The evening world. Newspaper, May 28, 1920, Page 1

To Be Sure of The Evening Worl Order in Advan Your Newsdeal Getting ce from er fae ee VOL. LX. .NO. 21,445—DAILY. Copyright, 1920, by The Press Publishing (The New York Werld ys bt N.Y CLOTHING FIRM, FIRST IN U. 5. CONVIC UF EXACTING > Suit That Cost $12.10 " Sold} for $40—Manager Barely Escapes Prison. ANOTHER TO BE FINED | Binghamioh Concern Found Guilty in Federal Court on Seven Counts. SYRACUSE conspiracy and May profiteering 8 in the sale of men's wearing apparel, Weeds’, | Ine, exclusive clothing retallers of Binghamton, and Gordon H. Smith, genera] nanager of the concern, we jointly fined $33,000 here this morning in the Federal Court. ‘®mitb escaped jnty becanse he had no financial tn- | Grocers’ 4 prison sentence ~ terest in the business. The defendamts were found guitty on geven counts, the first of which charged a conspiracy between Smith and the corporation in the marking of retail prices so as to exact an ex- cessive profit, This count had twen- ty-six separate items, showing cost prices and sale marks on the goods us found on the counters of the store | by agents ofthe Department of Jus- tica None of the goods were actu- aly sold, On this count Judge Man- ton levied a fine of only $1,000. The remaining six counte covered gales actually made and a fine of $5,000 was imposed for each of them: The charges in these counts were as {Miows: Tue sale of a suit of clothes cost- ing $20 to J. H. Nelson of Bingham- ton for $4 Another suit costing $12.10 sold to Dr. 5. J. Nunn of Bing- chainton for $49. Another to Dr. Nuno for $45, the cost price being fixed at $2350. The sale of a guilt costing $17.82 to BP of Binghamton for $45; an- other to A. M. Pierson of Bingham- fon for $29.50, the cost price being $11.75; one costing $32.25 sold to T. B. Carey, a Binghamton millionaire, for 360. . ‘The fine, as \mposed this mornins by Judge Manton, is the Jargest that has been passed in the United States following a conviction for profiteer- tng. This 1s the second conviction against a large and long established in. the entire country; the ying been obtained here two ) against the John A. Rob- erts Company of Utica, convicted on eleven counts, each charging pron teering. ‘This company has not yet been sentenced. A fine of $55,000 is the maximum which can be imposed. “phe fact that Smith has only one agtiure of stock in the corporation, for which he paid no money and which ‘concern first weeks j the association, rs Clroalgtion Books Open to All. iad Fost Office, New Entered as Second-Class Matter PRICE TWO CENTS IN GREATER NEW YORK THREE CENTS ELAEWHERS | ce G HUGE PROFIT RETAIL GROCER MAKE PLEDGE TO. GUT FOOD COSTS | to Meet Declining Whole- sale Quotations. Food prices will members be lowered by of the New York Retail , Association to keep with declining wholesale rates, sc- cording to a pledge given this morn- ing by Peter H. Alner, President of the Association, to J. J. Price, of the Department of Justice Flying Squad- ron. pue ‘There are 500 grocers in organization, the At the close of his conference Mr. Price declared the squadron would not rest on the assurances of but would continue its investigations and that the de- partment would take drastic action that in event any grocers fail to follow the market quotations. v In explaining what would be con- sidered a reasonable price under the |examples of what should be to-day’s maximum charge for vegetables and dairy produce by retailers: Best new Bermuda potatoes, 15¢ Ib.; No. 2 potatoes, 10c ib.; best Georgia cu- cumbers, from Se to 8¢ each, accord- ing to size; cabbages, 2 for 15c; Texas ontons, 8c Ib.; fresh laid eggs, 59 doz.; beat butter, 69c Ib. ‘These prices he said were based on the gays quotations for wholesale produce, As Price finished reading the list, a woman uptown on the west side telephoned to complain that a grocer had just charged her 92 cents a pound for butter. Agent Joseph Siffson sent fram the bureau in a hurry to cheok up the complaint and take action against the grocer. “We are glad of all such assist- ance,” said Price, “But people who call us up must be willing, as this lady wa. to give their names and addyesses and if possible to become witnesses, It is of the greatest as- sistance if complainants will preserve their bills or slips for purchase.” — FIGHT OVER DRY LAW ON AMERICAN SHIP Attempt Made to Carry Bottle Whiskey Aboard Martha an ington at Montevideo. ' MONTEVIDDO, May to enforce the United States prohibi- | —An attampt tion regulations on the Northern Amer- {ean passenger steamer Martha Wash- fe given him only as a means of making him an cfficer of the corpo- ration, alone holds the fine on that point down to $1,000 and saves him from going to prison,” said Judge Manton, in delivering judgment, “On the other counts the maximum has een imposed and I will not re- Guce it.” r) The Evening World Will NOT Be Published DECORATION DAY Monday, MAY 31st. ington led to disorder here to-day on board that vessel when one of the ship's officers endeavored to take from a coal passer a bottle of, whiskey alleged to have been in the man's po ion | More than a score of the crew took up the aide of their fellow worker and a fight followed, In which the port ¢ thorities were foreed to interve Thirty members of the crew were landed before order was restored. ‘Th United States Consul has taken Up the incldent The Martha Washington is bound for New York from Buenos Ayres. a WORLD RESTAURANT. May 28 Yo20: Com im mayo a ‘dhotel ‘a ih Gingip | dinaer, Bue Adin | BLAMES | Shoes. agreement, Price gave the following | “PEOPLES FAULT ~IFTHEY PAY OVER $7.50 FOR SHOES.” —George F. Johnson. tani Gamat ee King” Declares Good} _ Footwear Is on Sale at $4, $5 and $6 a Pair. eering by Paying High Prices to Imitate Rich. By Sophie Irene Loeb. | (Staff Correspondent of The Evening | Association Will Lower Prices! Convicted off P orld.) JOHNSON CITY, N. Y., May 28.— j"It is the people's own fault if they pay more than $7.50 for a pair of pair of shoes. There is no reason why good shoes should bring the out- rageous prices they do.” < spoke George F. Johnson, the shoe king, whose factories here man- ufacture 85,000 pairs of shoes a day. It is the consumer's own fault the high prices he pays for shoes,” said Mr. “The best shoe, except for fancy trimmings, is $7.50, and the average person should not pay any more. “The trouble with the consumer is that he thinks that if he does not Pay a high price for-an article, it is Johnson, not good, “This is the fallacy that has brought about a wave of extrava- |gance in the past that has reached the superlative degree, I belleve the people will wake up. “Shoes are like millinery. Fancy prices seem to make them better. If you don't demand a fashtonable name and are Willing to pay the Hve-and- let-live dealer a reasonable price, you can get shoes at prices that will eliminate profiteering. “The trouble Is that people of mod- erate means refuse to go in the high. ways and byways and purchase shoes at moderate prices. They always want to reach the highest. They want to compete with the persons of wealth who can pay the profiteers and not feet it. “Take the average working girl. She buys the same priced shoes as women on Fifth Avenue. “It is the same in the small towns. All of this creates a demand for high priced shoes, and they get them. “The dealer in shoes 1s encouraged therefore to move to more fashton- able quarters where his overheads are higher, and quite naturally the prices soar accordingly. “A common commodity like shoes should be bought where the overheads are the least. The few rich people who don’t mind high prices may have the high priced dealers, “Such a dealer must thrive also, ple, “This is all very well and I have no quarrel with the fancies and foibles of theso people of wealth, But what {s of utmost Impgrtance is that the averago consumer should not pay profiteering on shoes. “and this is a matter entirely with- in the consumer. He doesn't have to (Continued on Eighth Page.) a al braltar of Ice at Sea. eberg about half a mile long THE PUBLIC) Says Poor Encourage Profit The average person should| |not pay more than $4, $5 or $6 for a+ and he fills the want of the rich peo- | enhren RETURNS on HOSPITAL TO AVE LEG DRESSED Intelligent Little Animal, Injured by Auto, Goes Back Daily Surgical Attention A188 ISABPLLA BENNETT, a nurse the Newark City Hospital, was walking the hospital Wednesday morning when she saw an auto truck strike and injure a white fox terrier, She took the dog to the receiving room of the hospital, where the animal's badly bruised and cut foreleg was dressed. tor at near Yesterday morning about the same time the dog arrived at the receiving room and hung around until the surgeons again dressed his leg, when he disappevred | | _ This morning promptly on qhe hour he again appeared at the re ceiving room and eat qui: n | a corner until the doctors got round to his case, To make sure the bone was not injured the sur- geons to-day took an X-ray pic ture of the leg, found the bone unharmed, replacec the bandages, and the terrier went off abou his business, No one at the hospital knows the Gnd A HYLAN TRIES AGAIN TO AVERT STRIKE ONB.R.T. LINES Asks That Action Be Deferred Until Tuesday To Arrange Conference. Mayor Hylan made active effurts this afternoon to avert the threatened strike in the Brooklyn Rapid Transit power houses and sub stations, which would tle up the entire street railway system of Brooklyn. J. HL O'Donnell, Vice President of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, who has been seeking to defer radical action, spent the day in vain efforts to get a con- ference with Receiver Garrison, The Mayor sent a telegram to O'Donnell. asking bim to appoint a new conference committee of B. R T. employees, adding to the old commit- tee a number of representatives of men employed in th sub-stations. The Mayor also asked that all action be deferred until Tuesday next to give him time to bring about, con- cillatory conferences, O'Donnel said he had no authority to accept the Mayor's suggestions, but would put them before the meet- ing of the Powerhouse Men's Organi- zation, which began at 2 o'clock, Peter Brady of the Allied Printing | Trades was Mayor Hylan's adviser to-day in the negotiations. Philip Reeves, President (Continued on Second Page.) WOMAN SHOOTS A “PEEPING TOM” Saw Him Peering Over Transom and Fired, She Says—Injured Porter Is Arrested. combing her hair in front of| her dresser in the Hotel Berkeley in| Elizabeth, N Mrs. William Mitchell | of Reading, Pa., saw in the mirror the} of Local While POUCA ARE SAVES 2-TRAPPED IN BLAZING AUTO pasa hy Explosion Follows Smash-Up on Upper Broadway as Cig- arette Drops in Gasoline. BIG CROWD IN DANGER, Patrolman, After First Rescue, Puts Out Flames on Dress of Wot oman Spectator. a touring ear 11.80 o'clock to-day at the corner of Broud- way and West 135th Street, breal:ing the gasoline tark of the Hmousine and Three minutes after banged into a big limousine at covering the roadway with gasoline, an unidentified youth in the the crowd dropped a lighted cigarette, Thore was a puff, and flames shot into the air, With the first puff the limousiae was ablaze. In the tonneau were Dr. Roger Tf. Dennett, forty-four, of No, 126 Kast 39th Street, and a small boy, Patrolman McWilliams of the West 125th Street Station, his shoes and the bottoms of his trousers on fire, pulled open the door of the car and drew its occupants to safety. Mmousine was destroyed, Meanwhile the skirt of a young woman in the crowd, who refused to give her name, caught fire. MeWill- jams extinguished the dames witli bis uniform coat, Traffic Policeman Casey pulled a are alarm and, seeing that Dr. Dennett *lapparently had been injured, called wr an ambulance, Dr. Shapiro of Knickerbocker Hospital thought Dr. Dennett's right arm had been, broken, but Dr. Dennett said he would see his own phygician and, climbing into an- other car with the boy and his chaut- feur, Maurice Horan of No, 55 Rall- road Avenue, Winfield, N. Y. drove away. The touring car, which the police- men said, was responsible for the collision, was driven by its owner, Dayid Lederer, a salesman of No, 632 West ATist Street. Lederer wus | handed a summons to appear next’) Tuesday morning before Magistrate House in the Traffic Court for driv- ing on the wrong side of the high- way Lederer, the officers said, had driven south on Broadway and, turn- ing in toward Riverside Drive at 135th Street, was well toward the south Side of 185th Street when the collision occurred, The corner is a terminus of the Fifth Avenue busgs and one of the busiest polngs in that part of the city, With Lederer was William B. Chuck of No. 76 East 94th Street. Neither waa injured, cemies: LID IS CLAMPED TIGHTER. WASHINGTON, May 28.—In an ef- fort to defeat the “indiscriminate sal of liquor on physicians’ prescriptions, Commissioner Williams of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, issued a ruling to-day limiting the number of permits allowed each physician to 100 for each three. months, except with — “‘sood us CLOSING’ TIME 5.30 P. M. SHARP SATURDAY FOR The SUNDAY WORLD’S ‘Classified Advertisements GRANCH OFFICES CLOSE BEFORE 5 O'CLOCK ified Advertise. for The World after 5.30 P. M. The Sunday World should be in ‘The World office ON OR BEFORE FRIDAY PRECEDING® PUBLICATION Advertising copy for An 5 ana 100 feet high, shnilar in shape to| Tefieetion of a man peering ove® the| and hock of Gibraltar, was observed | {7ansom She threw a bed sheet around | vee May 16 in latitude 43.19, longitude | herself, seized, a revolver, fired at the |47.53, it was announced in shipping Peeping Tom," and hit him in ‘the aticiee. tosday d, she said, She continued dress 2 ling and went to the Police Station, where she filed a complaint | A short time tater Bruno & pea twenty-five, was taken into custody in 00 men General Hospital, where he was being browns srays| treated for a slight wound in the head and f es tingle oF double-breasted, form: | He was charged with being t mn iiary style, slash oF patch pockets, very! “peeper.”” He suid he was a porter in | tate men's models ai! slats, Our speeta!| ihe hotel | w o-day and Saturday, $24.03. Others eA 492.00, Open Seiurday nighr will 1c. HUG wis wetlans, hot water, Sure Meliet, | Seorwinns, Mrondwns, Got, MarclAy Sity—AEre | Don's Kormet—aAdve “A £ i { ¥ ‘ oe a tic BES OO PP The) ANGEL FOR WOOD WHO PUT $500,000 IN CAMPAIGN FUND Taterations!. coL. we: Cc. PROCT HOUSE REFUSES TO OVER-RIDE VETO President Wilson’s Disapproval of Knox Resolution Gets 152 Votes; 219 Against It. YASHINGTON, May 28,—The Knox peace resolution was killed to- day by the action of the douse in re- fusing to override President ‘Wilson's veto of the measure, ‘The vote -was 219 for overriding and 152 against, or @5 less than the necessary two-thirds, —_ “CONGRESS CANNOT SETTLE A CUP OF COFFEE, i _HE SAYS Vice President | Marshall Tells Pres- byterians They Must Urge League of Nations, PHILADELPHIA, May 28. HE latest unflattering opinion ot Congress comes from Vice President Marshall, speaking on “Christian Educa- tio1 before a mass meeting of delegates to the Presbyterian Gen- eral Assembly last night in the Academy of Music. At one point he a “You and I want a League of Nations to stop the war.” Then he called on God to teach the country that peace was bet- ter than anything else, and added “Who {4 going to settle th questions? Congress is not, Con- gress could not settle a cup of coffee.” ~ EXTRA! STRAW HATS DOWN! Prices to Be Slash ing Investigator: Armin W. Riley, special assistant to Attorney General Palmer, in charge of the profiteering Investigation her nounced to-day that inference with prominent hat ¢ had ob: tained their promise to slash straw hat | prices immediate] an THY WORLD TRAY E Age Ali vareela open day and ore aed raveien oheoke for OF TWO CHIC Wood Commi the investigation of campaign funds EX-KAISER WILHELM MAKES OWN SUITS AND EXCELS AT IT “Missed Vocation,” Says Trade Pa- per; “What Would Have Been His Fame as Tailor!” LONDON, May 2%. ILLIAM of Hohenzollern, former Emperor of Ger- many, is trying his hand as a tailor, according to a Cen- tral News despatch from Am- sterdam, He is cutting out pat- terng for many new suits with which he is going to stock his wardrobe, and the despatch quotes a trade paper as declaring he 1s “excelling at the job." “How unfortunate {t is," eays this paper, “that William missed ‘his vocation. After all the noto- riety he achieved as an Emperor, one can imagine what would have been his fame as a tailor. HOUSE BURNING - GOES ON IN IRELAND Sending of New Troops Fails to Stop Shooting of Constable, \ LONDON, May 28.—Burning of pri- vate and public buildings and shooting of citizens continued in various parts of Ireland last night. The Coast Guard station on Sybil Head, in County Kerry, was burned. Castlecaulfield Barracks in the same county were likewise destroyed by fir: In County Clare, a farmer living near Ennis, on the River Fergus, was at- tacked and seriously wounded. A civil- iam near Lisdoonvarna, the north- west part of the county, was attacked Constabulary Sergt. and shot. Johnson during a hy vaghan, seven miles north of Lisdoon- varna, The w awaiting ole of Ireland is reported he arrival of the military reinforcement now en route from Alder- shot, SENATORS I FAVOR EMBARGO ON SUGAR Committee Orders Favorable Re- port on McNary Bill to Stop Exports, WASHINGTON, of six to three Committee to-day May 28,—By a vote the Senate Agriculture ordered a favorable Ho said he had convinc ed ne m they report on the MeNary Bill providing for making great p an export embargo on sugar, | wanna a taat Oa jn Gena Those supporting: the ohh were, Renee WASHINGTON, May 28.—Proponents |" MeNary & Or CARROT: OF ARS rt Kenyon, Towa, and Norris, Ne- of acidier relief legilution winched em eaatee w Hdlise to-day ia, {uraska, Republicans, and Harrison, Mis- ape HE HME HY pony im |sisipol, and Ki of Wyoming, and it wus 25 mir fhe Chaps |Domocrats. Ser mith of Georgia, iain offered the ! opening |Smith of South Carolina and Rapadeli pr wh puster Was fenewed [co Louisiana, Democrats, opposed it Tinediately afterward Before taxing find) action the. com- | mitte ¢ measure so that it} tron Steamboat Co. Coney aland Season oops tr | Would not allect perk Ni i Sai, May teAur, [United States by -_ nationa thet planned by Senat ona WHAT 18 SURE I Benreas ter uo eaten. — Adve ne SWITCH 10 WOOD NEWSPAPERS MAKES SENATORS SUSPICIOUS Harding’s Manager Unable to Ex- plain It, but Says Much Money _Was Spent in Advertising by ttee—Senators on ‘Hunt for ‘Invisible’ McAdoo Boom WASHINGTON, May 28.—Harry M, Daugherty, campaign man- age> for Warren G, Harding, was recalled to the witness stand to-day in of Presidential candidates and ques- tioned in an effort to learn why two Ohio newspapers had suddenly switched their support from Harding to Wood. * 4 Previous to Dauyherty’s pearance Angus W. McLean, D rector of the War Finance Gor- poration, had been examined by Chairman Kenyon, who said he anxious to rn something about the “invisibl boom. for William @, McAdoo. MoLean id that McAdoo had fo his friends to push a campaign for him and asserted there was ° no McAdoo boom, no McAdoo fund and no McAdoo organiza- tion. Before the committee met tt was stated that Major A. A. Spragué, Treasurer of the Wood Campaign Committee in Chicago, had started for Washington “swearing mai. Major Sprague 1s expected to tell the story of the Wood campaign fund from the place, where Col, Willlam Cooper Procter left off up to date and to add another million to the total amount expended. This would bring it up to the $2,000,000 mark. WOOD TREASURER CALLS THE WHOLE THING “DAMNABLE.” “This whole thing is the most damnably outrageous affatr I ever | heard of," he is quoted as having shouted when he was leaving Chi- cago, “They impugn the motives of high-minded, patriotic citizens, all of whom are doing their patriotic duty, I wish the real, underlying motives of this Investigation could be published to the country at large so everybody would see them. » “Whenever an old-style politician feels a tremor under him he starts accusing the opposition of all manner of crooked motives and methods,” ‘The committee has been unable to locate. R. L. Stgbbins, Treasurer at the Wood headquarters in New Yorky A subpoena server sought him, but was told the treasurer had gone on a fishing trip and left no address, REFERS TO STORIES ABOUT THE WOOD CAMPAIGN. When Daugherty took the stand he as questioned by Senator Reed about the sudden switch of the State Journal and the Columbus De- spatch from Harding to Wood. “E would be willing to go this far,” Mr. Daugherty said, “There was a very active campaign made around Columbus for Gen. Wood.” “I've understood,” said stnator Reed, “that Mr. Wolfe is the controlling fac- tor of both "papers, and that he changed. his policy to oppose Senator Harding, and that later everything indicated the expenditure of large sums of money in the campaign.” “Mr. Wolfe pretended at first to sup- port Senator Harding,” Mr. Daugh- erty replied, “and afterward went to the vigorous support of Gen, Wood. I don't know if he was sincere in his first attitude toward Senator Hard- jing.” “Is (t true that very large ex~ | penditures were made on advertising lin that Ohio campaign?” Senator Reed continued. “There were expenditures of thu!