating in the War. WASHINGTON, terizing as April 37.—Charac- Ad- mira] Sims's charge, that delays iby the Nayy Department prolonged the war four months and cost 510,000 lives, Rear, Admiral J. S. McKean told the Senate Investigating Com- mittee to-day that “had it been made any foreign official, Allied or enemy, it would have aroused’ the in- dignation of the whole American poo- pl “monstrous,” Rear by ‘Had it been invented by the in- flamed, exaggerate, diseased ego of a patient in St. Elizabeth’s, the Gov- ernment Hospital for the Insane, no ‘one would have been surprised,” the Admiral sa’ “That it was made under oath by a rear-admiral of the navy on the the active list, President of the Naval War College, in a hear- ing before a committee of the United States Senate is, in my opinion, an insult to every offioer and man now in the navy, or who served in the navy during the World War. “] do not believe that any one, short of the good God himself, has sufficient knowledge af the various elements and factors entering into the wer and the causes of its conclusion to justify him for one moment in charging that the navy or any of its officers were responsible for the loss of any part of the 2,500,000 tons of Allied shipping claimed to have been unnecessarily lost, nor least of all-1 do not believe there is a human be- ing with sufficient information and sufficient knowledge to justify him in charging unnecessary loss of the life of one of the 500,000 Allied soldiers charged to have been due the efrors of the navy. This monstrous charge tas ‘been or will Ibe disproved in every item.” Sims in his letter criticising the Navy Department's conduct of war “may have been aiming at Mr. Daniels but his shootfhg was bad and he hit naval operations,” Rear Admiral McKean said. Admiral McKean, who was aid for, materials to the chief of naval opera- tions during the war, asserted that he could not understand what caused Admiral Sims to eaxpress dissatistac- tion with officers serving this country and then praise the same officers after they had been trans- ferred overseas, in “It may haye been the ‘London fog’ or perhaps the ‘Scotch mist’, he de- clared Chatrman Hale reprimanded the witness for indulging in personalities. ‘The officer replied that he was only folowing the line Admiral Sims started. NEW PLAN TO CURB SUGAR GAMBLERS Department of Justice and Members of Congress ‘Co-operating. WASHINGTON, April 27. A plan for curbing speculation is being written by Departinys tice attorneys and several Congress ‘and will be submit a few days. = tof Ju mbes iow Min Such a measure Is plan sentative Howard, Ok presented as #00n as the remilts o | Department of Justice conference sugar refiners becomes known by Repre hom be the with JAKE BELL-ANS AFTER MEALS and ADMIRAL ASSERTS 4 Tet | McKean Would Not Have Been Attorneys | sugar | RED REVOLT IN MACHINE GUNS eae Bolshevik Revolution in New Republic Is Reported From Rome. |MANY FATAL RIOTS. | Belgrade, Former Capital of Serbia, Scene of Much of Street Fighting. LONDON, April 27—A Bolshevik revolution ‘has broken out in Jugo- Slavia, says a’ Central News despatch from Rome, quoting Triest advices to the Messaggero of that city. Machine guns have been brought into action in Belgrade, where hun- |dreds are said to have been slain, |while fatal riots occurred at Laibach and Agram. Official Jugo - Slavian quarters here are not alarmed over reports. The Triest report of an uprising is attributed to “a faction of trouble- making Italians, who are secking to embarrass the impending Italo-Ser- bian negotiations.” VIFINNA, April 26 (by the Asso- ciated Press).Tan,..civillans...were- killed and twenty-one wounded in & conflict between strikers and gen- darmes at Laibuch,<the capital of Carniola, in Jugo-Slavia, according to the Jugo-Slav Press Bureau, The strikers attempted to hold a prohib- ited meeting and the police | sur- rounded and attempted to disarm them, . ‘Thereupon, the message states, the Communist leader Goloud called a general strike, which took effect im- mediately. The workers in the gas and water however, re- mained at their posts. HOLLAND WARNED ’ TO WATCH KAISER Lloyd George in Note Places Re- sponsibility Exclusively on Netherlands (Government. THE HAGUE, April 27,—Responsi- bility for the continued residence in Holland of former Emperor William of Germany was placed squarely and ex- clusively on the Netherlands Govern- ment in a note sent by Lloyd George on March 24 and published to-day for the first time {n the Orange Book con- taining documents relating to the de- mhnded extradition of Count Hohenzol- tern. The note pointed out that William, in spite of precautions, is “a very serious danger 80 long as left within forty kilo- metres of the German frontier, and is a potential centre of reactionary propa- ganda and a constant menace to the peace of Europe." services, TUBE TRAINS RUN TO NEWARK AGAIN Service From 2 to 6.30 P. M., First in Two Weeks—Policemen on Guard. Hudson Tuba trains betw Cort- landt Street, Manhattan, and Newark began running at 2 o'clock this after- noon and will continue In operation un- til 630 PP, M, These are the first trains operated to Newark since the strike of | tube trainmen two weeks ago. Policemen were stationed alon) 4 west of the Summit Ave Jersey City, which run tr tior ground. over- $300,000,000 VOTED 1920. Pest Office, ara ee rae ee tee New York, N. ¥. PRICE TWO CENTS Trams cute Sisewnens JUGO-SLAVIA: KILL HUNDREDS: AUTO IN FLAMES, DROVE INTO OCEAN AFTER RECORD RUNS Milion Compelled to Run Into Sea at Finish to Extinguish Fire, DAYTONA, Fla., April 27 OMMY MILTON established hhere to-day when he drove his Deusenberg a mile in 23.07 m@econds and two miles in 46.24, an average speed of 156 milps an hour. His car was in flames at Car the finish and he drove it into the ocean to extinguish them. MINIMUM CITY PAY’ AT $1,200 A YEAR, Favors Sie seciees Increase for Full Time Employees Now Getting $100 a Month. Aldermanic President La Guardia |to-day announced that at Friday's meeting of the Board of Estimate he will introduce a resolution providing for a minimum wage of $1,200 for all city employees working full time and a general increase of $200 for those who now receive $1,200 or more, He says he has no objection to limiting the $200 increase to em- ployees of moderate salaries, but wants to make sure that everyone en- titled to an Increase received one Mayor Hylan yesterday declared that inasmuch as teachers were to re- ceive salary increases under the pro- visions of the Lockwood-Donobue Bill, salaries of all other city em- ployees should be raised to meet the high cost of living: Mr. La Guardia would make the pay increases proportionate later along the lines of a aliding »cale, with the $200 as @ start. He says leaving the question of salaries to heads of departments often results In “unfair discretion,” and believes it will be possible to obtain for the police and firemen nearly the $2,400 anual pay they were promised during the last city campaign. The Legislature passed a bill for salary increases of all Borough Presidents to $10,000 a year. Through migtake or design the office of Alder- manic President was omitted from the salary increase bill, Inasmuch as the five Borough Presidents are soon to receive from 25 to 100 per cent, increases, President La Guardia says, he is certain they will be will- ing to vote increases to underpaid city employees, The increases La Guardia proposes will be made possibly on July 1 next, he says, if the Mayor and the Gov- ernor sign the bill permitting the city to tsue $5,000,000 of vonds for that purpose. aa JERSEY CAR MEN RAISED. 6,500 Get 10 Ps Totaling $1,20 CAMDEN, N. J., April i Ratlway Company to-day apmounced a voluntary of 10 per cent. in wages fo effective May 1 One hur The Pub- of Now Terey inerea*+ 5,600 mei a FOR RAILROAD USE, }- Measure and Sends It to Con- ier ference Committees | WA@HINGTON, April The House Bill r $00,000,000 for desi clenciaa in over it operation of | rallrouda, and $9,000,000 for miscellane jeoun deficits was passed to-day by the Senate Passes House Appropriation | dred and forty-six cittes In New Jers | whi be affected. The change will | volve 4n additional outlay of $1 Thomas N. MoCarter, President of the company, said the Ase |xiven In view'or the high rents a | fost of Anuou food. Ax | made a 400 one was Hey divisions Foperatea in nort | Jersey > Lberty, Bonds Sold —Quoted GL Broudwas—A ave. —— Jobn Mul 4 Go on Page 2 ees eee poeeeere Se eee j ; GIRL IN OVERALLS oe Sere re ee ee + LA GUARD'S PLAN, Cent. Wage Boost,| BATHING DRESS IS BARRED AT BEACH $99506-00-66000000800000000 | ms . One-Piece Denim Costume Causes ‘Her ‘Banishment by Chicago Police. Mias -Pegsy Jones of, Chicago wore a one-piece bathing suit made of denim when she inaugurated the 1920 season at the Clarendon Beach, Chicago. Her stay was ‘brief, how- ever, as the police censors ordered her off the beac! CONGRESS ATTACKS POST FOR FREEING ARRESTED “REDS” A ieccs Assistant Secretary of Labor Charged With Violating Law to Aid ‘Radicals, WASHINGTON, April 27.—Charges that Louis F. Post, Assistant Secre- tary of Labor, violated the law “in be- half of aliens who have contempt for this Government and who are trying to overthrow it" were made before the to-day by Chairman Johnson of the House Im- migration Committee. Mr. Johnson was the first witness House Rules Committee at the investigation into Mr. Post's conduct in handling deportation pro- cevedings against radical aliens, He was followed by Representative Hoel of Kansus, whose resolution looking toward the possible impeachment of the Assistant Seeretary is before the committee. Chairman Johnwon presented a re- port of committee investigators, pre- pared hy W. A. Blackwood of Seattle, Wash. which reviewed many score deportation proceedings in whieh Mr. Post was said to have cancelled de- portations recommended by Immi- gration Inspectors and the immigra- tion Bureau, , Johnson declared “the seeing red without a ¢ its laws vielated vohalt of aliens for this Govern- o are here trying t and who are in leagu rovoluLonists through- whether they contrib use’ or throw bombs for t believe that ows what sort of t By hundreds vf aliens, taken for on the lines at ten o’clock to-night. INTERBORO MEN DEMAND RAISE, Committee Calls on President Hedley This Afternoon! to Ask Increase in Pay, Interborough Rapid Transit employees, through their Hxecutive Committee, de- cided to make « formal demand for an {ncrease in wages on President Frank Hedity of the Interborough this after- noon. a At the close of the conmmittee’s ses- sion the men who direct the brother- hood affairs, headed by P. J. Connolly, Acting President of the brotherhood and Chairmon of the Executive Committee, will visit Mr. Hedley's office and poasi- bly deliver an ultimatum, it was said, ali iy =e nO FIVE GENT CONEY FARES IN EFFECT NEXT SATURDAY Formal Order, Mar Marks Victory In Long Fight of The Evening World. "The formal order for the operation of all B, R. T. Wines from all parts of New York City to Coney Island for a five-cent fare to begin one minute after midnight Saturday morning, May 1, was \ssued to-day by Transit Construction Commissioner John H. Holiday makers Saturday and Sunday will have the privilege for which The Evening World has fought for fourteen years In the Leg- islature, at the City Hall and before the Rapid Transit Commission, Beginning Saturday morning traine will run through to Coney Island by way of the West and Culver lines, New schedules will be filed by Brooklyn Rapid Transit officials with the Public Service Commission and directions will be given to suspend the collection of a second fure on all of the Coney Island lines at midnight on Friday, The automatic signal de- vices between the Van Siclen Station of the Culver Line, which is located at and the ble Coney Island Terminal have not yet been completed, but jeneral Manager Menden of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit System an- nounced to-day that they will be Delaney. deportation under the law against allen anarchists, have been turned ioove,” sald Representative Hoch, ready for service not later than Fri- day night. ' End, Sea Beach,’ Neptune and Gravesend Avenues, | STATEN ISLAND CAR TIE-UP AS SET FOR 10 TO-NiatT; CTY TO RUN MORE BUSES. Whalen Will Arrange Another Con- ference To-Day to Avert Trolley Strike—Company Refuses, Pay Demands on Plea of Lack of Funds While Grover Whalen is preparing to meet the strike on the Staten Istand trolley system with fifty’ municipal busés besides those already ‘operating, the employees of the Richmond’ Light and Railway Com- pany this aftemmoon went forward with their plans for a general walkout } Early this afternoon union leaders denied that the company ficials had made overtures of peace... They declared that whereas R, L. Rand, Vice President of the company, said the company was willing and able to pay a five cents per hour imcrease, W. A. Huntington, Presi- dem had flatly denied this and said the compahy could not afford a penny raise. of- ‘This statement of Huntington, made, the union men say, ot o mest~ ing in his office, No. 60 Wall Gtreet, yesterday afternoon, puts an end te any hop of compromise or arbitra- tion. \ Whalen said this afternoon that he hoped to have a meeting some time ‘before ‘the hour set for the walk- out with representatives of the tom- pany in an effort to settle the dim-~ culty and avert the strike. j The trolley strike will force be- tween 10,000 and 13,000 persons to walk 9 steam line stations. All except four of the 300 motermen, conductors, inapectprs, tinemen and car barn me- chanics of the Richmond Light é& Railway Company, at the meeting in New Brighton, voted in favor of the walkout, ‘The action followod the report of the Committee of Four which went to Manhattan to advise with Mayor Hylan yesterday to propose that there be an Apbitration Committeo of two men selected by the trolleymen, two selected by the company and ane selected by the Mayor. tee was referred by the Mayor to Grover Whalen, who went with them . to the office of President Huntington, Huntington told them, they reported, that a decision by an Arbitration Committee would avail nothing be-+ cause it Involved an increased wage rate and the company was unable to raise the money at a 6-cent fare and must suspend operation, anyway. Tho day workers voted for the strike at midnight, The night workers then met and reached the same decision atv A.M. Many of the men’ wanted’ to go out immediately, but were persuaded to wait until to-night, in otder tifkt the Public have ample notice and that, word might be sent to the interna- tional officers of the Amalgamated Street Railway Workers at Wash- ington, A delegate from the workers in the power plant of the company in- timated the power men would strike in sympathy. This would leave the island in darkness, as well as without trolley service. The Midland lines shut: down in January bécause, the officials said, they’ could not make operating ex- penses under the rates of fares, Tho city hag considered operating the lines, but has made little headway. Officials of the Richmond Company aid to-day they were making no plans to run the cars if the men walk out, The Staten Island Rapid Transit Company, with the aid of volunteers, has restored its service to normal, but lack of trolleys will force many commuters to walk miles #0 the steam ‘The commit