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“Circulation Books Open to to All”? : ee VOL. LX. NO: 21,425—DAILY. Co) righty 1920, by Tho Press Pubilehing v (The New York World). NEW, YORK, Aafialatiadi idee MAY 5, 1920. ES ET, ‘2% * Bvening World interview that the WHY CLOTHING PRICES ARE HIGH HEAD OF WOOLEN COMPANY INAST69 SU i Net Prods ta Sx Years) ' Total $59,652,127 on $60,- ; 000,000 Capital. DEPENDS HIS COMPANY. ‘Disputes Wanamaker’s State- ment That Manufacturers Are ' ta Blame for High Prices. By Martin Green. (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World) BOSTON, May 6—In ‘so far as bis ewn corporation is concerned William “.M, Wood, President of the American Wooten Co. which has accumulated im the past six years net profits of 9989.652,127 on a total capitalization of $60,000,000, soon to be increased to %$100,000,000 disagrees with " Jotin “Wanamaker's assertion in yeaterday’ 8 ‘public ts justified in putting the “onus of the present high prices on), fhe manufacturer. Mr. Wood carn- “ety seserte that the profit of his ‘company on the cloth that goes into @ suit of clothes is so small that tt 'onnnot honestly figure as an element ‘ot appreciable inctease in the price paid for the suit by the wearer. *“{ don't know what profits are made | by the manufacturers of idlothes or by those who sell clothes,” jsald. Mr, Wood to-day. “I make and well cloth and I maintain that our jmargin of profit on cloth is. 80 ‘meagre that it cannot have any out-! tanding effect on the price of the ‘muit, ‘CLOTH ONLY MINOR “COST OF SUIT. “Let me repeat, what I have said! many times recently. Our average| profit on the amount of cloth that goes into a suit of clothes—from three to three and three quarter yards— fs 7 cents. You buy that sult of clothes for $60 and $59.26 of that ‘goes into the goods and into the la- bor and profits of others than the ‘American Woolen Co. Suppose we made no profit, would the man you buy the eult from cut the price to 989.257 * “The cloth that goes into a suit of (glothes is a minor item. Let me give you an illustration. “Phe ‘best cloth we manufacture “pells for about $10 a yard. A New Work tailor buys a supply of that «loth from, us. In the $10 a yard 1s} fAncluded ali our expenses and our it. © “You go to that tailor and order ™® suit off the bolt of cloth he bought from uy. It will require three and a shalf yards to make a sult. The in- yéstment of the‘tailor in the cloth—I fam now assuming that he bought di- Yrectly from us and paid no profit to gonad or wholesaler—is just $36. “But he will charge you $165 for “the suit. He buys goods for $10 a Jyard and sells it as a manufactured ITEM IN, ie , (Continued on Fourth Page.) INSISTS HE GETS ONLY $35 IT, 750. PROFIT IS THIS PROFITEERING? U. S..RESERVE BOARD EARNS $126,000,000 More Than Doubles Barnings That Have Averaged $53,000,000 for Last Three Years. WASHINGTON, Ma~ 6. YC ARNINGS of the Federal f(a Reserve Board for 1920 will be in excess of $126,000,000, Gov. Harding to-day told the House Rules committee. This compares with an average of $53,000,000 fdr the last three Che year’s earnings, Goy. Hard- ing said, would exceed by $10,060,000 , those of last year, which he said represented a return to 110 per cent. on capital stock. edhe ea SHOE FIRM GIVES 7 P.C. CASH DIVIDEND, LADY NANCY ASTOR “ATTACKED, HIDING AMERICAN DIVORCE Collusion. Is Also Charged Against Her in Separation from Robert Gould Shaw CALLS SELF “WIDOW? Assailed for Fight on Easier * Divorce Laws in England by Parliament*Member. LONDON, May 5.—Lady Nancy As- tor was loudly cheered late this after- noon when she entered the House of Commons, Teh reception came after a bitter attack on the first woman member of Parliament by Horatio Bottomley, in his publication, John Bull. Lady Nancy took & seat a short dis- tance from the editor, who also is @ member of Parliament. Bottomley, in a full page editorial, characterized Lady Nancy as a hypo- crite for her speech during the reeent divorce law deliate, in which she op- posed making divorce easter. The editor said the Vicountess had taken advantage of the same law which she now opposes by “a collu- "331-3 P. C. IN STOCK )|sive divorce trom Robert Gould mon Stock by $2,100,000 for Benefit of Its Stockholders. ST. LOUIS, May .5.—The Brown Shoe Company has declared a com- “| mon stock dividend of 331-3 per cent., increasing its common $6,300,000 to $8,400,000, nounced to-day, ; This, it was said} is the first such dividend declared by the company |eince it was reorganized in 1913, The regular quarterly cash dividend at tye annual rate of 7 per cent. on the 63,000 yhares of common stock a180 was dectared, ARRESTS. CLEAR UP stock from it was an- THEFT OF $210,000 Part of Loot Recovered After Wall Street Robbery of Securities, By the arrest this afternoon of a man.whose identity Assistant District Attorney John T. Dooling refuses to divulge, the robbery of $210,000 worth ot gilt edge seouritics from Hawley & tieglitz, No, 30 Broad Street, has been cleared up, according to the at- | torney. On Fob. 4 last $80,000 worth of securities were stolen and two days later $130,000 worth disappeared. For the second robbery Mr, Dooling sas that Atbert L, Grossman, Joseph O'Donnell and August Hillbrecht are under arrest, The men his disposed of 500 shares of Corn Products and 400 shares of International Mercantile Marine stocks, Nearly all the ‘rest of the stolen securities were disposed og in Reading. Mr, Dooling said he received yesterday through the mail 1,000 shares in one certificate of U. 8. Rubber Company stock which was in- cluded in the robbery, Classified Aduerticers Important} fled advertising copy for Tho ay World should bo in Tho office ‘On or Before Friday Preceding Publication Rar wh y advertising has to - Se rae Lee THE WORLD receives the praference STARCHED COLLAR AND SHIRT STRIKE ON IN CHICAGO, CHICAGO, May 6 TWERTY day strike of every man in Chicago was due to go into effect toe day. It was starched col by John W. uhe strike and sh againat ts, callod Chaynpion, Executive Secretary of the Red Cross, George D. Fairchild and Alder- man Edward Armitage | we fine GOOD Di Shai ‘The attack created a sensation in the House of Commons and in Lon- don sogiety. Bottomley intimated that Lady Nancy had falsified her record’ ip Burkes's Peerages and Who's Who, where she is entered as widow of Robert Gould Shaw. Bottomley, sald Shaw was alive and living at a club in New York, ‘There haswbeen no secret on this side of the Atjantic about the divorce, Many newspaper biographies have published the facts. Nancy Langhorne married Robert Goujd Shaw, 24, in the fall of 1897 at her ‘birthplace, Mirader, Va., and it was soon after the birth of her son, Robert Gould Shaw, 8d, that she loft her husband and went back home. She obtained a divorce under the Vir- ginia law on Feb, 4, 1903, on the ground of desertion, and the custody of the child was awarded to her. It is true that the latest editions of the Britfsh Who's Who and the ‘| Peerage, make no mention of the di- vorce and describe her as a “widow. pblebiijuaes-“wabliunata SLUSH FUND CASES_ ARE TRANSFERRED Action to Hasten Trials of Those Charged With Conspiracy in Mitchel, Campaign. Supreme Court Richard T. Lydon this morning transferred from the Criminal Branch of the Supreme Court to the Court of General Ses- sions the indictments against William Hamlin Childs, former Gov. William Sulzer and former State Senator Jo- Mah T. Newcomb, all charged with conspiracy in connection with the al- leged slush fund said to have been rateed for the purpose of re-electing former Mayor Mitchel. The order was issued on the applica- on of District Attorney Swann, who sald the Criminal Branch of the Su- pri Court is so clogged with anar. chy cases that the trial of Childs, wer and Newcomb, who wore May 8, Id be Indotin mevd that’ a de to have the tri Justice Sul- indicted ¥ post request pro ved Childs was ¢ tive Commit Mayor Mitche virman of the ganized to re Execu elect — #AKY BELL-ANS AFTER MEALS and °c TION makes you ‘nal. Agr, THE WORLD TRAVEL BUREAU, | Mexican waters. revolutionary developments. DESTROYER FLEET ORDERED TO RUSH .FROM NEW YORK FOR MEXICAN GUARD DUTY Daniels Directs Warships to Assemble at Once in Key West to Protect Americans - From Revolutionists. WASHINGTON, May 5. ECRETARY DANIELS to-day ordered a division of destroyers, S now at New York with the Atlantic Fleet, to sail immediately for Key West, Fla. where they will be held for soe aban duty in The move is precautjonary and is taken with the idea that it may be necessary to use the war craft to protect Americans endangered by The slips composing the squadron are the Isherwood, Case, Lard- ner, Putnam, Dale, Reid and the tender Blackhawk. Capt. B, A. Long of the Blackhawk, sentor officer of the squadron, ccnferred®last night with Secretary Daniels. and Admiral Bullard, Chiet of Naval Operations, He was told to proceed to Key West with all possible speed and hold the ships in readiness for further dere The Secretary said to-day that Captain Long had been given full instructions as to the policy to be pursued in the event it becomes necessary to. send the destroyers to Mexican waters. The vessels should reach Key West by to-morrow night or Friday, and the run from: there to Tampico or Vera Cruz would be a matter of only a ‘few hours. At the State Department to-day tt was said that reports thus far received had not indicated that'the lives of any Ameriean citizens had been endangered anywhere in Mexico as a result of the revolution. The tender Black Hawk and six destroyers anchored in the Hudson River. sailed at 2 P. M. for Key West for possible duty in Mexican waters. LADY NANCY ASTOR, WHO IS ATTACKED FOR HER DIVORCE GIRL HURT IN IN COURT BY BURSTING BULB Judge Averts Panic When “L” Vibration § Shakes Down Electric Globe: As Mrs. Lillian Alperin, No. 226 High Street, Brooklyn, was standing in the.Adama Street Court, this morn ing, waiting to ‘be called as a witnen: before Magistrate Daly, she clasped the hand of her three-year-old daugh. ter, Helen, The court room shook ar an elevated train rumbled by! An electric globe shaken from its, place by the vibration, fell’ near the baby girl, exploded and sent a sliver of fly ing glass which cut a gash in Helen's forehead. Mrs, Alperin screamed, and’ th court crowd ybegan to stamped Magistrate Daly took charge, “4 the crowd, and carried the baby to an adjoining room wher bound up the ew from the her and she n her heag. Later a doct Klyn Hospital treated went home with —- Turkish Dandt oaslae. “| May 5, (Assb- ciated B.-A bandit chiettan named Abrahim has been arre! at with the murder Frank Johnson, ayer of Ameri-| | THIRD PARTY SURE, WASHINGTON VW OF PRIMARY VOTE Bolt of Radicals Ex Expected Un- less Johnson ‘Is .Nominated by Republican Convention. By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Eve- ning World.) WASHINGTON, May 5 (Copyrigitt, 1920),—-Both Republicans and Demo- crats whose influence in spective parties is controlling and whose political judgment is usually accurate now are convinced that @ third party ts inevitable, Primary results in California, where Senator Hiram Johnson has defeated Herbert Hoovér, have accentuated the lines of political strength as the time for the two big conventions ap- proaches. Republican Senators friend- fy to Senator Johnson concede that he cannot be nominated at Chicago. ‘They say he is not rally radical, but behind him are groups of voters whose support’ of the Republican ticket is not so much based upon @ conversion to Republican doctrines as {t is upon personal fondness for Hi- ram Johnson. To permit Johnson to be nominated would insure the dom-! ination of these elements, something which the conservative leaders of the Republican Party do not welcome, Hut. to fall to nominate Johnson means a possible defection and a third party, The Califormia Senator him- self may be persuaded t6 remain loyal to the party but his followl ¢ will not stay. It's Johnson or nothit g with them, And preparations already are under way for a third party com- posed of some of the elements which broke away in 1912 and formed the (Continued on Second Page.) Foe Wa) ard of Itt WASHINGTON The “Pate om and Wearem Ch inwugur tn Birmingham, rat the high cost of clothing, waa Indoraed to-day py Howard Figg, Special Assistant to the Attorney General in charge he Gov ernment’s cost of living campaign >—— RESIDENTIAL DARK HORSES, Inc uded thelr re-! SNOT NSTI DUEL WITH PLE SHOOTS BYSTANDER Dozen Shots Fired in. Chase After Dummy Hurled Out Window Reveals Holdup. TWO MEN CAPTURED. ‘Tailor Attacked in Bronx by Robbers, Who Flee Over : Roofs. A life-size wax figure dressed in the best suit of clothes that they make in Nat Berler’s “walk-up-one- Avenue, the Bronx, came smashing through the show window at noon ing its neck and horribly twisting its wire and excelsior anatomy. ; This was within a step or so in full view of thousands of men and women at 149th Street,and $d Avenue, Some shouted murder and others sul- ‘elde. But this is what happened; Julius Bergman, sixty-two years ‘old, was in charge of the selling room of the tallor shop when three’ men came in and asked for raincoats. As he turned be was attacked by, the three and badly beaten. But Jacob Weiss, the cutter, ran out of the back goin to the” secon’ Scor sh Vaow, caught the dummy by the waist’ and hurled it through the glass to attract help, The three intruders were making for the roof when Patrolman Joseph Devery from the trafic post at the corner reached the second floor land- ing, followed by a score of men, Dev- ery went to the'roof; Two of the men had disappeared, but the third was glimpsed on a roof two buildings away. A bullet from Devory’s pistol jelipped the edge of the roof as the | Tugitive went over, grasping the sides; | of a goose-neck ladder, ignoring tho | rungs and sliding to the ground, Dev- ery slipped down the same way. The men went through a passage tc Bergen Avenue and north to 149th Street, where the whole crowd, some way a thousand or more, joined the chase, Into St. Mary's Park Devery chased his man, and by this time there were other policemen with him, A dozen shots were fired by the police, and the fleeing man turned to fire back. On @ bench were seated three men, one with a hammer. He threw the hammer and struck the face of the fugitive, who styyped and fired two shots deliberately. He did not hit (Continued on Second Page.) INQUIRY ORDERED IN RYAN STOCK SALES) Fear of a “Comer” Is Believed Reason—Replogle Active Despite Recent Depression, The Stock Exchango through ts Committee on Business Conduct, to-day ordered an investigation into dealings on Replogte Steel, one of the mose active issues now. dealt with on the ex- 4 by ofictals yee, but it tx thought that the extraordinary activity of the stock has given rise to apprehension of @ poa- sible “corner,” such ax was said to ex{at in Stutz when trading in that tock wus suspended. Replogle ts reported te! be controlled in part by the ine name |B. Johnson, Jr., was killed by an auto LLS AIT Te EVES PRICE TWO poe BLUEBEARD TELLS \ Watson Asserts Ungovernable Im- pulse Ordered Him to Kill Describes How He Kept Them in was posure he ran?” AUTO OWNER PAYS $20,000 FOR A LIFE Was in the Car With Chauffeur When It Killed Noted Metal- lurgist. The suit of Mrs. Margaret H. Joun- son, against Ernest O, Paca in White Plains, for the death of her husbaud, Was settled to-day for $20,000. Joseph mobile owned by Paca, who was a pass: enger in the car driven by his chauffeur Johnson was walking to the railroad station at Scarsdale, where the Jonn- sons Hved, Mra, Johnson sued for $200,000, Last | February the ease was tried in the Supreme Court and the jury disagreed, The second trial was to have tuken piace this week, Johnson Was a noted mefallurgist, ang earned a large salary. Pacs was an agent of the German Government when the war broke out. PRISON SENTENCES FOR SPEEDERS NOW Second Offenders at Over 30 Miles an Hour Will Not Have Option of Fine. Magistrate Frederick B, House in Trattic Court to-day declared he would send second Traffic Law of- fenders to Jail without the option of « fine Samuel H, Dailey, twenty years old, of North Street, White Plains, served with a summons by Patrolman James Gunhetr, who declared Dailey had etceeded the limit over Madison Ave- nue, between 127th and 130th Street yesterday, and whv pleaded guilty as a second offender, was sent to the Workhouse for ten days. “L advise all speeders to read the » proclamation, for I em de- termined to send all second offenders at over 30 miles an hour to Jail," thé Magistrate sald MUST KEEP TRADE $ SECRETS. teresta which dominate the Stute Motor! vermer Employer Restraned From Company. calling Procenen Used. 41 members of the Exchange save | Gourk Juslee Lantee i been requested to submit to the mere- |p Supt SHAE! bs Se et ee tthe Peere= | trockyn waned an ndunction to-day ree Beet ie tthe atc ete uit] atraining’ Adam Dium trom revealin 19 and. Pay 4, inclusive. Dispite oi jananufacturing secrets which he lear general market decline, Repolye uaal | steadily gone bigher, In the last woel: } it udvanced over ten points. while in the employ of the Arabel Man ufacturing Company, No, 56 Nostrand Avenue, makers of paste and glue, ‘The company alleged that Blum and another man threatened to atart a ne piunt and wreck the business of the Arabel unless they were permitted to interest. buy ® controlling Ignorance of His True Charactem, | be “ere ‘ (Special Despatch to The Evening World.) LOS ANGELES, Cal, May 5.—Walter Andrew Watson, or uml P Watson, as he now calls himself, the self confessed bigamist Aight” tailor shop at No. 582 Willis] wife murderer, who has admitted slaying five of his twenty-three o more wives, one of whom (Nina Le Deloney), whose body has to-day and landed head first in the|fourld and whom he: says he may have buried alive after stuining street, ruining its derby hat, break-jher with a blow on the head, is out with q remarkable statement to public in which Ke pleads for mercy on the plea that he committed crimes while insane, He also asks,that he be placed apne Ne ee “cured” and made a normal man again, The statement, given out through his attorney, J. Morgan duke, revigws the salient points of his career as @ bigamist and “is it even reasonable to think my acts are the work of a sane man in a. position to control himself or to understand the tisk of e ‘This appeal, according to his Pros torney, ls Watson's “uncoached, vets batim statement, written in hand by himseif.” Init the bigame women, of having had three wives * once in San Fran¢isco, three at ones tm Vancouver and three at once ie of being seen with them in public afd: of having kept constantly tn bis poss session papers of the most inérimi. previous statement that he was mi mistreated when a child, and furt declared he now bas mental | physica) ailments that make him responsible, and that he suffers delusions. ‘By James P. Wateon, “We have often been told the Inw 1s not to revenge, but to cure—if @ thing can be done,” be goes ‘ “Unfortunately the public for revenge in many cases—not considering or wanting to consider * the other #id>.” “First of all, everything. I have argued with my» self for several years trying to mastee an ungovernable desire to do. the thin 1 have done, but something too strong for me to overcome told me to go ahead. Often I would ponder why * I did these things and say | must go nd ask to be put in an asylum apd re) it L could be cured. Then some thing would say ‘do no: do that, out go on and on.’ ‘In the ordinary things of life 1 am tender-hearted and easily moved td tears at the sight of sadness or dise tress and ever ready to help relieve such conditions. While | have had this uggovernable desire to do what 1 have, L, ut the same time, wanted {0 see people and the world made bette. and worked as best I could to that end. While | could see aod une derstand acts of other parties as be~ ing awful, 1 could pet und why I did not ace my’ position Cig: saine. “I would pass up an opportunity © where I could no doubt get a large sum, yes, enough to take care of me for years, and take some one with aotbing to speak of. More than that, ake some one who did not even have aice clothes, and 1 would dress thom. ap. Aguln, take some one with m: and in a day buy them a tiexes for # 1,600-mile trip and make no efforts ta eo the party again, the same pore oclng much older than myself and possession of # nice bank a Then, again, think of me taking some fet-murderer speaks of having passed ite Up opportunities to get money’ from Seattle, and having run great riske « nating sort, He also reviewed his there ts a cause for ° a E <4 eet ta ee pe ne eee