The evening world. Newspaper, May 8, 1920, Page 1

To- NIGHTS The Evenin EATHER—Clearing to-night. To Be Sure of Gettin World, Qrder in Advance o Your Newsdealer =: :: f Circulation Books Open to All.’ | VOL..LX. NO. 21,428—DAILY. Copyright, 1! Co’ (ree Now "Porn World). he Press Publishing NEW Bai re ih SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1920, Kntered ns Second-Claxs Matter Post Office, New York, N. i. Ve [WHY CLOTHING PRICES ARE HIGH | | HIRH PRICES REDUCE LABOR DEMAND IN CLOTHES TRAGE REACTION AT LAST SETS IN Men Refuse to Buy New Cloths at the Prevailing Oktrageous Prices. | TAILORS OUT OF WORK Merchants Join Manufacturers in Declaring They are No Profiteers. By Martin Green. Three coat makers who conduct east side shops in which they finish oats for merchant tailors, called at ® big downtown tailoring establish- ment yesterday and asked for work, offering a slight reduction in their charges. This is the first (\..1e work- men have applied for wo, in any tafloring establishment in New York since the summer of 1918.- The incident 15 significant, It shows that the outside ripples of the great wave of reaction wgainst the high price of clothing have reached the labor market of the clothing in- dustry, which is the element primarily responsible for the present conditions in the trade. When journeymen tailors begin te look for employment it is a sign of idleness among tailors, and that idleness has come from the reluctance of the public % pay the price demanded for men’s and boys’ clothing. The public can speed or retard the reaction by the extent to which it adheres to the policy of making no cloth- | ing purchases except in case of absolute necessity. ‘The reaction has been felt by mer- chant tailors and retail clothing deal- ers for months, Its progress was helped along by the cold, dismal April which practically froze the Spring trade to death. Labor was no? | atfected until makers and sellers of clothes. began to limit their opera- tions. NO PROFITEERS SAY MERCHANT TAILORS. Protest \against. tho assertion of ‘William M. Wood, president of the American Woolen Co., that merchant tailors ‘are profiteering was voiced today-by many old time New Yorkers engaged in that business, One is Minus H. Murray, who conducts the establishment of Murray & Drury, No. 207 Broadway, whtch’ has been located in the Fulton Street district forty yeprs. Mr. Wood, sald Mr. Drury, cites @ Fifth Avenue tailor who charges $165 foy a suit in which the cloth sold by Mr. Wood figures to the extent of only $35. As to the probable selling “price-of the sult Mr, Wood was right, (Continued on Se nd Page.) Classified Advertise: CLOSING TIME £20-P. M. SHARP SATURDAY FOR The SUNDAY WORLD’S Classified ~ Advertisements RANCH SFr'sts OL 088 Hy erFoRE *evroc Positively no Ghasertied pevettinss wants will be’ received for The Sunday World after 5.30 P, M. Advertising cony for The Sunday World should be in The Work! office ON OR BEFORE FRIDAY PRECEDING PUBLICATION | \ | | | WIFE SEEKS TOPUT MOROSCO HOLDINGS against her husband to-day to bring under a receivership $1,000,000 worth of theatre dozen of the most popular theatrical successes’ put on by the magnate outcome of her suit to recover a one- half interest therein. show cause, on May ceiver should not be appointed. Her nership. Mrs. Morosco, in the application sets forth that her husband “hus squandered and wasted the moneys made himself out in the lease which of the that (he defendant rented a bungalow for himself and Miss Paley in a most and, according to information, she re- ee UNDER A RECEIVER Alleges Theatrical Magnate Spent Her Own Money on Another Woman, ———- Annie T. Morosco took steps Properties—including a theatre since 1915—pending the Through i © attorney, Natban Ly- M. Morosco to 13, why a re- don requiring Oliver action looka.to a disolution of part- that are rightfully mine,” “he has become inter named Selma Paley She further alleges Mr, Morosco “rented an apartment for her at No. 44° West 72d Street, and since Sep- tember, 1918, down to a very short time ago, resided there with said Salma Paley as man and wife, and he and that ested in a woman he signed, and to the superintendent house as Mr. M. A. Paley. The rental of said apartment was $3,300 a year. The apartment was furnished by the defendant In @| sumptuous and elegant manner. The furnishings and the tapestries were ofthe finest, and anexpensive auto- mobile was purchased by the de- fendant tor the exclusive use of Miss Paley" Mrs sets forth Morosco further exclusive section of Long Beach; lates that he purehased a house for $16,000 at Gréat Neck, L. I, whieh he has occupied since December, 1919, with Mise Paley. “He has opened bank accounts: in various banks on Long Island and New York City for the use of Miss Paley,” she relates, “and has con- stantly replenished said ac nts with the money from the play Supporting affidavits were submit- ted from William R. Reynolds, Julian B. Braun, Lesley L. Wadsworth, Jack Kennelty, a doorman; George Allen, apartment house superintendant, Louis Jacob and others. Mrs. Morosco relates moneys spent upon Mi taken from the profits | ventures, Mrs, Morosco appended to her com- plaint a copy of contract between herself und her husband ‘under the terms of which she is bringing suit She gives her address as No, 991 iden Avenue, Lox Angeles, and sets forth that her husband and she are faiher and mother of a twenty-one- year old son. The contract is dated Hept. 2, 1915. ‘The plays presented since have been presented joint parversbiy basis, with one ex- that the Paley were ft their joint {the defendant then deing in possession Burkan, of No. 1431 Broadway, she! Optained an order to-day from Su-! preme Court Justice Rochard P. upon ali 0.G.REWD SUED BY FORMER WIFE FOR COSTLY GOWNS Wants “Tin Plate King” to Give Up Wearing Apparel and Furniture Worth $350,000. ASKS $20,000 DAMAGES, Lists Fur Coats, Auto, Tapes- tries, &c. Here and Paris as Her Property. Mrs. Margaret C, Reid to-day brought two suits in the Supreme Court against Daniel G. Reid, “tin plate king," against whom #he @btuin- ed a decree of divorce recently; td re- cover personal belongings valued, at more than $350,000 and ‘$20,000’ dam- ages. Mrs. Reid specifies in. the properties she seeks to recover, lists many rare and costly wearing articles. Mrs, Reid, through her attorneys, Blandy, Moohey & Shipman, in one suit, demands chattels: in this coun- try valued -at $325,000 and $20,000 damages. In thé second action; ste demands’ $16,000; which she alleges to be the value of personal property in her apartment in Paris. Mrs. Reid alleges “that in or about the month of January, 1919, in Paris, of the aforesaid articles of prdperty, unlawfully converted and disposed of the same to his own use.” Included in the first suit are such items as twenty-two dresses, twelve new linen sport waists, twelve real lacé and embroided waists, valued at $600; Georgette afternoon frocks, valued at fifteen sweaters, hand-made stockings, three dozen pairs of silk stockings, six pairs of woollen stockings, nine pairs of white cashmir stockings; a $1,000 green brocade evening wrap with sable col- lar; a $2,500 fur coat; six canteen uniforms; two dozen sets of French underwear, valued at $2,000, and silk and eatin slips; seventy-five pairs.of shoes and evening slippers valued at $2,000. Other articles listed in the affidavit supporting the first suit are: One Simplex motor car, $12,000; one Rolls | Royce motor car, $12,000; one Peking- ese dog, $240; a carved walnut Stein- way grand piano, $5,000; two Baum- garten chairs, $5,000; a clock, $6,000; fourteen water colors in the blue room. now or formerly at No. ‘907 Fifth Avenue, $8,400; Gobelin, at same address, $15,000; | six dosen ohina plates, $3,000; a Wyatt painting of two children, $20,000, and many other items. Valuable furnishings are listed for the Paris home. COAL 3,000,000 TONS A WEEK SHORT NOW Lack of Railroad Cars the Cause— Factories in Middle: West Are Badly Hit. | WASHINGTON, May 8.—Bituminous coal production now is running short approximately 3,000,000 tons a week, or about 25 per cent. under the present de- mands, according to reports to the United States Geologica) Survey. Railroad car shortage is blamed for the short coal production, and outlaw rafiroad strike is still remponsible for a great part of the car shortage, officials sald to-day ‘The coal shortage is having @ serious effect on operation of mills throughout Obie and Indiana, according to reports received here, Steel mille at Youngs town, O., are badly hii The bituminous ranges from ten to & coal demund now even inillion tons & orliy after the Cocent figures urvey run: Weel ception, ‘The tweive plays in which Mrs Moros¢y is vecking to recover the values of her balf interests ave Isted in the papers. and against them rt ven statements of losses and Bekmi 4 4 + April 24, p00 tons; May 8, 895,000 a Rouse Fashionable Neighbor- hood With Screams and Flee to Hotel for Night. THEIR JEWELRY, SAVED. Attempted \Robbety . Follows Return of Girls From Astoria—Révolver Found. Miss Nellie Black, young, tearful and towsled, in clothes hurriedly slipped on, and her sister Margaret, younger and just as pretty and tear- ful and no less looking as though she had jumped into ber clothes appeared at the Majestic Hotel soon after mid- night thls morning with a thrilling story of their battle with a band of young highwaymen in their home at No. 88 West 72d Street, a converted gand dollars’ worth of jewelry df refused to, go to the room assigned to them. until the-gems were safely locked in the hotel safe: ‘The two said they had returned from an automobile ride to Astoria and were both in their pajamas Teady for bed at 10.15 when the bell fang. Miss Nellie Black went to the door and opened it a crack. A hand holding’ a revolver came through and @ voice outside asked: “Are you in?” Miss Black struck wildly at the re- volver. It dropped to the floor and she pulled the door open and few at the face of the man standing outaide. Taken by surprise, he stepped back and fell down the stairs, knocking over two other men standing below him. Miss Black's big collie started barking -with noisy ferocity and both young women screamed in tones which aroused everybody in the street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue. Henry Morgenthau and Nathan Straus have homes in the block. The neighbors said they saw five mes, all young looking and appar- ently well dressed, running toward Central Park. They also saw Miss ellie Black, in filmy pink silk pa- jamas, forgetful of the chill spring breezes and the scantiness of her cos- tume, for a brief sprint of a hundred feet from the door, which suddenly turned into just as burried a retreat when cries of “O-0-0-o—look at the peach!" and the I!ke were heard from the opened windows above. ‘The young woinén believe they were followed from Astoria by a band of thieves. It was recalled that a sim- ilar attempt at robbery was mado a week ago by youths who were be- Heved to have followed thetr intended victims to this city from Baltiraore. Two revolvers were found on the sidewalk by detectives in the path of the fleeing highwaymen. ‘The Black sisters were attended for \a time in their apartment by sympathetic neighbors, but refused to remain in’ the place overnight, seeking refuge in the Majestic. ii Gan *S RUSS Manufacturers Fight International Union. The New York Store Fixtures Man- ufacturers’ Association has decided to close down all shops, beginning Monday and lay off every man affiliated with International Union, which, it says, is striving to create a soviet conditon. Hereafter no man will be employed in Association s who has not declaied becoming an Americn:: fis intention citizen, No. 411 West 16th Street, who was struck, by any automobile at 14th Street Ninth Avenue last night, died ut St" Vincent's Hospitel early Wiis. morn: ing. Big Older Destroyed. |. The. cider and vinegar plant of the Dufty-Mott Com jew York City WORLD RESTAURANT. eler sl im, hee: igre Maz, 8, 1 ize ‘ue am fate yesterday, with a 101 1 a y, of in, Holley, N. the largest vin plant in the world, was @ raved aay hire | Racing Entries on Page 2 y Hit By Auto Dies in Hospital. Michael Corderay, six years old, of | | TWO GIRLS IN PAJAMAS ROUT BANDITS IN 720 ST. HOME NELLIE BLACK, | PAJAMA CLAD GIRL, | WHO ROUTED BANDIT CHT SUES TO STOP EIGHT-CENT FARES IN STATEN ISLAND Court Orders Nixon and Re- ceiver to Show Cause Why More than Nickel is Charged, INGREASE CALLED VOID. Corporation Counsel Charges Violation of Franchise — Writ Retumable Tuesday. Justice Lylan of the Supreme Conrt to-day granted an order requiring Public Service Commissioner Nixo and Capt. John J, Kutin, receiver fo the Richmond Light and Railway Company, and other officials of the corporation, to show cause why they should not be restrained from raisin: the railway ‘fare oh this rond t: eight cents, The order ts returnabl. on Tuesday before Justice Whitaker in Special Term of the Supreme Court. upon which Corpora- "O'Brien dbtained the order was based upon his contention that Commissioner Nixon's order in- lawre of the State never conferred such powers on him; that the, raising of fares violates a provision of the MAIL POUCH WITH $20,000 REPORTED TOBE STOLEN HERE Vanished From Main Post Of- fice on 33d: Street, Registered mai} “less Post- romors about the main Post Office Building represented a value as high as a million and a half dollars, has dis- appeared while in transit through the nue and 334 Strect. ‘The greatest secrecy over the loss is being maintained in every dvpart- thent of the service, the registered mail question has been stolen or lost or only delayed in transit ofMcials re- fused to say. New York Post Office at Bighth Ave: inheton in collecting 8 © 1 i { ' | Reserve Bank New York {t was admitted that “two or three” packages of registered mail 25,000 in currency "in the mails and had been missing three or four days. The money was sent from the New to @ destination outside the city which officials of the bank refused to disclose. loss was fully covered by insurance Whether this $25,000 loss is all that is included in the disappearance of registered mail could not be learned. PARADE OF POLICE . POSTPONED BY RAIN Will Be Heki Next Saturday—Men | Sent on Tour After They Are Drenched. waiting in the rain ‘for than two hours the police paraders | e ordered disbanded at 1 day and the annual police parade was postponed on account of the rain Many of the men skin, were ordered to go on tour im- containing about had “disappeare It was said th more 0 to- to the The parade wili be held next Sat- y wrday. corporation's franchise, which stipu- lates a five-cent fare, and also that the highest court in the State has so held in the case of Quimby a) the Public. Service Commission of Rochester, and other cases. At the same time that this order is returnable, a writ of prohibition re- straining Commissioner Nixon from This road is in the hands of a re- ceiver and has not been operated since January last. The boycott on the car line by Staten Islanders continued to-day. It was so successful on the first day that the receipts on the eight-cent basis for twenty-four hours were $600 less than the average receipts for a similar period with five-cent fares, This figure is not official, but it is given on good au- ‘thority Inside the office of the Rich- ! mond Light and Railroad Company. As the case now stands this com- pany, is protected by, Federal Court its, But tained an injunction restraining Pub- granting a similar fare increase to in| the Staten Island trolley concern, the Midland, which is giving no service Mayor Hylan's offer to go to jail for contempt of the Federal Court in- "| junction has not been accepted, Talk of a new strike on Staten Is- land trolley cars subsided at a meet- ing last night when the men signed the wage increases which ended their recent strike. President La Guardia of the Board of Aldermen to-day declared that the action of Public Service Commi: sioner Nixon in granting an in- creased fare on Staten Island was ‘without authority in law or justifi- cation im fact. He added that Nixon is “Gov. Smith's appointee the Governor should remove him at once or assume responsibility for his acts.” Similar action by Nixon in the case of the B. R. T. was predicted by Mr, La Guardia, who said that the indi- jeations are “that the B, R. T. | suspend on the pretext of a strike when similar action to that taken in| | the Staten Island case will be taken | | by Mr. Nixon,” Mr, La Guardia suggested that the | Corporation Counsel take tmmediate step@ to obtain a writ of prohibition | torestalling any such action by Nixon im the case of the B. R. T. ov the In terborough, a ir FAKE BELL-ANS AFTER MEALS and $06 ham Toeaue.v few hve GOOD DIGESTION makes vou fos — Adm coon, —Adre creasing the far is void, as the Legis- | increasing the fare on the Staten} Island Midland Rallway {s also ro- turnable before Justice Whitaker Corporation Counsel O'Brien has ob- | an agreement for a year, giving them) will | ¢ Although Still jamin Hill have taken Mexico City, jutionary leaders here. The message said: PRICE TWO CENTS IN GREATER NEW YORK MEXICO CITY AND 3 OTHER STATE CAPITALS REPORTED IN HANDS OF REVOLUTIONARIES Gains Reported Along Whole North- ern Border—Reports of Flight of Carranza Receive More Credence, | an te Denied. Et. PASO, Texas, May 8.—Revolutionary forces under Gen. Bet:- according to an unconfirmed report received here to-day from Chihuahua City and made public by revo- “It has been confirmed President Carranza left the capital for Vera Cruz.” SO ir PERSUADES BURGLAR | TO SPARE HIS LIFE Wealthy Philadelphian Blackjacked Talks Intruder Into * Calling Aid, PHILADBLPHIA, May &,-—-Willlam U. Thomson, lawyer and wealthy elub- man, attacked tn his apartment in the St. James Hotel by a burglar early to- day, maade 4 stroong an appeal for his Ife that the desperady spared him, Mr. Thonmwon had been surprised and vlackjacked into unconsctousness, When he regained his senses his assailant was covering him with # revolver. “I knew my life was at stake, so I summoned alt my faculties and had a five-minutes talk with the man,” Mr, Thomson.» “He sald he was de- termined to ki me because he knew I would call for help as soon as he left. gave him my word I would not give the alarm for ten minutes, He evi- dently believed me, as he ripped off tha telephone receiver, looked me in the room and disappeared.” Soon after there was @ call to the hotel office from the fourth floor, evi- dently from the intruder, A volce #1 ‘Maan on the twelfth floor needs at- tention.” ——- MOVED HIS LIQUOR SUPPLY; ARRESTED Louis Moquin Jr. and Ohauffeur First Victims of Change of Address Provision, ‘The first arrests on a charge of trans- lic Service Commissioner Nixon from | Porting lquor from @ city home to a country residence were made in Brook- lyn to-day, They were Louls Mouquin jr. restaurateur, and George Walz, a chauffeur, No, 400 West 50th Street, Manhattan, who were charged with transporting 105 cases of Vermouth from Mouquin’s home at No, 934 East 34th Street, Brooklyn, to his summer home at Belle Harbor, L. I Patrolman Thomas J. Sullivaan, of the 73d Precinct, arrested Walz when he found, he says, that Walz had no permit, Mouquin was arrested when he came out of the house to see what was. Were held in $500 ball for » by United States Commin- ye in Brooklyn —- NEWARK Now | HAS 415,609. New Jersey's Largest City Fei Ahead of Cine! tt. WASHINGTON, May 5.—Newark, largest city in New Jersey, with a popu- lation of 415 , has outstripped Cin- cinnatt, which oked it in the last ensus. Cincinnati's population, recent- fay announced, is 401,158 Newark ¢ fourteenth city in 1910 with opulation of 347,469, an eas census is 68,140, oF 19.6 per cent, \s ince Its first’ Federal census was worded | 1819, Newark has had a |steady and substantial growth, — Its| this census [smallest percentage before as 29.9 during the decade ended in [ib Do you wa get Mt you ae Hou in Biegte ‘New Alston a} * Ex 3 | wae reported cut off from 3's State capitals in Mexico fell into the hands of Revolutionists to- day through the revolt of Carranza warrisons coincidentally with the un- confirmed report of the fall of Mexico city. From various parts of Mexlep, os- pecially immediately south of the Texas border, east of Ojinaga to the Gulf of Mexico, reports of revoli- tionary guins have come pouring intu El Paso during the Jast twenty-four hours. Saltillo, capital of the State of jCoabulla, which borders on the United | States, revolteq late yesterday, revo- |lutionary advices to-day sald. It was |announced that Gen, J, August Cas- tro and Cesesereo Castro, former Car- ranza leaders, had revolted with theiv troops in several garrisoned towns, Including Saltillo, Gen, Espinosa Mireles, Carranzu Governor of Coahuila, whit is thy home State of the Mexican President, wied with all the public funds to, Monterey, Nueyo Leon, where Car- ranza adherents were reported con- centrating to resist the reolutioniats, it was announced, Carranza troops at Lus Vacas, across the international boundary from Deirio, Tex., revolted, aceordine to loca! rebel leaders. Coal ‘miners and towns in Northern Coahutla were reported tn the ‘hands of the revolu- tlonists, All railway and telegraph’ commu nication between Aguas, Calientes, Zacatecas, Torreon and Saltillo was reported out. Matamoros, Opposite Brownsvitic, Texas, and Piedras Negras, across the Rio Grande from Bagle Pass, Texas, were tottering, according to claims made by agents of the Libera! Constitutionalist party here. Cam-~ argo, Tamaulipas, already has fallen into the hands of President Car- ranza’s enemies, and Uuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, was seriously menaced, it was said, Victories also have been won further south, revoludonist leaders here said. Tehauntepec Isthmus an Ouxa, both in the State of Oaxaca, and the railway junction of Cordobe Vera Cruz, have been lost by ‘tho Federals, according to reports given out at military headquarters in Juarez, opposite here. The situation In Mexteo is not éleb:. Despite persistent reports that Prep dent Carranga has Hed to Vera Cr |Gen, Jose Gonzalo Escobar, Juay Commander, who recently joined |! revohution, has declared that the Chict tive, though preparing for fligin', [has not left the capital, The League of the stale of, Meri» has joined the army ip ite revolt jagainst the Federal Goverment, it Was announced, Tolncay:-tine capi? .’, City, Gen. Angel Flores is drawing neg 5