The evening world. Newspaper, April 28, 1920, Page 3

SHON RED > WAN OLIN 0 FFT AVENUE Machine Hits Police Tower and Then Smashes Into An- other Car. , VICTIM LOSES AN EYE. Chauffeur Disappears After Accident—Is Being Sought by Officers. A taxicab, southbound in Fifth Avenue, afruck the police signal tower at 50th Street at 2.10 A. M. to-day, and was rebounded with great force into a northbound taxi- ewb, both being wrecked: Policeman Martin J. Mitchell of the East Sist Street Station found three injured women in the wreck- age. In the southbound taxi was Miss Dorothy Johnston, twenty-eight years old, who described herself as a bookkeeper, on her way from a party to her home, No. 2 East 12th Street, She has a laceration of the scalp and other minor injuries. Her escort left without giving his name, and the chauffeur disappeared during the excitement. The windshield and a glass door were domolished on the northbound taxicab. A woman describing her- | self as Mrs. Florence Courtney, twen- ty-four, wife of a broker, had a gash cut from forehead to chin by the| broken glass, and the sight of the left eye is destroyed. Her companion described herself as Miss Florence Harcourt, twenty-five, a steno; rapber, both living at the King James Hotel, No. 135 West 45th Street. ‘They said they were on their way to the Ashton Hotel, 93d Street and Madison Avenue, to get some baggage belong- ing to’ Mrs. Courtney, who refused to give reporters her husband's name. The three women were taken to Flower Hospital, where surgeons found that Mrs. Courtney's left eye- ball was cut almost in half. The driver of the northbound taxi- cab, Joseph King of No. 843 West 179th Street, escaped injury. The po- lice say the southbound taxicab, which struck the signal tower, be- longs to Jacob Hardtfielder, No. 127 Manhattan Avenue, and they expect to learn from him to-day the name of the missing chauffeur. , At the King James Hotel this morn- ing ét was said that no one is reg- istered there under the name of Har- court or Courtney, and that nothing is known of the two injured women. Sedge FERRYBOAT HITS PIER; SCORE HURT Steering Gear of Lackawanna Out of Order and Craft Bumps Hoboken Dock. Four passengers were hurt and a! score of others badly shaken up early to-day when the Lackawanna ferryboat Lackawanna crashed into her ferry slip in Hoboken. Part of the landing gang- way and the bow of the ferryboat were { smashed in, but otherwise the craft was not disabled. ‘The injured, who were treated at the ferry emergency hospital by Dr. Wil- Ham J, Arlitz, surgeon of the company, able to continue to thelr destina- | ‘The reverse: gear of the ferryboat failed to work as the boat reached the 9 lel ie aa So ALL-DAY SERVICE IN TUBES. ‘Trains to Rup Through to Newark Until 7 at Night. Service to Newark in the Hudson ‘Tubes resumed for a few hours yester- day afternoon for the first time since the beginning of the outlaw railroad strike, was started again at 7 A. M to-day. For the present it was an- nounced trains would not run later than 7P. M. Squads of policemen were at all Hud- son tube exits in Jersey City this afte noon to collect th efare protest slips from passengers as they return from New York. The slips were distributed by policemen this morning. Corpor: tion Counsel John Dudley issued statement to-day saying the tubes com- pany more than cleared its expenses on | the old fares and if the returns on its real estate were counted it could pay interest_on its bonded indebtedness. ‘The Newark railroad workers who | jost their jobs in the outlaw strike have arranged & parade for to-night, followed by a meeting at the South Side High School. Curran Praises Industrial Court Law. 7 PITTSBURG, Kan., April 28.—“The 1 Industria! Court Law is the most forward looking piece of legislation that has been enacted in the history of the State, in my personal opinion,” Judge i Judge A. J. Curran said at the hearing of the application of the 4 State for a temporary injunction! against 250 miners’ union officials to | prevent the calling of @ coal strike in Kansas. $463,000,000 FOR NAVY. Senate W Pass Hage A tion Measure To-Day. WASHINGTON, — April leaders hoped to pass the $463,000,000 navy bill to-day. Few amendments re- mained to be considered, In addition to a naval base on San Francisco bay, the Pacific coast gets a snubmarine base at Los Angeles and another at Port Angeles, Wash. Pearl| Havbor, Hawall also was given ad- | will | has | the Cramp ship yard Trish La | | | | IRS GONNE M<eRIDE BRITISH RELEASE HUNGER STRIKERS Six Sent to Hospital From Worm- wood Scrubbs Prison in Ireland —Clashes ‘Wit Troops. LONDON, April 28.—Following exten- sive demonstrations by Irish sympa thizers outside Wormwood Scrubbs Jail, six prisoners who had collapsed from their week's hunger strike were re- leased jast night and taken to hospitals. Irish sympathizers made a new dem- onstration in front of the jail last night during a rain storm. Stones were thrown, and for a time the situation looked ugly, but Sinn Fein leaders were able to restrain their follower: Glasgow despatches said the police broke up an Irish demonstration there jast night, charging the crowd with clubs. Several were arrested. At Arklow, Ireland, Sinn Feiners clashed with the military. Philip Dow- ling was killed aad several persons were wounded when soldiers fired. The day before the release of the Sinn Fein leaders from the Mountjoy prison in Dublin, large “numbers of {rish laborers paraded in sympathy for the prisoners, who were on hunger strike and in danger of dying. The large photograph shows the laborers, Show Sympathy For ‘Sinn Fein Leaders on Hunger Strike Say we MOwRWoeD “ane UnEenmcsee ERs who had deereed a holiday of their own, padsing through the streets of Dublin. ‘The smafler photograph shows Mrs. Maude Gonne McBride, the famous Irish woman leader, a widow of Capt. McBride, who was shot in the Easter revolution of 1916, GAS CO. VALUATION $46,000 100 HGH, ITY ASSERTS O’Brien Answers Report 'Hold- ing 80-Cent Law Is Con- » fiscatory. Corporation counsel John P. O’Brien filed with Federal Judge Julius M. Mayer to-day objections to the report of Special Master Abraham S, Gilbert who held that the e ighty-cent gas law is iconfiscatory. O'Brien, on behalf of the City of One hundred and forty-five Sinn Fein prisoners in Belfast Jail declared | a hunger strike when the Governor re- | fused their demand for release. A delegation from Irish _ societies catied on the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, threatening a general strike in the port and industries, unless the . Wormwood Scrubbs prisoners—numbering — more than 175—were sall released within 48 hours, Similar dction was reported con- templated in other ports. a ae ee PLOT TO INTIMIDATE BOARD CHARGED Enginemen’s Head Sees Effort, to Force Rejection of Wage Advani WASHINGTON, April 28.—An ent conspiracy, exists to intimid Railroad Labor Board into der wage increases for railroad ying workers, W. 8. Carter, President of the Brother- hood of Locomotive Firemen and En- ginement, declared to-day at hearings before the board. “From the beginning,” said Carter, “the press has been full of the idea that to raise the pay‘of railroad men necessitate an immediate further increase in the cost of living. There been so much of this that it amounts to a conspiracy, if it is not actually that, and I protest that it shall not be permitted to render abor- tive our efforts to secure for the men, womn and children we represent the relief that has been denied them for ten long months. Mr. Carter declared that increased wages paid rallroud employe had been almost imperceptible in ttheir ef- fet on prices. INVESTIGATE LOBBY OF DRY LEAGUE Anderson’s Assistants Charged With Failure to Report Expenditures to Secretary of State. ALBANY, April 28.—An investigation of the Anti-Saloon League has been started by District Attorney Timothy RB. Roland of Afbany County, Evidence thas been furnished him by Assemblyman Louis A. Cuvillier of New York, who charges that Robert Davey and Adella Potter, registered tdbbyists for the League, failed to Me any statement of their expenses with the Secretary of State as required by law. It is said if conviction w charges, fines aggregating be imposed. had on the 0,000 could FOR $100,000 PARSONAGE. Reetor’s Dwell aunts Church, Plana have been filed with the Man- hattan Bureau of Buildings for the erection of a five story dwelling for the Rev, Ernest M. Stires, Rector of St. ‘Thomas's Church, at No. 3 West 534 Street. It will ‘have a frontage of twenty-five feet and a depth of eighty feet. “The vestryman, church wardens and the rector ‘are owners of record. H_will cost $100,000. Plans also were flied for making over the three-story dwelling house at No, 227 Widridge Attest inte a nursery, for jursi by the Day ery of the Independent Progreswive Ladies of Odessa. It will cost’ about $6,000. oe Se al Unlted States Destroyer Simpson New York, Wilbur W. Chambers, representing the Attorney General, and.Col William Hayward, as spec- ial counsel for the Public «Service Commission, join in disregarding with the report of the Special Master. The objectors contend that the) HE A. Consilidated Gas Co, has been over- valued by Mr, Gilbert to the extent of $46,000,000. ‘They deciare the uation should not be more than $28,000,000 and advance these grounds: The $5,000,000 valuation on the As- toria tunnel should not be included because the tunnel is a separate en- terprise. The $7,000,000 franchise value should be excluded as the courts have held that franchises should not be in- cluded in rate litigations. The $17,000,000 book value of the Astoria plant should be excluded for | the reason that it is a separate insti- tution and sells gas to the Consoli- dated. ‘The $2,000,000 prospective cost of a new gas making unit at Astoria should also be excluded. ‘The $8,000,000 claimed as valuation of the 42d Street and 1th Street plants should be excluded as both have outlived their usefulness. ‘The Corporation Counsel holds that Gilbert erred in making no allowance for depreciation of the plant. He says $6,000,000 should ‘be eliminated for that reason The working capital allowed Gil- b O'Brien says, is excessive by $2,500,000, for the reason that the com- pany been using $430,000 of the consumers’ Money, which has been impounded. As to Gilbert's report that the com- pany has complied with the law deal- ing with standard candle power and pressure, Mr. O'rien Bypoints out that from 1916 to 1919 there were filed the company 4,8M charges of O'Brien con- eturn of over 8 over 6 per jus Company shows a tends $45,513 which he says cent — STRATON’S CHURCH GETS $45,000 LOAN Mortgages Property to Pay Notes Held by Trust Com- pany Calvary Baptist Chureh, of which the Rev. Dr. John Roach Straton tor, to-day obtained pi Supreme Court Justice John is pas- from Me- nission Vv Avoy to mortgage its property at 3 325, 327 and 429 West 33rd Street for $4,000. The church, through its attorney, T. Raymond St. John, deloored: ‘Your petitioner is indebted to the Farmers Loan & Trust Go. for money borrowed Jaunched With Wine. PHILADELPHIA, April 28.—The de- stroyer Simpson was launched to-day at It was christened e by Miss Caroline Simp- with champagn: ‘fon, Klzabeth. N. J. daughter of Rear ditional appropriations, ie iral Edward Si 1 ‘th Adm! ‘impson or whom the ast ala from time to time with which to pay current expapses. ‘MM ye evidenced by notes at nt tim) aeerent $37,000. Farmers Loat & Trust Co. a demand onthe | chure! said toans be liquidated at th sible date; but your pe pe e to raise sufficient funds for such purpose without mo the tioned real property.” des the property to be mortgaged, the church owns its buildings on West Sith Street, near Sixth Avenue, w INTER-CHURCH FUND WORKERS JUBILANT Third Day Yields $422,387, Can- vassers Are Told at Big Luncheon, There was great rejoicing to-day at the luncheon convention of the Inter- Church World Movement at the Hotel McAlpin over the result of the third day of its campaign to raise $366,000,- 000. It was anounced to the 400 can- vassers there that the third day had yielded $422,387, bringing the total sub- scriptions for three days to $3,016,070, something less than a seventh of the amount they have set out to collect, $20,000,000 being the New York quota. ‘The Baptist delegation caused great cheering, by anouncing that John D, Rockefeller jr, had —_- contributed $2,000,000, ‘The detailed amounts of the sum col- lected to-day were: By the Executive Committee of the Inter-Church World Movement, $125,000; Baptist delegation, $238,300; Presbyterian, $13,400; Reformed Church of America, $20,000, and the Canvassera General Committee of Greater New York, $25,687. The following pledges have ‘een re- ceived: From Pennsyt New Jersey, $1,011.00 00; Indian 1s, § . $7inb00, RRESTS OWN SON AS BURGLAR New Orleans Detective Surprised When He Identifies Prisoner. NEW ORLEANS, April 28.—Zorcastre Hyver, a private detective, lying in wait for suspected robbers late last night arrested an intruder, and when the lights were turned on discovered it was his own son, The father paid no heed to his son's pleas for mercy and the youth was taken to jail. Four times in the past few weeks the place was entered and robbed. About $50 in cash had been taken from the safe and $25 worth of gold pencils and fountain pens were stolen, Young Hyver at first denied his guilt, but later made a complete fession, the police say, and admitted he had entered the place on five occa- sions. Utah, COLLAR AND SHIRT BOYCOTT URGED La Guardia, Wearing Olive Drab and Black Tie, Asks All Soldiers to Do the Same. Aldermanic President La Guardia, who wae a Major in the aviation ser- vice during the war, to-day appealed to the 4,000,000 former soldiers in this country to beat the collar and shirt trusts by going on a ninety-day strike, and to pledge themselves to wear their olive drab service shirts and black string ties and to wash their shirts as they did while they were fighting “Are the 4,000,000 red thooded Ameri- ans who were ready to lay down their lives for a just cause going to let bunch of profiteers defeat them without a battle?" asked Mr, La dia, “1 don't think so." Lu Guardia is wearing the olive drab shirt and the black tie he wore in the service. He is going to wear them as long as collars are 30 cents apiece, as long a cotton shirts which used to cost a few dollars wow are worth more than the pre-war silk shirts “Not omy 1 gone service shirt, but I have f buy- ing good clothes for the time’being. I'm wearing mY old suit and will contin. to wear it as long as it holds together ~— have back to my Italian Liner Permission to dock videre of the Italian Li the ste: » from Naples and Genoa, at Pier 6, Bush Terminal Was refused at Quarantine to-day. A case of smallpox had been discovered in the steerage, where there were persons. Those ‘exposed wert to be taken to Hoffman Island for ob servation, The 15 first and 147 second cuttin passengers were lobe yaceing tod The ship js detained at Quarantine for fumigation. Ss Two U.S. Ships Are Launched. PHILADELPHIA, April 2 ne craft tender Wright and the rier Lorraine Cross took the Gay in a double laun Mrs. R. M. Comfort wa at Hog Island. Washington is valued at $ D0, property at 12, 114 and 116 Bleeker Street eash in the Ibank~ amounting $1,750.44. ‘and to named for the s to be sponsor for the Wrig jate Wilbur Wrigh “mother ship’ for the was navy's airship on RONY GRAND JURY ~TOTAKE UP RENT STRKE THREATS Hilly to Be Subpoenaed In Connection With Charges In | Which He Accuses Woman, District Bronx, Attorney Hartin of the announced to-day that a subpoena would be issued for Arthur J. Hilly, Chairman of the Mayor's Committees on Rent Profiteering, to appear before the Grand Jury Friday to give information he may have in connection with a rent strike or the formation of Soviets in apartment houses in the Bronx, “Tam going to go the limit in this matter,” said Mr. Martin, “If Mr. Hilly has any thing we want to know about. it. This is a serious matter and no effort will be spared to get! to the ‘bottom of it.” \ Hilly had given the names of two well known Socialist agitators, one of them a woman, The man he said had once been defeated for office and the woman's name has been in the public prints in connection with her Socialist | activities. “I have read with some surprise,” Mr. Hilly continued, “newspaper re- ports that the Bronx authorities know nothing of a+ threatened reny/ strike. Unquestionably there is going to be trouble there on May 1. My information is that the agitators have lined up about 10,000 tenants in 1,000 different buildings, There may be more in the movement. “Some of the tenants have been well organi#ed, They plan to strike by not paying rent and refusing to move out. They are going to make life miserable for tenants who move or pay rent, and also for those who may move into any of the 1,000 buildings. “I want to issue a formal warning to tenants who are giving up $2 to| these agitators on promises that their cases will be taken care of. There | no necessity for paying any one any- thing. We intend to aid the tenants, and also the landlords in settling their disputes.” Following a conference between Frank J. Seid, representing the De- partment of Justice, and Jeremiah Murphy, representing Deputy Com-| missioner William J. Lakey, with} Arthur Hilly, Chairman of the May- or’s Committee on Rent Profiteering, this morning, it was announced th the Federal agents and police repre- sentatives would confer with the men said iby Hilly to be fostering the Bronx rent strike. Eviction proceedings brought by the Elvira Realty Company, Inc. against John Casey, a tenant, of No. 351 Kast 61st Street, came to-day be- fore Justice Lauer. Isabel Weiss, ‘Treasurer of the corporation, stated that she had with an ‘agreement Casey for the payment of $1 per month, beginning April 1. Casey stated for the month of March he had paid $42 and refused to pay the In- creased rental, on the ground that it was more than @ 26 per cent. in- crease. | +The landlord's agent said that under the old rentals there was but a 41-2 per cent, return pn the money invested, which insufficient in- come; that the increase was reces- | sary to offset and repair damages) caused by the malicious destruction of property by the tenants, and that | the new rental was not more than that of similar premises in the neigh- borhood. Casey testified that the landlord had not repaired the place adequate- ly. Some of the tenants declared that in the last year they had been raised | much as $19 above their old rents, | though the raise in Casey's case was only $9, Half a dozen of the tenants have refused both to pay and move, Justice Lauer ruled that the stat- utes did not permit such proceedings to lie upon any excuse of a landlord for increasing rent beyond 2 per cent. and dismissed the action for want of jurisdiction, When Alfred Holme hty-one years old, a Civil War veteran, was imoned to the Gates Avenue Munic Court to-day by his landlady, whi wanted him ejected by May 1, Justter Straht granted him until June 1, and told him that he would give him ‘mors time then If necessury. Holmes said that he had. be able to find other rooms for b’ his wife, @ eri ple, seventy years old, and h fered to pay the landlady, Mrs, An the rent for May for his present No. 40° Reid Aven: ‘| ie Farther, 1 0 Bullder: | CHICAGO, April 28.—Inflated values of real estate and building materials have cbmpelled some Chicago banks | to shut down on building loans. | “We started to shut down on our} loans six weeks ago,” said Edgar N, | Greenbaum, head of tl building | loan department of Greenbaum & Son, bankers. ye must first digest what we al- ready have, Another factor is the tightness of money and the fact that there are any number of good inveat- ments at 7 per Cent., whereas a bulld- ing loan is worth only § or 5% per cent.” | ¢t Chicage Bankers TR | Charles L. Rattigan, Superintendent | of Prisons, and Lewis Pilcher, State )| Architect, ‘yesterday visited Sing Sing jand decided to build the new death | house on the site of the baseball fleld in the south yard of the prison. The | building, it ‘was said, will cost be | tween $200,000 and $300,000, It will |have forty ‘cells, two for women and | thirty-eight for’ m imher Fares In Rocheste KR, April This city's inst a higher trolley fare 1 last night when Mayor A special message tot Common Council urging that the city valve the }-cent provision of the strect railway franchise and enter into a service-at-cost agreement with the ‘New York State ways. Edgerton sent lie it MURDERED GIRL AT OWN REQUEST, SLAYER CONFESSES Stranglers Said She Asked Him to ‘Kill Her Because She Was “in the Way.” PONTIAC, Mich., April 28.—Anson Best, formerly of Flint, Mich. con- fewsed to-day, according to Prose cutor Gilleapie, that he killed Miss Vera Schneider, eighteen-year-old telaphone operator, whose body was found early Sunday morning on the porch of an unoccupied dwelling. Best was questioned throughout the night and broke down after being identified by a workman as having been seen washing his hands in the Clinton River near the scene of the crime’ a few minutes after its dis- covery. “She asked me to kill her,” Best was quoted as saying. He even de- clared, according to the Prosecutor, that he met Miss Schheider for the first time late Saturday night, The confession gave no other rea- son for the murder than that Mias Schneider begged Best to end her life because ghe was tired of living and was “simply in the way of others.” She even drew the handkerchiefs from his pockets and asked him to tle them together and place them about her neck, Best was quoted as saying. The officers said Best told them that when he complied he at first re- fused to pull the handkerchiefs tight, but she begged him to do so, saying she was ready to die. Later he retraced his steps to the place where the body already had been found’ by officers and when stopped by @ policeman even took a searchlight, went to the porch and looked at the girl's face, Best was released at that time, but was rearrested Monday, pec oes: SAYS HE SAW BARRY BEAT KING TO DEATH Soldier Testifies Army Mecimanic Ac- cused of Murder. Fled After Attacks. ‘The defense in the trial of George W. Barry, mechanic, U. S. Army, charged with the murder of Sergeant Frank H King at Fort Totten, on the night of March 29, 1919, received a heavy set back to-day, when Private Norman Hall, Battery E, 44th Coast Artillery, testified in the United States Dis. trict Court, Brooklyn, that he had seen Barry strike the sleeping sergeant on the head. On the night of the murder, Hall testified he was awakened, and saw a man bending over King, raining blows on the sergeant’s head. “{ shouted, ‘Oh! Cut that out.’ The man rubbed his hand over King's breast, stooped for something, and went out of the room. Hall then told of gettin ‘and taking King to the hospital’ where he ied two days ater. “Who was the man you saw ateiking Attorney Le Roy le.was Mechanic Burry-* said “qT distinguished him by “his $2,500 FOR BLOW .__ BY ELEVATOR BOY King?” asked U. 3. Ross.‘ Damages Assessed Against Realty Company Whose Employee Hit Passenger. A punch dealt on the jaw of Richard Cronin of No, 606 West Li6th Street ‘by a hasty elevator operator resulted to-day in a verdict of $2,600 in Cronin’s favor by a jury in Justice John Ford's part of the Supreme Court. ‘The verdist was against the Cabot Real Estate’ Com- pany © Richard J. Donovan, attorney for Cronin, said that bis client had seven minutes for the ator is a devil of a way to keep walting,” he objec when Hobbs, ‘the elevator appearance heweupon, according to the ator) told the jury, Gerald stepped from hl car and smote Mr. Cronin upon the Jaw. HEALY-REID WEDDING TO-DAY |" Ceremony at St. lowed by Ree: Miss Jeanette Reid, daughter of Mr and Mrs, William J. Reid of No. 3 East | Gth Street, and Augustine Healy, son of the lute Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Healy of » Were married at 4 O'clock this afternoon in the cnapel of St. Burtholo- mew's, Park Avenue and Slat Street, by the Rev. Louls Brown of Indianapolis A reception at the Hotel Plaza follows M, A. Healy was his brother's best man, while Mrs. “James Dunn of Washington and Mrs. Stuyvesant Pea- body attended bride.” ‘The ushe were Columbus Healy, Vincent ni Stafford, Reid, Stuyvesant Peabod junn, Henry P, hicago, Frank fF nuel Meek of Ric! Bartholomew's F. | | Ly, y, Shephat . Va. ne p will wp r honeymoon in the Far Bast an@ upon their return will live in Chicago. —_— — Law to Carb J TRENTON, N. J. April Edwards yesterday signed a bill which iy believed will curb the profiteering landlord, It was introduced by As- semblyman Hansen of Hudson County, and provides that a landlord must give a tenant three months’ no- tice to move, It specifically is aimed io prevent evictions between October | ‘and April . Mis Mr. and Mrs. » Wed. Alexander No. 166 West 87th Street announce th engagement of their daughter, & Frances, to Dr. J. A, Haiman of this ly. A reception will be held at the Alexander home on Sunday, May 16 Dr. Haiman was one of the youngest members of ‘the Medical Corps, f served ax First Lieutenant with the A. |S. ¥. as & surgeon, ceed John F. Galvin, resigned. ‘The salary is $12,000 a year Mr, Gillespie jis a graduate of New York City Public | 8: ind the College of St. Francis Xx c sig is mm bership on the State 7 Chari- boy, @nally put in| { Isham jr. of | CORINNE GERKEN, MOTHER AT 14, WHO WANTS BABY BACK i ON TEA NATIONAL Sister Insists on Adoption of Infant and Courts Will Decide Its * ; Custody. What is to become af the baby son of fourteen-year-old Corinne Gerken, of No, 461 Bast 165th Street, will be determined by the courts and the Bronx Children's Society, although Corinne’s sister, Mrs, John J. Nelson, has insisted upon adopting it and planned to christen the child Vernon Irving Neleon. The father of the baby is Mrs. Nelson's husband, John J. Nelson, a trolley car conductor of No, 1072 ‘Teller Avenuo, the Bronx. It was while Nelson was in the navy last summer that he visited his home while his wife was absent: Corinne's baby was born in the Lying-in Hos- pital in February. For a long time she ibelieved the baby had died but was finally told that it was well and safe with her mother at the latter's home, She now. wants the baby back. STOCK BROKERS ASK FOR “MOVING DAY” Exchange Petitioned by 600 Mem- bers to Make Saturday Next a Holiday. ew York's rent problem has thrust itself/ on the Stock Exchange and threatens to smash all precedent by causing the Exchange to proclaim a “moving day. Six hundred of the 1,100 members of the Exchange to-day signed a petition asking that Saturday be set aside as a holiday—if moving can be classed as a holiday. Congestion in Wall Street has become acute since and during the war period. Brokers found it difficult to quar: ters at all, many of them practically living In the streets, Some have re- ovived notices to give up their present quarters on May Day, among them « group which haa bought No. 62 Broa way, from which they will evict prese! tenants. tae tibial GILLESPIE IN $12,000 JOB. Hylan Names Lawyer Member Water % Board. Mayor Hylan to-day appointed George J. Gilespie, a lawyer, a member of the Board of Water Supply to suc- E # to which he was appointed iby hitma Mr, Gillespie was Commission: xes and Assessments under Mayor Ww. He served ten years in the Board Hducation and is President of the perior Council of the St. Vincent de Ul Socfety for the United States, | Golf Links Opes Saturday, 1 to, open to-day, an Cortlan ham Bay Park Peanut Brittle— palate—they are | Ames Seeks Evidence of Ce came much broader to-day when #l in the Federal Building, cers, the pilots and the terminal em- ployees and the railway men in the | various strikes, : MILLER | “Gelter Chocolates aka Lower Price” CANDIES A feast fit for the most particu- big browned roasted Virginia nuts, cloyed together with a coating of sugar—the ji CALLED INS, lusion Among Differer Unions in Harbor Troubles. The inquiry which the Go is making as to the reasons for recurring strikes which have tied the harbor of New York int tently for the last two years caused enormous financial general managers of the railn affected by the strikes were called ta testify before C. B. Ames, assistant to Attorney General who is conducting the inv: The object is to determine, if sible, whether there existed any lusion between the various organisa= tions, the longshoremen, the Ba. ‘The general managers who, in re- | sponse, were first to appear at the Federal Building were E. A. Ring the Lackawanna; W. J. Fripp of the New York Central Lines; Frederick Leiper of the Pennsylvania, and John — Drogge of the New Haven. T. V. O'Connor, International Preet- dent of the Longshoremen’s Associa- tion, Anthony Chlopeck, its First Vice — President, and five Presidents and Secretaries of locals of the organiza- tion to-day announced that the coast- wise longshoremen, who have been on strike at this port for two mont will not go beck to work untid ce surances have been received from Washington, or elsewhere, that their demands for a wage increase ‘will be granted. ; The statements were made during Mr. Ames’s investigation, +2 Daniel Walsh, R- D, Moody, John Walsh, William D. Smith and Sergt. - Morris Cregan, all longstoremen's of. ficers, were examined and said theit locals ‘had voted to strike solely on account of wages, ‘The coastwise — longshoremen, who are now receiving sixty-five cents per hour, want the | — same pay as the deep sea longshore- men, which is eighty cents per hour, , St nereerian comqnedlinnce Ng a BEATEN, HE SAYS, __ AFTER AUTO CRASH Newark Man Causes Arrest of Brothers, One of Whom He Says Hit Him With Pistol. Following a collision between three automobiles at Jlawthorne Avenue and Asborne Terrace, Newark, late last night, Irwin and Joseph Hirsch? of No. 7 Farley Avenue were arrested, — charged with assault on complaint of Henery Bruckner of’ No. 27 Conklin Avenue. The accident occurred when @ car owned by Joseph G. Spurr, a banker, of No. 600 Mount Prospect Avenue, collided with an automobile in which the Hirsch brothers were riding, and another car, operated by Clayton E. “ Fry of No, 498 South 11th Street. In an argument that followed, Bruckner, who had witnessed the ac- cident, assured Spurr that he would appear as a witness in his be- half in any possible damage sult. Hearing this, Bruckner charges, Bei jamin Hirsch drew a pistol and — struck him on the head with it, in- flicting a deep scalp wound. ; _— \ Gets D. Ss. C. for Bravery and Re- ‘\) enlivts for Navy Aviation, 4 James FE. Shedden of No. 40 West 11th Street, wears the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery under fire | at Thiescourt, France, when he was a marine. To-day he also wears the form of an apprentice seaman in w navy, haying re-enlisted. He will leave for the Great Lakes Station this after- noon to begin sixteen months’ training in aviation mechanics. 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