The evening world. Newspaper, May 26, 1920, Page 1

ae VOL. LX. NO. 21,443—DAILY. To-Night’s Weather—FAIR. To Be Sure of Getting The Evening World, Order in Advance from Your Newsdealer ‘ RS HE ADVANC ED $ f “Circulation Books Open to All.”” | EDITION DIST le, EVENNESS ht, 1920, by The Press Publishin COP T Hane: (The Now York World). rs NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1920. Entered us Post Office, New York, N. Ys Matter PRICE TWO CENTS | IN GREATER THREE CENTS NEW YORK ELSEWHERY ring Prestige of New York as Well as Its Com- merce in Danger, (QUICK ACTION NEEDED. Improved Port Facilities With Up-to-Date Methods Only Remedy., By Martin Green. New York 1s the foremost manu- fagturing city in the world, The manufactured products of New York ‘exceed in value those of half a dozen qitics in the United States whose sooty atmosphere by day and flame- tinged clouds by night indicate @ high pressure of industry. The immense manufacturing pres- tige of New York has been built up} by its ‘supertority as an exporting and importing cenue To-day, be- cause of the inadequate port facill- ties of the greatest natural port on) fhe globe, goods manufactured here | for export are being sent to other| cities to be placed on ships which will | carry them to their destination. The factories will follow the y—. goods, If it be shown manufac- turers that they can turn out | their product in Philadelphia or Itimore, or anywhere else on the Atlantic seaboard as cheaply as they oan turn it out here and be aseured at all times of certain and satisfying movement of their raw material and thelr products into and out of their factories they are going to forsake the an- tedeluvian port of New York and elsewhere, 4,800,000 INDUSTRIAL WORKERS IN THE CITY. Btatistios prepared by the Mer- chants’ Association show that the greater part of the value of the ex- ports of New York originates right thie city and in the metropolitan éistrict and that the industries turn- ing out those exports directly employ more than a million and a half per- eons, The backbone of the city is in the factories and the docks—not in the flashing lights along Broad- way. Let us back track a Dit In the first place, New York, by reason of hér wonderful harbor, took the first place in shipping, handling in 1900 about 64 per cont, of the Imports and 40 per cent. of the exports of the whole eountry. In the second place manufac- turing of all sorts, excepting in basio material such a , ewopt to New York, drawn by the shipping advantages. In the third place, population, money and prosperity came along with port superiority and manu- facturing growth, Now York's port superiority began to wane in the early years of the current century. The reasons are so numerous and diversified that they cannot be handled in this articlo It (Continued on Twelfth Page.) Classified Advertisers Important ! ified advertis! for 7 Bunday World in Pg World office in or Before Friday Preceding Publication copy. be oopy recetves the preference Sunday whee to be advertising for lack of ime THE WORLD. WAKE UP, NEW YORK! INUSTRES WIL FOLLOW HPPING TO OTHER PORT UNLESS CTY HALTS TDE BREWERY WORKERS IN JERSEY STRKE FOR 20? RAE Plants Closed and Some May Never Open Again for Beer Making. Between 1,600 and 2,000 brewer workers in Northern New Jersey, in- cluding brewers, machinists, drivers and all other employees except host- lers, went on strike to-day following the refusal of their employers to gtant an average increase of 20 per cent. !n wages. The workmen say | they cannot live on less. The brew- ers say they can pay no more than the present scale and ltve at all, Tho employers came to a decision on the “ultimatum” of thelr work- men at a meeting yesterday In New- ark. From that side of the house came the report that New Jersey has| taken none too kindly to one-half of one per cent. beer. ‘Twelve brewerles, including the Fe!- genspan, Ballantyne, Orange, Lembeck & Betz, Weldenmayer, Home and Es- sex, were closed tight to-day, and the executives of some plants expressed doubt that they will ever be opened again as brewerles. “at all events,” one man said, “It may bo just as well to sit still and see what the Supreme Court says about the Constitutional Amendment and the Volstead law.” GASLESS SUNDAYS FOR MOTORS O. K.’D More Important Now Than During War Say Gas Men—Urge Priority Rights, It wns oaid to-day that the repre- sentatives of the 1,100 gas companies attending the emergency conference of the American Gas Association at the Hotel Pennsylvania, to make plans to save the gas industries from being shut down through fuel and gus oll shortage, will ask the Government for priority rights in the gas o!l supply and tn ad- dition urge a curtailment tn the exces- sive exportation of fuel used In the manufacture of gas, Delegates also ap- proved a suggestion of Henry P. Davison that a few gasless motor car Sundays are more imperative now than they were during the war. ‘When the conference opened George B. Cortelyou, #resident of the associa- tion, declare@ it was dmperative that the public be informed of the true facts. Philip H. Gadsden, Vice President of the association, sald that this essential industry ts seriously menaced and that under the existing supply of the cle- ments used in the manufacture of gas many companies are facing shut downs next winter and possibly a few this summer, i N. A, G Smith, head of the ofl di- vision o{ the Federal Bureau of Mines, said that a survey showed that the crude oll supply was reaching its max! mum and would within a couple of yeara start to diminish Fire Destroys 180 Bags of Ma GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, May 26. Fire aboard the Peruvian steamer Ucayali to-day destroyed 180 bags of parcel post matter. Most of the mall bags were from the United States, spscemeeeeltinecensannes WORLD BROTAURANT. lay, May fbr” Val outlet. GIRL KONAPPE BY FOUR MEN I SPEEDNG AUT Torn From Companion’s Side in Crowded Brooklyn Street. FIGHTS HER CAPTORS. Two of Quartet Steal Up Be- hind Young Woman as Car Manoeuvres, . Nicolena Sorice, twenty years old, of No, 110 Skillman Street, Brooklyn, was kidnapped while on her way to work this morning by four men in a bf touring automobile, which picked her up at Stagg and Leonard Streets, Brooklyn, and vanished tn the direc- tion of Graham Avenue. According @o the story told by Rose Caputo, twenty-one years old, of No. 113 Skillman Avenue, who was with Nicotena when she wus seized, the two girls had left their homes on their way to work in the Berkshire Shirt Factory, Scholes and Leonard Streets, at the usual time. Rose says she noticed two men watking along behind them but thought nothing of their presence until they reached Stagg Street and started to cross, At that moment a large touring automobile swung in to the curb and stapped squarely in front of the young women, who drew back to avoid the mud guants, Seated in the rear of the car was @ man described as wearing @ brown suit, with a cap pulled far down over his eyes. The chauffeur also wore a cap pulled down to hide his face. As the car halted the man in the rear seat threw open the door, At the same moment the two men who had been following the girls sprang forward, one on elther side of Nicol- ena, and tossed her into the car. Rose says she caught frantically at one of the men but he brushed her off and with his companion jumped into the car, The machine immediately dashed off at terrific speed in the direc- tion of Graham Avenue, where all trace of it was lost, A butcher at work in his shop nearby, hearing Rose's screams, Jumped into his delivery car and vainly tried to follow the kidnappers. The police were notified and de- tectives, under the direction of Capt. Carey of the 16th Inapection District immediately began a hunt. They ad- mitted the only clue they have to the affair ts that last February Miss Sortoe complained of the actions of @ man believed to Ive in Jackson Street, Brooklyn. The girl had this man arrested charged with assault, but the case was thrown out of Po- lee Court when she fatled to produce the necessary evidence At the Jackson Street address to-day no one could be found Mrs, Sorice, mother of the girl, and witnesses of the affatr scout the Idea that {t may have been an elopement Rose Capiito says her friend strugg! furiously with her captors as they bore her off. Miss Sorice was employed at the shirt factory under the name 9f Helena George. She is reputed to be the prettiest girl of that section, Great Red Drive to Persia Expected ‘Transcaucasia, May 26 (As ss).—The capture of Enzell, the chief Persian port, on May 18 by th Bolsheviki is regarded here as the Initial step of a lange movement against Persia, made possible by the Bolshe- viki's domination of the Caspian Sea through thelr, fleet with an unlimited 1 supply a ‘(Brains is Brains. | | you don't believe It—read the vivid adventures of a college professor turned crook, and a beautiful woman whe led a band of thieves in “THE MASKED WOMAN,” By Johnston McCulley, which begins World, Tucaday, a niacin Neither Life Nor Property Safe From Hold-Up Men Even | in Daylight. BIG HAULS ARE MADE. | Long List of Crimes in Past | Eight Weeks Makes Shame- ful Record. | Now York City has become a stick- up town. The man who walks the street at night with money or valu- ables risks hia life and his property. ‘The merchant and manufacturer must hire his own armed watchinen Jf he would protect his stock, The man with a night business, restaurant keeper, druggist or uptown haber- dasher may expect to look up any moment into the inuzzle of a revolver in the hands of @ hold-up man. New Yorkers remember fifteen years ago, when visiting Chicago, they were warned not to cross “the Loop” at night except “In a safe cab” or with an armed guard; far more rapacious bandits are now running loose over the streets of New York plying their trade by broad daylight. ‘Richard EB. Enright, Commissioner of Police. told The World a year ago that newspapers “made crimes by ex- ploiting them” and for that reason he | witheld news of crime from the news- papers. Mayor Hylan said the Com- missioner was right. The Evening World here presents! an incomplete list of the more serious | robberles by burglars, footpads and | store hold-up men which have found) their way into the newspapers since! April 1, Other police executives of other days held that robberies were best prevented by arresting and con- victing robbers, Prevention by sup- pression of news having failed of strikingly effective results, the atten- tlon of Mr, Hylan, Mr, Erright and othere who may be interesfed is in- vited to this list as suggesting the tion to ers at meeting. Trucking Strike, T. V. O'Connor, President of the International Longshoreman’s Asso- ciation, declared this afternoon that the merchandise transportation mud- die in New York can be @ettied by arbitration, and that there woum be no need for the Merchants’ Associa- go ahead with the $500,000 arbitration, the This campaign launched yesterday, It was evident that the Merchanty’ Association by &s show of grim deter. mination, had caused much anxiety ia the ranks of enizations working together to tle up the transportation machine, O'Connor and Joseph Ryan, Vire President of the Jongshoremen, were to confer this afternoon with Alfred E. Marting at the Merchants’ Associa. tion rooms,’ ranged by Dr. Henry Moskowitz, for- merly head of the Civil Service Com- mission, Before starting for the con- ference O'Connor said to an Evening World reporter: “If, the other side wit appoint two men to meet two representatives of our side, this thing can be put to We would accept Fred- erick J, Koster as the arbitrator and abide by his decision.” Koster was one of the chief speak- vartous labur or- meeting was ar- the Merchants’ Association He came from San Fran- cisco to tell how he helped break the strike there in 1916, generally declare that he is fair, Some of the leaders of the Trans- portation Trades Council, the group Unton leaders NEW YORK ‘ASTIGK-UP TOWN’. NSD Woes SUPPRESSION OF CRIME NEWS FAILS AS CITY SAFEGUARD x HARBOR TIE-UP MAY BE ENDED BY ARBITRATION, Labor Leaders in Conference | With Marling to Settle G. 0. PIN INQUIRY INTO SLUSH FUNDS of Leaders to Hush Up the Scandal, ‘BITTERNESS AROUSED. | oe Talk of Digging Much Deeper Into the Contest in Sen- ator’s Own State. By David Lawrence. (Special Correspondent of The Evening World.) ' WASHINGTON, D. C, May 2% (Copyright, 1920).—Senators Hiram | Johneon may or may not be the Re- | publican nominee at Chicagy, ut he can rejoice in the fact right now that he is having the time of hia life with the #o-called Old Guard of the Kapulb- lican Party. Wriggling uncomfortably, protest- ing indignantly. yet controlling their impulves gufficiently to smother their feelings, the majority of the Republi- can Senators are distresed over the way the committee, headed by Sena- tor Kenyon, "pal" of Benator Jonneon, {9 Investigating the cumpatyn expen- ditures of the various Presidential nominees. The Republican Senutory who have been through many a campaign and many an exposure of cumpaign ex- penditures #hook their heads doubt- fully when the, plan was first pro- posed and finally decided to stnother it altogether, But Senator Johnaon came back to Washington, and thingy happened, Although members of the Investigating committes deny that they have any other purpose except to let the white light of publicity shed its pointed eyes on the “slush funds,” real or tmaginary, of the different Democratic, a8 well ae Republican candidates, !t requires no extraor- dinary power of political penetration to see that the whole thing ts part of the skilful manoeuvre of Hiram Johnson to fight his Republican op- ponents by continuous smoke soreens about their campaign expenditures, and the supposed effort of plutocracy to capture political control ef our Government, BITTER FEELING AMONG RE- PUBLICANS ALREADY AROUSED. MANAGER TELLS SENATORS HIS ADVANCES EXCEED TOTAL OF THEWOOD CONTRIBUTIONS “Burden of Campaign Has Fallen Upon Me,” He Testifies at Inquiry —Palmer’s Manager Asked About Relations With Crucible Steel, Which Was Forced to Pay $9,000,000 Back to Government. WAosHINGTON, May 26.—William C, Procter of Cincinnati has advanced $500,000 to the campaign fund of Major Gen, Leonard Wood, he testified to-day at the Senate investigation into pre-convention Pres dential campaign financing. ‘Mr. Procter said this advance was “more than the total contribu. tions,” to Gen, Wood’s campaign. He added that be bad contributed $10,000, COOKS ON BIG LINER GET FIRST - CLASS PASSENGER CABINS a ahenep ian Kalserin Auguste Victor& Has td Make Concessions to Galley Men and Stewards. LONDON, May 26. COOKS and stewards occupied first class cabins on che steamer Kulserin Auguste Victoria to-day when that vessel sailed for New York, The luxury enjoyed by the galley and dining room resulted from a controversy over accommodations between the cooks and stewards and the offictals of the steamship Une which delayed the sailing of the vessel for eleven days, Finally the company agreed that the men should have the best ac- commodations available on this trip, and that they would imme- diately build new and more com- modious compartments for their employees op the steamer, RULES LEVER ACT old-fashioned cure, NO LACK OF VARIETY IN CRIME, LIST. of allied unions which have tied up the transportation system, admit for the first time that the Merchants’ Already the invegtigation has pro- duced bitter feeling inside the Re- INVALID IN PART Three Sections Declared Unoon- ‘There tb no lack of variety in the list, In tt will be found many robberies of Jewelry stores, some, like that of yesterday, by unmasked men with re- volvers, in broad daylight Others are to be noted where the thieves backed trucks up to factory. doors and took away silks and woollens by the | toh. There 1s no lack of druggists bound and gagged and thrown behind their counters while their tills are | robbed. There are bank messergsrs waylaid on crowded streets In the luncheon hour; there are girl cashiers throttled’ and beaten in the face at their desks; there are systematic} ralds through the hotels of the|*ceches. wealthy by men practised at such| work, Every qualification is there for declaring that New York has become a stick-up town, Here is the shameful record trom| He said Association 1s not “bluffing.” Peter J. Brady of the New York Federation of Labor, advisor to the Transportation Trades Council, said: “It seems that the merchants are going to apend their money for out- lawry and thuggery to destroy unton- ism here. They intend to create a reign of terror, and they are being used by the coastwise steamship com- panies and the raflroads, which hope the situation will ralse rates.” Brady said the union leaders did not wet @ square deal at the luncheon be- cause they were not permitted to make enable them to the Council would meet this afternoon and that an ap- peal might be made to the Merchants’ (Continued on Second Page.) putiican Party. Supposing Leonard Wood is the nominees at Chicago, is it politically good sense to hand the Democrats all the data and details of the Wood financial campaign? Usual- ly if there t# an investigation of money spent, it 1s one political party investigating the other, What the (Continued on Second Page.) ss NINE HURT AS FIRE TRUCK HITS CAR Fireman Injured and Apparatus Smashed in Jersey City Collision. Five firemen were severely injured this morning when Truck No, 4 of ghe Jersey City Department crashed head on while returning from @ fire at No. 47 the second day of April to the 26tn| NEW STREET SIGNS IN KINGS. | Greenvitie Avenue, into « Greenville day of May: Lenape trolley cur, at Ocean and Woodlawn | Bide Opened for 1,000 That Will Equal! Avenues. The injured firemen are: APRIL Manhatten Lieut. Fenlon, back and shoulders 2. Three men caught robbing safe of! Brooklyn 1s soon ‘to ‘be supplied with| hurt: Driver Charies Simons, right. hip Edward Rowan ostate, No, 625 East! street slens quite the equal of thos and lexs injured; Fireman Harry Caul 163d Street, the Bronx. Manhattan. Borough President Re | ied ide ier eatyay id |3, Mr, und Mrs, Charles E. McManus, to-day opened bids for 1,000 new ee iniene Brett Hal, robbed of jewelry | singe ve uae Hie soforsaciens and lacerat valued at $25,000, | wit > truck was str are to be simbar to the Manhat : by 4, Marcia Kowzowvkl, beaten and| ian signa, with larme white letters on a| in automobiles took the Injured firemen robbed of $900 at East Drive and piue eld, with the name of the inter-| to the fire house at Ocean Avenue and Tbth Street, secting street in small letter above that | DWiKHt Street, wh ney were. created Eleven polloe fought desperate] of the st battle with robbers in jewelry store c (Continued on Twenty-fourth Page.) si vl with the sign, torday, ‘The Governors of the Stock Exchange will act this afternoon on a petition The & ber: - Tse tye aakiG Pett wate Pare dts |S ature by Department Surgeon Crowley, body on the trolley was injured, Bhar ttt ‘HY WORLD TRAVEL BUREAD, a) Hauling. 6-09 lephone No- wud Ute eee cet S| situtional in Suit Against Miners. INDIANAPOLTS, May 20.—Three #eo- tions of the Lever Act were helé@ uncon- astitutional -~y United @tates District Judge A. B. Anderson in Federal Court to-day and he quashed twelve of the elghtee counts of the indictment against miners and operators based on these sections. Counts 1, 2, 8, 4 and 17, based on Sec- then @ of the Lever Law, which the Court held valld, were declared oper- ative. Count 15, based on Section 37 of | the Criminal Code, was quashed, as| were counts 6, 6, 7, 8 9 10, 11, 12 18,| 14, 16 and 18, based on Sections 4 and amended Section 4 of the Le’ Act. ‘The motion to quash the indictment was made by Charles Evans Hughes, former Justice of the Supreme Court, on behalf of the miners on May 7, oidiipemenien ORDERS 15,000 VACCINATED. Passaic Education Head Acts on Discovery of Smallpox Cane. o Robert Dix Benson, President of the} Passaic Bourd of Education, to-day ap proved an order of Dr, John N, Ryan, Health Officer, that the 15,000 school ‘child. uf the city be vaccinated fol- lowing the discovery that Edward Blood, physical director tn the school, had been stricken with smallpox, Protest against the vacoination was made by Dr. A. J. Corlies of the Antt- Vaccination Society of Orange, and Fred Germain, secretary of the American Liberty Society of New Jersey. — “The contributions have been | very disappointing,” he sald. “The burden of the campaign has fallen on me, My advances tata! more than the contributions.” i Outside of expenses for pub- lieity and headquarters the avery age expended per State was less than $8,000, Procter said. He didn't know how much was raised looally in the States or large cities, DENIES KNOWING ABOUT A $300,000 SUBSCRIPTION, The largest subscription he knew of Procter said, was $20,000 by Ambrose Monell of New York, He never heard of contributions of $300,000 by one man and $50,000 by anoth: Seventy per cent, of the money, spent per State from the national Wood fund was for publicity, he said. The average total per State’ was $27,000, he testified. Another large contributor was William Wrigley, Procter said, though he didn’t know the sum he gave. Col, Billeshey of New York, a banker and Goodrich, a rubber man, iso contributed, Procter |, though he didn't know the sums...He said the committee could get accurate information from A. A. Sprague, one of the treasurers of the Wood campaign who will appear Saturday. Q. Wasn't there an active Wood movement headed by John T. King before you took hold in January? A, Not that I know of, Procter said he knew King sev- ered bis connection with the Wood forces after a disagreement, and that he (Procter) was virtually called in to “organize a new movement." But there was no organization working for Wood for President when he ea= tered the Wood camp last October, He knew nothing about money King raised or spent because King refused to talk to him about the Wood mov ment PROCTER PROTESTS AGAINST CROSS- EXAMINATION. Senator Reed cross-examined Proc« ter about King so sharply that the withess appealed to Senator Kenyon against the line of questioning. Contributions to the fund for Ate torney General Palmer's campaign for the Democratic nomination for President were placed to-day at $59,610 by former Representative C, C. Carlin of Virginia, his campaign manager, in his testimony, The largest contributor was James McClurg Guffey of Pittsburgh, mem= ber of the Democratic National Com- mittee, who was identified as an off man and who gave $10,000, ‘The next largest contributor was Capt. Frank L. Crocker of New York, who save $2,500, Mr. Carlin eaid, Y Former U, 8. Judge J. Harry Cows ington 00, the. wit